'Skótos' is a collection of gloomy soundscapes portraying a year of life in Scotland. Based on improvisation, deconstructed organic sounds and field recordings taken during everyday life, hikes and wild camping trips in the Highlands, this dark ambient piece serves as a kaleidoscope of intoxicated memories of the artist: constantly swinging between moments of joy and pure darkness, love and apathy, oneness with nature and hallucination, nostalgia and escapism, the album is a rough yet emotional journal of life experiences in one of the most fascinating and wild areas of Europe.

Skótos

Crepuscular Visions

Hexalyne - Vell Object

The second release of POSITIVLAND by Mancunian artist:

Faff
@ffaf

PSTVLND 002 - 04/01/2024
positivland.bandcamp.com/

Limited ≈200 copies in Black vinyl, 180g.
Very Limited 26 hand-numbered copies, Splatter vinyl 180g
* Release Limited Edition 25/01/2024

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Note from the artist:


Faff’s Scrapbook.ep

This record is a collection of tracks I made from the start of 2019 to the end of 2021. They all exist completely independent of each other. My intention while working on music during this time was to create a time capsule/memory album for me to remind myself of my moments with. I had a lot of different experiences and substantially changed during this time. The early tracks were made by a completely different person than the person typing this. Of the 6 tracks on this EP, only one of them was made with the knowledge that it would be put together with the others and released as one cohesive article.

I wanted to make music again after abandoning it for 3 years. One of these tracks marks the turning point where a projected pipe dream of determined mastery was cracked through by what the speaker cone did when piano roll blocks were placed intuitively for the first time. 

In this .ep, I present:

THE CONCEPT

In its disjointedness, this music has presented itself to me as a scrapbook. It is rough around the edges, vague in its sentiment, and has more of an emotional than abstract association. While brainstorming for visual ideas to package these tracks in, I spat a bunch of words into a GAN and the words might be useful for you to get a sense of the general themes:  “synthesizer drum machine back catalogue emotional syneasthesia-inducing dance music” “vibrant energy synthesiser music record” “faffing about analogue synth music maker colour-changing light experiment” “bedroom studio acid bass sentimental rave artisan” “braindance analogue synthesiser data catalogue metaphysical music” “psychedelic synthesiser contemplation heartfelt breakbeat lullabies” “reaction diffusion rephlex records melancholic analogue music journal” “cerebral rave chromatic anthem dirge synth memories” “tr-808 analogue rave cerebral music energy ritual”

There is a dualistic nature to this EP, as it is a highly organised arrangement of totally disparate tracks. They are all (except one) built inside a DAW, but largely featuring live performance recordings of analogue hardware. The recordings are then processed after the fact. Layers on layers of humanity and machine, analogue and digital, specificity and ambiguity. All of the tracks are also subjectively experienceable pieces of music, but they sit in an objective folder structure on my laptop. Each one also was ignited by a unique occasion, but absorbs new meanings and connotations as time flows through and around them. These polarised paradoxes are key to the idea of this EP. Even to have a concept EP assembled from standalone tracks without any uniting concept is an example of the intertwining of opposites. Visuals associated are DAW architecture, poorly managed cables in thrown-together bedroom studio, piles of photographs printed out, computer folder structure, MIDI information in piano roll/automation envelopes, synthesiser encoders and pots.

Buy it:)!!

Special thanks and love go to Weefween, Robert and Chloe 

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credits
release January 4, 2024

Written, composed and produced in Manchester, UK, by Faff.
Mastered in Groningen, the Netherlands, by Johanz Westerman at Balyhoo Studio Mastering.
Designed in Manchester, UK, by Faff + Weefween + Positivland.
Distributed from Sardinia, Italy, by Desslab.

www.desslab.net
www.positiv.land

Faff - Shallow Focus (Snippet)

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limited edition of 100 items, handstamped and individually numbered with photographic insert

bandcamp

global aphasia - aux4441 - 12'' snippets

As you well know, electronic music is so amazing because it is capable of merging with any musical style. Apart from this, you are not subject to particular instruments, so it is not very complicated to evolve and open new paths. Among all the musical fusions and derivations that we have been able to hear in all these years there has always been one (I don't know if I should call it a genre) for which I have had a special weakness, Braindance. Anyone who is influenced by more acidic sounds, syncopated bass, funk drums and nostalgic pads will be deliciously grateful for this new album from FLUCTUOSA _ VODOR L ZECK. In my opinion they are masters in this style. While Fluctuosa honors a very original and refined composition that becomes addictive, Vodor makes use of the iconic 808/606/303 combo to develop delicious funky (sometimes Jazzy) tracks that transport us to the golden era of electronic music

Here we have 80 amazing minutes that we hope you all enjoy.
Remember that when everything turns gray and boring, Braindance has always saved the day.

Vodor L Zeck - RüzgarsSey

Brijeet

My name is Manja Ristić, and you are listening to the Framework radio International Women’s Day special.

