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Short extracts from various full length releases, live recordings, mixes etc.

Extracts / Live / Mixes

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This is a 4-minute excerpt from the opening track, titled "I Support The Strike (Join A Union)", off the "Fustian Cutting" collaborative live release between Phil Julian and Kostis Kilymis.
Further info on the release, bellow.

[CS8] Phil Julian and Kostis Kilymis - Fustian Cutting

Phil Julian lives in London, and has been active in the experimental music underground since the late 90's under the alias Cheapmachines and lately under his own name. He is dedicated to analogue electronics as well as computer noise. Contact microphones, feedback and modular synthesizers are basic tools to what, after much work, could lead to the perfection of 2014's "Trace" LP or the excellent "Quiet Trade" tape. A wide spectrum from harsh noise to academic minimalism. An "anything can turn into a composition" logic. He is also a mastering engineer, he runs the Authorised Version label and he is a member of Signals group. The first thing of Phil's I listened to, was the cassette "Kept: 1994-96" which I had bought from Second Layer some years ago, meaning material recorded on four-track cassete tape during the years in its title: it provided all the reasons for the follow up. Harbinger Sound, Strange Rules, Anarchymoon, Entr'acte, and The Tapeworm are some of the labels responsible for putting his work out. Phil Julian has collaborated with The New Blockaders on some of their strongest releases, like last year's "Live At The Schimpfluch Carnival" LP featuring also Ace Farren Ford of Smegma and GX Jupitter Larsen of Τhe Haters. All these in the midst of dozens of performances in Europe and North America. One of them with Kostis Kilymis.

Kostis Kilymis hails from Thessaloniki and currently lives in London. He runs Organized Music From Thessaloniki label since mid 00's and lately co-runs Rekem Records. His work, a study on electronic composition, explores the relation between sound and space, with quietly reflective melodies, layers of rhythmic sound, noise escapism and field recordings. One can listen to all of that in last year's substantial solo release "Bethnal Greener", his career summing release, until now at least. After many releases on Entr'acte, Strange Rules, I Dischi Del Barone, Mazurka editions and others, Kostis is preparing for the next European tour, while in the past he has performed with Leif Elggren, Lucio Capece, Nikos Veliotis, Greg Pope and others. And with Phil Julian.

Sometime during the summer, and in particular just after the announcement of their then-forthcoming live set, I asked Kostis "Are you thinking of recording it?". His answer was, I think, "Let's find out". The "Fustian Cutting" cassette, contains the sonically engrossing live set of Phil and Kostis, held in Ryans Bar in Stoke Newington on the 6th of August, 2015. Within 22 minutes one can understand why it was such a good idea to eventually record it to begin with, but also to determine the magnitude of similarities between the musical perceptions of both artists. Needless to say how much we would love to hear a studio collaboration of the two.

Phil Julian - http://cmx.org.uk
Kostis Kilymis - www.kostiskilymis.com

Edition details: 
30 hand-numbered black cassette tapes (C21) with full colour labels and 4pp j-card covers on 150gsm paper

Phil Julian / Kostis Kilymis - I Support The Strike (Join A Union)[excerpt]

Laughing Out, a three track 7" pop single, released by The Tapeworm's Wormhole imprint, released August 12th in a limited edition of 123 copies

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Screenprint of a legendary double-act by Lukas Julius Keijser

Dale Cornish & Phil Julian - Laughing Out (out August 12th)

Bed time stories you tell to a younger generation to prepare them for their future cosmic trips and help them understand the world they come from. So, young cosmic travelers, let’s start a trip through the intercultural spaces of the musicverse.

https://urbancosmonaut.bandcamp.com/album/urban-cosmonaut-tales

@gvmv

Gama - Sagitta_Urban Cosmonaut Tales

Phil Julian & John Macedo - 'Cinnery 1' from 'Bind' CD released by Hideous Replica, June 2016. 
http://hideousreplica.co.uk/hr12

Phil Julian & John Macedo - 'Cinnery 1' from 'Bind'

The forth compilation of Frente Bolivarista is inspired on the sounds of Nomade Festival which happened in Halver/Germany in the year of 2016. After a three day journey of fusion music into the woods meeting dozens of great and insipiring people from all over the globe willing to join for the good music and the regionalism behind it, we decided to release a compilation inspired on the artists envolved with the festival and of course some of our all the time artists,

Dandara - Primera Primavera

The Two Ronnies, The Pet Shop Boys, Suicide and now Dale 'n' Phil. 6.2.16 marks the first live outing of much new material from these two excellent human beings - and it also marks possibly the only time we’ve seen proper heckling in OTO’s usually library quiet atmos. “It’s not Whitehouse definitely!” someone yells, but what is? We can't repeat Dale's real retort - you'll have to download the whole asymetric out-of-sync software driven half hour yourself for that. “Language is a nuisance” goes one of their ‘songs’, and they’re right, but if we’re going to use it then we for one want Dale Cornish in charge of the dictionary. 

