Author Archives: Occasional Feel Good

May 2, 2016   When considering all of the massive sea changes in music over the past 25 years, it’s hard to keep a mental note of the many records that have come along that helped form the landscape.  Trends and genres have slowly been created and accepted into the very fabric of popular music, and whatContinue reading “Essential Records: A Look Back At 1991”

February 7, 2017   If you dedicate a large portion of your life to music as I do, you hear a lot of records. It’s quite easy to build an appreciation for tons of obscure music that ends up being lost in the shuffle of release dates and hype.  Most of us separate the ones that have stoodContinue reading “Lost Albums: 10 Amazing Records You’ve (Likely) Never Heard”

October 28, 2016   It’s no secret that Wolfgang Voigt has become one of the most revered names in electronic music from the past 25 years.  Under his many guises, Voigt has treated us to house, electro, techno, and even polka-influenced takes on electronic music variations.  Voigt’s most esteemed and fabled project, without a doubt, would be his Gas project, started back in 1995Continue reading “Wolfgang Voigt/Gas Interview”

October 1st, 2015   Before I even begin to construct this list of musical monuments, let me just state that the music style of shoegaze is a tricky one. It’s an institution held close to many, and there are so many other influences that flit in and out of the heart and soul of the discipline thatContinue reading “10 Of The Best Shoegaze Albums”

July 5, 2015   As a longtime nerd of electronic music in all of its forms, compiling a list of the ten best ambient albums is true torture. Please know that I feel appropriately ashamed for leaving out all the classics I inevitably must skip here. However, if this list helps those uninitiated down theContinue reading “10 Of The Best Ambient Albums”

October 14, 2016 If you haven’t noticed recently, we talk a lot about our love of ambient music.  The internet is bursting with endless lists, stores are bleeding with perpetual re-issues, and arguments sprout from our never-quenching thirst for that ambient magic that continues to evolve, only bringing more attention and respect to the originalContinue reading “Interview with Thomas Fehlmann of The Orb (from 2016)”