The Ambient Hour

For the final Ambient Hour of the year I bring you ten tracks of beautiful, introspective ambience. Please have a read of the track notes to learn more about the artists and their music. And why not share this show with a friend, it’s like a free Christmas Present. 🎁 Track listSolar Phasing, Gaia Pulse Taken from: Mother Earth (Self released)© All rights reserved. Used with permission.Gaia Pulse is a Berlin School music for Mother Earth Project album. Solar Phasing is a French composer and sound designer specializing in ambient, experimental electronic, and modular synthesis. His music is crafted for immersive experiences across TV, documentaries, video games, and art installations, offering listeners a journey through sonic landscapes that are both meditative and exploratory. His compositions often evoke space, introspection, and emotional resonance. Slow-evolving textures, minimalistic rhythms, and atmospheric depth. Rich in modular synthesis, tuned frequencies (notably 432 Hz), and sonic experimentation. Arrival In Eden, Meet Me in My Dreams Taken from: Field of Memories (Ambient Cat)© All rights reserved. Used with permission.Field of Memories is a deeply personal journey through time, capturing the essence of childhood innocence, life’s transitions, and the emotions woven into growing up. Each composition drifts like a warm breeze over an open field at dusk—calm, reflective, and filled with nostalgia. With delicate melodies and atmospheric soundscapes, this album invites you to sit in the stillness of the evening, letting memories unfold like distant echoes in the wind. Audio Obscura, The Lost Weekend (Excerpt 1) Taken from: The Lost Weekend (Mortality Tables) Featured Release© All rights reserved. Used with permission.The Lost Weekend is a 70-minute piece in two parts. The piece utilises a collection of field recordings made by Mortality Tables co-founder Mat Smith during a three-month separation from his family in 2020. These recordings were handed to Audio Obscura (Neil Stringfellow) almost five years later, in an effort to provide him with inspiration to work through a period of creative burn-out. The result is presented as a mixtape comprising memory and catharsis, often mournful but also hopeful, built from the original field recordings, strings and sensitive electronics. It stands as a poignant journey through its creators' mental unrest. Lürgid, Grow a Brain Taken from: Zoolology (Burnt Seed Records)© All rights reserved. Used with permission."I’ve been quietly making tracks for a while, each born at a different time, in a different mood, on a different rig. I realised that if I wanted to release them, the album would be a look across genres - a snapshot of the variety that inhabits the medium of sound. So, I settled on the title Zoology. I think of it as a broad study of an ecosystem, with inspiration arriving like animals at the edge of a clearing. Zoology is my study of sonic species and aural organisms. Genre maps to genus, and each piece is a creature of composition collected and curated to show their wild differences and hidden kinships." Wahn, Pale Lake Taken from: Drifted Vol. 4 (FORM@ RECORDS)© All rights reserved. Used with permission.Wahn is an electronic music producer based in Rennes, France, crafting immersive soundscapes where ambient textures, deep bass, and subtle rhythms collide. After a long hiatus, he returned with the Drifted series — a sequence of albums released across different labels and countries, exploring rhythmless, slow-motion atmospheres shaped by despair, fragile hope, and heavy sub-bass. Released on After Affects (France), Mahorka (Bulgaria), Adventurous Music (Germany), and most recently FORM@ RECORDS (Japan), the series has gained recognition for its emotional weight, organic textures, and cinematic depth. While each volume expands its emotional spectrum, Drifted Vol. 4 marks a turning point — less shrouded in darkness, quietly opening toward light. Wahn’s music feels like a film unfolding in sound — deeply introspective, physical, and hauntingly human. Special Effects Department, Uneven ground Taken from: Undetected Elements (Endless Geometry)© All rights reserved. Used with permission."For these tracks, I've been experimenting with blending orchestral instruments with field recordings, with influences from ambient jazz, meditative drone and psych." Cristóbal Ochoa Gurrzt, Surreal foundry Taken from: Landscapes of a trip (Self released)© All rights reserved. Used with permission."Landscapes of a trip (July 2020) is a concept album about an imaginary trip to the Bubble Nebula (NGC 7635) so each piece of this album is a landscape of the journey.' Take Me There, Murre (a reflection on trauma) ft. David Aimone Taken from: Nine Reflections: Music For Cats (Passed Recordings)© All rights reserved. Used with permission."If there is something that has always been consistent in my life, its the love for cats and animals in general. Over my life I have had many different cats as pets, and this album is for them. Each track is named after one of my cats, and is a reflection over a theme relevant to that period of my life that I shared with that cat. This album, released through Passed Recordings, has a limited tape release available to buy on ampwall or bandcamp. The music has been created through synths, keyboard, field recordings and samples. Artwork and vocals by Evelina Elfving, my beloved. Also big thanks to Leafblighter and David Aimone for featuring on a track each." Audio Obscura, The Lost Weekend (Excerpt 3) Taken from: The Lost Weekend (Mortality Tables) Featured Release© All rights reserved. Used with permission.Mat Smith: "On Sunday 6 September, in the epicentre of a breakdown, I packed up my shitty Ford Fiesta with some clothes, a few books, a bottle of whisky, a laptop and a speaker, moved out from my wife and daughters, and drove down to Penzance to move in with my parents. Penzance became my home for the three months that I called my ‘lost weekend’. It turned out to be more than just a home: it became a place of healing. During the first week, a close friend and someone I would regard as the true architect of the Mortality Tables project, the anonymous Creative Consultant, suggested that I buy a portable recording device and document the separation. His idea was to channel my energies into something creative while also trying to figure out the mess that my head had become. The process of recording these field recordings gave me focus and purpose, mundane, uneventful, naïve and badly-recorded though they largely were. The sounds that appear underneath Neil Stringfellow’s music are from a large archive that built up over that period." Dave Clarkson, Reflections On Stained Glass Taken from: The Ghosts Of Christmas Past And The Effects On Mental Health (Mortality Tables)© All rights reserved. Used with permission.Frequent Mortality Tables collaborator Dave Clarkson (Scissorgun) returns with a follow-up to his 2023 feative album. Whereas the first album was playful, using the sounds of forgotten toys, ‘Ghosts Of Christmas Past & The Effect On Mental Health’ reflects pensively on the passage of time. You can submit your music for the podcast via our website. If you enjoy the show please leave us a review on Apple Podcasts, share it with a friend and check out the featured artists. Fancy listening to a continuous mix of music from previous shows? Then check out Audio Interface Radio which is now online 24/7 and features curated blocks of music to fit your mood throughout the day. Follow us on Mastodon and Bluesky Copyrighted music is used with the permission of the artists/labels. If you feel we've made a mistake and that your music shouldn't have been included please get in touch and let us know.

