Music Genre // Ambient

• Alexandre Bateiras – »Canções da Lua Nova« (Merzbau) This one is an oldie. In fact, almost three years passed since this was released on Merzbau. Enough time for...
• Festival Compilation // Various – »NetAudio Russia Compilation Volume 1 & 2« When I think of electronic music from russia, I always think of minimal music and melodic IDM. And when I...
• Julian Winter – »Rock Art EP« (Pause + Netlabel) Game Soundtrack // Julian Winters “Rock Art EP” is the official soundtrack for an online game called “Alchemia”. His EP...
• Feldmaus – »Spaces« (Passage Netlabel) Charming Melodic Ambient // In general it’s Sven Swift’s part to introduce you to the world of creative commons ambient...
• DJ Mix – »Aqual(o)unge 4« (Machtdose) Underwater Ambient Mix // Listening to Aqual(o)unge 4 is like swimming through a coral reef. The sunrays falls into the...
• Slow – »Dual Box« (Resting Bell) August Ambient Bliss // Slow surfaced when Autoplate went down - maybe you remember their exquisite “Love” EP which was...
• Psychon – »Slow Country for Old Men« (Narrominded) Ambient Electronic Mixture // Regardless what anyone may think, Psychon has not been asleep for the past five years. After...
• Where The Wild Synths At // Astrowind – »Fresh Wind in the Valley of Dreams« (Silent Flow) Blame me to be an anachronistic fool. Call me old-fashioned. Still I got to let you know: an analogue synthesizer...
• Twin Peaks Ambient // Brian Grainger & David Tagg – »Sawdust Aromatics« (Rope Swing Cities) Boy this one has been sleeping on my HD for a long time! Brian Grainger hooks up with long-time partner...
• Ambient // Reintroducing Serein Netlabel Welsh Netlabel Serein is one of my top five sources for high quality Ambient, not only in the context of...
• Lush Ambient, Crunchy Beats // 2% – »Nowcast« (Archaic Horizon) Hot off the heels of mo.’s Para-review last week, I got to let you know about the latest Archaic Horizon...
• Epic Ambient // Wixel – »An Empty Canvas« Wixel is the experimental Folk moniker of Wim Maesschalck. In 2009, after his epochal “Somewhere Between the Sun and the...
• Various – »Format« (Fällt) Concept Music // From the mid-90’s, Fällt Publishing operated in the field of experimental electronic music and media art. Record...
• Phillip Wilkerson – »Incidents in Spring« (Bypass) Warm and Minimal Ambient // From Galuszka’s survey we can learn that most Netlabels are run by Germans. China, in...
• Wo0 – »With the Flowered Minds« (Phantom Channel) Consuming Guitar Drones // Netlabels, promote your releases! UK outfit Phantom Channel got a good start with two compilations. But...
• Sleepmakeswaves – »In Today Already Walks Tomorrow« (Lost Children Netlabel) Epic Postrock // This is epic! Sleepmakeswaves from Australia create an astonishing soundscape that can not be praised enough. Everyone...
• Kalte – »The Lanthanide Series« (Stasisfield) Glisteing Sculptures of Sound // Kalte is Toronto-based Deane Hughes and Rik MacLean. Both guys are quite active in the...
• A Giant and Hell of a Compilation // Various – »Intelligent Toys 5« (Sutemos Netlabel) The Intelligent Toys Series is one of the most extraordinary Netlabel Series to date featuring finest electronic music from IDM...
• Dark Ambient and DubStep // Various – »Petite musique pour arbre nu« (Nohmad Netlabel) When you visit and listen to the sound forest of Nohmad you get slowly horrified. Dubstep-Beats and Dark Ambient full...
• offthesky – »Subtle Trees« (Rope Swing Cities) Versatile and Virtuoso Ambient // US American Jason Corder aka offthesky is someone to rely on. I wrote a review...
• d’incise – »Stase / Contre Stase« (Resting Bell Netlabel) [Geneva Deconstructions // d’incise is the Switzerland-based sound engineer Laurent Peter. He’s the coordinator of Audioactiviste and Insubordinations Netlabels and...
• To4ka.Dna – »ZVUK« (Constanta) Clever Ambient Out Of Nowhere // As the commenter “Density Of Sound” depicted in his comment on mo.’s Why I...
• Daisuke Miyatani – »Fragments« EP (Creation Centre) The Maestro of Accidental Folk is Back** // Daisuke Miyatani lives on a small Japanese island, works in a bookshop...
• João Triangular – »João Triangular EP« (Merzbau) Handmade Ambient, Ghostly And Ethereal // In actual fact, João Triangular is João Machado. Machado hails from the city of...
• Preslav Literary School – »Autumn Bricolage« (Clinical Archives) Soundscapist Compositions // Clinical Archives is the biggest “Dark Ambient” Netlabel - and honestly, I never got into their catalog...
• The Green Kingdom – »Miniature Forest Remix« (IOD Netlabel) A Candle For IOD Netlabel! // To celebrate its first birthday, Paris top-notch Ambient Netlabel IOD releases an exclusive compilation....
• Ambient Music With A Touch Of Pop // Man of Taste: Ian D. Hawgood / Koen Park Maybe you know London-born Tokyo resident Ian D. Hawgood by his releases at Resting Bell or Dog Eared Records. Eventually...
• Overdubbing Dub // Dubosmium – Green Element (Fresh Poulp Records) Dub is usually connected to reggae music und therefore associated with a typical sound and sunny moods. The moroccan musician...
• Etienne Michelet – »Bleu Vespéral« (La Nouvelle Dégelée) Calm Ambient // Young Etienne Michelet is an experimental songwriter and delivery boy of rich, textural Ambient. Just recently, Michelet...
