Dronny Darko * Apocryphos * Dead Melodies & Zenjungle
A deep dive into the dark ambient abyss with three releases on the Cryo Chamber label: Dronny Darko, Apocryphos and Dead Melodies & Zenjungle. Not for the faint of heart!
A deep dive into the dark ambient abyss with three releases on the Cryo Chamber label: Dronny Darko, Apocryphos and Dead Melodies & Zenjungle. Not for the faint of heart!
I tried to find another name (and image) for this mix, but it seems that only one title remained appropriate at this time.
Music for worrying times…
A deeply personal experience inspired Siavash Amini for his new album about Night ***Llyn Y Cwn took its inspiration from the Lake of the Dogs in North Wales.
Sounds for the darkest days:
Scanner‘s soundtrack for a global warming, Aidan Thomas Tobin‘s ‘As Our Blood Separates’, and Iurta‘s ‘Notes Toward a Mental Breakdown’
Be prepared: Music from the Darkest of Darks and the Deepest of Deeps.
Albums from Elegi, Alphaxone & ProtoU and Lustmord.
The sound of current state of affairs is not particularly reassuring: Thomas Köner presents an Opéra Digitale based on the Futurist Manifesto, Machinefabriek and Anne Bakker keep you alert with alarming string glissandi, and Multicast Dynamics adds some glacial Scandinavian cold.
Catching up with some beautiful releases from the past few months:
Albums from Gideon Wolf, Michael Begg (Human Greed), Thomas Ragsdale and a collective of Bigo & Twigetti artists producing their album from scratch in only seven days!
Two beautifully dark releases by Haarvöl and Norn, deep droning soundscapes from Ionosphere to help you watch the world pass into endless night – and finally Elian‘s razor sharp electronic noisescapes as a counterpoint to the preceding quiescence….
If one of the criteria for ‘ambient’ music is that you can comfortably fall asleep to it, I guess you’d better skip this particular mix. Although it starts quiet and reassuring with soothing vocal chords from Silvestrov’s “The Lord’s Prayer”, the mood disintegrates and sometimes can become rather unsettling – depending on your own personal ‘incidental memories’, of course.
For reasons I can’t really explain, this mix works better if you listen on speakers instead of headphones – just let the airwaves flow for maximum immersion.