STEVEN WILSON launches online platform dedicated to studio-quality immersive sound
09-02-2026
Steven Wilson has announced the launch of Headphone Dust, a new online platform dedicated to offering high-resolution, 5.1, and Atmos/spatial audio editions of Wilson‘s work. The platform’s first release is “Impossible Tightrope: Live In Madrid”, which captures the final night of the 2025 European leg of Wilson‘s “The Overview” tour and includes the full two-hour show mixed in Stereo, 5.1 and Atmos. There are no plans for a physical release of this recording; it is exclusive to Headphone Dust. Also available now is a brand new Dolby Atmos mix of Wilson‘s 2013 album “The Raven That Refused to Sing”, alongside high-res editions of “The Overview”, “The Harmony Codex” and more. A new Atmos mix of 2015’s “Hand. Cannot. Erase.” will follow “soon”.
Wilson says: “I am thrilled to announce the launch of Headphone Dust, a new online platform dedicated to studio-quality immersive sound.
“For some time, I’ve wanted a permanent home for my work where listeners can hear the music exactly as I envisage it, without compression or compromise and in every audio format available.
“While I remain committed to the Blu-ray format, I know they are not practical for everyone, and physical releases often go out of print. Headphone Dust solves this with ‘Definitive Digital Editions’ which establish the MKV format as a ‘virtual Blu-ray,’ making high-res, 5.1, and Dolby Atmos mixes as easily accessible as possible.”
Headphone Dust is open now at headphonedust.store.
Wilson‘s remix of “November Rain” was released as part of GUNS N’ ROSES‘ 2022 “Use Your Illusion” box set. It featured a 50-piece orchestra that was arranged and conducted by TV and film composer Christopher Lennertz.
A couple of months before the box set’s release, Wilson wrote on Facebook: “The new 2022 version is the same performance as the original, and mixed faithfully to the established version, but with newly recorded orchestration replacing the sampled sounds used at the time.”
Hailed by David Fricke in Rolling Stone for his “fighting spirit and truly progressive ideals in rock composition, group improvisation and emotionally authentic storytelling,” Wilson is, among his many guises, a visionary solo artist, founding member of Grammy Award-nominated British rock band PORCUPINE TREE, and pioneering spatial audio remixer known for his work with such artists as KING CRIMSON, YES, TEARS FOR FEARS, XTC, NEW ORDER and many more.
2022 saw the internationally acclaimed release of PORCUPINE TREE‘s long-awaited eleventh studio album and first release in over 12 years, “Closure/Continuation”, which debuted at No. 2 on the U.K. Albums chart and reached No. 1 in Germany, the Netherlands and Switzerland. An epic world tour followed, making stops in North America, South America, and Europe before culminating with a triumphant sold-out show at London’s famed OVO Arena Wembley. 2022 also saw the publication of Wilson‘s much-applauded first memoir, “Limited Edition Of One” (Little, Brown).
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