Hygge time Pt. 2.
Here are another eight introspective electric piano sketches, dealing with wintery moods and feelings.

Recorded in three days in Nov / Dec 2022
Written and produced by POLAROID NOTES

Download @ https://polaroidnotes.bandcamp.com/album/winter-sketches

Release Date: 27th December 2022
Büro für Erdrotation Spin 032

Bandcamp

Polaroid Notes - Winter Sketches EP

Out now! https://deepspacedreams.bandcamp.com/album/curse-of-skinwalker-island?from=fanpub_fnb

Secret Of Skinwalker Island (Overture)

Mind over MIDI - Escapism
https://mindovermidi.bandcamp.com/album/escapism

CD limited to 50 and high resolution DL (24/96). Mastered by Ian Hawgood.

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Escapism
The tendency to seek distraction and relief from unpleasant realities, especially by seeking entertainment or engaging in fantasy.

When escapism is helpful, it is when we take a moment to step out of our reality and experience a period of escape from the challenges of our lives. It can help to prevent burn out, can reduce our stress and can increase our feelings of hope, determination, courage and psychological strength.

Midway (Escapism)

HORIZON
Artist: Vadim Bogac
Remixes: Akmuo, JWDR, R.Hz, Substak
Release Date: 2023-03-17
Label: Liberty Rhythm
Catalog: LBRTHY105
https://www.beatport.com/release/horizon/4024237

HORIZON

Vadim Bogac - Horizon (Substak Beatless Vox) [Liberty Rhythm]

Various Artists Tone Science Module No.7 Cause and Effect DiN:TS07

Release date 21st April 2022
Limited to 500 copies. Digipak CD format

Tone Science sub-label, from DiN records, continues to explore the world of modular synth music.

Following the success and critical acclaim of the first six Tone Science compilation albums,  DiN label boss Ian Boddy has collated another nine tracks from musicians of varying backgrounds  working in the realms of modular synthesis.

One of the things that is so delightful about artists working with modular synthesisers is the sheer variety of styles on show. These instruments more than any other can be personalised for each musician who can then express themselves within their own sonic world.

This volume starts with a pair of beautiful, texturally detailed sequenced tracks “Abalone Vortex”  by Andrea Cichecki and “Tempestarius” by Chris Meyer which form a natural pairing that create a melodic, calm opening.

“Dim Rill” by Rodent enters a more mysterious zone with mesmerising bell like tones that bounce around in the stereo field before yielding to the rising harmonic motif of “Flutter” from Dark Sparkler that promises resolution but ultimately falls back into mystery.

The mid-point of this volume sees Blakmoth take the music sonically into a very deep, dark place with a huge slab of dread that is “Of Ash And Sorrow”. Counterbalancing the first four tracks it sets up the audio space for the remainder of the album.

The next three pieces see a more heavily sequenced space emerge with definite echoes of the Berlin School ethos that was instrumental in inspiring so many modular synth artists. No more so than on “Pareidolia” by Brendan Pollard with its groaning, spring reverb clatter in its opening that gradually coalesces into a throbbing analogue bass line. “Hecataea” by Andrew Ostler and “A Hopeless Momentum” by James Cigler complete this trio of sequenced tracks with varying layers of complexity and harmonic exploration.

The album floats away into space as it closes with the track “Near Earth” by Jon Palmer. Inspired by the weird and wonderful abstract sounds on the long wave radio band this impressionistic soundscape fades to an eerie signal mournfully calling in the void.

“Tone Science Module No.7 Cause and Effect” continues the journey down the rabbit hole of possibilities and sound worlds inhabited by artists and musicians working in this ever fascinating and varied musical field.


01 Abalone Vortex by Andrea Cichecki   7:39
02 Tempestarius by Chris Meyer   7:30
03 Dim Rill by Rodent   5:15
04 Flutter by Dark Sparkler   6:45
05 Of Ash And Sorrow by Blakmoth   6:30
06 Pareidolia by Brendan Pollard   8:23
07 Hecataea by Andrew Ostler   7:23
08 A Hopeless Momentum by James Cigler   8:30
09 Near Earth by Jon Palmer   6:40

Total Time: 64:51

Tone Science Module No.7 Cause and Effect

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Tone Science Module No.7 Cause and Effect Demo Mix

Deep Electronics celebrates it's 10 anniversary and for this occassion I started this compilation to invite artists to express there music again in all it's diversity in genres. New artists and artists that where there at the very beginning of the podcast and label. My intention was always to combine music and photography. Later on digital renders where the face of almost every set and release.

