Spring is imminent. New life and new beauty is just around the corner.

That sense of rebirth is made ever more apparent this year with all that's going in our world and, hopefully, what is a light at the end of the tunnel.

For our second release of the year, Dark Fidelity Hi Fi has produced yet another exquisite release to sit alongside his ever impressive and expanding body of work.

The "Beautiful Fragments" album is the perfect soundtrack to ease us into the season of new beginnings. It's the Manchester based producer's second release in 8 months and follows on flawlessly from his "Machine Blossoms" album last August.

Assembled during the winter months, the album subconsciously skirts around the suburbs of the soul and touches on topics such as the feelings of solitude, being stuck in a loop of digital communications and memories of the not so distant past that somehow feels like eons ago.

The music itself is crystalline and immersive. Spacious in parts and busy in others. Organic ambient soundscapes, glimmering melodies and lush drum work. Somber tones make a rare appearance throughout but are balanced out with the sounds of life and hope as we drift towards a new dawn.

https://bricolageglasgow.bandcamp.com/album/beautiful-fragments-bc062

https://soundcloud.com/richard-jones-215

Beautiful Fragments (bc062)

Beautiful Fragments

Dark Fidelity Hi Fi - Ghost In The Jazz Box (from the "Beautiful Fragments" album)

<-- An exercise in not compromising -->

Release date: 5 April 2021
Mastered by Mattias Fridell (mattiasfridell@gmail.com)

Iconograph

Iconograph [free download]

I just uploaded this here for a joke on facebook, so forget about it. This was my first attempt to track with Modeditor 1.0 back in 1993. No skills, no samples, no midi keyboard. Just a PC and the PC Speaker. 
You can hate it with all your guts. Be my guest. :D

PROJECT4.MOD

track taken from the last DFHF album released in march 2021,soon to be followed by a brand new double album out in sept 2021 [ cd and download ] hope you enjoy ,il be playing sheffield  uk 30/7/21...lancaster uk 22/8/21....more to come...take care......you can buy or steam the album on all major sites or maybe support the label https://bricolageglasgow.bandcamp.com/album/beautiful-fragments-bc062

Rotations by Dark fidelity hifi

TORC
> Torc is the techno alias of Oscar Verlinden. In the studio it means exploring the grinding edge of sonic distortion, where sounds break down and become their true selves. On the dancefloor it means percussive, driving energy, sometimes uplifting and playful, sometimes deep and melancholic.

> Torc has been doing this for the better part of 15 years now, and is taking a new generation of producers with him on the journey on his Underdog YouTube channel. Now that dancefloors have re-opened he looks forward to getting in front of them again, uniting people in dark sweaty rooms, opening up portals in space and time with stroboscopic sound sculptures. It’s time – let’s go.

Made public on https://www.mixcloud.com/lafaceb/no-police-sasset-spaces-2-torc-2021-10-12/

Torc set for SPACES

Photography by @pi.de.ni (www.instagram.com/pi.de.ni/)

Light/Tunnel

Substanceless Blue

Space Time Continuum

Taken from our fothcoming album - Lost. Out in September 2019 on MON Records

Boketto (Japanese) - To gaze vacantly onto the distance without thinking.

Lost

Boketto

Bricolage are proud to present the third release in a trilogy of albums from Manchester virtuoso, Dark Fidelity Hi Fi.

"Machine Blossoms" is the latest addition to what has now become an annual event. Over the last two summers Rick Jones, the man behind the music, has released critically acclaimed and expansive electronic albums. The first "Gentle Static Flow", in 2018, was a lesson in meticulous sampling and sound design with an old school 90's IDM/trip hop approach to track structure with a focus on the melodic and glitchier side of ambient. The 2019 follow up "Found" was an enigmatic voyage recorded over a four month period of hyper creativity. Floating percussion, organic elements and illuminating synth work helped this album flesh out like a story as it sprawled out to its conclusion.

Here, on "Machine Blossoms" the ante is upped again as one of the hardest working and creative producers around continues his musical evolution. There's a lingering warm and vintage analogue feeling that flows through the album. A welcoming feeling if you will. The hypnotic pads and splintering percussion of DFHF carry the tracks as always but this time there's another layer of depth hidden underneath the scattered glitches and cracks as ethereal textures, strings and brass breathe new life into that signature DFHF sound. Elements of jazz, trip hop and IDM are all perceptible but become transparent as they blend into one another to provide an immersive and rewarding listen.

DFHF @richard-jones-215

BUY/STREAM "Machine Blossoms" @ https://bricolageglasgow.bandcamp.com/album/machine-blossoms-bc056

Machine Blossoms (bc056)

Buy "Machine Blossoms"

Dark Fidelity Hi Fi - Static Cuts Water (from the "Machine Blossoms" album)

track taken from new DFHF album out on 19/3/21 via bricolage label,,,,bandcamp    https://bricolageglasgow.bandcamp.com/album/beautiful-fragments-bc062  full album stream  https://open.spotify.com/album/59NE6UdgP36Pxks7990Zts

Motoko-

Hi there and thanks for checking out some of my tracks. My music started way back when i had a copy of Replay PRO on the commodore 64, then up to the Atari ST where i had TCB tracker a 4 track sample player....I also saved and bought myself a KORG 01WFD which was groundbreaking in its time. I then got into the PC side of things and eventually found REASON. Ive tried allsorts of music programs but i always end up with REASON, it just works for me..My set up now consists of . 
REASON 10
ROLAND FANTOM 6
AKAI MPK MINI
I sometimes try other bits and bobs but the basis is still what you see above.
Hope you enjoy the tracks and please do leave comments.
Cheers

Space Time Continuum

michaeltickle