Polypores Hyperincandescent DiN71

Release date 20th May 2022
Limited to 500 copies Digipak CD / 300 copies 180g Vinyl

The DiN label via its founder Ian Boddy has its roots in the analogue electronica of the German Berlin School. However over the course of 100+ albums the music released on this UK based imprint have pushed far beyond this musical heritage. The electronic music scene is ever evolving and a new, younger generation of musicians involved in the burgeoning modular synth scene are untethered from the past and able to wander freely into unexplored worlds of sonic soundscaping.

Just such a musician is Polypores (aka Stephen James Buckley) who paints music with a Eurorack modular, drawing influences from ambient, new age, and experimental electronica. His music soars, bubbles, crackles, and soothes, in ever-shifting, immersive cosmic landscapes.

His musical output is both varied and prolific with sold-out vinyl releases on such well respected labels as Behind The Sky, Castles In Space and Polytechnic Youth. Notable live festival performances have included the Castles In Space Levitation event, Manchester’s Subliminal Impulse and the prestigious Future Yard in Liverpool.

Whilst Polypores did have a track on the fifth volume of the Tone Science series, Hyperincandescent (DiN71) is his solo debut on the DiN label. Releasing on both CD and Vinyl the music is split between two album length tracks that meander between different sections exploring a micro world of texture and form. At times calm and blissful the mood can suddenly be transformed into something more chaotic with strange, organic twisted shapes emerging from the undergrowth. His ability to play with tempo as a mouldable musical expression is at times breathtaking and highlights quite what a fearless sonic explorer he is.

DiN is very proud to showcase the talents of this quite unique artist as the label forges ahead into its third decade.


01 Hyperincandescent   21:58
02 Floating In The MemePool   21:54 

Total Time: 43:54

Hyperincandescent

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Hyperincandescent by Polypores (DiN71) Demo Mix

taken from the self titled album "Peristalith"

Peristalith

Peristalith - Dusk

Anarchist Mountains is Jordan and Stefan Christoff. They made this mix to celebrate the release of Fire Waves, their latest album released by Oxtail Recordings in Sydney, Australia.

TRACKLIST

Anarchist Mountains - Anarchist Signals
Anarchist Mountains - A Signal at 1 AM
Fadi Tabbal - Cheap Triptych Photography
Fadi Tabbal - Ceremony By The Sea
Anarchist Mountains - Alright the Wind Is Beyond It All
Dais Queue - No fretting
Tanson - Light of the Baths
Nils Quak - Draht
Asian Dub Foundation - Colour Line
GAIKA - Seven Churches For St Jude
Federico Mosconi - Breath
Anarchist Mountains - A Lighthouse at Night

Anarchist Mountains presents MIXED SIGNALS [mix]

The Allegorist’s mix for Female Pressure x Refuge Worldwide - 28.06.2022

Tracklist: 

Desiderii Marginis - Land of Strangers
Lustmord - Babel
The Allegorist - The Sacrifice
Reid Willis - She Planted Stars At Her Feet
Efdemin - Sequence 100 (Johanna Knutsson Remix)
The Allegorist - Moving Forward (Snakes of Russia Rework)
Tommy Four Seven - I-4
The Allegorist - Blind Emperor
Treha Sektori - Solvay
Die Wilde Jagd - Durch dunkle Tannen
Midori Hirano & Atsuko Hatano - Nocturnal Awakening

Photo credit: @annajordanproject / Anna Jordan Project

You can listen to the mix here as well:
https://www.mixcloud.com/refugeworldwide/femalepressure-the-allegorist-28-june-2022/
https://refugeworldwide.com/radio/the-allegorist-28th-jun-2022

LINKS
https://songwhip.com/theallegorist
http://linktr.ee/TheAllegorist
https://theallegorist.bandcamp.com
https://www.theallegoristmusic.com
https://linktr.ee/awakenchronicles
https://linktr.ee/AnnaJordanProject

The Allegorist’s mix for Female Pressure x Refuge Worldwide - 28.06.2022

Fossil Hunting Collective is musician and sound artist Jamie Jones, from Guelph in Canada who has been active under this artist name since 2019. He has previously released music on labels such as Ambientologist, ROHS, Polar Seas and Rusted Tone Recordings across this project name and as (ph)authers (alongside Hymns57) and Still Harbours (with Brad Deschamps). Followers of our discography may also recall 2020’s contribution to our Home Diaries series, entitled ‘Aperture’. 

‘Cyanotype’ was made primarily, via the beautiful surprises thrown out of various guitar pedals along with re-amped loops played back through old cassette recorders. Whilst virtual plugins are also used throughout the process, Jones places an emphasis on the physical too, with his small body acoustic guitar strung with nylons, a Jazzmaster guitar, a baritone ukulele and reel to reel tape. The sound is a heady blend of melancholy, nostalgic and life-affirming movements, using droning texture, tape decay and loosely performed instrumentation to tell dreamy stories.

The theme for this album was born out of the emotions that Jones pours into his music, as he contemplates the day-to-day struggles of his daughter Hunter, who has been Type 1 Diabetic for the last two years of their life. This autoimmune disease can be life-threatening if not managed correctly and around 95% of Jones’ headspace is occupied with worry, as follows strict procedures to count carbohydrates, weigh out food and monitor blood sugar metrics to ensure that his daughter does not become hypoglycaemic, which could lead to a coma. Controlling this disease is a full-time job and one which Jones carries the weight of at all times. The worry, care and withered energy levels mean that these emotions surface their way into the music, when he sits down in his studio late at night.

