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Vote To Reissue Whitelabrecs Classics

November 13, 2025 at 12:07 PM

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2 x new releases out for pre-order today!

The Volume Settings Folder - Corporate Shamanism

Catherine Tang - Where Do Your Dreams Fly?

Check them here on @bandcamp.com

whitelabrecs.bandcamp.com

#ambientmusic #ambient

November 7, 2025 at 5:45 PM

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Join the community vote!

Whitelabrecs turns 10 next year, and I’m repressing some classics on vinyl

Check out the first shortlist & help choose which albums get reissued!

Voting closes Nov 15

#ambientmusic #vinylreissue #modernclassical

For Whitelabrecs' 10th birthday next year, there'll be vinyl reissues of label classics, as voted by the community. Learn more about the first shortlist and cast your vote!

Let One Bird Sing - The Film

November 6, 2025 at 6:51 PM

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In this week’s blog, I chatted with Beirut-based cinematographer Ralf Moussa about his short film for ’Autumn Song’ by David Cordero & Anthéne, exploring autumn’s textures, caged birds and fleeting hope in a collapsing world:

Watch Ralf Moussa's cinematic film for 'Autumn Song' by David Cordero & Anthéne's following their recent album 'Let One Bird Sing'. Go behind the scenes with Ralf in an interview on all things cinemat...

The Lake, by Louis Gardner

October 30, 2025 at 11:55 AM

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Two new albums out today on Whitelabrecs:
whitelabrecs.bandcamp.com

Glacis & Polaroid Notes - Time Is Coming To An End
David Cordero & Anthéne - Let One Bird Sing

For the latter, there's a beautiful film by cinematographer Ralf Moussa for the track 'Autumn Song'

October 18, 2025 at 7:56 AM

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I’m pleased to present The Lake by Louis Gardner, a 23 minute piano improvisation layered with voice and acoustic instrument textures. It’s the 40th edition in Whitelabrecs’ eRecord series

#folkmusic #ambientfolk #ambientpiano #electroacoustic #pianosong

1 track album

Tapes and Topographies - Partial Holograms (Listening Party) from whitelabrecs

September 27, 2025 at 7:33 AM

Whitelabrecs

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At 9pm (UK time) I’ll be hosting a listening party for the new @tapesandtopog.bsky.social album ‘Partial Holograms’.

🎟️ You’re invited to join us of course! Here’s the link:
whitelabrecs.bandcamp.com/merch/tapes-...

JARR - Sun Swift Swoon (Listening Party) from whitelabrecs

September 9, 2025 at 4:18 PM

Whitelabrecs

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New releases out today by @tapesandtopog.bsky.social & Gamardah Fungus, just in time for #bandcamp Friday! Check them out here:

whitelabrecs.bandcamp.com

#ambient #ambientmusic

September 5, 2025 at 11:15 AM

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New on the blog: Adrian Lane’s Grounding Sounds; the artist’s favourite records of all time, with a mix, photos and thoughts:

whitelabrecs.com/blog/b/groun...

Some massive records in there by the likes of Fennesz, Johann Johannsson, Max Richter and plenty more…

#ambientmusic

August 21, 2025 at 8:20 PM

Whitelabrecs

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Listening party tonight at 9pm (UK time) for the new JARR album, with artists Jon Attwood (Yellow6) and Ray Robinson (Wodwo):

Where Once We Danced Listening Party from whitelabrecs

August 14, 2025 at 12:59 PM

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This evening at 9pm (UK time), we have the listening party for Adrian Lane’s new album ‘Where Once We Danced’

Adrian will be joining us, and will be able to provide insight into his music and the album’s collage artwork. We hope to catch some of you later!

#modernclassical
#ambientmusic
#ambient

A Field Guide To Ambient Folk

August 13, 2025 at 12:36 PM

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This week’s post is a special 2 hour mix looking at the Ambient Folk genre through the eyes of Nigel Spencer of @folkpolice.com

This came about via our private community Inner Echo!

#ambient #folk #ambientfolk

Nigel Spencer of the Folk Police record label presents a mix, playlist and guide on a genre he calls Ambient Folk, spotlighting artists such as Michael Scott Dawson, The Green Kingdom, Andrew Heath an...

Glåsbird shares some of his favourite Nordic records with a vinyl-only mix and track-by-track commentary and pictures...

August 8, 2025 at 11:34 AM

Whitelabrecs

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This week’s blog post is a vinyl mix I made gathering Nordic influenced records.

