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Tunng and Pinkunoizu toured together across mainland Europe and the UK in September/October 2013. To celebrate, the two bands remixed a track from each of their most recent albums.

The original of 'The Great Pacific Garbage Patch' is taken from Pinkunoizu's 'The Drop' - https://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/the-drop/id668541365 
The original of 'Embers' is taken from Tunng's 'Turbines' - https://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/turbines/id642832029

Tunng - Embers (Pinkunoizu remix)

“Spring” is a piece that is particularly close to my heart. I wrote it while watching the world slowly come back to life - trees budding, flowers blooming and the sunlight finally breaking through the cold. It's inspired by those quiet moments in nature when everything feels fresh, new and full of promise.

Music Video:
https://youtu.be/Lp-ZkZOStw8?si=FFoIsEQwDF-DVbU6

Spring

This is a track from Gyr we help promote! https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0J7EFptNh6K6Qebrsrcx8d?si=c89d9fdb58934190 

Letters (Piano Rework)

From a series of (almost) daily ocean glimpses. The music is composed to a video of the sea (photons captured fresh every day). You can experience the full video version here: https://youtu.be/0p8iV3kfCNA

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Rachel Portman -  Junuh Sees The Field

Track No. 3 from their album 'The Dead Texan' (Kranky Records, 2004). The song is also featured in the 'Last Resort' episode of House M.D.

All credit goes to the talented audio-visual musical duo Adam Wiltzie and Christina Vantzou. You may know Wiltzie from his seminal ambient classical projects 'Stars of the Lid', 'The Dead Texan', 'Aix Em Klemm', 'Sleepingdog', and latest 'A Winged Victory for the Sullen'.

Buy on iTunes: http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/the-dead-texan/id21770684
Adam Wiltzie on SoundCloud: http://soundcloud.com/awvfts
Christina Vantzou on SoundCloud: http://soundcloud.com/christinavantzou

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Kai Engel - Chapter Three - Warm - 05 July

Pre-order 'Golden Times 1' on EP/DL here: http://phonofile.link/golden-times-1

Electronic producer Max Cooper and ambient master Tim Hecker rework Ben Lukas Boysen on his new EP 'Golden Times 1' – out on Erased Tapes, June 30th 2017.

Championed by many including BBC Radio DJ Mary Anne Hobbs as the standout track from his most recent album 'Spells', Boysen’s 'Golden Times 1' forms the very heart of his new EP with the same name. Boysen entrusted none other than Max Cooper and Tim Hecker to meticulously shape and lure the title track plus second single 'Nocturne 4' into two entirely separate territories, yet never drifting too far away from their original soundscapes. With 'Evensong' the composer himself contributes a previously unreleased piece. It is yet another example that Boysen is still opening new and unexplored doors in a bid to challenge the existing realm of contemporary music he is very much a part of.

Words from Ben and Max, May 2017:

“Spells was somewhat of a conceptual release for me, so the choice of the remixing artists and where the original material could be taken was very important. Max and Tim, both being role models for me ever since I began listening to their work and who delivered this incredible abstraction, I felt were spot on for this release and were dream candidates to work with. Their ability to re-direct and even re-invent the original material, partially subtle, and with an almost brutish sense of imagination, honors the originals deeply.” — Ben Lukas Boysen

“Ben has been one of my most listened to artists of the past year or so. His last two albums in particular, have meant a lot to me, and provided me with focus when I needed it. So I was excited to have a chance to remix his work. I felt like I couldn't improve on his idea, but what I could do was take what was the core for me, and expand it. It was just a matter of running with the feeling I got from his original, sticking with his melodic forms and original instrumentation, and letting the growing intensity continue along it's established path to the only possible end point of total annihilation in chaos and distortion. My version is almost a continuation of his original if it was allowed to blossom into percussive format, rather than a traditional remix.” — Max Cooper

The golden EP cover art was created by Torsten Posselt at FELD as an extension from the initial album artwork he also created for 'Spells'.

