Recording under the name Ambientportal DJ/Synthesist Mykl Neufeld realizes complex and nuanced sonic renderings from the treasury of his mind. The idea of...
Dave Luxton shows great promise on PORTAL (49'16"). This release features eight studies in tone production. Instantly accessible, the music seems familiar yet...
Rudy Adrian is one of a few contemporary Electronic Musicians capable of bringing the awesome energy of the cosmos into the musical listening area. His CD...
Elve is yet another musical incarnation of Matt Hillier. Also known as Ishq, Ishvara and Indigo Egg, Hillier's work as Elve is decidedly more towards the...
Solar Fields is known throughout the music community as an adventurer within the Electronica genre - although his music does sometimes find its way back to a...
On THE CROSSING (70'45") David Helpling + Jon Jenkins create a synthetic seventh heaven where the muses of Patrick O'Hearn, Steve Roach and Lanterna play. The...
Bonnie McNairn and Jim Wilson make up Voice of Eye and have been exploring a shared idiosyncratic sonic vision since 1989. Throughout their storied career this...
With its ever changing cast of musicians and constantly roving musical direction, Blow Up Hollywood both impresses and confounds with a surprising range of...
After three CDs worth of impressionistic sonic vignettes, Amongst Myselves has realized FRAGMENTS (56'57"), an album which combines the sounds and forms from...
The mission of STAR'S END is to provide listeners with an experience that is enriching to the human spirit. Every week for well over 30 years STAR'S END...
On NIGHTBLOOM (73'42") Steve Roach & Mark Seelig peer into darkness. This cyber-tribal album in five parts seems not real, or real in a different way. The...
The world is much smaller now in 2010 than when David Parsons first began playing Spacemusic. When his classic cassettes "Tibetan Plateau" (1982) and "Sounds...
The interior human landscape was once solely the province of literature. These days this realm is shared with artists in electronic sound. A distinctive group...
em:t Records, based in Nottingham, UK, defined ambient notions of the mid-90's through a series of genre-bending albums which sought to quietly undermine...
Best known as host of STAR'S END (WXPN's renowned radio program of spacemusic dreamscapes) and as coordinator of The Gatherings (Philadelphia's premiere...
URBANISATION (51'10") begins with an ever growing cloud of dull white noise. This seems simple enough but somehow Aairria (Marcin Drabot), using just this...
Gel-Sol (Andrew Reichel) works under the principle of permanent revolution. On his CD K8EMA (70'07") he re-purposes New Age, Orchestral and even some early...
As host of the STAR'S END radio program, Chuck van Zyl has been quietly pointing out complex connections between musical forms for over 30 years. As organizer...
On WATER STORIES (51'02") Janne Hanhisuanto embraces the power of simplicity and realizes a gently harmonious, very calming, very bewitching album. In just a...
At first listen the music of Kyle Bobby Dunn seems like that of many other drone artists, but upon closer examination we find him to be realizing a ...
With the release of NO BEATS FOR 1 HOUR (59'58") Spyra establishes himself as one of the most versatile musicians on the Electronic Music scene. Already highly...
Happy New Year 2011 - and Beyond! Happy New Year! With 2011 upon us it is time to look back over the wealth of wonderful music that was part of STAR'S END in...
Highs in the 70s is WXPN's ever-expanding retrospective of the significant music realized during the decade of the 1970s, one of the most expansive periods in...
Happy New Year! With 2011 now here it is time to look back over the wealth of wonderful music that was part of STAR'S END in 2010. As usual an enormous number...
MIND ENVIRONS (30'22") is a CD release by Richard Bone, but it is also the name of the music application used to produce the three ambient works appearing on...
For their albums AMBIENT ONE (63'00") & AMBIENT TWO (57'15") The American Dollar leaves behind their post-rock sound - or do they? The duo of John Emanuele and...
BIG IN JAPAN is the double CD plus DVD release by Klaus Schulze - drawn from his performances in Tokyo on the 20th and 21st of March 2010. This multi-disc set...
Conventional music is known for using songs with words to convey fleeting moods while works realized in the genres of Ambient and Spacemusic have (at their...
With the release of DARK MOON (48'09") synthesist Dave Luxton has really hit his stride. This vivid Spacemusic study creates a fascinating sonic realm...
STAR'S END is more than an escape from the everyday. Its mission is to provide listeners with an enriching experience - one that will tap into new and...
