White Cassette limted to 50 copies out: 27.8.21
Full digital release out in all stores: 10.09.21

Music Written by: Hagen Ebejer, Drew Carpenter, Heavenly Bodies,
Robert Kerr, Fashiongore & Ernesto Bellicini
Mastered by Hagen Ebejer (Llimbs)
Cassettes Printed by: Retro Media UK
Dubbed & Duplicated on Coomber 844 by: Drew Carpenter
Digital Distribution by: Cygnus Music
Catalogue: StarryEarth004

Mirror of Art & Nature

StarryEarth004: V/A - Mirror Of Art & Nature

The second release of POSITIVLAND by Mancunian artist:

Faff
@ffaf

PSTVLND 002 - 04/01/2024
positivland.bandcamp.com/

Limited ≈200 copies in Black vinyl, 180g.
Very Limited 26 hand-numbered copies, Splatter vinyl 180g
* Release Limited Edition 25/01/2024

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Note from the artist:


Faff’s Scrapbook.ep

This record is a collection of tracks I made from the start of 2019 to the end of 2021. They all exist completely independent of each other. My intention while working on music during this time was to create a time capsule/memory album for me to remind myself of my moments with. I had a lot of different experiences and substantially changed during this time. The early tracks were made by a completely different person than the person typing this. Of the 6 tracks on this EP, only one of them was made with the knowledge that it would be put together with the others and released as one cohesive article.

I wanted to make music again after abandoning it for 3 years. One of these tracks marks the turning point where a projected pipe dream of determined mastery was cracked through by what the speaker cone did when piano roll blocks were placed intuitively for the first time. 

In this .ep, I present:

THE CONCEPT

In its disjointedness, this music has presented itself to me as a scrapbook. It is rough around the edges, vague in its sentiment, and has more of an emotional than abstract association. While brainstorming for visual ideas to package these tracks in, I spat a bunch of words into a GAN and the words might be useful for you to get a sense of the general themes:  “synthesizer drum machine back catalogue emotional syneasthesia-inducing dance music” “vibrant energy synthesiser music record” “faffing about analogue synth music maker colour-changing light experiment” “bedroom studio acid bass sentimental rave artisan” “braindance analogue synthesiser data catalogue metaphysical music” “psychedelic synthesiser contemplation heartfelt breakbeat lullabies” “reaction diffusion rephlex records melancholic analogue music journal” “cerebral rave chromatic anthem dirge synth memories” “tr-808 analogue rave cerebral music energy ritual”

There is a dualistic nature to this EP, as it is a highly organised arrangement of totally disparate tracks. They are all (except one) built inside a DAW, but largely featuring live performance recordings of analogue hardware. The recordings are then processed after the fact. Layers on layers of humanity and machine, analogue and digital, specificity and ambiguity. All of the tracks are also subjectively experienceable pieces of music, but they sit in an objective folder structure on my laptop. Each one also was ignited by a unique occasion, but absorbs new meanings and connotations as time flows through and around them. These polarised paradoxes are key to the idea of this EP. Even to have a concept EP assembled from standalone tracks without any uniting concept is an example of the intertwining of opposites. Visuals associated are DAW architecture, poorly managed cables in thrown-together bedroom studio, piles of photographs printed out, computer folder structure, MIDI information in piano roll/automation envelopes, synthesiser encoders and pots.

Buy it:)!!

Special thanks and love go to Weefween, Robert and Chloe 

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credits
release January 4, 2024

Written, composed and produced in Manchester, UK, by Faff.
Mastered in Groningen, the Netherlands, by Johanz Westerman at Balyhoo Studio Mastering.
Designed in Manchester, UK, by Faff + Weefween + Positivland.
Distributed from Sardinia, Italy, by Desslab.

www.desslab.net
www.positiv.land

Faff - Shallow Focus (Snippet)

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track: Interoceans III (Badun Remix)
wav16: https://tinyurl.com/IHeartLungRemix
full release: https://archive.org/details/jamendo-031306

I Heart Lung - Interoceans III (Badun Remix)

A1 FunKT10n (Clip)

From the Creation of a Positron EP out on Sci-Fact Records

Creation of a Positron

Distant Drift

Skylights

1st mix on XDJ-RR (no sync used lol)
118bpm - 168bpm..... take a risk mix

Tracklisting:

1.  Local Suicide - Agapi ft. Sissi Rada
2.  611 Grooves - I Like It
3.  Minimalphunk - This Time Is
4.  Deltamaxx / O En One - Donnager
5.  Bufo Bufo - Sargassum
6.  The Chillbots - Shady Love
7.  The Grid - Crystal Clear
8.  Pascal Feos - I Can Feel That
9.  Claus Bachor - Greencard Re-interpretations (Hypnofunk Version)
10. Rennie Foster - Midnight Sun ft Ely (Oliver Ho mix)
11. Leraq - Zima Blue
12. Josh Wink - Be Aware (Truncate Mix)
13. Darqhorse- Superposition 
14. Rude 66 - My 909
15. Llyod Stellar - Into The Light (Diplomat & Beagle Mix)
16. Kitbuilders - Everything Is
17. Ricky Force - What's Up
18. An Galar Dub - Caoineadh na Marbh

Bealtaine Mix

"Calcium" is a bonus / promo only exclusive available to igloomag.com listeners! May 2024.

Supernatural Beast City is available on Woodland Creatures on 7th June 2024.

https://igloomag.com/reviews/duran-duran-duran-supernatural-beast-city-woodland-creatures

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ScanOne  / Meat Beat Manifesto
Limited Vinyl & Digital

ScanOne_Secondary Loop
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ScanOne_Secondary Loop
Meat Beat Manifesto_Into The Sun (Pts1&2)

A confident, two track release, cut loud to a split 12” from Meat Beat Manifesto & ScanOne. Following on from featuring together on the Yellow Machines BLE-EP series. 

Bleeps, Breaks, Space and Bass.

Meat Beat Manifesto's ‘Into The Sun’ kicks off pulsing techno and IDM spasms against evocative NASA samples, the track evolves into a frenzied and unstable tower of wonky jungle break edits and heavy sub sweeps threatening imminent collapse.  Weaving the contrasting rhythms with a narrative of eerie analogue pads and incidental atmospherics, Jack Dangers delivers a striking and fresh piece reminiscent of mid 90s leftfield rave acts such early Plug, Bedouin Ascent, and Law & Auder crew, both in their worldly experimental stylings as well as their forward-leaning progressivism.

ScanOne’s track ‘Secondary Loop’ is a seven minute galactic adventure of a slightly less hectic pace, and a brighter array of scenery.  With a firm thematic nod to that 89 / 90, pre-hardcore sound exemplified by the likes of 808 State, FSOL, and Orbital, the voyage is signposted by chunky, shuffling breaks, glowing invigorating rave pads and sparkling arpeggiated sequences, built for those peak dance moments, light and dark, sundown or sunrise.

YM023
Limited Vinyl & Digital
ScanOne_Secondary Loop
Meat Beat Manifesto_Into The Sun (Pts1&2)

www.yellow-machines.bandcamp.com
P&C_YM2024

YM023_ScanOne_Secondary Loop (clip)

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