Releases

Ulla - 'Limitless Frame'
Format: Vinyl / Digital
 Release Date: May 10, 2021
Distribution: Rubadub 
Cover photo: Sasha Zakharenko

Being somewhere, while being somewhere else
A place I look for in other places
A moment on repeat
I made this music as a way to hug myself

All music performed and written by Ulla E. Straus

https://soundcloud.com/ullastraus

Pre-order:

https://motionward.bandcamp.com/album/ulla-limitless-frame
https://www.rubadub.co.uk/records/catalog/product/view/id/13471/s/limitless-frame/
https://boomkat.com/products/limitless-frame

MW009: Ulla, 'Limitless Frame'

The Humble Bee - 'Light Trespassing'
Format: CD / Digital
 Release Date: December, 2021
Cover image by Craig Tattersall

"Like the last embers of a fire burning"

https://motionward.bandcamp.com/album/the-humble-bee-light-trespassing

MWCD001: The Humble Bee, 'Light Trespassing'

First digi single on the label by New Zealand sweethearts Hysterical Love Project <3 

"set your spirit free"

https://motionward.bandcamp.com/track/hysterical-love-project-2bc1
https://soundcloud.com/hystericalloveproject

MWD001: Hysterical Love Project, "2BC1"

Out on November 24th, 2022 physically (Vinyl) and digitally...

Pre-order: 
https://rubadub.co.uk/products/baby-with-a-halo
https://motionward.bandcamp.com/album/ura-baby-with-a-halo

All music written and recorded by Ura https://soundcloud.com/unsignedrecordingartist

Artwork by Shy
Center labels by JS
Mastered by Anne Taegert at D&M
Mixed by Francis Latreille

MW010: Ura, "Baby With A Halo"

Taken from MWCD002: Hysterical Love Project, "Lashes"

https://motionward.bandcamp.com/album/hysterical-love-project-lashes

video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9NGBPBlaTOQ

https://soundcloud.com/hystericalloveproject

Hysterical Love Project, "Sever/Strike"

Releases on 04/12 <3

https://soundcloud.com/ullastraus
https://soundcloud.com/ultrafog

https://motionward.bandcamp.com/album/it-means-a-lot
https://boomkat.com/products/it-means-a-lot
https://rubadub.co.uk/products/it-means-a-lot

Ulla & Ultrafog, "Lame Mart"

https://motionward.bandcamp.com/album/laundry

https://soundcloud.com/titofuego
https://soundcloud.com/benbondy

kevin, "selfish replacement (w/ foamy sax)"

Have you ever found yourself confronted with the eternally annoying phrase 'it's not what you said, it's how you said it' flying into your face from a loved one? There's not quite any right way of dealing with these words, the only way to fix this sort of situation cropping up with worrying regularity is by adjusting your tone. 

We all know how crucial tone can be in the sounds we hear when it comes to mixes and the like but few of us give enough time to consider the implications of tone in every last word we say. We'd all get along plenty better if everyone had such a good sense of 'Tone' as Brown Irvin does. Ladies and gentlemen, this is how it's done...

PREMIERE: Brown Irvin - Tone (Motion Ward)

Premiere: Brown Irvin - Bay Fog

SS1 is the debut of LA based artist, Social Service. The sturdy, yet dreamlike 5 track excursion, is a pensive debut that navigates many of the intricate fibers that form the foundation of dance oriented music. From the warm and gently dubbed out melodies of Chamber to the lively, dance-floor-ready constructions of Stolen, SS1 stands as a quality entry point for Social Service-- a narrative that’s equally diverse as it is cohesive.

