Antarctic Wastelands and Good Weather For An Airstrike- Reset and Recalibrate (Echoes Blue) [Ambient]

Ben Tatlow aka Antarctic Wastelands is a prolific, Hong Kong-based ambient producer who co-runs the Echoes Blue imprint with partner, and equally adept ambient producer, Anita Tatlow as well as fellow artist, now label director, Marshall Usinger aka Be Still the Earth. It's quite the hive of ambient endeavour in a city that has never really shown much musical initiative, and was better known for its financial focus, and increasingly for its autocracy.

The Good Weather For An Airstrike project was initially conceived seven years ago by Tom Honey to help alleviate the issues caused by suffering from tinnitus. And as someone who developed tinnitus last year, it's an avenue I might have to explore myself. His homemade cure has certainly evolved from an audio antidote into an increasingly expansive project that now transcends palliative care and regularly encroaches into post-rock territory.

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  Tom Honey aka Good Weather For An Airstrike

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  Ben Tatlow aka Antarctic Wastelands

The pair hooking up is something of an ambient dream team, and they've gone the whole hog, with a melancholically entitled album, All Things Fade, scheduled for release on 6th November - put the date in your diary in case I can't, or forget to shout about it.

Three tracks are already available as the Evaporated EP on your favourite streaming platform, and teasing the album a treat. "Reset and Recalibrate" is my pick, but you really need to check all three: this pair have obviously hit it off from afar and the quality is, as you'd expect, exceptional. The track starts off with some good-natured synth pads, slowly buoyed by some rising new age tones and subtle field recordings before a low-frequency bass pulse provides some gravitational pull to bring the ethereal endeavour back down to earth and maintain compositional form. The track then nonchalantly shifts shape in wind-buoyed gaseous fashion before, all too soon, it too fades away, leaving only a disant memory, and ever-decreasing vibrational circle behind.

For more easy ambient vibes check out the Sender album from the ever-listenable Jogging House.

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Playlist Companion

Find the pair in the Slow Ambient Playlist.