Ambient #134

Sustain Series returns for its third iteration, bringing together ever-more artists for another showcase of recycled music. Reworks and newfound collaborations make up this 27-piece album, demonstrating what can be achieved with ‘one’s trash and another’s treasure’.

 https://bit.ly/amb-sustain3

All Bandcamp proceeds of this album are to be donated to Eden Reforestation Projects, to help continue their work sustaining important local environments, and providing jobs to those that restore and maintain them.

G. Strizzolo & Sebby Kowal - Flying Through My Thoughts

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TASCAM DR-40X

so wet's water kingdom

The initiatory release on the co:clear label is a stunning debut by Brooklyn-based artist, Eden Aurelius. Written between Chicago and New York throughout 2023, 'Plateau' is a lacework of chiller dub-techno and ambient sparkle, crafted via recorded material, astute sampling, and live instrumentation. Rounded off with a stellar remix from your favourite ambient boyband (Purelink), this record is one for the serial unwinders.

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"Plateau is a collision, formed over years of change — an elevated plane where land forms an even surface.

Towering above the ground you see the scale of the earth — terrain merging with sky, enfolding on one another.

Seclusion and observation — a timeless vortex where moments stand still and find place in clarity."

— Eden Aurelius
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Written & Produced by Eden Aurelius
Remix by Purelink
Mastered by Ike Zwanikken
Lacquer cut by Henry Rudkins
Digital Artwork by Shy
Centre Label Design by Conna Haraway
Distribution by Rubadub

Plateau

COCLEAR001: Eden Aurelius – Plateau (previews)

From Jonnnah's new album The Next Kingdom, out May 19th on Second End Records.

https://secondendrec.bandcamp.com/album/the-next-kingdom-lp-ser001

@jonnnah

The Next Kingdom LP (SER001)

Premiere: Jonnnah - The Deepest Void [Second End Records]

Next up on co:clear – a somewhat new direction for London-based producer, Box5ive. Perhaps an artist more usually associated with trudging, UK-bass divagations (via contributions to Panel Audio and Well Street Records), his debut LP ensues a wistful gear change that speeds straight through the apex of your serotonin receptors.

Caressed by synths that cry euphoric tears, ‘Grey Space’ is a full-length trip that fuses adept drum programming with serenading melody, offering a majestic listening experience that glides amongst emo-bient clouds and free falls into dazzling electronica.


Credits:

Written & Produced by Box5ive
Mastered by Ike Zwanikken
Lacquer cut by Henry Rudkins
Sleeve Artwork by Marutonkun
Centre Label Design by Conna Haraway
Distribution by Rubadub

Grey Space

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COCLEAR002: Box5ive – Grey Space (previews)

Andriy K. sets things in motion through his involvement in various cultural outlets. Born in Kiyv and now living in Prague, the Bike Jesus resident is playing stages and platforms and actively creating such for other artists throughout Europe. He hosts a bi-monthly show on Radio Punctum and curates the Motsion collective, showcasing the Ukranian electronic music scene and collaborate with scenes and venues such as Kwia in Berlin or Murmur in Amsterdam.
Woven from from organic textures and immersive sound etudes, the nostalgy transmitted in this journey inadvertently invites us to seek nature, seek retreat in the warmth of spring as we wander towards summer.
Embedded in a stream of crawling elements emotional soundscapes are going hand in hand with a realm of mystic signs. The melancholic theme in transition becomes tangible, moving us back and forth between cold and warm, conscious and subconscious, awake and asleep.

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Dream Channel

Wave Channel EP. 19: Andriy K.

Session #5 - NKNWN

Cremation of care is a bimonthly show on @lyl_radio !

𝙑𝙞𝙨𝙞𝙤𝙣 𝙋𝙧𝙤 𝘿𝙪𝙗𝙨™️ is a tribute to the modern reincarnations of dub music. A 1hr dive trough contemporary & ambient dub, weightless dubstep and trip hop-infused dubby cuts.

Artwork by @acacio_ortas

For Barney, Who Was A Bad Dog, But A Good Boy, And Very Much Loved.

Cremation of Care #16 - 𝙑𝙞𝙨𝙞𝙤𝙣 𝙋𝙧𝙤 𝘿𝙪𝙗𝙨™️

XTCLVR, the brainchild of Ukrainian sound artist and audio producer Artem Diachenko from Buchan near Kyiv, is set to release a new album titled 'INVERSE' on Standard Deviation. XTCLVR cinematic soundscapes have been featured in Standard Deviation’s audiovisual project 'Ridne' showcased at the CTM Festival in Berlin, ICA London and La Gaîté Lyrique in Paris. Known for his deep involvement in Kyiv's underground music scene, Artem is also a key member of the Pep Gaffe and Ejekt collectives, representing a fresh wave of Ukrainian independent artists dedicated to alternative and experimental sounds.

