ambient

Paradox Hues

Rob2

electronica

http://igloomag.com/features/best-of-2014

Several releases have been selected by various igloomag.com contributors highlighting some of the finest in an expansive array of music featuring ambient, dub, bass, glitch, industrial, IDM, electronica, synth, jazz, modern classical, experimental and various other sonic contortions. Links to reviews, a Soundcloud player, and a slideshow randomly displaying some of our favorite artwork in 2014, are also included. All lists are alphabetized by artist.

Igloo Magazine :: Best of 2014

kulunkan

NK44
Adam Marshall
A1. Night Train
B1. Heavy Metals

12" / DIGI : October 3rd, 2013

HCSVNTDRACONES

Buy @ Boomkat

Adam Marshall - "Night Train"

From the album "Paradox Hues".
https://dissolved.bandcamp.com/album/paradox-hues

Imperial Dye Donor

From the album "Paradox Hues". 
https://dissolved.bandcamp.com/album/paradox-hues

Eighties Ghost Books

Melting Scope

By organically and masterfully blending elements of Electronica, both Ambient and Concrete Music with structures arising out of chamber music and jazz, the innovative trio of pianist Michele Cavallari, bassist Luca Fogagnolo and drummer Giuliano Ferrari has come up with a wholly unique sound on Elec3Cities that may establish a daring new direction for the piano trio.

This delicate balance of electronic experimentalism and acoustic piano jazz has been evolving gradually from the group’s initial release in 2006, Adoration, and continued on 2007’s Decoupage through 2008’s Difficult to See You and 2011’s acclaimed Weather Forecasting Stone. But the three Italian musicians take it to a wholly new level on Elec3Cities, their most overtly experimental outing to date and debut for the London-based RareNoise label.

Release : Early April 2014

Michele Cavallari - Piano, Keyboards, Effects
Luca Fogagnolo - Bass, Upright Bass, Guitars, Effects
Giuliano Ferrari - Drums, Effects

Chat Noir - Peaceful (from Elec3cities)

from 'Odham's Standard' [CD|LP|DIGITAL]
Denovali Records · den191
available on all formats at [http://denovali.com/origamibiro]

Origamibiro is a collaborative project consisting of three core members: musician, soundtrack composer and producer Tom Hill, visual artist and filmmaker The Joy Of Box, and multi-instrumentalist Andy Tytherleigh. Originally started as a solo project for Tom, Origamibiro has since evolved into an audio-visual collective, producing studio music, art objects, interactive installations and hauntingly original live audio-visual performances. Origamibiro like to create work with an array of unorthodox processes and contraptions, found objects, video feeds and multi instrumentalism. Their unique live performances involve treated books, typewriters, found celluloid, paper, eerie wildlife recordings, home movies, sellotape and bespoke visual contraptions. All of these things had been added, adapted, even destroyed as a way to generate images and audio that could evoke a feeling, a response, an understanding or perhaps a question from audiences.

2014 sees the re-release of Origamibiro's entire back catalogue - the albums ‘Cracked Mirrors and Stopped Clocks’, ‘Shakkei’ and ‘Shakkei Remixed’ - through Denovali and also the release of their fourth studio album 'Odham's Standard'. Discussions concerning tone and theme took place much earlier in the writing process this time around and unbeknown to each other, both Tom and Jim were taking an interest in more supernatural aspects of audio and video material generation. Jim had begun to research into spirit photography, where images of deceased spirits are apparently imprinted onto photographic plates through the presence of a medium. Looking for an audio equivalent, Tom began looking into EVP or electronic voice phenomenon whereby hidden voices from deceased spirits appear to present themselves in audio recordings. What is fascinating about this process is not how legitimate the phenomenon actually is but how dependant it is on the decision or need of the viewer or listener to believe it is significant or even personal.

Interestingly, there have been many attempts over the years to debunk or disprove the validity of spirit photography and yet for every court case there are also a number of witnesses willing to passionately testify that not only is the phenomenon real but that it applied directly to them. Arthur Conan Doyle was the creator of the most famous detective in the world and, conversely, a staunch defendant of the validity of spirit photography. In his infamous treatise 'The Case For Spirit Photography' he is both naive and strangely prescient: “Victorian science would have left the world hard and clean and bare, like a landscape in the moon. (however) There is nothing scientifically impossible, so far as I can see, in some people seeing things that are invisible to others. One or two consequences are obvious, the experiences of children will be taken more seriously. Cameras will be forthcoming. These folk who appear to be our neighbours, with only some small difference of vibration to separate us, will become familiar.”


