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Entries on this site with 'drone'

• Invisible Ink (Mix)
  Though the title of Arve Henriksen sopening track ( Stille Veg , Quiet Road) was the working title for this mix, I finally decided to call it  Invisible Ink  - referrin
• Kyle Bobby Dunn - Rural Route #2
  Shortly after his magnificient double album " A Young Person's Guide to KBD ", Kyle Bobby Dunn delivers another two intricate drone tracks. This time on a limited edition
• Robert Rich - Somnium (App)
  Robert Rich originally released Somnium in 2001 on DVD-Audio. The DVD format was dictated by the length of the three-part piece: it clocks in over 7 (SEVEN!) hours. Apart
• Marow - Lysår
  The Berlin-based Klitorik website, hosting free audio releases as well as videos and a pdf-magazine, was unknown to me until recently. I cannot understand why, since thei
• Sonmi451 - Ruis
  The Slaapwel label, specialised in music to fall asleep to , is becoming more collectible with every release. The previous (six) releases were all very beautiful (package
• Vuvuzela Stretch Mix
  Ever since I heard Pink Floyd's processed recording of a stadium singing (on ''Fearless", from 1971's "Meddle"), the sound of a mega-crowd organism fascinates me as well a
• VorteX mix
  Since 1995, X-Rated (a weekly three hour radio show on dutch alternative music radio channel Kink FM )has been a "platform for 'difficult' music". Experimental, avant-gard
• Olan Mill - Pine
  Olan Mill is the name of the duo ( Alex Smalley and Svitlana Samoylenko ) presenting " Pine " , the long-awaited second release of the british Serein label . Serein starte
• Cinta Cita - Part 1
  "Cinta Cita - Meeting with the Tape" is the second 'guest mix' created especially for ambientblog.net. (The first was Muttley's "Isolate" ). Cinta Cita is a 2 1/2 hour jou
• Cinta Cita - part 2
  "Cinta Cita - Meeting with the Tape" is the second 'guest mix' created especially for ambientblog.net. (The first was Muttley's "Isolate" ). Cinta Cita is a 2 1/2 hour jou
• Steve Brand - Circular Scriptures
  Circular Scriptures is the very first (and until now: only) release of a brand new label: Relaxed Machinery ,a label owned by John Koch-Northrup (previously a co-owner of
• Fluid Radio Mix
  If you check out the Fluid Radio Mixcloud playlist,you'll find a lot of familiar names: it seems that almost all artists working in the contemporary electronic experiment
• Kyle Bobby Dunn - A Young Person's Guide to
  When it comes to 'classical droning', Stars of the Lid are the reference point. While there'ssome debate whether their music is Brilliant or Boring , they simply prove goo
• Subversion Guest Mix
  Not long ago, Muttley's "Isolate" mix was published on Ambientblog as a guest mix. Muttley's own Subversion weblog hosts a lot of his mixes, as well asthe 15 Minutes of Fa
• Porzellan - The Fourth Level of Comprehension
  The Hibernate Sampler did a fine job: I was so impressed by the quality of the music that I ordered a batch of albums from the label. All of them were interesting enough t
• Isolate (Mix)
  Isolate is the first mix published on ambientblog.net created by a guest. Muttley (Michael Buckingham) is actively maintaining the Subvert Central weblog (hosting60+ mixes
• Paul Sharma - Embers
  Paul Sharma 's Embers is a beautiful electronic composition based on the Indian midnight raga Malkaun s, and thus is very suitable for midnight listening ( The Raga Guide
• Miserere (Mix)
  First, let me give my best wishes for 2010 to all of you!! What better way to start the new year than with a brand new mix nd a brand new design (thanks Ingmar from Planet
• Sounds of Spellborn - Alternate (mix)
   The Chronicles of Spellborn  came with so much interesting soundscapes, that I decided to create a second mix, an alternate version to the first one published last week
• Machinefabriek - Ax / Still
  'The Hardest Working Man in Showbusiness'. Usually this refers to Funk Godfather James Brown, but if anyone else deserves this credit it would be Rutger ' Machinefabriek
• Peter Broderick - Music for a Sleeping Sculpture...
