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In commemoration of the 20th anniversary of Canada's Michael Smith Genome Sciences Centre, Segue was commissioned to create an original composition based on audio recordings from the GSC's laboratory equipment, robots and computers - to make "music" from the noise they produce Machine noise is a challenging palette of musical...
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Out of stockThe Senja Recordings is a collection of various outdoor recordings and studio improvisations recorded on the island of Senja, Arctic Norway, between 2015 and 2018 Boomkat: "Geir Jenssen yields a most Biosphere of Biosphere recordings with this new album recorded on a Norwegian island within the arctic circle Leading on from...
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Out of stockCirque - originally released in 2000 - was Biosphere´s first album for the UK label Touch This new re-issue comes with a 6-track bonus album and new artwork Mojo (UK): Fourth full album from ambient pioneer Coming to prominence with 1992's Microgravity - which along with the first couple of Aphex/Polygon Window CDs, defined...
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In a Word, the sixteenth installment of the intergenerational collaboration series FRKWYS, brings together postminimalist composer Daniel Lentz with vocalist and sound artist Ian William Craig for an album that embraces erosion and the fertility of the loam left behind A document of shared transformation, Lentz’s elegant piano...
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Angel Tears in Sunlight is Pauline Anna Strom’s first album in over thirty years; an assemblage of music that refracts the expansiveness, and minutiae, of imagined realms while embracing the kaleidoscopic echoes of our distant epochs Recorded in the same San Francisco home where her early work emerged, Angel Tears in Sunlight...
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Ewan Jansen,Perth artist, producer and founder ofRed Ember Records,presents his second offering toButter Sessionsfollowing the 2017 EPBest Intentions The colourful LP from Jansen,Island Library, wraps up the end of the year at the label on a distinguished note -- courtesy of Jansen's 20 years of experience in the Australian...
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Out of stockWe write to you with the conclusions of our investigation into the synthesized audio transmissions picked up by the deep space telescope at regular intervals since 1986 The source was traced to two brothers in Kawasaki, Japan, who identified themselves as Satoshi and Makoto When we raided the building, they were huddled around a...
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Studio Mule open the roster towards sophisticated spiritual sounds on the crossroads of electrified jazz, oriental fourth-world spheres and deeply composed experimental sounds This time, the label welcomes Japanese artist Ya-Sukazu Sato, aka Yas-Kaz, a university-trained percussionist, that gained global success as a composer for...
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Growing up in deindustrialized Providence, Rhode Island of the 1970s and 1980s provided NYC-based composer and interdisciplinary artist Gavilán Rayna Russom access to derelict subterranean spaces including the mile-long East Side Rail Tunnel The tunnel’s reverberant darkness would produce distinctive sensory effects and host...
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Out of stockWistful ambient classical spirit Jonny Nash is joined by Teguh Permana, Indonesian master of the two-stringed Tarawangsa, for a solemn meditation on the heavy stuff The shadow of recently departed ambient pioneer Harold Budd looms over ‘Poe’, which takes its name from the Sundanese word for ‘Days’, and is proffered by the...
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LA-based electronic wizard Amon Tobin teams up again with Dutch composer and producer Thys (Noisia) for their cinematic "Ithaca" EP The fractal five-track offering is an odyssey into the unknown, carefully constructed, intricately layered and arranged with purity of intent "Ithaca" is an unnerving feast for the ears with a...
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Out of stock2021 repress KMRU is the moniker of Joseph Kamaru, a sound artist and producer based in Nairobi One of the leading exponents of the burgeoning experimental music scene in Nairobi and beyond, he was listed by Resident Advisor as one of "15 East African Artists You Need To Hear" in 2018 and is a regular performer at the fabled Nyege...
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Out of stockSpells is the debut release by Los Angeles based multi-instrumentalist and composer Nailah Hunter on Leaving Records Each of the EP’s six tracks represent a spell, a unique sonic place forged by imagination and incantation Ambient in nature, each spell highlights Hunter’s skills as a...
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While there were four years between STRFKR’s 2016 album Being No One, Going Nowhere and their recently released Future Past Life, the mere months that followed resulted in the inspired and quickly-architected Ambient 1 STRFKR’s sound has morphed over the years through variations of hyper catchy, danceable pop, but this is...
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This is Pepo's and Sita's first debut album as a true collaborative effort under both artists' names Contact is in appreciation and gratefulness of their creative, ever growing partnership Pepo Galán and Sita Ostheimer have collaborated in one way or another since 2015 Pepo composed music and furnished accompanied arrangements...
