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Structures 2026

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.

Medfield State Hospital – Jan 2013

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.
Monson Developmental Center. Dec 2013

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.

Belchertown State School – Dec 2013

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