The album opens at dusk with an imagined final stop before departure, a roadside gas station just as daylight fades. This introductory scene, conceived as “Last Gas Station Before the Horizon,” places the listener amid passing cars, distant seagulls, and the low hum of anticipation. The idea is to frame the record as part of a radio program, potentially guided by a radio announcer’s voice drifting in and out of the soundscape.From there, the journey moves fully into night. Tracks progress like signals picked up along the drive, calm, reflective, and gently nostalgic, until the album’s closing moment. “Peaceful Blue” represents arrival at the final destination at dawn, when the sky shifts into a deep blue and the listener waits quietly for the sun to rise and a new day to begin.
CD $7.50
02/20/2026
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02/20/2026
The debut album from TYGRA (one half of Ecovillage), Magic Summer, is a spectacular journey that captures the essence of a sun-drenched season. Breaking free of any single genre, TYGRA blends ambient haze, trip hop grooves, soulful rhythms, and vaporwave textures into a vivid, uplifting experience.
CD $7.50
02/20/2026
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02/20/2026
Bifuu_ZONE—translated roughly as “a zone of gentle breeze”—is a concept developed from Tsudio Studio’s personal vocabulary rather than any strict linguistic equivalent. While liminal spaces are often associated with unease, Bifuu_ZONE reframes them as places of quiet comfort, restoration, and slow transformation. The project centers on impermanence, erosion, and the subtle ways time reshapes even the most solid structures. The West takes its title literally, drawing inspiration from buildings and environments located west of Osaka. Each track is composed with a specific architectural space in mind, allowing tone, texture, and resonance to emerge from imagined structures rather than narrative progression. The result is a site-responsive ambient work that listens closely to stillness, weathering, and spatial openness. Saxophonist mori_de_kurasu appears on three tracks, introducing breath and human fragility into the album’s restrained sonic palette.
CD $7.50
02/20/2026
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02/20/2026
***Swedish composer Johan Agebjörn (best known for his work with Sally Shapiro and releases on labels like Paper Bag and Spotted Peccary) returns with Southern Forest, his first solo album of new material in ten years, since 2015’s Notes. A collection of nature-themed electronic ambient music, Southern Forest is built around analog synths, sparse rhythms, and a cinematic tone. Inspired by the deep forests of Sweden, the album feels grounded yet expansive, earthy, melodic, and emotionally immersive. The album features collaborations with ambient legend Dr. Atmo (known for the classic Silence series with Pete Namlook), Cate Brooks (The Advisory Circle), synthwave queen NINA, and fellow Swedes Miranda Magdalena and Mikael Ögren, each adding unique tonal shades and emotional depth to the record’s layered narrative. The result is a highly textured work that blends ambient, downtempo, and gentle electro into something transportive and cohesive. Agebjörn's signature melodic sensibility is present, but here it’s more restrained, letting tone and space do the storytelling. Fans of his earlier ambient work (Mossebo, The Mountain Lake) will feel at home, while new listeners will discover a refined voice in contemporary ambient.RIYL: Steve Roach, Tangerine Dream, Suzanne Ciani, Gigi Masin, Huerco S.
MC $7.50
10/17/2025
***Hungarian duo Attila and Szilárd, aka Pleasure Voyage, return with Postcards from Eden, a blissed-out collection of dreamy house, Balearic jazz, and soft-focus disco. Flowing like a travelogue from a paradise both real and imagined, the album blends tactile rhythm with melodic sophistication, conjuring sun-faded memories and golden hour fantasies. Drawing on the emotional storytelling of jazz-fusion, the warmth of Italo house, and the cosmic ease of Balearic beat, Postcards from Eden feels like flipping through a photo album of sunsets, silhouettes, and half-remembered dances. From lazy afternoon listening to sunset DJ sets, Postcards from Eden offers a soundtrack to moments of calm, connection, and motion. It’s downtempo at its best, effortlessly groovy, emotionally rich, and full of light. A journey through the "Feel-Good Music", enjoy the voyage, it will be a pleasure.
