Article and pictures by Juliette Thouin In Ocean of Sound (1995), sound artist and music theorist David Toop gives an alternative history of ambient music that weaves together an immensely disparate array of sounds, genres, styles, stories, and eras. Going from Debussy to Sun Ra to Aphex to Lee Perry to Arthur Russell, it’s a story of experimental (and technological) music’s journey across the twentieth century. A particularly engaging aspect of Toop’s theory is his departure from ambient’s strict ...

Valentina Magaletti. Photo: Manuel Berger By Macon Holt As a committed non-camper, I arrived at Roskilde 2024, my first time at the festival, on Thursday afternoon. It had been a long time since I had been such a festival. When I camped at Glastonbury in 2011, I sort of felt I had reached the peak of excitement and discomfort such festivals had to offer, so ...

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Af Mikkel A. Kongstad Tomaga er fløjet for langt under radaren. På trods af to albumudgivelser og nu én EP er der stadigvæk ikke nok kærlighed derude til den engelske duo bestående af Tom Relleen og Valentina Magaletti (The Oscillations, Raime, Vanishing Twin m.fl.). Forhåbentlig hjælper denne EP duoen lidt længere frem i spotlightet. “Greetings from the Bitter End” består af fire numre, to originale ...