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Headphone Commute’s Best of 2013 : Music For The Frosty Night When I Miss...

Another sunset without you. How precious were those little moments… how futile are these tardy words. I didn’t get a chance to tell you, although I sensed that you have known. I mourned your soul...

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Headphone Commute’s Best of 2013 : Music For Watching The Snow Slowly Fall In...

In the silent and sad mountains, music speaks without the lyrics. Words escape and rise in clouds, forming vapor, pain and passion. Music, on the other hand, is harmless, floating low above the ground,...

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Headphone Commute’s Best of 2013 : Music For Sonic Installations In The...

Your mind is just a canvas; your life – projected film. Your skull is a museum of memories; your ego – a neurotic guard. Your consciousness is sleeping in this theater, alone and undisturbed. Why not...

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Headphone Commute’s Best of 2013 : Music For Missed Friends, Barbecues And...

I don’t timestamp music with transitions… I timestamp life transitions with this music… A period here, a semicolon there… Music played for long lost friends, and music that I play for them again right...

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Headphone Commute’s Best of 2013 : Music For Vibrating Your Neighbors’ Dusty...

Music evolution spins in cycles. A new development in sound hoards a following of copycats, too anxious to proliferate the world with the nuclear output of their laptops. There are some that fail....

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Headphone Commute’s Best of 2013 : Music For Synergizing The Synapse Of Ideas

For the last three years in a row, I managed to torture myself with a great restraint of releasing these “Best Of” lists at a rate of only one per day. Honestly, I am exhausted. I hope your wallet...

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Headphone Commute’s Best of 2013 : Music For Capricious Souls Adrift In Noir-fi

For the last four years this music has been haunting my days, then cautiously moved through the ether and entered my blood stream. This is the music of the ghosts lost in between the worlds. This is...

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Saimonse – You Are My Music

And just like that, without wasting any time, we move into our regularly scheduled programming, with the very first mix of 2014! Saimon Saimonse has previously charmed our listeners with his gorgeous...

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Sounds Bytes : Missed Gems Part One : Elskavon, Threethings, Zinovia and Off...

As hard as I try to keep up with this endless torrent of beautiful music, there are still a few gems that seem to slip through the cracks. After publishing my own Best of 2013 lists, I spend countless...

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Sound Bytes : Missed Gems Part Two : Siavash Amini, Simon Bainton, Stray...

This is a second installment of our Sound Bytes’ Missed Gems column, featuring a few quick roundups of the last year’s overseen favorites, as selected by Stationary Travels. I am definitely enjoying...

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Jon Hopkins – How I Live Now OST (Just Music)

I was musing this morning on the difference between listening to a soundtrack and a whole album. Conceptually, both contain a cohesive body of work, although in soundtracks a particular melody may...

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Interview with Kaboom Karavan

I’d like to start at the very beginning, if that’s OK. How did you get into composing music? Wow, that goes way back. Ever since i was a kid, music and sound could totally absorb me. I’m a musical...

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Jon Hopkins – Immunity (Domino)

Jon Hopkins has lingered in the outskirts of fame for some time, working with high-profile acts as disparate as Imogen Heap, Brian Eno, and Coldplay in the last ten years. His talents as a producer...

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Sound Bytes : Michel Banabila, Antonymes, Piano Interrupted and Aaron Martin...

Michel Banabila Float Tapu Beginning his career in the early 80′s, Michel Banabila‘s albums covered many different styles. So many, in fact, that his place in music was a bit difficult to pinpoint...

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Sound Bytes : Soundtracks : Jóhann Jóhannsson, Steven Price, Ben Frost, Peter...

Jóhann Jóhannsson Prisoners WaterTower Music When I first heard Jóhann Jóhannsson‘s soundtrack to Prisoners, I forgot that I have heard it once before. I was sitting in a theater in Seattle, watching...

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Roel Funcken – Chronik Consoles

What’s unique and incredibly enchanting about mixes by Roel Funcken is that he doesn’t simply select and lay out his favorite pieces – he also manipulates them into a gorgeous matrimony of sounds. As...

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Sound Bytes : Missed Gems Part Three : Esmerine, Don Peris, Dalot and Orbit...

Esmerine Dalmak Constellation With Dalmak, the Esmerine quartet (Bruce Cawdron, Beckie Foon, Jamie Thompson and Brian Sanderson) deliver their first album since 2011 and what an aural feast it is....

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Sounds Bytes : Missed Gems Part Four : Monochromie, Porya Hatami, Ancient...

If you’ve been following, counting, or simply reading the subject, this is the fourth entry in the Missed Gems Sound Bytes column, in which I [desperately] catch up to all the great music of last year...

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Interview with Otto A. Totland

Hi Otto… where are you these days and what did you do this past weekend? Hey! I’m living in Porsgrunn, Norway. A small city about a 2 hours drive from Oslo. I haven’t been up to much this past week....

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Otto A Totland – Pinô (Sonic Pieces)

There were a few things that I had to do this past weekend. Pay my bills, vacuum the rug in my studio, and oh, I absolutely had to write a review of Otto A. Totland‘s Pinô, because A) it finally came...

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