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AMBIANT

played with 2 bows on vibraphone.

dedicated to the victims of the earthquake and tsunami in japan and to their family.

Cloud - (Acoustic Vibraphone Solo by Masasyoshi Fujita)

Warm Body - Hosta

Delicate soundscapes, a strong fragility resonates throughout this mix.

Gosheven is the solo project of Balint Szabo who is one half of the Budapest based experimental band https://soundcloud.com/12z
https://soundcloud.com/gosheven

Tracklist:
Ian William Craig - Arrive, Arrive
Circuit Des Yeux - Black Fly
Mohammad - Sakrifis
Patrick Higgins & Josh Modney - Renaissance Recap
Stian Westerhus - Thy Gospel
Jessica Moss - Glaciers (pt 1)
Supersilent - 10.6
12z featuring Akosh Szelevenyi (live, unreleased)
Aiwa - Etamorph
Gosheven - Kitsch Is The New Atonality
Karen Gwyer - You Big

Website.

zenevloed 073 - Gosheven

ju ca - Water Music

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Miran-Nolden-751858931529338/
Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/mirannolden
Artwork by Lea Pieper: https://www.facebook.com/BecauseIamtheWeedfinderGeneral/

#19 Miran Nolden (Sector Cologne, Isolation, Berlin)

Side A taken from GMT04 Biscuit - 'Pachamama' released November 2017 on Good Morning....

This particular release pays homage to a 3 week trip spent deep in the Peruvian Amazon Jungle - working with sacred medicinal plants.

Light a candle, dim the lights & take a brief dip into the spirit world of Gaia.

T-shirts coinciding with the release are available here:
https://goodmorningtapes.bandcamp.com/merch/pachamama-long-sleeve-t-shirt-black

Biscuit Pachamama GMT04 SIDE A

Shimmeringcast #84 by ARD

His debut album "Tintagel" releases February 13, 2018, Shimmering Moods Records
Format: CD/Digital

Pre Order: 
https://shimmeringmoodsrecords.bandcamp.com/album/tintagel


ARD - The journey
ARD - Ambition by candlelight
ARD - Atonement for sins 
Råd Kjetil Senza Testa - The Turning test
Tropic of Cancer - A color 
ARD - Her eyes over the ancient castle
Varg - ვარგ – ჟინვალი 5
ARD - Dream paralysis 
Mercy Ribbon - The green nail polish made his toe nails look like emeralds
Cremation lily - Fascination bodies 
ARD -Spring of no regret  
D.Å.R.F.D.H.S - Minnen av morfar 
Lace & Collar - Ecstasy 
ARD - Clear sky’s of October 
Meta - Ambiente 
Desiderii Marginis - Constant like the North Star 
ARD - Action Stations
ARD - Free and easy

https://soundcloud.com/a-r-d-music

Tintagel

Shimmeringcast #84: ARD - A mix for the ages

Appears on Physically Sick 2, released March 6, 2018

Physically Sick 2 is a charity compilation by Allergy Season and Discwoman curated by Umfang, Frankie Decaiza Hutchinson, and Physical Therapy. 100% percent of profits from the compilation will go to the Brooklyn Community Bail Fund. Out Tuesday March 6th, 2018 and available exclusively through Bandcamp.

https://physicallysick2.bandcamp.com/

Terracotta [Allergy Season]

DC Promo Tracks #152: "Tbilisi Night" by Mårble is part of the new release "Diego" on Not Not Fun @not-not-fun-1

Order: https://marble-music.bandcamp.com/album/diego

Russian fourth-world fusion voyager Mårble runs a colorful hand-assembled tape imprint called Hair Del. and travels extensively gathering evocative field recordings to color his warped ethno-hybrid instrumental improvisations feat. balafon, flute, percussion, saxophone, and synths. Diego is his deepest yet. 

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Diego

DC Promo Tracks #152: Mårble "Tbilisi Night"

New transmission from Tokyo based producer Ultrafog for our 19th edition. Recent favs from orbiting artists, some of his own music and other congruous wavs all to be heard within. Delighted to welcome him to the series and soon to the label!

https://soundcloud.com/ultrafog

Motion Cast Vol. 19: Ultrafog

Artist: Milan W.
Title: Envelope
Format: 12 inch vinyl (incl. download)
Release date: 6th of June 2018
Cat no: EKS016
Edition: 500

order here: https://eksterlabel.bandcamp.com/album/envelope

Presenting “Envelope”. Album written, produced & mixed by Milan W. and pressed on 180g vinyl, to be released on the 6th of June 2018. With foil-stamped cover-drawing by Gerard Herman. Mastered & cut by Helmut Erler at Dubplates & Mastering. 


