Headphone Commute - o muzici za filmove iza zatvorenih očiju

Headphone Commute je čudesno okupljalište recenzija, intervjua, mikseva i lista iz područja elektroničke, eksperimentalne i instrumentalne muzike (raspon žanrova uključuje: "elektroniku, glitch, idm, breakcore, dubstep, modern classical, shoegaze, ambient, downtempo, experimental, minimal i sve između"). U godišnjim izborima svega najboljeg imaju zanimljive kategorije: muzika za - filmove iza zatvorenih očiju, za puzanje napuštenim gradovima, za šetnju i ne plakanje na jesenskoj kiši, za gledanje kako snijeg sporo pada na mjesečini, za škrgutanje zubima u noći... itd.




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Music For The Film Behind Closed Eyelids

In the first installment of Headphone Commute’s Best of 2011, I gather my favorite albums of the year, consisting of music that simply makes you feel. The albums in this category should be classified as the soundtracks to your life. No other genres are required.

A Winged Victory For The Sullen A Winged Victory For The Sullen Kranky / Erased Tapes		Ben Frost & Daníel Bjarnason SÓLARIS Bedroom Community
Christina Vantzou No. 1 Kranky		Jacaszek Glimmer Ghostly International / Gusstaff
Jóhann Jóhannsson The Miners’ Hymns 130701 / 12 Tónar		Kreng Grimoire Miasmah
Ólafur Arnalds Living Room Songs Erased Tapes		Oneohtrix Point Never Replica Mexican Summer / Software
The Caretaker An Empty Bliss Beyond This World History Always Favours The Winners		Trent Reznor / Atticus Ross The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo Mute / The Null Corporation

 
Music For Bending Light And Stopping Time

Sit down. Stop thinking for a while. That thought? Let it go. Let it all go. Call it meditation, call it concentration, call it what you will, but let it go. That thought? Be above it and let it pass. Watch the thought pass through your mind. It passes, as the air through your lungs passes. It passes, as the blood through your heart passes. It goes, as the river through the earth goes. It goes, as the time through the universe goes. So let it go. Now hear this music. Listen. Let the music pass through you as the light passes through the cells. Now turn your head sideways, and bend the light. Slightly. At the bottom of that curve, all ceases to exist. This is where time stops. Now step inside.
Oh… hey there…

Chihei Hatakeyama Mirror Room40		Janek Schaefer Phoenix & Phaedra Holding Patterns Spekk
Jasper TX The Black Sun Transmissions Fang Bomb		Lawrence English The Peregrine Experimedia
Loscil Coast/ Range/ Arc Glacial Movements Records		Richard Chartier Transparency (Performance) Line
Robert Crouch An Occupied Space Dragon’s Eye		Stephan Mathieu A Static Place 12k
Taylor Deupree + Marcus Fischer In A Place Of Such Graceful Shapes 12k		Yann Novak Presence hibernate

Music For Awakened Spirits And Open Minds

After spending an entire night dancing at an outdoor festival, I wake up in my tent, drenched in morning dew and sound. The music never stopped playing, but it has slowed down in pace. As the sound guides me towards its source, the path winds in between the trees that seem to sway with the rhythm. Suddenly, I’m up in the air, floating towards an open field, where yogis have already began to levitate. But before I circle around a large amanita dancing to the sonic colors, the bass rolls off, and I wake up in my tent, drenched in morning dew and sound. Welcome to the sounds of awakened spirits. You may enter… with an open mind…

Aes Dana Perimeters Ultimae		Akara Extradimensional Ethnography Far Shore
Bluetech Rainforest Reverberation Native State / Critical Beats		Carbon Based Lifeforms Twentythree Ultimae
Ishq And Awake Interchill		Krusseldorf From Soil To Space Aleph Zero
Liquid Stranger The Arcane Terrain Interchill		Ott Mir Ottsonic Music
Phutureprimitive Kinetik Native Harmonix		Solar Fields Until We Meet The Sky Ultimae

Music For Crawling Through Abandoned Cities

Abandoned places and desolate spaces, covered with rain, snow and ash, wrapped in a blanket of white noise and pulsating bass, somewhat metallic, chilly and wet. These are the images for these sounds for these places of my mind. Something is trembling with the beat of my heart. Tick-tock. Time rewinds to the mid nineties, and I’m back in Berlin, and Moritz Von Oswald is cutting the wax with his Basic Channel imprint. Fast forward, and I’m immersed in the DeepChord sounds of Rod Modell and Mike Schommer. Flip to the present, and I am crawling among the empty streets of Detroit, which is slowly receding into the concrete cobwebs. These events may come and go, in an endless cycle of oceanic waves. But the music stays with us. Always.

bvdub Resistance Is Beautiful Darla		Deadbeat Drawn And Quartered BLKRTZ
DeepChord Hash-Bar Loops Soma Quality		Marow + – 0 (Plus Minus Null) Mille Plateaux / Force Inc.
Martin Schulte Treasure Lantern		Mokira Time Axis Manipulation Kontra-Musik
Moritz Von Oswald Trio Horizontal Structures Honest Jon’s		Overcast Sound Beneath The Grain Entropy
Resoe The Black Void Of Space… Echocord		Sven Schienhammer Altostratus Translucidus BineMusic

