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Imaginary Softwoods returns to @fieldrecords with ‘The Notional Pastures Of Imaginary Softwoods‘ - an 11 track album of effervescent ambient and electronica. 'Mr. Big Volume' is powered by succulent pads and a heartstrings of emotions, making it an acute soundtrack as we slip into Spring.

The Notional Pastures Of Imaginary Softwoods

Imaginary Softwoods - Mr. Big Volume [Field Records]

Your Body Is Yours

Here is the debut, self-titled album from a.s.o., singer/songwriter Alia Seror-O’Neill, and producer Lewie Day. ‘a.s.o.’ is a thematic consolidation of the previous two singles and an impressive artistic progression. Day and Seror-O’Neill show they’ve mastered the format of the radio-friendly pop song and found how to subvert it completely. Across eleven songs, they have built a rich and compelling body of work.

We know where we are now, emotionally complex, trip-hop torch songs for club freaks. But the palette has broadened to encompass ethereal dream pop à la Cocteau Twins, slow-burning AOR-soul, and dubwise stylings. As a result, ‘a.s.o.’ is a satisfyingly coherent listen but never a musical monoculture. Variously there are nods toward Julee Cruise, Fleetwood Mac, and the uneasy listening of Portishead. It’s an album that wears its influences lightly, is never weighed down by them, and always sure of its own identity.

It’s anchored by Alia’s unique voice. Her words speak of restraint and release, taking us from the elegiac to the euphoric. This elegantly crafted, perfect pop music sounds like it has had enough of your shit. And Day’s music is the perfect foil; deep, slightly menacing, restrained, and powerful. The album has a cinematic texture, as with David Lynch; the seemingly familiar becomes uncanny and strange the closer we look. a.s.o. take our emotions for a joyride before leaving us floating in space.

‘a.s.o.’ is a journey; by its end, we all are changed.

Written and recorded by Alia Seror-O’Neill and Lewie Day at Quintagon Studios, Berlin and Palmerston Studios, Naarm/Melbourne in 2020-2023.
Mixed by Lewie Day except for Track 9 “Understand” mixed by Thomas McAlister
Mastered by Mikey Young
Artwork by Dylan Batelic
Words by Piers Harrison

2023 Low Lying Records
Cat. No. LLRLP001 – All rights reserved
www.itsaso.bandcamp.com

06 - Cold Feeling

02 - My Baby's Got It Out For Me

Artist: Jan Jelinek
Title: Social Engineering
Cat#: faitiche 36
Release: May 3rd 2024
Format: LP/DL

In my mailbox: "Good day info, the conquer solidity static status gigolo. 2 caves dungeons song. pitch fungus vim, 14 triplets listlessness. celluloid advisor applying. season globe Italy, switch-off amphitheatre 42 updraught. The popularity buddha languish fifth mockery. holder condensate minima. the tutorial verifized (and rinse). 14 appetence concept’s. dullness captived cockerel. With good wishes, Dr. Fatimaiy Oakley"

Social Engineering brings together thirteen text fragments from so-called phishing emails. Using speech synthesis, they are spoken, sung, and/or transformed into abstract textures. The result is a 36-minute language and sound collage devoted to the dark forces of phishing.

Jan Jelinek: Social Engineering 1 (The Narrative Of The Heritage)

Learn to Fly

Rabbit Trap

Theme One

Suzanne Ciani
Buchla Concerts 1975
FKR082LP
Finders Keepers Records

Finders Keepers invite you to witness the incredible first ever Buchla synthesiser concerts/demonstrations providing a distinctive feminine alternative to The Silver Apples Of The Moon if they had ever been presented in phonographic form. This is history in the remaking.

This spring Finders Keepers Records are proud to release an archival project that not only redefines musical history but boasts genuine claim to the overused buzzwords such as pioneering, maverick, experimental, groundbreaking and esoteric, while questioning social politics and the evolution of music technology as we’ve come to understand it. To describe this records as a game-changer is an understatement. This record represents a musical revolution, a scientific benchmark and a trophy in the cabinet of counter culture creativity. This record is a triumphant yardstick in the synthesiser space race and the untold story of the first woman on the proverbial moon. While pondering the early accolades of this record it’s daunting to learn that this record was in fact not a record at all… It was a manifesto and a gateway to a new world, that somehow never quite opened. If the unfamiliar, modernistic, melodic, pulses, tones and harmonics found on this 1975 live presentation/grant application/educational demonstration had been placed in a phonographic context alongside the promoted work of Morton Subotnick, Walter Carlos or Tomita then the name Suzanne Ciani and her influence would have already radically changed the shape, sound and gender of our record collections. Hopefully there is still chance.

