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A selection of the best tracks from April 2016. Chosen by the Danish music blog Musik Mig Blidt
www.musikmigblidt.dk

Guldkorn april 2016

Iman

Remix for the clarinet ensemble "Clarinet Factory" and their anniversary release "Worx and Reworx".

Picture by Ashley Percival

"Birdsong" Floex Angry Bird Remix

Angel Song

Ólafur Arnalds and Janus Rasmussen finally release their unique Nordic electronic sounds in album size.

'Full of melancholy-frosted electronics and emotive swells of classical piano, the new single from Nordic duo Ólafur Arnalds﻿ and Janus Rasmussen is a delicate, icy slowburn' – NME

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After dropping several tracks and performing at select festivals throughout the years, Ólafur Arnalds and Janus Rasmussen dedicated the year 2014 to explore the area in-between Ólafur’s more acoustic, piano-based solo work and Janus’s synth-heavy electro pop, with their collaborative electronic project Kiasmos.

By focusing solely on their self-titled debut album, Ólafur and Janus have been able to combine and further develop their unique sound aesthetics to complete an album driven by their mutual love for electronic music. Made in Ólafur’s newly build studio in Reykjavík, Iceland, a majority of the album was recorded using acoustic instruments next to a variety of synthesisers, drum machines and tape delays. It features a live drummer, string quartet and Ólafur performing on the grand piano, producing an ambient, textured sound, which makes it a perfect home listen and equally danceable record. If you listen closely, you can spot them record the thumb piano, finger snapping and even the sound of the metal grinder of a lighter slowly to replace the usual electronic hi-hat sounds, giving the album a far more intimate and unique atmosphere.

“We decided to start almost completely over with this record, so most of the material is written this year with the idea of making a record that can stand as one piece rather than a collection of songs. I am very excited to get a proper record out exploring a different territory than I am used to. I touch a lot on electronic genres in my own music but never have the opportunity to go full out electronic like we do here.” – Ólafur Arnalds

“The Kiasmos project has been around since 2009, but because of all our other projects we never really got the time to sit down and write all the tracks we always wanted to. So when we early this year finally found the time to sit down and make a full length album there was so much we wanted to try out. The result surprised us a bit, it's deeper and more emotional than we imagined it to be, but that's the beauty of being able to make an album.” – Janus Rasmussen

Kiasmos – s/t will be released on Double-Vinyl, CD and Download via Erased Tapes on October 27th, 2014.

TRACK LISTING:

1. Lit 2. Held 3. Looped 4. Swayed 5. Thrown 6. Dragged 7. Bent 8. Burnt

LIVE DATES:

29.11.2014 London (UK) – Village Underground
05.12.2014 Berlin (DE) – Watergate
06.12.2014 Istanbul (TR) – Salon
15.01.2015 Groningen (NL) – Eurosonic

OFFICIAL WEBSITES: facebook.com/kiasmos · erasedtapes.com

Kiasmos

Bent

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Kiasmos - Bent

"Í gegnum Ísinn" from Ólafurs original score for the film Vonarstræti / Life In a Fishbowl 

Stari Í Gegnum Ísinn

A Winged Victory for the Sullen – 'Atomos' out on October 6, 2014.

ORDER the album now on CD/2xLP/DL and Ltd. 500 edition clear vinyl via our store: www.erasedtapes.com/store/index/ERATP061
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TOUR DATES: 
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After releasing a first glimpse in the form of the ‘Atomos VII’ EP earlier this year, A Winged Victory For The Sullen finally reveal their second full-length album entitled ‘Atomos’, which besides familiar piano, string and drone sounds also sees the duo introduce flurries of electronics, harp and modular synthesisers.

Wayne McGregor, founder of Random Dance Company and resident choreographer at the Royal Ballet, chose to play the album repeatedly during practices with his core group of dancers. After noticing the group's reaction with the music, he contacted Adam and Dustin to see if they could write the score for his new oeuvre. The duo were given complete artistic freedom and they treated the score with the same care and attention as their debut album. They recorded more than sixty minutes of music over a four-month period during the summer of 2013 across studios in Brussels, Berlin and Reykjavik, with the help of their long time collaborative sound engineer Francesco Donadello. During the recording process they realised, that this would become their official second studio album. McGregor provided them with the inspiration to expand their sound palette into more electronic territory, whilst keeping their signature chamber sound, resulting in a very unique record.

