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(BMM053) The Natural Yogurt Band (@miles-newbold) - 57 Lashes Of The Mallet / Mysterious Planet
Out now on digital and 7" vinyl: https://bmm.ffm.to/57lashes

The mysterious British act from Nottingham is back with a new 2-tracker, following up his previous 7-inch releases on BMM: Spectral Flux and 13 Moons of Neptune. We find again this unique style of esoteric library jazz over these cosmic drum breaks, this time with an electronic twist.

Written & performed by Miles Newbold
Cello by Huw Rees on Mysterious Planet

Artwork by Corentin Ohlmann & Samy Abboud

© 2021 BMM Records
℗ 2021 BMM Records

57 Lashes Of The Mallet / Mysterious Planet

57 Lashes Of The Mallet

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The Natural Yogurt Band - 57 Lashes Of The Mallet

»Tides« marked a radical change in direction for Arovane. After Uwe Zahn had made a name for himself with cutting-edge IDM rhythms and slick ambient textures on a slew of releases, his sophomore album saw the prolific producer opt for a sample-based approach that resulted in a more organic sound and laid-back downbeat grooves. Having reissued Arovane’s seminal »Atol-Scrap« as a double LP in 2021, the Berlin-based Keplar label now makes »Tides« available on vinyl for the first time since its original release in 2000 through the legendary City Centre Offices. The new version has been remastered by Kassian Troyer at Dubplates & Mastering and comes with a brand new cover artwork. It shines a new light on a release for which Zahn quite literally ventured into previously unknown territory — »Tides« is an album that emits a timeless, quiet calm and nonetheless stays constantly in motion.

»The idea for the album came to me after a vacation in France«, says Zahn. Inspired by the landscape, especially the coastline and the sea, he made field recordings throughout his trip that were also used on the record, giving it its sensual feel. The foundation of the album however, the loose yet gripping grooves at the heart of every track, result from Zahn working extensively with samples. »I wanted to make use of drum sounds and small excerpts from old jazz vinyl records«, he explains. He maintained the unique sound signatures and rhythmic flutter of the source material while building intricate beats with them. Most of the material was culled from the record collection of Christian Kleine, whose spontaneous guitar improvisations over the first musical sketches were recorded and edited by Zahn and can be heard on four tracks. Also employing the occasional cembalo or spinet sound, he worked with a hardware sequencer and a delay to integrate the different, discrete elements into nine tracks that feel both dense and light at once. 

What’s astonishing still 22 years later is how spacious »Tides« sounds. This is due to the fact that Zahn not only paid close attention to the sonic idiosyncrasies of his source material, but also to what happened in between those sounds. »Mark Hollis’s solo album was a huge inspiration at that time«, says Zahn. »What I find fascinating about it until this day is how silence and the subtle hiss of the mixing boards were being used on that record.« Silence was also an important stylistic element on »Tides« and adds greatly to the overall atmosphere of an album that with the appropriately named »Theme« immediately sets the mood with intricate spinet melodies: Zahn opens a door for his listeners and invites them to follow him to see a specific part of the world through his very own lens.

As a whole, the album mirrors Zahn’s trip that took him along the steep cliffs on a foggy day (»Seaside«), to an abandoned house in which he found old maps (»A Secret«), along the coastline during a long car ride (»Deauville«), to a sleepy village and the slowly moving sea (»Tides«) and finally back home to his native Germany where he started reflecting upon his experiences, ultimately deciding to translate them into music (»Epilogue«). »Whenever I listen to this album now, the images and memories it evokes are incredibly vivid and vibrant«, he says. It’s not hard to see — or rather hear — why. »Tides« may have been a deeply personal project, but it effortlessly evokes universal feelings by (re-)building an entire world in the course of only a few pieces of music.

All tracks composed and recorded by Uwe Zahn.  
Originally released on CCO in 2000.  
Remaster and cut by Kassian Troyer @ D&M.  
Cover art by Jim Kühnel based on a photograph by Uwe Zahn.   
Text by Kristoffer Cornils.

Tides (2022 Remaster)

Arovane - Tides (2022 Remaster)

excerpt from the new album available on Bandcamp "Afaint past beside us" 
https://cialyn.bandcamp.com/album/a-faint-past-beside-us

A faint past beside us

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Boards of Canada - Nothing is Real

Check out more free music here https://wrmdnb.bandcamp.com
Unofficial fan-made remix I did for Boards of Canada. Hope you will like it!&#13;
More from BOC: http://www.boardsofcanada.com
Thx to Dušan Drahoš for sax recording.
Download Mirror: https://www.dropbox.com/s/73bluj6w6s0zce2

Boards of Canada - Olson (Wrm remix)

Disclaimer:
I do not own this song.
All credit goes to "Casino Versus Japan". 

Casino Versus Japan- It's Very Sunny

Djrum - Watermark

DJ Shadow - What Does Your Soul Look Like (1995)

None may be better suited to crafting eulogies than William Basinski. The composer who graced us with the melancholy masterpiece Disintegration Loops now turns his gaze to David Bowie. Today marks the one year anniversary of Bowie's passing and so we humbly premiere Basinski's tribute 'For David Robert Jones.' This hymn for the music hero will be released January 20th on Temporary Residence Ltd. Keep your ears on RBMA Radio because Los Angeles resident Basinski will soon appear as a guest on Frosty's weekly LAndscape program.

@william-basinski
@temporary-residence-ltd-1
rbmaradio.com/shows/landscape
redbullmusicacademy.com

A Shadow In Time 

William Basinski - For David Robert Jones [LAndscape Premiere]

TOPS - Rings of Saturn

Someday

In the heyday of low-budget television and scrappy genre filmmaking, producers who needed a soundtrack for their commercial entertainments could reach for a selection of library music: LPs of stock recordings whose contents fit any mood required.
 
Unusual Sounds is a deep dive into a musical universe that has, until now, been accessible only to producers and record collectors; a celebration of this strange industry and an examination of its unique place at the nexus of art and commerce.
 
The perfect companion to the David Hollander curated book Unusual Sounds: The Hidden History of Library Music (out now on Anthology Editions), these 20 tracks, encapsulate the niche and fascinating subculture of library music. Genres were spliced, conventions dispensed with, and oftentimes hybrid music of astonishing complexity was produced. Elements of rock, jazz, soul, even twentieth-century avant-garde composition were all utilized, and no stone was left unturned. As a result, some of the best library music defies all categorization, reflecting the individualistic quirks and artistry of the various musicians who made it.

Unusual Sounds

Klaus Weiss - Survivor

Gas - Pop IV

The first track off Surprise Chef's debut album 'All News Is Good News', Blyth Street Nocturne is an instrumental love letter to East Brunswick’s most charismatic East-West running residential street. 

Encapsulating Surprise Chef’s crusty, unconventional soul sound, the lead single from their upcoming debut LP is a controlled storm of dark, left field funk underpinned by lo-fi Casio drum machine sounds.

All News Is Good News is out on College Of Knowledge Records on November 8th, 2019.

Tracked by Henry Jenkins at the College Of Knowledge
Mixed by Henry Jenkins & Surprise Chef at Hopestreet Studios

DJ Shadow - What Does Your Soul Look Like (1995)

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