Adrian, this is an excellent accompaniment to reading.

Video gambling addicts, academic researchers, and industry professionals alike describe the trancelike state into which problem gamblers suspend themselves with remarkable consistency: they unanimously call it the machine “zone”, a kind of inner experience during which the rhythmic flow of human-machine collusion borders on mysticism. Time is abolished in the act of contemporary video gambling―simulated slot reels roll, virtual poker decks deal, and all worldly concerns are lost―leaving only the aura of total zone immersion in its wake. Sometimes characterized as the crack cocaine of gambling, the intensity of the machine zone is a symptom of casino ergonomics: oxygen-saturated pleasure air, subtly controlling walkways, mesmerizing lights, and, as captured here, meticulously engineered sonic environments all play a role in evoking the timeless void of the zone.
          Although I was not yet aware of the extent to which casinos tailor their environments for maximum comfort (and, correspondingly, profit), I did know as I crossed the threshold of my first casino floor earlier this year that it would not be my last visit. Hit by a cornucopia of slot machine tones, triggering aleatorically and coalescing into shimmering masses, I was struck by the need to return and record the sounds that so entranced me. It wouldn't prove to be easy―casino security is intense (you can hear me get warned of the consequences of taking photos at the beginning of the disc's second track)―and due to the clandestine nature of the operation, my recording techniques were by no means sophisticated. Equipped with nothing but an Olympus LS-11 recorder's internal microphone stashed in a sweaty coat pocket, I allowed the lure of the zone to guide me through a series of ambling recording sessions over a period of four months, the best of which are included here. 
          I learned a lot about casino sonics in the process: game designers, for example, tune their machines to the key of C in order to optimize harmonic cohesion; one team of designers, the story goes, even spent a month perfecting a single 'ding' sound on one machine. In the interest of preserving the true ambient sounds of the casino these recordings are completely untreated, but lost in the sea of chance I did exert some affirmative control by means of meandering intent and my actual playing of the machines. And by participating in the games myself I got a taste of the financially debilitating consequences that accompany the enchantment of video gambling. The disc in your hands represents my endeavor to bring you the zone experience without the harsh comedown of its unfortunate reality.

Adrian Rew: 3/31/2013 - Horseshoe Casino, Cleveland, OH

From "Angelic Driver" full length 
cassette and digital available on Traced Objects
https://tracedobjects.bandcamp.com/album/angelic-driver

angelic driver

DEAR009

A/W23 FOLKS COLLECTION W/

1. @memmel9
2. Will More
3. @neszdc
4. @cconnttacctto

7" HANDMADE LATHE CUT // DIGI
BC & SC EXCLUSIVE (TEMPORARY)

Mastering by Lorenzo Targhetta
Artwork & design by Manon Michèle
Cut by Emiliano Flores

Minimalist / contemporary / folk music for emotional wanderings at the dawn of autumn.

<3

Spellcaster - fanart3

The 38th release of katharsis and our final release of 2023 is the prodigious compilation "Embracing Darkness, Absorbing Light" featuring a vast array of artist beloved by the label. Throughout the grandiose line-up of the 36 tracks, the listener is absorbed by various differing interpretations of the theme outlined in the title of the album. Some of the invited artist went full into introverted progressions and meditative sounds, while others focused on aggressive rhythms or anthemic melodies. But even though the styles and techniques of the songs differ from each other, the artists seem to have some commonality in their sonic palettes that binds it all together in a mutual love for music as a healing force of nature <3

releases December 29, 2023

artwork by jjjacob
mastering by jjjacob

pre-order:
katharsis-label.bandcamp.com/album/embr…bing-light

Embracing Darkness  Absorbing Light

crescenta

jjjacob & bod [包家巷] - crescenta

melting beth (glorybox edit)

First touch 

Aestum - Sidereus
S280F - 727 ҈ -  leviathan
Oleksii Podat - we'll just do it again
Heinali - Tramvai 14
ummsbiaus - Strum
nunu ntp - AirLock
claire rousay - tuufuhhoowaah
Voin Oruwu - Never Again
Revshark - Baked In Cozy Conditions
Undo Despot - dark benefit
Keppel - Thursday morning
Sd Laika Great God Pan

Also field recordings are used. It's kinda hybrid mix with Ableton.