I had so many spooky sounding tracks I decided I had to bring you an extra Ambient Hour this month. This is the kind of music I listen to when the nights are that bit darker than usual. I listen while I walk… sometimes I think I see shapes moving in the shadows but maybe it’s just my imagination. Thanks as always to everyone who sends me their music to play, I love receiving it and being able to bring you these mixes. And thanks for listening, it means a lot. If you have a moment to share this show with someone you think will enjoy it I’d be in your debt. Copyrighted music is used with the permission of the artists/labels. If you feel we’ve made a mistake and that your music shouldn’t have been included please get in touch and let us know. Track listDrew Mulholland, Weird Happenings Taken from: A Portmanteau of Horrors (Subexotic Records)© All rights reserved. Used with permission.Drew Mulholland works his soundcraftian magic on the realm of classic cinematic horror. A series of wonderfullly evocative, gently unsettling tableaux conjure vivid tales from the dark side. Asher Levitas, It’s Like Last Time But This Time You’ve Got A Gun Taken from: It’s Like Last Time But This Time You’ve Got A Gun (Mortality Tables)© All rights reserved. Used with permission.‘It’s Like Last Time But This Time You’ve Got A Gun’ steadily intensifies, surging toward an abrupt crescendo. A dreamlike haze spirals into storm clouds of noise and distortion, then collapses suddenly into silence. Eric Angelo Bessel, Recombinant Taken from: Mirror at Night (LORE CITY MUSIC)© All rights reserved. Used with permission.Mirror at Night is the second solo album from Portland, Oregon artist, Eric Angelo Bessel, releasing October 31 (LP/Digital). Composed of twelve instrumental songs, Mirror at Night paints an ambient landscape of dispersed artificial clouds and bioluminescent waters. Reimagining the nostalgic sounds of the Mellotron and the early aughts multitimbrality of Alesis synths, Bessel glimpses an in-between realm where the past, present, and future merge into a still, obsidian surface. Jessica Tomlinson, A Spooky Soundscape © All rights reserved. Used with permission.Ever since I was a tween, I have loved experimenting with audio. One of my favorite times to experiment has been spooky season! Back then, I would record large groups of classmates in the halls, in the gym, or in the bleachers, and then change the speed while playing them back on my tape deck. This often painted a picture in the listener's mind of monsters growing restless! Now that I have fallen deeply in love with creating sounds using synthesizers, I have a much broader sonic pallet to work with! I am becoming more comfortable with less traditional and more experimental styles of musical composition, and this is the latest outgrowth. You may wish to play it for trick or treaters as they troop to your door. The Music Liberation Front Sweden, Even Though It Was The Blink Of An Eye, I’m Sorry For What We Have Become Taken from: Even Though It Was The Blink Of An Eye, I’m Sorry For What We Have Become (Mortality Tables)© All rights reserved. Used with permission."The next instalment in The Impermanence Project comes from The Music Liberation Front Sweden. Cristóbal Ochoa Gurrzt, Surreal foundry Taken from: Landscapes of a trip (Self released)© All rights reserved. Used with permission."Landscapes of a trip (July 2020) is a concept album about an imaginary trip to the Bubble Nebula (NGC 7635) so each piece of this album is a landscape of the journey.' Onepointwo, Eerie Silence Taken from: Melodies (Subexotic Records) Featured Release© All rights reserved. Used with permission.Subexotic Records is proud to present Melodies, the latest work from Onepointwo, a reflective journey through shifting states of memory, emotion, and perception. Following the haunting introspection of Rec.collapse, Melodies moves toward fragile light — a collection that balances between melancholy and renewal. Melodies will be released on 28th November 2025 via Bandcamp digital and limited edition pressed vinyl Felix Machtelinckx, Funerale Taken from: Deep South (Subexotic Records)© All rights reserved. Used with permission.Deep South is an array of experimental improvised songs, manifesting drought and nature’s organic textures, with vocals moving from bitter-sweet to harrowing, accompanied by alternate ear jazz drums. This provides an ambient landscape amidst fragments of songs, lullabies and poems in an unknown language. Deep South will be released on 14th November 2025 via Bandcamp digital and limited edition pressed vinyl. Rich Wh, The Pigs Have Left the Sty Taken from: A Degree of Disorder (Burnt Seed Records)© All rights reserved. Used with permission.Exploring modular synthesis for a rhythm, an environment... layering and manipulating analogue voltage, noise and collected field recordings in attempts to convey a subconscious sensitivity, to reflect an unfolding of time. Synthbiont & Anassimandrus, Attraverso Il Vuoto (Sacred Seeds Rework) Taken from: Fragments of Silence (Chitra Records)© All rights reserved. Used with permission.Ambient minimalism is gaining momentum. Some would argue that evoking atmosphere is harder than sequencing beats, and Fragments of Silence is proof. Laden with lush textures and ambient leanings, the album invites deep listening. You can submit your music for the podcast via our website. If you enjoy the show please leave us a review on Apple Podcasts, share it with a friend and check out the featured artists. Fancy listening to a continuous mix of music from previous shows? Then check out Audio Interface Radio which is now online 24/7 and features curated blocks of music to fit your mood throughout the day. Follow us on Mastodon and Bluesky Copyrighted music is used with the permission of the artists/labels. If you feel we've made a mistake and that your music shouldn't have been included please get in touch and let us know.

