DISPLAY is a new sub-label of @symbols curated by @kidsmpl. The label aims to showcase long form single-track musical explorations. Guest artists are asked to create an original piece with a single constraint: a 10-15 minute run time. The results can be found in digital format as well as on limited-run split cassettes.

Cassette/DL

DISPLAY Catalog

Pre-order: https://displayseries.bandcamp.com/album/cynics-curtain

The ninth edition of the DISPLAYSOLO series sees Lorica (@ubinas) tackling the dark ambience of an uncertain future. Entitled “Cynics Curtain”, the nearly 47 minute long aural diptych explores freeing the personally placed and often subconsciously adopted constraints of the artistic process itself. Melody is rattled and structure is reexamined throughout the two tracks, all creating a bleak but insightful meditation of long hymnal ambient processions broken apart by hard-hitting rhythmic forms.

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Written, recorded, and mastered by Lorica
Recorded in Frankfurt am Main, Germany during 2020
Artwork & design layout by Joey Butler AKA Kid Smpl

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Cynic's Curtain

Digital / Cassette

Lorica - Aporia

Available now: https://displayseries.bandcamp.com/album/map-to-sanctuary-2

An album written over the course of 2021 for the DISPLAY subscription, now made available for everyone :)

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Written, recorded, and mastered by Sangam & Kid Smpl
Recorded in cyberspace throughout the year of 2021
Artwork & design layout by Joey Butler AKA Kid Smpl
Special thanks to all the DISPLAY subscribers

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Cassette / Digital

Sangam & Kid Smpl - Map To Sanctuary

Out now here: https://displayseries.bandcamp.com/album/023-024-romance-relic-softie

DISPLAY’s latest split tape features two exciting artists from the Finnish ambient scene: Romance Relic and Softie.

On the A-Side we find a gripping cinematic piece from Romance Relic titled “Crystallized Night Jessamine”. Emblematic of the artist’s signature sound, the 18 minute track cycles through blurry and intimate scenes of delicate piano weighted by heavy synth drones. Like the soundtrack to a short film, the piece feels as though it tells a story in several parts, all connected by a distinctly contemplative tone.

Temperatures sink down to ice cold on the b-side where we find Softie experimenting with ambient laced techno and euphoric synth passages. One of the most club forward tracks to release on DISPLAY in some time, “Safe Haven (City Of Tears)” takes you on an emotional 20 minute journey capturing the feeling of a hazed out club’s most eyes-down moments. Feelings of meditation, euphoria, and weightlessness intertwine to paint a distinct and decisive statement from the artist.

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DISPLAY 023
Artist - Romance Relic
Title - Crystallized Night Jessamine
Duration - 18:27
Additional Cello - Jaakko Ristimäki

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DISPLAY 024
Artist - Softie
Title - Safe Haven (City Of Tears)
Duration - 20:41

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www.instagram.com/romancerelic

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soundcloud.com/softieseason
www.instagram.com/osmoosi

Romance Relic - Crystallized Night Jessamine

Out now: https://displayseries.bandcamp.com/album/023-024-romance-relic-softie

DISPLAY’s latest split tape features two exciting artists from the Finnish ambient scene: Romance Relic and Softie.

On the A-Side we find a gripping cinematic piece from Romance Relic titled “Crystallized Night Jessamine”. Emblematic of the artist’s signature sound, the 18 minute track cycles through blurry and intimate scenes of delicate piano weighted by heavy synth drones. Like the soundtrack to a short film, the piece feels as though it tells a story in several parts, all connected by a distinctly contemplative tone.

Temperatures sink down to ice cold on the b-side where we find Softie experimenting with ambient laced techno and euphoric synth passages. One of the most club forward tracks to release on DISPLAY in some time, “Safe Haven (City Of Tears)” takes you on an emotional 20 minute journey capturing the feeling of a hazed out club’s most eyes-down moments. Feelings of meditation, euphoria, and weightlessness intertwine to paint a distinct and decisive statement from the artist.