Artist: https://soundcloud.com/social-service
Release Date: May 30th 2016
Formats: 12" / Digital
Distributed by: Lobster Distribuion
Mastered by: Dietrich Schoenemann

Direct: https://motionward.bandcamp.com/album/social-service-ss1
Clone: https://clone.nl/item39268.html
Juno: http://www.juno.co.uk/products/social-service-ss1/604791-01/
Decks : http://www.decks.de/t/social_service-ss1/c6v-jh
Pacific Beach: https://www.pbvinyl.com/products/social-service-ss1
Redeye: http://www.redeyerecords.co.uk/vinyl/72124-mw002-social-service-ss1
Deejay : http://www.deejay.de/MW002_-_Social_Service_-_Ss1_-_12inch__220231

MW002: Social Service, 'SS1'

uon - 'zlo'
Format: 12"
Release Date: 7 August 2017
Distributed by: Rubadub

PURCHASE:
https://motionward.bandcamp.com/album/uon-zlo-2
                             
Motion Ward is proud to welcome the debut 12" from uon, 'zlo'. The artist known as uon, originally from Chicago but now based in Berlin, also operates under the pseudonyms Caveman LSD, DJ Paradise, and special guest DJ for all mix / DJ related outings. 

*easy listening for some*

A1. zlo "LSD" 
A2. kosm "void jelly"
B1. suB1 "scuffed,warm,curved,slow"
B2. kissing "headrush"

https://soundcloud.com/juicycrypt

www.motionward.com

MW003: uon, 'zlo'

Ultrafog - 'How Those Fires Burned That Are No Longer'
Format: 12", Digital
Release Date: October 26th
Distribution: Rubadub
Artwork: Shy

PURCHASE:
https://www.rubadub.co.uk/records/how-those-fires-burned-that-are-no-longer
https://motionward.bandcamp.com/album/ultrafog-how-those-fires-burned-that-are-no-longer

After two cassette releases for the likes of Tokyo's Solitude Solutions and Barcelona's Angoisse, Motion Ward is delighted to present the debut of Kouhei Fukuzumi's Ultrafog project on the vinyl format. "How Those Fires Burned That Are No Longer" weaves through sliding metal timbres, textured air abstractions and wistful mallet sequences. This record, like all of Kouhei's work, is a take on sound as a representation of memory. Light and translucent, each song aims for a temporal snapshot that will inevitably fade into the well of thoughts and experience.

https://soundcloud.com/ultrafog

www.motionward.com

MW004: Ultrafog, 'How Those Fires Burned That Are No Longer'

OL - 'Dismeteo'
Format: 12", Digital
Release Date: May, 2019
Distribution: Rubadub
Artwork: Shy (uon)

PURCHASE: 
https://www.rubadub.co.uk/records/catalog/product/view/id/10053/s/dismeteo/
https://motionward.bandcamp.com/album/ol-dismeteo
+ lots of other online shops and your local record store

We’re delighted to share this record from the Moscow-based recording artist OL aka Oleg Buyanov. His most recent work, the double LP “Height Difference” on the seminal Gost Zvuk label, saw him transmit his research in soviet sound heritage into a range of genres and tempos. On “Dismeteo”, we see him inhabit a similar atmosphere, refracted through a different lens of influence. In Buyanov’s own words, “The tracks are like concrete blocks & buildings lost in the woods. It’s a point where correct geometry and mathematical constructions meet with organic forms.”

https://soundcloud.com/olegbuyanov

Stream a video for Rep Air by Petr Voronov here ---> www.motionward.com

MW005: OL, 'Dismeteo'

Brown Irvin - 'Run Me That Soul' 
Format: 12", Digital
 Release Date: October 4, 2019 
Distribution: Rubadub 
Artwork: Shy (uon)

PURCHASE:
https://motionward.bandcamp.com/album/brown-irvin-run-me-that-soul

After inaugurating the label with a tape in 2015, our local friend Richard Brown (AKA Brown Irvin AKA AshTreJinkins) returns to Motion Ward with an oblique two-track 12" entitled "Run Me That Soul". "Locution" flexes a wobbly equilibrium of dubbed dancefloor energy and amorphous acid while "Overcast" coats the B Side in a smeared gradient of ambient wash and shape-shifting stasis. A persuasive pair of parallel worlds for winding up and winding down.

https://soundcloud.com/thinkinjinkins

MW006: Brown Irvin, 'Run Me That Soul'

