How William Basinski’s masterpiece, The Disintegration Loops, captured a world crumbling around us in slow motion
Over 15 years after its original release, we take a look at how the ambient recordings confronted ideas of death and cyclical change
Meditations… on ambient music and capitalism
Ambient music gives listeners space to tune out the world around them, as capitalist chaos grows, that may be a problem
Ambient pioneer Midori Takada to make her NTS debut this week
The Japanese composer created the seminal album Through the Looking Glass in 1983
Tender Textures and Self-Care: Why so many of us got lost in ambient music this year
In uncertain times, soothing sounds have provided a sanctuary for many. Aurora Mitchell maps out the context of ambient music’s resurgence in 2017
Funkhaus became Berlin’s home for ambient music at Ambient Am Block
It seems ambient music has finally found a home in Berlin. Home, for its part,…
William Basinski to play Islington’s Union Chapel
Crack Magazine and Metropolis Music are bringing William Basinski to Union Chapel, Islington Groundbreaking classically…