The new album 'Spaces' out now on CD/2xLP/Digital via Erased Tapes.

EU order link: http://www.erasedtapes.com/store/index/ERATP055
US order link: http://www.midheaven.com/item/spaces-by-frahm-nils-cd

9/10 Drowned In Sound · 9/10 Clash · 4.5/5 Fact · 4.5/5 Resident Advisor · 9/10 Popmatters · 9/10 The Line Of Best Fit · 8.5/10 Under The Radar · 8/10 Exclaim! ★★★★1/2 Music Omh · ★★★★ The Irish Times · ★★★★ Arts Desk

‘Frahm truly excels’ 9/10 Uncut 
‘Frahm works his magic’ ★★★★ Mojo
‘The infinite elasticity of sound’ 7.8 Pitchfork 
‘Improvisatory, wild, heartfelt’ Interview Magazine
‘A fantastic record’ The Guardian Album of the Week 
‘Frahm creates something mesmerising’ ★★★★ The Observer
‘My favourite new piece of music this year’ Mary Anne Hobbs, BBC 6 Music

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Spaces

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My Essential Mix for BBC Radio 1.

Tracklist:

Lazer Worshippers - Lazer Worshippers Theme [EXperimental]
Young American Primitive - These Waves [ZoëMagik]
Pete Namlook / DJ Dag - You Gotta Hold It In Your Lungs Longer, George [Fax +49-69/450464]
Dylan Forbes - Djibril 9 [Coymix]
Match Box - Quantum Transients [GODDEZZ]
Vegas Soul - Day By Day [Bellboy Records] 
Priori - Tulip A/B (Beat) [NAFF]
Benoit B - We Come In Peace [Animals Dancing]
Confession - I Found My Love (Trance Mix) [Abfahrt]
Speedy J - Pepper [Warp]
LDC - Plasma [Dance Pool]
Dance 2 Trance - We Came In Peace (’91 Mix) [Logic Records]
Capricorn - Love In London (Piano Mix) [4th & Broadway]
Snakebite - The Bit Goes On (Alex Kassian Edit) [Multiply Records]
Epsylon 9 - Life Formation [Forbidden Planet]
Pob - Strata (Seismic) [Seismic Records]
Tranquil Voice - Acid India (Little Rascal Remix) [Music Man Records]
Escape Artist - Energy Breakthrough (Adam Pits' Lightspeed Mix) [Phonica Records]
Dylan Forbes - Take U Over [Hâws]
Sonic Sound - The Hungarian Thing [Sonic Sound]
Luke Slater - Love (Loved) [NovaMute]
Cologne Summer - Sunshower [Le Petit Prince]
Shades Of Rhythm - Sound Of Eden (VFT Mix) [ZTT]
THK - France (Saturn Mix) [Warp]
Phasis - Mind Illusions [Influence Recordings]

Job Jobse - BBC Radio 1 Essential Mix (April 2022)

A little taster mix in lead up to a night i'll be DJ'ing at in Portland (OR) on the 21st May at Holocene. Featuring live performances from Apartment Fox, Ethernet and Sunhammer, and fellow DJ's The Journeymen, we'll be spinning nothing but vinyl on the night. If you live nearby, make sure you come!

Facebook event: http://asip.me/1mB2K49

"Accent/Sustain, a night of live beat music with roots in Ambient, Dub, and submerged Techno. Featuring a mixture of hardware based Live PA and all vinyl DJing, this showcase promises to be a view deep inside the work being created happily outside of club convention".

Tracklist:

01. The Green Kingdom - Untitled [Dronarivm]
02. Markus Guentner - Ashes [Moodgadget]
03. Heathered Pearls - The Worship Bell (Foxes in Fiction Tape remix) [Ghostly]
04. Textural Being - Sept [Energostatic]
05. Martin Nonstatic - Subatomic [Dewtone]
06. Doyeq - Soundsphere [Subspiele]
07. Purl - Essence [Dewtone]
08. Yagya - Snowflake 6 [Force Inc]
09. Desolate - Endurance [Fauxpas]
10. Gidge - Huldra (Atomnation] 
11. Borealis - Nightfall (Ben Lukas Boysen remix) [Origami Sound]
12. Norge - 165 minutes With You (Markus Guentner remix) [ASIP]


ASIP - Accent/Sustain

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"...Magnificent works and pieces...Passages unfold at their own pace and everything occupies its own little pocket of space." - Fractured Air Media
Recorded and mixed by Martyn Heyne at Lichte Studio Berlin
Mastered by Mandy Parnell at Black Saloon Studios, London
Cover Photo: Dan Isaac Wallin
Written and produced by Markus Sieber

Markus Sieber - ronroco, glockenspiel, pump organ
Angelika Baumbach - piano, pump organ

In a lot of ways, Aukai’s self-titled debut is the sound of Markus Sieber bringing his career full circle. Having spent part of the ’90s playing rock music in East Germany, the composer/multi-instrumentalist then shifted his focus to acting, only to have music creep back into his life after a mind-altering move to Mexico.

“This album and project has a lot to do with memories from travel,” explains Sieber, “but also memories from childhood and nature. How did the river smell in summer? I wanted to create a sonic space where music guides the listener into some imaginative inner world.”

