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jvbr – ueberfahrt
If, like me, you initially snickered at the title of this mix, in hopes that it conveyed a large gaseous emission, fear not for your own immaturity (as my own), for in fact, in German, Ueberfahrt...
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Wil Bolton – Bokeh (Home Normal)
As an artist in sound, video, and photography, Wil Bolton creates music which is always rich in texture as well as human and environmental connections. His summer release on Home Normal entitled Bokeh...
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Erik K Skodvin – Flame (Sonic Pieces)
Four years after Flare comes Flame, a sequel of sorts from Deaf Center’s Erik K. Skodvin, also known as Svarte Greiner. Those familiar with the artist’s vast discography know to expect darkness,...
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Bing & Ruth – Tomorrow Was The Golden Age (RVNG Intl.)
2014 was an interesting year. Mostly dominated by established labels, the annual rotation of releases delivered a delightful collection of anticipated sounds, as well as a few unexpected surprises....
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Interview with David Moore
Hi David. Who are you, where are you, and how are you? I’m David. I play the piano and at the moment I’m sitting on my couch in South Brooklyn. It’s the first day in a long while that it’s not too...
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Cristian Vogel – Polyphonic Beings (Shitkatapult)
These are the atomic layers of ourselves Cristian Vogel has had a musical career full of twists and turns, and the main takeaway is that one shouldn’t necessarily have expectations of his music when...
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Arca – Xen (Mute)
“nothing is off limits emotionally…” There’s just something strangely delicious about the sound of Arca. Although this London based, 24-year old Venezuela native has already released two albums prior,...
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Hecq – Mixtape One [repack]
“the explanation for the track list is actually quite easy… especially the air liquide tune and also scan x are both super old tracks that followed me around since i was a kid… they never lost their...
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Denise Burt – Seeing New Music (Elevator Design)
Over the last 10 years, Copenhagen-based graphic designer Denise Burt has been on a unique discovery of contemporary classical music through her work designing covers for hundreds of art music...
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TRACK PREMIERE : Marsen Jules – Skriniya
Today we’re featuring a track première, exclusive to readers of Headphone Commute! Taken from Marsen Jules‘ upcoming album The Empire of Silence, released on Oktaf on March 30th, “Skriniya”, which is...
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VA – Europe (A Strangely Isolated Place)
Based in Portland Oregon, A Strangely Isolated Place is both a music community and a label that produces excellent recordings centered around evocative themes and concepts. Their latest V/A...
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MUTEK 2015 – Teaser [part one]
There are more than a few things that I love about MUTEK. The first is its host city, Montreal, which I happily continue to visit in the warm month of May. Its multilingual crowd, eclectic boutiques,...
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Biosphere / Deathprod – Stator (Touch)
In 1998, Biosphere and Deathprod, Geir Jenssen and Helge Sten respectively, Nordheim Transformed, a split album where both artists transformed the original experimental music of (fellow Norwegian)...
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Experimental Housewife – CMKY 2015 – Ambient Teaser
In advance of the 2015 Communikey Festival — which takes place April 16-19 month in Boulder, CO — Experimental Housewife was tapped to record a Headphone Commute mix showcasing the more...
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Iggy Azalea – Pu$$y
For the past eight years readers of Headphone Commute have been exposed to my musings on ambient, electronic and experimental music, but I feel like I have been a little dishonest, holding back from...
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MUTEK 2015 – Teaser [part two]
In anticipation of Montreal’s MUTEK festival, moving into its 16th edition on May 27th – 31st, 2015, I’m recalling the previous year’s installment of “mind and body bending artistry operating at the...
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In the studio with Deru
“You can listen to something a million times by yourself but the second you’re sharing it with someone else you hear things in a new way…” I’ve been a fan of Benjamin Wynn’s music ever since his very...
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Oliver Lieb – Inside Voices (Psychonavigation)
I’ve been writing about music for what now seems almost a decade. And even so, I must tell you, the closer I come to its essence, the further I seem from its reach. Every listen is always a new...
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Michel Banabila & Oene van Geel – Music for Viola and Electronics I & II (Tapu)
After they met when working together on Cloud Ensemble, Michel Banabila and Oene van Geel extended their collaboration which resulted in 2014’s Music for Viola and Electronics. Both were so...
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Ólafur Arnalds & Alice Sara Ott – The Chopin Project (Mercury Classics)
As I got older I began to gravitate towards classical music again. It’s not that I appreciate it any more than when I was a child. As a classically trained pianist I was exposed to the traditional...
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