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Almost a decade after its first release, Acid Youth returns on MFZ Records with the album "Darkness Is Not Easy".
This new work is the result of years of research and refinement in defining an aesthetic that merges the acid imagery with the song form and melody.

Alongside the usual suspects (808, 303, analog and digital synthesizers), new acoustic and electric elements (drums, guitar, bass) are introduced. The result of this mix is a personal reinterpretation of the sounds from the '90s alternative music scene.
The rhythmic precision of the synthetic elements guides melodic structures characterized by human imperfections. Fuzz guitars go with the acid lines of the 303, while drums mix up with the analog percussions of the 808.

The album’s tracks blend techno atmospheres, shoegaze moods, acid psychedelia and drone expansions.
"Darkness Is Not Easy" is a musical journey accessible to anyone who doesn’t particularly care about strict boundaries between musical genres; a path to be taken without preconceived notions or bias of any kind.

Available in digital + cassette format and on major streaming Platforms.
@acid-youth

Released by:
MFZ Records @mfzrecs
release date October 25, 2024

PREMIERE: ACID YOUTH - 3AM (Everything Is Fine)

first single from my next album 'hexed!' out on hyperdub march 28th

off to the ESSO

Buy/stream: https://kompakt.fm/releases/pop_ambient_2025_lp_dl

Hello Everybody,

In recent years, the introductory texts for the Pop Ambient compilation series, which is released every year on Kompakt as the last release before the Christmas break, often began with the sentence "Every year again...".

“Every year again”, a quiet, almost unnoticed maxim of self-evidentness. Because this is already the 25th issue to be published this year.

25 years in increasingly fast-moving times in the even faster-moving music business is an eternity that doesn't just feel like it. It is all the more remarkable how I, as someone who is always restless and often driven by this fast pace himself, pleasantly almost haven’t realised how - in pop-ambient contexts - time does not pass (or passes differently) in the best sense.

When compiling the 25th edition I was asked, among other things, what it was like that I was still doing this and whether I had a favorite track. In the spirit of bringing all the tracks together I don't have a favorite track, or all of them. But I have a favorite part (moment) that I played. In this case it was a broad chord in a change of key at minute 2:55 in the piece Circles by Max Würden. A moment of majesty and familiarity that, at that moment, contains the entire Pop Ambient cosmos, that just works and doesn't explain anything - and I said: “...that's the reason why I'm still doing this.. .”

Pop Ambient is a statement without demands. Is promise without expectation. Is a path without a destination.         Every year again.

Wolfgang Voigt, October 2024

As always, the indispensable final mastering by Jörg Burger ensures that everything is brought together and the sound is fine-tuned.

And like every year, the 25th edition is of course wrapped in an abstract, floral magic creation by Veronika Unland. Over the years, the grace of her imagery has increasingly merged with the musical aura to form an unmistakable magical symbiosis.  In addition to the official vinyl and CD edition, there will be a limited edition of 100 pieces in transparent vinyl - including a hand-signed fine art print by Veronika Unland, available exclusively at Kompakt Mailorder.

Pop Ambient 2025

In Defense Of Symbolic Value 1

Jens-Uwe Beyer - In Defense Of Symbolic Value 1

Jennifer’s Convertible

Blank Gloss - Jennifer’s Convertible

This track is something truly special. Psychic Zebra and Todd Modes collaborating again on a super limited T-Shirt by Capablanca for only 25 people and this hypnotic track came with purchase.

TODD MODES - ON THE MOVE (NIGHT MIX) - PZ-DL001

The Bell Tower

Fugue (feat. Roomful of Teeth)

James Marrs - Silo Sprinkles

Land and Sea

Tic... Tic.

Heith - The Scrollkeeper (PAN 147S2)
Label: PAN
Cat.No.: PAN 147S2
Release Date: 15 April 2025
Purchase: pan.lnk.to/TheScrollkeeper

Heith shares 'The Scrollkeeper', the second single from the upcoming album 'Escape Lounge', out via PAN on April 25th, 2025 - accompanied by a new music video.

Written and produced by Heith and Leonardo Rubboli
Drums by Jacopo Battaglia
Harmonica and Synthesizer by Leonardo Rubboli
Mixed at TWS
Mastered by Amir Shoat
Artwork by Heith and Nicola Tirabasso

Heith - The Scrollkeeper (PAN 147S2)

Moon

Time's tide

China-garden

Label, booking agency & online record shop

Demo submission: 
We receive a lot of demos every day. Please understand that we are unable to listen to everything. Send your private soundcloud link to: label@kompakt.fm.

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