Deep Electronics was and is always a podcast for producers and dj's to get the exposure they need and deserve. You always have to start somewhere! I hope I could contributed a little bit in there long and amazing road for them in music.

I would like to thank you all producers, dj's, followers and people that just listen. Without you this 10 years wasn't be possibel!

I hope you enjoy this release as much I did in compiling it.

Compiled by Jeroen
Mastering by Rosto
Artwork created by Jeroen
Thank you to all artists on this compilation!!

Bandcamp NYP

George Kostopoulos - Scheddi

Pre-order: 12th May 2023
Release date: 23th May 2023
Format: Cassette, Digital

'Passages' is a journey through a transformative process that leads to a place where memories are gathered.

Copyright © 2023 ROHS! RECORDS, All Rights Reserved

previews. Ayami Suzuki - Passages | Lᴏɴᴛᴀɴᴏ Series

Tracklist

01. Imprints - Memory
02. Ian Hawgood -  The mind goes where the body dare not follow
03. Morimoto Naoki - Tsukanoma
04. Darren Harper - Pine
05. Innesti - We Float Here
06. Grotta Veterano - Slumbers (Part 4)
07. Francesco Covarino - Nido i
08. Michael Scott Dawson - Everything In Modulation
09. R beny - Farawayself
10. The Humble Bee - Small Copper

333. Sleepy Sunday Podcast (Elm Records)

https://jacobnewman.bandcamp.com/album/daydreaming

Jacob Newman + Atmøsphäre  - Daydreaming (Preview Snippets)

Mi Cosa de Resistance is Buenos Aires, Argentina based artist Fernando Perales, who has released with labels including Elm, Rusted Tone, Minimal Resource Manipulation, Aural Tethers and his own imprint ‘Hissful Tapes’. Fernando was also the spearhead behind the various artists album ‘A Speechless Body’ which we released on Whitelabrecs in January 2022. Within the line-up of artists included in this project was Ciro Berenguer with whom he has collaborated for this album.  Ciro also originates from Argentina, hailing from Rosario but for the last couple of decades, he has lived in Barcelona, Spain. Ciro’s music has been released on labels such as Dauw, Eilean and Slaapwel. He has also collaborated with Ghost and Tape (Heine Christensen) as Sokkyo.

This collaborative album between Mi Cosa de Resistance and Ciro Berenguer is entitled ‘El final de las lluvias', which translates to ‘The end of the rains’. It is inspired by moments of transition; in the Mediterranean they know Spring has ended and Summer is approaching once the rain subsides. This may be the title of the album and but one example, yet the broader theme of the album is to mark the end of something, and the beginning of something else.

There is a balance of these artists’ respective styles and inputs, in an album adept in presenting light, dark and melancholic moods through its many shades. It’s a space in which their musical personalities can live alongside one another as one, with Fernando’s hints of darkness placed alongside Ciro’s music box compositions and recordings of bicycle rides through the suburbs of Barcelona. It draws in experiences of pre and post pandemic life, from the viewpoint of two populous cities, and its blend of blurred naturalistic-leaning tones sit, decayed, against an urban bedrock. At times optimistic, at times despairing, El final de las lluvias was finished in Spring 2022 as these artists emerged from a 2 year period of life, learning to deal with the challenges of the pandemic. This record, a document, marks the conclusion of one phase, and the beginning of something else.

El final de las Iluvias

wlr138 Mi Cosa de Resistance & Ciro Berenguer - El final de las lluvias

Winter Calm
Artist: Akmuo
Release date: 2023-07-28
Label: Liberty Rhythm
Catalog: LBRTHY110
https://www.beatport.com/release/winter-calm/4180128

Winter Calm

Akmuo - Exiting Physical Reality [Liberty Rhythm]

Subsolar out now 

Hailing from Kristiansund on the northwest coast of Norway, Helge Tømmervåg has been crafting electronic sounds since the early '80s. His earliest work recorded under the now-familiar Mind over MIDI moniker arrived in the early '90s. He's released scores of highly regarded and stylistically uncompromising sounds over the years, appearing on labels including Silent Seasons, Diametric, Hibernate, Whitelabrecs, ROHS! Lontano Series, Shimmering Moods Records, Slow Tones Collages and via his own Berserk Fabrik.


ABOUT THE MUSIC
Electronic music for daydreamers and nighthinkers. Inspired by the icy winds, snowy vistas and frozen landscapes in Norway.

If you can picture the very furthest, coldest, darkest part of Norway, that's where Mind over MIDI resides. If you want to get an idea of what it's like there, and can do without the frostbite, then this is the perfect solution.

Midway (Escapism)

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