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‘My intention with this music was to create an alchemy of the studio, to bring together impossible sounds, global voices and stories, obscure ethnographic narratives, new and ancient technologies, human and non-human species’ - David Toop We are proud to launch our new library series with an incredible 12-track selection of...
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Despite productions appearing here and there since 2015, Yuzo Iwata has kept a relatively low output Contributing tracks to compilations and releasing singles under aliases Fabio Lazaro and Almost East, Iwata is also affiliated with Junki Inoue’s recent SAISEI label, editing pioneering early Japanese techno from the likes of...
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On June 3rd Gondwana Records present ‘Next Time Could Be Your Last Time’ – the debut album by Forgiveness, AKA Jack Wyllie, JQ and Richard Pike Described as “not really jazz, not really new age, not really ambient or electronica”, instead they welcome you into a synaesthesia-inducing technicolour fantasy, full of...
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Cosmic Analog Ensemble is the brainchild of prolific Lebanese music producer and multi-instrumentalist Charif Megarbane, a one-man musical force who writes, performs and produces all of its creative output With a DIY music ethos, Megarbane has crafted an inimitable style of instrumental music, a melting pot of global sounds that...
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Experiences Limited, now 3XL, with a sick new LP from Exael on a highly atmospheric ambient jungle tip, deploying 30 mins of percussive spasms seeping into smoked-out zoners - highly tipped if yr into anything from Lee Gamble to Malibu Clearing their cache of stray bullets, Exael returns with a gyring plunge into percussive...
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Out of stockFinally issued on vinyl again, the impossibly gentle, sad, life-affirming 'First Meeting’ is a record we’ve described as one of the loveliest chance-encounters we've ever had with music, and by all measures one of our favourite albums of all time If you’re into anything from Erik Satie to Virginia Astley, Brian Eno’s...
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Out of stockFollowing her debut album, I'll Look for You in Others (Past Inside the Present, 2022), Patricia Wolf joins Spain's Balmat label with See-Through, her second album See-Through finds the Portland, Oregon musician and field recordist continuing to develop her signature style of ambient, balancing radiant soundscaping with a...
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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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Whew! Outta nowhere, Telesoniek Atelier’s airspun synth-works land exquisite on the mind somewhere adjacent Dominique Lawalrée and Tarkovsky soundtracks for a truly unmissable introduction to the world at large In ten dream-weaving works for various synths, Telesoniek Atelier present themselves as quite the enigma Arriving...
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The third full-length release for Portland, Oregon-based LIZ HARRIS Harris might have achieved a significant fan base thanks to the whispering, near-ambient vocal crusades of her debut album Way Their Crept and its follow-up Wide, but those with a careful ear would have heard slightly more trapped beneath her fuzzy chain of...
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Out of stockA virtuoso on the MPC60, he paints scenic sonics with his gear, using wide brush strokes across a variety of chilled out, lo-fi and lush beat landscapes Reversed piano textures and crunchy drums roll like waves across many tracks, ‘Ocean Waves’ being a shining example with its coastal mellotron passages illustrating sunny...
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Second Circle are excited to welcome another new artist to the label, ISOR29, with a six track mini-album titled ‘Moon Phase Gardening’ ISOR29 is a new project from Colombian musician Tomas Garcia Station and follows on from his highly regarded 2020 debut release under the ‘Irie Nation’ moniker The title ‘Moon Phase...
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Mysticisms' presents a 2 x 12" DJ Double Pack of the music of Tokyo Offshore Project Featuring the productions of Simon Lovejoy, Frankie Valentine and Kiyoshi Myaura, TOP released a series of EPs from 1990 to 1994 recorded in London and Tokyo A "best of" selection of released and unreleased tracks that cover the nascent UK /...
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Timekeeper is a collection of temporal impressions Each track is entitled with a time of day, mapping the ways that changes in energy and emotion form a continuously shifting sense of time Using a palette of acoustic recordings and digital synthesis, each piece depicts either a temporal field (expansive, unpredictable), wave...
