Ambient Minimal

Taken from Antonymes' 2011 album "The Licence To Interpret Dreams". Check out the full album and other Antonymes releases at Hidden Shoal - http://www.hiddenshoal.com

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Antonymes - 'A Light From The Heavens'


Track taken from the album 'There Can Be No True Beauty Without Decay' / HB50 - Released October 2013

Ian M Hazeldine records under the alias Antonymes, hailing from Hawarden, a small village in North Wales, whose most famous inhabitant was William Ewart Gladstone. He creates atmospheric melodies, using various pianos, celesta, strings, church organ and field recordings, and has had releases on Soundcolours, Cathedral Transmissions, Hidden Shoal, Time Released Sound and Rural Colours.

With a long standing interest in music making and active listening, Hazeldine works with any influences, from his surrounding landscape to the artists he has worked with. His compositions often take on a semi-improvised structure with accidental atmospheres used as a starting point. As well as his own projects, Hazeldine also works with Marconi Union's Richard Talbot, under the name Prospector. He also works as a graphic designer, film maker and photographer, having art directed many of the Hibernate releases including our critically acclaimed vinyl series, and has worked with many other artists and labels including Facture, Field Rotation and Olan Mill.

In late 2009 Antonymes released 'Beauty Becomes the Enemy of the Future' on Cathedral Transmissions of which the CD is now unavailable. Since then he has revisited the album, which has culminated a new release, 'There Can Be No True Beauty Without Decay'. Hazeldine's own reworkings are intertwined with those of friends Ian Hawgood, Isnaj Dui, Offthesky, Field Rotation, Wil Bolton, Spheruleus and James Banbury to create an album of captivating melancholy and beauty. The guest reworkings venture into other, darker territories, where one might be harder pressed to identify the original material.

The sleeve features beautiful images of the North Wales landscape by Richard Outram, fitting the music perfectly.

Credits:
Mastered by Jason Corder (offthesky.com)
Photography by Richard Outram and Ian M Hazeldine
Art Direction by Ian M Hazeldine

“Majestic testament to a talent that is fully realized… Hazeldine’s work is distinct, yet the parts remain hazy in one’s memory, dreamlike” - The Silent Ballet

"So moving that I myself am at a loss for words" - Delusions of Adequacy

"Not only music for dreams, but rather a complex mosaic by a romantic minimalist" - Ondarock

"Unfolds at a beautifully measured pace" - Textura

"Barely visible movements of slate grey cumulonimbus, slowly building its massive architecture, rumbles of thunder emanating from its core" - Futuresequence

"Amazingly uplifting listen with surprise euphoria hidden around every corner" - Norman Records.


Misshapen Beauty [i]

Grandbrothers debut album 'Dilation' is out now!

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Grandbrothers - Notbrause

The last track from my EP.  Rather fittingly, this song is called 'Curtains'. 
This is how 'an ending' sounds to me.  
From the EP 'To Tell The Truth, I Didn't Lie'.

Curtains

OP 𓅛 mix 10 - Valentin Stip Mix

one hour of pumping weirdness from the bottom of the ocean
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tracklist:
captain murphy - the killing joke
lukas nystrand von unge - bra for dig
ghosts - the city (benjha remix)
egokind & ozean - always
leon vynehall - sister
benjamin damage - 010x (scntst remix)
last japan - float
the white lamp - ride with you (mike dehnert remix)
four tet - aerial
audion - sky (daniel avery remix)
koreless - last remnants
faltyDL - atlantis
alois & ferdinand - inconnu
foodman - transansen
captain murphy - mighty morphin foreskin

Egokind & Ozean - Podcast for DASDING Plattenleger

‘A Clearing’ is the new single by US ambient artist Drew Sullivan (aka Slow Dancing Society), taken from his forthcoming sixth album The Cogent Sea. ‘A Clearing’ sets the scene beautifully for The Cogent Sea's masterfully handled journey into new territory for Drew Sullivan. Gently overlapping waves of synthesizer are suspended amid sustained tones, holding the listener transfixed before Sullivan’s trademark guitar sound gently brings the listener back down to earth, transformed.

