Wednesday, April 8, 2020

#3793 Warmth - Home

4/5 the difference between good and bad ambient is necessarily subtle. Agustín Mena does one thing very well: moves voices into the mix slowly, evolves voices even more slowly, and builds in subtle rhythms, little ghosts of clicks and heartbeats moving at paces more readily expressible in bpms. And every once in a while there's an actual melody, played low and slow and repeatedly and far apart. And he does all these things well, adding the barest scent of some distant place and, there you have it, good ambient from just one stone

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