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DISPLAY 023
Artist - Romance Relic
Title - Crystallized Night Jessamine
Duration - 18:27
Additional Cello - Jaakko Ristimäki

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DISPLAY 024
Artist - Softie
Title - Safe Haven (City Of Tears)
Duration - 20:41

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@romancerelic
www.instagram.com/romancerelic

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@softieseason
www.instagram.com/osmoosi

Softie - Safe Haven (City Of Tears)

DISPLAY’s latest split tape features two tracks by the artist innerinnerlife: one solo piece and one collaboration with the label’s founder, Kid Smpl.

The release begins with the minimal and earnest solo piece “The Green Ray.” Finding inspiration in film, the artist melds together warm floating pads, pointillist synths and solemn vocal edits as the track twist through three cinematic movements. All of this culminates in a heartfelt and emotional sound reminiscent of the artist’s previous work.

On the B-Side this sound begins to deconstruct itself with the collaborative track “Our Heart Knows A Way Out.” Here we find the collaborators Kid Smpl & innerinnerlife taking a similar sonic palette to “The Green Ray” and filtering it down to a delicate, spacious piece. Joyous strumming guitars and tranced-out synths are stretched out to meet the stillness of reverb-drench pianos and clipped-out vocal runs, with both of the artists’ sounds finding home in the stillness.

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DISPLAY 025
Artist - innerinnerlife
Title - The Green Ray
Duration - 10:16

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DISPLAY 026
Artist - Kid Smpl & innerinnerlife
Title - Our Heart Knows A Way Out
Duration - 10:58

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innerinnerlife - The Green Ray

Kid Smpl & innerinnerlife - Our Heart Knows A Way Out

An album written over the course of 2022 for the DISPLAY subscription, now made available for everyone.

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Written, recorded, and mastered by Sangam & Kid Smpl
Recorded in cyberspace throughout the year of 2022
Artwork & design layout by Joey Butler AKA Kid Smpl
Special thanks to all the DISPLAY subscribers

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soundcloud.com/sangam

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soundcloud.com/kidsmpl

Sangam & Kid Smpl - Found Wings

Pre-order available now: https://displayseries.bandcamp.com/album/more-love

On the tenth edition of the DISPLAYSOLO series we find Sebby Kowal exploring and deconstructing noir urban soundscapes with four long-form tracks. An impressive knitting of pensive droning movements and dark, mechanically decorated field recordings that feels just as at home during a midnight bus ride as it does during your next rewatch of Alien.

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Written & recorded by Sebby Kowal
Recorded in the USA throughout 2022
Artwork, cassette design & mastering by Joey Butler AKA Kid Smpl

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twitter.com/SebbyKowalmusic

Sebby Kowal - More Love

Out now: https://displayseries.bandcamp.com/album/remembered-surfaces

For the eleventh edition of the DISPLAYSOLO series the Ontario-based artist @cares contributes a collection of four tactile sonic explorations. Like a set of recreated memories that never existed, “Remembered Surfaces” winds through a blurred map of mutating spaces that feel both familiar and alien, both real and artificial.

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Written & recorded by Cares
Recorded in rural Ontario during 2022-2023
Artwork, cassette design & mastering by Joey Butler AKA Kid Smpl

Cares - Wax Rust Smoke

Out now - https://displayseries.bandcamp.com/album/017-018-laura-luna-castillo-lensk

DISPLAY 017
Artist - Laura Luna Castillo
Title - Things Have Started To Float
Duration - 10:40

The latest DISPLAY split tape sees two exciting artists construct ice-cold ambience in a pair of sprawling cinematic pieces.

Laura Luna Castillo crafts a tense surrealist soundscape on “Things Have Started To Float”. The eerie and engaging piece steadily amasses and dissolves structure with a blend of droning mid-tones and creaking metallic hits all while a menacing bass pulse lurches forward. This distinct tension creates a cinematic feeling ultimately evoking a subtly whirling electronic mass frozen in time.

The flipside of the tape sees Lensk engaging in more structural experimentation on “Light (As It Shone Through Cracking Ice)”. The tundral composition slowly evolves from delicate ambient meditations and narrative glimmers to blistering wall-of-sound sonics. Closing with razor-sharp growls eventually fading back into more delicate, nocturnal hymns. A fitting final bow for the release.

