Sixty minutes of relaxing music to unwind, de-stress or just sleep to
Episodes
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- The Ambient Hour, July 2025 0:00 / 0:00
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Life has felt very busy lately for me. In times like this I find it useful to have some appropriately relaxing music I can put on to distract myself from the day-to-day hustle and bustle. The mix I have for you here has been stress-tested (quite literally) and should provide you with some relief if that’s something you need. If you’re interested in finding out more about the releases included please follow the links and let the artists know you heard them here.
- Show introduction
- KapTep & Christian Alsemgeest, The Day the Internet Went Away
Taken from: Exhale (Chitra Records)
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The Day the Internet Went Away. Inspired by a power outage. What did we used to do before the internet?
- VOLTIJ, The Violets Are Blue
Taken from: The Violets Are Blue (Self released)
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VOLTIJ continues his exploration of the wonders of nature, but this time with an eye to the storm clouds on the horizon. A famous Robert Bateman painting shows a majestic tundra swan flying over a marsh with a barely visible airplane vapour trail at the edge of the frame. The sky doesn’t belong only to the birds anymore. In a similar way, the eight songs of The Violets Are Blue explore man’s relentless and often corrosive effect on the natural world on which we all depend. The ever present spectre of man’s destructive influence is sprinkled throughout the album, in every glitch and pop, every dissonant note, every distortion, and every feeling that maybe something isn’t quite right.
- Felicity Mangan, Cello Figures
Taken from: String Figures (Elevator Bath)
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The six pieces on "String Figures" sample and combine the resonant timbres of strings and electromagnetic textural fields with field recordings from wetlands. These elements were shaped through digital processing into polyphonic, angular assemblages, ranging from austere minimalism to sumptuous drones and elegiac ambience.
- Alan Graves, Sauvie Haze
Taken from: A Possible Wind (Bathysphere Records)
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Alan Graves (Los Angeles-based producer and audio engineer Justin Longerbeam) explores change in his latest album. A sonic odyssey of transformation, 'A Possible Wind' offers a rich auditory experience through a collection of field recordings of wind captured over a decade, spanning the rugged landscapes of the Pacific Northwest, the bamboo forests of Hawaii, the rolling hills of Northern California, and the sandy shores of SoCal. The album reimagines these natural spaces, filtered and processed through an otherworldly prism of hardware effects, charting a personal migration southward along the west coast of the United States.
- David Helpling & Eric "the" Taylor, Cavernous Heart
Taken from: The Precious Dark (Spotted Peccary Music) Release of the week
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The Precious Dark is the newest collaboration by Ambient Electronic artists David Helpling and Eric “the” Taylor. These seven pieces revel in the exploration of the unknown, and launch both artists into uncharted creative territory. Taylor’s fervent analog synthesizers, Helpling’s ethereal guitar and cinematic vistas are here, but The Precious Dark is more wistful and moody than their previous efforts. Sparse expanses stretch, making emotive climaxes all the more sweeping
- E J R M & Unusual Cosmic Process, Incandescence
Taken from: Incandescence (Ambient Cat)
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Delicate piano melodies and deep enveloping pads weave together to create a dreamlike atmosphere. Perfect for introspection, relaxation, or drifting into a tranquil state of mind.
- Richard J. Birkin, Hiddenness
Taken from: Hiddenness (The Atomanaut's Almanac)
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With a title taken from a passage in Jon Fosse's Septology, Hiddenness has more romance to it than Birkin is typically known for. The left hand stays constant, while the right hand dances towards and away from their meeting point on the keys. "My partner picked up on the piece when I was playing it, saying that it conjured images of stolen glances in a hallway, forbidden love and a missed connection. In fact, every friend I shared it with had a different visual come to mind." Birkin spent hours and hours trawling The Internet Archive to find some old footage to provide the visual, before stumbling on a silent black and white home movie of a girl dancing on a lawn, the expressive, improvised dance working eerily in time with the music.
- Adrian Lane, Watching the Water Rise
Taken from: Desire Paths (Chitra Records)
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In this album, Adrian continues his exploration of tape-saturated sounds combined with piano and vintage synthesizers. The micro-cassette Dictaphone is used to create sounds evoking nostalgia and melancholy. Although using similar starting points to his last album on Chitra Records this album is darker in mood reflecting certain situations in the world today.
- BinJa, Shakti
Taken from: ShaktiMan (Chitra Records)
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ShaktiMan is a man of power. He weaves together three worlds: past, present and future. Field recordings, ethnic instruments and synthesizer layers.
