Release date: 09/04/21

If you would like to review this release, please email info@astralindustries.co.uk

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 B

TRACKLIST:

Mathias Grassow - Part II
Space Afrika - Version 1
Steve Roach and Robert Rich - Nightshade
Phil Stroud - Middle East
Philipp Otterbach - When the fish travels..
Paul Sauvanet - Madurai Temple
BODY CORP - Without Beginning or End
Dylan Henner - Exton
Hugh Small & Brian Allen Simon - Viridians
Ike Zwanikken - Bianca
Low Flung - Open plain
Innere Tueren - Everything I Couldn't Tell You
Midnat - Skov I
Pataphysical - Integument
Pugilist - Fight Authority
URA - Heliophobia
ECHO LTD - Stekkerdoos
Innere Tueren - Innocent Hearts (This Time He Is Close To Her)
MIKTEK - Obnubilate
Laura BCR - Pirate Sequence
Absis - Floating Around
Monolake - Amazon
Volor Flex - Fake Love (Remastered)

Introspective Electronics w/ Avsluta x Netil Radio | August 21

latest episode in my @efja resdiency at Kiosk radio recorded on 24 September 24th 2021 ☾

tracklist :
Eventless Plot - Part B
perila - time dripper
Marina Rosenfeld - Teenage Lontano (Excerpt)
Lena Platonos - Henna
Glia - pandanus-ii
Marco Shuttle - AfA
felt body - nest
Batu - Face of the Lake
xphresh - eikon
Marc Fleury - Pewarp 6
Parris - Your Kiss is Sour
Nicolas Jaar - Telahora
Muslimgauze - Opiate and Mullah
Dave Olson & Scott Radke - Parley
Nurse With Wound - A Silhouette And A Thumbtack (Dance in Hyperspace)
Roy Batty Jr. - SOT
Setwun - Earthrot2020

efja w/ lunar convoy @ Kiosk Radio 24.09.2021

Artist: PETRU KSS
Label: Kolibri Space Shuttle
CAT: KSS-LP01b-D
Format: Digital
Release date: 12.12.2025

Buy-Link: https://kolibrispaceshuttle.bandcamp.com/album/kolibri-live-part-2

Follow KOLIBRI SPACE SHUTTLE here:
Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/kolibrispaceshuttle

Follow PETRU KSS here:
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/petru.live
Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/petru-live

TC Premiere: PETRU KSS - Landing [ Kolibri Space Shuttle ]

no crocodiles on mars

Six Three
1: Six Three, 02:32
2: Six Three Touch, 03:00
3: Six Three Orbits, 03:39
4: Six Three Particles, 02:13

Dates:
05-Dec-2025 (inception), 06-Dec-2025 (finalised), 07-Dec-2025 (released)

Artists:
Music composed, performed, produced by Norman Freund
Artwork by Norman Freund

BandCamp Purchase:
https://normanfreund.bandcamp.com/album/six-three

SHORTEN VERSION, excludes Table 1 tuning, see my BandCamp site or my social media page for full details (https://www.facebook.com/norman.freund.545/)

Description:

Marcelo Leal Ref. [1] posts an article on FaceBook group, "Microtonal Music and Tuning Theory" and tags me, I looked on with interest. A tuning scale developed using at most harmonics one through to and include sixty three, octave reduced (i.e. divided by powers of 2 to ensure the frequency ratios remained within the 1. to 2. range. 32 Notes were used in this scale with adjacent note intervals starting from 53 cent, gradually reducing to 27 cent for the last interval to the first octave. So loosely speaking a quarter tone tuning with some stretching. I have tried quarter tone equal divisions of the octave tunings (24EDO) in the past and could not really get warm with them. Still, I was intrigued. 

Thirty notes, a lot of intervals to imagine, so I thought some form of colour coding on my Ableton Push2 midi controller would help. My Digital synthesiser, PulseRectOsc has micro-tuning and a user definable colour table, so switched this on and began experimenting. Stepping back just a bit, some preparation work on a spread sheet was necessary to calculate the frequency ratios, figure out a colour system using nearest 12EDO notes as a frame work.

