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Solar Fields - Going In

I Am The Program

LUSTWERK II

Chillin' in the Booth

The second release of POSITIVLAND by Mancunian artist:

Faff
@ffaf

PSTVLND 002 - 04/01/2024
positivland.bandcamp.com/

Limited ≈200 copies in Black vinyl, 180g.
Very Limited 26 hand-numbered copies, Splatter vinyl 180g
* Release Limited Edition 25/01/2024

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Note from the artist:


Faff’s Scrapbook.ep

This record is a collection of tracks I made from the start of 2019 to the end of 2021. They all exist completely independent of each other. My intention while working on music during this time was to create a time capsule/memory album for me to remind myself of my moments with. I had a lot of different experiences and substantially changed during this time. The early tracks were made by a completely different person than the person typing this. Of the 6 tracks on this EP, only one of them was made with the knowledge that it would be put together with the others and released as one cohesive article.

I wanted to make music again after abandoning it for 3 years. One of these tracks marks the turning point where a projected pipe dream of determined mastery was cracked through by what the speaker cone did when piano roll blocks were placed intuitively for the first time. 

In this .ep, I present:

THE CONCEPT

In its disjointedness, this music has presented itself to me as a scrapbook. It is rough around the edges, vague in its sentiment, and has more of an emotional than abstract association. While brainstorming for visual ideas to package these tracks in, I spat a bunch of words into a GAN and the words might be useful for you to get a sense of the general themes:  “synthesizer drum machine back catalogue emotional syneasthesia-inducing dance music” “vibrant energy synthesiser music record” “faffing about analogue synth music maker colour-changing light experiment” “bedroom studio acid bass sentimental rave artisan” “braindance analogue synthesiser data catalogue metaphysical music” “psychedelic synthesiser contemplation heartfelt breakbeat lullabies” “reaction diffusion rephlex records melancholic analogue music journal” “cerebral rave chromatic anthem dirge synth memories” “tr-808 analogue rave cerebral music energy ritual”

There is a dualistic nature to this EP, as it is a highly organised arrangement of totally disparate tracks. They are all (except one) built inside a DAW, but largely featuring live performance recordings of analogue hardware. The recordings are then processed after the fact. Layers on layers of humanity and machine, analogue and digital, specificity and ambiguity. All of the tracks are also subjectively experienceable pieces of music, but they sit in an objective folder structure on my laptop. Each one also was ignited by a unique occasion, but absorbs new meanings and connotations as time flows through and around them. These polarised paradoxes are key to the idea of this EP. Even to have a concept EP assembled from standalone tracks without any uniting concept is an example of the intertwining of opposites. Visuals associated are DAW architecture, poorly managed cables in thrown-together bedroom studio, piles of photographs printed out, computer folder structure, MIDI information in piano roll/automation envelopes, synthesiser encoders and pots.

Buy it:)!!

Special thanks and love go to Weefween, Robert and Chloe 

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credits
release January 4, 2024

Written, composed and produced in Manchester, UK, by Faff.
Mastered in Groningen, the Netherlands, by Johanz Westerman at Balyhoo Studio Mastering.
Designed in Manchester, UK, by Faff + Weefween + Positivland.
Distributed from Sardinia, Italy, by Desslab.

www.desslab.net
www.positiv.land

Faff - Voicenote (Snippet)

Concrete Mimosa

Wherever You're Going Take Me With You

Nautilus Experience

Nautilus Experience (Lovelock Remix)

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Silk Sofa is proud to present the "Life Lines" EP by UK artist Data Rebel. We recently witnessed Data Rebel's first contribution to our imprint with his remarkable remix of Jani R's "A Thousand Flares" single. "Life Lines" is a collection of three unique and memorable downtempo cuts.

"Plink" takes off with a truly haunting breakbeat and tranquil synth stabs. Subtle piano stems slowly emerge, while stunning sound effects add further texture to the soundscape. Breathtaking guitar elements are introduced later, which brilliantly accompany the soothing piano notes. In "Broken Note" an array of delicate rhodes stabs emerges, while a mesmerizing breakbeat is slowly introduced. A light theme lead appears later, and the well-structured sound effects continuously maintain the memorable atmosphere, delicately accompanied by lush piano melodies on top. Finally, "Karman Line" starts off with a slow breakbeat and deep bassline notes. It does not take long for the song to evolve into a stunning piece with tremendous sound effects and gorgeous soundscapes. Data Rebel's signature sound is in full effect in this song, including hypnotizing melodies and outer worldly textures.

Data Rebel - Broken Note [Silk Sofa]

9. Fantasy

Well Spent

Locked In (Rough Concept)

From the album Deepak Verbera out October 14, 2016 on Western Vinyl

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Deepak Verbera, the third LP by Austin’s Spencer Stephenson aka BOTANY, bends the beat-driven path carved by the composer’s first two records into meterless cosmic territory, juxtaposing free jazz arrhythmia with cathedral-filling harmony, ringing off the temple walls with soaring grandeur. The billowing textures that loomed behind his previous output break unabashedly into the foreground, shedding the beats that once stenciled them in. What arises in the absence of discernable rhythm is a psych-inflected scrapbook of atmospheres with tremendous sonic and emotional breadth.  In essence Deepak Verbera is a soundscape record created through methods usually found in hip-hop; vinyl samples, looped vocal phrases, pulsing bass, and warm synths all shimmer with kosmische-indebted splendor, like Popol Vuh with MPCs and a stack of secondhand records.

Deepak Verbera

Botany - "Burning From the Edges Inward"

Ulrich Schnauss and Jonas Munk

Sirocco

Solved

Clearer Views

YouTube performance: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c5LTIhXqA5s

Dreams

The Dream Is Always The Same - Tangerine Dream (State Azure Cover)

So this is the limit.
Energy flow inside has reached a critical point. There is just one moment before the explosion - when the Universe arrives at a balance. This feeling is like a full of resolving but unconscious and spontaneous.
Explosion is natural need in order to give birth to something new and powerful. Like a bolt of lightning during the storm, energy flows will come out with its deadly power.
Quiet tension, just calm before the storm - this exact point of fragile balance. Just one thing is inevitable - energy flow will come out.

Written and produced by Thomas Carmody & Khlev (@thomascarmody @khlev)
Remixes by Vøsne, Kpsh, Alex Sfetcu (@vosne-music @kpshofficialsound @alex-sfetcu)
Design by Thomas Carmody
Catalog number: SL09

Save Me

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Thomas Carmody & Khlev - Save Me (Vøsne Redemption) [SL09]

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