Today, it is my privilege and honour to introduce Uwe Zahn as the next featured artist on Headphone Community, whom you, of course, already must know as the one and only Arovane. My personal journey with Arovane's music began during the DIN and City Centre Office years, with his monumental albums, Atol Scrap, Tides, and Lilies. We'll revisit these during Uwe's residency, with in-depth interviews…
In October 2020, I published the first OUT TODAY column. Even then, I couldn't keep up with all the new music, so in addition to my shorter SOUND BYTES write-ups, I started curating a collection of about a dozen albums and shared it with you about once a month. As everyone's attention span got shortened, fought for by algorithms, content scraped by bots, and fabricated with AI…
The following is an excerpt from an ongoing conversation with James Clements, known across multiple genres as ASC, currently featured on Headphone Community. We are nearly halfway through his residency, and so far we've covered his origins and the Pirate Radio years, the Covert Operations era and the Grey Area work, his composition workflow and ambient as a parallel practice. Some echoes of these…
Good morning, dear friends, random stumblers, and longtime readers. My ongoing contribution to this quiet corner of the world has been slowly declining, thanks to bot attacks, AI scraping, and the overall pillaging of what I've built here over the past twenty years. So I had to step away from the public stage and, over the last year, focus my energy on something even more personal and human.
Good morning, dear friends, and happy Saturday! For the month of August, I've been featuring Benoît Pioulard on Headphone Community. It promises to be another beautiful weekend here in London, so I plan on taking it easy, with some help from Tom. Today, we generously spoil you with another petite gem, released on Morr Music in November 2015. Tom has shared some Bandcamp codes which we've already…
The following is an excerpt from an ongoing conversation with Thomas Meluch, aka Benoît Pioulard, our current featured artist on Headphone Community. For the last couple of weeks, we have been traversing Tom's career, beginning with the "kranky years", talking about the "breakup records", and evolving from bedroom productions to collaborations for some of the world's respected labels.
Today, I'm excited to welcome Thomas Meluch to our ever-evolving Headphone Community, who is mostly known for his music as Benoît Pioulard. I'm going to avoid copying and pasting his invented French-sounding artist name (which came to him in a dream!) and simply refer to him as Tom from now on. Besides this fascinating moniker, there is so much more to this American multi-instrumentalist…
Label: Sonic Pieces Release: Interior Realms - vol. I Date: September 10th, 2026 Mastered By: Andreas (Lupo) Lubich Artwork By: Studio Torsten Posselt simongoff.com | sonicpieces.com Simon Goff is a British violinist, multi-instrumentalist and composer whom I've followed for more than a few years now, mostly via his appearances and collaborations via Gizeh and 7K! imprints…
Label: Ghostly International Date: August 21, 2026 Mastered By: Rafael Anton Irisarri Artwork By: Michael Cina Pre-order with Ghostly I have never imagined time as a straight line. It was always a bit of a circle. Somewhere, along this line, the time would begin to bend with the weight of its past, until it would arrive at the very beginning, looping upon itself, in an endless rotation.
The following is an excerpt from an ongoing conversation with Monique Recknagel and her label, Sonic Pieces, which is currently featured on Headphone Community. So far this month, we have been talking about the birth of the imprint, revisiting some of the essential records from the likes of Nils Frahm, Erik K Skodvin, Hauschka & Hildur Guðnadóttir, Moon Ate the Dark and many more to come (plus…