MC $7.50
10/17/2025
***Destruction represents a new phase in Reuben Sawyer's musical journey, blending straightforward vocals with ambient textures for the first time. The album explores themes of destruction and rebirth, focusing on the tension between man-made structures and the natural world. It begins with a reflection on nature’s permanence, contrasting with humanity’s pursuit of novelty. As the album unfolds, Sawyer delves into the annihilation of humanity and the cyclical nature of existence. Inspired by Bill Fay’s Who Is the Sender?, the final track addresses transcendental questions surrounding the end times, introducing the concept of a "driver" rather than a "sender" from a non-Christian, mystical perspective. Sawyer’s previous efforts have tended toward exploring the darker sides of humanity, and here continues this inner excavation.
MC $7.50
07/04/2025
***Kenji Kihara is a Japanese composer and sound artist based in Hayama, a serene coastal town located between the mountains and the sea. Deeply connected to his environment, Kihara creates ambient works that blend field recordings with gentle tonal layers, crafting immersive soundscapes shaped by the natural world. His creative process often begins outdoors. With a sensitive ear for texture and space, he captures environmental sounds around his home—rustling leaves, ocean waves, bird calls—and incorporates them into compositions that unfold with patience and care. His music reflects the subtle rhythms of daily life and the gradual transitions of the seasons. Kenji Kihara’s music has found a home on labels such as Inner Islands, Home Normal, and Muzan Editions. His releases continue to resonate with listeners seeking a connection to nature, stillness, and subtle transformation.
MC $7.50
07/04/2025
***Rhucle is the moniker of Tokyo-based sound artist Yuta Kudo. Since 2013, he has quietly built one of the most prolific catalogs in modern ambient music, with over 70 releases to his name. His work explores the intersection of the synthetic and the natural, often combining soft synthesizers, piano, and sampled textures with field recordings and environmental sounds collected from daily life. Working with whatever sounds surround him, Rhucle constructs deeply immersive compositions that feel personal and unhurried. His music encourages stillness, reflection, and a connection to the subtle rhythms of everyday existence. The result is a body of work that resonates with listeners seeking calm and contemplative space in sound.
MC $7.50
07/04/2025
***Julius Smack engages in a dialogue with a fictional AI assistant to create an album using the prompt, “Make an album that tells the story about the origins of Julius Smack.” Starlight emerges as the imagined response, envisioning a world where beauty and violence intertwine, and memories and dreams are excavated to craft stories. In a near-future Earth, where artists are among the planet’s last inhabitants, a symbiotic relationship has formed between humans and AI—each relying on the other for nourishment and healing. At the sight of a shooting star, artists mine their memories and dreams with generative AI to produce art, which sustains them but generates toxins that must be expelled upon the next shooting star by creating more art. To compose Starlight, Julius Smack drew inspiration from all facets of life, with the album’s “dataset” serving as a kind of diary. It weaves together old demos, bookmarked TikTok clips of AI-generated content (such as a deepfake of Biden and Trump singing in Mandarin alongside Kamala Harris’ laughter), 2000s dance music, and ‘90s cyberpunk anime, including Ghost in the Shell and Neon Genesis Evangelion. Everyday experiences also became part of the dataset: learning Yaqui in online classes with fellow diasporic Yaquis, riding the train, walking the dog, and dreaming. These disparate threads coalesce to question AI’s role in creative and labor economies, forming a counterfactual narrative where everything—and nothing—is art. In 2025, Julius Smack will perform iterations of Starlight across the US, Europe, and Asia. Blending dance, music, theater,...
LP $21.95
04/11/2025
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04/11/2025
***While working a job that required frequent drives between Philadelphia and a remote warehouse to sort furniture, Brendan Principato, the artist behind the project Saapato, noticed a fox on the side of the highway that had been struck dead by a car. Its vibrant red coat stood out against the asphalt. Day after day, the fox remained there, gradually transitioning from serene lifelessness to an unrecognizable state, a haunting reminder of nature’s cyclical processes. This encounter sparked a year-long exploration of decomposition—not merely as a biological process but as a metaphor for transformation, interconnectedness, and renewal. The result is Saapato’s forthcoming album, a deeply conceptual project inspired by the five stages of decomposition: fresh, bloat, active decay, advanced decay, and dry/remains. In researching decomposition, Principato learned about the intricate network of factors that drive it: animals, bacteria, fungi, temperature, moisture, and time. Recognizing the inherently interwoven nature of these forces, he chose to mirror this interplay in the music. What began as a series of foundational “skeleton tracks” that Principato produced quickly evolved into a collective endeavor, with a wide array of guest musicians and sound artists contributing additional processing and instrumental textures to Principato's source material. These collaborators act as symbolic “decomposers,” breaking down and reshaping the sonic landscape to create an altered final form of the music found across the album.The album features contributions from an extraordinary roster of artists, including Laraaji, Shuta Yasukochi, Loris S. Sarid, James Bernard & marine eyes, KMRU, Diatom Deli, Haruhisa Tanaka, Ki...
