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Pre-order the vinyl: bit.ly/1Bzc1Ab

LA-based electronic duo OOFJ are elated to announce the release of their sophomore album Acute Feast (April 21 on Ring The Alarm Records).

The brainchild of real-life couple Jenno Bjørnkjær and Katherine Mills-Rymer, the LA-based electronic duo OOFJ met in New York City while Bjørnkjær was working on music for Lars Von Trier’s Melancholia. This chance encounter developed into both a romantic and sonic chemistry that would eventually lead to the couple collaborating on music that formed the foundations of OOFJ.

Equal parts glamorous and nightmarish, with a glittery seductive tone to it, Acute Feast hints at the otherworldly, almost hyper-real world that OOFJ don’t just reside in, but have orchestrated.

Acute Feast

Sailor

SUBMOTIONS

The Angels Are All That's Owed (Banjo instrumental)
Banjos, guitars, Synths, Instruments recorded, produced, mixed and mastered by Duke Keats - Connor John Marcus Blundell


The Angels Are All That's Owed (BANJO INSTRUMENTAL)

#slowcore #midwest #shoegaze #sludgemetal #alt#alternativerock #shoegazemusic #heavyshoegaze #rock #indiemusic #indierock

grey/wash.

Oaktree - Dust EP

Release date: 5/2/16, [PIAS]


Encounter was written, produced & mixed by Oaktree & Pieter Nooten
Piano & strings recorded by Stefano Guzzetti / Additional cello by Lucas Stam
Mastering by Matt Colton

The 'making of Encounter': https://encounter.redbullelektropedia.be/

Oaktree - Encounter (with Pieter Nooten)

"an exquisite little pop record" - Mary Anne Hobbs

"A euphoric yet deeply textured track that’s easy to get lost in" - The 405

Out on strictly limited cassette and digital formats 17th Nov 
PRE-ORDER: https://phantomlimblabel.bandcamp.com/releases

Esoteric electronic duo Hirola announce the release of their fantastic debut mini-album through new music group Phantom Limb, headed by FatCat alumnus James Vella and former Royal Albert Hall exec Mark Pearse.

Hirola comprises Bristol-based producers https://soundcloud.com/lto-oa (formerly of acclaimed electronic outfit https://soundcloud.com/oldapparatus, and a highly respected solo artist in his own right) and @edapollo (who has had releases on Bad Panda Records and Svnset Waves). Their music together is entrancing. More expressive and human than straight computer music, much more obfuscate and abstract than pop music, Hirola’s debut offering has strength enough to scale multiple peaks. From deeply textured electronic production that competes with Kiasmos or Rival Consoles, to lush vocal delivery akin to Rhye, to a dreamy and hazy wooziness roughly orbiting in Boards of Canada’s galaxy. There is enough intricacy and intelligence of sound design and composition here to roughly mimic, say, a Thom Yorke remix of a Tim Hecker track.

Though founded in LTO’s piano playing (he is a piano teacher in his civilian life), edapollo’s vocals and the pair’s shared production alchemy, Hirola is more than just a skill-trade, but a mutual elevation and inspiration, a new concoction very different to its base materials. “It's taken a couple years of trial and error to develop a sound that's equal parts LTO and edapollo,” Hirola write.

The mini-album was created over those couple of years of honing and sharpening, culled from an ongoing body of work, continuously constructed, fluidly and instinctually, as a production collaboration. Eventually sending to Phantom Limb through an existing friendship, the record serves as a bird’s eye view over the span of Hirola’s production and songwriting skills, its abundance of sound design, melody, field recordings and room-shaking bass delivering greatly, and yet promising more.

The record was mastered by Taylor Deupree of 12k Mastering (Loscil, Hauschka, Ryuichi Sakamoto etc.) and features original artwork created by Hirola.

Phantom Limb was launched by Vella and Pearse in June 2017, the former having spent eight years in A&R for FatCat Records, and the latter heading the Royal Albert Hall’s contemporary music programming before moving into music publishing. Hirola is its first original release, offered on strictly limited cassette and digital formats in November 2017

Hirola

Hollow

Christopher Willits - Olancha Hello
taken from Oktaf#04
Various Artists - Lost In The Humming Air (Music inspired by Harold Budd)
Out on Oktaf (Kompakt) april 9th.

