Side by Side is a compilation of rare and unreleased tracks by Noir Age artists' side projects. This compilation commemorates the 50th release from the Noir Age label. The sides of the tape are split into North, East, South, and West.
Available here: https://noir-age.bandcamp.com/album/side-by-side

Our family of outer-sound practitioners living and working within a darkened hue of sonic mind alteration. Textures and patterns, apparition and essence, temper and love, streaks of night rain and shards of sunlight, rooms and machines, under noiseless clouds at the very edge of things. This is Side By Side.

A very special thanks to all the artists and listeners who have made this possible with their continued support.

V/A Side By Side

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Side by Side is a compilation of rare and unreleased tracks by Noir Age artists' side projects. This compilation commemorates the 50th release from the Noir Age label. The sides of the tape are split into North, East, South, and West.

Our family of outer-sound practitioners living and working within a darkened hue of sonic mind alteration. Textures and patterns, apparition and essence, temper and love, streaks of night rain and shards of sunlight, rooms and machines, under noiseless clouds at the very edge of things. This is Side By Side.

A very special thanks to all the artists and listeners who have made this possible with their continued support.

E2 - Obsidian Shard - 4 - 2(M3) - 3

E1 - Das SaD - Always Feels Like Yesterday

N3 - bad lsd trips - transient dub

N2 - Dunya - Constantinople

N1 - Butters - Cave Person

I pull at the drawer and it resists me for a moment, the way things do when they've settled into themselves over time. There is that particular sound—wood sliding against wood—and then suddenly it gives way, revealing its contents with a quiet rattle. Morning light streams over each object; items that have rested in darkness since the last time I visited, their colors now vivid and startling. It is as if the drawer itself has been safeguarding small treasures meant only for me.


Mastering by Inner Most

Album artwork by Salka Rosinkranz
https://www.salkarosinkranz.com/

@serpuline @preciousmoment @powerdynamics @wardizemoth @land_scap3 @rotabega @still-life-doves @montanhadeluz @user-492249249 @yyyafffeee @dj_spur @elfani8 @philgeraldi

（ミ￣ー￣ミ）
https://freesound.org/people/inner_most_garden/packs/43520/

Drawerful

secret getii 

Gather

secret getii 🍃 squeak (slug heaven)

we are excited to present a debut compilation album by soak music label, an international community focused on contemporary sound as a means of emotional liberation & self-inquiry

the outcome is 24 tracks by beloved artists, featuring various kinds of music, ranging from lamebient & downtempo to quirky sound-design, raw sonic intimacy & processed emo. Whatever that is, it’s something we are proud to share, aiming at fostering a sense of unity, artistic freedom & love 💗

all proceeds will be donated to Dara Charity in Kazakhstan.
credits
released January 24, 2025

@powerdynamics

Mastered by yeyo
Artwork by Arsenii Iy
Curated by a b & marat koshkin

secret getii - pretty world extinction

I.

𝘣𝘢𝘥 𝘭𝘴𝘥 𝘵𝘳𝘪𝘱𝘴 is the collaborative duo of makers doris dana and domingo castillo flores. Respectively the two have fostered practices that have sprawled out through various approaches and, whether in the lanes of the musical or the contemporary arts, the phenomenology of the social and inclusive prevails. On 𝘶𝘭𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘧𝘦𝘴𝘵, this motif continues through the psychedelia of its eight time-defying recordings, welcoming the listener into an open temporal architecture of the stereo field as a signifier of environment. It is worth noting that the group began collaborating in Miami, Florida with longer form improvisations recorded to a stereo cassette deck. In these recordings, the paved geographical sprawl and oceanic view permeated the approach to amassing long swaths of sound material. Listening back on that work at the time of this writing, each track feels as though one is walking into an active space, arriving to an event already in full swing and finding your place inside of it. On 𝘶𝘭𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘧𝘦𝘴𝘵 (this album) something different occurs. The space and events are built around you as you move through the record.