“As a wise man once said, one who procrastinates their own choosing will inevitably have their choice served to them by circumstance. We had virtually no time for second guessing ourselves. That being said, we tried to balance the discordance between being creative, and fulfilling our duties for a commissioned soundtrack with a very strict deadline, and all the while staying true to our collective melancholy.‘’ – Adam Bryanbaum Wiltzie

“We never imagined 2013 would be such an explosively creative year. The first record took us two years from start to finish, but in the micro span of time over last summer we were able to change the formula for the way we write, record, and let go. It was incredibly liberating.” – Dustin O’Halloran

OFFICIAL WEBSITES: awvfts.com · erasedtapes.com

Atomos

Atomos VI

A Winged Victory For The Sullen – Atomos VI

Latest single from Steso

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Listen to an exclusive “Solo Piano Edit” of 'Them' by Nils Frahm, taken from his approaching Late Night Tales album. The original version appears on his score of the film 'Victoria'. 

"This is the main theme from my first feature film score and it soundtracks the part where they finally kiss in the club… I soloed this piano part in the track and listening to it on its own, I almost preferred it to the original version, so I was pleased that I had the chance to use this alternative version on my mix." - Nils Frahm

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Nils Frahm - Them [Solo Piano Edit] (Late Night Tales: Nils Frahm)

‘Loon’ will be released on Erased Tapes as a 12” vinyl as well as digitally on October 2nd. 
Pre-order it here: www.erasedtapes.com/store/index/ERATP072
or via iTunes: http://snip.ftpromo.net/loon

Containing five synthesiser-led pieces, ‘Loon’ was recorded in autumn 2014 across five days at Nils’s Durton Studio in Berlin, and continues on from the ambient sounds of ‘Stare’ but with the addition of more percussive elements and dub influences. For this new EP the duo wired an Oberheim 4 Voice and a Korg PS3100 to the mixing desk and performed live takes on both instruments. With all four hands on its pots, all mixes were recorded straight onto 2-track ½-inch tape.

Like on ‘Stare’, their first collaborative affair in 2012, they simply followed what was laying in front of them, and this time they were driven by some new synths, a kick drum and tape effects. Indulging in dub, the tracks where all performed rather than engineered, with Ólafur riding a few elements on faders and Nils bringing effects in and out. After running several mixes, they went for the five strongest moments from this session. The release was announced on a joint website www.arnaldsfrahm.com together with the launch of an intimate 45-minute studio film titled ‘Trance Frendz’, featuring another seven improvisations.

“Nils got some new synths and we thought we’d try them out. We loved them so much that we didn’t actually end up using anything else to make these songs.” – Ólafur Arnalds

“When I was young I was smuggled to Goa parties by my brother. The music played there in the late nineties had a somewhat deep effect on me. ‘Loon’ is almost a blurry memory of these times. In other words, it is what I’d like to remember that music sounded like back then. In fact it sounded probably really cheesy.” – Nils Frahm

Loon

Four

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Ólafur Arnalds & Nils Frahm – Four

Sufjan Stevens -Should have known better (DF Tram Remix)

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• Official Video: https://youtu.be/62VmotZgkEY
• Stream on Spotify: https://spoti.fi/2G41rYN
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Don't pull away (ft. Rhye)

Quarzbrecciakammer sets up a circuitry that reestablishes flows between innovations in chamber reverberation, baroque seismology and quartz crystal electricity. It places 18th century architectural acoustics in measure with the undulations from Innsbruck's quartz-phyllite belt, by way of voltage from crystalline sediments, that themselves get filtered back through contemporary preoccupations with ambient audibility. The piece attempts dendritic hearing. A strategy that avoids distinctions between the social and the geological in order to listen for a more inclusive ambience: one that follows murmurous events as they reflect, refract and recur through expansive contexts.

For more details on Quarzbrecciakammer read Raviv Ganchrows essay: http://spectral-sounds.tumblr.com/quarzbrecciakammer

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Spectral Sounds is a site specific sound art exhibition at a band stand entitled Musikpavillon in Innsbruck/Austria.

Spectral Sounds commissioned seven sound artists to realise a site specific sound piece for Musikpavillon at Hofgarten Innsbruck. 

http://spectral-sounds.tumblr.com/

Raviv Ganchrow - Quarzbrecciakammer (excerpt)

Taken from the upcoming album 'Third Law'.
Released January 22nd via Tri Angle Records.
2xLP, CD & Digital.

