from album from last april. 

One thing i don't like about soundcloud is seeing the amplitude of the track while listening. It gets rid of any suspense from the unpredictible future of the track. by seeing it all at once you can see when it goes to the drop or explosion, crescendo or whatever. I'll rather not even see the runtime of a track. Also it propably makes you want to click around more?... whatever

7 Waking-field (MWTBH 8)

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velvet tides w/ güns | Root Radio 05/05/2021

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Lara K. - There's A Dying World In Us

From "Zanclean" (TBF01)

50 cassettes limited edition coming in hand-painted trust envelopes and photocopied boards.
All tracks by Pierre Edouard Dumora
Mastered and transferred by Lorenzo Targhetta
Designed by Ethan Assouline

K7 out April 11th

Metta World Peace - Desiccant

Electric Capablanca renders the throes of summer in soft focus with some languid, cinematic and Balearic-tinged ambient.

'Puzzles & Studies' is out September 13th on Kit Records/SWIMS.

Pre-order: https://kitrecs.bandcamp.com/album/puzzles-studies

@kitrecords
@swimsrecords

Premiere: Electric Capablanca - Capablanca Spin [Kit Records/SWIMS]

Out on August 7th, 2020. Available at https://shop.tapeterecords.com/new/conrad-schnitzler-frank-bretschneider-construct.html

About the Con-Struct series
Conrad Schnitzler liked to embark on daily excursions through the sonic diversity of his synthesizers. Finding exceptional sounds with great regularity, he preserved them for use in combination with each other in subsequent live performances. He thus amassed a vast sound archive of his discoveries over time. When the m=min- imal label in Berlin reissued two Conrad Schnitzler al- bums at the outset of the 2010 decade, label honcho Jens Strüver was granted access to this audio library.
Strüver came up with the idea of con-structing new compositions, not remixes, from the archived material. On completion of the first Con-Struct album, he decided to develop the concept into a series, with different electronic musicians invited into Schnitzler’s unique world of sound.

Bretschneider on his Con-Structions
I read the name Conrad Schnitzler for the first time in the arti- cle about Tangerine Dream in the Rowohlt Rock Lexicon from 1973 (back then, at 17 in the GDR, an indispensable guide). The first time I heard his music was only in 1980, when his wave track “Auf dem Schwarzen Kanal” was played on the ra- dio, an RCA 12“ Super Sound Single in disco remix. Then the man was gone and stayed under the radar again, in spite of his almost inflationary number of releases. Maybe his mate- rial was too obscure or his approach too radical to be noticed by the general public. It wasn‘t until 1988 that I heard from Schnitzler again, a tape on Jörg Thomasius‘ East Berlin Kröten Kassetten label. And again almost 10 years later his Plate Lunch CDs “Rot” and “00/106”. But it was all too rough and raw for me, both in terms of sound and organization, kind of mechanically and not really cool. Only after I heard Wolfgang Seidel at the NBI around 2002 with one of his tape concerts, I came slowly closer.
Schnitzler‘s early role as co-founder of two influential bands is one reason for the ongoing reception. Another is his con- sequence as an artist. “I‘m not interested in having publicity or a public feedback” he declared in an 1996 interview. It remains an open question whether one has to completely refuse to do so. But I was always fascinated by this almost extinct way of being an artist in its full independence. Just as I feel connected, as a self- taught person and as someone who prefers to look forward instead of looking back: “I don‘t want nostalgia.” After all it was Jens Strüver who inspired me to work with Conrad Schnitzer‘s material.
I had the idea of flowing music in which patterns develop, shift, dissolve and finally reorganize. A modular system seemed the most suitable to connect Schnitzler‘s world with my own by triggering and modulating his sounds via a sampling module and supplementing them with my own. Perhaps I have not always succeeded in merging both worlds congenially, sometimes they orbit, sometimes they collide, but they never stand still. As Conrad Schnitzler says in his „Context“ manifesto: “The sounds don‘t come to stay.”

Buy CD/LP

BB349 Conrad Schnitzler & Frank Bretschneider – Con-Struct (Album Preview)

https://cultoffoil.bandcamp.com/album/selection-2016-2020-part-i

Selection Part I

We Are Machines (from “Selection” pt.I, out now)

Our third installment of Cicada welcomes Los Angeles based musician and artist, No Translation @no-translation. Revisiting and transmuting a years worth of field recordings taken from vignettes of her day to day life is a delicately composed soundscape of one’s relationship to the outside world. Hauntingly ethereal vocals lead you into a warm medley of almost elusive echoes of the elements in their various forms; waves crashing, rain falling, wind moving through trees . Gently interwoven are soothing melodies that conjure the slow reveal of nature’s mysteries. 

