Torus embarks on a pilgrimage through sound and harmony, a transcendent commute through ambient music for apoplectic times.

https://www.factmag.com/2022/12/19/fact-mix-888-torus/

Fact Mixes

Fact Mix 888: Torus (Dec '22)

moody rainy gazing out window mood xxx - Akimat

Having first met as performers at an ambient co:clear gig, slyn invites Akimat (@akiiimatamik0) for the second half of the fourth episode of in Passing tides. Australian now based between Glasgow and Berlin, Akimat is an amazing selector who dibbles both in her textural ambient mixes as well as her more upbeat, dance-floor sets.

in Passing tides 04 ~ Akimat & slyn ~ (16.07.24)

The opening track from usof's forthcoming tape on Theory Therapy. Out Jan 31 2025.

https://theorytherapy.bandcamp.com/album/stay-longer

@usofusofusofusof
Mastered by @ikezwanikken

usof - belly

Curio earworms and other obsessions from Krakow's Natalia Panzer. 
Find the full tracklist and related episodes on NTS: https://www.nts.live/shows/natalia-panzer/episodes/natalia-panzer-21st-june-2025

Natalia Panzer 210625

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Tracklist:
Simon K - för alltid
pingstar - ˡᵉᵗ a ᵃˡⁱᵉⁿˢ ᵈᵒ ʷʰᵃᵗᵉᵛᵉʳ (-_-) ¯·♪¸¸♩·¯·♬¸¸diet pepsi 「LIVE」@ The P🍑ttery Gym ¸¸♫·
SoundWorld's Guestbook - pilot 
s.drift - delinquent loop
cc67 - coins 
g lawrence - ^^
gretchen lawrence - 11888
bb - med LOG 
qu0th - 03 steppe (.cutspace Patcherization)
W – I - Oli XL — Rogue Idiot pt.2
xtclvr - passing out
bobbyhorror chinapoet erebasu - ssǝɯ ǝlqıɹɹoɥ ɐ ʇɐɥʍ 
DJ Birdbath  - Water
Nil - Syu 
usof - belly
Arad Acid - kaszu riss
usof - Brat [ENXPL19]
Joshua Chuquimia Crampton - Dark Shirt

XVI-005: e03

tibslc - plnt13

Artwork - hardwerker

Morning 🌱 autumn is now amongst us and we have our next guest, the lovely Tiblsc ⭐️

In this mix Tiblsc finds themselves already in the cold of winter travelling west from Nawmon to Seoul , as they exhibit sounds that seem to naturally glisten and nestle itself amongst the snowy scenery ❄️🍧. Lullaby like interludes are accompanied by tender melodies. 

We had the pleasure of catching tiblsc live at spanners for a really intimate, special event hosted by texture magazine ⭐️. They have an extensive catalogue of incredible music , their last two releases “Dungeon cats caught in wind castles’ and ‘Silver
Visions’ are ones we adore, as well as their project ‘eleventh hour’ as their alias duo wist. 

‘Prodigy is, at its essence, adaptability and persistent, positive obsession. Without persistence, what remains is an enthusiasm of the moment. Without adaptability, what remains may be channeled into destructive fanaticism. Without positive obsession, there is nothing at all.(Octavia E. Butler)’


chisei - (nolon)
Heith, Leonardo Rubboli - Little Spirits
Betty Hammerschlag - Trasher Fun
staś czekalski & jung dj - january
serpuline - 🚬
ddiary - dear
yaffee -  a whisper
Icon Alias - petalled object
serpuline -♤ 𝄞 Of 3in-wa‹ s ♮ ♤
Iceboy Violet, Nueen - Inside My Head ( Interlude)
Poumbrec - trustfall
Lagrima - Cime Sampler Vol. 3 - 30 Elephant
Any - Hebammerie
claire rousay & Gretchen Korsmo - kitchen duet
jil - d's lullaby
Quiet Light -Luckiest Girl
dawn111  - lesson
celine chiasera - a wind named amnesia
Ein -134 ask -+

tibslc - plnt13

Cool Skunk

Circles Of Upper and Lower Hell is the grandest, deepest work to date by Polish-born, Glasgow-based sound artist and composer Ela Orleans. The seventh album under her own name, Orleans’ expansive vision, loosely based on Dante’s Inferno but infused with deep personal experience, incorporates sound art, orchestral textures, synth pop and electronic music to construct a world equally peppered with loss and inspiration. Circles Of Upper and Lower Hell pulls all the strands of Orleans’ previous work together, an epic depiction of turmoil wide in scope but reveling in detail.

