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And Their Refinement Of The Decline - Releasing their first full-length album in 1995, Stars of the Lid flew under the ambient-electronica radar for about six years. It wasnt until 2001 when the Texas Natives released The Tired Sounds of Stars of the Lid, a massive, epic double-disc album filled with soothing tones and rich, spacey keyboard...

Noah Pred - Blind Alignments -

It's the return of unadulterated bang-bang and groove with the poster boy of intelligent techno. Noah Pred's third release, after his down-tempo excursion as Shen, returns to his traditional techno roots. The 4/4 bedrock of Blind Alignments benefits from tech house sensibilities and an inherent funk, which lighten the solid...

Max Richter -

riginally released in 2002, Max Richter's out-of-print debut, Memoryhouse, gets a long overdue re-release, shedding light on a blank spot in the composer's career. The album is a formative, somewhat derivative experience, one filled with half-formed ideas and moments of exquisite beauty, a clear omen of the better work to...

Tim Hecker - Ravedeath, 1972 -

Over the past 10 years Canadian sound artist Tim Hecker has established himself as a master of atmosphere. Creating his drone-based tempests with a mixture of laptop, keyboard, tape and effects-drenched guitar, his music is often fundamentally serene despite the chill winds whipping across its surface.

Hecker regularly displays a keen...

Eluvium - Similes -

Ambient music suffered terribly at the hands of a late-90s boom in chill-out compilations, ostensibly assembled to bring one down after a night of hackneyed gesticulating to the sounds of the Gallaghers and their laddish ilk. Bands you knew, remixes you didn’t, but the end products always much of a...

S. - Sylvain Chauveau is well known by now for his pioneering modern classical compositions but S., his latest EP and first release for the Type label, explores altogether more experimental territory. S. presents itself as a meticulously "designed" release; a repeated alternation of slow-boiling ambient and minimal solo piano-phrase pieces that...

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