Ambient IDM

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Taken from <a href="http://ninjatune.net/artist/jono-mccleery">Jono McCleery's </a>single <a href="http://ninjatune.net/release/jono-mccleery/ballade">'Ballade'</a>, released 26 August 2013 on Ninja Tune.

Produced by: Royce Wood Junior
Artwork by: Jack Hardwicke

http://jonomccleery.com
http://ninjatune.net

Ballade

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Jono McCleery - 'Ballade' (Djrum Remix)

Ólafur Arnalds and Janus Rasmussen finally release their unique Nordic electronic sounds in album size.

Get the limited edition 12" exclusively on Record Store Day 2015.
Order the album on 2xLP/CD/DL: http://www.erasedtapes.com/store/index/ERATP062
Or order the album DL via iTunes: http://snip.ftpromo.net/kiasmos

After dropping several tracks and performing at select festivals throughout the years, Ólafur Arnalds and Janus Rasmussen dedicated the year 2014 to explore the area in-between Ólafur’s more acoustic, piano-based solo work and Janus’s synth-heavy electro pop, with their collaborative electronic project Kiasmos.

By focusing solely on their self-titled debut album, Ólafur and Janus have been able to combine and further develop their unique sound aesthetics to complete an album driven by their mutual love for electronic music. Made in Ólafur’s newly build studio in Reykjavík, Iceland, a majority of the album was recorded using acoustic instruments next to a variety of synthesisers, drum machines and tape delays. It features a live drummer, string quartet and Ólafur performing on the grand piano, producing an ambient, textured sound, which makes it a perfect home listen and equally danceable record. If you listen closely, you can spot them record the thumb piano, finger snapping and even the sound of the metal grinder of a lighter slowly to replace the usual electronic hi-hat sounds, giving the album a far more intimate and unique atmosphere.

“We decided to start almost completely over with this record, so most of the material is written this year with the idea of making a record that can stand as one piece rather than a collection of songs. I am very excited to get a proper record out exploring a different territory than I am used to. I touch a lot on electronic genres in my own music but never have the opportunity to go full out electronic like we do here.” – Ólafur Arnalds

“The Kiasmos project has been around since 2007, but because of all our other projects we never really got the time to sit down and write all the tracks we always wanted to. So when we early this year finally found the time to sit down and make a full length album there was so much we wanted to try out. The result surprised us a bit, it's deeper and more emotional than we imagined it to be, but that's the beauty of being able to make an album.” – Janus Rasmussen

Kiasmos – s/t will be released on Double-Vinyl, CD and Download via Erased Tapes on October 27th, 2014.

TRACK LISTING: 

1. Lit  2. Held  3. Looped  4. Swayed  5. Thrown  6. Dragged  7. Bent  8. Burnt 

LIVE DATES:	

17.08. HAMBURG (DE) - Dockville Festival			
26.09. BRUSSELS (BE) – Bozar Electronic Arts Festival
27.09. DEN HAAG (NL) – Todays Art Festival

OFFICIAL WEBSITES:  	facebook.com/kiasmos · erasedtapes.com

Kiasmos

Looped

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Kiasmos – Looped

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Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3KrHNqm

Check out our new Free Download compilation on Bandcamp:
https://crossfadesounds.bandcamp.com/album/deeper-underground-1-free-download
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The latest release on Madloch's Crossfade Sounds imprint welcomes Microlot to the label.
Hailing from Australia, Luke Warren aka Microlot crafts thoughtful music for deep souls and dreamers. Evocative textures, organic grooves and a heavy dub influence are just some of the traits that are synonymous with the Sydney resident. His highly stylized sound has found favour with the underground's premiere tastemakers and led to releases via Seven Villas, Seppuku Records & Sound Avenue.
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Send your demo to: demo(at)soundavenue.be
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Somatics

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Microlot - Undefined [Crossfade Sounds]

Ólafur Arnalds and Janus Rasmussen finally release their unique Nordic electronic sounds in album size.

