Ambient
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As someone whose love of music took root in the early 1980s, I’ve always had a weakness for analogue synthesizers. Musically, they’re unlike anything that came before or after. And my goodness they’ve been put to good use. Gary Numan, Kraftwerk, Afrika Bambaataa, Cabaret Voltaire, Yazoo – a big part of what made them and…
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It’s easy to forget that musique concrète dates back to France in the 1930s. Unlike other forms, its mix of repurposed musical recordings, vocals, ambient sound and electronics still feels progressive and groundbreaking decades later. Imagine what listeners of those early pioneers must have thought. Radio was only just entering the mainstream, and already thought…
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The North Atlantic Drift is a warm-air current that pushes the Gulf Stream north east. It packs a pretty decent punch too. We can thank this freak of nature for carrying more tropical water our way than any other coastline current. The Toronto duo that’s chosen to record under the same name is similarly moving.…
The Moderns 