Welcome to Quick Listens episode 3 – my relatively new series in which I’ll post quick thoughts on new music I’ve been listening to. Not as in-depth as an individual review, and may vary in quantity of things I actually list in each one. But…
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Quick Listens #2
Welcome to Quick Listens episode 2 – my new series in which I’ll post quick thoughts on new music I’ve been listening to. Not as in-depth as an individual review, and may vary in quantity of things I actually list in each one. But hopefully…
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Quick Listens #1
Welcome to Quick Listens – a new series in which I’ll post quick thoughts on new music I’ve been listening to. Not as in-depth as an individual review, and may vary in quantity of things I actually list in each one. But hopefully it’ll be…
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Alba Ecstasy – X Edition
Mihail-Adrian Simion is the name of the talented synthesist behind the Berlin-school infused music of Alba Ecstasy. It’s hard to pin down from his bio exactly where Alba Ecstasy started, but his involvement with synthesizers spans almost 30 years, and featured working along such luminaries…
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Omri Cohen – Cosmic Foundry
Omri Cohen is someone I heard of through his amazing Youtube channel in which he demonstrates, reviews and explains a lot of principles around modular synthesis. He also posts the occasional performance and completed work. It got me curious – had he released any albums?…
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Mount Shrine – Lost Loops Collection
Well then – here is the epic lost loops from the late Cesar Alexandre. I absolutely loved his take on ambient, that warm, fuzzy and distinctly organic tone that I’ve not really heard from any other artist. He drenched his music in this lush, vibrant…
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Martin Stürtzer – Ambient Nights, Vol. 1
A somewhat strange release from the legendary synth master this one. It features 4 tracks of wildly varying length, from a relatively short 16 minutes to just nudging over an hour. There are some musical differences between them too, as well as some similarities which…
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Sphäre Sechs – Extradimension
Martin Stürtzer and Christian Stritzel return once more with their ambient project Sphäre Sechs. I first heard these guys performing Tiefschlaf, and I was hooked with the massive, brooding sound design of that album. It’s been too long, and barely had the new year rung…