It’s 1 July, so here’s the new mixtape, focusing on the intense genre of drone. Drone music suffers the same kind of malaise as more generalised ambient music—immobility and drift as tacet apologias for a dearth of imagination and subtlety of ideas. But these 21 tracks offer an insight into something altogether more profound, plumbing the depths of immobility and stasis, teasing out faint, furtive tendrils of exotica. They represent a broad sonic palette, in terms of colour, dynamic and texture, incorporating elements from dark ambient and noise as well as more experimental electronics.
In all, two hours of droning wonder; here’s the tracklisting in full: Read more
Tags: Access to Arasaka, ambient, Anduin, Asva, Benjamin Dauer, Carbon Based Lifeforms, Charlemagne Palestine, Christopher Hipgrave, dark ambient, Deaf Center, Decembered, Ekca Liena, Ektoise, electronic, Freiband, Herzog, Janek Schaefer, Jasper TX, Jonathan Coleclough, Leah Buckareff, noise, Organum, Peter Wright, Philippe Petit, Shinobu Nemoto, The Beautiful Schizophonic, The Hafler Trio, The Missing Ensemble
