Headphone Commute’s Best of 2015 : Music For Awakened Spirits And Open Minds
After spending an entire night dancing at an outdoor festival, I wake up in my tent, drenched in morning dew and sound. The music never stopped playing, but it has slowed down in pace. As the sound...
View ArticleHeadphone Commute’s Best of 2015 : Music For Crawling Through Abandoned Cities
Abandoned places and desolate spaces, covered with rain, snow and ash, wrapped in a blanket of white noise and pulsating bass, somewhat metallic, chilly and wet. These are the images for these sounds...
View ArticleHeadphone Commute’s Best of 2015 : Music For Withered Leaves And Lonely...
Something warm and crispy is tickling the inside of my ear canal. It travels through my cochlear labyrinth, where the sensory hair cells sway with the vibrations and generate electric signals, which in...
View ArticleHeadphone Commute’s Best of 2015 : 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...
View ArticleHeadphone Commute’s Best of 2015 : Music For Walking And Not Crying In The...
Have you ever walked in the autumn rain? Just like the sunshine warms the breezy beaches, and the snow blankets the silent cemeteries, the rain drenches my clothes, and no, you can not tell that I’m...
View ArticleHeadphone Commute’s Best of 2015 : 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,...
View ArticleHeadphone Commute’s Best of 2015 : Music For Long Car Rides With My Family...
My family and friends have long time given up. And even though I listen to everything from beautiful piano music to gorgeous post-rock instrumentals, they seem to think that I like “nails on the...
View ArticleHeadphone Commute’s Best of 2015 : 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...
View ArticleHeadphone Commute’s Best of 2015 : 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...
View ArticleHeadphone Commute’s Best of 2015 : Music For Synergizing The Synapse Of Ideas
For the last five 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 feels...
View ArticleHeadphone Commute’s Best of 2015 : Music For Capricious Souls Adrift In Noir-fi
For the last five years this music haunted 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 the music of...
View ArticleBest of 2015 – Reader’s Poll
Ladies and gentlemen – you’ve listened and spoke! In the last month you’ve had an opportunity to submit your favorite albums of the year, and now I’ve tabulated the poll answers to produce the...
View ArticleIn the studio with Grischa Lichtenberger
like a suppressed or unconscious trace of invisible relations Lets start at the very beginning. Can you tell us how you got involved in composing, and what was your very first piece of gear? i really...
View ArticleMathias Van Eecloo – eisOtones 9
50 tracks from 50 albums from 2015. A mix session recorded for the eisOtones project/process which is to have some mixes with a duration of 72 minutes with 50 tracks. The complete project will be...
View ArticleElian – Harrowgate (Home Normal)
It’s easy to get lost in a vast landscape of minimal ambiance and absolute drone. Isn’t production and compulsive publication thereof as easy as hitting one note for a period longer than normal? What...
View ArticleInterview with Julia Kent
At this point, I am just trying to express the emotions I’m feeling, whether positive or negative, in whatever way I can Congratulations Julia on the truly breathtaking and exceptionally beautiful new...
View ArticleVarg – Ursviken (Northern Electronics)
Capturing my attention nearly at the end of 2015 is a seemingly unknown, yet somewhat prolific, project by the name of Varg. Dig deeper, and beyond the alias, among with others, such as Grav, Vagrav...
View ArticleAFTERWORDS : Two from Ground Fault Recordings
Editor’s Note: In this article, Will Long of Celer continues to explore recordings that have inspired him throughout the years. See more on this AFTERWORDS series. Here’s a true story – Devin Sarno...
View ArticleDrombeg – Earthworks (Futuresequence)
Positioned on the south-western coast of Ireland, picturesque County Kerry boasts some of the regions most iconic scenery and ancient history. It also home to singer and musician Thom Brookes who...
View ArticleRoel Funcken – The Voynich Manuscript Mix
Today I’m honored to present you with Roel Funcken‘s The Voynich Manuscript Mix, which we will publish in four individual parts, followed by the full, continuous 4:32 hour mix!!! On this amazing...
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