MC $7.50
04/11/2025
***Portlander Paul Dickow, as Strategy, presents his latest album— A Cooler World. Fascinated by the unfamiliar limitations and inherent playability of a hand-me-down, 1989 model sampling keyboard, he played these pieces by hand, mostly abandoning the sequencer driven framework of sampling based music; he plays the sampler here the way a guitarist approaches the guitar. A Cooler World is a deep dive into glacial, pensive soundscapes that navigate the boundaries between experimental, ambient, and dance music. The pieces unfold with deliberate intention, expressed in a sound vocabulary that originates in the futurism of ambient techno, yet they open to the serendipitous outcomes of his instrumental experimentation. One of his few albums that fully commits to ambience, with this new album, everything is slowed down, gesturing towards stillness, and transformed into something otherworldly under a blanket of snow. Paul has released records as Strategy on Peak Oil, Kranky, and so many others. Prolific and motivated, Paul crafts his music to fill unanswered musical riddles and unexplored rabbit holes he discovers in his capacities as experimenter, record collector, and DJ.
MC $7.50
04/11/2025
***Signal is the new album by renowned electronic music artist Brendon Moeller. Known for his innovative fusion of ambient sounds, Moeller once again pushes the boundaries of the genre with swirling, organic forms and immersive textures grounded in the dark, moody tones of deep techno and dub. What results are the sounds of melodic, fluttering synths set to low, steady beats, all of which seem to playfully dance through some kind of cosmic aural nebula. Brendon grew up in Johannesburg, South Africa. Throughout his childhood and teenage years, he learned piano and drums, finding particular inspiration in the music of artists such as Fela Kuti, My Bloody Valentine, De La Soul and Kraftwerk. However, it was not until 1993, when Brendon moved to New York City, that his own individual style began to develop. With NYC as his base, he has worked with several prominent labels and collaborated with artists like Mikey Dread, Speedy J, Mutabaruka and MATRiXXMAN. With dozens of EPs, singles and albums to his name, Brendon’s love for experimenting with sound has created an endless source of inspiration to continuously self-reflect and advance his music. Brendon is consistently striving to reinvent himself and skillfully influence the dub scene in the process.
MC $6.00
11/15/2024
***Hot on the heels of their acclaimed second album, Iris, One Million Eyes unveil their latest work, Polaris. This new album is a rich tapestry of analog and instrumental elements, creating a vibrant and dynamic experience. Formerly known as Tempelhof (where they collaborated with artists like Gigi Masin), Luciano Ermondi and Paolo Mazzacani created One Million Eyes upon the realizing they needed a new creative outlet to rekindle their passion for making music. This new project allowed them to approach their instruments and influences untethered to the body of work and inhibitions of their past. What results is a shimmering, energetic current of organic instrumentation and analog synthesizers that carries us on a meditative journey through interior landscapes.
MC $6.00
11/15/2024
***NOW AVAILABLE ON VINYL!!! Collaborating for the first time, Will Long and John Daniel combine their methods using tape machines, loops, and computers to score a reimagining of Peter Weir's film and Paul Theroux's novel "The Mosquito Coast". Sourcing inspiration from a view of the film and book as a historical pendulum, the musicians found that these reinterpretations left them nostalgic for a different time, something that's only partly imagined, and without the defined predictions about the life cycles of mass culture based on our limited understanding of current events.
LP $22.95
06/28/2024
***Wenge, pronounced /wen-gee/, is a legume tree native to the forests of Congo, Zaire, Gabon, Cameroon, and the southern regions of Tanzania and Mozambique. Some of its indigenous names are dikela, mibotu, bokonge, and awong. It is a hard and heavy dark-colored wood used for musical instruments, like guitars, flutes, drums and balaphones, which we play on the recordings. The name struck us as an apt metaphor for resiliency, stability, durability, and the sonic resonance we bring you on this release. Wenge is a collaborative recording inspired by music score created for the Raphael Sbarge-directed PBS series 10 Days in Watts.
