A Strangely Isolated Place (ASIP): Releases

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Remixes for various artists compiled (2019—)

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ASIP Releases (Previews)

Chapita

Out now on Genot Centre on tape & digital: https://album.link/gen046abadir

"A striking work of hi-def sound design, which intends to explore the intricacies of the human voice, and the significance that can be found in the oddities and interruptions to be found in our speech patterns." (https://soundcloud.com/djmag)

https://soundcloud.com/rami-abadir's Pause/Stutter/Uh/Repeat (GEN046) is a collection of gravity-defying tension build-ups and releases, crammed grimey patterns and blasting overdriven kicks setting the stage for an acousmatic, digital treatment of the human voice as a raw sound source. Vocal snippets, elusive traces of dialogs, ghost notes between utterances, modelled or resampled choirs all form the basis of this approach. On these tracks, high definition focused sound beams, charred high-res textures are complemented by intricate drum rolls sizzling, rushing up, bending beyond their breaking point joined by the clang of metallic, synthetic objects colliding, deforming, rupturing.
The release is accompanied by a handful of remixes, including a staggering diagonalization by https://soundcloud.com/frktl, a bass heavy club ready edit by https://soundcloud.com/ice_eyes, a frenetic, bouncy reimagination by https://soundcloud.com/fausto_mercier and a luminous big drum-powered rendition by https://soundcloud.com/zulimusic.

Recorded, produced & mixed by https://soundcloud.com/rami-abadir.
Album tracks mastered by https://soundcloud.com/fausto_mercier.
Remixes mastered by https://soundcloud.com/wimdehaen.
Artwork & tape design by Sam Lubicz (of https://soundcloud.com/333boyz)

Limited edition of 55 C46 tapes with on-body printing pro-dubbed by Headless Duplicated Tapes.

// https://soundcloud.com/rami-abadir about Pause/Stutter/Uh/Repeat (GEN046)
“Uh, um, ah, urgh, so, well, I mean, indeed—in everyday conversation, we stutter, pause, prolong a syllable beyond its actual length, sigh, click our tongues and lips, laugh, and repeat. Such interjections utterances and fillers may be considered superfluous to our interactions, even interrupting our flow of ideas. But, if we listen closely, we’ll find them loaded with deeper layers of meaning and affect: hesitation, thrill, discomfort, uncertainty, surprise, shyness, contemplation, or the agonizing search for meaning. 
As I extracted those recurrent utterances from supposedly coherent conversations, and the more I listened to those shards of sound in isolation, I came to the realisation that our semantic exchange has always been fragmented. This overpowering sense of fragmentation inspired a collage structure and infused the production with a deconstructed, dramatic and cinematic sound. In this sense, the collage technique in composition reflects how we construct meaning out of tiny utterances in our speech. “Pause/Stutter/Uh/Repeat” is a distillation of overlooked communication, implicit expression and elusive meaning, all of which could be reduced in a one-syllable utterance. The end result was a canvas of revisited meaning.
I submitted this work as my graduation project for the MA program “Digital Media” at the University of Arts Bremen.”

// https://soundcloud.com/rami-abadir's bio
AِBADIR (Rami Abadir) is a music producer and sound designer born in Cairo, Egypt.
His work focuses on experimental, glitch and ambient music, and he's one half of the duo 0N4B. Together with the visual artists Nurah Farahat and Islam Shabana, he co-founded the audio/visual collective "Mapping Possibilities", which has been active in promoting A/V events since 2016. ABADIR is also the editor of the electronic music section of the Arabic music webzine Ma3azef, where he also contributes as a writer on critical theory, music history, reviews and interviews.
Previously solo released on Hush Hush Records, Yerevan Tapes, Kaer‘Uiks, D.M.T. Records, and through 0N4B on Kaer’Uiks, ANBA, Aural Electronics.

