Ambient

Brutalist share highly stylized video for debut single "Strep"

Brutalist is the collaborative project between LUCIANBLOMKAMP and Seekae's John Hassell. The two musicians met at a show just last year in Melbourne and ever since engaged in a virtual correspondence to result…

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Check out Motti's beautiful piano driven two-track Amnesia EP [Premiere]

Motti is an eighteen-year old, London-based designer and artist whose work has been quickly making its way around the Internet. Besides being a resident designer at Moving Castle and having done…

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Wade through "Shallow Waters" with Sebastian Carter's latest

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Jaw Gems drop refreshing spring single, "Peace Pipe" [Premiere]

For those that don’t know, Maine is cold. Now you know. Portland, ME experimental band Jaw Gems are well aware of their home's long, harsh winters. As a native Minnesotan,…

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Ben Lukas Boysen shares elegiac piano track, "Nocturne 4"

Last month, Erased Tapes' newest member Ben Lukas Boysen released "Golden Times 1," the first single from his sophomore record, Spells. The upcoming album–mixed and mastered by Nils Frahm–is out June 10. This week,…

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Masaya Ozaki captures a moment of fleeting beauty with "050516"

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Aukai gets nostalgic in intimate new single, "Hidden" [Premiere]

Markus Sieber is Aukai, purveyor of ambient soundscapes. He hasn’t always been that, though. In the '90s, Sieber played in rock bands in East Berlin, and after that he ventured…

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Erased Tapes' Ben Lukas Boysen molds time and texture in "Golden Times 1"

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: electronic music—with its minimalist structures and repetitive tendencies—has paved the way for erudite composers to explore neoclassical music in popular realms.…

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Julianna Barwick teams with Mas Ysa for new track, "Same"

[soundcloud url="https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/257279659" params="auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&visual=true" width="100%" height="450" iframe="true" /] Ambient singer-songwriter Julianna Barwick has announced a new LP, Will, sharing the haunting video for "Nebula" a few weeks back. She's now made a new track, "Same,"…