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Tycho "Awake" LP on Ghostly International
Release date: MARCH 18, 2014

Purchase "Awake": shop.iso50.com/collections/awake

formats:
CD/LP/DIGITAL

Design and layout by Scott Hansen

For nearly a decade, Tycho has been known as the musical alias of Scott Hansen, but with the release of Awake – his second LP for Ghostly International – the solo project has evolved into a three-piece band. Relating closer to post-rock than ambient soundscapes, the record is situated in the present, sounding more like Hansen than drawing from his influences. “This is, in many ways, the first true Tycho record.”

Following 2011’s Dive LP, the San Francisco-based designer toured extensively, and with a full band on stage, his sound coalesced into a percussive, organic whole. Zac Brown (guitars, bass) rejoined Scott on the road for this tour, but it was the particular addition of Rory O’Connor’s live drumming that ultimately sent Hansen back to the studio with a more precise vision. “After the tour, I decided that I wanted to capture the more energetic, driven sound of the live show on the next album,” Hansen recalls. Bringing musicians into Tycho’s creative process was a step towards expanding his own songwriting and advancing the project beyond its current sound.

In a cabin near Tahoe last winter, Zac and Scott began fleshing out the structure of the new record, but it wasn’t until they set up shop in the hills of Santa Cruz with Rory that it all fell into place. “It crystallized the vision of how the drums would come to the forefront on this record,” says Hansen. The sound was much more stripped-down and concise with more organic instruments in the fold. Songs like “Montana” and “Awake” are a departure from Tycho’s previous material – unique to the group effort poured into the songs on the new record – while “See” and “Dye” echo ideas from previous works, bridging a middle ground between the old and new. Working with Count Eldridge, who also engineered Dive, the team could fixate on the pulses that Tycho might previously layer under synthesizers and exhume them with distinct bass and guitar patterns.

Also known for his design work as ISO50, Hansen’s visual and sonic efforts have dovetailed throughout the course of his career. “This is the first time in my life I've dropped everything to focus on one artistic pursuit,” notes Hansen. Previous Tycho releases came to fruition when an amalgam of songs were nearing completion, but Awake is where music becomes the focus and true expression becomes the result.

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Apogee

Engineers' 'Fight or Flight' from forthcoming album Always Returning'
Pre-order the 2 Disc Special Edition here: http://bit.ly/1lLaXRr
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Download this FREE track: http://bit.ly/1sxNh4u

Limited edition double disc media book version, including a 24 page booklet media book and a second disc featuring an instrumental version of the album. 
Pre-order for 11th August release. 
Vinyl edition will follow on the 18th August

'Like Animal Collective with Phil Spector at the controls'  NME

Engineers release their fourth album, Always Returning, on 11th August via Kscope. Engineers, who currently comprise Liverpudlian multi-instrumentalist Mark Peters and celebrated German ambient artist/producer Ulrich Schnauss and London based drummer and composer Matthew Linley, have been creating mesmerising music with brilliantly shaded guitar textures and teasing lyrical ambiguities for over ten years across three albums -- 2005's debut Engineers  ('hypnotic lullabies from beautific Brit newcomers' **** Q), 2009's Three Fact Fader ('a blistering statement of intent' **** The Sunday Times), and 2010's swift follow-up In Praise of More ('should be given to most UK bands as an example of in making an album that is a joy to behold' 8/10 Clash).

Written and recorded alone at home in York by Peters, before being coated with deft brush strokes of ambient electronica by Schnauss; Always Returning is a record that unhurriedly drifts in and out of focus, hinting at themes without ever making them so explicit that the listener can't map out their own personal interpretations. It delivers an overall emotional heft that's impossible to pull away from.

If the album has a theme, its the sense that our internet-led all-access culture is stripping away the mythology and mystery in music. "As a teenager looking into the future I'd have loved to have been able to hear anything all the time, anytime," says Peters. "But everyone's so used to getting that now, and getting information about artists instantly, that it's undermining music and art in general."

An analogue approach was taken to give the album warmth, with live drums recorded in a day by Matthew Linley; computers discarded in favour of 70s processors.  The title of the album, Always Returning, reflects Peters' addiction to the creative process; it's an album about his own submission to the thrill of simply making music.

"Music's something I talk about every day, something I'm always going back to. I can't imagine finishing an album and not having a compulsion to get right back into it," he says. So it is that Always Returning feels different yet the same, reflecting as it does a passion that's never dimmed.

Tracklist:
Bless the Painter
Fight or Flight
It Rings So True
Drive Your Car
Innsbruck
Searched For Answers
Smiling Back
A Million Voices
Smoke and Mirrors
Always Returning

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Always Returning

Fight or Flight

Kscope Store

Engineers - Fight or Flight (from Always Returning)

Track 4 from from the 'Ancestors' EP by Daydream Cathedral.

http://daydreamcathedral.com
An Mp3 download of this track and more are available via bandcamp: https://daydreamcathedral.bandcamp.com/track/in-and-out

Written by Shawn Michael
Produced, Mixed and Mastered by Dino Bose

Ancestors

In and Out

Track taken from split 7" with Beach Vacation (US). Released as part of the Dufflecoat / Jigsaw Single Club 2014.

Lied

Brand new song from Saskatoon band The Radiation Flowers, which will appear on their new self-titled LP in July 2015.

Written and produced by The Radiation Flowers
Recorded by Barrett Ross at Ghetto Box Studios
Mixed by Patrick Michalak
Mastered by John McBain


Psychic Attack

Apparat - Candil De La Calle (Fennesz Remix)

We originally wrote this song for a Parkour crew to use in one of their videos. People dug it a lot, so here it is. Enjoy.

the obstacle is the path

Explosions in the Sky es un grupo instrumental post-rock estadounidense, proveniente de Texas. La banda ha cosechado gran popularidad en el panorama post-rock debido a sus guitarras, con un sonido cinemático y elaborado, así como su a su estilo narrativo instrumental, a lo que ellos llaman "mini-sinfonías catárticas", y a sus entusiastas y emotivas actuaciones.  En un primer momento el grupo estaba formado por tres guitarras eléctricas y batería, hasta que uno de sus miembros, Michel James, sustituyó su guitarra eléctrica por un bajo eléctrico. 

Explosion in the sky - Welcome Ghots

Проект "Aurora" представляет собой проекцию слияния ночных размышлений и ауры дальнего востока проявленную в дебютном EP "Occur outside the binary field". В группе присутствует классический набор инструментов, что не помешало создать ощущение теплоты, невесомости и загадочности. 

Aurora - Bright lanterns flash

A.K.A. Burning Bridges. Originally a short song written for a Devi Ever cover song contest. Doesn't really sound like the original, in fact, without the vocals it sounds nothing like the original, thus it was extended and renamed. Still have to give credit to Devi Ever for inspiration.

Here's her original song "Burning Bridges": http://soundcloud.com/deviever/tracks?format=html&page=3

There's a short video for this song here: http://youtu.be/AJDrG3-kI4Q

Check it out and like the video or subscribe, if you feel up to it of course.

Drowning Time

Don't Wait 'til Dawn

Adrift

Buy on iTunes

One Day of December - Cold In All of Us

Boards of Canada - Twoism

An Experimental Post Rock / Shoegaze / Hip Hop / Ish project.

Check out my videos in the link up top if you have time as well. 

Drowning Time

Grey Child