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

Dane Law - Summer's End (Lift Me Up)

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

nunu - ransom

Amazondotcom - Pico Blvd

Alis - Catra

LOFT - an safe heavenn

SHALT - Face Like A Wet Sun

Maral - lita

CHANTS - Seven Billion Spheres

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Dark0 Mix For The Astral Plane

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Myth Mix For The Astral Plane

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Letta Mix For The Astral Plane

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Astral Plane Mix 121

Byrell The Great Mix For The Astral Plane

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BEY x NUNU - WE RUN THIS MAMAMAMAMA (KABLAM MESS - UP)

SKY H1 x NUNU -  I THINK LOUD (WHY BE BLEND)

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Astral Plane Mix 137

Mike Paradinas Mix For The Astral Plane

Ahead of his debut album on Principe, DJ Lycox turns in an intensely euphoric mix for Astral Plane Mix 150.

More info: https://dotheastralplane.com/2017/10/19/dj-lycox-mix-for-the-astral-plane/

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Astral Plane Mix 150

DJ Lycox Mix For The Astral Plane

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LOFT - Heffalump (Szare Remix)

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Astral Plane Mix 153

$JAYY Mix For The Astral Plane

Our second annual giveaway compilation is available now. Featuring four artists new to the APR fold and four mainstays.

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Air Max '97 x MHD - Hounded Molo (SHALT Edit)

FDM legend and Swing Ting artist Epic B steps up for a blistering 40 minute Astral Plane Mix.

More info and track list: https://dotheastralplane.com/2018/01/17/epic-b-mix-for-the-astral-plane/

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Astral Plane Mix 154

Epic B Mix For The Astral Plane

Nunu - 'SCUM'
APR117 | Out Now

Cassette/digital available here: https://astralplanerecordings.bandcamp.com/album/scum

Even though it has been over two years since the release of Nunu’s Mind Body Dialogue, the Strasbourg-based artist’s influence has been a constant. Bootlegged endlessly, you’ve almost certainly heard his piston drums and insectile sound design pop in countless edits and DJ sets, not to mention his own hyper-specific mix work. SCUM marks the return of Nunu, an EP comprised of four, condensed efforts shorn from a much larger collection of work. With a limited runtime of just over 14 minutes, Nunu explores brutality and emancipation in microscopic detail, suturing organic and electronic material together in an uneasy marriage. 

This time, London’s Organ Tapes and Cologne’s DJH are introduced to the fold with the former emerging like a phoenix on opener “SCUM 2” and the latter channeling Chopin on “SCUM 6”. Both artists slide comfortably into Nunu’s angular, often unforgiving aesthetic, exploiting both its insularity and cacophony with stunning results. “SCUM 4” and “SCUM 9” round out the release, the former a natural extension of Mind Body Dialogue’s “Hateful” and the latter a fitting follow-up to Nunu’s ecstatic remix of SHALT’s “Nid De Guêpes”. Nunu sees the SCUM body of work as a personal purge and its hard not to see its exorcistic potential. SCUM is out on November 16 on cassette (art by Isaac Chabon, design by Caleb Ali Miller) and digital.

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SCUM

Nunu - SCUM 2 (ft. Organ Tapes) [APR117]

Baltimore's CalvoMusic lays out his New Club Waves sound on Astral Plane Mix 177

More info and track list: https://dotheastralplane.com/2018/11/28/calvo-mix-for-the-astral-plane/

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Astral Plane Mix 177

CalvoMusic Mix For The Astral Plane

Melbourne's DJ Plead follows releases for DECISIONS and Nervous Horizon with a brilliantly paced selection for Astral Plane Mix 188

More info and track list: https://dotheastralplane.com/2019/04/10/dj-plead-mix-for-the-astral-plane/

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DJ Plead Mix For The Astral Plane

Maral - Mahur Club
APR121 | Out July 26

Pre-order digital/cassette: https://astralplanerecordings.bandcamp.com/album/mahur-club

Los Angeles’s Maral (@maral66) has spent the past half-decade quietly honing an approach that meshes the latest in club music contortions, a range of pulverized dub effects, and samples from her library of Iranian folk, pop and classical musics. More likely to be found working behind the scenes for local labels and club nights, Maral steps into the spotlight on Mahur Club, highlighting a trans-historical collage technique that emphasizes formal experimentation as much as it does personal history.

Exploring (rhythmic) psychedelia in both concrete and abstract forms, Mahur Club dials in on mashed out versions of Jersey club, reggaeton and dub, nodding to psych rock and trip hop via whirlwind takes on contemporary battle dance genres. Repetition and rapid sample chop are utilized on tracks like “don’t trip on your way down” and “lori lullaby”, pairing familiar dance-floor rhythms with waterlogged Farsi vocals in a sublime vortex of tradition, pop and functionality.

Mahur Club features material from ABE, DJ Abosohar and Loris. The release consists of two separate components; a cassette featuring two mixed portions and a free mixtape of individual tracks. Mastering provided by Will Mitchell, artwork by Maral Mahmoudi and design by Caleb Ali Miller.

