VA - Astraltopia
APR128 | Out Now

Available here: https://astralplanerecordings.bandcamp.com/album/astraltopia

Astraltopia is the third and final compilation in the Topia series, as well as the terminal release in the Astral Plane Recordings catalog. Made up of contributions from longtime APR artists and friends, Astraltopia traverses outgrowths of past label releases, novel sonic formulations and the infra-zones between and underneath extant club sounds. Accompanied by artwork from Sam Meier and mastering by Will Mitchell, the compilation follows 2012’s Heterotopia and 2015’s Psychotropia, both of which preceded the formal inauguration of Astral Plane Recordings. Contributions include material from Alis, Amazondotcom, CHANTS, Dane Law, LOFT, Maral, MICHAELBRAILEY (with Iceboy Violet), nunu and SHALT. Astraltopia is out now as a free and/or pay-what-you-want download.1. CHANTS - Seven Billion Spheres
2. Maral - lita
3. SHALT - Face Like A Wet Sun
4. LOFT - an safe heavenn
5. Alis - Catra
6. Amazondotcom - Pico Blvd
7. nunu - ransom
8. MICHAELBRAILEY - dead space (prod. MICHAELBRAILEY, Iceboy Violet)
9. Dane Law - Summer's End (Lift Me Up)

Astraltopia

MICHAELBRAILEY - dead space (prod. MICHAELBRAILEY & Iceboy Violet)

@jjjacob
★★★
buy comp: summ0n.bandcamp.com/releases

released June 24, 2022

Summon I

stella

jjjacob - stella

All the profits generated by the sales of this compilation will be donated to the Legal Team Antiraciste fund, which aims at helping the victims of french police violence and their families, fighting against systemic racial discrimination as well as defending their access to fundamental rights.

Huge thanks to Casual Gabberz <3
Mastering by Lorenzo Targhetta
Cover by JB Normand

Blood of Aza - Jerked

@holysoul_chan + @spraelle

Juarez' HOLYSOUL and Paris' Sprælle bringing you a special homecooked mix.

Sprælle Invites HOLYSOUL

@icfam

The 43rd release of katharsis is the album “Love Language” by the Danish artist icfam. It is evocative like a long makeout session, tongue action specifically. icfam celebrates the long journeys to daydreamy destinations on a record that is romantic and peaceful, yet at times highly energetic.

Through streamlined synthesis and arrangements, icfam produces a composite world of sound that carries a message of love and simplicity. Despite the meticulous care for sound design on this record, the use of intuitive sounds and phrases so simple, sometimes approaches a sort of mindlessness. Building conceptually on sinewaves as the only sound that really exists, the artist develops a nonfragmented illusion through obsession over the harmonic series and melodies within melodies.

Love Language is both reassuring and mystifying, like your favourite lullaby. As well as intoxicatingly painful like exquisite torture. icfam wants to express a special feeling one might get from going to the hospital. A cathartic feeling of being safe and held.

If you’ve fallen from above
You’re walking with your woes
If there’s nowhere to run
The happy hospital

releases August 26, 2024

artwork by Emma Kallan
Mastering by icfam
Mastering of the remix by Søren Oliver Due

icfam - Ocean Blue

++ PRESENTATION ++

Scores +°-  glyphs to sounds !

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Scores is a compilation exploring musical notations and how they can be interpreted as sounds. People have always tried to translate sonic expressions into visual cues that could be archived, passed down, and transformed back into music. 

From symbols to numbers, grids, staffs, figures or abstract shapes, several languages have been developed and continuously questioned to improve the ability to retain the emotion and meaning sounds can convey - what lies behind the veil.
 
What if this time, the notation would come beforehand?

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The project unfolded in two phases. In the first one, visual artists from the Global URL Nation could propose one sheet of music score, free of interpretation. They were invited to play with musical notations and explore what it would even mean.
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It welcomed chaggrin, Eurrope, M4X1US, MYEN, s1m0nc3ll0 & Ziyiz for 6 sheets


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In the second phase, artists from GUN could pick one sheet and create a track trying to follow it as much as possible. It invited them to question music as a physical object, with its shapes, colors, textures and layers with the following :

__How is the overall composition? Are there any axis or lines that could be interpreted as a timeline or a melodic scale?
__How many discrete elements are in the image? How are they laid out?
__What are the shapes involved?  What is their scale? Do they have sharp or blurry outlines?
__What are the colors/textures used? How do they relate with each other in terms of tones, contrasts…?
__How are the different elements layered on top of each other? Are they superimposed or do they merge in some way?
__How would they translate them in musical terms, such as textures, notes, structures, timbres, rhythms, dynamics? 

