
About Structures
Structures SV, short for Structures Standing Vacant, is a wintry mix of desolate soundscapes, icy IDM, and warm ambient. Featuring tracks from 12 releases, and showcasing work from labels and artists like MPU101, Erased Tapes, and Ant-Zen. Here are this year’s selections.

Featured Releases
Nept Polarisation
by Xenia Reaper on Delsin Records
Weird & friendly glitch, IDM, and ambient breaks. Sparse and delicate, folding and transforming through layers of ephemeral & hazy atmospheres.
Featured tracks:
- Track 7, “Green Pulse” – Dreamy, glitched, ambient idm. Chilled, abstract, icy, ethereal.
- Track 1, “Drift__” – Tense, sparse, icy.
- Track 8, “Fabrik_Rtn” – Icy ambient breakbeats.
MPU106
by MPU101 on Ilian Tape
Another fantastic pickup from MPU101 on Ilian Tape. Glowing warm analogue, ambient techno, and lo-fi IDM. Tranquil, composed, and nostalgic.
Featured tracks:
- Track 5, “racheINV60” – Deep, warm ambient, analogue techno.
- Track 1, “3100beta2” – Sleepy, analogue, ambient techno.
- Track 7, “PEACEmaker” – Washed out, nostalgic, lo-fi, looping analogue IDM.
Silliness
by Aitcher Clark on VEYL
A great listening album with expansive, immersive soundscapes and a gritty, sonic texture. Sprawling, dark, and layered industrial atmosphere.
Featured tracks:
- Track 3, “Slightly Silly Story That Is Invisible to You” – Somber, dark ambient, field recordings. Mournful strings and a distant soundscape.
- Track 5, “Zimomriavky” – Bright and warm, resolute ambient.
July
by Heavenchord, Infinity Dots on 20:21
Featured track:
- Track 1, “July” – A 22 minute deep ambient techno long play. Drifting drone & ambient, downbeat, and deep, dubby techno.
Still Motion
V/A on Permanent Vacation
Out just last month, a new V/A compilation from Permanent Vacation. Featuring deep house, warm ambient. Melodic, mellow & minimalist ambient techno.
Featured track:
- Track 15, “Aera – Old Lighthouse” – Electro, neon ambient, ephemeral, nostalgic.
Heilun
by Hyldýpi on Past Inside the Present
Immersive, gentle ambient. Sparse but warm. Sprawling, ephemeral soundscapes.
Featured tracks:
- Track 3, “Hvíld” – Warm ambient, soundscape. Gently drifting, tranquil.
- Track 7, “Kyrrð” – Frosty and washed out. Ambient, drone.
Without Us
by Daniel Brandt on Erased Tapes
Featured track:
- Track 5, “Soft Rains” – Warm and glowing and growing, unfolding. Electro, ambient, and IDM.
Forever United
by Vanity Productions, Lundin Oil on Northern Electronics
Featured track:
- Track 3, “Vanity Productions – Way Around the Canvas (Guitar Version)” – Warm ambient, fuzzy, drifting, dreamy soundscape, shoegaze.
Forty Sixing
by Levels of I on Turnland
Featured track:
- Track 4, “Less Ego” – Ambient electro, breakbeat, IDM. Deep, immersive, dubby.

Shortlisted
snowing
by Anatoly Grinberg on ant-zen
Featured track:
- Track 1, “snowing” – White-out soundscape, ambient noise, drone. Meandering, reverberating, melancholy, and bright.
47044
by Pause on 47
Featured track:
- Track 4, “Landing” – Dark industrial, icy, ambient, cavernous, soundscape.
Submit To The Forest
by Smogo on Electric Shapes
Featured track:
- Track 2, “Mind Poison” – Icy and abstract ambient/noise. Glitched and hostile IDM.
Cover Story
The photos this month come from a few winter outings to explore abandoned state hospitals around Boston in the winter of 2012 and 2013.

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