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Over the last two years, The Black Dog have photographed their home town and the brutal architecture that sits within. This album of ambient, experimental and down-tempo work was originally conceived as an aid for the creative process but ultimately provides a soundtrack to the artworks.

We've always worked apart. For us, it's nothing new. Large online servers have been in place for years but at some stage, we always meet up while working on an album to pour over the details, tone and running order.

We create storyboards and write text to support and form the ideas. However, this process and the simple ability to sit in the same room just wasn’t possible during the pandemic. This isn't necessarily a bad thing, on this project we believe that it has helped us to capture the isolation a photographer seeks with their subject. It's an attempt at slowing down and finding something internal. When the chatter stops, the creative intentions seep through.

Music For Photographers was first created as a functional tool. For the last two years, we’ve been photographing our city and the brutal architecture that sits within the landscape. Throughout this process many mistakes had been made, resulting in many return visits to repeat work already undertaken. Rushing, aimlessly collecting and near misses are all common problems. Photography, just like any other artform, needs to be practised and the skills need to be attained. Like music, it’s a constant battle.

Something was needed to aid the art being sought.

We created Music For Photographers with two simple rules; to be void of human voices and that it should be played in full when visiting any location. Our approach to composing the music and visiting the locations evolved. It helped the whole process become a more fluid exchange of ideas and we repeated the process later while editing the photographs. The book "Brutal Sheffield" provided a full stop for the creative process, finding that perfect balance between function and form.

Music For Photographers has now become a fully functioning sigil in our creative process. Rather than just invoking, it also evokes and goes beyond being a simple function. Listen carefully and you can hear the bréton brut!

Music For Photographers

Preorder Vinyl & Digital via Bandcamp:
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One Eye Witness:
https://bit.ly/3zvUqvB

Discogs: 
https://www.discogs.com/release/21614911-Primal-Code-AI-Calculator

Out 28.01.2022

Up next in our main series are Milan-based dub techno outfit Primal Code. With a solid back catalogue comprising releases for Hypnus Records, TGP and Konstrukt, the Italian duo have honed their skills to impressive effect over the last few years, forging a sound signature thoroughly engaging on both body and cerebral levels, and now punching in on KOC to breathe further hard-hitting opaque heat into the collection.

Putting things into gear, “AI Calculator” propels us across dim-lit streetscapes and murky subterranean entrails, pared-down to a minimal array of modular signals, subtle machine inflections and particularly acute rhythmic progression. Steering the original into further pumped-up, DJ-friendly territories, NAFF affiliate Priori drops the hammer badman style, bringing forth the racing muscular bass and squelchy machine talk on loop mode to keep everyone on their toes from start to finish.

Flexing a different kind of acidic swagger, “Autopilot” pulls out the weird extra-terrestrial jazz tropes and whirling dynamics for a round of proper otherworldly bop in the outer-space. Last but not least, “Mainframe” rounds off the release on a more openly experimental note, letting the loops, envelopes and textures float in a haze of half-controlled abstraction. The result evokes something of an immunocompromised Rubber Johnny getting glazed as he weightlessly drifts off from a galaxy to another, and into another world completely.

Primal Code - AI Calculator w/ Priori Remix (OYSTER32 - Snippets)

Epsilon ft. Dycide - Drifter [IO]

Release name - Moonshade
Catalog - [IO:025]
Release Date - 10. 04. 2022
Mastering By - Niklas Bühler (Klangstellwerk)
Artwork By - Carmen Maria Schweiger (Ohneweil)
Format - Digital
 
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Label on Soundcloud - https://soundcloud.com/iorecs
Label on Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/io.records/

Epsilon ft. Dycide - Drifter [IO]

Fields We Found joins Owari for an hour of ambient bliss and textured spaces. Featuring pieces by artists such as Louis Sterling, Ian Hawgood, and Arovane.

