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Oslo’s Deathprod (aka Helge Sten) announces Compositions, his new album out January 27th on Smalltown Supersound, and presents its lead single/video, “Composition 1” The first new Deathprod studio project since 2019’s OCCULTING DISK—“a mesmerizing, terrifying, and emotionally nuanced ‘anti-fascist ritual’ of an...
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Out of stockCult LA label Peak Oil present Lamin Fofana’s most sublime yet quizzical work in a suite of 4th world ambient fraught with noise and smudged with ghostly grooves primed for fans of KMRU, Patten, Jon Hassell, Emeka Ogboh Lamina Fofana originally hails from Sierra Leone and Guinea, before he moved to NYC and spent formative...
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Out of stockCong Burn's John Howes looks to the mid-2000s for his Paperclip Minimiser debut, building an era-specific studio and using it to unfurl ambient experiments that split the difference between Chain Reaction, Mille Plateaux, and Schematic Using a Nord Modular G2, an Elektron Machinedrum, and a Monomachine, John Howes has built an...
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Out of stockEssential wax transfer of Topdown Dialectic’s elusive 2013 debut, originally issued as the final title from short-lived American media imprint Tailings From its first swooning seconds, the project’s signature palette takes hold: fractal laptop gauze, whispered rhythm networks, and disembodied systems flickering in elevated...
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Out of stockYou Always Will Be is the new album by artist Dylan Henner The follow up to 2020's well received 'The Invention of the Human', the new record touches on themes of nostalgia & longing for times passed; innocence yielding hardships and vice versa; ageing; the soul; life changes; parents and children; loss; love Dylan...
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Out of stockComing full circle, Vålnad Av Fornskog is the fourth and final part in Arv & Miljö's suite of seasonal ambient albums initiated with Svensk Sommar I Stilla Frid (Omlott, 2018) and continued with Himmelsvind (Discreet Music, 2020) and Ensam Är Nattens Rymd Över Vita Vägar (Discreet Music, 2021) Heavily inspired by the...
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Out of stockReleased in April 1991, the double album is a continuous progressive composition consisting of several tracks advancing the "journey" concept The album's framework is of a two-hour psychedelic trip through music genres and studio electronics, produced to "push the threshold" of live stage performance, and comprising...
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Out of stockLatvian producer mu tate joins Utter with the ‘Faded’ EP, a collection of five mesmerising ambient electronica piecesmu tate - real name Artur Strekalov - has been diligently and unceremoniously weaving his musical magic for the past half-decade ‘Faded’ walks the same spectral path as his feted album ‘Let Me Put Myself...
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Out of stock'Thinking A View is a collaboration between E Ruscha V (Secret Circuit) and Peter Zummo, a fourth world meeting of electronics and wind instruments A joining of East and West This 14-track soundscape oscillates between ambient, psychedelic, electronic, spiritual and jazz, taking the listener to imagined realms The sequence flows...
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Leaving Records presents Music For Living Spaces, the debut LP by non-binary Los Angeles-based artist Green-House Olive Ardizoni helms the project, which made its debut with the charming 2019 EP Six Songs for Invisible Gardens Music for Living Spaces represents an evolution of its predecessor’s minimalist compositions into...
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Big or profound sensations from small gestures which are carefully arranged Using a mixture of sacred and profane, or classical and prosaic sound sources, knitted into intricate, fleet-footed compositions that virtually spring into the ear Profondo Rosa is composer Ailin Grad’s first vinyl album following years embedded and...
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Jonathan Fitoussi & Julie Freyri are Model Alpha 8 years on after their first album Dimensions, Perceptions is the duo's second album and was entirely composed on analog synthesizers Model Alpha is inspired by electronic artists such as Kraftwerk, Laurie Spiegel, Manuel Göttsching or early Detroit techno productions An...
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Presented together for the first time, American composer John McGuire’s Pulse Music series (1975-1979) blurs the popular narrative that Minimalism was a reaction against Europe’s angular, intellectual, inscrutable high-modernism McGuire, born in California, studied at Occidental College in Los Angeles and UC Berkeley before...
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Out of stockFollowing the reissues of Pub's beloved early classics "Summer" and "Do You Regret Pantomime" comes a generous EP of new material Thankfully the euphoric ambient trance / dub pulse hasn't weakened at all: it's like he never went away Just in time for fall, Ampoule takes a break from the reissue program to put out the first new...
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Out of stockFive years ago, back in September 2016, Stefano Gentile published a photographic book entitled IL SILENZIO DEI TUOI PASSI (The Silence of Your Steps), which collected a series of 56 pictures, both in b/w and colour, dedicated to the nights in Venice The book was a journey through the most remote "calli" and "campi" (streets,...
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Out of stockSubstrata was the third studio album by the Norwegian electronic artist Biosphere, released 25 years ago by All Saints Records in London In 2016, Pitchfork ranked it at number 38 on its list of the 50 Best Ambient Albums of All Time Here are ten alternative versions picked from the Substrata recordings sessions that took place...
