IDM, Ambient, Glitch

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aug23

Jonnnah and Salma Rosa's emotionally-charged downtempo exudes softly euphoric melancholy.

'Premier Rayon' is out September 3rd on Soleil Rouge.

Pre-order: bit.ly/38qnB6L

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Premiere: Jonnnah & Salma Rosa - Every Clouds Has A Silver Lining [Soleil Rouge]

JEROME Mixfile #813 - mapalma

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JEROME Mixfile #813 - mapalma

mix and artcover by @4tunaa 

Tracklist :

E+E - Emotion
David Moufang Sergio Leones - Wet Dream
Autechre- Yulquen
Salfetky - Strangethe
Fertile crescent - Ripping time
Autechre - Nine
Amor satyr Sui mata - Tachyon Particles
Autechre - Yulquen
Ar kuta - Slip
Salfetky - glory
E+E FIRE GUT Lashaya Vocal edit

4tuna - Imum Coeli mix 023

Losing Track With Discosexo

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“All these people, flyovers, cars, walkways, subways, offices, tower blocks, power cables, pipes, apartments, it all adds up to a lot of weight. You have to do something to stop yourself caving in, or you just become a piece of flotsam or an ant in a tunnel [...] you have to make your place inside your head.” — David Mitchell, Ghostwritten

Music for the spaces inside and in-between. Out of Season Vol. 2 is the second compilation from Eora-based label Theory Therapy. 10 tracks of ambient and downtempo made in So-called Australia, the US, UK and Canada.

100% of the profits will go to Save the Children’s Ukraine Crisis Relief Fund, which provides children and their families with hygiene kits, food and water, cash support and psycho social aid.

We acknowledge the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people as the traditional custodians of the Country upon which Theory Therapy and Low End Theorists was founded, and recognize that sovereignty has not been ceded. We pay our respects to Elders, past, present and emerging.
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releases September 2, 2022

Pre-order link ~~~~~~~> https://bit.ly/3PWvdkx

pi pi pi premiere: Mike Midnight - Every Angel (Theory Therapy)

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]

When life's last song plays only for you
Just close your eyes and follow it through
For this is only the beginning
of where this life ends
Now you're ready to walk with the Whispering Winds...

Drifting...

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On this show we present a sonic journey from the London based, Dorset raised duo In-Form. They run a YouTube channel and are part of Thirdspace, running quarterly parties in London. This mix is the second in a series called Desired Path and covers a lot of ground, but is circles iterations of introspective new wave and avant pop. Check out their excellent mixes and YT channel if you get a chance.

Séance Centre Radio Episode 62 - Desired Path w/ In-Form

Private Hearts 148 w/ Elias Mazian

BUY LINK: https://cosmocitiesrecords.bandcamp.com/album/denshi-ongaku-no-bigaku-the-aesthetics-of-japanese-electronic-music-vol-1
V/A - Denshi Ongaku No Bigaku / 電子音
Label: Cosmocities Records (https://soundcloud.com/user-796466527)
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Still on and about after years of the most intense crate digging, gem mining, desperate head-scratching and avid schooling, thirsty as ever for the next musical thrill to wrap our ears and brains around, here comes the fruit of our life-long love story with Japanese electronics, Denshi Ongaku No Bigaku Vol. 1 and Vol.2. From the soul-fulfilling first crush felt upon hearing the iconic soundtrack of ‘Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence’ by Ryuichi Sakamoto onto our release of Inner Science ‘Cosmo Tracks’, through the life-affirming sets of Laurent Garnier at Dijon’s seminal club, l’An-fer, which have at all times nurtured and expanded our taste for Easternmost delicacies, the influence of Japanese music on our vision and endeavours was paramount to the development of our catalogue, whether directly or indirectly. 

This first volume gets the ball rolling with a fine assortment of mostly ambient, electronica and deep house-focussed joints. Draped in organic membranes and ASMR-like synth tapestries, K. Inoue’s nu-agey opener ‘Em Paz’ takes us on a ride across the most serene dreamscapes. Jazzing up these lush and oneiric coastal vibes, Gabby & Lopez ‘Drive form the Miracle’ merges a sense of Californian psychedelia with a straight out hard-bop swing. No stranger to our catalogue, Inner Science returns to serve up a crystalline slice of laid-back house on a mystique-imbued tip he holds the secret to. Flip it over and here comes Aquarium with the splendidly immersive ‘Rainy Night in Shibuya’, which very much feels like wandering amidst its neon-upholstered streets and swarming hallways in a bubble of your own. 

Naohito Uchiyama treats us to a synth-drenched nocturnal ballad with the ‘80s-inflected vibes of ’Shugetsu’, whereas Keta Ra cuts a path of ethereal sublimation via the mischievously fun and bouncy balearic lounge of ‘equals’. Masterly crafted by Yuu Udagawa, ‘Infinite Possibility’ eases us in a realm where weightless pop and low-slung abstract hip-hop combine to further exhilarating effect. All in harp-driven brittleness and velveteen sub-bass stealth, Noah ‘Gemini - Mysterious Lot’ has us drifting to a lavishly orchestrated headspace, laying down an impressive work on textures and arrangements. All in on the sedated drip-tease flex, Sauce81 ’Sign of Secret Love’ is a blast of freaky hedonism, just as ready to cast its hypnotic spell down the sweatbox as it was upon its original release ten years ago.

Languid jacking house tune ’Tai+Dai’ from Keita Sano blows the winds of discoid luvin’ across the room with its impeccable balance of sharp, glimmering synthwork and driving bass onslaughts from the depths. An odd slice of reshuffled folk music, Waltz ‘Folkesta’ makes for some eerie invitation of sorts, enchanting and spookily haunting in equal measure. Back to a fevered, hip-swaying mindset, Kuniyuki hi-NRG jazz number ‘Free’ is an absolute wonder of piano and drums-driven boogie, cut from the same cloth as some of Blue Note’s finest Cuban jazz classics. Rounding off the package, Japanese legend Ken Ishii’s version of Larry Heard’s house Hall-of-Famer ‘Can You Feel It’ is pure bliss in a can, tailored to turn any crowd into a shapeless cloud of balmy euphoria and universal love, whatever the place or time.

Saturdays w/ Gabe #9: open windows

Lillerne Tapes