“Ambient” (Used 133 times)

Late last night after attending a vegan cookoff with a theme of cooking with liquor, feeling ultra full, watching Clueless with my friend & smoking a joint I walk upstairs to my attic bedroom and realize I need to unwind before I can fall asleep.

Enter Mobster.

Hailing from Paris, Mobster makes beats, tracks that sprawl and disappear into your consciousness, a click & drone that sends you away from where you are. His music sounds like soaring in an airpane high above this earth as the sun is rising and you are just opening your eyes to another day.

Listen to when you want to disappear or reappear.

Maybe you've heard about this crazy photo mikroblogging tool called Instagr.am. A few days ago, a group of artists started a project called "Instagr/am/bient: 25 Sonic Postcards". First they shot photos with an ambient background and shared them via Instagr.am. Then they composed a piece of ambient music inspired by a different artist's instagr.am photo. The project was organized by Marc Weidenbaum, who has run the ambient/electronic music website Disquiet.com since 1996. Here's a quote from the original post on disquiet:

"The result of the 25 musicians’ collective efforts is an investigation into the intersection of technology, aesthetics, and artistic process. What parallels exist, for example, between the visual filters that Instagram provides users to transform their photos and the sound-processing tools employed by electronic musicians? In many cases here, the musicians employ sonic field recordings as source material for their music. In the case of both their photos and their compositions (photography in one case, phonography in the other), documents are altered to emphasize their atmospheric qualities: to eke a modest art out of the everyday.”

All of the tracks were originally posted under a Creative Commons BY-NC-SA license to the Internet Archive. There, you can also find a 58-page PDF with full-page reproductions of the images and additional information on all the participating musicians.  You can also find the whole album uploaded to the Free Music Archive, and check the german posting on  my german blog Progolog.de.

Debut release on S27 from Russian artist Victor Piperov, better known as THKAD. This angular piece of work called [ROMB] is crystalline and surgical electronica, the sound of frozen landscapes on an alien planet. The beats are precise, the melodies spiky and some would say that it draws some parallels with a certain Warp Records duo but these tracks hold their own territory without trying to imitate. Closing the release is a stomping bonus remix from our very own Mitoma, who take "1 D xop" to the Industries and replace its heart with electronic components and a militaristic brain. A polished effort from THKAD and we look forward to hearing future experiments. Enjoy.

Some best music and songs of September on a netlabel Clinical Archives.

01 - Ujjaya - Raksha bandhan
02 - Valery & The Greedies - Where's Satan
03 - melting clouds - sandy star
04 - Sam Nacht / Leo Bettinelli / Gustavo Luvero - D2 D2 brazo largo
05 - Días de Septiembre - Feliz

Total time: 36:44

Artists:  Ujjaya (France), Valery & The Greedies (Russia), melting clouds (Ukraine), Sam Nacht / Leo Bettinelli / Gustavo Luvero (Argentina), Días de Septiembre (Venezuela)

Release Info: Artist: PJ Waldman Release Title: Odalisca EP Cat. nº: TRANZ041 Release Date: 19/09/2011 Format: MP3/320kbps/44.100 MHZ or WAVE (16bits) Genre: Electronic Subgenre: House, Downtempo, Ambient Total Time: 29m29s Size: 76,4 MBTracklist: 01. Odalisca (07:17) 02. Uma Noite Em Casablanca (07:10) 03. Tripoli (07:02) 04. Sun In Padang Padang (08:00)

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