Relax

Sunny day

Amazinga

chill dreamy electronic jams, good for studying, art, thought

down&dream

quiet

I was commissioned to write the score for a short film about Martin Luther King and the Civil Rights Act of 1968. 

Watch the film : http://vimeo.com/68787849

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Keith Kenniff - Seven Days

Seven Days - Keith Kenniff

Ambient Electronic

Electric Cloud

With or Without Beats

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This month will see Ryan Lee West aka Rival Consoles debut his new live set, restricting himself to a small selection of analogue equipment such as the Moog Voyager, Prophet and tape delay, as he supports Luke Abbott on his UK tour.

In celebration, Rival Consoles offers his fans a free download of the title track 'Odyssey' – a reflection of his quest to create atmosphere and space from minimal arrangements. His new EP also features label friend Peter Broderick and is available now on Erased Tapes.

LINKS: facebook.com/rivalconsoles · twitter.com/rivalconsoles · www.erasedtapes.com

Odyssey

Rival Consoles – Odyssey

XLR8R are featuring this track as a FREE DOWNLOAD:
http://www.xlr8r.com/mp3/2013/09/voyager
"Atmospheric synths swell victoriously"

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Like many electronic artists, Ryan Lee West aka Rival Consoles spent his early years experimenting with IDM, glitch and dance, but one consistent element in his musical journey has been his desire to create a more organic, humanised sound. Through these experimentations he has found a process of producing electronic music that feels close to this urge. Restricting himself to a small selection of analogue equipment, West engages his hands directly with instruments and is very selective about what he then records into the computer. He reduces musical parts even further, leaving enough space around the sound for it to breath.

‘Odyssey’ is a reflection of West’s quest to create atmosphere and space from minimal arrangements. ‘I don’t like music to sound overly laboured, so I restrict how much is going on. I’m kind of obsessed with the idea of reduction.’ The new 5-track EP was mastered by Naweed and is out on Erased Tapes.

'‘Odyssey’ and ‘Voyager’ are both incredibly stripped down and have a great sense of space throughout them. It's all about using the right ingredients at the right points in time. A lot of these ingredients are short recordings, such as ice cracking, mechanical clicks, clicks from synth errors, sounds of debris, guitar plucks etc., which interact with the simple arrangements and create little hints of rhythm. I also love the technique of swelling in music, but I realised that hardly anyone has done that in electronic music. So when I first got the synth to swell in and out with the opening chords of ‘Philip’, it was a great moment. Because it creates a human mood in a matter of seconds, which is very difficult to do with electronic sounds. That track is very important to me, and I think it will influence how I make music in the future.’ – Ryan Lee West

TRACK LISTING: A1. Odyssey A2. Philip. B1. Voyager B2. Rebecca B3. Soul (feat. Peter Broderick)

LINKS: facebook.com/rivalconsoles · twitter.com/rivalconsoles · www.erasedtapes.com

Voyager

Rival Consoles – Voyager

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Discover Life

FULL RELEASE OUT NOW FOR FREE (Until September 10th): soulection.bandcamp.com/album/in-bloom

Lifted from Dpat's forthcoming 'In Bloom' project out on August 27, here is "Bloom", a dreamy yet dark masterpiece.

THE FADER has premiered the track and video by VASH here:
http://www.thefader.com/2013/08/22/dpat-bloom-mp3-video/

http://soundcloud.com/dpat
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http://dpat.bandcamp.com

Artwork by SAMÜEL JOHNSON
http://samueljohnsondesign.com

DL RELEASE

Dpat - Bloom | Out Now

Buy Album: https://pioulard.bandcamp.com/album/hymnal-remixes

Hymnal remixes composed and performed with permission from Kranky Ltd.

Benoit Pioulard - Litiya (The Green Kingdom Remix)(from Hymnal Remixes)

Saving The World

Since #SongsToBreakUpTo drops on #October8th here is a free track (not on the EP) to keep you heartbroken till then.

