interesting rhythms, reminds me of Kettel

Hazy, aqueous ambient from Concave Reflection on the debut cassette release from Theory Therapy.

Read More & Buy: https://www.stampthewax.com/2022/02/10/premiere-concave-reflection-a-certain-tenderness/
Listen on Youtube: https://bit.ly/ConcaveReflection

Listen on Youtube

Concave Reflection - A Certain Tenderness (STW Premiere)

DIGI 001

Opfern is the result of hours of music sent to us in the winter of 2021 by Calum Mcleod, mainly known for his work as one half of the techno duo Clouds, but presenting here his first solo work as Power Inc. Released as a double cassette & digital album, Opfern explores amorphous drift over nine long-form tracks that evolve & devolve in a slow state of flux, with sound sources and samples smudged to the point of degradation and abstraction, revealing a compelling and affecting mix of digital artefacts, psychoacoustics, plaintive melodies & fizzing soundscapes. 

W&P by Calum Macleod - Artwork by Al White & Calum Macleod

This preview comprises of the following tracks covering Tape 1, Side B:

03. LWK
04. Zischensynthese
05. …in the sky Zentraleuropa

Released August 2022 on Double Cassette & Digital LP

BUY HERE

Power Inc. - Opfern (Preview)

JUNGLE GYM RECORDS presents "Depth Lurker", official debut of the mysterious Santa Monica Dub Association (Caleb Dravier and Jason Tibi). From an undisclosed location on the California coast, S.M.D.A. emerge from the depths to cruise the shallows, four thermohaline circulations for free-dive stimulation... exclusively from JUNGLE GYM.

[JGT81] "Depth Lurker"

[JGT81] "Santa Monica Dub Association" - Depth Lurker - S.M.D.A.

from the "Lavender Palace" CS (SILK139)
100% Silk / 2022

THE PALACE GATES:
https://michaelclaus.bandcamp.com/album/lavender-palace
https://midheaven.com/item/claus-michael/lavender-palace

MICHAEL CLAUS - LAVENDER PALACE (SILK139)

For Balmat’s fourth release, we turn our attention close to home: to the Mallorca-born, Barcelona-based artist @nueen, aka Nacho Pezzati.

Nueen has been developing his highly personal style of blissfully Balearic ambient over the past few years, with releases on labels like Quiet Time Tapes and Good Morning Tapes. On Diagrams of Thought, he explores new depths in his sound. His atmospheres remain bucolic, but there’s a disturbance at work, a hint of uncertainty swirling beneath seemingly placid pads.

While Diagrams of Thought retains the ambient (or at least ambient-adjacent) focus of all Balmat’s releases so far, the album also marks new frontiers for the label; the album’s first half is graceful and largely beatless, but the mood grows murkier with the foggy drones of “Dome” and the intimations of liquid drum ’n’ bass on “Maxima”; “Veta,” meanwhile, might just represent the most forceful rhythm to appear on a Balmat release yet. 

Despite the album’s considerable range of moods, tones, and textures, it’s all tied together by a singular preoccupation, says Nueen: 

	“Lately, I’ve become conscious of my fascination for the notion of the break, on a conceptual and musical level. What’s temporary and what’s permanent. Thinking and making out of what isn’t there, yet is. Some people would call it silence, but it could also be a skip of the needle, an ellipsis. Something very basic—or Basic Channelesque. A set of sounds and silences, structuring just a hint of rhythm. Sounds that become silences, and silences that become sounds. 

The other day, I was saying to someone that for me, the sound of electric current running through the power lines above the train tracks is the most ambient sound there is. That infinity in which you never quite grasp all the harmonics and reverberations. It’s a form of time detained or expanded. Recently, I’ve been rereading Morton Feldman—you can tell, right? Vertical time, the silence that sounds. A sort of sacredness. My mind is blown every time I walk into a church, for whatever that’s worth.”

Written & Produced by Nacho Blanco Pezzati.
Mastered by Pedro Pina.
Cover artwork by José Quintanar.
Designed by Basora.

Diagrams of Thought

Nueen - Diagrams of Thought [BALMAT04]

Cru Servers - Sacramental Lettuce (ISLE013)

An old schoo housel feel with an amapiano touch. Stuff you listen to with a cocktail in hand.

I.AM.BEL 2002

b2. trancehall [master]

Taken from 'Yes', Shinichi Atobe’s fifth album 

Available now bit.ly/38L8P9R

Shinichi Atobe - Lake 3

upsammy - Bend - Dekmantel - DKMNTL087

a1. Flutter
a2. Spat
b1. Worm
b2. Metallic

vinyl & merch: https://dekmantel.com/shop/records/upsammy-bend
digital: https://upsammy.bandcamp.com/album/bend

Following 2020’s debut album ‘Zoom’, upsammy returns to Dekmantel with a dualistic four-tracker called 'Bend', incorporating familiar sonic palettes and novel paths carved out in times of isolation.

Where Zoom channelled upsammy’s conceptual depth, Bend leans into artistic intuition, juxtaposing the floral and martial, propelling along her signature sound of textured electronica. Lilac chimes rise and fall along the melodic Flutter and Metallic, while the sinister creeps from Spat and Worm’s spacious cracks. All in all, Bend discloses upsammy’s versatility yet again, ever-shifting as the ambiguous modernity she continues to wander - an artist able to shift through the complexity of modernity with rare grace.

DKMNTL087 // upsammy - Bend

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DKMNTL087 // upsammy - Bend

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