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Richard Chartier – Between Two Points
I am super excited to welcome the one and only Richard Chartier back to the mix series. Not even as Pinkcourtesyphone, of whom, I am undeniably a huge fan, but as Richard Chartier himself, which is a...
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Dag Rosenqvist & Matthew Collings – Hello Darkness (Denovali)
I think that before I even go into describing the music, it’s important to first address the cover art. Flip through a stack of vinyl at your local record shop and you will surely skip past this pink...
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VIDEO PREMIERE : Romain Iannone – Clouds
Today I would like to introduce you to a Swiss composer, Romain Iannone, via his very own self-made video, titled “Clouds” from the recent album, Nocturne Works, released on oqko. Subtitled as a...
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Leandro Fresco & Rafael Anton Irisarri – La Equidistancia (A Strangely...
La Equidistancia is one of those records that I actually can’t really listen to while wearing my headphones. This is an album that I need to experience loud. Not really at shuttering volumes, but...
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Fabrizio Paterlini – Secret Book (Memory Recordings)
There is a lot of piano music these days. There is solo piano, piano with field recordings or affected textures, piano with electronics, and piano with quartets. And in many cases, I love it all! But...
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Ryuichi Sakamoto – async (Milan)
And this I dreamt, and this I dream. And sometimes this I will dream again. And all will be repeated, all be re-embodied. You will dream everything I have seen in dream. […] Dreams, reality, death, on...
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Olga Wojciechowska – The Surfaces of Things
The weather in London is definitely different than in New York. My dense humid mornings of August have been replaced with the gray breezy skies, misty showers, and bright sunny evenings. It’s not...
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Selffish – He She Them Us (Serein)
Wales based Serein has been in existence as a netlabel since 2005, converting to a full-fledged physical imprint five years later, with Nest‘s Retold (2010), and it’s fair to say that I have hungrily...
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Ben Lukas Boysen & Sebastian Plano – Everything (Erased Tapes)
I feel like we’re slowly transitioning into a whole new chapter of media, artistic expression, and content delivery format, which is both, very exciting, and slightly intimidating at the same time....
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Lost Tribe Sound – The Wounded Healer
The last mix we did for Headphone Commute titled Without Darkness seemed to go over well the HC fans, so we figured we’d give it another go. At the time we were in the middle of our first major...
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Orghanon – Retrospectre (Time Released Sound)
I’ll admit, after spending five days at Berlin’s Atonal festival (and yes, there is a really good reason it’s called that), I needed some sounds to relieve all the ringing, the noise, and fatigue. I...
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Berlin Atonal 2017
I’ve been meaning to attend Berlin’s Atonal festival for sonic and visual art for many years. Founded in 1982, the original festival closed in 1990 and reopened in 2013 in a huge abandoned powerplant...
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Hammock – Mysterium (Hammock Music)
By now, after more than a decade of listening to music by Andrew Thompson and Marc Byrd, there is something that I’ve almost come to expect from Hammock. There are plenty of acts that try to reinvent...
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Ben Frost and Daníel Bjarnason: Music for Sólaris (presented by Barbican)
Solaris is a 1961 philosophical science fiction novel by Polish writer Stanisław Lem. Its “philosophical” aspect has reached a cult status with the readers, as the content, although set in a space...
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Behind The Counter With Max Richter (Rough Trade)
I want to begin this recommendation by saying that this is a very special record. Indeed, when I saw its announcement, I immediately pre-ordered an exclusive 3×12″ limited edition green (!) vinyl set...
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Leah Kardos – Headphone Commute Mix
Today we find ourselves in the company of Leah Kardos, a London-based composer, whose work we’ve highly praised back in 2012, with her release on Bigo & Twigetti titled Feather Hammer. Today, Leah...
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TRACK PREMIERE : Kryshe – March Of The Mysterious (Serein)
I’ve only discovered Kryshe a few months ago when I stumbled upon his Insights album, released on Unperceived Records. The record was a surprising delight, leaving me slightly bewildered as to the...
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VIDEO PREMIERE : KAUAN – Kaiho
We’ve got another gorgeous video premiere for you today. KAUAN is a new name to our ears, a project based in Ukraine, but when you watch, and of course, hear their music, you will understand why it’s...
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Jason van Wyk – Opacity (Home Normal)
Last year, in March of 2016, when Jason van Wyk released his solo piano album, titled Attachment on Eilean, it could have been too easy to accidentally let it get lost among the many works released in...
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Sound Bytes : Jefre Cantu-Ledesma, Toàn, Anjou and James Maloney
Jefre Cantu-Ledesma On the Echoing Green San Francisco native, Jefre Cantu-Ledesma returns with his latest record, On the Echoing Green, via Mexican Summer. I’ve been following his work for quite some...
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