Shouts to the incredible King Krule.
Enjoy.
www.ta-ku.me

Art by samueljohnsondesign.com

Krule Love

wait

From our album 'Fall Remixes'

You're so far away
You're so yesterday
And I know, I know that it shows
So I try to forget and forgive and forget

By M Kennedy / L Gray

Buy on iTunes

Far Away (2014 Remix) (Extended album version)

Buy it Here: http://tinyurl.com/oxqxp25

Website:
    http://www.thatnoisemusic.com
    http://www.facebook.com/thatnoise
    http://www.twitter.com/thatnoise
    http://www.youtube.com/user/thatnoisechannel

Location: Los Angeles
General Manager: Jay Skinner
Booking Agent: booking@thatnoisemusic.com
Press Contact: perry@goodcoppr.com

Biography:
Cutting their teeth in the So Cal underground house party and Downtown Los Angeles art scenes, That Noise purposefully colors outside the lines and their sonic penmanship is an explosive and stimulating aural antidote for the pop-weary. 

Together for over 7 years, these misfits are here to make you move. Currently residing in Los Angeles CA.

That Noise unique cover of Kings of Leon "Sex on Fire" being played on KROQ Los Angeles and 80+ College radio across the country. 

Lyrics:

We're riding tonight again
And we're burning at both ends.
I've got my baby by my side
And she's rushing through my veins like Kryptonite.

Here we go running again on the dark side
Here we go running again out of control on the dark side.

You bring me back to life

You're wicked and beautiful 
Angel baby I'm losing control
I look at you and feel it down below.
You reign like fire
I'm burning with desire.
Girl you make me believe
In Divinity.

Here we go running again on the dark side
We're letting go, flying high again, out of control on the dark side.

We're Flying High Again

You make me hard

You make me feel alive.

Here we go running again on the dark side
We're letting go, flying high again, out of control on the dark side.

Kiss me now
Kiss me hard


Running Again - single

Running Again

All Time

Seven Days

Dream Seven Days (Reprise)

Still

Symbol

A tribute to my amazing friend the late, great Bo Treadwell. An incredible man with an incredible mind. A true friend. Rest in peace

A Song For Bo

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Islands: Essential Einaudi is the first time that all of Einaudi's best known music appears in a single collection. It’s available as both a single disc and special double disc version. Islands also includes new tracks The Earth Prelude and High Heels as well as two new remixes of Lady Labyrinth and Eros.

Available to order now:
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Divenire

Monday

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"British ambient band Marconi Union has drummed up the world's most relaxing song: Weightless is 8 mins 10 sec. of aural bliss" - Time Magazine, Best Inventions of the Year. 

"An excellent compilation from the always interesting Just Music" - The Sunday Times

"The Ambient Zone is an album that feels like the world is peeling away, layer by layer, into multi-colored panoramas, just for you" - Echoes (CD of The Month)

The Ambient Zone is a beautiful journey into ambient and electronica inspired by universal themes of calmness, purity, relaxation and enrichment where Weightless is coupled with some exclusive first releases and other blissfully ambient tracks from Just Music artists and alumni.

Created instinctively and intuitively by Marconi Union, Weightless has been claimed to have therapeutic properties in the way the track almost appears to have a heartbeat running through it which slows down very gently throughout the piece, encouraging a deep sense of relaxation in the body, It's use of specific rhythms, beep bass tones, frequencies and intervals induce an almost trance like state in the listener.

"The Ambient Zone is an album that just screams (albeit quietly) of pure class" - Fluid Nation.

Weightless (Ambient Transmission Vol. 2)

Weightless Part 1

Buy the album

Marconi Union - Weightless

Cafe Del Mar - We Can Fly

Pre-order the full 'Thrown EP' here: http://erasedtapes.com/store/index/ERATP044

Buy the '65' split EP with Rival Consoles here: http://erasedtapes.com/store/index/ERATP013

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Ólafur Arnalds and Janus Rasmussen's collaborative project Kiasmos continues to spread Icelandic techno with new Thrown EP featuring remixes by FaltyDL and 65daysofstatic.

