• quiet american
  "Surely you can spare a minute to clean your ears? Take a one-minute vacation from the life you are living."
• Low Light Mixes: breathing music
  "a m b i e n t . m u s i c . m i x e s"
• Asphalt Eden
  "The Official Online Home of Brian Bieniowski?s Quiet Sounds Podcast"
• :: tell-all records :: catalogue :: scott solter - one river
  Nice stuff. Previews of all tracks, along with one full track MP3 download.
• 12k1040
  "Seaworthy, a three piece collective based in Sydney, Australia that revolves around core member Cameron Webb as well as Sam Shinazzi and Greg Bird, was formed in early 2000 to explore melodic and experimental approaches..."
• Grooves Magazine - Map in Hand
• Seaworthy - Map in Hand (12k) » article » Cyclic Defrost Magazine

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• Pjusk "Sart" latest review « 12k
  "Sart is the debut of the Norwegian duo of Jostein Dahl Gjelsvik and Rune Sagevik, otherwise known as Pjusk."

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• christopher willits - Plants and Hearts
  "Christopher Willits is a ceaseless creative force focused on teasing out the most from his instrument of choice ? the guitar."
• The Silent Ballet > Taylor Deupree & Christopher Willits - Listening Garden
  "Listening Garden is what I want to hear when I die. Deupree and Willits consistently prove themselves masterful in the process of manipulating the guitar sound to a point where its timbre is totally different on the surface..."

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Like the Last.fm Normalised Rankings I mentioned a few weeks back, LastGraph is a great way to get a visual look at what you've been listening to. Another great reason for measuring and tracking things, and then making that data available for people to build interesting applications.

Related LastGraph Last.fm Normalised Rankings Last.fm

I came across Last.fm normalised rankings recently, an interesting site that takes a look at your last.fm statistics and figures out which artists you've listened to for the most amount of time based on the average track lengths of songs. Perhaps unsurprisingly, I've spent 5,959 minutes listening to Stars of the Lid.

This kind of stuff really excites the info/data/web nerd in me. The more data in the world that's collected, and the more it's released and set free in standard formats, the more opportunities creative people have of finding ways to analyze and visualize it to help people make sense of things in their lives.

If you're a last.fm user, have a look at the Last.fm normalised rankings, it's pretty interesting.

• eMusic Lists - things my father never told me
  This is a great list of records and a nice starting point for finding ambient music on eMusic that's not necessarily classified under the eMusic "electronic" or "electronic ambient" categories.
• Lostheron
  Small Swedish record label.

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• GREG DAVIS Interview
  "We took the opportunity of the release of his superb collaboration with Paris-based Roux to catch up with Davis and talk about his already impressive body of work and his many approaches to music and sound."
• 12k
  12k label blog.
• Taylor Deupree Interview
  "Busily, happily and quite effectively carving out his own "microscopic" niche in the world of electronic/ambient sounds, Taylor Deupree is keeping busy with his 12k label..."

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• Pitchfork Feature: Column: Resonant Frequency #12
  "It's worth noting that "new age = crap" was not always a given." On the value of "new-age." Who knew there was any?

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• Rant Magazine » Articles » Efterklang
  Interview with Efterklang.

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• Having a Ball! - An Interview with Composer Thad Spencer of Asche & Spencer
  "What we are trying to do is create a situation where, even though there are seven composers or four composers, who might work on a project, it will always read "Asche and Spencer." This will help establish us as a brand."

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• Bury the Sound - "Autumn Magnets"
  "With the opening strains of 'What Would One Become' the Autumn Magnets EP opens the door to an emotionally charged landscape masterfully terra formed by the Melbourne based instrumental four piece."

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• God Is An Astronaut

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• Ambient Music Podcast Directory

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• SoundtrackNet : Interview - Mark Isham
  "...one of the reasons that I really love film music, and writing it, is because it offers me an opportunity to explore and create a new sound, even if it's subtly new, or a slight variation, or really if the film warrants, a completely fresh approach."
• Mark Isham's Discography
• Mark Isham - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  "Mark Isham (born September 7, 1951 in New York City) is an American trumpeter, synthesist, and composer. He works in a variety of genres, including jazz, electronic, and film.""

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• Brainwashed - Mogwai, "Zidane"
  "It is not a prerequisite to appreciate soccer or French star Zinedine Zidane's role in the modern game to enjoy Mogwai's work on this film's soundtrack, but Zidane the man and Zidane the film give the music context that will mean something more to fans"

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• The Silent Ballet > Articles > Interview: God is an Astronaut
  "Fresh off the release of Far From Refuge, Jordan Volz sits down to interview God is an Astronaut's Torsten Kinsella."
• The Silent Ballet > Christian Fennesz/Ryuichi Sakamoto - Cendre
  "In exercises of fragile minimalism, Christian Fennesz and Ryuichi Sakamoto are suitably versed. Both artists have built themselves reputations for delivering delicate compositions with the most negligible of instruments to aid them."
• The Silent Ballet > Lichens - Omns
  "After a good old fashioned mind melting, ushered in by the wailing chorus, Lichens' Omns drifts into subtle loops and delays, trickling piano and minimalistic guitar solos."
• joy wants eternity » Tour Blog
  "We will be adding photos and keeping a tour log on here when the trip begins."

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• Joy Wants Eternity - Music at Last.fm
  "From a basement in Seattle, Washington, 15 strangers met together in response to an ad welcoming all instruments for experimenting with walls of noise."
• Grace Cathedral Park - Music at Last.fm
  "Grace Cathedral Park keeps you floating in dreamland on a Sunday morning. Their songs are epic no matter what the length is, and in some cases the song can actually last for 20 minutes."

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"Debating The Merits Of Stars Of The Lid", interview from eMusic conducted by Robert Phoenix via IM.

"There are a lot of similarities, but I think it's more than just our titles than separate us from new age composers. I've thought about this a lot. I know that much of the new age music that I've heard I find somewhat lifeless, instrumentally and compositionally. What makes music part of a genre is a question for critics to answer. Early on, we were tarnished with the "post-rock" label. We'd tour and almost every interview wanted to ask us about post-rock and how we felt being post-rock or American post-rock."