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

Constellation - Sampler 2018

~ LAAPS 045 ~ [SEQ.06 - LP45]

artist : Akhira Sano
album : D-R
duration : 31.24 mn
date : July 28th, 2025

edition :
-  vinyl : limited to 200 copies / white LP / selective UV varnish (front+back) / hand numbered 
- cd : limited to 150 copies / pantone / hand numbered + handcrafted, sealed

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pre-order : June 30th, 2025 / official release : July 28th, 2025
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Sounds, arrangements and Mixed by Akhira Sano

Mastered by Taylor Deupree
Artwork by Jenni Toivonen
Design by Sprflxgrfzm
 
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Links :
https://laaps-records.com/
https://www.instagram.com/iikki_laaps/
https://linktr.ee/Akhira_Sano
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℗ & © 2 0 2 5 - L A A P S - L A A P S 0 4 5

Akhira Sano - Demande Un

1979

Clari 1

~ LAAPS 047 ~ [SEQ.06 - LP47]

artist : Seabuckthorn
album : A Path Within A Path
duration : 42.03 mn
date : October 03rd, 2025

edition :
-  vinyl : limited to 200 copies / red (oxblood) LP / selective UV varnish (front+back) / hand numbered 
- cd : limited to 150 copies / pantone / hand numbered + handcrafted, sealed

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pre-order : September 11th, 2025 / official release : October 03rd, 2025
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All music composed by Andy Cartwright, except the guest parts on tracks 2, 5, 6 ( Dean McPhee, Claire Deak, Loscil)
Recorded in Saint-Pierre-d'Argençon, France between July 2024 and January 2025.

Mastered by James Plotkin
Cover photo by Andy Cartwright
Design by Sprflxgrfzm
 
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Links :
https://laaps-records.com/
https://www.instagram.com/iikki_laaps/
https://seabuckthorn.bandcamp.com/music
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Seabuckthorn - Black Boar

Tracklist

01. Blochemy - Tope
02. Aiko Takahashi - Soap and glass beads
03. Amble - Where i vanished for a while
04. Far away Nebraska - Finita questa pioggia sarà un nuovo giorno
05. David Cordero & Rhucle - Alone Into the Crowd
06. Darren Harper - Traverse
07. Norihito Suda - Traversing a Dream from One Side to the Other (CD2)
08. Animal Visions - Cycle collapse
09. Jason Calhoun + Foresteppe - a four part cure ii

437. Sleepy Sunday Podcast (Elm Records)

Deep calm meditative ambient mix from Chitra Records and Ambient Cat Records by Dionisaf.

