TONE-CONE (65'39") by Mind Transport Tools (a.k.a. Cameron Akhunaton) harkens back to the early days of electronic spacemusic, a time before the inclusion of...
Murcof (a.k.a. Fernando Corona) has had a reaction to the shallow gloss of techno music. It is the album UTOPIA (75'41"). Murcof may be from the world of...
TWILIGHT IN THE OFFING (60'27"), the debut album by Chad Hoefler, deals with our inescapable encounter with Truth. The 7 tracks exist as leviathans within this...
Avid STAR'S END listeners, Scott Watkins and Terry Furber of Orbital Decay have been influenced profoundly by Tangerine Dream, Klaus Schulze, Pink Floyd and...
With the opening track on THE DEAD TEXAN (46'37"), the self titled album by Adam Wiltzie, we find a piano dreaming, slowly breathing music in and out,...
Blow Up Hollywood sidesteps the ordinary with a range of original, moody, dreamy pop songs. Their music is textured, with strings and samples throughout and is...
Powered by their passion for sound, noted touch guitarist and looper Markus Reuter along with storied electronic musician Ian Boddy, craft disparate influences...
Centrozoon works with free-improvisational, free-tonal, microtonal soundscapes. Within the rich and dense layers there are subtle rhythmic and tonal shifts...
On WICHMAN AND OTHER PIECES (68'34") Spielerei (Dennis Knoepper) & Mantacoup (Jeroen Vermeent) bring together divergent traditions. The duo views electronic...
It's not until after a few encounters with GREY MIRRORS (42'24") by The Glimmer Room (a.k.a. Andy Condon), that it becomes possible to grasp this album's...
It's hard to imagine that anyone acquiring a copy of .74 (51'18") by Maitreya (a.k.a. Simon Lomax), would use this disc of Ambient Music as a musical...
The music of David Parsons is best experienced with eyes closed. In this manner, the transportive qualities of his work can be fully felt. His album VAJRA...
On his album FIRE & REMEMBRANCE (47'12"), Philippe Emmanuel Gueble compiles nine distinctive, almost disparate, tracks. Each piece explores a separate aspect...
Dino Pacifici has given his album, THE FLOAT ZONE (57'55"), the perfect name. What with it's drifting nature and recumbent posture, it is unlikely that anyone...
FOUR (54'46") is the 2nd solo album by electronic musician Dwight Ashley. Featuring 11 hymns to the worldly religion of the mind, Ashley's frostbound...
Maybe it was her tenure as a singer songwriter that provided Janet Robbins with the ability to express complex emotional themes in the few succinct musical...
Electronic musician Thom Brennan, while reaching inward, seeks to create music with an emphasis on his relationship with the forces of the natural world. His...
The purpose of non-commercial radio is to present music and programming that is worthwhile based, not on marketability or popularity, but on artistic content...
Titled "In the Regions of Sunreturn", Michael Garrison's first album paved the way for future generations of electronic musicians. Musically, it was among the...
Sonogram (Todd Gautreau) should be commended for realizing music that lasts only as long as its founding idea. Each of the 21 tracks on SUBSTRATES (66'55") are...
Independent-minded music is usually realized as a reaction to something. For Arnold Schoenberg it was World War I, for Roger Waters it was the death of his...
The album CROSSWORDS (58'05") by Dom F. Scab is for anyone interested in instrumental music that is more focused than all-out smooth spacemusic yet a bit more...
The discovery of a correlation between sound and space and the order of the cosmos has lead to endeavors in defining the universe through music. HARMONY OF THE...
Although ON WATER (59'15") by Ben Cox is an album of deep Ambient soundscapes, the 7 tracks are by no means indistinct. Each piece drifts aimlessly into the...
Electronic Music realized in a live performance often possesses a quality unattainable in studio works. In the practiced spontaneity of live improvisation,...
The purpose of any decent anthology album is to present a variety of works by a diversity of artists. Through the ordering and selections of tracks, ...
For David Parsons, it's always been the delicate control and subtle organization of elements that has made his music a success. On the album INNER PLACES ...
The music of Tim Story comes off sounding perfect and effortless. Throughout his career, Story's compositions have remained open and elegant, aspiring to touch...
On his album MEDITATIONEN (71'03"), Spyra embraces the essential concepts of Spacemusic to create lengthy realizations which possess a transportative quality....
On AVALON SUTRA (46'03"), Harold Budd creates a contemporary chamber music that may be too warm and pleasant for the serious academic yet too complex and...