Buy digital/tape

ABADIR - IV (FRKTL Hyperstition Remix)

Simulacrum Remixed

Simulacrum I (FRKTL Remix)

After his debut on ASIP with the ‘impossible instrument’ focused album, Multiverse, https://soundcloud.com/gadisassoon follows with the Chaos & Order EP. Inspired by the relationship between the organic, synthetic and bionic elements of his approach to music creation, the EP comes to life across a number of versions, remixes and formats, inviting the listener to immerse themselves through the EP's fundamental elements in various different ways. https://asip.me/asipv037

Consisting of three core pieces of music, with each one originally conceived as Quadraphonic, the release expands into two immersive listening experiences. Firstly, the digital album with accompanying Binaural* mixes designed for expansive headphone listening and Dolby Atmos** versions for compatible devices. Second, a limited edition 2LP lathe cut, where each quadraphonic track has been split into two stereo versions, across 4 sides of vinyl, resulting in various potential playback scenarios.

“The continuum with synthetic and organic at opposite ends and bionic in the middle, bleeding into one another… that’s the roadmap of my work. I like this simple diagram because it’s easy to navigate, and there is so much to explore within and between these realms. When I write, I splay and combine these elements on more than two speakers if I can. The stereo field is a coded language, as are standard immersive formats that force the listener in a fixed perspective. Fine methods of delivery, but the experience of sound can be so much more - a happening…” - Gadi Sassoon.

This music ‘hacking’ mentality is further extended into three remixes of the tracks by fellow purveyors of intricate sound design; Olga Wojciechowska, Max Würden and FRKTL. Olga takes ‘Organico’ into a dramatic orchestral beat-driven space, Max Würden adds structure and warmth to Sintetico, and Sarah Badr (aka FRKTL) tunes extreme deconstruction in Bionico.

The end result is an experience that can be listened to in many different ways, across many different formats, inviting the listener closer to the many elements Gadi honed and crafted across his studio in Milan, and the EMS Elektronmusikstudion in Stockholm.

Featuring artwork by Noah M / Keep Adding, and mastered by Rafael Anton Irisarri, Chaos & Order will be available as a digital album on Bandcamp featuring the original tracks, remixes and Binaural Versions and a 2LP Lathe Cut (30 copies) featuring the Quadraphonic Versions. There will also be a limited edition Metallic Print of the artwork available on Bandcamp

Gadi Sassoon / Chaos & Order EP (ASIPV037) [Previews]

Amp Wall Monument Confrontation

Engine Of Future Ruins (FRKTL Rework)

"When the gate of clouds opens wide, rain starts falling on the inner lands. And an harmony of choirs and voices lifts up, like children, a pure melody of oscillating bells plays inside us. Intensely. Airy. Ethereal. Nature awakening. Deeply immersed in silences and noises." 

All tracks written and produced by Pasquale Riviezzo 

Artwork photo titled "la città che muore" by Bruno _pek_ asip.me/1g3IWBR

Download on Bandcamp

ASIP029 Halo - Cloud Gate

"A sequence of places. Indefinite. A continuous flow of emotions that paints a landscape in the air. Here are new colors, new notes. And new atmospheres. It’s all about atmosphere. Intimate. And I cannot define boundaries, or limits. So wide, but so real. Like the fields that unfold while we’re moving, our travel. And they are reflected in our eyes like morning dew in a mirror".

All tracks written and produced by Pasquale Riviezzo 

Artwork photo titled "la città che muore" by Bruno _pek_ asip.me/1g3IWBR

ASIP029 Halo - The Inner Realm

"Departure is how the act of moving from one place to another begins. This is a station of passage, an abandoned station you see through the window while you’re travelling to another town. It’s an isolated place, vanishing in the mist, where few voices are heard and a train is passing by. All is immersed in the ambience of a particular Autumn day; a soft rain starts pouring down while all our feelings are flowing freely."