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'Pathways' is a collection of four stunning loops created by the artist during an introspective period of his life These majestic, consonant arrangements breathe slowly as fleetingly beautiful melodies; a gorgeous account of ebb and flow repetition Pathways is cautiously sanguine and equally melancholic of which many today can...
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Scottish producer Neil McDonald records a distinctive set of dancefloor gear and ambient drifters for the label offshoot of Tim Sweeney’s much-loved radio show The club tracks on the A-side were first created for an ADE performance and Dekmantel podcast They are from the direct end of McDonald’s armoury, but still ooze grace...
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An exquisite new age ambient chamber rarity surfaces on vinyl for first time, shining an overdue spotlight on the thwarted 1982 debut by Tim Story - a noted collaborator with Roedelius and er, Glenn Close! RIYL Brian Eno, Dominique Lawalrée, Harold Budd Swan-diving back to the start of Story’s oeuvre, back in a basement...
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Out of stockPreviously issued by Dead Bison under Luke's Natsukashii moniker as a cassette only release, featured on Bandcamp daily and sold out within a few weeks, this stunning album finally sees the light of day on a proper vinyl release Here's what Bandcamp had to say: "Natsukashii’s Driving East is described as an ambient record with a...
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Out of stockWe're not sure Endless Melancholy is the most appropriate name for Oleksiy Sakevych, an electronic ambient artist based out of the sprawling and musically vibrant Ukrainian capital of Kiev As this two-tracker goes to show, there's every chance you'll feel elated after pressing play on his studio work Following on from releases...
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Black Truffle announce the first vinyl reissue of Rafael Toral's Aeriola Frequency, originally released by Perdition Plastics in 1998 Toral made his name in the world of mid-90s experimental electronics with two releases, Sound Mind Sound Body (1994) and Wave Field (1995), both now recognized as classics and reissued on vinyl by...
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Italian composer Gadi Sassoon debuts on A Strangely Isolated Place to present newly created sounds and abstract atmospheres The Multiverse LP was created and composed on an immersive eight speaker surround sound setup, combined with analogue synths and live instruments in his Milan studio, plus incorporating his groundbreaking...
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Out of stockLush, intoxicating, beatless diffusals from Danish producer 35511125 operating in disguise for cult Tokyo imprint City-2 St Giga Spread over six cuts, the producer lays out wide-screen, open-ended pads spreading out to infinity, enriched with heady interference and subtle organic influence, recalling deeper moments from Gas...
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Out of stockNous'klaer Audio is proud to present the new concept album by Koraal: La Casa del Volcan A voyage of nine tracks echoing the spectacular landscape of Lanzarote, from damp, fathomless caves to deserted planes of volcanic rock, from a solitary palm tree to a fertile oasis Intense, spacial atmospheres and reverberating drums combined...
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25th anniversary reissue of this unique coming together of Brian Eno and ex-Public Image Limited bass player Jah Wobble, also featuring Jaki Liebezeit from Can on drums Starting life as the soundtrack to Derek Jarman’s Glitterbug, Eno passed stereo mixes of the film cues to Wobble who embellished and built upon them to construct...
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Out of stockOcean Moon is a solo project from Jon Tye of Seahawks A long-time explorer of the sounds of spaciousness, having released the ambient classic LP iO in 1994 as MLO, Crystal Harmonics is a document of Jon's latest discoveries Island Visions, the recent collection of music from Seahawks for KPM, touched on the deeper, more spatial...
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Out of stockDouble LP version Tokyo Dreaming is a superb selection picked from the highly collectible Nippon Columbia label and its Better Days sub-label Wewantsounds have teamed up with journalist and Japanese music expert Nick Luscombe The selection mixes electro, synth-pop, funk, and ambient and includes many sought-after rarities and...
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Originally released in 2010, ‘Small Craft On A Milk Sea’ was Eno’s first release for Warp and his first new album since 2005’s more songbased collection ‘Another Day On Earth’ It takes the form of fourteen improvised pieces conceived to be “the mirror-image of silent movies - sound-only movies” Made in...
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'Lux' is Brian Eno's first solo album for Warp Records and his first solo album since 2005's 'Another Day On Earth' It's an absorbing 75 minutes of slow moving, glassy harmonics, plangent piano keys and evaporating strings, all bathed in reverb and allowed to serenely waft about the space with a seemingly aleatoric logic The...
