I am finally writing to you from the other side. Last week, I graduated from Parsons The New School for Design with a Master’s in Design & Technology. As I begin to decompress the last two years of hard work and neglecting other areas of my life (including this blog), I find myself standing at […]
The summer melt is in full swing– we are barely aware of what day it is when we wake up before it is already gone, and time seems to sneak by more quickly than we would prefer. If only there was a way to capture moments of the warmer, lusher months and re-open them when […]
Today, we focus our energies on stopping time, on capturing moments, plucking context and emotion from out of thin air. With these hypnotic, textured, highly-emotive soundscapes, we can frame states of being like mental photographs. Have you ever found yourself in a situation you realized was sweet in some way and that you wanted to […]
I’m going to have to ask you to open up your mind big time with the selection of tunes today, as they run the gamut. Most of these tunes are reserved, and either moody or subdued, but not necessarily negative. These tracks are more introverted and observant, like watching people scurry about on the streets […]
Autumn is setting in, which brings with it a cold, crisp, fragrant wind, and a humble and familiar change in the tones of nature that touch our very souls and affect its temperament. It leaves me in an ambivalent state, I already miss the warmth of summer, but I look forward to the sobering silence […]
Today’s post will be a mix of some of the best new dub techno, dubstep, and ambient sound I could find. We’ll warm things up, turn down the light, and then drone off into the ocean. Today’s art is some of the incredible futuristic concept art (by Sparth Construct) I’ve been checking out at the […]
It’s sunday morning as I write this, the sun shines brightly through my skylight and I’m engulfed in late morning low level ambience. I don’t know about you ambient listeners, but I have a number of ambient playlists together for sleep time, and some of these tunes make me think about early morning ambient for […]
Here are a bunch of unsettling ambient and idm tracks to add a little unease to your otherwise copacetic Friday, without adding undue stress. They are intended for pondering shapes, primary colors, spatial relationships and their human counterparts. Rob Theakston – I Am Waiting for You to Stop Being Mad at Me (Off the Sky […]
Today, my friend Jay Bodley, an occasional contributor around Blog.H34, and Moodgadget veteran recording artist, A Setting Sun, releases his newest EP, Flower Garden of Doom. Also, in anticipation of the EP, Jay released the forth and final installment of his Men and Women ambient/low level mix series, which I created the artwork for back […]
Design and Moodgadget and Music Alex on Jan 12 2010
I have been hearing requests over the last few months for a new ambient mix, but despite how much I’d have liked to deliver, the truth was and is, that I don’t accumulate enough solid new material at a pace as quickly as other genres, like hip hop and house. However, it’s been a few […]
