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Massive Attack – Teardrop (Borealis ‘A Light So Heavy Crawls, Wet With Sleep’ Rescreen)
Borealis has been absolutely storming is lately. I’ve long been a fan of Jesse Somfay’s work, and he’s just grown and grown. To say he is now producing some of the best, most innovative electronica around is an understatement. His releases on Origami Sound so far have been quality and his upcoming album ‘Voidness’ is … Continue reading
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I love a dig into some classic ambient and electronica and that’s exactly what Andy Green has carefully curated for us all with this exclusive mix for ASIP. After Andy’s ‘Lost In The Halls Of The Mountain King‘ from October went down so well with everyone here, he set about another set and this time, … Continue reading
The compilations begins with a dark and menacing texture, quickly accompanied by some elegant strings and distant, stretched chimes. A quick succession of clashing instruments akin with Art of Noise, and K.D. Expression’s Alpae-3717 kicks off. From there, I never looked back. Plenty of new, inspiring ambient and electronica on this compilation from Sentimony Records. … Continue reading
Dewtone have been slowly burning away in the background with a few impressive releases. ‘According To The Trees’, by Hungary’s Antendex is one of the best to date. Melancholic and dramatic, Antendex sits on the hard-to-master grey line between ambient and electronica. The tracks are simple, yet clear as the background you see above, with … Continue reading
Peter Fanai returns with his second ambient collage, featuring classic tracks and a bunch of samples, with ‘Half Life’ playing a big part once again. Just like the first U.F.O mix, the artists mentioned need little introduction, similarly neither does the mix. This is how you should be spending the next hour-and-a-half… Download Tracklist: 00:00 … Continue reading
Juska Wendland & Joonas Mikkilä have spent the last three years conjuring up Brotherhood, a classic chill-out album that is full of beautiful piano pieces and euphoric melodies. Joonas is a choir conductor, classically trained pianist and composer and Juska is a long-term DJ, electronic music radio host on Finnish National Radio and event producer. … Continue reading
I’m constantly (and of course, pleasantly) surprised by the amount of quality electronic music that seems to originate from Lithuania – take the earlier post featuring Stellardrone for the most recent example… Paulius Markutis aka Sraunus doesn’t boast the extensive discography of Stellardrone, but Paulius has some absolutely quality tracks to absorb. For those that … Continue reading
I’ve been out of action these past few weeks and have lots of music lined up ready to flip into tidy little posts. First up, is Stellardrone‘s latest spaced-out ambient record, ‘Echoes’. Lithuania’s Edgaras once again delivers one of the finest pieces of escapism known to man and once again, the brilliant Energostatic are behind … Continue reading
Most of you will be familiar with Leandro Fresco’s ambient masterpiece, Buenos Amigos, the star on (what I consider) the best Kompakt Pop Ambient release to date. Since then, Leandro’s been pretty quiet and has only released one album, ‘Luz Sin Calor‘, but still remains a legend in my eyes for the effect that specific … Continue reading
I’ve put together this very special ambient/dub-techno mix for the brilliant Das Kraftfuttermischwerk as part of their Advent Calendar series. So far, the series has featured some superb mixes by some of the site’s musical inspirations, so i’m honoured to take part and contribute. This is an extra special moment for ASIP too, as the … Continue reading
A bunch of ambient sets for you to wrap your ears around from Portugal’s, Pedro Frederico. Pedro runs the Lost Satellite Transmission show as part of Stillstream and has a few shows available to download on Soundcloud. He’s also ran ‘Neonlogic World’ since 2009, another radio show on ‘Dogglounge’. I’ve picked out a rather special … Continue reading
A sublimemix from Belgium’s Dave Volkaerts touching on the soft side of ambient-techno. It’s the kind of mix that’s perfectly unassuming unless you check the track list. The kind that can send you drifting for an hour only to wake-up and think, ‘hang-on, I swear I recognise a few tracks in there… let’s listen to … Continue reading
