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A new remastered and expanded edition of the most popular of Manual records - the 2005 shoegaze classic Azure Vista. Jonas Munk aka Manual remastered the original six album tracks and added seven live tracks performed in Chicago and Los Angeles on Manual's 2007 US tour. Long time friend and partner in music Jakob Skott redesigned the artwork for this 2xCD edition, which comes in a six panel Eco-wallet.

 10 years after its release, Azure Vista still feels like a bold, and highly original work that's near-impossible to categorize. There's a definite dream-pop influence, occasionally recalling Robin Guthrie's most panoramic guitar work in Cocteau Twins, as well as Slowdive's oceanic euphoria. But this is far from being another shoegaze-homage. What really sets this set apart is the earnest and completely un-ironic incorporation of 1980s fm-radio sounds and John Hughes soundtracks, which Jonas Munk absorbed throughout his childhood and early teens - ghosts of Tears for Fears, New Order, Simple Minds and The Cure can all be heard throughout these six abundant, adventurous compositions, enveloping the ambience and electronics in a strange, nostalgic haze.

 The album was partly written and conceptualized during a three month trip to California, when Munk was 22, and comes off as a crazed, innocent celebration of youth, freedom, sun and sea  gradually unfolding over the course of 47 blissful minutes. If one senses a conceptual similarity to M83's indie hit record Sartudays = Youth (as well as one or two similar synth-riffs) , it's worth noting that Azure Vista was released three years earlier (!).

 The second disc features 7 live cuts performed with Jakob Skott (aka Syntaks) on synths and samplers. There's a previously unreleased track included (Untitled) as well as radically different versions of Marbella – a track Munk originally wrote with Robin Guthrie – and Rise (a Syntaks track), as well as Sal Paradise (from the collaborative Manual & Syntaks effort Golden Sun).

Manual: Azure Vista 2015 remaster

Soon: MM Works - Fieldworks

https://slowtonecollages.bandcamp.com

MM Works creates instrumental, cinematic music in a cross-genre exploring jazz, classical and post rock elements. Compositionally the Copenhagen-based duo roams in a delicate balance of structure and freeplay, avant-garde and modern composition.

'Fieldworks' was recorded in April and September 2022. It is a free-flowing experiment centered around guitarloops being reamped and manipulated through analog guitar effects. While there's no particular countable rhythm, the free jazz-like drumming pulsates underneath the loops that are topped by guitar improvisations, loose melodies, and broader flute arrangements. 

Mathias Lystbaek (This Floating World): Guitars, flutes, glockenspiel, loops, electronics & sound processing.
Mads Lassen: Drums.

Credits
Music: MM Works
Recording, sound processing & mix: Mathias Lystbaek / This Floating World
Artwork: Rene Steen Sørensen
Mastered by Andrea Porcu

MM Works - Winter Waltz (Slow Tone Collages)

Andy Cartwright is an artist originally from Oxfordshire, UK who currently resides in the French Alps. Alongside his other projects Seabuckthorn and Mt Went, Andy’s work has been released through labels including Bookmaker Records, Lost Tribe Sound, Eilean, IIKKI, Fluid Audio, A Quiet Room Recording and, LAAPS. Andy’s taste in music flits between guitar-based bands and electronica; these sources of inspiration led to him creating electronic music under his own name since 2021 alongside the more acoustic-leaning work.

In this album, Andy departed from the more traditional song-writing style, in which he would normally play riffs and chords on a guitar before developing the composition. Instead, he headed straight for the computer. ‘Below the Noise’ is a series of microsound collages, built upon layered field recordings, synth drones and noises. Field recordings were captured on his phone, loaded into Ableton and then processed with lo-fi effects. Additional synth sounds were added and side-chained to a heavy noise track, which was muted. This reduced the track down almost into a microsound, which left lots of air and ghost fragments in the mix.

Andy was intrigued by the idea of filtering out all the harsh noise, as a mix technique to thin out the sounds. From here, the process led to the album’s name and overall concept. Traces of the original sound source can only be imagined, as it sits below the noise. The reduction method leaves us with this collection of dusty ambient drones, imbued with satisfying static and crackly ASMR textures.

Below the Noise

wlr136 Andy Cartwright - Below the Noise

Austral showcases the wildness and beauty of Latin America’s sounds, and from other places south of somewhere. Aylu probes the depths of music from old times and music from the future.

https://www.nts.live/shows/aylu/episodes/aylu-24th-july-2023

Austral w/ AYLU 240723

Sunday night I performed an ambient set of vocals at a gathering near Wales, this is the ending as i only started recording over an hour into the set... enjoy!

Aug 23 Bank Holiday Live Ambient Vocal Improvisation

Retour sur l'émission dédiée à la mémoire d'Ubald Hirsch, esprit brillant que notre animateur @Poborsk a eu la chance d'avoir comme ami. Ubald était un producteur talentueux et implacable de techno plutôt hardcore - https://www.discogs.com/fr/artist/85342-Ubald

TRACKLIST:

- MORBID ANGEL - In Remembrance
- PHONOPHANI - Neverdal
- HANS REICHEL - You Can Dance With Me
- WANKER'S UNITED - Timimoun
- BOLA - Phulcra
- KEN ISHI - Turbinates
- POLE - Überfahrt
- HANS REICHEL - Le Bal (New Version)
- MUN SING - Left
- BARKER - Bent
- UBALD - Virus
- ROBERT HOOD - Minus
- JEGA - Motion Math
- CURRENT VALUE - PROCEDURE
- JEAN REDONDO -Hypersonic
- UBALD - Abaris
- ERRORSMITH & JAY MITA - Jam for Sisso
- KAY KYSER - You'll Find Out

GET IN THE POBOTRON ! w/ Poborsk (08.09.2023)

Taken from Essence Found
by Oto Moya

Limited to 35 copies / Handmade wallets, hand numbered....
https://shimmeringmoodsrecords.bandcamp.com/album/essence-found

releases November 17, 2023 

Music by Oto Moya 
https://soundcloud.com/otomoya
Mix and mastering by Thomas Marinelli 

Thank you Eriizu, Solar Calimer and Gégé 

Shimmering Moods Records 2023 
SHM 274

Oto Moya - Mindful Ones

First thing on Fridays - Jack Rollo's here to take care of things.  
https://www.nts.live/shows/early-bird-show-jack-rollo/episodes/early-bird-show-jack-rollo-24th-november-2023

The Early Bird Show w/ Jack Rollo 241123

Manual: "Clear Skies Above The Coastline Cathedral"

Manual: "Summer Of Freedom"

Manual: "Twilight"

Manual: "Tourmaline"

Manual: "Neon Reverie"

Azure Vista Records is an independently owned and operated label based in Odense, Denmark with a strong focus on blissed-out electronic sounds!

Manual: "Neon Reverie"

Azure Vista Records

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