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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...

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For an artist who has acquired a fanbase, one can be sure that the unveiling of any new material will be accompanied by a reexamination of (or, at the very least, mention of) the artist’s body of preceding work. Yes, it’s probably an unfair approach to music criticism, but this...

Tim Hecker An Imaginary Country -

Three months into 2009, you'll be hard pressed to find a more accurately titled album than An Imaginary Country. Derived from a Charles Debussy quote which the Montreal based Tim Hecker took to refer to as a sort of "utopian" idea, Hecker's seventh record is exactly that â€" music for...

Tim Hecker, Mint on Pop Ambient 2009 -

Kompakt's latest installment of sleepytime songsâ€"otherwise known as the label's Pop Ambient seriesâ€"will see its ninth edition released on February 16 of next year.

Judging by the tracklisting, it's looking to be another low-key, laidback affair, with tracks from regular contributors like Marsen Jules and Klimek, as well as...

Fennesz - Black Sea -

Listen between the spaces modern pop composition leaves blank in pursuit of cracking commercial codes and you discover something wondrous, music that shifts subtly on waves of static with no desire to discuss market strategies or licensing opportunities.

Christian Fennesz has long been an experimental musician of note, his previous three...

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...

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