Significant Releases of 2010 (non-ranking order)
Aarria: Urbanisation (Generator) Rudy Adrian: Distant Stars (Lotuspike) AirSculpture: Before the Moon (Ricochet Dream) The Album Leaf: A Chorus of Storytellers (Sub Pop) Alio Die/Parallel Worlds: Circo Divinio (Hic Sunt Leones) Ametsub: The Nothings of the North (Mille Plateaux) Ambientportal: Soundscapes (Atmospherica Productions) The American Dollar: Ambient One (Yesh Music) The American Dollar: Ambient Two (Yesh Music) Amongst Myselves: Fragments (self-released) Arc: Church (DiN) Arc: Rise (DiN/DDL) Olafur Arnalds: And They Have Escaped the Weight of Darkness (Erased Tapes) Audiokonstrukte: City Echoes (Furni) Scott August: Radiant Sky (Cedar Mesa) Awenson: Wizard (Dreaming) Marc Barreca: Subterrane (Palace of Lights) Blow Up Hollywood: Take Flight (self-released) Ian Boddy: Pearl (DiN) Ian Boddy/Markus Reuter: Unwound (DiN/DDL) Richard Bone: Mind Environs (Quirkworks) Lucette Bourdin: Oceanic Space (self-released) Matt Borghi: Huronic Minor (Hypnos) Steve Brand: Children of Alcyone (Hypnos) Broekhuis Keller Schonwalder: Blue (Manikin) Broekhuis Keller Schonwalder: Repelen 3 (Manikin) Bvdub: The Art of Dying Alone (Glacial Movements) Carbon Based Lifeforms: Interloper (Ultimae) Celer: Panoramic Dreams Bathed in Seldomness (Basses Frequencies) Cell: Hanging Masses (Ultimae) The Circular Ruins: Invisible Cities (dataObscura) Combs Creek Haller: The Singularity (Earth Mantra) Create: We Live by the Machines (Groove) Darshan Ambient A Day Within Days (Lotuspike) Robert Davies: Terrestre (dataObscura) Steve Dinsdale: On the Other Side (Northern Echo) dreamState: A Decade Dreaming (E-space) Kyle Bobby Dunn: A Young Person's Guide to Kyle Bobby Dunn (Low Point) Kyle Bobby Dunn: Music for Medication (This Generation Tapes) Kyle Bobby Dunn: Rural Route No 2 (Standard Form) Ludovico Einaudi: Nightbook (Ponerosa) Gert Emmens: The Nearest Faraway Place vol 3 (Groove) Seran Ffordd: Arhythmia (Hypnos) Free System Projekt: British Aisles (self-released) FSP/Pollard/Hashtronaut: Mind Out of Time (Acoustic Wave) Gel-Sol: K8ema (Psychonavigation) Gigaherz: Nemesis (Origo Sound) Hammock: Chasing After Shadows Living With Ghosts (Hammock Music) Hammock: North West East South (Hammock Music) Janne Hanhisuanto: Icescapes (Earth Mantra) Janne Hanhisuanto: Water Stories (Earth Mantra) Gareth Harwick: Of the Sea and Shore (Low Point) David Helpling/Jon Jenkins: The Crossing (Spotted Peccary) Cosmic Hoffmann: Astral Journey (Heart + Mind) Hybrid Leisureland: Scroll Slide (Ultimae) Irezumi: Endurance (Snowblood) Chad Kettering: Voices of the Ancients (self-released) Kubusschnit: Entropy of Evolution (self-released) K Leimer: Degraded Certainties (Palace of Lights) Lights Out Asia: In the Days of Jupiter (n5md) Loscil: Endless Falls (Kranky) Dave Luxton: Portal (Wayfarer) Mahoney & Peck: A Life Incandescent (Waiting World Records) Marconi Union: A Lost Connection (Just Music) Ingram Marshall: September Canons (New World) Deborah Martin: Hidden Water (Spotted Peccary) Moby: Wait for Me (Mute) Mystified: Primal Mystification (Hypnos) Nattefrost: Live in Germany (Groove) Nunc Stans: Stanzas From Museum of Dreams (dataObscura) Nunc Stans: We Leave Without Speaking (dataObscura) O Yuki Conjugate: OYC25 (Soleilmoon) Ombient: Oceans Edge (self-released) Ombient: Ombient (self-released) Ombient: Rites of Passage (self-released) Palancar: Serenitatis (Earth Mantra) Brian Parnham: The Broken Silence (Floating Point) David Parsons: Akash (Celestial Harmonies) Arvo Part: Arvo Part Portrait (Analekta) Arvo Part: Symphony No. 4 (ECM) Pollard/Daniel/Booth: Pollard/Daniel/Booth IV (EEMC) Pollard/Daniel/Booth: Eindhoven (EEMC) Pollard Daniel Booth: September 2009 Jams (EEMC) Dan Pound: Interlace (self-released) Proem: Enough Conflict (n5md) Radio Massacre Int'l: Lost in Transit (Northern Echo) Radio Massacre Int'l: Time & Motion (Cuneiform) Resonant