Release date: 09/04/21

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180g vinyl//mastered by Noel Summerville//original artwork by Theo Ellsworth.

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Originally released on CD in 1999, Astral Industries present a first vinyl issue of Monolake’s much-loved ‘Gobi’, licensed from Imbalance Computer Music. Set to the backdrop of the Gobi desert in eastern Asia, two shimmering vistas plunge the listener into a vast and deeply hypnotic nocturnal soundscape. The perennial hiss and rattle of insects float along the fresh night air in soft waves. The desert thrives with quiet activity as a westerly wind skitters across moonlit dunes, granulated folds dancing like sheets of thin silk. Tectonic plates murmur beneath the shower of stars overhead, their millennial cycles whispering of aeons past. Vividly textured and enticingly synthetic in its sound design, Gobi succeeds as a stunning piece of minimalism.

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Side A

Release date: 28/05/21

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180g vinyl//mastered by Noel Summerville//original artwork by Theo Ellsworth.

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Another uncovering arrives from Astral Industries by the name of The Humble Bee. The alias of industrious, multi-talented UK artist Craig Tattersall, The Humble Bee’s ‘A Miscellany For the Quiet Hours’ was the inaugural release on Tattersall’s now discontinued Cotton Goods imprint. This beautifully intimate work resurfaces after more than a decade since its initial release, now available on vinyl for the first time.

Constructed entirely of tape loops, fragile tapestries of forgotten artefacts canter with teetering rhythmic pulses. Melodic counterpoints drift in soft bucolic reverie, as hazy recollections of undefined pasts seep out in blurs of nostalgic colour. The album is imbued with a close tactile quality, lovingly crafted as a result of both manned and unmanned decay experiments. Undeniably tender yet wilfully introspective, something speaks immediately of those magic sonic moments, illuminated by the quiver of late night candlelight.

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A3. With Answers

Ambient Dreamscapes for you to enjoy. Relax, unwind, meditate and chillout

DARK AMBIENT - SUCH HIDEOUS STRENGTH

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Happy new year!!! This is the very first Ambient Sessions podcast of 2017!

Welcome to the 28th chapter. This first session in 2017 is mixed by Michiro Sotomura from Japan. 

Bio:

Michihiro’s from Morioka city in Iwate and now living Uenohara city in Yamanashi. Active as a DJ since 1996 in Morioka. As the organizer of 'aquart', his themes center around transformation of heart and body led by sound. His mixing style known as simple yet smooth, using subtle Ambient / Electronica / Downtempo / Techno sound sources, pulsating each note.In 2009, Michihiro graduated from the YogaJaya International Teacher Training at the YJA300 level, And he had taught Hatha Yoga at YogaJaya for six years from 2009 to 2015. And also he have teaching experience more than 1000 hours and he is now a Experienced Registered Yoga Teacher 200E-RYT and YACEP with the Yoga Alliance,and now he organizes "un." that aims the life to connect and harmonize the nature and the human.


Tracklist:

01. Eternell - Alcyone (Meditation)
02. echospace plays michael mantra - sea shell city (morning)
03. Alva Noto - Xerrox Spark
04. Ryoji Ikeda - Data.Vortex
05. Ryoji Ikeda - Data.Matrix
06. Arovane - III_I
07. Claudio PRC - Part III
08. Neel - Life on Laputa Regio
09. Alva Noto - Verrox Solphaer
10. echospace plays michael mantra - sea shell city (afternoon)
11. Donacha Costello - Ensō

Links:

https://beta.mixcloud.com/michihiro-sotomura8/

https://un-life.jimdo.com

Ambient Sessions # 28 - Michihiro Sotomura

Welcoming in a dear friend and alchemical music maker Iggy aka Mister Water Wet for the first Motion Cast of 2020. Last year saw the release of his debut record “Bought The Farm” on West Mineral, an assortment of songs that felt reflective of someone who’s interest in sound is far reaching. Fingers crossed for another full length from him this year, until then I’m happy to share this mix of his which he’s described as a “love letter” and “almost like an early 2000’s movie or skate video soundtrack”.

2814 - guided by love
Harold budd & hector zazou - and then she stepped aside
Higher intelligence agency - tortoise
Meat beat manifesto - pot sounds
Ekstasis - providence (Bill laswell remix)
Vacabou - Russia in white
Jon hassell - Mombasa 
Alpha seven - thermion
The sabres of paradise - planet d (portishead remix)
Pole - taxidub
Bedouin ascent - treading the earth

https://soundcloud.com/titofuego

Motion Cast Vol. 41: Mister Water Wet

1. Champignonsdesbois - Indonesia Muezzin (forthcoming Shimmering Moods)
2. Fa.R - segment heaps ((forthcoming Shimmering Moods)
3. Music For Sleep - Infinite Tape Loops: In Fear And Trembling(forthcoming Shimmering Moods)
4. Havenaire - Channeling (forthcoming Shimmering Moods)
5. HAND - Song For The Melloncollie part two (forthcoming Shimmering Moods)
6. Biuddha - Pausa Intermedia (forthcoming Shimmering Moods)
7. Sqrtsigil - Matchhead (forthcoming Shimmering Moods)
8. Havenaire - Beta (forthcoming Shimmering Moods)
9. Moss Covered Technology - Against Yourself (forthcoming Shimmering Moods)
10. Mind over MIDI - Night Owl (forthcoming Shimmering Moods)
11. Gallery Six - Bewitched (forthcoming Shimmering Moods)
12. Anders Wasserfall - Birdland (forthcoming Shimmering Moods)
13. Balsam - Something Between The Butterflies (forthcoming Shimmering Moods)
14. anthéne - enough (forthcoming Shimmering Moods)

Shimmering Moods

Shimmering Moods @ Red Light Radio 27.1.2020

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Eho Kates - To Presence

Release date: 19/02/21

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180g 2x12" gatefold vinyl//mastered by Noel Summerville//original artwork by Theo Ellsworth.

