Some of my beloved synth soundscapes. Shout-out to Windows96, a favorite producer, as well as Moiré Lights and PLANAR-07 – both having produced several singles that have been on extensive repeat for some time now :-)

SkyDriving

Umfeld und Geräusche

A small collection of tracks which seem to share a common lineage, both in name and theme.

Sight Lines

Electronica

What the title says. A collection of some of my favourite ambient tracks from Soundcloud.

Ambient favourites

Soft Trees Break the Fall

E t e r n a l  L o v e

I went back to my old DAW (EnergyXT2) for this ambient piece, because I wanted to use a particular 32-bit VSTi. This mix (with different mastering) features on Ambient Online Compilation: Volume 18, which contains almost 6 hours of excellent ambient music, and is available from BandCamp at a price of your choosing, which represents excellent value in these days of hyper-inflation.

Sophism

Paramnesia

Buy at Bandcamp

floats on air is the new album of original electronic tracks from Chris Randall.

Buy This Album

Dawn

Kindergarten

"...a mind-bending, eclectic and challenging sonic stream that doesn’t contain even a shred of pretentiousness, but is full of creativity, individuality, expressivity and outside of the box thinking." - Igloo
"Come to this show blindfolded and you’ll have a hard time believing the music is being created by just three people." – Capital Bop

"The Kandinsky Effect is an accomplished band not because they implement electronics into jazz music, but rather for how they utilize electronic configurations to make their music radiate." – Audiophile Audition

"...five solid years of recording and touring have fine-tuned their approach, stretching out beyond the confines of jazz into many directions, with electronics, funk grooves, bop, touches of punk, progressive rock, ambient and much more....not content to just re-tread what’s been done before them, but determined to break new ground at every turn, all the while keeping their sound completely listenable and satisfying." – Exposé

On Somnambulist, The Kandinsky Effect wields its musical power in a welcoming way. Their third album isn't form-eschewing free jazz, nor are the tonalities the trio employs particularly "out". The real revelation -- and revolution -- comes simply in the way saxophonist Warren Walker, bassist Gael Petrina, and drummer Caleb Dolister organize sound.

The trio is a purist's nightmare -- and not only that of a jazz purist either. Since their first, self-titled album came out in 2010, The Kandinsky Effect has been boldly blending jazz with elements of everything from hip-hop to electronic music, making for an idiosyncratic amalgam that never goes exactly where you might expect it to;  nothing can completely prepare you for its marriage of groove, atmosphere, and incendiary playing.
Bandleader Walker feels the album is the most effectively conceived collection of what he wryly calls the group's "nerd music" to date. "I feel like I had a clearer idea of what I was looking for in the sound of my compositions and how to approach writing for this group," he says, "it's a sort of coming-of-age piece."

The ability to incorporate a broad range of musical, geographical, and emotional influences into their music is at the core of The Kandinsky Effect's makeup. Formed 2007 in Paris, France, the original lineup included Petrina and Parisian drummer Gautier Garrigue. In 2010 they recorded their first album, The Kandinsky Effect. While influenced by hip-hop and electronics, the album was much more rooted in jazz and featured mostly acoustic instrumentation. Dolister joined for 2013's Synesthesia, which began to expand the band's sound, blending everything from Petrinas fondness for electronica to Dolister's love of heavy rock bands like Meshuggah, and Walker’s unique approach to composition and electronic soundscapes. 

Over the years, the group has traveled extensively, performing multiple trips and tours in Europe, Asia, and North America, perfecting what Dolister calls their "intellectual groove instrumental music." And from the slip-sliding beats and slithering sax lines of opening track "Copalchi Distress Signal" to the insistent pulse and layered, lyrical melodies of closing cut "Muji," there's a feeling of the refinement process reaching fruition on Somnambulist.

The Kandinsky Effect, "Somnambulist" from 'Somnambulist' (Cuneiform Records)

This is another electro/ambient hybrid car-crash. I put it together in April 2023. In March 2024, I decided that it needed to be a little louder, and remastered with a different chain. It's less quiet than the earlier version.

Edit: 20241003 - I remixed this an hour ago, adding a little reverb to the cymbals, and then remastered the track, using the same chain as before.

Abstraction Layers

Paramorph

Paramorph (2024 Remix/2024 TRackS5 Master)

GAIA

Oasis

Oasis ft. Alex Boychuk

Ambergris

Peripherals

Sorus

Deep Field

Lomita - Chromosphere

Cosmic Whispers

Special futuristic version of "And Seven More"
22.03.2015
Sitar and voice (unedited)samples downloadable here: 
http://www.freesound.org/

And Seven More (futuristic version)

Orbital Plane - © 2015

Welcome Back

Workflow exploration in preparation for a new e.p.  Recorded entirely with a Eurorack modular, mastered to tape. 

exploration.01

This one started life as an ambient piece and then I added a dubstep rhythm which I later toned down a little in order that the track would remain firmly in the chillzone. I thought the mix went very well

Revenant

Parallax

This is a slightly more minimal mix of Parallax, featuring less of the lead and bass synths, some harmonic additions to the vocal synth and adjustments to the StutterEdit glitch

Paradromic

RadSun

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Naked Truth - Avian Thug (from 'Avian Thug')

This is the final mix of Solstice, now available on Bandcamp.
Recorded & mixed entirely on an iPhone with Nanostudio.

Solstice

Thanks to D.J. KAROUH for the artwork @d-j-karouh

A Vision Of India

Turncoat

Full Film:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DJ80sLNlRXM

‘Reliving of Scenes’ is a mix of breaks & electronica, brought together with live instrumentation. The result is an acoustically rich trio of tracks that focuses heavily on arpeggiated synths & emotive chord progressions. This gives ‘Reliving of Scenes’ an atmosphere that matches the dystopian backdrop in which the accompanying film is set.

ANIMATION: youtube.com/ArthrUK
FACEBOOK: www.facebook.com/ArthrUK
TWITTER: twitter.com/arthr

Artwork by: Marek Prchal

Basic Function [Film in Description]

A loop-based piece of sequencing containing a few random elements, some of which were not entirely intentional. The three note melodic motif is recalled from Parallax. I find the collection of sounds on here to be very calming.

Arcanum

Paraxial

windows96.bandcamp.com/album/reflections

twitter.com/whitegavriel

No Future

Spirit // Bogdan Irkük a.k.a. BULGARI.

Trying to reconcile love for old-school Prog-Rock with more modern approach to instrumentation and composition. Hopefully the results of this unlikely fusion will yield some level of success.

Great website, specialising in Eclectic reviews of ambient, psychedelic, post-rock, folk and progressive rock … http://makeyourowntaste.com

Collaborations with other musicians:

http://smp3030.bandcamp.com/

Other artists that you really ought to listen to............

http://www.soundcloud.com/happy-hooves
http://www.soundcloud.com/polyslax
http://soundcloud.com/2ndmouse
http://soundcloud.com/sonic_arts
http://soundcloud.com/s1gnsofl1fe
http://soundcloud.com/smp3030

Parallax

whatsisname