"A collection of field recordings taken throughout the past year in parks, walks, beaches, and nearby streets served as the foundation for sessions of improved music that were later strung together as a collage of personal moments of solitude and exploration. The improvised melodies are an immediate contemplation on the experiences reflected in the recordings as they were processed, mixed, and played with. The sounds are an extension of experiences filtered through personal thoughts, imaginations, and emotions."

https://coneshapetop.com/cicada-series/2020/9/8/cicada-003-no-translation

CICADA 003 | NO TRANSLATION

Programa especial de @maxrosemin emitido el 06-11-20.

Con musica de @juan_azul @jotagege @m-0_0-m @micaelaamescua @elbisrever3 @dayanasudore @mmiimm00 @lemansofficial @amdemiguel @judith-j-2 @globalentertainmentultd @misaeculogordodj @cardevore @bors123 @ari_cardozo y más

Tracklist:
Juan Azul - Salud para todos
J.G.G. - UKDK
literally - cancion pa cuando llueve
'MESALINA - its like pra pra u know
GOLOKA - FREE ABEJA MAYA 01
Elbis Rever - TEN
dayana sudore - Vente Conmigo Carinio
MiM0 - decomp baby
Le Mans - Orlando
Deplorably Adorable - angel baby
Joseba Agirrezabalaga - Desierto
Alejandro M. de Miguel - Una Mañana
Inspector Ratchet - that
Chad Williams - Medicación
Misae Culo Gordo DJ - Misae Nohara culo precioso
cardevore - la nana de la decadencia barroqa
Hombrebii II - Mariposas
ari - timidez
Fettucini - VMSscrew

Pop Mix 2020 by Max Rosemin

For those interested the field recordings contained within Mac-Talla Nan Creag 1 & 2, here is a further contact mic recording by Lindsay Todd from August 2020.

Dun Carloway is currently under conservation work with a huge amount of scaffolding and security fence. There was a fair wind blowing and the whole structure was resonating wildly.

Equipment used:

2x JrF contact mics with Hosa MIT-129 impedance transformers
1x Sound Devices MixPre3

** Headphones or studio monitors recommended for full frequency listening **

Dun Carloway is an excellent cross-section of a broch – a type of structure found only in Scotland. It overlooks Loch Carloway and is built on a rock on a steep south slope at the height of 50 metres and is the best preserved broch in the Outer Hebrides. At 9m tall it still stands close to its impressive full height. It was probably constructed about 200 BC. Broch-building ceased around AD 100, but they may have continued in use.  Evidence from excavations suggests it may have been used until about AD 1000. It’s also said to have been used as a stronghold by members of the Morrison Clan during the 1500s.

Dun Carloway Broch Contact Mic Recording August 2020

morphaqin #1

mastodon: @toffo@mastodon.social

stop that bloody war in Ukraine
no to Georgian Dream
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note: lost a lot of gear due to a lot of chabges in my life, but more to come :)

synths/etx:
Random 4 channel mixer
KORG Monologue (Silver)
Zoom MRT-3 Drum Machine (2002)
Reverb pedal (shitty one tbh lol)
Distortion pedal (nice one)
Behringer TD-3 (TB-303 clone) with modified VCF.
Tascam DR-05X recorder
Vinyl turntable 

headphones:
Grado SR-60 (1993-1994) (to be repaired)
Audio-Technica ATH-M50X (main)
FiiO Q1 Amplifier (and DAC) for my Amiga and ThinkPad.

software:
Renoise (main non-amiga tracker)
FT ][
ProTracker 2.3/3
OctaMED SS 1.03c + V4 (main amiga trackers)
DigiBooster (not so often)
DefleMask 
MilkyTracker
SunVox
PlayerPRO (not so often lately)
PureData
SuperCollider
Audacity (currently Tenacity)
GarageBand
Schism Tracker
Midinous
some custom Amiga stuff i made

hardware:
Amiga 1200 (PiStorm32/RPi3 emu68 with rtg, Indivision AGA Mk3 GOTEK, i also have a 68030 accel board which i dont use that often now)
Amiga 500 (Now i use pistorm emu68 with rtg and amigaos 3.9 + 3.1.4 kickstart)
Macbook Pro (2017, 2020)
ThinkPad T480 (i use it for my hardware setups sometimes aswell, but thats my main machine)
ThinkPad T440p (backup)
DAT / DDS streamer with some tapes
