Lazy Sundays: William Basinski – Variations : A Movement In Chrome Primitive
I usually don’t hold much trust in music recommendation sites but one producer I discovered a few years ago thanks to Last.FM’s “you like this dude, you might like this dude” system was the brilliant William Baskinski. A quick dive into his discography unveiled a collection of quality modern classical music, left of centre electronica [...]
Lazy Sundays: Tim Hecker – Dropped Pianos
Tim Hecker’s ambient soundscapes have long found a home here on the Sunday Labs playlist and his “Ravedeath, 1972″ album is definitely one of the year’s best. He’s just released “Dropped Pianos”, an album of tracks that originally formed the sketches for the “Ravedeath, 1972″ material but that stand easily alone. Ranging from complex piano [...]
Lazy Sundays: Mike Patton – The Solitude of Prime Numbers
The latest entry into Patton’s amazing back catalogue is an album of brilliant modern classical music written as the soundtrack to Italian film “The Solitude of Prime Numbers”.
Lazy Sundays: Teargas & Plateglass
Sunday’s take a dark turn this week with the eerie atmospherics of Teargas & Plateglass.
Lazy Sundays: Max Richter – Film Music
German composer Max Richter is a firm Sunday favourite here at the Labs. From his work with FSOL to “The Blue Notebooks” and “Infra”, two pretty much flawless modern classical albums that show the genre at it’s very best. He’s also known for his soundtrack work and has kindly uploaded a smattering to his Soundcloud [...]
Lazy Sundays: Max Richter – The Blue Notebooks
I can’t quite remember how I first discovered Max Richter’s work, but the first album I heard of his was “The Blue Notebooks” and despite listening to it repeatedly again and again over the past few years, it never fails to lose an ounce of it’s magic. It’s a truly beautiful piece of modern classical [...]
Lazy Sundays
It’s time for another Sunday tunage selection to help you ease off any hangovers or provide some much needed warmth while you’re hiding from the snow. First up we’ve got a tune from our very own Kieran Basepair – it’s a lovely piece of downtempo beats with a trumpet line you’ll be humming for days [...]
Max Richter – Infra
New material from Max Richter is always greeted with open arms here and “Infra” may prove to be his best work yet. The album began as the score to a ballet, written back in November 2008, now extended and given life as a full album project. From the opening tracks radio fuzz (which plays a [...]
Peter Broderick & Machinefabriek – Black Grey Canvas Sky
Peter Broderick is a member of experimental rock band Efterklang and also releases solo work in the modern classical/ambient genre. Here he teams up with Dutch producer Machinefabriek for an album of beautiful ambience – loaded with lush strings, ethereal piano work and ambient soundscapes. Keeping the glitch to a minimum and focusing on the [...]
Max Richter’s “Memoryhouse” reissued
Max Richter’s amazing debut album from 2002 – “Memoryhouse” has just been re-issued and anyone with an interest in ambience and classical music with a modern twist has to pick this up. The album’s long been out of print but I’ve been hooked for the past couple of years after a chance discovery of Max’s [...]