- Eulipion Corps, Strange Suns
Taken from: Portals (Wormhole World)
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Strange Suns is a theme for an imaginary film. I tend to see stories and characters first and then provide a musical context for them to inhabit. The track is quite wistful in tone and capture the protagonist's longing for home.
- David Helpling & Eric "the" Taylor, The Ice Has Dreams
Taken from: The Precious Dark (Spotted Peccary Music) Release of the week
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“The Ice Has Dreams” begins swirling and ominous, its subterranean snarl unspooling like a deadly fractal, before sparse piano lifts the piece into a dimensional serenity. Throughout this work, introspectiveness gives way to monumental eclipses that yet again dissolve into spacious resolve. Like our universe in the Big Bang: once nowhere, then everywhere, the fast sudden pervasiveness of AI technology impacted the approach to The Precious Dark. Helpling and Taylor, in response, created an album bereft of inorganic beings, expressed with wood & wire instruments and vintage analog synthesizers. Electric guitars, electrified pianos and analog synthesizers were treated with a barrage of effect pedals and recorded through an analog mixing console. While there is no shortage of endless reverb tails and modulating echoes, this is a work of hands-on experimentation and “in the moment” creation.
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- The Ambient Hour, June 2025 0:00 / 0:00
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In this month’s Ambient Hour we take in views of Hyrule through the evocative and immersive lens of Blood Moon by Imprints, a concept album that reimagines the world of The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild. It’s our Release of the Week and two tracks are featured in this mix. The album is available digitally and on beautiful frosted green vinyl.
There are also wonderful new pieces from Tim Didymus & Foster Neville, Swansither, Colin Andrew Sheffield, Stereo Minus One, Markus Guentner, Diogene, Sketching Venus, Paul Beaudoin and Trem 77. As always there’s no talking in the mix but the full track listing is below along with links to all the releases. I hope you enjoy this mix and find it soothing to your soul. Be well my friends.
- Show introduction
- Imprints, Theme
Taken from: Blood Moon (Data Discs) Release of the week
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- Tim Didymus & Foster Neville, Hooks
Taken from: Ulla (Subexotic Records)
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- Swansither, Ronsack
Taken from: Ronsack (Subexotic Records)
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- Colin Andrew Sheffield, Progression
Taken from: Serenade (Elevater Bath)
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- Stereo Minus One, The Seed At One End
Taken from: Dead Petals At The Other (Machine Records)
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- Markus Guentner, Humanity’s Shadow
Taken from: Black Dahlia (Affin)
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- Diogene, Dream Factory
Taken from: The Ocean in Our Minds (Ambient Cat)
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- Sketching Venus, lvu (Edvard Graham Lewis Venursion)
Taken from: lvu (Mortality Tables)
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- Imprints, Trial
Taken from: Blood Moon (Data Discs) Release of the week
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- Paul Beaudoin, Prima Materia
Taken from: Alchemies (Ambient Cat)
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- Trem 77, Over These Dark Ages
Taken from: Blacklight Sunset (Grape Mod Recs)
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- The Ambient Hour, May 2025 0:00 / 0:00
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It’s time for another hour of ambient music for you to unwind to. The thing I love about good ambient music is that it can blend into the background but it also rewards closer attention. And so it is here. You can put this mix on and zone out, or focus in. There’s acoustic sounds, drones, modular synths and organic piano sounds. It’s a treat!
- Show introduction
- Dionisaf & KapTep, Waiting for Connection
Taken from: Modem Punk (Ambient Cat)
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Modem Punk is a science fiction genre that is dominated by old technologies from the late 20th century.
- David Best (feat. The Electrowhisperer), LF28 / Skyrocketing
Taken from: LF28 / Skyrocketing (Mortality Tables)
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LIFEFILES are creative exchanges.
Recordings of places, people, objects, moments in time, environments and quotidian events are shared with a range of artists working across different disciplines. Those artists are free to respond to the recordings in any way they like.
- cotashono, 🧩 (Track 4)
Taken from: looptape 2.4. [MOMENT00] (MUSIC2)
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- El Wud, Echoes of memory
Taken from: My Naviar Haiku (Self released)
Inspired by the following haiku written by Marco Sebastiano Alessi: Endless echo footsteps on an empty house once full of life
- Sulk Rooms, They Don’t Believe It
Taken from: Take A Look At God's Face (Subexotic Records)
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Taken from 'Take A Look At God's Face' — the soundtrack to a short film of the same name by Jack Laurance, a short and true story about revenge, lost love and exotic animals.
