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Billow Observatory – III: Chroma/Contour (Azure Vista Records, 2019)

Chris — Sat, 16 Feb 2019 19:13:15 +0000

Have you ever thought back and considered when the first time you enjoyed your first sunrise and sunset was? I’ve thought about this before, perhaps never vocalised it here, but it is fascinating to me that a memory like that seems lost to time. Instances come close, whether these were the first moments that I […]

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Strië – Perpetual Journey EP (Serein, 2018)

Chris — Sun, 18 Feb 2018 16:56:46 +0000

Laika was the first animal to orbit the Earth, a stray dog plucked innocently from the streets of Moscow and put aboard a rushed, primitive capsule to be sent into the lonely isolation of space. She was an unwitting pioneer, a “tender and charming” test subject in the hands of scientists and engineers at the […]

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Hakobune – Betelgeuse (Hidden Vibes, 2018)

Chris — Sat, 27 Jan 2018 15:50:31 +0000

“The light that burns twice as bright lasts half as long”, although in Betelgeuse’s case far less than that even. One of the brightest stars in the sky, Betelgeuse is only a stellar baby: 10 million years old (give or take a few hundred thousand). Our own homely Sun probably has something like 5 billion […]

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Jason Van Wyk – Opacity (Home Normal, 2017)

Chris — Sun, 24 Sep 2017 14:30:15 +0000

Last week I watched on as Cassini, one of our few eyes in the Outer Solar System, plunged to a fiery demise over the skies of Saturn, concluding its 20 year mission. Like any funeral, it was a bittersweet moment: she had provided so much data and so many beautiful pictures of the enigmatic and […]

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How To Cure Our Soul – Luna (Low Point, 2016)

Chris — Mon, 25 Jan 2016 17:01:38 +0000

How often and for how many millennia have humans looked up at the sky and been intrigued by the stars and the ethereal glowing face of the Moon, this waxing and waning orb that sometimes blends seamlessly into the blue sky of daytime as well as gracing the darkness with its cool grey brilliance. The […]

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Roly Porter – Third Law (Tri Angle Records, 2016)

Chris — Fri, 15 Jan 2016 17:51:56 +0000

“I see nothing” The final words of the pilot of PauknAir Flight 4101 spoken moments before crashing in heavy fog and killing everyone onboard the plane are a morbidly accurate way to begin talking about Roly Porter’s latest Dark Ambient behemoth Third Law, not least because the opening track is titled “4101”, but also because I hold a few […]

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36 – Void Dance (2015)

Chris — Tue, 07 Jul 2015 17:05:43 +0000

Across the last couple of EPs, 36 has acquired a noticeable slant towards probing the conceptual devices around space travel and exploration in Sun Riders and then in the somewhat more fully formed and deliberate Sine Dust. Following these we’ve been gifted a fully fledged album pertaining to these themes in the rich soundscapes of Void Dance, unfolding on the tantalising […]

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Trampique – Opscope (Dark Clover, 2015)

Chris — Tue, 16 Jun 2015 18:56:47 +0000

With its suitably mysterious name, Opscope seems to be the perfect candidate as the vessel for a collection of Solar System themed electronic pieces in Alexandr Frolov’s third release under the Trampique alias. I loved the first two albums under this new moniker (both making it into my Top25 from last year) so there was certainly a sense of […]

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Arash Akbari – Cracked Echoes (Soft Recordings, 2014)

Chris — Tue, 11 Nov 2014 16:27:12 +0000

November is here and with it the first signs true signs that Winter is almost upon us; Autumn was brief enough, and while a few leaves still cling to the trees they’re not long for this world, and it’s time for us to begin embracing the coldest and harshest month of each year. Arash Akbari […]

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Sundrugs – Low (BLWBCK, 2014)

Chris — Fri, 03 Oct 2014 18:37:57 +0000

I know that it’s something that I repeat often but I am something of a stickler when it comes to cohesion and consistent thematic devices across albums; it shouldn’t be something that irks me when these things are absent or inconsistently present throughout albums but one can’t help but feel a little, well, lost and […]

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