Last month Walt Disney World celebrated the original Space Mountain‘s 50th anniversary. That’s a whole lot of years and a whole lot of people flying through the dark. But in five decades its doubtful many, […]
DEFTR, the alias of Answer Code Request and Jan Wagner, the Ostgut Ton mixing engineer, pianist, and producer, will present an album on npm. We’re told to expect “a captivating fusion of ambient and techno.” […]
Aphex Twin has announced an expanded edition of his album Selected Ambient Works Volume 2. The pioneering 1994 LP will be released in all formats for the first time October 4 via Warp, arriving in […]
Pioneering electronic music producer Aphex Twin is releasing an expanded version of his sophomore album, Selected Ambient Works Volume 2. The haunting collection, which released in the spring of 1994 via Warp Records, is prevalently considered one of […]
Host Scott Detrow talks with Pitchfork editor Andy Cush about ambient music and the growth in popularity of marketing it as so-called mood music on streaming platforms. Share This Article
The maelstrom of travel through LAX calms down when you walk into the Orchestrina. At the start of a 1,000-foot-long hallway connecting the Tom Bradley International terminal’s Great Hall to its west gates, the light […]
Light in the Attic Records, in cooperation with Laurie Anderson and the Lou Reed Archive, will present a definitive reissue of Reed’s Hudson River Wind Meditations. Originally released in 2007, the album provides the best example of Reed’s decades-long exploration […]
Manchester, UK label Sferic has released the debut album of Yungwebster, a rapper based in New York who is influenced by the likes of Travis Scott, Future, and Young Thug. The Yungwebster album features eight […]
The rise of always-on streaming threatens to reduce ambient to a genre of convenience: palliative soundscapes to study and relax to. Tim Hecker has other ideas. Rather than distract or soothe, the veteran laptop composer’s […]
Dylan Henner will release a new album on AD 93. You Always Will Be is the followup to 2020’s The Invention of the Human, an album of gorgeous woozy ambient. Across 10 tracks, the new […]
YouTube announced some new design changes that are rolling out now, including pinch-to-zoom for everyone and precise seeking with a more usable preview to help you find the section of the video you’re looking for. […]
Burial has surprise released the Streetlands EP, a three-track, 34-minute ambient collection from Hyperdub. Streetlands is described as a follow-up to January’s ANTIDAWN, a concept EP about wintertime in the city. The new project didn’t arrive with an official explanation, […]
Photo Credit: Anneliesep123 / CC by 4.0 Above & Beyond has launched a new record label for ambient music called Reflections. The label will co-exist alongside Anjunabeats and Anjunadeep labels. “Our two record labels, Anjunabeats […]
Zaheer Gulamhusein has teamed up with Justin Tripp for a new album as STRING on Hamburg label V I S. Gulamhusein is an Ismaili who produces, releases, and performs electronic music as Xvarr. With Tripp, […]
Anna Wall, a resident DJ of Fabric in London, has released her debut album. Missing Moments is the third release on Wall’s own Dream Theory label, which focuses on sounds across the ambient and experimental […]