Slow Dancing Society’s sixth album The Cogent Sea is another absorbing progression in Drew Sullivan’s discography, introducing elements such as saxophone and old-school drum machine rhythms into the mix. The album explores some of Sullivan’s more overt ’80s influences while also drawing upon elements from across Slow Dancing Society’s stunning, critically acclaimed back catalogue.


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Slow Dancing Society - 'A Clearing'

02. Andi Müller - "Comedown" (Luke Abbott Remix)

Axel Willner - Monte Verità - The Monte Verità Mixes

The Monte Verità mix series was created by our longtime friend Axel Willner (aka The Field), and represents an extensive exploration of his vast and rare vinyl collection. Each mix is a psychedelic trip through lost sonic worlds, offering a deeply personal insight into the music that’s inspired his career.

We will be releasing a Monte Verità mix on the first of each month. All roads lead to somewhere...

Stuart Dempster - Morning Light
Brian Eno - Discreet Music
King Crimson - Waiting Man
Nick Drake - Horn
Pharoah Sanders - Kazuko
Stars of the Lid - Reqiuem for Dying Mothers Pt.2
Tim Hecker - I'm Transmitting Tonight
Colleen - Goodbye Sunshine
Holger Czukay & David Sylvain - Flux (A Big, Bright, Colourful World)
Popol Vuh - Aguirre
Loops of your Heart - Cries
Hans-Joachim Roedelius - Mein Freund Farouk
Pete France - The Swimmer
Love Inc. - Life´s A Gas
Do Make Say Think - The Fare To Get There

Axel Willner - Monte Verità - The Monte Verità Mixes

Written and Produced by Justin Manzano. 
Mastered by Simon Struthers at Forensic Audio, Leederville.

Available on Apricot Rail - Surry Hills (2011), Hidden Shoal Recordings.

Together, They Forgot Who They Were

Taken from the Slow Dancing Society 2006 debut album "The Sound of Lights When Dim". The track is also the basis for Antonyme's re-working in the piece 'The Grey Sea And The Long Black Land' from the 2011 EP "We Don't Look Back For Very Long" which sees Antonymes reworking a track from each of Slow Dancing Society’s four albums.

"The Sound of Lights When Dim" is a sumptuous unfolding ride towards a fading horizon. As with Eno’s finest moments and Sylvian’s ambient explorations, this work manages to dissolve its temporal markers and speak about moments removed from time. It talks to the delicious flaws of memory and feeling whilst never sullying itself with literality or simple documentation.

Slow Dancing Society - 'Be There'

Luke Abbott - Brazil (Live on Tape)

sound(ge)cloud 043 Ambient-Special by https://soundcloud.com/thom-monn (Basel/Switzerland) – Även solen har sina fläckar

Ganz ruhige Töne kommen heute aus dem schönen Basel. Thom Monn ist ein alter Hase in der Basler Elektro-Szene und ein ganz besonderer Sound-Fetischist. Seine Sets erzeugen immer diese ganz besondere Stimmung denen man sich einfach nicht entziehen kann. Vor allem zwei Königsklassen der elektronischen Musik beherrscht er wie kein anderer --- zum einen ist er einer der besten Warm-Up DJs (hier sei sein Set „Warmup For Marek Hemmann“ erwähnt) und zum anderem ist er ein Virtuose der Ambient-Musik. Seine Ambient-Sets berühren die Seele, sind dann auch gerne mal melancholisch aber doch bleibt immer eine gewisse Zuversicht und Liebe zurück.

Thom vielen Dank, das du dir trotz dieses für dich so schweren 2016, die Zeit genommen hast uns so eine schöne Auszeit von der Realität zu zaubern.

Lasst euch von der Musik berühren.

Thom Monn (Basel/Switzerland)
Soundcloud Thom Monn --- https://soundcloud.com/thom-monn
Ambient Thom Moon --- https://hearthis.at/thom-monn/

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sound(ge)cloud 043 Ambient-Special by Thom Monn – Även solen har sina fläckar

‘The Colour Of Long Days’ is a companion track to the recently released We Don’t Look Back For Very Long EP by neo-classical/minimal ambient artist Antonymes.

