I have recently returned from a week long European architectural road trip. Forty people, one bus and five countries - overwhelming landscapes and buildings. Here are some of the aural pleasures that accompanied my visual encounters.

First off is a track I didn’t have during the trip but it sure would’ve cycled on repeat if so. Mount Kimbie with a beautiful production of distant claps, bassy kicks and present percussion all in a world of white noise and organ and guitar atmosphere.

Foals – Spanish Sahara (Mount Kimbie Remix)

An orchestral acoustic ensemble called Balmorhea with this progressing track of strings and a drum kit.

Balmorhea - Bowsprit

A goosebump giver on this somewhat rhythmic violin journey by a young Icelandic composer Olafur Arnalds.

Olafur Arnalds – 3362

A prolonged journey to nowhere by the deep sounds of DJ Koze. Gentle and spatial with the occasional vocal desire - “I would like to go…”.

WhoMadeWho – Keep Me In My Plane (DJ Koze Hudson River Dub)

Simple bongo house with hypnotic flowing lyrics recalling the occasions of getting deep by Basel based DJ Le Roi.

DJ Le Roi Feat. Roland Clark – I Get Deep

Finally, ever since it’s release I have been listening to Pantha Du Prince‘s latest album release ‘Black Noise’, but it has never been more apt than during a coach trip through the moody mountains of central Europe. The album is a sublime sound space spanning the full spectrum of electroacoustic/techno. I can’t choose one from the mass of great songs so here’s a promo video for the album and an earlier remix of the Long Blondes track ‘Guilt’.

Long Blondes – Guilt (Pantha Du Prince Remix)