ANNA. Courtesy of Jacques Dequeker @jdequeker. Techno tastemaker ANNA is known for her distinct seductive, transfixing and hard-hitting sound. The Brazilian-bred artist graces the stages of famed ...
Kino Disk releases by Psalm Star Electric and 8004, plus the Process Locks locked-groove compilation by — at far right Credit: Courtesy Kino Disk The June 2025 compilation Archive 1 surveys Kino ...
Discover five lesser known ambient music albums from the 1990s to take your mind off things. At the beginning of the year, the essential Music from Memory label issued Virtual Dreams: Ambient ...
Listen to Gas, Hiroshi Yoshimura and Lou Reed (yes, that Lou Reed). By Lindsay Zoladz For several reasons, I have found myself listening to a lot of ambient music this week — even more than usual, ...
Buzzing and churning, the sound hovers overhead like a fleet of drones hidden beneath a leaden sky. It feels simultaneously close and far away; it has no source, no referent, no direction, no ...
If the laid-back beats of ambient techno have got you inspired to create, then arming yourself with the basics doesn’t have to be a daunting procedure. Creating a genre-angled template within your DAW ...
Techno: A universal language. No matter your native tongue, the myriad beats that define the genre can be understood by all. By cultivating emotions, causing movement, forming sounds and generating ...
Although widely associated with Europe, techno music was invented in Detroit and its suburbs in the early 1980s by young African-Americans armed with drum machines, futurist ideals and a predilection ...
William Basinski’s “Melancholia II” sounds like what might happen if despair itself walked into a studio and someone pressed the record button. Little pops poke through its smeared dreariness, like a ...