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Berlin Bass Collective return with another big league record, an EP that brings together genres and vibes in the way that great records often do. Releasing this November we present Windows (previous DJ Windows XP) 'Transcendence', a record that keeps the emotion at the core of the composition. Combining elements of retrofuture, chillwave, synthwave, and lofi the record evokes a strong emotional responses on the dancefloor. For moments when the crowd is all feeling it together.

Buy: https://berlinbasscollective.bandcamp.com/album/trancendence-bbc-115

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Transcendence

Premiere: Windows - Long Gone [Berlin Bass Collective]

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With the cover artwork for Pop Ambient 2022, longtime KOMPAKT graphic artist Veronika Unland has once again outdone herself. Following the almost baroque, blood-red and jet-black, extremely physical sculptures of Pop Ambient 2021, which emerged from a dark, floral sea like bodies erect for dancing, the front of 2022 is adorned with a pastel-white form, intertwined, folded many times and crisscrossed with delicate shading, which seems to float on a pale pink background; soft, gentle waves woven from Venetian colors that leave the viewer puzzled: Is it a flower, a coral, a mollusk? 

Again, the current edition of the tradition-steeped compilation series curated by Wolfgang Voigt is about the persistent and ever-necessary definition of beauty, of reduction, of electronic music of heavy lightness and light heaviness, of ambient's eternal promise of a state of physical and acoustic weightlessness and Pop's of redemption. And about the question why a never arbitrary combination of soundscape, drones, samples and loops, put together in a certain way, can create this feeling of warmth, depth and space, - something three-dimensional, where the imagination feels at home as a fish in the water or a bird in the sky. A key aesthetic stimulus that sends all the senses into a slow glide and drift, after which your synapses feel like they've been bathed in essential oil. Next to Soul, Ambient is probably the most effective musical healing plant of mankind. 

Behind the aural test tubes, the who's who of Pop Ambient is once again at work, led for the first time by the highly trafficked Californian duo Blank Gloss, whose debut album "Melt" this year was certified by The Guardian as nothing less than "heartaching beauty". Yui Onodera's "Chrome" as well as "Kari", a cooperation of Markus Guentner and Joachim Spieth, could also be imagined in the score of Denis Villeneuve's new film version of DUNE - however, colleague Hans Zimmer managed that quite well without the three. After such wonderful and stylish contributions by Reich & Würden, Triola and Thomas Fehlmann, the ear then lingers a bit longer on the ghostly "Weiht" by Morgen Wurde feat. Maria Estrella, a track like a temple of sound, a deep electronic immersion in a Japanese onsen. In this sea of unnameable time you could sink forever, but with the tracks of Andrew Thomas, Thore Pfeiffer and Max Würden & Pepo Galán the journey slowly comes to an end.

Yui Onodera - Cromo 6

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Escape Pods – King Britt
Originally from Philadelphia King has followed many paths in music over a career spanning 3 decades from; being the tour DJ for Grammy Award winning hip hop group Digable Planets to co-founding Ovum Records with Josh Wink, to writing as Sylk 130, hundreds of remixes asnd fin ally academic. 
King’s current position is as a teaching professor at the University of California San Diego. One of the courses King teaches at UCSD is called Blacktronika: Afrofuturism Ii electronic music, it’s a new course devised by King that has included Questlove, Sun Ra Arkestra and Goldie dropping in as guests. King’s exploration of Afrofuturism began much earlier including ‘A Night of Afrofuture’ that took place at MOMA PS1 in New York City back in 2014. 
It’s been an incredible journey from East to West coast and everywhere in between and we’re keen to find out more about it all on Escape Pods trip into space. 

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Escape Pods 08: King Britt - Hosted by Ralph Lawson & Ben Randm

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Ben Howard is an artist that does not need much introduction. With numerous major awards, platinum-selling albums, and of course regular plays on our morning programming, we couldn’t be more excited to have Ben on OpenLab !
In this first episode, Ben combines classic and contemporary Celtic music with poetry, folk and some of his latest favourite music.

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Ben Howard - Among The Trees

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AWE KID - BODY LOGIC - OUT APRIL 22 ON 2LP VINYL & DIGITAL

https://awekid.bandcamp.com/album/body-logic

Awe Kid explores ideas of trans-humanism, evolution and digital immortality on Body Logic, a fantastically lush new album for Atomnation. The immersive 10 track record plays with organic, breathing textures punctuated by moments of digital unrealness to result in an album permeated with a dream-like quality. This contrast is mirrored by the artwork from Portugal's acclaimed The Royal Studio.

Awe Kid is an alias of Sine Language Records co-founder Rick Parsons. It is the product of years spent exploring a multitude of different music. From early days in post-hardcore groups and on to a love of 90s Warp, electronic jazz and more experimental niches, the multi-instrumentalist has now settled on his own unique fusion of breaks, ambient and left-field dance music. This deft studio wizard mixes up melodic nostalgia with forward-thinking sound design using whatever he can get his hands on, from analog and modular hardware, to samplers, field recordings to digital techniques.

Says Parsons, “I love working with digital processes because you get these unexpected moments where you dial something in, that somehow takes on a tangible, organic form in the real world. Searching for these sweet spots was the motivation for the album, contrasting natural textures against synthetic elements, and finding ways to create something that feels like it exists outside of the computer.”

While the album pays homage to dance music traditions, such as the broken beat of title track 'Body Logic', and full-throttle breaks of 'Zenith', these are assimilated and repurposed to create something that defies genre categorization. The listener's journey is perfectly paced, with broody but uplifting cuts of electronica giving way to shimmering, celestial melodies, and dusty breakbeats emerging from dense layers of atmosphere, only for the mood to be reset with soothing, suspenseful synths and haunting vocal samples. Elsewhere, devastatingly emotional ambient is followed by punchy grooves and propulsive melodies to make for a real ride.

Awe Kid's Body Logic is an adventurous record that manages to move you emotionally, physically and mentally.

Awe Kid - Body Logic [album previews]

Built for the darkest hours of the dance floor.

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After contributing a remix of Analog Context's 'Amygdala' and a track on the Artmosphere Volume 3 compilation, the Qilla Records A&R Vishal Unni is back with a six-track EP 'Rarefact' that also features remixes from ZRK and Martyn Päsch. 

Vishal is a Bangalore-based producer & DJ with a sound that can be described as a symbiosis of the deeper realms of techno, laced with futuristic soundscapes and psychedelic characteristics.

Our premiere for today, 'Asthayi,' is a dark, hypnotic broken-beat escapade infused with classic 303 acid synths. 

'Rarefact' releases on December 5th, with pre-orders on November 21st.


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PREMIERE: Vishal Unni - Asthayi [Qilla Records]

After months of work, I present my 4th collaboration with Chuncho Productions, and the official soundtrack of "COMPLETELY UNREMARKABLE", a wrestling film full of violence, drama and heartbreak. It's definitely worth a watch and this soundtrack is definitely worth a listen!

I experimented a lot with this one, playing around with rock elements, electronic noise and ambient soundscapes. Together, it's a mix of lots of cool genres and ideas in one, with every track bringing something different to the table. I'm excited to finally share this with you all after finishing it back in April of this year. Thank you guys so much for the support and Carlos for putting together this amazing film for me to work on. Hope y'all love it!

- EVERETT

The Good, The Bad, & The Unremarkable

Choirs in an Ethereal Disco Church

Ambient Dreamscapes for you to enjoy. Relax, unwind, meditate and chillout

DARK AMBIENT - SUNKEN CITY

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