Odham's Standard

Origamibiro - Butterfly Jar

Flame Colourants

From Pash, released 03 February 2014 
Written and recorded by lola demo with Cubase 5 during January 2014.
.
Blood On My Lips 
(C) 2014 Erika Bach. All Rights Reserved 
.
Remember the radio 
Sunday we'd be stoned 
Getting high to feel this low 

We did not recognize 
Where desperation lies 
Now I stop you from putting that gun in your mouth 

Chorus: 
If there is blood on my lips 
Then it's you darling 
That brought me to this 
If there is blood on my lips 

Remember the years we made 
Love every night and day 
Before the light came on 

I was unaware 
Your love stained everywhere 
Now I see it's war 
And god is just a whore 

Chorus 

I may seem a fanatic 
I scream and I panic 
When I can't see my habit relieve the sore 

Friction and iodine 
I wanted to make you mine 
But the world just stopped spinning 
To go slow, slow, slow 

Chorus 

Yeah


Blood on My Lips

Blood On My Lips

Tablets

"Clyfford" is the first single to be taken from PONY BONES II, the sophomore EP from PONY BONES (feat. members of Speedy Ortiz, Graph, Kendra, etc). The EP will be released on cassette via Exploding In Sound Records on April 29th, 2014. EIS could not be more excited for this one.

PRE-ORDER the tape at www.bonypones.bandcamp.com

Download last year's debut for FREE at www.ponybones.blogspot.com

PONY BONES are:
Kate Hanlon (drums)
Matt Robidoux (guitar/vocals/tape/keys)

recorded in 2013 at:
Kate's House (Somerville, MA)
King St. Manor (Northampton, MA)

produced by Pony Bones and Robert Macdonald
mastered by Carl Saff

EIS020

Pony Bones - Clyfford

Onegin Please - 3D Lips (APR007, 2014)

SHXCXCHCXSH – "The Under Shore"

https://bewegungrecords.bandcamp.com/album/proper-random

Asymmetrical Head - Black Awareness (Proper/Random out now!!!)



Emotional Response returns to Luke Wyatt’s early recordings some two years after this eclectric electricty of the Teen Hawk LP, with a 4 track remix EP that push boundaries while moving the mind.

Featuring 4 producers that cross musical spheres is the labels way and again roster
members are handed the keys to the treasure while welcoming other, less unknown 
producers a chance to highlight their aural visions.

Starting with the ubiquitous Secret Circuit, here following up his blissed out releases for
the label with a first remix. Respecting Luke’s leftfield production, but layering his 
trademark guitar work with a motorik groove, distant harmonic bells and uplifting keys  that bring the friends and producers music in a Balearic tandem.

This is followed with William Burnett’s Black Deer alias taking the wonderful, but sadly short I Recommend Starman and coming up with an extended edit that allows this modern krautrock masterpiece to truly shine as it should. Simple yet perfect.

On the flip is Not Waving’s Alessio Natalizia with a beautiful take on the loved-up, R&B meets Aphex MDMA rush of Time For Thick. Totally replaying the song himself, it is the light industrial percussion and repeating keys that take the track on a journey to the skies.

Finally then, the EP comes back down to earth and closes with new label member, Australia’s mysterious Tropical Hi-Fi. Taking the brooding ambience of The Music Hear At Sea World And Never Forget and turning in a drone meets field-recording masterwork.


A2. I Recommend Starman (Black Deer Remix)

From the soon-to--be-digitally reissued " Season One " compilation by the Kemper Norton Collective.  

All her dreams , poor thing , were dusty

09 - Modeselektor - Let Your Love Grow (w. Paul St. Hillaire)

Holly Herndon - Fade (NHK Remix) 
From <i>Movement</i>

Purchase here: 

http://rvng.bandcamp.com/track/fade-nhkkoyxen-remix
http://rvng.bandcamp.com/album/movement

©2013 RVNG Intl. 

Holly Herndon - Fade (NHK Remix)

From the new album "Surge of the Lucid" out now on Daddy Tank Records. Available here. 
http://www.daddytank.co.uk/surge.php

Your Age in Shark Years

NK42
Graze
A1. TheSust
B1. No Save
B2. Cathode Bias
C1. Ques
D1. Dexires
D2. On Board

2x12" out : April 2013

www.newkanada.com
HCSVNTDRACONES

Buy at Hardwax

GRAZE - THESUST [snip]

Neanderthal Space Gate

New Dissolved album "The Misleading Echo" out now at Bandcamp. 
https://dissolved.bandcamp.com/album/the-misleading-echo

The new album "Amber Rooms" is out now at Bandcamp! 
https://dissolved.bandcamp.com/album/amber-rooms


New Album out now! Skysleep Interference Works. https://dissolved.bandcamp.com/album/skysleep-interference-works

Nonima and Dissolved. Neurophosis. Out now! 
https://mahorka.bandcamp.com/album/neurophosis

Island  Flux remixes available now! 
https://section27.bandcamp.com/album/island-flux-remixes

New album out now. 
https://dissolved.bandcamp.com/album/island-flux