Passing Notes 24 Jan

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Sonic trip thru the bustling metropolis.

Outer Jungle

'Digital Swamp' is the second single of my upcoming album 'Terugblik'.
thesomethingsomething.bandcamp.com/album/terugblik

Mastering: Stephan Mathieu / Schwebung Mastering
Artwork: Deborah Mora / Orah

Shoal - Digital Swamp

@commandd
@sure_thing

BC: https://surethingrec.bandcamp.com/album/well-of-sand

Sure Thing presents Well of Sand, its second compilation. Six tracks from label friends and favorites, each new to the roster and offering bold, untempered explorations of tempo and weight, a concise yet expansive collection recalling the deliberate cadence of rippling sand and the sheen of shimmering oases.
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Well of Sand

pi pi pi premiere: Command D - Half Blue (Violet Mix) [Sure Thing]

A Walking Contradiction welcomes Sciama to the fold and adds another full EP of oscillating rhythm workouts to the catalogue. AWC009 densely packs fast moving, ultra focused soundtrips. From breathtaking drone scapes to wiggly high-paced rhythm experiments, all sublimely sound designed with a focus on the low ends.

Sciama's soundscapes are accompanied by an essay of writer and researcher Asia Bazdyrieva. Pixels densely packed*** expands on the contemporary media surrounds that wrap and entrap us. A constant stream of images and sounds of atrocities and genocidal violence transforms into an anaesthetising haze, ever present and indispensable, yet easily ignored.

A2 - Choice Reduction (Snippet)

Incredible album from Aussie band Acopia, links below to support!

Discogs link: https://www.discogs.com/release/22391035-Acopia-Chances
Bandcamp link: https://acopia.bandcamp.com/album/chances





Acopia - Giving Up (On Your Old Ways)

Artists: @rm_estali @katatonicsilentio  
Label: @virtualforestrecords
Release date: December 19, 2024

BUY:  https://virtualforestrecords.bandcamp.com/album/dynamic-slicing-remixes

A new release by Virtual Forest Records, with a fresh take on 𝗥𝗠 𝗘𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗹𝗶's acclaimed first EP. 𝗗𝘆𝗻𝗮𝗺𝗶𝗰 𝗦𝗹𝗶𝗰𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗥𝗲𝗺𝗶𝘅𝗲𝘀 is a collection of 4 hybrid pieces between the abstract and the concrete, from mental mazes to straight club thumpers. Featuring experts of the emerging underground renaissance with a heavy focus on atmospherics and refined sound design - 𝗞𝗮𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗼𝗻𝗶𝗰 𝗦𝗶𝗹𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗼, 𝗣𝗹𝘂𝗿𝗮𝗹𝗶𝘀𝘁, 𝗦𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗲𝗻𝘁, and 𝗔 𝗦𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗻𝗴𝗲 𝗪𝗲𝗱𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴. The EP opens with 𝗞𝗮𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗼𝗻𝗶𝗰 𝗦𝗶𝗹𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗼's solemn take on The Arcs, keeping the original atmospherics but destructuring the rest, with a slowly evolving rhythmic cell centered around swaying drums. A study in industrial abstraction and minimalist aesthetics.

Artists Insta: 
https://instagram.com/rm_estali
https://instagram.com/katatonic_silentio

Label Insta:
https://instagram.com/virtualforestrecords

𝒑𝒓𝒆𝒎𝒊𝒆𝒓𝒆: RM Estali - The Arcs (Katatonic Silentio Remix)

Bandcamp: https://sohaso.bandcamp.com/album/to-sit-quietly-where-everything-is-moving-fast

For his debut album To Sit Quietly Where Everything is Moving Fast, https://soundcloud.com/love-over-entropy used only one source: a Yamaha DX11 synthesizer. It’s a vintage machine from 1987 that was also used by early IDM and techno producers. “Working with an artificial constraint unleashed a different kind of creativity," says the The Hague-based musician, who normally does not shy away from elaborate productions.

Love over Entropy spent a lot of time working out the correct order of the tracks on the album. "I think it's important that the story also flows well on a higher level. It was a nice puzzle to solve."

Although the Covid pandemic is long behind us, much of the material on this album comes from the days when society was still largely in lockdown. "Which explains the title," says Love over Entropy. "But it also refers to my distancing myself from the hustle and bustle of the dancefloor. Up until then, I was primarily making dance music."

You won't find any kick drums or heavy bass lines on To Sit Quietly Where Everything Is Moving Fast. It is intimate, meditative and often very beautiful ambient music. But not the formless kind that seems to dominate chill-out playlists these days. Tracks like Finnkroken, Tidalene and Rotiriot have a story to tell, with a lot of effort put in to get it just right.

“To me, making music is mostly about the process. So I will spend many hours working on details that probably nobody will ever notice. Above all, the pastoral melodies stand out, undulating back and forth like foam on the surf. The harmonies are reminiscent of Isan, Boards of Canada and Murcof, while the album also pays homage to the Artificial Intelligence period on Warp Records.

According to the Dutch producer, a lot of current ambient music falls short of the original idea, as coined by Brian Eno. "Eno once described ambient as music that should be 'as ignorable as it is interesting', but nowadays it seems to have become 'as unignorable as it is uninteresting'," Love over Entropy says cheekily. "Ambient music really is everywhere, with modern production tools often doing the heavy lifting."

With To Sit Quietly Where Everything is Moving Fast, the producer hopes to make a difference, simply by raising the bar. It's a journey that can be taken both horizontally and vertically, and hopefully offers comfort. Or as the producer describes it: "music that offers a refuge."