MC $6.00
05/24/2024
***Glo Phase is the solo project of professional composer and multi-instrumentalist, Joseph Rusnak. Glo Phase’s new album “Blink” invites listeners into a world of live, vibrant, and captivating electronic music where spontaneity shines. His live performances imbue the music with a vibrant interplay of spontaneity and unpredictability, as he wields a rich assortment of hardware and software tools, orchestrating immersive live sets that transcend creative boundaries.
MC $6.00
05/24/2024
***"abundance" is the new album by IKSRE (Phoebe Dubar) composed of eight tracks, each offering positive, elevating, shimmering, and textural sonic experiences. The songs incorporate layered vocals, viola, analog and software synths, binaural beats, and unique sound healing instruments. IKSRE (I Keep Seeing Rainbows Everywhere), creates ambient music that teeters on the edge of danceability, inviting listeners to connect themselves to the abundance that surrounds them.
MC $6.00
05/24/2024
***Pathways is the new album by renowned electronic music artist Brendon Moeller. Known for his innovative fusion of deep techno, dub, and ambient sounds, Moeller once again pushes the boundaries of the genre. Brendon grew up in Johannesburg, South Africa. Throughout his childhood and teenage years, he learned piano and drums, finding particular inspiration in the music of artists such as Fela Kuti, My Bloody Valentine, De La Soul and Kraftwerk. However, it was not until 1993, when Brendon moved to New York City, that his own individual style began to develop. With NYC as his base, he has worked with several prominent labels and collaborated with artists like Mikey Dread, Speedy J, Mutabaruka and MATRiXXMAN. With dozens of EPs, singles and albums to his name, Brendon’s love for experimenting with sound has created an endless source of inspiration to continuously self-reflect and advance his music. Brendon is consistently striving to reinvent himself and skillfully influence the dub scene in the process.
MC $7.50
10/20/2023
***Ultraflowers is the new album by Monokle, the acclaimed Russian electronic music producer and composer based in St. Petersburg. Known for his distinctive blend of ambient, glitch, and experimental sounds, combined with great energy. Monokle crosses many stylistic boundaries but always remains recognizable by his melodic, warm and eclectic electronica-based sound.
MC $7.50
10/20/2023
***Yui Onodera and Takashi Kokubo are two visionary artists hailing from Japan, known for their exceptional ability to create captivating and immersive sonic experiences. The compositions seamlessly blend Yui Onodera's minimalist sensibilities with Takashi Kokubo's mastery of traditional Japanese instrumentation, creating a sonic tapestry that transports listeners to a realm of serenity and introspection. Grammy-nominated Takashi Kokubo is a veteran musician, composer, and sound designer who has played a significant role in shaping the ambient music landscape in Japan. His works have graced film scores, installations, and solo albums, earning him a dedicated global following. Yui Onodera is a composer, sound artist, and producer known for his deep understanding of minimalism and ambient aesthetics. He has released numerous works on esteemed labels like KOMPAKT, Room40 and more.
MC $7.50
10/20/2023
***Loris S. Sarid is a Rome born musician and sound designer living in Glasgow (Scotland). Music for Tomato Plants was born while taking care of a little tomato plant, grown on the windowsill of his flat during the winter 2020. The album is a homage to the unapparent courage of simplicity, and the beauty and lightness of the most ordinary things. “In the same spirit of Mort Garson, Green-House and others who synthesize the natural and musical worlds, this ambient serenade for tomato plants is a welcome saunter through a humble garden”—Charlie Moonbeam
LP $23.50
07/28/2023
***Andy Aquarius was in the process of writing another album, the follow up to ‘Chapel’ (Hush Hush, 2021), when multiple voices emerged, each of them holding a distinct energetic signature. Those incantations became ‘La Force Aquarienne,’ a collection of intuitive prayers.The first track, ‘U Lisi’ (Ukrainian for ‘In The Forest’), represents the connective and grounding tissue of our shared dimension. From there the space continues to open up to different layers and degrees, slowly moving into the forest’s polar opposite, the sea (or Nirvana, meaning ‘No Forest’). The Celtic harp, supported by the forces of nature and a subtle orchestration, moves through quiet territories, gently distributing and releasing resonance along the way.
