New age music continues to occupy a strange place in our contemporary culture. It’s still often denigrated and left to gather dust in CD bargain bins and abandoned yoga studios. At the same time, however, groups like Emeralds continue to whet the public’s seeming appetite for just the sorts of synth tones and careful...
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Acid ambient: seems straightforward enough.
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How about some modern classical house music?
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This one’s technically from 2011, but hey, better late than never, right?
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I’ve been listening to chiptune maestro Disasterpeace’s soundtrack for the XBox Live game FEZ. It’s certainly one of my favorite ambient releases this year; its straightforward bleeps and bloops and skittering machine beats marry the romantic electronic visions of, say, Steve Hauschildt with the unobtrusive yet memorable melodies of some of my all-time favorite...
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As one half of the duo 1958-2009, Alex Twomey crafted giant drifts of abstract synthesized sound.
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Massive sheets of metal wobbling and rubbing against each other in some distant galaxy.
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Murohashi Takuya is from Japan.
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When an album starts off with a track called “Hymn to the Eternal Void,” you know it’s probably not going to be the cheeriest of releases.
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I don’t personally know Wes Willenbring, but something tells me he’s not a very optimistic dude.
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Celer’s Last.fm profile begins with devastating forthrightness: “Celer was formed in 2005 by Danielle Marie Baquet and William Thomas Long. From 2005 to 2009, Celer was the duo of Will Long and Danielle Baquet-Long. From 2009 to the present, Celer is the solo ambient project of Will Long.” Yet fans concerned about the viability...
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It’s not every day that an Iranian sound artist catches your ear.
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Joe Garcia is 19 years old and hails from Illinois.
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