Track listTalkdemonic, Book of High Mountains Taken from: Very Cool Yesterday (Bathysphere Records) Featured Release© All rights reserved. Used with permission.Brooklyn-based composer Talkdemonic returns with his sixth studio album, Very Cool Yesterday—a deeply evocative and transportive instrumental record, out now on Bathysphere Records on limited edition vinyl and cassette. The synth-driven album unfolds with moody restraint before erupting into radiant, emotional color. Pulsing with vivid melody and raw texture, it creates a cinematic sonic landscape where ambient and experimental elements converge. Very Cool Yesterday is a collection of exposed emotion and sonic imperfection, channeling a journey through connection, disintegration, and the quiet transformation that follows, where longing, memory, and renewal dissolve into sound. Paul Beaudoin, Aurora’s Awakening Taken from: Alchemies (Ambient Cat)© All rights reserved. Used with permission.In Alchemies, Paul Beaudoin blends orchestral textures with glitch and noise elements, creating a sonic alchemy that mirrors the ancient quest for transformation. These contrasting sound worlds—organic and synthetic, refined and raw—come together in a seamless dialogue, embodying the fusion of disparate materials that the alchemists sought. TrainDeer, Cyan Taken from: Lenses_01 (Self released)© All rights reserved. Used with permission.Lenses_01 The overgrown memory-lanes of our hometowns and villages, the warmth of morning hellos, the clamour of open air market stalls, the tang of industry in the air and the beloved pubs and gathering places now, long shuttered and silenced by time. Paul Griffin, Dotted Potts Taken from: Dotted Potts (Self released)© All rights reserved. Used with permission.This started as an experiment with dotted note rhythms and eventually turned into a chill Sunday afternoon jam. Dionisaf, Street Lights (Reworked) Taken from: Lost Rarities (Chitra Records)© All rights reserved. Used with permission.All tracks on Lost Rarities were created using analogue media, tape loops, and non-musical noises. Tape and vinyl defects become elements of the composition here. In the modern digital era, people are losing touch with tangible reality and living nature, plunging into an artificial, synthetic, and virtual environment. The naturalness and uniqueness of simple things are becoming rarities. Samantha Jane Smith, The Storm Cometh Taken from: The Storm Cometh (Self released)© All rights reserved. Used with permission.The inspiration for this track is the rising up of all downtrodden people in the world against the rich and powerful. Those that kill, those that hate. The storm will come for them all... Trem 77, The Fifth Compass Point Taken from: The Fifth Compass Point (Grape Mod Recs)© All rights reserved. Used with permission.Inspired by the concept of the fifth compass point, an idea beyond directional coordinates. Through the center point of the compass rose runs an axis that can be imagined as an array of transecting lines running through that point. More than a center point, it is an intersection that could include time running forward and backward in all directions away from the two dimensional compass plane. In this sense, it might be the truest symbol of the here and now. Is it the heart center, a jumping off point for experiencing all that there is, or both simultaneously? James Hastings, A River Beneath Taken from: Everyone Elsewhere (Self released)© All rights reserved. Used with permission.The tracks that make up Everyone Elsewhere are highlights from James' podcast, essentially trimmed down versions of long improvisations recorded live. Talkdemonic, Sister Taken from: Very Cool Yesterday (Bathysphere Records) Featured Release© All rights reserved. Used with permission.Talkdemonic is the long-running instrumental project of Brooklyn-based composer Kevin Timothy O’Connor, known for his cinematic blend of analog synths, live drums, and ambient textures. Founded in Portland, Oregon in 2004 as a solo exploration of percussion and atmospheric sound design, Talkdemonic quickly gained acclaim for albums like Mutiny Sunshine and Beat Romantic, and has toured with The National, The Flaming Lips, and Modest Mouse. Radio Free London, The Fall of MMXX Taken from: Amble (Radio Free London)© All rights reserved. Used with permission.Radio Free London is a collective of pirate radio enthusiasts working in our London neighborhood over the last 5 years. The three tracks that make up the Amble EP were recorded in what we like to call sMash up sessions over the last 5 years. You can hear tributes in the sounds to those we love and those we love to put in a new context. The EP is free to download and share. Rob Dobson, Ganymede Taken from: Galilean Moons (Flying Man Records)© All rights reserved. Used with permission.Each track from Galilean Moons is a 15-minute piece inspired by the four primary moons of Jupiter. You can submit your music for the podcast via our website. If you enjoy the show please leave us a review on Apple Podcasts, share it with a friend and check out the featured artists. Fancy listening to a continuous mix of music from previous shows? Then check out Audio Interface Radio which is now online 24/7 and features curated blocks of music to fit your mood throughout the day. Follow us on Mastodon and Bluesky Copyrighted music is used with the permission of the artists/labels. If you feel we've made a mistake and that your music shouldn't have been included please get in touch and let us know.

