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Part 2 of In At The Deep End, compiled and mixed by label boss Nick Brennan aka Tripswitch.

Available exclusively on Beatport from 19th May 2017. General release 2nd June 2017.

In At The Deep End (compiled and mixed by Tripswitch)

Antique Cicada

@apathuntold

www.facebook.com/apathuntold/

Mastered by - Audible Oddities www.audibleoddities.com/

Artwork by Toby Verhines

A Path Untold is the ever-expanding musical vision that producer Daniel Merrill (previously of Aligning Minds) has been slowly but steadily building for years, carefully constructing a sound that you’d be hard pressed to find anywhere else. His alchemical style has evolved through observing, collecting and fusing together a variety of diverse elements from genres such as future garage, slow/deep house, downtempo/ambient, and idm. Additionally, through experiences with Peruvian medicine work and group-based healing ceremonies, a loving fascination with that culture has also weaved its way into his compositions. With the utmost honor and respect paid to these long-standing traditions and sounds, he feels it is in this fusion of mediums there lies an incredible opportunity to unify cultural realms. By bringing qualities of sacred healing experiences to the dancefloor and utilizing the limitless palette of modern electronic music production, the boundaries between worlds are blurred, using music to explore the balance between dualistic elements like illumination/darkness, past/future, tradition/innovation, euphoria/melancholy, natural/artificial, and individual/collective, all as an expression of unity and holistic oneness. Think mystical melodic story-telling through the use of explorative texture and harmonic bass presence, calling into existence the sound of alternate realms of beauty, intrigue and wonder.

The newest release from A Path Untold, ‘Wander to Serve’, is a full-length offering of 9 tracks that envelops the listener in a sonic world carefully constructed through a powerful combination of uniquely varied genre elements.

The album draws upon a personal account of transformation and transmutation, each track a form of therapy and self-expression shaped around the need to transmute pain and struggle into beauty and triumph. Over the course of Daniel’s 17-year journey as a music producer, his relentless exploration through the genre spectrum has allowed him to retain an objectivity necessary for the fusion of eclectic stylistic influences. His alchemical style has evolved over the years through observing, collecting and fusing together a variety of inspirations, bringing together elements from future garage, slow house, downtempo/ambient, world music and idm.

Additionally, through his experiences with Peruvian medicine work and group-based healing ceremonies, a loving fascination with that culture has also weaved its way into his compositions. With the utmost honor and respect paid to these long-standing traditions and sounds, he feels that it is in this fusion of mediums there lies an incredible opportunity to unify cultural realms. Bringing qualities of sacred healing experiences to the dancefloor, and utilizing the limitless palette of modern electronic music production to create transcendent healing experiences, the lines are blurred between worlds, utilizing music and creative expression to explore the balance between dualistic elements like illumination/darkness, past/future, tradition/innovation, euphoria/melancholy, natural/artificial, individual/collective, all as an expression of unity and holistic oneness.

‘Wander to Serve’ is a tribute to the notion that we are here collectively to be of service to one another - to help liberate each other, awaken, and create. That “To fully be of service, you must allow your heart to truly wander” through the infinite spectrum of experience in all of its dualistic nature, including facing fears, sorrows and challenges along the path of keeping your heart fully open in order to give and receive, in cyclical oscillation. This process manifests itself as a transmutation of life events, the concept of turning poison into medicine, darkness into light.

A Path Untold -  A New Way

Shangtsung in a Jungle

In late 2015, A Path Untold (Daniel Merrill) released his debut album under the project, Secret Subtle Light. Crafted over the course of two years, this seminal album created a strong signature statement of the multi-genre, multi-dimensional sound that is A Path Untold. Focused on melody, texture, off kilter grooves and emotional nuance, it fluidly explored the genre spectrum, weaving through various styles and structures of future garage, deep house, ambient, idm and world music. Conceptually it explored themes of self discovery, light within darkness, numinous experience, secrets, and the process of inward/outward illumination. The album was received to great underground acclaim and inspired listeners and producers from across the globe with its distinct vision. 

Aquatic Collective is now proud to present A Path Untold - The Secret Subtle Light Remixes, a collection of reinterpretations by a variety of uniquely talented producers who represent a multitude of styles and approaches. Ranging from dance-able neuro-garage, deep mystical dubstep, soulful drum n’ bass rollers and introspective ambient, this release explores an aesthetic that stays in line with the original ethos. With artists Mystic State, Dillard, Aphasia, Oudjat., Shamanic Technology, Hajimari, & High Dude - the diversity of styles and genres remains intact. 

The entirety of sales from the album will go towards purchasing a new boat for the [Payaguaje] lineage of the Secoya tribe in Ecuador, helping to lead efforts in reuniting families with their ancestral lands Lagarto Cocha]. This region is an area of flooded forest, shoreless lakes and vast sunsets and is the ancestral home of the indigenous peoples of the Secoya tribe. 

"Today there are 600 Secoya in Ecuador, and 900 in Peru. Over the last 50 years ongoing external pressures have resulted in the Ecuadorian Secoya being reduced to living in a small area of land on the Aguarico River, a day’s travel upriver from Lagarto Cocha. Their communities and farmlands are surrounded by palm-oil plantations, oil and gas operations, and communities of colonists and other indigenous people who have recently moved into the area.” 

"Despite the passing of time and the distance from their current communities, the Secoya still consider the area their spiritual and ancestral heartland. They continue to visit Lagarto Cocha annually, as a way of reaffirming their identity and connection with their ancestors, and to collect various resources. The unique ecosystem of Lagarto Cocha means that there are many plants and animals found there that the Secoya can not find on the River Aguarico. The expanding agricultural and oil operations have also degraded and contaminated the land and waters around the Secoya villages reducing the quantity and quality of available resources." 

Mastering by Dillard 
Artwork by Toby S Verhines

Buy The SSL Remixes

Ki No Kaze (Shamanic Technology Remix)

https://soundcloud.com/laugebabagnohm ◀︎



◦ TRACKLIST ◦

Hilyard - On the Sorrow of Firn pt. i
SVLBRD - Dawn (Remodel)
Phillip Wilkerson - Afternoon Shadows
Alonefold - Isolation Horizon
Kwajbasket - A soft death
Líom - Coast
Lauge - Everything else is Broken (Stretched Edit)
Hilyard - On the Sorrow of Firn pt. Ii
Poemme - Rain of Stars
AES Dana - The Gradual District

Buy the individual tracks:

hilyard.bandcamp.com/track/on-the-s…w-of-firn-pt-i
faintmusic.bandcamp.com/track/dawn-remodel
shop.stereoscenic.com/track/afternoon-shadows
alonefold.bandcamp.com/track/isolation-horizon
shop.stereoscenic.com/track/a-soft-death
liom.bandcamp.com/track/coast
hilyard.bandcamp.com/track/on-the-s…-of-firn-pt-ii
musicformessier.bandcamp.com/track/rain-of-stars
ultimae.bandcamp.com/track/the-grad…district-24bit

Photo: Annie Spratt (unsplash.com)

[Aquatic Collective Mix] - by Lauge

Remix I did for Skysia's Dusk!

Listen to the full EP on Spotify here:
https://open.spotify.com/album/5KGShq7SIzaM1DcZ60ZD7k

Free Download

Skysia - Dusk (Nomadic Remix)

New double album out now: 
Realms Of Solace & In The Light Of Shadow
Out now on all platforms 

https://ffm.to/da4kq94

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