Music For Withered Leaves And Lonely Fishtanks

Something warm and crispy is tickling the inside of my ear canal. It travels through my cochlear labyrinth, where the sensory hair cells sway with the vibrations and generate electric signals, which in turn fire the synapse towards my primary auditory cortex. Somewhere within the Wernicke’s area of my cerebral cortex it all makes sense, and my hand moves, and my heart palpitates, and the trees sway, and the leaves fall. When asked if I would rather lose my hearing or my sight, I always choose the latter. In complete and total silence of the world, the void would make my soul implode. Because even the fishtanks need music.

Antonymes The Licence To Interpret Dreams Hidden Shoal		David Wenngren & Christopher Bissonnette The Meridians Of Longitude And Parallels Of Latitude Home Normal
Emanuele Errante Time Elapsing Handheld Karaoke Kalk		Ezekiel Honig Folding In On Itself Type
Fabio Orsi Stand Before Me, Oh My Soul Preservation		Fjordne Charles Rendition Kitchen
Marcus Fjellström Library Music 1 Kafkagarden		Offthesky The Beautiful Nowhere hibernate
Scissors And Sellotape For The Tired And Ill At Ease Facture		Winterlight Hope Dies Last n5MD

Music For Kicking Your Brain Back Into The Groove

I may not share or write about this type of music all too often, but I’ll admit that I’m in love with stress erasing, head cleaning, heart pounding, minimal beats. Whether it’s the sound of Detroit, Chicago, London or Berlin, I’ll be there dancing away to the four-to-the-floor rhythms of my favorites and notables, such as Joey Beltram, Adam Beyer, Carl Craig, Laurent Garnier, Richie Hawtin, Chris Liebing, Jeff Mills, and of course, the Surgeon. Being an electronica child of the 90s you just couldn’t escape this music. And you didn’t want to. Here are this year’s selections to help you kick your brain back into the groove.

Ben Sims Smoke & Mirrors Drumcode		Bruno Pronsato Lovers Do Thesongsays
Conforce Escapism Delsin		The Field Looping State Of Mind Kompakt
John Tejada Parabolas Kompakt		Marco Carola Play It Loud! M_nus
Mike Dehnert Framework Delsin		Robert Hood Omega: Alive M-Plant
Roman Flügel Fatty Folders Dial		tobias. Leaning Over Backwards Ostgut Ton

Music For Walking And Not Crying In The Autumn Rain

Have you ever walked in the autumn rain? Just like the sunshine warms the breezy beaches, and the snow blankets the silent cemeteries, the rain drenches my clothes, and no, you can not tell that I’m crying. Covered from head to toe in the wetness and music, my feet plop through puddles, as my mind flips through memories. An image of a long forgotten night, slightly opened windows, and the sound of the raindrops drumming away at the symphony of choices and regrets. And these sounds blend with the music in my headphones, and I trot through alleys, and my bones are getting chilly, and my clothes are getting heavy, and no, you can not tell that I’m crying, since these are only the tears of rain.

Blueneck Repetitions Denovali		Gang Gang Dance Eye Contact 4AD
Grails Deep Politics Temporary Residence Limited		The Hole Punch Generation The Hole Punch Generation Audiobulb
M83 Hurry Up, We’re Dreaming. Naïve / Mute		Mountains Air Museum Thrill Jockey
Roll The Dice In Dust Leaf		Stateless Matilda Ninja Tune
Tim Hecker Ravedeath, 1972 Kranky		To Destroy A City To Destroy A City n5MD

Music For The Frosty Night When I Miss Your Warm Light

Another sunset without you. How precious were those little moments… how futile are these tardy words. I didn’t get a chance to tell you, although I sensed that you have known. I mourned your soul before departure, while you just smiled and spread the light. And so you’re here, among, within me. This music makes us whole again.

Birds Of Passage Without The World Denovali		bvdub & Ian Hawgood The Truth Hurts Nomadic Kids Republic
Chubby Wolf Los Que No Son Gentos Dragon’s Eye		Grouper A I A Yellow Electric
The Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble From The Stairwell Denovali		Leah Kardos Feather Hammer Bigo & Twigetti
Lüüp Meadow Rituals Experimedia		Maps & Diagrams Get Lost Time Released Sound
Ryan Teague Causeway Sonic Pieces		Talvihorros Descent Into Delta hibernate

Music For Watching The Snow Slowly Fall In The Moonlight

In the silent and sad mountains, music speaks without the lyrics. Words escape and rise in clouds, forming vapor, pain and passion. Music, on the other hand, is harmless, floating low above the ground, spreading long and foggy fingers, through the grass and morning flowers. In this dark and lonely winter, snow begins to lightly tumble. There I sit without breathing, watching time pass in the moonlight.