0:00 Dionisaf - Sea Angel (Deep Ocean Creatures) https://dionisaf.bandcamp.com/album/deep-ocean-creatures
5:00 Ghostloop - Midsummer (Almost Autumn) https://chitrarecords.bandcamp.com/album/almost-autumn
8:39 Brannan Lane - Peaceful Painted Sky (Northern Lights) https://ambientcat.bandcamp.com/album/northern-lights
10:50 KapTep - Congruence (Overcast) https://chitrarecords.bandcamp.com/album/overcast
17:31 Blanket Swimming - Closer to the Sky (Seeing the Circles Above) https://ambientcat.bandcamp.com/album/seeing-the-circles-above
25:07 Le Code - Opal Reflection (Gems and Minerals) https://chitrarecords.bandcamp.com/album/gems-and-minerals
27:57 Dionisaf - Macropinna Microstoma (Deep Ocean Creatures) https://dionisaf.bandcamp.com/album/deep-ocean-creatures
32:20 Blanket Swimming & Demetrio Cecchitelli - Prelude (Sein) https://chitrarecords.bandcamp.com/album/sein
35:39 Ancient Astronaut - Stellar Streams (Ethereal Dreams) https://ancientastronaut.bandcamp.com/album/ethereal-dreams
39:00 Philippe Deschamps - Birth of a Moonstone (Gems and Minerals) https://chitrarecords.bandcamp.com/album/gems-and-minerals
41:36 Le Code - Looking to the Sky (Early Morning) https://le-code.bandcamp.com/album/early-morning
46:00 Sebby Kowal - Take This Moment (Take This Moment) https://chitrarecords.bandcamp.com/album/take-this-moment
49:08 KapTep - Pictures Never Taken [Blanket Swimming Remix] (Latitude Longitude) https://kaptep.bandcamp.com/album/latitude-longitude
53:54 NK x [Ųvás Gøød It] & Evgeniy Bolily - Täkamneta (Divya Music) https://chitrarecords.bandcamp.com/album/divya-music
58:00 Le Code - Don't Go Beyond the Edge of the World [Metric System 1981 Remix] (Ambient Cat Remixes, Vol. 1) https://ambientcat.bandcamp.com/album/ambient-cat-remixes-vol-1
1:00:50 Ghostloop - Stillwaters (Almost Autumn) https://chitrarecords.bandcamp.com/album/almost-autumn
1:04:22 Dionisaf - Flamingo Tongue Snail (Deep Ocean Creatures) https://dionisaf.bandcamp.com/album/deep-ocean-creatures
1:08:02 Marco Lucchi & Henrik Meierkord - 5:15 pm - Meadow Reach (Lieder Ohne Worte) https://chitrarecords.bandcamp.com/album/lieder-ohne-worte
1:19:10 Ancient Astronaut - Ethereal Dreams [Dionisaf Tape Rework] (Ethereal Dreams) https://ancientastronaut.bandcamp.com/album/ethereal-dreams
1:21:36 Atmøsphäre - Silver Obsidian (Gems and Minerals) https://chitrarecords.bandcamp.com/album/gems-and-minerals
1:23:49 Philippe Deschamps - The Silence of Pallas [Ancient Astronaut Remix] (Ambient Cat Remixes, Vol. 1) https://ambientcat.bandcamp.com/album/ambient-cat-remixes-vol-1
1:26:46 Henrik Meierkord - Quiescis [.cut Mare Tranquillitatis Remix] (Chitra Ambient Remixes) https://chitrarecords.bandcamp.com/album/chitra-ambient-remixes 
1:28:55 Piscean Daydreams - The Words of My Perfect Teacher (Piercing the Veil) https://pisceandaydreams.bandcamp.com/album/piercing-the-veil
1:33:43 NK x [Ųvás Gøød It] & Evgeniy Bolily - Atämta (Divya Music) https://chitrarecords.bandcamp.com/album/divya-music
1:42:35 Dionisaf - Glass Octopus (Deep Ocean Creatures) https://dionisaf.bandcamp.com/album/deep-ocean-creatures
1:45:36 Sebby Kowal - We Are One (We Are One) https://chitrarecords.bandcamp.com/album/we-are-one
1:50:08 Le Code - Looking to the Sky [Ancient Astronaut Remix] (Ambient Cat Remixes, Vol. 1) https://ambientcat.bandcamp.com/album/ambient-cat-remixes-vol-1
1:55:05 Michael D. Tidwell - Labradorite (Gems and Minerals) https://chitrarecords.bandcamp.com/album/gems-and-minerals
1:57:17 Diogene - Particles (The Ocean in Our Minds) https://ambientcat.bandcamp.com/album/the-ocean-in-our-minds

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Ethereal Projector #3 Transcendental Meditation by Dionisaf | Deep Calm Meditative Mix

The Volume Settings Folder is the work of Italian artist M. Beckmann from a small town on the outskirts of Padua, in the country’s North-East. His musical journey began in 2004 following two parallel paths; a brief flirtation with progressive and nu-metal and a more enduring exploration into Folk Electronica and Post Rock sounds, gradually leading him to Ambient and Drone music. In 2011 he launched The Volume Settings Folder, self-releasing and also appearing on Organic Industries, EKAR Records, Oscarson, Fallen Metropolis and Whitelabrecs, with the 17th edition of Home Diaries back in 2017. The project has drawn inspiration from an eclectic palette; from Electronica giants such as Aphex Twin, Boards of Canada and Autechre to the Scandinavian nu-jazz of Arve Henriksen and Nils Petter Molvær; drone pioneers such as Rafael Anton Irisarri and the Modern Classical works of Max Richter and Nils Frahm.

The creative process remains rooted in improvisation. Tracks often begin with fragments of guitar, samples, field recordings or synths, layered live using looping techniques, hardware and pedals. Recording is immediate, committing ideas in the moment with minimal post-production. For this latest album entitled ‘Corporate Shamanism’, sessions took place throughout 2023 and 2024, using an array of instruments and tools including acoustic and electric guitar, kalimba, cassette and reel-to-reel tape, hardware including an OP-1 Field, monome norns and a carefully curated chain of pedals and effects. Recordings were captured to handheld devices before being shaped in Ableton Live with only subtle adjustments.

This provocatively titled album ‘Corporate Shamanism’ is free from a strict concept, yet the album carries with it a strong sense of place and time; an impressionistic reflection of autumn and winter by the sea, filtered through nostalgia and calmness. Polaroid photographs from these colder seasons inform the mood, with the music evoking shifting coastal light, perishing temperatures and quiet transformation.

