Pre-order: https://other-joe.bandcamp.com/album/blessings-from-th-eheart

Website: https://www.lowendtheorists.com/new-music-premieres/other-joe-man-of-the-world

Naarm’s Joseph Buchan resembles a kind of collage artist. His latest album blessings from th eheart—released under his Other Joe moniker—is sourced from voice memos, Logic projects, iPhone videos and other random pieces of sound archived since the release of his excellent debut album Alien Haze. “Looking over it all at once, the musical ideas I had been attracted to over the past eight or nine months started to make a bit more sense,” he said. “I could see that there were instruments I was liking, or chord progressions that I kept coming back to, structures and forms that I had found engrossing. Sort of like putting together a jigsaw puzzle that I had made without realising.” Out of this pointillistic approach, Buchan turns field recordings, dronescapes and harmonic progressions into some of the most sentimental and beautiful music he’s ever made.

Nowhere is that more clear than on ‘Man of the World’. The track contains the producer's signature fog of electronic textures intertwined with field recordings and a simple but gorgeous melody played by Nico Callaghan on piano. Just like his counterpart’s own music, specifically their Haji K. alias, Buchan knows how to carefully weave layers of sound into something delicate, weightless and visceral. The overall result—sonically anyway—is an ambient track where every small detail adds a degree of intimacy to the cavernous soundscapes Buchan builds around them.

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Opfern is the result of hours of music sent to us in the winter of 2021 by Calum Mcleod, mainly known for his work as one half of the techno duo Clouds, but presenting here his first solo work as Power Inc. Released as a double cassette & digital album, Opfern explores amorphous drift over nine long-form tracks that evolve & devolve in a slow state of flux, with sound sources and samples smudged to the point of degradation and abstraction, revealing a compelling and affecting mix of digital artefacts, psychoacoustics, plaintive melodies & fizzing soundscapes. 

W&P by Calum Macleod - Artwork by Al White & Calum Macleod

This preview comprises of the following tracks covering Tape 1, Side B:

03. LWK
04. Zischensynthese
05. …in the sky Zentraleuropa

Released August 2022 on Double Cassette & Digital LP

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Artist: Roméo Poirier
Title: Living Room
Cat#: faitiche 28
Release: Oct 7th 2022
Format: LP/DL

Living Room (faitiche 28) is the third solo album by Roméo Poirier and, following his much praised Hotel Nota, his debut for Faitiche. The French musician and producer transforms the layering of different times into a free-flowing pulse that sounds both nostalgic and mysteriously ahistorical.

Poirier takes music seriously as a time-based art – not just in the sense of duration, but also in the way time is refracted into autobiographical experience, historical dimensions and stages of evolution. By immersing and reflecting himself in these different layers, he creates a succession of new balances between various tempos, iterations and developments. 

Poirier’s music emerges from a continual questioning and reformulation of his own oeuvre and thus of his own past, drawing on an ever-expanding archive of self-recorded loops. “I always resample myself, using fragments of a track to make a new one, as an ongoing process,” he explains: “The sound is evolving with me in parallel and the loops carry in their DNA all transformational stages, filled with previous tracks, sedimented.”

Originally a drummer, Poirier connects his various sources almost without a clearly identifiable beat. He prefers an organic pulse, mutable like the human sense of time and its fluidity. The aquatic feel of certain tracks on Living Room is no coincidence: among other devices, he uses a waterproof loudspeaker and a hydrophone to play back and rerecord tracks in the bathtub.

Drawing on a sample collection assembled by his father, also a musician, the human voice enters Poirier’s music for the first time. But it remains free of overly unambiguous signifiers. Besides its link to time, the fascinating thing about music is that it has meaning without needing to be decoded. Living Room goes back to the private but universal origin of human experience: “I liked the idea that a possible quest for a musician could be echoing the first encounter we had with language, in a prenatal state: its prosody, melody and tones, without being cluttered with meaning.”


Written and produced by Roméo Poirier
Design by Tim Tetzner
Mastering by Giuseppe Ielasi
Text (back cover) by Lamiral Poirier
Thanks to Jan Jelinek, Tim Tetzner, Anna De Smet, Lamiral Poirier, Sylviane Poirier, Octave Moritz, Will Boyd, Guy Tournay, Antoine Pasqualini, Fabien Leclerc, Rutger De Brabander, Frans Robert, Anna Wery, Vittorie Degli Innocenti, Lucas Kraft, Léna Burger, Christophe Le Poëc, Augustin Gigleux, Daphné Vagegne, Jonathan Soskin

Roméo Poirier: Muscle de sable - Jan Jelinek Remix (remixed by Roméo Poirier)

@surgeonsgirl radiates energy with healing powers. She possesses a bizarre magnetic force that enables her to transform environments at will, transporting listeners into an intoxicating parallel realm. Her music overflows with luminescence and otherworldliness and casts a spell over all those who hear it. 

