by eyes cast down | Aug 8, 2011 | Releases
Brad MacLeod-Ross is such an ardent fan of ambient/electronic music that he had to start his own netlabel to share it with as many others as possible. Brad has just kick-started his Free Floating label by releasing Conception, a mammoth 3-hour compilation of 22...
by eyes cast down | Aug 5, 2011 | Album Reviews
Chris Russell has released his third album on the Relaxed Machinery label, and fifth overall. Home is a double-CD and definitely a significant step forward in Chris’ musical progression. It’s easily his most personal and intimate album yet – his own River...
by eyes cast down | Jul 25, 2011 | Album Reviews
John Koch-Northrup has re-released his album Temporal Arc on his own Relaxed Machinery label (rM_0002). Originally released in 2001 under his Interstitial alter ego on the Red Antenna label, the album finally comes home under John’s own name, heralding the end...
by eyes cast down | Jun 24, 2011 | Album Reviews
Lost Links (Relaxed Machinery 0018) is a new collection of “lost pieces” from ambient-electronic wizard Max Corbacho, created during 2003-09 for other albums, but left out “for various reasons”. Fortunately, Max saved them for another day....
by eyes cast down | Apr 28, 2011 | Album Reviews
I think Max Corbacho is driven by a love of life’s great mysteries. His music is fully informed and animated by this, by (as I’m hearing it) a quest for something transcendent, something far beyond our conventional, mundane states of being. I believe that,...