The Syndicate

SleepResearch_Facility is a dark ambient band that makes music that is both musical and functional, their music is for falling asleep to but it's also just really good ambient (if you are into that sort of thing)

One of my biggest musical obsessions lately has been Pat the Bunny. I don't like a lot of folk punk but he hits the spot.

It's not a "new" musical fascination really, I've loved Tim Hecker ever since Ravedeath, 1972, but his new album is amazing.

I've recently came across yet another great ambient/drone band who released this track this year.

JaggedJimmyJay wrote:Thanks for sharing folks.

I've also heard the new Roly Porter album, AP. It's definitely interesting, though I grant I've not immersed myself very deeply into any type of ambient music new or old. I've just heard this new album by Aythis and I really liked it. Fantastic piano uplifting an otherwise dreary and cold thing.

Is that banjo I hear towards the end? That's quite pretty and I'll have to check it out.

Muslimgauze was an incredibly prolific producer, who has over 100 albums and counting (his back log is still being released posthumously). His style was diverse, ambient techno, IDM, industrial, ethno-ambient, drone, and so on. A vast majority of the ethnic influences are due to his research into the Muslim world, and his subsequent (very) ardent pro-Palestine stance. I've really dug everything I've heard from him, fans of any of the aforementioned genres probably do too.

(Warning: the video is from a documentary and contains the slaughter of a cow, viewer discretion advised)

Here are a couple of songs from albums I've recently heard that I really dug:

Lil Ugly Mane - experimental/abstract hip-hop, interesting beats and instrumentals with strange lyrics and interesting flows from ugly mane. It's sort of similar to El-P I think.


Roly Porter - Third Law is a spacey dark ambient album that almost sounds like a crazy horror soundtrack, it's a fun and engaging listen as far as ambient goes.