What A Groove

chillout / downtempo / wobbly / ambient

deep mind

Rusty Selects - May 2018

Valance Drakes & Ivan Shopov started sketching their shared sonic realms few years ago. Their combined musical efforts have resulted in hundreds of tracks, most of which still remaining hidden and others hinting their doings on several obscure releases. Valance and Ivan would often invite each other in the contexts of their solo releases, but with “Unearthing Buried Chapters” they have decided not to follow their individual formulas, but go beyond them. Their debut collaborative is not a more musical creation, it's the actual process of shaping and structuring worlds through sounds. It's a simple and honest concept that has resulted in... the beginning of a new world. 

We've done a great deal of thinking how to describe the music on this record and even though we're usually good with words it's simply impossible to pinpoint “Unearthing Buried Chapters” to any genre. What matters greatly, however, is that the album is welcoming in its vast ambient embrace, challenging you with its droning depths, while remaining hypnotically rhythmic with its massive but often illogical beats. “Unearthing Buried Chapters” was as much created impulsively as it was crafted with a meticulous, if not even maniacal, attention to detail. We've unearthed this record from the endless sonic vaults of Valance Drakes with Ivan Shopov with all the care and love we have for music. It's now your turn to become a part of it.

Written and recorded by Valance Drakes & Ivan Shopov. 
Mixed and mastered by Ivan Shopov at Etheraudio Studio. 
Artwork by Ivan Shopov. 

This is amek024 & Etheraudio 003. 
amekcollective.blogspot.com

Valance Drakes & Ivan Shopov "Unearthing Buried Chapters" (Out May 12 on vinyl & digital)

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SoundCloud Weekly

This is a remix of our song "Dreamtime" by the incredible musician/dj Stephen Kaminanda. It is a lush and beautiful journey into ecstatic, shamanic, tribal dance rhythms that is both deep and playful at times. Enjoy!

Dreamtime Kaminanda Remix

Aligning Minds - Ether Perfect (KiloWatts Total Blindness Remix)

Get the full remix album here:  http://music.gravitasrecordings.com/album/my-heart-is-remixed

A substantial portion of the revenue from this album will be donated to
*Critical Beats* and the Rain Forest Action Network, a non-profit whose
mission is rainforest conservation and sustainable education. Apart from
these endeavors, the album remains available as a free download with the
hope that as many people as possible will connect with its encompassing
sonic message.

Name Your Price!

Aligning Minds - Ether Perfect(KiloWatts Total Blindness Remix)

Joris Voorn - BBC Radio1 Essential Mix 30.01.2015

Hans Zimmer - S.T.A.Y.
Lake People - Distance
Synkro - Transient
Monsoonsiren - Sullen Fables
Christian Loeffler - Slowlight
Joris Voorn - The Wild (Vinyl Dub)
Sandrino Frankey - Starchild
Fanclive - Ngoma Lungundu
Clap! Clap! - Ashiko (Lurka Obeah Remix)
Synkro - Someone
Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs - Feels Like (Radio Slave ‘Last Communication' Remix)
Tripio X - Karmalala
Mr. Tophie & Art Alphie - Side The Glitch
Astin - Dejected (Paul C & Paolo Martini Remix)
Akufen - Installation
HearThuG - Yuth
Kevin Yost - Flight Plan
Joran van Pol - Strayed
Joris Voorn - Dust
Vladislav Delay - Viimeinen
Kurt Baggaley - Former Self
Butch & Hohberg - Thai Cubensis
DJ Christopher - Good to Me (Ronan Portela Dubreak Mix)
Floating Points - Nectarines
Dj Oats - Night Amour
Daniel Bortz - DOH
Beacon - Fault Lines (Dauwd Remix) Ghostly
Barnt - Cherry Red
Emika - Melancholia Euphoria B
Steve Hauschildt - Watertowers
Nils Penner - State Of Mind (Edit)
Re-Up - Dark Tunnel
Ryan James Ford - Arthure Iccon
Anton Pieete - Galician
Marino Canal - Can’t Feel
Tata Box Inhibitors - Ribosomal (One Take Mix) (Edit)
Reggy Van Oers - Mavie
Julien Aubert - Blind
Paul Kalkbrenner - Jestrupp (Joris Voorn Remains)
Son Kite - Chihiro 61298
Manu Delago - Adventures
Ravel - Le Jardin Féerique.Lent Et Grave (Loop)
Thisquietarmy - In the Breathing Forest
Angelo Badalamenti - Mulholland Drive / Love Theme (Edit)

Joris Voorn - BBC Radio1 Essential Mix 30.01.2015

Occult is back with another spellbinding Pillow Talk.. 

"This new mix has a lot of brand new music that i haven’t shown before, as well as my usual influences and music from friends. there is a lot of unique music here that i really appreciate. Thank you to all who enjoyed the previous two podcasts in my little series, i enjoy collecting and making the right music for them. "

Track list: https://soundsmithstv.wordpress.com/2015/02/16/tracklist-pillowtalk-003-occult/

Follow occult..