The mix includes artists such as Sigur Rós, Biosphere, Mika Vainio and Patricia Wolf, on labels such as Deutsche Grammophon, 130701 and Own Records

whitelabrecs.com/blog/b/glasb...

#ambientmusic #vinyl

Glåsbird's Nordic Vinyl

Behind the Scenes with Julia Gjertsen & Gustav Davidsson

July 31, 2025 at 5:41 PM

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🎧 Out now on Whitelabrecs:

Akira Film Script – Live At The Modern
🔗 whitelabrecs.bandcamp.com/album/live-a...

15 Ambient tracks at a generous 1hr 45min by this San Francisco, US based artist.
Made to be shuffled, that’s 32,768 listening combinations! Digital scrapbook included

#ambientmusic

July 26, 2025 at 3:27 PM

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New on the blog: Julia Gjertsen visits Gustav Davidsson’s Studio Glasfågeln to film live performances and enjoy rural Sweden. Their album Wandering Mind, Drifting Weather was also featured in @bandcamp.com New & Notable this week!

Go behind the scenes here:
🔗 whitelabrecs.com/blog/b/julia...

Let's go behind the scenes at the Glasfegeln studio in Sweden, with Julia Gjertsen and Gustav Davidsson with a live video performance and photos by Josefin Stacy

Wandering Mind, Drifting Weather, by Julia Gjertsen & Gustav Davidsson

July 24, 2025 at 6:07 PM

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Wandering Mind, Drifting Weather

A collaboration between Julia Gjertsen& Gustav Davidsson

Crafted over months of intuitive sketch-swapping between
Norway and Sweden. Listen now on Bandcamp or your favourite streaming platform:

whitelabrecs.bandcamp.com

#ambient #modernclassical #newmusic

July 20, 2025 at 11:01 AM

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Join Julia Gjertsen & Gustav Davidsson and I for a Bandcamp Listening Party tonight at 9pm (UK time):

whitelabrecs.bandcamp.com/merch/julia-...

#listeningparty #modernclassical #ambientmusic

July 17, 2025 at 1:29 PM

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Here’s a new edition to the catalog available to pre-order from today, by Julia Gjertsen & Gustav Davidsson:

whitelabrecs.bandcamp.com/album/wander...

9 track album

July 4, 2025 at 6:49 PM

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Out today! A repress of my 2020 Glåsbird album ‘Norskfjǫrðr’ with a refreshed design:

whitelabrecs.bandcamp.com/album/norskf...

#ambientmusic
#cinematic
#modernclassical

norskfjǫrðr, by glåsbird

10 track album

Sentinel of the Moors, by The Deccan Traps

July 4, 2025 at 5:18 PM

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New release, out today!

‘Sentinel of the Moors’ by The Deccan Traps is the 38th edition in the eRecords series, a digital only collection. Each eRecord includes a PDFs with the download, containing liner notes and bonus images.

whitelabrecs.bandcamp.com/album/sentin...

6 track album

Behind The Scenes With Aries Mond

June 28, 2025 at 6:05 AM

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It’s time for this week’s blog post, in which we go behind the scenes with @ariesmond.bsky.social

Boris Billier, the artist behind this project, shares a behind the scenes view of his new album 'Edge Angles' with photos of foggy Pyrenees hikes captured at the time he was working on his album.

Aries Mond shares a behind the scenes view of his new album 'Edge Angles' and photos captured at the time of recording of foggy hikes in the Pyrénées

Aries Mond - Edge Angles (Listening Party) from whitelabrecs

June 26, 2025 at 5:34 PM

Whitelabrecs

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Out Now!

Aries Mond
‘Edge Angles’

whitelabrecs.bandcamp.com/album/edge-a...

Raw piano compositions littered with subtle obscure details throughout, recorded by this French artist when windows of time were short

#modernclassical
#ambientmusic
#ambient

June 21, 2025 at 11:08 AM

Whitelabrecs

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Out today!

Henrik Meierkord, Marco Lucchi & Pawel Kobak
‘The Book Of Dreams’

whitelabrecs.bandcamp.com/album/the-bo...

Melodic Ambient drones created from cello, flute and keys, drenched in a sleepy reverb to match the theme of dreams.

#ambientmusic

June 21, 2025 at 11:06 AM

Whitelabrecs

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All set for tonight’s listening party, just a few hours to go…

whitelabrecs.bandcamp.com/merch/aries-...

If you’re about, join us at 9pm (UK time) and we’ll all enjoy an online Bandcamp premiere of ‘Edge Angles’ by French artist Aries Mond. Hope to catch some of you a little later!