The colour coding was to start the root note out as RED (1), colour all the diatonic notes of the nearest 12EDO major scale notes (the white keys on a piano) in GREEN (10), colour the nearest 12EDO sharp accidentals (#) in BLUE (15) and what was left over (the ^ and \/'s) coloured in PURPLE (18). The note naming convention used here was intended as a performer guide.

The PulseRectOsc synthesiser is a drone with a pulse like wave shape, amplitude modulation, wave folder distortion, a delay+feedback net work and your choice of VST reverb (or other effect). I used the Native Instruments' Raum for reverb. PulseRecOsc has an eight track audio recorder, so I recorded some four note chords to improvise over on the Soma Lyra 8.

The Soma Lyra 8 tuning approach was to tune it by ear to eight notes from the Table 1 tuning for the first track prior to the performance, then improvise a melodic line. Subsequent tracks would use a different four note drone chord from the PulseRectOsc and the Lyra 8 would use the tuning from the previous track as a starting point but alter the tuning during the performance. Each performance would introduce additional entropy into the tuning as performed on the Lyra 8, all done live, by ear, during the performance.

Each track's duration was purposely kept short, I wanted to demonstrate the various flavours of the 63-Limit Otonality tuning and in Lyra 8 style interpret this tuning organically.

The signal chain for the Lyra 8: mono out to the Soma COSMOS (rhythmic firmware, adds reverb and stereo space) -> stereo to digital interface -> 8 track recorder of PulseRectOsc.

The tuning of the Lyra 8 is very organic, is influenced by adjacent oscillators and has a "MOD" dial to accept frequency modulations from what it calls a "Hyper LFO". The Hyper LFO comprises of two low frequency oscillators, I used them here in the OR mode not synchronised, each pulse of the LFO changes the oscillator voice frequency according to the MOD dial. You don't control it strictly, more like guiding it, you listen and decide to increase or decrease the amount of modulation. A very organic approach.

References:
[1] Marcelo Leal, 5-Dec-2025, 63-Limit Otonality by Pitch (tuning scale). FaceBook group "Microtonal Music and Tuning Theory" Link: https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1asmaHiK7G/

Six Three Particles

"Passed a swift current,
Through echoes of the singing spirit,
We build a fire to vanish
in the deep black ocean." - Unjin

Unjin's 'Northern Atmosphere' creates an expression of a dark ethereal ambience characterized by evolving dissonant harmonies, and long sustained tone clusters. The artist combines hardware synthesis with intricate audio routing to achieve his signature sound.  Northern Atmosphere evokes a feeling of solitude, isolation and precariousness.

Written & produced by Unjin 
Artwork by Dima Rabik
Mastering by Seunghyun Kim (Scøpe)
Release Date: June 19th, 2020
by Kizen Records

Northern Atmosphere

Northern Atmosphere EP Preview by Unjin [KZND003]

Stream full release + free download: c12bxl.bandcamp.com

"As a human family, through innovation and creativity, we have elevated ourselves and perceivably stand as the most powerful beings on earth. Yet our ego ... ". The spoken word by Victor (KrWi) in the opening track of our newest Social Distancing compilation is a strong call for change, for a brighter future. It sets the mood for what is to follow, seven tracks exploring ambient soundscapes, industrial techno, broken beat and dreamy rhythms. 

KrWi - A&S
Adhémar - In The Smoke (Morning Spatialization)
N-Gon - Phototropic Curvature
Initial Code - R1992
Cornil - Bruxisme
Different Fountains - 517
Thomas Hayes - Equilibrium
Kato De Vidts - The Watcher

Mastering: Tournay Maxime
Mixing: Tournay Maxime for Kato de Vidts - The Watcher
Artwork: Andrea Mancini

A major thank you goes to all the artists involved for their kind gifts, the city of Brussels for their kind support and everyone else who makes this project possible.

http://c12space.com

C12 is a multidisciplinary nightclub and platform run by the Deep in House collective, located in the heart of Brussels. It's a safe place where freedom, diversity, creativity and alternative culture are protected from the restrictive and normative outside world. The project was launched in February 2018 and includes concerts, art installations, lives, club nights and exhibitions.

