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Now pressed on vinyl after an elusive run on tape earlier this year, D.K. 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...
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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 Kondo’s iconic...
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Japan’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 more
Since 2017 City-2 St. Giga have been one of those labels to watch out for on the ambient-experimental-electronic rhizome, always...
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Takayuki 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 experimental roots.
After...
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Ambitious, 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 Future, Chief Keef,...
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Languoria 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 perform at Ephemera...
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The 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...
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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...
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Part 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...
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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....
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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 the flip...
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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 now.
With contributions from Alejandra & Aeron, el2, Kindtree, Nico...
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The 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...
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Living Room is the third solo album by Roméo Poirier and, following his much-praised Hotel Nota (2020), his debut for Faitiche. The French musician and producer transforms the layering of different times into a free-flowing pulse that sounds both nostalgic and mysteriously ahistorical. Poirier takes music seriously as a time-based...
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A double vinyl compilation that perfectly captures Pulshar's sound: an elegant mixture of dub, techno, R&B, and ambient. Contains 12 tracks previously unreleased on vinyl. This release was certainly not meant to be a "Best of" compilation but it is a collection of special moments that Sergio and Pablo wanted...
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Restored and re-mastered from the original tapes comes Gigi Masin's much sought after first album 'Wind' Never commercially released the LP was in fact only given away at a number of small concerts, with many of the remaining copies destroyed during floods in the Venice based musician's house.
Quickly becoming seen...
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Emeralds — musicians John Elliott, Steve Hauschildt, and Mark McGuire — emerged from the rust-pocked, post-millennial Midwest drone/noise scene seemingly unable or uninterested in keeping up with themselves. Their proliferation of material was intimidating; mountains of improvised, home-recorded music were released on limited-edition tapes, CD-Rs, and split LPs. There is...
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Acid bass, slow funk, and cosmic energy make for a mind-expanding trip in the Liquid Canoe. Load up on edibles, make it a macro-dose and let the music lead the way. Whether you're hard at work on a Hamburg allotment, basking in the heat of a Balinese beach or enjoying...
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The record that quietly spawned new movements in contemporary ambient, ‘bblisss’ features early/foundational appearances by kindred spirits Ulla, Pendant (aka Huerco S.), Naemi (aka Exael), DJ Paradise (Special Guest DJ, uon) and more. Originally released on an elusive tape run back in 2016, it’s now available on a new edition...
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The second release on Tonight’s Dream Records is delivered by Baltimore-based ambient and new-school Kosmische guitar musician PJ Dorsey, better known as Tarotplane. The Ektachrome Dawn follows on from the stunning Horizontology (12th Isle) and Light Self All Others (Impatience). He describes the album as a collage of work collated since...
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It gives me the greatest honour to finally be able to announce the release of this amazing triple vinyl masterpiece by log(m) and Laraaji on Invisible, Inc.
It's been over a decade since Laraaji first joined forces with log(m) in their Canadian studio in early 2007. Over the following ten years...
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Nils Frahm returns with an expansive new album, ‘Music For Animals‘, his first fresh studio material since 2018’s ‘All Melody’ and 2019’s associated ‘All Encores’.
Containing ten tracks and clocking in at over three hours long, it’s an ambitious and compelling set different to anything Frahm’s released to date – in...
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Emerging from a thick spiraling haze is the debut album from Mystic AM, a new project from Rod Modell and label founder Ario Farahani. Conceived as an immersive fictional soundtrack piece, the release tells the story of a traveler, some centuries ago, and the rather intense metaphysical experience he...
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Lynch associate Dean Hurley joins forces with German-Brazilian artist Gloria de Olivera on this celebration of dream pop that sounds as if Angelo Badalmenti and Julee Cruise teamed up with the Cocteau Twins for a re-record of "Heaven of Las Vegas". Magical.
It doesn't take long for Hurley and De Olivera...
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Where To Now? are proud to present the new album from Irish born, NY based Orlando FitzGerald. Previously recording as ‘Orlando’, FitzGerald has released music via ‘Local Action’, ‘Gobstopper’, and All City affiliated label ‘First Second’. Where Orlando’s previous works have focused on the dance floor, here we see a...
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Radiant neo-new age ambient transmitted with the intent of healing powers
Six ambient + modular synth sketches, outtakes, and meditations....
