Flight Patterns is one of those albums that just makes you happy listening to it. I’ve had this on rotation for the last couple of days and I really like it. Lots of clever thoughtful melodies and laid back grooves.

Music for a less stressful life.

Here is a great release by J.C. & Kastil on Cabrera that is tricky to put a specific genre on. I would say it’s overall deep techno but there are elements of ambient and industrial noise as well. It’s a dark and edgy, almost apocalyptic world of sound we are thrust into where abstract modular mutated gurgles are backed by a punishing beat.

Best find of the week for me, though it was released over a year ago.
There exists a Part 2 of this release as well, which is more on the ambient side. You will have to head over to their Bandcamp site to listen to that as it doesn’t seem to be available on Spotify yet.

The Parallax EP by Opal Sunn is another recent Spotify find. Released on Touch From A Distance in 2018, this is beautiful progressive house music with a lot of soul. Bubbling arpeggio sounds, smooth somewhat trancey melodies and of course a steady house beat. Impressive stuff. I’m keeping close tabs on these guys.

I’m often amazed of how easy it is nowadays to discover great new music. Back in the day before the internet you would have to rely on the reviews in a weekly or monthly magazine and then get you ass down to the local record store, hoping for a miracle that they actually had the album in question. Today you are just one click away to discover something amazing. Like this album Self Zero by Yorkshire’s Thomas Ragsdale that Spotify quite correctly assumed I would like. It was released in November last year but I just found it through Spotify’s excellent recommendation engine.

Ragsdale spent his formative years making music for TV, movies and advertising companies but gradually shifted into performing live. I would describe the style on Self Zero as Cinematic Ambient Soundscapes. I like it a lot. Check it out!