Sinead McMillan is one of the most thought-provoking and revelatory projects to emerge from Bristol in recent years. Her impressive debut EP 'A Violet Sleep', released on Bristol's Livity Sound label in 2020, unashamedly exposed her love for analogue synthesizers and explored the intersection between experimentation and emotion, through the immersive sounds of her beloved machines. While demonstrating an incredible sound maturity, she continued to delve into this sonic terrain by releasing 'The Empress Moss' on London's Inside Out label in 2021.

Lapsus welcomes Surgeons Girl into their fold with her luscious EP entitled 'Sever'. The five-track EP showcases the evolution of the British producer’s sound, where melody and texture take centre stage, with both elements engaging in a delicate and dynamic conversation for thirteen hypnotising minutes that intertwine and reshape our state of consciousness. Deliciously sequenced arpeggios, simmering bass lines and enticing percussion, all laden with effects that effortlessly appear then disappear. It is IDM with distant dub echoes, extra-terrestrial avant-techno and deeply emotive experimental electronica.

Sever

Surgeons Girl - Sever [LPS32]

For Balmat’s fourth release, we turn our attention close to home: to the Mallorca-born, Barcelona-based artist @nueen, aka Nacho Pezzati.

Nueen has been developing his highly personal style of blissfully Balearic ambient over the past few years, with releases on labels like Quiet Time Tapes and Good Morning Tapes. On Diagrams of Thought, he explores new depths in his sound. His atmospheres remain bucolic, but there’s a disturbance at work, a hint of uncertainty swirling beneath seemingly placid pads.

While Diagrams of Thought retains the ambient (or at least ambient-adjacent) focus of all Balmat’s releases so far, the album also marks new frontiers for the label; the album’s first half is graceful and largely beatless, but the mood grows murkier with the foggy drones of “Dome” and the intimations of liquid drum ’n’ bass on “Maxima”; “Veta,” meanwhile, might just represent the most forceful rhythm to appear on a Balmat release yet. 

Despite the album’s considerable range of moods, tones, and textures, it’s all tied together by a singular preoccupation, says Nueen: 

	“Lately, I’ve become conscious of my fascination for the notion of the break, on a conceptual and musical level. What’s temporary and what’s permanent. Thinking and making out of what isn’t there, yet is. Some people would call it silence, but it could also be a skip of the needle, an ellipsis. Something very basic—or Basic Channelesque. A set of sounds and silences, structuring just a hint of rhythm. Sounds that become silences, and silences that become sounds. 

The other day, I was saying to someone that for me, the sound of electric current running through the power lines above the train tracks is the most ambient sound there is. That infinity in which you never quite grasp all the harmonics and reverberations. It’s a form of time detained or expanded. Recently, I’ve been rereading Morton Feldman—you can tell, right? Vertical time, the silence that sounds. A sort of sacredness. My mind is blown every time I walk into a church, for whatever that’s worth.”

Written & Produced by Nacho Blanco Pezzati.
Mastered by Pedro Pina.
Cover artwork by José Quintanar.
Designed by Basora.

Diagrams of Thought

Nueen - Diagrams of Thought [BALMAT04]

"the same breath never occurs more than once"
by @ybalferran

Ybalferran – Needy Stray Creature

Live recording at Radio Tempo Não Pára (09.12.2022)

Artist: @lukecohlen

Luke Cohlen @ Radio TNP 09.12.2022

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When we established Balmat in 2021, neither of us could have imagined that within two years, we’d be putting out an album by one of our musical heroes: Mike Paradinas (@mikep), aka µ-Ziq. The British producer has been an inspiration to label co-founders Albert Salinas and Philip Sherburne since the 1990s. In fact, his album-length remix project The Auteurs Vs µ-Ziq was one of the very first pieces of electronic music that Philip bought, way back in 1994. To have the opportunity to release his music now feels like a real full-circle moment. 