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Maral - lori lullaby [APR121]

Chants - Seven Spheres
APR1210 | Out Now

Digital: https://astralplanerecordings.bandcamp.com/album/seven-spheres

Across three EPs for Astral Plane Recordings, Chants has marked a development from relative novice to one of the club music world’s most distinctive voices. August 23 will see the release of Seven Spheres, the Madison-based artist’s first album since 2015 and his most accomplished work to date for the label.

Melding experience working in the New Orleans second line tradition with an acute passion for all forms of rhythmic acceleration, Chants suffuses Seven Spheres with both a coiled, premeditated energy and bursts of spontaneous joy. Largely recorded at home and with friends, the percussion heard throughout the album is imbued with a beguiling tension: improvisational in spirit, but also rigorously gridded out for DJ play.

Meticulously workshopped from the ground up, Seven Spheres grew out of a series of sound design-focused drum tracks that developed into full fledged anthems like “Filament” and “Muzzoline”. Further experiments in speed and sub bass juxtaposition begat “Seven Spheres” and “Assiah Dance”, the spiritual core of the record and two tracks that have been hammered in mixes and radio by us and others.

At eight songs, Seven Spheres is a tight bundle, built out of individual tracks that show a remarkable plasticity in relation to every other track on the album. Having experimented in texture, structure, and tempo, the album is stylistically broad, yet singular in approach: the result of a labor of love and a long-held desire to design dancefloor-functional music. Seven Spheres is out on all digital platforms on August 23.

Seven Spheres

Chants - Assiah Dance [APR120]

Amman-born Lil Asaf and Beirut-born Khadije link up for the first time on “Msll777” as they work towards their full-fledged debut. The track marks Suleiman’s debut on the mic and is accompanied by a video directed by Yusra Nazek and shot in the Mar Elias Palestinian refugee camp in Beirut

Watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kCAihyd2s1c

Out now: https://astralplanerecordings.bandcamp.com/album/msll777

AQNB premiere: https ://www.aqnb.com/2020/01/30/thooms-production-as-khadije-on-lil-asafs-msll777-brings-grime-influenced-futurism-to-the-mar-elias-palestinian-refugee-camp/

Msll777 (prod. Khadije)

Lil Asaf - Msll777 (prod. Khadije) [APR123]

Dane Law - Algorithmic Music for Synthesised Strings
APR124 | Out April 24

Out Now: https://astralplanerecordings.bandcamp.com/album/algorithmic-music-for-synthesised-strings

'Algorithmic Music for Synthesised Strings' is Dane Law's (@thedanelaw) first release for Astral Plane Recordings, born out of a guest mix for NTS in August 2017. Across prior releases for Conditional, Genot Centre and Quantum Natives, the London-based artist has crafted a sonic space that merges pagan folklore, tensile algorithmic production and hyperrhythmic dance forms.

That NTS mix, titled “Digital Paganism”, was composed of a distinctly uncanny assemblage that drew from Arvo Pärt and The Wicker Man soundtrack. 'Algorithmic Music for Synthesised String's furthers the ideas introduced in “Digital Paganism”, a simultaneously explication of and alienation from its naturalistic tones gone haywire.

Across Algorithmic Music’s 12 songs, Dane Law’s delicate approach to composition is laid bare. Individual sound objects are isolated in space and rotated, forming plastic points in a series of eerie hymns. Guitar and synthesizer sounds are present, distanced from their quotidian origin points by an ascetic utilization of spatial mixing.

Built on MIDI files processed through a second order Markov strong algorithm, songs like “Running Hill” and “Southbound to denshaw” impose a certain music box familiarity, opening a portal to a world of skewed geometries where known forms are not what they seem. Meanwhile, the two part “Delph” saga embraces a spectral queasiness, morphing the ear’s ability to locate the shape of sound in time.

'Algorithmic Music for Synthesised Strings' is out digitally on April 24 and will be followed by a cassette release once regular trips to the post office are logistically feasible.

Algorithmic Music for Synthesised Strings

Dane Law - Michael [APR124]

MICHAELBRAILEY 'the broken heart is more than a metaphor it is terraforming in action'
APR125 | Out May 29

Out Now: https://astralplanerecordings.bandcamp.com/album/the-broken-heart-is-more-than-a-metaphor-it-is-terraforming-in-action

"waters of love" music video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJXV6V5BSdQ

Currently studying multimedia composition in Hamburg, MICHAELBRAILEY has spent the past several years cultivating the ground where text, lo-fi and hi-fi sound meet. the broken heart is more than a metaphor it is terraforming in action is his most concise personal statement to date, as well as his APR debut, an examination of love as a selfless, celebratory one-way transmission.

Across four tracks, the Manchester artist explores lossy love as a product of post-digitality, reimagining data’s journey through the sky, across mountains and over oceans as worthy of dedication in and of itself. the broken heart seeks to elicit sensations of overwhelm, filtering an entire field of human emotion into a single, fallible human experience.