> https://frameworkradio.net/2024/03/880-2024-03-10/

In this edition you will hear sounds and creators from South Africa, Marocco, Ethiopia, Lebanon, Iran, China, Brazil, Argentina, Mexico, and Columbia; Spain, Greece, Serbia, Croatia, Bosnia, and Slovenia; from UK, Australia, USA, Germany, Italy, and Ireland; with aporee sounds of morning prayer in Ramallah, and bird’s song from Jerusalem – I am taking you for a journey around the Globe presenting the real sonic history of the world, the one told by girls and women. From place to place and from heart to heart, these voices hold the space together, storytelling from the shadows of oppression and discrimination, with wounds inflicted by systematic neglect, poverty, and wars – these authors speak the truth and nothing but the truth.

I am deeply humbled to present works by fierce creators, researchers, mothers, activists, freedom fighters, tribal elders, and one famous nun, life-long expats, and former sex workers; extraordinary versatility, and contemporaneity of their sound, being their common denominator, is what will mark this International Women’s Day Framework mix.

[ artist – release – track ]

Zayaan Khan – Ephesus at Fajr
Li Yilei – Pillow, Mantra and Trance
aporee.maps – Birds of Jerusalem, April 7th 2012
Kei Watanabe – Whisperings – 03 A whole in my heart
Elyse Tabet – seaside – 06 Sequel – live to tell (with Nadine Makarem)
Maria Papadomanolaki aka Dalot – Departures – 11 Unknown Parks, Unknown Cities
Concepción Huerta – The Earth Has Memory – 02 The Crack is Illuminated
Ana María Romano G. – A mundanear que el mundo se va a acabar
Chantelle Gray – On the lower frequencies, I dream
Eruption Duo – Eruption 20 Years – 07 Worms
Hara Alonso – Notions of Hope – 02 Notion 2
Maryam Sirvan and Hadi Bastani – trans.placed – 01 trans.placed
Assoc. Lalla Rkia Ali o Hmad (Timgharin N’Tiznit) – Salamou Alaykoum ⵚⴰⵍⴰⵎoⵓ ⵄⵍⴰⵢⴽoⵓⵎ
Ester Kärkkäinen aka Himukalt – the gun in her mouth
Robertina Šebjanič – Aqua Atmo Adriatic, 10 meters deep
Cynthia Zaven – Untuned 
Gail Priest – elbejée – aötebe 
Manja Ristić – tailless tarantella lifted its head – Vrnik 
Marija Balubdžić Umbra – Derealized – 05 B1 Sreda
Belinda Blignaut and Jacques van Zyl – Mud Rites
aporee.maps – morning prayer in Ramallah
Katharina Schmidt – Another Year – 02 september. the first sweater of the fall
Beatriz Ferreyra – UFO Forest + – 04 Vivencias def
Emahoy Tsege Mariam Gebru – Jerusalem – 01 Famine Disaster 1974
Manja Ristić – Bunur Bridge, Neretva River – hydrophone
Florconvenas – Donde hundimos nuestros nombres – 01 Para detonar
Stella Veloce – Saturday 
Natalia Beylis & Eimear Reidy – She Came Through the Window to Stand by the Door – 03 Encircled in Moss
Meghan Judge – heterodyne relations – gaia intrudes
Talulah Lotus – Horrorphone 
Manja Ristić – rain from the bag in the big forest
Youmna Saba – Ritha’
Pheobe riley Law – cove – 01 cove
Verónica Cerrotta – Camadas verticales – 01 Camadas verticals
Jasna Veličković – Shadow Study #4A
Ava Rasti – Apranik Records – Eight Night
aporee.maps / Birds of Jerusalem – April 7th 2012

Framework IWD 2024 —— Manja Ristić

@anittaxoxoxo
This time around, we have put together a cassette tape of works by artists from Japan and all over the world.The label is proud to announce the release of Secret Stairs vol. 2, which features the work of several up-and-coming producers including Anitta, Funktor, A/Filatov, Jaquarius, CH415, as well as Methodd, JIN-CROMNYON, lee, and Caramel Chameleon, who have all released or remixed on the label, and Yuki Tosaya,Yuki Tosaya will also participate.The acid and electro based tracks are sure to inspire you.Designed by SUNTRA, as in Vol. 1, the content is even funnier than last time, and is a wonderful addition to the collection that you will want to have in your home.

Secret Stairs vol​.​2

buy cassette

A2. Anitta - Savoy Ca

CRTTR is pleased to present their newest format for releasing music.

The CRTTR-CLB series carries the vision of exploring different ways of challenging the notion of club music. For each release we want to bring together four artists who have somehow given us a glitchy feeling on the dancefloor, while digging or in any other listening situation. We’ll be releasing a new track every friday.

So go ahead and listen to the third batch of freshly made tunes from the following lovely artists <3<3<3

> WEITH <
https://weith.bandcamp.com/
https://soundcloud.com/weith

> NIAS <
https://niasfromalgethi.bandcamp.com/track/scorpio-x
https://soundcloud.com/niasrocket

> DATAFLEX <
https://crttrcollective.bandcamp.com/track/meshes
https://soundcloud.com/dataflegs

> ISABASSI <
https://isabassi.bandcamp.com/album/speaking-things
https://soundcloud.com/isabassi

credits
released May 31, 2024

Artwork by Julia Häller
Mastering by Yves Spiri
Text by Candid Rütter

Vodor L Zeck - RüzgarsSey

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