Buy CD/DIGITAL at: oktaf.bandcamp.com

Also at:
itunes:
http://itunes.apple.com/de/album/sleepover/id511873032?i=511873124&ign-mp...
boomkat:
http://boomkat.com/downloads/507702-various-oktaf-lost-in-the-humming-air-mus...
beatport:
http://www.beatport.com/search?query=music+inspired+by+harold+budd
bleep:
https://bleep.com/release/35734

With "Lost In The Humming Air - Music inspired by Harold Budd" oktaf records announces an amazing collection of thirteen exclusive tracks made by a selection of some of todays best known ambient music producers giving their tribute to the outstanding piano legend Harold Budd.

The playlists features names as: Deaf Center, Loscil, Martin Fuhs, Biosphere, Xela, Marsen Jules, Andrew Thomas, Mokira, Christopher Willits, Taylor Deupree, Rafael Anton Irisarri, Porn Sword Tobacco and bvdub feat. Criss Van Wey.

Well known for his spaceful piano playing and his early cooperations with Brian Eno, Harold Budd has inspired a whole generation of modern protagonists of ambient, jazz and especially the so called modern classical genre. WIth his recent releases on David Sylvians Samadhi Sound label as well as on Darla, he is still showing his outstanding musical genius to the world.

"Lost in the Humming Air (Music inspired by Harold Budd)" will be released on April 9th (March 26th digital) on oktaf records. Exclusively distributed by Kompakt.

Olancha Hello

Ze - Ka

**taken from the upcoming Zelienople album "Hold You Up", coming March 13th on Miasmah.

"For their first album in 5 years, Zelienople turns on the current time with a record of low-key decaying songs wrapped in hypnotic, driving rhythms.

The Chicago based trio is back with a stunner of an underground pop album. Their most reverb heavy bombast is gone in favour of pure earth bound intimate tunes that feel like they summon the spirit of the late Mark Hollis. Shrouded tribal percussion and rippling vocals are at the forefront, while looped atmospheres echo in the distance.

Since the release of their last album, vocalist Matt Christensen has been known for pouring his soul out in countless bandcamp releases of singer/songwriter, experimental and ambient offerings. It's hard to keep up with him, but one can't but to admire the dedication and extremely high quality of it all. Mike Weis on the other hand is less prolific, but has become a focused student of Korean Shaman and Buddhist music, often performing in zen based percussive rituals when he's not involved in side projects of improvisational music. Brian Harding is perhaps the most anonymous of the three, yet he is the steady, grounding element on bass that keeps them as one. Together, they create a beautifully realised own voice that feels especially close on their new album. Hold You Up is like a slow walk through a withering world, though one with a sense of refuge. This is music with heart - navigating darkness through light."

Hold You Up

Zelienople - You Have It

Music Inspired by the book "The Outlaw Ocean" by Ian Urbina.

"Music can express the unknown, like feelings beyond words. This music reflects the mystery and magnitude of the ocean, but below the surface of the sound is a story of heartbreak and healing. For me, this music is about grieving problems beyond our control while inspiring change within ourselves in order to make a difference." - Christopher Willits

The book, "The Outlaw Ocean", reveals the dark secrets of the high seas and, in doing so, illuminates hope for change. Author Ian Urbina listens to the voices of the unknown, salvaging stories and mapping their ethical murmurs for others to discover.

Download: https://shop.christopherwillits.com/track/the-unknown-sea
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/7iZrVACezmJTAP5BF3tSbD?si=t8XKUvKKTIuaaXeh_7JMfg
Website: 
https://www.christopherwillits.com/

Viola - Charith Premawardhana
Guitar - Christopher Willits
Production - Christopher Willits
Mixing and mastering - Christopher Willits
Produced at Overlap Studio in Oakland, CA
Inspired by The Outlaw Ocean by Ian Urbina

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