Ambient Modes

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Just_Called_to_Say_I_Love_You

104. Stevie Wonder "I Just Called To Say I Love You" (1984)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Songbird_(Kenny_G_composition)

109. Kenny G "Songbird" (1986)

from the album 'sea island' available 11/17

loscil 'ahull'

Shaded Explorations #002 - Soundscapes For Escape Vol. 2
Limited Double Cassette VA in an handmade cover.
Out 2 march 2015.

A side:
As Patria - Belisama
Antonio Vázquez - Nebenan
Ntogn - Träl

B side:
Shaded Explorer - Förlorat Småstad
Fjäder - Vingar
Gigi Masin - Vienna

C side:
Commodity Place - Tentacle Rape
DiY Project - #01
Deison - Subsurface

D side:
Claudio PRC - Zona D'Ombra
Mørk - Resonant Mutism
Tom Adams - North

© 2015 Shaded Explorations [SE#002]
Mastered at Evasion Room Studio
Photo by Matteo Spangaro

VA - Soundscapes For Escape Vol. 2 [SE#002] Preview

North Star

Etoile Polaire (North Star)

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MOTION GRAPHICS
Brass Mechanics b/w Tarahumara 7" - FT038

*VINYL ONLY, NO DIGI*
front & back cover by CULTURESPORT > https://www.instagram.com/culturesport.tv/
COMING THIS SUMMER

Motion Graphics - Brass Mechanics - FT038

Physical: geographic-north.com/#/GN37-detail
Digital: geographicnorth.bandcamp.com/album/inversions
Catalog #: GN37
Enharmonic black cassette, limited to 100
Mastered by Sean McCann

Arp is the solo project of Alexis Georgopoulos, a composer/artist/producer based in New York City. Inversions is the latest chapter in Arp's evolving narrative, a diverse musical sprawl that has issued sets of captivating brilliance on the likes of RVNG Intl., Mexican Summer, and Smalltown Supersound. This cassette fortuitously bridges together Arp's shapeshifting identity, from avant-koscmische tinkerer to avant-classical composer and dance-floor modulator.

"Raga for Moog & Violin" and "Flamingo" were originally created for a sound installation presented at Jack Hanley Gallery in New York City in 2014. Both tracks were composed in the same key (C minor Dorian), chosen for its ability to be heard in great lengths of time, its root in cultures from ancient Greece to India, and its link to visions of futurism, Arp's sound installation reflects and refracts themes explored by both creative studio RO/LU and filmmaker Paul Clipson. 

Using a Moog synthesizer, and featuring Nicky Mao (who records under the name Hiro Kone) on violin and piano, the mode allows the listener/visitor to focus on sound at times and plays a subliminal, sometimes barely perceptible role, at others. Analog synthesizer overtones give way to violin, moving gradually at first, then building into a cascade of sound, before receding. This process regenerates over the course of the piece, each time doing so differently.

Inversions also includes "East of the Sun, West of the Moon," a track intended for the installation that was not used in the end. Here, it refinds its original companions.

A1 - Raga for Moog & Violin (ft. Hiro Kone)

Koen Holtkamp — Voice Model
© Umor Rex Records

Koen Holtkamp’s music is never quite what it seems. There are distinct textures, tones, structures, relationships, and references —the things that bring us back again and again, but the undercurrent remains elusive.

For listeners unaware of Holtkamp’s solo efforts, most will have encountered him as half of the Brooklyn based duo Mountains (Thrill Jockey) —a project which has pushed musical boundaries for more than a decade. Voice Model wades effortlessly into this same ambitious territory, but focuses on the breadth of possibility activated by a narrow band of sonorities. It’s two interrelated works, Scene One and Scene Two, feature Holtkamp on piano, modular synth, bowls, cymbals and processing, as well as contributions by Nina Mehta on Flute and Josh Millrod on trumpet. Both sides, though in clear conversation, weave autonomous worlds - collapsing the ground between the historic efforts of Groupe de Recherche Musicales (GRM), New Age, and contemporary avant-garde practice, while sculpting their own worlds of sonic potential and understanding.

Voice Model’s fascinating intricacy works gradually like the sediment of time, gathering beneath a pool of conflicting streams, and defying the normal expectation of structure and artistry. Though the album fits seamlessly into the larger body of Holtkamp’s output, his hand remains elusive. Sounds appear to have sculpted themselves - to have appeared from an organic inevitability. This is an exploration of discrete encounters within an electronic ecosystem - a world of chance, where the dimensions of time unfold. As its tones ricochet off each other, they lead us not to themselves, but towards a whole. Single tones and textures expand and bleed, generations of influence raise their heads and disappear into the shadows.