The Corona crisis is keeping our doors closed and dancefloor empty for several weeks now, with no hopes yet on new line-ups and crowds of enthusiastic dancers. But this unprecedented situation isn’t holding us still. Continuing to support our local Brussels and Belgian electronic music scene, C12 is proud to announce its own label with 10 music compilations dubbed Social Distancing. All artists involved are Belgian or strongly connected to the Brussels scene. Confirmed are Le Motel, Stellar OM Source, A.Brehme, Front De Cadeaux, Davy, OCB Casa Voyager, Cabasa, Techno Thriller, Orphan Swords, Different Fountains, Bear Bones Lay Low, Gols, Hadone, ... and our residents Session 4000, Kafim & Chris Ferreira. Compilations will also be curated by female artists promoting platform ‘Psst Mlle’ and queer culture collective ‘Benediction’.

Each edition consists of a collection of several tracks and will be released every two weeks, leading to a total of approximately fifty tracks. All music will be available to add on your favorite streaming service Soundcloud, Youtube, Spotify and Bandcamp. In addition for each track we offer a limited amount of 500 free downloads through our Bandcamp page, where donations are also enabled for those who wish to support us and the artists involved.

Kato De Vidts - The Watcher

Adhémar - In The Smoke (Morning Spatialization)

There are just a few people in the industry who are dedicated enough to run a label and a record store, do sound engineering and produce music under different aliases at the same time. Shine Grooves (real name Andrey Kurokhtin) is one of them. A one man orchestra, if you will, who’s managing to find time for all of that, while working on a full-time job. Throughout his music career started somewhere in 2010 as Shine Grooves, he has put out a handful of releases on infamous labels like Rough House Rosie, Sakskobing, Kimochi, Udacha, Mysterious Russian Soul, as well as on his own @hanagasumi label founded in 2020. Aside from working on his solo, there are also X343 @x343 and Рябина @rowanberryspace collaboration projects focused more on experimental and avant garde sound performed as a live band. This year he’s also opening his own record shop entitled the same as the label - Hanagasumi, a record store based in Ekaterinburg, Russia. As per the label owner himself, Hanagasumi literally stands for a mighty set of blooming trees, the concept and philosophy which is perfectly describing the vision of music released on his label and the stock of records being presented in his shop. Having a tremendous background and experience in the industry started way back in 2005, It’d be quite challenging to even guess as to what kind of music to expect from a man of so many things. But when it’s unpredictable, that’s what makes it all natural and 100 % real.  As for us, this podcast is fully reflecting the sound definition of Hanagasumi.

Artist page: @shine-grooves

Label page: @hanagasumi

Potential Dig 005 --- Shine Grooves

Oslated Premiere 372

O-Ma & Pierre Montagnon - Vagues 423
Kōgen [ŌTM7 / Ōtium]

Produced by Tak Ohta  aka O-Ma & Pierre Montagnon
Mastered by Joseph Dubrule
Artwork by Benoît Lefeuvre
Released by Ōtium from Paris, France
Release Date : March 08th. 2021
Format - Tape and Digital

Following his contributions to some of our very first releases, O-Ma returns on Ōtium and joins forces with Pierre Montagnon for Kōgen, a tape & digital duo album.

Recorded in Tokyo during 2020 confinement, Kōgen embraces current post- apocalyptic world-setting. Across the 8 tracks and an additional 20 mn live recording, the few broken club influences and hopeful ethereal pads get occluded by industrial field-recordings elements, eerie drones and noise textures.

Slowly crafted in an analog & modular synthesis environment, the album tracks all comes from re-arranged improvised live session. The 20mn recording that ends the release gives the opportunity to dive in the original composition setting of the album.

Kōgen comes in a limited press of 25 tapes.

O-Ma (Tokyo, Japan)
https://tak145.wixsite.com/o-ma
https://soundcloud.com/omamodular
https://www.facebook.com/omamodular
https://www.instagram.com/omamodular

Ōtium
https://soundcloud.com/otiumrec
https://www.facebook.com/otiumrec
https://www.instagram.com/otiumrec
https://otiumrec.bandcamp.com

Oslated.
http://www.oslated.com
https://soundcloud.com/oslated
https://oslated.bandcamp.com
https://formaviva.com/oslated

Kōgen

Vagues 423

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PREMIERE : O-Ma & Pierre Montagnon - Vagues 423 [Ōtium]

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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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