Alva Noto + Ryuichi Sakamoto Summvs Raster-Noton		Clem Leek Lifenotes Drifting Falling
Dakota Suite | Emanuele Errante The North Green Down Lidar		Deaf Center Owl Splinters Type
Dustin O’Halloran Lumiere FatCat / 130701		Hauschka & Hildur Guðnadóttir Pan Tone Sonic Pieces
Hauschka Salon Des Amateurs 130701		Marsen Jules Nostalgia Oktaf
Nils Frahm Felt Erased Tapes		Swod Drei City Centre Offices

Music For Sonic Installations In The Cavern Of Your Skull

Your mind is just a canvas; your life – projected film. Your skull is a museum of memories; your ego – a neurotic guard. Your consciousness is sleeping in this theater, alone and undisturbed. Why not invite some music? There’s plenty of empty space…

Alva Noto Univrs Raster-Noton		Aria Rostami Form audiomoves
Autechre & The Hafler Trio ah³eo & ha³oe (ae3o3) Die Stadt / Simply Superior		Byetone Symeta Raster-Noton
Fennesz + Sakamoto Flumina Touch / Commons		Gareth Davis & Machinefabriek Grower Sonic Pieces
Illuha Shizuku 12k		Marihiko Hara Credo Home Normal
Seth Horvitz Eight Studies For Automatic Piano Line		Stephan Mathieu Remain Line

Music For Missed Friends, Barbecues And Turntables

I don’t timestamp music with transitions… I timestamp life transitions with the music… A period here, a semicolon there… Music played for long lost friends, and music that I play for them again right now… Because even if you’re not right here, and you can’t hear these sounds, I know you’re listening. And even though I’ll never admit this out loud, you know I miss you… always will…

Andy Stott Passed Me By Modern Love		Bibio Mind Bokeh Warp
Clams Casino Instrumentals Type		Matthewdavid Outmind Brainfeeder
Modeselektor Monkeytown Monkeytown		Radiohead The King Of Limbs Ticker Tape Ltd / XL
Rustie Glass Swords Warp		SBTRKT SBTRKT Young Turks
Tycho Dive Ghostly International		Wagon Christ Toomorrow Ninja Tune

Music For Vibrating Your Neighbors’ Dusty China

Music evolution spins in cycles. A new development in sound hoards a following of copycats, too anxious to proliferate the world with the nuclear output of their laptops. There are some that fail. There are some that surf along with the wave before it breaks, emerging from nowhere and receding back to nothing. And then there are some who push the genre just a tiny bit further. Here’s to the pioneers of the continuously evolving bass sound, helping me keep my neighbors far away…

2562 Fever When In Doubt		Africa HiTech 93 Million Miles Warp
James Blake James Blake Universal / Polydor / Atlas		Kryptic Minds Can’t Sleep Black Box
Kuedo Severant Planet Mu		Machinedrum Room(s) Planet Mu
Sepalcure Sepalcure Hotflush		Siriusmo Mosaik Monkeytown
Submotion Orchestra Finest Hour Exceptional		Zomby Dedication 4AD

Music For Synergizing The Synapse Of Ideas

Just like last year, and the year before, somehow I managed to torture myself with a great restraint of releasing these “Best Of” lists at a rate of only one per day. Believe me, there’s nothing more I want, than to share all of this music with you! Especially this selection of albums that falls into one of my favorite categories! This is the music that excites every neuron, challenges the ordinary world, and triggers yet another thought. Dark, beautiful, cinematic, glitchy, quirky – these are adjectives that fail to describe the sound once again. How futile are these words, and how beautiful the music! Enjoy!!!

Access To Arasaka Geosynchron Tympanik Audio		Amon Tobin ISAM Ninja Tune
Bop The Amazing Adventures Of One Curious Pixel Med School		Hecq Avenger Hymen
Instra:mental Resolution653 Nonplus		Lucy Wordplay For Working Bees Stroboscopic Artefacts
Nebulo & Druc Drac Urbatectures Hymen		Plaid Scintilli Warp
Surgeon Breaking The Frame Dynamic Tension		Void No Sudden Movements M_nus

Music For Grinding Your Teeth At Night

The beast is awake. Daydreams turn into nightmares. This is not real. This is not real. The walls perspire and the muscles ache, as the sound rolls over your blanket and crawls under your bed. There it shakes off its frequencies and morphs into an over-compressed standing wave, too loud to mix, until its entire visual spectrum resembles a red solid block, distorting all levels, unmeasured in decibels. Drenched in your own sweat you white knuckle the pillow, then spring onto the mattress and rabidly laugh. Welcome to the dark side! Buckle your dentures and bring your tongue to the upright position. The beast is awake!

Ahnst Anders Home Ant-Zen		Black Swan The Quiet Divide Experimedia
Enduser Even Weight Ad Noiseam		Eye-D & DJ Hidden Peer To Peer Pressure PRSPCT
Kaboom Karavan Barra Barra Miasmah		Millipede Powerless Hymen
Mobthrow Mobthrow Ad Noiseam		Tapage Overgrown Tympanik Audio
The Teknoist Trainwreck Magnetism Ad Noiseam		Undermathic Deleted (1999?-?2006) Tympanik Audio

Best Compilations and Mixes of 2011

Selecting our favorite albums of the year is always a chore. It is especially difficult when it comes to compilations. Besides picking out our favorite mixes in each respective genre, we also wanted to highlight the compilations that showcase our favorite labels’ artist roster. Alongside the continuous mixes in techno, dubstep, and drum’n'bass, we’ve got a few fantastic releases in ambient, modern classical, and experimental genres.