EP opener “feathered comet” functions as a sensitive biological system narrowed into the scope of a sonic field, only to seep and swell beyond its boundaries. Voice is a tensile quantity, a control factor in a system constantly threatened by hard and soft noise. “waters of love” follows as steady crescendo, an overlay of voice and voice-to-text culminating in cries of “I wonder if he feels it” and an insatiable whirl of strings and digital clicks.

“remove protection” follows as the broken heart’s most defined pop moment, an almost big room outgrowth that tethers protection and innocence in an almost intolerable dance. As closer, “a bridge to you” features the stripping away of all else, leaving only dermal surface for voice and sprightly noise to scurry and flit across.

Short in length, the broken heart emanates a sensuous fatigue, the result of a virtual condensation process transmuting love across the heart-tech interface. The EP is out digitally on May 29.

the broken heart is more than a metaphor it is terraforming in action

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MICHAELBRAILEY - feathered comet [APR125]

Lil Asaf - Sawa Sawa
APR126 | Out July 31

Pre-order: https://astralplanerecordings.bandcamp.com/album/sawa-sawa

Following January's "Msll777" single, we're proud to deliver Lil Asaf's Sawa Sawa. Produced by Beirut-born, Berlin-based artist Khadije, Sawa Sawa bundles fragmented sonics with Lil Asaf's devilish vocal performance. Air horns, chimes, blast beats and wheezing rhythmic arrangements make up Sawa Sawa's backing. The beats knock as much as they disarm, utilizing a capacious approach to empty space undergirded by a copious and pernicious drone.

Asaf, also known as Bashar Suleiman, has honed his hectic, dim lit approach to rap across previous releases for ANBA and HIZZ هز. Riding roughshod over his own and Khadije's production, Suleiman delivers line after line of scraped expression into the pitch dark spaces between beats. Dub effects and the flinty corners of broken kick patterns form walls to bounce off of, filled by repeated refrain and howling sub vocals.

Sawa Sawa means “together together,” a phrase Bashar’s grandfather would say to him and his brother when they fought as children. This spirit is embodied in the circumstances behind its recording, born from a chance meeting between the two artists and recorded in several impromptu sessions. Sawa Sawa is accompanied by a music video for “3wwe”, directed by Yusra Nazek.

Sawa Sawa

Lil Asaf - 3wwe (prod. Khadije) [APR126]

Lil Asaf - Sawa Sawa
APR126 | Out July 31

Out Now: astralplanerecordings.bandcamp.com/album/sawa-sawa

Following January's "Msll777" single, we're proud to deliver Lil Asaf's Sawa Sawa. Produced by Beirut-born, Berlin-based artist Khadije, Sawa Sawa bundles fragmented sonics with Lil Asaf's devilish vocal performance. Air horns, chimes, blast beats and wheezing rhythmic arrangements make up Sawa Sawa's backing. The beats knock as much as they disarm, utilizing a capacious approach to empty space undergirded by a copious and pernicious drone.

Asaf, also known as Bashar Suleiman, has honed his hectic, dim lit approach to rap across previous releases for ANBA and HIZZ هز. Riding roughshod over his own and Khadije's production, Suleiman delivers line after line of scraped expression into the pitch dark spaces between beats. Dub effects and the flinty corners of broken kick patterns form walls to bounce off of, filled by repeated refrain and howling sub vocals.

Sawa Sawa means “together together,” a phrase Bashar’s grandfather would say to him and his brother when they fought as children. This spirit is embodied in the circumstances behind its recording, born from a chance meeting between the two artists and recorded in several impromptu sessions. Sawa Sawa is accompanied by a music video for “3wwe”, directed by Yusra Nazek.

Lil Asaf - Tazfeet (prod. Khadije) [APR126]

Lil Asaf - Sawa Sawa
APR126 | Out Now

Out Now: astralplanerecordings.bandcamp.com/album/sawa-sawa

Following January's "Msll777" single, we're proud to deliver Lil Asaf's Sawa Sawa. Produced by Beirut-born, Berlin-based artist Khadije, Sawa Sawa bundles fragmented sonics with Lil Asaf's devilish vocal performance. Air horns, chimes, blast beats and wheezing rhythmic arrangements make up Sawa Sawa's backing. The beats knock as much as they disarm, utilizing a capacious approach to empty space undergirded by a copious and pernicious drone.

Asaf, also known as Bashar Suleiman, has honed his hectic, dim lit approach to rap across previous releases for ANBA and HIZZ هز. Riding roughshod over his own and Khadije's production, Suleiman delivers line after line of scraped expression into the pitch dark spaces between beats. Dub effects and the flinty corners of broken kick patterns form walls to bounce off of, filled by repeated refrain and howling sub vocals.

Sawa Sawa means “together together,” a phrase Bashar’s grandfather would say to him and his brother when they fought as children. This spirit is embodied in the circumstances behind its recording, born from a chance meeting between the two artists and recorded in several impromptu sessions. Sawa Sawa is accompanied by a music video for “3wwe”, directed by Yusra Nazek.

Sawa Sawa [APR126]

Lil Asaf - Mbakal (prod. Bashar Suleiman)

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