Noted electronica/IDM artist Jonathan Cannup aka Ten and Tracer has pulled a soothing “opium-ambient-drone” album contrasting his previous glitchy IDM on netlabels like Zymogen and Archipel . It is actually quite calm & blissful and it has some amazing artwork. Up for grabs on Acre Collective site and you should donate if you can to support.

“Tsotsitaal is a collection of soft drones and patient textures sourced from old synths, tapes, violin, acoustic guitar, clarinet, flute, broken music boxes and field recordings. Each source has been carefully manipulated in a variety of ways. Some were subjected to deconstruction and wearing using reels and recorders, sound-on-sound layering, microphone mischief and the like. Others were sent through Ten and Tracer’s collection of home-made Reaktor patches and a cascade of other novel digital processes all performed live.”