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genre:Ambient
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May 30
Mylo Xyloto
Boards of Canada · 1998 Spin it Again - Two Scots made an album that sounds like it's deteriorating in real time, and somehow that's the most beautiful thing about it.
genre:Ambient
May 30
Hypothetical Pleasure
The Sight Below · 2006 Spin it Again - Two people, two synthesizers, one drum machine, and the restraint to never add what the song didn't absolutely need.
genre:Electronica
May 8
Music for Films
Brian Eno · 1978/1983 Spin it Again - Brian Eno built a record out of tape loops and Conny Plank's farmhouse ceilings, and somehow it sounds like the inside of your head at 2am.
decade:1980s
May 8
A Broken Darkness
Låpsley · 2014 Spin it Again - An eighteen-year-old made this in her Southport bedroom and XL Recordings signed it before she'd played a single show.
genre:Ambient
May 3
Mystic Sisters
Shlump · 2013 Spin it Again - Before the festival circuit caught up, a kid with a DAW and too many late nights quietly mapped out what psychedelic bass music was going to become.
genre:Ambient
Apr 26
Felt
Nils Frahm · 2011 Spin it Again - A Berlin apartment, two in the morning, felt threaded through the piano hammers so nobody would complain — and somehow that's the whole record.
genre:Minimalist
Apr 11
Disintegration Loops
William Basinski · 2002–2003 Spin it Again - Magnetic tape eating itself alive on September 11th, 2001, and Basinski just let the recorder run.
genre:Experimental
Apr 11
Ambient 1: Music for Airports
Brian Eno · 1978 Spin it Again - Eno took the waiting room and made it the destination, and in 1978 that was either a joke or a religion depending on how late your flight was.
decade:1970s
Apr 7
The Plateaux of Mirror
Harold Budd & Brian Eno · 1980 Spin it Again - Harold Budd plays piano like he's trying not to wake anyone, and Eno makes sure the room agrees.
decade:1980s
Apr 4
Musik für Flughäfen
Brian Eno · 1978 Spin it Again - Four sides of tape loops and held piano notes that made waiting somewhere feel like the only reasonable thing a person could do.
decade:1970s
Mar 31
Dragging a Dead Deer Up a Hill
Grouper · 2008 Spin it Again - Liz Harris recorded this in her bedroom and somehow made fog sound like grief.
genre:Experimental
Mar 30
Music for Airports
Brian Eno · 1978 Spin it Again - Four tape loops running at different lengths, and somewhere in the spaces between them, Eno quietly ended the idea that music had to demand your attention.
decade:1970s