The album is a homage to what Hunter must go through each day of their life, living with Type 1 Diabetes.  No child or parent should have to go through this. No child should need to understand how it all works, but they are forced to wonder ‘why me’.  On top of the weight of the emotional trauma, there is a physical trauma that comes with being injected with devices and life-saving medication numerous times a day, until a cure can be found. Jones and his family are keen to remind themselves when they can, that the disease does not define the being, and they still celebrate all the positive splendour life can offer. These tracks are an emotional journey of the day-to-day; there is the good and the bad, days of hope and wonder, days of melancholy and sadness.  Above all, they are not alone in this fight, and they all work together as a unit, protecting their family bond fiercely, like bees.

At an age of around 18 months, Hunter adopted the nickname ‘B’, after being so enthralled with their bee costume for Halloween that they continued to wear on many occasions afterwards. The track titles for this album are all influenced by bee related terminology but also, in some cases there are double meanings, such as ‘Apiary’ (meaning home), ‘Castes’ (members of the family) ‘Mellitus Propolis’ combines Mellitus (Latin for sweet)) used in describing Diabetes Mellitus and Propolis (the resin that bees use to hold hives together).

The album package makes use of the artist’s wife Richelle Forsey, who is a visual artist. Richelle often employs a process using the energy of the sun (ultra violet) to expose a camera-less image on paper coated with iron salts. This is called a cyanotype and the paper undergoes a chemical reaction which fixes the image, thus creating an imprinted monochrome ‘blueprint’.

Cyanotype

wlr121 Fossil Hunting Collective - Cyanotypes

~ LAAPS 023 ~ [SEQ.03 - LP23]

artist : Seabuckthorn
 album : Of No Such Place
duration : 39.34 mn
 date : November 04th, 2022

edition :
-  vinyl : limited to 200 copies / solid silver LP / hand numbered 
- cd : limited to 200 copies / hand numbered + handcrafted, sealed

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Guitars, field recordings, clarinet, tongue drum, cymbals, effects and mixing by Andy Cartwright.
Double bass on 1,2,3,5,6 by Phil Cassel.
Recorded at home between March and April 2022 in Veynes, France.

Mastered by Ian Hawgood
Cover photo taken by Andy Cartwright in Le Dévoluy in Oct 2021.
 Design by Sprflxgrfzm

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Links :
https://laaps-records.com/
https://seabuckthorn.bandcamp.com/
https://seabuckthorn-music.com/

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Seabuckthorn - Hand In The Upward Sky

Forced by war, violence or persecution, they see no other option but to leave their motherland. They are literally fleeing for their lives.

https://bedouindrone.bandcamp.com/album/birak
https://mahorka.bandcamp.com/album/the-border

BedouinDrone - Birak

In February of 2022, as Storm Eunice worked its way across the UK, two people, namely Greig Baird and his partner Susie Baird set out for a rare weekend away on the North Coast of Devon. The weather was rough, but life affirming. The North Devon coast spectacular and dramatic; made more so by the waning storm.

This collection is a set of sonified memories; moments in a particular location at a particular time. A creative recalling. A set of sound postcards if you will.

For Susie. As always, thank you. I love you.

Special thank you to Uma Baird.

Thank you to Brad Deschamps and Polar Seas Recordings.

Also a big thank you to James Bernard.

written and produced by Greig Baird 
mastered by James Bernard at Ambient Mountain House 
photography, design and layout by Greig Baird

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A Shared Place

No Words Needed

'No Words Needed' - A Shared Place - [Polar Seas Recordings, 2023]

sleep in nothingness, 2018 

// sounds heard 
samples from the Guimet's archival LP copy of 'Japanese masterpieces for the shakuhachi' (Lyrichord_MX4205_1989) 
+ artists own field recording of train ride in the monastic region of Koyasan Japan, clarinet, sine tones, voice, amplified objects, sferics, and a google-translate/text-to-speech recording of the album liner notes. // 

In a dream he found himself floating in a boat. Suddenly thick mist rolled down the sky and blocked his view of the moon. On hearing the moving melody of a flute, he reached out for his favourite bamboo flute to accompany the ethereal melody. The music is long and simple, and the listener is expected to forget everything and "sleep in nothingness".
-the dream of a priest named Kyochiku in the 12th Century while meditating at a temple in Nara (as cited in the album liner notes).

composed for performance at the Guimet Museum in Paris on Feb 03 2018, curated by the French label Tsuku Boshi.

sleep in nothingness

EnCOUTnTErs - The Avian Speculative at Cafe Oto, July 25, 2018.
Also performing: Lee Patterson and Sharon Gal. 
Pic by Sonia Levy/SoundFjord
Recording: Hear and Now, BBC Radio 3.
July 25, 2018.

Set - EnCOUnTErs - Cafe Oto, July 25, 2018 - recording thanks to BBC Hear and Now Radio 3

«BedouinDrone, drawing inspiration from the conflicting moods of the Middle East. War, prayer and the pressured condition of Arabic culture are the central themes . Drawing attention to political subjects rarely touched upon by the Western electronic music canon. BedouinDrone utilizes techniques of ambient and noise to immerse listeners in the tense state of the current Islamic world»

Conflict (K7, Album - 2020) - BedouinDrone Self-released
ḥiṣār حِصار (EP - 2019) - BedouinDrone Self-released
The Border (K7, Album - 2018) - Mahorka Records
Birak (EP - 2017) - BedouinDrone Self-released

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https://bedouindrone.bandcamp.com
https://soundcloud.com/bedouindrone
https://www.mixcloud.com/BedouinDrone

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