A good traveller has no fixed plans nor any intent on arriving to a final destination. From the first days of the Techno movement to scoring Hollywood films, Holeg Spies is known for breaking norms and creating immersive sonic creations for the listener to get lost in but even moreso to travel around within.
Pagans attempts to take you off the beaten track; to offer an unbridled musical search, unpredictable, a composition performed by an iconoclastic orchestra of classical, electronic and ancient instruments, woven through with improvisations roaming sound recordings... as a possible reconciliation between our hyper-connected society and the environment.
Meeting and spending time with the Hopi Indians and the Mongolian nomads sourced a deep inspiration behind the ‘Axis Mundi Reload’ project, a powerful musical collection to be released early 2022. Pagans is the second EP to be released ahead of the forthcoming album.
With remix collaborations by Pan Electric (aka Matt Coldrick of Green Nuns of the Revolution) and the legendary Total Eclipse, this Ep is truly a journey into another world.

Pagans EP

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Pagans (Total Eclipse Remix)

The opening track of the new 2021 album 'Notes To Yourself'. Listen and support to the full album on Bandcamp or all major streaming services. Enjoy!

Notes To Yourself

phone booth robbers - almost two bananas

A sublime selection of dancefloor beats and downtempo dubs from around the globe, Mixes + Mavericks features seven remixes by Pitch Black, two live tracks that couldn’t be more different in nature or tempo, one seriously unorthodox situation (an unauthorised remix of a remix) and a track in between states, all highlighting the breadth of the duo’s sonic palette.

Whereas their previous Rarities + Remixes collection was predominantly rooted in New Zealand, Mixes + Mavericks is undoubtedly a more international affair, with all the remixed artists hailing from the northern hemisphere. Many of the connections are the result of the duo’s touring and festival appearances around the globe: they first met Gaudi at a gig in Japan, Animat and Nick Woolfson (Sounds from the Ground) at The Big Chill festival in the UK, while downtemple duo Desert Dwellers were encountered in the Californian underground. 

Other connections were more straightforward: Brighton-based Ink Project (run by Kiwi Jez Lloyd) approached them to remix “The End” and Mexico’s Sudden Reverb was introduced by label-mates Deep Fried Dub. Meanwhile Mike bumped into Radioactive Man’s Keith Tenniswood (of Two Lone Swordsmen fame) while he was getting a 7” record cut. 

Uber-producer/Killing Joke bass player Youth features in two very different ways. First up is Pitch Black’s pulsating dub mix of his collaboration with Italian producer Gaudi, from their Astronaut Alchemists album. Then there is his unsolicited remix of epsilon-blue’s 1999 remix of Speech, over which he added bass, beats and blessings.  This mash-up lurked for years in the archive under the title of Helmsdub, but only as a corrupted mp3 file. Thankfully a little detective work discovered that, much to everyone’s surprise, it had been released as Speechless (Big Circle Flat Pain Remix) on a 2004 CD compilation. A copy was tracked down, the tune was carefully re-mastered and then correctly named.

Mixes + Mavericks also features two very different live offerings: Notting Pill is a dose of atmospheric moodiness from a rare ambient set at Notting Hill Arts Club in London, held to publicise the upcoming showcase of New Zealand music at Fabric in 2003. The banging G202, meanwhile, was captured by Andre Upston at Rippon Festival in Wanaka, NZ at the turn of the millennium, and later broadcast on Radio New Zealand. It was a track that, despite being a staple of the live show for many years, was never finished, and following software updates and data dumps, the only version that exists is this live recording.

It's a Future Dub is a similarly embryonic track – eventually it became It’s the Future Knocking, from the Filtered Senses album, but here it’s a fascinating hybrid caught midway between creation and completion. Many of the elements of its future self are present, but there is a whole lot more going on, making this a fascinating signpost on a possible road-not-taken. 

Beautifully accompanied by Tim Prebble's Cyanotype images, Mixes + Mavericks is a showcase of Pitch Black’s sonic diversity as remixers and maintains the trademark production aesthetic that has won them thousands of fans and filled dancefloors around the globe.

