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soo:k - Grape Chariot (Swims)
The album flirts shamelessly with multiple ambient adjacent genres, exploring a shadow world where belief system energy ripples collide and swirl.
The Slow Music Movement
Jun 30, 20252 min read


Theo Alexander & QOW - So Afraid To Show I Care (Danse Noir)
the live recordings again snipped, shaped, twisted and turned into sonic collage suitable scraps ready for the mother of all production efforts
The Slow Music Movement
Jun 19, 20253 min read


Alina Bzhezhinska - Warm Days, Cold Nights (Tru Thoughts)
Scene set the kick drum arrives to get the crowd swaying and heads nodding, welcome Bzhezhinska's spiritual approach and cheer the less holy, dubbed out electronics.
The Slow Music Movement
Jun 16, 20251 min read


Purelink - Faith (Peak Oil)
“Circle of Dust” sprouts muted beats and even vaguely euphoric synth pads amongst the ambient dubiness, before the track morphs into the soul infused abstract machine haziness that they do better than most.
The Slow Music Movement
Jun 16, 20252 min read


nosleeptuesday - dream escape (Denim Heart)
A late night hypnogogic atmosphere is promptly set, the perfect zone for the machine warped spectral voices to haunt.
The Slow Music Movement
Jun 11, 20251 min read


Will Régnier - Smoke and Mirrors (Themes From Traces) [Self Release]
Kicking off with some minimal yet fluid drums and bass - both from the man himself, that anchor the ambient atmospherics, the low gravity sax of Julien Fillion drifts in from a happy place
The Slow Music Movement
Jun 9, 20251 min read


Joaquín Cornejo - Cabuya (Shika Shika)
he’s also got a fondness for fusing pan-Latin sounds with star gazing electronica, and for this new LP on the reliable Shika Shika label he’s marshalled quite the ensemble, made them some sandwiches and packed them off on a cosmic cruise.
The Slow Music Movement
Jun 7, 20252 min read


Bruno Pronsato, Roméo Poirier, Memotone - Toinen Kaupunki (Sahko)
Sahko Recordings deserve a long service achievement award for outsider electronica over the decades and you have to admire their continued vision in getting these three boundary nudging artists to align.
The Slow Music Movement
Jun 5, 20252 min read


Kid Smpl - Finding the Sky(Hush Hush)
Perhaps he’s mellowing with age, but those beats have been left in a club somewhere, replaced with a decidedly modern ambient sound, that still retains a cultured ethereal sensibility.
The Slow Music Movement
May 29, 20252 min read


GoGo PenguinWhat We Are and What We Are Meant to Be (XXIM)
This is cultured, jazz licked minimal dance music for the head as well as the hips that will also look great on stage and I like it.
The Slow Music Movement
May 21, 20251 min read


VONDISY - VONDISY 2 (FOIL)
The EP heads back to Berlin for its parting shot with some dub technoid downtempo to test your speaker choice and make you contemplate buying a sub-woofer.
The Slow Music Movement
May 16, 20252 min read


there is only - there is only (Self Release)
Just as you think he might be laying his hat in more folky terrain he's off on an electroacoustic, voyage full of precision placed and played micro-sounds that gives folktronica a cosmic Americana injection
The Slow Music Movement
May 15, 20252 min read


hara alonso - touch•me•not (Fuu)
her music is restless and hard to pin down, veering from minimal piano to club ready beats and all sorts of ambient experiments.
The Slow Music Movement
May 13, 20252 min read


PiP & Ambroos De Schepper - Sans Loup (Zitstill)
The track is a singular abstract jazz soundscape that sounds like a Sam Gendel and Joseph Shabason love child, and you shouldn't need much more encouragement to take a listen than that.
The Slow Music Movement
May 9, 20252 min read


James Bright - Imaginal (Life on Earth)
Hooky refrains and nu-disco basslines eschewed for precision sound design, higher sonic purpose and an altogether more astral approach
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Apr 26, 20252 min read


Suki Quasimodo - I Feel Like (Random Artifacts)
home for her genre ambiguous sonic deviance and technology enhanced hallucinations
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Apr 24, 20252 min read


Larum - The Music of Hildegard von Bingen Part Two (Puremagnetic)
Medieval abbess, theologian, mystic, polymath and 12th century composer Hildegard von Bingen, and highlight how timeless and useful her ideas and techniques still are
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Apr 22, 20252 min read


Calming River - Macdui (Self Release)
All is not lost but time is fast running out. The revolution will not be televised but there is strength in numbers and the music is better in the resistance.
The Slow Music Movement
Apr 14, 20252 min read


The Slow Music Movement Radio Show #83
The Slow Music Movement Radio Show is back after a seven month hiatus, and about time too....
The Slow Music Movement
Apr 11, 20252 min read


Takuro Okada - The Near End, The Dark Night, The County Line (Temporal Drift)
It’s a whimsical collection of experimental guitar and a great introduction to this laid back, boundary reshaping guitarist and producer.
The Slow Music Movement
Mar 24, 20251 min read


Grand River - Tuning the Wind (Umor Rex)
explores the power, & at the mid-way mark the brutality, of this natural force, before a calmer, kosmische second half takes you safely home
The Slow Music Movement
Mar 20, 20251 min read


arc rae - New Moon (Mystery Circles)
The restless sound design and jazz tickled production lend a questioning air to proceedings, sounds zipping in and out and buzzing around
The Slow Music Movement
Mar 9, 20251 min read


Om Unit - Acid Dub Studies III (Self Release)
into eclectic dub territory, augmenting the varied digi-dub riddims with some focussed and classic electronic sounds
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Mar 8, 20251 min read


Raven - GNOSIS (Incienso)
the release is full of electronic purity, minimal purpose and blissful repetition.
The Slow Music Movement
Feb 28, 20251 min read
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