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Back catalogue: Ambient/Drone
Juno's full catalogue of Ambient/Drone
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Remixes (CD single limited to 100 copies)
Cat: SCR 284. Rel: 12 Jun 24
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Review: Markus Guentner takes a deep dive into experimental soundscapes on this wonderful seven-track album for Affin. They find him venturing into new sonic territories while preserving his signature ambient textures on top of sleek rhythms and intertwined with haunting melodies and an eerie ethereal edge. These pieces show his knack for layering intricate electronic sound designs into slowly transformative worlds of widescreen and cinematic musical storytelling. It all adds up to a great place to get lost - sometimes in deep and dark introspection, sometimes with a more optimistic vibe.
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Review: Cocteau Twins' musical mastermind Robin Guthrie has produced some terrific solo records over the course of his career, frequently delivering material that joins the dots between ambient, ethereal soundscapes, shoegaze and the more immersive end of the soundtrack spectrum. 'Astoria' is the latest volume in the Scottish multi-instrumentalist and producer's ongoing EP series (its predecessor, 'Mountain', dropped in September). It's another typically gorgeous and enveloping affair in which effects-laden guitar motifs, gaseous ambient chords, gentle rhythms, ghostly aural textures and slowly shifting melodies combine to create instrumental sound worlds of rare beauty (if not sonic clarity - Guthrie's use of reverb and delay is liberal, which adds to its atmospheric nature but adds extra layers of attractively wide-eyed haziness).
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Review: Robin Guthrie's Atlas is a four-track EP showcasing new instrumentals that gently reintroduce listeners to his distinctive world. Known for shaping genres with his production and signature guitar sounds, Guthrie famously co-founded and produced for Cocteau Twins. With over four decades of musical influence, he's produced, remixed, and collaborated across various projects, from instrumental albums to movie soundtracks and Atlas serves as a tantalising preview of what's to follow later this year, namely more of Guthrie's evocative sounds that will no doubt continue his legacy of pushing boundaries.
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Cat: PITPZD 25 (B-STOCK). Rel: 01 Jan 90
B-STOCK: Case slightly cracked, product in perfect working order
Review: ***B-STOCK: Case slightly cracked, product in perfect working order***
Past Inside The Present welcomes back accomplished and prolific ambient master zake, this time alongside Oss and Fax who released the original featured track, 'Polymorph' on Module. Here it gets revisited by a top contemporary team after the hazy and absorbing extended mix kicks things off. ASC then goes dark with his mood rework and Zake himself remixes with a more optimistic sense of crepuscular synth lushness. Aural Imbalance layers in some fizzing and malfunctioning electronic sounds, Ossa suspends you amongst his heavenly rays and Influx brings gently broken beats. Fax shuts down this varied offering with a more edgy ambient sound.
… Read morePast Inside The Present welcomes back accomplished and prolific ambient master zake, this time alongside Oss and Fax who released the original featured track, 'Polymorph' on Module. Here it gets revisited by a top contemporary team after the hazy and absorbing extended mix kicks things off. ASC then goes dark with his mood rework and Zake himself remixes with a more optimistic sense of crepuscular synth lushness. Aural Imbalance layers in some fizzing and malfunctioning electronic sounds, Ossa suspends you amongst his heavenly rays and Influx brings gently broken beats. Fax shuts down this varied offering with a more edgy ambient sound.
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Albums
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Summon
Mukhalafat
Depths Of Us
Failure To Fire
The Light That Left You
Crimes Of The Soul
The Summoned
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Review: In June, Actress delivered an RA mix that was nothing short of surprisingientirely new, unheard material from Darren S. Cunningham himself. Asked if it was an album, he called it "a collage -Braque," leaving interpretation open. This CD edition captures the essence of Actress's sound: fluid, shape-shifting, and unconcerned with traditional definitions. Whether a mixtape or sonic collage, it's unmistakably Actress, offering listeners a raw, evolving soundscape that resists labels and challenges boundaries, making it an essential piece for fans of his ever-innovative style.