10 Room40 | REVIEW		14 Tracks From Planet Mu Planet Mu
Back And 4th Hotflush Recordings		Dave Clarke – Fabric 60 Fabric (London)
Deep Medi Releases Volume 3 Deep Medi Musik		Emerging Organisms Vol. 4 Tympanik Audio
Fahrenheit Project Part Seven Ultimae		For Nihon Unseen Music | REVIEW
Goldie – FabricLive 58 Fabric (London)		Kanshin Fluid Audio / Hibernate | REVIEW

Youngsta – Rinse: 14 Rinse
Best Compilations and Mixes of 2011 [honorable mentions] Sometimes an onslaught of amazing music actually depresses me. I feel like a rabid squirrel trapped in a glass cage filled with delicious treats – running from one corner to another, gathering food for the winter that will never come! I am actually nostalgic for the days when I used to play the same album over and over for months. Remember 1992′s Logic Trance series? Sigh… So if you’re a music hoarder (just like myself), here are ten more favorite compilations of the year! 116 & Rising Hessle Audio 15 Years Of Drumcode Drumcode 31 Songs For Japan flau Echocord · Jubilee Comp. Echocord Four Tet – FabricLive 59 Fabric (London) Gold Panda – DJ-Kicks Studio !K7 IOTDXI R & S Records Soma Records 20 Years Soma Quality Recordings Robag Wruhme - Wuppdeckmischmampflow Kompakt These Sounds Will Have To Meet Somewhere In Between Signifier

Best EPs and Singles of 2011

I will be the first to admit that mini-albums, EPs, and 12″ singles do not get as much attention on these pages as they deserve. These brief glimpses of miniature releases fall and melt like tiny snowflakes in the night. But unlike short-lived crystals of water, this beautiful music leaves a lasting impression on our minds. In this first part of Best EPs and Singles of 2011, we honor releases that take a stand all on their own, often making up the foundation of an independent label.

Access To Arasaka Orbitus Tympanik | REVIEW | INTERVIEW		Antonymes Meets Slow Dancing Society We Don’t Look Back For Very Long Hidden Shoal | INTERVIEW
Bnjmn 141 Svetlana Industries		Burial Street Halo Hyperdub
Clem Leek A Letter hibernate | LABEL PROFILE | INTERVIEW		Demdike Stare Elemental – Parts 1 & 2 Modern Love
Fennesz Seven Stars Touch		Frank Riggio Texturtion EP + Distosolista EP DeepVast | REVIEW | INTERVIEW
Ghosting Season Far End Of The Graveyard This Is Forever		Hauschka Youyoume Serein | REVIEW | LIVE

Josh Varnedore 186,000 Endings Per Second Dynamophone		Leyland Kirby Intrigue & Stuff (Vols. 1, 2, 3) History Always Favours The Winners
Martin Herterich Kustlandet Fang Bomb		Nest Body Pilot Serein | REVIEW
Paper Relics Recovered Artefact Audio Gourmet		Pleq And Marihiko Hara The Dawn Came Behind The Fog Twisted Tree Line
Pole Waldgeschichten Pole		Roel Funcken Fes Bace Eat Concrete
Shaula The Girl In The Clock Time Released Sound | REVIEW		Simon Scott Depart, Repeat Sonic Pieces

Favorite Interviews of 2011

As I finalize the Best of 2011 lists, I begin to admire all of the great music that was released this year. And behind the music are the people who share their inner message through this amazing medium. Perhaps it is the people all along that we fall in love with through their music. With Headphone Commute’s interviews, I have met and established virtual relationships with many sound artists, musicians, and label owners. Today I take a look back at some of my favorites.

A Winged Victory For The Sullen		Antonymes
bvdub		Daníel Bjarnason
Deaf Center		Dustin O’Halloran
Emanuele Errante		Eskmo
Hauschka		Her Name Is Calla

Ian Hawgood		Jóhann Jóhannsson
Keith Kenniff		Kreng
Loscil		Marsen Jules
Rafael Anton Irisarri		The Caretaker
Tim Hecker		Tipper

Best New Labels of 2011

The world seems to be virtually sinking in its own imaginary void. I tried to explain the bad economy to my dog, but he just doesn’t get it. With digital, cloud, and streaming media seemingly dominating the landscape, newly independent labels turn to hand crafted physical releases. Besides publishing beautiful music, the limited packages made with love show up at my doorstep like gifts from a sonic fairy. Unwrapping these tiny gems brings back the memories of childhood when each record held in it a world of wonder, charm and delight. In this entry of Headphone Commute’s Best of 2011 we celebrate our favorite new labels that managed not only to sprout in this economy but blossom and flourish in our hearts. Thank you!

