A superb binaural trip. Truly mesmerizing!

love the subtle textures emerging at this point

Original version of Sort is part of the album, Balladeering.
Balladeering was released in 2009 by Loveland Records.
Sort (Opiate Rework) produced in August/September 2013.
The Rework and other remixes by Trentemøller, Den Sorte Skole, etc. included as downloads as part of the vinyl/CD album, December Song. 


Jakob Bro - Sort (Opiate Rework) 2013

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Out on December 21

release page: https://dronarivm.com/2016/12/07/chihei-hatakeyama-above-the-desert/

"Our intention is to affirm this life, not to bring order out of chaos, nor to suggest improvements in creation, but simply to wake up to the very life we’re living, which is so excellent once one gets one’s mind and desires out of its way and lets it act of its own accord". 

- John Cage 

I recorded this album in the basement studio. 
I recorded the sound output from the guitar amp and the speaker. 
The sound seemed to be blowing. 
In this album I worked underground in the bottom, so I imagined by creating an image of the sky. 
So this album is the theme of desert and sky. 

- Chihei Hatakeyama 

Chihei Hatakeyama's pure white zen drone is one of those good ways to wake up, probably.

Above The Desert

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CHIHEI HATAKEYAMA - Energy (from 'Above the Desert' CD)

Artist: Ursula Bonger
Title: Rhythmus 80 (bonus track, originally released on 7" vinyl 'Pluto hat einen Mond', Maas Media 2010)
Album: Recordings 1969-1988
Format: LP/DL
Label#: faitiche01 (2018 remastered version)
Release date: Oct 26th 2018

Ursula Bogner: Recordings 1969-1988 

Faitiche is ten years old. October 2008 saw the release of Ursula Bogner - Recordings 1969-1988, for which the label was created. While working as a scientist in the pharmaceuticals sector, Ursula Bogner experimented with electronic music, undiscovered, for over three decades. When Jan Jelinek first heard Bogner’s work in 2008, he was enthusiastic. The resulting album, compiled by Jelinek from Bogner’s extensive oeuvre, is being reissued in a remastered version (LP/digital) to mark the label’s tenth anniversary. The new version also includes four bonus tracks that were previously only available on a vinyl 7" single (Ursula Bogner: Pluto hat einen Mond, Maas Media Verlag 2010).

From the reviews of Recordings 1969-1988 in 2008:

pitchfork.com
Most of Recordings 1969-1988 sounds simultaneously like pop and art. Bogner's M.O. is to take a few simple loops - rumbling bass, watery plops, chirping squalls, laserlike blasts - and overlap them, producing songs so sweet they'll make you laugh (the elephant-march opener "Begleitung für Tuba"), so repetitive they'll hypnotize you (the swinging "Inversion"), and so inventive they sound alien (the robotic "2 Ton").

The Wire Magazine
Despite Bogner's status as a bona fide outsider artist, her music opens up a surprising number of connections. It's terse, yet playful; cosmic in reach, yet human in scale. Much of the strange, laconic material collected here would fit seamlessly alonside the recent anthology of work by the BBC Radiophonic Workshop's John Baker - and there are occasional, skewed parallels with the gentle pulsations of Cluster and Harmonia.  

residentadvisor.net
Recordings 1969-1988 collects 16 of these early electronic collages, many of which clock under two minutes, and presents them as a crate-digging, proto-techno discovery along the lines of BBC Radiophonic Workshop alumni such as Daphne Oram and Delia Derbyshire. Raymond Scott comes to mind as well. Bogner's work exhibits that same kind of curiosity with what those machines could do: it's simple and short and imperfect.

Ursula Bogner: Rhythmus 80 (2018 remaster, bonus track)

Hiroshi Yoshimura

I remember making this track:

I was walking through Glasgow, handing out CV's because my parents had told me I needed a job, even though I was studying, so I could get another job in the future (no gaps in my employment record). It was raining and I didn't want a job. CV after CV was handed in. If you've never been to Glasgow, I can tell you the rain is very "sharp"; it cuts through your clothes and stings like little bolts of electricity surging though your body (not like Edinburgh rain).

While I was on Great Western Road, near the Botanical gardens, I had this strange recolection of the way I felt in High School: a sense of confusion and non-belonging; disphoric. The fact that the person I was then was almost completely erased from memory, a blur, yet still present years later, was strange and relativley existential. 

I went home and made this, and as strange as it is, this piece of music sounded exactly the way I felt in that specific moment. And for that reason I've always considered this paticular track a creative, artistic success. 

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