Life has felt very busy lately for me. In times like this I find it useful to have some appropriately relaxing music I can put on to distract myself from the day-to-day hustle and bustle. The mix I have for you here has been stress-tested (quite literally) and should provide you with some relief if that’s something you need. If you’re interested in finding out more about the releases included please follow the links and let the artists know you heard them here. Track listKapTep & Christian Alsemgeest, The Day the Internet Went Away Taken from: Exhale (Chitra Records)© All rights reserved. Used with permission.The Day the Internet Went Away. Inspired by a power outage. What did we used to do before the internet? VOLTIJ, The Violets Are Blue Taken from: The Violets Are Blue (Self released)© All rights reserved. Used with permission.VOLTIJ continues his exploration of the wonders of nature, but this time with an eye to the storm clouds on the horizon. A famous Robert Bateman painting shows a majestic tundra swan flying over a marsh with a barely visible airplane vapour trail at the edge of the frame. The sky doesn’t belong only to the birds anymore. In a similar way, the eight songs of The Violets Are Blue explore man’s relentless and often corrosive effect on the natural world on which we all depend. The ever present spectre of man’s destructive influence is sprinkled throughout the album, in every glitch and pop, every dissonant note, every distortion, and every feeling that maybe something isn’t quite right. Felicity Mangan, Cello Figures Taken from: String Figures (Elevator Bath)© All rights reserved. Used with permission.The six pieces on "String Figures" sample and combine the resonant timbres of strings and electromagnetic textural fields with field recordings from wetlands. These elements were shaped through digital processing into polyphonic, angular assemblages, ranging from austere minimalism to sumptuous drones and elegiac ambience. Alan Graves, Sauvie Haze Taken from: A Possible Wind (Bathysphere Records)© All rights reserved. Used with permission.Alan Graves (Los Angeles-based producer and audio engineer Justin Longerbeam) explores change in his latest album. A sonic odyssey of transformation, 'A Possible Wind' offers a rich auditory experience through a collection of field recordings of wind captured over a decade, spanning the rugged landscapes of the Pacific Northwest, the bamboo forests of Hawaii, the rolling hills of Northern California, and the sandy shores of SoCal. The album reimagines these natural spaces, filtered and processed through an otherworldly prism of hardware effects, charting a personal migration southward along the west coast of the United States. David Helpling & Eric "the" Taylor, Cavernous Heart Taken from: The Precious Dark (Spotted Peccary Music) Release of the week© All rights reserved. Used with permission.The Precious Dark is the newest collaboration by Ambient Electronic artists David Helpling and Eric “the” Taylor. These seven pieces revel in the exploration of the unknown, and launch both artists into uncharted creative territory. Taylor’s fervent analog synthesizers, Helpling’s ethereal guitar and cinematic vistas are here, but The Precious Dark is more wistful and moody than their previous efforts. Sparse expanses stretch, making emotive climaxes all the more sweeping E J R M & Unusual Cosmic Process, Incandescence Taken from: Incandescence (Ambient Cat)© All rights reserved. Used with permission.Delicate piano melodies and deep enveloping pads weave together to create a dreamlike atmosphere. Perfect for introspection, relaxation, or drifting into a tranquil state of mind. Richard J. Birkin, Hiddenness Taken from: Hiddenness (The Atomanaut's Almanac)© All rights reserved. Used with permission.With a title taken from a passage in Jon Fosse's Septology, Hiddenness has more romance to it than Birkin is typically known for. The left hand stays constant, while the right hand dances towards and away from their meeting point on the keys. "My partner picked up on the piece when I was playing it, saying that it conjured images of stolen glances in a hallway, forbidden love and a missed connection. In fact, every friend I shared it with had a different visual come to mind." Birkin spent hours and hours trawling The Internet Archive to find some old footage to provide the visual, before stumbling on a silent black and white home movie of a girl dancing on a lawn, the expressive, improvised dance working eerily in time with the music. Adrian Lane, Watching the Water Rise Taken from: Desire Paths (Chitra Records)© All rights reserved. Used with permission.In this album, Adrian continues his exploration of tape-saturated sounds combined with piano and vintage synthesizers. The micro-cassette Dictaphone is used to create sounds evoking nostalgia and melancholy. Although using similar starting points to his last album on Chitra Records this album is darker in mood reflecting certain situations in the world today. BinJa, Shakti Taken from: ShaktiMan (Chitra Records)© All rights reserved. Used with permission.ShaktiMan is a man of power. He weaves together three worlds: past, present and future. Field recordings, ethnic instruments and synthesizer layers. Eulipion Corps, Strange Suns Taken from: Portals (Wormhole World)© All rights reserved. Used with permission.Strange Suns is a theme for an imaginary film. I tend to see stories and characters first and then provide a musical context for them to inhabit. The track is quite wistful in tone and capture the protagonist's longing for home. David Helpling & Eric "the" Taylor, The Ice Has Dreams Taken from: The Precious Dark (Spotted Peccary Music) Release of the week© All rights reserved. Used with permission.“The Ice Has Dreams” begins swirling and ominous, its subterranean snarl unspooling like a deadly fractal, before sparse piano lifts the piece into a dimensional serenity. Throughout this work, introspectiveness gives way to monumental eclipses that yet again dissolve into spacious resolve. Like our universe in the Big Bang: once nowhere, then everywhere, the fast sudden pervasiveness of AI technology impacted the approach to The Precious Dark. Helpling and Taylor, in response, created an album bereft of inorganic beings, expressed with wood & wire instruments and vintage analog synthesizers. Electric guitars, electrified pianos and analog synthesizers were treated with a barrage of effect pedals and recorded through an analog mixing console. While there is no shortage of endless reverb tails and modulating echoes, this is a work of hands-on experimentation and “in the moment” creation. You can submit your music for the podcast via our website. If you enjoy the show please leave us a review on Apple Podcasts, share it with a friend and check out the featured artists. Fancy listening to a continuous mix of music from previous shows? Then check out Audio Interface Radio which is now online 24/7 and features curated blocks of music to fit your mood throughout the day. Follow us on Mastodon and Bluesky Copyrighted music is used with the permission of the artists/labels. If you feel we've made a mistake and that your music shouldn't have been included please get in touch and let us know.