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www.facebook.com/LauraLunaCastilloArt/
www.instagram.com/lunacas/

Laura Luna Castillo - Things Have Started To Float

Buy now - https://displayseries.bandcamp.com/album/017-018-laura-luna-castillo-lensk

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twitter.com/lenskx
www.facebook.com/lenskx/
www.instagram.com/lenskx/  

DISPLAY 018
Artist - Lensk
Title - Light (As It Shone Through Cracking Ice)
Duration - 11:15

The latest DISPLAY split tape sees two exciting artists construct ice-cold ambience in a pair of sprawling cinematic pieces.

Laura Luna Castillo crafts a tense surrealist soundscape on “Things Have Started To Float”. The eerie and engaging piece steadily amasses and dissolves structure with a blend of droning mid-tones and creaking metallic hits all while a menacing bass pulse lurches forward. This distinct tension creates a cinematic feeling ultimately evoking a subtly whirling electronic mass frozen in time.

The flipside of the tape sees Lensk engaging in more structural experimentation on “Light (As It Shone Through Cracking Ice)”. The tundral composition slowly evolves from delicate ambient meditations and narrative glimmers to blistering wall-of-sound sonics. Closing with razor-sharp growls eventually fading back into more delicate, nocturnal hymns. A fitting final bow for the release.

Lensk - Light (As It Shone Through Cracking Ice)

Out now on DISPLAY - https://displayseries.bandcamp.com/album/remembrance-phase-2

An album written over the course of 2019 for the DISPLAY subscription, now made available for everyone :)

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Written, recorded, and mastered by Sangam & Kid Smpl
Recorded in cyberspace throughout the year of 2019
Artwork & design layout by Joey Butler AKA Kid Smpl
Special thanks to all the DISPLAY subscribers

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twitter.com/HVRTSangam
soundcloud.com/sangam

twitter.com/KidSmpl
soundcloud.com/kidsmpl

Sangam & Kid Smpl - Remembrance Phase

Available for now - https://displayseries.bandcamp.com/album/catharsis

The sixth entry in the DISPLAYSOLO series finds @my-head composing a sprawling four part epic entitled “Catharsis”. A collection of vignettes that sees moody ambient murmurs surround and envelop shambling rhythms and piercing synth melodies while distant vocal hymns harmonize with mechanical clicks. “Catharsis” is an audio assemblage expressing the primordial with the aesthetics of the new familiar. A series of brief reprieves in tense times.

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Written & produced by my.head
Recorded in Marseille, France during Summer/Autumn 2018
Artwork, design, & mastering by Kastle at Paradox Lost

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Catharsis

my.head - Part I: Preliminary Assumptions / Cold Comfort / Cellular Basis

Out now - https://displayseries.bandcamp.com/album/019-020-avbvrn-evitceles

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soundcloud.com/avbvrn
twitter.com/AvbvrnAvbvrn
www.instagram.com/avbvrnavbvrn/
www.facebook.com/avbvrn

DISPLAY 019
Artist - Avbvrn
Title - Austerity
Duration - 15:00

The first DISPLAY split tape of 2020 finds Avbvrn and Evitceles taking a painterly approach to heavy-weight sonics.

Avbvrn’s “Austerity” skips through patchy urban environments while dark subterranean rhythms dance in and out of frame below. Occasionally focusing in on tight, micro synth murmurs before returning to eyes-down bass workouts, the piece gives an introspective look at the weight of a bustling outside environment.

On “White Lion”, Evitceles expands upon these cinematic themes but with a much wider lens. The pensive yet hulking epic finds orchestral pads dancing with hard hitting bass stabs, evoking the feeling of a monolithic structure finding life. A slow burner that ultimately culminates in other-worldly pastoral hymns, “White Lion” closes out the release in a cleansing fashion.

