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"Chico's Dance," by Playback Head 🇨🇦 @playbackhead.bsky.social
from Body Of Water (July 2024)
on Hotham Sound 🇨🇦 @hothamsound.bsky.social
#ambient #acoustic #electronic #SongOfTheDay
Chico's Dance, by Playback Head
from the album Body of Water
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August 22, 2025 at 8:18 PM
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Nice to see Playback Head included in this beautiful collection of tracks.
Ten MORE Tracks That Sound Like Summer
Early summer is filled with anticipation, while late summer is graced by a sense of melancholy.  We’re in mid-summer now, caught between the two extremes.  These dog days are characterized by…
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August 2, 2025 at 7:05 PM
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No words to describe the beauty of this event. Thank you to everyone who made this possible, especially Ben and Raf and all the Hotham Sound artists. ☀️
June 23, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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Hey folks, response to this show has been bigger than anticipated and tickets are almost sold out. If you're still planning on coming but don't have a ticket, grab one before they're gone. At this point we have no way of guaranteeing there will be any available at the door.

See you on the Island!
June 19, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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Ten years is a long time. Come celebrate with us. Eat food, drink wine, listen to music, play in the sun, pass out, travel through time, have a religious experience, go home with a giant commerative poster.
www.eventbrite.ca/e/hotham-sou...
May 30, 2025 at 9:35 PM
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Come celebrate 10 years of Hotham Sound Recordings with us on beautiful Saltspring Island. This one is going to be fun.
www.eventbrite.ca/e/hotham-sou...
May 2, 2025 at 10:29 PM
It's Bandcamp Friday, and an opportunity to call attention to an older album of mine: the music score for the short film Playback Head (2019). This was the album that sent me on the path of ambient music, and the following projects using that name.

alexandreklinke.bandcamp.com/album/playba...
Playback Head, by Alexandre Klinke
13 track album
alexandreklinke.bandcamp.com
May 2, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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hothamsound-10year.eventbrite.ca
Come celebrate 10 years of Hotham Sound with us on Saltspring Island! Live music, outdoors, kid friendly, and there's wine. 🤸‍♂️
Hotham Sound Recordings: Resonance Beneath the Maple Tree
A special performance in nature on Salt Spring Island, celebrating the Pacific Northwest label Hotham Sound's 10-year anniversary.
hothamsound-10year.eventbrite.ca
April 19, 2025 at 6:17 PM
I am happy to be part of this amazing line-up for the upcoming Ambient / Etc series this Saturday at the Deli, organized by @michael__red, who will be opening the evening. I will be playing some old and new pieces as Playback Head.

More info and tickets: lowindigo.tickit.ca/events/28832...
March 31, 2025 at 10:55 PM
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VANCOUVER: Live performances by Playback Head and Michael Red on April 5th at The Deli for the Ambient / Etc series
lowindigo.tickit.ca/events/28832...
@michaelred.bsky.social
@playbackhead.bsky.social
#westcoast #experimentalmusic
March 30, 2025 at 11:08 PM
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Spotify has squeezed 84% of all recorded music income in the US through a loophole that keeps it from artists. The Living Wage for Musicians Act would close this loophole and make streaming pay weareumaw.org/make-streami...
Make Streaming Pay - United Musicians and Allied Workers — United Musicians and Allied Workers
United Musicians and Allied Workers celebrates the introduction of the Living Wage for Musicians Act – led by Reps. Rashida Tlaib and Jamaal Bowman – to Congress. By creating a new streaming royalty, ...
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March 18, 2025 at 12:27 PM
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Shining a light on @hothamsound.bsky.social a boundary-pushing experimental label based in British Columbia. From ambient soundscapes to avant-garde explorations, they create sonic worlds that challenge and inspire.

Dive into their catalog and discover something unexpected: hothamsound.com
March 28, 2025 at 8:05 PM
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hothamsoundrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/nxnwx10
Hard to believe but 2025 marks the 10th anniversary of Hotham Sound Recordings. To celebrate we've released a massive free comp featuring favorites from our first decade. If you're curious, this is a killer introduction to the label.
NxNWx10, by Various Artists
27 track album
hothamsoundrecordings.bandcamp.com
March 22, 2025 at 8:29 PM
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For those who like sense-making, @timothysnyder.bsky.social is an important voice rn. An authority on the history of Europe, Soviet Union, and the Holocaust he brings an informed analysis of where we are and what would get us off the pathway to authoritarianism. open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...
The Logic of Destruction
And how to resist it
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February 3, 2025 at 12:49 AM
Winter is pretty too.
January 11, 2025 at 1:44 AM
This was definitely a highlight for me last year, playing music at Vancouver Public Library. Here is the full set of the show: vimeo.com/1043166788?s...

Thanks to Ben Wylie and the folks at the Library! An amazing initiative to bring ambient music to a large crowd in this beautiful public space.
Playback Head Live - Vancouver Public Library
This is the entire set I played at Vancouver Public Library in November 29, 2024. The show was part of Closing Time, a Winter music series featuring improvised,…
vimeo.com
January 2, 2025 at 9:04 PM
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December 15, 2024 at 2:22 AM
I enjoyed listening to the music video for Body of Water in 4D Sound yesterday at Lobe (Vancouver). The bass was shaking the floor, and water sounds enveloping the whole room.
December 13, 2024 at 4:09 PM
An additional screening time has just been added to Sonic Dreamlands, as the 7:30 show was sold out. If you’re interested, it will be this Thursday, Dec 12, 5pm at Lobe Studio.

www.eventbrite.ca/e/sonic-drea...
SONIC DREAMLANDS
Eventbrite - Strathcona Spatial Sound Society presents SONIC DREAMLANDS - Thursday, December 12, 2024 at Lobe Studio, Vancouver, BC. Find event and ticket information.
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December 9, 2024 at 10:38 PM
After the amazing opportunity to play at VPL a few days ago, on Thursday the video for Body of Water will be screened at Lobe Studio (in 4D Sound!), and Saturday I will be back at Red Gate, performing alongside a stellar lineup.

www.eventbrite.ca/e/sonic-drea...

www.instagram.com/redgateartss...
December 9, 2024 at 9:43 PM
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this is genius. alas there is no similar way to turn off lossy compression on audio streaming services!
For those going home to visit family this weekend:

• Samsung calls it Auto Motion Plus
• LG calls it TruMotion
• Sony calls it Motionflow
• Roku calls it Action Smoothing
• Google TV calls it Motion Enhancement
• Vizio calls it Smooth Motion Effect.
November 27, 2024 at 12:12 AM
Getting ready for this show next Friday at Vancouver Public Libray in downtown. Come check it out!

vpl.bibliocommons.com/events/67182...
Closing Time: Playback Head
It's Closing Time, our Winter music series. Every second Friday from November to February, we will be hosting a local musician as they fill the Central Library's atrium with a live, improvised perform...
vpl.bibliocommons.com
November 23, 2024 at 2:28 AM
Today is Bandcamp Friday, and if you happen to be looking for some new music today, please consider purchasing my recently released album "Body of Water". A perfect soundtrack for the late Summer. 🌴🌊🍺

playbackhead.bandcamp.com/album/body-o...
September 6, 2024 at 8:24 PM
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Big thanks as always to Audiopile Records for the stellar writeup on our new release. We're sold out on the bandcamp but they've still got a few copies available and they ship!
August 4, 2024 at 5:26 PM
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