In this month’s Ambient Hour we take in views of Hyrule through the evocative and immersive lens of Blood Moon by Imprints, a concept album that reimagines the world of The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild. It’s our Release of the Week and two tracks are featured in this mix. The album is available digitally and on beautiful frosted green vinyl. There are also wonderful new pieces from Tim Didymus & Foster Neville, Swansither, Colin Andrew Sheffield, Stereo Minus One, Markus Guentner, Diogene, Sketching Venus, Paul Beaudoin and Trem 77. As always there’s no talking in the mix but the full track listing is below along with links to all the releases. I hope you enjoy this mix and find it soothing to your soul. Be well my friends. Track listImprints, Theme Taken from: Blood Moon (Data Discs) Release of the week© All rights reserved. Used with permission.Tim Didymus & Foster Neville, Hooks Taken from: Ulla (Subexotic Records)© All rights reserved. Used with permission.Swansither, Ronsack Taken from: Ronsack (Subexotic Records)© All rights reserved. Used with permission.Colin Andrew Sheffield, Progression Taken from: Serenade (Elevator Bath)© All rights reserved. Used with permission.Stereo Minus One, The Seed At One End Taken from: Dead Petals At The Other (Machine Records)© All rights reserved. Used with permission.Markus Guentner, Humanity’s Shadow Taken from: Black Dahlia (Affin)© All rights reserved. Used with permission.Diogene, Dream Factory Taken from: The Ocean in Our Minds (Ambient Cat)© All rights reserved. Used with permission.Sketching Venus, lvu (Edvard Graham Lewis Venursion) Taken from: lvu (Mortality Tables)© All rights reserved. Used with permission.Imprints, Trial Taken from: Blood Moon (Data Discs) Release of the week© All rights reserved. Used with permission.Paul Beaudoin, Prima Materia Taken from: Alchemies (Ambient Cat)© All rights reserved. Used with permission.Trem 77, Over These Dark Ages Taken from: Blacklight Sunset (Grape Mod Recs)© All rights reserved. Used with permission.You can submit your music for the podcast via our website. If you enjoy the show please leave us a review on Apple Podcasts, share it with a friend and check out the featured artists. Fancy listening to a continuous mix of music from previous shows? Then check out Audio Interface Radio which is now online 24/7 and features curated blocks of music to fit your mood throughout the day. Follow us on Mastodon and Bluesky Copyrighted music is used with the permission of the artists/labels. If you feel we've made a mistake and that your music shouldn't have been included please get in touch and let us know.

It’s time for another hour of ambient music for you to unwind to. The thing I love about good ambient music is that it can blend into the background but it also rewards closer attention. And so it is here. You can put this mix on and zone out, or focus in. There’s acoustic sounds, drones, modular synths and organic piano sounds. It’s a treat! Track listDionisaf & KapTep, Waiting for Connection Taken from: Modem Punk (Ambient Cat)© All rights reserved. Used with permission.Modem Punk is a science fiction genre that is dominated by old technologies from the late 20th century. David Best (feat. The Electrowhisperer), LF28 / Skyrocketing Taken from: LF28 / Skyrocketing (Mortality Tables)© All rights reserved. Used with permission.LIFEFILES are creative exchanges. Recordings of places, people, objects, moments in time, environments and quotidian events are shared with a range of artists working across different disciplines. Those artists are free to respond to the recordings in any way they like. cotashono, 🧩 (Track 4) Taken from: looptape 2.4. [MOMENT00] (MUSIC2)© All rights reserved. Used with permission.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E5Cv6yO1kNo El Wud, Echoes of memory Taken from: My Naviar Haiku (Self released)CC BY-NC-SAInspired by the following haiku written by Marco Sebastiano Alessi: Endless echo footsteps on an empty house once full of life Sulk Rooms, They Don’t Believe It Taken from: Take A Look At God's Face (Subexotic Records)© All rights reserved. Used with permission.Taken from 'Take A Look At God's Face' — the soundtrack to a short film of the same name by Jack Laurance, a short and true story about revenge, lost love and exotic animals. Susana López, Mundus Imaginalis Taken from: Materia Vibrante (Elevator Bath)© All rights reserved. Used with permission.Taken from “Materia Vibrante”, Susana López’s gorgeous new album for Elevator Bath. The album was built from field recordings captured at megalithic sites in Ireland, underwater sounds recorded with hydrophones in the rivers of Asturias, and electromagnetic wave scans from Birmingham. These sonic landscapes are interwoven with synthesizers, digital harmonium, experimental “sonic triangle,” multi-effects, percussion, and López’s voice — serving as a thread between the inner and the outer worlds. melondruie, Retreating into myself Taken from: Invisible (Self released)© All rights reserved. Used with permission.This track is about using music as an escape, finding solace in ones inner worlds. Soloi Sounds, Shard Taken from: Pictures (Chitra Records)© All rights reserved. Used with permission.The third album released on Chitra by the unique Tokyo artist Yosuke Goto. Like a picturesque photo, each track tells a small story of important and unimportant things. John Reidar Holmes, In a Shroud Made of Silk… Taken from: Reflections from a Sacred Pool (Self released)© All rights reserved. Used with permission.'In a Shroud made of Silk' is taken from 'Reflections from a Sacred Pool' and takes you on an acoustic guitar day dream with a gentle synth melody warbling across the stereo field. Nomadnis, Flower Taken from: Hue (Self released)© All rights reserved. Used with permission.Taken from Hue, a collection of piano melodies born from the same place as my paintings. Where colours carry memory, and every note traces something lost…or newly found. Each track is an echo of a moment I’ve tried to capture on canvas. Built from feeling and sound. If you’ve ever been moved by quiet beauty, subtle shifts, or the emotional palette of the in-between, I think you’ll feel at home here. Nicolás Melmann, Música Aperta I Taken from: Música Aperta (Umor Rex) Release of the week© All rights reserved. Used with permission.Música Aperta is a fusion of acoustic and electronic sounds, rich in beautiful harmonies, where carefully soft elements interplay with delicate raspiness. Made up of three parts, the music unfolds slowly, immersing the listener in time. Música Aperta resonates with echoes of Satie, the meditative minimalism of Arvo Pärt, the roughness of Phill Niblock, and the nostalgic reflections of Richard Skelton. Richard J. Birkin, Old Dreams Taken from: Old Dreams (Self released)CC BY-NC-SAOld Dreams is an old piece written around 2011 and never properly recorded or released. While completing and recording some brand new piano pieces, this piece popped into my head and, on its first run through, seemed to have finished itself. Like it had been sat there in memory waiting for the time to come out, my hands feeling like they had been practicing the piece for days even though they’d not played it in years. Music is like that sometimes. It decides. You can submit your music for the podcast via our website. If you enjoy the show please leave us a review on Apple Podcasts, share it with a friend and check out the featured artists. Fancy listening to a continuous mix of music from previous shows? Then check out Audio Interface Radio which is now online 24/7 and features curated blocks of music to fit your mood throughout the day. Follow us on Mastodon and Bluesky Copyrighted music is used with the permission of the artists/labels. If you feel we've made a mistake and that your music shouldn't have been included please get in touch and let us know.

