This new comp from Planet Trip is going to be great! Lots of familiar faces, and all the early singles sound great.
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I know this one just got a nice write-up on the site, but worth shouting it out here: the new one from Damon Eliza Palermo is really great.
Also worth checking out the first release on Zen2000!
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new shinichi atobe album sounding good. not surprised.
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Hadn’t spotted that one, they’re just a reliable source of tunes - great label. Cheers for the tip 
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Been mad busy so not much time to post here but here’s a few of my site recommends. The start of January is always an ambient bonanza but things are slowly increasing in tempo In order of energy levels: more ambient - nujazz fusion
There’s a very real synergy between Bolton and Gri on their new ambient duet for Gri’s @KrysaliSound. It’s a magical electroacoustic wonderland where the soundscape is verdant, the sonic aesthetic is warm and the natives are naked, unashamed and smiling.
Ambient music has really hit the ground running in 2022. Here’s another gem, this time from
@seilrecords chief architect, @JoggingHouse that is really hitting the eyes closed (not while driving), headphones on sweet spot.
The unostentatious instrumentation is in no rush to reveal its quality & subtle depths, & graciously allows all ears to focus on Jana Horn’s softly sung vocals, as she tells refined tales of everyday & beyond with an easiness that invites immediate attention & an eloquent charm that encourages you to stay. An important reissue by @NoQuarterRex for a voice that deserves a wider audience.
Free flowing, cosmic vibration attuned, cinematically inclined, quickly recorded but sure to be long remembered, toad licked orchestral folk fusion from Swedish collective The Second Hand Orchestra for Sing a song fighter.
Been really enjoying this laid back funk fueled, Afro Brazilian, nu-jazz journey from long time Washington DC stalwart Fachada for @ElectricCowbell. It’s pleasingly unpolished, subtle fusion soaked, reassuringly familiar yet somehow fresh. Recommended.
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Lovely. Thank you! Fachada is great. Top recommendations as ever.
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It’s a great listen, I can’t quite put my finger on it but it has a real charm, glad you’re enjoying it
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Far out & freaky ambient jazz from New York trippers Yai, who machine warp their earthly sounds through time & space to an outer dimensional primordial soup where they swirl & curl into new musical forms for the sonic benefit of whatever evolves.
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A Biosphere LP is always cause for celebration. Here he digs out some vintage synths as a homage to musical heroes, teleporting the vintage sounds through time & space into rhythmic, bass pulsing ambient soundscapes with attitude, fit for modern purpose.
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Very happy to have discovered @Oval & his latest LP last night. It’s a weird but wonderful world where ASMR vocals whisper & curl around a deconstructed neoclassical mosaic secured by delicately glitch splattered ambient grout. Magical.
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I didn’t think I’d be repping a Celine Dion related project anytime but here I am urging you to go check her pleasingly opiated, deballadified & sun warped beyond all recognition vocals float around Romance’s wispiest ambient world yet for @EcstaticRec
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that is so gorgeous - will be buying this one for sure
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Quiet a stunning duet over a faintly smouldering neoclassical ambient landscape pocketed with sparse percussion, barely remembered keys & two contrasting, yet thankfully united voices. It’s a place where no one is in a hurry to say or play anything and a beautiful sadness hangs heavy in the air.
The new Modern Nature LP for Bella Union has been on repeat the last few days. Inspired by Shakespeare’s The Tempest & realized by a loosely marshalled free licensed band sounds like a recipe for rock opera disaster, but instead it’s a jazz tickled, free spirited yet expertly restrained, future folk rock classic.
The boxset looks incredible as well (I know there’s a lot of petrol heads in the forum 
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If you’re unaware of the power & beauty of Guadeloupean music then hit play on what is sure to be one of the compilations of 2022, curated by Time Capsule & Séance Centre. It’s a deeper than deep selection soaked in Afro spirituality, jazz licks, Caribe soul, historic hardship, resilience, joy & love and those impossible to ignore calls to dancefloor catharsis so prevalent in African diasporic music.
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Cedric Woo compiled this one I think… If you haven’t been to their club Beauty & The Beat for me its one of the best parties in London right now. Loyal crown and anything from slow bpms up on a nice sound system…
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Some great mixes up on their site too
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I see he’s not using the Cedric Woo name after getting busted for shoplifting that record from A1 records in New York - DJ Cedric Woo accused of stealing $75 record from New York store | Finest of EDM
In rotation: 5/10/19 - The Vinyl District
Damn, now I’ve got mixed feelings about recommending it, just as well for him Seance Centre are involved - cancel culture exists for a reason, the thieving scumbag. The way he did it as well you know it was far from his first time. Just don’t invite the dude around your house for an afterparty or at least check his bags before he leaves your gaff…
He was caught and (rightfully, IMHO) shamed, and life goes on. That’s a whole different conversation/thread but this comp sounds ace.
The below piece from STW has an interesting discussion referencing Jon Ronson’s book & talks about how we shame people in public these days. Appreciate your recommendations as always 
Reflections: should the underground check the way it shames DJs? -.
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Thanks for this article, it’s very very good.
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