track 'Boogie Beams' taken from mini-album by Ilan Volkov and Ohad Fishof published in CDr red series. 

Ilan Volkov — conductor and musician. Served as principal conductor of the Scottish BBC Orchestra and the Iceland Symphony Orchestra. Founder and artistic director of the Tectonics Festival, a world-renowned platform for new and experimental music that takes place every year in Glasgow, Athens and Tel Aviv and has previously also taken place in Reykjavik, New York and Melbourne.

Ohad Fishof – An artist who works in the fields of sound, dance, performance and visual art. Began his artistic path in the 1980s with the band נושאי המגבעת and has since developed a unique body of work of time-based idiosyncratic art, in a sequence that includes stabilizers, musical works, video works, place-dependent performances and dance works.

Recorded by Daniel Meir at Levontin 7, December 2020. Mastered by Jacques Beloeil.

Ohad Fishof/Ilan Volkov (Duo):
http://www.tzlilmeudcanfestival.com/about-fishof-volkov/


available for order from stellage.store

Boogie Beams

Ilan Volkov and Ohad Fishof — Boogie Beams (Stellage, 2021)

With a quiet intensity over the last 12 years, Strategy has proven himself to be an incredibly resourceful and rewarding musician in both group settings and as a solo artist. In the latter guise, this Portland producer/multi-instrumentalist (aka Paul Dickow) has released a prolific amount of excellent work for quality indie labels such as Kranky, Orac, 100% Silk, Endless Flight, and Entr'acte, putting a cerebral yet sensual spin on dub, ambient, post rock, and house music. 

For his Further Records debut, Noise Tape Self, Strategy delves ever deeper into his more ambient inclinations and experiments with tape loops. Most of the six tracks bear titles more suited for a library record, but Noise Tape Self lacks library music's faceless functionality; rather, it's an immersive soundtrack to stimulating one's imagination or losing one's bearings. Dickow says he became obsessed with making tape music in 2008, after tiring of using the computer as his main instrument. Fellow Portland producer/ingenious gear-tinkerer David Chandler (Solenoid) taught Dickow “how to make a tape loop that could be put inside a cassette tape. I got really into this, and got a 4 track, knowing this would allow me to have four synchronized loops per tape. I would then run each channel through a series of effects and 'perform' live mixes using the loops. I alternated between using source material of my own devising and using whatever source material happened to be on the cassettes I was hacking.” 

Noise Tape Self kicks off with “Awesome Piano,” in which a fragment of a beautiful piano motif gets overwhelmed by a glorious vortex of static and distortion. We're immediately submerged in Strategy's alluring and disorienting world, where rupture and rapture converge. “Cassette Loop” is a gorgeous ambient piece with a lulling, aquatic quality that recalls such masters of uneasy listening as Rapoon, O Yuki Conjugate, and Aube. The self-descriptive “Ominous Lovely Piano” is a ghostly, microcosmic form of dub, an ultimate kind of headphone music of deep psychedelic interiority that's reminiscent of Paul Schütze's 1996 masterpiece, Apart. The hypnotic/amniotic ambience of “Lovely Loop” whispers of a peaceful eternity; this track could be an important step toward a new, improved strain of New Age. The album closes with “Rhen's Loop”; here's where the album really soars into the stratosphere and grows surreal wings. A five-dimensional headfuck of what sounds like analog-synth growls and whirs and desolate drones, “Rhen's Loop” is Doppler effected and disorienting, like a more somber take on Conrad Schnitzler's Ballet Statique. With Noise Tape Self, Strategy has found a way to build works of compelling, intimate grandeur with some of the humblest of sonic atoms. It's an alchemical wonder.

Cassette Loop

ROHS!017 CD/ Desove - Cruising (LP)
Buy CD:
https://rohsrecords.bandcamp.com/album/rohs-017-cd-desove-cruising-lp-2
Limited to 200 copies, hand-numbered (Compact Disc)
Written and produced by Pawel Granacky
Mastered at DSV audio-video (Poland)
2015 (Belgium)

Photography by Ashley Van Haeften
www.flickr.com/photos/wikimediacommons/

Video edit by A I X E L E N T ツ
www.youtube.com/watch?v=uro2ENVNh…&feature=youtu.be


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previews. Desove - Cruising (LP) | ROHS!

