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Mattias Östling makes a welcome return to Love Love as Rolando Simmons for new LP 'Animatronics' after recent forays on Analogical Force and Furthur Electronix and nearly 8 years on from his Love Love debut 'World Building'. Hailing from rural Sweden, Östling creates understated but rich and dreamlike productions which have seen him become a familiar name beyond the braindance circles his music first found a home in, playing live at venues in the UK like Fold and Houghton Festival.  
  
As is characteristic of Rolando Simmons' work, a strong sense of narrative runs throughout this LP. 'Animatronics' stylistically plays across the gamut of Electronica, from the lush, playful braindance of 2nd track 'Purple Soap', to the upbeat syncopated rhythms within 'GlobalGroove Dust Club', and the slowly advancing icy ambient techno dirge of closer 'Memory Defrost'. The ephemeral ambient elements laced throughout allude to a sense of comfortable sedation but darker shades no doubt loom beneath. Measured in its operation and warm in its presentation, the album often steers into unknown spaces, moving through a range of tonal shifts, all the while feeling contained within a unified and detailed imaginary world.

Animatronics

Rolando Simmons - Purple Soap

https://shimmeringmoodsrecords.bandcamp.com/album/bizenteo

This constitutes the most human-centric collection of tracks to date by the producer and composer World's Museum. Written between 2020-2024 using a collection of old synths, toys, and field recordings, these tracks make up a collection of tone poems and vignettes thematically exploring the residual presences that humans leave behind in both physical and media spaces.

releases September 5, 2025 

Written, performed, and recorded by Will Burghard 
Mastered by Will Burghard 
Artwork by Will Burghard 

SHM 355 
Shimmering Moods Records 2025

World's Museum - Death on the Pub Crawl

https://shimmeringmoodsrecords.bandcamp.com/album/moir-s

"Moirés" delves into a conceptual exploration of patterns and interference, using the Norns device and various synths and samples to create a sonic experience that parallels the complex and evolving nature of visual moiré patterns. This album is a journey through a world where sound and vision intersect, revealing hidden layers and creating an immersive auditory and conceptual experience.

releases September 5, 2025 

All music by Milam Wisp 
Recorded & produced in Sydney, Australia 
Mastered by David Newnes 

linktr.ee/MilamWisp 

SHM 356 
Shimmering Moods Records 2025

Milam Wisp - n0rn_drift

Fluid Audio announces 'Series Of Room', the quietly moving new release from Italian composer Grotta Veterano. Mastered by Ian Hawgood and featuring cover artwork by Danish artist Øjerum, the album offers a deeply introspective journey through sound, memory, and emotional architecture.

Initially recorded as a series of private piano sketches - “written improvisations, controlled sketches” - the tracks were never intended as a cohesive album. Yet when brought together, they began to resemble something whole: a constellation of internal spaces, unresolved and beautifully unrefined.

“They ended up becoming a series of rooms,” writes Grotta Veterano, “each one made of memory, of recurring fragments from the past, reconstructed over time. When I say ‘a series of rooms,’ I mean the ones we carry inside us, not physical spaces.”

Each piece unfolds like an overheard thought, a door left ajar. There’s no grand statement here-only presence, absence, and the trace of something lived. With its unadorned fragility and its refusal to over-explain, Series Of Room speaks in the language of quiet honesty.

The album is presented in a meticulously handcrafted edition of 50 copies, drawing from the same tradition of tactile collage and analogue storytelling that has defined recent Fluid Audio editions. Each set features original Ordnance Survey map segments, cloth-backed and carefully bound, forming a unique shell for each copy. Also included are custom-designed A6 prints on heavyweight uncoated stock, vintage photographic slides, black & white travel photographs, photo negatives, and salvaged book pages from. Fragments of reel-to-reel field recording tape, antique travel stubs, and ephemera gathered from forgotten drawers complete the assembly.

All elements are housed in a hand-waxed, stamped, scented archival bag, individually numbered. No two packages are alike. No repress.

