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Order SMM: Opiate in The Ghostly Store:
http://www.theghostlystore.com/products/various-artists-smm-opiate

SMM: Opiate includes tracks from Simon Scott, Noveller, EN, Celer, Black Swan, Jim Haynes, Fieldhead & Pjusk.

A Winged Victory for the Sullen - Ti Prego Memory Man

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A Winged Victory For The Sullen – Minuet For A Cheap Piano Number One

a winged victory for the sullen 'steep hills of vicodin tears'

New album 'For' out May 18th via https://soundcloud.com/atomnation
More info: https://thump.vice.com/en_us/track/stream-airports-the-shimmering-first-cut-from-applescals-new-album-for

Tour dates:
02 Apr, Sneaky Petes, Edinburgh, UK
04 Apr, Dance Tunnel, London, UK
05 Apr, Antwerp Mansions, Manchester, UK
10 Apr, Atomnation Night OT301, Amsterdam, NL
17 Apr, Toldi, Budapest, HU
18 Apr, Sisyphos, Berlin, DE
25 Apr, La Centrale, Dijon, FR
27 Apr, Oranjebloesem, Amsterdam, NL
01 May, Simplon, Groningen, NL
02 May, Victorie, Alkmaar, NL
02 May, Toffler, Rotterdam, NL
09 May, Trickfilm Festival, Ludwigsburg, DE
16 May, Volt, Hamburg, DE
22 May, Nuba, Paris, FR
28 May, For's official album release show, Paradiso, Amsterdam, NL
13 Jun, Doorgedraaid, Leiden, NL
17 Jun, Atomnation Night at Boulevard, Off Sonar, Barcelona, SP
27 Jun, Fiese Remise, Berlin, DE
04 Jul, Pitch Festival, Amsterdam, NL
24 Jul, Secret Garden Festival, Huntington, UK
(...all shows are DJ sets)

Airports

Pre-order

Applescal - Airports

New www.soundcloud.com/applescal album 'For' out May 18th via Atomnation
Pre-order 12" / Digital: https://atomnation.bandcamp.com/album/for

Tour dates April, May, June:
02 Apr, Sneaky Petes, Edinburgh, UK
04 Apr, Dance Tunnel, London, UK
05 Apr, Antwerp Mansions, Manchester, UK
10 Apr, Atomnation Night OT301, Amsterdam, NL
17 Apr, Toldi, Budapest, HU
18 Apr, Sisyphos, Berlin, DE
25 Apr, La Centrale, Dijon, FR
27 Apr, Oranjebloesem, Amsterdam, NL
01 May, Simplon, Groningen, NL
02 May, Victorie, Alkmaar, NL
02 May, Toffler, Rotterdam, NL
09 May, Trickfilm Festival, Ludwigsburg, DE
16 May, Volt, Hamburg, DE
22 May, Nuba, Paris, FR
28 May, For's official album release show, Paradiso, Amsterdam, NL
13 Jun, Doorgedraaid, Leiden, NL
17 Jun, Atomnation Night at Boulevard, Off Sonar, Barcelona, SP
27 Jun, Fiese Remise, Berlin, DE
(...all shows are DJ sets)

Overseas

Applescal - Overseas

New www.soundcloud.com/applescal album 'For' out May 18th via Atomnation
Pre-order 12" / Digital: atomnation.bandcamp.com/album/for
iTunes: http://geni.us/ApplescalFor 

Credit: https://soundcloud.com/a-u-s - https://flau.bandcamp.com/album/after-all

Japanese Bubbles

Applescal - Japanese Bubbles

iTunes: geni.us/ApplescalFor
Bandcamp: atomnation.bandcamp.com/album/for

For Lovers

Applescal - For Lovers

Matter

Applescal - Matter

iTunes: geni.us/ApplescalFor
Bandcamp: atomnation.bandcamp.com/album/for

Credit: @a-u-s - flau.bandcamp.com/album/after-all

Like You Do

Applescal - Like You Do

Following on from March's Shlømo remix package featuring Donato Dozzy, Bambounou and label boss Kennedy Smith, Bright Sound's second release of 2016 will new a brand new EP from Sweden's Andreas Tilliander. 

With his releases on his own Repeatle imprint and his TM404 alias's hardware-driven techno featuring on Skudge White and Kontra-Musik, Tilliander is among Sweden's most versatile talents working right now. His arrival on Bright Sounds is of a piece with BSRX 004, last year's reissue of fellow Swede Henrik Johansson's 1997 EP as Smyglyssna. As with Johansson's record, Tilliander's Stettin Libau EP explores slower tempo techno, locating the moments of space and energy in between its rhythmic structures. 

