If you are a fan of deep, atmospheric ambient music, or have used CalmApp or SoundMindApp, then you are familiar with the music of De Moi. This music project by Czech producer Vojtech Vesely debuted in 2020 with singles that eventually made up the Speeding Home album from 2021, the first by De Moi. In 2022 the project hit high acclaim with single releases that included Still Life, Cestrum Nocturnum, and Wu Wei. A central factor that has led to the rise of De Moi is Vesely’s development of the production technique referred to as “Drifting Intervals”. For 2025 De Moi is now releasing a full album to showcase this technique and in turn, named the album Drifting Intervals after the technique itself.
De Moi – Drifting Intervals displays this impressive production technique over the eleven tracks and thirty-five minute run time resulting in a rich and relaxing ever-changing ambience that will certainly affect the listener. The technique of Drifting Intervals takes multiple layers of music and merges them through deep reverberation and decaying tape loops that in the end create the transitioning and smooth ambiance. In the words of Vesely and the De Moi website, he is “taking random notes and rubbing them together.” The blend of sounds created throughout Drifting Intervals is lush, moving, and tactile to the listener as it takes you on an otherworldly experience.
While both the album and the production style of Drifting Intervals are new, they were influenced by some longtime pioneers of tape-looping ambiance. These sonic pioneers included William Basinski and his “Feedback Loops” methods that go back to the early 1980s, Terry Riley and his “Time-Lag Accumulator” music from the early 1960s, and Pauline Oliveros who was a contemporary of Riley and developed the musical theory now known as “Sonic Awareness”. De Moi – Drifting Intervals continues to add to the traditions of tape loop ambiance and is a must-listen for die-hard revelers that go back sixty-plus years, as well as fans of the modern Chill EDM scene.
Stream De Moi – Drifting Intervals on Spotify below!
