Headphone Commute

Interview with Benoît Pioulard

HC — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 05:13:13 +0000

The following is an excerpt from an ongoing conversation with Thomas Meluch, aka Benoît Pioulard, our current featured artist on Headphone Community. For the last couple of weeks, we have been traversing Tom’s career, beginning with the “kranky years”, talking about the “breakup records”, and evolving from bedroom productions to collaborations for some of the world’s respected labels.

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Featured Artist: Benoît Pioulard

HC — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 05:11:19 +0000

Today, I’m excited to welcome Thomas Meluch to our ever-evolving Headphone Community, who is mostly known for his music as Benoît Pioulard. I’m going to avoid copying and pasting his invented French-sounding artist name (which came to him in a dream!) and simply refer to him as Tom from now on. Besides this fascinating moniker, there is so much more to this American multi-instrumentalist…

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Simon Goff – Dream Sequence I

HC — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 04:59:06 +0000

Label: Sonic Pieces Release: Interior Realms – vol. I Date: September 10th, 2026 Mastered By: Andreas (Lupo) Lubich Artwork By: Studio Torsten Posselt simongoff.com | sonicpieces.com Simon Goff is a British violinist, multi-instrumentalist and composer whom I’ve followed for more than a few years now, mostly via his appearances and collaborations via Gizeh and 7K! imprints…

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Lusine – Pendulum

HC — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 03:37:12 +0000

Label: Ghostly International Date: August 21, 2026 Mastered By: Rafael Anton Irisarri Artwork By: Michael Cina Pre-order with Ghostly I have never imagined time as a straight line. It was always a bit of a circle. Somewhere, along this line, the time would begin to bend with the weight of its past, until it would arrive at the very beginning, looping upon itself, in an endless rotation.

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Interview with Monique Recknagel

HC — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 05:15:25 +0000

The following is an excerpt from an ongoing conversation with Monique Recknagel and her label, Sonic Pieces, which is currently featured on Headphone Community. So far this month, we have been talking about the birth of the imprint, revisiting some of the essential records from the likes of Nils Frahm, Erik K Skodvin, Hauschka & Hildur Guðnadóttir, Moon Ate the Dark and many more to come (plus…

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Featured Artist: Monique Recknagel

HC — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 05:49:20 +0000

Good morning, friends, and welcome to June! Today, we begin our exploration of everything that makes up the world of Monique Recknagel and the beautiful music she releases through her Sonic Pieces label. I’d like to extend a special and warm welcome to all the new joiners: those becoming members of Headphone Community for a deep dive with Monique, and those just stumbling upon that quiet and…

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Fax + Braulio Lam – Serifa

HC — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 05:13:32 +0000

Label: Dragon’s Eye Recordings Release: Mixed Signals III Date: June 12th, 2026 Mastered By: Lawrence English Artwork By: Braulio Lam Bandcamp Good morning, dear friends, faithful readers, and random stumblers. It’s April 30th, and we are at the end of this month, slowly rolling into May, and then, a long-awaited summer. Today, I am premiering a wonderful video for you for a track titled…

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Abul Mogard & Rafael Anton Irisarri – In a Quiet Radiance

HC — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 04:38:18 +0000

Label: Black Knoll Editions Release: Where Light Pauses in the Silence of the Sun Date: June 26th, 2026 Mastered By: Stephan Mathieu Artwork By: Marja de Sanctis Bandcamp About two years ago, two of my favorite composers got together after a live performance and recorded a fantastic album. This timeline feels strangely like it was just yesterday, and also like a long time ago.

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April 26th, 2026

HC — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 05:31:55 +0000

Good morning, friends, and happy Sunday! Time to get rid of those Sunday Scaries with some excellent new music that you may have missed. There are plenty of new and undiscovered sounds across a variety of genres in here! Not to mention the super exciting upcoming album from the real OGs, the one and only Boards of Canada, scheduled for release on May 29th. Can you believe it’s been thirteen years…

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Interview with Yann Novak

HC — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 04:59:34 +0000

The following is an excerpt from an ongoing conversation with Yann Novak, our current featured artist on Headphone Community. Since the beginning of this month, we have been talking about Yann’s music career, his approach to composition with sound and light, the perception of reality through mental and physical means, the use of voice, cryptography, and field recordings on his albums, and…

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