Lung Dart - Totem

Docetism - Potential Natural Vegetation [SSX08]

A1. Dentario enneaphyllidis - Fagetum I (>)
A2. Dentario enneaphyllidis - Fagetum II
B1. Querco - Pinetum I
B2. Querco - Pinetum II

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https://soundcloud.com/docetism

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The Silent Season 10 Year Anniversary compilation celebrates a decade of deeper electronic music. The vinyl series features artists whose music continues to inspire the Silent Season journey (2007-2017)

http://silentseason.com/ssx10/

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info@silentseason.com
www.silentseason.com

Potential Natural Vegetation [SSV08]

Juno Records

Docetism - Potential Natural Vegetation [SSX08]

The first single from 'Long Trax 2', out March 16th on Smalltown Supersound.

Will Long – Nothing's Changed

Saturday Night by Cold Chisel Refascinated

Saturday Night Refascinated [FREE DOWNLOAD]

LOCK DOWN? HOUSE BOUND? Here's another headphone road trip from the archives. Taken from the COCK DIESEL cinema nights that B-Music DJ's (mainly Sean Demdike and myself at the time) did in Manchester / Barcelona / Melbourne / Los Angeles using countless motorcycle themed records and VHS footage.

Andy Votel (Votel's Angels) - Cock Diesel (Bike Psych Mix 2009)

Cnidae is a Latin word for specific cells present among jellyfish, sea anemones, corals etc. It is these cells that separate cnidarians from other animals. Cnidarians are built in a very simple way, lacking skeleton animals. They seem to be innocent and beautiful, but there is also a sense of mystery, weirdness and wobbliness in them. They use cnidae, explosive cells, to capture prey and as a defence from predators. They do so by the use of toxins contained within the cnidae. If you have ever been stung by a jellyfish or felt the electric tingle from the tentacles of a sea anemone, you have been touched by cnidae.

cnidae is the sixth album released on the Ransom Note Records offshoot Bytes. jik is Paula, 21, and Bartek, 23, students based in Warsaw, Poland. cnidae is their debut album. Paula’s raw sketches formed the basis for almost all of the tracks. They were made in Ableton Intro, proof that constraints can be beneficial and also a reminder that great music doesn’t have to be created on sophisticated gear.

The album is made up of two extended ambient/drone pieces, embedded alongside several shorter, abstract electronic compositions. You are hearing 'arp', which falls into the latter category. Its beauty lies in its simplicity. The reflective, moving track is reminiscent of early AI-era Warp Records, with its lush pads and twinkling melody.

cnidae - Side A

PREMIERE: jik - arp [Bytes]

From Causa Sui's new 2LP, "Szabodelico", out on El Paraiso Records November 13th!

Order: 

www.elparaisorecords.com
www.normanrecords.com
www.juno.co.uk

Japan: www.diskunion.net

Info:

Something different from Causa Sui.

While Causa Sui have always had one foot in heavy psychedelic rock, they've had the other one deep in a wide variety of esoteric styles. On this new double LP set, that other dimension of the band is being explored full-scale. ”Szabodelico” paints with a colourful palette, both compositionally and sonically - digging deep into an assortment of cultures, eras and sounds with a true crate-digger mindset.

Throughout their 15 year life-span Causa Sui has always been about seeking out new directions, exploring the past and the present in a way that's unique at each step of their subtle progression - forging new paths into an existing map. ”Szabodelico” feels like discovering a small room under the stairs of your own house: familiar, yet new and exciting. Their latest vision is an elegantly zoned-out version of itself: a turn inward. Anti-bombastic, yet rich with ecstatic harmonics and dynamics. The band stringed together a long series of sessions in 2019 and early 2020 in their studio in Odense, often prioritizing playful first takes and good vibes rather than clinical perfection.

Sparsely dubbed and mixed with a natural, full bodied flavour by Jonas Munk during the summer of 2020, each track has its own aesthetic. There's no simple equation to sum up the 13 individual parts of the album, but as a whole it creates an entity that's as complete as each of its parts. From the windblown opener ”Echoes of Light”, to the closing slow-motion epic ”Merging Waters” you'll find yourself asking where did the time go? The answer of course is: Szabodelico.