*Sam from Projekt Records asked me to write this promotional piece on Steve Roach to mark the occasion of his Grammy Award nomination for Best New Age Album with Spiral Revelation (2017). Electronic and ambient pioneer Steve Roach started creating his music during the late ‘70s golden age of analog synthesizers, a time when the […]
Out now on the Ambient Music Guide Radio podcast – two epic end-of-year mixes featuring highlights from AMG’s Best Albums of 2017. Putting these annual mixes together is something I find both thrilling and terrifying. I shortlist a few tracks from most albums in my Best Of Year list and challenge myself to try and […]
*Originally published in an Oz version of Red Bull Music Academy’s street zine The Note to coincide with the Red Bull Weekender arts and music festival, Sydney 31 August-3 September 2017. While Oz ambient and downtempo lacks a unifying scene, gems abound. Mike G from Ambient Music Guide picks 10 albums from the past 30 years that […]
Baz Bardoe from Australian Musician Magazine approached me with a request for an interview about Ambient Music Guide. Not being a complete fool, I said yes. Read the full interviewBack to Blog home
I started playing around with samples from John Lunn’s Downton Abbey TV theme and this 7-minute piece is what came out. It was done with time-stretches, edits, loops, reverb and other manipulations. The original version is an incredibly lush and harmonically rich piece of music. I was always fascinated by its textural depth and sensed […]
Over my 30 or so years of playing and reviewing other people’s music, I’ve had a lot of approaches from artists and labels to promote their stuff. I could tell you some stories. Today I’ll stick to just one, plus offer a few tips to increase your chances of getting heard. First let me say that I encourage […]
Despite the rise of on-demand streaming services, the world of 24-hour net radio is still with us and the offerings for ambient and downtempo fans are awesome indeed. Here are five of the very best. Has the Spotify glow worn off? Are you sick of organising what to listen to next? And do most of those playlists […]
from Omni Magazine: Science fiction films and ambient music are natural partners. Mike G of Ambient Music Guide rounds up 10 mind-blowing original scores. My own concept of ambient music has always been a broad one. It touches nearly every genre, yet makes its home in none of them. It revels in ideas and mystery. […]
This week I discovered something that had my inner emusic fanboy going berserk: Silent Records – the legendary 90’s ambient dance and electronica label – is back. In fact it relaunched earlier this year and I had no idea until now. Label founder Kim Cascone (aka Heavenly Music Corporation) explained all in an interview with Stillstream.com: […]
I had a curious experience after I started walking daily in the city with crowds of commuters while wearing isolating earphones. In short, the space that I normally give other people around me diminished – without me even realising it. It got me thinking about what an extraordinary human sense our hearing is, and how much we […]
