AAGSF / Aliens a Galactic Sound Flanks

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Ambient, Dark ambient, Darkcore, Downbeat, Drone, Electronic, Harsh Noise, Industrial, Instrumental, Lo-fi, Minimal, Psybient, Sci-Fi, Spacesynth

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Elegiac: Tobias Faar, Ego Ex Nihil, Ownsi Lense, neuroSampler, and Uior

New glitch and drone compositions from some Russian and Lithuanian towns together create a sad picture of modernity. Escape offers more promise than the here and now. The further one travels, the better.

Tales of Endurance: Nasienie, Dunaewsky69, AAGSF, Melting Clouds, and Razxca

Some new ambient/noise recordings from Russia and Ukraine speak to various ubiquitous "states" that simply endure, far from linear movement or notions of progress. A few are positive... others are not

Little Nastya, Enko, and AAGSF: New Work

Over the last week or so, new releases have come to us from several young electronic musicians whom we've championed at least once before. The three figures in question are Little Nastya (aka Stas Uvarovskii), Enko (aka "Artem" [above]), and Moscow drone exponents, AAGSF. What has become especia...

Little Nastya and AAGSF: The "African" Sounds of Increasing Distance

Two ambient/lo-fi artists we've covered before return this week with a couple of new net-releases that investigate the theme of distance. Both are intriguing and certainly deserving of extra attention. The first comes from Little Nastya, otherwise known as Stas Uvarovskii, shown in the image abo...

AAGSF: "Wonderful Bloom / The Last Breath"

Moscow's AAGSF are an outfit that we have covered on a couple of occasions. Our main interest has been the ways in which AAGSF associate their drone-like ambient textures with an escape from specificity. Prior recordings had been tagged with textual snippets such as: "Matter cannot appear, n...

AAGSF: Aliens a Galactic Sound Flanks

From Moscow: drone/glitch of such extreme ambience it's barely present. The ensemble's own self-definition (if I tweak their English) does little to help us distinguish them from faceless background noise: "Matter cannot appear, nor can it disappear. The AAGSF project has always been that way, t...