It welcomed Bademjan, Baje Nunca, C+Vis, Capiuz, Clair X, C.T.A.A.M.  Ecovoron, Epiphagi, HeedLess, Mambo Kahn, migu, POL100, Yau Hei ASJ & Ziyiz for 14 tracks ranging from ethereal scorescapes to hyperstimulating scratches. Sounds and shapes weave together, blurring the boundaries between the two media to create one whole entity

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With Scores, we invite you to seek the music that can be hidden in our surroundings, to decrypt and hear the phantom scores one can find in every shape, every color and every little visual detail __ open your ears and see the sounds, sometimes music lies in a simple fold of clothing


++ TRACKLIST ++

__((Sheet A by chaggrin))
A1. Clair X - Unravel
A2. migu - Red for Funeral
A3. Epiphagi - Everything We've Come To Be

__((Sheet B by Eurrope))
B1. Bademjan - Wrinklenest
B2. Yau Hei ASJ - Jigsaw Puzzle

__((Sheet C by s1m0nc3ll0))
C1. Ecovoron - Burning Shide
C2. C.T.A.A.M. - A-L

__((Sheet D by MYEN))
D1. Capiuz - Dreamer of Nightmares
D2. POL100 - Butterfly Wall

__((Sheet E by Ziyiz))
E1. Baje Nunca - En Blue Gray et DVD
E2. HeedLess - Incomprensibile

__((Sheet F by M4X1US))
F1. Mambo Kahn - Celestial Arson
F2. C+Vis - Untitled
F3. Ziyiz - Skies Inside (Ring The Bell)


++ CREDITS ++ 

Music sheets created by chaggrin, Eurrope, M4X1US, MYEN, s1m0nc3ll0 & Ziyiz. 

Tracks produced by Bademjan, Baje Nunca, C+Vis, Capiuz, Clair X, C.T.A.A.M.  Ecovoron, Epiphagi, HeedLess, Mambo Kahn, migu, POL100, Yau Hei ASJ & Ziyiz. 

Common cover by Griigg
https://www.instagram.com/griigg

Mastering by Ioannis Nafpliotis
https://www.instagram.com/iamxato/

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D1. Capiuz - Dreamer Of Nightmares

- no sob stories .m4a

zinoblade - disturbed

When The Machines Forgot to Wake

First Circle - Bitter?

About Let's Collapse

Let’s Collapse is a collaboration EP between Pixelord and Max Dahlhaus in Moscow and Berlin, respectively. The illusion of the global village, which it seems like yesterday’s, collapsed due to the outbreak of covid-19, but none of this can prevent people from contacting each other. This EP shows how the artists feel in it.

Both artists are good at creating cold music, and the collision of ideas has produced many wonderful changes in the results. The whole EP is like a roaring turbo engine, and the huge sound continuously presses our hearts. There is always some strange but beautiful sound between the heavy drums and the rough background noise, when they appear, it will make the listener's scalp tremble like two sharp pieces of metal rubbed in a flash. All these sounds constitute a sci-fi world, and the rich details bring people into endless spaces of imagination. The world is constantly destroyed and rebuilt in the journey of the seven tracks, and the epic ending leaves all this to the unknown.

《Let’s Collapse》由分别位于莫斯科和柏林的Pixelord 和Max Dahlhaus 共同合作完成。恍如昨日的地球村幻景由于疫情的爆发一瞬间崩塌了，但这一切都无法阻止人们相互联系。这张EP展现的就是音乐人在其中的感受。

两位音乐人都善于制作黑暗冷酷的音乐，这次创意之间的碰撞使结果产生了许多奇妙的变化。整张EP就像一台轰鸣的涡轮引擎，声浪持续地压迫着我们的心脏。在厚重的的鼓点与粗糙的背景噪音之间总有一些奇特但又美妙的声音，他们出现时就像两片锐利的金属片擦过一般使听者的头皮一刺。所有这些声音共同构成了一个未来的科幻世界，丰富的细节使人们进入无尽的想象空间。在这七首歌的旅程中，这个世界被不断地毁灭，又被不断地重建，充满史诗感的结尾把这一切留给了未知。 

Mix:Max Dahlhaus & Pixelord
Master: Max Dahlhaus
Artwork:Gabriel Massan

Let's Collapse

Pixelord - whoosh

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