new age
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Some tracks on Luminescent Creatures don't really play to Aoba's obvious strengths as a songwriter.
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Sufjan Stevens teams up with stepfather Lowell Brams for a severely underwhelming series of half-hearted ambient works.
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Light in the Attic comes out with an excellent compilation of old school ambient music from 1980s Japan, an era and location that hasn’t gotten enough shine up until this point.
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Four Pieces for Mirai finds James Ferraro at the top of his MIDI composition game and leaves me on the edge of my seat for the albums it’s teasing towards.
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Kicking off classics week with one of prog synth’s ambient opuses, Tangerine Dream’s Phaedra.
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A couple of cuts from Alien Wildlife Estate, a full-length collaboration between Spencer Clark (bka opposite James Ferraro in CA drone duo The Skaters) and Finnish psych-folk artist Jan Anderzén (frontman of Kemialliset Ystävät), out now via Underwater Peoples and Clark’s Pacific City Soundvisions.
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ロストエデンへのパス by Nmesh A taste of both sides of ロストエデンへのパス (The Path to Lost Eden), a 2-hour split project by vaporwave producers Nmesh and t e l e p a t h テレパシー能力者, out October 28 via Dream Catalogue. ロストエデンへのパス by t e l e p a t h テレパシー能力者
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Daniel Lopatin’s latest full-length sees him stepping away from the extreme sampling that made 2011’s Replica so thrilling. Instead, he rests on his passion for tightly sequenced synths, and there are some somewhat engaging results.
