Vargkvint – Headphone Commute Mix
Download Mixcloud Podcast iTunes Sofia Nystrand is a Stockholm-based composer with a new album Månens Hav, due out on June 2nd, 2023, via the German LEITER imprint. This follow-up to her 2019 record...
View ArticleBrueder Selke – Q3Ambientfest
Editor’s Note: The following interview is about a music festival curated by East Berlin-born multi-instrumental composers Sebastian and Daniel Selke, who you may also know as Brueder Selke and CEEYS....
View ArticleItal Tek – Timeproof
expansive and elegant, neatly balanced between light and dark, grace and brutality… Label: Planet Mu Released: April 21st, 2023 Artwork By: Nicholas Law See Also: In the studio with Ital Tek Bandcamp...
View ArticleOtt, Willits + Sakamoto, and Jon Hopkins
Celebrating Headphone Commute’s many years of content, I am highlighting albums that I covered 15, 10, and 5 years ago. I do this by going back through my archives and selecting a favourite for the...
View ArticleBob Holroyd – Big Fields
football chants and nursery rhymes… Label: Six Degrees Date: May 12, 2023 Engineered By: Simon Painter Artwork By: Gemma Hattersley Pitt Buy on Bandcamp ambient, electroacoustic, neoclassical I wasn’t...
View ArticleA Winged Victory For The Sullen
Download Spotify Apple Podcast Welcome back to our third episode of The Contemplative Podcast with your host, Matt Emery. On today’s episode, Matt chats with Adam Wiltzie of the one and only A Winged...
View ArticleIn the studio with Aukai
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 had an early phase in my life as a guitarist from 13 to 20 years old....
View ArticleWhere is my music?
It’s been a bit quiet on this side of Headphone Commute, but there is nothing to worry about – I’m simply away on vacation for nearly a month. I realized that I’ve put out an “Out of Office” message...
View ArticleJune 19th, 2023
I’m back! Did you miss me? It’s been a while, and I’ve got a ton of music to share with you today! I’m probably about a month and a half behind the release dates of these albums, but that doesn’t mean...
View ArticleIn the studio with Shida Shahabi
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 have a big family here in Stockholm, and we were always spending our...
View ArticleFields We Found – Looking Beyond the Trees
Download Mixcloud Podcast iTunes Fields We Found is the moniker of an artist and the newly-launched quiet details label founder, bathing our ears with ambient bliss. In the last few years, we were...
View ArticleJune 22nd, 2023
As promised in my entry just a few days ago, here’s the second half of all the new music that I have uncovered in the last month and a half but didn’t have the chance to write about. There are a few...
View ArticleHecq, Trifonic, Warmth
Celebrating Headphone Commute’s many years of content, I am highlighting albums that I covered 15, 10, and 5 years ago. I do this by going back through my archives and selecting a favourite for the...
View ArticleJames O’Connell – Lightforms
atmospheric textures, delicate piano notes, and soaring heart-wrenching strings…” Label: Manners McDade Released: June 16th, 2023 Bandcamp Tidal Spotify Amazon Sometimes the most fantastic music comes...
View ArticleOlivia Belli – Anima I
the beginning of a personal journey searching the essential… Label: XXIM Records Release: Anima I Date: June 30th Photo By: Dovile Sermokas oliviabelli.lnk.to/anima I think that each musical piece is...
View ArticleTim Hecker – No Highs
a beacon of unease against the deluge of false positive corporate ambient currently in vogue…” Label: Sunblind / Kranky Released: April 7th, 2023 Mastered By: Heba Kadry Bandcamp Tidal Spotify Amazon...
View ArticleIn the studio with Rone
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 have the memory of always making music. I tried many instruments. At...
View ArticleQuiet Places – The Empty View
Label: A Strangely Isolated Place Release: Volume 2 Date: July 7th, 2023 Mastered By: Andreas Lupo Lubich Artwork By: Noah M / Keep Adding asip.me/asipv040 For today’s exclusive track premiere, I am...
View ArticleRrose – Please Touch
addressing in equal measure the perceptual and the corporeal…” Label: Eaux Released: June 23, 2023 Mastered By: Stefan Betke Artwork By: Jon-Paul Villegas Bandcamp Tidal Spotify Amazon rrose.ro As a...
View ArticleBest of 1970
It took me a while to listen to (and review) the albums released in 1970, as highlighted in the “ 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die” book. Probably an entire year, if not more (my Best of 1969...
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