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laura les - Haunted (ང།སཇ ཎ༳ ཎལཇ ལཇཅཁ༒ remix)

Scurlage

Blakers Loop

Preston Melodics

Blauwasser

We started a Patreon. The intention here is to create a close community of like-minded fans of adventure, beats & synths. In the discord community, you will be able to find all the mixes in mp3/wav and without vocals + ALL tracklists.

patreon.com/abrahamvoncassidy

Enjoy the ride,

Beats + Synths

Abraham

Abraham von Cassidy - The Stormtrooper Association 17 Torres Del Paine, Patagonia

Ioan Gamboa - Gender (Framewerk Remix)
Words Of Niō - Cold Shoulder
ID
Tal Fussmann - Truth 
FSOL - Papa New Guinea (Richie Blacker Remix)
James Monro - End Game 
2. Gai Barone & Micah - Prisma (Part 2)
Tripolism - Loveless (Adrian Roman Revision)
Gai Barone - They don't know
James Harcourt - Elfin

Patterns 467

TL:
Al3ne - Memories (Toto Chiavetta Remix)
Gardenstate - The Best Part (Patrice Bäumel Extended Remix)
Gai Barone & Micah - Valse
Gai Barone - You're scaring me
Demian - Robert's Melancholia (Petar Dundov Remix) 
Andrea Martini - Chameleon 
Durante - Thread Tension 
James Harcourt - Deviate
Sebastian Busto - Dancing Flower (Simply City Remix) 
Charlotte Petitte - Herbst 
Gai Barone - Suitcase 

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Patterns 468

I know I took a while to release this but I hope it's worth the wait!

Hamdi - Skanka

From 'µ-Ziq - Goodbye EP' (out on Planet Mu - 1st April 2022)
https://planetmu.bleepstores.com/release/242667-ziq-goodbye

µ-Ziq says hello again with 'Goodbye'. The six track EP is the first in a series of releases by Mike Paradinas this year, which are all centred around the 25th Anniversary Edition of 'Lunatic Harness’, his classic 1997 album. 

Inspired by going back through the archives while he was remastering the Lunatic Harness reissue, 'Goodbye' sees Mike revisiting the nineties, taking on jungle and it's precursor jungle tekno and upgrading them with the benefit of hindsight and contemporary software. Imbued with Mike's lush sense of melody and his knack for striking contrasts (don't be shocked to hear maudlin piano, 303 and amens in the same track), 'Goodbye' approaches these old genres like a sandpit, and stretches them in directions only Mike might take.

Goodbye

µ-Ziq - Goodbye

The first breaks track I've released, really happy with how it turned out!

Buy Link: https://hamdimusic.bandcamp.com/track/underground

Hamdi - Underground

μ-Ziq - Ltd. SonShine

Aphex Twin - D-scape (µ-Ziq Remix)

https://www.mixcloud.com/TheVinylFactory/vf-mix-63-aphex-twin-by-μ-ziq/

AFX - Analogue Bubblebath (μ-ziq remix)

https://www.discogs.com/release/6989530-%C2%B5-Ziq-%C2%B5-Ziq-Theme-Original

µ-Ziq - µ-Ziq Theme (original)

The second track from my Locus Sound EP 'Three Lanes'

Buy on Bandcamp

Hamdi - Squirrel

Available here:
rolandosimmons.bandcamp.com/album/yuore-life

Originally featured on Caoutchou's Rubber Beats vol.V
https://caoutchou.bandcamp.com/album/rubber-beats-vol-v


Yuo're Life You'r Tsois

zanti misfit

Rolando Simmons - Magic Crystal [AOU18] - Released on July 6th
TAPE / STREAM / DL: https://caoutchou.bandcamp.com/album/magic-crystal

Rolando Simmons lives in a desolate coastal town of Sweden and divides his time between a creaky old townhouse and two rural homes. The dreamlike environment of meadows, grasslands, hills and lakes, combined with his fascination for Drexciya, AFX and Isao Tomita inspired Rolando to make this odd fairy tale music. 

Similar to his heroes, Rolando uses a bunch of hardware: Alisa 1387, MS-20, MC-4, SQ-1, Blofeld, Machinedrum, TX-7, 606, Poly-800, Filterbank 2, VSR-3 reverb which all ends up in Renoise. Other inspirations include Sibylle Baier, Jandek, Vashti Bunyan and Debussy.

