Download: http://www.xlr8r.com/mp3/2014/01/censer-field-rotation-remix

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Benoît Pioulard - Censer (Field Rotation Remix)

made in July 2012 as the first preview of second album 'Archipelago'

Archipelago Minimix (Album Preview July 2012)

FREE DOWNLOAD HERE: http://bit.ly/CooperSound
 
Your December free download is a remix, and an important piece of music to me personally. Partly because it was the result of a chance string of events driven by my love of the original track and a fortuitous meeting with Frederic D. Oberland, one half of The Rustle of the Stars with Richard Knox. And partly because I love the intensity and feeling of the original which I have tried to convey in my own way with little regard for the usual rules of making music - ambient strings arrangement at one end, and a drum and bass wall of sound at the other, because that's what I felt was required to communicate the emotions I found in the original piece, inspired by "a musical passage through the North Pole explorer diaries".  
 
Here's what Richard and Frederic said about the original:  "We would like to think of this as a polar journey to the ends of the earth through the arctic sea. We kept in mind the first polar expeditions, Edgar Allan Poe's Dream-Land, the ships trapped or crushed by ice, the point of no-return, the minds sinking, the attempt on the Pole ending in disaster, the quest of the Northwest Passage, Erebus & Terror, the Mercy Bay, Mangazeya, Charles Francis Hall, Beechey Island, the Midnight sun and the Polar night."
 
It's very winter-y. And I'm very pleased Richard and Frederic agreed to allow me to give the remix away for free to anyone who would like to hear it this Christmas!

The Rustle of the Stars - Sleeping Land (Part 1) - Max Cooper Remix

You can find the beautiful full album from the Rustle of the Stars, here: http://www.therustleofthestars.com/ 

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The Rustle Of The Stars - Sleeping Land - Max Cooper Rmx - Quotient 3/6

Broken

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The final EP before the album. All made on an iPhone during a lunch break. Final track produced by Elias A!

CyberSpiderPunk

Download: https://www.xlr8r.com/mp3/2016/06/ssighborggg-feat-luna-time-eater-gold-panda-recover/

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Download: Ssighborggg Feat. Luna - Time Eater (Gold Panda Recover)

Reworks One - EP exploring music from Slugabed, Luke Abbott, Dauwd, and Kidsuke.

Violin- Connie Chatwin
Viola - Sally Wragg
Cello - Tom Oldfield
Trumpet - Tom Dennis
Clarinet - Henry Melbourne
Trombone - Ross Lumbard
Saxophone - Greg Sinclair
Piano - Laura Prescott
Harp - Glenda Alloway
Bass - Ben Hayes
Drums / Percussion - Pete Hill
Drums / Percussion / Vibraphone - Rob Hervais-Adelman

Arrangements:
Sex - Greg Sinclair
Unfurling / Free Migration - Rob Hervais-Adelman
Could It Be - Pete Hill
Harmonics - Ben Corrigan

Recorded by Alex Beitzke at Dean Street Studios, London
Mixed by Alex Beitzke
Additional mixing by Hannes Plattmeier (Could It Be)
Produced by Alex Beitzke and Ben Corrigan
Mastered by Pete Maher

Photography © www.alexfreemanphotography.co.uk

UNFURLING + FREE MIGRATION - LUKE ABBOTT

Download: https://www.xlr8r.com/mp3/2016/08/secret-school-heal/

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Download: Secret School - Heal (Parts I & II)

Date: 6.01.2017
Release: V/A 15th Anniversary Compilation by Project: Mooncircle
INFO: projectmooncircle.com/releases/15th-anniversary/

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Released on March 29 in celebration of Piano Day 2018.
Pre-order the album 'Persona' here: http://phonofile.link/rivalconsoles-persona

Ryan Lee West aka Rival Consoles has announced his fourth full length album 'Persona' will be released on 13th April via Erased Tapes.

The title 'Persona' was inspired by Ingmar Bergman’s film of the same name, specifically a shot in the opening credits of a child reaching out to touch a woman’s face on a screen, which is shifting between one face and another. This powerful image struck Ryan and it inspired the album’s main theme — an exploration of the persona, the difference between how we see ourselves and how others see us, the spaces in between; between states, people, light and dark, the inner persona and the outer persona. 

"My music is generally is generally inward looking. I like finding something about the self within music, that doesn't have to be specific but maybe asks something or reveals something. This record is a continuation on the self through electronic sounds. Like Legowelt once said ‘a synthesiser is like a translator for unknown emotions’, which I think sums up what I am trying to do. I think all these emotions we have make up our persona. So in a way by finding new ones you alter or expand your persona. And that is what I want my music to try to do. I deliberately aimed to be more sonically diverse with this record. I wanted to experiment more. I wanted to create new sounds and new emotions.”

Recorded at his studio in south-east London, ‘Persona’ benefits from Ryan’s exploration of a dynamic production process that combines analogue-heavy synthesisers, acoustic and electric instruments with a shoegaze-level obsession with effect pedals. A greater depth of emotion and confidence can be heard across the album. From the deconstructed movements on ‘Unfolding’ that starts the album with a snap of delayed snares, the apocalyptic drones of the title track and thundering drums in ‘Phantom Grip’ to more  restrained ambient feels of ‘Dreamer’s Wake’, ‘Rest’ and ‘Untravel’. The latter transverses six beatless minutes of undulating melodies representing “a limbo space, a feeling of ennui, of not really ever being known to others and others not ever really being known to you”.

'Be Kind' reveals a musical connection with fellow Erased Tapes artist Nils Frahm, with its minimal approach and improvisational nature. On the more complex sounding ‘I Think So’ Ryan aims to replicate a colour collage with sound. Like a musical kaleidoscope, a flashing and convoluted mass. Written after he saw Slowdive perform live last year, ‘Hidden’ builds from whispers to landscapes of controlled noise. In an interview with XLR8R magazine, Ryan explains: “once you start trying to make a sound loud, then you turn your back on thousands and thousands of sonic possibilities. One of the best things to do is to start a track with a really quiet, weak sound.” Taking this idea to its ultimate conclusion, ‘Fragment’ closes the album as an innocent sounding ambient piece, almost nursery rhyme like, yielding time for reflection on how the persona has changed.

'Persona' follows the success of a series of releases — the ‘Odyssey’ and ‘Sonne’ EPs, long player ‘Howl’, and 2016’s mini album ‘Night Melody’ — that saw Ryan mature into what Pitchfork has called a “forward-thinking electronic musician with his own ideas about sound”. Atypical of instrumental-electronic music, Ryan has achieved a signature sound that’s unmistakably identifiable as Rival Consoles. Going beyond typical electronic music production, Ryan defines it as “songwriting with an electronic palette of sounds”.

The increasingly dynamic live audio-visual show, born from bespoke performances at the Tate and for Boiler Room at the V&A Museum featuring self-programmed visuals in Max/MSP, has propelled him to play around the world. Ryan launches ‘Persona’ at London’s XOYO on 12th April with further dates to be announced.

Persona

Be Kind

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Rival Consoles - Be Kind

Remastered. Originally released on the first Vector Lovers limited CDr in 2002. 
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200 FREE downloads available!

Night Train Memories (2012)

New 'Broken EP' out now.

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https://www.hiddenorchestra.com/dates

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info@hiddenorchestra.com

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