interlude
1 trackA short piece placed between the main songs of an album or EP to connect them. It usually drops verses and choruses in favour of a mood or a single idea, and works as a pause that shapes how the songs around it are heard.
Sound and timbre
ambient texture
10 tracks.
What it is
Layers of sustained, slowly changing sound that create atmosphere rather than melody or beat. Many electronic tracks open and close with them.
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drone
0 tracksA sustained sound or chord held under the music for a long time. Drones give ambient and psychedelic music its sense of space and suspension.
reverb
3 tracksThe sound of a space: countless reflections that blend after the direct sound. Reverb places a voice in a room, a hall or an impossible space, and long reverbs make music feel distant or dreamlike.
Hear it in these tracks
Yoko Duo, Stimming
Close These Curtains (Stimming Remix)
Stimming wraps Yoko Duo's fragile song in velvet: a slow, organic deep house remix full of soft textures, a hushed vocal and the feeling of a room going quiet.
Labyrinth Ear
Navy Light
A three-minute haze of blurred synths, soft beats and a distant, weightless voice, Navy Light feels like city lights seen through rain on a night bus window.
Klyne
Paralyzed
A hushed, slow-burning slice of electronic soul from the Dutch duo Klyne, where a fragile falsetto floats over muted beats and a heart too stunned to move.
Her
Interlude
A brief, late-night breath on Her's first tape, the French duo's velvet electronic soul pared back to just over two minutes of mood, space and a slow, sensual glow.
filous, LissA
Feel Good Inc.
The Austrian producer filous strips the Gorillaz classic down to a delicate xylophone, plucked strings and airy beats, and LissA's light voice turns the old windmill anthem into a hazy daydream.
Lulu Rouge
Sweeter Than Sweet (feat. Alice Carreri)
From Lulu Rouge's 2008 debut Bless You, a slow, dub-shadowed Copenhagen downtempo track in which Alice Carreri sings Mikael Simpson's words over deep bass and spacious, echoing textures.
Lulu Rouge
Lulu's Theme (feat. Trentemøller)
Danish duo Lulu Rouge and their old ally Trentemøller in seven and a half minutes of nocturnal minimal house: reverberating dub bass, slow-building layers and a Basic Channel shadow.
Saschienne
Knopfauge
'Knopfauge' is a track from Unknown (Kompakt, 2012), the debut album of Saschienne, the duo of Berlin DJ Sascha Funke and French singer and synth player Julienne Dessagne: minimal electronic music built on Moog lines and patient layering.
Alic
Going Down In A Blaze Of Glory
A seven-minute slab of psychedelic techno from the German duo Alic, released free on their own netlabel Digital Diamonds in 2012: punching drums under slowly shifting atmospheric layers.
Marbert Rocel
Hush Now
A soulful downtempo song from the German trio Marbert Rocel's second album Catch A Bird: Antje Seifarth's gentle voice over soft, slowly unfolding electronics, made for winding down.