All tracks written and produced by Pasquale Riviezzo 

Artwork photo titled "la città che muore" by Bruno _pek_ asip.me/1g3IWBR

ASIP029 Halo - An Isolated Railway

At just 22 years of age, Italian prodigy Pasquale Riviezzo is one of the most promising talents we’re yet to feature in The Places Series. Playing the piano for over eleven years and the guitar for over six, you may know Pasquale from his lush ambient productions on Dewtone from 2012. But it’s here, amongst detailed field recordings, emotional scores and vivid instrumental journeys that Halo really shines as a talented composer.

His Places Series EP, titled ‘Song Of The Highest Tower’ captures what he describes as, “something very intimate and close to the artist’s personality and subjectivity” – something “incidental to the artist’s mind” or what some of us may simply call, creative expression. And as most us know, there’s no better way to bring this to life than a combination of enigmatic strings, poignant melodies and a heart-felt back story.

We’ve all experienced those moments when we capture a perfect image in our minds eye; those indelible scenes we can recall with perfect clarity. These snapshots might last a lifetime or disappear as quickly as they were realized but in that split-second, for composer Pasquale Riviezzo, it’s a preservation of a very personal kind.

“I usually travel from Milan to Naples for my university studies. These are images of places that I saw in a misty morning while I was on the train, that were fixed in my heart for a moment, mixed with flowing feelings and thoughts. They maybe became different places after that, but this is a story I’d like to tell you, through notes. It’s how a common place becomes intimate, and then a strangely isolated place.”

Inspired by transit and transcendence, misty mornings and fleeting connection, Pasquale’s EP is a collection that’s characterized by weighty piano chords, ethereal atmospheres and measured use of string to give tracks a melancholic focus. It allows ‘An Isolated Railway’ to drift along measured string and gentle piano, ‘Cloud Gate’ to swell with the soft vision of rolling Cumulus and the heavens opening, and the maudlin melody of ‘The Inner Realm’ to breathe through the dead space and atmosphere.

‘An Isolated Railway is the abandoned station you see through the window while you’re travelling to another town,” Pasquale explains. “It’s an isolated place, vanishing in the mist, where few voices are heard and a train is passing by, and The Inner Realm is am indefinite sequence of places, a continuous flow of emotions that paints a landscape in the air.”

‘Cloud Gate’ is when the gate of clouds opens wide and the rain starts falling and I’ll listen to ‘The Wastelands’ with closed eyes and see sounds painting a landscape in the imaginary space. I called that place ‘The Wastelands’ because it feels like a distant landscape brought back for a just moment, then, just like a dream, at the end you open your eyes and there’s no trace left. Just a subtle sensation of having been there, somewhere, sometime.”

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Song of the Highest Tower

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Halo - 5.Song Of The Highest Tower

More info: https://asip.me/asip042

A Strangely Isolated Place proudly presents Mirror EP, the first label release from Hungarian electronic artist https://soundcloud.com/swanasa (A. Abigél Bánházi). Following her 2023 debut, When You Need to Rest, Let the Sounds Hold You, released on Budapest’s EXILES, Abigél’s Mirror EP serves as a captivating follow-up and a purposeful first introduction to the world of ASIP, showcasing her ability to bridge experimental sound design with hypnotic, meditative drones.

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“We begin at the edge, the Sad Sea, where the waves mirror our emotions, a boundary between the conscious and the deep unknown. As we dive, the waters grow wild, swirling in the chaos of our unconscious. But through the storm, we start to see the patterns—guided by the wolf, the soul’s escort through the shadows.

Deeper still, silence falls. In this quiet, the voices of whales, and dolphins become our companions, leading us toward truth. The water washes away the darkness, and in that stillness, the swan rises—a symbol of transformation, of wisdom found.”

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Mirror EP encompasses a diverse range of textures, from deeply immersive soundscapes to intricate rhythmic elements, reflecting swanasa's dedication to pushing the boundaries of ambient music, informed by the interplay of folk culture, Jungian psychology, and digital experimentation. Each composition is a seamless blend of synthetic and organic sounds, influenced by her connection to nature, creating an evocative experience that resonates with themes of ecological awareness and modern technology’s role in artistic expression.