SC: @occult-science
FB: www.facebook.com/OccultICU?fref=ts
TW: www.twitter.com/occult_science
MC: www.mixcloud.com/PillowtalkPodcast/

PillowTalk003 w/ Occult

We are one. All is Love.

"Everybody, feels the rain Falling together...together. Many colors of the Spirit Many lives below the sun We are colors of the Spirit
We are many We are One."

Embrace the part of you that remembers what it is like to be made of love. Embody the feeling of unified consciousness and relax deeply into the vastness of this universal truth...

With love, I give you this gift of sound and vibration. Bless <3

Pay what you want <3

Reforming Roots

“The Tao that can be spoken is not the eternal Tao

The name that can be named is not the eternal name

The nameless is the origin of Heaven and Earth

The named is the mother of ten thousand things

Thus, constantly without desire, one observes its essence

Constantly with desire, one observes its manifestations

These two emerge together but differ in name

The unity is said to be the mystery

Mystery of mysteries, the door to all wonders…”

             – Lao-tzu

10 000 things

New tune from the Mycelium Music compilation! All proceeds go to the Amazon Mycorenewal Project. Enjoy!

Daylight

Siqqed puts his own chilled spin on a classic Bonobo track, Hatoa, from Days To Come, gets re-thought into a slowed-down, ambient bassy track to nod off to. 
Free download, enjoy.

Bonobo - Hatoa [Siqqed beatleg]

The startup sounds from Windows 95 to Windows Vista, played back at 4000% of their original duration.

Published to mark the occasion of the 20th birthday of Windows 95. Happy birthday, Windows 95.

__ UPDATE: More about the work:
www.erase.net/weblog/2015-08/win…sounds-slowed-4000

Read more about the composers responsible for these iconic sounds:
createdigitalmusic.com/2015/08/windo…mbient-music/

Windows 95 Startup Sound (slowed 4000%)

https://fingersinthenoise.bandcamp.com/album/sounds-from-the-moon-bc-edition

Buy on Bandcamp

Sounds From The Moon (Bandcamp edition)

@flukeluke-1
https://www.facebook.com/flukelukemusic/

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Flukeluke - Europa

Second single from my 'Departure' EP!
iTunes... bit.ly/IHFitunes
Spotify... http://bit.ly/DepatureIHF
Google Play... bit.ly/IHFgoogle
Bandcamp… ihfdeparture.bandcamp.com

<3 on hypem: http://hypem.com/track/2f6j9/Imagined+Herbal+Flows+-+Evolve
Facebook - www.facebook.com/ihfmusic
Twitter - twitter.com/IHFmusic
Instagram - instagram.com/ihfmusic

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released by Seeking Blue

Departure EP

Evolve

*Featured on OWSLA Radio by NOISIA via Beats 1*
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pretending you care

somethings for us ~ mixtape.

BUY 5LP BOX/2CD/DIGI ● http://mooncircle.lnk.to/15th
More information: http://projectmooncircle.com/releases/15th-anniversary

15th Anniversary

Buy 5lp/digital

Rumpistol - Carry Me (15th Anniversary - Project: Mooncircle, 2017)

My new EP with @khaan on Brise Rec. Out January 2017 on Beatport

Khaan & Tolstoi - Pull (Original Mix)(Preview)

Desert Dwellers remix of the original from Temple Step and Kyrstyn Pixton

2 Temple Step & Kyrstyn Pixton - I Alone (Desert Dwellers Remix)

Free download

Acrone - Aircraft

"Unearthing Buried Chapters" album is due via Amek Collective & Etheraudio Records on May 12. 
Pre-order on vinyl & digital from: http://amekcollective.bandcamp.com
Artwork by Ivan Shopov

Unearthing Buried Chapters

pre-order

Valance Drakes & Ivan Shopov - Atoms Gasping For Oxygen

Knowing Your Limitless Potential

Set Forth with One Blessing

A Heart with No Instructions (feat. Mariya)

Our Choices are Prepaid

Pursuit for Those with Kindness

"Unearthing Buried Chapters" album is due via Amek Collective & Etheraudio Records on May 12. 

TRACKLIST •
001 Set Forth with one blessing 
002 A Heart with no Instructions feat Mariya 
003 Pursuit For Those With Kindness
004 Our Choices Are Pre Paid
005 A Prophecy keeps hope alive 
006 Scars Beyond The Reminders Of Pain 
007 Knowing Your Limitless Potential 
008 Atoms Gasping For Oxygen 
009 Can’t Erase Your Mistakes 
010 Landscape of the construction.

❑ Written and recorded by Valance Drakes & Ivan Shopov
❑ Mastering by Ivan Shopov at Etheraudio Records
❑ Artwork by Ivan Shopov
❑ Label: Amek

Pre-order on vinyl & digital from: https://amekcollective.bandcamp.com

Knowing Your Limitless Potential [Valance Drakes & Ivan Shopov]

PT-T38-2 ©2018

Fishtank Sessions EP is available on all major digital platforms now!
http://pedestriantactics.com/pt-a8-release/

PT-T38 Redef

Whitebear mix of a collaboration with kLL sMTH. 2nd track in a series of four free singles to be released over the next four months. 