Paradinas, of course, needs no introduction. Under a slew of aliases, chief among them µ-Ziq, the British artist revolutionized leftfield electronic music in the 1990s—coincidentally, this year marks the 30th anniversary of his debut album, Tango N’ Vectif, for his friend and sometime collaborator Aphex Twin’s Rephlex label—and his label Planet Mu (@planetmurecords) has built up a formidable catalog of visionary, forward-looking records, mapping virtually every corner of the electronic spectrum. With 1977, he turns the clock backward in a sense, and not just with the album’s title: Rooted in classic ambient and electronic sounds, these 15 tracks evoke the anything-goes spirit of the early ’90s, before the tools and tropes had calcified into cut-and-dried styles.

There’s no shortage of familiar sounds on 1977. There are echoes of raves and chillout rooms and transmissions from the fringes of techno; there are detuned synths and glistening reverb tails and, above all, gauzy vox pads, the eerie glue that holds it all together. The title, he says, is meant to invoke a general sense of nostalgia, bookmarking a year in his boyhood when he became more self-aware. More than anything, 1977 sounds like µ-Ziq distilled: Stripped of his signature breakbeats and customary chaos, Paradinas’ first-ever strictly (well, mostly) ambient album presents the essence of his music in a whole new light.

Along the way Paradinas touches on dark-ambient drones (“Marmite”), horror-film themes (“Belt & Carpet”), jungle breaks (“Mesolithic Jungle”), and even house music (“Houzz 13”), which marks the first bona fide dance-floor moment on Balmat to date). Yet the album never—to our ears, anyway—feels expressly retro. Rather, Paradinas plucks timeless sounds out of the ether and gives them a gentle tap, spinning them into unexpected new orbits. At times, 1977 feels like an experience of extended déjà vu: When we first listened to it, we had the sense that we already knew this music. It was as though we had heard it years ago, perhaps on a battered cassette tape lent to us by a friend, and been searching for it ever since. We hope you feel the same.

1977

µ-Ziq - 1977 [BALMAT05]

Mind Fusion X is originally a mix I created for my Youtube / Soundcloud and consists mostly of remixes of older tracks. However they became so different, that I also decided to release them as an album. 

You can find it here: 

Youtube: https://youtu.be/RaqjrirOQ1s?si=wBAu8yNdTG97xoxt
Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/spoqmusic/mind-fusion-vol-10
Bandcamp: https://spoq.bandcamp.com/album/mind-fusion-vol-10

The album is out now on Diventa Music and available from all good streaming services and music shops: 

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/intl-de/album/5VlnU8OQ9htv4xvtQAyXP5
Deezer: https://www.deezer.com/de/album/550810342
Tidal: https://tidal.com/browse/album/346697883
Juno: https://www.junodownload.com/products/spoq-mind-fusion-x/6512078-02/
Apple Music: https://music.apple.com/ch/album/mind-fusion-x/1732261719
Amazon: https://www.amazon.de/music/player/albums/B0CW3LW8ZP
Traxsource: https://www.traxsource.com/title/2207802/mind-fusion-x
Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/spoqmusic/sets/mind-fusion-x

Release notes: 

Spoq's latest creation, "Mind Fusion X" is a beautiful album with 14 carefully crafted Chill Out tracks. 
Since its inception in 2023, the "Mind Fusion" mix series has enraptured audiences with its unique blend of sonic tapestries and emotive explorations. Now, with its milestone tenth installment, Spoq invites listeners to embark on a sonic journey, that transcend conventional genres, offering a chilled yet thought-provoking trip into the depths of sound.
Drawing from an eclectic array of influences spanning Triphop, Ambient, IDM, Psychill, and Psybient, "Mind Fusion X" is a chilled yet thought-provoking odyssey. Each track is full of layers and details, combining intricate layers of texture and melody to creating a unique auditory experience.
Spoq's distinctive style shines throughout the album, as glitchy experimental sounds intermingle with warm chords and ethereal synthesizers. The music ebbs and flows, shifting seamlessly between intimate moments of introspection and expansiveness, inviting listeners to lose themselves in its captivating embrace.
From the gentle whispers of distant melodies to the pulsating rhythms of distant stars, "Mind Fusion X" invites you to surrender to its enchanting allure and explore the boundless possibilities of sound. Available now on all major streaming platforms, this album showcases best Spoq's fresh approach to electronic chill out music, pushing the boundaries of creativity and innovation with each captivating composition.
So close your eyes, let the music wash over you, and prepare to be taken through the vast soundscapes of "Mind Fusion X".

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Mind Fusion X

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Record Labels: Lapsus Records, Balmat & C.E.E.
Distribution by !K7 (www.k7.com)

Weekly podcast Lapsus Radio co-hosted by @wooky and @psherburne.
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