Space is only noise

Among experimental musicians, I'm often most drawn to the ones who can take familiar sounds and make them completely alien. Computers are great tools for that purpose, but it's still the re-imagination that does the heavy lifting. I recently got hipped to Nicolas Jaar, whose Space Is Only Noise album has been a staple of my living room ambience for a couple weeks now. Here's a track that takes somber, minimal piano and puts it in a landscape that only vaguely resembles any place on Earth.

Nicolas Jaar - ^tre