- Susana López, Mundus Imaginalis
Taken from: Materia Vibrante (Elevator Bath)
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Taken from “Materia Vibrante”, Susana López’s gorgeous new album for Elevator Bath. The album was built from field recordings captured at megalithic sites in Ireland, underwater sounds recorded with hydrophones in the rivers of Asturias, and electromagnetic wave scans from Birmingham. These sonic landscapes are interwoven with synthesizers, digital harmonium, experimental “sonic triangle,” multi-effects, percussion, and López’s voice — serving as a thread between the inner and the outer worlds.
- melondruie, Retreating into myself
Taken from: Invisible (Self released)
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This track is about using music as an escape, finding solace in ones inner worlds.
- Soloi Sounds, Shard
Taken from: Pictures (Chitra Records)
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The third album released on Chitra by the unique Tokyo artist Yosuke Goto. Like a picturesque photo, each track tells a small story of important and unimportant things.
- John Reidar Holmes, In a Shroud Made of Silk…
Taken from: Reflections from a Sacred Pool (Self released)
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'In a Shroud made of Silk' is taken from 'Reflections from a Sacred Pool' and takes you on an acoustic guitar day dream with a gentle synth melody warbling across the stereo field.
- Nomadnis, Flower
Taken from: Hue (Self released)
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Taken from Hue, a collection of piano melodies born from the same place as my paintings. Where colours carry memory, and every note traces something lost…or newly found.
Each track is an echo of a moment I’ve tried to capture on canvas. Built from feeling and sound. If you’ve ever been moved by quiet beauty, subtle shifts, or the emotional palette of the in-between, I think you’ll feel at home here.
- Nicolás Melmann, Música Aperta I
Taken from: Música Aperta (Umor Rex) Release of the week
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Música Aperta is a fusion of acoustic and electronic sounds, rich in beautiful harmonies, where carefully soft elements interplay with delicate raspiness. Made up of three parts, the music unfolds slowly, immersing the listener in time. Música Aperta resonates with echoes of Satie, the meditative minimalism of Arvo Pärt, the roughness of Phill Niblock, and the nostalgic reflections of Richard Skelton.
- Richard J. Birkin, Old Dreams
Taken from: Old Dreams (Self released)
Old Dreams is an old piece written around 2011 and never properly recorded or released. While completing and recording some brand new piano pieces, this piece popped into my head and, on its first run through, seemed to have finished itself. Like it had been sat there in memory waiting for the time to come out, my hands feeling like they had been practicing the piece for days even though they’d not played it in years. Music is like that sometimes. It decides.
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- The Ambient Hour 005 0:00 / 0:00
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It’s getting warmer outside, and maybe you like that… but maybe you’d like to feel a little colder. Maybe you’d like an hour of cool ambient sounds that hint at crips frosty mornings. I hope so because that’s what I have for you this week.
- Show introduction
- Socool, Paper Flowers
Taken from: Becomes Music (Bathurst)
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After releasing her cover version of Radiohead's 'Blow Out,' Socool unveils her new EP 'Becomes Music' on Bathurst, a beautiful and charming ambient downtempo affair.
Originally written with fairly heavy drums but eventually turning into an ambient piece, 'Paper Flowers' opens with some beautifully played piano figures on a bed of synth chords that carry the song's lightness over the course.
- Francois Dion, Musique pour decompresser
Taken from: Selected Ambient Jams (Self released)
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11th track for #jamuary2025, "Musique pour decompresser" is French for music to chill or relax to. It also is a reference to the fact that no compressor was used. All the percussions are provided by a modified Roland TR-606 clone (TD-6). Modular effects from some of other modular / semi modular synths complement the main synth, a Roland System 100m tribute modular. No midi, no sequencer, just a plain mono arpeggiator drives all synth sounds.
- Aaron J. Noth, Everlasting Nights
Taken from: Passed Winter (Passed Recordings) Release of the week
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Frosty mornings, snow storms and howling gales - all filtered through an ambient lens.
Passed Winter is our latest themed compilation featuring almost four hours of new music. This time, artists were encouraged to make music inspired by winter in whichever way they want.
Some new names and some familiar faces contributed, so make yourself a hot drink, get tucked under a nice warm blanket and enjoy the music.
80% of any sales will be donated to Doctors Without Borders (www.msf.org), while the remaining 20% will go toward label expenses.