Blikmuzik		Enig’matik Records
Facture		Flaming Pines
Futuresequence		Nomadic Kids Republic | Profile
Signifier		Software Records
Time Released Sound Profile : part one | part two		Twisted Tree Line

Favorite Podcasts of 2011

Over the last year, Headphone Commute has produced and hosted numerous mixes from our favorite selectors, DJs, and artists. Today we look back at some of our most popular podcasts as picked by YOU! After all, it is you, the listener, who votes on these favorites just by listening! Oh, and speaking of voting, click on that badge down there, and vote for us, will you?

Access To Arasaka Re:pose | In:spire		HC Best of Modern Classical Part 1 | Part 2
Cole Pierce WORD		Debian Blak Headphone Commute Mix
Easily Embarrassed 4 Years Like Yesterday		Field Rotation Headphone Commute Mix
HC Sound Mind		HC Time Released Sound
Hibernate Headphone Commute Mix		Hidden Shoal Recordings Another Place To Be

Marsen Jules Headphone Commute Mix		Matt van Ax Music For Crawling Through Abandoned Cities
Orangewarrior Chilled Dubstep Mix		Pleq Headphone Commute Mix
PvC Dawn Secrets		ROX Arising
Vinyl Matt Raster-Noton Mix		Vuurwerk Vuurmix
Yoja Fly		riverrun Inspirations

Best of 2011 : Honorable Mentions

As if fourteen thematic lists with ten entries in each was not enough, here are twenty more albums that deserve to be mentioned! There’s just so much time and way too much music, but I would feel completely inadequate leaving these out.
NOTE: ALL ENTRIES ARE LISTED IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER BY ARTIST
Battles – Gloss Drop (Warp)
Belong – Common Era (Kranky)
Biosphere – N-Plants (Touch)
BJ Nilsen – Vinyl (Touch)
Com Truise – Galactic Melt (Ghostly International)
Dakota Suite – The Hearts of Empty (Karaoke Kalk)
FaltyDL – You Stand Uncertain (Planet Mu)
Field Rotation – Acoustic Tales (Fluid Audio / Denovali)
Field Rotation – And Tomorrow I Will Sleep (hibernate)
Martyn – Ghost People (Brainfeeder)
Oliveray – Wonders (Erased Tapes)
Peter Broderick – Music For Confluence (Erased Tapes)
Phoenecia – Demissions (Schematic)
Pimmon – The Oansome Orbit (Room40)
Reinhold Friedl – Eight Equidistant Pure Wave Oscillators (Room40)
Semiomime – From Memory (Ad Noiseam)
Somatic Responses – Concrete Glider (Hymen)
Stormloop – Snowbound (Glacial Movements)
SubtractiveLAD – Kindred (n5MD)
Vladislav Delay – Vantaa (Raster-Noton)

 

Podcast and Free Mixes

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Podcast Archive : 2012 : 2011 : 2010

Aria Rostami Headphone Commute Mix 2		Roel Funcken Recury Metrograde
missaw 1001 nights		Robert Skrzyński Experimental Poland 1960 – 2012
Layvis Ballads for Single File Cynicism 002		MuskoakA Music For Withered Leaves and Lonely Fishtanks
Justinas Mikulskis (S13) Headphone Commute Mix		Krasius Headphone Commute Mix
Howl Of The Demon Night Of The Werewolf		MuskoakA Music For Withered Leaves and Lonely Fishtanks
HC Analog Caverns And Digital Crypts		Simon Scott Headphone Commute Mix
Rich-Ears Summerfall		Gurun Gurun Home Normal Mix
Floyd Kelley III Dynamophone [part one] [part two]		Nebulo Headphone Commute Mix
Escape Art Air Texture Mix		Machinefabriek Drum Mix
Herd Headphone Commute Mix		Floyd Kelley III Microsound
Aria Rostami Headphone Commute Mix		Foel Runcken WaistBend Fall Mix
Experimedia Headphone Commute Mix		Cole Pierce LAKE ODESSA
Optic Echo Best Vinyl of 2011		low light mixes illusions of autumn
Richard Chartier A Wintery Mix		PvC Stillness
Nils Frahm Plagiat		Marsen Jules Headphone Commute Mix
Orangewarrior Chilled Dubstep Mix		Vuurwerk Vuurmix

Headphone Commute Created Mixes (by HC)