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Technology for the Afterlife (aka Victor Groth) is an ambient/new age artist from Denmark, set to release his debut album Interpretations of Eternity on Cracki Records in the spring The instrumental album explores the frontiers between faith and knowledge, consciousness and oblivion, past and future It is about longing for a...
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A Colourful Storm presents Enteha, the latest piece by Elodie, the duo of Andrew Chalk and Timo van Luijk Chalk and van Luijk embody a free-spirited approach to music making whose improvisational process can be traced to a distinct period of Europe's post-industrial landscape More than two decades of ambitious solo and...
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Arguably Christian Kleine’s most comprehensive and colorful release to capture his enigmatic IDM style, originally released on CD in 2020 is now available on Neon Orange 2LP“You’re heavily inspired by what you love and will do anything to be a part of it when growing up”, says Christian “The more you create, the more...
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Out of stockEXTRA PRESENCE is a 90 minute, 17-track collection showcasing Los Angeles modern music scene pioneer Carlos Niño’s unique, highly developed, self-described “Spiritual, Improvisational, Space Collage” sound, and featuring an incredible cast of collaborators (including Jamael Dean, Nate Mercereau, Shabazz Palaces, Deantoni...
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Out of stockYou can't see the name Hunter P Thompson and not think of the famed gonzo writer But the Portland-based musician emits a radically different energy His Akasha System and Opaline projects—house and ambient, respectively—are full of ethereal but understated bliss Shadow Self is Thompson's fifth release as Akasha System in two...
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2022 repress; Comes in a Stoughton "Tip-On" jacket; Includes printed inner sleeves Palto Flats and We Release Whatever The Fuck We Want Records present the highly-anticipated reissue of Japanese percussionist Midori Takada's sought after and timeless ambient/minimal album Through The Looking Glass, originally released in 1983 by...
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Deuter was one of the earliest multi-instrumental soloists in Germany He is considered to be one of the pioneers of New Age music and is still active, having released more than 40 albums 'D,' his first album, was released on the legendary Kuckuck label in 1971 and is considered to be a classic With guitars, sitar, organ,...
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Out of stockManchurian enigma JS Zeiter, known best for his pioneering run of dub techno records as JS in the late '90s, continues his mysterious streak with an ambient record to launch the new Expanding Vision label The untitled six-track set is replete with lush drone, only gently hinting at JS’s dancefloor past with a spacey hi-hat...
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BBE Music presents the first ever reissue of ‘Classifieds’, an ultra-rare, privately pressed 1985 album by Moonshine aka Monica Rypma & Friends A naive and charming dose of dreamy DIY synth-pop interspersed with off-kilter, ambient interludes, original copies of ‘Classifieds’ are now almost impossible to dig up, but...
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Out of stockWRWTFWW Records and MEG Museum (Geneva) present the first new solo album by renowned Japanese percussionist Midori Takada in 23 years, Cutting Branches For A Temporary Shelter Recorded in a live setting and played with instruments conserved in the collections of the MEG Museum, Cutting Branches For A Temporary Shelter is Midori...
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WRWTFWW Records and MEG Museum (Geneva) announce a new full-length album by celebrated Japanese percussionist Midori Takada, in collaboration with Buddhist monks belonging to the Samgha group of the Shingon school of Koya-san, led by Reverend Syuukoh Ikawa Recorded at The Premises Studio (London) and in Tokyo in 2019, You Who Are...
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Out of stockVlad Dobrovolski (12th Isle, GOST ZVUK) is 1/2 of S A D, a band previously released as on Muscut and GOST ZVUK, a band LP on 12th Isle, came up with his solo album called Playbacks For Dreaming Features...
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The second release on JD Twitch's archival label "By 1993 I was saturated in acid Over saturated! Since 1987 there had been an endless explosion of records from across the planet using the 303 and it seemed like the sonic possibilities offered by this little silver box had hit a dead end And then in 1993, from Germany, came the...
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On 1984's Chomolhari, new age pioneer Karma Moffett eschews the arsenal of Tibetan bells and resonant singing bowls, which he usually uses to conjure his healing ambient works Instead, he opts for the shimmering arpeggiation and gentle glissando of the Moog synthesizer With this aural palette, he soundtracks a rich inner voyage of...
