Downtempo Electronica

Neil McDonald's love of the outdoors is a constant feature in his music, hence his Lord Of The Isles (@lordoftheisles) moniker, a direct reference to the Highlands and islands of his native Scotland.

His vivid, effervescent and blissfully cinematic sound paints a soundtrack to unmade films, building imaginary worlds inspired by his childhood passion for science fiction. It is therefore no coincidence that the closing track 'Subtle Thoughts' samples the inimitable voice of Carl Sagan and is also the name of his forthcoming album on Lapsus Records.

Subtle Thoughts' is an album of sumptuous melancholic electronica that, like all his previous works, avoids being pigeonholed. In it we find ambient and IDM, but also breaks and down-tempo 4x4 beats with deep ruminations, and even passages akin to new age and Balearic. In Neil's own words, the real concept behind 'Subtle Thoughts' is "The spaces in between. Listening to the quiet voices. Freedom of expression and being open. It also contains my hopes and fears for the future of our world, but mainly hope and love".

Subtle Thoughts

Lord Of The Isles - Subtle Thoughts [LPS33]

Into The Abyss #034 | Ronny Pinazza

Born and raised between the fantastic mountain valleys of the Italian Dolomites and the industrial city of Ludwigshafen in Germany.
Spent most of his childhood playing in the woods. This past still connects him inseparably from nature and its forms of life. He tries to convey this feeling of the infinite timelessness of the soul of nature with music in an understandable language. Words can only approximate this.
His DJ sets are always driving, ritualistic. Natural sounds and hypnotic melodies allow the listener to reach another state of consciousness. This is how he describes his vision: “when time and space lose their meaning, when everyone is connected in unison to the music, united in one energy bubble, then the perfect state is reached.
No thought separates us from the great unit. Only knowledge and joy move us to the beat“. His productions are experimental, unorthodox. Since he is not a musician, he uses this "ignorance" and the freedom that results from it. Hypnotic rhythms and driving beats characterize his tracks, always filled with natural sounds.
The listener is transported in a space that seems to exist between the stars. Deep in his heart he believes in infinity and that time and space are only imaginations. His goal is to express these inner feelings with music, so in 2021 he set out to develop his musical language.
“This journey will be endless, full of universes yet to be explored and they are all within us“.

https://soundcloud.com/garradorada

Into The Abyss #034 | Ronny Pinazza

Carmen Villain (NO/MX) @carmenvillain
Live at MUTEK Montréal | Édition 23
Play 2 on August 26, 2022
Mastered by @pheek (audioservices.studio)
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Carmen Villain made her debut at MUTEK Montréal by showcasing her latest album, Only Love From Now On, in which the artist’s aesthetic sensibilities give way to an exuberant, dreamlike and mysterious sensuality; a collection of brilliantly polished pieces whose themes are as diverse as they are cohesive.

Presented with the support of @smalltownsupersound

Only Love From Now On

Bandcamp

MUTEKLIVE262 - Carmen Villain

Read the Q&A here: carpetandsnares.com/mix-series-shine-grooves

Shine Grooves (@shine-grooves) aka Andrey Kurokhtin is a musician, label head and record store owner from Yekaterinburg in Siberia. Over the past ten years he has released leftfield electronic music across a range of labels including his own Hanagasumi (@hanagasumi) imprint, founded in 2019 to release non-commercial, experimental music on vinyl. In 2020, the label grew into a physical record store, which is now a centre for the city's developing scene.

Andrey's mix for our series explores similar territory to his Space Garden LP, released last year on Carpet & Snares's CIRCUITS series. Ambient, experimental, ethereal: it's a real trip through the cosmos.

Carpet Music: Mix Series 010 w/ Shine Grooves

Outercast 12 | Richer

Sound Mixed and Compiled live by @Dubtil in HAZE Boutique @ Signal Russia 2022

*Black/White Haze are a laid-back sessions recorded live

White Haze by Dubtil

Label owner del mítico Sleep is Commercial. Andrea Ferlin, nuestro amigo Italiano nos comparte un podcast ambiental fininisimo para disfrutar amebas, texturas y sonidos del más allá que solo algunos atrevidos hacen en ocasiones especiales. Disfruten :)

Secret Society Podcast Series S01EP18

Andrea Ferlin, Secret Society Podcast 018

Slobodan Brkić (aka DJ Brka) a living legend of the Belgrade underground disco scene. Long-time promoter of the cult Disco Not Disco party and part of the family of club 20/44. Recording was made for the day organized by Marko Vualeta Djukanov aka Floating Bastard.

Downtempo Electronica

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