**UPDATE: Won 2nd Place in Kawaii Dreams From Mars contest out of 130+ entries!**

Inspired by the sun-drenched Summer of '88, this track was composed for Samples From Mars' "Kawaii Dreams From Mars" song contest.

All non-drum sounds were designed based on the inspiring Kawaii Dreams samples (heavily edited with TAL Sampler or Emu-II):

• VOICES: Bell Air, Hello, Return Home, Voices
• KEYS: Air Bass, Drops, Hologram, Jazz Harp, Randroid
• PADS: Analog Strings, Warm Strings

Drum sounds are courtesy of:

• Linn 9000, Fairlight IIx, Alesis HR-16, Roland TR-727, TR-808 ... and a cameo appearance of synth toms via Alpha Juno.

Vintage tones further honed thanks to:

•  Valhalla DSP, Eventide, Arturia, Soundtoys, Brainworx SSL, IK Multimedia

(Not Just A) Summer Fling

https://mauricejohn.bandcamp.com/track/multimode

Included in the track from the Kawaii Dreams from Mars pack

Voices
-Return Home
-Voices
-Bel Air

Keys
-Air Bass

Pads
-Analog Strings

The drums are also Samples From Mars and are all from their SDS800 From mars product.

https://samplesfrommars.com - If you haven't browsed the catalogue yet then do it.

Multimode - #kawaiidreamsfrommars

SPOTIFY: https://open.spotify.com/track/1FoHeFrv6uSKdOAdm2mg6A

3rd place WINNER of the "KAWAII DREAMS FROM MARS" contest, hosted by SAMPLES FROM MARS.

A modern take on Aphex Twin's "IZ-US."

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Ecker & Meulyzer “Carbon” (SUB033)

Digital & CD: https://eckermeulyzer.bandcamp.com/album/carbon

Koenraad Ecker and Frederik Meulyzer make their Subtext debut with Carbon. 

Based on field recordings made at Norway’s Svalbard Global Seed Vault, a secure seed bank located on the island of Spitsbergen, Carbon grapples with the many contradictions that lie at the heart of our shift into the capitalocene. The project began in 2017, when Ecker and Meulyzer scored the performance “Frozen Songs,” a commission by Zero Visibility Dance Company led by Ina Christel Johannesen.

The Svalbard Global Seed Vault was conceived of as an effort to preserve copies of seeds from key crop varieties, ensuring their persistence in the event of large-scale crises. Yet the area is warming faster than anywhere else on earth, causing the permafrost to melt and putting the seed vault at risk. 

Across from the Seed Vault lie the decrepit remnants of Svalbard’s mining activities of the early 20th century; Carbon wrestles with the incongruities nestled in the town’s landscape. Reflecting on dissonances of stasis and change, closeness and distance, enclosure and expanse, as well as cynicism and hope, Ecker and Meulyzer consider the urgency of our situation while trying to sidestep all-too popular depictions of dystopia. In Ecker’s own words, “we don’t have the luxury to afford that kind of pessimism.” 

From close, supple sounds to cold, brutal sonics, Carbon meditates on the many challenging questions and contradictions raised by the Seed Vault and its surroundings—a landscape that embodies and makes visible the many intertwined phenomena that shape our current predicament.

Ecker and Meulyzer, formerly known as Stray Dogs, have released works such as Wasteland, recorded in deconsecrated church in Antwerp, and Kalkar, recorded in the cooling tower of a former power station in Germany. 

Koenraad Ecker works in the fields of electro-acoustic music, field recording, radio plays, stage performance and text. Together with Andrea Taeggi, he is part of the Opal Tapes-affiliated duo Lumisokea. His output encompasses studio albums, audiovisual installations, texts, performances, and sound design for film. 

Frederik Meulyzer is a percussionist active in projects including Belgian jazz band Hamster Axis of the One-Click Panther, contemporary music and theatre company Post uit Hessdalen, and experimental psych-krautrock band Slumberland.

The ecological impact of the production of this record will be compensated through a carbon offsetting program .

Bandcamp

Ecker & Meulyzer - Growth

Jock Van Vliet: The Lake Within The Lake
In the world of flora, Stellaria Nemorum is the name for forest wall. 
However, the music that Joanna Pavelescu makes under this Latin alias is
certainly not for wallflowers. In fact, the basses and beats on her latest EP "The Lake Within The Lake" 
would blow any kind of vegetation out of the ground.

The titles of both the EP and the
tracks give a good indication of what the listener can expect: a pretty surreal, 
imaginative music trip through time and space. 
A dark journey full of disturbing creaks and moans and industrial 
sounds that occasionally start a surprise attack. With beats that evoke memories of the machine-experimental 
of Speedy J and sometimes relentlessly
grim, Scorn style distorted bass. 
However dark and heavy 
the ambiance is the addition of light with spatial sounds.
  As an accomplished alchemist, Stellaria Nemorum has managed to find an excellent balance in this.

The remixes also come from the Antiloungekamp,
The Hague quality label for electronic music. 
They are from Charly & Gallus (with whom it all started years ago), 
Olaf Wempe (Stellaria Nemorum's former partner in crime as the duo WG @ EET) 
and Foresense, who provides a surprising final chord with jungle beats. 
They all retain the bass-averse character, but are a 
little less heavy in terms of atmosphere.
Light at the end of the dark sonic tunnel. After which a listener with a cleansed soul and new energy can face 
everyday life again. 
After many years of musical pause, Stellaria Nemorum came back strongly with this extensive EP.

The Lake within the Lake

See You Through

Love U Darling

dblue - 2021-01-21

Primarily DnB, with other infrequent genres.