Vivian Koch - Beyond Contact
Release Date - 28th May 2021
Buy - https://viviankoch.bandcamp.com/album/beyond-contact

A1 - I Know You’re Here
A2 - Closed
A3 - Enter
B1 - Lil Birdy Starts to Fly Again
B2 - Who
B3 - Closed (Yosemite Version)

Mastered by Rashad Becker
Sleeve Design: Alex McCullough & Noah Baker

Vivian Koch - Beyond Contact

OW1 JEMAPUR - Mode Cleaner

For Omen Wapta’s inaugural release, Japanese musician/sound designer/coder/producer JEMAPUR explores the far reaches of abstract experimental techno on his album Mode Cleaner. Pulling from music that the Nagano-based artist made between 2016 and 2020, the album demonstrates JEMAPUR’s distinctive use of glitch, microsampling, live coding, and granular synthesis techniques. As the producer explains, Mode Cleaner was made at a time when his subconscious was being drawn towards subjects like physics, geometry, murals, ancient civilisations, the logic of nature, and the observation of the universe.

Intricate yet expressive, cerebral yet sensory, melancholic yet vivid, the Mode Cleaner album comes a decade-plus into JEMAPUR’s career of innovative electronic music. In 2019, he was invited to become an artist-in-residence at Amsterdam’s De School, where he was introduced to Omen Wapta’s Woody92.

1. WSIF.rg
2. 1011 ISOL-T
3. 195IN.B
4. Frctlze 412

5. Mode Cleaner
6. M.PLEX
7. D.I.
8. QED1066
9. Infinite-Gravity (digital bonus)

Released: October 18, 2021
Buy: https://omenwapta.bandcamp.com/album/jemapur-mode-cleaner

Written and produced by Toshiaki Ooi  
Mastered by Stephan Mathieu at Schwebung Mastering 
Artwork by Woody 's-Gravemade
Biography by Selim Bulut

Distributed by Clone Records Rotterdam
Digital and vinyl via Omen Wapta Bandcamp

© Omen Wapta 
Delft, The Netherlands 2021

www.omenwapta.com

Mode Cleaner

OW1 JEMAPUR - Mode Cleaner [preview]

In Search of Sunrise

Track made for the new @dancingambiance project: Locus Focus. 

The goal of this series is highlighting different perceptions and interpretations of locations through a myriad of approaches with the ultimate goal of making cities more meaningful to their inhabitants.

My contribution to the Locus Focus project is inspired by the endless car journeys from the past to our summer holiday destination. Next to my father, in the front of the car, I listened to one trance mix after another on my Discman. The endless stream of asphalt kept looming front of me, soundtracked by the early mixes of Tiësto's "In Search of Sunrise''. The combination of this repetitive image and the music gave me feelings of euphoria, sometimes pure ecstasy. I sometimes crave that feeling of being in a trance, without worries hijacking my mind. 

Every now and then I catch a glimpse of the same feeling, here in Maastricht, when I look at the Maas through the living room window of my house on the Lage Kanaaldijk. This window faces east, so every morning I watch the sun rise over the never-ending stream of water. For me, the place where I live facilitates moments of trance. Sometimes I even stumble upon the same euphoria that I experienced back then.

In Search Of Sunrise

READ > https://inverted-audio.com/premiere-huerco-s-latautii/

@huerco_s 'Latautii' is a sensationally deep and granular track laced with an undulating darkness, submerging listeners into a pensive bokeh of looped pads and whirring synths - music to make the heart yearn and the mind wander. Out now @airtexture

Air Texture VIII Anthony Naples + DJ Python

Huerco S. - Latautii [Air Texture]

https://congburn.bandcamp.com/album/cong-burn-07

Tonto - Moa [CB07]

Out now

Digital: tinyurl.com/xsf4yn5j
Vinyl: tinyurl.com/kbhntbkv

1. Don_t DJ - Lemon Garlic

Releases 26th May 2023. Digital Bonus.

https://12thisle.bandcamp.com/album/2015-2020

ISLE015 - Material Things: 2015-2020 [Masters Mp3]

Material Things - How's Life (Vague Imaginaires Version) (ISLE015)

The German philosopher Hermann Schmitz defines as vagueness the basic perceptive condition for describing the concept of atmosphere, and the spatial model within which it can be experienced. The space of feeling - a space by definition devoid of surfaces and animated by numerous semi-entities - is able to involve the individual immediately, bodily and affective, for being characterized by intrinsic properties such as indeterminacy and impermanence.

