Artist: Giant Claw
Album: Mirror Guide
Format: Digital / Vinyl
Release: May 7 or 14, 2021

Music by Keith Rankin
Visual art by Ellen Thomas and Keith Rankin
Mastered by Starkey

Artist Statement:

I have been recording Mirror Guide off and on since my previous album Soft Channel came out in 2017, working on pieces in my spare time while co-running Orange Milk Records and trying to make a living as a freelance visual artist. 

I wanted Mirror Guide to feel less frenzied than some of my previous music, and decided to use a hyperreal string sound as a lead instrument the rest of the sounds could orbit around. I improvised long stretches with the digital instrument and picked moments that elicited some emotional response in me as the foundation for each piece. It helped to imagine a small synthetic ensemble playing every additional part, considering the choices an individual might make if they were focused primarily on their instruments’ role within the group. 

In my improvised sessions I also gravitated towards what I called a ‘bouncing ball’ rhythm - later described to me as an exponential rhythmic sequence. After thinking about how genres often center around a core rhythmic pattern I adopted the sequence as another consistent feature for the album. 

In the past I’ve cut up pop acapellas as vocal elements, but on Mirror Guide decided to work with several artists I had come to know from three very different music scenes. I traveled to Pittsburgh for a few days and recorded with vocalist Tamar Kamin (from the band the Van Allen Belt) generating hours of improvised and lightly prepared melodic material that I later edited into several songs. I also incorporated more poetic almost spoken word vocals from Japanese musician and photographer NTsKi and a small segment of screeching moans from fellow Ohioan Diana Gruber. 

More generally I found inspiration from artists like Paul Lansky, Ryuichi Sakamoto, and the range of emotion in the music of Geinoh Yamashirogumi Orchestra, best known for scoring the Akira soundtrack which is a longtime favorite. I was also encouraged to complete Mirror Guide through conversations with the late composer, tape collage pioneer, and friend Noah Creshevsky, who gave me several boosts of confidence after hearing early versions of the music.

Giant Claw - Mir-Cam Startup

Annulus is Ryu Yoshizawa’s third release on Orange Milk as Koeosaeme. His 2019 LP Obanikeshi was a barrage of high resolution abstract compositions, and Annulus picks up from there, refining the style and adding an extra layer of inspiration from the Southeast Asian folk music of Burma, Thailand, China, etc. He inserts music concrete with silky repetition, making you feel as if you are walking through parts of Asia, contemplating experimental music. Annulus is peaceful, melodic, atonal, and flows together as one big piece. Part 1 of the record is concrete music, and Part 2 is described as abstract music. It is distinctly Japanese despite other western influences like Steve Reich and Jon Hassle; music meant for a documentary that will be made in the distant future. Annulus features collaborations with Hidekazu Sakamoto, Seth Graham, and LXV.

Koeosaeme is Ryu Yoshizawa. From 2004, he has been a member of the sound artists group “OFFICE INTENZIO” under Yellow Magic Orchestra’s Yukihiro Takahashi. In addition, he is in charge of live event backup support and recordings for Ryuichi Sakamoto, Yukihiro Takahashi, Kyoka and many others. He also produces music commercially for Lotte and Square Enix.

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In Memory of Simon Kingston feat. recovery girl

Artist: NTsKi
Album: Orca
Format: Digital / Vinyl / CD on EM Records Japan
Release: Aug 6, 2021

NTsKi is a Kyoto-based artist, musician. She began making music while living in the UK and began working in earnest in 2017 after returning to Japan. She works seamlessly to create tracks with gentle but somewhat eerie vocals and a mixture of diverse musicality. In 2021, she was selected by Bijutsu Techo as one of the newcomer artists who will open up the 2020s. Her collaboration with 7FO, released through EM Records, was selected as one of the best of the year by Shintaro Sakamoto. In addition to her self-produced works, she has participated in the works of Giant Claw, CVN, Shokuhin Matsuri a.k.a foodman, Dengaryu, KM, etc., and has released through overseas labels including TAR and Orange Milk. Also, she has contributed music to the Japan Pavilion hosted by the Ministry of Economy, Trade, and Industry at SXSW 2019, where Yoichi Ochiai was the general director, virtual singer te'resa, and an Australian bag brand. On August 6th, 2021, her debut album "Orca" will be released via Orange Milk / EM Records. 