As with the songs on his new EP We Don’t Look Back For Very Long, ‘The Colour Of Long Days’ is Antonymes’ reworking of music by fellow Hidden Shoal artist Slow Dancing Society. This time ‘The Red Summer Sun’ from Priest Lake Circa ’88 is transformed, the original’s shimmering waves of guitar forming a background against which plaintive piano chords resonate beautifully. Antonymes marries SDS’s glistening atmospheres to his own trademark ambient neo-classical minimalism, creating a completely mesmerising hybrid.

Antonymes meets Slow Dancing Society - 'The Colour Of Long Days'

Mobius Streak

Taken from new album On by German experimental ambient artist Markus Mehr, the second part of a triptych that also includes recent release In and the forthcoming Off.

On is a continuation of the experimental direction of Markus Mehr’s previous releases, with eight diverse tracks employing samples, field recordings and slathers of Mehr’s trademark distorted drones. This approach is apparent right from opener ‘Gonna Make You Mine’, as scything slashes of sound leap from the speakers. Single ‘Flaming Youth’ counterbalances fragments of static against a gorgeous sleepy-eyed loop of mangled lounge-jazz. A track as expansive and moving as ‘Duck Became Swan’ is followed by brief rhythmic piece ‘Olympia’. This tightrope walk between dizzying samples and exacting digital manipulation is walked with aplomb throughout On’s adventurous and thrilling 45-minute runtime.

On is preceded by In, the first part of the triptych, which comprises two monumental tracks, ‘Komo’ and ‘Ostinato’, each of which clocks in at around 25 minutes, circling around and building upon hypnotic instrumental motifs. The final part of the triptych, Off, released on 24 January 2013, includes the most epic piece yet, ‘Transit’, which clocks in at 49 minutes and will be performed live in collaboration with video artist Stefanie Sixt, who created the video to Mehr’s single ‘Cousteau’.
 
“one of the best releases so far this year and one which will absolutely be appreciated by fans of abstract ambient music and soundscapes” – Petal on In

“They’re ‘big’ compositions, the sheer scale of the sonic work is rather awe inspiring, but they never sound antagonistic or uncomfortable… it sounds like the ebb and flow of space itself – individual snippets of a grand, repeating, organic process that keeps the universe in balance…” – No Ripcord on Lava

Markus Mehr - 'Only For A While'

Built around chiming, delayed guitars but never succumbing to their delicious momentum, ‘I’ll Leave A Light On’ sees Slow Dancing Society evolving once more, masterfully adjusting his tonal palette to create a gleaming musical universe. Like a trance breakdown that threatens to build into a booming pay-off but never does, ‘I’ll Leave A Light On’ leaves the listener perpetually gazing into an undersea abyss, suspended agog.

‘I’ll Leave A Light On’ is taken from the forthcoming fifth Slow Dancing Society album Laterna Magica. Underpinned by his gorgeous trademark guitar drift and warm synth wash, yet sparingly propelled by throbbing electronic undercurrents, the tracks on Laterna Magica demonstrate another key progression in the Slow Dancing Society discography, which is becoming one of the essential bodies of work in contemporary ambient music.    

‘I’ll Leave A Light On’ is available for free download from the Hidden Shoal Store (http://store.hiddenshoal.com). It is taken from Slow Dancing Society’s forthcoming fifth album Laterna Magica, which will be available for CD pre-order on the 24th of August (all cd pre-orders come with an immediate download of the album) and officially released on the 18th of September.

Slow Dancing Society - I'll Leave a Light On

Taken from the fifth Slow Dancing Society album "Laterna Magica".  Underpinned by his gorgeous trademark guitar drift and warm synth wash, yet sparingly propelled by throbbing electronic undercurrents, the tracks on "Laterna Magica" demonstrate another key progression in the Slow Dancing Society discography, which is becoming one of the essential bodies of work in contemporary ambient music. 

Availability: CD pre-orders(inc. immediate download) 24th August 2012, Official release 18th September 2012.
Buy from http://store.hiddenshoal.com


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Slow Dancing Society - 'There's A Place For Us'

The inimitable Ian Hazeldine, aka Antonymes,rounds off the year with his stunning interpretation of the well known Christmas song 'Carol of the Drum' (popularly known as 'The Little Drummer Boy').

Ambient Minimal

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