Featuring rhythmic chanting and layered vocal samples that invoke a sense of ritual and deep introspection, washes of abstract sounds manipulated from the recordings of wolves, and mystical sounds straight from nature’s own. The EPs tracks highlight swanasa's exploration of sound as a symbolic language, inviting listeners into a world where the lines between reality and imagination blur.

swanasa's music is brought to life through her live performances, where Mirror EP and her previous material form the foundation for dynamic, meditative sets. Having performed alongside artists such as Abul Mogard, swanasa’s live shows emphasize deep listening and immersive sound environments, drawing audiences into her unique sonic world.

Mirror EP will be released on November 22nd, 2024, available as a digital download, mastered by Rafael Anton Irisarri @ Black Knoll Studio, New York. The artwork, an original texture created by Zsuzsi Palman, continues the theme from Abigél’s first EP.

ASIP042 swanasa - Mirror

swanasa / Immersion

swanasa / Sad Sea

A Strangely Isolated Place presents a long-lost collaboration between Polish artists Olga Wojciechowska and Tomasz Walkiewicz as Monoparts—a partnership formed many years ago that resulted in an album once destined to remain unreleased.

Olga Wojciechowska, known for her modern-classical masterpieces such as Infinite Distances (2019) and Unseen Traces (2020), as well as her 2022 collaboration with Scanner, breaks all known expectations with Soothsayers. In a dramatic departure, Olga unveils a new and unexpected side, debuting her haunting vocals—a delicate, spellbinding performance that recalls the golden era of trip-hop, and comparisons to the sounds pioneered by Tricky, Massive Attack, and Martina Topley-Bird.

With Tomasz adding layers of depth through intricate beats and electronics, Olga’s voice becomes the emotional core of the record, conjuring an intimate and nostalgic atmosphere.

"This album is like becoming one with the earth itself—feeling the rawness of the wood, tasting the earth in your mouth, and sensing the presence of ancient spirits. The music carries a deep, primal energy, like being part of the forest, with creatures watching you from the shadows." - Olga Wojciechowska

To complete the journey, ASC lends his signature touch with a stunning drum’n’bass reinterpretation, amplifying the album’s nostalgic essence. Soothsayers emerges as a spellbinding ode to times gone by, in more ways than one.

Featuring artwork by Moon Patrol, with mastering and lacquer by Andreas LUPO Lubich, Soothsayers will be available on 12” maroon smoke-colored vinyl and Bandcamp on February 28th.

Monoparts / Soothsayers (ASIPV052) [Previews]

Following https://soundcloud.com/mikkel-rev's debut album on the label in 2023, ‘The Art Of Levitation’, the Norwegian artist returns with Journey Beyond, a selection of tracks demonstrating his innate ability to conjure the most atmospheric trance music, irrespective of BPM.

Journey Beyond was created from an extensive set of tracks sent to the label that were initially sequenced as two shorter EPs. With the first offering a slower 80bpm trance style, and the second EP, a classic ~130bpm trance style. However, over time, with tracks swapping in and out, ASIP had the idea to create a mixed version, progressing through the tracks and increasing bpm's, showcasing Mikkel’s ability in bridging euphoric worlds - and a style that is often reserved for Mikkel’s live performances amongst the forest raves held as part of the Ute Collective in Norway.

Classic trance and the art of a DJ mix have been influential to ASIP since the label’s inception, making this release and the process of creating it a true reflection of how Mikkel and the label come together to define the end output.

Featuring artwork by Ventral Is Golden and mastered by James Bernard.

Mikkel Rev / Journey Beyond (Mixed by ASIP) [ASIP043]

Haunted Dancehall

Chapel Street Market 9am (Remastered)

KILN https://soundcloud.com/kiln return with an opulent new display of hue and swing on Lemon Borealis, a sumptuous gallery of dazzling motifs that display a finely hewn concoction of visual tones and vital pulse.

Across its 12 cuts, this collection utilizes a fresh process of condensing immersive sprawl into compact, punchy and colorful sound. Using aspects of live performance, beatmaking and waveform sculpting, the troika of Kevin Hayes, Kirk Marrison and Clark Rehberg III create evocative and invigorating dioramas, continuing to surprise and enchant listeners after over thirty years into their collaboration.

