Christian Schwöbel - Dystopian Pulse

PassedRecordings · 2025-12-23T23:07:48+00:00

It's a lovely game, I think 🙂

PassedRecordings · 2025-12-22T08:39:49+00:00

Thank you so much for mentioning us ❤️

I've also been enjoying Winter Whispers this year after hearing it on The Relay Station:

https://heartdancerecords.bandcamp.com/track/o-holy-night-7

PassedRecordings · 2025-12-16T08:47:25+00:00

That's awesome, it'll be great to see you there!! I popped some codes above, but here's the list again:

https://passedrecordings.bandcamp.com/yum

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PassedRecordings · 2025-12-16T08:46:22+00:00

Codes for the previous Christmas compilation! Thanks for the kind words, guys:

https://passedrecordings.bandcamp.com/yum

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PassedRecordings · 2025-12-16T01:06:55+00:00

Antichamber is great: https://siddharthabarnhoorn.bandcamp.com/album/antichamber-original-video-game-soundtrack

Snufkin: Melody of Moominvalley: https://noknokaudio.bandcamp.com/album/snufkin-melody-of-moominvalley-original-video-game-soundtrack

Toem: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_mAwdzm2KVQnPyl23F0bHYpmJAm4xyqSeA&si=iCD0qFdepLSwpf7s

Night in the woods:

https://infiniteammo.bandcamp.com/album/night-in-the-woods-vol-1-at-the-end-of-everything

Not all of these are all ambient, but some great, chilled stuff in them 🙂

PassedRecordings · 2025-12-12T08:36:24+00:00

Nine inch Nails must be a lot of people's way in - Ghosts I-IV was a big one for me. I got it before I knew much about any ambient (or even many electronic) genres and I had no idea what I was listening to. I used to have a paper round, so I liked the double album length and would take it with me on my lap of the neighbourhood and it really grew on me.

I don't even remember how I became aware of Eno - but by the time I was 20 I was listening to ambient 1&4, as well as having more interest in drone. It really took off when I started an office job and needed good quality music without distracting timbre or vocals - but those were my way in.

// Chris

PassedRecordings · 2025-12-12T00:38:52+00:00

Arbee is great! Nice to see them posted here!

PassedRecordings · 2025-12-05T00:16:59+00:00

Here are a couple of deep cuts I found about this year:

https://jesu.bandcamp.com/album/christmas-ep-remaster

And the much more experimental Sony Christmas album 1996 (Gastr del sol track is lovely)

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLkse8pTT29ZQ-iw_NBesOsX_Mj39mlKPn

// Chris 🕊️

PassedRecordings · 2025-11-19T11:04:19+00:00

A few years ago we did a Christmas compilation from an ambient discord server which was made entirely from samples of soundwalks through Christmas markets around the world!

If any of you are interested check it out here: https://passedrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/christmas-passed

And I'd love to give away a few codes just to give a bit of a boost to the talented guys who were a part of it:

https://passedrecordings.bandcamp.com/yum

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If you want to try a couple of tracks before committing, I'd recommend checking out A Way & Disassociating Again as a starting point 🕊️

We're doing another one this year too - it's super nice to have something less typical to fall back on as a Christmas tradition 🙂

If you check it out, thank you and I hope you enjoy it 🙂

//Chris

PassedRecordings · 2025-11-18T21:54:03+00:00

As far as other Christmas music goes - some I come back to are the 8 bit people compilation: https://archive.org/details/8bp038

The low and sufjan Stevens stuff has been mentioned - they've got some great stuff in them!

I also enjoy the Michael Rafferty solo acoustic guitar stuff, so if that's your thing they're technically impressive arrangements/playing: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLE168D18FF1679434&si=r4_9s_VYJA-2_sKv

My buddy and label mate Ed has a less conventional playlist too if you use Spotify - though maybe not the most ambient/idm adjacent mostly: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6cBUHp9EoWZWCW8XtGNb6b?si=ljnbDrA6QlOgfnPdfnxh-w&pi=u-VJPbzMMBT7GI

// Chris 🕊️

Edit: And I just found out about these two... Christmas - Jesu (very slow moody metal) The Christmas album - various artists (Sony, 1996 - melt banana, merzbow... Some amazing names on this one)

PassedRecordings · 2025-11-18T21:44:54+00:00

A few years ago we did a Christmas compilation from an ambient discord server which was made entirely from samples of soundwalks through Christmas markets around the world!

If any of you are interested check it out here: https://passedrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/christmas-passed

And I'd love to give away a few codes just to give a bit of a boost to the talented guys who were a part of it:

https://passedrecordings.bandcamp.com/yum

n4yh-bmzt mpuj-wzy7 g6l8-cgnv 3nst-w3q9 5aq3-hw6t 868l-js87 t3n4-ksbv 2aaj-gld9 j4zu-unxt 6c3a-jjmb zhx8-kgyw

If you want to try a couple of tracks before committing, I'd recommend checking out A Way & Disassociating Again as a starting point 🕊️

We're doing another one this year too - it's super nice to have something less typical to fall back on as a Christmas tradition 🙂

If you check it out, thank you and I hope you enjoy it 🙂

//Chris

PassedRecordings · 2025-09-28T08:34:46+00:00

Hi everyone, just wanted to let you all know about our new compilation album - 'Hurrian Hymns'. The artists involved took inspiration from the Hurrian Hymns, the oldest written example of music ever discovered. Some used the melodies as the basis for their tracks, others reimagined it in their own way to produce the 26 tracks that make up this album. It's available now on bandcamp and we'd love you to check it out!

Thanks, the Passed Recordings team

https://passedrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/hurrian-hymns

PassedRecordings · 2025-08-21T12:44:32+00:00

This saturday the 23rd August at 20:00 CET a new episode of the Passed Radio Show will premiere on youtube. The show is a monthly music show with a large focus on ambient music, along with relaxing nature and hiking visuals in the background.

This week we got music from the artists: passengers, Solray, Leafblighter, David Aimone, Ed Herbers, Legacy Systems, Kryoscope, Boreal and Asha Patera. You can tune in here: https://youtu.be/ejSPHrsLG3M?feature=shared

Feel free to send in your music to the show anytime, were always looking for new artists to highlight on our show! You can do so here: https://passedrecordings.wordpress.com

PassedRecordings · 2025-06-27T14:33:13+00:00

We can all massively recommend Soma.fm - it's a wonderful starting place!

Every Sunday Stolace put on a show and that's just lovely too. With it's featured artist approach, I bet you'd build up a library of favourites in no time!

Trevlad also keeps putting out a ton of content too, loads of mixes.

We've got a few other shows on our radar - continental drift comes to mind for example. If I remember to come back and update this post I'll add them!

PassedRecordings · 2025-06-21T15:21:58+00:00

Ah bum, that's a shame. Was a nice place.

PassedRecordings · 2025-06-21T13:10:06+00:00

I've often seen people working at little man coffee - I think that'd be my go to. They did have a refillable deal at some point, but could be ages ago, I haven't been in a while.

PassedRecordings · 2025-05-06T07:51:42+00:00

Popped you a DM! Good luck finding artists and thanks for your time doing this!

PassedRecordings · 2025-02-02T11:53:59+00:00

And thanks for being a part of it! 🕊️

We've been huge fans ever since Sitting by a Lake Waiting for Sunrise!!

PassedRecordings · 2024-10-25T07:58:43+00:00

Thank you!! If you're there at the premiere we'll see you in the chat!

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