For the artist, these pieces trace connections to landscapes tied to childhood memories and the way they shift with the changing seasons. The result is a deeply atmospheric work that invites stillness, contemplation, and a lingering sense of the familiar. The title ‘Corporate Shamanism’ hints at the pressures of modern life which is a striking contrast to the nostalgic warmth of Polaroid photographs and reel-to-reel tape. Yet in many ways, this album seeks to offer a quiet antidote to an overstimulated world.

Credits
Written and produced by M. Beckmann
Mastered by James Edward Armstrong
Photography by Filippo Bordigato
Artwork by M. Beckmann
Art and design by Andrew Heath

Corporate Shamanism

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Out now on lagerstaette.bandcamp.com! 

Mastered by James Bernard at Ambient Mountain House.

Cover art by Heléne Wennerberg.

Sent i november

You don’t have to read the press release for Rafael Anton Irisarri‘s latest opus, Points of Inaccessibility, to know all of its conveyed emotion. It’s already all there. That is the power of music when it’s delivered through the heart and mind by an amazing artist. Sure, there is an interesting background behind this work [and one which you can read on Bandcamp anyway], but for me, it doesn’t matter. When I listened to this album for the first time, I was immediately overwhelmed with its immersive poignant arc, and then I listened to it again, and again, and again… until the four pieces became not just the sounds for the story to be discovered later through these words, but they became the sounds for the story of my own, the one where words are not enough, the one that only speaks in music. This music touches something deeply personal, and then these words come out in abstract. But when you read them, you will know at least one thing: they have been written by a human. They have been triggered by a human. And when two humans speak without words, there is a true and genuine connection. One, which we can’t replace with a digital domain. And as we sink a little deeper every day into a world of artificial emotion, remember that you can return to music. Remember that this music is the key.


Points of Inaccessibility came from thinking about how disconnection feels in an age obsessed with connection. We are constantly online, constantly visible, yet we drift further apart. The real distance isn’t geographic anymore, it’s emotional. We mistake connectivity for community. The more we share, the less we seem to feel. This album is about that strange loneliness that hides inside constant communication, a loneliness that hums quietly beneath the surface of everything. The record isn’t nostalgic. It’s about the way the present is haunted by all the futures that never arrived. We live inside systems that promise connection but deliver repetition. Everything loops, nothing resolves.

— Rafael Anton Irisarri


The album is scheduled to be released on February 6th, 2026, via Irisarri’s own Black Knoll Editions. Preorder the beautifully mastered limited edition 12″ by Stephan Mathieu at his Schwebung Mastering, with a bleak yet stunning cover art by Jaco Schilp. Once again, you can grab the digital and vinyl versions directly from Irisarri’s Bandcamp. Don’t sleep on this one.

https://irisarri.bandcamp.com/album/points-of-inaccessibility

Points of Inaccessibility

Breaking the Unison

TRACK PREMIERE : Rafael Anton Irisarri - Breaking the Unison

Tracklist

01.  Akira Film Script - T 
02. Tides - Softly So
03. The Inventors of Aircraft - Night Cycles
04. Ben McElroy - The Boat
05. Landtitles - Stone Gentle
06. Louis Gardner - New Things
07.  Blochemy -  Adel
08. Luis Miehlich - 時雨 (Shigure)
09. Adrian Lane - Two Seagulls Gliding 
10. David Cordero - Life at Times
11.  Glacis - We Are The Bees Of The Invisible (Adrian Lane)
12. First Snow of The Year - Nokori
13. Simon McCorry & Wodwo - By Snail on its Slick of Light
14. Slow Clinic - Could Have Been 


443. Sleepy Sunday Podcast (Elm Records)

This my version of Fovea Hex's piece "All Those Signs" released on 21 June 2017. I was particularly inspired by the original song and was very pleased to contribute to this release.

This remix is contained on the Bonus Cd only which can be found here:
http://janetrecords.com/2017/buy.html

Their original version can be listened here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kA0dEukZyfQ

The Salt Garden II

FOVEA HEX - We Dream All The Dark Away (Abul Mogard Remix)

Efrim Manuel Menuck
Pissing Stars

Constellation
CST129
Out 02/02/18

Efrim Manuel Menuck • "A Lamb In The Land Of Payday Loans"

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 In Another Life by Sandro Perri

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

cstrecords.com/cst136

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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Efrim Manuel Menuck • "A Lamb In The Land Of Payday Loans"

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