Coming soon: Ambient/Drone

Review: UK ambient artist 36, whose real name is Dennis Huddleston and peerless American ambient producer Zake return to their Stasis Sounds For Long Distance Space Travel collaboration on the latter's Past Inside the Present. This ambient masterpiece offers glacial drones and delicate textures that drift like solar winds and evoke the vast calm of deep space. As always, it is layered music crafted with care and restraint that demands deep listening and provides a heady space for stillness and inward reflection in our overstimulated world. It's a meditative, cosmic journey that transcends ambient norms and is rich in subtle harmonics and emotional nuance and makes yet another standout from the tireless Zake and 36.

Review: UK producer Trevor Huddleston aka 36 and the Indiana-based Past Inside The Present label's head Zake return to their Stasis Sounds For Long Distance Space Travel project, a universe that suspends the listener in time across glacial soundscapes and a general sense of cosmic awe. Soft, slow-moving drones and textural washes drift like solar winds through the vacuum, suggesting the boundless calm of deep space. The production is rich, gentle with tonal shifts and barely-there harmonics that evoke both distance and intimacy, wonder and melancholy. It feels like music beamed in from the edges of the known universe. If you fancy a contemplative journey from the edge of Earth's thermosphere into the unknowable beyond, tune into Stasis Sounds on your best headphones.

Review: Stasis Sounds For Long-Distance Space Travel III concludes a five-year journey by unrelenting ambient don zake and 36 as they once again cook up ambient soundscapes with real emotional depth. Inspired by a fan who said, "I was terrified of space travel, until I heard this album," the series explores the tension between isolation and wonder and this third volume shifts from drifting to arrival, where melancholic piano and deep synths mirror descent, landing and the quiet awe of beginning anew. With tracks like 'Final Approach' and 'Blue New World,' the duo crafts cinematic, immersive music for inner and outer voyages that are full of warmth, weight and the haunting beauty of the cosmic unknown.