Too Late (Buscabulla Remix)

Sidney's Lullaby

Miles' Lullaby

In this segment we will be discovering and nurturing emerging talent. By offering them a chance to exhibit their style(s) and by showcasing what tracks do it for them. There is no fixed criteria to this segment. It's all focused on emerging talent - regardless of social media presence, releases, or being active on the live circuit. The only prerequisite is prevalent passion. As you already know, we at Chronicles are not limited by any genre bias. All genres are welcome. The essence of this segment is the anatomy of the mix and the technical skills utilised to create that story.

If you or someone you know might be interested in sending in a submission, feel free to email us with a 60 mins mix via a private soundcloud link (Subject - Commends Demo) and a brief introduction of your journey/development/future aspirations - chroniclesofcogu@gmail.com

Chronicles Commends - Every Week - Wednesday 10-11pm GMT exclusively on the DJ Mixes Channel at DI.FM

00:00 // Abysmal
05:30 // Giro
09:25 // Stamin
16:52 // Witness (ft. Barbara Ford)
20:44 // Imperil
27:33 // Fahr (live at Paradiso Amsterdam)
32:49 // In Manu (ft. Barbara Ford)
36:27 // Cascade by Polynation (Fusus remix)
41:15 // Nogales
45:39 // Holos
49:40 // To Samuel

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Chronicles Commends : Fusus (Netherlands)

fusus' 10-track bundle 'in here' delves into the tension between chaos and calm. It features energetic electronic compositions, representing the intensity of modern life’s pressures. In contrast, warm piano ballads, cinematic strings, and choral inspired synths embody moments of tranquility. 

It reminds that... no matter how fast, busy, or overwhelming things get, there is always a place of peace and warmth to fall back on.

in here

Trudge

Here it comes... our number 5! This time we are keen to present wintery sounds from our dearest Bongbeck! Three titels aiming to put you into a heartwarming winter sleep and pull you right back out again. Enjoy!

Bongbeck - Winter Sleep

Hear the latest from @fluida coming out on @southernfriedrecords. Exclusively premiered by EARMILK http://earmilk.com/2017/05/03/fluida-releases-their-latest-lost-moments-on-southern-fried-records-exclusive-premiere/

Ivory Spiral EP

Fluida - Lost Moments

"I think I am the same as an artist and as a person. Music is my way of communication and I see the art, the music as a whole thing, with no borders, divisions, or even genres." - https://soundcloud.com/haniarani

Hania Rani is a pianist, composer and musician who splits her life between Warsaw, where she makes her home, and Berlin where she studied and often works. She has written for strings, piano, voice and electronics and has collaborated with the likes of Christian Löffler, Dobrawa Czocher and Hior Chronik, and released an album with her Polish group tęskno last year. She has performed at some of the most prestigious venues in Europe - from the National Philharmony in Warsaw, to Funkhaus in Berlin, to The Roundhouse in London (where she made her debut at the Gondwana 10thanniversary festival last October) and at festivals such as Open'er, Scope Festival and Eurosonic. Her compositions for solo piano were born out of a fascination with the piano as an instrument, and her desire to interpret its sound and harmonic possibilities in their entirety and in her own way.

'Esja' is her debut solo album and for Rani it is her first, real, personal statement as an artist. "No hiding behind the "collaborations" or "projects" anymore. For the very first time, finally - just me, as I am".

Recorded at Rani's apartment in Warsaw (the piano room has a beautiful reverb and the space has become part art studio and part sound laboratory for Rani) and at her friend Bergur Þórisson'sstudio in Reykjavik, Esja is a series of beautiful melodic vignettes. Sensual, sensitive, rhythmic, atmospheric, free but harmonious, beguiling and hypnotic, collectively they project a sense of unlimited space and time.

Esja

Hawaii Oslo

Hania Rani - Hawaii Oslo (Piano Day 2019)

Sunda Arc are brothers Nick Smart and Jordan Smart. Best known as key members of folk and jazz influenced minimalists Mammal Hands, their Sunda Arc project takes inspiration from the likes of Jon Hopkins, Rival Consoles, Moderat and Nils Frahm as well as their own music world. Their debut EP ‘Flicker’ was released in December 2018 and now the duo are set to release their debut LP, ‘Tides’ on 7th February 2020.

Named for a volcanic arc in the Indian Ocean, created by the process of massive tectonic plates colliding, Sunda Arc strives to mingle electronic and acoustic sounds until they become almost indistinguishable from each other. It's a process where they draw the acoustic properties and quirks out of electronic sounds and find the electronic potential in acoustic sounds.

“Finding the ghost in the machine or blending the human elements of playing live is something we are always trying to explore in our work. Experimentation is a large part of our process and we tend to combine carefully composed material with chaotic ideas to find the balance between the two” — Sunda Arc

‘Tides’, their debut album, takes its name from the idea of unseen forces that can affect our lives in myriad ways, being pushed and pulled and at the whim of powerful forces outside of our control as well as offering a nod to things such as the tides on our planet, tectonic plate movements and weather systems. There are often chaotic elements in these systems that function in a way that produce a type of controlled randomness on a large scale. This is something they try to reflect in their music by adopting some of the ways these systems work into musical sequences, and using ideas such as chaos theory to control musical parameters.

“Tides is a reference to themes we were thinking a lot about during the making of this album. These include the similarities between macro and micro systems, or the circulatory and nervous systems in the body. Things that produce a type of controlled randomness on a large scale”. — Sunda Arc

‘Hymn’, the first single from the album, uses Nick’s voice sampled and played back through a keyboard to create a human yet electronic feel. It mixes soft vocals with heavier electronic elements to create a danceable yet human sound world. ‘Dawn’, is best described as uplifting-techno, its use of repeated phrases building in intensity and variations to put you into a hypnotic state whilst also being industrial and danceable. ‘Daemon’ is one of the tracks that really resonates live. Drawing on the sound of UK dubstep it's intense but fun and the bass clarinet blends with synths at the end to create a sound almost like a vocal. ‘Secret Window’ brings forward another side of the band, focusing around a lo-fi recording of felted piano and bass clarinet. These are blended with granularised and processed versions of themselves which emerge like ghosts of the instruments throughout the track. ‘Cluster’ is another key track. It utilises a small group of notes looped in an unusual way to create a sense of cascading patterns over a solid danceable drum groove. It emphasises soprano sax blended into the sound world half-way through to lift into the final section.

Tides

Dawn

Sunda Arc — Dawn (taken from album 'Tides' out 07.02.2020)

Late Night Tales: Hot Chip

Workaround Two

Imperil is the third track of our new album IN U NI, a trilogy about the meeting of two paradoxical worlds: the natural and the artificial.

Stream Imperil: outnow.io/t/imperil

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['imperil]
I hear it beats in morning still
A fearless fragment of sound
takes over the bare hills
.
Gazing up through
clustered trees
.
Motionless in devastating water
Gleaming rifts of black I see

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mix I Zach Hanson
master I Frederik Dejongh at Jerboa Mastering
photo I Sven Signe den Hartogh
art direction I Sven Signe den Hartogh
design I Tim Frankena & Wesley van Groenland
lines I Robin Scherpen

IN U NI

Imperil

The consequences of drawing conclusions too quickly are underestimated. You’ll end up in strange places that you can’t escape from. Only good thing is that you won’t be alone there.

Music: Bastian Benjamin
Mastering: Shawn Hatfield
Photography: Sander Coers

Concrete

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/'fu:.sus/,['fu:.sus]
deep abstract journey that originates from the meeting between classical and electronic sounds, operating in the space between 'heaven and earth' and extending to infinity...