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The second foray into Séance Centre's “Speculative Ethnography” series is an icy and tender missive of glacial piano, ambient electronics, samples, treated sax, and drum machine rhythms from snowbound Canadians Joseph Shabason & Vibrant Matter (Kieran Adams).

Shabason and Adams have been collaborating for years, forming the production team behind the celebrated experimental synth pop trio Diana, but their relationship has often been fraught with creative tension. Fly Me to the Moon is their ‘make up’ EP, a redemptive voyage through uncertain times. During lockdown Adams found refuge in routine, practicing drums every morning in Shabason’s Toronto studio. Afterwards, the pair would chat in the alleyway behind the studio, drinking espressos, a daily practice that became an antidote to the chaos of pandemic life. Through this daily ritual a creative spark was reignited and they decided to start exchanging ideas, but rather than working together in the studio as they had in the past, the circumstances required them to collaborate remotely. Through this distanced connection the youthful tension and ego of the past eroded, evolving into a deep trust.

Escaping the gravitational pull of a planet in distress, the duo composed a sonic love letter adrift in weightless ambient electronics, fourth world jazz visions, and cyborg IDM riddim technologies — an ode to a long friendship which has strength because it has travelled through so many galaxies and vortices. Who says you can’t fall in love all over again - ‘Fly me to the moon / Let me play up there with those stars / Let me see what spring is like on Jupiter and Mars’.

Fly Me to the Moon is a limited edition pressing with risograph printed insert and designed for future archives.

RIYL: Ramzi, Photek, Mo Wax Headz, Jon Hassell, FSOL, Aleksi Perälä, Nuron, Ismistik

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Enter a sonic metropolis with Syntakt – the 12 track drum computer and synthesizer that fuses digital and analog synthesis together in one music megabox. Syntakt is a drum specialist, full of percussive possibilities, but its four analog and eight digital tracks can be used for melody, harmony, and bass sounds too, giving you a musical melting pot with dozens of machines at your disposal. Experience epic sounds from the past, while pulling others into existence from the future.

Affect the sound of each machine with the intuitive and playful graphics. Add analog distortion and filtering to your mix or separate tracks, using the FX block. Run wild and free with the four expressive modifiers. Access a variety of different scales via the keyboard mode. And create dynamic soundscapes with its phenomenal sequencer.

The streets of Syntakt are never-ending, the neon lights are never-dimming, its underground is fathomless. Discover worlds within worlds. Adore now. Explore forever: https://bit.ly/384dF5S

Dualmoon

Time bends for Imaginary Softwoods, the solo guise of producer, songwriter, and synthesist John Elliott. Though he’s working on new recordings daily, Elliott’s process for the construction of his albums moves at a much different interval, stretching out over months of considerate listening, revision, and waiting patiently for the right combinations and clashes of elemental forces to materialise on their own. The Notional Pastures of Imaginary Softwoods continues Elliott’s practice of zeroing in on what he wants to say with an album over the course of countless sessions that span multiple years, this time paying even more attention to locating the emotional through-line that connects the various pieces.

The eleven-piece album vibrates at a low, unbroken cycle through all of its articulations. The bubbling neon dots of “North of Roswell,” double vision stumble of “Mr. Big Volume,” underwater music box trickle of “Portable Void,” and clear headed Arctic daybreak drones of “Diagram of the Universe” are all linked by a gentle, fluid hum. The brief moments of anxiety and long stretches of calm both feed back into the same center of gravity, becoming conjoined reflections of one another as they cycle through.

After bending to find this specific universal frequency, time evaporates altogether, and longer zones like the glimmering “Almond Branch” become indistinguishable from Elliott’s signature miniatures, some of which stick around for less than a minute. The Notional Pastures of Imaginary Softwoods is a document of the universe as we comprehend it, designed to vanish as soon as it is felt.

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Portlander Paul Dickow, as Strategy, presents his latest album— A Cooler World. Fascinated by the unfamiliar limitations and inherent playability of a hand-me-down, 1989 model sampling keyboard, he played these pieces by hand, mostly abandoning the sequencer driven framework of sampling based music; he plays the sampler here the way a guitarist approaches the guitar. A Cooler World is a deep dive into glacial, pensive soundscapes that navigate the boundaries between experimental, ambient, and dance music. The pieces unfold with deliberate intention, expressed in a sound vocabulary that originates in the futurism of ambient techno, yet they open to the serendipitous outcomes of his instrumental experimentation. One of his few albums that fully commits to ambience, with this new album, everything is slowed down, gesturing towards stillness, and transformed into something otherworldly under a blanket of snow. Paul has released records as Strategy on Peak Oil, Kranky, and so many others. Prolific and motivated, Paul crafts his music to fill unanswered musical riddles and unexplored rabbit holes he discovers in his capacities as experimenter, record collector, and DJ.

Paul has released records as Strategy on Kranky, 100% Silk, Geographic North, Peak Oil, Further Records, Field Hymns, and so many others. Prolific and motivated, Paul considers himself “a record collector first, DJ second, musician 3rd.” He crafts his music to fill creative voids he identifies in his capacities as collector and DJ.

Strategy - A Cooler World

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One year after the release of 'Negore' from Odd Okoddo, Leipzig-based record label Altin Village & Mine pivot their radar towards the far reaches of the subconscious with 'Cosmic Astral', the latest expedition from psychotherapist and multi-instrumentalist Memory Pearl...‘Music Travel V’ dives deep into post-Balearic oblivion. A slow-motion implosion of forgotten utopias, the track layers primordial synth textures straight from the golden age of 8-bit dreams, celestial drum programming, sci-fi guitar hallucinations and brass motifs that glimmer like the last transmissions of a dying star. A soundtrack to the grand disappearance of memory dissolving into the infinite hum of the cosmos.

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Release date: 21st March 2025

Blochemy’s latest album weaves a melancholic yet mesmerizing tapestry, inspired by the beauty of nature and the delicate balance between living and non-living systems. Fascinated by entropy and randomness, blochemy captures the intricate harmony of the natural world through complex soundscapes.

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Natas Kunas - Overexposed

'Glimmers' is the first collaborative album by japanese artist Joe Fujinoki and russian Ilya Glebov, well known by ambient music fans as Murkok.

Written and Produced by llya Glebov and Joe Fujinoki . 
Mastering by Rob Small. 
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'Slow Morning' is the new work by maltese artist Robert Farrugia. The album comes in a 6-Panel CD with pictures by Brian Young.

Written and Produced by Robert Farrugia.
Mastering by Rob Small.
Cello on 'Haze' by Matthew Farrugia.
Photography by Brian Young  |  www.instagram.com/losingtoday 
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Robert Farrugia - Slow Morning (Album Snippets)

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Robert Farrugia - Slow Morning (Album Snippets)

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