Release Date: March 4, 2021
Pre-order: https://theorytherapy.bandcamp.com/album/the-best-people-are-like-water

Theory Therapy’s first cassette release comes from Concave Reflection aka Tommy Paslaski, one-third of Chicago-based group Purelink.

Calm but rarely completely beatless, The Best People Are Like Water hovers in the interstice between the club and the comedown. The tape consists of 11 immersive tracks that split the difference between atmospheric downtempo and hypnagogic ambient. Side A is predominantly beat-based, channeling the best elements of ’90s chillout room music, while side B is a more celestial affair — the aural equivalent of noctilucent clouds swirling slowly in the sky.

The album displays many of the qualities found in Purelink's music — syncopated breakbeats, pristinely mixed drums and airy atmospherics — but an added sense of intimacy runs across its 11 tracks. Paslaski has described his process as "layering and layering until I have a cohesive thought, then sometimes playing my loop pedal cello stuff over it and seeing where it takes me". This improvisational approach translates into an album that feels aleatory, organic and extremely personal, as though it was produced by some arcane and abstract method, like wind roiling midnight air or slowly crystallising water.

The Best People Are Like Water was mastered by Joseph Buchan aka Other Joe. Ben (kindtree) consulted on mixing for the A side. All tracks were written and produced by Tommy Paslaski.

There are a limited run of 50 cassettes, all made from recycled materials. 

Mastered by Joseph Buchan
Artwork by Kata Szász

TTT001: Concave Reflection - 'The Best People Are Like Water' (Snippets)

From the "Nostalgia Por Mesozóica" LP
Muscut 16LP (12", 2022)

Nostalgia Por Mesozóica

Nikolaienko - Dark Archeo (Muscut 16LP, 2022)

JUNGLE GYM RECORDS presents "Tunnel Vision", official debut of L.A.'s Las Cuevas! Reverb-soaked psychedelic surf jams drift from distant mountain caves and out to sea, a shroomed up dub odyssey twisting like curls of smoke through space time and dissipating into the stars... peak Cali vibes, exclusively from JUNGLE GYM!


𝓛𝓐𝓢 𝓒𝓤𝓔𝓥𝓐𝓢 is...

🔮 Caleb Dravier (bass, design)
🏄 Jared Carrigan (guitar, mastering)

[JGT85] "Tunnel Vision" - Las Cuevas (Previews)

Tape available now via Imprec.com

Duane Pitre's Varolii Patterns was made with an eight-voice synthesizer, tuned in Just Intonation. These consonant pieces explore shifting polyrhythms that slip in and out of rhythmic focus and "Common Rhythmic Pulses" that carry over as the pattern evolves within a piece.

Artist statement:

"While experimenting with microtonal electronics for a piece I was writing for Zinc & Copper, which would eventually be titled Pons, I came across a process-based technique that I was quite keen on. Although I wouldn't use this technique on the Zinc & Copper piece, I would later implement said process to make up some of the electronics on Omniscient Voices. During this time I carried out dozens and dozens of instances of this process and recorded them all. Varolii Patterns is composed of a small collection of these recorded takes, ones I felt were stand-alone pieces on their own and that worked well together as a whole."

Duane Pitre - Varolii Patterns 10-1 - Tape Available Now

This month’s Amulet of Tears mix comes from Istanbul-based artist Ekin Fil, which is veiled in reechoing wind, freefalling from misty sky. 

The mix embodies acoustic qualities over tangibility of the spatial structure of turbulence - the sound, which unites phenomena, a vast world in yielding shafts, pliant brims with billows - stream of rush-hour merged into a single point.

Amulet of Tears 033: Ekin Fil

Music: @ekin-fil

Artwork: @anasisana

Amulet 033: Ekin Fil

https://emuplabel.bandcamp.com/album/0lfqtncw0ydqvtcy0lag0lfqsnc10lhqsnc7

5th release of EMUP Label: 16 tracks cassette. Available for preorder.
Release date: March 2023

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CTRadio ~ Tarotplane  06/03/23

Artist: Jan Jelinek
Title: SEASCAPE - polyptych (OST)
Cat#: faitiche 31
Release: April 28th 2023
Format: LP/DL

One of the most notorious hatemongers in movie history is Captain Ahab from John Huston’s 1956 classic Moby Dick. His manic monologues cast a spell on generations of viewers. Berlin based musician and sound artist Jan Jelinek has now turned the voice of Ahab into a musical instrument.

Faitiche presents Jan Jelinek's soundtrack for SEASCAPE – polyptych, an audio-visual software developed in collaboration with Canadian new media artist Clive Holden in 2022.
SEASCAPE – polyptych is based on image and acoustic source material from Moby Dick. While Holden works on manipulating film sequences, the voice of Ahab plays a central role in Jan Jelinek’s soundtrack. The dynamic volume and tone of the captain's speech control a synthesizer system that turns Ahabs voice into ten abstract soundscapes.

In this production the voice gives the impulse and controls things but is not the sound of spoken word itself that we hear. Only occasionally can snippets of speech be heard so that syllables or sounds are recognisable. Instead we hear compositions made of hissing, soundscapes and eruptive sounds. The atmosphere is dark and sinister. Still every piece has a clear sonic structure and follows an understandable dramatic composition. This music is abstract but not overwhelming. Quite the opposite, SEASCAPE – polyptych is an invitation to listeners to let themselves be carried by the stream of sonic events.
 
Although part of a media art work, the soundtrack can be enjoyed without any of this connecting superstructure. It works with no previous knowledge. But what happens when one does know that it’s the sonic waves of a human voice that is controlling a network of synthesizers?

If you want to hear Ahab, you will hear a choir of Ahabs in every piece of sound. The subliminal threatening as well as the conjuring Ahab. Finally the Ahab who whips up his crew and tears them with him into their downfall. The majestic „on the quay now, waiting and watching“, the oppressive “drawn towards the whirlpools center” - they are all music as well as sonic discourse.

Jan Jelinek: Drawn Toward The Whirlpool's Center

OL - XY mix

PAMMIX025: "C SIDE" CS

INTERVIEW > https://inverted-audio.com/mix/ol/

Russian producer OL (@moneyisagas) delivers a fresh and unorthodox podcast for the IA MIX Series composed of new and unheard material from the man himself and like-minded friends.

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Small music label based in Yekaterinburg, Russia

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