All music written and produced by Rolando Simmons 
Artwork: Mattias Östling 
Mastering: Jonas Uytdenhouwen 
Protected by Creative Commons license

Rolando Simmons - Sisters On The Shore (EP OUT NOW)

A live recording of a track from my future release "Touch Me"
Recorded 04/07/15 @  Madrid
*recording crunched by club limiter/compressor*
https://mnlth.bandcamp.com/

Livetrack_Madrid_Track_04/07/15

https://mnlth.bandcamp.com/album/absolute-dave

Alksai

Tango N'Vectif

Tango N' Vectif

Royal Astronomy

Goodbye, Goodbye

Lunatic Harness

Hasty Boom Alert

Brace Yourself Jason

From the new Ekoplekz LP 'Bioprodukt' out 16th June 2017

Ekoplekz returns with his fourth album for Planet Mu, in the shape of 10-tracker "Bioprodukt". The unique lo-fi, woozy sound of Bristol's Nick Edwards stays intact while he veers towards the nineties for inspiration: the bleep and bass sound of the north of England is one touchpoint and the acid gurgles of the 303 are another.

While the murky lo-fi production levels and evocative melodies remain, they are now bolstered by a more muscular rhythmic chassis. Snappier kicks and snares mingle with dense layers of percussion and deep undulating sub-basslines adding a funkier edge, as typified by opening track "Elevation" where playful beats interlock with breezy keyboard flourishes to create something uncharacteristically upbeat. Similarly, the gentle, fluid motion of "Slipstream" and "Calypzoid" represent some of the most appealingly chilled grooves in the Ekoplekz canon to date.

But the darker-edged material remains. "Expedition" has a pensive, percussion-heavy feel whilst "Acrid Acid" is a dirt-encrusted slow-mo techno meltdown. "Transcience" displays the Ekoplekz trademark dub-fx in full flight over a driving lo-end, before "Descent" leads down to the final section, where the beats fade out, replaced by rippling layers of spectral ferric ambience on the epic "Low-X Over", before finishing with the radiant looped stasis of "Denier Daze".

The albums shifting, imperfect patterns and muted colours are visually mirrored in the beautifully realised sleeve by the Print Project.

Bioprodukt

Ekoplekz - Acrid Acid (16th June)

The Golden Handshake

Trapperkeeper

‘Challenge Me Foolish’ is an almost lost album of µ-Ziq material circa 1998-99, an era that saw Mike Paradinas release ‘Royal Astronomy’ on the now defunct Virgin subsidiary Hut records, and also tour with Björk.

It’s an era of his music that’s definitely worth re-exploring, in which Mike went against the grain by producing music that was baroque, melodic and whimsical, while the IDM movement he was lumped with made instrumental music that was often neurotic and complicated. His taste for melody and dreamy beauty above roughness and intricacy confused people who were hanging on too tightly to the rules. He even brought in Japanese vocalist Kazumi, adding an extra human touch.
 
‘Challenge Me Foolish’ is something of a companion to the Royal Astronomy record; arguably even better given the fresh ears selecting the material. It’s imbued with a confident sense of pastoral colour, and a gentle optimism, utilising bells, studied orchestral arrangements and airy synthesisers that sit the album somewhere between, Jean Jacques Perrey (the French electronic composer whose whimsy was always balanced with serious innovation and chops) and the colourful, optimistic soundtracks of Joe Hisaishi. There’s a strange sense of the old and new throughout, the sentimental and utopia, with nary a hint of darkness. Even when the album dips into the hyperkinetic rhythms of jungle, the melodies and mood still retain a sense of gentle warmth. Dive into peak time Paradinas.

Challenge Me Foolish

Challenge Me Foolish (ft. Kazumi)

Buy: https://mikeparadinas.bandcamp.com/album/challenge-me-foolish

Mike Paradinas returns to his µ-Ziq moniker after five years. Inclement is a lumbering, spooky, peak-time Paradinas melody from 1998, it's arpeggios intertwining to make more than the sum of it's parts.

From the album "Challenge Me Foolish" out 13th April

Inclement (from the album 'Challenge Me Foolish" 13th April)

"Red Velvet Or Nothing" by Belong from the definitive "October Language" LP reissue due out Spring 2018.

