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July 16, 1945

Experimental Music - part 7

Taken from @therealendgame's debut full length 'Surrender'. 'Abyss' comes with pulsating and doom laden instrumental interwoven with Endgame’s sepulchral vocal. Forthcoming on @preciousmetalsx.

More: https://ins-rt.net/audio/endgame-abyss

Surrender

Premiere: Endgame - Abyss

https://twitter.com/drip133
sample: http://bit.ly/1YAswXh

neither yes or no

Gods Favorite

From "Portion Park", the second release by @celynjune.

bandcamp: blo-om.bandcamp.com/album/portion-park
spotify: spoti.fi/2NtaV2e

W - I 11
Artwork by Monika Janulevičiūtė & Oli XL

Celyn June — Bidders Patch (Possibility) / Distance All Singing

@jjjacob
"A mythology of bewinged souls, protecting and defending our realms.
Archangels falling as freezing rain, in their struggles with themselves.
Saving the soul from sin and fear, cleansing away your inner disgusts.
Your spirit is ripe for the second coming, tribulation is close at hand.
The Deluge is coming and who will be saved, what becomes of Angelic Hostility."

Artwork by jjjacob
Mastering by Lorenzo Targhetta

Angelic Hostility

List Of Fallen Angels

jjjacob - List Of Fallen Angels

DJ Lostboi & Torus - The Flash

sitequeeste.bandcamp.com/album/the-flash
Available 24 January 2020 on LP and digital platforms.

Following 2019’s hibernation, Queeste reappears with the mnestic soundscapes of DJ Lostboi and Torus’ split album The Flash. Across eight gossamer evocations—four from each artist—the duo reflect on individual journeys from airport to sea during the blissful embers of fading summer. Their gaze expands and contracts naturally with passing locations but lingers on the titular flash, what the two artists describe as “the rare sight of the sun giving off a bright green lightburst into the horizon.”

Made up of sounds sourced and appropriated from these commutes—pop music heard on the radio, jumbled street recordings, and everyday technological objects—The Flash evokes the melancholic pull of such recollections without ever succumbing to nostalgia. The moments eked from these samples stretch into quiet eternity—still and suspended—while retaining their quotidian, terrestrial qualities.

DJ Lostboi successfully refines the warped atmospherics heard on his previous edits of pop, rap, and emo. First track ‘Open World’ welcomes listeners with lapping waves and plaintive wavering tones—like a glittering video game environment—until real life interrupts on ‘Ordinary People’ as an automated answer phone message: an unknown voice lets out a weary sigh. Its foggy pianos and soft vocals offer melody and buoyancy where ‘LB 100’ circles on moody, dream-like pads. We follow the artist’s oceanic voyage to its culminating trance-like shimmers which dissolve into cool water: reflective, endless, yet ultimately hopeful.

Netherlands-based Torus foregoes the dancefloor dynamics of 2016’s Engine Malfunction for a series of calmer, cloudless drifts. On ‘Enter The Sun’—a sparse, yearning composition—washes of noise and clipped auto-tuned vocals pulse over a haunting refrain until ‘Pier’ arrives with whirring engines, sweet birdsong, and decaying synths. The album’s lightest piece comes with the skipping ‘Radiate 540’—euphoric dance minus the kick—which rises from a muffled human interaction until slow motion cinematics signal the trip’s end: ‘Arrival’ collapses into the sea elegantly mirroring DJ Lostboi’s final track.

Despite its hushed ambience, The Flash is an album committed to forward momentum. Each composition reveals a discrete chapter of DJ Lostboi and Torus’ journey building to a moment of bittersweet ascension. The results of such heartfelt wandering recall the spatial dynamics of The KLF’s zoned post-rave landscapes but these works flicker with thoroughly modern paraphernalia and emotions.

The Flash

Torus - Radiate 540

@naa_32 @naa_32 @naa_32 @naa_32 @naa_32 <3<3

Plains w/ Genesis

ddertbag - A Sky So Blue

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BUY / STREAM

BOYEI

DEAR

Taken from 'Action Sports 2'(G&P016), out November 8, 2020.

Besides Action Sports, the duo of friends and frequent collaborators Matthew Pepitone (alias Karmelloz) and Dylan Howe (alias Cplusplus) together form another two vital projects - Julius Theory and Portland Compressor. As Actions Sports they candidly combine their solo approach into sublime and multifaceted compositions, welcoming the listener with a great dose of warmth and pleasantly-colored sentiment. After dropping their first eponymous longplay via Barcelona-based label angoisse, Gin&Platonic is proud to present the duo's follow-up – 'Action Sports 2', which marks their most diverse and complex work yet.

