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22rpm
Ash Koosha Well, well, well… what do we have here? An all-day electronic music festival, featuring some of the absolute heavy hitters in the “cutting edge electronic music and classic IDM,” and it’s...
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TRACK PREMIERE : Slow Meadow – Hurricane
It seems that recently Headphone Commute has been premiering a lot of pieces from the upcoming releases of some of my favorite composers. Is this a new and interesting trend for the publication, an...
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Arve Henriksen – Towards Language (Rune Grammofon)
So here is how it goes… In terms of extended control of a single solo instrument, we’ve got Nils Frahm on the piano, Hildur Guðnadóttir on the cello, Mario Batkovic on the accordion, Andrea Belfi on...
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The Apple Tree
Don’t worry, this will not be a life-changing story, but it will be a story nevertheless, a story that I didn’t make up, which I couldn’t make up, which has happened to me only a week ago, on a weekend...
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In the studio with ASC
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 was about 13-14 years old when I first got into writing music. I was...
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eilean rec. [2017]
Mathias Van Eecloo has been extremely prolific with the curation of his very own Eilean Records. I honestly can’t keep up. This year alone, he has already put out 16 records, each one with a point on...
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TRACK PREMIERE : Mike Lazarev – Dislodged
So… this is slightly awkward… When it comes to promoting my very own music, I seem to be at loss for words. And yet, I accept that self-promotion is part of every composer’s journey, at the end of...
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Lingua Lustra – Continuum / Mars / Orbit (KOSMOS)
In the summer of 2017, Dutch ambient artist and experimental sound designer, Albert Borkent, released about six albums (if I can count correctly) as Lingua Lustra. There was Myst out on Where Ambient...
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Headphone Commute’s Best of 2017 : 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 2017 : 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 2017 : 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 2017 : 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 2017 : 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 2017 : 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 2017 : 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 2017 : Music For Synergizing The Synapse Of Ideas
For the last 10 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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TRACK PREMIERE : r beny – fernwood (Dauw)
Forest drives, coastal cliffs, lost loves, aged memories like light gleaming through the trees. California-based r beny appeared on my radar late last year, with his beautifully crafted opus fashioned...
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Headphone Commute’s Best of 2017 : Music For Capricious Souls Adrift In Noir-fi
For the last ten years this music haunted my days, then cautiously moved through the ether and entered my bloodstream. 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 11
So I’m back in New York for a couple of weeks. Everything is nearly the same, and yet all of it’s different. I now notice more of the things that I’ve left behind, not recognizing their heavy...
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VIDEO PREMIERE : Tambour – Silhouettes (Moderna)
“Silhouettes” is a brand new track by Montreal-based pianist and composer Simon P. Castonguay, recording under his project name, Tambour. Silhouettes pairs Tambour’s delicate, melodic piano with lush...
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