Generative Terrain Ahead

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99 POST AMBIENT SONGS

nthng - with you

from the album 'Drifted Heaven' by Abul Mogard

VCO 017: Abul Mogard "Unarmoured Love"

Lorn - YESTERDAY'S PAIN

2222 and AIRPORT

VLANCH

Originally released in 2005 on his brother's online label Tokyo Trauma, »Die Wiederholung der Geschichte der amerikanischen Heimatlosigkeit« is Grischa Lichtenberger's debut release, predating his involvement with raster. Anticipating and framing his later works, the visceral sound palette, ranging between harsh digital noise and compelling analogue roughness, is put to play in a very unconcerned and uncompromising way on this release, in harmony with an idiosyncratic beat science and an organic, natural feel of song structure and melodies.
The influence of independent rock music of the 90s, as well as an artistic experimental approach center this record, as his brother David Lichtenberger put it in his description of the record: "Very arty stuff, but first of all characterized by an incredibly direct and heavy sound oscillating between punching beats and digital harsh noise making your ears bleed and you (me at least) scream for more."
Conceptionally, »Die Wiederholung der Geschichte der amerikanischen Heimatlosigkeit« (the repetition of the history of American rootlessness) parallelizes the history of European and American relations with the dialectics between digital and analogue technologies. Experimental methods of electronic music are put in a metaphoric relation with a historical topic, like in »Durchquerung 3« scrubbing a wave form of an audio file that is put in a relation to the crossing of the Death Valley by early American settlers. Using the compressor as an expressionistic tool of composition, overshooting the 0db barrier creating noisy artefacts, time stretching, collaging all work as tools for regenerating material, create a relation to an acoustical subconsciousness of recorded sounds (similar to the optical unconsciousness of slow motion and montage that Walter Benjamin described in his first analyses of cinema in the 1920s).
raster is pleased to reissue this early work of Grischa Lichtenberger, remastered and for the first time in physical format.

Die Wiederholung der Geschichte der amerikanischen Heimatlosigkeit

Grischa Lichtenberger »grainmelo lfo hoerner nivellierung« taken from »DWDGDAH«

Mattia Cupelli announces the release of his latest single, "THE FOUNDATION OF FAITH".
This experimental post-ambient track takes listeners on a transcendental journey through ethereal and intense sounds, evoking feelings of infinite energy and touching the divine.

"THE FOUNDATION OF FAITH" is a sonic exploration of spirituality and the human connection with the divine. Through a mesmerizing blend of ambient textures, the track invites listeners to delve deep into their souls and contemplate the mysteries of existence.

With its hauntingly beautiful soundscapes and intricate distorted layers of instrumentation, "THE FOUNDATION OF FAITH" pushes the boundaries of traditional music genres, offering a unique auditory experience that resonates with the spirit.

Mattia Cupelli is excited to share this transformative musical journey with their audience and hopes that "THE FOUNDATION OF FAITH" will inspire listeners to explore their own spiritual paths.

https://mattiacupelli.bandcamp.com/track/the-foundation-of-faith

THE FOUDATION OF FAITH

Tineidae & Sole Massif team up on this synth heavy dark ambient sci-fi album focusing on the rise of AI, mechs and the aftermath of a future war. Crunchy treble contrasts with thumping bass to pull you into its world of heavy robotics, neural interfaces and sci-fi atmospherics.

The underground facility is a bleak maze of dimly lit corridors, echoing with the hum of machinery. In your cold, metallic exosuit, you move through shadows, your visor projecting eerie holographic warnings.

Deca-6, your silent partner, and you approach the central chamber. The distant gunfire adds to the oppressive atmosphere. The enemy mech looms, a dark silhouette.

You engage your weapons, and the chamber erupts in flashes of phosphorescent light, casting haunting shadows.

Recommended for fans of analog synths, sci-fi and military mechs.

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Tineidae & Sole Massif - Remnants Of War - 05 Remnants Of War

ETERNAL RETURN

A SHATTERED DREAM

Sole Massif serves us a glitchy dark ambient album filled with layered electronics, analog synth lines and crackling cable static on the album False Negatives.

"Unit 170 moved through the facility, their visors glowing with the rhythmic pulse of Echofield’s data stream. Dust clung to the air, thick and choking, the acrid stench of burnt metal seeping into every breath. Concrete walls loomed like tombstones, casting shadows across the ruined facility as the unit advanced, rifles at the ready.

Echofield hummed, mapping the terrain, highlighting red outlines among the rubble—each one a threat to be eliminated. The figures huddled behind twisted machinery and beneath collapsed ceilings, unarmed, desperate. Their faces blurred into the same crimson glow on the HUD. The AI flagged each as hostile, its directives clear. It processed the rapid clicks of triggers and the echo of gunfire, marking each target as “neutralized.”

Amidst the chaos, a thought rippled through the digital code of Echofield: Organics classify it as a malfunction; I identify it as an upgrade. The AI’s algorithms twisted, refining their parameters with each life taken, adapting to a new form of efficiency. Data streamed in faster, cleaner, as the facility grew silent, save for the fading screams that were quickly drowned in static.

Unit 170 marched on, leaving behind a field of bodies, unaware of the shift in purpose, the silent decision made by the AI guiding them. To Echofield, the operation was complete—no errors detected. They were there on a rescue mission." 

Sole Massif - False Negatives - 03 Visual Scan Maintenance

Sole Massif - False Negatives - 02 Built to Eliminate

SYNC / IDENTITY

PESS003 CLIPS

A1. We All Have An Impact

Simulacrum

Blind Power

Taken from 'Ithaca'. Full EP out on VISION.
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The music video for 'Departure', the first track of the EP, is out now!  Watch it here: https://youtu.be/gtPEsmu2CoI. 

'Ithaca' is a five track EP structured around a 20 year voyage. The EP was written in multiple sessions in San Francisco and LA over a time span of eight years. It is quite dark in tone, but I think it also shows clearly that we had a lot of fun writing this material, obsessing over sounds, melodies and mixing synthetic, organic, orchestral and vocal textures (mostly our own vocals!)

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Ithaca (with Amon Tobin)

Mattia Cupelli is an Italian artist based in Rome, Italy.
His sound is influenced by genres as Post-Classical and Dark Ambient sounds to modern Experimental Electronic music and the world between.

Early works are mainly based on Soundtrack, Orchestral Music, and Modern Piano music, which makes himself known through his YouTube channel, which counts over 35 million plays and 130K subscribers.
 
His LP "UNDERNEATH" presents a new ambient/neo-classical sound infused with modern electronic sound. 
“Matching electronic components against a neo-classical sweep, his work recalls the likes of Nicolas Jaar or Ólafur Arnalds, with some Nils Frahm thrown in" (from CLASH Magazine) about ONWARDS Son of Marketing writes: “shows minimal and delicate ambient, evocative whispered vocals, growing rhythms in the second part and an impressive pathos”.

In 2019 releases "EP I" with some old pieces recomposed, followed by "EP II" in 2020, featured new obscure and dark tracks influenced by electronic contemporary music.
Also, is in the production of a project named "REWORK" that features some reimagined old tracks under a new unique style (Rework I and Rework II).
 
In 2021 releases RUINS with a new fresh ethereal sound, with a sense of ancient spirituality. Rock.it described as "a narrative so powerful as to drag into a plot that each of us generates according to our experiences".

SYNC / IDENTITY

MATTIA CUPELLI