For our 50th cassette release, we're very happy to welcome in Shakali (aka Simo Hakalisto) born in Finland, though now residing in the Czech Republic.

"Aurinkopari plays a lot with polarities as it seeks to find something celestial in the mundane. The brightest sound of the album was captured in the darkest night of the year. Sine waves, scaled according to old wartime engineers, ended up sounding like a magic flute. A hydrophone detected other-worldly sounds of a drowning compost and a ceremonial Javanese gendèr was recorded in a bunker… While the processes of recording the album were often playfully esoteric, the music itself is warmly heartfelt." - Shakali

Encompassing global and local music traditions and pre-Midi times, this album feels very organic, playful and warmly connected to a natural, higher consciousness state of being....We couldn't ask for a better way to celebrate our 50th cassette release.

Written & Produced by Simo Hakalisto

Mastered by Amir Shoat

"Aurinkopari" is available now on cassette via our online store.

GMT50 Shakali - Aurinkopari (Snippets)

Order here:
https://emotional-response.bandcamp.com/album/terra-utopia
And here:
https://www.juno.co.uk/products/terra-utopia/825440-01/

Emotional Response is delighted to present Benoit B’s new project Terra Utopia – 8 tracks of atmospheric breaks that unfold across ambient, beats and drum and bass. 

This debut offers the artist a new direction, connected to feelings of an intangible warmth, where empty urban expanse and latent stillness meets a Mediterranean azure of sky and sea, oscillating, ethereal. 

The music was created in a short time frame; short pieces, linked around a laconic structure flowing as if across some imaginary astral void. 

An invitation, where time slows, days stretch, cloudless nights lead to a romantic dawn, the narrative to allow the listener the space and choice to dream. 

Fear no more, the heat of the sun.

A1. Terra Utopia - #01

@memotone

LP/digital May 26, 2023.

Bristol multi-instrumentalist, producer and nature freak Will Yates offers a new record from his Memotone alias, an expansive, hypothetical revue titled How Was Your Life?

Launching from terrains recognizable to fans of Will’s extensive, restless discography, How Was Your Life? packs up his penchant for baroque druid folk, homespun electronics and weightless woodwinds and explodes them into glistening, fractal star dust.

Instigated by the purchase of an antiquated Y2K era guitar synthesizer, the record was produced over the first half of 2022, in a large part the result of in-studio improvisation. Where Will’s previous releases under various guises have often been conceived by conceptual frameworks, HWYL? was carved by equipment that offered both possibilities and parameters that Will relished and explored to the nth degree. The Roland GR33 not only provided sublime guitar sounds but also empowered the guitar to convincingly mimic fretless bass, tabla and a vast percussive array, also summoning an artillery of uniquely outre atmospheres over the course of the record. The resulting concoction sounds familiar yet subtly, unshakeably otherworldly, shaping up as perhaps the most honed, energized and beatific Memotone album to date.

Paradise Drips gently lifts off with wobbly guitar, randomized sequences and unidentifiable percussive elements situating us somewhere in an unearthly realm, before Open World zaps the serotonin receptors and gushes with ecstatic warmth, it’s quietly insistent soft disco shuffle and levitational fretless driving towards a totally blissed and very soft “drop”. Forest Zone sees Memotone deep in the green, with a loose, propulsive groove and dancing flutes stumbling into a medieval ritual in the clearing halfway through, and Glow In The Dark deftly bounces between spacey ambience and an undulating no wave vamp. Carved By The Moon is a delightfully melted classical cut, while Canteen Sandwich offers the record’s most explicitly nod to modernity in the form of a nimble drum workout with samurai synths and melodic percussion that heaves towards a genuine peak. Lonehead immediately backs right off, viscerally melancholic clarinet and bubbling fx making for the records most hefty introspective moment, before Walking Backwards simmers all the way down on an wistful arpeggio, rooting back in earthly reality with charmed rhythms and jazzy tunings. Catharsis complete, Memotone is onto the next incarnation.

Will Yates has been making music as Memotone since 2010, releasing music on labels like Black Acre, Disktopia and Accidental Meetings, also releasing music as O.G. Jigg and Half Nelson. He’s worked as a producer, session musician and live performer on a broad spectrum of projects, and recently provided source sounds that made up Batu’s “Opal” on Timedance. 

How Was Your Life? was written, produced and mixed by Will Yates. It was mastered by Chris Wang. Art and design by Hugo Bernier.

Memotone - How Was Your Life? - Previews

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LIES-100
Terekke-Mix 91
from the upcoming Plant Age lp
to be released Nov 24th 2017

Plant Age

Buy LP direct

Terekke-Mix 91 (LIES-100)

dub2dewereld

En Transito is a document of the evolution of the Ambien Baby collaboration between D Tiffany and NAP. An ode to friendship and creative symbiosis. The tracks on this record showcase the project from its beginnings in 2015 to present day.

FAT03. Ambien Baby - En Transito (previews)

Australian composer Jack Burton contemplates the subtle intricacies and spirituality of the natural world with a three-part ambient epic.

The 'Lake Monger EP' is out may 25th on Analogue Attic Recordings.

Pre-order: bit.ly/2HmMAtR

@analogueattic

Lake Monger

Premiere: Jack Burton – Lake Monger Part I, II and III [Analogue Attic]

***Grip here > https://futuretimes.bandcamp.com/track/today
*as part of our FIGS Compilation, out in full now > https://futuretimes.bandcamp.com/album/figs-compilation

Powder & 5ive & Andry come together for a slow, gorgeous cut as 5AM. "Today" is a downtempo stunner. Enjoy!

Recorded at 'The Hut'

FIGS Compilation

5am - Today - FIGS - FT050

O.S.S. (Open Sound System) is a new collaborative project from music producers @unknown-mobile and @napmusick  
A product of friendship, O.S.S. was made by Daniel Rincon and Levi Bruce over a course of impromptu studio sessions and hangouts between Canadian coasts. O.S.S. The EP features five suites, which aim to invoke “god rays,” - the rays of sunlight that are amplified by the passing of clouds at dusk. Luminous, deep and subtle tones mimic crepuscular light in a way that feels cinematic and spiritual. We’re happy to premiere the second suite on the EP, "Blanga," a meandering sweet tune, featuring a collage of samples, synths, Romplers and VSTs.

OSS EP

Premiere: O.S.S. Blanga

Taken from The Primitive Painter LP
Out June 26th - https://smarturl.it/ThePrimitivePainter

The Primitive Painter, aka the duo of @Roman-Fluegel and @Joern-Elling-Wuttke reissue their 1994 lost classic self-titled album of sonorous IDM.

The Primitive Painter - Levitation

L.I.E.S. Records, label is based out of Brooklyn, New York releasing a wide scope of various strains of electronic music. 

For all EU bookings contact: hessel@heatamsterdam.com
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For all licensing contact: info@liesrecords.com


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