Deep in waves of Hi-meets-Lo Fi, KILN delivers a panchromatic daymark arranged to biochemically align and stimulate your personal syntax, forging a tapestry of sonic reveries ranging from the aquarium-on-fire radiance of DrnkGrlfrnd, a garden groove of field-recorded percussion in Maplefunk Diptych, to the sizzling guit-noise whiteout of Deacon Rayhand.

Their eighth album, and first for A Strangely Isolated Place, on Lemon Borealis, KILN expands upon the long-explored themes of mosaic texture, subtle melancholy, eroded consonance, and vivid cadence to reveal yet another aperture to their unique magnetic universe.

Lemon Borealis will be available on 12” Transparent Yellow/Ochre Smoke vinyl and digital on July 18th. Lacquer cut by Andreas Lupo Lubich, and featuring artwork by KILN.

KILN / Lemon Borealis (ASIPV053) [PREVIEWS]

A recording of Peter Van Hoesen's hybrid dj/live set at the Labyrinth 2014 (September 14th, 2014).



 

Peter Van Hoesen: Labyrinth 2014 (Hybrid Dj/Live)

http://www.frequencies.eu/2016/02/23/frequencies-podcast-20-mogano/

Frequencies Podcast #20 Mogano

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track_list:
Living in Chains - Tap Throw
Off Shore - Arthur Lyman
Trio for Theremin & Electric Keyboard - Thai Elephant Orchestra
Arel - The Fear Ratio
UK74R1408084 - Aleksi Perälä
Photosphere - Ursula Bogner
Rubberhead Illusion - Flanger
Somewhere Now - B12
3 Spot - Crank
Overlords - Volitune
Transfigured Knut - Paradox
D-Scrape - Aphex Twin
Dance - Chi
Struttin' (as Joey Mook 1999) - Low Res
Black Rose - Hokusai
Minerva Dreamstate - The Host
Crack In The Concrete - Fred Frith
Jiggery Panky - µ-Ziq
Untitled Pigdog - dgoHn
(taut ) - user48736353001
Knight Lore - Jega
Music - Syncbeat
News Nouveau - Karl Jenkins & Mike Ratledge
Toots - Jameszoo
Körperspannung - Flanger
Homebound - Sonar Circle
Meetings - Wild Style
Collectable Woodland Creatures Armed With Heavy Weaponry - Icarus
Jungle Juice - Karl Jenkins & Mike Ratledge
Frog Song - Pierre Favre Ensemble
2 Dollars - Venetian Snares
Cap.IV - Autechre
Sinister - Jakstoni Dias
I'm Not A Robot - Newcleus
Apocalypse - Part Four - Tod Dockstader
Knights Of The Turntables - Techno Scratch
Sleeping Giants - Jeff Mills
Untitled 2 - Anthony Manning
Untitled - Phoenecia
Oleo - Joe Pass & Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen
Humdinger (Joel Dunsany) - The Space Lady
Morph - Snaper
Zwei Stücke - Oldtime Music Aus Siegfried's Mechanischem Musiksalon Rüdesheim
Gustav (The Stuffed Red Panda) - Fiium Shaarrk
Framework 10 - Mads Emil Nielsen 
2tone[camborne college mix] - user48736353001
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Ai Everything Bebop -- Badun dj_set
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Set to/from: ContainerBy Detours, Forårsfest på Linien -- 090416
Mix by Badun -- Collage by William Thiemer -- megåååå : )
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Download mix in wav16bit or mp3-320k:
http://leek.dk/m/ai-wav.zip
http://leek.dk/m/ai-mp3.zip
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Ai Everything Bebop - Badun dj_set

warmup set by Axiom - vinyl only

LIVE AUDIO:
Huron (Germany, Berlin) - @huron_idm
MONOIZ (Italy, Florence) - @monoiz
Logical Disorder (Spain, Barcelona) - @logicaldisorder
Randomform (Romania, Bucarest) - @randomform

