#1 iTunes Classical Album (US).

Steinway artist, Chad Lawson, decided Chopin needed a new introduction. Along with violinist Judy Kang (Lady Gaga, Ryuichi Sakamoto) and cellist Rubin Kodheli (Kanye West, Norah Jones), Lawson has arranged ten Chopin works into a minimalist landscape.

It's a risk editing the "poet of the piano" but one that Chopin would be proud of.

Taking 10 Chopin works, Lawson decided to scale the works down to a minimalist setting. "I knew even if bare-bones, Chopin's works could still be as spellbinding as the original compositions we are so familiar with." says the pianist.

Produced by Chad Lawson & Alejandro Clavijo. Mixed by Stephen Lee Price. Mastered by Michael Graves of Osiris Studios (Atlanta, GA).

Chopin Waltz in A Minor-Op. 34, No. 2 (Variation Arr. for Piano, Vioin and Cello) - Chad Lawson

Survivors escaping an Earth extinction event

Endless Drift

Are our lives part of a computer simulation?

Pixels in the Void?

November 23, 2025
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The Sonic Engine

"Dragons In Gardens" was recorded at Found Sound Nation's OneBeat 2015 program. For more information, please visit www.1beat.org.

6zm / Gizem Oruç, Turkey (Production), Ami Kim, USA (Production, Vocals)

Dragons In Gardens

Taken from his forthcoming album 'Spells' out June 10 on Erased Tapes.

Pre-order the LP/CD/DL here: www.erasedtapes.com/store/index/ERATP085
iTunes: http://snip.ftpromo.net/spells
Spotify: http://snip.ftpromo.net/goldentimes
Bandcamp: http://snip.ftpromo.net/spellsbc
or any other good record store worldwide

"It's just incredible" – Mary Anne Hobbs, BBC 6 Music
“Strangely upbeat nocturnes" – The Wire

‘Spells’ merges programmed piano pieces with live instruments, combining the controllable technical world and the often unpredictable aspects of live improvisation. In some ways it continues where his underground debut ‘Gravity’ left off, though a lot of weight is lifted, making room for a lighter and more energetic listen. Friend and fellow Erased Tapes artist Nils Frahm mixed and mastered both albums. Ben is not a master pianist like his dear friend, but his sound collages are so meticulously designed that after hearing the result an impressed Nils declared: “from now on, if anyone asks – this is a real piano”. 

His intricate, humanised programming – enhanced by drummer Achim Färber, cellist Anton Peisakhov and harpist Lara Somogyi, and a considerate selection of echoes, delays and compressors – has been used to create a hybrid sound that intends to deceive, question and challenge existing listening habits. Utilising the contrast between reduction and decoration, ‘Spells’ can be seen as a quest to find out how much or how little composition is required to constitute a song. Why the ear can and should be deceived about the authenticity of instruments. What significance these instruments have within this process, and why the personal perception of balance and sound exclude ultimate truths. 

Linking the two albums are the four movements of ‘Nocturne’, an ever-developing conversation that on occasion flirts with the grandeur of compressed rock drums. The first single, ‘Golden Times 1’, received a world premiere by BBC 6 Music’s Mary Anne Hobbs, proclaiming it as "incredible." An alternative version of ‘Sleepers Beat Theme’ – composed for the soundtrack to a short film about the Trans-Siberian Express – opened Jon Hopkins’ Late Night Tales album from 2015, who noted “I thought it was such a calming and sensitive piece that sounded to me like the beginning of something...the warmth and depth of the sound entrances me every time”. 

Though ‘Spells’ and ‘Gravity’ are his first albums recorded under his own name, as acclaimed electronic producer HECQ he’s released nine albums since 2003, exploring everything from ambient to breakcore. He has simultaneously established himself as a trusted composer and sound designer, working for a wide array of clients including Amnesty International and Marvel Comics; composing for feature films, games, art installations and convention opening titles.

After embracing this demanding line of work, in 2010 Ben felt the need to explore his roots and early education, which inspired these albums under his own name. Born in 1981 as the third child of opera singer Deirdre Boysen and actor Claus Boysen, his classical music training on piano and guitar began when he was seven years old; the works of Bruckner, Wagner and Bach laid an important foundation. Rediscovering this music shared with his parents – united with the sounds of Autechre, Cristian Vogel and Jiri.Ceiver to Pink Floyd and Godspeed You! Black Emperor – brought back an understanding of why he wanted to write music in the first place.

“Finding my views understood, reflected and welcomed by Erased Tapes was an encouraging experience, crowned by the offer to release ‘Spells’ and re-issue ‘Gravity’ with them. Through many caring conversations with Robert I felt that there’s no better home for the existing ideas and no better cradle for new ones.”  – Ben Lukas Boysen 

TRACK LISTING:  	

01. The Veil  02. Nocturne 3  03. Sleepers Beat Theme  04. Golden Times 1
05. Nocturne 4  06. Keep Watch  07. Golden Times 2  08. Selene

Spells

Golden Times 1

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Ben Lukas Boysen – Golden Times 1

In The Treetops

Gabriel Fauré - Après un rêve
Claudius Popp - Cello

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Gabriel Fauré - Après un rêve

Apples is the second song of Efterklang´s 4th album Piramida. Released September 24th 2012 on 4AD and Rumraket.

Pre-Order of vinyl & CD available via http://www.efterklang.net 
Concert Tour Schedule available at http://www.efterklang.net/home/concerts

As previously revealed (http://youtu.be/uiKK7ehFYtA), last summer Mads Brauer, Casper Clausen and Rasmus Stolberg visited Piramida, an abandoned mining settlement located on Spitsbergen, just 1,000km from the North Pole. Nine days of exploring later, and the band had collected over 1,000 sound recordings and inspiration for the album they would subsequently write and record in Berlin.

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Efterklang - Apples


I've got nowhere to look 
I've got nowhere to hook
I've got to keep my mind sane

I'm a bear in a bush
I'm a man in a rush
I'm a man dressed as a bear hiding in a bush

your price is right
if your price is right
I might do you wrong
I might do you right

Stop your irritating voices
patrolling around my head

In my right state of mind
I've got no place for hate or lies
Leave your past behind
There's no rules here
You are 

I've got nowhere to look 
I've got nowhere to hook
I've got to keep my mind sane

I'm a bear in a bush
I'm a man in a rush
I'm a man dressed as a bear hiding in a bush

your price is right
if your price is right
I might do you wrong
I might do you right

Stop your irritating voices
patrolling around my head

In my right state of mind
I've got no place for hate or lies
Leave your past behind
There's no rules here
You are 



Kobalt - Geometry

You can buy the full EP (€ 4 - 6) here: bit.ly/148xYGe

Sinner, float away...
At last
God knows, where I've been...
Spinster

God knows, where I've been...
He knows al of the facts 
I’ve been thinking

Spinster
Medicate me
Under the sea

Who is the fool living on top of the mountain
Watching us wasting our lives below
Spinster
Medicate me
Under the sea

Kobalt - Duende

BEONIC is the creative alias of B. Emre Omacan (hence BEO) for all his AI-generated musical works—a fusion of his personal identity and a bionic entity.
The band, envisioned as a six-piece progressive ensemble (dual electric guitars, piano, bass, drums, and percussion), explores minimalist textures, interlocking polyrhythmic patterns and contrapuntal interplay in a European post-rock style. Each composition emerges from BEO’s melodic and rhythmic frameworks, realized through Suno AI as a virtual ensemble.

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