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Reblog – ACL 2021 ~ The Top 20 Albums of the Year — a closer listen

And if you can’t find anything on the I Don’t Do Lists , try this collection from A Closer Listen-

If 2020 was the most surreal year in recent memory, 2021 was the runner-up.  A rollercoaster of emotion was supplanted by a mountain of malaise.  And yet, many artists broke through with the finest albums of their careers.  Some of these were direct responses to the world as it was, while others were simply written […]

ACL 2021 ~ The Top 20 Albums of the Year — a closer listen

INSTAGRAM SPOTLIGHT 8/12/2021

I DON’T DO LISTS..PT2

Here are some more eclectic releases from 2021…

INSTAGRAM SPOTLIGHTS 30/11/21



LONGLISTEN…

Vase de Spagyrie
by Julia Hanadi AL ABED

experimental, acousmatic, acousmatique, electroacoustic, experimental electronic, musique concrete, musique électroacoustique

Julia Hanadi aLabed is a french composer in musique concrète who also plays live electronics.

IT’S HALLOWEEN…

A couple of suggestions for tonight’s ambience –

Eclectic Electronic Soundscapes-
“There is no exquisite beauty… without some strangeness in the proportion.”
― Edgar Allan Poe
There is beauty in darkness and walls of sound.
As with all the playlists, they are jumping off points to discoveries. They are not meant to be definitive. Just let some of the tracks play onto the next….follow up on “sounds like”….see who’s following, many artists follow other artists….
Artists are NWRMNTC, Nina Kardec, Todas las Anteriores, Filmy Ghost, ProtoU, Nada Hasan, Sky High Diamonds, mayHD, Grouper, chra, Daina Dieva, Anastasia Vronski, Lori, 33EMYBW,Tullia Benedicta and Nina Hoppas


noise, dark ambient, drone, experimental, hnw, harsh noise


electronic, dark ambient, dark drone, dark drone ambient, halloween, horror, nightmare

FEMINATRONIC ON INSTAGRAM

I’ve had an Instagram page for sometime but I am in the middle of a huge reorganisation of Feminatronic and have resurrected the feed. I will be posting a couple of the posts here too.

https://www.instagram.com/feminatronic/

I am @feminatronic

Here’s a couple of today’s posts –

NEW RELEASES

experimental, electro-acoustic, electronica, experimental electronic, fieldrecordings


experimental, audiovisual, extreme computer music, frame synthesis, generative, micropop, phonemic pulsar, pulsar scramble


Experimental


electronic, metalcore, electro-industrial experimental, experimental electronic, fusion, jazz fusion, metal, new age, noise, prog, progressive, sound design


electronic, ambient, deep techno, hypnotic, nature, techno



electronic, experimental, turntablism, noise, sound design, theatre, turntables


SUNDAY AMBIENCE

The Shimmering Land
by Meg Bowles
2013

ambient, ambient electronic, ambient orchestral, atmospheric, space music

#THROWBACK TRACKS 1/8/2021

Here are this week’s throwback releases and they have a definite Latin American feel…

Collection released 2020

electroacoustic, experimental music, improvisation


JACQUELINE NOVA: Oposición-Fusión (1968)

2014

experimental, ambient, electroacoustic, industrial, noise, ritual


2018

alternative, electronic, experimental, chiptune, noise


2018

electronic experimental


2012

drum & bass, experimental, cyberpunk, dark electro, dark electronic, experimental electronic, ghost noise, grave wave, psychedelic, witch house


2019

classical contemporary, experimental, acousmatic, electroacoustic, noise