In short, Suzanne was a self-imposed twenty-year-old employee of the Buchla modular synthesiser company, San Francisco’s neck and neck contender to New York’s Moog. Buchla was run by a community of festival freaks and academic acid eaters whose roots in new age lifestyles and the reinvention of art and music replaced the business acumen enjoyed by its likeminded East Coasters. In the eyes of the consumer the creative refusal to adopt rudimentary facets like a piano keyboard controller rendered the Buchla synthesiser the more obscure stubborn sister of the synth marathon, steering these incredible units away from the mainstream into the homes and studios of free music aficionados, art house composers and die-hard revolutionaries. Championed and semi-showcased by composer Morton Subotnick on his albums The Bull and Silver Apples Of The Moon, Buchla’s versatility began to open the minds of a new generation, but the high-end design features and no-compromise modus operandi was often confused with incompatibility and, in the pulsating shadow of Moog’s marketing, the revolution would not be televised nor patronised. Suzanne Ciani, as one of the very few female composers on the frontline (and also providing the back line) did not lose faith.

These “concerts” are the epitome of rare music technology historic documents, performed by a real musician whose skills and academic education in classical composition already outweighed her male synthesiser contemporaries of twice her age. At the very start of her fragile career these recordings are nothing short of sacrificial ode to her mentor and machine, sonic pickets of the revolution and love letters to an absolutely genuine vision of and ‘alternative’ musical future. In denouncing her own precocious polymathmatic past in a bid to persuade the world to sing from a new hymn sheet, Suzanne Ciani created a bi-product of never before heard music that would render the pigeon holes “ambient” and “futuristic” utterly inadequate. Providing nothing short of an entirely different feminine take on the experimental “records” of Morton Subotnick and proving to a small, judgmental audience and jury the true versatility of one of the most radical and idiosyncratic musical instruments of the 20th century. These recordings have not been heard since then.

Suzanne Ciani - Buchla Concerts 1975 (Excerpts)

Stereolab_Nurse_With_Wound_Simple_headphone_mind.mp3

Andy Stott, "New Ground"

Susumu Yokota's Acid Mt Fuji finally available on vinyl. 
Double Vinyl 180Gr with insert and download code Included.

Acid Mt Fuji

Presale Link

Susumu Yokota - A1. Zenmai

26 April 2024
Build From Here
Download, Stream, LP & CD

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3 March 2023
Your Body Is Yours
Download, stream and music video.

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20 May 2022
Insanely Alive (Remixes) 
Remixes by Pet Shop Boys, Total Freedom & Sami Baha. 
12-inch vinyl preorder here: https://bit.ly/3rRgKxm

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5 November 2021
Wolfgang Tillmans - Moon in Earthlight (Album) 
Download/CD/Vinyl

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2 July 2021
Wolfgang Tillmans – Can't Escape into Space (Honey Dijon's Euphoria Mix)
Download, stream and music video.

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20 December 2020
Wolfgang Tillmans – Can't Escape into Space
Download, stream and music video.

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21 August 2020 
Wolfgang Tillmans – Life Guarding  /  Growing
12'' vinyl, download, stream and music videos.

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17 July 2020 
Wolfgang Tillmans - Growing 
(digital / stream / video) 
Video: https://youtu.be/WhOSPqzKhiU

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4 June 2020 
Volkswagen Art4All Online Edition | Podcast mit Wolfgang Tillmans (in German)
https://bit.ly/3gO2JJw

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16 June 2019, 7pm
17 June 2019, 7pm
An experimental evening with DonChristian, Fragile/Wolfgang Tillmans (Live) + DJ Nedalot 
Kantine am Berghain, Berlin 

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Tickets via
https://www.koka36.de/event_site.php?event=113870
https://amwriezenerbahnhof.app.love-your-artist.com/de/
http://berghain.de/event/2852
https://www.facebook.com/events/623702948101216/

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16 Nov 2018
Powell Tillmans - Spoken By The Other EP (XL Recordings)
12'' vinyl / download / stream 

Preorder EP: 
http://www.xlrecordings.com/buy/powelltillmans-spokenbytheotherep 

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17 Oct 2018
Powell Tillmans – Feel the Night (XL Recordings)
download/stream/video

Video: 
https://youtu.be/OHKAyrNuPYU

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5 May 2018 
Fragile007 - Wolfgang Tillmans - Source (Original / Roman Flügel Remixes) 
12'' vinyl / download / stream 

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2 Feb 2018
Fragile006 - Wolfgang Tillmans – Heute Will Ich Frei Sein EP 
12'' vinyl / download / stream / video 

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17 Nov 2017 
Fragile005 - Wolfgang Tillmans - Hamburg Süd / Nee IYaow Eow Eow 
Cd digipack + 48page booklet / download / stream 

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9 Dec 2016
Fragile004 - Fragile - That's Desire / Here We Are EP 
12'' vinyl / download / stream / video

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16 Sept 2016
Fragile003 - Wolfgang Tillmans "Device Control EP" 
12'' vinyl / download / stream / video

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07 June 2016
Fragile002 - Fragile - Naive Me 
download and stream only

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24 June 2016
Fragile001 - Wolfgang Tillmans  - 1986 / 2016 EP
12'' vinyl / download / stream / video