October Office Ambience

Special emphasis on “ambience” this month; can’t explain aside from it probably has something to do with my earlier post on new job/city stress and “pretty” music. I can’t handle much more first thing in the morning beyond some variation on Eno-eque deep-tripping hippie jamz or folk slash folk-smear.

Laraaji, Essence-Universe

Dude worked with Eno on Ambient 3. Deep, shimmering tones that move like the moon/sun/stars move across the sky. The two on here are around half-hour each but it only takes five to ten minutes of that to burrow heavy into your skull and stick in there like a vibrational salve/resin.

White Rainbow, Prism of Eternal Now

Yep. Still.

Black Mirror comp

Ian Nagoski’s distillation of his absurd collection of 78s. Gathered over his life from more far corners than everyone I know will have visited, combined, by the time we’re all dead. The curatorial principle was asking people, wherever, what they listen to--what their friends listen to--and not what he thought he should be hunting (an obsessive music academic and record store owner, he would’ve had a good idea). "World" music for cultural anthropologists.

Jay-Z, American Gangster

Weird, conceptual, and entirely without flow; this will be the best/worst album of the year.

Kode9 & the Spaceape, Memories of the Future

Creepy, narcotic grime/dubstep very much so from the future.

This is "Kingstown." Listen:

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Panda Bear, Person Pitch

Yeah, I know I got on this train late. Someone’s certainly already told you why this is the greatest thing…ever.

Supersilent 6

“Like the hold music in heaven.” – Lee Gardner