Zauberstab V.A. Volume 1 is a compilation of electronic bedroom music made by contemporary artists that belong to similar sonic spheres.

The A side feels like a holiday in an exotic landscape; the kind of place you don't want to leave. The B side then goes in a slightly deeper meditative direction, but not too far, since the sparking disco-infused psych exploration of ’Space Surfari’ will hold you back from falling into the void of the unconscious.

What comes next is the sound that would welcome a moonlit night sky. The C side slinks into a minimal synth oriented exploration, ending with the intergalactic hopeful drift of ‘Har’.

The last side will provide a comfortable seat on this hypnotic journey. ‘Été 2017’ is an ode to the late summer nights, a mind-driving loop carried by gentle percussive sounds, filled with some bass deepness. The next tracks are the right balance between a hug and a breeze of fresh air for your mind and soul.

At this point you might find yourself wondering if it’s a good idea to open your eyes or just keep them closed for a bit longer and thoroughly enjoy all of the details of this story.

But, why not? This one is, after all, a record to build beautiful memories with.

~

2x12" Vinyl only
Mastering by Donato Dozzy
Handmade covers by L'Anacrónica
Inserts printed by Maquina Total
Distributed by Clone
Released by Alicia and Pierre during Pandemic


Artists: ODL (Laura Ondula), Cosmic Palms, Paedro Magnum, Poetas Sonicos (Eva Geist & Donato Dozzy), Konsistent, Lil Ronin, Walden (Franc Sayol), Bejota Nova, Vintage Cucumber, CDRip (Mikel Acosta), Megamal (Alicia Carrera & Benjamin Sánchez)

Lil Ronin - Été 2017
Music by Pierre Ronin
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mFPesjxBs9s
Film by Antoine Ronin https://www.antoineronin.com/

Poetas Sónicos - Har
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=s9FbySfx-3M&feature=youtu.be
Film by Alicia Carrera
https://soundcloud.com/poetas_sonicos
https://www.facebook.com/poetas.sonicos

Zauberstab V.A. - Volume 1 (LIOVA01)

@initinit is the musical project of Nadia D’Alò and Benedikt Frey, a duo based in Berlin. For zweikommasieben, the two artists compiled a mix intended to soundtrack a dinner party. More details here: https://www.zweikommasieben.ch/en/init-music-for-dinners-mix/

INIT - Music for Dinners Mix

Splendid Mix by Marijana Croon for our RIOCAST series. Full Interview here --> @riolabel.com/riocasts

RIOCAST06 Marijana Croon - Tanzverbot

Ex Ponto - In A Quarry… - OFFEN 021

Artist: Ex Ponto
Title: In A Quarry...

Track list:
1. In A Quarry...Far, Far Away (15:34)
2. Golden Hours (07:28)
3. Shed 14 (03:38)

Australian musician, composer and producer Ex Ponto aka Ivan Mašić has self-released dozens of albums with improvisation collective, Council of Elders, and experimental no-wave band, Wunderlust.

On his Offen Music debut Ex Ponto is constructing an alternative civilization of grace, post-sarcasm and intuitive response. 

„In A Quarry...Far, Far Away“ is a 15 minutes long wandering with Joseph and August Norster around The Quarry, Beech Forest, Victoria, Australia, January 27, 2020. 
Life affirming „Golden Hours“ is an alternative to the general wait for extinction and completition of a suicide program out there. An ode to the moments when sunlight turns magical.
„Shed 14“ is a personal reminiscence of the legendary club in Melbourne. 

„Ex Ponto respectfully acknowledges the Wurundjeri and Boon Wurrung people of the Kulin Nations as the sovereign owners of the country where I live and work. I recognise that sovereignty has not been ceded and pay my respects to all Elders, past, present and emerging.“

https://exponto.com.au/portfolio-item/the-sublime/
https://www.theprojects-quarry.com/

Credits:

Field recording on In A Quarry…Far, Far Away taken from a conversation between Joseph and August Norster (father and son) 
The Quarry, Beech Forest, Victoria, Australia, January 27, 2020.

written and produced by Ivan Mašić
mastered by Enrico Mercaldi 
cover photo by Joseph Norster
graphic design by Percy

Offen Music 2022

In A Quarry...