MWT002: Perila, 'Dust 22'
Release Date: December 20, 2019
Formats: Cassette / Digital
Artwork by: Sasha Zakharenko and Jesse Sappell
Purchase: https://motionward.bandcamp.com/album/perila-dust-22

Perila is the project of artist, DJ, and radio.syg.ma co-founder Sasha Zakharenko. Over the last few years she's been exploring themes of intimacy and the more elusive layers of reality through mixes and recently her own music; turning to sound as a means of getting in touch with and transmitting life shifts. I'm honored to share her evocative debut EP for Motion Ward, 'Dust 22'. The cassette features a 21 minute live take alongside three songs that occupy a similar state of feeling.

~

One day you feel
overwhelmed. 
Then this pressure 
dissolves and becomes 
dust. 
Intimate layers of what is 
real and not resurface. 
Dust dissolves in silence 
emptying spaces for 
change. 
Sounds ripple and float
shaping forms which 
disappear after hearing them
as if they were never there. 
You were never here. 
Slow drifts on a surface
of ephemeral reality. 
Life is dust cruising 
quietly in the mind of an observer.


https://soundcloud.com/perila

MWT002: Perila, 'Dust 22'

Exael + Arad Acid - 'Furi'
Format: 12", Digital
 Release Date: April 3, 2020
Distribution: Rubadub 
Artwork: Christian Alborz Oldham & Naemi

PRE-ORDER:
https://boomkat.com/products/furi-caa62150-816b-43e4-b3b0-55b6599548f3

https://motionward.bandcamp.com/album/exael-arad-acid-furi

MW007, ‘Furi’, is a collection of tracks from two Berlin-based friends / artists Exael and Arad Acid. The material highlights the commonalities between their individual and collaborative works, moving from boundless and chaotic energy to soft kinetic radiance over the course of seven tracks.

https://soundcloud.com/exael
https://soundcloud.com/aradacid

MW007: Exael + Arad Acid, 'Furi'

ᕦ(ò_óˇ)ᕤ, 'High School Blues
Format: Cassette / Digital
Release Date: May 1, 2020
Artwork: Jesse Sappell

Buy: https://motionward.bandcamp.com/album/high-school-blues

High School Blues is the debut tape by 17 year old Russian producer Nikolay Kozlov aka ᕦ(ò_óˇ)ᕤ. Throughout the songs on the release there is a thread of generative and freeform characteristics, but the emphasis on abstraction is balanced by grounding and at times uneasy swells of emotion that shift and sink in slowly throughout the tracks. Suitable listening for a variety of headspaces and atmospheric conditions.

https://soundcloud.com/nikolaykozlov

MWT003: ᕦ(ò_óˇ)ᕤ, 'High School Blues'

Pontiac Streator - 'Triz'
Format: 2XLP, Digital
 Release Date: July 16, 2020
Distribution: Rubadub 
Front sleeve art: Desiree Monique
Back sleeve art: Shy (uon)

"I'm stuck in a cave, what's happening?"

PRE-ORDER:

https://www.rubadub.co.uk/records/catalog/product/view/id/12170/s/triz/

https://motionward.bandcamp.com/album/pontiac-streator-triz

https://boomkat.com/products/triz



https://soundcloud.com/pontiacstreator

MW008: Pontiac Streator, 'Triz'

AIR Krew - 'Discuss and come back'
Format: Cassette, Digital
 Release Date: September 16, 2020
Artwork: Jesse Sappell

Hailing from Moscow and St. Petersburg respectively, Sergey Podluzhniy, Piper Spray and Lena Tzibizova come together as AIR Krew and share with us “Discuss and Come Back.” While floating broadly in Shoegaze’s orbit, the album charts a pretty unpredictable course from beginning to end, with an ornate sentimentality running as a constant from track to track. As in most cases, the words don’t do justice to the sound, the map really isn’t the terrain and you’re better off  taking the time to explore it all for yourself.

https://soundcloud.com/kabinw