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1977

Belt & Carpet

Asda

Marmite

Lime Aero

When we established Balmat in 2021, neither of us could have imagined that within two years, we’d be putting out an album by one of our musical heroes: Mike Paradinas (@mikep), aka µ-Ziq. The British producer has been an inspiration to label co-founders Albert Salinas and Philip Sherburne since the 1990s. In fact, his album-length remix project The Auteurs Vs µ-Ziq was one of the very first pieces of electronic music that Philip bought, way back in 1994. To have the opportunity to release his music now feels like a real full-circle moment. 

Paradinas, of course, needs no introduction. Under a slew of aliases, chief among them µ-Ziq, the British artist revolutionized leftfield electronic music in the 1990s—coincidentally, this year marks the 30th anniversary of his debut album, Tango N’ Vectif, for his friend and sometime collaborator Aphex Twin’s Rephlex label—and his label Planet Mu (@planetmurecords) has built up a formidable catalog of visionary, forward-looking records, mapping virtually every corner of the electronic spectrum. With 1977, he turns the clock backward in a sense, and not just with the album’s title: Rooted in classic ambient and electronic sounds, these 15 tracks evoke the anything-goes spirit of the early ’90s, before the tools and tropes had calcified into cut-and-dried styles.

There’s no shortage of familiar sounds on 1977. There are echoes of raves and chillout rooms and transmissions from the fringes of techno; there are detuned synths and glistening reverb tails and, above all, gauzy vox pads, the eerie glue that holds it all together. The title, he says, is meant to invoke a general sense of nostalgia, bookmarking a year in his boyhood when he became more self-aware. More than anything, 1977 sounds like µ-Ziq distilled: Stripped of his signature breakbeats and customary chaos, Paradinas’ first-ever strictly (well, mostly) ambient album presents the essence of his music in a whole new light.

Along the way Paradinas touches on dark-ambient drones (“Marmite”), horror-film themes (“Belt & Carpet”), jungle breaks (“Mesolithic Jungle”), and even house music (“Houzz 13”), which marks the first bona fide dance-floor moment on Balmat to date). Yet the album never—to our ears, anyway—feels expressly retro. Rather, Paradinas plucks timeless sounds out of the ether and gives them a gentle tap, spinning them into unexpected new orbits. At times, 1977 feels like an experience of extended déjà vu: When we first listened to it, we had the sense that we already knew this music. It was as though we had heard it years ago, perhaps on a battered cassette tape lent to us by a friend, and been searching for it ever since. We hope you feel the same.

µ-Ziq - 1977 [BALMAT05]

A5 Hotspring - Don't Hum Without Me

Grabado en la edición 7 de 'Listening Room' 
en Noss Corp Bar, Ciudad de México

31 de marzo del 2024

1. Oneohtrix Point Never - Andro
2. Emeralds - Alive In the Sea of Information
3. Amina Cyu, Turning Torso - I
4. Tuusanuuskat - Tippa 1
5. Tovia Singer - Sound Of Nature
6. Oneohtrix Point Never - Format & Journey North
7. David Thorn - Voice From A Tower
8. Inducción Mental, Servicios Eléctricos - La vida
9. Oneohtrix Point Never - Emil Cioran
10. Bowery Electric - Without Stopping
11. Oneohtrix Point Never - Explain

por Alvaro Castro

Mix 5: Sleeve Down by Inducción Mental

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

Fresh off a 2023 album on the phenomenal Waxing Crescent imprint, DFHF, returns to Bricolage for his first release with us since 2021’s “Migration of the Meaning" and his sixth release overall on Bricolage.

The Manchester producer is known for his pristine and precise productions that always have an emphasis on lush textures and tones.

His latest offering. "Formations", brings with it those signature sound DFHF palettes full of luminous melodies, widescreen soundscapes and springy rhythms. Striking the perfect balance of man and machine with intricate percussive tones that intertwine with weightless atmospherics. At times euphoric and at times downtempo but always organic and immersive.

"Formations" is another high watermark in the vibrant audio adventures of Richard Jones.

Available @ https://bricolageglasgow.bandcamp.com/album/formations-bc085

Formations (bc085)

Formations

Cassette + Digital

Dark Fidelity Hi Fi - The Lonesome Shades (from the "Formations" album)

Out now as part of my “Halcyon Maze” EP release on Intellitronic Bubble.

Available on 10” vinyl and digital ⬇️
https://intellitronicbubble.bandcamp.com/album/halcyon-maze

@intellitronic-bubble

Vinyl + Digital

Oneirataxia

система | system presents the release "Strongly Downward" EP by Ukrainian Kyiv-based artist Andrii Kunin.
‘Strongly Downward’ is a 4-track experimental EP created from digitally processed improvisations on a 32-string 19th-century concert zither.
The author started researching this unique and almost forgotten European string instrument with a bow, prepared techniques, and spectral effects.
The artwork comes from an article by F. Berwein about the zither’s acoustics.
~ UA
@systemnapotvora  презентує EP "Strongly Downward" українського київського артиста Андрія Куніна.
"Strongly Downward" - це 4-трековий EP-експериментальний міні-альбом, створений з оброблених цифровим способом імпровізацій на 32-струнній концертній цитрі 19-го століття.
Автор почав досліджувати цей унікальний і майже забутий європейський струнний інструмент зі смичка, підготував техніки та спектральні ефекти.
Обкладинка та назва походять від ілюстрації та статті Франца Бервейна 1991 року, де зображено режими коливань резонуючої нижньої поверхні цитри.

Strongly Downward

SUPPORT

Andrii Kunin - Unmoved Areas II

система | system presents the release "Strongly Downward" EP by Ukrainian Kyiv-based artist Andrii Kunin.
‘Strongly Downward’ is a 4-track experimental EP created from digitally processed improvisations on a 32-string 19th-century concert zither.
The author started researching this unique and almost forgotten European string instrument with a bow, prepared techniques, and spectral effects.
The artwork comes from an article by F. Berwein about the zither’s acoustics.
~ UA
@systemnapotvora презентує EP "Strongly Downward" українського київського артиста Андрія Куніна.
"Strongly Downward" - це 4-трековий EP-експериментальний міні-альбом, створений з оброблених цифровим способом імпровізацій на 32-струнній концертній цитрі 19-го століття.
Автор почав досліджувати цей унікальний і майже забутий європейський струнний інструмент зі смичка, підготував техніки та спектральні ефекти.
Обкладинка та назва походять від ілюстрації та статті Франца Бервейна 1991 року, де зображено режими коливань резонуючої нижньої поверхні цитри.

Andrii Kunin - Unmoved Areas I

All tracks written, performed and produced by M.K. “Magnavolt”
Mixing and Mastering by M.K. ''Magnavolt''
Story created by M.K. ''Magnavolt'
Album artwork done by Andrew Tremblay


''Visceral Instinctl''
Produced/Written and Mixed by: Magnavolt and STRNGR
Mastered by Magnavolt

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''Roller Mobster''
Original track written by Carpenter Brut
https://carpenterbrut.bandcamp.com
Cover done by Magnavolt


Contact:
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