MC $6.00
03/10/2023
***From the chaos and calm of the Australian bush, Grim Beazley’s Big World combines sounds and stories with deep evolutionary narratives. Meditative dreamscapes create an emotional connection with an environmental theme exploring house, trance, and meditation.
MC $6.00
03/10/2023
***Hoshina Anniversary is from Hachioji, westside of Tokyo. His new LP of fluid, experimental dance music extends outward from his initial influences of jazz fusion, electronica, and Japanese heritage.
MC $6.00
03/10/2023
***A Love Letter to Water is the instrumental debut EP by Colombian-born, Los Angeles based therapist and musician Alicia Ramírez, aka Inkarose. Four sonic poems are dedicated to the Spirit of Water—its circular, shape-shifting motion spans from River and Ocean to Clouds and Rain, and then returns to River. This record explores the curative properties of Water; a precious inhale and exhale, the mantra and pranayama of the Forest. Woven with love, these tracks feature special field recordings from various natural environments, including the Tayrona Jungle in Santa Marta, the rainforest in Kauai, and surrounding soundscapes of Los Angeles and Bogotá. This voyage of sound is graced by the loving touch and musical contributions of dear friends and loved ones, including Carlos Niño (percussion), Rumi Inoue (Alto and Soprano Flutes), Matt Little (Keys), Yeuda Ben-Atar (Flute Synth), and Ian Roller (Alto Sax). A Love Letter to Water is a love letter to the self.
MC $6.00
03/10/2023
***Releasing under the moniker Strategy, Portlander Paul Dickow’s latest album explores the space of dub techno, extending beyond the genre and making it his own.
MC $6.00
03/10/2023
***Having never met before entering the studio together, harpist MARY LATTIMORE (who has collaborated with Thurston Moore, Kurt Vile, Jarvis Cocker and Meg Baird to name a few) and koto player MAXWELL AUGUST CROY made an album in less than 48 hours, all live with no overdubs. Lattimore experiments with effects through her Lyon & Healy Concert Grand harp. Croy is a multi-instrumentalist whose work fluctuates liberally between melody, classicism and experimentation. He also co-runs the Root Strata label. Limited edition of 500 copies with download.
LP $15.50
08/05/2016
***CASSETTE ONLY RELEASE!!! Since he began moonlighting from his main gig as half of sci-fi prog powerhouse ZOMBI, multi-instrumentalist A.E. PATERRA has become increasingly renowned as the mastermind behind MAJEURE. Majeure combines the dark Moog-driven film scores of Vangelis with the relentless drive of Can and the transcendent minimalism of Steve Reich and Philip Glass. The brilliant mix of live & electronic rhythms is the heart & soul of Majeure's music, and Union of Worlds is both a nod to Majeure's prior accomplishments, and a peek into a more cinematic, atmospheric world.
MC $5.60
10/23/2015
***Ganymede, largest moon in the solar system, is thought to have water bodies trapped beneath a layer of ice on its surface. It's possible that volcanic vents could supply the necessary power to fuel life in these unknown oceans. This work imagines life & existence within these mysterious oceans beneath an icy sky. JONAS REINHARDT’s Ganymede takes the form of six audio tracks accompanied by 16mm films for each track. Each piece reflects the immersive sonic environment of the album through textural, rhythmic abstraction. The films are hand-processed, hand-painted, or embrace the degradation of the image emulsion. They embody a fluctuating pulse of energy mirrored in the imagined environment beneath the planet's surface. Filmmakers: ANTONIA KUO (also producing the film), JOSH LEWIS, BEN MOSCA, LILY SHENG, and KENNETH CURWOOD.
LP+DVD $24.25
03/11/2014
***Crescent ParC, the new album from NYC ambient synthesizer duo SEABAT, offers a glimpse through the keyhole at a glittering future world. The sounds on Crescent ParC bring to mind cosmic synth pioneers like Tangerine Dream or Vangelis, yet this album looks forward, distorting the pristine, digital vision to reveal its hidden truth—commercial development. Beautifully packaged and pressed on marbled turquoise vinyl, the album also comes with a DVD containing a 5.1 Dolby Surround Sound mix of Crescent ParC set to exclusive animation created by Seabat.
LP+DVD $21.85
10/02/2012