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Long-time AI associate Wolfgang Voigt returns to the London label with his next album – Rückverzauberung Exhibition. The Exhibition reimagines the concept with renewed purpose, opening the gates to deliver an arresting 60-minute journey into the underworld. Dense soundscapes mutate with alchemic fluidity, unravelling with vast symphonic counterpoints and synesthetic textures. Intoxicating in its Mephistolean dissonances and ambitious sonic structure, the sprawling "Rückverzauberung” itself becomes a nebulous organism shrouded in the seeping mist of the unknown.

Part One

Contemporary and vintage sounds...

1)Oskar Sala - Musique Stéréo Pour Orchestre Électronique En Cinq Parties - Trois
2)Jan Jelinek - Forest Weaver
3)Kai Harster -Night Drive
4)Mads Emil Nielsen - Sway
5)Daniel Palkowski - First Fall
6)Roméo Poirier - Longe-côte
7)Tomoko Sauvage - Flying Vessels
8)Lou Harrison - Gending Pak Chokro
9)Tony Oxley - Brushes
10)Perila and Ulla - Box of Dust
11)William Strickland - Insistence
12)Cleve Pozar - Changes
13)Andrew Pekler - Sunshower at Sandy Island
14)Peter Mumme - Veronica Takes a Bath
15)Matchess - For Lise
16)Horaflora - Lunacy In The Garden Of Forking Paths
17)Atte Elias Kantonen - Form 1
18)Kai Harster - Bells in Rain
19)Robert Irving - Popornot

Norm mixes 2021

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Bookings and all label enquiries: info@astralindustries.co.uk

Please, no demos.

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Artists: Deepchord, Wolfgang Voigt, The Chi Factory, Heavenly Music Corporation, Waveform Transmission, Sonmi451, Atom™, J.Derwort, Shorelights, Multicast Dynamics, LF58, The Abyss Within Us, Monolake, The Humble Bee, Son of Chi, Lucid Dreams, Mystic AM, Dialog, Sa Pa, Toki Fuko, Rod Modell, Ear to Ear, Pianeti Sintetici, Marco Shuttle.

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AI-01: Deepchord - Lanterns
AI-02: Wolfgang Voigt presents Rückverzauberung live in London
AI-03: Chi - The Original Recordings
AI-04: Wolfgang Voigt & Deepchord - Colours of Time, re-interpreted
AI-05: Chi Factory - The Bamboo Recordings
AI-06: Heavenly Music Corporation - Lunar Phase
AI-07: Chi Factory - The Kallikatsou Recordings
AI-08: Waveform Transmission - V 2.0-2.9
AI-09: Chi Factory - Red Lantern at the Kallikatsou
AI-10: Deepchord - Immersions
AI-11: Heavenly Music Corporation - In a Garden of Eden
AI-12: Chi Factory - The Mantra Recordings
AI-13: Sonmi451 - Nachtmuziek
AI-14: Dots - Dots
AI-15: J.Derwort - Bamboo Music
AI-16: Shorelights - Bioluminescence
AI-17: Multicast Dynamics - Ancient Circuits
AI-18: Chi Factory - Travel in Peace
AI-19: LF58 - Alterazione
AI-20: Waveform Transmission - V 3.0-3.9
AI-21: The Abyss Within Us - Life in a Circle
AI-22: Wolfgang Voigt presents Rückverzauberung Exhibition
AI-23: Monolake - Gobi. The Vinyl Edit 2021
AI-24: The Humble Bee - A Miscellany for the Quiet Hours
AI-25: Son of Chi & Radboud Mens - The Transition Recordings
AI-26: Multicast Dynamics & Sid Hille - Metamorphosis
AI-27: LF58 Live at Brancaleone
AI-28: Lucid Dreams
AI-29: Son of Chi & Clara Brea - The Wetland Remixes
AI-30: Mystic AM - Cardamom & Laudanum
AI-31: Dialog - Dialog
AI-32: Son of Chi & Arthur Flink - The Fifth World Recordings
AI-33: Sa Pa - Atmospheric Fragments
AI-34: Toki Fuko - Spirit Medicine
AI-35: Rod Modell - Ghost Lights
AI-36: Ear to Ear - Live Recordings
AI-37: Pianeti Sintetici - Space Opera
AI-38: LF58 - Radials
AI-39: Marco Shuttle - Sonidos y Modulaciones de la Selva
AI-40: Wolfgang Voigt - Rückverzauberung im Tunnel
AI-41: ???

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