- alka feat. Nero's Tongue, drama[mine]
Taken from: drama[mine] (Mortality Tables)
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drama[mine] sees Mortality Tables collaborating again with Philadelphia sound artist alka (Bryan Michael), who released two albums on Vince Clarke's VeryRecords label. drama[mine] pairs alka with poet Nero's Tongue for a 10-minute combination of swirling ambient textures, field recordings and dreamy vocals.
- Simon Heartfield, Bell Seven
Taken from: The State Of Social Movement (Machine Records)
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On The State of Social Movement, Simon says he “wanted to combine some dancefloor/electro/techno elements with more abstract soundscapes/soundtrack sounds.” With that in mind, he “used just about every bit of studio gear, even the ancient Yamaha RS7000 plus bits of guitar. I was aiming to make it suitable for home listening with the track you could drop in a club.”
- Hiram, Solstice Song
Taken from: Solstice Song (PermaCulture Media)
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'Solstice Song' was recorded on the Winter Solstice at the base of a frozen waterfall. This eight-minute meditative piece captures the quiet shift of seasons. With the flow of water, bamboo chimes, brass bells, and layers of warm synthesizer, 'Solstice Song' invites listeners to form a deeper connection with the rhythmic cycles of nature. Mastered by James Bernard at Ambient Mountain House, and published by PermaCulture Media, this is the next step forward in my evolving exploration of sound as an ecological dialogue, and forming a deeper language of connection to the natural spaces surrounding us. This track will resonate with folks interested in nature themed, site-based, experimental ambient, as well as deep listening, ceremonial, and minimal electro-acoustic music. For fans of: Ojas, Karma Moffett, Deuter, Harold Budd, and Jon Hassell. Release date is on Vernal Equinox March 20th, the first day of Spring!
- dogg jaw, SW Sunset Tunnel
Taken from: Passed Winter (Passed Recordings) Release of the week
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- Joachim Spieth | Andrew Thomas, Cobalt
Taken from: Nocturna (Affin)
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Nocturna sits on the threshold of ambient and modern classical, with elements of sound design that make it an especially pleasing piece with deeper listening. As Nocturna unfolds, it transports the listener into a space of contemplation and mystery—expansion and enclosure, and perhaps reflecting the increase in nocturnal activity of nature on a Summers evening. Light and shadow, the duality of hemispheres, and the promise of Summer’s arrival converge, and then fade once more into the night.
- Substak, Time Travelling
Taken from: A Journey Through Stillness (Camembert Électrique)
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Taken from 'A Journey Through Stillness' a collection of experimental soundscapes transports you to a world where time dissolves and the universe unfolds.
- Logickal, Lattice
Taken from: Passed Winter (Passed Recordings) Release of the week
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- The Ambient Hour 004 0:00 / 0:00
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An uninterrupted ambient mix to sooth your tired mind.
- The Ambient Hour, Intro
- Siren and the Sea, Spilling Wave
Taken from: Archipelago (Bathysphere Records) Release of the week
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- Brown Fang, Railway Potatoes
Taken from: Netherfield Lagoons (Delia Recordings)
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- Robert Scott Thompson, Evensong
Taken from: Hiraeth (Aucourant Records)
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- Niko Dell, Coral Disc
Taken from: Archipelago (Bathysphere Records) Release of the week
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- Jon Tarry, Cloud to Ground
Taken from: Sprouted Volume 4.010 (Burnt Seed Records)
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- Christian Alsemgeest, Forever
Taken from: Beneath the Surface (Ambient Cat)
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- Volcano Lazerbeam, Sea Fret
Taken from: Archipelago (Bathysphere Records) Release of the week
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- The Ambient Hour 003 0:00 / 0:00
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It’s time to unwind again with another hour of (mostly) relaxing sounds and minimal interruptions.
- The Ambient Hour, Intro
- Alessandro Ambrosi, La collina
Taken from: Sogni
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These tracks are from an album called Sogni, which means Dreams in Italian. Each song is the portrait of a dream in music through the use of surreal soundscapes, blending field recordings with accordion and other instruments, both acoustic and digital. I wanted to explore the communicative power of field recordings and their ability to project the listener into a new world. The narrative of the tracks follow a line that is both familiar and unpredictable at times, giving a dreamlike feeling.
- reirwg, Peanut
Taken from: Enterprises Release of the week
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Enterprises is an album of demos, outtakes and newly made music that was recorded during 2022 to 2023. All of the music featured here is drone and ambient music with some other cool elements thrown in.
