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Headphone Commute’s Best of 2016 : 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...
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Headphone Commute’s Best of 2016 : 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...
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Headphone Commute’s Best of 2016 : 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...
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Headphone Commute’s Best of 2016 : 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 2016 : 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...
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Headphone Commute’s Best of 2016 : 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 2016 : 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 2016 : Music For Synergizing The Synapse Of Ideas
For the last nine 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...
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Headphone Commute’s Best of 2016 : Music For Capricious Souls Adrift In Noir-fi
For the last nine 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...
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Mathias Van Eecloo – eisOtones 10
50 tracks from 50 albums of 2016 Last year we have introduced the imaginative curation by Mathias Van Eecloo with eisOtones 9, and so we decided to follow up with the next installment, nearly a year...
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Best of 2016 – Reader’s Poll Results
Alrighty then, I just spent almost an hour totaling up all of the results, and may I say, it was worth it! We’ve received twice as many responses as last year! Here are only the top final results,...
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Jóhann Jóhannsson – Orphée (Deutsche Grammophon)
I intend to speak of forms changed into new entities” – Ovid, Metamorphoses Sometimes, some records, and I along with them, fall into this first-class trap, this uppermost attic, this top-notch shelf,...
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Sound Bytes : Cindytalk, Eric Arn, The Empire Line, and Theory
Cindytalk The Labyrinth Of The Straight Line Editions Mego Cindytalk returns with another dark and pretty noisy album. The dynamics range from some quiet and menacing gray swashes to the piercing...
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Huerco S. – For Those Of You Who Have Never (And Also Those Who Have) (Proibito)
Things I thought about in the last 24 hours: time and its eminent passing with an accelerated perception thereof; past relationships and the intricate essence they leave on your being, like a...
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Abul Mogard – Works (Ecstatic)
So we may not [yet] know exactly who Abul Mogard is. If we are to believe in his widely publicized biography, Mogard hails out of Belgrade, where he spent most of his life working at a metal factory....
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Yagya – Stars And Dust (Delsin)
When I first visited Iceland in February of 2016 (exactly a year ago!), one of the people I had to absolutely meet face to face was Aðalsteinn Guðmundsson. I’ve been listening to Yagya since his 2002...
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ASC – Near Death (Auxiliary Transmissions)
Dig through the catalog of this UK born, San Diego-based, electronic music producer and you may get overwhelmed with all the releases. With nearly 100 singles going back to early 2000, you will...
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Oaktree – Soundtrack For A City View
This recording was made on January 22th in Klub Goud in Antwerp, on the 21st floor of one of the highest buildings in the city, by Adriaan de Roover, aka Oaktree. The set was performed live and...
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TRACK PREMIERE : Roel Funcken – Pead Bandorum
I am happy to share with you today an exclusive premiere of a track from Roel Funcken‘s upcoming album Balaklavskiy Prospex. Dutch Roel (of the Funckarma brothers) has been producing IDM, braindance,...
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F.S. Blumm & Nils Frahm – Tag Eins Tag Zwei (Sonic Pieces)
I’ve been in love with music by Nils Frahm for so long that it’s easy to oversee a possibility that he may be a “newly discovered name” to an unsuspecting listener or reader. Ever since Berlin-based...
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