Artwork by Spherical Waves (www.sphericalwaves.com)

Love Over Entropy - V

We are thrilled to present the 10th-anniversary release on our label by Ehndo @ehndomusic - a musical project of Bautista Falco, a young artist from Buenos Aires, Argentina.

‘Genesis’ marks the start of his musical journey, blending deep and psychedelic sounds with a broad and exploratory approach. Inspired by life in Buenos Aires, this album reflects the artist’s day-to-day experiences and the different moods he has navigated over the past few years. From slow tempos and warm pads to broken rhythms and brain-dancing patterns, ‘Genesis’ evolves into 4-on-the-floor trance-inspired beats.

Produced by Bautista Falco
Mastering by Ilya Semashkevich

Ehndo - Hope

@papercutslimited are pleased to announce their first 12” of the year and 10th release on the label. Celebrating the debut feature-length album from ‘Radart’ aka Dylan Batelic (Paper-Cuts, Sunflower Aquarium). Featuring an 8-track collection of ambient, downtempo, breaks and more, taken from selected works between 2022-2024.  @radart-url

Bandcamp: paper-cuts.bandcamp.com/album/blips-b…ps-lp-pcltd10
Distribution: www.one-eye-witness.com/release/17361…ps-and-bleeps

Available worldwide on digital and physical January 31st, 2025.
Pre-order now and download/stream tracks ‘Prelude’, ’Flying Fox Colony’ & ‘Soli Test’.

PREMIERE: Prelude - Radart [Paper-Cuts]

Support & Buy : https://virtualforestrecords.bandcamp.com/album/soap

Kicking off 2025 to a foamy start, Virtual Forest presents a new release by co-founder 𝗙𝗹𝘂𝗶𝗱 𝗠𝗮𝘁𝘁𝗲𝗿 (@fluidmatter). Exploring less-travelled avenues of the bass music continuum, '𝗦𝗼𝗮𝗽' draws on broken techno, drum’n’bass or leftfield, and welds seemingly distant aesthetics with Fluid Matter's vibrant and evocative touch. A profound and colorful EP, closed by a breakneck but delicate remix by druidic bass music trailblazer 𝗣𝗿𝗶𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗲𝟱𝘀 (@prieste5s).

Artist : Fluid Matter
Album : Soap
Format : Digital
Cat# : VFO013
Release : April 24, 2025

w & p by @fluidmatter
remix by @prieste5s
artwork by Julien Jean
mastering by Cédric IFA Oléon
distributed by Sequence
© 2025 Virtual Forest Records

Support & Buy

VFO.13 Fluid Matter - Soap [Previews]

Rare Progressive Trance produced by Chris Organic and originally released as a B Side on his Organic Records label in 2001.

The 2025 version has been remastered and cut loud at 45 RPM with a chugging downtempo remix from Konsudd (Konduku & Aa Sudd) and a minimal acid techno version from Eternal Injection (Sunju Hargun)

@sunjuhargun
@kondukukonduku
@aasudd


Vicious Rumours (Eternal Injections Stripped 909 Mix)

@ronan-music

https://empyreanwave1.bandcamp.com/album/empyrean-wave-01

pi premiere: Ronan - Star of Ishtar [Empyrean Wave]

Crossfade Sounds delivers a special remix edition of ZeroA's Goblins, featuring ten reworks that span the full spectrum of dub-inspired sound. A Belgian artist and longtime label regular, ZeroA's work here is reimagined by Asphalt Layer, Deepdrome, dESUS, Emesh, Francesco Tamburrano, ORBIA, Substak, The Open Circle, Victor Lopez, and ZeroA himself with a Collisions Mix. From slow, dubby 94 BPM explorations to classic oldschool dub techno aesthetics, the package highlights both the versatility of the original track and the creative breadth of the Crossfade Sounds family.

Stream/Download here: https://go.protonradio.com/r/rlAlFVE_1qrv0

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ZeroA - Goblins (Victor Lopez Remix) [Crossfade Sounds]

Beauty and Brutality

This VA seeks to unveil the immaculate metric, the perfect alchemy of harshness and gentleness, of grace entwined with violence. For beauty and brutality arise at the very conception of narrative: twin, complementary forces of life that awaken novelty, the eternal cosmic dance of creation and destruction.

The music unfolds as testimony: bass lines that strike with raw force, melodies that embrace with tenderness. Each track reminds us that joy and sorrow are carried in the same breath, that collapse and renewal, despair and devotion, walk hand in hand.

The artists offer fragments of their journeys: trials endured, spirits broken and restored, their commitment renewed in sound. This is not only music but witness, a reminder that to love the world as it is, in its wounds and wonders, is the hardest vow.

Beauty and brutality are not enemies, but mirrors, reflecting us back to ourselves, guiding us toward wholeness and awakening.

Let this compilation speak where words fall short: of darkness and light, of heaviness and grace, of the paradox at the heart of existence. A sonic invocation to face the abyss, and to love it anyway.

Compiled by Razael

Artwork - Sacred Symmetry Design

Mastering -

All tracks mastered by Biolab Studio, except -

Track 16 - D.O.C

Track 22 - XianZai


08.Dattatreya meets Casual Frequencies - Holey Mountain(200bpm)

This is the vocal edit of Spirit Project - Inner Spirit (Vocal Mix). Inspired by my love of bands like Pink Floyd and various other inspiring artists.

Inner Spirit (Vocal Mix)

The Primitive Painter

Stoned Soul Picnic

Label in Vilnius run by @tadan127

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𝒑𝒓𝒆𝒎𝒊𝒆𝒓𝒆: RM Estali - The Arcs (Katatonic Silentio Remix)

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