Podcast Archive : 2011

Cole Pierce – WORD		Debian Blak – HC Mix
Field Rotation – HC Mix		Orangewarrior – HC Mix
Hibernate – HC Mix		Vinyl Matt – Raster-Noton Mix
Mnemonic45 – First of May		ROX – Arising
A.P Headphone commute mix		hungbunny – HC Mix
HSR – Another Place To Be		DJ Snobo – TEARSUPSIDEDOWN
Yoja – Fly		Matt van Ax – Music For Crawling…
Shukry Adams – Rubickskeub		Cole Pierce – Go Lightly
The Beat Oracle – Particles		Mike Jedlicka – Fleeting Desolation
Pleq – Headphone Commute Mix		Easily Embarrassed – 4 Years…
Access To Arasaka – Re:pose		Access To Arasaka – In:spire
James Alaska – Aheverse		Snobo – A Rest From Intention
riverrun – inspirations		PvC – Dawn Secrets
Podcast Archive : 2010 Clem Leek – Cold Air Low Light Mixes – pno 2010 Muttley – Exponents Of The Guitar DJ Walkman – Varpa Cole Pierce – Zombies and Vampires Shukry Adams – kw1v3r Arkady – But I- bvdub – 2 hours and 20 years Sysyphe – Under the Wood Bop – Micromixes Mnemonic45 – Spring Rain Tigon – Phasers on Stunned Aldous – Winter’s Worth Overcast Sound – April Ambient Mix HC – Our Shelter, Our Tomb Cole Pierce – Later Shukry Adams – Ethereal Cinematicism Mr. Tom – Polar Jasper TX – From Midnight To Sunlight Klimek – Random Noise Ballads Vol 3 Artist Interviews Headphone Commute’s mini-interview feature is called Two and a Half Questions. Why only two and a half? Well, sometimes we ask five questions, and sometimes none at all. This averages down to about two and a half. Plus we’re all a little ADD these days. Who has the time to read a four page interview? We shoot a few album related questions [and sometimes completely random ones] to the artist and leave it up to them to be as concise or as elaborate as they prefer. The results are the raw, unedited, and candid words, with emoticons and all. Interviews Archive : 2012 : 2011 : 2010 : 2009 : 2008 Dalot loscil Pinkcourtesyphone Rafael Anton Irisarri Chilly Gonzales Olan Mill Library Tapes Machinefabriek Yagya bvdub Brother Sun, Sister Moon SaffronKeira Blueneck Demdike Stare Ben Lukas Boysen Bersarin Quartett The Pirate Ship Quintet Robert Pippok Peter Prautzsch Kane Ikin The Host Sun Hammer Velapene Screen Dictaphone Robert Raths Matthewdavid Listening Mirror Leah Kardos Shigeto Jacaszek Lawrence English Sun Glitters Black Swan From The Mouth of The Sun Krusseldorf Teknoist Christina Vantzou Akara   nterviews Archive : 2011 Daníel Bjarnason A Winged Victory For The Sullen Parhelion Ian Hawgood Kreng Riverrun Deaf Center Marsen Jules Opiuo 214 Jóhann Jóhannsson Maps and Diagrams Sean Horton Monolithium The Caretaker Loscil Listening Mirror Debian Blak Gagarin Submotion Orchestra A Dancing Beggar Antonymes Markus Mehr Rafael Anton Irisarri The Hole Punch Generation Paul Nielsen Keith Kenniff Emanuele Errante Her Name Is Calla Tim Hecker Dustin O’Halloran Asura Boy Is Fiction Cepia Tipper Eskmo Hauschka bvdub   Interviews Archive : 2010 Pleq Daniel Land The Green Kingdom Brian McBride Mike Cadoo Clem Leek Subheim Hummingbird Eluvium Max Richter Marcus Fjellström Library Tapes Nils Frahm Ithaca Trio Melorman Architect Echospace Akatombo Roel Funcken Access To Arasaka Milhaven Wisp Alain Mongeau Hammock Loscil Marsen Jules Tim Hecker Sam Amidon William Basinski Yann Novak TU’ M Cell Slugabed Nest Wolfgang Voigt Frank Riggio B.J. Nilsen Broken Note Lusine Mr. Projectile Richard Skelton Rameses III Beta Cloud Deru DJ Hidden Corey Fuller

Interviews Archive : 2009

Clint Mansell		Robert Henke
Richard Anthony Jay		Rena Jones
Ben Frost		Vladislav Delay
Scanner		Solo Andata
Plastik Joy		KiloWatts
Rival Consoles		Carsten Nicolai
Christopher Willits		Proem
Lights Out Asia		Brock Van Wey
Intrusion		Phylum Sinter
Celer		Boxcutter
Murcof		Richard Skelton
Hecq		The Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble
Robert Logan		Bluetech
Hildur Guðnadóttir		Windy & Carl
Lulu Rouge		The Refractors
Tana Sprague (Lissom)		Aðalsteinn Guðmundsson (Yagya)
Another Electronic Musician		Ryan Lee West (Rival Consoles)
Scott Wehman (BLÆRG)		Bruno Miguel (:papercutz)
Mechanical Steering		Brendan Burke (Interbellum)
Christopher Bissonnette		The Sight Below

Interviews Archive : 2008

Aidan Baker (Nadja, Whisper Room)		Benn Jordan (The Flashbulb)
Keith Kenniff (Goldmund, Helios)		David Wenngren (Library Tapes)
Jason Corder (offthesky)		Padmo & Weedy (40winks)
Christian Fennesz		Volker Bertelmann (Hauschka)
Graham Richardson (Last Days)		Benjamin Wynn (Deru)
Max Richter		Anders Ilar

Album Reviews

When it comes to writing about music, we take on an ideological approach of quality vs. quantity. Unfortunately, we do not have the time to review every album out there. Nor do we believe that we have the right to negatively reflect on music that is not our cup of tea. These words are purely recommendations. If we love an album, you’ll be sure to hear about it. Thus, you will find no ratings or release dates. Good music just is… existing on its own… outside of time and numbers.

