Artist Info: Astral Engineering

This is an act from the heyday of "ambient" in the post-rave diaspora; i.e., the mid-1990s. From England, this came out on Worm Recordings, and was distributed in the US by Silent Records -- then THE bastion of the best ambient in America. The album is amazing, and the names totally embody the sound: pulsating 303s, analog pulses, rhythms and modulations and swells and waves and crests and buttes, and beauteous melodies that are warm and soothing [read more...]