Softest ever soft

V/A - mono no aware もののあわれ

Format: 2xLP / Digital
Label: PAN
Cat.No: PAN 77
Release Date: 17 March 2017

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mono no aware (もののあわれ) is the first compilation to be released on PAN, collating unreleased ambient tracks from both new and existing PAN artists.

Featuring Jeff Witscher, Helm, TCF, Yves Tumor, M.E.S.H., Pan Daijing, HVAD, Kareem Lotfy, ADR, Mya Gomez, Sky H1, James K, Oli XL, Bill Kouligas, Flora Yin-Wong, Malibu, and AYYA, the compilation moves through more traditional notions of what is called ’ambient’, to incorporating wider variations that fall under the term.

“Mono no aware”, ‘the pathos of things’, also translates as “an empathy toward things", or "a sensitivity to ephemera”. A term for the awareness of impermanence, or the transience of things. A meditation on mortality and life's transience, ephemerality heightens the appreciation of beauty and sensitivity to their passing. In investigating the passing of time, the boundaries between memory and hallucination become blurred; between fiction and reality. The movement of time transforms into an eternal present.

The album is mastered and cut by Rashad Becker at D&M, featuring photography by Molly Matalon and design by Bill Kouligas. A limited version of 100 copies will be released as a special art edition in collaboration with Mount Analog for the LA Art Book Fair 2017, before going on general release.

mono no aware

2. Malibu - Held (PAN 77)

Taken from 'Delete Beach', Mica Levi’s original soundtrack to an animé by acclaimed artist and Turner prize nominee Phil Collins, released on Demdike Stare’s DDS label. 

Following on from the maverick pop auteur and film composer’s European Film Award-winning score to 'Under The Skin', and her 'Jackie' soundtrack, this is Mica’s first musical accompaniment for animation, by revered designer Marisuke Eguchi, animated by STUDIO4ºC.

Delete Beach

Mica Levi - Interlude 2

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Overture

ju ca, 'Funeral Drone Pt I & II' (2017). Courtesy the artist.

https://soundcloud.com/ssaliva https://soundcloud.com/sky_h1
Mastering: Alexis Chan

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Visuals: Daniel Sansavini
3d Website: Camille Nicolle Goffart

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ssaliva & SKY H1 - Rages

Artist: Prettybwoy
Title: Genetics
Label: SVBKVLT
Cat No: SBKT018
Release Date: December 22nd 2017
Artwork: Wang Newone
Mastering: Raphael Valensi / Nobuto Hanawa
Format: Digital
Distribution: Cargo UK

Tokyo’s Prettybwoy returns to SVBKVLT for his second EP – Genetics. 5 hyper-colored tracks, frenetic club tracks alongside a remix from Massacooramaan and artwork by Wang Newone.

Prettybwoy is a UK Garage/Grime DJ/Producer from Tokyo, Japan. He is a regular guest DJ at premier events in Tokyo such as Drum'n'Bass Sessions and Back To Chill, and has had releases on Big Dada, POLAAR and SVBKVLT.

Genetics

Prettybwoy - Hyggs

7038634357 is the alias of Neo Gibson (b. 1995), a musician born and raised in Arlington, VA. They currently live in New York City. Previous releases include 2017's LYSE on Brooklyn's Pastel Voids, and 2017's MY VISION OF THE SUN, a self-released EP. More background and contact information can be found on their website ive-been-waiting-all-my.life.

XPETAL is a loosely narrative 5-track EP. It explores the inner soundtracks of suburban anxiety comedowns, and dreams for futures of radical justice.

Composed/mixed by @neo_petal
Mastered by James Xu @djdirtykkkk
Artwork by Tavi Lee @16666666

XPETAL

7038634357 - Sickle Sheen (Arms Open)

7038634357 is the alias of Neo Gibson (b. 1995), a musician born and raised in Arlington, VA. They currently live in New York City. Previous releases include 2017's LYSE on Brooklyn's Pastel Voids, and 2017's MY VISION OF THE SUN, a self-released EP. More background and contact information can be found on their website ive-been-waiting-all-my.life.

