9 Noteworthy Dark Ambient Albums Of November 2020
This dreadful year is creeping towards its close. It’s a strange time… the holidays are still approaching while much of the world is still hibernating in bunkers, waiting for a … Continue reading
The Best Dark Ambient Albums of March 2020
The streets are all empty. We are all living in quarantine. We are essentially living inside of a Dark Ambient album now. Now is the perfect time to listen to … Continue reading
Plague Week: Paul D. Miller – Viral Sonata album review
Paul D. Miller – aka DJ Spooky, That Subliminal Kid – pushes the sampler to its ultimate musique concrete potential on Viral Sonata, the first post-Human “hardcore hip-hop album with … Continue reading
Best Dark Ambient Albums Of February 2020
February is an interesting month. For much of the Northern Hemisphere, yr still frozen solid, hibernating away from the cold and the ice and the howling winds, praying for the … Continue reading
Lovecraftian Futurism: New Leaders Of The Eldritch Noise – The Art Of Eldritch Noise
“There in the narrow hall, outside the bolted door with the covered keyhole, I often heard sounds which filled me with an indefinable dread—the dread of vague wonder and brooding … Continue reading
Dark Ambient Classics: :zoviet*France: – Eostre (Red Rhino, 1984)
:zoviet*France’s 5th Lp is like a hymn to the rising sun, from some alien dimension. Atonal feedback, unintelligible chanting, scraping static and dismembered zithers form a strange ritual that is … Continue reading
Music For Dark Skies & Ominous Portents: April Larson – Undergrounding In A Storm (Arell)
Louisiana’s April Larson delivers 20 minutes of graceful, sparking anti-gravity drones for the mail art imprint Arell. I. Storm Tower I wasn’t sure if I’d done it intentionally, not even … Continue reading
Into The Anti-Matter: The Blasted Bass Music Of Roly Porter – Third Star (Tri Angle)
Electronic music has always been linked to modes of transportation. From Kraftwerk’s evocations of the futuristic Audobahn, to their just as fastidious take on the Tour De France on Tour … Continue reading
Occult Electronics: Ataraxia – The Unexlained: Electronic Musical Impressions Of The Occult
Magickal modular synths and deep space adventure from The Wozard Of Iz, Mort Garson. It’s surprising that more musicians haven’t turned to electronic instruments to evoke the occult, particularly modular … Continue reading
Horrorscores: Cthulhu by Cryo Chamber Collaborators (Cryo Chamber)
“We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far. The sciences, each straining … Continue reading
