Abandoned places and desolate spaces, covered with rain, snow, and ash, wrapped in a blanket of white noise and pulsating bass, somewhat metallic, chilly, and wet. These are the images for these sounds for these places in my mind. Something is trembling with the beat of my heart. Tick-tock. Time rewinds to the mid-nineties, and I’m back in Berlin, and Moritz Von Oswald is cutting the wax on his Basic Channel imprint. Fast forward, and I’m immersed in the DeepChord sounds of Rod Modell and Mike Schommer. Flip to the present, and I am crawling among the empty streets of my hometown, which is slowly receding into the concrete cobwebs. We’re no longer locked in, but we still feel locked out. These events may come and go in an endless cycle of oceanic waves. But the music stays with us. Always.
Alongside this list, a small number of albums will also be shared within Headphone Community, where, thanks to all the artists’ and labels’ generosity, I’ll be making Bandcamp codes available every single day.