'Full of melancholy-frosted electronics and emotive swells of classical piano, the new single from Nordic duo Ólafur Arnalds﻿ and Janus Rasmussen is a delicate, icy slowburn' – NME

Pre-order the CD/2LP/DL: www.erasedtapes.com/store/index/ERATP062
Pre-order the DL via iTunes and receive the album version of 'Thrown' instantly: snip.ftpromo.net/kiasmos

After dropping several tracks and performing at select festivals throughout the years, Ólafur Arnalds and Janus Rasmussen dedicated the year 2014 to explore the area in-between Ólafur’s more acoustic, piano-based solo work and Janus’s synth-heavy electro pop, with their collaborative electronic project Kiasmos.

By focusing solely on their self-titled debut album, Ólafur and Janus have been able to combine and further develop their unique sound aesthetics to complete an album driven by their mutual love for electronic music. Made in Ólafur’s newly build studio in Reykjavík, Iceland, a majority of the album was recorded using acoustic instruments next to a variety of synthesisers, drum machines and tape delays. It features a live drummer, string quartet and Ólafur performing on the grand piano, producing an ambient, textured sound, which makes it a perfect home listen and equally danceable record. If you listen closely, you can spot them record the thumb piano, finger snapping and even the sound of the metal grinder of a lighter slowly to replace the usual electronic hi-hat sounds, giving the album a far more intimate and unique atmosphere.

“We decided to start almost completely over with this record, so most of the material is written this year with the idea of making a record that can stand as one piece rather than a collection of songs. I am very excited to get a proper record out exploring a different territory than I am used to. I touch a lot on electronic genres in my own music but never have the opportunity to go full out electronic like we do here.” – Ólafur Arnalds

“The Kiasmos project has been around since 2009, but because of all our other projects we never really got the time to sit down and write all the tracks we always wanted to. So when we early this year finally found the time to sit down and make a full length album there was so much we wanted to try out. The result surprised us a bit, it's deeper and more emotional than we imagined it to be, but that's the beauty of being able to make an album.” – Janus Rasmussen

Kiasmos – s/t will be released on Double-Vinyl, CD and Download via Erased Tapes on October 27th, 2014.

TRACK LISTING:

1. Lit 2. Held 3. Looped 4. Swayed 5. Thrown 6. Dragged 7. Bent 8. Burnt

LIVE DATES:

29.11.2014 London (UK) – Village Underground
05.12.2014 Berlin (DE) – Watergate
06.12.2014 Istanbul (TR) – Salon
15.01.2015 Groningen (NL) – Eurosonic

OFFICIAL WEBSITES: facebook.com/kiasmos · erasedtapes.com

Bent

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Kiasmos - Bent

Pre-order A Simple Beautiful Truth EP at:
iTunes - http://po.st/ASBTiTunes
Domino - http://po.st/ASBTDM

Buy Present Tense at:
Domino - http://po.st/PresentTenseDM
iTunes - http://po.st/PresentTense

Wild Beasts - A Simple Beautiful Truth (Djrum remix)

Ólafur Arnalds and Janus Rasmussen finally release their unique Nordic electronic sounds in album size.

Pre-order the CD/2LP/DL: http://www.erasedtapes.com/store/index/ERATP062
Pre-order the DL via iTunes and receive the album version of 'Thrown' instantly: http://snip.ftpromo.net/kiasmos

After dropping several tracks and performing at select festivals throughout the years, Ólafur Arnalds and Janus Rasmussen dedicated the year 2014 to explore the area in-between Ólafur’s more acoustic, piano-based solo work and Janus’s synth-heavy electro pop, with their collaborative electronic project Kiasmos.