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Review: Darren Cunningham's work as Actress has always been top drawer, though you get the feeling that his relationships with record labels have sometimes been a bit testing. The good news is that he seems to have finally found a supportive home in Norwegian experimental music powerhouse Smalltown Supersound. Put simply, Statik, the tenth Actress album, is one of his most immaculate and immersive sets to date, with Cunningham shuffling between heady, slow-born electronic soundscapes, smacked-out IDM, glitchy aural collages full of minor-key melodies, blissed out dancefloor workouts (see the brilliant 'Ray'), experimental ambient dub and spacey excellence ('Cafe Del Mars').
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HYbr:ID III (CD in 8 panel fold-out sleeve + booklet)
Cat: N 0641. Rel: 01 Jul 24
Review: HYbr:ID III marks the third chapter of Alva Noto's (Carsten Nicolai's) HYbr:ID series, initiated in 2021. Building on the scale, intonation and trajectory of its two predecessors, HYbr:ID III crafts a soundscape of meditative and resonant tones, drawing inspiration from Noh, a traditional Japanese musical drama dating back to the 14th century. Noh theatre often features the theme of a supernatural being or entity, temporarily manifesting in human form to complete and carry out the main action of the play. We can just as easily imagine such otherworldly goings-on occurring with the music of HYbr:ID III setting the sonic tone, with the main character's first transition into corporeality evoked through the cavernous sweeping FX of 'Noh Human', not long before the spacious stereo stalactites and widescreen fourth-wall breaks of the likes of 'Script Broken Conversation' and 'Obsessive Behaviour Night' come into play.
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Review: NOTON release the much-fussed-over fifth volume of Alva Noto's Xerrox album series, Volume 5. Based on and around the invention of the xerox paper copy, Noto first kicked off the Xerrox series in 2007, aiming to fashion a series of releases themed after the idea of copies of images, both visual and acoustic, being more more memorable than the originals (just as xerox machines created more memorably textured versions of original paper documents). In the words of the artist, the Xerrox series "aimed to create a whole cycle of tracks that frame both the beginning and the end. The motif of the journey continues, but this time, the story reaches a dissolution through a conceptual object that embarks on its own journey into infinity." The fifth volume, released in 2024, here again deploys a series of static and stretched emotive texture-sketches, based on from-scratch recordings and achieved through the process of copying, manipulating and reshaping.
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Cat: BT 124CD. Rel: 31 Oct 24
Review: Black Truffle's tenth-anniversary reissue of Oren Ambarchi's Quixotism brings renewed attention to this monumental 2014 release. Originally recorded with collaborators across Europe, Japan, Australia, and the U.S., Quixotism unfolds as a single, long-form piece split into five sections. Anchored by Thomas Brinkmann's steady, double-time electronic percussion, the piece gradually evolves from orchestral depth and subtle piano motifs (courtesy of John Tilbury) to a striking polyrhythmic shuffle, culminating in the final passages with U-zhaan's masterful tabla. Throughout its journey, Ambarchi weaves guitar textures that shift from clipped, sparse tones to lush, reverberated layers, creating an expansive yet cohesive sonic landscape. The interplay of acoustic and electronic elementsiranging from the Icelandic Symphony Orchestra's grandeur to Crys Cole's intimate contact-mic texturesiguides the listener through an otherworldly audio experience. Influenced by Cologne techno, Eliane Radigue's long-form compositions, and the fluidity of improvisation, Quixotism shifts in subtle, dreamlike transitions. Remastered by Joe Talia, this edition offers a clearer perspective on the album's intricate sound design, reaffirming its relevance while pointing forward to Ambarchi's future works like Hubris and Hence.
