Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/4iD5pQt6bfQYVLgFoOjWWe
Bandcamp: https://temparc.bandcamp.com/album/westminster

Temparc is happy to welcome German musician Gorden Spangardt— GRDN. (pronounced “Gorden Dot”)—to the label for Temparc Music’s fifth release. GRDN.’s geographic roots lie in what he describes the “leftfield” of Germany; and it’s safe to say his music falls into the same “audiographic” region.

GRDN.’s electronic work is often heavily analog and rough-around-the- edges, as heard on his previous releases for Manual Music and Cinematique. On Westminster, GRDN. continues that trend with two shorter, grinding tracks that blend techno, leftfield, and progressive tendencies together to create his undeniably unique sound with absolutely no filler.

The EP’s title track, “Westminster” is a short, pounding work that blends skittering, tribal-sounding analog percussion with a mix of pad-like, reversing melodies. The result is an unrestrained, adventurous work that takes a number of listens to fully appreciate.

For the second original mix on Westminster, “Xanten”, GRDN.’s pace decreases in speed slightly, though he works from a similar sonic palette as “Westminster”. The slightly more organic sounding percussion on “Xanten” mixed with pulsing analog synths build over the course of four minutes to create a combination of analog distortions and lounge-type pads that are again in line with GRDN.’s particular sound.

Finally, “Xanten” is reworked into a slightly quieter and spaced out version in a remix by Temparc’s Philip James de Vries, in which he reworks the pads and percussion of the original into his own analog experiment. We hope you enjoy this special EP as much as we have.

GRDN. - Xanten (Philip James De Vries Remix)

GRDN. - Xanten

GRDN. - Westminster

Temparc Music is very happy to announce its debut release: Spangen by Netherlands-based musician Jelle Kuipers. The EP consists of four warm, deeply melodic tracks that find themselves in a genre of their own.

Blending ambient atmospheres with deep layers of harmony and highly textured percussion, Kuipers takes listeners on a journey between melodic techno and more introspective sounds. While Spangen is deeply electronic, the EP retains a sense of warmth and organicity that gives it a distinct life of its own.

The EP’s leading track, “Dracht” is a prime example of Kuipers’ strengths as a composer. Exhibiting patience and restraint, Kuipers builds eerie melodies on top of intricately placed, metallic-sounding percussion – even at times layering his ambient melodies on top of frantic, Gypsy King-speed clapping. “Dracht”, with its layers of intermittent, industrial melodic accents and outside-the-box approach to conventional dance music rhythms, creates a mood suitable for night-time city promenades or as the backdrop for a cinematographically beautiful work of film.

“Gezelling” sees Kuipers continuing the initial mood set out by “Dracht” and the dub-techno influence on his work begins to appear more audibly to the listener. Again using similar metallic pads and percussion, Kuipers blends loose vocal samples into his slow-paced melodic ambiguity, creating an 8-minute journey of celestial visions blended with the clicks and pops of drum sticks on a nearby deadened snare rim.

“Lejeans” follows as the EPs most directed work; where a shuffling rhythm slowly builds into a detailed groove marked with beautiful tonal accents and a few indiscernible female vocal cuts, giving his already warm sound a touch of humanity.

Spangen closes with “Putidub”; arguably the most optimistic work on the EP in which Kuipers takes a step away from the darker moods of the first three tracks. The lead synth work is the immediate defining feature of “Putidub” as it wobbles back and forth over Kuipers unique percussion work. Accented by staccato stabs of melody, “Putidub” is sure to leave a smile on your face from ear to ear.

With additional remixes from Gitchell Moore and Philip James de Vries – Temparc Music is very proud to offer you the listening experiences presented in Jelle Kuipers’ Spangen as the label’s first release. We hope you enjoy it.

Jelle Kuipers - Putidub

Jelle Kuipers - Gezellig

The latest EP from Temparc Music is a beautifully, exploratory work of left-field electronic music from Netherlands-based producer Aiden. Folklore will be available November 14, 2016 through most online digital retailers.

More about this EP:
http://www.wideanglerecordings.com/releases/aiden-folklore/

More about Aiden:
http://www.wideanglerecordings.com/artists/aiden/

Aiden - Retro (Sample)

Aiden - Lush (Sample)

Aiden - Folklore (Sample)

After a four-year hiatus from 2016-2020, Temparc Music returns with a new full-length album from label founder Philip James de Vries. Liberation From Excess is Philip’s second full-length work since his first self-titled album was released in 2012 on Wide Angle Recordings.

In the many years between these two albums, Philip has released a number of EPs and remixes, both in a more dance-oriented context and also more inline with his peculiar downtempo style.

Liberation From Excess sees Philip returning to slow, melodic music that sits somewhere between melodic techno and pop. Recorded slowly between 2015 and 2019, the album is comprised of heavily atmospheric works blending a mix of electronic sounds with vocal work and organic instruments. Many of the tracks on the album see Philip working again with long-time collaborator Ruby Randall, who lends her pristine vocal work to many of the album’s tracks. Liberation also sees a first- time collaboration by Philip with American cellist Jesse Ahmann on “A Collective Lullaby”—an eight-minute journey of emotional electronic music accented by layers of meandering cello tracks.

Liberation From Excess is inspired German economist Niko Paech’s essay of the same name, in which Paech outlines his ideas for a post-growth economy—it’s an album for slowness and simplicity; for reducing the needless excesses of Western colonial-capitalist life in search of peace and tranquility.

Credits:
Album art by Nelly de Vries 
Mastered by Jani at Soun Studios
All tracks written, preformed, produced, mixed, and recorded by Philip James de Vries
Additional vocals by Ruby Randall 
Additional cello by Jesse Ahmann

River Get Clean

A Revolution That Never Ends

Oranges In The Sun

Lines Down

Be A Sun And Everyone Will See You

Speaking

A Collective Lullaby

Temparc music is a left-field leaning melodic record label based out of Canada launched February 2016.

Temparc was originally launched a sister-label to the now-defunct Wide Angle Recordings (@WideAngleRecordings), and is managed by Philip James de Vries (@philip-james-de-vries).

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