• V.A. – »Phantom Channel Presents- Part I« (Phantom Channel) Ambient Takeover // Phantom Chanel is a brandnew UK Netlabel and they hit the scene with an exclusive mixtape that...
• DJ Side – »Bittersweet Love EP« (Surreal Madrid Netlabel) Dark Beats // DJ Side goes down with the bass while his beats creep heavy-burdened over the floor. His “Bittersweet...
• Daniel Maze – »Red After Image« (Serein) Refreshing Electropop Psychedelica // Daniel Maze is a name you stumble about every now and then. Despite his new record...
• Ryonkt – »The World That Was Surrounded (…)« (Resting Bell) Japanese Ambient Benefaction // To readers of Phlow Magazine, Ryonkt ain’t a new name. I wrote a review about his...
• con_cetta – »Sclerosis« (Zymogen) Warm and Sparkling, Rich and Crackling // The latest addition at Zymogen Netlabel is Italian sound sculptor Giuseppe Cordaro aka...
• Kiorda Däkin – »3« (1bit Wonder) Spaced out 70’s Electronic Music // The news that 1bit Wonder Netlabel closes down came as a decent surprise to...
• Tomorrowland – »Anemone« (Red Antenna) Electric Krautrock // I’m into Tomorrowland since I first started listening to free music. Their 2001 EP “Variable” is online...
• Deep House, Unwashed // Marow – »+« (Klitorik) Sometime you stumble upon these releases which attract your attention only because you like the website, the artwork, the name...
• Biathalon – »Biathalon 2« (Expanding Electronic Diversity) Calm and Soothing Textures // Under the name of Biathalon, NYC-based Eric Adrian Lee composes smooth organic Ambient music that...
• Umisetsu & Martin Dot – »Flowers EP« (Rain Netlabel) Cassical Spherical Ambient // If you start the wonderful ambient-track “Greenwater” you drift on synthesizer-strings into a world full of...
• Scott Smallwood – »Three Soundscapes« (Sijis) Electro-Acoustic Chamber Music // US-American composer Scott Smallwood released his music at various experimental Net- and CDR-labels. For his collection...
• Kaboom Karavan – »Short Walk With Olaf« (Umor Rex) Ambient Music Marching Band ** I found out about Kaboom Karavan when listening to d’incise’s free music-charts we had published...
• Portabot – »There Must Be a Sunrise in Every Ending« Molten Electronica, Pixelated Pop ** The guy behind Portabot is Cesar Pesquera, a professional director and graphic designer from Barcelona....
• Crisopa – »Medicamentosa« (addSensor) Chillout Music for Spacenights // Years ago we always watched the stars and planet earth from above on TV when...
• Entia Non – »Distal« (Test Tube) Honey-coloured Field-recordings // Entia Non is James McDougall from Australia. For his first album at the lively Test Tube-Netlabel, he’s...
• Ian D. Hawgood – »The Fires Will Die at Night« (Resting Bell) Vespertine Ambient Drones // Ian D. Hawgood is a traveler. He switches from Occident to Orient, living in the UK...
• Marihiko Hara – »Cesura« (Zymogen) Textures of Beauty // With Marihiko Hara’s “Cesura”, the inerrable Zymogen Netlabel dropped another outstanding Ambient-album. While Takeshi Nakamura, the...
• Le Mépris – »Le Mépris« (Aerotone) Pianotronics // I think most of our readers know the Munich-based Aerotone-Netlabel for at least one of their handpicked releases....
• Cubenx – »Turquoise« (Cyan Recs) Atmospheric Techno // Cubenx comes from Mexico. Even though the title track “Turquoise” kicks off with a steady bassdrum, his...
• Panda Bear Live DVD – for free! Dedicative Live DVD // Panda Bear is Noah Lennox of the NYC Free Folk-outriders Animal Collective. Due to the eight...
• Processing… – »s/t EP« (Resting Bell) FM Ambient For his self-titled debut EP at the Resting Bell Netlabel, Michael Dzjaparidze a.k.a. Processing… choose Frequency Modulation as...
• Ryonkt – »Slow Time EP« (Dog Eared Records) Experimental Folk Armed with guitar and powerbook, young Ryo Nakata a.k.a. Ryonkt creates sparse and minimal Folk music. Alongside expanded...
• offthesky – »Cumulae Movement« (Autoplate) Organic Ambient Symphony // Jason Corder, the civil name behind the offthesky-moniker, is back with an epic one-track EP. “Cumulae...
• miè – »Day in, Day out« (Digital Kunstrasen) **Tiny Bits of Ambient Bliss Most ambient music is made for expanded listening. Sounds are shifted in slow-motion and every...
• Nest – »Nest EP« (Serein) Electronic Chamber Music // The Welsh Serein Netlabel has always been a good address for undogmatic Ambient music that combines...
• GoGooo – Nuages EP (EKO) Electro-Acoustica // I’ve been following the way of Gabriel Hernandez a.k.a. GoGooo for quite a while. He runs one of...
• Dub Techno // Tribute to Benfay Benfay lives in Bern, Switzerland, and is one of the early netaudio-artists who released his music on the web. His...
• Aural Tour-Diary // Direwires & Freder – »Sleeping Near Highways« (Robotopera) Direwires is Adam Young of Ontario, a recording artist and founder of Robotopera Netlabel (it’s a shame the label is...
• Sunlit Electronica // Tomasz Bednarczyk – »So Nice EP« (AudioTong) Young Poland musician Tomasz Bednarczyk is best known for his “Milipop”-moniker. Due to the slightly more traditional electronica of Milipop,...
• Beatless Ambient Soundscapes // Various – »The World of Ansiform Netlabel« (Ansiform) Who’s behind the ansiform netlabel? Who produces these fine and subtle ambient-music? The producers, labelheads and activists of the ansiform...