XPETAL is a loosely narrative 5-track EP. It explores the inner soundtracks of suburban anxiety comedowns, and dreams for futures of radical justice.

Composed/mixed by @neo_petal
Mastered by James Xu
Artwork by Tavi Lee

7038634357 - Sugar Armor

Taken from SBKT019: Schism - Decoy
Release date: March 2nd 2018
Mastering: Raphael Valensi
Artwork: Aleksander Vučenović

schism (pronounced /ˈsɪzəm/ SIZ-əm, /ˈskɪzəm/ SKIZ-əm or, less commonly, /ˈʃɪzəm/ SHIZ-əm) - a word most frequently applied to a split in what had previously been a single religious body.

SCHISM is a two-man project formed by German music producers DJ Heroin and hnrk in 2016. Its general concept lives from the clashing of the different sonic ideas both members of the project practice and perform. For this particular project, the main focus is put on the stark contrast between very hard/harsh sounding elements being paired with at times hymn-esque moments of solitude and weightlessness. The concepts of the tracks and their names are also chosen carefully to further show the contrasting and clashing nature as they combine notions of the organic, humanoid and living with the inorganic, cold and machine-like. The result is an internal splintering of the songs into their respective sonic units which thereby appear as skeletal yet very well threaded together, composing a whole body - creating the sonic identity of SCHISM.

Decoy

Schism - Respliced Hymn

Taken from the album 'Paradise 94', to be released by Modern Love on March 23rd, 2018. Cover Photo by Rebecca Salvadori.

Paradise 94

Lucy Railton - Pinnevik

Kali Malone’s “Organ Dirges 2016 - 2017" is a collection of isorhythmic canons following the tradition of pipe organ requiems found in early modern music. Malone’s purified organ dirges echo embodied recollections of the piercing numbness of those battled encounters when the armours were stripped down, left with nothing other than will power, yet still standing upright as the columns of Sounion. The soothing and perceptive harmonies resonate to a presence that leans elegantly towards a courageous aftermath and a gleaming salutation. While the dirges themselves have minimal melodic and rhythmic variation, they appear in constant cyclical motion, revealing their refracted selves in a coherent yet unpredictable manner; like a rotating wheel where all spokes are perceptible but at any given moment in a different place.

Kali Malone (b. 1994, Colorado) is an American artist living and working in Stockholm, Sweden since 2012. Her solo works implement unique tuning systems in minimalist form for analog and digital synthesis often combined with acoustic instrumentation - such as pipe organ, string and wind instruments, lute and gong. Malone’s 2017 debut LP “Velocity of Sleep” was released on her own label XKatedral following tape releases put out by Ascetic House, Bleak Environment and Total Black. She is active in the groups Sorrowing Christ, Swap Babies, Upper Glossa with Caterina Barbieri. Her sophomore LP “Cast of Mind” is due spring 2018.

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ASCETIC HOUSE
201∞

Kali Malone "Locus Of Repetition"

Music produced, mixed and mastered by DJ Charme (https://soundcloud.com/deejaycharme)
Graphic design by Andreu Serra (https://www.instagram.com/andreuserra) 
Typography by Christophe Synak (https://www.instagram.com/el_papi_kriko)

Full album 'Charme' out in April.

DJ Charme - Beauty Dies Before Me

Asfast is the solo project of Leon Leder, vienna-based producer and composer, who is responsible for some of the most thrilling and mindblowing live-sets in his area. Asfast started as a moniker for Leon’s breakcore projects several years ago. Since the early days of Asfast, Leon has evolved his sound more and more into a direction, that embraces ambiance and calmer drum patterns. The efforts he made into changing his approach to music to a more contemporary, but also individual style can be heard in his early self-releases ‚moving. A Variation‘ and ‚WYSIWYG‘. After years of polishing his signature sounds and getting more comfortable in his new musically scenery, Leon Leder released his first Album called ‚Peace In Drifts‘ via Ventil-Records, which reflects the core of into what Asfast has emerged in recent years.  
 