Peep the first one here. 
whitebearsounds.bandcamp.com/album/whitebear-x-sumiruna-amalgam-whitebear-mix

FREE DOWNLOAD

Whitebear x kLL sMTH- Borborygm (Whitebear Mix)

Here's the second single by Emancipator from my forthcoming remix record, Minds Rising Remixed. Hope you dig it!

Listen on your preferred streaming platform here: manicfocus.fanlink.to/EmancipatorRemix

Stochastic Resonance feat. Statik (Emancipator Remix)

If you don't know who DeeZ or VCTRE are...you are missing out!!!

DeeZ:
https://soundcloud.com/deez
https://www.facebook.com/DeeZBass
https://open.spotify.com/artist/5WzBxU6nCFSR1EHstQGdZP

VCTRE:
https://soundcloud.com/vctre
https://twitter.com/VCTRE_

DeeZ x VCTRE - Shush

Track from the new ambient album by Bluetech + In The Branches.  Running a campaign to fund the double LP vinyl print now!  When they are gone they are gone.

https://www.diggersfactory.com/vinyl/222410/in-the-branches-bluetech-behind-the-sky

Behind The Sky

Star Trails

04. Star Trails

"Unearthing Buried Chapters" album is out now via Amek Collective & Etheraudio Records 
Get it on vinyl & digital from: amekcollective.bandcamp.com

TRACKLIST •
001 Set Forth with one blessing 
002 A Heart with no Instructions feat Mariya 
003 Pursuit For Those With Kindness
004 Our Choices Are Pre Paid
005 A Prophecy keeps hope alive 
006 Scars Beyond The Reminders Of Pain 
007 Knowing Your Limitless Potential 
008 Atoms Gasping For Oxygen 
009 Can’t Erase Your Mistakes 
010 Landscape of the construction.

❑ Written and recorded by Valance Drakes & Ivan Shopov
❑ Mastering by Ivan Shopov at Etheraudio Records
❑ Artwork by Ivan Shopov
❑ Label: Amek

vinyl / digital

Ivan Shopov & Valance Drakes - Pursuit For Those With Kindness (out on vinyl)

Silent Orbservers Remixes from @erothyme is now released, featuring remixes from 

@charles-thefirst 
Roel Funcken
@craftal
@foxtailmusic
Erothyme

here is my contribution. for support buy/download it tru the following link:

https://erothyme.bandcamp.com/album/silent-orbservers-remixes

Silent Orbservers Remixes

pay what you want

Erothyme - Silent Orbservers (Roel Funcken Remix)

Ivan Shopov is an artist with many faces, he’s а painter, musician, producer, composer, aesthete and an innovator.
Graduated an MA in print making from The National Academy of Arts in Sofia, he’s the author of numerous ink and acrylic pieces. He’s often drawing and designing artworks and posters for his own projects and for those of popular artists in the electronic scene. So far he’s done eight solo exhibitions in Bulgaria and abroad.

Ivan Shopov has been involved in over 250 musical releases, among which we find both solo and collaborative albums. This has established him as one of the leading figures in the European electronic underground. His various projects span over genres like drum and bass, IDM, jazz, ambient, techno, rock and classical music. Ivan Shopov has released over 120 vinyls for some of the biggest international labels. A part of his own production and the works of artists who he believes in can be found released via his two labels Etheraudio Records and ABCD.

Ivan is working as a composer scoring contemporary dance and theatre productions. He’s contributed music and sound design to various video and short film project, interactive art installations. Since 2012 he’s written the music for 15 dance pieces by Derida Dance. In 2017 one of them is awarded the prestigious “IKAR” award. Shopov has been publishing soundpacks which are often found in the production of fellow electronic artists.

What really separates Ivan Shopov from the other artists in his field is the way he’s mixing traditional Bulgarian folklore with electronic music and jazz. This way he’s building a bridge between his country’s musical history and the current tastes of his audience. Among his most popular releases in this direction are “Kanatitsa” with Avigeya, “InFusion” with Theodosii Spassov, “Kuker” and “Orenda” with Бalkansky.

Ivan Shopov is keen on sharing his knowledge and has been a demanded lecturer and teacher. Besides regularly doing workshops and online courses, since 2016 he’s been lecturing Analog and digital sound design at the National Academy of Arts in Sofia. With 20+ years of experience he’s also regularly working as a mixing and mastering engineer.

The European stages who’ve experienced Ivan’s music are numerous. During his international tours he’s reached USA, South America, Russia, Asia, Australia and New Zealand.

For booking enquiries write to: bookings@ivanshopov.com 

More info on : www.ivanshopov.com 
Merchandise : www.shop.ivanshopov.com

Valance Drakes & Ivan Shopov - Atoms Gasping For Oxygen

IVAN SHOPOV / COOH