It’s getting warmer outside, and maybe you like that… but maybe you’d like to feel a little colder. Maybe you’d like an hour of cool ambient sounds that hint at crips frosty mornings. I hope so because that’s what I have for you this week. Track listSocool, Paper Flowers Taken from: Becomes Music (Bathurst)© All rights reserved. Used with permission.After releasing her cover version of Radiohead's 'Blow Out,' Socool unveils her new EP 'Becomes Music' on Bathurst, a beautiful and charming ambient downtempo affair.  Originally written with fairly heavy drums but eventually turning into an ambient piece, 'Paper Flowers' opens with some beautifully played piano figures on a bed of synth chords that carry the song's lightness over the course. Francois Dion, Musique pour decompresser Taken from: Selected Ambient Jams (Self released)© All rights reserved. Used with permission.11th track for #jamuary2025, "Musique pour decompresser" is French for music to chill or relax to. It also is a reference to the fact that no compressor was used. All the percussions are provided by a modified Roland TR-606 clone (TD-6). Modular effects from some of other modular / semi modular synths complement the main synth, a Roland System 100m tribute modular. No midi, no sequencer, just a plain mono arpeggiator drives all synth sounds. Aaron J. Noth, Everlasting Nights Taken from: Passed Winter (Passed Recordings) Release of the week© All rights reserved. Used with permission.Frosty mornings, snow storms and howling gales - all filtered through an ambient lens. Passed Winter is our latest themed compilation featuring almost four hours of new music. This time, artists were encouraged to make music inspired by winter in whichever way they want. Some new names and some familiar faces contributed, so make yourself a hot drink, get tucked under a nice warm blanket and enjoy the music. 80% of any sales will be donated to Doctors Without Borders (www.msf.org), while the remaining 20% will go toward label expenses. alka feat. Nero's Tongue, drama[mine] Taken from: drama[mine] (Mortality Tables)© All rights reserved. Used with permission.drama[mine] sees Mortality Tables collaborating again with Philadelphia sound artist alka (Bryan Michael), who released two albums on Vince Clarke's VeryRecords label. drama[mine] pairs alka with poet Nero's Tongue for a 10-minute combination of swirling ambient textures, field recordings and dreamy vocals. Simon Heartfield, Bell Seven Taken from: The State Of Social Movement (Machine Records)© All rights reserved. Used with permission.On The State of Social Movement, Simon says he “wanted to combine some dancefloor/electro/techno elements with more abstract soundscapes/soundtrack sounds.” With that in mind, he “used just about every bit of studio gear, even the ancient Yamaha RS7000 plus bits of guitar. I was aiming to make it suitable for home listening with the track you could drop in a club.” Hiram, Solstice Song Taken from: Solstice Song (PermaCulture Media)© All rights reserved. Used with permission.'Solstice Song' was recorded on the Winter Solstice at the base of a frozen waterfall. This eight-minute meditative piece captures the quiet shift of seasons. With the flow of water, bamboo chimes, brass bells, and layers of warm synthesizer, 'Solstice Song' invites listeners to form a deeper connection with the rhythmic cycles of nature. Mastered by James Bernard at Ambient Mountain House, and published by PermaCulture Media, this is the next step forward in my evolving exploration of sound as an ecological dialogue, and forming a deeper language of connection to the natural spaces surrounding us. This track will resonate with folks interested in nature themed, site-based, experimental ambient, as well as deep listening, ceremonial, and minimal electro-acoustic music. For fans of: Ojas, Karma Moffett, Deuter, Harold Budd, and Jon Hassell. Release date is on Vernal Equinox March 20th, the first day of Spring! dogg jaw, SW Sunset Tunnel Taken from: Passed Winter (Passed Recordings) Release of the week© All rights reserved. Used with permission.Joachim Spieth | Andrew Thomas, Cobalt Taken from: Nocturna (Affin)© All rights reserved. Used with permission.Nocturna sits on the threshold of ambient and modern classical, with elements of sound design that make it an especially pleasing piece with deeper listening. As Nocturna unfolds, it transports the listener into a space of contemplation and mystery—expansion and enclosure, and perhaps reflecting the increase in nocturnal activity of nature on a Summers evening. Light and shadow, the duality of hemispheres, and the promise of Summer’s arrival converge, and then fade once more into the night. Substak, Time Travelling Taken from: A Journey Through Stillness (Camembert Électrique)© All rights reserved. Used with permission.Taken from 'A Journey Through Stillness' a collection of experimental soundscapes transports you to a world where time dissolves and the universe unfolds. Logickal, Lattice Taken from: Passed Winter (Passed Recordings) Release of the week© All rights reserved. Used with permission.You can submit your music for the podcast via our website. If you enjoy the show please leave us a review on Apple Podcasts, share it with a friend and check out the featured artists. Fancy listening to a continuous mix of music from previous shows? Then check out Audio Interface Radio which is now online 24/7 and features curated blocks of music to fit your mood throughout the day. Follow us on Mastodon and Bluesky Copyrighted music is used with the permission of the artists/labels. If you feel we've made a mistake and that your music shouldn't have been included please get in touch and let us know.