Which explains why he came up with the name Aukai in the first place; it’s the Hawaiian word for a seafaring traveler, the sort of person who seeks out the stillness in uncertain waters. In the case of Sieber’s new record, that meant spending a winter holed up in a mountainside cabin around Colorado’s La Plata Canyon. Basic tracks were then cut in a Berlin studio and brought into full relief alongside cellist Anne Muller (Agnes Obel Band, Nils Frahm), violinist Bogdan Djukic, pianist Angelika Baumbach, sound designer Alexander Nickmann, and longtime collaborator Jamshied Sharifi (Laurie Anderson, Sting, Dream Theater). 

Aukai

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Revisiting @gavin-russom's NYC roots with more than five hours of exclusive material from his personal record collection:
http://www.self-titledmag.com/2016/06/16/gavin-russom-paper-eyes-mixtape/

NE195: Gavin Russom's Paper Eyes Mixtape

http://www.squarepusher.net/

From Tom Jenkinson:

THIS PIECE OF MUSIC WAS WRITTEN IN THE AFTERMATH OF THE REFERENDUM AND I PRESENT IT AS THE BASIS OF AN INTERNATIONALIST COLLABORATION WITH SOUND MAKERS IRRESPECTIVE OF WHAT KIND OF MUSIC THEY MAKE, WHERE THEY LIVE, THEIR BACKGROUND, THEIR AGE - ALL ARE INVITED TO PARTICIPATE. IT IS NOT OFFERED AS A SUBSTITUTE FOR PROGRESSIVE POLITICAL ACTION BUT AS A COMPLEMENT TO IT. I PUT IT FORWARD IN DEFIANCE OF THE BIGOTRY THREATENING THE FRAGILE CONNECTIONS THAT EXIST BETWEEN US ALL. I HOPE IT WILL BE AN OPPORTUNITY TO REAFFIRM SOME OF THOSE CONNECTIONS AMIDST A VERY DISTURBING SITUATION.

Squarepusher - MIDI SANS FRONTIÈRES (djmbs post slump version)

[aftermath mix] - remix of a squarepusher track he wrote after the vote to exit the EU by the UK

MIDI Sans Frontières

New mini-album 'Night Melody' out August 5th
Pre-order it on 12"/DL: www.erasedtapes.com/store/index/ERATP087
or digitally from iTunes: snip.ftpromo.net/nightmelody
More info: www.rivalconsoles.net

London-based electronic songwriter Ryan Lee West aka Rival Consoles to release his most personal work to date in the form of a mini-album titled ‘Night Melody’ through Erased Tapes on 5th August 2016.

During the release of his acclaimed full-length album ‘Howl’ and heavy touring in late 2015, Ryan came out of a long relationship and found himself making music throughout the winter months. The result of his efforts is a 34-minute, 6-track mini album ‘Night Melody’, born out of and shaped by long hours working into the night. It’s nocturnal in sound; mysterious in the way that the early hours so often are.

“I found myself, in a silent home, with the days getting dark very early. I’ve never before in my life been affected by the lack of light so much. I just remember it always being night time. I would either make music into the night, go out drinking with friends, or go to parties and dance into the early hours, every day, week after week, month after month, until eventually the days became brighter again.”

The opening statement ‘Pattern of the North’ starts off with a collage of spliced synth melodies, inspired by anxiety that accompanies going home for Christmas. It’s followed by ‘Johannesburg’, an early sketch gradually filled out during his tour in South Africa. 

“After playing it around some of the cities, I got a lot of inspiration to bring it to life and push it into something that really moves me. I think this is one of my most colourful pieces of music, with its driving rhythm and almost a homage to Terry Riley’s ‘In C’ towards the end, with a build of very simple, hypnotic parts. I especially love that for over five minutes the piece is tied to just one note. This makes the ending very dramatic, because all of a sudden there is this harmonic change.”

‘Lone’ started life around the time Ryan was working on his ‘Sonne’ EP in 2014. It’s the result of constant adjustments to find the perfect balance of fragility and assurance. As everything on the album, it’s a carefully considered, emotionally mature piece. “I think, as I get older, I need music to represent something and not just sound interesting, though of course the two are connected.”

The closing statement ‘What Sorrow’ is a fitting end to the album, building from gentle melancholia to a joyous crescendo. It’s a sensibility that’s central to the record; joy and sorrow both find their counterpoints.

“This record is very personal to me and I hope it offers something for other people, as it helped me to make it and to listen to it. Almost every synth line was recorded intuitively, without perfection but with a lot of intention and expression. I’m not interested in making something sad or making something happy. I want music to be bittersweet, to be more complex, like life – containing moments of vibrant colour and hope, as much as darkness and sadness.”

This summer will see Ryan follow on from his recent North American Tour with the appearance at many festivals including Lovebox, Secret Garden Party, La Route Du Rock, Sea Change and Tale of Us-curated Afterlife party at Space, Ibiza. ‘Night Melody’ will be available on 12” vinyl and digitally, August 5th.

TRACK LISTING:  	

A1. Pattern Of The North
A2. Johannesburg
A3. Slow Song

B1. Lone
B2. Night Melody
B3. What Sorrow

Squarepusher - MIDI SANS FRONTIÈRES (djmbs post slump version)

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