By focusing solely on their self-titled debut album, Ólafur and Janus have been able to combine and further develop their unique sound aesthetics to complete an album driven by their mutual love for electronic music. Made in Ólafur’s newly build studio in Reykjavík, Iceland, a majority of the album was recorded using acoustic instruments next to a variety of synthesisers, drum machines and tape delays. It features a live drummer, string quartet and Ólafur performing on the grand piano, producing an ambient, textured sound, which makes it a perfect home listen and equally danceable record. If you listen closely, you can spot them record the thumb piano, finger snapping and even the sound of the metal grinder of a lighter slowly to replace the usual electronic hi-hat sounds, giving the album a far more intimate and unique atmosphere.

“We decided to start almost completely over with this record, so most of the material is written this year with the idea of making a record that can stand as one piece rather than a collection of songs. I am very excited to get a proper record out exploring a different territory than I am used to. I touch a lot on electronic genres in my own music but never have the opportunity to go full out electronic like we do here.” – Ólafur Arnalds

“The Kiasmos project has been around since 2009, but because of all our other projects we never really got the time to sit down and write all the tracks we always wanted to. So when we early this year finally found the time to sit down and make a full length album there was so much we wanted to try out. The result surprised us a bit, it's deeper and more emotional than we imagined it to be, but that's the beauty of being able to make an album.” – Janus Rasmussen

Kiasmos – s/t will be released on Double-Vinyl, CD and Download via Erased Tapes on October 27th, 2014.

TRACK LISTING: 

1. Lit  2. Held  3. Looped  4. Swayed  5. Thrown  6. Dragged  7. Bent  8. Burnt 

LIVE DATES:	

17.08. HAMBURG (DE) - Dockville Festival			
26.09. BRUSSELS (BE) – Bozar Electronic Arts Festival
27.09. DEN HAAG (NL) – Todays Art Festival

OFFICIAL WEBSITES:  	facebook.com/kiasmos · erasedtapes.com

Burnt

Kiasmos - Burnt

DJ Metatron - Oh Ah

http://www.mixmag.net/music/exclusive/prem-djrum

Have a ganders of Djrum in The Lab LDN last year. It was fun, real fun.

The London selector treated us to an hour of delicious jungle riddims, upping the office lairy levels and setting off our Friday night just right.

More exclusive music

Premiere: Djrum 'Plantain'

DJ Metatron - U'll Be The King Of The Stars

Swept

Kiasmos - Swept

To peep the tracklist and download audio, head here: http://blrrm.tv/mn3KYb

Mind Against Boiler Room Berlin DJ Set

On this mix, originally appearing on Headphone Commute podcast in May of 2017, we celebrate some of the pioneers of early electronic ambient music, with the help of a long-time contributor, Fingers in the Noise. Here are all of the first explorations into the then unnamed genre, sometimes referred to as avant-garde, new-music, or simply electronic music. Pictured for the cover art of this mix is Laurie Spiegel, an American composer, who, while working in Bell Laboratories in the early 70s, composed with analog synthesizers using interactive software she wrote herself. Some of this music is hard to come by, with the early experiments a bit difficult to digest, so I thank Laurent Bisch for his wonderful selection of tracks for this very special tribute.

Full track listing and more details on the mix can be found here:
http://hcdi.gs/PioneersTribute

And as always, please enjoy responsibly and support the featured artists!

Mixes

Fingers In The Noise - A Tribute to the Pioneers of Electronic Ambient Music

Taken from the Broken Glass Arch EP
Released 10.11.17 http://smarturl.it/brokenglassarch

RS1715

Djrum - Showreel Pt2

These tracks are out-takes from my first alum Seven Lies. Those familiar with my music will know that I love a coda. A coda is a passage at the end of a piece of music that brings it to a conclusion. I often use a coda as a way of framing the piece in a slightly different context than it would otherwise end. Like a musical aftertaste. When I was working on Seven Lies I made codas for several tracks but I was never completely happy with these two so they didn't make it on to the album.

As I work on my second album I have been looking back at the process I went through for my first alum and remembered these outtakes. They're not so bad after all. Perhaps they are worth airing to the world. I hope you enjoy them, or at least find them an interesting insight into the workings behind the music.