An uninterrupted ambient mix to sooth your tired mind. Track listSiren and the Sea, Spilling Wave Taken from: Archipelago (Bathysphere Records) Release of the week© All rights reserved. Used with permission.Brown Fang, Railway Potatoes Taken from: Netherfield Lagoons (Delia Recordings)© All rights reserved. Used with permission.Robert Scott Thompson, Evensong Taken from: Hiraeth (Aucourant Records)© All rights reserved. Used with permission.Niko Dell, Coral Disc Taken from: Archipelago (Bathysphere Records) Release of the week© All rights reserved. Used with permission.m u b e, ◌̥ CC BY-NC 3.0Jon Tarry, Cloud to Ground Taken from: Sprouted Volume 4.010 (Burnt Seed Records)© All rights reserved. Used with permission.Christian Alsemgeest, Forever Taken from: Beneath the Surface (Ambient Cat)© All rights reserved. Used with permission.Volcano Lazerbeam, Sea Fret Taken from: Archipelago (Bathysphere Records) Release of the week© All rights reserved. Used with permission.You can submit your music for the podcast via our website. If you enjoy the show please leave us a review on Apple Podcasts, share it with a friend and check out the featured artists. Fancy listening to a continuous mix of music from previous shows? Then check out Audio Interface Radio which is now online 24/7 and features curated blocks of music to fit your mood throughout the day. Follow us on Mastodon and Bluesky Copyrighted music is used with the permission of the artists/labels. If you feel we've made a mistake and that your music shouldn't have been included please get in touch and let us know.

It’s time to unwind again with another hour of (mostly) relaxing sounds and minimal interruptions. Track listAlessandro Ambrosi, La collina Taken from: Sogni© All rights reserved. Used with permission.These tracks are from an album called Sogni, which means Dreams in Italian. Each song is the portrait of a dream in music through the use of surreal soundscapes, blending field recordings with accordion and other instruments, both acoustic and digital. I wanted to explore the communicative power of field recordings and their ability to project the listener into a new world. The narrative of the tracks follow a line that is both familiar and unpredictable at times, giving a dreamlike feeling. reirwg, Peanut Taken from: Enterprises Release of the week© All rights reserved. Used with permission.Enterprises is an album of demos, outtakes and newly made music that was recorded during 2022 to 2023. All of the music featured here is drone and ambient music with some other cool elements thrown in. melondruie, Umber Taken from: Audio Interface Submissions© All rights reserved. Used with permission.“Track was created at the beginning of January 2025. I was, and still am, feeling very disconnected from humanity. I felt like I was floating through a dark and empty world. I guess this is my attempt at capturing that feeling of disconnect.” Angelwitch XIl, Astral Voyage Taken from: Nightfall (1798)© All rights reserved. Used with permission.Angelwitch XII's new album, "Nightfall," is a relaxing ambient music album designed to aid listeners in falling asleep. Each track is crafted to provide a calming and soothing experience, perfect for unwinding at the end of the day. "Nightfall" is ideal for anyone seeking a peaceful soundtrack to aid in falling asleep or for creating a calm environment. Francois Dion, Interlude 2 Taken from: Candy Store (Self released)© All rights reserved. Used with permission.The album is called "Candy Store", as it really digs far and wide in the palette of synthesizers and other sound generating instruments. Each track combines a more "traditional" instrument, with many synthesizers. Fields of Few, Afloat in Timeless Clouds Taken from: Love 80's 110 (Triplicate Records)© All rights reserved. Used with permission.Two artists at the top of their game, coming together to celebrate... what else? Being at the top of their game! A smaller offering, only four tracks, but packed with plenty of character to sustain delight over multiple listens. The selected tunes play to each others strengths, complimenting one anothers downtempo electronica chops marvellously. Four certified mellow bangers. Get on this. Fugue State, Learning To Walk Again Taken from: Whiskey Tango FoxtrotCC BY-SA"Learning To Walk Again" was made during a period of change both personally and musically. It was one of the first times I attempted to write a thing that felt a certain way (cautiously hopeful, reflective), as opposed to inspiration coming from sounds I'm hearing in my head. I consider it a successful attempt. Grzegorz Bojanek, Do You Remember The Summer Sun? Taken from: Do You Remember The Summer Sun?© All rights reserved. Used with permission."Do You Remember the Summer Sun?" is a nostalgic ambient guitar track that takes you back to the warm, golden days of summer. Perfect for anyone longing for the carefree moments under the sun, this track weaves atmospheric textures, creating a calming escape. Whether you're reminiscing about sunsets or relaxing at home, this track will transport you to the peaceful embrace of summer memories. Michael D. Tidwell & Piscean Daydreams, Faint Whisper of a Wraith Taken from: Ghost (Ambient Cat)© All rights reserved. Used with permission.With its fusion of cinematic storytelling and emotive sound design, 'Ghost' offers a deeply immersive experience perfect for late-night reflection, meditative focus, or creative inspiration. Each track explores the delicate balance between light and shadow, leaving listeners captivated by its haunting beauty. this occasional society, darkstar_2025 Taken from: jamuary (Self released)© All rights reserved. Used with permission.Not being released on any platforms, but available on the 'music sketches' section of the t.o.s. website. KAVARI, Fang Taken from: Against The Wood, Opposed To FleshCC BY-NDLike walking through the woods as twilight turns to night. You may imagine you hear someone, or something, on the path behind. You can’t be sure. reirwg, In The Night Sky, I See Your Eyes Taken from: Enterprises Release of the week© All rights reserved. Used with permission.reirwg plays almost every single instrument, effect, or object on this record including edits, music, piano, production, strings and lastly, synthesizers. All sounds on this record are created digitally with midi except for a few little bits and pieces here and there. You can submit your music for the podcast via our website. If you enjoy the show please leave us a review on Apple Podcasts, share it with a friend and check out the featured artists. Fancy listening to a continuous mix of music from previous shows? Then check out Audio Interface Radio which is now online 24/7 and features curated blocks of music to fit your mood throughout the day. Follow us on Mastodon and Bluesky Copyrighted music is used with the permission of the artists/labels. If you feel we've made a mistake and that your music shouldn't have been included please get in touch and let us know.