In his latest release ‚Altar‘, coming out via AMEN on March 30th 2018, Leon extends his exploration of refreshing audio-landscapes, drawn by sharp-edged synths and wistful melodies. Seeing his own body as an Altar, Asfast carefully crafted the fundament of his new EP, and carved his inner conflicts into the identity of his sound. Inspired by his fascination for the black metal scene in his youth, Asfast surely introduced us to his melancholic emotions in ‚Peace In Drifts‘ already, but the seemingly upflifting momentums of his album seem to get sucked into an inner conflict on Altar, creating a much more aggressive atmosphere, that can be felt in tracks like ‚Mnemosyne’s Lobotomy‘. Contrary to those impulsive moments, the calm before and after the storm is manifested in ‚Gapping‘ and ‚Higher Call‘, the opening and closing tracks ‚Geotrauma‘ and ‚Belly Piece‘ gorge the listener and throw them into the spiritual realm Asfast’s ‚Altar‘ is creating; the reflection of his emotionally violent conflicts, which forge his paradise and hell at the same time.  

Video: https://youtu.be/iShK60GRCpA

Artwork by Aleksandar Vucenovic


@aaasfast

A Higher Call (Head Piece)

Artist: tropical interface
Album: OM1
Format: Digital/Cassette
Release: April 6, 2018

Visual art by Keith Rankin

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Aches

111X - I stand still, you're sinking

A metamorphosis of the forgotten, reminiscent of deeply supplanted emotions.
Almost stagnant transformations from roughly textured surfaces into silky exteriors.
Indistinct laments of discomforted creatures from strange rituals of remote civilizations.
Processed obscure chorals of nostalgia blending in with the twisting rhythms of animal life.
Fragrance of ancestral swamps, layers of mist bedimming the twilight, 
A nondestructive examination of jjjacob's vision.

composition by @jjjacob
artwork by @jesperflinker
mastering by Joseph Morris

Nondestructive Examination

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jjjacob - On My Feet, Both Eyes Closed

By Dasychira & Malibu

Lyrics written by Malibu and Dasychira

Performed by Malibu and a vocaloid

Artwork by Kyselina

Mastering by Jeremy Cox

Released on Blueberry Records, May 4th 2018

@blu174

Haptics

Video

Umbreon (ft. Malibu)

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Lighght & CNÁMHA - Through The Brief Gap In The Cement Walls I Saw God

sometimes u come in from the club at 7am and need all the music to be MORE AMBIENT so u have to make your own

a lot of my friends have been tryna escape recently , hopefully this and a spot of 30 degree mancunian sun will help

p . s. pls excuse my vv vapor artwork , i think i might have sunstroke

filton [ dissociative edit ]

The need to inform has transformed seamlessly into a desire to contribute. Platonics 01 reflects our long-term alertness to our surroundings, it is an impulse to reassess our priorities. Some things cannot be left for tomorrow.

Gin&Platonic is the common sense of the long-abandoned extroverts, the newfound introverts, and of those constantly in-between. It's comfortable but challenging at times. A matter of intuition. It's something sentimental about being cynical. It is a state of double-edged irony.

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respectful but aware
medium and the moment
raw imprint
collecting artifacts & archievements as treats
share & outline
out of a soapbox
long run with a back-up plan
the virgo season

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Mastered by Dominik Suchý
released July 1, 2018

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anhedonik – Post-trauma

https://soundcloud.com/x-o-xio - wish (https://soundcloud.com/blu174 piano rework)
from "cocoon egg remixed" (QNRX014)
released 1st November 2018
original found on "cocoon egg" (QNR014)

mastered by Swan Meat

Softest ever soft

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