This search is most keenly observed in 'Knapp Ledsyn', with its ever-shifting sonic landscape melting away at various points to reveal its unusual, skeletal beats and hidden melodic details, while the EP title track and 'Nybliven Lots' apply that approach to what might at first be a traditional dub techno template, yet still offering further small moments of off-beat character. Completing the release is a 'Detox Operation' remix of 'Knapp Ledsyn' from Nonplace Records chief Burnt Friedman, in which the German veteran strips things down to a gentle patter of drums overlaid with suggestive flashes of the original's rich atmospheric elements.


Tilliander - Nybliven Lots

Strands

steve hauschildt 'ketracel'

Order 'Iris' on (Ltd. Clear) Vinyl, CD and digitally here: http://phonofile.link/iris-bonus

A Winged Victory For The Sullen, the otherworldly collaboration between Adam Bryanbaum Wiltzie and Dustin O’Halloran, commence the New Year with their third full-length titled Iris – available worldwide via Erased Tapes on January 13th 2017.

Adam Bryanbaum Wiltzie and Dustin O'Halloran first met the director Jalil Lespert after he had discovered A Winged Victory For The Sullen on a music search online. After listening to their music, he immediately knew: "it was the sound of my new film". With an excellent cast of France’s finest actors Romain Duris, Charlotte Le Bon, and the director himself, plus a script filled with tension, sexuality and darkness, they knew there was a lot of musical territory to mine. It was agreed that they wanted to explore more analogue electronique experiments as well as working with a large string ensemble, to create something that felt very modern and still cinematic.

“Despite A Winged Victory For The Sullen being associated with film score type music, trying to survive the process of creating the modern film score is not for people with fragile egos. It requires those who are the most responsive to change. The director and the film presented a new set of challenges, so we decided to stop thinking about cinema as an object, and moved closer to using the film’s images as triggers for experiences. The more we were able to let go, and see the music as something that happens, like a process – not a quality, the more we were able to reach a place that sounded like us. It was as if we were making our first record all over again, except being filtered through another language littered with dead metaphors”, the duo elaborate.

The recording sessions began with their long time sound collaborator Francesco Donadello in the form of some modular synth sessions in Berlin. Dustin and Adam began working from the script in their own studios, and after filming commenced they continued to create music that could be used for first edits of the film – each day getting new scenes that triggered ideas that would become the base of the film score. Over the course of the next few months the two slowly crafted the music with weekly discussion from their studio to the editing room. The final sessions to what is now the score of Iris were recorded with a 40-piece string orchestra at Magyar Radio in Budapest.

Upon label founder Robert Raths' request the over sixty minutes of material were then edited down to a concise album listen at forty-one minutes with a physical release set for January 13, 2017. The digital bonus track edition includes two solo pieces by Adam Bryanbaum Wiltzie entitled The Endless Battle Of The Maudlin Ballade Part 2 and The Endless Battle Of The Maudlin Ballade Part 3, as well as tracks by Petite Noir, dOP, DJ Pone and The Shoes which feature in the film. The artwork was created by Berlin based illustrator Stephanie F. Scholz who also created the iconic cover for Nils Frahm's Music for The Motion Picture Victoria.

TRACK LISTING

1. Prologue Iris  
2. Retour Au Champs De Mars 
3. Fantasme  
4. Gare Du Nord Part One  
5. L’embauche  
6. Le Retour En Foret  
7. Metro Part Three  
8. Flashback Antoine  
9. Galerie  
10. Le Renversement  
11. Normandie  
12. Comme On A Dit

A Winged Victory For The Sullen - Galerie

'Iris' is out now worldwide on all digital services. You can pre-order the album on (Ltd. Clear) Vinyl, CD here: phonofile.link/iris-bonus

A Winged Victory For The Sullen, the otherworldly collaboration between Adam Bryanbaum Wiltzie and Dustin O’Halloran, commence the New Year with their third full-length titled Iris – available worldwide via Erased Tapes on January 13th 2017.

Adam Bryanbaum Wiltzie and Dustin O'Halloran first met the director Jalil Lespert after he had discovered A Winged Victory For The Sullen on a music search online. After listening to their music, he immediately knew: "it was the sound of my new film". With an excellent cast of France’s finest actors Romain Duris, Charlotte Le Bon, and the director himself, plus a script filled with tension, sexuality and darkness, they knew there was a lot of musical territory to mine. It was agreed that they wanted to explore more analogue electronique experiments as well as working with a large string ensemble, to create something that felt very modern and still cinematic.