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Orca ~

Music & words by NTsKi, except “Parallelisme” by Haruomi Hosono & Miharu Koshi 

All tracks produced by NTsKi, except track 3, 4, 5, 6 co-produced by Yem Gel, track 2 co-produced by Le Makeup, track 8 co-produced by Dan Shutt, track 10 produced by Giant Claw

Guitars on track 2 by Le Makeup, vocals on track 2 by Dove, vocal editing on track 6 by Hiroto Taniguchi, guitars and bass on track 9 by Yosuke Shimonaka

Track 1, 5, 8, 9 mixed by The Anticipation Illicit Tsuboi @ RDS Toritsudai 

Mastered by Rick Essig @ REM Sound NYC 

Visual art by Keith Rankin based on a montage by NTsKi

NTsKi - On Divination In Sleep Feat. Dove (Giant Claw Remix)

NTsKi - 1992

Artist: digifae
Album: digifae
Format: Digital / CS 
Release: July 1 2022

Music by Galen Tipton and Diana Gruber
album cover painting by Ellen Thomas and Tissue Hunter

https://orangemilkrecords.bandcamp.com/album/digifae

digifae - better

digifae - phonecall

digifae - lava

Warsaw’s Julek Ploski presents a new album Hotel **** . A cinematic collection that shows a hybridity between baroque composition and electronic production, Hotel ****  balances a strident melancholic sense of hardcore urgency with delicate fairytale affect. Though rarely veering into direct dance music, the album uses those crescendo-based tropes to narrative ends, creating spellbinding and dynamic movements of electronic music. Both ornate and dysphoric, the album transposes a kind of hyperreal iron-age orchestral folklore into a bombed out digital sci-fi wasteland; a symphony of shattered mythic motifs being bit-warped on the last harddrive in the fallout shelter.

Julek Ploski - New York, Poland

EQ Why - Dance Floor

Format: LP / CS / Digital
Release Date: Oct 31 2023

Tyrone Smith’s EQ Why project returns to Orange Milk with a rapid and tight collection of dance floor tracks for the end of 2023. You can hear the classic Footwork sound that Smith became known for twisting with other forms and electronic music traditions. There are Kraftwerk-style squelches in the opening and closing tracks, and the chopped vocal edits and sample work on the title track remind me of early 90s bass music riding a frantic juke momentum. The whole album flows like a continuous mix, minimal and precise in its instrumentation with no filler. I love the stripped back but intense energy of “Sixteen 33” — the focus is entirely on the rhythmic interplay with occasional bass note punctuations and nothing more; it perfectly captures the ethos of this music with only a few ingredients, and when you turn it up loud it feels so good.

Dance Floor

EQ Why - Sixteen 33

Diana: https://soundcloud.com/dianastarshine
Galen: https://soundcloud.com/galentipton
Giant Claw: https://soundcloud.com/giantclaw

visual art by https://www.instagram.com/graphixgenesis/

diana starshine, galen tipton, Giant Claw - CRASH

WORLD WAR OLYMPICS

second cassette pressing is out now

http://www.orangemilkrecords.com/
https://orangemilkrecords.bandcamp.com/
https://deathsdynamicshroud.bandcamp.com/


death's dynamic shroud.wmv - ゲーム

Inspired by gas stations, race tracks, county fairs, improper music production, a feeling of total disregard and that everything matters except the value placed on it.

When God Released Me Feat. Lucy Liyou

Night Of Fire

first single from the upcoming album 'It's Always Been You' 

https://estle.bandcamp.com/

Estle - Life In Superposition

from the upcoming album:

https://orangemilkrecords.bandcamp.com/album/keepsakefm

galen tipton & Holly Waxwing - keepsakeFM

from the upcoming album keepsakeFM:

orangemilkrecords.bandcamp.com/album/keepsakefm

galen tipton & Holly Waxwing - potluck (feat. Ari Liloia)

Mukqs is Max Allison.
Recorded live at John J. Louis Hall on 11/15/2023 in a single take on Roland SP404 MKII & presented without overdubs.
Recorded / engineered by Mike Meegan.
Mastered by Angel Marcloid at Angel Hair Audio.
Art and layout by Seth Graham.

Mukqs - A Little Night Fishing

From the album Polofuturyzm
Pre-order CD at https://pimpon.bandcamp.com/album/polofuturyzm

TAK TAK NIE NIE

Tendencies - Waterbed
Cassette out 10/9/15 

https://orangemilkrecords.bandcamp.com
http://www.orangemilkrecords.com

Tendencies - Candy Colored Tangerine

Cassette out now: https://orangemilkrecords.bandcamp.com/album/deep-thoughts

CD available from Virgin Babylon Records (Japan): http://www.virgin-babylon-records.com/unsupermarket/music_045.html

Giant Claw - Deep Thoughts 002

Buy: https://orangemilkrecords.bandcamp.com/album/binasu
Artist: NV
Album: Binasu
Format: Digital / Cassette
Release: Feb. 26th, 2016
Genre: Pop, Synthesizer

NV - Binasu

death's dynamic shroud.wmv - CLASSROOM SEXXTAPE
Cassette / Digital : 5-13-16
orangemilkrecords.bandcamp.com
www.orangemilkrecords.com

death's dynamic shroud.wmv - ✰RARE EMOJI COLLECTION✰

toiret status - ◎omaru◎
digital / cassette --- 9/21/16

toiret status - #31 Feat. DJWWWW

Nico Niquo - In A Silent Way
2/24/17(LP / Digital)