Tracklist:

A1: Slope
A2: Astma
A3: Orchestral
A4: In Limbo

B1: Heraldic Snippets
B2: Slow Runner
B3: Glaasjes
B4: Malady


The harlequin turns the handle. The contraption sucks in air, and breathes. Blows out tone poems. Wordless ballads that soundtrack enchanted scenarios. Issues forth magic. A sorcerer`s apprentice casting its spell. Animating the inanimate. To everything a life. Sets the frozen fluttering. Pirouetting in red shoes. Illuminates what was dark. Astma sings a Gamelan lullaby. Summons comforting angels to a post-Industrial landscape. Glaasjes has Jazz ghosts inhabit an empty bar room. Spirits stealing excuse-me`s under its deserted spot. In Limbo amplifies their whispers. Lead soldiers court jewellery-box ballerinas behind shuttered shop fronts. On Heraldic Snippets, a tin infantry marches. Ten thousand men up to the top, and back down again. Keys make-believing that they are massed brass and fife. 

The bellows pump, and the pipes all the while wheezing. An automaton philharmonic at the bidding of a steam-punk master. Analogue and digital. Clockwork and glitch. Malady finds sounds isolated, extrapolated, mutated. Orchestral`s organ-grinder moves with urgency, and alchemy. Spinning straw into gold. Snare rolls become bubbling mercury. Metallic, yet fluid. Racing at the speed of flight and escape. Slope is the music of water chasing through crystal caves. Slow Runner, a funeral crawl. Shoved into motion by a drama of strings remembered. 

Like the charismatic Rat-Catcher of Hamelin, the harlequin turns the handle, and we bang the cup.  (Text by Robert Harris — banbantonton.com)

Envelope

Milan W. — Envelope (Preview)

Playlist and other information available at: http://www.freeformfreakout.com/fffoxy-podcast-119-with-sean-mccann-of-recital/

FFFoxy Podcast #119 with Sean McCann of Recital

Sidney & Suleiman show us the "late-night, B2 feeling" that defines their label. 

Read the feature on RA: https://www.residentadvisor.net/features/3205

Latency - RA Label Of The Month

The Norman Records podcast returns after countless (two) requests and a whole bunch of baited breath! We're massively thrilled to welcome Australian post-rock crew Tangents to the fold, who have an upcoming record called 'New Bodies' on the way. If it's anywhere near as good as their last, stringently jammed masterwork 'Stateless', then we're all on a Northern Rail hype train.

Tangents' music lives for strange contradictions: jumpy in abundance, it's also buttoned down, the band playing a sort of restrained jazz aesthetic as a tease to those who want them to give in to the climaxes and math rock catharsis. Offering hints of Do Make Say Think, Jaga Jazzist and Ex-Easter Island Head, they're perpetual but never still; in this mix by bandmember Peter Hollo, they reimagine the movements and segues of their sound, effectively remixing themselves into new, unrefined contexts. It's a blast!

Peek the tracklist below. Order 'New Bodies' here: 
https://www.normanrecords.com/records/170967/

01 - Tangents - Stents [2018, Temporary Residence Limited]
02 - Icarus - Moon Palace [1998, Recordings Of Substance]
03 - Tangents - N-Mission [2016, Temporary Residence Limited]
04 - Triosk - Intensives Leben [2006, The Leaf Label]]
05 - raven - headache music #1 [2012, Feral Media]
06 - Spartak - Second-Half Clouded (feat. Lucrecia Dalt) [2010, Low Point]
07 - Tangents - Immersion (Katie Gately remix) [2018, Temporary Residence Limited]
08 - Shoeb Ahmad - the orchids [2012, Mystery Plays Records]
09 - Adrian Lim-Klumpes - Caution [2017, Off-Record Label]
10 - raven - vale [2017, Art As Catharsis]
11 - Adrian Klumpes - cornered [2006, The Leaf Label]
12 - Spartak - Catch/Control [2013, hellosQuare Recordings]
13 - Shoeb Ahmad - "lope" [2018, Art As Catharsis]
14 - Tangents - Gone To Ground [2018, Temporary Residence Limited]
15 - Four Tet - My Angel Rocks Back and Forth (Four Teas on English Time - Icarus remix) [2004, Domino Recording Company]
16 - Tangents - Terracotta (Jim O'Rourke remix) [2018, Temporary Residence Limited]

Tangents mix for Norman Records

Norman Records Podcast #21: Tangents ("Tangents Play Tangents")

Ulla Straus - at a table

From the album Raw Silk Uncut Wood (Latency 014)  
latency.fr/catalogue/raw-silk-uncut-wood

1. Raw Silk Uncut Wood feat. Oliver Coates(10:00)
2.  Mercury feat. Eli Keszler (03:56)
3. Quietude (02:32) 
4. The Sick Mind (04:24) 
5. Supine (01:27) 
6. Nahbarkeit feat. Eli Keszler and Oliver Coates(10:07)

"What works reliably is to know the raw silk, hold the uncut wood. Need little. Want less. Forget the rules. Be untroubled."

Laurel Halo presents six instrumental pieces that form a meditative, cinematic listening experience. Inspired by recent film score work for Metahaven and Ursula Le Guin's translation of the 'Tao Te Ching'. Featuring cello work by Oliver Coates and percussion by Eli Keszler.

