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https://d-towards.bandcamp.com/album/straight-radium-archives-17-18

"Straight Radium (Archives 17-18)" EP of five lost tracks created in 2017 - 2018. 
This is a logical extension of LP "recordings" 

Limited single sided cassette edition of 20 copies

Mastering - Alexandr Pustynsky 

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Ancient Camp
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Straight Radium (Archives 17-18) (excerpts)

@opheliaxz

One-offs and selected works spanning 2020-2022.

BC: https://oopheliaxz.bandcamp.com/album/11-11

11//11

pi pi pi premiere: Opheliaxz - Kookaburra (Self Released)

@beat-detectives

Don’t believe your ears - Pepper’s Ghost is the latest offering from NYC project Nuke Watch.

Whatever you think it is - it is not. By the same token it really can be whatever you want - electronica, jazz, improv, noise, new age, ambient - it’s none and all of these. Like the primitive visual illusion it’s named for - Pepper’s Ghost is a projection of a thing, it’s not the thing.

The Nuke Watch method - like that of Aaron Anderson and Chris Hontos’ other primary project Beat Detectives - leans almost entirely on live improvisation, with some advanced studio alchemy in post. Where the Beat Detectives palette draws from club music tropes, Nuke Watch blends recognizable tones (hand drums, woodwinds, keys, fretless bass) with sounds of providence unknown, the line between organic and synthesized instrumentation unintelligibly smudged. What is real and what is projection? It’s hard to say. What do our ears tell us? This is where we arrive at Pepper’s Ghost.

Warped as the sounds may be, the playing belies a crew of deeply expressive, learned improvisers who have their craft honed. Their friendship and psychic connection enhances the ritualistic rhythms, mutant modular synthesis, nimble keyboard runs, absurdist sampling and unidentified skronk. They’re wonderfully complemented across several tracks on this set by Cole Pulice’s levitational, sublime saxophone.

As unhinged as this might all appear, once the mind and music meet on the same wavelength this is profoundly moving, energizing and uplifting Alive Music that recalibrates the sense of what music can be. 

Nuke Watch is Aaron Anderson and Chris Hontos, with an array of friendly guests. They’ve released records as Nuke Watch on The Trilogy Tapes, Commend and Moon Glyph. As Beat Detectives they’ve released records on Not Not Fun, 100% Silk and their own studio imprint NYPD Records.

Pepper's Ghost was written and produced by Aaron Anderson and Chris Hontos. Additional instrumentation on these recordings by Cole Pulice, Leonard King, Eric Timothy Carlson, Chris Farstad and William Statler. It was mixed by Chris Hontos and mastered by Jack Callahan. Painting on the cover is “The Unity Of Being” (2020), by Ry Fyan. Design and layout by Aaron Anderson.

RIYL - Musical illusions, puzzles and magic tricks, downtempo, music of the spheres, good journey, Eddie Harris, Ketron, "world building", orange sunshine, suspension of disbelief.

Nuke Watch - Pepper's Ghost (IMPTNC07) - Previews

Unspeakable Visions

Viva Voce

“[....]
This record highlights the Secret Boyfriend that obscures didacticism by highlighting output that opens up for more challenging catharsis and emotive signal processing. It provides an entry to the materialism of a cultural field full of ecstatic complexity and beautiful inconsistency. In these muted moments Secret Boyfriend has given us over his career we have an argument for evolving languages that further challenge our notions of what is supposed to happen and how it is supposed to be presented. In his more song oriented expansiveness, we can punctuate the ability to think in new modalities. Listening to these recordings reminds me of the polarity of sitting in the record store as a kid and understanding that His Name Is Alive is on 4AD and (gasp!) timeSTEREO. This trite early impression that nothing is really as different as our imaginations might want them to be, and that we can do whatever we want mostly within the creative realms we work through is an important filter to look through Secret Boyfriend as a project and a vessel. If we can achieve abandon and vulnerability through our artistic endeavors, then we have a sound model for, 𝗺𝗮𝘆𝗯𝗲, new potentialities. If that’s too much projection, or just complete liberal bullshit, I am fine with that. Secret Boyfriend's oeuvre at best offers us moments of reprieve to ponder these complexities, or at least a moment to zone out on a drive through North Carolina Highway 54.

You have one pocket of life that you must do whatever you want to inside of. Secret Boyfriend does it affectionately, in a variety of forms, and always with deep sentimentality. These recordings are a wonderful set of songs to begin further investigation from. Thank you Ryan for allowing as many avenues as possible to continue a broad cultural exchange and conversation that intersect and refract while being the kind of artist that is brave enough to not phone in the effort.”

- excerpt of essay by Nick Klein, May 2024

Casio, guitars, bass, percussion, no-input mixer, synth, tapes, and voice by Ryan A Martin, recorded at Meadows of Dan & Cathedral II
Audio finalized by Glyn Maier
Artwork by Ryan A Martin

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Secret Boyfriend - Treil (ENMB-16)

@reymour
NoLand sounds like a story already experienced. A series of lyrical landscapes infused with deviant pop sonorities.
In the second album on Knekelhuis, Reymour gives us the keys to three years of life's passages through mist and clearings, delving deep into their innermost selves and emotions.
By merging new inspirations with new encounters, they weave and unravel their tale.

NoLand

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Reymour - L'odeur du tabac froid

Lilac

Do you understand.wav

Asyncro is a record label launched by Moscow's electronic music producer OL in 2019. The opening release is an LP by Serwed – the debut collaborative project from @olegbuyanov and his Gost Zvuk label-mate @producedbyflaty. This record offers precise cuts with a wide range of rhythmic structures and  granulated backgrounds, based on the duo’s explorations of free-form generative sound. 

1 SERWED - Initial 
2 SERWED - Angular 
3 SERWED - Ceramic 
4 SERWED - Radiant 
5 SERWED - Ground 
6 SERWED - Linear 
7 SERWED - Bias  
8 SERWED - Rrand  

Out 26 April 2019
Produced by OL & Flaty
© Asyncro, Moscow 2019.

Purchase:
https://asyncro.bandcamp.com/album/serwed
https://boomkat.com/products/serwed
https://bleep.com/release/126706-serwed-serwed

SERWED - I [ASYNC-01]

vinyl + digital out 9 April 2020

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Ben Bondy – Suelti
exael – Papillion
Ben Bondy – Meridian
Ben Bondy & exael – Aphelion Lash
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exael – Goldo
Ben Bondy – Spoke Through My Legs
Ben Bondy – Pilli
Ben Bondy & exael – Six Steppa

https://soundcloud.com/exael
https://soundcloud.com/benbondy
http://westmineral.ltd

SERWED - I [ASYNC-01]

Asyncro

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