In the second ambient ambient hour of the year we start with a very poor guided meditation and then swiftly move on for an hour of sweet, sweet relaxing sounds. Track listTEX, Golden Palms Taken from: TEX (Self released)© All rights reserved. Used with permission.Johnny Tex hails from Cape Town, South Africa and has mostly been writing Garage Rock, Rockabilly and Surf Music for the past decade or so (his impressive list of bands includes The Future Primitives, The Dyna Jets, King Trash and The Thirty Eights). He recently transitioned over to producing mostly on the computer under the name TEX and finds he can actually be more creative this way because it feels like literally anything is possible - he says he "can just get lost tweaking sounds forever". prePosur, Hurricane Taken from: RTS.EP (Self released)© All rights reserved. Used with permission.Hurricane is taken from an Untitled 6 track EP made in only one week. The tracks are based around the Transatlantic Slave Trade and the hellish conditions the enslaved had to go through while on the ships to the Americas. prePosur describes the EP as a gift back to my those before hime who were forcibly transported to the country he--and many other black people--call home. Techno-Tony, Colloquy 2 Taken from: Colloquy 2 (Self released)© All rights reserved. Used with permission.This and all Techno-Tony's tracks released are recorded live in one take on a Eurorack modular synth. He performs locally in Santa Cruz, California using the same setup. Of course the rack contents change gradually over time. Techno-Tony calls his genre techno-jazz, perhaps inappropriately he says. But then we're living in a post-genre world now aren't we? Infant, Lithic Disc Taken from: Spiral Industries (Kino Disk)© All rights reserved. Used with permission.Lithic Disc is the final track from the four track Spiral Industries EP by Infant that was released at the end of October 2024. The EP is atmospheric and textural and well-worth your attention. You can get it for any price you choose from Bandcamp. this occasional society and james hastings, ghosts run in our family Taken from: impossibly impermanent (Self released)© All rights reserved. Used with permission.This Occasional Society teams up with James Hastings for the Impossibly Permanent EP. The artists completed the EP remotely via exchanging files and messaging but they sound very much in-sync here. The aim was to create something the listener could lose themselves in and hopefully find some space for themselves. Free/name your price from Bandcamp. CLOUDWARMER, Journal of the Plague Year and Other Apparitions Taken from: Forget Me Nots (Self released)CC BY-NC-SAEddie Palmer puts out some truly excellent music under his Cloudwarmer project. 'Journal of the Plague Year and Other Apparitions' is taken from his Forget Me Nots album released back in 2022. Expect dark beats, upright bass and shimmering synth lines. Fans of the Cinematic Orchestra will find much to enjoy here. chad glenn, adrift in the coastal quadrant Taken from: fade from view (Self released)© All rights reserved. Used with permission.Taken from fade from view by Chad Glenn, this is an album that will take you on a journey into outer space and to the depths of the ocean. Eustress, Aam Taken from: Arx (Kino Disk)© All rights reserved. Used with permission.Only three tracks long but packed with dense layers of electronics and organic sounds in the vein of Skee Mask. Ordos Mk.0, Odyssey Taken from: Sisyphean Audio Therapy 2 (Self released)© All rights reserved. Used with permission.From the opening chords of the first track you know that Sisyphean Audio Therapy 2 is going to be a treat. As the album gets going there are uplifting pads that are reminiscent of Boards of Canada without sounding derivative. I actually can hear the birds in this one. I'm on a beach and I'm feeling calm. A perfect soundtrack to a solitary contemplative walk at twilight. Okmiracle, Up/up down Taken from: Drop audio (Self released)© All rights reserved. Used with permission.Crispy rhythms and viscous ambient melodies contrast with each other like colors on an artist's canvas. Subtly intertwined in a flow of endless energy, a flow of goodness and sadness, sharpness and smoothness, clarity and fuzziness. The album is inspired by autumn walks along empty beaches, rocky landscapes, amber sunsets. Aoire, Biggar Bank Taken from: Arthur Baker bw Biggar Bank (Self released)CC BYAoire is South Cumbrian, UK musician Shaun Blezard. Making music after a few years away he returns to his ambient roots. This track is taken from the release Arthur Baker bw Biggar Bank which is a first venture into the world of hardware machines Please Close Your Eyes, The Moment Before We Sleep Taken from: Music For Floating (Mortality Tables)© All rights reserved. Used with permission.Taken from the new album Music for Floating which was released on 10 January 2025 via Mortality Tables. The title ‘Music for Floating’ comes from one of the two tests that I use when I’m listening back to my music and checking in with how I feel about it. The first test is when I’m dozing in bed, and the other is when I’m in the bath. Both of those things feel like floating. - Oliver Richards You can submit your music for the podcast via our website. If you enjoy the show please leave us a review on Apple Podcasts, share it with a friend and check out the featured artists. Fancy listening to a continuous mix of music from previous shows? Then check out Audio Interface Radio which is now online 24/7 and features curated blocks of music to fit your mood throughout the day. Follow us on Mastodon and Bluesky Copyrighted music is used with the permission of the artists/labels. If you feel we've made a mistake and that your music shouldn't have been included please get in touch and let us know.