Breakaway

SLKFs podcast, avsnitt 1 : Fält och kretsar

Download the mix in high quality mp3 & lossless via Drip.fm:
https://drip.fm/ghostly/releases/various-artists-ghostly-15-spectral-sound

The Spectral iteration of the Ghostly 15 mixes comes courtesy of Derek Plaslaiko (who recently completed a grueling 12 hour Boiler Room out of his home in Berlin: http://boilerroom.tv/recording/derek-plaslaiko-12-hour-set/). Some words from Plaslaiko on the emergence of Spectral Sound & the mix he has curated below:

"I met Sam Valenti IV in the later years of the 90's just after he started the Ghostly International label. I feel like I almost instantly connected with Ghostly due to the music, but also because of the asthetic. Sam & I had more than a couple conversations about labels like Factory and 4AD and how the art was synonymously as important as the music it accompanied. I couldn't agree with him more!

As Ghostly grew, I think Sam realized that the more dancefloor-oriented music should almost have it's own place. Enter Spectral Sound.

Spectral Sound often gets confused as Ghostly. For instance, I am considered a Spectral Sound DJ, yet there are plenty of times that promoters end up simply putting Ghostly International next to my name. This doesn't offend me or anything, but the labels are quite different, and equally as important in my eyes. Spectral went on to help pave the way for what would end up being the "minimal" sound embraced first in Berlin, and then the rest of the world. However, I wouldn't just pin Spectral down as a "minimal" label. I feel Spectral (as well as Ghostly) is a great example of a dance music oriented label putting out music they like regardless of what genre it falls under. House, Acid House, Deep House, Tech House, Hard Techno, Deep Techno, Minimal Techno... you can find all of this and a lot more within Spectral's vast catalog.

So, Sam has asked me to pick 15 of my favorite Spectral Sound tracks and I gotta say... this list is a really hard one to make! How do I chose only 15 cuts of this incredible catalog? And even if I did, how much of it would be occupied by tracks produced by Matthew, Tadd and Todd? To pick 15 favorites from just those 3 artists alone would be a difficult challenge, as they are easily 3 of my favorite producers of dance music out there! So, I tried to limit my picks of them to each of their project names.

I had been asked to to the mix compilation that accompanied the Spectral Sound Vol 2 compilation that came out in 2008. So, there are MANY of my favorite Spectral cuts on there (you can find it on Spotify). I mention this only because there are a few repeats in this list, but I just couldn't help myself because I still play those tracks to this day.

So, here is the playlist, and happy listening!"

Osborne - Wait A Minute (Extended)

Phantom Terrains audio by Frank Swain and Daniel Jones, go here for more information: http://phantomterrains.com
Here is the file uploaded by the creators: https://soundcloud.com/ideoforms/phantom-terrains-broadcasting-house

Phantom Terrains audio

Based on the idea of retelling the story of travels, naming places as a description through attempting pronunciation. 
This track was made during the Kedjereaktion project at Gallery Two Little Birds in Gothenburg.
Four artist worked for four days each in the gallery and leaving their work, without instructions, for the next to follow. 
I was the last. 


Turisten/Memory as Pronunciation

Dischorealism was initially intended to be a conceptual work about ”milk” but we quickly got tired of the idea and the result was partly something completely different. Nevertheless, partly the same in the sense of sucking the life out of somebody, exploiting and over consuming trust in any form. Dischorealism explores the cost of dual nature and circulates around themes such as friendship, sex, violence and drug abuse.

Dischorealism is IMAGE and SOUND and a collaboration between Vanligt Folk and videoartist Tobias Toyberg. This is the SOUND part of the collaboration.

Handmade jewel case art by Phantom Whistle.

Physical edition released on January 18th 2025 at Skeppet GBG. Limited to 300 copies.

DISCHORA

Diskussion om realvärdet för en svensk krona

En kronas värde

All the poisons, substances, drugs, tonics and potions would not be able to cure this thirst now. She had found a taste for something that could never be quenched again. What was she gonna do for fun now? This might as well be it. The apartment walls rose all around her amidst an empty room, the floorboards creaked beneath her feet as she paced to and fro. There was an itch, a craving, a desire which would never be fulfilled, it made her sad, oh so sad. 

Pitch originally released "What Am I Gonna Do For Fun" back in the early eighties. Now the newly founded label Idle Press are set to reissue it with a remix from Salon Des Amateurs founder Tolouse Low Trax. 

PREMIERE: Pitch - What Am I Gonna Do For Fun (Tolouse Low Trax Remix) [Idle Press]

'Phrenitis' takes the listener to a twisted place where the walls between worlds are razed. The ruinous cities of wars long past, where time itself is but a prisoner and the warlords roaming their purgatorial halls are free to destroy the very foundations of the natural order. 

'Phrenitis' is the 6th album of Atrium Carceri and is yet another step of the ever increasing Atrium Carceri wake up call. Simon Heath shows himself and the world, yet again, that no man is ever truly the master of their art unless they strive to evolve with it. The soundscapes he has created bypass the conscious mind, taking the listener deep into his pristine nightmare. The evolution of sound is spot-on and sets Atrium Carceri apart from other lazy dark ambient acts by being a truly diverse piece, replete with details upon details to make the illusion complete, and haunting compositions to make the mind yearn.
credits
released 02 December 2009 
www.atriumcarceri.com 

Produced, Composed and Mastered - Simon Heath

Atrium Carceri - Reunion

Composer 
Noise musician.
Drone.
Conceptual notation.
Music for Dance, film, theater.
Lecturer.

Noise chamber orchestra GGR Betong: 
instrument - circular saw blades.

Organiser of events for new music and the sonic arts:
-President of Kulturföreningen Kluster 
-Vice president of  Geiger 

Educated at:
Musical Composition Program, Sound Art orientation at the Academy of Music and Drama at Gothenburg University.

Gothenburg Art School - preparatory education. 

Cultural Studies - Gothenburg University.

Turisten/Memory as Pronunciation

Louise Magnusson

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