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Youth & Gaudi - The Gods Must Be Crazy (Pitch Black's Hubristic Prayerformance Mix)(preview)

To create this ringtone, I have used amazing organic sounds (native instruments, shamanic drums, tribal ambiences) from the template created by my teacher - Steffen Ki.
All sounds have been finely tuned and processed to make sure they raise your vibrations, as well as make you and everyone around you feel happy and relaxed :)
This ringtone can be purchased on my ko-fi page https://ko-fi.com/s/eedcb80854

Ringtone

'Falling Petals' by Sacred Seeds
@wasim-cosmic

Full album: https://atlantearecords.bandcamp.com/album/emerald-landscape

Audio mastering by Seth Bellow
Cover art design by Anthony Asher - Yates

Emerald Landscape

Falling Petals

Sacred Seeds - Falling Petals

D-Echo Project - Dubby Space

Listen to the birds from "A Guide to the Birdsong of Mexico, Central America & the Caribbean”, the second Volume in the series following on from "A Guide to the Birdsong of South America", originally released on Robin's label Rhythm and Roots. Volume I raised nearly 15,000 USD for two birding organisations and featured artists like Nicola Cruz, Dengue Dengue Dengue and Chancha Via Circuito.

For this second edition we have shifted focus north of the equator and to the vulnerability of bird species like the Momoto Carenado (Nicaragua), Ferminia (Cuba) and the Jamaican Blackbird (Jamaica), birds who have dwindled in numbers as a result of the environmental repercussions of climate change, deforestation and trapping for the pet trade.

For the album we chose 10 endangered or threatened bird species and challenged 10 of our favourite producers or musicians from the region. Working with the Xeno Canto birdsong community and the Macaulay Library, we sourced a recording of each bird’s song. Each artist was then asked to create an original piece of music inspired by the bird and its song.

In line with out vision at Shika Shika the curation of artists is specifically geared towards those bridging connections between traditional music and modernity, or between organic and electronic sounds. There are contributions from artists in eight different countries, ranging from Jamaica’s organic dancehall trio Equiknoxx, to Dj Jigüe, one of the leaders of Cuba’s burgeoning electronic scene. Belize’s critically renowned Garifuna Collective have been bringing the unique Garifuna culture and language to a global audience for many years, while Tamara Montenegro has been one of the leaders of Nicaragua’s electronic music scene for the past decade.

The project would not have been possible without the support of an incredible Kickstarter community, helping us raise £12,599 in August 2019.

Once the costs of production have been covered, all of the proceeds from this album will be donated to Birds Caribbean, La Asociación Ornitológica de Costa Rica and Fundacion TXORI in Mexico. All profits from the sales of the record, music streaming, poster and t-shirt will be shared between these organisations who focus on engaging local communities to help improve and grow the bird tourism sector, create awareness of vulnerable birds with young people and crucially, provide rescue, rehabilitation and breeding programmes.

El Momoto Carenado (Electron carinatum)

snot for your ears. straight from my sinuses.
prbly as good as it gets.

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Produced by Azarael for TideBreak SoundWorkz
Mixed and Mastered By Azarael at TideBreak MuvMintz Sound Studioz, NJ
All Rights Reserved
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Carries you beyond earthly limits into reflection, perspective, and spiritual clarity. Every chord and movement invites exploration of dreams, faith, and purpose. Travel the cosmic path and embrace the light along the way.


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Starlight Traveler Instrumental

NAFIX

Something I recorded along with my brother (Atomic), a deeply spontaneous and beautiful expression, which happened around 2015-2016. 


The stringy ambience was recorded from an electric Washburn guitar, simply by my brother tapping the headstock, which by itself produced those multi harmonic ambience background elements and then hooked to a reverb.
Then the melody and the accelerating car effect are from a digital synth I played.
Reminds me a little bit of the Fax Records classic ambient tunes

Atom Aura - South Shores

Email: Decho_@hotmail.com

In 2010, the two friends Valter Silva and Rogério Coelho, both from Peniche in Portugal, decided to work together as D-Echo Project to create a fusion of styles from all over the world, from Dub, Funk, Jazz and Soul to Electronic and Dance... 

Valter had his first musical experiences on local events in 1995 where his passion about percussion began.
A few years later, he started to play percussion on jam sessions with local musicians. 
Rogério's passion for music production started in 2008 when he learned how to produce with a Digital Audio Workstation.
After one year he had his first music experiences by playing in local psy parties. 
The passion for deep slow sultry sounds and dub bass take them to put their soul into every piece of music they create.

"From home recording, electronic, sample editing and loop creation, we always try to make our tracks sounding organic and natural, as close as possible, that people hear our music and have that organic feel."

Working with:
Macbook pro, roland edirol fa-101, alesis elevate 4, roland space echo, roland HPD 10, roland mc 505, yamaha reface cp, novation mini nova, marantz mpm 3500R, samples and more...................

D-Echo Project - Dubby Space

d-echo project