"Red Velvet Or Nothing" by Belong

Don Mike Paradinas, one of the most influential and respected artist of our time unleashing archives from the golden era. Previously unreleased stuff selected by AF and Mike,,, so there's no need to say what you have to do. MUST.
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+++ OUT EARLY JULY 2018 +++  
PREORDER SILVER VINYL + DIGITAL: https://goo.gl/RQaFVR
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AF015 
µ-ZIQ 
D FUNK EP  
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A1 DROCOVUMS (1995) 05:24 
A2 D FUNK (1996) 05:58 
B1 BRITTLE (1996) 07:58 
B2 TRICOLORE (1995) 05:09 
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©+Ⓟ Analogical Force 2018. All rights reserved. 
Written and produced by Michael Paradinas between 1995/96. 
Mastering at Eternal Midnight, Madrid. 
Artwork by David O’Brien at Imposing Kittens, Dublín. 
Distributed by Clone, Rotterdam. 
www.clone.nl

Buy Now

[AF015] µ​-​Ziq 'D FUNK EP' [2018]

Had a lot of messages about all of these tracks so thought it was only right that I put them into a project and gave it out for free!
Big thanks to everyone supporting at the moment - I've got lots more tracks to release before the end of the year

<a href="https://theartistunion.com/tracks/025df3" rel="nofollow">Download for free on The Artist Union</a>

Free Download

Mura Masa - Lotus Eater (Hamdi Edit) [Free Download]

https://musicinsupportofblackmentalhealth.bandcamp.com/album/music-in-support-of-black-mental-health

As “Black Lives Matter” stops trending and the world prepares itself to return to normality, those directly affected will need our ongoing support to deal with the psychological impact of racism and global anti-blackness. During the last few months, in the U.K., U.S. and further afield, Covid-19 and the protests addressing the ongoing Police Brutality and systematic racism has once again drawn our attention to the healthcare disparities Black people face on a daily basis.

Currently, Black people are bearing the burden of the collective trauma as a result of the racism experienced within every facet of their lives, with very little appropriate support being offered. As our attention is drawn towards racist violence and the constant witnessing of public executions of members of the community by those sworn in to protect them, the need for specialist care is more pressing than ever. This includes the erasure of the violence targeted towards Black Trans Women.

The continuous gaslighting by various governments and those in power who refuse to address the core of this issue, has made it systematically near impossible to engage with national mental health services. Although racism cannot be dismantled overnight, we can support Black people by ensuring that their mental health is prioritised by services that are well equipped to take into account the specific needs of various Black communities and individuals.

This compilation - “Music in Support of Black Mental Health” - will split the proceeds from the release between five charities based in the U.K. and the U.S. “Nilaari”, a charity based in Bristol, focuses on community based mental health support for BAME in the city. With various services for different age groups, genders and Asylum Seekers and Refugees, their aim is to provide culturally sensitive sessions to listen, heal and build resilience. “Black Thrive”, based in Lambeth in London - historically one of the most targeted areas in the U.K. government - by prioritising the local Black community through projects tackling unemployment due to long term health conditions, school exclusions (often a directly linked to the School to Prison pipeline), Vascular Dementia and the Black LGBTQIA+ community.

In the U.S., “The Loveland Foundation” provides therapy for Black Women and Girls across the country with fellowships, residency programmes and listening tours committed to empowering and liberating the communities they support. Based in both Vermont and California, “BEAM” is a collective of advocates, yoga teachers, therapists, lawyers and artists committed to removing the barriers to Black healing. Affirming the value of all Black lives, including those differently abled individuals and the LGBT+ community, a variety of approaches is used alongside addressing the inequities within the criminal legal system. The “National Queer & Trans Therapists of Colour Network” is a healing justice organisation committed to transforming mental health for queer and trans people of colour who disproportionately are affected by systematic violence.

With Black culture influencing electronic music from its genesis, this compilation celebrates and draws on a wealth of talent across electronic genres. 28 producers and musicians have offered their support through donated music and compositions, and each Black contributor has been paid for their work. All proceeds will be split evenly between “Nilaari”, “Black Thrive”, “The Loveland Foundation”, “BEAM” and “National Queer & Trans Therapists of Colour Network”.

Yewande Adeniran

Music In Support Of Black Mental Health

µ-Ziq - Hip House Breakcore

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Abraham Von Cassidy - The Stormtrooper Association 10 # Budapest

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