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The Slow Music Movement
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Disorderly digging in an algorithmic world. Lesser known independent artists & alternative music. Generally lazy & hazy vibes. Check the newsletter, blog & socials for our daily music tips, podcast & playlists.
https://linktr.ee/theslowmusicmovement
"it's jazz for dark rooms and late nights, jazz for the disenfranchised and discriminated against."
www.theslowmusicmovement.org/post/alfred-...

Find Matérn in the Slow Jazz Playlist:
www.submithub.com/link/slow-ja...

#jazz #trumpet #alternative #music #independent #artist #newyork
January 28, 2026 at 3:24 PM
"making for quite an opiated ambient folk ode to responsible substance use"
www.theslowmusicmovement.org/post/willebr...

Find Willebrant in the Slow Ambient Playlist:
www.submithub.com/link/slow-am...

#ambient #fieldrecordings #alternative #music #independent #artist #melbourne
January 27, 2026 at 3:17 PM
"the perfect time to slip on your headphones and better explore the sonic details of this gently restless soundscape"
www.theslowmusicmovement.org/post/jeremie...

Find Fauquet in the Slowtronic Playlist:
www.submithub.com/link/slowtro...

#ambient #electronic #music #independent #artist #france
January 26, 2026 at 8:39 AM
"the rhythm section get a real sweat on - tightly locked and intent on reaching escape velocity"
www.theslowmusicmovement.org/post/yamirah...

Find the trio in the Slow Jazz Playlist:
www.submithub.com/link/slow-ja...

#jazz #nujazz #alternative #music #independent #artist #berlin
January 22, 2026 at 8:58 PM
“the recording’s intimacy draws you into the space until you’re sitting cross legged on the factory floor. It’s a delicate and charming neoclassical listen."
www.theslowmusicmovement.org/post/jelena-...

Companion Playlist:
www.submithub.com/link/slow-ne...

#neoclassical #liverecording #music
January 21, 2026 at 8:30 PM
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‘Europeans have to understand that it’s over’: historian Robert Kagan on Trump’s coming ‘dictatorship’ and the end of the western alliance
The geopolitics expert, who warned of the president’s authoritarianism a decade ago, tells Carole Cadwalladr how deep the roots of American white nationalism are – and that Europe needs to wake up, fast
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January 21, 2026 at 2:43 PM
When you hear a single and immediately put the album release date in your diary.

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Telluric
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January 20, 2026 at 9:51 PM
“This is electronic music for the head as well as the hips"
www.theslowmusicmovement.org/post/mattr-e...

Find Mattr in the Ambient House Playlist:
www.submithub.com/link/ambient...

#idm #futurebreaks #music #independent #artist #london
January 20, 2026 at 2:47 PM
"paving the way for some suitably languid drums and the arrival of Hasselgren's fragile, low gravity, achingly beautiful vocals"
www.theslowmusicmovement.org/post/boy-ome...

Find them in the Slow Alt-Pop Playlist:
www.submithub.com/link/slow-po...

#altpop #alternative #music #independent #sweden
January 19, 2026 at 9:51 AM
“gentle, peaceful and borderline blissful electroacoustic soundscapes"
www.theslowmusicmovement.org/post/kita-ko...

Find Kouhei in the Slow Ambient Playlist:
www.submithub.com/link/slow-am...

#ambient #electroacoustic #music #independent #artist #japan
January 18, 2026 at 7:16 PM
"a mighty fine, mildly theatrical, shadowy slice of lysergic alt-pop rock with genuine craft"
www.theslowmusicmovement.org/post/phantom...

Find Phantom Pink in the Slow Psyche Playlist:
www.submithub.com/link/slow-ps...

#altpop #artrock #psychedelic #music #independent #artist #losangeles
January 18, 2026 at 8:57 AM
“he's just released Altavistic - his debut LP, & it's as idiosyncratic and wonderful an electronic music excursion as I'd hoped for"
www.theslowmusicmovement.org/post/other-a...