Drift: The Call (self-released) Robert Rich: Ylang (Soundscape) Max Richter: Infra (Fatcat) Ricochet Gathering: Keep On (Ricochet Dream) Ricochet Gathering: Okefenokee 2001 (Ricochet Dream) Steve Roach: Live at Grace Cathedral (Projekt) Steve Roach: Sigh of Ages (Projekt) Steve Roach/Mark Seelig: Nightbloom (Projekt) Ryuichi Sakamoto: Playing the Piano (Decca) Johannes Schmoelling: A Thousand Times (Viktoriapark) Klaus Schulze: Big in Japan Jonn Serrie: Thousand Star (New World) Dirk Serries: Microphonics I-V (Tonefloat) Sfumato: A Series of Meditative Improvisations (Dspaneas) Jason Sloan: Corrupted Horizon (Slobor) Solar Fields: Altered (Ultimae) Spyra/Lang: SeQuest (Ricochet Dream) Synth.nl: Oceanography (Groove) Sysyphe: Running Up That Hill (Hadra) Juta Takahashi: Hymn (Lunisolar) The Tangent Project: Distant Scenes (TP) The Tangent Project: Live on STAR'S END 12.06.09 (TP) Gregory Taylor: Dua_Belas (Palace of Lights) Timescape: Passage of Time (self-released) Travis & Fripp: Live at Coventry Cathedral (Panegyric) Tripswitch: Geometry (Section Records) Twyndyllyngs: Between Space and Time (Electro-Music Media) Uma: Hymn to Undiscovered Lands (Uma Music) Undo: 9.9.99 (self-released) Chuck van Zyl: MemorySpace (Synkronos Music) Voice of Eye: The Portland Improvisations (Conundrum) Phillip Wilkerson: Still Point (Earth Mantra) Erik Wollo: Gateway (Projekt) The Winterhouse: Sanctuary (dataObscura) Yaga: Rigning (Sending Orbs) Zeit: Waves From the Sky (Hic Sunt Leones) Various Artists: Shelter Island (Rhino) Various Artists: Pop Ambient 2010 (Kompakt) Various Artists: Joint Efforts (EMProductions) Various Artists: Polymorphic Convolutions (Electronic Soundscapes) 2010 in Review Broadcasts: 2 January 2011 Playlist - Part One 16 January 2011 Playlist - Part Two 23 January 2011 Playlist - Part Three
Highlights From STAR'S END : 2010
01.17.10 Rise by Arc (the recording of Arc's live in-studio STAR'S END radio concert from the 11.15.09 broadcast) receives its first airplay on STAR'S END 02.14.10 To mark 30 years on the air with STAR'S END Chuck van Zyl was interviewed on-air by Jeff Towne and reflected on his long-time involvement with the radio program on the Winter Fund Drive Broadcast. Also, listener and supporter Chuck Nixon was featured in a live interview about the STAR'S END presence on Facebook and MySpace 02.28.10 Steve Dinsdale of RMI co-hosts the entire length of the 02.28.10 broadcast of STAR'S END - offering insight into the music that was meaningful to him early on in his musical life as well as a preview of the Radio Massacre International CD Time & Motion and the group's USA concert tour in Spring of 2010 03.21.10 Ombient performs a live in-studio radio concert on STAR'S END 04.18.10 Radio Massacre International performs a live in-studio radio concert on STAR'S END 05.09.10 Live on STAR'S END 120609 by The Tangent Project (the recording of TP's live in-studio STAR'S END radio concert from the 12.06.09 broadcast) receives its first airplay on STAR'S END 05.16.10 Der Spyra performs a live in-studio radio concert on STAR'S END 09.05.10 Dave Eggar performs a live in-studio radio concert on STAR'S END 10.17.10 Erik Wollo performs a live in-studio radio concert on STAR'S END 10.31.10 STAR'S END presents a Halloween Holiday themed show 11.07.10 STAR'S END Listener Scott Kelly Programs three of the six hours of the 11.07.10 annual extended broadcast. Included is a two hour retrospective of the em:t record label, as well as an insightful label overview write-up 11.14.10 Chuck van Zyl performs a live in-studio radio concert on STAR'S END to mark the release of his CD MemorySpace 12.11.10 Jason Sloan performs live at the STAR'S END Donor Concert held at WXPN studios 12.12.10 Jason Sloan performs a live in-studio radio concert on STAR'S END 12.26.10 STAR'S END presents Regional Winter Holiday themed show
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