First single, '4101' is available to buy on iTunes now. Also available as an instant grat with any pre-order of the album; 
itunes.apple.com/us/album/third-l…d1057689581?ls=1

Roly Porter -  Known Space

From "Superficie" released on alt.vinyl.com ||| Alberto Boccardi & Maurizio Abate

Alberto Boccardi & Maurizio Abate - Spherical Point

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Lou Lou

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Produced by Skyence, Lukas Ernst
Lyrics by Edina Hittinger, Jochen Mader, David Ernst

Mastered by 15Hz Mastering

(c) 2016 GTWCK

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Soft Decibels

Wake Up, You've Failed

Taken from 'Crucial' EP by Starchild & The New Romantic, out March 18, 2016.

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Or at the retailer of your choice: Ghostly.lnk.to/starchild

Crucial

Starchild & The New Romantic - Relax

lyrics:

ivy— baby—
sweetheart—
you’re so insecure:
taking back your words.

Oh, lover—
loveless— 
take me, take me by my hair;
take me to your lair.

Oh, ivy— sweetheart—
daydream—
speechless ain’t your thing;
tell me what you need.

hey-hey ivy— honey— 
daydream—
fill me with your needs;
I don’t need to breathe.

Oh, I understand, always understand. 
What’s the problem?

Oh, I understand, always understand. 
What’s the problem?

Hold-up, 
I get it.
I know that you meant it.

The distance between us,
the size of a planet.

It could have been nothing—
slow motion discussion.

I wake up with nothing.

(i wanna)
(i gotta)

(get away).

Taken from his debut album 'Gravity' re-issued by Erased Tapes on June 10.

Order the LP/CD/DL here: www.erasedtapes.com/store/index/ERATP084
iTunes: http://snip.ftpromo.net/gravity
Spotify: http://snip.ftpromo.net/onlyinthedark
Bandcamp: http://snip.ftpromo.net/gravitybc
or any other good record store worldwide

In celebration of their latest signing, Erased Tapes are set to re-issue Ben Lukas Boysen’s compelling debut album ‘Gravity’, alongside new album ‘Spells’ on 10th June 2016.

‘Gravity’ was the first album Ben recorded under his own name, merging programmed piano pieces with live instruments, combining the controllable technical world and the often unpredictable aspects of live improvisation.

From ‘Only In The Dark’ to the two movements of ‘Nocturne’, it’s a serious, solemn listen. And yet, with pieces like ‘To The Hills’ and ‘Eos’, ‘Gravity’ is an exploration of heights, cliffs and vertigoes. With piano lines and choir-like drones, this record suits its title in all its meanings, as the magnetic force takes us deeper towards the core. Marking a new beginning, this debut reveals a touching, and more melodic side to Ben’s body of work, which he previously only hinted at as HECQ.

Friend and fellow Erased Tapes artist Nils Frahm mixed and mastered the album. Ben is not a master pianist like his dear friend, but his sound collages are so meticulously designed that after hearing the result an impressed Nils declared: “from now on, if anyone asks – this is a real piano”.

His intricate, humanised programming – enhanced by drummer Achim
Färber, additional synthesisers played by Nils, and a considerate selection of echoes, delays and compressors – has been used to create a hybrid sound that intends to deceive, question and challenge existing listening habits. Utilising the contrast between reduction and decoration, ‘Gravity’ as well as its successor ‘Spells’ can be seen as a quest to find out how much or how little composition is required to constitute a song. Why the ear can and should be deceived about the authenticity of instruments. What significance these instruments have within this process, and why the personal perception of balance and sound exclude ultimate truths. Linking the two albums are the four movements of ‘Nocturne’, an ever-developing conversation that on occasion flirts with the grandeur of compressed rock drums.

As HECQ Ben has released nine albums since 2003, exploring everything from ambient to breakcore. He has simultaneously established himself as a trusted composer and sound designer, working for a wide array of clients including Amnesty International and Marvel Comics; composing for feature films, games, art installations and convention opening titles.

After embracing this demanding line of work, in 2010 Ben felt the need to explore his roots and early education, which inspired these albums under his own name. Born in 1981 as the third child of opera singer Deirdre Boysen and actor Claus Boysen, his classical music training on piano and guitar began when he was seven years old; the works of Bruckner, Wagner and Bach laid an important foundation. Rediscovering this music shared with his parents – united with the sounds of Autechre, Cristian Vogel and
Jiri.Ceiver to Pink Floyd and Godspeed You! Black Emperor – brought back an understanding of why he wanted to write music in the first place.