TRACK LISTING

1. Golden Times 1	
2. Evensong 
3. Golden Times 1 (Max Cooper Remix)
4. Nocturne 4 (Tim Hecker Remix)

Ben Lukas Boysen - Nocturne 4 (Tim Hecker Remix)

from 'Astrild Astrild' [CD|2xLP|DIGITAL]
Denovali Records · den282
available on all formats at [http://denovali.com/dalecooper]

The Dale Cooper Quartet & The Dictaphones are returning with their 4th album called "Astrild Astrild". Like all of the previous albums, the band recorded the seven pieces at home in Britanny during several sessions between 2013 and 2016.

The characteristics of this full-length are classic drone soundscapes mixed with deep tone saxophone parts that became the band's trademark since the release of their debut album in 2006. Slowly paced, the new tracks are following the Quartet's basic structure and classical sound. Apart from that the new full length conceals more live takes including guitars, bass and Rhodes keys and even piano sounds are haunting for the first time at the end of 'Ocho Acenteur'. With these new elements the songs of "Astrild Astrild" are pushed further into a large tunnel of deafening rhythmic parts and field ambiant textures.

Vocals are a major element of the Dale Cooper Quartet & The Dictaphones' DNA since the second album "Metamanoir" (2011). Sometimes breathy, sometimes deep and often mysterious, Ronan MacErlaine, Gaëlle Kerrien and Zalie Bellacicco voices appear in the corners of the songs as ghostly figures or eerie characters.

The new album "Astrild Astrild" is a glimpse of the present live sound of the Dale Cooper Quartet: 50's crooners singers, noisy guitars, atmospheric electronic and hypnotic jazz. All of these elements painted in monochrome black.

Astrild Astrild

Dale Cooper Quartet & The Dictaphones - Tua Oriel Courvite Isabelle

Puddle Of Infinity ~ Space Coast

Arve Henriksen - Blue Silk

The Run

Kai Engel - Seeker

VOYAGER

Composer and drummer of Dawn of Midi, Qasim Naqvi, releases his debut album for Erased Tapes on May 3rd. 'Teenages' captures the sound of electronics living, breathing and mutating of their own accord – almost autonomously – with only subtle, sparing but perfectly-judged and masterful guidance.

This album is one singular synergy between Qasim and his machine within a broader milieu of sound, also explored by contemporaries Sarah Davachi, Alessandro Cortini, Caterina Barbieri and also the forefather, Morton Subotnick. At points tonal, textural and rhythmic, over six evolving and growing audio organisms, the album flourishes upwards in stages, from initial micro-sonics to something bigger, brighter and anthemic.

With 'Teenages', Naqvi summoned all the material on an analog modular synthesizer – a voltage-controlled sound generating system comprised of multiple modules. Naqvi built this synth over the course of two years and amassed a collection of works for this album. The album chronicles both Naqvi’s understanding of writing for this type of instrument and the growth of the instrument itself:

“I started with just a few modules. And naturally things had to be layered and pieced together but as the synthesiser and its components grew over time, I was able to create broader and more complex strokes in the moment. And by the time I got to ‘Teenages’, it was possible to create a robust, large-scale piece spontaneously. This is very much an experiential album for me because it was borne out of my direct experience of learning the instrument. And as the synthesiser grew over time with more components, it matured. At times I felt like it was even rebelling against my instructions or surprising me with what felt like its own choices. When everything was finished and I was thinking about track titles, this idea of artificial intelligence came into my head; a machine that reacts to your impulses and is capable of giving you something different from what you ask, and even defying you. It felt like different stages of growth and adolescence, and that lead to the album title, ‘Teenages’.”

Deeply rewarding on close listening, Naqvi has created an inspiring and synapse-stimulating new masterwork, within the analogue/modular cannon.

· pre-order 'Teenages' on LP/CD/DL: https://idol.lnk.to/QasimTeenages

Teenages

No Tongue

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Qasim Naqvi - No Tongue

excerpt from an improvisation which had previously been streamed via MoonRoq - 
now also available as a free download from my bandcamp page
https://ulrichschnauss.bandcamp.com/album/improvisation-5-improvisation-6

Improvisation #5​/​Improvisation #6

Freebie: Improvisation #5 (Excerpt)- Full Version available via Bandcamp

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