⛳️

PEOPLE PLEASER - 0

all good things

Lipstick Stain and Pee: Jedranaline invites Haider - 12/08/2024

Eaves (@eavesss) 'Verloren' out now on PTP

Digital 
-OR-
Vinyl Edition LP (w/ bonus remixes by City, ||FLORA, GIL, Petit Singe, x/o) on 12" 140g vinyl with full-color, fold-over jacket (including D/L card): bit.ly/2fxZC8k

Also available here: 
Boomkat: bit.ly/2gCfSdA
Bleep: bit.ly/2gM1r5z
Junodownload: bit.ly/2fL5K1f
iTunes: hyperurl.co/EavesVerloren

Tracklist: 
01. New Babylon 
02. Vascular 
03. Exegesis 
04. Moor 
05. Dragliner 
06. Burial Moth 
07. Mare 
08. Agafia 
09. Wound 
10. Crop Ruin 
11. Linthen Heap 
12. Sin 
13. Seas 2 
14. Roraima 
15. Manual Children 
16. Edgelands

Vinyl Edition Bonus Remixes:
1. Exegesis (GIL Remix)
2. Seas 2 (||FLORA Remix)
3. Roraima|Agafia (Petit Singe Remix)
4. Vascular (x/o Remix)
5. New Babylon (City Remix)

Mastered: Jeremy Cox 
Cut: Greg Reierson
Artwork: Werkflow 
Additional Design (Vinyl): Joshua Padarathsingh (Jacket) & Amad Ilyas (Label) 
Cat. No.: PTP2001

Verloren

Buy Digi/Vinyl+Remixes

Eaves - Linthen Heap [PTP2001]

AVAILABLE NOW ON 'EDITS 2018' (free download above)
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credits:

v1984 - Too Much
v1984 - Birth of Venus
Ariana Grande feat. The Weeknd - Love Me Harder
Celyn June - Veracity Scene
additional production from MICHAELBRAILEY

Edits 2018

v1984 x Ariana/The Weeknd x Celyn June - 🎀 LUVM3-H4RD// 💖 [MICHAELBRAILEY 'waay 2 much' edit]

taken from "𝓈𝒶𝓁𝒶𝓉𝒶²²⁰⁵ (charity compilation for Maciek)":
https://xxxglamourxxx.bandcamp.com/album/charity-compilation-for-maciek

online post-release party:
https://www.facebook.com/events/2638117263136748/

Hi there!

Sorry to bother you & writing about this so late, but the case is really urgent and important . .

We're running a pretty sexy label called glamour.

A few days ago our friend survived a major accident and he ended up being paralyzed from the waist down. He'd been in a coma for two weeks, woke up and doctors said he won’t walk anymore. He created a fundraising page (zrzutka.pl/s33zx9) so we decided to help him raise the money for everything by making a charity compilation that we would release on glamour’s bandcamp.
We wanted to ask, if maybe you (or any befriended musical project you know) would like (and could of course!) to be featured in such a compilation? For now, we have 70 confirmed artists (including galen tipton, John Object, Dmitri Mazurov etc.), many more to come.
All the money from bandcamp would go for Maciek. We thought of you because we admire your music so soooo much, and still want this compilation to be pure quality! <3

(The track must be unreleased yet, but you don’t have to make a new piece especially for the compilation. You can even give us something you’ve created some time ago but never published it.)

Thank you for your time!

Wiv love,
glamour

Maciek:
zrzutka.pl/s33zx9

artwork by Sam Balfus
www.instagram.com/balfua/

master by Bartek Kujawski
8rolek.bandcamp.com

𝒢°07

Adrian Rew: 3/31/2013 - Horseshoe Casino, Cleveland, OH

Ergot Records

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