1. Excerpt of the listening party in the California desert for Boards of Canada - Tomorrow’s Harvest.

    June 11th can’t come soon enough for me!

  2. Jon Hopkins - Immunity (Domino Records) Comes out June 4 and it’s a beaut (especially the closing title track). NPR is streaming it this week as part of their First Listen series. Powerful, dark and churning in some parts and quietly beautiful and heartbreaking in others, this guy has created yet another masterpiece of electronic music. If there’s a guy who can take equal parts jungle techno and tech house and mix them up with sounds that wouldn’t be out of place in a Terrence Malick film, it’s Jon Hopkins.Click here to check out the NPR stream of Immunity.

    Jon Hopkins - Immunity (Domino Records)

    Comes out June 4 and it’s a beaut (especially the closing title track). NPR is streaming it this week as part of their First Listen series. Powerful, dark and churning in some parts and quietly beautiful and heartbreaking in others, this guy has created yet another masterpiece of electronic music. If there’s a guy who can take equal parts jungle techno and tech house and mix them up with sounds that wouldn’t be out of place in a Terrence Malick film, it’s Jon Hopkins.

    Click here to check out the NPR stream of Immunity.

  3.

    paulftompkins:

    If you are going to consider all things— truly ALL things— you must consider a sleep-aid application. IT’S A THING.

    I use this almost every night (and it works!). Love it! PFT’s right on, beach waves and rain simultaneously. That does the trick for me every time. Sometimes I also add in a little Eno at a low volume.

  4. Pure bliss… float on! (B)rock (V)-W has done it again. Really digging this new one. BvDub - A Careful Ecstasy

    Pure bliss… float on! (B)rock (V)-W has done it again. Really digging this new one. BvDub - A Careful Ecstasy

  5. Yes please! Loving the new Hammock.

    Yes please! Loving the new Hammock.

  6. inmyed:

    Cat Power- Cherokee (Nicolas Jaar Remix)

    Eurgh, just listen to it in all its deep synth loveliness.
    Do you think Jaar will do an album remix when Cat Power’s ‘Sun’ is released in September? Nah me either, but wouldn’t it just be a beaut?

  7. The 12 Principles of 12K Recordings

    I was looking over the website of the excellent indie ambient label 12K and beside the great design, I also came across this list of the 12 principles of 12K. I think I might print this out and put it on my wall. Seems applicable to many things creative.

    TWELVE PRINCIPLES UPON WHICH 12K WAS FOUNDED:

    1. Don’t tell listeners what they want to hear, let them discover that for themselves.

    2. Treat your audience as they are: intelligent, passionate lovers of art and sound.

    3. Evolve constantly, but slowly.

    4. Stay quiet, stay small.

    5. Strive for timelessness.

    6. Never try to be perfect. Beauty is imperfection.

    7. Simplicity. Anti-Design.

    8. Never try to innovate, be true to yourself, and innovation may happen.

    9. Explore sound as art, as a physical phenomenon — with emotion.

    10. Develop community.

    11. Be spontaneous.

    12. Everything will change.

  8. Willits + Sakamoto - Ancient Future →

    Newest album from these two ambient music greats drops August 7th!

  9. Lowlight Mixes: A Further Sea →

    Another great podcast from Mr. Michuda (his 5th in the “sea” series).