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Jun 7
Selected Ambient Works 85–92
Aphex Twin · 1992 Spin it Again - A teenager with a sampler, a four-track, and no idea he was inventing a genre.
genre:Techno
Jun 7
Danzindan-Pojidon
Inoyama Land · 1983 Spin it Again - This album sounds like a memory of a garden that never quite existed.
genre:Electronic
Jun 7
Music for Nine Post Cards
Hiroshi Yoshimura · 1982 Spin it Again - Japanese environmental music that makes Eno sound like he was trying too hard.
decade:1980s
Jun 7
Still Way
Satoshi Ashikawa · 1982 Spin it Again - A piano in a room with the windows open, recorded as the air itself moved through the space — this is what ambient music sounds like when it treats silence as an instrument.
decade:1980s
Jun 7
Green
Hiroshi Yoshimura · 1986 Spin it Again - He designed sound for Japanese corporations and then made this album in his living room with no budget — and it sounds like a forest waking up.
decade:1980s
Jun 5
async
Ryuichi Sakamoto · 2017 Spin it Again - He looked into the void and came back with field recordings and a Bach chorale played backwards.
genre:Experimental
Jun 5
A Mutual Dissolution of Structures
Grouper & Jarboe · 2011 Spin it Again - Two women who understand that silence is a musical instrument.
genre:Ambient
Jun 3
Apollo: Atmospheres and Soundtracks
Brian Eno · Spin it Again - A timeless record from Brian Eno that rewards close listening.
decade:1980s
Jun 3
Possible Musics
Jon Hassell & Brian Eno · 1980 Spin it Again - Two pioneers of atmospheric music sitting in a room in 1980, creating something so quiet and patient it sounds like it's coming from inside your own head.
genre:World Music
Jun 3
Vernal Equinox
Jon Hassell · 1978 Spin it Again - A 1978 record from Jon Hassell that rewards close listening.
genre:World
May 31
The Disintegration Loops
William Basinski · 2004 Spin it Again - A 2004 record from William Basinski that rewards close listening.
genre:Experimental
May 31
Tomorrow's Harvest
Boards of Canada · 2013 Spin it Again - After eight years vanished from the world, Boards of Canada returned with an album that sounds less like a new work and more like a transmission from a research facility no one remembers.
genre:Electronica
May 31
E Luxo So
Labradford · 1996 Spin it Again - When post-rock got heavier, Labradford got quieter—and changed everything by changing nothing at all.
genre:Ambient
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
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