Music to Meditate and Make to

Writing Impossible Music revived my interest in writing music in a big way. Since then, I’ve been releasing it under the name “theadelaidean“, both privately and through such legendary labels as Projekt Records. Here’s my late

2018 in Music

Last year, I wrote that I was living in the past. Today, in yesterday’s tomorrow, I can see where that urge for familiarity and, to a certain degree, comfort came from. You can’t keep reaching up without at least occasionally looking down at your

2017 in Music

Put 2017 down as the year Jeffrey Koepper rekindled my love of the Berlin School–although it would be fair to say that my adoration of analogue sequencing could never really be extinguished. From the moment my father bought me a Tangerine Dream

2016 in Music

I’m not sure I’ve explored a single new ambient artist this year, which is a reflection on my state of mind rather than the state of the music industry. It’s been a year of reinvention and complication on the professional and person

2015 in Ambience

This was a weird year for me, music-wise. I practically inhaled all of Steven Wilson‘s backlist (including Porcupine Tree and other collaborations), which left little space for my usual ambient explorations. Also, I finally bailed on eMusic. So

Awesome Ambient 2014

It’s been an unusual year for me, music-wise. First, I finally bailed on eMusic.com, for basically doing everything in their power to piss off their non-USian customers. Previously, they were my main source of ambient music, via their recommendatio

Sounds for a Chilled-Out Apocalypse

Regular followers will know that I’ve been compiling my annual ambient music list for several years now (2011, 2009, 2008 – not sure what happened to 2010). It’s that time of year again. Here are my top five individual tracks for 2012, in a

ambience for the old year

I’m in the process of downloading my first ambient album for 2012 (this one) and it occurred to me that I hadn’t posted my favourites from 2011. I listen to ambient electronic music constantly, so the search is always on for new sounds to