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Billowing, cloudy modular ambience from gearcore survivor Khotin. Like early AFX and more recent TM404 material, but more Canadian.
Last year, Dylan Khotin-Foote released "Area 3", a short album of modular sketches and meditations that added a new dimension to his output. "Amb" is its followup, and builds on its predecessor's...
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Prolific Vancouver-based singer/composer Ian William Craig returns with a gorgeous new LP of material comissioned to soundtrack the computer game Magnesium 173. Whilst functioning as a score, ‘Music for Magnesium_173’ is far from being a set of short cues cues or lesser material. Released on double vinyl and digital formats,...
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Composer, pianist and Pandit Pran Nath and La Monte Young acolyte Michael Harrison sits at the center of this new collaboration, drawing on North Indian classical music traditions to explore just intonation and deep listening concepts with John Also Bennett on modular synthesizer and Christina Vantzou acting as conductor.
Almost always...
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“Stars Of The Lid’s Adam Wiltzie presents a collection of drone compositions that he considered too aggressive for his parent band—which means they range somewhere between a whisper and a shout. The sense of cathedral-like reverence is balanced with extreme intimacy.” —Pitchfork
“This is quite possibly the best music available for...
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Hand Stamped, Hand numbered, Limited press, with insert.
An oddly familiar/familiarly odd entity floating about the relatively cohesive surface of contemporary electronic music, Belgium-via-Italy based duo Front De Cadeau has been knocking genres askew and blowing overused terminologies out of the water with unrelenting panache over the past decade. Championing a...
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Finally repressed - a real beauty! Jonny Nash returns to Melody As truth following his " Phantom Actors" EP. "Exit Strategies" puts Nash's layered guitar textures at centre stage, further demonstrating his ability to draw emotion from the simplest of elements. A glimmering mini LP of lush and spacious compositions,...
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Sarah Davachi's most satisfying album yet is a love-letter to early music that expertly spans her interests in instrumentation, synthesis, minimalism and tradition. Rooted in the past, it's guided into the present by Davachi's unmistakably prudent hand - a patient examination of the through-line between choral, meditative drone and chamber...
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The first full-length vinyl collection by Tokyo-based producer Zefan Sramek aka Precipitation crystallizes his evolving synthesis of new age ambience, tape hiss, and house music into a riveting suite of motion and mirage: Glass Horizon. Conceived and recorded between two formative trips to Sado Island in the spring and late...
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"Art is awe, art is mystery expressed," writes Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith. "Art is somatic, even if it is experienced cerebrally. It is felt." The central mysteries of Smith's ninth studio album, Let's Turn it Into Sound, have to do with perception, expression, and communication: How can we communicate when spoken...
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First vinyl reissue of Yoshiaki Ochi’s “Natural Sonic” from 1990 from one of the Japanese leading environmental music label “NEWSIC”. Magical sound & ensemble of the mother nature perfectly melting in with the electronics.
Remastered for vinyl by Kuniyuki Takahashi.
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Numbered edition of 200, with a risoprinted cover.* Ultraääni Records is releasing Otto Taimela - Stars & Silence 7'' on june 15, 2022. "Two imperfect naive piano pieces inspired by the Stars & Silence, a moment in moonless air and a walk in the path of invincible love." Composed, played...
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Meandering, autobiographical solo works from close friend of the shop Aki Tsuyuko, tracking her 30 year relationship with her beloved KAWAI Dreamatone organ. As so touchingly explained in the release notes, Aki’s relationship began with her instrument of choice after her Dad (who worked as a salesman for the KAWAI...
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Sublime, BoC-wise ambient drift by Calum McLeod, supplying a genteel antithesis to his tonking hardcore techno with Clouds, for Mark “Mother” Maxwell and DJ Crud’s Concrete Cabin
If Glasgow’s Concrete Cabin is best known as incubator of bombproof mutant rave, this release frames it as a metaphoric bothy sheltering McLeod’s atmospheric...
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Son of Chi returns to Astral Industries, alongside Spanish artist Clara Brea, for the collaborative release of AI-29. A product of fate, chance experiments, but most of all, sensitive artistry - ’The Wetland Remixes’ exists as a confluence of two kindred musical spirits, a wayfaring epic that draws together a...
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Limited clear vinyl LP pressing. Ambient is the second studio album by electronica musician Moby, originally released in August 1993
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