A selection of some of our favourite tracks from across all of our 2018 releases.

Constellation - Sampler 2018

SANAM • Sametou Sawtan

The Dwarfs Of East Agouza • Saber Tooth Millipede

Snakeskin - We live in sand

Snakeskin - October sun

Snakeskin - Olive groves

Maud Zeinoun - Oublie

Jessica Moss • One, Now (feat. Tony Buck)

Jessica Moss • no one

Daou - Memory Like Dream

Regular readers of tQ might remember that our friends at MUTEK helpfully had someone handy with a tape recorder to capture Factory Floor's comeback set at the 2024 edition of the festival. Well, we're happy to report that they've done done the same again, this time with one of our favourite collaborative duos – James Holden and Wacław Zimpel. The intense, beautiful and burbling set, with modular synths and saxophone dancing in all the bright ecstasy of a winter mountain stream, can be listened to on our Soundcloud below.  " i remember i really enjoyed this one, it was the first show we'd had for a little while and felt quite flowy, a nice connected feeling," reflected James Holden, and his musical partner agrees: "I really loved it," Wacław Zimpel says, "it's always quite amazing to play again after longer break. Breaks gives a room for new ideas to grow spontaneously." They both praise preceding sets by Yu Su and Valentina Magaletti for setting "a great vibe at the venue," as Zimpeł puts it. It came on top of a fine stay in Montreal for the festival. "We immersed ourselves in the local cuisine – poutine – and then climbed the big hill. at the top a guy with a fluorescent cargo bike and a poodle in (also fluorescent) ankle warmers turned up, pumping 90s house out of a Bluetooth speaker. We felt like we'd completed Canada, achievement unlocked."

James Holden & Wacław Zimpel live at MUTEK Montreal 2025

JOYFULTALK
Plurality Trip

Album out 24 Aug 2018
CST134 • 180gLP / DL

cstrecords.com/cst134
https://joyfultalk.bandcamp.com/

Plurality Trip

JOYFULTALK • "Kill Scene"

From the album Transit by Automatisme
Release date: 24 Aug 2018
Constellation • CST135

cstrecords/com/cst135
https://automatisme.bandcamp.com/album/transit

Transit

Automatisme • "Bureau 1"

From the album In Another Life by Sandro Perri

Sandro Perri
In Another Life
180gLP/CD/DL
CST136

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In Another Life

Sandro Perri • "In Another Life" (Edit)

From the album Entanglement by Jessica Moss

Jessica Moss
Entanglement
180gLP/CD/DL
CST138

cstrecords.com/cst138

Entanglement

Jessica Moss • "Particles (Edit)"

From the album Stand Above The Streams by Jason Sharp

Released 23 Feb 2018
180gLP / DL
cstrecords.com/cst130

Composed by Jason Sharp

This music was performed wearing a customized heart monitor providing a single pulse to trigger analogue drums, sine wave patterns, controlled feedback, and synthesizers in real time. All electronic rhythmic material stems from this source.

Jason Sharp: Amplified heart, feedback, synthesizers, bass and baritone saxophones

Adam Basanta: Controlled feedback and amplification systems

Stand Above The Streams

Jason Sharp • "Stand Above The Streams Pt 2A"

From the album Bush Lady by Alanis Obomsawin, originally released in a private press edition in 1988, remastered and re-issued by Constellation in 2018.

Alanis Obomsawin
Bush Lady

Constellation • CST135
CD • 180gramLP • DL

Release date: 15 June 2018

Alanis Obomsawin • "Nziwaldam"

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Automatisme • "Bureau 1"

Constellation Records

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