2. Ex Ponto - Golden Hours - OFFEN 021

Coming up straight from @cosmicgathering into your ears is our latest podcast recorded by none other than @heapvienna aka « da Viennese tornado », ok we might be the only ones calling him that way but honestly we had trouble staying in place while listening to that clever combination of ravy sounds and trembling bass so buckle up and enjoy that gem.

Karagi ಏ Heap

Macadam Mambo launches another special LP to end the 2022 season, presenting the debut album of this Belgo-Italian aural freak show called « Sexo Y Fantasia ». A delicious record full of sun by aspect, dreamy, dubby and balearic in the tone, flavored and contrasted with little bits of darkness and tension in the background. As the name suggests it, the sexiness is in every note, the erotic male voice is floating all over it, surfing on waves of endless reverb and delay. Throughout being anchored with clear hints from the 80ties and 90ties, this 35 minutes oeuvre still keeps full modernity in its form. DJ-friendly, it’s also an excellent overall listening experience to enjoy from beginning to end while sipping a fancy cocktail somewhere out in a cosmic dreamland. 
Don’t miss this joint, it might be one of the highlights of the year.	      

Artwork : Sacha Mambo / Mastering : Rude 66

TRACKLIST :
A1. 23  4 :46
A2. Love Delivery	4 :31
A3. Oneirotic  4 :28
A4. Intimate Life	4 :41
A5. Cherry Coca	4 :43
B1. Polylove Cha Cha Cha   5 :14
B2. Luce  4 :58
B3. Drama Queer	5 :40
B4. Desire Of Mind    4 :53

Catalog#: MMLPXX404
Format: Vinyl – LP
Released:  15 November 2022 
Distribution : Rubadub, Syncrophone

Oneirotic

MMLPXX404 - Sexo Y Fantasia "Oneirotic" LP [PREVIEWS] OUT!

@freybenedikt RIO09 // 11.18.2022 // Distr. One Eye Witness

When British Airways got privatized and listed on the London Stock Exchange, somewhere in Canada the first Starbucks outside of the US opened, and the Walt Disney Company signed an agreement with the French Prime Minister to construct Disneyland Paris. In the sky above southern Argentina, Equatorial Guinea, Cameroon, Sudan, Ethiopia, Djibouti, northern Somalia, and the Atlantic Ocean a hybrid solar eclipse materialized for 7.57 seconds, whilst Margaret Thatcher performed for 45-minutes on Soviet television. Some days later, The Simpsons cartoon first appears as a series of shorts on The Tracey Ullman Show, Diego Maradona wins his first Italian soccer championship with Napoli, and Eighteen-year-old West German pilot Mathias Rust lands a private plane on Red Square in Moscow. In the mists of the world's first conference on artificial life at the Los Alamos National Laboratory, the first Kentucky Fried Chicken restaurant in Mainland China opens in Beijing, and Prozac gets approved for use as an antidepressant in the United States. Much give way for the future, down there in 1987, the year that marks the title of Benedikt Frey’s freshest mini album, out into the world on R.i.O., the label he runs with some pals in the North of Berlin. It’s a dubby melancholic conqueror, wistfully, repetitive, drilling, absorbing, spooking. It makes you dream. Not particular of the year 1987. But it’s all there: The Red Square, the untouched land of the Val d'Europe, Diego on fuego. Six dark-ish tracks in trance, melancholic dub, downbeat heaven, journey music depths, all full of light and yet so dark. Futuristic dramas linked to a speculative past. In our dreams all might look different. The eclipse may last 27-minutes. You meet Neuromancer cyberpunks and blade running Ghost dogs, all taught to hack by Phrack. Cristal clear melodies, sampled voices, and veiled basslines, analogue scopes, and digital ropes, longing for a past that storm into the future. A time where deep listening widens the acoustics into infinity, while neon glows charm the light smog. Benedikt Frey been down there. Or maybe not. His latest music tells stories from the bygone, vested with the forthcoming. Come in and look out. There is nothing to see, yet so much to hear. ML

A1) Phrack 5:55
A2) Trencher 6:15
A3) ORI 3:38
B1) Attitude 5:45
B2) Dummy 5:43
B3) Steam 5:30

Supported by Initiative Musik gGmbH with project funds from the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and Media.

