ambient/vapor

Kepler-39

"'Nova Llum' unfolds and morphs through 9 tracks of contemporary Ambient bliss... Shimmering fractals of ASMR, combined with Illbient laced electronics & drums - all combine for the perfect modern Balearic flotation tank"

Original Cassette released via @goodmorningtapes

Bandcamp

Centro Gris (from 'Nova Llum' LP)

Far far away in the infamous Saint-Etienne Kingdom live and breath Anouar Redjem Cheibane, Guillaume Lamorte & Jacques Satre. The three members of Le Marais surfaced from the gloomy waters of 2020 fall to gather balearic, folk, new age and ambient trance inspirations over an amazing eponymous LP on French Besoins Premiers.

Following the label taste in flowery, poetic music (with Organizatsiya's 'Strane Leoni', Lenny Frings' 'Ontological Outlines' or Modeux des Cieux's 'Constant Run'...), the trio definitely defined its own touch with this 11-track release, made of dreamy synths, autotuned lyrism & spoken words, tremendous electric guitar leads and nebulous sounds, set against an ogre-and-fairy-tales medieval background.

300-vinyl edition to be released during the summer:
https://besoinspremiers.bandcamp.com/album/le-marais

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Asha’s Awakening

The Internet Is Like Eating Plastic

Ryuichi Sakamoto - "Asadoya Yunta"  (Karmelloz Remix)

https://bigzen.bandcamp.com/album/up

In the club, but not of it club.. the ice giant, Uranus.

3 more tunes where this came from on the EP - Digi only

thank you love you

Uranus

Myth Dawn Age

Red Area

Coolwater - Red Area

Distributed by RubaDub and shipping November!

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Green Room

Riohv - Sun Shadow

Brainbeau - Countdown

Physical: geographic-north.com/cassette/transformative-nature/
Digital: geographicnorth.bandcamp.com/album/transformative-nature
Catalog #: GN45
Neon Fog Cassette, limited to 100
Mastered by Sean McCann

Café Ale is Los Angeles-based musician and producer Alejandro Cohen. An irreplaceable fixture in LA’s sprawling music scene, Cohen has contributed his deft auditory touch to projects ranging from the hallucinatory Balearic bliss of Pharaohs (100% Silk, International Feel, ESP Institute, Holy Mountain) to the fuzz-drench auteur pop of Languis (Plug Research, Pehr). In addition to his acclaimed musical output, Cohen is responsible for corralling a wholly inclusive and globally-minded stable of tastemakers as director of dublab, Los Angeles’ long-running radio station.

Spanning eight shimmering sketches, 'Transformative Nature" marks Café Ale‘s debut set of recordings. With help from a revolving cast of collaborators, Cohen has crafted a tantalizing medley of evocative, rhythmic burners suited more for a breezy sunset than the dance floor. 

Opener “Devout” is an uplifting drift of noise and melody, floating down a river of serrated drones and serene piano keys. “Push-me Pull-U” unfurls its noir-ish, neon-flecked careen through saxophone-littered vistas. “Subir Es Lo Mejor” slithers with a muted and stuttering house beat, perfectly balancing rhythmic meditation with hypnotic transcendence. “Hymn” dials the narrative back into a warbled and woozy ambient symphony of synthetic beauty.

“Stranded” plays out like an autumnal raga for an unseasonably warm backyard house party, while “Dress’n Up” nods to some grand and cosmic melodrama. “Dead Child Song” brings a disarmingly moving melody of love and loss, countered by closer “Fallen Angel,” a curiously shoegaze-y traipse through a slurred and heady, effects-laden dream sequence. 

A captivating statement that shows Cohen’s dynamic, wide-ranging, and wholly unique approach to dance music.

Café Ale - Subir Es Lo Mejor

Physical: geographic-north.com/cassette/tokonoma/
Digital: geographicnorth.bandcamp.com/album/tokonoma
Catalog #: GN46
Cassette, limited to 100
Mastered by Sean McCann

For more than a decade, Jon Porras has carved out a sprawling, emotionally evocative niche of sound using a variety of sonic elements and associations in his solo work on such seminal imprints as Root Strata, Important, and Thrill Jockey. But Porras has also been associated with a number of celebrated collaborations, with musicians Evan Caminiti (as Barn Owl), Jefre Cantu-Ledesma, Ellen Fullman, Stephen O’Malley, Jacob Felix Heule, and visual artists Paul Clipson and Wilhelm Sasnal.

Tokonoma is Porras' fifth solo work, ending the almost four-year silence since his last release. More than a comeback though, the album serves as one of Porras' most enlightened works to date, touching on the dark, expansive tones explored on past releases and shedding light on Porras' bright future.