Austerity

Avbvrn - Austerity

Out now - displayseries.bandcamp.com/album/019-0…n-evitceles

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www.instagram.com/evitceles/
www.facebook.com/evitceles  

DISPLAY 020
Artist - Evitceles
Title - White Lion
Duration - 10:11

The first DISPLAY split tape of 2020 finds Avbvrn and Evitceles taking a painterly approach to heavy-weight sonics.

Avbvrn’s “Austerity” skips through patchy urban environments while dark subterranean rhythms dance in and out of frame below. Occasionally focusing in on tight, micro synth murmurs before returning to eyes-down bass workouts, the piece gives an introspective look at the weight of a bustling outside environment.

On “White Lion”, Evitceles expands upon these cinematic themes but with a much wider lens. The pensive yet hulking epic finds orchestral pads dancing with hard hitting bass stabs, evoking the feeling of a monolithic structure finding life. A slow burner that ultimately culminates in other-worldly pastoral hymns, “White Lion” closes out the release in a cleansing fashion.

White Lion

Evitceles - White Lion

Pre-order here: https://displayseries.bandcamp.com/album/021-022-shayu-cares

DISPLAY’s second split tape of 2020 showcases the ethereal and club-cultivated works of Shayu & Cares.

On Shayu’s “The Lake Down There”, pin-point synth patterns and winding melodies constructed of the artists own voice form morphing pastoral hymns. The piece is a delicate float that’s both aesthetically distinct and multifaceted. A clean panorama of shadowy impressions.

The flip side finds Cares exploring mutant, sub-heavy sonics while slowly imploding into stark, ice-cold ambience. “Praying To Sponsor” is as much a bleak epic for the club as it is for zoned-out headphone meditations. A roller coaster of dynamics, the piece finishes of the release off in a blistering fashion.

DISPLAY 021
Artist - Shayu
Title - The Lake Down There
Duration - 14:34

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The Lake Down There

Pre-order

Shayu - The Lake Down There

Cares explores mutant, sub-heavy sonics while slowly imploding into stark, ice-cold ambience. Forthcoming on DISPLAY.

Article: https://ins-rt.net/audio/cares-praying-to-sponsor

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Premiere: Cares - Praying To Sponsor [DISPLAY]

Out now: https://displayseries.bandcamp.com/album/soul-generator

Sangam returns to DISPLAY for the seventh installment of the DISPLAYSOLO series. Over 24 minutes of pure rain ☔️.

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Written & recorded by Sangam
Artwork & Design by Joey Butler AKA Kid Smpl
Lost in the fragment of time, slowly slip away from each other, time is everything...

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twitter.com/HVRTSangam
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Sangam - Soul Generator

Out now: https://displayseries.bandcamp.com/album/a-figure-of-speech

Thugwidow returns to the DISPLAYSOLO series with an asymmetrical two tracker front-loaded with a dizzying breakbeat epic and finishing off with a meditative post-rave chill out. Both tracks see the artist stripping down and dissecting his signature combination of technical breakbeat edits and zoned out ambient sonics. “A Figure of Speech” is Thugwidow at his most familiar, an onslaught of drums & bass while “A Natural Conclusion” is a rare drumless b-side from the artist. Two distinct tracks that are both uniquely of the artist’s sound.

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Written & recorded by Thugwidow
Recorded in Anglesey, Wales during November 2019
Mastered by Kastle at Paradox Lost
Artwork & cassette design by Joey Butler AKA Kid Smpl

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soundcloud.com/thugwidow
twitter.com/THUGWIDOW

Thugwidow - A Figure of Speech

An album written over the course of 2020 for the DISPLAY subscription, now made available for everyone :)

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Written, recorded, and mastered by Sangam & Kid Smpl
Recorded in cyberspace throughout the year of 2020
Artwork & design layout by Joey Butler AKA Kid Smpl
Special thanks to all the DISPLAY subscribers

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twitter.com/HVRTSangam
soundcloud.com/sangam

twitter.com/KidSmpl
soundcloud.com/kidsmpl

Sangam & Kid Smpl - Relight, Reignite

DISPLAY is a record label curated by @kidsmpl which aims to showcase long form musical explorations. Guest artists are asked to create original works with a single constraint: a 10 minute+ run time.