Hi ; where do you find news about ambient and all experimental music this day?
I like artist like Dedekind Cut, Dean Blunt, HTRK, A. Cortini, Kali Malone, Caterina Berbierie, Black Decelerant…
Thanks !
i don’t really have an answer for you, but this zine seems pretty neat:
“A fanzine about modular synths and other ambient machines. Featuring artists, labels & instrument makers. It’s a bit gear-oriented but also about making music in general.”
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Dutch:
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The bandcamp monthly editorial wrap-ups, my local record store (shout out Rubadub), an array of local community and internet radio shows in that vein (shout out Radio Buena Vida (mainly) and (also) Clyde Built Radio)). My Apple Music algorithm (filthy sentence I know) has gotten pretty good at putting this sort of thing in front of my via my ‘Discovery’ station - way better at this than Spotify imo. Following favourite labels in this vein on IG, bandcamp and elsewhere. Local shows: catch the ambient/experimental touring artist and all support. Going to the local oddball festivals.
Sorry, probably quite a lot of obvious stuff and not that focused. Following out of interest.
Editing for specific Radio Buena Vida shows: Field Trip w/ Louary, Dreaming With Darren, (my own, just the one for now!) Weird Peace, Intermediary Spaces w/ Lunattic, Ddddrrrrooonnneeee w/ Clarry & Ana…and more when I remember to come back and add not from memory!
all archived here: Stream Radio Buena Vida music | Listen to songs, albums, playlists for free on SoundCloud
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my favourite way is to filter bandcamp or soundcloud to show all releases in last day in a given genre field/tag.
having said that bandcamp revealed 266 releases today already tagged with ambient.
soundcloud had 500+ tracks tagged with ambient today.
edit: and we’re only half way through the day globally.
probably over 50% of these won’t be strictly ambient, 70% will be derivative shite, 90% won’t be optimally mixed.
but there’ll be some nuggets in that 10% with 1-5 plays that you’ll hear and love and feel good about finding and supporting.
it’s rough odds and a time wasting risk.
but it’s the only way to find fresh sounds, unless you want to sheeple somebody else’s tastes and recommendations…
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Thanks, i will stick on bandcamp. I don’t have spotify, and no local shows or shop in my mountain 
Thanks for the radio show, i will look! And yes IG but… meh, i prefer webzine format than IG, i’m old i guess 
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Thanks subscribe done
Thanks, good method. I like website to read about the artist, itw too… But yes, bandcamp for sure
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NTS radio, filter any show that leans into ambient etc…
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Boomkat.com is the best.
Check out Christina Vantzou from Belgium
Ps also NTS is a good resource as @Katmat just wrote
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I browse new releases on sites like Soundohm. Maybe not very fast method of getting the news, but it works for me in the ever expanding world of experimental music. Good selection, many things I had no idea about and usually 70% of releases there have Bandcamp version, so automatically unlocks new label information to me (I slowed down significantly on physical media purchases, prefer digital mostly).
Browsing BC feed is a bit too much.
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Also, following mailorders like this famous one one and similar labels and distros (Korm Plastics, Die Stadt, Old Europa Cafe, Cold Spring), but it’s a specific side of experimental music, maybe not exactly what you are looking for. (btw Vital Weekly is outlet of Korm Plastics)
A lot of substacks like Philip Sherburne, Joe Muggs, Shawn Reynaldo, A Closer Listen, and the This Week In Sound mailout.
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This is a lovely website to discover new music with a focus on ambient and neo-classic:
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The following labels are infinite wells of ambient.
This way of exploring music fits my taste, cause I have a good idea how these labels are curated, and I often get some nice albums out of these…
And don’t forget this forum:
https://www.elektronauts.com/search?context=topic&context_id=194866&q=Ambient%20order%3Alatest&skip_context=false
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Because you asked about experimental. This is a good starting point
https://www.youtube.com/@chrissxed/videos
A great collection of rarities classics and gems. Unfortunately is not being updated anymore.
Enjoy
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For me it’s online radios. Using Broadcast app across my devices, top 3 stations for ambient in my library are : Ambiesphere, Soma FM and Soma FM Mission Control online radios . . combined with Shazam, there is always some new artist popping up I did not heard of. Absolute gems. Definitely recommended. Almost always on in the background even while working.
I used to have arcticdub dub on as well, but its now only at
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Big fan of the monthly ‘Did somebody say ambient’ podcast. Great place to hear new and under the radar ambient artists, and they often also have snippets about how they work and produce their tracks as well which I enjoy:
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I also regularly get some random shots at these:
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