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Just moments ago, I came across a user in a music community who posted this photo as his current spin -



The cover stopped my scroll wheel action in its tracks, as my brain latched on to an unfamiliar specimen of a well-established established trope. We've got a sparse aerial shot of wintry mountains. We've got two words set in sans serif lowercase type. Ladies and gentlemen... this is a minimalist ambient drone record.

Sure enough, the artist name - loscil is taken from the "looping oscillator" function of the same name in Csound. Loscil is the electronic/ambient music project of Scott Morgan, from Vancouver, British Columbia, whose self-released debut, A New Demonstration of Thermodynamic Tendencies caught the attention of Kranky Records who promptly signed him up for a record deal.



And yet somehow, in all my years of ambient travel (3,950 ambient albums to date), loscil had evaded my radar. I'm remedying that immediately and really enjoying the cold, isolated sound of this album.

Now I just need a superhero name based on my power.

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