Slow House Playlist:
www.submithub.com/link/slow-ho...

#electronic #house #music #independent #artist #sanfrancisco
January 17, 2026 at 12:27 PM
The latest newsletter just got sent to 4000+ subscribers, just click the profile link to check out six great albums from the alternative and independent music underground.
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Digging and Sowing
Eclectic ambience abounds.
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January 16, 2026 at 8:09 AM
It was nice to read that @bandcamp.com are making a stand against AI music. Their press release says all the right things, but I can't help feeling that relying on the sites users to police its AI music content doesn’t show any meaningful resolve on the issue.

blog.bandcamp.com/2026/01/13/k...
January 15, 2026 at 8:12 AM
“Tiwayo has upped the funk and headed straight to the dance floor with "Up For Soul""
www.theslowmusicmovement.org/post/tiwayo-...

Find Tiwayo in the Slow Grooves Playlist:
www.submithub.com/link/slow-gr...

#soul #funk #music #independent #artist #paris
January 15, 2026 at 6:18 AM
“the mood is one of detachment, introspection & more than a hint of that rarely discussed feeling of loneliness and melancholy that can creep up on urbanites when left on their own"
www.theslowmusicmovement.org/post/molto-o...

Find Ohm in the Ambient Pop Playlist:
www.submithub.com/link/ambient...
January 14, 2026 at 8:21 AM
“The vibe from the off is distinctly sixties, which lets face it in jazz is no bad thing"
www.theslowmusicmovement.org/post/ensembl...

Find the Ensemble in the Slow Jazz Playlist:
www.submithub.com/link/slow-ja...

#jazz #alternative #music #independent #artist #hamburg
January 13, 2026 at 7:30 AM
“an acoustic guitar lays down the track's folk credentials and paves the way for the fragile, warm yet wistful vocals"
www.theslowmusicmovement.org/post/the-ent...

Find them in the Slow Folk Playlist:
www.submithub.com/link/slow-fo...

#folk #altfolk #alternative #music #independent #artist #sydney
January 12, 2026 at 8:02 AM
“Sunrise” gives spiritual jazz a rustic Japanese folkloric infusion whilst whispering a call for peace and love. Yes please."
www.theslowmusicmovement.org/post/takuro-...

Find Okada in the Slow Jazz Playlist:
www.submithub.com/link/slow-ja...

#jazz #spiritualjazz #independent #artist #japan
January 11, 2026 at 5:34 PM
"charting and building tellurian bridges between the ambient, new age and neoclassical multiverses"
www.theslowmusicmovement.org/post/saltbre...

Find Saltbreaker in The New Age of New Age Playlist:
www.submithub.com/link/the-new...

#newage #ambient #alternative #music #independent #artist #detroit
January 10, 2026 at 9:07 AM
"Trip Hop didn't die it just moved with the times and Darkstate is currently leading the way."
www.theslowmusicmovement.org/post/darksta...

Find Darkstates in the Slow Alt-Pop Playlist.
www.submithub.com/link/slow-po...

#triphop #altpop #alternative #music #independent #artist #london
January 9, 2026 at 7:46 AM
"the Fourth World’s disenfranchised now have another soundtrack"
www.theslowmusicmovement.org/post/niikkol...

Find NIIKKOLAHS in the Slow Oddities Playlist:
www.submithub.com/link/slow-od...

#fourthworld #alternative #music #independent #artist #japan
January 8, 2026 at 7:55 PM
One year on from the Los Angeles wildfires. A stunning before and after photo feature, and thousands of sad stories. www.theguardian.com/us-news/gall...
January 8, 2026 at 2:15 PM
"This could be ambient jazz's year, and if I finally do that jazzbient mix this tune will be on it."
www.theslowmusicmovement.org/post/tapani-... 

Find this great tune in the Slow Ambient Playlist:
www.submithub.com/link/slow-am...

#ambient #jazz #alternative #music #independent #artist #finland
January 8, 2026 at 2:11 PM