21 - 6-22

We are super excited to share this special mix by Leeds-based artist and friend Conflux Coldwell (CC)@micoland. He produces experimental-ambient and electronic music that goes hand-in-hand with his visual artworks that explore the temporality, memory and change of the urban landscapes. He is also part of the Urban Exploration collective (UE); together they play experimental techno using various instruments and DIY modular. 

This mix is full of textures, moody techno, house riffs and some dreamy synths thrown in for good measure. It’s all original music by CC and UE with a couple of new tracks from their forthcoming vinyl album ‘AEAEA’ which will be released on Crooked Acres Records very soon, so keep your eyes and ears peeled for that.

Also listen to some more of his great music over on Coldwell's Bandcamp: https://confluxcoldwell.bandcamp.com

Tracklist:
        1.	Conflux Coldwell - Dark Fibres
	2.	Conflux Coldwell - Earth Sea and Sky
	3.	Conflux Coldwell - LSB-CW
	4.	Conflux Coldwell - Drenthe Tape
	5.	Conflux Coldwell - Homeland
	6.	Conflux Coldwell - Imaginary Units
	7.	Conflux Coldwell - Trapped Beneath the Sky
	8.	Urban Exploration - Sentinel
	9.	Urban Exploration - Soma
	10.	Urban Exploration - Tetrad
	11.	Urban Exploration - Sun Takes Hold
	12.	Urban Exploration - Siren
	13.	Urban Exploration - Methematics
	14.	Conflux Coldwell - Intrapsychic Crypt
	15.	Urban Exploration - Longwave

Bandcamp

Freeforms w/ Conflux Coldwell - Crooked House Mix

Homebrew Kit 10 APR 2023

Excerpts from our forthcoming EP on Crooked Acres Records. Mastered by Keith Tenniswood (aka Radioactive Man) at Curved Pressings. Available in vinyl and digital formats from 01/09/23.

Aeaea

From new CC album Prisoner's Cinema

available on Bandcamp
https://confluxcoldwell.bandcamp.com/album/prisoners-cinema

Prisoner's Cinema is a strange hallucinatory state experienced by inmates undergoing solitary confinement. It is thought to be induced by prolonged sensory deprivation and may be a form of pareidolia - a psychological phenomenon whereby human beings perceive patterns that aren't actually there, when they are presented with continuous random noise or meaningless stimuli. Pareidolia is also considered the main scientific explanation for both ghost sightings and EVP, where faint voices are mistakenly heard in noisy recordings. 

This album is an attempt to capture such a hallucination in audio - where the ordinary morphs into the otherworldly, and nothing is quite as it sounds. An attempt to evoke a waking dream projected on to a prison cell wall. Entoptic lights dancing across the ceiling.


Mimetolith

Cassette & Digital

Less Than Human

This is the last track from our latest volume of Angry Ambient Artists. Tomonari Nozaki teams up with Conflux Coldwell to deliver a post apocalyptic soundtrack for a terror fuelled journey. This Tokyo/Leeds combo delivers on what it promises and has really energised our Angry Ambient series. 
This track is Tomonari's 'Sound Locator', relentless and powerful,  
Please have a listen !

Cassette and digital available to purchase:
https://forwind.bandcamp.com/album/angry-ambient-artists-vol-4

Angry Ambient Artists Vol.4

Episode 32 welcomes back https://soundcloud.com/urbanexploration, with this tremendous live hardware set, using Elektron machines. This really was a marvel to behold. Recorded at the Boxjam festival in Leeds, 12.10.19.

www.boxjam.org.uk
www.boxjam.org.uk/profile/urban-exploration

Info:
Urban Exploration are a loose collective of techno producers and DJs, noise makers and visual artists, who have been working together in the studio since 2011.

Their audiovisual work is often improvised and makes use of field recordings and photographs taken exploring abandoned and neglected parts of the city.

The group have recently released a trilogy of albums on their own record label, Crooked Acres, which has received plaudits from The Wire magazine. Boxjam is a very rare opportunity to see UE perform live.

Facebook: www.facebook.com/Urban.Exploration.Music
Bandcamp: https://urbexmusic.bandcamp.com

Credit: Ali Wilson Photography: www.facebook.com/AliWilsonPhotography, at The Old Red Bus Station: www.facebook.com/TheOldRedBusStation

Modulations

MOD.32 - Modulations Live - Urban Exploration (live Elektron set)

Archives of the short lived Crooked Acres internet broadcast/podcast series featuring DJ's from the collective deep-diving into their personal collections.

Crooked Acres - Broadcast 003

Crooked Acres - Broadcast 002

Crooked Acres - Broadcast 001

Michael "Conflux" Coldwell is an artist and musician from Leeds, UK.

He is part of the Urban Exploration collective.

Mimetolith

Conflux Coldwell

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