From her beginnings inaugurating a lo-fi, homespun sound that has since developed fully into a language uniquely her own, from tentative live outings featuring multiple instruments to a now-masterly command of sound, Orleans has become one of the most consistently surprising musicians of the global underground. “Circles… “ documents Ela's research into dark sonic interiors and a far more personal approach to conventional songwriting. Previously, Orleans' sonic textures have relied on samples cleaved out of context, buried songs beneath warped aural gauze, but Circles blows every element of Orleans' art upwards and further apart. Circles begins with a masterful, sparse composition, The Gate, that instantly showcases the expert mastering by Jon Brooks before melting into You Go Through Me (featuring Stephen and Katrina from The Pastels), one of the most direct, aching pop moments. Ghost and Whispers is a hit from another universe, a sparkling propulsion instantly recognizable as an Ela Orleans composition; light of touch and almost unbearably, ghostlily human. Circles Of Upper and Lower Hell is an honest portrayal of a descent; be it personal or metaphorical and there are times, like on the minimal, string-led Tower, when the listener feels submerged, alienated from comfort. Through-out there's a massive, cinematic scope to the album, rumbling synth textures escalating into celestial harmonies, the stereo-field sparkling with sound, shimmering melodies crackling with the sort of pathos that Ela has made her recognisable trademark. It’s a weighty journey, pitched aurally between Ghost Box records and a mournful classicism, drawing references from literature and autobiography.

Cirlces... is really without parallel in Orleans’ discography, though its most obvious sister record, 2015's Upper Hell, gave some streamlined, carved-up hints at Circles Of Upper Hell's majesty. Orleans’ previous work has always suggested threads, blurred ghost-ideas from an artist always growing. In 2016 Orleans has mastered her craft completely, never heavy-handed but deftly handling themes of loss, chaos, documenting personal journeys sometimes arduous with an ever-deeper understanding.



ELA ORLEANS: Ghosts And Whispers (from CIRCLES OF UPPER AND LOWER HELL LSSN040)

Suzanne Ciani
Fish Music
FKSP011 (Finders Keepers Records)
7" | MP3

As the first and only dedicated label to liberate the private, non-commercial artefacts from Suzanne Ciani’s groundbreaking Ciani Musica studio vault, Finders Keepers Records presents an incredible cryogenically suspended slice of precious precocious immersive fledgling synthesis for this ultra limited RSD 2107 title.Ironically well removed from the intension of phonographic application in its original inception, this anti-pop wash of marine biology modular synth sound design was originally proposed by a very young Ciani for exclusive infinite loop airings in a giant mid-American shopping mall aquarium in 1977.
Potentially conjuring ambient scenes from the consumerist satirical Dawn Of The Dead while sonically ushering a genuine desire for total musical science reevaluation/revolution via a decidedly mainstream portal, the Fish Music project is a striking eerie example of how Ciani’s “Subversion With A Smile” approach led to a long career breaking boundaries in formal music technology, film scoring, the advertising industry and gender equality – all of which has continued to fuel her passion and channel her life lust and artistic appetite much to the benefit of future ambitious trajectories of music.
Owing much to the memory of genuine synthesiser maverick Don Buchla this conceptual release is very much the product of artistic America at its progressive halcyon but, with its illustrious and idiosyncratic composition, communicates subtle undertones of Suzanne’s feminine Italian origins which seldom reside outside of the efforts of Roman library composers like Casa, Tomassi, Raskovich and siblings Antonioni and Maria Teresa Luciani. Presented here as an isolated one-sided pressing on aquatic clear vinyl and including the original press release and a press cutting this limited release proceeds a wider series of unreleased Ciani work for 2017. File under… water.

A RECORD STORE DAY 2017 EXCLUSIVE

www.finderskeepersrecords.com
https://finderskeepersrecords.bandcamp.com/album/fish-music

Fish Music

Suzanne Ciani - Fish Music

From album 'TRACED', Pattern 04, Sonic Pieces, 2017

Traced

Post Human

'let me put myself together' 
https://bblisss.bandcamp.com/album/let-me-put-myself-together
https://boomkat.com/products/let-me-put-myself-together

Artwork by @panddr

ELA ORLEANS: Ghosts And Whispers (from CIRCLES OF UPPER AND LOWER HELL LSSN040)

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