Working in abstraction leads to a deeper longing for touch and closeness. The tactile sensation of struck organ keys and bowed strings, wood and felt on drum heads. Smoke and dirt and stone. Febrile and tactile, hairy and hissy. A clover of highway onramps, a continuous flow, like old leaves melting on their way down a stream at the back of a house. Constant contradiction, the truth's nowhere.

DATE
July 13, 2018

COMPOSER
Laurel Halo

FORMAT
Vinyl, Digital, Streaming

MASTERING
Dubplates & Mastering

DISTRIBUTION
Honest Jon’s

FEATURING
Oliver Coates (cello)
Eli Keszler (percussion)

ARTWORK
Jill Mulleady

@laurelhalo
https://www.latency.fr/

Raw Silk Uncut Wood

Laurel Halo - Raw Silk Uncut Wood (feat. Oliver Coates) (Latency 014)

Concrete Fence - Industrial Disease
Total Control - Vote Cops
Dystopia - The Middle
Young Echo - Rocksteady
Wetware - The Luxury Of Decline
The Magits - A Pawn In The Game
Bruce Gilbert - Epitaph For Henran Brenlar
Laurie Anderson - Muddy River
Tuxedomoon - The Waltz
Tuxedomoon - Bonjour Tristesse
The Durutti Column - Smile In The Crowd

MAY 1 MIX LATE UPLOAD BY CARLOS SANDOVAL

R Weng - born tired

My interpretation of https://soundcloud.com/nillocr fantastic track.

https://nillo.bandcamp.com/album/nacimiento-de-los-diablitos

Artwork: Mostros (facebook.com/mostrosinside)

Sample: flute, seashell & vocal extracts from traditional "danza de nacimiento los diablitos" from the Boruca tribe // Costa Rica

The traditional dance is a representation of the colonization days where the Spanish conquerors (represented with bulls masks) chase the indigenous who wears the handcrafted devil masks.

The day before the celebration, at midnight, bombs are thrown into the air announcing the birth, that is, the birth of the little devils. These begin their journey in the hill Brugrá, in Boruca, or in the hill of King Curré, according to the town where the festival takes place. The little devils sing a traditional song called saloma and they sound snails of cambute and horns, after which they pass from house to house, where they are greeted with chicha and meals, while they continue to sing and dance intertwined with their arms to the rhythm of the music.

The morning of the celebration, the bull appears, whose objective is to kill the little devils. They face him led by the Elder Devil, in three contests throughout the day, during the three days of the celebration. These contests are trips around the community: the bull attacks the devils to throw them to the ground, where they can even break the mask. On the part of the little devils, the essential idea of ​​the game is to face the bull and provoke it. Finally, the bull defeats and kills the little devils, symbol of the Spanish victory during the conquest. The last to fall is always the Greater Devil, who represents the cacique. All the little devils are lying on the ground, an act that is known as the Tomb, which takes place on the last day of the party. After this, the bull flees and takes refuge in the mountain, after which, the Greater Devil sounds a snail and returns the life to the devils (in what is known as the Diabla), who go out to look for the bull. When he is finally found, he appears dressed in leaves and branches, and furiously tries to kill the little devils again. They defeat the bull and sacrifice it in a bonfire. The death of the bull is repeated several times throughout the day. The "corpse" of the burning bull is paraded by the community, and its pieces are sold or given symbolically to the attendees, representing their flesh, while the chicha represents their blood. Finally, his remains are burned in a bonfire, and a great party is celebrated celebrating the victory of the little devils over the bull.

<a href='https://theartistunion.com/tracks/0582bb'>Download for free on The Artist Union</a>

Nacimiento de los Diablitos

Free Download

NILLO - Nacimiento de los Diablitos (Da Iguana Remix)

This is a short song I wrote to help get back in the swing of things. I think in general people would probably prefer I write more exciting progressive/jazzy stuff, but I actually love writing this kind of material as well if there's an audience for it. Image Source: https://www.deviantart.com/reneaigner/art/Mana-Cycle-Forest-Scene-356898033

The Forest Says Goodnight

Full Side A stream of my new album "Beautiful You". Purchase cassette and digital: https://heart.bandcamp.com/album/beautiful-you

Khotin - Beautiful You

Side A:
1. Welcome 
2. Water Soaked In Forever
3. Levi's Synth
4. Alla's Scans
5. Vacation

Side B:
6. Dwellberry
7. Looping Good
8. Merged Host
9. Somehow More Sad
10. Planet B

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Buy Cassette/Digital

Beautiful You (Side A)

Today we dive into another part of the groove that we haven't explored much, Ambient! 

It is @citizenmaze "Glade Hollow" soon to be released on @analogueattic that starts this new journey. 

This Australian bad boy provided the smoothest track to enjoy a good sunset after a hard day of work behind a desk in an office without air-con, word.

Enjoy and watch out for the release!

Ulla Straus - at a table

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