“Despite A Winged Victory For The Sullen being associated with film score type music, trying to survive the process of creating the modern film score is not for people with fragile egos. It requires those who are the most responsive to change. The director and the film presented a new set of challenges, so we decided to stop thinking about cinema as an object, and moved closer to using the film’s images as triggers for experiences. The more we were able to let go, and see the music as something that happens, like a process – not a quality, the more we were able to reach a place that sounded like us. It was as if we were making our first record all over again, except being filtered through another language littered with dead metaphors”, the duo elaborate.

The recording sessions began with their long time sound collaborator Francesco Donadello in the form of some modular synth sessions in Berlin. Dustin and Adam began working from the script in their own studios, and after filming commenced they continued to create music that could be used for first edits of the film – each day getting new scenes that triggered ideas that would become the base of the film score. Over the course of the next few months the two slowly crafted the music with weekly discussion from their studio to the editing room. The final sessions to what is now the score of Iris were recorded with a 40-piece string orchestra at Magyar Radio in Budapest.

Upon label founder Robert Raths' request the over sixty minutes of material were then edited down to a concise album listen at forty-one minutes with a physical release set for January 13, 2017. The digital bonus track edition includes two solo pieces by Adam Bryanbaum Wiltzie entitled The Endless Battle Of The Maudlin Ballade Part 2 and The Endless Battle Of The Maudlin Ballade Part 3, as well as tracks by Petite Noir, dOP, DJ Pone and The Shoes which feature in the film. The artwork was created by Berlin based illustrator Stephanie F. Scholz who also created the iconic cover for Nils Frahm's Music for The Motion Picture Victoria.

TRACK LISTING

1. Prologue Iris 
2. Retour Au Champs De Mars 
3. Fantasme 
4. Gare Du Nord Part One 
5. L’embauche 
6. Le Retour En Foret 
7. Metro Part Three 
8. Flashback Antoine 
9. Galerie 
10. Le Renversement 
11. Normandie 
12. Comme On A Dit

A Winged Victory For The Sullen - Retour Au Champs De Mars

from the album 'cinderland' available 3/10

Cinderland

high plains 'cinderland'

Pre-order 'The Imperfect Sea' on Vinyl, CD and DL here: http://phonofile.link/the-imperfect-sea

The iconic Penguin Cafe join the Erased Tapes family and open a brand new chapter to their unique world with new album The Imperfect Sea – out on Erased Tapes 5th May 2017.

A penguin stands in the middle of a scorching desert, far away from its natural habitat. This mirrors composer Arthur Jeffes’ journey and exploration into a new musical territory. Penguin Cafe have evolved into something of their own at the hands of Arthur who started the band in 2009 with the continuation and homage to his father’s legacy, to the late Simon Jeffes’ Penguin Cafe Orchestra. Now, their upcoming album echoes reminiscent sounds that embrace the new.

The album title refers to a saying by his father that “we wade in a sea of imperfections…”, reflecting upon the idea that beauty can be found amongst the chaos. “If there is a narrative to the album it’s coming to the acceptance of the imperfections in all aspects of life; moreover, the recognition that these imperfections and tiny randomnesses are in fact what make up the best parts”, Arthur explains. This has also been highlighted by the striking cover artwork designed by FELD under the art direction of label founder Robert Raths, resembling a lone figure adapting to and accepting its surrounding environment.

Predominantly self-composed, the new album also features covers of electronic works by Simian Mobile Disco and Kraftwerk, along with a re-working of Simon's 'Now Nothing'. Arthur has developed from the traditional folk and jazz heritage Penguin Cafe Orchestra is known for into another realm of blissful ambience and dance music, recreated using strictly acoustic elements.

“For this album I wanted to effect a departure from where we’d been up to now. The idea was to create a musical world that would feel familiar to an audience more used to dance records but stay true to our own values. So we replaced electronic layers with real instruments: pads with real string sections, synths with heavily-effected pianos, and atmospheric analogue drones with real feedback loops ringing through a stone and a piano soundboard.”

On the day of release, the band will play a headline show at New York’s Le Poisson Rouge, commencing the beginning of this new adventure for Penguin Cafe.

Buy LP/CD/DL

Penguin Cafe - Cantorum

from the album 'epythmía', available 3/17

Epithymía

anjou 'glamr'

Nektyr

demen 'niorum'

44,2 km (with Poltrock)

demen 'ambur'

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)

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