LIVE VISUALS:
LASAL (Spain, Teneriffa/Berlin) - vimeo.com/lasal
Escrauva (Italy, Florence) - vimeo.com/escrauva
Geso (Spain, Madrid/Berlin) - vimeo.com/geso
SARGE GRAFX (Germany, Berlin) - vimeo.com/sargegrafx

DJ:
Axiom (Germany, Berlin) - www.mixcloud.com/axiom/
SV3N (Germany, Berlin) - www.mixcloud.com/sv3n/

www.facebook.com/events/1079207742122649

Axiom - 10 Years Crazy Language at Kantine am Berghain 2016-07-02

The Belbury Tales

Chapel Perilous

Chapitre I

A little ambient piece I wrote yesterday afternoon.. Sorry not to have so much time for composing music until July, but I really wanted to share something with you in a little free time from my studying.

I always thought of ambient music as a way to effectively depict soundscapes with notes and musical colors (frequencies, tones, silences).

I’ll listen to this with closed eyes and I’ll see sounds painting a landscape in the imaginary space. Like emerging from the deepness of your thoughts, and sorrounding you with its presence, because it's you who has been creating it. Music conceals places in its notes.

I called that place "The wastelands", a distant landscape brought back to our time for a little moment, as it were while the wind blew in the cloudy sky and the sun set over the horizon of the open fields.

Just like a dream, at the end you open your eyes and there's no trace left, if not a subtle sensation of having been there, somewhere, sometime...

http://haloproject.co.uk
http://facebook.com/halosphere
http://twitter.com/halotwtr

Halo - 3.The Wastelands

Handfuls of Night

Chapter

From @anonymouscomplicity's 2019 EP, Apophenia (Lost Time), on @jeromeworldwide: https://jeromeworldwide.bandcamp.com/album/apophenia-lost-time

Apophenia (Lost Time)

Lensk — Strained (FRKTL Manifold Remix)

From the DBL Edition of Remixes for @senyawa's Alkisah LP on @drownedbylocals: https://drownedbylocals.com/album/dbl-edition

سنياو ريمكسات القصة <DBL Edition>

Alkisah

Senyawa — Istana (FRKTL Remix)

Story and podcast special for do/nothing https://www.facebook.com/do.slash.nothing


The Black Hole by Kurmyshev 

Him: 
- Sweetheart... I need to tell you something... Can you make us some tea? Thank you. Take a seat... Oh, it's very hot...

Her:
 -  What's happened? What do you want to tell me?

Him: 
- Our research group is leaving for a remote planet. We are supposed to take some samples and bring them back. I will be leading the mission.

Her:
 - Do you have to? Please stay! I'm begging you!

She couldn't hold back tears anymore, he couldn’t find the right words... He understands that this mission is a way to nowhere...

Every day they talk. He tells her stories about infinite and incredibly beautiful Universe, about countless stars. He ends every story with words of love and a promise to come back soon. She weeps every night — heavy thoughts are haunting her.

Time flies... He is a lot like a boy again — enthusiastic, passionate about stars. Thoughts of home diminish, and less place in his heart is now left for her. She is suffering, she is growing older...

Space! We know so little about it. It seems magnificent and yet alien... Something terrible came across their way, leaving the crew's hearts gripped with horror. A planet is vanishing right before their eyes — a black hole is about to consume it...

Him:
 - We must get away from here now! Move!

The engines are running at full power but it's too late... They are trapped... The immense object is always hungry...

He recalls home, the warmth of her hands, how she was begging him to stay...
"How is she without me? How is she going to be without me?"

A nightmare interrupted her nap... "What is this pain? Why can't I stop crying? He is gone..."

The Black Hole

Music from A Strangely Isolated Place + 9128.live.

Ambient & electronica music blog, mix series, record label and radio station. Est. 2008.

Gadi Sassoon / Chaos & Order EP (ASIPV037) [Previews]

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