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Sound Bytes : Time Released Sound Special : Marta Mist, Vektormusik, The Star...
Time Released Sound stands for its promise behind the name – this is music that slowly evaporates into the ether of your dwelling until it becomes a part of the air that you breathe, a part of the...
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Clark – The Last Panthers (Warp)
Chris Clark’s latest release for Warp, titled The Last Panthers, is only about 48 minutes in length, but it still packs a very creative punch with its solid 19 pieces. If any slightly negative...
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In the studio with Roel Funcken
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 have always known that I wanted to get into music, and I always had a...
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Hammock – Everything and Nothing (Hammock Music)
It’s quite possible that you may be new to Hammock, but for avid followers of Headphone Commute it shouldn’t be a surprise to find yet another coverage of yet another gorgeous album. By now it seems...
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Lucy – Self Mythology (Stroboscopic Artefacts)
Sometime in the last decade, the ethereal vapors of techno escaped the warehouse walls and seeped into the dark crevices of midnight studios, damp basements and cold morning walks. Stripped of its...
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Fingers in the Noise – Tears of Clouds
For today’s mix we welcome back Laurent Bisch, aka Fingers in the Noise, who previously created a mix for Headphone Commute back in 2014, titled Drone Journey. Bisch’s meticulous selection of his...
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Autechre – elseq 1-5 (Warp)
Beginning the coverage of Autechre‘s latest magnum opus with a history of this English electronic music duo of Rob Brown and Sean Booth is futile – I’ll leave this to countless other sites and wiki...
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Robert Curgenven – Climata (Dragon’s Eye)
We don’t normally look at light, we look at something light reveals. For me it was important that people come to value light… It took a while for me to learn to work with light so you felt it’s...
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Herd – Arteater (Darkfloor Sound)
When Future Sound of London made its permanent imprint on the scene [and my ears] back in the early 90s, especially with my all-time favorite Lifeforms (Virgin, 1994), it caused a bit of a controversy...
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Lakker – Struggle & Emerge (R&S Records)
Lakker’s latest full-length veers even further from the dancefloor than their last, the utterly fantastic and impossible-to-recommend-enough Tundra (incidentally, also one of our favorites of that...
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Philippe Petit – You Only Live Ice (Glacial Movements)
Italian label, Glacial Movements, founded by Alessandro Tedeschi, has been releasing ambient, minimal, and arctic drone records for almost a decade now (has it really been that long?). Some of my...
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Marta Mist – Headphone Commute Mix
This morning’s Headphone Commute mix is prepared by a Marta Mist, an ambient collective out of Leeds, UK, whose last record, Scavengers, appeared on our Time Released Sound label special. The...
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Interview with Hammock
[Editor’s Note: all answers for Hammock are furnished by the two members, Andrew Thompson (AT) and Marc Byrd (MB)] Hi guys, where are you these days and what have you been up to this past weekend? AT-...
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Sound Bytes : Eilean Rec. Special : Speck, Jason Van Wyk, Wil Bolton, Zahn |...
On this Sound Bytes Label Special we explore four releases from Eilean Rec., an independent French label, run by Mathias Van Eecloo (of Monolyth & Cobalt) releasing ambient, electro-acoustic,...
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Ben Lukas Boysen – Spells (Erased Tapes)
Before I knew this gorgeous side of Ben Lukas Boysen there was a stunning side of Hecq. There was his glitched out, tecked out, abstract IDM project with releases on Hymen and Ad Noiseam, pushing the...
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Pleq – Dronarivm Label Showcase
I’m very excited and proud to share with you this mix today. There are three reasons for this. First of all, it’s put together by one of my favorite artists, Bartosz Dziadosz, recording under the...
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FiiO X5 High Resolution Lossless Music Player (2nd gen)
It’s been awhile since I’ve covered some equipment on these pages, but then again, it’s been some time since I have acquired much hardware worthy of a share here. I’ve had my eyes on a portable...
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Julien Marchal – Insight II (1631 Recordings)
I remember discovering Julien Marchal back in 2014, first with a début four-track EP, and later, cementing my original perception, with a same-titled self-released Insight solo-piano album, and...
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In the studio with Julien Marchal
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? The very beginning is too far! Hahaha. So, I remember I was trying to...
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Himmelsrandt – Schneeland (Unperceived)
Himmelsrandt is a solo project originated by pianist and violist Peter Honsalek. It is based geographically in Koblenz, Germany and musically on a modern classical style that should be welcomed by...
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