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For as long as I can remember, I’ve felt there was something truly mysterious about this world, and always wanted to find out just what that is. I think I may have found out some of it, but I also think I’ve only just scratched the surface. That’s kind of what this album is about. Until recently it had always seemed to me as if everything around me was so out of context, nonsensical, random. Finally I am beginning to understand that everything is connected, and I’d really like to keep exploring that, so here is something in context.

Thank you for listening and please take care.
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Depuis toujours, j’ai senti qu’il y avait quelque chose de vraiment mystérieux à propos de ce monde, et j’ai toujours voulu découvrir ce que c’était. Je crois en avoir découvert une partie, mais je pense aussi que je n’ai fait qu’égratigner la surface. C’est un peu l’idée de cet album. Jusqu’à récemment, il m’a toujours semblé que tout autour de moi était hors de contexte, insensé, aléatoire. Finalement je commence à comprendre que tout est connecté, et je voudrais vraiment continuer à explorer tout ça, voici donc quelque chose dans son contexte.

Merci pour votre écoute et prenez bien soin de vous.

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British musician Jo Johnson’s debut solo album for Further Records, Weaving, betokens an exciting presence in the world of minimalist composition. 

“Ancestral Footsteps” opens the LP with cascades of cyclical harp-like sounds, an homage to one of Johnson’s primary inspirations: Alice Coltrane. Channelling rigorous new age and mesmerizing Riley-esque/Reichian minimalism, the piece accrues heft and intensity, with occasional bursts of synthetic, tribal clapping until it fades out with cinematic flourish. The title track gradually alters simple guitar and keyboard phrases, along with a chiming motif that multiplies in a hall of mirrors. The disorientating arpeggios form moiré patterns against colossal bass notes. The mood lightens considerably with “Words Came After Music,” whose sweeping strings and drones could take you to whatever your idea of heaven is. Interestingly, the title of the piece is inspired by an anthropological theory Johnson stumbled across that musical ability predates language in humans. With its sombre, undulating synths and lustrous highs and lows, “In the Shadow of The Workhouse” plumbs profound emotional depths. Epic closer “Silver Threads” starts as an almost silent retreat in the vein of Laurie Spiegel's Appalachian Grove or Eno and Budd's The Pearl with the faint hum and buzz of telegraph wires, until four minutes in a stoic pulse and suspenseful chiming motif arise, buttressed by glowing synth sighs and the LP's only percussive thumps (think Incunabula era Autechre). 

While inspired by the "serious music" of Arvo Pärt, Wim Mertens and others, Johnson’s mandalas of tone mantras offer a playful, DIY sense of adventure, as you might expect from the former guitarist for incendiary punk group Huggy Bear and a long-term co-organizer of London’s Bleep43 techno club night and label. Weaving condenses Johnson's long love affair with free jazz, minimalism and electronic music and this unique ambient composition is invested with powerful emotional resonance.

Words Came After Music

Weaving

In the Shadow of the Workhouse

night

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runx3 1.1 lo 30 bpm take 1 72625

Release date: 24/03/17

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

Format: 180g vinyl//re-mastered by Noel Summerville//leaflet inside//original artwork by Theo Ellsworth.

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Hanyo van Oosterom lived in the small cave of the Kallikatsou in the early eighties, finding inspiration there for the Chi project (1983-1986). From the nineties to 2006 he created drones, loops, samples and soundscapes, traveling numerous times annually back and forth to the Kallikatsou for fine-tuning. With the Original Recordings and Bamboo Recordings, both strongly connected to the Kallikatsou, creating the perfect timeframe, “the circle [is] closed. Together these recordings reflect and express the different aspects of the experience. A trilogy of random dream-catching over 30 years.”

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Part One

Tor - Blue Book Remixed out now! - hyperurl.co/BlueBookRemixed
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had the great privilege of joining a stacked roster for this remix album! Tor challenged me to put my twist on the intro to his album, a song that was originally 1:05 in length. enjoy, and download the album now!
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check out Loci Records - @locirecords

Blue Book Remixed

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Tor - Intro (Edamame's rework)

Release date: 29/09/17

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

Format: 2x180g vinyl//matte finish gatefold cover//mastered by Noel Summerville//original artwork by Theo Ellsworth.

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V 2.2-2.3

Release date: 12/12/2017

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

Format: 180g vinyl//matte finish//mastered by Noel Summerville//original artwork by Theo Ellsworth.

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"I’ve never met Rod Modell (Deepchord) in person, but we have met through music. He found an obscure cassette of Chi music (from ’86), sent it to Astral Industries and paved the way for the release (30 years later) of ‘The Original Recordings’ in 2016. Since then, we’ve exchanged ideas and good music. I sent Rod a preview of ‘The Kallikatsou Recordings’ - he really liked it - and here came the idea for a remix of ‘Lanterns’. I started working on some random, lo-fi samples from Youtube, using Audacity, perhaps the simplest way of producing loops and samples. It’s the only computer based system that feels like the tape recorders I used to work with. I sent the first sketches to Rod on Facebook, but they ended up in the wrong inbox. I forgot about them, but months later he came back saying he loved them. I decided to go back to working on them, maintaining the lo-fi approach. I began manipulating the samples: time-stretching, tempo and pitch-shifting, mixing different layers and adding old-school monophonic “old speaker” effects, delays and loops. I used a few field recordings, voices and samples from my early ambient cassettes, and they matched. Ario from Astral Industries got involved and the experiment turned into a plan - a vinyl release - ‘Red Lantern at the Kallkatsou’”. 
Hanyo van Oosterom.

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Part Two

There are very few demos of the legendary, rare and beautiful RSF Polykobol II. To me the best ones are by Sebastien of Mos-lab, on YouTube. I decided to try to recreate (as accurately as possible) the first 2.5 minutes of this demo, my favorite one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H247bhAZOS4   

I wanted to see how close I could get with the Kijimi. Sebastien used quite a bit of reverb and delay on this demo, and I tried to recreate those as accurately as possible too, as well as the mostly mono sound. I ended up with two versions I liked so I added them both here. In the first version Kijimi is slightly more detuned (VCO2 detune, and voice drift setting). In the second version  (starts at 2:30) the VCO and voice tuning is tighter, giving a nice cat purrrrr in the low notes.

Kijimi recreation of Polykobol II demo

'the state where all objects dissolve'

excerpt from sleeping concert at Makvärket

24.11.2019

In fanā

The sounds of Claravox Centennial performed by Gregoire Blanc.

Learn more about Claravox here: https://www.moogmusic.com/products/claravox-centennial

Learn more about Gregoire Blanc here: http://gregoireblanc.com/en/home/

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Akatiti アカチチ

沖縄の言葉で明け方 Dawn in Okinawan word


薄暗い空 ゆっくりと日の光が差してくる
心もとない不安な気持ちも消えてゆく
朝の始まりを喜ぶたくさんの小さな命
静かな心地よい希望
そうだったそうだった
ひとりじゃなかった忘れてた
わたしはここにいるよ
わたしはここにいて気持ちがいいよ
息を吸い
息を吐く


The sunlight slowly shines the dim sky
My uneasy, kind of sad feelings disappear
Lots of little lives begin to rejoice in the beginning of the morning
Quiet comfortable hope
It was so I wasn't alone I forgot
I'm here
I feel good here
Inhale
Exhale

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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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