Recorded in 2014 and 2015 before being allowed to percolate for the better part of a year, Voice Model finds an artist at the height of his powers —curious, and at equal ease with challenge and invitation. It’s singular and mature and welcomes listeners both seasoned and new to these territories.

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Recorded and mixed by Koen Holtkamp in Brooklyn, NY 2015/2016
Mastered by Rafael Anton Irisarri at Black Knoll Studio
Design by Daniel Castrejon

Voice Model

Buy LP or DL

Koen Holtkamp — Scene I

Svetlana Realms

from 'Continental Ruins' [CD|LP|DIGITAL]
Denovali Records · den274
available on all formats at [https://denovali.com/multicastdynamics]

Finland-based Samuel van Dijk is an electronic music producer, sound designer and media artist, having released electronic music under a variety of projects, namely, Mohlao and VC-118A. Following on from 2014-2016's praised album quadrilogy, Multicast Dynamics releases his new "Continental Ruins" LP on Denovali Records. Inspired by decayed infrastructure, Samuel van Dijk reveals his sound documentary about sunken cities and continents.  A study on storytelling with sound, where electronic music acts as a verb, moved by images and narratives.

„Continental Ruins“ LP is a journey through washed out, blurred particles, gliding across the ungraspable seafog of the atlantic, transforming the visible into sound. The murky and desolated atmosphere throughout the tracks reflects an forgotten utopia of places that were once populated. Unfolding fallen structures, immersing into the elusive, submerged land, searching for signs of life in the lost memories of faded civilizations, Multicast Dynamics explores ultrasonic underwater communication, decodes messages and browses through the archive of the past.

Written and produced with analogue synthesizers, arcane effect units and manipulated field-recordings, finally sequenced with the computer and mixed using temperamental analogue mixers. "Continental Ruins" LP is a slow horizontal panning, gliding through frames of sounds, creating textures and layers with unobtrusive rhythms. Samuel van Dijk delivers a calm and organic sound journey, resting on gloomy swirls and hidden artefacts. Artwork by T. van Dijk.

Continental Ruins

Multicast Dynamics - Frequency Modulation

this is on a timbre wolf so had to drop an octave :\ (if anyone has plan to mod their TW please drop me a line)

Kiteracer

Physical: geographic-north.com/cassette/the-infinity-file/
Digital: geographicnorth.bandcamp.com/album/the-infinity-file
Catalog #: GN39
Deprived aura cassette, limited to 100
Mastered by Sean McCann

Strategy is the longrunning solo project of Portland, Or. producer Paul Dickow. While Dickow has been involved with a number of unusually varied bands, collaborations, and labels, Strategy remains Dickow's most prolific, perpetually evolving and versatile project. 

'The Infinity File' presents the final chapter in Dickow's long investigation into the mysterious power of cassette tape loops - an exploration previously heard on Strategy's 'Noise Tape Reggae' (Entr'acte, 2008) and 'Noise Tape Self' (Further Records, 2015). This process was confined to only a variable-speed, four-track tape deck and Dickow's own hand-made effects boxes.

Opener "Noise Tape Emax" opens the set with a series of wide-eyed blips and a meandering, dislocated rhythm. The oddly-angled chant of synth noise soon takes shape into something else entirely. The various loops lock into one another at chance but perfect intervals. "Be Careful With That AX-60, Eugene" floats in a wash of clipped, stuttering clicks and shifting chords. You can't help but get lost in its calm, undulating hysteria. "Two Echoes" is a slow-burning drift of fluorescence that channels William Basinski without retreating into overly elegiac murk.

B-side opener "Persistence of Memory" distills an amorphous cosmic drone seemingly beamed from some distant and unknown place. "Occurrence at the Triple Door" and closing opus "Requiem for Apex Predators" unfurls a dopamine cloud of hazy bliss, not unlike pop ambient godhead Gas at his most lethargic and lysergic. The fog eventually dissipates, making way for a blurry bassline that recalls the atmospheric funk of Strategy's classic 'Future Rock' (Kranky, 2007).

A1 Noise Tape Emax

2xLP available here : www.juno.co.uk/products/hugues-r…cation/649095-01/

Infiniti

"Cloisters", the debut album from Charlie Coxedge, is available to order now via Bella Union:

Vinyl: bellaunion.greedbag.com/buy/cloisters-0/
Digital: smarturl.it/CloistersCCoxedge

Ambient Modes

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