After having revealed the title track Thrown via XLR8R in April, Kiasmos announce the release of their Thrown EP featuring brand new track Wrecked and two guest remixes by FaltyDL – one of New York's finest electronic producers – and UK's industrial post rock pioneers 65daysofstatic in the form of a12"/DL on Erased Tapes.

A1: THROWN
Ólafur explains: ‘Thrown is the first track of the "New Kiasmos", so to speak. Actually, Thrown is kind of a remix of a new Ólafur Arnalds track that hasn't even been released yet.’ ‘It has become the track that we use as a reference for all our newer stuff’, adds Janus.

A2: THROWN (FALTYDL REMIX)
‘Remixing used to be a very special thing. Not so much anymore. And when you're done, it will end up as a free download and most likely not on vinyl. It's bullshit. So when I get the opportunity to make an actual record, an object that will last longer then any of us, I jump on it. I have pleasures in my life. Doing this remix was one of them’, says Drew Lustman aka FaltyDL.

B1: WRECKED
Janus: ‘I don't really know what we were thinking when we started working on Wrecked.’ ‘Wrecked is our experiment with a new Doepfer synth. The song is severely out of tune’, adds Ólafur.

B2: WRECKED (65DAYSOFSTATIC REMIX)
‘It was quite a challenging remix to do, because it's such a minimal, understated track. The usual 65 approach of pulling out key refrains and messing with them didn't work because the bass is such a unique, dark sound. Likewise, I was reluctant to add too much new material because each attempt at that quickly veered into writing what sounded like a new song. Too many remixes these days are done to provide quick and easy bonus tracks for artists to giveaway, which is a shame, because when done properly, I think a remix is a great way to see a track you're familiar with as a listener in a new way’, explains Paul Wolinski of 65daysofstatic.

Janus: ‘I'm really excited about the remixes. They are both very different from each other and give the songs a new life. It's always great fun to hear someone make the tracks their own.’


ABOUT:

Kiasmos is the brainchild of Icelandic modern classical composer Ólafur Arnalds and Bloodgroup mastermind Janus Rasmussen from the Faroe Islands. Based in Reykjavík, Arnalds used to work as a sound engineer – often for Rasmussen's main project Bloodgroup – where the two musicians discovered their common love for minimal, experimental techno music. They eventually became best friends, and Janus now often accompanies Ólafur's solo shows with his electronics. ‘I am really enthusiastic about this project. Finally, I can make music that people can dance to. Something refreshing for the weekends’, explains Arnalds in an interview with the German electronic music magazine Beat. The project is a good way for both artists to ‘get out of the house’ so to speak and do different music to what they normally do. Having released their 65/Milo split 12" with label mate Rival Consoles in 2009, this year sees the duo return with the hotly tipped Thrown EP and a string of European club shows. 

'A rich production of deep, subdued techno...sure to stick in your head long after the track is through' – XLR8R

'Linear electronic music that propels you to pastel horizons...a dreamy new track to ease you through the day. A gentle groove and washes of sonic colour underpin a deceptively simple melody that buries itself inside your head' – Electronic Beats

'Thrilling stuff, primed for the more discerning floors' – Bleep

'Extremely elegant and addictive, sharp and hypnotic' ★★★★ – The Milk Factory

Thrown

Kiasmos - Thrown

ÓLAFUR ARNALDS & NILS FRAHM - 'a2' from their forthcoming collaborative EP 'STARE'.

ORDER the Ltd. Edition 10" Vinyl/Download HERE and receive an Erased Tapes 5th Anniversary sticker with it:
http://www.erasedtapes.com/store/index/ERATP042

'A hazy slow-builder that sits nicely equidistant between Arnalds’ solo work and his excellent Kiasmos project' – The Line Of Best Fit

CONTENT

Erased Tapes label mates Ólafur Arnalds and Nils Frahm record and mix their first collaborative record between Reyjkjavík and Berlin as a surprise release for label founder Robert Raths.

