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DekDre Scap B

Function - Ghost Echoes

Ken Ishii, Yuada -Prism- (Arts)

Todd Terry Presents Ready for a New Day

It's Over Love

A-TON is a new edition and platform of Berghain's in-house imprint Ostgut Ton, focussing on ambient, archive and alternative music, differing from the club-focussed records on the main label. Furthermore the first A-TON offering – Chronicles I – marks the start of a series from Luke Slater's The 7th Plain moniker, with remastered, previously released and unheard archive material.

First published on General Production Recordings between 1993 and 1996, Slater's The 7th Plain pushed the further burgeoning genre of ambient music towards its boundaries by not limiting itself to mostly beatless synth pads, but by including propulsive beat progressions, nuanced rhythms and subtle melodies. The 7th Plain's extramundane music dodged classification, as heard on the albums The 4 Cornered Room and My Yellow Wise Rug (both on GPR, 1994) – emotional, eerie and escapist music, at the time of release forward thinking records that in retrospect managed to overcome time.

Originally recorded at Slater's Spacestation Ø, now all newly mastered for A-TON, Chronicles I depicts the futurist aesthetic and musical agenda of the 90s in a contemporary context, without nostalgia but confidence of its timelessness. With seven original musical pieces and a previously unreleased Ken Ishii remix, The 7th Plain sounds as spirited and relevant as ever.

While “Boundaries” (taken from My Yellow Wise Rug), “Grace” and “Surface Bound” (from The 4 Cornered Room) should be familiar to Slater aficionados, “The Super 8”, “T Funk States”, “Slip 7 Sideways” and “Chords Are Dirty” are previously unheard like the aforementioned remix of Ishii's “Extra”.

The 7th Plain - Chords Are Dirty

The 7th Plain - Grace

Virton Upgraded (Ben Klock Remixes)

Virton Upgraded (Ben Klock Remix A)

Shadows Documents

Low Rhythm

When the Music...

Step a Nova

Get Physical Music Presents: The Best of Get Physical 2016

Let the Music Take You Higher (Wild PiTcH Mix)

Steingarten

Mädchen (Gudrun Gut ABC Mix)

Artist: Jan Jelinek & Computer Soup
Album: Improvisations And Edits, Tokyo 26.09.2001
Label#: Faitback10
Release date: May 4th 2018

Faitiche is happy to be releasing the album Improvisations And Edits, Tokyo 26.09.2001 on vinyl for the first time. For the original 2002 CD on Soup-Disk and Sub Rosa (Audiosphere), Jan Jelinek and the Japanese trio Computer Soup (Satoru Hori – trumpet, Osamu Okubo - toys & electronics, Kei Ikeda - toys & electronics) presented eight tracks all recorded one afternoon in the trio’s living room in Tokyo. They are excerpts from a joint group improvisation that subsequently underwent rudimentary editing, on which Jelinek and Computer Soup worked separately.

Jelinek met the three musicians at his first concert in Japan in 2001, at Tokyo’s Yellow club, where Computer Soup performed as the support act. Delighted by their free improvisation on pocket-sized electronic toys, trumpet and oscillators, he arranged to meet Hori, Okubo and Ikeda a few days later for a session at their apartment. The resulting three-hour recording, made on their living room floor, formed the basis for Improvisations and Edits. A few days later, Jelinek returned to Berlin. Over the following months, they separately chose passages from the recording that were then edited and assembled into an album.

Formed in Tokyo in 1996 as a quintet (including Shusaku Hariya and Daisuke Oishi), Computer Soup began by performing with acoustic instruments on the streets of Shibuya. Ikeda und Okubo soon switched instruments, and from then on the group’s minimalistic but densely woven sound was defined by electronic toys, oscillators and Satoru Hori’s trumpet. Their first album was released in 1997 on the Japanese label Soup Disk. Eight further releases followed.
 

From the reviews of Improvisations and Edits, Tokyo 26.09.2001 in 2003:

The mind-blowing first track "Straight Life" is perhaps the best example of what the album has to offer. Jelinek's trademark smears and washes occupy the midrange, like ghosted images of Joe Zawinul's electric piano floating quietly in the wind. DSP jazz modes are set against a walking bassline (possibly computer generated) and a gently tooted trumpet complete with Harmon mute, a dead ringer for Miles Davis' Prestige-era ballads. The effect is something like a three-dimensional film, with different realities on each layer; images of what jazz was manage to interact with a real-time demonstration of all it could be.
pitchfork.com
“Improvisations and Edits” is a warm and mellow Ambient release with beautiful glitch fragments, static noise bursts and real trumpet intersections. However, there are times where it is the exact opposite, mainly effect-laden, overdriven and bouncy with a lack of melodies and focus, so be aware of these specific tracks.
ambientexotica.com
Often deliciously dreamy and hazy, “Improvisations and Edits” is like listening to an exceptional instrumental jazz performance while half-conscious or under some sort of chemical influence. Computerised blips and bleeps, loops and treatments and murky sonic skips curl up around desolate horn notes and scattered instrumental noises that culminate in elegant music.
exclaim.ca

Jan Jelinek & Computer Soup: Straight Life

Planetary Assault Systems | Bell Blocker

Feel Good (feat. Khruangbin)

On November 27th of this year, Japanese Techno pioneer Ken Ishii will see the release of his new album on Japanese imprint U/M/A/A (@umaainc), titled "Möbius Strip." 

Featuring two collaborations with The Wizard himself, Jeff Mills, as well as Dosem and Go Hiyama, the album will come out digitally, as well as in a standard edition CD, a Limited Edition CD with extra bonus features (video, bonus track and original typeface), and a 7″ Clear Vinyl edition complete with hardcover.

Today, we present to you an exclusive premiere of one of two collaboration tracks between Ken Ishii and Jeff Mills featured on the forthcoming album.

Möbius Strip Track Listing:
1. Bells of New Life
2. Chaos Theory
3. Take No Prisoners (Album Mix) with Jeff Mills
4. Vector 1
5. Green Flash (Album Mix) with Dosem
6. Silent Disorder with Go Hiyama
7. Prism
8. Vector 2
9. Skew Lines
10. Polygraph
11. Quantum Teleportation with Jeff Mills
12. Vector 3
13. Like A Star At Dawn

"Möbius Strip" comes out in full on November 27.

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Take No Prisoners

Premiere: Ken Ishii with Jeff Mills "Take No Prisoners" - U/M/A/A

Silence

Infinite Snow

Roman artist Adiel joins forces with Northern Electronics co-founder Anthony Linell on new EP, 'Raso'. Hear the 909 kicks juxtaposed with ebbing ambience and haunted vocals on the A1 now.

More info: https://djmag.com/music/premiere-adiel-anthony-linell-raso

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