“Gravity strips away the cloaked mysteries of electronic music production to expose the tender side of this musician’s mind." — Headphone Commute

TRACKLIST:

01. Only In The Dark
02. Nocturne 1
03. To The Hills
04. You'll Miss Us One Day
05. Gravity
06. Eos
07. Nocturne 2
08. The Behenian Gospel

Gravity

Only In The Dark

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Ben Lukas Boysen - Only In The Dark

In the Lens, Solo Andata’s fourth full-length album, was born from recordings found in the interstices of decades-old hard drives, lost email threads from disused accounts, and forgotten samples recorded on cassette dictaphones. These fragments were combined and re-worked with newer elements to create an album very much in the spirit of the band’s debut Fyris Swan (Hefty Records, 2006), an album touched by both folk and jazz and swathed in a dusty, narcotic haze.
Solo Andata’s Kane Ikin and Paul Fiocco have always pushed aside the digital studio in favor of a more haphazard and hands-on workshop vibe to their productions. They prefer near-broken acoustic instruments, cheap microphones and, as can be witnessed by their live performances, tend to turn anything they can get their hands on into a beautiful sound-making object.

While there is a raw and guileless nature to the duo’s sound it is precisely this that makes their music so powerful amidst the over-produced cliches of much modern music. The beauty of their work is how simple instruments and objects can be physically manipulated into creating such rich, layered sound. Dark, swaying, almost-looped melodies from piano, woodwinds and horns wrap themselves in smoky obscurity around remnants of percussion and warm beds of noise and the world around us.

In The Lens is very much a late-night record, reflected in the rain-soaked cover imagery, dripping with half-forgotten memories. Jittery yet calming, rhythmic, yet unhurried, it leads you down its dark corridors to a soft resting space. Ikin and Fiocco have created a new story around the chemistry of their creations that were taking place during the early days of their musical explorations.

In The Lens

Separate Lovers

New https://soundcloud.com/olafstuut album 'Run' is out June 10. 
Pre-order: https://atomnation.bandcamp.com/album/run
More info: http://atomnation.net/ATM039-Olaf-Stuut-Run

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Olaf Stuut - Thank You

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Artist: the volume settings folder
Title: Purity III
Album: Ivan Hoe and Other Tales
Format: Cassette [C80]
Release Date: 9 Nov. 2012

Preorder for the Cassette available 
from 2 Nov. 2012 at  <a href="http://www.organic-industries.com">Organic Industries</a> 

"Shades dance as the leaves shake - a water filtered sun"

Purity III is a title that comes to you as part of the Ivan Hoe album. 
The white audio cassette is limited to 50 copies.

The digital version of this album will be released at  <a href="http://organic-industries.bandcamp.com">Bandcamp</a>
 on October 16th 2012

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Artwork Purity III:

Alfred Rethel (1816 - 1859) was a German painter. "Death as a cutthroat," a skeleton appearing at a masked ball, scraping daintily, like a violinist, upon two human bones. The drawing haunted the memory of his artist friends and disturbed their dreams; and, in expiation, he produced his pathetic design of "Death as a Friend."

Death as a cutthroat (1851)
Not only the plague provided an opportunity for the creation of new representation of Death. At the 19th century, another illness infected Europe in waves: the cholera. Rethel drew Death as a cutthroat, and engraved it later, since woodcut was a very popular genre at this time. He was inspired by by an account that the celebrated poet Heinrich Heine had made of the sudden outbreak of cholera in the year 1832, at a masquerade during the carnival of Paris. Here, Death plays a kind of violin, while the musicians flee. Close to them,stands a emaciated female silhouette, wrapped in a shroud: symbol of the disease. In the foreground, some people have already died of the cholera.

the volume settings folder - Purity III [Ivan Hoe and Other Tales] - Organic Industries C001

Founded by sonic architect and explorer Robert Raths aka ghostworker in 2007, Erased Tapes is a truly independent record label that has disrupted the industry and rejuvenated the musical landscape. The London-based label has consistently nurtured genre-defying artists from all around the world without losing its avant-garde ethos.

2015 saw BBC 6 Music radio presenter Mary Anne Hobbs stage an Erased Tapes evening featuring Nils Frahm and A Winged Victory For The Sullen at the Royal Albert Hall as part of the prestigious BBC Prom. It was the fastest selling ticket of the entire season. Shortly after Erased Tapes was awarded Best Small Label 2015 at the AIM Awards.

On February 5th 2017 Erased Tapes opened the doors to its new East London home, marking the 10th anniversary by introducing fans and the public to the new Erased Tapes Sound Gallery.

“Ten years of one of the most important record labels of the last few years“ — Gilles Peterson

"Over the last decade, Robert Raths’ label Erased Tapes has developed a sonic profile perfectly in step with the growing taste for quiet, meditative works on the cusp of ambient and chamber music" — The Independent

“The heart-string-tugging London label that floats gently between 20th century composition and ambient music” — Rolling Stone