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The latest LP from the Zenker Brothers’ beloved Ilian Tape label is an extraterrestrial collection of ambient tones and zones from UK producer Prime Vertical entitled Escapist Eschaton As always, Ilian offers very little in the form of PR, but the lines notes suggest this is music meant to soundtrack, among other bizarre things,...
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Out of stockYour Planet Is Next (Studio Barnhus) and Acronym (Northern Electronics / Semantica) team up as Excellent...
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INIT is Benedikt Frey and Nadia D'Alo Optimo Music present their long-delayed vinyl release, NRGY Born out of various art performances and installations, INIT states a logical outcome of Berlin based duo Nadia D'Alo and Benedikt Frey With heavy use of analog synthesis and drum-machines, INIT rethinks its genre's sonic approach,...
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Both a marketing firm and metaphysical mission, Valley of the Sun synthesized style and spirituality to produce an extensive catalog that at once defines and defies new age music Founder Dick Sutphen worked with tireless devotion to spread a message he believed could change the world for the better This 18-track Double LP overview...
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Out of stockArgentinian producer Facundo Arena, aka The Kyoto Connection, fetishizes 1980s Japan on this blank-faced "love-letter" to environmental ambient music Like Hiroshi Yoshimura but without the good bits Apparently when Arena heard Hiroshi Yoshimura's "Green" in the early 2010s, guided by YouTube's algorithm, he was transported back...
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Soft piano notes kiss trippy electronic tones Kossaiko, the only collaborative record that Japanese piano player Saiko Tsukamoto and globally known electronic producer Kuniyuki Takahashi ever produced, is an unmissable profound soft classic music burner Together they composed and produced an eight-chapter strong deeply absorbing...
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Out of stockAustralian musician, composer and producer Ex Ponto aka Ivan Mašić has self-released dozens of albums with improvisation collective, Council of Elders, and experimental no-wave band, Wunderlust On his Offen Music debut Ex Ponto is constructing an alternative civilization of grace, post-sarcasm and intuitive response „In A...
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Out of stockHuman Pitch is proud to welcome Salamanda to the label for the release of their 3rd LP, ashbalkum––a portal into unseen worlds, enchanting stasis and laughter in the face of our evolving realitiesAcross an effervescent 39-minute runtime, ashbalkum provides a spellbinding view into how we interact with the world around...
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Out of stockOriginally released on tape in 2019, 'Big Room' helped establish Philly's Ulla Straus as one of the key figures in the post-"bblisss" wave of nu-ambient practitioners Interchangeably glacial, gaseous and liquid, it's a rare downtempo tome that never shies away from sensuality and raw, messy emotionality Gorgeous material:...
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Ship to Shore PhonoCo is proud to present the experimental Japanese ambient classic Prologue For Post-Modern Music for the first time on vinyl since its original release in 1984! Unavailable since its debut 37 years ago, Masashi Kitamura + Phonogenix’s LP can almost be seen as the natural progression from the experimental...
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Ángel Rada is one of the most interesting music experimantalists of Venezuela He started his career in the late 1960s as a member of The Gas Light, one of the big names on Venezuela's live circuit in the era, sharing the stages with other artists such as Apocalipsis, Un Dos Tres y Fuera, Vytas Brenner, Daniel Grau, Pablo...
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Out of stockFutoshi Moriyama is an Osaka-based electronic music producer who began his musical career in the early 2000s improvised music hothouse of Osaka’s Shinsekai Bridge, an important venue for the “Kansai zero sedai” (Kansai Zero Generation), which sprang up in the wake of The Boredoms’ world-wide success Kazuhisa Uchihashi was...
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Spheres was originally released in 1994 It could be considered the first release of the "middle era" Delerium, Seeing Leeb and Fulber starting to move away from the really dark sounds of the earlier work into a an approach to ambient that's more spacey and minimalist Some of the more ambient pieces here could be easily played...
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First released in the late summer of 1991, some see Spiritual Archives as a turning point album, a final release of the of the band's origins before tthe beginning of the exploration to the newer sound Possibly the darkest work in the Delerium catalog, with brooding melancholy soundscapes, and somber...