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background soundtrack to my life

Robert Rich’s “Somnium” is a seven hour long album created in the purpose of re-enacting the infamous sleep-concerts conducted by the artist during the late 80s and early 90s. Specifically, these events consisted of the artist performing subtle, yet immersive live ambient drones intended to last all night and render the listener lost in a state of ‘hypnagogic dreaming’, where they let their subconsciousness wander in a liminal space between consciousness and sleep. ... read more

This EP is actually a live recording of a twenty minutes song recorded at the Norbert Festival in Sweden. The performance is made up of four (more or less) distinct sections. It starts with what sounds like glitchy, reverberating bells or chimes repeating on and on as they get drowned in this fuzzy and warm static white noise, which is a sound that stays during the entirety of the song.
A long, drawn out organic pad then replaces the previous part, and starts deforming and distorting alongside ... read more

Rolf Julius is a German artist well known and respected for his audiovisual installations and minimalist musical composition. Music for a Distance is a project he embarked on for six years, until his life was unfortunately cut short in 2011. His music label released it a few months after his death.
The first and main song, the 40 minutes title-track, is an interesting composition of minimalistic music, and the sounds displayed on here are nothing short of intriguing. A mysterious, fascinating ... read more