  Earlier this weekend, the Belgian label Slaapwel (Sleep Well) presented their firstlabelnight in Leuven, Belgium. To my regret, I was not able to be there - although I'm a
• Celer - Close Proximity...
  This could have been one of the shortest reviews of this weblog: I simply could state that this music induced some of the deepest sleeps I experienced when listening to am
• Dream Calibration (mix)
  Nonstop Ambient Montage: from Alva Noto to Arvo Prt , via Arve Henriksen and Jacaszek , with short stops at Christopher Bissonnette , Entia Non , Kraken , Goldmund, and ma
• Utsura - Utsura (mix)
   Utsura-Utsura  is a japanese expression indicating the fluctuation between alert wakefulness and a state of half-sleep. Or at least: I was told that it means somethin
• Sounds of Spellborn (mix)
  If you have listened to previous mixes on this weblog, you may have grown accustomed to the kind of format that they share. This one has a different approach. I noticed th
• Phill Niblock - Touch Strings
  Though he's not the only one working in this musical area (think of Eliane Radigue , her 'Trilogie de la Mort' especially, or Alvin Lucier with his 'Music on a Long Thin W
• Greg Haines - Komarovo
  Compared to earlier releases on " Slaapwel Records " (Sleep Well Records - the Belgian label dedicated to Music to Fall Asleep To), Komarovo may be the hardest one to fall
• Kleefstra/Bakker/Kleefstra - Wink
  If you're a collector that likes to have your music on a physical CD, times are rapidly getting harder. Especially in the ambient and experimental genre, where more and mo
• True (mix)
  Autumn Leaves cover image Like it's companion mix (" Strange Birds ", published last week) this mix was also broadcast in April 2008. It's a further walk in the same lands
• Strange Birds (mix)
  Autumn Leaves, Cover Image The central thematic piece in this mix is Christina Kubisch ' " Tea Time (Autumn Leaves Mix) ", from Gruenrecorder's "Autumn Leaves" - male sing
• Allegaar (mix)
  According to my dictionary, ' Allegaar ' translates to ' Hotchenpotch ' - but I can imagine there may be a better word for that!? Just like the previous mix (" Leftover Mi
• The Leftover Mix (mix)
  Though the title may give the impression that this mix consists of 'second choice music', that is definitely nt the case! These tracks did not find their way to a 2007 Fol
• Jamie Drouin - A Three Month Warm Up
  The 'Warm Up' this title refers to is the 'cacophony of notes played by a symphony during warm up, where a single unified tone emerges out of the various intruments and vo
• Be Still (mix)
  No special theme for this mix...just flowing, quiet music... This mix was broadcast paired with ' Final Sleep ' in june, 2007. In this mix the title is taken from the Adri
• Final Sleep (mix)
  No special theme for this mix...just flowing, quiet music... The title obviously comes from the track by Svarte Greiner. (This mix was broadcast paired with ' Be Still ' '
• Ring (mix)
  "Ring" is the second part of the two part auditive " guided fantasy " from 2006 (" Wave " being the first part). A mix of ambient music, soundscapes and other musical surp
• Wave (mix)
  "Wave" is the first of a two part an auditive " guided fantasy " (" Ring " being the second part). A mix of ambient music, soundscapes and other musical surprises, created
• Acoustical Illusions (mix)
  "Acoustical Illusions" , a part of the " Hum in the Room -trilogy" (2005), is dedicated to the environmental sounds that sound like distant choirs or orchestras. Sometime
• The Hum in the Room (mix)
  "The Hum in the Room" the final part ofthe three-part mix dedicated to ... the hum in your room ! The buzz that you suddenly notice, that appears to have been there foreve
• Mantra of Walls and Wiring (mix)
  " Mantra of Walls and Wiring " is the first of a set of three one hour mixes created in 2005. The other two are " The Hum in the Room " and " Acoustical Illusion " (will f
• S.A.D. Sounds - 2 (mix)
  Part 2 of the 2-part mix called ' S.A.D. Sounds (Voorjaarsmoe) ' (from april 2004). The first part can be found here . (Please listen in sequence...) " S.A.D. " is an acro
• S.A.D. Sounds - 1 (mix)
  The joys of springtime usually get the most attention, but the season has a dark side, too:  Spring Fatique . The need to eat and to sleep more than usual, inexplicable
• Peinzing - Part 2 (mix)
  Peinzing - Part 2 (2003) is of course the second part of Peinzing (Pondering; Muse-ing). Since both parts are meant to be listened to as one, please download part 1 first
• Peinzing - Part 1 (mix)
  " Peinzing " (pondering, muse-ing) (2003) is the name of the musical collage in which the difference between 'music' and 'sound' will not always be clear to the listener.