- melondruie, Umber
Taken from: Audio Interface Submissions
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“Track was created at the beginning of January 2025. I was, and still am, feeling very disconnected from humanity. I felt like I was floating through a dark and empty world. I guess this is my attempt at capturing that feeling of disconnect.”
- Angelwitch XIl, Astral Voyage
Taken from: Nightfall (1798)
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Angelwitch XII's new album, "Nightfall," is a relaxing ambient music album designed to aid listeners in falling asleep. Each track is crafted to provide a calming and soothing experience, perfect for unwinding at the end of the day. "Nightfall" is ideal for anyone seeking a peaceful soundtrack to aid in falling asleep or for creating a calm environment.
- Francois Dion, Interlude 2
Taken from: Candy Store (Self released)
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The album is called "Candy Store", as it really digs far and wide in the palette of synthesizers and other sound generating instruments.
Each track combines a more "traditional" instrument, with many synthesizers.
- Fields of Few, Afloat in Timeless Clouds
Taken from: Love 80's 110 (Triplicate Records)
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Two artists at the top of their game, coming together to celebrate... what else? Being at the top of their game! A smaller offering, only four tracks, but packed with plenty of character to sustain delight over multiple listens. The selected tunes play to each others strengths, complimenting one anothers downtempo electronica chops marvellously. Four certified mellow bangers. Get on this.
- Fugue State, Learning To Walk Again
Taken from: Whiskey Tango Foxtrot
"Learning To Walk Again" was made during a period of change both personally and musically. It was one of the first times I attempted to write a thing that felt a certain way (cautiously hopeful, reflective), as opposed to inspiration coming from sounds I'm hearing in my head. I consider it a successful attempt.
- Grzegorz Bojanek, Do You Remember The Summer Sun?
Taken from: Do You Remember The Summer Sun?
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"Do You Remember the Summer Sun?" is a nostalgic ambient guitar track that takes you back to the warm, golden days of summer. Perfect for anyone longing for the carefree moments under the sun, this track weaves atmospheric textures, creating a calming escape. Whether you're reminiscing about sunsets or relaxing at home, this track will transport you to the peaceful embrace of summer memories.
- Michael D. Tidwell & Piscean Daydreams, Faint Whisper of a Wraith
Taken from: Ghost (Ambient Cat)
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With its fusion of cinematic storytelling and emotive sound design, 'Ghost' offers a deeply immersive experience perfect for late-night reflection, meditative focus, or creative inspiration. Each track explores the delicate balance between light and shadow, leaving listeners captivated by its haunting beauty.
- this occasional society, darkstar_2025
Taken from: jamuary (Self released)
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Not being released on any platforms, but available on the 'music sketches' section of the t.o.s. website.
- KAVARI, Fang
Taken from: Against The Wood, Opposed To Flesh
Like walking through the woods as twilight turns to night. You may imagine you hear someone, or something, on the path behind. You can’t be sure.
- reirwg, In The Night Sky, I See Your Eyes
Taken from: Enterprises Release of the week
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reirwg plays almost every single instrument, effect, or object on this record including edits, music, piano, production, strings and lastly, synthesizers. All sounds on this record are created digitally with midi except for a few little bits and pieces here and there.
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- The Ambient Hour 002 0:00 / 0:00
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In the second ambient ambient hour of the year we start with a very poor guided meditation and then swiftly move on for an hour of sweet, sweet relaxing sounds.
- TEX, Golden Palms
Taken from: TEX (Self released)
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Johnny Tex hails from Cape Town, South Africa and has mostly been writing Garage Rock, Rockabilly and Surf Music for the past decade or so (his impressive list of bands includes The Future Primitives, The Dyna Jets, King Trash and The Thirty Eights). He recently transitioned over to producing mostly on the computer under the name TEX and finds he can actually be more creative this way because it feels like literally anything is possible - he says he "can just get lost tweaking sounds forever".
- prePosur, Hurricane
Taken from: RTS.EP (Self released)
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Hurricane is taken from an Untitled 6 track EP made in only one week. The tracks are based around the Transatlantic Slave Trade and the hellish conditions the enslaved had to go through while on the ships to the Americas. prePosur describes the EP as a gift back to my those before hime who were forcibly transported to the country he--and many other black people--call home.
