A somewhat unexpected release from the legendary synth master Martin Stürtzer. It features 4 tracks of wildly varying length, from a relatively short 16 minutes to just nudging over an hour. There are some musical differences between them too, as well as some similarities which…
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Frore – Void Peripheral
Void Peripheral is a long-form ambient piece by the artist known as Frore. I have a particular fondness for longer ambient pieces, as they have such more time to develop as a musical work. This even applies when the genre is known for eschewing the…
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Mount Shrine – Lost Loops Collection
Well then – here is the epic lost loops from the late Cesar Alexandre. I absolutely loved his take on ambient, that warm, fuzzy and distinctly organic tone that I’ve not really heard from any other artist. He drenched his music in this lush, vibrant…
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Rowing Progress – June 2023
June was a vast improvement over May’s abysmal effort. With a good effort, two challenge days under my belt, and an improved motivation coupled with some minor dietary changes meant that I’ve made some excellent progress. Overall Summary Note: Season runs from 1st May to 30th…
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Stop Counting Your Stuff
There’s always been this ‘trend’ in the sphere of minimalism to count things. It’s almost like it’s part of the process – but I’m here to tell you it really isn’t. Minimalism is not a numbers game. Let me repeat that, being a minimalist does…
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Archean Nights – Pulsar
Archean Nights is a phenomenal drone project from France. With 23 albums released to date, they’ve carved a niche in some excellent long-form atonal drone music and also done collaborations with other artists as well. I first discovered them purely by accident when searching through…
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He Who Controls The Clutter…
“He who controls the spice, controls the universe” Today I’m writing about control. It’s really come about from a lot of discussion over decluttering, especially during the New Year when a lot of people not only create unrealistic resolutions that a majority will fail to…
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Phelios (aka Martin Stürtzer) – Spirits of Rhea
Martin Stürzter has a lot to answer for. Not only is his musical output prolific, having amassed a massive back library of releases – he’s also dabbled in a number of genres. From downtempo dub techno to almost pure drone music he has mastered each…