Label: Banoffee Pies Records
Catalogue Number: BPSS03
Title: Surface Comms (Sonder Series 03)
Artist: Mistareez
Genre: Ambient / IDM / Downtempo
Release Date: 27.08.2021

1. Gauzelastic
2. Howlings
3. Affectionate
4. Total Restraint
5. Gel (Smothered)
6. Skate 2

Sonder: The realization that each random passerby is living a life as vivid and complex as your own.

Banoffee Pies Records Sonder Series sub label that focuses on ambient, IDM and downtempo audio delicacies continues, with “Surface Comms”.

The 3rd instalment brings a 6 track collection of heavily textured introverted productions from Mistareez, another artist formerly residing in the city of Bristol. Seek refuge in the calm space inside your head, 
lose yourself in isolation. Music for reflection. BP x

Mastered: Optimum Mastering
Distributed by: KUDOS Records

Sonder Series 03

Surface Comms

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Mistareez - Surface Comms (Sonder Series 03) - CLIPS

We are glad to share with you Liminal Spaces, our next compilation release (digital only). This V.A. is a collective effort from 8 artists, all invited to explore the concept of grey-area in a way that it would relate to their personal and/or creative realm. A grey-area is very linked to what is known as a liminal space : a transitional location, or a state being, in between two others, often empty, abandoned, that feels cold, nostalgic and slightly unsettling, but also familiar to our minds.

Liminal Space goes into a wide sonic spectrum range. Disturbing spoken words, emotional pop anthems, deconstructed club and disquieting ambient are merged all together here for an unsteady listening experience.

The creative process began just before the war in Ukraine - when we learnt that we were working on a concept so close to such an event, we decided that all proceeds will go to Helping To Leave, a NGO helping people evacuate from areas affected by the Ukrainian war.

Morfine - On & Off

Various Artists

AMF&F003

Accidental Meetings

Format: CD + Postcard

Release Date: December 9th

Tracklist:

1. memotone - Brackets 
2. Wild Terrier Orchestra - OSMAN TAKAS 
3. Dijit - Sharq
4. Susu Laroche - Munojat 
5. DJ Ojo - Exit Strategy
6. Ausschuss - True Partner 
7. Luke Lund - Impostor (Bristol Action) 
8. ML - Das Selbst 
9. Bruce - Self Doubt 
10. B. Rupp - Into Flu 
11. YOKEL - Tsunami Ft. D.Ham & Franco Franco 
12. Abu Ama - Away With You 
13. Rupert Clervaux and HMOT - Zum F/F 
14. Best Available Technology - Cortisol Preseason '22 
15. Jay Glass Dubs & X.YPNO - The Creatures in Defence 
16. ELDON x Robin Stewart - Fruit Weh Ripe 
17. Jerome - Both/and 
18. Angel Hunt - Rainham Steel 
19. Saskia - Dizzy
20. FUMU - TOUGHER THAN DARTMOOR TUNDRA 
21. Dan Thorman - DYSB 
22. Ambulance vs. Ambulance - You Are The Answer

AMF&F003

DJ ojo - Exit Strategy

Listen / purchase via auralconduct.bandcamp.com

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Salutingrome graces the second chapter of aural conduct. On ‘Washing Hands’ a few of the artist’s finest crafts and outtakes are assembled, intuitive lyrical music that appeared shrouded in mystery on the internet in recent years. 

The moniker came to life as the aperture for the characteristic experiments written by Zamity Mitelembe. Echoing his activity in theatre, these modernistic tracks express solitude and transgression. Swindling stairwells and winter nights – immerse yourself in an ode to the season of ice and distance.

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All music by Salutingrome (Zamity Mitelembe), 2019–2022. Additional production by Victor Keyser (4) and Max van Westerop (5). Additional instruments (guitar and cello) by Hidde Boogaard and Fien Bierman (2). Additional vocals by Femke Tijseling (3). Recorded and mixed by BUG & Mannes Kocken (3), Victor Keyser (4), Max van Westerop (5) and Zamity Mitelembe (1, 2 & 6). Mastered by Jasper Boogaard. 

Cover photo by Zamity Mitelembe. Design by Marianne Noordzij. Cassette (dubbing) by Luca van Grinsven (Off Center). J-card printed at Werkplaats Typografie. 

aural conduct, 2023. Label concept and lead by Luke Cohlen. Identity design by Marianne Noordzij.

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Cassette album, dubbed onto smokey brown near-translucent tape, comes with a 3-panel J-card that includes artwork, typographic poetry and credits, all packed in a transparent case featuring a logo sticker.

Wholesale import through Rush Hour Distribution.