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Owari w/ Fields We Found - August 2022

MTRL - Theia's Shard [IO]
Release name - Glome [ 1 ]
Catalog - IOGL:001
Release Date - 14.09.2022
Mastering By - Mastered by Niklas Bühler (Klangstellwerk)
Artwork By - Carmen Maria Schweiger (Ohneweil)
Format - Digital, EP
 
Support & Buy - https://io-records.bandcamp.com/
 
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Artist on Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/mtrl_io/
 
Label on Soundcloud - https://soundcloud.com/iorecs
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Label on Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/io.records/

MTRL - Theia's Shard [IO]

Anders Hellberg - Taliking Steamroller [Cinus]
Release name - Steamroller EP
Catalog - CS010
Release Date - 12/02/2023
Mastering By - Anders Hellberg
Artwork By - Anders Hellberg
Format - DIGITAL
 
Support & Buy - https://cinus.bandcamp.com/
 
Artist on Soundcloud - https://soundcloud.com/anders-hellberg
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Anders Hellberg - Lucky Deamon [Cinus]

Unedited recording of my set at Savoy Theatre in Helsinki, Finland on 17 March 2023.

Setlist:
Against A White Cloud
Black Dust
Clouds 
Post-Crisis Remembrance
To Drown Out The Ocean
Bound Universe
The Purpose Of Peace
On A Shattered Shell Beach

Thanks to Magnús Logi Kristinsson for the photo.

Abul Mogard "Live at Savoy Theatre - Helsinki, 17 March 2023"

Nog Zone w/ Anthony Child: 1st April '25

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This is the full recording of my set at the Sonica festival in Ljubljana on 27 September 2019.

The piece "The Purpose Of Peace" included in this set is available on Bandcamp as free download or "name your price" here:
https://abulmogard.bandcamp.com/track/the-purpose-of-peace-live

Live at Sonica 2019

These are some new tracks that I would have been playing in my DJ sets. 
Since everything has ground to a halt I decided to upload a mix for your pleasure during self isolation. 
Stay safe, clean and please look after each other.

Please support me by buying something at https://dj-surgeon.bandcamp.com

queniv - Unfold
Ryan Elliott - The Move
Orlando Voorn - The Illest
Xhin - Link (Lucy remix)
Biri - Ursa Minor
DJ Bruce Lee - "Beatz" (John Heaven's Pel Tiet Bruce Remix)
Nicola Cruz - Ripple
Peder Mannerfelt - A Queen
MSDMNR - Emergency
Donato Dozzy - Sotto Ma Sotto (Lucy remix)
Nicola Cruz - Yeva
Batu & Lurka - Curved
Luciano Esse - Rainy Night (Joton Remix)
Peder Mannerfelt - Black Alert
Troy - Surge
Makaton	- Bruise Violet
PWCCA - Ningyo
Temudo - Tough To Say
Stanislav Tolkachev - Be Careful And Nobody Dies
MSDMNR - Reign One
Perko - Stutter
Alex Banks - Revolutions (Jinjé Remix)

Isolation mix

Self Isolation mix Vol.1

Saphileaum - Sleeping Prophet [NORITE]
Catalog - NOR023
Release Date - 25/03/2020
Format - Digital

Support & Buy - https://norite.bandcamp.com/album/sleeping-prophet

Mastering By - Giovanni Conti www.artefactsmastering.com
Artwork By - MA7R - Martin Respaut

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Artist on Soundcloud - @https://soundcloud.com/saphileaum

https://www.facebook.com/hadalresonance
Tbilisi-based prolific producer Saphileaum makes his comeback to the label with 4 meditative cuts.

Support & Buy

Saphileaum - Enchanted Jewelry [Norite]

Flint

Bekophobia

Pavement

Today we have a mellow mix out by an artist with whose work we recently fell in love with: Polypores. Hard to place in one category but with noticeable influences of synthwave, ambient, and drone, he himself describes his music as ‘Cosmic sleep music, sci-fi soundtracks and haunted drones’. Recently he released Azure and Tempus, an album which is out through Woodford Halse tapes. He also has some projects in the pipeline: Myriad for label @castlesinspace, Shpongos for @bluetech and a few others. 

Lastly, he is creating an album completely with his custom built Dopefer modular system. ánd he is working on a special collab for Miracle Pond with Gareth E Rees, who is the author of Unofficial Britain, a book/platform which focusses on celebrating the overlooked part of Britain in the past and present. Definitely check their website out: http://www.unofficialbritain.com/

Follow the artist 
@polypores 
www.polypores.bandcamp.com
www.instagram.com/sjbuckers
www.twitter.com/stephenjbuckley

''(" LOUNGY011 ")" ~ Polypores [GBR]

transmissions from the deep cold of interstellar space
space...techno...atmospheres.Transplanetary electronic sounds as Impulse Array. Dark ambient electronica & drone as Field Lines Cartographer

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