https://fragilex.bandcamp.com/album/the-inner-circle

Taken from the See Blue Audio release page.

The story of ‘The Inner Circle’ goes back to 2016 and ‘The Outer Circle’ released on Bricolage. Subtitled ‘A Semi-Conscious Experience’, it captured the mood of a Sunday morning after a long weekend and travelling home on a busy subway train from the West End of Glasgow. Field recordings made on the journey were used as the basis for a series of tracks that reflect this special post-clubbing state of mind.

Field recordings also form the core of ‘The Inner Circle’, but whereas its predecessor was a little raw and rough around the edges, this long overdue follow-up is more refined and thoughtful, more mature even, in terms of both production and ideas. This is also reflected in the setting of the field recordings: 10pm on a quiet weeknight and travelling from the south side of the city. In both cases, the destination and final stop were the same – home – but ‘The Inner Circle’ is more introspective in tone. Essentially, this is the story of the subway environment expressed through music.

This second collection of five tracks, predominately beatless, begins with ‘One Way’ and the implication is clear: this journey has an ending. As often happens, we experience a sense of exhilaration when entering a subterranean world, and the dreamlike, slow-motion synths are reminiscent of ‘Departure from Nowhere’ and ‘Colour in Motion’, the opening tracks on ‘Maps of the Lost’ and ‘Chromatherapy’ respectively, both released on See Blue Audio in 2020. This is followed by ‘Kinning Park’, a suburb of Glasgow, and we are now fully immersed in an underground world of metal and machines. There’s a feeling of anxiety, even claustrophobia, to this track with its eerie bleeps and shadowy sounds.

As we reach ‘Shields Road’ and closer to home, the atmosphere is lighter, lifted by ethereal washes of electronica and trippy beats, which appear for the first time on ‘The Inner Circle’. Then it’s onto the post-industrial area of ‘West Street’ with its euphoric ambient tapestry of sound, which breaks down to an electronic pulse taken from a field recording of a train in motion, a hypnotic sound that surely resonates with us all.

Finally, ‘Home’ as the train pulls to a stop, and we pass through the ticket barrier and into the cool night air. Exquisite and cinematic, it’s a sublime ending to the story, but as is often the case, tinged with sadness now that the journey is over. As in life, most journeys are a bittersweet mixture of highs and lows, tension and excitement, communication and contemplation.

‘The Inner Circle’ is a musical dialogue between a mechanical underground world and the stories of the travellers through that world, as imagined by Fragile X, who fleetingly appear and disappear in the short stops between stations. The field recordings are far more than just background sounds, and they have been looped and integrated into the music that surrounds them. Trains approaching, brakes screeching, doors closing, tannoy announcements, cables buzzing, dripping water and the clang of metal, the buzz of commuters, the very stuff of life. In the context of 2021, it’s also the sound of the slow and hopeful return to normality from the coronavirus pandemic.

Mastered by Richard Jones at Dark Fidelity Hi Fi Studios.

The Inner Circle EP

The Inner Circle

My remix of Bagaski "Spring Prayer" for the latest See Blue Audio "Anthology" compilation.

"Shade Rather Than Light" Volume 2 is released March 11th 2022

https://seeblueaudio.bandcamp.com/album/shade-rather-than-light-anthology-two

Shade Rather Than Light: Anthology | Two

Bagaski - Spring Prayer (Leit Motif 'Dawn Chorus' Remix)

Doxil returns to Bricolage with the follow up to 2020's "Anarchist Pacifism and Friends".

"Vert" sees the continuation and evolution of that signature Doxil audio vortex of rhythmic breaks, obscure samples and nods to the 90's rave scene but with an even clearer emphasis on creating a nostalgic atmosphere.

A sweet fusion of garage, breaks, ambient intermissions and IDM vibes that draws influences from a broad range of peers.

The release starts off in a contemplative mood with the opening downtempo tracks echoing memories of early Burial material amid a slew of slow burning UKG rhythms and moody backdrops to set the tone. The second half of the EP picks up the pace with Doxil flexing his knack for euphoria inducing catchy hooks on "Brio" before "Lil' Nova" crashes in to end the party with crisp beats and melancholy yet uplifting pads.

https://soundcloud.com/ahchooo

Available @ https://bricolageglasgow.bandcamp.com/album/vert-bc071

Vert (bc071)

Vert

Doxil - Brio (from the "Vert" EP)

Filótimo (bc069)

Chalára

夜空に浮かぶ星々が、静かに心の奥へと語りかける。acoustic jr.が紡ぐ音の光跡。 淡く揺れるギターの響きと、空間に溶け込むアンビエントな質感が、 聴く者を夢と記憶の狭間へと誘います。

この楽曲は、孤独と希望、過去と未来が交差する瞬間を描いた一篇の音詩。 星の瞬きのように儚く、しかし確かに存在する感情を、 透明な音の糸で結びました。

Flying

Starlit Strings

Voices in the Wind

The Boats

The title track from my latest EP.

"Maps for the Lost" was released on the, Barcelona based, See Blue Audio label on July 17th @seditiondjs

A musical travelogue in five parts.

View the A/V on YouTube @ https://youtu.be/9AA0EZ98X0M

Full EP @ https://fragilex.bandcamp.com/album/maps-for-the-lost

Maps for the Lost

"Colour in Motion" is the opening track from my second EP on the See Blue Audio label.

https://soundcloud.com/seditiondjs

Releases 20th November. Pre order available below.

https://fragilex.bandcamp.com/album/chromatherapy

Chromatherapy

Colour in Motion

After a series of outstanding EPs and compilation contributions on Bricolage we felt that it was about time to invite No Arrival to go big and provide us with a full length album.

The mysterious Glasgow native has not disappointed with "Converse".

It's an open plan world of disjointed and cerebral electronics. A strange and endearing world of stuttering rhythmic patterns, wispy layers, fractal backdrops and impeccable sound design. Akin to being lost in a dream.

The music dissolves and drifts between different dimensions all the while being carried further down the rabbit hole by the splicing of various skewered guitars, samples and buzzing bass terrains. The time and effort that's went into the careful building process of each individual track is more than evident and creates a dazzling collection of finely carved complex and organic landscapes.

As 'No Arrival' himself says "It reflects my state of being during these strange times. All the tracks do have specific and general meanings to me, but hopefully anyone else listening will find their own meanings - emotional resonance."

There you have it, build your own adventure. Let "Converse" be your soundtrack.

https://soundcloud.com/modern-slavery

Available @ https://bricolageglasgow.bandcamp.com/album/converse-bc061

Converse (bc061)

Converse

No Arrival - Key Seeker Blues (from the "Converse" album)

"Echo Outpost Terrain Music" is taken from my upcoming album on the @soundtrackingthevoid label

The "Between Worlds" album will be released on cassette and digital on March 19th.

https://soundtrackingthevoid.bandcamp.com/album/between-worlds

Between Worlds

Cassette and Digital

Echo Outpost Terrain Music

Drifting in the audio void.  Somewhere between the chaos and the calm.
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Production (Fragile X) 
Label Owner (soundcloud.com/bricolage-g5)
Sleep Research as (soundcloud.com/leit-motif-sleeper)
The visible half of (soundcloud.com/futurendeavours)

Music released on Bricolage, Intellitronic Bubble, Waxing Crescent, Móatún 7, noci miste, Cue Dot, Neo Ouija, Soundtracking The Void, Disintegration State, See Blue Audio, Subplant, Triplicate Records, Tribal Pulse, Light At The End, Unstrung, Gorecki Productions, Neotantra, Soundscape Versions, BFW Recordings and Bath Dub.
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