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A Mountain Of One's 1st single, 'Custards Last Stand' from 3rd studio album 'Stars Planets Dust Me'.

Custards Last Stand - Original Version - Mastered By Ricardo Villalobos

When The Rain

25 Years of Metalheadz – Part 6

Universe 92

The Unfolding

The Universe Before Matter

1BTN - May 2022

Following a CD-only release in Japan in 2021, legendary downtempo producer Calm finally releases his Before album on vinyl and digital courtesy of Hell Yeah. The 10-track record is a slow-burning Balearic beauty.

Calm aka Kiyotaka Fukagawa has never been to the White Isle, but he sure knows how to capture its musical essence. He has done so over a long and storied career that has taken in 17 albums and some 35 EPs on many labels including this one over the last 20-plus years. His unique blend of ambient, jazz and leftfield was last showcased on this label in 2018 with his By Your Side album, and now he does it again with another timeless and escapist offering.

The record was written, arranged, mixed and produced by Calm, but with gorgeous musical embellishments, trumpets, flutes, saxophones, violins, bass and keys played by friends and guests like Shiba, Sinsuke Fujieda, Fumiko Takeshita, Tomokazu Sugimoto, Yuichiro Kato and Toshitaka Shibata. Tracks from it have already had support from Cosmo Coleen Murphy on Worldwide FM, while Phil Mison says it is "100% reminiscent of an old Café Del Mar or José Padilla record." He is not wrong.

As soon as the opening chords of 'Beauty on Earth' wash over you there is no escaping the naturalistic charm and beauty of this record. 'Long Summer Dream' layers mystic wind sounds and gentle percussive patterns into suspensory bliss, 'Blue in Void - 限りなく透明に近い青' is a plaintive moment of sombre sax and pensive piano, then 'Liminal Moment - 目を閉じて見えるもの' awakens the soul with its gorgeous flute lines and looping arps.

There is perfect horizontal sunset house on 'I Love You - 月がきれいですね,' 'Feel It' picks up the pace with seductive saxophone motifs and psychedelic synth loops and 'Before Sunrise Blue - あたたかい青' is crushing downtempo melancholia. 'Kunpoo - 薫風' reawakens you with leggy bass and expansive synths that reach for the heavens, while 'Freedom Sunset' is an epic 10-minute journey out to sea. Lastly, 'Let's Make Harmony' is super slow motion jazz-funk that swells the heart.

Before is a superb album that is well-deserving of this double vinyl pressing and is sure to become a Balearic classic.

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Calm - Blue In Void

Calm - Long Summer Dream

DC Promo Tracks #1026: "Into The Bright Light" by 291outer space is part of the release "Beyond" on Taste Rec @tasterecmilano   https://tasterec.bandcamp.com/

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DC Promo Tracks: 291outer space "Into The Bright Light"

DC Promo Tracks: "Wind Blows Through the Autumn Leaves" by Ordos Mk.0 @ordosmarkzero  is part of the release "Sisyphean Audio Therapy 3" 

Available Now: https://ordosmarkzero.bandcamp.com/album/sisyphean-audio-therapy-3

Sisyphean Audio Therapy 3 is the final part in a series of three albums. It has 17 tracks and is best described as industrial ambient, generally leaning more towards ambient and sometimes going in other directions. It will be released on the 10th of October 2022. The mood of the album shifts between and balances hope and despair, whilst evoking landscapes both real and imagined, the latter often rooted in science-fiction.

DC Promo Tracks: Ordos Mk.0 "Wind Blows Through the Autumn Leaves"

Into The Abyss

The Universe (feat. DNA)

Story
The Lightning Bird
On the plains where thunder rumbles and the skies are torn apart by lightning, the ancestors of Zimbabwe told the story of a mystical bird: the Lightning Bird.

The Birth of the Myth
It was said that the bird was not born from the earth, but from the collision of two ancient storms. Its wings were as black as night, but each feather flashed with electric light. When it swept through the air, the skies lit up and the rivers swelled with fury.

Guardian of Warriors
The Lightning Bird was neither common enemy nor ally... it was the judge of fate.

• To brave warriors, it granted strength and vision in battle.

• To cowards, it brought the lightning that shattered their spears and darkened their path.

The elders said that, before every war, the chiefs listened to the heavens. If lightning traced the bird's silhouette, it was a sign that spirits accompanied the warriors.

The Pact of Blood and Thunder
A young warrior named Muzinda challenged the bird, asking for its power to free his people from invaders. The Lightning Bird descended in the midst of a storm and spoke to him in a voice of thunder... “Your courage will be tested. If you fight with justice, my lightning will be your shield. If your heart is corrupted, you will be consumed by my fire.”

Muzinda accepted, and in the battle the heavens opened... each blow of his spear flashed like lightning, and the enemies fled in terror.

🎶 Listen 💫 Share 💬 Comment ➕📃🎧 Add to your playlists... Because this journey is meaningless without you... Thank you for being here... J. Bilbao

Sonic Universe III

The Lightning Bird Orchestral II

Blue - Astronaut

Solitude

The Roots

Universe At War (Album Version) [feat. Common]

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Following on from the dark intensity of Hash Bar Loops, Deepchord has continued to innovate and diversify his output. Traces of the previous album remain on this record but here, there is a lighter more ethereal feel.

Deepchord’s characteristic manipulation of space and time is still intact and is an integral part of Sommer’s soundscape. Modulating textures, sliding tempos, shifting rhythmic elements, and electroacoustics create a constantly evolving, vaporous sonic-tapestry.

Rich field recordings and proprietary processing methods (developed over 20 years of making such recordings) provide an impactful, living, organic element with flecks of percussion and bass pulsing from the soundfield. Atmospheric warmth and engrossing layers are expertly woven, many of the source-recordings were made on a beach near the artist’s home. Wind chimes, circulating air, and a marine sounds give this album a distinct identity rarely experienced in the sphere of digital music. A rare amalgamation of deep organic-atmospherics and dance music. A living breathing organism, quite unlike anything else. Light and aquatic feeling, with a few darker introspective moments later in the album, but it never gets foreboding or overly heavy. The overall mood here is evocative of warm summer evenings, and is equally effective on a PA with a crowd, as it is on the beachside with headphones alone. 

An August release date coincides perfectly with the album’s themes and will be a powerful addition when played out over the summer and on into the autumn as part of Deepchord’s thoughtful, expansive sets, which should be plentiful in the coming months.


04. Deepchord - The Universe as a Hologram (Short Clip)

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The Universe Before Matter

Hannah Peel

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