I’ve barely got over the sheer genius of the last one, but Solitude’s unleashed another ambient dubstep mix on the world and it’s as calm and reposed as your tense, tumescent head desires. Most of the hour comprises tunes by Akema, who I’d never heard of but am now thoroughly in love with, and his halcyon tones are punctuated with similarly chilled out additions from Burial, Breakage, Kryptic Minds and even Skream, amongst others. I’m really getting into this ambient stuff, it makes me less aggressive and gives me more incentive to do things other than grind my teeth and break glass.

If you want to feel care-free and cosy like a baby in a pushchair on a rainy day, you could either take a large dose of heroin or listen to this. I think this might be a better option…although I’m not a doctor.

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Solitude – Ambient Dubstep Vol. 5

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Dubstep isn’t all banging on pots and waking up the neighbours, there is some serious ambient stuff out there at the moment. Phaeleh, Kryptic Minds and Synkro are murdering the atmospherics right now and thankfully, Solitude has included them in Vol. 4 of his ambient mixes. Swirling and blended seamlessly together, this one drips into your consciousness like a melodic sedative, enveloping you in a blanket of calm. If only Hitler had slammed this on the gramaphone before he invaded Poland…

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Solitude – Ambient Dubstep Vol. 4

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Having made the BBC’s longlist for the Sound of 2010, alongside the masterful talents of Giggs, Stornoway and a few others, I decided Gold Panda was a producer I should probably sit up and wrap my ears around. Thankfully, he’s a bit of a genius and I have managed to spend the last couple of hours infatuated by his gorgeous aural treats. Analogue degradation folded into minimal electronica gives his music an insular and comforting quality reminiscent of wrapping yourself up in a duvet on a Winter morning. His three track release, Miyamae EP, is a short but exquisite journey into this soft opulence that will stop your hands shaking and make that hard wooden stool feel like a cotton wool throne.

I don’t like to tip things for success because it makes me feel like I’ve failed if I’m wrong, but I’d just like to state that if the world has any sense, Gold Panda will have a sick start to the next decade. If he flops, fuck it, I’ll claim I tipped somebody else. Video after the jump.

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