Recs is contemporary stripped down indie folk at its best. All the songs on Recs were written and recorded in less than two months. The songs are minimal, raw, honest, and emotional. For Recs, Mathes traded in the layered vocal and instrumental sounds of his previous efforts for stripped down intimacy. Though the lyrics may be allusive, the emotion is undeniable. Recs is an album about struggle and starting over, an album about giving in at times, but never giving up.

With Reef Mystic Crock releases his third studio album. He remains true to himself and his style - Ambient, Chillout, Psybient Downtempo... "Reef" starts very quietly and rises gradually to the last song. The album is designed as a mix album to listen to it in one go. Mystic Crock gives much observance to sophisticated drone and pad sounds and puts much love in the details like effects and percussions.

To perfect the listening experience and to polish the sound to the max he got the legendary Aes Dana to master his latest masterpiece.

Dive into the world of smooth sounds of "Reef" by Mystic Crock.

Audio Mastering at Ultimae Studio by Vincent Villuis / Aes Dana www.ultimae.com

Mike McGuill's second album on Magnatune is his latest collection of instrumental electronica pieces.

Like his first (Lost Horizons), new release Stult combines synths and electronics with real-world instruments and sounds.

At times aggressive, brooding, dramatic, at others drifting and contemplative, Stult experiments with splicing, looping, noise and other non-harmonic sound sources, while remaining firmly grounded in melody.

During the writing process, two things were ever-present in the room: live International Space Station webcam feeds of the Earth from above; and 24-hour rolling TV news coverage from around the globe.

And these two visual sources became the main sources of inspiration for the album.

Something of the juxtaposition between these two things - the tranquillity of floating weightlessly in endless, cycling orbit, set against the tension, conflict and chaos sparking and twitching continuously on the surface below - is ingrained in the skin of the music of Stult.

The music shifts restlessly between the two moods, at times drifting and detached (Tranq, Orbit), at others frenetic and threatening (Fission, Transmit), and often combining both sensations at once (Fusion, Culma).

Dark electronica meets ambient in this exciting new project by New York based composer and producer Julian Blackmore.

Deep hypnotic pads and pulsing synthetic textures ebb and flow to create a dark and eery soundscape, reminiscent of Tangerine Dream or Autechre. If you like your ambient music on the darker side, this EP is for you.

'Solitude' is a one-track, 20 minute EP.

"I was obliged to be industrious. Whoever is equally industrious will succeed equally well."
J. S. Bach

There is some doubt in many minds regarding the last sentence. Bach's enormous output of high-quality compositions over a sustained period of time leads one to believe that he had a sense of modesty if not a sense of humor.

J. S Bach (1685-1750) composed his set of 6 English Suites around 1715 while he was living in Weimar, where his position at the Weimar court required him to write a new cantata every week. As if this wasn't enough to keep him occupied, he wrote these suites to fulfill his desire to create new instrumental music.

His set of 6 French Suites were composed between 1722 and 1725 and display some of Bach's most popular and accessible keyboard writing. These suites are not particularly "French" in idiom, lack preludes, and are shorter and less complex than the English Suites. Both French and English Suites were named at a later time by someone other than the composer. Like Bach's other suites, they follow a largely Italian tradition.