Philip Sherburne & Albert Salinas’ nascent label, Balmat embrace Nueen’s shimmering ambient pads and FM synthesis for its fourth release of ambient romance edging onto backroom dance music.

“Balmat” means “empty” or “void” in Catalan. But quite apart from any negative connotations, we prefer to think of it in terms of possibility: a space waiting to be filled.

Minor Science—aka UK-born, Berlin-based musician Angus Finlayson—makes his Balmat debut with Absent Friends Vol. III.

‘90s electronica pioneer Mike Paradinas makes a rare away-day from Planet Mu with the typically nostalgic allusions of this properly lovely side for Albert Salinas and Philip Sherburne’s Balmat label.