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Out of stockEarly February 2011: Decided to make an album inspired by the Japanese post-war economic miracle While searching for more information I found an old photo of the Mihama nuclear plant The fact that this futuristic-looking plant was situated in such a beautiful spot so close to the sea made me curious Are they safe when it comes to...
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Now pressed on vinyl after an elusive run on tape earlier this year, DK meets downbeat mystic Sabla for a devotional offering on his fledgling Worship label; a smoky, moonlit, dubbed-out special, like some lost mid 90’s Mo Wax x Chain Reaction collab Offering an absorbing switch-up from the musclier ‘Gate of...
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Brilliantly unclassifiable ambient midi-jazz salvo from Brazil’s Gabriel Guerra aka Guerrinha - member of PAN/Future Times' Lifted ensemble and lynchpin of the Rio De Janeiro underground Very highly recommended noir sleaze x fantasy lounge music somewhere on the spectrum between Gigi Masin, Spencer Clark, 0PN, Flanger and Koji...
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Out of stockJapan’s cult, vinyl-only City-2 St Giga label mark 5 years as one of the best-in-the-game with Ultrafog’s post-dub techno atmospheres following sought-after sides by Buttechno, Caveman LSD, Anthony Naples and moreSince 2017 City-2 St Giga have been one of those labels to watch out for on the ambient-experimental-electronic...
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Out of stockTakayuki Shiraishi is no stranger to Camisole Records With projects like BGM, MLD (CAM022) or Tristan Disco (CAM023) he is considered as one of the most prominent figures of underground Japanese music Following those 80's industrial projects he continued his path and recorded numerous electronic tracks without forgetting his...
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Jane Weavers experimental ensemble in collaboration with Peter Philipson and Raz Ullah, Fenella returns with a hallucinogenic excursion into ambient textures and hypnagogic drones on new album ‘The Metallic Index’ Taking further steps into their combined compositional universe with this follow-up to 2019’s acclaimed...
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Entrancing rhythmelodic scapes beamed from Western Australia to your ears via Glasgow’s excellent Sacred Summits - the label run by Lindsay Todd (House of Traps) and Stuart Leith (Emotional Rescue) ‘Eucalyptus’ is the first release by Murray Collier (Dip Friso, Grim Lusk) as Sunny Balm since re-locating from Glasgow,...
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ØYR is the fourth release from the Oslo based 'Lomas Productions' consisting of musicians/producers Lars Mellgren and Thomas Hauge The Norwegian duo has been composing music for 20 years, exploring various musical paths and recording styles Their 2020 release Coastal County soon became a sought after Discogs treasureBeing the...
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Laila Sakini's new album 'Paloma' arrives via Modern Love and is her most striking and ambiguous to date - a pointed and timely meditation on hope and hierarchies that riffs on Zbigniew Preisner's magical "The Double Life of Veronique" score and enduring outsider music tome "The Langley Schools Music Project" Subtly transcendent,...
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Out of stockAmbitious, complex and hooky breakthru opus by NW english rapper/producer/songwriter Rainy Miller, issued by The White Hotel’s Head II label and featuring contributions from Space Afrika, Blackhaine, Maxwell Sterling, Jam City, Georgia Ellery, Henzo and more Highly emotive and bruised gear, it’s essential listening if yr into...
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Out of stockLanguoria is a collaboration between Denmark’s Sofie Birch and Poland’s Antonina Nowacka While Birch describes herself as an ambient musician, Nowacka’s primary instrument is her own voice; they share in common a facility for creating complex, layered work Birch and Nowacka were first brought together by Unsound to...
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Out of stockThe Body Is A Message Of The Universe, originally created and released in a small edition in Japan back in 1987 by Shiho Yabuki "The Body Is A Message Of The Universe features floating shimmering synthesizer textures It's unique and extra ordinarily serene with shifting tone colours and spatial textures bringing the listener to...
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"Smoke Point is a duo composed of Brian Foote (Peak Oil, Leech, Kranky) and Sage Caswell (Spring Theory) With their self-titled debut LP on Geographic North, the Los Angeles-based duo takes a captivating cruise through heady ambient drifts and ruthlessly rhythmic loop dreams Foote and Caswell first teamed up to create a series of...
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Magazine announces the album Waves 3 by Curd Duca, the third and last part of the trilogy Waves: Austrian electronic composer Curd Duca is widely known for his 1990s series of critically acclaimed easy listening 1-5 (Normal) and elevator 1-3 (Mille Plateaux) After a long break from the studio, Duca has issued part 1 of the Waves...
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Naarm’s fertile hotbed of spirited ambient energies spurts this milky gem by John Jones (AV Moves, Geo Rip) and Jesse Sapell (Motion Ward) for fans of the quietest fronds from Perila to Ulla and Craig Tattersall Like a dream bath that never loses its warmth, ‘peeled’ proffers space to sink in and soak up sublime good vibes...
