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Founders’ Picks – [music]

OK, so here are the “founders’ picks”, or “recent favorites”, which we would say we’ve have been listening to most recently – most of them released fairly recently (in the last year…or so) :

DANIEL:

Steve Roach and Vir Unis – Blood Machine
Ian Boddy – Chiasmata
Steve Roach – Life Sequence
Numina – Sanctuary of Dreams
Brian Eno & J Peter Schwalm – Drawn From Life
Adham Shaikh – Fusion
Eno/Budd – The Pearl
H.U.V.A Network – Distances
AES DANA – [ Memory Shell ]
Robert Rich – Open Window

I find that my listening goes in phases. One week, nothing electronic or ambient at all, other times only radio streams (OEM RADIO, Groove Salad (somaFM), Drone Zone (somaFM), Digitally Imported – Chillout), and other times nothing at all. There always seems to be jazz around…Coltrane (naturally), Ella Fitzgerald, Hancock, and plenty of old school. Even some Charlie Parker (I highly recommend Birdland NYC 1949)

However, if you ask me what’s in my most recently played items in iTunes today, that list above is a safe bet.

…back to the grind.

JEFF:

These are the CDS that stood out to me this year. I will say that this has been a surprisingly “quiet” year for music. There wasn’t a whole lot jumping out at me as “WOW”. Nonetheless, these CD’s deserve merit.

Chad Hoefler -Twilight in the Offing [hypnos]
Roach/Sellig/Metcalf – Mantram [projekt]
Darshan Ambient – Autumn’s Apple
Patrick O’Hearn – Beautiful World [self-relelase]
Robert Rich – Open Window [self release]
Numina-Sanctuary of Dreams [hypnos]
Arc – Blaze [DiN]
Adham Shaikh – Fusion [self release]
Steve Roach – Life sequence [self release]
Ian Boddy – Chiasmata [DiN]
Lanterna – Highways [self release]

For myself… I only listen to what Daniel tells me to listen to.

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