Obsession (Coda) [Unreleased 2013]

DAM (Coda) [Unreleased 2013]

Djrum - Showreel Pt 1

I had a soft ebb and flow vibe in mind for this track, where I wanted to make lots of different tidal forces interact, with a flowing binaural dust simulation, lots of analogue delays, and then larger scale opening of each synth into moments of fullness, then back to the quieter sections. 

I used Rob Clouth's "Dust" plugin for the simulated binaural flows. His plugin creates the headphone experience of many particles of sound moving around the head, it's a pretty mad plugin, well recommended to check out if you haven't done so.

We ended up setting the music to a suitably flowing visual scene too, in Ben Outram's footage of microscopic liquid crystals in action, warping and bending light in beautiful complex ways. You can find that video online here: https://vimeo.com/266652990

The track is release as part of my Balance 030 compilation, featuring loads more exclusive tracks and many bootlegs and edits of my favourite music across many genres, all blended into a big garden of ideas for exploring, if you're into that sort of thing! http://smarturl.it/Balance030MaxCooper

Big thanks to the great artist Ozge Cone for her Balance 030 artwork cover you can see embedded here.

Balance 030 - Max Cooper

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Music of the Tides [Balance 030]

Taken from the new album 'One Hundred Billion Sparks', released 20 Sept - pre-order with tour tickets at https://MaxCooper.lnk.to/Hope

After spending a month in complete isolation at a remote cottage in Wales, Max Cooper presents ‘One Hundred Billion Sparks’, his third studio album, in which he interrogates notions of identity whilst profiling the complex mechanisms that make us all wonderfully unique. 
 
The first single of the album, 'Hope', sees Max retain the duality for which his work is known for, dissonant harmonies ring across vast, cinematic soundscapes driven forward by static bass and skeletal percussion. The track was designed around a video collaboration with Thomas Vanz, charting the epic journey of atoms inside the brain, as it creates our experience with its one hundred billion sparking neurons. 

One Hundred Billion Sparks tour:
13 Sep - Amsterdam, Melkweg
15 Sept - Budapest, We Are Cre8tion
20 Sep - London, Koko 
22 Sep - Nantes, Scopitone Festival
25 Sep - Santander, Centro Botin
04-06 Oct - Brighton, ACCA [Aether]
06 Oct - Rome, Spring Attitude Festival, Ex Dogana
12 Oct - Yverdon-les-Bains, L'Amalgame
18 Oct - Paris, Gaîté Lyrique
03-07 Nov – Hasselt, IMPACT [Aether]
08 Nov - Brussels, AB
10 Nov - Berlin, Funkhaus
16 Nov - Dublin, Button Factory
24 Nov - Cologne, Artheater

For tickets, pre-orders and more info go to www.maxcooper.net

One Hundred Billion Sparks

Hope

Full LP-Stream-12"-CD

Buy now: smarturl.it/portraitwithfirewood

‘Waters Rising’ is a collaboration with vocalist Lola Empire and was originally written around a piano sketch that was sent back and forth between the two artists until it became the fully realised song you hear now.  

"I really hadn't expected love to be a theme in the album, but I was chatting with Lola and she told me how she'd fallen in love. I sent her the initial sketch for this and told her i didn't think love was an appropriate subject for it. but she came out with this. 
'love is dark' she said."

Portrait With Firewood

Waters Rising

I love Brecon's first mini album release, so I wanted to get involved with the remixes, but it wasn't an easy job, they seem to have constructed their music in an extremely efficient and effective manner where everything is optimised and used at it's best, with nothing extra added, if you know what I mean when you hear it! So for that reason I stuck relatively closely to their original track, and just tried to add some of my own flavour to the mix, which in practice meant lots of live jamming with my Prophet and playing around with percussion detailing, along with a new drum pattern and arrangement, and, of course, some enveloping chords.

Ambient IDM

Le Gros