#1114

Who’s this by. Sounds good! Like the depth and atonal nature.

https://t.co/46ZHP6Y62L https://twitter.com/BeccaBarry/status/1341419728565374980?s=20

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#1115

Wall of sounds techniques going on here.

#1116

My top ambient of 2020…

  1. Jake Muir - The Hum of Your Veiled Voice
  2. Alva Noto - Xerrox vol 4
  3. Hotel Neon - Moments
  4. Polypores - Piano: Dismantled
  5. KMRU - Jar
  6. Minimal Drone GRL - Ancestral Origins
  7. Field Lines Cartographer - The Spectral Isle
  8. Veins Full of Static - Temporum
  9. f5point6 - Kaleidosound vol 2
  10. 36 / Zake - Stasis Sounds for Long-Distance Space Travel
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#1117

Fucks sake

  1. Greenhouse - Six Songs for Invisible Gardens
  2. Mute Branches - The Dead Detective
  3. Ben Chatwin - The Hum
  4. Ian William Craig - Red Sun Through Smoke
  5. Sophie Hutchings – Scattered On The Wind
  6. Harold Budd, Robin Guthrie - Another Flower
  7. Mary Lattimore - Silver Ladders
  8. Field Lines Cartographer - The Spectred Ilse
  9. Colin Mawson - Even Lamps Need Love
  10. Novellor - Arrow

Really need to listen to jake muir I guess

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#1118

My favs:

  1. Greenhouse - Six Songs for Invisible Gardens
  2. Secret Pyramid - Embers
  3. William Basinski - Lamentations
  4. Jim O’Rourke - Shutting Down Here
  5. Galya Bisengalieva - Aralkum
  6. Emily A. Sprauge - Hill, Flower, Fog
  7. Alison Cotton - Only Darkness Now
  8. Oliver Coates - Skins n Slime
  9. Celer - Future Predictions
  10. Ellen Fullman & Theresa Wong - Harbors
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#1119

Just listened to Red Sun Through Smoke and have the Minor Pieces LP on now. IWC is a clever chap.

Ben

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#1120

Love that Alison Cotton record. Just ace stuff. Ridiculous number of superb releases this year. Perhaps one of the very small number of positives of 2020!

Ben

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#1121

Thanks to the last couple of lists for the Greenhouse tip, really lovely EP that had completely passed me by.

These top tens have been a goldmine of discover, thanks everyone x

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#1122

Fucked It

@manches I’m sorry

THE DETECTIVE IS DEAD

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#1123

Oh god that is so good. Have you heard “centres”? My fave iwc solo lp

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#1124

Thoughts and prayers for the detective’s family

:male_detective:

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#1125

Yup. Have it on beautifully pressed vinyl. My first foray into his work. An extraordinary record.

Ben

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#1126

Maybe strays too far from ambient/modern comp/drone for some of these but I’m too bad at defining genres to know :man_shrugging: It’s been a bloody ruddy good year though innit

  1. bow church - The Spirits in This Forest Are Older Than Your Gods
  2. Mary Lattimore - Silver Ladders
  3. Ghost Halo - Chemical Rain
  4. Colin Mawson - Even Lamps Need Love
  5. City Girl - Goddess of the Hollow
  6. Jacob Nico - Fool Season
  7. Daniel Avery - Love + Light
  8. Dive Index - Waving at Airplanes
  9. Sunbane - Crooked Timber
  10. T.R. Jordan - Just For You

Honourable mentions to:

Juliana Barwick - Healing Is A Miracle
Steve Hadfield - Unreality
Otik - Wetlands
Jermaine Soul - Oneirism
Michele Mercure - Pictures of Echoes
Emily A. Sprague - Hill, Flower, Fog
worriedaboutsatan - Time Lapse
Mute Branches - THE DEAD DETECTIVE
Ana Roxanne - Because of a Flower
Fragile X - Maps for the Lost

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#1128

You’re very welcome @OrangeMouse - Merry Christmas to you too!

Ben

#1129

Oh go on then. Here’s my 10.

  1. Alva Noto - Xerrox Vol. 4
  2. 36 & Zake - Stasis Sounds For Long Distance Space Travel
  3. Merrin Karras - Northwest Passage
  4. 36 - Wave Variations
  5. Taphephobia - Blue Hour
  6. Field Lines Cartographer - The Glimmering Plane
  7. Black Smokers - 02022020
  8. ASC & Sam KDC - A Restless Mind
  9. Rafael Anton Irisarri - Peripeteia
  10. Wanderwelle - A State Of Decrepitude

Too many honourables to mention.

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#1131

Thanks a lot.

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#1133
  1. Ana Roxanne - Because of a Flower
  2. Ekin Fil - Coda
  3. Jake Muir - The Hum of your Veiled Voice
  4. Faten Kanaan - A Mythology of Circles
  5. Vanessa Amara - Leopards
  6. Ben Chatwin - The Hum
  7. Julianna Barwick - Healing is a Miracle
  8. Helios - Domicile
  9. Mary Lattimore - Silver Ladders
  10. William Basinski - Lamentations

HMs
Gia Margaret - Mia Gargaret
Ekin Fil & Aidan Baker - The Dark Well
Ann Margret Hogan - Honeysuckle Burial
Sophie Hutchings - Scattered on the Wind

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#1134

New Joseph Quimby Jr

#1135

Diving into Ana Roxanne now - lovely stuff!

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#1136

Basinski’s Laminations is pay what you want on Bandcamp today only.

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