This week's RA mix from Two Shell is an energetic affair

"there are just 835 music venues left in the UK"

Rave Zines (including a few issues of Frontpage, which I’ve been reading about in Der Klang Der Familie)

Monumental mix from Markus Guentner featuring every track from his past 3 LPs, alongside tracks with bvdub, The Sight Below, Julia Kent and Tom Moth

In case you missed it, I put together a 40-track compilation of recent and upcoming Ambient music: Ambient Autumn 2024

The Art of Production: Olof Dreijer

Can a YouTube video really fix your wet phone? - apparently the low range tones vibrate through your phone, pushing air (and thus water) out

Richard Norris steps up for hhis Baker's Dozen

“The Seaboard Rise 2” - rethinking the UI of a musical keyboard

“Ambient From The Scottish Woods” - Stephan Kunze interviews Veryan

Ryan from A Strangely Isolated Place digs into the Ambient work of DJ Olive

Elijah's post-it notes questioning music scenes and scenarios are collected in a new book being published by Velocity Press. It's called "Close The App, Make The Ting" and can be purchased here

Bandcamp Fridays Return on September 6th

Download 1,000+ Digitized Tapes of Sounds from Classic Hollywood Films & TV, Courtesy of the Internet Archive

Secret Thirteen have uploaded a selection of their mix series to Soundcloud: Secret Thirteen Mix Archive: The Vault (2010—2021)

Philip Sherburne interviews Mark Clifford from Seefeel about 'hiatuses, comebacks, and the group’s triumphant new mini-LP'

Oren Ambarchi Explores the Potential of “What If?” - Daniel Dylan Wray digs into the back catalogue of the Australian guitar virtuoso for Bandcamp

I don't know what all the Ambient musicians and sound artists are going to in the future if this continues: Devastating songbird decline: is an Essex council really responsible?

Decent line-up in the upcoming Sonica Festival in Glasgow, includes Alex Smoke, Tony Morris, Grand River, Gazelle Twin, NikNak, Isa Gordon among others

The reason little noises drive you mad is about more than sounds - research into ‘misophonia’, an intolerance to specific sounds

The Best Ambient Music on Bandcamp, August 2024

To keep you ticking over while I take a break I've prepared six new tracks for you: Six Tracks #56 includes new work from Mule Driver, Matt Karmil, Anton Kubikov, DJBeta, Roberto Auser and an Answer Code Request remix of Alex Jones.

1. Mule Driver - Hidden Subroutines
2. Matt Karmil - SFP
3. Anton Kubikov - Jet Jet
4. Alex Jones - Flex & Vibe feat. Rhymestar (Answer Code Request Remix)
5. DJBeta - Bite The Bullet
6. Roberto Auser - Exhibition

Just a quick note to say that I'm taking an extended summer break for the next four weeks. The newsletter will continue to be delivered but will be sparse! See you in September!

Detroit Electro veterans AUX88 on the exchange this week

The EP-1320 - the world's first medieval electronic instrument lets you play the sounds of hurdy-gurdies, lutes and Gregorian chants

Neale Johnston’s graphic design work is at one with Berlin’s techno scene

The Best Ambient Music on Bandcamp, July 2024 - lots to like in this list

New book: Shine Bright: A Very Personal History of Black Women in Pop

"A New Obsession for Spotify's Former Chief Economist: A Conversation with Will Page" - Chris Dalla Riva sits down with Will Page to talk about the biggest problems with streaming today

Potential Bandcamp competitor: Subvert - "is a collectively-owned music marketplace platform that puts control in the hands of independent artists and fans"

Herb Sundays 122: Kelly Moran

SYNC - 5 Magazine's new corner of the web for collecting long forgotten mixes. Related: they've also started a book club: 5 Mag Book Club

Sulk Rooms, aka Thomas Ragsdale, is up next in the LIFEFILES series for Mortality Tables. His brace of tracks, LF22 / Earth & Horror, like all others in the series, begin with a sound file provided by label boss Mat Smith as inspiration:

Recordings of places, people, objects, moments in time, environments and quotidian events are shared with a range of artists working across different disciplines. Those artists are free to respond to the recordings in any way they like

New Dawn - shimmering ambience with guitars and texture on this EP from Daniel Vickers & Sergio Mariani_MRN

Out on 24th August via Audiobulb.