Release date: 3rd February 2023
Format: Cassette, Digital

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"Esaminazioni Cosmiche" was written and composed between January and February 2021 during a period of introspection, about the world I lived in (and still live in) all through an external, cosmic gaze.
This album is dedicated to the Italian ambient minimalist movement of the seventies and eighties..

Music by Andrea Porcu
Artwork by Angel Draganov

previews. Music For Sleep - Esaminazioni Cosmiche | Mahorka

Sounds from the fields
Idanha-a-nova, 2018

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Sementes II

BRACELET - FR8558
COMPOSTER - tamiafold		
DJ BATHTIME - where u be ill go	
PHILIPP MATALLA - north
ERIN WAKE - if you could feel that gently 
EVIA - fading reflection
DJ BIRDBATH - wish
EMER - marine
APRIL BOURNE - sour vitamins 
JUNG DJ - untitled
ACTION SPORTS - smoker's alcove
LEE LLOYD - numbskull
PIPER SPRAY & LENA TSIBIZOVA - exit
CROW - are todays
COLOR PLUS - hpydrgn
PRINCESS DIANA OF WALES - evaporate
AROVANE - skaal
VIOLA - Yard II
GEKLAPER - smooth surface
DJ LOSTBOI - silver pool of sadness
BEN BONDY - gimmie a call
XENIA REAPER - us333
REC ____ - cave city

amorphous landscape

Sounds of primordial devotion, exploring mystic, spiritual, soulful, ecstatic dimensions of sound.

https://www.nts.live/shows/guests/episodes/mystic-ruh-w-rizmi-6th-may-2023

Mystic Ruh w/ Rizmi 060523

Episode 53 of the Mare Nostrum podcast is now online !

An ambient mix between drone, electonica & world music, with: Asaf Sánchez, Kernal, Ghost In The Loop, Hania Ranni, Anoushka Shankar... Selected & mixed by absÜrda

Thanks for listening !

1- Absolut / Asaf Sánchez / 00:00
2- P a l i n dr o ne (edit) / Kernal / 03:50
3- Eve / Anchorsong / 08:44
4- Le chant de la glace / Ghost In The Loop / 14:30
5- Mi09 / Cell / 20:46
6- Devil’s Water (Devil’s reprise) / Rennie Foster / 26:36
7- Run/ Hania Rani / 31:30
8- Le Brin (edit) / Den Sorte Skole / 35:00
9- Summoning The Spirits (edit) / D.K. / 36:26
10- New Planet / Vega Trails / 42:40
11- Stolen Momments / Anoushka Shankar / 45:44
12- Pressure Relief / The Persuader / 51:44 
13- Juanito Laguna / The Myrrors / 54:56

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Mare Nostrum Podcast - Episode 053 mixed by Absurda

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For this episode of The Ritual Must be Kept Alive, I invited Villa Lontana Records, an experimental and independent record label based in Rome, run by Vittoria Bonifati and Michele Ferrari, which focuses on the production of new sounds, from electroacoustic to sonorous poetry and from electromagnetism to field-recordings. Publishing both archival and unreleased material of the electronic avant-garde and contemporary sound-art scene, the label dedicates special attention to those artists who, although recognised as pioneers, drift in between realms. 

A Cosmic transmission journey set in four non-circumscribed sound spaces in which environmental recordings are mixed with electronic and acoustic pieces. 
Including multiple sound languages and dystopian, experimental musical evolutions generated through the use of the voice, flutes, percussions, synthesisers and computers.

The Ritual Must be Kept Alive w. Villa Lontana  [12.09.2023]

Causse Crystal [13.09.2023]

Various Artists Tone Science Module No.8 Tone Science Live DiN:TS08

Release date 6th October 2023
Limited to 500 copies. Digipak CD format

Tone Science sub-label, from DiN records, continues to explore the world of modular synth music.

The first seven volumes on the Tone Science sub-label featured 63 musicians (9 on each album) with varying backgrounds and styles, showcasing the wonderful richness and variety inherent in the world of modular synthesis. The next step was to transfer this concept to a live performance and hence the inaugural Tone Science Live concert, which took place at the Capstone Theatre in Liverpool on the evening of 22nd April 2023. 