- Techno-Tony, Colloquy 2
Taken from: Colloquy 2 (Self released)
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This and all Techno-Tony's tracks released are recorded live in one take on a Eurorack modular synth. He performs locally in Santa Cruz, California using the same setup. Of course the rack contents change gradually over time. Techno-Tony calls his genre techno-jazz, perhaps inappropriately he says. But then we're living in a post-genre world now aren't we?
- Infant, Lithic Disc
Taken from: Spiral Industries (Kino Disk)
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Lithic Disc is the final track from the four track Spiral Industries EP by Infant that was released at the end of October 2024. The EP is atmospheric and textural and well-worth your attention. You can get it for any price you choose from Bandcamp.
- this occasional society and james hastings, ghosts run in our family
Taken from: impossibly impermanent (Self released)
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This Occasional Society teams up with James Hastings for the Impossibly Permanent EP. The artists completed the EP remotely via exchanging files and messaging but they sound very much in-sync here. The aim was to create something the listener could lose themselves in and hopefully find some space for themselves. Free/name your price from Bandcamp.
- CLOUDWARMER, Journal of the Plague Year and Other Apparitions
Taken from: Forget Me Nots (Self released)
Eddie Palmer puts out some truly excellent music under his Cloudwarmer project. 'Journal of the Plague Year and Other Apparitions' is taken from his Forget Me Nots album released back in 2022. Expect dark beats, upright bass and shimmering synth lines. Fans of the Cinematic Orchestra will find much to enjoy here.
- chad glenn, adrift in the coastal quadrant
Taken from: fade from view (Self released)
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Taken from fade from view by Chad Glenn, this is an album that will take you on a journey into outer space and to the depths of the ocean.
- Eustress, Aam
Taken from: Arx (Kino Disk)
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Only three tracks long but packed with dense layers of electronics and organic sounds in the vein of Skee Mask.
- Ordos Mk.0, Odyssey
Taken from: Sisyphean Audio Therapy 2 (Self released)
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From the opening chords of the first track you know that Sisyphean Audio Therapy 2 is going to be a treat. As the album gets going there are uplifting pads that are reminiscent of Boards of Canada without sounding derivative. I actually can hear the birds in this one. I'm on a beach and I'm feeling calm. A perfect soundtrack to a solitary contemplative walk at twilight.
- Okmiracle, Up/up down
Taken from: Drop audio (Self released)
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Crispy rhythms and viscous ambient melodies contrast with each other like colors on an artist's canvas. Subtly intertwined in a flow of endless energy, a flow of goodness and sadness, sharpness and smoothness, clarity and fuzziness. The album is inspired by autumn walks along empty beaches, rocky landscapes, amber sunsets.
- Aoire, Biggar Bank
Taken from: Arthur Baker bw Biggar Bank (Self released)
Aoire is South Cumbrian, UK musician Shaun Blezard. Making music after a few years away he returns to his ambient roots. This track is taken from the release Arthur Baker bw Biggar Bank which is a first venture into the world of hardware machines
- Please Close Your Eyes, The Moment Before We Sleep
Taken from: Music For Floating (Mortality Tables)
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Taken from the new album Music for Floating which was released on 10 January 2025 via Mortality Tables. The title ‘Music for Floating’ comes from one of the two tests that I use when I’m listening back to my music and checking in with how I feel about it. The first test is when I’m dozing in bed, and the other is when I’m in the bath. Both of those things feel like floating. - Oliver Richards
- TEX, Golden Palms
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- The Ambient Hour 001 0:00 / 0:00
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Sixty minutes of music to relax your mind
- VOLTIJ, i. hypnagogia
Taken from: four drones (Self released)
- Mute City, How to Disassociate Completely
Taken from: Total Resignation (Self released)
CC BY-SA 3.0
- autumnal_city, 01_05
Taken from: autumnal_city_01 (Self released)
- Laser Move Kill, 15:27
Taken from: Into the Blue EP (Self released)
- melondruie, Solitary
Taken from: In-between spaces (Self released)
© All rights reserved. Used with permission.
- Lime Bar, Lime Bar Vs Flock Of Nazguls #5
Taken from: Lime Bar Vs Flock Of Nazguls (Self released)
CC BY-NC 3.0
- Beigelord, The Ticking Of An Unwinding Clock
Taken from: Re: sadness (Self released)
- Logickal, The Future Language of New Humanity
Taken from: Future Language (Self released)
- foldplop, Song For Face Mites (Graffathon 2016 Version)
Taken from: Presence (Self released)
- thelarchmage, Float
Taken from: Float (Self released)
- VOLTIJ, i. hypnagogia
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