I love ambient music like Tunng.
It's saving a phenomenal amount of money, it's decreased crime because burglars love ambient lighting, it's nice to see the night sky and, as someone who lives in a main street that has had its lights cut off, I can get a good night's sleep".
Introspective, mellow, and thought-out, it made liberal use of old Roland and Yamaha gear, as well as producer Leon Campbell's deep love of ambient techno.
He's been turning out straight-up masterpieces since his first novel, Horse Crazy (1989), a minimal, ambient story of gay love and drugs in AIDS-era New York.
Below are the singles "Treten," and a track he previously dropped remixed by Athens, Georgia-based Brothertiger, a kindred spirit of Teen Daze's in his love for ambient sound and ethereal listening experiences.
If the prospect of room-clearing noise sounds exciting to you, well, good news, following the December release of his endearingly dark Balam Acab LP Child Death, Koone has teamed up again with Clark under the name WINGS OF THE GREAT EAGLE with the stated goal of reviving the spirit of their childhood love of ambient and noise.
Cameron had defended the move, designed to put 20% VAT on all food sold "above ambient temperature", insisting he loved a pasty.
And yet, this is a tremendously odd record, one that begins with a tribute to the just deceased Duke Ellington, a 32-minute piece of colossally-cool ambient space jazz called He Loved Him Madly.
This news — that we tend to love, that love is ambient and uncontrollable and comically, cruelly protean — never grew stale for her, though for the reader the filaments she spun from this centrifuge could feel, even in the best of her late books, like "The Sea, the Sea" and "The Philosopher's Pupil," like cotton candy.
It comes with a disc of radical remixes by the likes of Elbow, Lloyd Cole, Ulrich Schnauss and Adem, which nods to the way Roedelius's sonic ingenuity and love of repetition have influenced ambient, dance music and forward-thinking rock bands.
Their unraveling free-associative compositions drew on their love of free jazz and ambient music forms that prize moments of discovery which emerge from overall shapelessness.