All five musicians were set up onstage simultaneously and each played solo before joining together at the end. Field Lines Cartographer opened the evening with a beautiful set full of glistening textures and pulsating oscillations. Next came Nigel Mullaney with a more upbeat performance, featuring the famous “Pale Blue Dot” speech from Carl Sagan which seemed very appropriate as the 22nd April was Earth Day. After a short interval, Polypores took to the stage with a breath-taking display of modular synth virtuosity, with him constantly shifting and morphing the myriad sequencer patterns and tones emanating from his modular system. DiN label boss Ian Boddy followed with a sonic trip through four ambient sections, seamlessly mixing minimal ambience with vibrant pulsing sequencers before falling away to a tranquil conclusion. After another short break, Scanner played a stunning set featuring field recordings and disarming vocal samples and building up a monumental industrial rhythm from the simplest of ingredients.

The evening ended in fine style with all five musicians taking to the stage and performing an ambient drone piece inspired by the early American minimalist composers. At the helm was Scanner, mixing and shaping the overall sound of the music as it slowly grew in intensity to fill the hall with a mesmerising wash of tones. A fitting end to what was a fantastic evening of music from five musicians coaxing such varied and beautiful sounds from their small modular systems.

The entire evening is presented as a double CD in a 6-panel Digipak with accompanying 8 page booklet. A must-have album for followers of the Tone Science series.


Track listing:

01 TSL Set 1 by Field Lines Cartographer   23:43
02 TSL Set 2 by Nigel Mullaney   27:44
03 TSL Set 3 by Polypores   22:42
04 TSL Set 4 by Ian Boddy   23:58
05 TSL Set 5 by Scanner   28:45
06 TSL Set 6 by Tone Scientists   23:58

Total Time: 151:00

Tone Science Module No.8 Tone Science Live

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Tone Science Module No.8 Tone Science Live Demo Mix

Made by sample set of real non digital instruments and Vinyl records player (Scratches and SFX drops)

27-30 New Day New Competition

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Ian Boddy has been at the forefront of the UK electronic music scene since 1983 when he both performed at the very first UK Electronica Festival in Milton Keynes and released his first vinyl album The Climb.

In the 4 years preceding this event he had been experimenting at an Arts Council funded studio in Newcastle whilst at University. His early work resulted in 3 cassette only releases on the Mirage label as well as several local concerts. These early tapes showed Boddy gradually forming his own style through a long self teaching process in the techniques of analogue synthesis and tape manipulation.

After the success of 1983 he went on to release another 2 vinyl albums, Spirits and Phoenix, as well as performing several concerts throughout the UK. However it wasn't until 1989 that his first CD release, Odyssey, came out on the EM label Surreal to Real. After Drive, his second release on the Surreal label Boddy formed his own record label, Something Else Records , through which he released a further 4 solo albums as well as reissuing his 3 early vinyl albums and the cassette only release Jade on CD. Furthermore he released three collaborative CD releases with some of Europes finest exponents of EM, namely Andy Pickford, Ron Boots and Mark Shreeve.

He continued to expand his concert appearences which have now surpassed over 100 events with concerts in the UK ( including several more UK Electronica appearances, two shows at the Jodrell Bank Planetarium & two at the National Space Centre), Holland ( five festival appearances ), Germany and three shows in Philadelphia, USA.

Alongside these mainstream EM activities Boddy has also built for himself a formidable reputuation as a sound designer having produced a series of sample CD's & virtual instruments for sampling specialists Time & Space. In late 2008 Boddy set up his own downloadable sample CD company with the Waveforms series of sample packs. Furthermore he is also involved in library music having composed 11 such CD's for the publishing company deWolfe as well as producing some music for a computer games company.

Thus we come up to the present with the formation of his DiN label in 1999. Unlike his private Something Else Records the DiN label was set up to allow Boddy to actively form different collaborations with a wide variety of musicians as well as release other artists music. DiN has achieved widespread critical acclaim for it's adventurous outlook at the world of EM and has seen 39 releases with Boddy being involved in 21 of these ( five solo and sixteen collaborative projects ). 

In 2008 DiN expanded it's catalogue with a series of download only releases featuring Boddy in concert both as a solo performer and with other DiN artists. 

Tone Science Module No.8 Tone Science Live Demo Mix

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