• Asche & Spencer - Music at Last.fm
  "Has done scores for the following; The Untitled Onion Movie (2006) Departing Visions (2006) Stay (2005) Our Time Is Up (2004) Jasper, Texas (2003) Four Lean Hounds (2003) Monster's Ball (2001)"

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• Stormy Records
  New version of the Detroit, Windy & Carl record store web site is up. "We have beautiful drones, ambient electronica, modern composers, noise and experimental music."
• textura
  "Established in August 2004, textura is a monthly publication of experimental and electronic music-related reviews, interviews, articles, and images, some of which also appear in Grooves, Cyclic Defrost, and Signal To Noise."
• Cendre ::: fennesz.com
  "This release features a duet between Christian Fennesz [guitar/laptop] and Ryuichi Sakamoto [piano/laptop] - a continuing collaboration between two highly regarded composers."
• Amiina | Live reviews | Guardian Unlimited Music
  "The pieces might be lullabies if they weren't so ecstatic - although it is an ecstasy measured out with awestruck, delicate precision."
• the official amiina website!
  "We are 4 friends who met while studying at the Reykjavik College of Music in the 1990s. Since then, we?ve been playing all sorts of music with all sorts of people together."
• Screaming Masterpiece
  "Whatever the explanation, the Icelanders have fostered a music scene with a sound and attitude that is all their own, mixing ancient dirges and contemporary electronics, rock, pop and classical influences, to produce their own eclectic style."

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• iLike™ - Home
  "Instant music discovery, just add friends! Discover New Music Check out what your friends are listening to, browse the libraries of people with similar tastes, and get Free MP3 downloads by new artists matched to your own music tastes."
• Dustin O'Halloran Interview: The Red Alert
  "O'Halloran took a break from his first day of mixing for The Beautiful Ordinary in L.A. to speak with The Red Alert on what separates his music from the classical genre and where his career is headed."
• Dusted Features: Listed, Stars of the Lid + Mark Templeton
  "Every Friday, Dusted Magazine publishes a series of music-related lists compiled by our favorite artists. This week: Stars of the Lid and Mark Templeton."
• Cokemachineglow.com : Mark Templeton: Standing On a Hummingbird
  "It's these little details that give Standing On A Hummingbird its strong sense of melancholy, or desolation. If it weren?t for these elements, it simply be a well-executed experiment, but as it stands it?s one of the more haunting pieces of sound a
• mark templeton :: fields awake v.2
  "www.fieldsawake.com is the home of Mark Templeton and Fields Awake."

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• Intuitive Music » MySpace Bands
  "We are constantly discovering new artists and bands throughout our MySpace Intuitive Music web site. Here is a list of the latest discoveries we have made at MySpace in alternative, experimental, electronic and progressive music."
• MPR: Six Parts Seven makes music the focus
  Six Parts Seven played a set on Minnesota Public Radio. Songs performed: "Conversation Heart," "September," and "Knock At My Door."
• Erasing Clouds Interview: Eluvium
  Interview from aroud the time of "When I Live by the Garden and the Sea".
• Cokemachineglow.com - Interview: Eluvium's Matthew Cooper
  An interview from around the time of the release of "Talk Amongst the Trees".

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• Obscure Sound - Indie Music Blog - "Obscure Sound is an indie music blog that originiated in early 2006."

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I'm experimenting with the last.fm playlist player widget. I'm not convinced this is useful at all, and the code to create it is a disaster, so maybe this is just something to put up over on the Ambient Music Blog MySpace profile and forget about.

In order to get the thing to have any value whatsoever, I had to choose tracks from my charts that offer full track plays, rather than 30 second previews. Unfortunately, for obvious rights issues reasons, not many of the tracks I listen to often are licensed for full streaming. Luckily, some of my favorite artists have a few tracks available for full streaming, including Loscil and Wes Willenbring.

I'm not sure where the data is coming from, as I don't think eMusic has an API, but this morning I came across a listing of all albums recently added to eMusic. eMusic is notoriously bad at cataloging records, especially anything close to what you'd consider ambient, so sorting by genre isn't particularly useful. But you can sort by "Label" and "Artist", and while I don't know that I'd use this thing too terribly often for finding new tracks, it's a nice thing to have.

Speaking of finding stuff on eMusic, boy are there so many things they could do to improve the way the site works. If anyone from is eMusic reading this, maybe you'd like to have an ambient-music-listening, MLS-having, information & user experience professional on hand?

Just a heads up here that I've started using lists over at eMusic to keep track of records I think are particularly good (and that eMusic has in their catalog). The first of what I hope to be at least more than a few is Ambient Music Blog Picks.