Etcht Presents the first release in a series of Various Artist LP's 'Various Content Volume 1.' Volume One features a selection of 13 tracks from 13 artists focusing on a selection of ambient works that could make up a film score. 
You will find everything from Lush guitar works to dark melancholic undertones.
Something for each moment of this day, something to focus on or to have hiding in the background. 

Various Content, Vol. 1

Synkro - Detachment

From Silence

sparse, minimal, repetitive ... chords, field recordings, sequences...

One Summer

Immersive collaborative album of Atmøsphäre and Dionisaf, steeped in cold textures, shadowy resonance, and layers of abrasive noise, conjures a bleak sonic tundra — where icy drones, distorted textures, and shadowy pulses stretch across vast, unforgiving landscapes.

Produced, mixed and mastered by Tom Lievens (Atmøsphäre) and Dionis Afonichev (Dionisaf)
Cover picture by Tom Lievens
Cover design by Dionis Afonichev

Northern Dreamscapes

Arctic Night

AMP (Astrokid Mini Pack) – Mystic Caverns Vol.1

Mystic Caverns Vol.1 - Track 03

from the album 'pitch, paper & foil' available 11/6

christopher bissonnette 'epoch'

new album coming probably 2016

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Roel Funcken_Android Robson

Wil Bolton's 'Maemi' takes its title from the Korean word for cicadas. Recorded live at Cafe OTO, London during the Home Normal label's Homenormalism festival on 3 August 2013, Wil weaves effected guitar drones, synthesizer, music box, effects pedals and environmental sounds creating a slow moving dronescape. The environmental sounds - timber mill machinery, traffic, and the buzz of cicadas - were recorded in Incheon, South Korea in August 2012, during an artist residency at the Incheon Art Platform.

This is Rural Colours 77
Mastered by Fraser McGowan
Artwork by Katie English

Wil Bolton / Maemi (Preview)

It has been a long time since we've posted something here, so decided to change that by posting some unfinished ideas for the last album.  We didn't really know how to advance this one, so it ended with some jokes by throwing some hip hop acapellas in the end.

Tokyo

Peripeteia

Refuge/Refuse

Max Ananyev is a composer and classical guitarist originally from Far Eastern-Russia, who currently resides in Saint-Petersburg. Max began studying and playing classical guitar in music school as a child, composing his own pieces from this early age. In the last 10 years, he has become increasingly focused in his work as a composer, with numerous albums and EPs, released on British labels Serein and Preserved Sound as well as Moscow’s Fancymusic.

His process for creating music is to schedule some time specifically to compose. He does not wait for inspiration to strike, instead allowing this to take place once his studio sessions begin. Time is all that is needed for the work to develop and it is timbre which is the target, so that specific sounds can be achieved. He prefers his recordings to flow into an album or record, rather than selecting the best sounds from a large pool of material.

Thematically, anything from the sunlight beaming onto the wall in a room, chance communications with people and traveling can influence Max as an artist. His unrelated studies at the time of recording subconsciously feel linked to this body of work somehow, with lectures on Renaissance alchemists, mythology, death and human evolution having been an area of research during this album’s production period. Nietzsche’s tightrope walker was also a poignant read at the time and purely by coincidence, the person in the cover image appears to be walking a tightrope. 

However, conceptually there is not a neatly mapped-out journey for the listener. Instead the asymmetric shapes of atmospheric sound and the names they have inherited, along with the cover artwork tell different stories as each track passes. Introductions, codes, different parts and moods unfurl carefully in the lightest breeze, like classical music. Midday creates a warm and restful environment for the listener to make sense of this collection of moods; a task made all too easy thanks to its shimmeringly adherent gathering of light sounds.

Written, Produced and Mastered by Max Ananyev
Photography by Natalia Poluyanova and Dmitriy Ratushniy
Packaging design by Harry Towell

Midday

wlr078 Max Ananyev - Midday

Etcht Records
Etcht001 - Consequence 'Etcht EP001'
Etcht002 - Cam Chorder ' The Worst'
Etcht003 - Various Content Vol.1

Etchtech Sound Packs
Etchtech001 - Arovane
Etchtech002 -  Consequence
Etchtech003 - Alphabet Tones
Etchtech004 - Kiyoko