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written 10/30 - 11/12, three sessions

thanks SCP for giving us earz over da yearz and sharing delightful commentary
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For the first time ever, “Seedful Things” sees an official release two full decades after its conception. The 20th anniversary edition includes the original 13 tracks from the debut @hitori-tori album, along with four unreleased tracks written in the same time period. The CD version also features an exclusive hidden track unavailable on digital platforms.

The year was 2005 when Julian La Brooy finally decided to plant the seed of his newfound Hitori Tori project. Based in Japan at the time, he recorded a batch of promising demos onto a pack of CDs to ship out to record labels abroad. Nearly four years of studying the craft of balancing aggressive breakbeats with comforting melodies was compiled and ready to share with the world. After running into logistics issues at his local post office that prevented the CDs from traveling anywhere, La Brooy gifted the recorded demos to friends surrounding his artistic endeavors. Unbeknownst to him, the CD would eventually make it onto SoulSeek, an infamous peer-to-peer file sharing network where its community tends to influence the growth of rare and obscure music projects. Becoming a hit beneath the interweb, the album was eventually uploaded onto YouTube, gaining even more interest and becoming a cult classic within the niche of braindance enthusiasts.

It is our utmost honor to finally give Hitori Tori’s debut album a proper home. Welcome to the 20th anniversary edition of “Seedful Things” - a celebration of experimental electronic music through the passage of time, only made possible by the virtual crate diggers that fuel it. Each track’s arrangement has been left as is, with the only enhancements coming from the improved mastering technology in our arsenal two decades later. The album centered around the development of drill ‘n’ bass, familiarized by the legendary sounds of Warp and Planet Mu in the 90s. The subgenre serves as sort of a neutral zone between braindance, drum ‘n’ bass, trip-hop, and electronica. As breakcore began making its digital footprint, the high stakes, high tempo movement was immediately met with La Brooy displaying a warmer, more playful interpretation.

“Seedful Things” is a vibrant ecosystem of distinct species coexisting. Each intersection seems as leftfield on its own as it feels tightly woven, merging influences from the internet and La Brooy’s environment into one. In tracks like “Yutaka,” he sampled one of his Japanese students playing with toy trains in class, only to end the track with field recordings of a nearby train stop. There are plenty of moments throughout the album that are purely inspired by La Brooy’s routine commutes around Japan, surrounded by strangers with birds meandering above. Occasionally, a few wrong turns would lead him on a side quest - “Walls Of Shibuya” was written after purchasing tea at an undiscovered shop that led to mild hallucinations. The project is riddled with relics of a distant yet familiar past, like in “Breakfux Of Champions.” Here, he used samples from a contest held by Nautilis, the now defunct project of a household name in electronica, to create a glitched-out blend between hip-hop and breakbeat. La Brooy is also unafraid to pick up the microphone in “Ishibashi vs. Tennoji” and “Why You Drinking Booze?” as he turns simple interludes into displays of conscious rap, only with unconscious lyrics meant to be taken unseriously. Aside from the many crossovers, there are tracks that have certain recognizable styles, such as “Keihan Line” and “Aonepsco” taking on breaky drum ‘n’ bass aesthetics. “Stole My Tet” and “Chioal” provide lovers of trip-hop a nice place to roost, just before the album chaotic unwinds into the final few tracks previously unheard.

Pieced together, “Seedful Things” is more than a showcase of what made the mid 2000s so incredibly special for computer music and its hoard - it is the hatching of a ravishing flock of seabirds preparing to take flight and spread its seed.

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Hitori Tori - Janglish (2025 Remaster)

SHA-felixkey

Hey everyone, Depict Mind episode 10 is online :) This month's episode is dedicated to the year 1995. I've put together a selection of tracks that really resonated with me, from labels like Warp, R&S, and Drop Bass Network, but also some much lesser-known gems, spanning experimental music, techno, IDM, downtempo, hardcore, trance and breakbeat, discovered during my wanderings on the internet (and especially Discogs).

I'm thrilled to share these tracks with you, which showcase experimentation and sonic exploration, and also offer a better understanding of some of today's musical genres and structures.

Have a nice day
Paul

John beltran - vienna 
Dj food - the dusk
Aphex twin - acrid avid jam shred
Squarepusher - male pill 5
Autechre - vletrmx
Cujo - apollo
Speedy j - the fun equations
Elektroids - mystery world
Gigi galaxy - the aftermath
Jeff mills - reverting
Der dritte raum - aeolus 
air liquide - procession I
Nick east - flatcracker
System 01- Bug powder
Methamethod - full power
Aphex twin - come on you slags
RAC - doublejointed
Gargarin kongress - astralleibe (moon&sun mix)
Cristian vogel - comes
Autechre - leterel
FLF - tribute 
Astrocat - a space (2 shades mix)
FLF - earth escape

dm010 - year 1995 - 21/01/2026

nudge2150

https://iceleaps.bandcamp.com/album/-

new album by me and @timely-hoh
toffo @c_r_y_s_t was also involved
this was finished and should've been released in 2023 but here we are lol
teaser made by @guy-from-net

new album iceleaps.bandcamp.com/album/-

Sounds by Kilmarth & D-Fried
Ginko Biloba Image by Delphine Desguin
Mastering by Daniel Trim

This is AMD101

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I Went Out To Smell Some Flowers

cicero (124.26)

For the third chapter of my "Journal Sonore", I chose to revisit a childhood memory that left a deep mark on me. I recorded a cover of "Rendez-vous 2" by Jean-Michel Jarre. This piece has been with me since I was 13, the age at which I bought the vinyl of the Lyon/Houston concert from 1986, released in 1987. At that time, I was already passionate about electronic music. Jarre was never one of my favorite artists in the strict sense, but I’ve always had great respect for what he brought to the genre.

During that concert, one moment in particular completely captivated me: the laser harp performance. That futuristic, almost unreal image, combined with a dark and haunting melody, left an indelible impression on me. It’s that mysterious and deep atmosphere that I wanted to capture in my own version.

I want to make it clear that I do not own the rights to this piece and I am not seeking to profit from it in any way. This is simply a fragment of my musical past, a formative memory that I want to share with you, and a sincere tribute to Jean-Michel Jarre and the magic he infused into electronic music.

Composed by Jean-Michel Jarre
Sounds by Cedric Wattergniaux / Kilmarth

Rendez-vous 2 (excerpt) [Cover Jean-Michel Jarre]

Take a moment to listen… in darkness and introspection.


Rendez-vous 2 (excerpt) [Cover Jean-Michel Jarre]

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