.... [please see https://enmossed.bandcamp.com/album/ultrafest for full description]

- Nick Klein, February 10, 2025

all songs recorded and arranged between Miami and New York by doris dana and domingo castillo flores in 2023
audio finalized by Glyn Maier
artwork by Dominique Saiegh
short story by Natalia Zuluaga
design by Joe Bastardo
silkscreening by Mark Rice
all proceeds to Palestine Children's Relief Fund

ultrafest

bad lsd trips - aventura sonidera (ENMB-17)

bad lsd trips - ultrafest (ENMB-17)
Excerpts below from the extended album description by Nick Klein, written February 10, 2025.

I. 

𝘣𝘢𝘥 𝘭𝘴𝘥 𝘵𝘳𝘪𝘱𝘴 is the collaborative duo of makers doris dana and domingo castillo flores. Respectively the two have fostered practices that have sprawled out through various approaches and, whether in the lanes of the musical or the contemporary arts, the phenomenology of the social and inclusive prevails. On 𝘶𝘭𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘧𝘦𝘴𝘵, this motif continues through the psychedelia of its eight time-defying recordings, welcoming the listener into an open temporal architecture of the stereo field as a signifier of environment. It is worth noting that the group began collaborating in Miami, Florida with longer form improvisations recorded to a stereo cassette deck. In these recordings, the paved geographical sprawl and oceanic view permeated the approach to amassing long swaths of sound material. Listening back on that work at the time of this writing, each track feels as though one is walking into an active space, arriving to an event already in full swing and finding your place inside of it. On 𝘶𝘭𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘧𝘦𝘴𝘵 (this album) something different occurs. The space and events are built around you as you move through the record.

IV.

𝘶𝘭𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘧𝘦𝘴𝘵 mirrors the balance of the temporal interiority and exteriority of the previously referenced chemical compounds when applied to the body for recreational psychedelic experiences. The jubilation of the slack jawed festival attendee, the gallop of the horse upon the earthen ground, the stagnation of humidity on the body, the sprawl of unkempt concrete through Florida cities, the aroma of bleach in a bar bathroom. On this album, the band illustrates the territories when you almost have your grounding; the moment when you are on the pivot between the real and the intoxicated, or even the really intoxicated. These spaces are the softening and hardening of light on your eyes, they are the gripping of a porcelain sink between moments staring in the bathroom mirror.

In an era where so much tremendous creative energy is put into a softer, safer space through ambient music to respond (negligently) or (worse?) take shelter from the hellish global condition of late capitalism; 𝘣𝘢𝘥 𝘭𝘴𝘥 𝘵𝘳𝘪𝘱𝘴 takes your hand into the murkier moments of reflection awarded to the listener in the genre. The resolution is not carved out for you, and what truly sits suspended in the ambiance of the now is an unfiltered view of where the world has come to through centuries of civilization. It’s a brutal landscape with an ill-determined end result. Where other practitioners of the sonic gesture of ambient are sheltering within a glistening plasticene blanket of clicks and rustlings with low pass filters of melancholic chord structures, this album burrows itself comfortably in the formless chaos of true psychedelia and reminds me 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 is truly what our unfortunate ambiance is today. The album reflects joy and terror, and it longs and leans towards finding something in the midst of sonic exploration. Passivity nullified, ambient beyond indulgence and evasion.

releases February 25, 2025

all songs recorded and arranged between Miami and New York by doris dana and domingo castillo flores in 2023
audio finalized by Glyn Maier for PLEN Audio
artwork by Dominique Saiegh
short story by Natalia Zuluaga
design by Joe Bastardo
silkscreening by Mark Rice

https://soundcloud.com/enmossed
https://soundcloud.com/dorisdana
https://soundcloud.com/nick-klein


Digi still available

Premiere: bad lsd trips - steaming mescaline (extended mix) [enmossed]

New York City / Berlin — Appendix.files presents xochicuicatl, a 5-track collection of raw ambient excavations and subversive emotional fragments from secret getii. Recorded in NYC in the spring of 2023, the EP wanders through dream-smeared cityscapes and back again, channeling the hazy comedown of overstimulation into abstract, cathartic form.

Buy: https://appendixfiles.bandcamp.com/album/appx-17-xochicuicatl

Artist @powerdynamics
Label: @appendixfiles

PREMIERE: secret getii - the longest party [appendix.files]

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Experimental music label based in South Florida.