Washing Hands

aural conduct 02 — Salutingrome - Washing Hands

Stills Upstream

Building a new Album for the Summers Sounds I want to hear and DJ's may want to play!  Ibiza Madness track 1.  I'm also experimenting using my voice for sounds - no AI was used in the production of this track!  (LOL Just saying).

IbizaMadness

Written and produced by Chevel 

From the forthcoming album 'Always Yours' (DIFFLP002)

Chevel - Always Yours - Different Circles 2018 (DIFFLP002)

Vina Konda - From J To C

A potent amalgam of tribal and rainforest ambient tropes, Sene furnishes the inaugural Bamboo Shows Tapes compilation with his 'shogunate bass'.

'Bamboo Shows Tapes 001' is out now.

Buy: bit.ly/2PrGRYK

@seneparis
@bambooshows

Bamboo Shows Tapes 001

Premiere: Sene - Soft Return [Bamboo Shows Tapes]

feat. Kenichi Iwasa, Kuljit Bhamra

Beatrice Dillon - Workaround
Format: LP / DL
Cat.No: PAN 106
Release Date: 07 February 2020
Purchase: bit.ly/33ISoYr

‘Workaround’ is the lucidly playful and ambitious solo debut album by rhythmobsessive musician and DJ, Beatrice Dillon for PAN. It combines her love of UK club music’s syncopated suss and Afro- Caribbean influences with a gamely experimental approach to modern composition and stylistic fusion, using inventive sampling and luminous mixing techniques adapted from modern pop to express fresh ideas about groove-driven music and perpetuate its form with timeless, future-proofed clarity.

Recorded over 2017-2019 between studios in London, Berlin and New York, ‘Workaround’ renders a hypnotic series of polymetric permutations at a fixed 150bpm tempo. Mixing meticulous FM synthesis and harmonics with crisply edited acoustic samples from a wide range of guests including UK Bhangra pioneer Kuljit Bhamra (tabla); Pharoah Sanders Band’s Jonny Lam (pedal steel guitar); techno innovators Laurel Halo (synth/vocal) and Batu (samples); Senegalese Griot Kadialy Kouyaté (Kora), Hemlock’s Untold and new music specialist Lucy Railton (cello); amongst others, Dillon deftly absorbs their distinct instrumental colours and melody into 14 bright and spacious computerised frameworks that suggest immersive, nuanced options for dancers, DJs and domestic play.

‘Workaround’ evolves Dillon’s notions in a coolly unfolding manner that speaks directly to the album’s literary and visual inspirations, ranging from James P. Carse’s book ‘Finite And Infinite Games’ to the abstract drawings of Tomma Abts or Jorinde Voigt as well as painter Bridget Riley’s essays on grids and colour. Operating inside this rooted but mutable theoretical wireframe, Dillon’s ideas come to life as interrelated, efficient patterns in a self-sufficient system.

With a naturally fractal-not-fractional logic, Dillon’s rhythms unfold between unresolved 5/4 tresillo patterns, complex tabla strokes and spark-jumping tics in a fluid, tactile dance of dynamic contrasts between strong/light, sudden/restrained, and bound/free made in reference to the notational instructions of choreographer Rudolf Laban. Working in and around the beat and philosophy, the album’s freehand physics contract and expand between the lissom rolls of Bhamra’s tabla in the first, to a harmonious balance of hard drum angles and swooping FM synth cadence featuring additional synth and vocal from Laurel Halo in ‘Workaround Two’, while the extruded strings of Lucy Railton create a sublime tension at the album’s palatecleansing denouement, triggering a scintillating run of technoid pieces that riff on the kind of swung physics found in Artwork’s seminal ‘Basic G’, or Rian Treanor’s disruptive flux with a singularly tight yet loose motion and infectious joy.

Crucially, the album sees Dillon focus on dub music’s pliable emptiness, rather than the moody dematerialisation of reverb and echo. The substance of her music is rematerialised in supple, concise emotional curves and soberly freed to enact its ideas in balletic plies, rugged parries and sweeping, capoeira-like floor action. Applying deeply canny insight drawn from her years of practice as sound designer, musician and hugely knowledgable/intuitive DJ, ‘Workaround’ can be heard as Dillon’s ingenious solution or key to unlocking to perceptions of stiffness, darkness or grid-locked rigidity in electronic music. And as such it speaks to an ideal of rhythm-based and experimental music ranging from the hypnotic senegalese mbalax of Mark Ernestus’ Ndagga Rhythm Force, through SND and, more currently, the hard drum torque of DJ Plead; to adroitly exert the sensation of weightlessness and freedom in the dance and personal headspace.

The album is mixed by James Rand and mastered by Rashad Becker at Dubplates & Mastering. Artwork by Thomas Ruff, layout by Johannes Schnatmann & Bill Kouligas.

Vina Konda - From J To C

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