Audiopile Review: In what’s become a big week for smeared ambience and reality bending loops, Vancouver producer Daniel Majer drops a significant LP after a tape on Isla and a split release with fellow local producer Jonathan Scherk released on Jan Jelinek’s esteemed Faitiche imprint. Further refining his sample-based production, Majer posts up a ten-track suite of collages that cull from an eerie palette—screwed loops of classical dramaturgy, the crackle of a forgotten exotica LP, a shimmering wall of vocals are contorted into new forms, and the flickering of FM transmissions bleed through the warbling walls. Proper gateway-opening material, well suited for the adventurous listener already invested in the liminal mélange brewed up by the likes of Brannten Schnüre and Christian Schoppik’s Läuten der Seele offshoot, as well as the escapist zoners of his Faitiche label mate, Roméo Poirier. Really stunning stuff.

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In an age where the unyielding flow of time often overshadows the deeper resonances of existence, Daniel Majer’s latest album, Time for No Memory, serves as an evocative meditation on the ephemeral nature of experience. Produced throughout 2023, this collection of tracks swerve through what seems like a cacophony of FM radio frequencies while oscillating between the familiar and the uncanny, leaving listeners with a sonic landscape that feels both timeless and retroactive yet palpably present. In 2019, Daniel Majer released a collaborative album with Jonathan Scherk on Jan Jelinek’s Faitiche label.