Pitch Black’s fourth album finally gets the vinyl pressing it so richly deserves.

Originally released in 2007, Rude Mechanicals found soundcloud.com/pitchblacknz firing on all cylinders. The nine years since their debut had been spent touring their cutting-edge audio-visual show round the world, playing everywhere from Tokyo to Tauranga, Portland to Paris, Leeds to Las Vegas, finding fans and absorbing new sounds along the way.

They successfully combined and refined the stand-out elements of their previous releases to create an album that is alternately danceable and meditative: a genre busting excursion in sound, heaving with warm basslines and complex rhythms, topped up by haunting melodies and immersive soundscapes.

From the evocative opening South of the Line to the stepping 1000 Mile Drift, the dub is strong, as one would expect, and so is the influence of drum’n’bass on the bottom-heavy Bird Soul and the atmospheric Please Leave Quietly; trance on the pulsating Sonic Colonic (Live at Minikami) and slinky Transient Transmission (fig.2); ambient on the burbling Harmonia and softly snarling Fragile Ladders. The title track, meanwhile, finds them addressing climate change and greed, with lyrics by Auckland MC KP.

To create the double-vinyl release, soundcloud.com/auraluxmastering re-mastered the original audio files, while Hamish Macaulay polished the source artwork by Tom Quarelle and created a brand new collage for the centrefold using pictures taken at the time.

Rude Mechanicals will be released on 11th April 2025, except in Aotearoa New Zealand, where it will be released on 12th April 2025 as part of Record Store Day.

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Pitch Black - Sonic Colonic (Live at Minikami)(preview)

Tracklist

01.  David Cordero & Rhucle - Horizontal Line
02.  Thme - Ombre
03.  Seaworthy & Matt Rösner - Whispered Surfaces
04.  Slow Reels (Ian Hawgood and James Murray) - Heartshaped
05.  The Humble Bee & Offthesky - Presence
06.  Celer & Forest Management - Montrose
07.  Jason Calhoun + Foresteppe - iii
08.  Tomoyoshi Date - 熱 Netsu (33 rpm)
09.  Chihei Hatakeyama + Stijn Hüwels - NA GOMI

408. Sleepy Sunday Podcast (Elm Records)

Adam Hajossy Dedic - Nature's Dialogue

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Tracklist

01. Blochemy - Sui
02. Amble - Not all Can Cross The Water
03. Taylor Deupree & The Humble Bee - Case Study 1
04. Hadley Roe -  Fragrances
05. Folk Reels - Old Red Eye
06. Dag Rosenqvist - Somna, sov
07. Masaya Ozaki - Frá Vatni
08. James Osland and Andrew Heath - Outside The Light Was Starting To Wane
09. Christopher Bissonnette - Red Sky At Night
10. Ghost and Tape - Seabird

436. Sleepy Sunday Podcast (Elm Records)

Inspired by James Bond Casino Royalle poisoning scene

Bond Poisoned

A collection of ideas, feelings, and thoughts that can only expressed musically through this collection of B-sides. Homeless installations of music that found a place together so that you, the listener, can follow my train of thought as I embark on a new direction for my music and art. 

Purchase on Bandcamp: https://dino646.bandcamp.com/album/bside001
Stream on all platforms: https://distrokid.com/hyperfollow/nasleber/bside001

BEAUTIFUL DREAD

Piano Concerto No.10 (iii) Op.50

lluvia / Illuvia [Eternell]

12 tracks 
76 minutes 
A loving presence behind every sound 

Most of the music on this album came to me during a rather deep depression. Music has always been my illuminated path out of the darker patterns of mind. Together with the sounds streaming through my mind like light shining through the cracks of a wall came a new name to highlight this power of music to lead us on and lift us up, no matter how far from the light we perceive ourselves to be. 
The illuminated path is always right here.

~ Illuvia 

released June 7, 2017 

Written and produced by Ludvig Cimbrelius

Illuvia

Illuvia album

Aura

Melting Snow

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Robert Farrugia & 天  - Static

track 7 from “Frozen Passages” by @poemme
https://poemme.bandcamp.com/album/frozen-passages

Frozen Passages

poemme - rain of stars

Music Projects: Braincell, Solar Spectrum, Unknown Reality, Melting Point, Undercover Babas, Rastaliens

for booking requests please contact ralph@brainalien.info

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