While I’d heard some tracks here and there from UK producer Felix Manuel, I was completely unprepared for just how good this album is. Portrait With Firewood...

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While I’d heard some tracks here and there from UK producer Felix Manuel, I was completely unprepared for just how good this album is. Portrait With Firewood...
Ben Lukas Boysen: Golden Times I (Erased Tapes)Ben Lukas Boysen originally made a name for himself under the dark IDM moniker Hecq, but he’s been just as active in the last few years...
Ben Lukas Boysen: Golden Times I (Erased Tapes)Ben Lukas Boysen originally made a name for himself under the dark IDM moniker Hecq, but he’s been just as active in the last few years...
Bruno Sanfilippo: Piano Textures 4 (Bandcamp)Bruno Sanfilippo has a broad repertoire of ambient instrumentalism under his belt, and this is his fourth release focused primarily around the...
Erik K. Skodvin: “Shining, Burning” (Flame, Sonic Pieces 2014)Erik Skodvin runs the Miasmah label and is involved with numerous projects, including Deaf Center and B/B/S/, not to mention his solo...
John Matthias: “Climbing Walls” (Geisterfahrer, Village Green 2014)(Source: https://www.youtube.com/)
Qluster: Tasten (Bureau B)Hans Joachim-Roedelius’s reputation precedes him, a musician with a storied history that began in 1969 as part of the space rock group Kluster. Since then...
Sylvain Chauveau: “A Cloud Of Dust” (Singular Forms (Sometimes Repeated), Type 2010)Sylvain Chauveau’s music is often instrumental, but with 2010′s Singular Forms (Sometimes Repeated), he returned...
Bodhi: Polysizer EP (Rinse)Bodhi turns out 4 reliable tracks that cross over effortlessly between house music and more bass music sounds in the mix, with a throbbing, thick droning bass...
Ivan Wyschnegradsky: “Prelude No. 5″ (24 Preludes in Quarter-Tones, 1934)I was completely unfamiliar with the works of Wyschnegradsky until morimur turned me onto this piece in particular. It’s a...
John Lemke: Walizka (Denovali) Glasgow-based composer John Lemke’s EP starts with a delicate, jaunty piano number that almost inspires dance, with a tiny oompah in its bass clef and tiny...
John Lemke: Walizka (Denovali) Glasgow-based composer John Lemke’s EP starts with a delicate, jaunty piano number that almost inspires dance, with a tiny oompah in its bass clef and tiny...
Colin Vallon Trio: Le Vent (ECM) Swiss pianist Colin Vallon is new to me, but his collaborations with Patrice Moret (double-bass) and Julian Sartorius (drums) are stunning. Le Vent is...
Stars of the Lid: “Down 3” (The Tired Sounds of Stars of the Lid, Kranky 2001) For at least a full year, my roommate at the time and I would crank SOTL’s Tired Sounds album on high...
Otto A. Totland: Pinô (Sonic Pieces) Otto Totland is perhaps best known as one half of experimental outfit Deaf Center, having released two well-received albums on Type Records over the...
Matthew Mercer: “And the Sky Opened Up” (Pianissimo Possibile, 2011) I thought it might be time for a repost of this nice video clip that Portland director Byrd McDonald created for a...
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