Another gem. Defo worth going back to 👌🏽🔆 Nice job

contrast between the low-bit beat and the ambience is great!

The world's largest iceberg, A23a — equivalent to the size of Rhode Island- is endlessly spinning near the South Orkney Islands, about 375 miles from the Antarctic Peninsula. Its dance is caused by a phenomenon in fluid mechanics known as a Taylor column. It's essentially a rotating cylinder that forms when there's an obstruction in a flow. The A23a is trapped in a kind of ocean vortex, a Taylor column.
There are many paths a collaboration can take you down. Although the typical one tends to be shaped as a kind of dialog or turn-taking, I like the most those that, instead, become as sawing a seed and watching what happens then, including some active intervention: somebody tells an idea, or provides some materials or tracks to you and they start a self-organizing process in one's DAW. That's what happened here: @user-737426987 Ambient Annie provided some tracks that made some musical sense by themselves, but I used them as seeds for something different though related. Another of Ambient Annie's relevant contributions to this track has been in providing a concept, even though this was originally unintentional: some of our email conversations deal with natural phenomena, and therefore Antarctica, its fauna and icebergs gracefully popped up. Some months later, the seeds swelled, stems grew and leaves appeared, giving way to the flowering that you can now listen to.
During the final mixing rounds, Nyarlathotep, the three-lobed burning eye creature from Lovecraft's cosmogonies, passing his crawling chaos through the throat of @lhtrah Lht (another SC artist you should listen to), unexpectedly contributed with some primordial chants to this track: my degree in Miskatonik studies allowed me to decode the singing as "I will die and nobody will remember me", which is quite appropriate for an iceberg that is slowly melting. As far as I could find out this song was first featured in a film by Alejandro Jodorowsky, "Fando y Lis" (1968).
Ship bell by Mateusz_Chenc @ freesound.

A Taylor column

Minimal/IDM track with a focus on a melancholy chord progression and intermingled supporting elements.  The track pushes a mood of introspection but still carries a driven beat like railroad tracks for thought.  I wanted this track to reflect and individual's troubles, but also, more broadly, humanity's as a whole.  I have worked on this one on and off for quite some time and it led to some interesting drawn-out arrangement decisions, but I found when trying to trim it down it lost a bit of the magic that I love about it, so here we are. 

For What Do We Trouble Ourself - Amin 85.5bpm

Asteroid Blaster

Lofi House track with a focus on dirty distortion and nostalgic vibes.  This track brings a chill mood with minimal melodic elements driven by a smooth but somewhat chaotic beat.  The track is a rework of a very old project of mine from 2018, and that, coupled with the fact I just got back from a month of traveling where I was admittedly feeling a bit homesick lead to the overall direction and title.

Feels Like Home - Abmin 130bpm

2025/5/7 Collab w Hypnonaut - https://soundcloud.com/ofap
Original track https://soundcloud.com/ofap/vizula

Hypnonaut vs FAKTOR4 - Vizula (rmx)

A track somewhere between Jungle and Breakcore with a focus on unhinged manipulation of a pad and massive breaks to match. This track is a full send of wall-to-wall sound meant to fill a room with chaotic energy. Since it's been two months since my last DnB track, I wanted to have fun and just throw together a monster. More DnB to come 🙏

Stray Further - Emaj 170bpm

Nihilux

IDM track with a focus on bit crush distortion and airy elements emerging from it.  This track is moody and meant to push out waves of melancholy while carrying just enough groove to guide the listener.  When the parts started coming together, the bit crushed elements sounded so desolate that I couldn't resist finding some soulful sounds to create a heavy mood.  Honestly, I felt like I could have taken this one a lot further - so maybe in the future I'll turn this into a proper full length track.

Moving On - Ebmin 175bpm

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Broken Lands EP commences with Neekeetone’s incredible ‘Murderer’, where a gorgeous evolving intro gives way to warped basslines and the artist’s ever-engaging drum work. The EP continues with the superbly talented Wez Walker making a first appearance on the label, showing deft skill at turning his hand to jungle sounds on ‘Under The Surface’, with creative choppage and mangled bass finding homes alongside classic vocal samples for a track which has been picking up lots of dancefloor action at our Codename: Amen events.

Bristol’s Eminence contributes her first solo track to the label with the rolling ‘Mix It Up’, which contrasts hypnotic rhythms and rolling breaks with more introspective stripped back moments and intricate drum edits. The EP closes on a high with Cold Leader’s ‘Play It’, an early hour’s brain-mangling gem full of old skool b-boy attitude which contrast with classic V era stylings.

Links:
https://cygnusmusic.link/q6vdwop
https://codenamercrds.bandcamp.com/album/broken-lands-ep

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Neekeetone - Murderer

Gnarrang is an artist/producer/musician intent on redefining genres.  Production philosophy revolves around elevating simple ideas with high contrast compositions and unorthodox arrangements.  Everything from artwork, sound design, mixing and mastering are handled in house (with plans for animation and video editing in the works).

I strive to bring something truly eclectic to my listeners.  So thanks for listening!

That all sounded pretty pretentious, but I don't take myself too seriously.  Feel free to send me a message and say hi!

Moving On - Ebmin 175bpm

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