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Further investigation into the futuristic spaces found in Japanese ambient and pop music from the 1980s...

Fairlights, Mallets And Bamboo Vol. 2

Made during the early hours while our newborn slept on me, this was the perfect project to keep me vaguely awake on the sofa. A little tribute to my favourite band.

#PizzaBoyRemix

Pizza Boy - Steve Hadfield Goodnight Mix

Start Leading

A thoughtful "fuck off" to haters everywhere

Bandcamp

Sally Farther

Well, here's something very different for me - Here's a light and quirky acoustic #folk / #singersongwriter version of my sad song called 'Promises', with the amazing 3VSound (Ava Suzanne) on vocals.

I wanted the simplest (and hopefully most effective) string arrangement and quirky counterpoint vocals, and I think I got it. :-)
This track is out for a nervous spin to see if anyone likes it.
 
Updated and released in Jan 2025.

I'll Try Till I Die

Promises - feat. 3V3Sound (Acoustic Version)

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UNHAPPINESS

Superficially meditative and 'ambient', but conjuring alternating emotions of relaxation and tension, darkness and light.

Paramedic Jukebox Club

The Hierophant In The Room

A Joyful jaunty handpan tune evoking the joy of a sunny May afternoon. This tune bounces through melodic shifts and different time signatures to create a fun little celebration of spring! 

Spring Hope

GMA24 - Nozomu Matsumoto
http://greymatterarchives.club/nozomumatsumoto.html
1. BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, Peter Dixon & Sachio Fujioka - The Age of Birds, Op. 25 (Composed by Takashi Yoshimatsu)
2. Aisha Orazbayeva - 12 Fantasias for Violin without Bass, No. 1 in B-Flat Major, TWV 40 14 (Composed by Georg Philipp Telemann)
3. Nozomu Matsumoto - 6 MIDI Works, 14 MIDI Choral Works & 19 Audio Logos
4. Satoshi Ashikawa - Prelude
5. Voice performed by IVONA Text-to-Speech
・Crass - What The Fuck?
・Nozomu Matsumoto - The Mind Has No Firewall
・Bad Religion - Politics
・Sid Vicious - Born To Lose
・Discharge - In Defense of our Future
6. California EAR Unit, UC Berkeley Chamber Chorus & Philip Brett - Rothko Chapel: 2nd Movement (Composed by Morton Feldman)
7. Ensemble Experimental - Con Luigi Dallapiccola (Composed by Luigi Nono)
8. Ensemble Experimental - A Pierre, "Dell'azurro silenzio, inquietum" (Composed by Luigi Nono)
9. James Ferraro - Burning Prius ®
10. The Hafler Trio - The Whole Hog, Including the Postage: Flying into the Mouth
11. Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir & Paul Hillier - Salve Regina / Zwei slawische Psalmen (Composed by Arvo Pärt)
12. James Ferraro - Anthrospray: Music for Extinction Renaissance
13. Tom Wolgers - Collage
14. the primeTime sublime Community Orchestra - Betty Poptarts

GMA24 - Nozomu Matsumoto

Original film soundtracks made from manipulated samples and original riffs. 

Need an original piece? 
pennhousefilms@gmail.com

Hotel Window EP

Try Hard (Chilled Hip-hop beat)

Disintegration State co-heads Steve Hadfield and Lowering produced their first ever collaboration for radio show An Taobh Tuathail's 20th anniversary. The track premiered on Thursday 2nd May on one of a series of special anniversary shows alongside other tracks never heard anywhere else in the world before.

Steve Hadfield And Lowering - Not Invented Here

“HARUMONIUM"(Cannes International Film Festival "A certain viewpoint" section jury award winner in 2016. Toronto International Film Festival)directed by Koji Fukada.

Harmonium

Fresh On The Net is a music blog hosted by Tom Robinson and Team Freshnet, offering independent artists an open door and a level playing field for their music. Our inbox is open at http://freshonthenet.co.uk every Monday to Thursday morning - if you share a track with us there it will be heard by every member of our moderation team.

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The lo-fi sound of small towns.

Mute Branches is the project of James Cresswell. Based in the West Midlands, Mute Branches' music has become primarily occupied with evoking certain spaces through sound – the places that emerge when memory and imagination are mapped over the real world, the places you can't go back to.

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