Moderately reinterpreting the legacy of such as BoC or Biosphere while still staying up to date, the duo ambitiously joins the rank of rising contemporary ambient-oriented projects, recruiting from labels like West Mineral or Motion Ward. Beautifully balanced and elegantly composed, the music on Action Sports 2 seeks to erode the delimiters between pristine hi-fi digital dub, abstracted electronic glitches, and the smoked-out, but emotive haze of the American Pacific Northwest ambient. Being released in early November, the mesmerizing longplay calls for repeated listens while out on cold strolls through nature trails, or just leaving unpacked for a proper evening couch voyage with a thick damiana spliff in hand. Either way, Action Sports 2 offers enough thought space for the inherent and low-key rewarding post-summer contemplation. 

Written, produced & mastered by Matthew Pepitone & Dylan Howe
https://soundcloud.com/derrida
https://soundcloud.com/dylanmhowe

Artwork by Jiri Macku
jirimacku.tumblr.com

🍂

Action Sports 2

Digital & Cassette

Action Sports - Wi-Fi 99

The Invention of the Human

Little Frogs Swam by Every Now and Then

We Could Hear Them Singing from Across the Valley

The Lake Was Covered In Lilypads

October 26, 2020
JWR037
Sol Ring - I Close The Door Upon Myself

https://soundcloud.com/dionysianromance
https://www.instagram.com/heavens_blade/
https://lynn1.bandcamp.com/album/a-ngel-of-a-dmonition

Mastered by Colin Moir
Artwork by Sol Ring

Text by Natalia Panzer: 
We have wings for the time being but our hearts are too heavy to fly.
Crushed under the weight of a fantasy, we flatten into its plane and escape there.
There is nowhere to go back to there is no other choice 
Option trigger trip trick trap trances come crashing, demons come prancing
Across the marshes In delight and despair.To the call of these musics, friends and foes shed their defenses and join there. Role-play souls, magical release 
For everything—wraiths, rangers, phantoms, figments, saints, sages, felled fairies, veiled angels 
possessed by these euphoric and cursed chorales Sol Ring conjures out of her gaming console.
Every time that the dragon screams we all scream.
Dragon, which comes from the Greek word to see clearly.

Father's Song

@trancefem's contribution to the "Cime Sampler," a compilation from @cime-world to be released in conjunction with the inaugural edition of their print magazine.

Pre-order: https://cime-world.bandcamp.com/album/cime-sampler

Mastering: @riedelchristoff
Artwork: Hannes Fendrich, Alexander Turovsky, Tom Fischer

CIme Sampler

PREMIERE: Séverine - NXTSTEP [Cime]

@aperlyhigh

Official Video:
https://youtu.be/hjGFnACIL3A

Pre-order PET-010: 'Exchange':
https://petrola80.bandcamp.com/album/exchange

https://www.instagram.com/aperlyhigh/
https://www.instagram.com/petrola_80/

Mussi - Racing

The ninth release of katharsis is the EP “Journey Before Destination” by @jjjacob, which is the first full release of the label founder on his own label. The EP spans six tracks and is quite a deviation in sound from his earlier releases on labels such as ANBA, high heal and Sweat Taste. Taking a step away from his usual tools of heavily automated synths and complex midi-based melodies, this EP focuses closely on recordings of acoustic instruments and vocals done by jjjacob himself throughout the pandemic year.

With titles and themes of “Journey Before Destination” drawing severely on The Stormlight Archive novel-series by Brandon Sanderson, the listener is taken on a dreamy trip through medieval landscapes and emotional worldbuilding. The sounds of heroic struggles, poignant pilgrimages and mystical creatures are carried through on the six tracks of the album by its melancholic piano phrases, processed guitar stretches and manipulated vocals. However, even though the acoustic instruments seem to be a change of expression for jjjacob, the recognizable layer of weird samples, field recordings and sound effects that usually pervade his music still flow through the whole EP.

Journey Before Destination

pre-order

The Tower

explore my journey through your imagination
contact/booking: jacobfosgrau@gmail.com
1/2 of @jsliwa - founder of @katharsislabel
obscurities @bazura