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Buy/stream: https://kompakt.fm/releases/agartha_lp_dl

‘Where is Agartha? What is the specific region in which it lies? Along what road, through what civilizations, must one walk in order to reach it?.’ Saint-Yves d’Alveydre in 1886

Agartha, the debut full-length album by Japanese producer Wata Igarashi, is a mysterious, divine thing. Named for the mythical secret kingdom, understood as a complex maze of underground tunnels, perhaps designed by Martians who colonised the Earth tens of thousands of years ago, it’s a similarly mystical, perhaps even cosmic trip – but this time, exploring an inner, deeply personal cosmos. Beautifully detailed and bustling with rich incident, it takes Igarashi’s music to new places, which still retaining his unique sonic imprimatur; in this respect, it’s perfectly at home with Kompakt, a label that’s always encouraged artists to make the visionary music they need to create, to take risks and make sideways steps into uncharted territory.

An eloquent producer and DJ, Igarashi has been releasing techno for eleven years now, appearing on such imprints as The Bunker NY, Delsin, Midgar, and Time To Express; he has also self-released his productions via his WIP net label. Throughout, Igarashi has consistently explored his unique approach to techno and electronic music, one that’s eloquent and poised, even when it shifts into more psychedelic terrain; he’s a master at balancing the sensual and the functional, and he has an unerring ear for the right texture, the right tone, at the right time. He brings all of this into Agartha, his most thorough-going expression of self to date.

For Agartha, Igarashi had a strong concept he wanted to explore. Visualising specific scenes from an imaginary film based on the titular secret kingdom, he created soundtracks for those scenes, spending time during the pandemic in his studio, working away carefully at the ten tracks here. Given his background in creating music for television and advertisements, Igarashi is well-placed to explore the marriage of the sonic and the visual in such intimate ways, but freed from commercial concerns, he let his imagination run riot. He also drew on a rich palette of musical influences – techno is in there, of course, but you can also hear the smoky, improvised jazz of the likes of Miles Davis (to whom the album’s title is an indirect nod), and the minimalism and systems music of Steve Reich.

The latter is particularly pronounced on the gorgeous, beatless drift of “Floating Against Time”, where an arpeggiated sequence lingers, lovingly, around your ears for nine blissful minutes, coasting across swooning drones and waves of ambient noise. “Ceremony Of The Dead”, originally composed as part of a Sony 360 Reality Audio spatial sound concert, is a deep pass into systems composition, with various patterns overlaid and interlocking, before a wordless vocal rises from the depths, a gorgeous counterpoint to the swarming textures that gather across the track. On the other hand, tracks like “Burning” and “Subterranean Life” nudge toward Fourth World territory, painting deluxe dreamscapes of uncertain provenance; the title cut is an abstract drift-world, Igarashi painting an alien tableau dotted by shape-shifting creatures.

Agartha’s conceptual framework means that everything on the album sits perfectly together; listening to it in one sitting is a dizzying, lush experience. Its imaginings of inner landscapes recall, in some respects, the nautical, aqueous mythologies of the Drexciyan universe, though from different perspectives. But the result is Igarashi’s own creation, a deluxe, enchanting trip through the visionary Agartha of this unique producer’s cinematic mind’s-eye.

Agartha

Wata Igarashi - Searching

Donato Dozzy - Magda - Spazio Disponibile - Spazio028

buy vinyl: https://www.spaziodisponibile.net/release/8583/
buy digital: https://donatodozzy.bandcamp.com/album/magda

a1. Velluto
a2. Magda
b1. Le Chaser
c1. Franca
c2. Santa Cunegonda
d1. Lucrezia

@Donato-Dozzy presents his next studio album entitled ‘Magda’. An emotional hommage to family and the Adriatic Sea. Over the course of six tracks he explores colorful emotions and sounds connecting to his deepest inner feelings. Speaking through music and showing gratitude to his auntie, one of the strongest women in Donato’s life and a real life teacher.

Spazio028 - Donato Dozzy - Magda/Le Chaser/Lucrezia snippets

Cloudborn

Heaven (w. cranes & mental)

Stranger - Play Some Rave For Me [MONNOM008]

Sandwell District, "Falling the Same Way"

Octagon

Euromantic Records 2017
EUROMANTIC 001 EP
https://www.discogs.com/fr/Niki-Istrefi-EUROMANTIC-001/release/10752121

Niki Istrefi - Red Armor

The music was loud and we were all Hopeless of what awaited us outside..
@renascence9293
Out Now :
Deejay: http://goo.gl/THVKLc
Juno: http://goo.gl/GcWX55
Decks: http://goo.gl/Nn6HXF
Redeye: http://goo.gl/ZBHbp4
HHV: http://goo.gl/c3E4TR
Chez Emile: http://goo.gl/yqxPhC

Hopeless [Out now]

https://vaerel-records.bandcamp.com/releases

Remember, son of Earth, that ability depends on the will. 
If your will is to be accomplished, you must be daring, and to dare successfully you must be able to keep silence until the moment comes for action. 
To possess Knowledge and Power, the will must be patient, to remain on the heights of life you must first have learned to plumb with steady gaze vast depths.

Wheel Of Fortune

Acid Program

DONATO DOZZY - CLEO

Bandcamp : https://vaerel-records.bandcamp.com/album/ra-r-le-pendu
Triple Vision : goo.gl/KQj8RU
Deejay : goo.gl/wQqBew
Juno : goo.gl/b2DerY
Decks : goo.gl/6LYZAt
Red Eye : goo.gl/QHwbFU
Freestyle : goo.gl/twuBzE

Remember, son of Earth, that devotion is a divine law from which none may have dispensation, expect nothing, only ingratitude, from men. 
Let your heart be always ready to tender its account to the Eternal, if Arcanum XII appears in your horoscope, violent death will lie in wait for you on your path through life. But if the world makes an attempt upon your earthly life, do not die without accepting with resignation the will of God and without pardoning your enemies; for whoever does not forgive shall be condemned, beyond this life, to an eternal solitude.

VAEREL002

Le Sacrifice Moral

La Via della Seta

White River

Track taken from 'Apparitions', the Forest Drive West 2x12" release on Livity Sound released 12th October 2018.

Apparitions

Forest Drive West - Phaze-Shift

Taken from the upcoming Vril album on Delsin Records "Anima Mundi"

https://www.delsinrecords.com/release/6086/vril/anima-mundi

Anima Mundi

In Via

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@forest-drive-west's track "Parallel Space (Conforce Remix)" will be released through @echocord on January 10th. More Info: http://bit.ly/forestdrivewestep

Veröffentlicht von:
Echocord

Erscheinungsdatum :
10. Januar 2020

Parallel Space EP

Forest Drive West - Parallel Space (Conforce Remix)

Eerie records is a techno music label  founded in 2012 by Marco Sartorelli (Marco Shuttle) initially mainly as an output for himself but then slowly opening its doors to other projects/artists like Healing Force Project, Domenico Crisci and Anxur (the collaboration between Shuttle himself and fellow italian techno maestro Donato Dozzy).
The label idea and philosophy is to approach electronic music in an experimental and challenging way welcoming and pushing all the contaminations this music has the potential to embrace. 


DONATO DOZZY - CLEO

EERIE records

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