Oliver Tindall, Author at If-Only

Space Is The Place: Tim Sweeney talks 20 years of Beats In Space

June 27, 2019

New York, 1999. The world was hurtling towards the close of the 20th century, gripped by the Millennium Bug, ballad-y rock music and Britney. In the studios of WNYU 89.1, Tim Sweeney, a freshman at NYU with a c...

Premiere: Katatonic Silentio – Sub_Versive

Oliver Tindall

March 29, 2019

Incoming on the eponymous label from Milanese multidisciplinary collective Cyberspeak, Katatonic Silentio's Emotional Gun is an example of IDM-charged sonic bricolage. Described by the label as "a sound artist ...

Premiere: London Modular Alliance – Private K-Hole

Oliver Tindall

March 28, 2019

For many, the teaming up of London Modular Alliance and Private Persons is an irresistible combination – think hard-as-nails Russian imprint meets inner-city electronic thugs across a dark and murky slab of bla...

Premiere: Dreamcast & ZDBT – Time For You (DJ Sports Dub Mix)

Oliver Tindall

March 28, 2019

The DJ Sports 'Dub Mix' of 'Time For You' proves that, more often than not, love’s most tender moments are the quiet ones. Without vocal interference, Dreamcast and ZDBT's ‘Time For You’ plays out like early mo...

Premiere: Too Smooth Christ – Wandering In The Woods Of Mind

Oliver Tindall

March 13, 2019

Threaded along the B1 from Too Smooth Christ’s Fuego International debut nestles this warm, tublar, ambient number. A coy, always evasive fall into a thicket of tangled grooves, barbed bass swells and stumbled-...

Premiere: Hypnobirds – Aerocentric Worlds

Oliver Tindall

March 8, 2019

At its best, an ambient piece is not even there. Absent, ambiguous and fleeting it serves as an unobtrusive musical background to a pre undefined mood, space or glimmer in time. It evokes feeling or sensuous th...

Frontier psychology with Moscoman

Oliver Tindall

January 31, 2019

Disco Halal has defined itself as a frontier pushing record label since its inception just a few short years ago. It’s label owner, Moscoman, has expertly spliced cuttings from his native Tel Aviv and sounds fr...

New Year, New You: 5 essential lessons in ambient music to invigorate a prosperous 2019

Oliver Tindall

January 2, 2019

2019 marks a turning point for you and your spiritual health – a new year, a new you. As you open up that new tab marked 2019, let ambient be your soundtrack and the teachings that are to be found within them y...

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