• Vergeten Tijd (Time Forgotten) (mix)
  Vergeten Tijd ('Time Forgotten') was not specifically created for the Polderlicht Project (Amsterdam, 2001), but the mix fits in seamlessly with KlankSluis and Eindpunt .
• Eindpunt (End of the Line) (mix)
  One of the reactions on the earlier 4 hour non stop ambient collages broadcast by Supplement (...dutch radio program with a focus on modern/avant garde/experimental music.
• Klanksluis (SoundLock) (mix)
  One of the reactions on the earlier 4 hour non stop ambient collages broadcast by Supplement (...dutch radio program with a focus on modern/avant garde/experimental music.
• DreamScenes - Part 4 (mix)
  Part 4 of the 4-part mix from 2001.. Notes on this mixes can be found with Dreamscenes - Part 1 . Read more for the complete playlist: DreamScenes - Part 4 Playlist: Nusra
• DreamScenes - Part 3 (mix)
  Part 3 of the 4-part mix from 2001.. Notes on this mixes can be found with Dreamscenes - Part 1 . Read more for the complete playlist: DreamScenes - Part 3 Playlist: Biosp
• DreamScenes - Part 2 (mix)
  Part 2 of the 4-part mix from 2001.. Notes on this mixes can be found with Dreamscenes - Part 1 . Read more for the complete playlist: DreamScenes - Part 2 Playlist: Hasse
• DreamScenes - Part 1 (mix)
  DreamScenes was originally created in 2001 for dutch radio. It consists of four one-hour parts that were broadcasted uninterrupted. To my surprise it led to quite a few r
• Hilary Jeffery & Lysn - Katendrecht Spaceport
  Katendrecht is a typical area in Rotterdam where you can expect to find a lot of things. But the last thing to expect to find there is a spaceport where you can take a dir
• Stephan Mathieu - Radioland
  Holger Czukay always used to mention 'shortwave' (radio) in the instrument credits on his album. The mysterious, vaguely distorted sound of shortwave radio has always seem
• Lull - Like a Slow River
  It is hard to imagine that there's a direct link between Napalm Death and extreme 'isolationist' ambient. But there is, and ex-Napalm Death drummer Mick (MJ) Harris is the
• Variations in a Constant Drone
  One definition of 'drone' music might be: 'finding the least thing necessary for pleasurable listening' . Although it's notit's not a very good definition(because of the
• Matthew Florianz - Maalbeek
  In an interesting article about 'web 2.0 fan-based fundraising', Kevin Kelly (founding editor of Wire Magazine) states that any artists only needs "1000 True Fans" to make
• Jasper TX - This Quiet Season
  "This Quiet Season" is aptly titled for arelease on Slaapwel Records (Sleep Well). Slaapwel is a small DIY label from Belgium that focuses on music to fall asleep to and
• Robert Rich - Illuminations / Atlas Dei
  Two new releases of ambient pioneer Robert Rich recently caught my attention. Both are related to visual performances, and while they are very different,they represent the
• Machinefabriek - Weleer
  "Weleer" (Formerly, in old times) is the well chosen title for the 2CD selection of work from more than 30 3"-cd's that Rutger "machinefabriek" Zuydervelt released last ye
• The Beethoven Time Warp
  Beethovens Ninth Symphony is part of mankinds collective memory  everyone knows and recognises it (or at least parts of it). Canyou possibly imagine how this 74 minute
• Inside and Outside
  Being the prolific musician that he is, Stephen Philips has come up with quite some unusual ideas (see the recent post about the drone download project , for an example).

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