Nico Niquo returns to Orange Milk with the synthetic ambient masterpiece In A Silent Way. The work contains slowly evolving compositions and sound meditations based around the palette of modern grime music minus the percussion. In the songs “Arbo Arco” and “He Loved Him Madly” the grime theme is most present, with droplets of synth and bass rising and melting to suggest invisible kick drums underneath. “Rendered” and “In A Silent Way” begin with simple arpeggios that build to intense climaxes, while closing track “Aa-m” is an almost ASMR-inducing meditation.

Music by Nico Callaghan. Tenor Saxophone by Joseph Buchan. Mastered by Simon Lam. Visual art by Keith Rankin.

In A Silent Way

Nico Niquo - In A Silent Way

from the album Pharma

Digital / Double Cassette out Aug. 4th, 2017

NMESH - Mall Full Of Drugs

From the album Music for the Memphis Group

Digital / Cassette out Aug. 4th, 2017

https://orangemilkrecords.bandcamp.com/

Matt Wellins - Midtown Manhattan

from the album Heavy Black Heart

digital release on 8.15.2017
Vinyl, CS versions coming later

death's dynamic shroud - Tell Me Your Secret

BUY: http://orangemilkrecords.storenvy.com/

Music makers known as Daytime Television and Teams join up to form Teamm Jordann. We're excited to present their record, Champion, on Orange Milk. I keep saying that I'm not exactly sure what is sampled and what's performed on the album, which is part of what makes it so exciting. What I do know is that it bangs pretty hard, is super catchy, and puts an emphasis on editing, chopping, and screwing. If you've seen the video for "Stadium" (https://vimeo.com/26452463) then you have a decent idea of what you're getting into: the sounds of a pixelated digital screen within a screen, a beach run against a DX-7, Michael Jordan dunking. 

Teamm Jordann - Stadium (Ignition)

Artist: galen tipton
Album: fake meat
Format: Vinyl / Digital
Release: Sept 2019

Music by Galen Tipton, Holly Waxwing & Giant Claw
Visual art by Galen Tipton and Sam Balfus

galen tipton - touch (w/ Holly Waxwing & Giant Claw)

Artist: Shmu
Album: The Universe Is Inside My Body
Format: Cassette / Digital
Release: Feb. 19, 2021

performed and produced by Samuel Chown

mixed & mastered by Samuel Chown, Usef Hemimy & Angel Marcloid
Visual Art by Keith Rankin

‘The Universe Is Inside My Body’ is a very playful work, dense with ideas that balance traditional harmonic composition with algorithmic or generative processes. Shmu (aka Austin based artist Samuel Chown) states his goal as trying to make organic feeling music that is influenced and contains non-organic sounds and methods. The result is not overly-heavy, instead adopting a light touch with brisk musical movements and many wild harmonic choices that don’t settle into total consonance or dissonance. It feels like an artist excited to be trying new things; Sam says it’s his first album without his usual drum and vocal instrumentation, and a chance to experiment in a more digital workspace. 

You could also describes these new pieces visually as explorations or deconstructions of imagined environments, so as you listen think of water & amusement parks, fast pace cityscapes, and abstract video game-inspired landscapes, like 3D and 2D scrolls through candy castles, hedge fields, ice structures, laser zones, etc.

Shmu - {Tech, No Human}⚙ Memories, Thoughts & Imaginations Exist Where?

Artist: Shmu
Album: The Universe Is Inside My Body
Format: Cassette / Digital
Release: Feb. 19, 2021

pre-order link: https://orangemilkrecords.bandcamp.com/album/the-universe-is-inside-my-body

performed and produced by Samuel Chown

mixed & mastered by Samuel Chown, Usef Hemimy & Angel Marcloid
Visual Art by Keith Rankin

‘The Universe Is Inside My Body’ is a very playful work, dense with ideas that balance traditional harmonic composition with algorithmic or generative processes. Shmu (aka Austin based artist Samuel Chown) states his goal as trying to make organic feeling music that is influenced and contains non-organic sounds and methods. The result is not overly-heavy, instead adopting a light touch with brisk musical movements and many wild harmonic choices that don’t settle into total consonance or dissonance. It feels like an artist excited to be trying new things; Sam says it’s his first album without his usual drum and vocal instrumentation, and a chance to experiment in a more digital workspace.

You could also describes these new pieces visually as explorations or deconstructions of imagined environments, so as you listen think of water & amusement parks, fast pace cityscapes, and abstract video game-inspired landscapes, like 3D and 2D scrolls through candy castles, hedge fields, ice structures, laser zones, etc.

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