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Selected Ambient Works Volume II (Expanded Edition) (3xCD in hard-back book sleeve)
Cat: WARPCD 21R. Rel: 03 Oct 24
Review: The Expanded Edition of Aphex Twin's Selected Ambient Works Volume II is here; this is a reissue of an album that still serves as one of the ideasthetic backbones to most music fans' idea of 'ambient music' at large. A lesser-known fact is that when James recorded the record, he had concurrently undergone a period of lucid dreaming, and in this vivid lucid state, had heard many sounds akin to those heard on this record, which he had subsequently attempted to recreate. The sound of dreaming is usually an ineffable thing, but not to Aphex Twin, who had perhaps been one of the first to articulate dreams' bleary, smeary, selective and dream-distorted sonic quality. Many different interpreters have harped on this record, some hearing a 'cold islationism' in it, others a purer bliss; what is most evident is this one helped popularise ambient music in a formal, less connotative way, and continues to do so even today. This expanded versions features two unreleased tracks - that is, if you don't include the famous Soundcloud dump of nine years ago, plus 'Blue Calyx' now features on all formats instead of vinyl only.
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Selected Ambient Works Volume II (Expanded Edition) (Japanese Edition) (limited 3xUHQ-CD box set + insert + stickers + booklet with obi-strip)
Cat: BRC 771. Rel: 14 Oct 24
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Arbakkinn
1995
Raddir
Oldurot
Dalur
Particles
Doria
Study For Player Piano (ii) (bonus track)
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Space As An Instrument (CD with obi-strip)
Cat: SP 155CD. Rel: 24 Oct 24
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Kairos (hand-numbered CD limited to 200 copies)
Cat: PITP 52CD. Rel: 12 Sep 24
Review: Berlin trio AUSKLANG are back with Kairos, a second superb album that builds on their last effort, 2020's Chronos, also on Past Inside the Present, 2020. It finds the trio of Fabian Koppri, Benjamin Sohn, and Simon Ansing play with concepts of time and entropy across eight movements that balance melodic post-rock and layered ambient soundscapes. It's a deceptively complex blend of glitching electronics, drums, bass and guitar with classically inspired orchestrations that makes for something as immersive and grand as it is beautiful. As the summer fades and autumn arrives, this richly rewarding album is sure to prove a great companion as we spend more time indoors.
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Hardanger (hand-numbered CD limited to 150 copies)
Cat: LAAPS 040CD.
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Riconnessione Iconoclastica Sacrale (CD limited to 200 copies)
Cat: USG 0100.
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Review: Banyek is next up on the prolific Lithuanian label Greyscale with Alue, a new album that marks the imprint's 37th full-length overall. It is a typically expansive and immersive listen that takes inspiration from cities like Riga and Espoo. Dub techno, ambient and experimental all infuse the sound waves and the intricate craft of Banyek means you're always hooked onto some small detail as the gentle rhythms flow over you. There are stark melodies and more airy atmospheres, minimalism masterpieces and calming sounds a plenty as this most super exploration of tone, time and texture plays out.
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Review: September 23rd is the first release in William Basinski's new Arcadia Archive series. Recorded in September 1982 in his first loft in the DUMBO neighborhood in Brooklyn, New York, September 23rd is a recently unearthed early entry in what has become a hugely inspirational and influential catalogue. Built from a piano piece that Basinski composed in high school in the mid-1970s, September 23rd quickly evolved into a vastly different work, upon its revisitation. Using the John Giorno and William Burroughs cut-up technique, Basinski fabricated an elaborate Frippertronics and feedback loop tape delay system, resulting in the quiet but dramatic set of sounds and resounds you hear here.
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The Itself Of Itself (CD with obi-strip)
Cat: LUMB 036CD. Rel: 17 May 24
Review: Kant spoke of the 'thing-in-itself' but what about the 'itself of itself'? Perhaps the phenomenological tradition continues not in philosophical tract, but album form, this time taking the shape of a new ambient record by Steven Wilson aka. Bass Communion. Said to be a prolific producer of works whose sonic character seems to 'counter everything else before it in his catalogue', The Itself Of Itself breaks from Wilson's former forays into soothing ambiences in favour of grating musique concrete and uneasy listening. An album-length embrace of common sounds that may or may not be unfairly pegged as 'unwanted' by the average ambient artist, The Itself Of Itself sure does paint a grim yet sublime picture of the imperceptible beyond.
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