A short mix of excerpts taken from « Light Leaks », the longform album available now on SlowTone Collages
https://slowtonecollages.bandcamp.com/album/light-leaks

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Light Leaks (mix)

In uno spazio immenso

Sulle barcane

Taken from 'Alien Intelligence' out now on a limited edition vinyl and download > https://ooh-sounds.bandcamp.com/album/jasmine-guffond-alien-intelligence

Through the medium of a distinctly synthesised, sustained ambience, seasoned artist and composer @jasmineguffond arrives on OOH-sounds to explore the tension between technology and human creativity in an increasingly ambiguous playing field.

Alien Intelligence came into being during Guffond’s residency at fabled Parisian institution GRM in 2021. While learning how to generate sound and make music with the in-house Serge modular synthesiser, the Australian artist noticed the typical role of human input for machine output was being subverted by the behaviour of certain electronic elements, which came to exercise their own influences on the direction of the music.

Taking this idea one step further, Guffond proceeded to explore the programming environment MaxMSP, a customisable interface which allowed her to blur the lines between human input and machine directives even further. Across the three extended pieces which make up Alien Intelligence you can hear the results of Guffond’s inquisitive approach as she coaxed the machines into bringing their own ideas to bear on the music.

The tension inherent in this thematic duality is mirrored by the contrast between glacial ambience and chaotic interference across the album. On ‘Serge & Maxine Variation One’ the presiding mood is a slow and patient one, as undulating waveforms rich with harmonic overtones spill out over one another across 10 minutes. The track’s latter passage, driven by steadily intensifying oscillations, is then interrupted with an unexpected flurry of pitch shifting. This kind of complex technical movement features more prominently at the start of ‘Serge & Maxine Variation Three’, which then gradually shifts into a gentler ebb and flow of rising and falling frequencies.

Angled slightly differently and residing on the B side of the album, 15-minute quiet epic ‘Serge & Maxine Variation Two’ bookends a louder passage of synth work with serene, sustained notes that ring out a sort of hymnal melody. Throughout, the movement in the music evolves in subtly modulating, hypnotic, ways, but there are also unexpected turns or melodic diversions which feel much more incongruous. In its closing stretch, the notes dart around more freely as though played by hand, but it’s hard to be sure whether these shifts in the otherwise delicate tonal music were a human conceit or a programming by-product. In the end, the two inputs logically become one.

As Guffond says herself, “More-than-human logics emerge, a kind of alien intelligence that questions an assumed central position of human subjectivity in socio-technical assemblages and considers the philosophical, socio-political and cultural implications beyond music practice in an increasingly technologically mediated world.”

As AI creeps into art as much as other aspects of modern life, Guffond applies her playful instinct to the theme of these works by reconsidering machine intelligence as ‘alien’, crediting its contributions with a more robust yet enigmatic identity in the creative process, leading to an end result which is far from artificial.

A1 Jasmine Guffond  - Serge & Maxine Variation, One [OOH-040]

Danish electronic musician Skarv releases the album Polymer Veil, a vibrant collection of synthetic tracks asking questions about the nature of artificial existence with strong vocal contributions from the Copenhagen underground.

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PREMIERE: Skarv — Nylon Fuses With Skin (Rhizome)

Last year in September I released the album ‘Quiet Rooms’ on the British label Whitelabrecs. The tracks on this album were a kind of self-healing process to refocus on home life after a long absence caused by working far away. At that time I was making a lot of improvised music and recording many ideas and sketches. After selecting the tracks for ‘Quiet Rooms’, some ideas, feelings, blurred images and unfinished tracks remained, which later became a solid base for ‘All Our Yesterdays’. Over the course of 2024, more recordings were made and - voilà - a new album was born.

'All Our Yesterdays' is probably a bit more introspective, exploring the spaces between the notes in a much deeper and broader way. So each track is quite transparent in atmosphere and sound, with piano notes, electronic textures and strange sounds drifting in and out. As always, all was recorded mainly at night in dim lighting to focus on what's important to me and my music. ‘All Our Yesterdays’ could be seen as a metaphor for missed moments on the one hand and great moments with the people you love on the other. Deep contemplation with a sense of serenity and balanced stillness - some things don't change...

The cover picture was taken in autumn at a nearby lake, when everything was already prepared and waiting for winter.

Tracklist:
01. All Our Yesterdays / 02. A Change Before A Choice / 03. The Silence Within Us / 04. Until It's Time / 05. There Are Ghosts Around You / 06. Half As Far Out / 07. Beyond Paradise / 08. Anything At All / 09. Before Night / 10. It Takes Confidence (To Let The Music Speak) / 11. The Inner Sea / 12. Fragments Of Love / 13. Never Gonna Let It Go / 14. I Could Sleep For Hundred Years

Written and produced by Polaroid Notes
Recorded between Nov 2023 and Dec 2024

Limited edition CD and digital download @ https://polaroidnotes.bandcamp.com/album/all-our-yesterdays

Release date: 22nd February 2025
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Polaroid Notes - Snippets of All Our Yesterdays (Album)

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KLIKERKLUB is happy to release its new V/A Charity Compilation called "HOME/ ДІМ" — on the 24th of August — The Day of Independence of Ukraine. 

The album is a wild, genre-spanning collection of 45 unreleased tracks by exclusively Ukrainian artists. It aims to reflect the colourfulness and diversity of Ukrainian independent music in times of russia's ongoing war against Ukraine.

Many of the songs on the album reflect on the theme of “HOME/ДІМ” on various emotional levels. They deal with feelings of loss, longing, grief, memory, hope or rediscovery.

KLIKERKLUB would be happy if the album radiates something reminiscent of a warm late summer evening spent with loved ones at the edge of a forest, in the carpathianbs, a wheat field, a swimming lake,or by the sea. Where you lie next to each other, hold each other tight, talk about the past and the future, laugh liberatingly, cry, and dance.

Even if only in your thoughts. Because these thoughts are free. No matter where they are thought or under what circumstances.

The album is dedicated to all those who suffer under russian occupation or captivity and to whom these thoughts give support, strength and courage to resist!

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With "HOME/ ДІМ”, @klikerklub would once more love to show its deepest respect for the courage, strength, openness, warmth, friendliness and last but not least, the creativity of the Ukrainian people.

SLAVA UKRAINII

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All the proceeds will be donated to Superhumans Center in Lviv/ UA, an All-Ukrainian center of war trauma. 

credits
Produced by: Klikerklub
Mastered by: Hennadi Boichenko
manual collage made by: Olga Aboronok

Olga Aboronok is a visual artist from Chernihiv/ UA. Olga pursues her work in graphic design, painting, collage, poetry and analog photography.

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Be Part Of Your Own Machine

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Warmed by the Drift

Perko “Galerie” CS / Digital 

Posh Isolation is proud to present ”Galerie” by the Copenhagen based Scotsman Perko. While being mostly recognized for his organic blend of club music arrangements, “Galerie” emphasises a focus on field recordings, textures and striped-down abstraction. Over the course of 8 tracks Perko builds small worlds of tangible ambience and horizons of amiable beauty. The sense of ebb and flow throughout “Galerie” gives it a sense of contemplative weightlessness and the perception of mild sun glittering blindness.

Posh Isolation 248 

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Swirral Edge 06:02
Galerie 03:49
Interlude 01:08
Edie 04:54
Striding Edge 04:54
Scramble 01:20
Marri 05:21
Oak 05:35

Galerie

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