New book: Ears To The Ground by Ben Murphy - exploring field recordings in electronic music. DJ Mag have a feature on the book

women of ambient~ april '24 - a monthly mix curated by cynthia bernard aka marine eyes. Includes tracks from Haiku Salut, Jasmine Wood, Dimming, ganavya, Ola Szmidt, Leah Kardos, Michelle Moeller, Paige Emery, Elsa Hewitt, Spivak, Meg Mulhearn, Isabel Pine and marine eyes herself

Six Tracks #49 has a delicious Ambient and Dub vibe with all tracks lifted from recent or upcoming releases.

1. Saapato - Morning Swale Song
2. Audio Obscura - Babyloniacid
3. Mary Yalex - From Her To Eternity
4. Scott Monteith - LTD 1.2
5. Jeanne Briand & Romain Azzaro - Gear 2
6. A_A (Satoshi Tomiie + Nao Gunji) - Radiant I (Live)

Patricia Wolf on the Magic of Field Recordings - the Portland Ambient artist speaks to Stephan Kunze (zensounds) about her musical biography, her inspiration and a trip to Mount St. Helens

Ray Pham chats with Guy Brewer over at Patterns of Perception about his Carrier alias:

A lot of people have complained a lot about the upward shift in tempo we’ve seen over the last years, and while there’s no denying it’s spawned some atrocious music, it’s also been responsible for some important innovations

On a Wire - a new Kickstarter campaign for a unqiue record stand (a bit like a toast rack for records)

Women In The Ambient Music World Part 1

Joshua Minsoo Kim has compiled a short and contentious but ultimately zero-fat list of the best Ambient albums of the 1990s. Here's some links to listen:

• 1990: Iury Lech – Musica para el fin del lost cantos
• 1991: Gigi Masin, Alessandro Monti & Alessandro Pizzin – The Wind Collector
• 1992: Suso Sáiz – Hypnotics
• 1993: Loren Connors – Hell's Kitchen Park
• 1994: Aloof Proof – Piano Text
• 1995: Ikue Mori | Robert Quine | Marc Ribot – Painted Desert
• 1996: Microstoria – _snd
• 1997: Ambient Hawai'i – Ambient Hawai'i
• 1998: Philip Jeck - Surf
• 1999: Stars of the Lid Avec –  Laudenum

"7 lessons from the BBC's fantastic disco documentary"

Chechnya to ban music not between 80 and 116 BPM

New book: High Bias: The Distorted History of the Cassette Tape by Marc Masters charts the journey of the cassette from its invention in the early 1960s to its Walkman-led domination in the 1980s to decline at the birth of compact discs to resurgence among independent music makers

New book: Pretty Broad Tastes by Leslie Winer - the first full collection of poems from the seminal artist and writer

New book - Futuromania by Simon Reynolds - a celebration of music that feels like a taste of tomorrow

Buy your tickets for the Nous'klaer Festival

Glaswegian musician CLAIR has produced a run of posters featuring the excellent artwork from her Earth Mothers album

A four hour psychedelic therapy mix from Lord Echo. Subtitle: soundtrack to taking magic mushrooms in a therapeutic context. (NB: listening and taking drugs simultaneously is not a strict requirement)

The Art of DJing: Ellen Allien - nice interview with Andrew Ryce for Resident Advisor

New book: Becoming a Composer by Errollyn Wallen - "Becoming a Composer offers an intriguing glimpse into the mind and motivation of a composer and covers aspects of Wallen’s sometimes troubled childhood, and her experiences of growing up as a black composer in the UK"

Mike Duquette opines the lack of liner notes and credits on the new Beyonce album and hopes it's not a new trend

Chal Ravens and Tom Lea interview video game music composer Lena Raine for their No Tags podcast

Sean Adams (Drowned in Sound) asks if piracy inspired the current boom in music

On successfully funding his new animated film The Shepherds via a Kickstarter campaign, Woody Tucker commissioned Dylan Henner to produce the soundtrack. The result, Henner's first OST, is a perfectly measured ten minute symphony in miniature, comprising woodwind, brass, harp, piano, synthesis and processed voice.

While not publicly available to watch yet, you can view a clip of the film