Tag: dark ambient
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SML025 w.x – Radial Circuit
Radial Circuit is drones in circles. It’s a pulsating ride through a soft storm in the dark. It’s planets spinning. A cascade down a canyon into the rushing water below. The seemingly infinite bliss at the moment lightning strikes. After 5 years away from music, w.x has returned with 9 brand new tracks presented in a…
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SML023C w.x – . – The Best of w.x, Part III
FREE DOWNLOAD FROM: Bandcamp . is a 3 part series featuring the best material from w.x. Since 2007 Ian Witzel has been releasing music covering a varied selection of genres under the name w.x. He has since decided to retire that name and expand the horizons of his music. After 5 years and over 20…
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Album Review: Steven R. Hess / mise_en_scene – Non-Distinction
Label: Los Discos Enfantasmes Catalog No: LDE 030 We all thought the days of cassette tapes were over but like vinyl it’s trying to make an artistic comeback. The economic world has no use for this obsolete medium; it doesn’t make enough money. Creative people who care about the essence and art of things rather…
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SML023A . – The Best of w.x, Part I
. is a 3 part series featuring the best material from w.x. Since 2007 Ian Witzel has been releasing music covering a varied selection of genres under the name w.x. He has since decided to retire that name and expand the horizons of his music. After 5 years and over 20 releases the time has…
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Album Review: SYNEK – Paradiba EP
Paradiba is a short and sweet preview of the foreboding world where SYNEK resides. Consisting of two original songs and one remix, it catapults us on a dark and menacing descent into blackness. The first track, “Fathom”, is a slightly disturbed symphony of industrial sounds saturated by metallic reverberations. They unceasingly bounce off each other…
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Review: No-xygen and Mike Radice – From Darkness to Renaissance
Label: Eg0cide Productions Catalog No: Eg0_052 The latest collaborative effort in the Dark Ambient cosmos has emerged from the atmospheric masters No-xygen and multi-instrumentalist Mike Radice. They have presented us with a soundtrack for the ultimate journey of humankind. Their concept surrounds our struggle to relinquish the darkness and dessication within us and be reborn…
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SML022 w.x – Hailstone
FREE DOWNLOAD FROM: Bandcamp Internet Archive As the Northern Hemisphere hides from the frigid forces of nature, creative energies are regenerated and sow the seeds for glorious times ahead. Hailstone was created by harnessing the darker aspects of weather and forging them with a wide-eyed optimistic view of the future. It sends us on a…
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Review: Palancar – The Tender Hand of the Unseen
Label: Buddhist on Fire Catalog No: BOF-016 The soft waves of the open sea glide onto the beach, casting a molecular drone ashore. This serves as the foundation for an orchestrated ceremony saturated with dark looping textures and elaborate echoes. Overlooking a cliff that stares into the ocean, the sounds collide with nature in a…
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SML021 w.x – Convergence of Time
Set some time aside and just go away to a place of comfort. It could be found in your favorite getaway, deep inside your mind, or both at the same time. We all need a source of escape in these dreadful times. A place where we can forget the stresses and negativity of the world…
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Review: Lusruta – Roh EP
Label: Aesthesea Catalog No: STC011 Drilling a hole deep into the earth, in search of new enlightenment, the underground rumblings of Lusruta emerge. The new EP is a departure from Solemnizing the Trivial, featuring electronic beats and speeds more suitable for the dance floor than your meditative conscience. The earth still quivers under the industrial…