Dreamhouse by the Ocean: Best New Ambient Music - August 2026
Dreamhouse by the Ocean is a series where I hand-select some of the best new ambient music.
Featuring Ambient2k, Hainbach, Ryuichi Shima, charles nutrivore, Hana Stretton, Stumbleine, ext-pop, Eden Aurelius, Jay Hosking and Imaginary Beings.
This edition features: a piece that sounds like a preserved memory from the seaside in the 1940s, a track that sounds like sunlight interacting with the azure green surfaces of plantlife, a piece that unfolds like a music box in the middle of a garden overgrown with Hydrangeas; a track that sounds like you are hearing it through the window of a house shaped like a pastel blue sea-shell; a song that is a mix of ambient textures melting over dreamy shoegaze; a piece built around the theme of first contact happening underwater, a piece that sounds like falling backwards into a plush pink pillow of sound, the petals closing around your ears; and more!
Dreamhouse by the Ocean: An Ambient Music Collection
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Hana Stretton - Stove
This sounds like a preserved memory from the seaside in the 1940s, like scientists figured out how to extract a memory from someone's mind in audio format, and you, for the first time in human history, get to step inside and experience this, first hand.
Within it, you stand upon the sandy shore as the sun sets, music leaking out from the seaside hotel in the distance, the muted bell-like sound swirling around your ears making it feel all the more hypnagogic. This sounds not only like a hard preservation of a memory, but of how the mind interprets the memory, making it all the more dreamy.
This is taken from the album ‘tiarn’.
Connect with Hana Stretton
Bandcamp | Instagram
ext-pop - an imagined time
This is a piece 36:56 minutes in length, from the Chilean sound artist and electronic music composer (who is based in Montreal). ‘ext-pop’ opens with sounds that feel unfamiliar and industrial, creating a vaguely eerie atmosphere, rife with the sense of entering into the unknown. As the song progresses, sunlight starts to come through; the effects on the soundscape almost chimeral, you breathe it in, moving your body towards it, before things veer seamlessly back into obsidian black, leaving you alone in the dark.
There is something about the textures of the sounds that communicate vast, indifferent structures, like walking inside a concrete tower where you can’t tell what lies ahead in the dark. The finale swoops you up, like a mirage where you thought you heard something in the distance, but had given up all hope, only to find it was real all along, and you rush towards it.
The artist shares that it is a “piece reflecting on exile, displacement, adaptation and misadaptation, and the many experiences that shape the condition of an expatriate. Dedicated to all expatriates and foreigners dispersed across the globe, and to the imagined worlds they inhabit.”
Connect with ext-pop
Instagram | Facebook
Ambient2k - 6/29/26
This pretty much sounds like the photo above. Like sunlight interacting with the azure green surfaces of plantlife. It also has an underwater quality, where, upon listening, you are submerged into an oceanic botanical world of your own. Go find a meadow, a forest, a tree, even go to the garden center and find the most plush, verdant section there and let yourself sink into a state of pure bliss.
Connect with Ambient2k
Bandcamp | Instagram
Ryuichi Shima - Orgl#1
With a melody built using the Klevgrand Speldosa - Wintergatan Music Box, this unfolds like a music box in the middle of a garden overgrown with Hydrangeas. The melodies evolve and get more complex as time goes on - carving a magical sonic space for you to sink into.
Connect with Ryuichi Shima
Bandcamp
charles nutrivore - cellophane 1
This is taken from an album called ‘cellophane felt’ with all the proceeds being donated to the Palestinian Children's Relief Fund. The artist used a layer of styrofoam in order to ‘felt’ the piano (which means using material to dampen the sound of the piano, which produces a softer sound).
This is the opening of the album; it is kind of surreal and gentle in its beauty, almost like you are hearing it through the window of a house shaped like a pastel blue sea-shell.
Connect with charles nutrivore
Bandcamp | Instagram
Imaginary Beings - Fastitocalón (out via Camembert Électrique)
This landed in my inbox, with the subject line ‘First Contact Happened Underwater’ catching my eye. This is taken from ‘[VA #44] – THEY CAME FOR THE WHALES’ which is a “compilation exploring the hidden languages of the oceans and the strange possibility that the first dialogue with an intelligence from elsewhere may never have been addressed to humanity” [via Bandcamp], featuring interpretations of this theme from artists all over the world.
‘Fastitocalón’ is a blend of whale sounds, with plush, dark sonic textures, communicating the vastness and darkness of the deep oceans in a way that feels rather terrifying, making you feel like you have been submerged in a world fully removed from our own.
Camembert Électrique is holding an open call at the moment based around the theme ‘SOURCE UNKNOWN’.
Connect with Camembert Électrique
Website / Facebook | Instagram
Stumbleine - Spellbound
This will take your breath away. Taken from the EP ‘Head over Heels’ by UK-based producer Stumbleine, ‘Spellbound’ is a mix of ambient textures melting over dreamy shoegaze, with the sounds of someone talking in the distance and a haunting melody crafted out of chopped vocals. It sounds like it exists in that space between being awake and entering a dream.
Connect with Stumbleine
Instagram
Hainbach - A Hundred Suns
This is taken from the artist’s upcoming album (which will be out in Autumn via Seil Records). The soundscape shimmers as if has been soaked in sunlight - it's the kind of song that makes you want to sit at the window and watch the city come to life in the morning, the light of the rising sun reflecting off the glass of the buildings, it slowly dawning on you how rich and wonderfully odd this life is, even the things we perceive as being mundane and part of the everyday.
Connect with Hainbach
Website / Bandcamp | Instagram | Facebook | X
Eden Aurelius - Passing
This is taken from the NYC producer’s album ‘Entre Nous.’
This sounds like falling backwards into a plush pink pillow of sound, the petals closing around your ears. It sounds like the shimmering inner workings of the mind, of a landscape made entirely of your imagination.
Connect with Eden Aurelius
Instagram
Jay Hosking - Ambient cascades
I saw the thumbnail for this on YouTube, and it was like catnip to me. This opens with crystal-like textures that float over the baseline like clouds. Close your eyes and let this sweep you away - imagine that you are rising over the snow capped mountains and floating away into the awe inspiring beauty of the cosmos.
Connect with Jay Hosking
Website | Instagram | Patreon / X
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About Eimear O Sullivan
Eimear Ann O Sullivan is a multi-genre music producer, audio engineer and vocalist. After receiving a Masters in Music Technology from the CIT Cork School of Music, she went on to operate as a producer under the name Blakkheart. Her releases have received critical acclaim from Ireland's biggest music publications, such as District Magazine and Nialler9, alongside receiving heavy commercial radio airplay. She currently works in Cork recording studio Flashpoint CC. Previous clients of hers include the likes of Comedy Central’s Dragony Aunt star Candy Warhol, rapper Darce and Outsider YP. (Photo credit @Fabian Boros)
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