The ambient/electronic work ‘Stare’ is a true family effort from Ólafur Arnalds and Nils Frahm with Anne Müller joining in on cello and all graphics by close label-friend and now in-house designer Torsten Posselt of Feld Studios.

This release will be strictly limited and exclusively available on Record Store Day 2012, April 21st. Coinciding with the 5th Anniversary of Erased Tapes, it’s also available from the official Erased Tapes online store and sure to become a must-have for fans of the label and these two artists.


CONTEXT

Words by Nils Frahm: 
‘I heard ‘Eulogy For Evolution’ for the first time 6 years ago and I was totally captivated. Impossible to know back then that I was supposed to meet Ólafur many years later as my label mate. Later when he took me along a tour of his we also noted that we kind of like hanging out together, doing important things like cover versions of long forgotten songs or eating veggie pizza. Also he would join my live set for a jam and I would return the favour by playing along with his set. 

All in all, I fell for Óli and after one memorable jam session we had in Berlin at Roter Salon in 2011, he finally proposed the idea to visit me in my studio in Berlin to work on 'some music'. I was happy and delighted about that idea, so we got together in April 2011 and after having a big pizza, I plugged in some old analogue synths and we played for four days until late in the night. Also queen Anne Müller stopped by after a show with Agnes Obel to record some cello at 5 am in the morning for ‘b1’. Making music together with people is lovely! 
 
The time I spent with Óli in Berlin made me very happy and the music wasn't like anything I have heard before. It was all very reduced and minimal and I felt like I couldn't have done this alone. So we decided to do another 4-day jam at Óli´s E7 studio in Reykjavik. So I flew there in the end of October to repeat the trick and record some out of this world ambient music. It didn't take us too long to write ‘a1’ and ‘a2’.  I can’t wait for the follow up!’

Words by Olafur Arnalds:
 ‘After having toured together and having had many inspiring late night conversations, I decided to visit Nils in his Durton Studio in Berlin for a weekend. We didn't have anything specific in mind, we just wanted to hang out, jam and eat some falafel. That's what we did, but somehow we also made 25 minutes of ambient bliss that weekend. 

After that we quickly decided we had to do the same in my studio in Iceland. Just hang out for a weekend and possibly make some music. So the album became kind of an Iceland vs. Berlin thing. I think you can hear it very well in the sound (side a vs. side b) and that is the most interesting thing about this record for me: that subtle but significant different in the characteristics of the music two people made in Iceland against what the same two people made in Germany. 

I'm not sure why we decided to keep it secret, it just happened. But it sure was fun! I remember a party at Robert's (Erased Tapes founder) flat in Berlin, where me and Nils stood in the corner the whole night whispering about the project. We then delivered the fully mastered record with finished artwork to Robert around the 5th anniversary of the label. It would have been nice to be there to see his face…"

The live video of Nils and Ólafur’s spontaneous improv live set in Berlin last summer won them many fans since, including UK electronic music producer Max Cooper who is now remixing two of his “absolute favourite artists”. Nils and Ólafur will be touring together throughout Europe this spring.

You can watch it here: http://vimeo.com/28631568
 


LABEL: ERASED TAPES RECORDS    UK RELEASE DATE: APRIL 21, 2012
CAT.NO: ERATP042 EP/DL   EAN: 4050486068137

TRACK LISTING:  1. a1  2. a2  3. b1

OFFICIAL WEBSITES:   OLAFURARNALDS.COM   DURTONSTUDIO.COM   ERASEDTAPES.COM 

Stare

Ólafur Arnalds & Nils Frahm - a2

ÓLAFUR ARNALDS - Two Songs For Dance

PRE-ORDER LTD. EDITION 7"/DL HERE: http://erasedtapes.com/store/index/ERATP043

Following on from Ólafur Arnalds’ critically acclaimed dance score 'Dyad 1909' (2009) for the internationally renowned choreographer Wayne McGregor, now comes 'Two Songs For Dance' – a limited edition 7" vinyl that captures two exciting tracks from two contemporary dance projects.

