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Out of stockAfter travelling to India, Indonesia, Thailand, Bali and Java in his younger days, Cybe released three cassette tapes "Tropisch Verlangen” now compiles a series of ten wonderful handcrafted analogue electronics from those tapes, sounding like lush fields of electronic wheat swaying in voltage controlled wind It reads as a...
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Out of stockEmerging from Lower Franconia's hidden reverse, Johannes schebler, known as ambient-poltergeist "Baldruin" and surreal folklorists Christian Schoppik & Katie Rich of "Brannten Schnüre"-fame have puzzled and amazed outernational audiences from the stranger end of the avant/lo-fi spectrum in recent years The trio is now...
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Stroom hold a light to the delicious Belgy dirge “pop” of Adult Fantasies, sifting Nico-meets-Coil and Jonnine-esque gems from their run of late ‘80s/early ‘90s LPs for Antler and Sub Rosa This label is all nostalgia for shit we never knew existed but which we feel like we’ve known intimately before - same thing we...
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Out of stock"We drew a map of the road trip together A green line from Bambi across the Danube to the Carpathians A fairy tale animated in technicolour, unfolding in slow motion All protagonists hovered slightly off the ground The soundtrack of Transcarpathia and a whirling unresolved hum A disembodied camera flies thru a bartak forest; it...
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Quietly concentrated downbeat pop, illbience, dematerialised drums and sliding whimpers from Max Stocklosa’s TRJJ and TRIIGroup, rejoining Stroom for his 3rd LP and follow-up to ’12 Dances’ Venturing forth in his discreet, unobtrusive style of ambient-pop, Stocklosa is flanked by the wider TRIIGroup to express his...
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Arcane, serpentine post-punk and etheric neofolk gems from the shadows of the late ‘80s and mid ’90s surface on Stroom Pairing works by Stephanie Payne’s obscure project, Dark Arts with Malka Spiegel's legendary Minimal Compact, Stroom make an apt comparison between the acts’ shared grasp of mood and space on ‘Songs of...
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Out of stockAll tracks are built on two improvised live sessions recorded on a Roland Juno-60, Moog Sub 37, Roland XP 30 by Sofie Birch and Johan Carøe in Copenhagen in 2019 Edited and reworked to 11 tracks during residency at Andersabo in Sweden the summer of 2020 with new recordings of acoustic...
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Out of stockSometimes in life, a certain incentive is needed to convert talent into productivity As for the case of MKS, the enigmatic and musical disguise of Nicolas Aubard, it was a merely coincidental encounter at the end of the 80s that set the stone rolling For Nico, it all began in his hometown of Saint-Quentin in Northern France At a...
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Out of stockThere is an overarching hypothesis that music and place are inextricably linked Where the ancient folksong may be regionally grounded, migration and modernity have confused this notion Who owns what is by definition the music of the people and not of the composer Passed down by generations and subject to revision, reappraisal and...
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Out of stockThe legend behind Eurobeat anthem ‘Pump Up The Jam’ does folk and goth-pop in a fairly corny delivery from Stroom After cropping up on a compilation EP (STREP-039) last year with the brooding balm of ‘Ambient Kinsky’, Jo Bogaert aka Thomas De Quincey (and tonnes more monikers) ‘fesses up to these languid and pretty...
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Haunting Lithuanian folk songs and choral works from Merope, latest lambs to the Stroom flock shepherded by Ziggy Devriendt aka Nosedrip, a big big tip to fans of Kara-Lis Coverdale Immediately calling to mind strains of the Fonal label circa the mid ‘00s (Islaja, Paavoharju, et al), and likewise lilting, worldly traces of...
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Out of stockStroom outdo themselves again with a survey of sorely slept-on post-punk and ambient works by Stockport’s Kevin Eden, rounding up material from 1982’s sought-after ‘Open Heart’ album and an impossible-to-find tape, plus unreleased installation soundtrack pieces, to ideally frame a quietly pivotal character of his...
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Out of stockComposed between 2017 - 2020, these songs came to fruition over a period of time coinciding with an awakening spirituality 'Time Together' is an attempt at describing the beginning of a journey into self knowledge and spiritual awareness through music, creating something soothing and meditative that is also percussive and bass...
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Out of stockSpoki (Ghosts) is the sound of an artist putting their private world to tape Of exploring and pushing the limits of themselves and technology to realise the music in their head Recorded in Riga between 1988-2011 As Ingus Bauskenieks himself explains: My own world differs a little from my friends tastes And as my father said...