Audio: Grotta Veterano
Mastering: Ian Hawgood
Cover artwork: Øjerum
Design: Daniel Crossley

Grotta Veterano - For The Birds

Industrial Sunshine Hour 12/09/25

Gray Acres has always been a space for subtlety and restraint, distinct from the denser, more cinematic atmospheres of Hotel Neon. Where that project often explores process, technique, and narrative arcs, Gray Acres tends to be produced "in the moment" and stays still. It lets you think for yourself. Soft Erasure especially embraces that characteristic stillness.

This is the first full-length Gray Acres album since 2021’s “Dreams and Phantoms.” It’s a project that came together slowly with an intentionally light touch…more about dissolving sounds than constructing them. Subtraction vs. addition.

The title Soft Erasure came about as we noticed a recurring quality across the recordings: a sense of tangible things like guitars, pianos, and strings fading, softening, and slipping just out of reach as we shaped and processed them. The music feels like it’s constantly on the verge of vanishing, or being gently wiped away into an indistinct atmosphere. That idea of erasure not as violence, but as gentleness, decay, or transformation, felt like the right metaphor to latch on to. It speaks to memory, distance, and time, and how all of those forces shape and reshape our perception of sound and self.

Musically, this album is built mainly from resampled acoustic instruments: delicate piano lines, sustained strings, frozen and looped guitar textures. Much of the source material was recorded clean, then stretched, blurred, and layered until it became something abstract…like an impression of a song, or a half-remembered phrase. In some ways, we were trying to find the most washed-out and ephemeral version of each sound. The result is a record that is designed less for narrative and more for immersion.

If you’ve followed this project before, I think you’ll hear a natural continuation of its aesthetic. But if you’re new to Gray Acres, this is a great entry point. It’s music that tries not to demand attention, but rewards those who tune in closely for a while.

Gray Acres - Soft Erasure
Music by Andrew & Michael Tasselmyer
Mastered by Alex at Quiet Details

Gray Acres - Vestige

Debut album out August 21 on Hammock Music. Preorder: http://bit.ly/1HZ7uJj

Crown of Amber Canopy

Together in Electric Nightmares - 21.09.25

Episode 2 - FractalFest 2016 Minimix Series - DJ Meghan -

@dj-meghan
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The Fractalfest 2016 minimix series features 20 minute mixes from dj's & producers who will be playing at Fractaltribe's Fractalfest 2016. These mixes will be in the same style of music that each artist will be presenting. 

In Episode 2, we present DJ Meghan of @Psylicious & 3rd Eye Squeegee who will be visiting us this year from Ohio! Meghan has maintained her passion for djing for over 17 years, starting up the skill in 1999 after learning several instruments in childhood. Her experience, skills, and variety stand her apart; at Fractalfest, her set will focus on a fun morning/daytime vibe with a sort of melodic progressive psy mood.

www.fractalfest.com
facebook.com/events/887649454650574

Tracklist
@ceezer-cezzers - Strange Noise
@liquid-soul & @captain-hook - Liquid Hook (Second Remix)
@u-recken & @mrwhatmusic - We Are One

DJ Meghan - Fractalfest 2016 minimix

Taken from the  album 'The Nearest Exit' out now on Zozaya/Signal.

Pre-order: https://memorydrawings.bandcamp.com/album/the-nearest-exit

The Nearest Exit

Memory Drawings is the beguiling, instrumental project of Minneapolis raised, Morocco-based hammered dulcimer player Joel Hanson, erstwhile Hood guitarist/multi-instrumentalist and sometime Declining Winter main-man Richard Adams, Brave Timbers violinist Sarah Kemp alongside Hood's Gareth S Brown and Chris Cole (Manyfingers/Movietone). Debut album 'Music For Another Loss' was released on Second Language in 2012 followed by 'There Is No Perfect Place' on Hibernate in 2014. Their new album 'The Nearest Exit' is out on Zozaya/Signal in September 2017.