To clarify the spatial character of feelings understood as atmosphere, Schmitz adopts the analogy with the acoustic model explaining its ability to act despite the impossibility of defining a quantifiable spatial model. Vago Spazio del Ritmo - volume 1 is the first chapter of a path dedicated to the indefinite that surrounds us and that becomes a refuge, only experienced via sensations.

12 artists have vaguely wandered among new unexplored atmospheres, pushing the boundaries that define the dimension of listening and dancefloor, paying homage to the leftfield hemisphere in a non-linear and unexpected journey that will bring us to experience the unexplored forms of our emotions.

Compiled and curated by Alessia Li Causi (Luce Clandestina)
Verses by Annika Pettini
Mastered by Marco Milanesio, O.F.F Studio - Torino, 2023
Covered Design and Illustrations by Beatrice Lattuada
Produced by Details Sound


@afunkdamage
@blackseedacts
@brosda-tkpunck
@varuna4053
@big-hands-1
@marcosegato
@user-187237364
@lamusalamusa
@aheadacheaday
@katatonicsilentio
@atoloi

Various Artists - Vago Spazio Del Ritmo Vol.1

@minor-science—aka UK-born, Berlin-based musician Angus Finlayson—makes his Balmat debut with 'Absent Friends Vol. III', the third installment in a shape-shifting series across a variety of formats and platforms. And with it, he pushes forward his vision of ambient music as neither static vista or merely mood-setting atmosphere, but rather a dynamic matrix of textures, sensations, and even rhythms.

The first two Absent Friends—a 2014 set for Blowing Up the Workshop, and a 2017 cassette and web player for Whities (now AD93)—were hybrid affairs, part DJ mix and part collage, mostly featuring music made by other people. Then, in 2020-21, Finlayson developed the project into a live show of his own material. Armed with hundreds of bespoke stems created in his studio—idiosyncratic FX chains, feedback loops through cheap rack gear, heavily post-processed field recordings, found voices, etc.—he would improvise on four CDJs, mixer, FX, and live synths, extending techniques he learned as a club DJ into a live context, accompanied by visuals by Stockholm-based artist Paul Witherden.

'Absent Friends Vol. III' is an album of studio versions of the music developed for the live show. But in Minor Science’s world, even a category as simple as “studio versions” is slightly opaque. “Most of these tracks weren’t ‘composed’ in the studio,” Finlayson explains: “The sounds started out as stems and source material for the live show, and might not have been intended to go together—but then through performance, they settled into shapes that worked. I then recreated those performances in the studio.” That organic process of ideation and realization might help explain the unusual coherence of the album, in which sounds and textures flow seamlessly from one to the next, sometimes seeming to stand still, and sometimes looping back. There are virtually no melodies, few recognizable motifs or riffs, yet the eight-track album nevertheless moves with a distinctive logic and a determined sense of purpose, from the frozen-in-time shimmer of the opening “Introduction” through the early cuts’ studies of space and light; from the seemingly autobiographical “Summer Diary” through the rushing trance (yes, trance) arpeggios of “Contingency” and on to the dulcet denouement of the closing “Gather Your Party (Dispersed Mix).”

The album’s underlying themes—reflected in Witherden’s video for lead single “Dread the Evening”, as well as the print that accompanies the limited-edition version of the LP—include psychedelia and togetherness, universal cornerstones of virtually any experience of dance music. “Overall I see this record as almost like a photographic negative of the other release I did this year, 064 on AD93,” says Finlayson. That EP’s two fiercely peak-time-oriented tracks, “Workahol” and “Casheine,” offer “a response, by way of caricature, to the time scarcity, precarity, and hypercompetitiveness that are features of my life right now (and I think many other people’s too),” he says. “Absent Friends Vol. III responds to the same situation in a contrasting way. I like that both have a clock on the cover. Both invite you to consider the passage of time. On the club record, time is finite and ticking away fast. On this one, there are little moments where the secondhand seems to pause.”

Absent Friends Vol. III

Minor Science - Absent Friends Vol. III [BALMAT07]

XIII - Ladnaday feat. Sabina Kaufman

SNOWFALL

Balmat is a label with a cloudy outline.

Jointly shepherded by Albert Salinas (@wooky) and Philip Sherburne (@psherburne), two friends living in Cardedeu, Catalonia, and on the Balearic island of Menorca.

Bookings: mario@lapsusagency.com

Minor Science - Absent Friends Vol. III [BALMAT07]

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