Anybody see the link yet? That’s right, it’s both an honour and a privilege to introduce the 23rd isolatedmix, by none other than the legendary Carbon Based Lifeforms. Us CBL fans have been pretty lucky recently; two albums in successive years, with Interloper in 2010 and Twentythree in 2011. But, it hasn’t always been so. … Continue reading
A brilliant compilation made available for free download from ad21, containing some of the best tracks from past ad21 releases. Bruno Sanfilippo might be the first artist to jump out from the tracklist, but after drifting off to this compilation, Ran Kirlian is another star producer with some seriously stripped-back, spacey ambient. “ad21music label wants … Continue reading
If you’re the type of person who pays detailed attention to album notes and always reads who put the mastering gloss on to the talent that you’re sat there listening to, then you may have seen Anders Peterson modestly gracing the small-print. Anders Peterson (A.P) is a sound designer, composer and audio post production engineer … Continue reading
Currently blown away by bvdub’s latest offering. The lush beatless soundscapes we are normally used to from Brock are back, with some of the familiar floating layers placed neatly below gentle drums and subtle vocals. As always, the tracks are epic journeys and masterclasses in progressive atmospheres. You can order the CD from Boomkat here. … Continue reading
It takes a while to set-up a successful and respected music community, but sometimes the audience and following that’s needed (and often defines success for many music sites in particular) plays passenger to the passion and creativity of its owners. Before you know it, there’s another hidden gem, releasing brilliant music and breaking new boundaries, deserving nothing but … Continue reading
If this site wasn’t named ‘A Strangely Isolated Place’, it would probably be called, “76.14″. Without a doubt, the legends behind one of my favourite ambient/electronic albums of all time, Global Communication are an elusive pair nowadays. I had to pass up on a a rare gig not too long ago at the British Library … Continue reading
SEQUENCE1, released in celebration of the sites first birthday exceeded all expectations and still gets a regular spin at the ASIP HQ (that’s my iPod in case you were wondering). So, with SEQUENCE2 following just two months later, not only is Michael (@Futuresequence) a very busy man, but also one of my favourite ever people … Continue reading
A week travelling with work results in lots of time listening to music and not as much time exploring new sounds. However, over the past 24 hours i’ve managed to do some much needed catching-up. Max Cooper’s on a roll recently, with some stunning remixes and now a remake of an absolute classic chill-out track, … Continue reading
It’s that time of year again, when Tim Ingham ventures from the beautiful Cornish coast to the big smoke, hypnotising us all with his ethereal electronic productions as Winterlight. A year has flown by since I last watched Tim and port-royal at The Wilmington and as part of a wider label tour with n5md, Tim’s … Continue reading
Im slowly working my way through the Infraction Records back catalogue -an absolute wealth of beautiful music that originated from the discovery of Parks, has once again led me on to another stunning production. Davin Edward Chong, Kevin Peter Chong, Joseph Edward Yonker – a trio that enjoy old tapes and stringed instrumentation make up … Continue reading
The final Chapter in Origami Sound’s relentless quest to unearth some of the most emotional and eclectic electronic producers on this planet comes to a dramatic climax with four absolutely stunning masterpieces. My favourite Chapter to date without a shadow of a doubt, Chapter 6, sees Borealis (aka Jesse Somfay), Fill (also known as Bulb), … Continue reading
I don’t normally enjoy mixes that jump around as much as this one, but Laurent Bisch aka Fingers In The Noise, manages to pluck some amazing tracks from obscurity into one cohesive and engaging set that has set many a ball of exploration rolling. There’s a few biggies in here, such as the autonomous sound … Continue reading
Just over a year ago, Jef Oswald aka Codeshift brought in the cold season with a moody mixture of modern classical and ambient in ‘Time Of Change‘. This Autumn, Greg Haines and Nils Frahm return to feature within Codeshift’s second seasonal mix along with Richard Skelton, Deaf Center, Antonymes and several film excerpts. The audio … Continue reading