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REVIEWS ARCHIVE (alphabetical order)

• Ø – Oleva (Sähkö)
• 2562 – Aerial (Tectonic)
• 40 Winks – The Lucid Effect (Project: Mooncircle)
• A Dancing Beggar – Follow The Dark As If It Were Light (Audiobulb)
• Access to Arasaka – Oppidan (Tympanik / Spectraliquid)
• Aidan Baker And Tim Hecker – Fantasma Parastasie (Alien8)
• Akatombo – Unconfirmed Reports (Hand-Held)
• Alva Noto + Ryuichi Sakamoto with Ensemble Modern – utp_ (Raster-Noton)
• Alva Noto – For 2 (Line)
• Alva Noto – Xerrox Vol.2 (Raster-Noton)
• Ametsub – The Nothings Of The North (Progressive Form)
• Anders Ilar – Sworn (Level)
• Another Electronic Musician – Five (n5MD)
• Architect – Consume Adapt Create (Hymen)
• Argaman – My Little Forest (self)
• B.J. Nilsen – The Invisible City (Touch)
• BLÆRG – Dysphoric Sonorities (Bottle Imp Productions)
• Ben Frost – By The Throat (Bedroom Community)
• Benn Jordan – Pale Blue Dot (Alphabasic)
• Bersarin Quartett – Bersarin Quartett (Lidar)
• Beta Cloud – Lunar Monograph (Laughing Bride Media)
• Bluetech – The Divine Invasion (Aleph Zero)
• Boxcutter – Arecibo Message (Planet Mu)
• Brian McBride – The Effective Disconnect (Kranky)
• Brock Van Wey – White Clouds Drift On And On (echospace [detroit])
• Broken Note – Terminal Static (Ad Noiseam)
• bvdub – The Art Of Dying Alone (Glacial Movements)
• Byetone – Death Of A Typographer (Raster-Noton)
• Cardopusher – Mutant Dubstep Vol. 2 (Spectraliquid)
• Celer – Engaged Touches (Home Normal)
• Cell – Hanging Masses (Ultimae)
• Cepia – Cepia (Cepia Music)
• Christopher Bissonnette – In Between Words (Kranky)
• Christopher Willits – Live On Earth – Vol. 1 (self)
• Clem Leek – Holly Lane (Hibernate)
• Clint Mansell – Moon (Black Records)
• Corey Fuller – Seas Between (Dragon’s Eye)
• DJ Hidden – The Words Below (Ad Noiseam)
• DeepChord Presents Echospace – Liumin (Modern Love)
• Deru – Trying To Remember (Merck)
• Dustin O’Halloran – Lumiere (130701)
• Emancipator – Safe In The Steep Cliffs (self)
• Emanuele Errante – Time Elapsing Handheld (Karaoke Kalk)
• Eraldo Bernocchi / Blackfilm – Along The Corridors (Vital)
• Eskmo – Eskmo (Ninja Tune)
• Fennesz * Sakamoto – Cendre (Touch)
• Fennesz – Black Sea (Touch)
• Fjordne – The Last 3 Days Of Time (Dynamophone Records)
• Francesco Tristano – Idiosynkrasia (Infiné)
• Frank Riggio – Anamorphose (Spectraliquid)
• Giuseppe Ielasi – Aix (12k)
• Goldmund – The Malady Of Elegance (Type)
• Grischa Lichtenberger – ~Treibgut (Raster-Noton)
• H.U.V.A. Network – Ephemeris (Ultimae)
• Hammock – Chasing After Shadows… Living with the Ghosts (Hammock Music)
• Harmonic 313 – When Machines Exceed Human Intelligence (Warp)
• Hauschka – Ferndorf (130701)
• Hauschka – Foreign Landscapes (130701)
• Hauschka – Salon Des Amateurs (130701)
• Hecq – Steeltongued (Hymen)
• Her Name is Calla – The Quiet Lamb (Denovali)
• Hildur Guðnadóttir – Without Sinking (Touch)
• Hummingbird – Our Fearful Symmetry (Fluid Audio)
• IJO – (Untitled) LP (self)
• Integral – Rise (Tympanik)
• Interbellum – Over All of Spain the Sky is Clear (FlingcoSoundSystem)
• Intrusion – The Seduction Of Silence (Echospace [detroit])
• Jega – Variance (Planet Mu)
• Juxta Phona & Offthesky – !Escape Kit! (Somnia)
• Jóhann Jóhannsson – Fordlandia (4AD)
• Kaya Project – … And So It Goes (Interchill)
• Keith Kenniff – The Last Survivor (Circle Into Square)
• KiloWatts – Undercurrent (Somnia)
• Krafty Kuts – FabricLive. 34 (Fabric)
• Last Days – Sea (n5MD)
• Library Tapes – A Summer Beneath the Trees (Make Mine Music)
• Library Tapes – Like Green Grass Against A Blue Sky (Auetic)
