Since 1996, Disquiet.com has listed its 10 favorite ambient/electronic (and closely related) releases of the year. This time around, thanks to a bounty of great music in 2003, the annual list has been expanded to 15. With the rise of …
The folks at the Bronson Unlimited record label have upped the ante for tribute albums. Once upon a time, you simply got a dozen acts to cover a dozen songs, and if more than three of the new versions were …
Sophrosyne’s poppy track “The Cave of Montesinos” is a kind of songwriting as sine wave. It follows an arc from simple and quiet to thick, if not loud, and back to simple and quiet again, beginning with the thrum of …
San Francisco-based musician Christopher Willits made a September 2003 tour that took him two four East Coast venues, one each in Baltimore, Boston, Brooklyn and Manhattan. He has posted on his website (christopherwillits.com) brief clips from each of the …
Though we’re halfway through December, Hrvatski, aka Keith Fullerton Whitman, has not published a new monthly MP3 download on his website (reckankomplex.com). But don’t despair, because the site of Kranky Records (kranky.net) has posted an 18-minute KFW video …
What better for a last minute holiday shopper than a last minute gift guide? This is a list of ten recommendations for ambient/electronic music presents for all manner of recipients, from your cousin with basic pop tastes (the Chemical Brothers’ …
Bless the BBC, whose Mixing It show on December 12 interviewed Amon Tobin, the revered Ninja Tune Records artist (Out from Out Where), and put the whole conversation up as a web stream (here). Can’t say how long it’ll …
One thing dark ambient music has cornered the market on is gravitas, which is why it makes perfect sense that a soundscape by Arizona-based artist Steve Roach accompanies an online spot for progressive, anti-war presidential candidate Dennis Kucinich. Check out …
Ah, the immediacy of the web. On December 10 — that is, yesterday — the nimble, concept-minded techno act Underworld — easily among the best songwriters in electronic music, however small a field that may be — performed live at …
If the track “Functional Abstraction” by the act Addisko (aka Stephen Baker, of the Tomorrowland duo) is a code, then a set of headphones is the decoder ring. The six-minute MP3 was posted for free download by the Red Antenna …