The first 'Endalaus II' was created for 'Endalaus' by Norwegian choreographer Alan Lucien Øyen, commissioned and performed by the Iceland Dance Company. Fans will recognise the track as one of the highlights from Ólafur's recent live shows, creating an emotional punch against the classical strings. It's available for full stream as part of the Erased Tapes 5th Anniversary Tour playlist.

'For Teda', the second song is for London-based company Neon Dance and part of choreographer Adrienne Hart's on-going project 'Archived'it'. It brings forward a new concept in online interaction by allowing anyone to create their own version of ‘Dance on Steps’, a dance film featuring dance and mime student Teda de Moor from 1934.

'Two Songs For Dance' will be released as a 1000 copies ltd. edition 7" vinyl and high quality download on August 13th via Erased Tapes, and can be pre-ordered from the official store here: http://erasedtapes.com/store/index/ERATP043

MORE INFO: erasedtapes.com · olafurarnalds.com · neondance.org/work/archivedit/

Two Songs for Dance

PRE-ORDER 7"/DL

Ólafur Arnalds - Endalaus II

Christ. - Twynned

Christ. - Indrid Cold

Christ. - Eternity In Our Lips And Eyes

Christ. (John Peel Show, Radio 1, Maida Vale 2003),

Cherry Blossom

Trespassers William - Love Is Blindness

Wonderful remix by New Zealand-based composer Rhian Sheehan from the forthcoming "Helios - Remixed" album due out on December 1st. 

You can pre-order the release as CD / MP3 or Flac here: http://unseen.bigcartel.com/product/helios-remixed

www.rhiansheehan.com

Helios - Halving The Compass (Rhian Sheehan Remix) (FREE DOWNLOAD)

Track 2 from Robin Guthrie's new album 'Fortune' released on 26/11/12.

Circus Circus

Phoria - Red

but the spotlight makes you nervous...

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artwork by LYMAN 
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Wishing

Phoria - Once Again

From the 'Bloodworks' EP - out now.

UK -  https://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/bloodworks-ep/id627547816
         http://www.amazon.co.uk/Bloodworks/dp/B00C3E1Q04/



Rest of the world - https://itunes.apple.com/album/bloodworks-ep/id643932995
                              http://www.amazon.com/Bloodworks/dp/B00CNDJJ0E

www.phoriamusic.com
www.facebook.com/phoriamusic
www.twitter.com/phoria

Music by Phoria
Produced and Mastered* by Trewin Howard
Released by Akira Records

Artwork by Jessica Truscott & Daniel Finnerty
Design by Drew Lorimer

Eskimo Music Management

*Except Red - Mastered by Alan Witts


Lyrics:

you'll roam till them debts are in
around her you are so still it lets you down
in my way i'll come around
and run to the side and don't lend a hand out

In my bed
the storm said 
you're my pet
the snow fell 

here's my desire
born in the lie
here's all I want
to find us alone

it's all you want
get up and go
for I delight
in seeing the sight

it's all you want 
get up and go

Once Again

Been wanting to rework this Daughter - "Love" track for some time now. 
Art by http://samueljohnsondesign.com

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Love Lost

Mi Amor..

Is the first track to be released from my upcoming e.p. A chilled track, went for more relaxed deeper vibes. Sit back, relax and enjoy..

 

Mi Amor

Final song on the upcoming EP

Really heavy beat, had a lot of fun making this track, 

T.H.I.E.F.S 'The Tropics EP' to be released soon, get blogging and sharing please, check out the T.H.I.E.F.S facebook page

Thanks for the support,

Hope you enjoy!

Breathe

Latest:
Helios - Espera: https://ghostly.ffm.to/helios-espera
Hollie Kenniff - The Quiet Drift: https://ampl.ink/5Y9Rw
Mint Julep - In a Deep and Dreamless Sleep: https://ampl.ink/omKoq
Goldmund - The Time it Takes: smarturl.it/ibfvzw

I write music for film and record as Helios, Mint Julep, Goldmund.

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