Assembled gradually from layers of Yamaha DX7, physical modeling instruments, synthetic voices and analog tapes, processed with complex programming and outboard patching, the six pieces explore the musical possibilities of improvising against mathematically generated patterns. Through these chance operations, MIDI programming and other generative principles, Tokonoma uses algorithmic tools to reexamine composition in the age of information overload.

"Generative Counterpoint" opens the set with a run of effervescent synth tones that beam up into the sky with unending hope and optimism. Deep throbs of rhythm pulse into the space as waves of color wash across the frame. "Stochastic Return" turns the narrative into more modern classical territory, performed by an entire virtual symphony of synthetic sound but conducted with entirely human sensibilities and emotions. "Still Life" continues the vibrant minimalism with a heaving hum of shimmering tones and meditative repetition.

On "Dissolving Boundaries," Porras examines an ever-evolving pattern of piano miniatures that shift and modulate into the infinite. "22/7" is perhaps the most pointillistic piece of the set, perfectly balancing moments of total sound and near-silence in a forceful blitz that's both highly complex and genuinely natural. "Ultraviolet Interval" closes the tape with a blur of phased color and chopped beauty that eventually dissolves into a cloud of static white noise.

Jon Porras - "Generative Counterpoint"

Inspired by the flora and fauna of our planet, Sign Libra’s productions invoke lush, magical dreamscapes. In 2016 the Latvian RBMA alumna released her ‘Closer to the Equator’ EP digitally via Sounds of the Dawn and now the excellent French label Antinote is blessing us with a physical version of the record. We’re excited to host the second track from the EP, entitled “Mantodea vs. Furcifer Pardalis,” a beautiful concoction that Sign Libra also played for us in the participant introduction round at the 2016 Academy in Montréal. Since she provided us with an evocative description of her own track, we can’t help but to share that with you as well in full:

“Living in trees and bushes, animals must hide themselves well from predators and be skillful hunters. One of such masters of ambush and mimicry is the praying mantis. Well camouflaged and lighting up quickly, this insect is a highly efficient predator, but it has a worthy enemy – the panther chameleon. Its camouflage is exceptional because it can change skin colour to match its surroundings. During the hunt the chameleon’s eyes move independently to spot prey. It creeps towards its victim until it unleashes a super weapon – its tongue, which shoots out at a speed of 15 meters per second and not only hits but grasps its target…”

Sign Libra’s ‘Closer to the Equator’ EP is out on vinyl February 19th via Antinote.

Watch the video for “Mantodea vs. Furcifer Pardalis” here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iPougGl8c2c

@signlibrachannel
@antinote-records
http://redbullmusicacademy.com

Sign Libra - Mantodea vs. Furcifer Pardalis

Electronic Music from the Eighties and Nineties

Banteay Srey

SIDE J - J M S KHOSAH
SIDE JR - JR CHAPARRO

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NCA SUR (J M S KHOSAH / JR CHAPARRO)

A2 off "Entertainment" by URA.

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Ura - Bas Mas

Fidelity

Grace

Interplanetary electro from Dallas producer Philip Washington. Originally released digi-only on Biosoft Records, now remastered and repackaged on vinyl for the first time by Ari Goldman for his World Building imprint.

Grab it first via: https://earcave.com/

Neon Flux [WB010]

Cygnus - Vectra Datasonix (STW Premiere)

We're very pleased to announce the simultaneous launch of our new division, Ediciones Capablanca, which will focus on DIY limited editions while expanding the label's format output into carefully crafted tapes, prints, zines and clothing, and its first reference, Madrid’s “k-jazz” combo Metametal, which offer us ‘Desgasta Meseta’. 

A daring, beautiful album which sounds unlike anything else you’ve heard. Borja’s granular synthesis experiments having endless after hours poetic conversations with Jacobo’s mutant sax, a puerta cerrada. Nada Bien makes sure the meaning is not in the words but in the nonssence. Melancolía tries to find them but No Hay Futuro has wrapped Garage Hermético into an ethereal, invisible blanket. 

Housed in a transparent cassette + snapbox with Riso printed sleeve on handcrafted Michel paper and dymo spine designed by Pablo Mirón.

releases November 1, 2020 

Música improvisada por Metametal entre 2017 y 2019 
Effectos de guitarra en Jenz Jazz Montemor por Beni Bratchel 
Voz y letra en Futile por Nada Bien 
Diseño por Pablo Mirón 

Gracias a SVS, Emil Saiz, Damián Schwartz y Natxo Checa.

Metametal - Desgasta Meseta (album medley)

4/11/18 gr_und, Berlin
16/03/17 l'International, Paris

ambient/vapor

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