Les Éditions Vermillon revives Western France’s obscure musical moments. Les Éditions Vermillon works more like a cultural salvage operation than a typical record label, driven by a desire […]
Downtempo
How a decade of innovation, frustration, and reinvention led to Ultramarine’s most defiant statement—now reissued on vinyl by WRWTFWW Records. Ultramarine’s A User’s Guide is getting a long-overdue return to […]
Turbotito and Ragz’s new compilation focuses on an overlooked era of house and electronic music released between ’88 and ’94. Our good friends at Naya Beat continue to […]
’90s era trip-hop blues and Japanese exotica from guitarist Shunji Mori. The seemingly endless well of ’90s CD-era Japanese downtempo bands continues to reveal new secrets… Our latest […]
Join us this Friday, September 13th for Yu Su’s debut live Ambientale performance at In Sheep’s Clothing HQ. Born in Kaifeng, a city in central China’s Henan province, […]
LA favorite Bianca Lexis picks 5 personal favorites from In Sheep Clothing’s online record collection. Longtime friend of In Sheep’s Clothing, Bianca Lexis is easily one of our […]
“Dubwise but not exactly dub, rich in ambience but not exactly ambient music.” With three of the classic Sade albums (Promise, Diamond Life, Stronger Than Pride) recently repressed […]
The 1990s were a transformative decade for ambient music, a genre whose name had been coined a mere 15-odd years earlier by Brian Eno with the release of […]
Rahill shares five favorites with us in anticipation of her debut headlining show on May 14th at Gold Diggers in East Hollywood. Iranian-American singer-songwriter Rahill first caught our […]
For a long time, casual fans of 1990s British instrumental hip hop, which eventually became known as trip hop, likely only knew the purveyors so-called Bristol Sound: Tricky, […]
The Music from Memory and Rush Hour affiliate plays Sound of Make Believe this Saturday in Los Angeles. Madrid-born, London-based DJ & record collector John Gómez is known […]
Dive into a favorite from our collection at In Sheep’s Clothing NYC and join us for a listening party Thursday 4-8pm. The story goes that Hydroplane, the self-titled […]
Ethereal dream pop, ambient jazz, electroacoustic, low-key indie rock, and more recent favorites. Each week the global listening community gets bombarded with new releases, reissues and restocks. As […]
Oddly therapeutic, ambient club sounds from the mysterious Noriko aka Dream Dolphin. Definitely one of the best artist names we’ve ever heard, Dream Dolphin is the ambient and […]
This morning’s post is devoted to the Japanese graffiti artist turned occasional music video animator Katsura Moshino. Though hardly a household name, and despite the minimal output available […]
A new mix series from your friends at In Sheep’s Clothing. Happy New Year! Wow, it’s February already. It’s been a little quiet on the playlist front here […]
The 5+ hour, 79-track mix moves from Coil to the Scientist to Eno, YMO, Model 500, 808 State, and beyond. Got plans this weekend? Autechre’s got the dance-all-night […]
Heels & Souls are pressing Pilgrims of the Minds’ West Coast classic What’s Your Shrine? for the first time ever on vinyl. Turn the dial back to 1996. […]
Mellow indie, sweet downtempo, electronic pop, and more! It’s been a few months since we did one of these! We hope everyone has made it through the summer […]
Ambient translations in dub, Japan in the ’80s, and future music with visionary bass player / producer Bill Laswell. A few months ago, news arrived that iconic bass […]
ISC’s John Jones speaks to the “bubblin’ up” production trio from Chicago. At In Sheep’s Clothing, we’ve quickly become fans of the Chicago three-piece outfit Purelink. Their first […]
All hail the Sims 2: Nightlife soundtrack. In the late 1990s a trio of 10-inch records by a little known London beat-based duo called Lemon Jelly hit the […]
With 2022 more than halfway gone, we figured it was time to wrangle some of our favorite records into a loose collection. What follows is a selection of […]
We’re back with another staff selects playlist! Haven’t done one of these in a minute! Thanks for following along as always. We love putting these together and so […]
Dive into seven essential tracks from Melbourne’s CS + Kreme ahead of their LA debut at ISC HQ on June 25th. The weird tunes world is more accessible […]
Nikole Guzman in conversation with visual artist, singer-songwriter, and Prince collaborator Ingrid Chavez. Ingrid Chavez has always been undefinable. Among many other things, she’s a poet, songwriter, singer, […]
Recent favorites from the Bay Area, Indonesia, London via Shanghai, Berlin, and Hungary. Each week the global listening community gets bombarded with new releases, reissues and restocks. As […]
Step into the world of chillout pioneer Morris Gould aka Mixmaster Morris aka Irresistible Force. “The sampler changed my life,” the British DJ and producer Mixmaster Morris told […]
A book that “travels from the rainforests of the Amazonas to virtual Las Vegas, high in the Hollywood Hills to the megalopolis of Tokyo.” Earlier this week we […]
Downtempo beats, soaring ambient, and dubby electronics for spring. Spring is here and with it comes another playlist from your friends at In Sheep’s Clothing. We’ve been picking […]
Recent favorites from New York, Detroit, Akron, and Ukraine. Each week the global listening community gets bombarded with new releases, reissues and restocks. As music freaks who read […]
Recent favorites from Los Angeles, Melbourne, Munich, Dublin, and Algeria. Each week the global listening community gets bombarded with new releases, reissues and restocks. As music freaks who […]
Another installment of deep cuts, this time we take a look at an ISC patron saint, the enigmatic and genre-defying ~ John Martyn. Before what some consider […]
Downtempo and abstract electronica selections from one of the principal architects of modern Japanese pop music. It’s virtually impossible to find an individual as prolific and influential as […]
Hey friends! Somehow we’re still here and still listening. We hope you are too <3 Here’s some music we’ve been listening to this past month. This month’s playlist […]
A quick dive into Brian Long’s influential ‘Excursions in Ambience’ compilation CD series. In 1993, Brian Long, a New York-based music freak who’d recently left Los Angeles and […]
An adventure of textures and patterns in a visual form. You’re at a rave in an English field. It’s 1992. Sorted for e’s, your pill just kicked in […]
Shared listening selections from ISC staff including tracks from Melody as Truth, Harold Budd, Lee “Scratch” Perry, and more! Hello friends! We’re back with another staff listening playlist […]
Prolific Swedish electronic producer Tom Wolgers is a heavy favorite around ISC. The under-the-radar artist, who moonlighted as a fashion model, issued a series of records starting in […]
