Further investigation into the futuristic spaces found in Japanese ambient and pop music from the 1980s...

Fairlights, Mallets And Bamboo Vol. 2

The Key - Holding Space
CALM TAPES 001
Cassette / Digital 
For our inaugural release we present Holding Space, 7 tracks of spacious introspection, and melodic warmth by anonymous Pacific Northwest producer, The Key. Claiming to hail from the rainforest of northwestern Oregon, The Key draws from a damp and foliage rich environment to create a unique sound world that blends distortion, analog hiss, and blissfully wide open digital spaces, with a keen sense of patience, timing and melody. A perfect start to our CALM TAPES mission, placing the emphasis on a deep listening experience, over artistic identity,
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Holding Space - CALM TAPES 001

The Key - Slow to Surface - OUT DEC 09 2016

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Yoshinori Hayashi / DB.Source - Square Sun / Anapo [GRA003]

Japanese producer Yoshinori Hayashi made a terrific entry into the electronic music underground world with his three first records on Going Good, Jinn Records & Lovers Rock. This time for the italian imprint Gravity Graffity, he visits an imaginary place and finds these two masterpieces, a lyrical one and "Cooling" here premiered, a delightful junglist number filled with a sample from one of our fave Method Man tracks, the classic "Release Yo Delf" from 1994. On the other side the mysterious DB.Source in a tribal-dub mood, roundtrip ticket. Highly recommended !

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PREMIERE : Yoshinori Hayashi - Cooling

“SPACE SOLO 2 is the final release on the Space Program series, which started with Space (2006). Ten releases were originally projected, but the ideas I wanted to explore in a sustained and systematic way have already been fulfilled in these six records. For that and a number of other reasons, I decided that I will be able to move with more room and freedom outside this structure that is now completed.

The Solo series is meant to be reference documentation to my solo performance at the time of their release, on various instruments. Space Solo 2 showcases a different set of instruments from Space Solo 1, namely the Glove-controlled sinewaves from the first years, a rarely performed Modular Synthesizer solo, the Theremin-controlled Modulated Feedback and a contemporary approach to the Electrode Oscillator (featured on Space Solo 1 on a simpler configuration).

All tracks are edited recordings of real-time solo performance. As a rule in the Space Program, there is no processing or transformation of sounds, all sounds are heard as originally played (except for mastering sound calibration). There is no "programming" (as in sequencers or digital devices), no samples or software involved (except editing and mastering software and except tracks 9, 10, 11).“ (Rafael Toral, 2017)

Space Solo 2

Rafael Toral: Electrode oscillator (intro)

A1. Préambule 
A2. Cordée
A3. Jeu de glissades 
A4. Construire un igloo 

B1. Ivres de fatigue 
B2. Réveil bizarre 
B3. Bataille 
B4. Tableau final 

First 300 copies come in blue-white-marbled vinyl.

Pre-order link - https://www.kompakt.fm/releases/obakodomo

Optimo Music is delighted to release a first album by Fantastic Twins (formerly known as The Twins). We’ll let them tell you the story behind this inspired and beguiling record - 

Obakodomo (Au Balcon Du Monde) is a soundtrack I created for a piece of contemporary dance, performed by two dancers for a young audience from the age of 4. It is the story of an imaginary journey in Antartica where two explorers go on an adventure. They encounter a colony of penguins and will progressively learn to understand their habits and respect their environment. Essentially, Au Balcon Du Monde is a metaphor of how to exist next to each other, how to share a territory, how to learn to live together and share resources. 

The scenography and stage accessories were designed in a minimalistic and non-obvious form to leave all the space for imagination. The penguins were made of translucent material to provide light effects and were programmed to move in a swaying motion, allowing interaction with the dancers and the music. LED system could be wireless piloted. 

With the soundtrack, I wanted to create an atmosphere that would immediately transport the children into this terra nova - a poetical space, like a cold sphere, where the strange meets the frightening and the playful. Translating the immense vs the small, the far-off vs the near, the collective vs the individual, the strange vs the familiar or the cold vs the heat. My intention was to follow the thread of the story in a narrative, yet non-caricatural way. Music for children doesn’t have to be “childish”. Children love to be scared or even just challenged. They love to love and react instantly to what they hear through their emotions. Ultimately, the soundtrack aims to provide different levels of “reading” so that it becomes something more universal. So we, adults, just have to accept the invitation.

Footage from the original dance play “Au Balcon Du Monde” by Les Ballets Contemporains de Saint Etienne, performed in 2015 and for which Fantastic Twins created the soundtrack - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H2Mr38Upj18

Vinyl Album (and digital) released on October 20th 2017. Distributed by Kompakt.

OM 12 LP - Fantastic Twins - Obakodomo (sampler)

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VISIBLE CLOAKS - SANPO 100

From the upcoming album, 'Ambivalence', out Oct 26th on Smalltown Supersound.

Yoshinori Hayashi - Bit Of Garden

Andrzej Nowak - A View of Wilderness(2018)
Cassette/digital (MONDOJ06)
Order: http://mondoj.bandcamp.com

Music by Andrzej Nowak 
Mastered by Fatima Qureshi 
Cover drawing by Agnieszka Dybowska 
Art & layout by Paulina Oknińska & Janek Ufnal

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A View of Wilderness

Andrzej Nowak - Ormusse (MONDOJ06)

An investigation into fourth-world undercurrents in Japanese ambient and pop music, years 1980-1986. Mixed 2010.

Fairlights, Mallets and Bamboo (2010, Expanded)

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Audio Dregs Recordings is a record label and music collective founded around 1996. Located in Portland, Oregon, the label is responsible for over 50 releases from artists from around the world, and numerous local music and art events over the past decade. Audio Dregs music is described as “experimental music made by people equally in love with melody and invention,” with special attention to music that falls between genres.