XTCLVR's music is characterized by deep, enveloping ambient passages and sharp synthesizer elements that often transform into hip-hop and dub bass lines. The name XTCLVR (ecstasy lover), created in 2019, humorously echoes with the techno culture.

'INVERSE' unveils a different facet of XTCLVR’s sound, with heavier and more aggressive tones. The traditional genres dissolve, and a grotesque tone draws the listener into a surreal, chimeric journeyThe album blends rich synthesizers and post-club polyrhythms with euphoric, upbeat elements, maintaining his distinctive style. Written throughout 2022-2023, the tracks on 'INVERSE' reflect a time of emotional instability and a dream-like state: is this all for real? The music features liquid sonic textures that escalate into distorted synths, fractured noisescapes, and eerie melodies. A standout track, 'FEEL ME', poses a bold inner dialogue, questioning reality itself.

'INVERSE' will be released on Standard Deviation on the 12th of July 2024.

https://soundcloud.com/xtclvr
https://soundcloud.com/standard-deviation

PREMIERE⚡️XTCLVR - RUFF TITLE [Standard Deviation]

Living Room n°72 ~ @box_5ive

q. pls introduce yourself
a. i’m jake, currently based in london 

q. is there a story behind the mix?
a. no story just an attempt to chill out for an hour

q. what’s the best way enjoy your mix?
a. by yourself 

q. describe a favorite object in your living room...
a. the chess board on my coffee table 

q. are you working on any projects right now (music or not music)?
a. always working on new music, an EP, some appearances and trying to develop a new live show

Living Room n°72 ~ Box5ive

christina vantzou 'homemade mountains'

Live iPad jam on a rainy day. Uncut video here: https://youtu.be/kUqGkci1iVo

Flowing

Erased Stills is the debut LP of the Russian composer Igor Dyachenko is an odyssey into the unconscious that lies at the intersection of meditative ambient and industrial IDM.
First thing you notice when you press play is the incredible cinematic landscape of the album and its narrative. Each composition can be read as a chapter of Joyce's “Ulysses”, where moving in space transforms the mental state of the hero evoking wiped memories, random allusions and suppressed associations. In Erased Stills the artist shares his experiences for the last five years, including musical ones.
The album opens with the composition Access Keys. The name refers to the term in psychotherapy, when through barely noticeable gestures, eye movements, posture and breathing, the therapist adjusts to the patient's rhythm trying to find the key to the gate of his unconscious.
In the general storyline, this is a 3am moment. A blank canvas, a stage without artists and scenery, a coordinate system not yet dissected by rays and dots. Soft piano chords, barely touching the listener, are hesitantly making their way through the rustling emptiness.
Tachyons and In Signals are the essence of laboratory experiments with modular synthesizers. It is still predawn twilight, when in silent moon shades you’re trying to guess the shapes and silhouettes carved into the sound.
Unlimited Trance is the most lyrical moment in the album. A touching, youthfully romantic composition with a quivering piano part and convincing strings reveals the spiritual essence of a person.
Mountain Stream continues the ambient line of the record, but melancholy gives way to the joy of awakening. It is as if you see dazzling arrows of the morning rays, beating with cosmic energy and overflowing of diamond light. This is one of the climaxes of the album, when with the awakening suddenly comes the moment of motion: dense, enveloping structures of the bass emerge through the bright cheerful vibrations, a drum machine starts up and from a state of solitary contemplation you seem to be transferred to the center of the earth. Energy, languishing in the unconscious, is converted into kinetic. Transitions from meditative ambient to rhythmic IDM are the common essence of the record.
After taking a short pause in Starfall, the artist leaves the listener again with an epic Space Translation. Bass, smelling like burning rubber, and carefully polished textures are layered on the sequences that are sparkling like a spike of pearl.
You hear even more wildness and gustiness in one of the album’s key tracks - Disintegration: the melodic ambient line dissolves in a saturated groove. The bass goes slowly, like space-time in Interstellar, distorting the rest of the soundscape with its gravity. The drama of the LP is revealed in this tension between hell and paradise: the plots, taken from memory, acquire new sounds and details, turning into an audiopanel and a screenplay.
The final track with atmospheric trance passages and an accelerated straight-line beat is a kind of sublimation of all the experience you lived through this album. Connection to the general flow of energy and dissolution in it.

Mountain Stream

Igor Dyachenko

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