Crystalised

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Between 2008's ‘The Devil, You & Me’ and this year’s 'Close To The Glass', The Notwist not only concentrated on various solo projects, but also worked for several theatre productions and radioplays.
'The Messier Objects' is a compilation of some of these works.

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The Notwist: Object 06

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LA-based electronic duo OOFJ are elated to announce the release of their sophomore album Acute Feast (April 21 on Ring The Alarm Records).

The brainchild of real-life couple Jenno Bjørnkjær and Katherine Mills-Rymer, the LA-based electronic duo OOFJ met in New York City while Bjørnkjær was working on music for Lars Von Trier’s Melancholia. This chance encounter developed into both a romantic and sonic chemistry that would eventually lead to the couple collaborating on music that formed the foundations of OOFJ.

Equal parts glamorous and nightmarish, with a glittery seductive tone to it, Acute Feast hints at the otherworldly, almost hyper-real world that OOFJ don’t just reside in, but have orchestrated.

Acute Feast

Sailor

Nouvelle musique de la Comédie Musicale crée par Philippe Bazelle

Jules' Dreams - Whispers of the Bamboo Grove

Rudolf Abramov – All Diving Lucid Blue (Optimo)
Label: Optimo Music (https://soundcloud.com/optimo-music)
https://www.instagram.com/optimomusic/
BUY LINK: https://rudolfabramov.bandcamp.com/album/losing-perspective
> Rudolf Abramov (https://soundcloud.com/rudolf_abramov)
https://www.instagram.com/rudolf0abramov
https://linktr.ee/rudolfabramov
> Mihály Podobni  (mihalypodobni.com)
https://www.instagram.com/mihalypodobni

It’s been a lil while since we released our EP Losing Perspective on Optimo Music, and just before we share some very exciting news with you, we want to look back and share a video created by Mihály Podobni for one of our favorite tracks from that EP - All Diving Lucid Blue.
The video was created entirely with analog video techniques, combining no-input and camera feedback using ’90s video mixers. Signals loop back into themselves to form ever-shifting, fluid imagery: no external footage, only synthesized visuals generated within the video system. Inspired by the track’s spacey, melancholic yet futuristic atmosphere, it reflects Mihály’s vision of a cosmonaut’s heimweh: drifting in nostalgia, recalling the endless blues of Earth – its skies, clouds, waters, and the planet itself.

We’d like to dedicate this video to Keith McIvor (JD Twitch) / Optimo Espacio. Your vision and passion have inspired us long before we joined the Optimo Music family. You are a compass for so many of us – thank you 💙


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PREMIERE : Rudolf Abramov – All Diving Lucid Blue

This remix is made by Rumpistol, a Danish artist and close friend of Efterklang. Rumpistol aka Jens Berents Christiansen runs a great label called Rump Recordings and under his Rumpistol moniker he has released several albums and EPs that all come highly recommended. 

This remix was released on the Flutter compilation by Flow Records: http://www.flow-records.com/flowrecords/release/flutter/

The original version of Modern Drift can be found on Efterklang's 3rd album 'Magic Chairs' (2010, 4AD & Rumraket)

Modern Drift (Rumpistol Remix)

Out 8th July 2016
Compilation sorted by COSMO VITELLI.

Cosmo Vitelli's label I'M A CLICHÉ might have run pretty low-key to the eyes of some but during its 12 years of activity, it managed to display a very clear artistic direction strong of 70 releases with a much enviable sonic cohesion while have a fine nose for talent: among other proud achievements, the label hatched the career of Israeli super-duo Red Axes and released Azari & III's "Hungry For The Power" 6 months before it became a worldwide classic.
A dozen years during which the label's tastes bended more and more towards a very peculiar type of synth pop and synth wave, too.

