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TRACK PREMIERE : Endless Melancholy – We Found Love (feat. Matt Finney)
Today we are happy to share with you an exclusive premiere of a track by Oleksiy Sakevych, also known for his project, Endless Melancholy, featuring Matt Finney. Sakevych has previously appeared on...
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Sound Bytes : Compilations : Serein, 1631, Audiobulb and Dragon’s Eye
Orbital Planes & Passenger Trains Serein If there is one thing the eleven-year history of Serein tells us, it is that the Welsh label does not put out a release unless it is something special –...
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In the studio with Robert Henke
Let’s 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 discovered the ‘Oxygene’ album by Jean Michel Jarre when I was a kid...
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PvC – Perception Management
There is something in the beauty of darkness. And one doesn’t have to be in a dark mood in order to appreciate it. Perhaps one gets desensitized with age to all of the bitter layers, in order to...
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Sound Bytes : Soundtracks : A Winged Victory For The Sullen, Jóhann...
I decided to spoil you a little, with not four, but six entries in Headphone Commute’s Sound Bytes column, catching up to this year’s favorite scores and soundtracks. And I’m only scratching the...
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Max Ananyev – Communication (Preserved Sound)
I’ve played Communication more than a dozen times before I sat down to write out these words. It’s not that I needed to be convinced to share this album with you – it’s that I just couldn’t stop...
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Christian Löffler – Mare (Ki)
I’ll admit that I have only discovered Christian Löffler back in 2014, with his Young Alaska release, and that was already after his 2012 debut, on his very own Ki Records, titled A Forest. The Young...
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Yann Novak – Ornamentation (Touch Music)
For his latest release, Ornamentation, the man behind Dragon’s Eye Recordings, lands on another highly regarded UK label, Touch Music. This is the imprint, of course, that brought us recordings by...
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In the studio with Yann Novak
Let’s start at the very beginning. Can you tell us how you got involved in composing, and what was your very first piece of gear? In the 90’s I was heavily involved in the midwest rave scene and did...
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Steve Hauschildt – Strands (Kranky)
Rivers carry the most precious resource on Earth: water. Without their sinuous redistribution system that carries water back to the open oceans, the continents would be barren and lifeless places. We...
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eilean rec. – aankomst
Not much time left in 2016… and as this year slips away from us, with all of its musical wonders, some wins, and some losses, we take a quick look back with this wonderful mix from Eilean Records....
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Pinkcourtesyphone – Taking into Account Only a Portion of Your Emotions...
There was a time, oh, back in 2012, when Richard Chartier‘s newly discovered project felt like a playful outlet for his experimental and minimal works, wrapped in a concept of an enigma, obscurity,...
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Surgeon – From Farthest Known Objects (Dynamic Tension)
Anthony Child has been a justifiably renown figure in techno since his earliest records in the early to mid-90s. His biting, clinical flavor of techno is among the strongest of its kind and helped...
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The Caretaker – Everywhere at the end of time (History Always Favours The...
The Caretaker is an interesting character. I met Jim Kirby in person, in 2010, at Montreal’s MUTEK festival, and we discussed his approach to music over a bottle of whiskey before his show. On the...
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Optic Echo Presents – Best Vinyl of 2016
Perhaps more than a tradition by now, Mike Jedlicka of Optic Echo Presents has been sharing with us his favorite vinyl-only selections of the year since 2011. The process begins in December when an...
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Headphone Commute’s Best of 2016
Perhaps a little bit late, but I think you will forgive me for the time I had to take off and finalize the entries (on the beach!). Anyway, if you’ve been following Headphone Commute for 9 years, then...
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Headphone Commute’s Best of 2016 : Music For The Film Behind Closed Eyelids
In this first installment of Headphone Commute’s Best of 2016, I gather my favorite selections of the year consisting of music that simply makes you feel. The albums in this list should just be...
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Headphone Commute’s Best of 2016 : Music For Bending Light And Stopping Time
Sit down. Stop thinking for a while. That thought? Let it go. Let it all go. Call it meditation, call it concentration, call it what you will, but let it go. That thought? Be above it and let it pass....
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Headphone Commute’s Best of 2016 : 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 the morning dew, light, and sound. The music has never stopped playing, but it has slowed down in pace....
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