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Out of stockThe sublime songs comprising Los Angeles-based musician Ana Roxanne’s second record, Because Of A Flower, germinated gradually across five years, inspired by interwoven notions of gender identity, beauty, and cruelty She describes her process as beginning with “a drone element and a mood,” then intuiting melody, syllables,...
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Reissue of Brian Eno’s 1992 album which found him returning to a more rock-oriented sound, albeit skewed through an aesthetic that is simultaneously playful, funky and claustrophobic, and featuring a mixture of vocal and instrumental excursions Includes contributions from Robert Fripp, Robert Quine and John Paul...
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Reissue of Brian Eno’s 1992 album dedicated to Russian artist and friend Sergei Shutov, and a continuation of the atmospheric ambient work found on records such as On Land and Thursday Afternoon Eno had discovered that Shutov often painted to his music but was unable to obtain many of his records in then-communist Russia He...
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The title of guitarist BARRY CLEVELAND's 1986 album—Stones of Precious Water—conjures images of incandescent gems, harvested from hallowed streams and held aloft to glimmer and catch the light in their many facets And perhaps this is the truest analogue for the music contained therein Recorded between 1981 and 1983, in mostly...
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Glossy Mistakes present a reissue of Yas-Kaz’s Jomon-Sho, originally released in 1985 Peaceful, percussive, and idyllic new age from Japanese composer and student of gamelan music, Yas-Kaz This seminal album is a cornerstone to understanding the Japanese ambient and environmental movement He rose to musical prominence...
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In today’s world, it’s harder than ever to let go & find sleep So kick back and let this pastel soundscape from the NYC synth rocker, TM™ ♪ drift you off to dreamland like it was 1984” -Tommy Mandel "New York synth magician Tommy Mandel has an astonishing career as a composer, sideman, and electronic pop artist...
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For AI-21, Italian duo The Abyss Within Us enters the fold The project, consisting of Claudio Porceddu (Claudio PRC) and Stefano Ferrari (menion), combines lush ambient textures with beguiling mysticism Originally performed in Ankali, Prague, the rich and expansive ‘Life in a Circle’ constitutes a 2-part journey deep into...
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There is a new addition to the forge of talents of Mille Plateaux, a Japanese musician by the name of Saito whose album has been released on the label under the title of Downfall After a whole series of releases under the signature tag clicks & cuts, there comes out a work, much more suited for a dance hall, that is different...
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This long-awaited album brings together 17 tracks from Eno’s most recognisable film and television work spanning 5 decades Eno’s music has been used in hundreds of films and he has composed more than 20 soundtracks for some of the best known directors in the world including David Lynch, Danny Boyle, Peter...
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In 2017, musicians and regular collaborators Gigi Masin and Jonny Nash were invited to a residency at artist Xavier Veilhan’s “Studio Venezia” at the Venice Biennale For this immersive installation, Veilhan transformed the French Pavilion into a fully functioning recording studio, inviting artists to record original works...
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Out of stock“Motus is more (to me) than just music made with analogue synthesizers, it is about attitude, a way of relating to sound and the (e)motion it affects A lifestyle, where movement, being moved and moving become one My practice is vibrational, about the skin, touch and surfaces and the gaseous medium in between I dream of a dance...
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Out of stockThe second part of the audio artefact library records provided by Japanese brothers Satoshi and Makoto They unearthed it from their own archive of musical experimentations and laboratory tests, which have been ongoing since the...
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New York artist Tor Lundvall's music often evokes a sense of soft-focus autumnal melancholia but nowhere is this atmosphere more explicit and evocative than his self-released 2006 holiday album, Yule, newly reissued by Dais Records Inspired by childhood memories of “cold, dark evenings” waiting for his mother outside shops and...
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In these strange and viral times, music may not be able to save but it can certainly salve; and we’ve never needed such unguents as we do now Thank goodness for Hot Chip, then If you’ve ever wondered what a bath full of ecstasy might actually sound like then step this way, take off your bathrobe and relax into this aural...
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Out of stockLos Angeles-based harpist Mary Lattimore returns with Silver Ladders, the full-length follow-up to acclaimed album Hundreds of Days Since 2018, Lattimore has toured internationally, released collaborative albums with artists such as Meg Baird and Mac McCaughan, and shared a friends-based remix album featuring artists such as...
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Out of stockThe theme of this exceptional album is the beautiful South Pacific sea, with music written by Haruomi Hosono, Shigeru Suzuki and Tatsuro Yamashita At this time Haruomi Hosono was just in the middle of preparing for YMO, and the three songs he was in charge of were produced by Ryuichi Sakamoto, Yukihiro Takahashi and a few...