• Lights Out Asia – Eyes Like Brontide (n5MD)
• Lissom – Nest of Iterations (Dragon’s Eye)
• Loscil – Endless Falls (Kranky)
• Lulu Rouge – Bless You (Music For Dreams)
• Lusine – A Certain Distance (Ghostly International)
• Marcus Fjellström – Schattenspieler (Miasmah)
• Marsen Jules – Yara [remastered] (Oktaf)
• Max Richter – 24 Postcards In Full Colour (130701 / FatCat)
• Max Richter – Infra (130701 / FatCat)
• Mechanical Steering – 10:10pm (self)
• Melorman – Out In A Field (Symbolic Interaction)
• Milhaven – Milhaven (Valeot)
• Mokira – Persona (Type)
• Monolake – Silence (Imbalance Computer Music)
• Mr. Projectile – To The West (Semisexual)
• Murcof – The Versailles Sessions (Leaf)
• Nest – Retold (Serein)
• Nils Frahm & Anne Müller – 7fingers (Hush)
• Orbital – In Sides (ffrr)
• Overcast Sound – Beneath The Grain (Entropy)
• :papercutz – Lylac (Apegenine)
• Paavoharju – Laulu Laakson Kukista (Fonal)
• Phylum Sinter – From Unity to Segmentation (En:peg Digital)
• Plaid – Tekkon Kinkreet (Aniplex Inc.)
• Plastik Joy – 3:03 (n5MD)
• Pleq – My Life Begins Today (U-Cover CDr Limited)
• Proem – Till There’s No Breath (Nonresponse)
• RJD2 – The Colossus (RJ’s Electrical Connections)
• Rameses III – I Could Not Love You More (Type Records)
• Rena Jones – Indra’s Web (Cartesian Binary)
• Richard Anthony Jay – This Is What I Live For (Burning Petals)
• Richard Skelton – Landings (Type)
• Richard Skelton – Marking Time (Type / Preservation)
• Rival Consoles – Helvetica (Erased Tapes)
• Rival Consoles – IO (Erased Tapes Records)
• Robert Logan – Inscape (Slowfoot)
• Roel Funcken – Vade (Ad Noiseam)
• Sam Amidon – I See The Sign (Bedroom Community)
• Scanner – Rockets, Unto The Edges Of Edges (BineMusic)
• Scuba – Triangulation (Hotflush)
• Silent Land Time Machine – &hope still (Time-Lag / Indian Queen)
• Slugabed – Ultra Heat Treated EP (Planet Mu)
• Solo Andata – Solo Andata (12k)
• Spleen – Where We All Fit In (Summer Rain Recordings)
• Squarepusher – Just A Souvenir (Warp)
• Stephan Mathieu – Radioland (Die Schachtel)
• Sylvain Chauveau – The Black Book Of Capitalism (Type)
• TU M’ – Monochromes Vol. 1 (Line)
• Talbot & Deru – Genus (Ant-Zen)
• Telefon Tel Aviv – Immolate Yourself (Bpitch Control)
• The Archivist – The Keeper Of The Library (Lacies)
• The Black Dog – Music for Real Airports (Soma)
• The Green Kingdom – Prismatic (Home Assembly Music)
• The Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble – Mutations EP (Ad Noiseam)
• The Prodigy – Invaders Must Die (Take Me to the Hospital)
• The Refractors – 8 Year Sleep (Dynamophone)
• The Remote Viewer – I Can’t Believe It’s Not Better (Mobeer)
• The Sight Below – Glider (Ghostly)
• Thomas Fehlmann – Gute Luft (Kompakt)
• Tim Hecker – An Imaginary Country (Kranky)
• Tim Hecker – Ravedeath, 1972 (Kranky)
• Tipper – Broken Soul Jamboree (Tippermusic)
• Trentemøller / VA – Harbour Boat Trips : Copenhagen (HFN Music)
• Vladislav Delay – Tummaa (Leaf)
• Von Magnet – Ni Prédateur Ni Proie (Ant-Zen / Jarring Effects)
• William Basinski – 92982 (2062)
• Windy & Carl – Songs For The Broken Hearted (Kranky)
• Wisp – We Miss You (Rephlex)
• Wurlitztraction – The Star Lit Numbers On Her Fingers (Enough)
• Yagya – Rigning (Sending Orbs)
• Yann Novak – The Breeze Blowing Over Us (Infrequency)
• VA – Sound of Slow Flow Vol. 1 (Slow Flow)
• VA – 14 tracks re-wiring UK Garage (Boomkat)
• VA – 88 Tapes (Keshhhhhh)
• VA – Diaspora: Cottage Industries 5 (Neo Ouija)
• VA – Dubsteppers For Haiti (Betamorph)
• VA – Intelligent Toys 5 (Sutemos)
• VA – Pop Ambient 2010 (Kompakt)

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