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Ambient outfit How To Disappear Completely release “Aural Stream”

Fascinating new EP from the live ambient collective based in Poland, reputedly burned to 2 inch tape for a warm, enveloping feel.
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Strega Musica is a free 13 track album made using Make Noise’s own Strega...

A unique and creative demo with more than a dozen electronic music producers and composers making beautiful music with the Strega patchable desktop instrument.
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#ListenUp Being’s There is here from Apartment Records

An 8 track album of whirling and sometimes psychedelic ambient techno "recorded to tape" thirty years ago debuts on cassette from Apartment Records.
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San Mateo creates an ambient masterpiece on Exspiravit Luminaria

Exspiravit Luminaria "feels organic and human throughout, blurring boundaries between classical and electronic music with its palette of warm strings, subtle sound design and mournful drones."

Rigenerazioni – the hypnotic electronic sutras of Davide Tonini

Exquisitely produced techno & electronica on this album from Davide Tonini via Detroit Underground.
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Northworks’ “Repeating Is In Everyone” is a minimal house masterpiece

Massive respect due to anyone that can lead off a one-sheet for a 21st century electronic music EP with a quote from Gertrude Stein.

Reissue alert: Gerald Donald reissues Arpanet tracks on “Hydrostatic Equilibrium”

Ranging from ambient to electro, two tracks from James Stinson's Drexciya collaborator are reissued on single-sided vinyl and digital by 30D ExoPlanets.
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Two guys & a room of analog gear: The Analog Session return on Seven...

The new album from the Alexander Robotnick and Ludus Pinsky side project.
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Posthuman’s Requiem For A Rave is more than nostalgia for your misspent youth

The Posthuman album Requiem for a Rave could be your life, and if you're reading this it probably was.
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More Ghost Than Man: The Worlds We Made There

Terry Grant didn't break up with club music - they're just taking a break. Inside the More Ghost Than Man project and the new album The Worlds We Made There.
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Lisa Bella Donna’s Mourning Light is an ambient masterpiece

Recorded live, Mourning Light captures that feeling of every human as a chrysalis emerging from hibernation after COVID-19 lockdowns.
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ChilledCow on notice: Steve Roach launches 24/7 ambient YouTube channel

Following in the footsteps of the independent YouTube streamers putting up "beats to relax/study to," ambient artist Steve Roach has created a 24/7 ambient streaming channel.
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Space Oddity: the weird history of the Soviet ANS synthesizer

The sound of Tarkovsky's Solaris, The Mirror and Stalker was generated by a strange machine that created sounds with drawings.
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Shawn Rudiman’s “Flow State” is one of the best electronic albums of the last...

Higher state: 21 tracks make for a flawless journey on Shawn Rudiman's new album Flow State, out now from Pittsburgh Tracks.
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Getting “Lost In The Wires” with LoFi Freq on Detroit Underground

LoFi Freq's Lost In The Wires is an instant classic 18 track album from Detroit Underground.
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Tides is a Masterpiece of Dark Ambient from Joachim Spieth

Joachim Spieth's second album Tides is a masterpiece of dark ambient music, immersive on a level that operates closer to metaphysics than acoustics.

#StayHomeDisco – DJs Under Lockdown

5 Mag is launching a new project to help hold our community together and feed our souls with good music. DJ sets every day, several times per day.

The Week Ghostly International Takes Over Chicago

Pop up shops, interviews and talks and two distinct but related shows at Metro and Smartbar to celebrate 20 years of Ghostly International.

Unplugged: The Magical Sounds of Pato Y Pato

Detroit duo Mark Maynard and John Duffy are capturing the aesthetic of 1970s proto-electronic on the psychedelic analog dream music of Pato Y Pato.
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For All Mankind: Electronic Music on the Moon

Brian Eno, Jeff Mills and Michael Kandel offer radically different interpretations of the relationship between humans, the Moon and the Earth.

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