Psychill, Psybient - part 2

Taken from forthcoming album 'Only Love From Now On' - out 25th Feb via Smalltown Supersound. 
Pre-order here: 
https://carmenvillain.bandcamp.com/album/only-love-from-now-on

Written and produced by Carmen Villain.
Mastered by Beau Thomas.

Subtle Bodies

One year on from their debut, Rainer Veil explore deep, brittle rave variants on their 2nd EP for Modern Love. The five tracks of 'New Brutalism' are a product of their Northern environment, making pointed reference to the kind of deep-rooted rave heritage documented in Mark Leckey's 'Fiorucci Made Me Hardcore' soundtrack through a prism of angular, vulnerable club music. Conceptually, It adopts a similar perspective on British nightlife to Burial or Lee Gamble, surveying the 'floor as if during an out-of-body experience or through closed eyes from a corner of the club at 5am. Opening track, 'UK Will Not Survive' captures that sensation beautifully with its tape-saturated layers of wistful vocal, woody 2-step and daubs of Reese bass, whilst 'Three Day Jag' isolates that curious blend of hedonism and introspection innate to early UK 'ardcore, albeit without the narco-sweats. Closing number 'Run Out' doffs a cap to grey building sites and strobe-lit clubs alike, channelling diffuse field recordings and half-heard breakbeats with a bleary-eyed, tired and emotional quality.

UK Will Not Survive

Garbage

VLetrmx

Incunabula

Doctrine

Artificial Intelligence

The Egg

Here is the debut, self-titled album from a.s.o., singer/songwriter Alia Seror-O’Neill, and producer Lewie Day. ‘a.s.o.’ is a thematic consolidation of the previous two singles and an impressive artistic progression. Day and Seror-O’Neill show they’ve mastered the format of the radio-friendly pop song and found how to subvert it completely. Across eleven songs, they have built a rich and compelling body of work.

We know where we are now, emotionally complex, trip-hop torch songs for club freaks. But the palette has broadened to encompass ethereal dream pop à la Cocteau Twins, slow-burning AOR-soul, and dubwise stylings. As a result, ‘a.s.o.’ is a satisfyingly coherent listen but never a musical monoculture. Variously there are nods toward Julee Cruise, Fleetwood Mac, and the uneasy listening of Portishead. It’s an album that wears its influences lightly, is never weighed down by them, and always sure of its own identity.

It’s anchored by Alia’s unique voice. Her words speak of restraint and release, taking us from the elegiac to the euphoric. This elegantly crafted, perfect pop music sounds like it has had enough of your shit. And Day’s music is the perfect foil; deep, slightly menacing, restrained, and powerful. The album has a cinematic texture, as with David Lynch; the seemingly familiar becomes uncanny and strange the closer we look. a.s.o. take our emotions for a joyride before leaving us floating in space.

‘a.s.o.’ is a journey; by its end, we all are changed.

Written and recorded by Alia Seror-O’Neill and Lewie Day at Quintagon Studios, Berlin and Palmerston Studios, Naarm/Melbourne in 2020-2023.
Mixed by Lewie Day except for Track 9 “Understand” mixed by Thomas McAlister
Mastered by Mikey Young
Artwork by Dylan Batelic
Words by Piers Harrison

2023 Low Lying Records
Cat. No. LLRLP001 – All rights reserved
www.itsaso.bandcamp.com

02 - My Baby's Got It Out For Me

AVAILABLE FOR DOWNLOAD: https://kellyleeowens.bandcamp.com/

AVAILABLE ON LIMITED VINYL :
http://www.roughtrade.com/albums/89897
http://www.piccadillyrecords.com/prod/KellyLeeOwens-LucidArthur-NotOnLabel-103232.html

OR instore at Rough Trade, Sister Ray & Sister Ray Ace & Piccadilly Records.

Taken from KLO's debut EP.

"The perfect amalgam of songwriting and soundscaping, releases like this are why vinyl exists." - Piccadilly Records.

Written & produced  by Kelly Lee Owens.
Mixed by Kelly Lee Owens
Engineered by: James Greenwood
Mastered by: David Oversby-Powell 

Arthur

Producido por Federico Jorcin
Masterizado por Daniel Anselmi

2025

Neutronia

CRYSTALIZE

STARMANTRA

Ethneomystica Vol. 4 by Mystic Sound Records

Mystic Sound Records welcomes you in the world of Ethneomystica – a very special place where ethnic rhythms meet the modern instruments. For the fourth time we open this secret portal to the space of the most actual downtempo music.

Traditionally selected by Maiia, these eleven tracks unite music of producers from around the globe (Russia, UK, USA, Canada, Sweden, Greece, Finland, Germany and Netherlands) and represent the variety of popular downtempo and midtempo styles from Psybient to PsyDub and Bass. You can find an excellent set of well-known projects at the 4th chapter of Ethneomystica – Easily
Embarrassed, Radioactive Sandwich, Spatialize, Seamon, Hinkstep, Maiia, Iacchus,
Chronos, Jeremy’s Aura, HuuHaa, Matt Dell, OkoloSna and Naturelement.

Enjoy your staying in this mystical world and be sure that you can return here whenever you wish – just push the button “Play” on your favorite music player.
credits
released March 9, 2016

Compiled by Maiia www.maiia.ru
Mastering: Manifold Studio manifold-studio.com/eng/
Cover art: Elena Ukolova www.facebook.com/ulsei

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Grapevine Drums (VA - Ethneomystica Vol. 4 - Mystic Sound Records)

Track two off of Charade
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Aeon Bahamut

Colourform

Delta

Curated by Palmbomen II & Betonkust
Mastered by Brendan Zacharias at Cirrus Audio

MDM P

Palmbomen II - In Bath With A Salmon

Premiered by @resident-advisor 
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"I made this track from samples of a piano board I recorded in EMS Stockholm with LAIR while we were working on our project. And some microphone hiss for the beats. I have been making purely percussive tracks recently for my upcoming album, so for this track I wanted to have an emotive melodic element as well. The title refers to the difficulty it seems as a human to live as you truly want, as opposed to how you think you should." - @eomac

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