#ambient-techno

#ambient-techno

His first albums under his own name, 1995's Earth & Nightfall and 1996's cult classic Ten Days of Blue, were blissful-sounding ambient techno records that took the melodic sensibilities of the local scene to their cosmic extremes. Every beep and blip was in harmony with a lush string line, the rhythms less like breakbeats or programmed drums than trance-inducing hammered dulcimers.

In even the most straightforward Tanner Matt production, there's a moment where everything threatens to disintegrate. Since he began putting out leftfield house music in the early 2010s-working under aliases like Hashman Deejay, Studio Mody, and Ttam Renat, and in the groups Aquarian Foundation, Kinetic Electronix, and INTe*ra, among others-the Vancouver electronic musician has specialized in stripped-down tracks with shaky foundations and a sneaky dub underpinning.

No Biosphere album to date has placed more importance on its vocal samples than The Way of Time, which centers the voice of actress Joan Lorring from a 1951 radio play of Elizabeth Madox Roberts' 1926 novel The Time of Man.