The longest lasting column on Beatradar, The Ambient Universe once again invites you to explore the latest and greatest in drone ambient.

Akasaka (Norway) – Astron

A grande opening of todays session, and it’s of course of a particular excitement for me to find a fellow Norwegian behind the wheels of this flagship of a creation.

A transient, distant, massive atmosphere engulf us, an introduction to a universe of colours and wonder.
A travel where we are the exclusive passengers, left in awe and fascination.

Paul Cousins (United Kingdom) – Afterimage

There’s too little glitch in ambient productions.

I mean, just listen to this – a demonstration of how well it can work. A looped sequence using 2 reel-to-reel tape machines, with a 58 inch tape loop running between them. Fluctuations in machine speed creates an asynchronous conversation which results in a meditative soundscape.

And really, it’s the simplicity of it all that is the strength of this track. It makes the experimental element shine more explicitly.

This track is created in a lab I’d love to visit.

Basstakil (Russia) – Birds Of Heaven

We round off this session with a visit over to our big neighbour to the east.

And like the first track we again are met by a massive soundscape. A pulsating darkness saves this track from being too much of a New Age “birds and waters” vibe. Instead we are served a futuristic, almost post-apocalyptic atmosphere where a certain abstract threat is lingering.

Are we even on earth here? I think not.
This is somewhere far, far away. And we’re all in for it.

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All three are added to our Spotify playlist, “Ambient Universe“, where we collect only the most extraordinary new ambient releases from around the globe.