1987

Bandcamp

RIO09 Benedikt Frey - 1987

at R.i.O. 1987 Release Party, Arkaoda Berlin 11.19.22

https://soundcloud.com/nighttravelonablanketshow
https://soundcloud.com/heninspace
https://soundcloud.com/phasegroup
🛒 https://phasegroup.bandcamp.com/album/a-given-moment
🔊 https://youtu.be/bfV7nECrXEI

Phase Group continue their exploration of the fringes of contemporary electronic music with a release that brings together two separate projects born from analogue hardware improvisations.

‘A Given Moment’ presents the dub-laden, mind-bending and noise-driven music of Brussels-based artist and Vastechoses label head Lostsoundbytes, and the lo-fi, early morning lysergic experiments of Lowspace, an unearthed, forgotten collaborative project by French DJ and musician Low Bat and Dresden-based producer Heninspace.

This is music that takes you deeper into the vortex, made for dark and smoke-enveloped clubs and cosmic day-break afterparty moments. On the A-side, Lostsoundbytes continues his prolific output of masterfully crafted bass-heavy and dub-wise analogue machine jams, while the B-side presents two lost psychotropic experimental recordings by Lowspace made in 2018 upon a visit by Low Bat to Heninspace’s Dresden studio.

Tracklist: 

A1. Lostsoundbytes - In 1000 Years
A2. Lostsoundbytes - Fou De Croire
A3. Lostsoundbytes - Brain's Rewind 
B1. Lowspace - Sonntag Gibt Milchkaffee
B2. Lowspace - Dance For The Underwear Hour

PREMIERE: Lowspace - Sonntag Gibt Milchkaffee [Phase Group]

Disciple of the god Apollo, Terpsichore was the Muse of the dance, and it was known to be the most enigmatic of the nine Greek muses. 
She was the mother of the sirens, and she would lure sailors to shipwreck on their island with their music and hypnotic, beautiful singing. 

Terpsichore has been invoked as a metaphor for rhythm and ordered movement in the universe. 
The planets orbit the sun and the sun, with other stars, orbits the center of the Milky Way galaxy. The planets go through the Milankovitch cycles in which their orbits around the sun adjust in very regular, periodic, or rhythmic, ways.

Terpsichore’s influence goes beyond just the humane, as It can also be seen in the observable universe.
She is now the Muse not just of human dance but also the cosmic dance in which the whole universe participates.

Music by Anna VS June, Steve Pepe, Francesca Colombo, Bear Bones, Lay Low, Pannotia, Nixxon, Tassilo Vanhoefen, Yuto Takei, Amerza, Orestt, The Dude Of Stratosphear, Anatolian Weapons, Théo Muller, Konsistent, Vidock & Ghassen Chiba
Design by Vanja Rakic
Label run by Pako Vega
Mastered by Sam Smith at Green Door Studio in Glasgow

Release date 15.03.2023
Availabe on a limited edition cassette(60 copies)& digital in selected stores and Bandcamp
Pre-order: https://soundsofogigia.bandcamp.com/album/terpsichore-dance

Stay curious 🌀

VA - Sounds Of Ogigia - Terpsichore Dance (SOO03) [Snippets]

premiere of our A2) Split Ep on Serenades @serenades_show

Dolphins: @freybenedikt, @menqui, @nadia-d-al.
@odopt: @grishanelyubin, @me-is.

Artwork by Alina Tiulina.
Design by Nikita Lanndau.
Dope Mastering by Sergey Luginin.

Distribution by @bordellodistribution
distribution@bordelloaparigi.com

Dolphins - Commander (SRNDS03)

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