B Moon

Roll up Roll up!  We have a seriously tasty package for APPIAN019 and have gone back to a Various Artist format for this one. 

Here we share 4 sets of artists that have been on our radar for some time - some new joiners to Appian and some old friends : ) We think each track stands out from their past discographies and offers something special. 

Timeless cuts to suit intimate dancefloors.

Hope you enjoy : )

Bas Dobbelaer & Vand - Tsuneo

Marking our 15th release is the Silhouettes EP, the long-awaited debut of local Naarm producer WTP to The Space Between Us. We’re thrilled that through these four timeless tracks, the label finds a place within the incredible catalogue of releases from WTP.

Silhouettes is a further manifestation of WTP’s unwavering knack for creating expansive realms, perceptible through deep and hypnotic patterns, intricate percussion and weightless pads. Favouring analogue sounds over the crisp and clean, an organic quality gives life to the tracks — each living and breathing.

Building upon previous releases, Silhouettes is an exploration into the more energetic shades of the Naarm producer’s sound; each track featuring a liveliness within elements — whether chords, basslines or arpeggiated sounds. As much as the tracks propel onward, they offer restraint when called for. Driving, yet spacious and light; equally suited to the hazy dancefloor as they are to home listening.

With a soul that finds home alongside releases from the ‘golden era’ of progressive house and trance —  output from labels like Digital Structures, Vapour Recordings and Plastic Fantastic in the early 2000s — Silhouettes is an exercise in defying space and time. Inviting you to get lost, and find the ethereal world of WTP.

Release date: 4 October 2024
Listen / buy on Bandcamp https://thespacebetweenus.bandcamp.com/album/silhouettes
Mastering by Mark Klon
All Production by WTP / @worktheperipherals
Artwork by Gabriella Brown, Soft Edges

TSBU15 // WTP - Silhouettes [snippets]

first bit of this digi only series
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buy/support
https://secondcousin.bandcamp.com/album/bits

All Music & Art by Cousin
Mastered by Angus Mills

~O.V.O~

Few artists have crafted a catalog as rich and deep as Donato Dozzy has done in minimal techno’s more atmospheric realm. The Italian producer—who also performs in the excellent Voices From The Lake duo with Neel—has become revered for his unerring ability to create tracks that are at once ethereal and oceanic, inducing both a sense of tranquility and urgency. His debut album, K, which Further Records originally issued in 2010, stands as a towering example of Dozzy’s skill for electronic music that triggers profound feelings with only a few scrupulously selected elements. 

K’s seven untitled tracks offer a masterly seminar in subtly altering the grid-like beat programming that dominates techno. Dozzy puts odd emphases on certain beats and adds percussive eccentricities and effects to others. Which means that this isn’t a collection of bangers geared for hands-in-the-air, goofball moves. Instead, Dozzy’s working on a much more refined level, one where tricky, intricate drum patterns trump simple booming kicks—although track 3’s staunch, methodically funky kick and hi-hat pattern and track 5’s swift and elegantly propulsive beats could heat up a club. 

The greatest pleasures of K occur in the way Dozzy’s eerie, aquatic drones swirl around his well-wrought rhythms, submerging everything in a restorative, algae-tinged film. At their best, these pieces convey a Chain Reaction-like rigor and a cinematic quality (of the Jacques Cousteau variety) utterly devoid of cliché. This reissue of K reminds us that it remains a crucial component of Donato Dozzy's catalog, the first major statement in a career that's becoming a manifesto of understated, underground-techno brilliance.

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Irlly<3U [170bpm]

Irish independent Andrew Morrison (The Cyclist, Buz Ludzha, etc.) returns as Indopan with a 70-minute suite of jazzy kinetics, lysergic breaks, and dusted swing: In Opulence.

Inspired by a recent haul of modified rig acquisitions, including a Wurlitzer 206A, Korg Polysix, and analog Soviet drum brain called the Marsh UDS, the album skews his signature “tape throb” sound through a warmer, warbly lens, streaked with grit and sepia haze.

Morrison mentions themes of unattainable desire and hidden fracture as touchstones (“the breaking at the seams of a smile”), which are especially apparent in his two collaborations with vocalist Elaine Howley (“Shore Ellipsis” and “Antigreed”).

But, throughout, the songs churn, burn, and billow with elusive movement, sweeping through rolling hills and misty city streets, in the shadow of uneasy futures.

https://thecyclist.bandcamp.com/album/in-opulence

https://soundcloud.com/100percentsilk
https://soundcloud.com/the-cyclist

PREMIERE: Indopan - Moody Wurlis [100% Silk]

Collected atmospheric jungle and dnb cassette tracks.

Get a free bandcamp album code here: https://band.codes/arcologies

1. delta waves
2. crystal stasis
3. synaptic transfer
4. oblivion
5. the amulet
6. monsoon
7. searcher
8. three days later
9. symmetry beyond
10. visual memory unit
11. the city at night

VAPOR DRIVE :: Atmospheric DnB & Jungle ::

E.V.A.

☽ ethereal daydreams from inner space ☾

(this is a new soundcloud account - old one can be found below ❤︎)

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lunr girl