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Track from NE90 Vallmo – Othem LP
Out on LP and digital September 8th

For her second release on Northern Electronics, Vallmo (appellation of Melina Åkerman Kvie) strengthens her proficiency towards an electronic elevation with each and every track being a crevice offering kaleidoscopic gleams into a poetic narrative extracted from the slightly auto tuned yet softly metallic voice. What Virgil is to Dante, the piano is to the listener: a fragmented leitmotif and a guiding cicerone into the nimbus that is 'Othem'.
Dual in nature, the album comprises seamless transitions between divergent idioms, figuratively as well as literally. A false dichotomy conveying the opposing pairs tender and bold, distinct but evading and with a direction every so often forward as inward. 'Othem' is an opus in equal parts melancholy, magic and mimesis.

Mixed by Nori Kin
Artwork by John Gustafsson, Graphics by Jonas Rönnberg
Mastered by Giuseppe Tillieci at EnissLab, Rome

Vallmo – Othem

Pavel Milyakov & Yana Pavlova - Strong-Willed

Field Records takes a look into the vast catalogue of Celer, the prolific ambient project from Tokyo-based American artist Will Long. Perfectly Beneath Us was originally released in 2012 as a CD-R on Still*Sleep, and now it’s being presented as a vinyl release, remastered by Stephan Mathieu.

Celer began in California in 2005 as a collaborative project between Will Long and Danielle Baquet, resulting in reams of self-released work up until Baquet passed away in 2009. Long opted to keep their project going, and Celer has continued to grow as an expansive exploration of purest ambient. Meanwhile Long’s solo work as Celer and under his own name has been equally accomplished, with scores of releases on labels such as DJ Sprinkles’ Comatonse Recordings, and respected Norwegian leftfield label Smalltown Supersound.

With such a sizeable library of sounds to explore, the reissue of Perfectly Beneath Us serves as an ideal entry point into the middle period of Celer's catalogue, presenting four pieces of sustaining, lethargic movements, wreaked in profound subtlety. Long exercises the utmost resignation from the brief ‘Distressing Sensations’ and ‘Ultra-terrestrial Yearning’ through to the 10-minutes-plus spells of ‘Slightly Apart, Almost Touching’ and ‘Absolute Receptivity Of All The Senses’.

It’s truly hypnotic, captivating music that rewards the attentive listener as much as it soothes the casual drifter. Originally limited to just 100 copies in 2012, it’s now beautifully framed on a carefully considered reissue which adds to Field’s own repertoire of evocative, subliminal electronics.

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Celer - Slightly Apart, Almost Touching

Pavel Milyakov — drifted off (feat. Richie Culver)

KIRSTY rmx 3-11-21

Feloneezy slinks into the Appendix.files fold with Unlimited Peace—a glistening 5-track transmission, out June 4th.

Pre-order: https://appendixfiles.bandcamp.com/album/appx-18-unlimited-peace
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Track from NE57 Varg – Sky City: Even in the Heart of Heaven, Angels Can Still Feel Fear
Out on vinyl and digital May 3rd.

Part curse, part declaration, part Rorschach test, Varg's new collection of EPs is a barely balanced inferno. Side by side, raw club burners arrive from the wretched plateaus levelled out by chaotic neurotransmissions, while sweet and soft anthems take the pain away.

The first EP, Sky City: Even in the Heart of Heaven, Angels Can Still Feel Fear, affirms Varg's deft and agile take on techno. Here minimalism spars with blissed out programming, unafraid to pepper sedate hooks with intricate percussive rufige. With each track's eyes on the raving kru, Varg restates his permit to take it to the floor. It's foreboding, but it always has been—and Sky City: A Weak Heart to Break (Spit) makes this its method. Launching itself under the opening track's dazzling melancholic sweep, the EP loses its way in every direction at once by the last track's glitching gabber meltdown. Fair warning is required for the demonic and cosmically unhinged piece of rhythmic noise that begins the second side.

Artwork by David von Bahr
Mastered by Neel at EnissLab, Rome

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Varg – Death.Toggle / CheatingIntensityBuff_Fearless ft. Fatal & Chatline

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Varg – Death.Toggle / CheatingIntensityBuff_Fearless ft. Fatal & Chatline

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