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Out of stockPart of only a small and very much underground music scene in his hometown of Venice, Gigi Masin self released two modestly pressed LP's 'Wind' (1986) and 'Wind Collector' (1991) and appeared along side Charles Hayward for the Sub Rosa compilation LP "Les Nouvelles Musiques De Chambre Volume 2" (1988) Having met with little...
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Widely-loved electronic maestro Gigi Masin returns with ‘Vahinè' – a mini album of beautiful and distinct music that is unmistakably his, sounding better than everMasin always pours his heart into composing, but here it takes on a potent new level of heavy emotion – as it’s a tribute to his late wife, who sadly passed...
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Anyone who's cast even the most casual eye over their ever expanding catalogue will have realised that one thing Past Inside The Present do best is bring artists together for unexpected and inspired collaborations Departing in Descent is the first collaboration between James Bernard and Bvdub but their creative conversation...
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For Balmat's fourth release, the label turns their attention close to home: to the Mallorca-born, Barcelona-based artist Nueen, aka Nacho Pezzati Nueen has been developing his highly personal style of blissfully Balearic ambient over the past few years, with releases on labels like Quiet Time Tapes and Good Morning Tapes On...
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Gavin Bryars was born in Yorkshire, England in 1943 His first musical forays were as a jazz bassist working in the early 1960s with improvisors Derek Bailey and Tony Oxley Bryars later worked with composers John Cage and Cornelius Cardew, founded the Portsmouth Sinfonia and collaborated with Brian Eno on his famed Obscure...
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"Double-LP gatefold version of new album by Jefre Cantu-Ledesma and Liz Harris on black vinyl; side D blank/mirror finish; handmade insert Daughter is a record that took great patience to make It captures a strange time spent in the desert, later added to, edited and finally made sense of after we lost the friend we'd been there...
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Back to the Woodlands is a previously unreleased, and nearly lost, album by Ernest Hood, composer of the beloved 1975 ambient wonder Neighborhoods Back to the Woodlands guides the listener through a daydream of Western Oregon's forests, meadows and streams, soundtracked by a halcyon haze of zither, synthesizer, flute and field...
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Out of stockYialmelic Frequencies is a project born from the exploration of alien origins in its producer, Diva Dompé Receiving visions of another dimension since childhood, and meeting these visions with conflicting feelings of wonder, desire, and fear, Diva started creating Guided Meditations as a safe space to explore this cosmic...
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Out of stockLeaving Records presents Under the Lilac Sky, the debut LP by Arushi Jain, an India-born, modular synthesist, vocalist, technologist, and engineer At six songs spanning 48 minutes of ambient synth ragas intended to be heard during the sunset hours, Under the Lilac Sky invites the listener to transport themselves through...
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AI-32 signals the arrival of ‘The Fifth World Recordings’, by Son of Chi (Hanyo van Oosterom) and long-term collaborator Arthur Flink A tribute to the late Jon Hassell, who passed away in 2021, the album connects a deep running thread that goes back to the source of Chi project Carrying on from where Hassell left off, the...
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Human Remains follows Creatures of the Deep and Black Sarabande as the final installment of a trilogy of piano based recordings by Robert Haigh for Unseen Worlds The trilogy marks the end of the late era of solo albums by Haigh before he steps away from music production The title, Human Remains, was initially based on a painting...
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Time and duration are core themes in the work of both William Basinski and Janek Schaefer, and this long-distance collaboration took a suitably long gestation of eight years from start to finish In that time, our collective perception of time has at times become disorienting “ on reflection ” remodels that instability as an...
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Artefakt dives deeper into their electronic universe with a worthy follow-up on their Days Bygone LP on the Delsin Interstellar series from early 2021 ‘Brain Dripper’ EP explores adventurous paths in dreamy electronics, experimenting with emotive melodies and floating chords rendered into immersive idm and ambient pieces On...
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While on the island of Syros in the Aegean Sea for a film festival performance, Christina Vantzou experienced what she characterized as “a moment of focus”—a specific vision for the sprawl of raw recordings she’d been amassing for her fifth album Upon relocating to the Cycladic island of Ano Koufonisi, she situated herself...
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Liai's debut LP, Pome, via Quiet Time Tapes "On “Pome”, Liai has given us a stunning work of expertly crafted rhythmic ambience, inspired by the intimacy and solitude of the midwestern countryside Having grown up in rural Missouri, Liai channels the mixed feelings that can accompany solo contemplation in nature -...
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picnic follow up their self-titled debut album with ‘creaky little branch’"A love for early 00's electronica guides the listener as it sits somewhere between familiarity and the unknown However, this isn’t an exercise in nostalgia, instead foreground for the here and nowWith contributions from Alejandra & Aeron, el2,...
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Out of stockThe tantalisingly brief sales notes to this release simply state "Enigmatic Delectable Oscillator Banquet", but the fact it's emerging on Germany's Ilian Tape should tell you it'll be a high quality, highly original affair There's plenty of variety on offer here too, from the static and stabs of 'J8PUrsAIR', like an ambient...