This year will see the release of a few retrospective compilations, each exploring the main traits and moods of its vast catalog.
The first one, "10 TRACKS THAT MIGHT HELP YOU FOR COOKING BUT WOULD CLEAR THE DANCEFLOOR" is obviously not touching I'M A CLICHÉ's arsenal of club weapons.
It's fair to say most of the music here either displays a feel of in-betweenness, or menace and tension—not unlike preparation scenes from a heist movie.

Cosmo Vitelli rounded up a selection spanning over the last decade, from UNCLE O's skeletal beats to ETIENNE JAUMET's modular synth jam, from ENTERTAINMENT's droning melodies and warehouse-reverberating drums to DIRTY 30's (actually Alixander III from Azari & III) twisted jazz-funk-leaning disco, the misty psychedelia of RED AXES' "Dreams Like A Tale". 

It's also a look back at COSMO VITELLI's own discography, through his 2006 single "Delayer" here remixed by Quiet Village over 10 minutes and two tracks from his band BOT'OX' second album (2013), all linked by the idea that escapism can somehow be a modern affair too. Here and now.

Bot'Ox — "Fathers And Sons"

Taken from the 'Lines' EP. Released 8th September.
Pre-order - smarturl.it/mbc-lines

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Meeting By Chance AKA Skalpel’s Marcin Cichy debuts on Apollo with a gorgeous EP of soulful atmospheric electronica, suffused with aching negative space, softly ticking rhythms and dulcet piano.

Classically trained on piano since his youth and one of the youngest Polish National TV music composers ever, Marcin quickly developed a taste for electronic music, composing soundtracks for some of Poland’s influential and pioneering video artists throughout the 80s and 90s.

But it was when he founded the acclaimed jazz duo Skalpel with Igor Pudło in 1998 that things really got going. Over the course of their three albums and many EPs to date Scalpel have won huge acclaim, signing to Ninja Tune, and, winning Poland’s most prestigious cultural award Paszport POLITYKI as well as performing with Mira Calix, Clark, Kronos Quartet and AUKSO Orchestra among many others.

Following a serious skateboarding accident, Marcin backbone was broken in two places which meant a year spent between a bed and on a wheelchair. This period saw the beginning of his solo career as Meeting by Chance (the name inspired by a series of pictures by Duane Michals showing the reaction of two men crossing in an alley).

In contrast to Skalpel’s more jazz infused upbeat vibe MBC finds Marcin exploring the combination of delicate textural sound design with enveloping billowy pads and ethereal piano chords. Cichy displays an introspective lightness of touch that is quite rare in today’s bombastic modern electronica which is most welcome and perfectly fits in with Apollo Records.

AMB1708

Meeting By Chance - Lines

From the album Stand Above The Streams by Jason Sharp

Released 23 Feb 2018
180gLP / DL
cstrecords.com/cst130

Composed by Jason Sharp

This music was performed wearing a customized heart monitor providing a single pulse to trigger analogue drums, sine wave patterns, controlled feedback, and synthesizers in real time. All electronic rhythmic material stems from this source.

Jason Sharp: Amplified heart, feedback, synthesizers, bass and baritone saxophones

Adam Basanta: Controlled feedback and amplification systems

Stand Above The Streams

Jason Sharp • "Stand Above The Streams Pt 2A"

το 13 από το άλμπουμ "Άγρια  Χλόη" σε μια ζωντανή εκτέλεση που ηχογράφησα για τις φίλες και τους φίλους μου με αγάπη.

13 (remix 2020)

K.BHTA -13 (live From A Room) March 20

Unreleased track from ROPE - HAVE YOU MET MISS BATES?
(El Gallo Rojo Records) c+p 2005
Fabrizio Puglisi piano - Stefano Senni bass - Zeno De Rossi drums

Lilin (John Zorn)

Alien Transistor was founded in 2003 by Markus and Micha Acher from The Notwist.The labels concept is to produce music that has a musical or personal relation to the Notwist- microcosm: From electronic soundscapes through abstract hip-hop to laptop-treated contemporary, from processed oriental music to Nick Drake-inspired-songwriting: Alien Transistor doesn’t respect any musical boundaries.