Moritz von Oswald's latest solo album is his most startling, time-bending material since the Basic Channel days, a collaboration with a 16-voice choir that refracts techno and choral music into dizzying psychedelic traces, exploiting mind-altering xenharmonic synth tones, Ligeti-like operatic phrases and abyssal kicks with a veteran's cunning. We've been knocked sideways by this one - trans-dimensional afters music at its absolute best.

grown in the shade of the glacier. killer whale atmospheres is a future-memory affair of sub bass propulsive drones, rhythms, chords and dorsal scars building to a forbidding sense of cold echolocations yet to come through the violent procession of darkening rains.

At the latest with the release of the albums "Zauberberg" and "Königsforst", in the mid-1990s, one associates GAS, Wolfgang Voigt's very own artistic cross-linking of the spirit of Romanticism and the forest as an artistic fantasy projection surface, with intoxicatingly blurred boundaries of post-ambient infatuation and the impenetrable thicket of abstract atonality. The distant, iconic straight bass drum marching through highly condensed, abstract sounds taken from classical music by the sampler or modulated accordingly, and the enraptured gaze through pop art glasses into the hypnotic thicket of an imaginary forest, manifested over the years this unique connection of audio and visual, which to understand fully, then as now, would be neither possible nor desirable.

Deep, mystical, otherworldly, masterpieces soundscapes from Heavenchord is Out Now!

A decades-long disciple of Haruki Murakami, Brock Van Wey, better known as bvdub, has more than once melded the ideas of Murakami's magical realism and its underlying teachings on loneliness, isolation, and the human condition into the fabric of his own work.

If long, meditative and hypnotic workouts are your thing, we'd heartily recommend this release from dub techno and abstract ambient specialists Space Of Variants. It comes courtesy of Gradient AKA Igor Arsenjev, a producer whose previous output on Greyscale and U-Cover explored the deeper side of the dub techno spectrum. If anything, the four expansive tracks on "Neural Waves From The Stars" is even deeper, with Arsenjev combining sparse, weighty, minimalist dub and techno rhythms with enveloping ambient chords, warm, slowly shifting melodies and electronic instrumentation that's more tactile and comforting than an extended hug from your nearest and dearest.

Magnificent work. The treated pianos echoing in the distance create a perfect nostalgic atmosphere that is both melancholic and hopeful at the same time.