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Dale Cornish / vocals

Phil Julian / electronics

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Recorded live at Cafe OTO on Monday 6th of Febuary 2017 by Shaun Crook. Mixed by James Dunn and mastered by Phil Julian.

Dale Cornish & Phil Julian - 6.2.17

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The doggedly prolific and eclectic Phil Julian opens up a brand new deck of cards on the sublimely crunchy and elastic 'Clastics'.

Austerely described as 'five sets of interrelated pattern based / sequencer derived recordings', Clastics lays down a gauntlet of straitjacket electronics, fizzing and crackling into and out of life. Mutated patterns evolve and decay without a care in the world.

Supremely excited to bring this to Conditional. One for the believers.

Music by Phil Julian.
Art by Renick Bell.

Clastics

Phil Julian - 'EA' (from 'Clastics', CON007)

Buy/Stream: https://KompaktRecords.lnk.to/PopAmbient2019SD

Boum Boum Boum! 25 years of KOMPAKT. When a record label still thrives after a quarter of a century thanks to a focus of what was expected to be a short lived music phenomenon called TECHNO, then it stands to prove two things; that it techno has taken its place amongst serious, multilayered musical genres like rock’n’roll, pop and folk music. And that KOMPAKT has never been only for techno, but KOMPAKT stands as a broad-minded, genre-defying entity that has set out to cross-pollinate all kinds of musical inventions within the realm of electronic music. Through its course, KOMPAKT has sent “Around The World”, all kinds of sub-genres, concept series and crossover adventures based on the non- negotiable 4/4 beat. And back again.

Without a doubt, the 100% kickdrum-free POP AMBIENT series is the most endearing and enduring concept that I have had the pleasure to curate. From the start, I felt there was a strong need to add a certain pop- elegance - ensouled by discourse as much as hedonism - to a sound that was recognized as “Chill Out” music that could be heard in seedy techno club back rooms and forgotten festival areas. Over the years, I like to imagine that POP AMBIENT has crystallized into a highly recognizable trademark sound and a multi-facetted musical universe of its own.

So once again, I had the pleasure to put together this year’s edition by plowing through an ocean of sonic jewelry that had been submitted from all over the world by new and old friends. The task was clear: for this special edition, I must create a homogenous listening experience that would both appeal to our trusting followers, to continue our tradition while integrating new micro facets , variations and influences from neighboring musical universes as possible. Obligatory while being innovative. Conspirative while being cosmopolitan. Albeit the headline “Ambient” might sound a little too humble for a compilation that encompasses aspects of neo classic, atonal music and the most beautiful aural kitsch imaginable, it still helps as a necessary means of orientation in the best possible sense. Same goes for another dear tradition: Veronika Unland’s abstract-floral cover design that keeps on pleasing our sore eyes year after year.

Although each and every POP AMBIENT edition doesn’t shy away from diving into the relevant question of “What is contemporary discourse music” – in the end it all boils down to that elevated moment where all theory dissolves into ambient air, into a higher state of cosmic bliss. POP AMBIENT is sacral music for non-believers.

Wolfgang Voigt Cologne, October 2018

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Leandro Fresco – Araña De Vidrio

Excerpt from NE63 Anthony Linell — Live in Tehran / اجراى تهران

Total running time 44:20. Cassette only, no digital release.

"Live recording from one out of two shows performed at the Rooberoo Mansion/Paraffin, Tehran in the month of June 2018. Consisting of previously released music, unreleased edits and new work.

Thanks to Azim and Ario for making it happen."

Live in Tehran

Anthony Linell — Live in Tehran / اجراى تهران (Excerpt)

Experimental electronic and computer music.

Phil Julian - 'EA' (from 'Clastics', CON007)

CONDITIONAL