Release date: 19/08/22

If you would like to review this release, please email info@astralindustries.co.uk

2x12” 180g gatefold vinyl//mastered by Noel Summerville//original artwork by Theo Ellsworth.

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AI-31 sees the debut release from a new collaboration between Samuel van Dijk (Netherlands) and Rasmus Hedlund (Finland). Both key proponents to the scene in Northern Europe, they come together with mutual understanding and a common vision to sound. Dialog acts as a conversational exchange that sees the interplay of dynamic frequencies, evocative imagery and contemporary sonic art. Spread across four sides, the album as a whole exists as a kind of metaphysical process, eternally growing and contracting — change is the only constant, marked by a continuous progression of sound and space.  

Expansive, deep, and at moments arresting, Dialog unfolds with sweeping soundscapes and shimmers with tactile sonic details. A chasmic rift of scintillating drone structures, each layer exposes a series of ever-deeper shades. In a play of dynamic dualities, the pair harnesses both earthly materials as well as access to more ethereal dimensions in the music. Side A begins with sub-terrestrial ruptures, gestating in a process of constant elemental changes. Rattling hits sputter amongst a state of nascent chaos, yet continues to be maintained in self-regulating stasis. Side B sets a more introspective tone, whispering with ghostly artefacts and bubbling synth lines, before building into a driving energy of layered field recordings and mechanistic timbres. The essence of form continues to be contested, until it subsides into momentary calm on side C. A cleansing period of soft drones float into the space and the pace slows, washing away remnants of past. The journey continues with side D’s conclusion - a solemn contour that reaches its internal extent, to then finally return to its source.

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Taken from Dialog's self-titled LP on Astral Industries, out August 19.

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The Vision Reels - Aconites (Launaea Immersion) [Huinali Recordings]

Release name - Aconites
Catalog - HNL016
Release Date - 10th of October, 2022
Mastering By - Mattias Fridell, Sweden
Artwork By - Off T (The designer is Jaiver Marimon)
Format - Digital

Support & Buy - https://huinalidub.bandcamp.com/album/aconites-hnl016

The Vision Reels
Artist on Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/Thereelvision
Artist on Soundcloud - https://soundcloud.com/thereelvison
Artist on Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/thevisionreels

Launaea
Artist on Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/launaeamusic
Artist on Soundcloud - https://soundcloud.com/launaea
Artist on Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/launaea

Huinali Recordings
Label on Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/huinalidub
Label on Soundcloud - https://soundcloud.com/huinalidub
Label on Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/huinalidub

The Vision Reels - Aconites (Launaea Immersion) [Huinali Recordings]

more than 4 hours of @abul-mogard in the mix 

1	.	Abul Mogard	.	Against a White Cloud	.	In a Few Places Along the River
2	.	Abul Mogard	.	Playing On The Stones	.	Kimberlin (Original Soundtrack)
3	.	Abul Mogard	.	Unarmoured Love	.	Drifted Heaven
4	.	Abul Mogard	.	Android Manouvres	.	Abul Mogard
5	.	Aukai	.	Snow ( Abul Mogard Rework )	.	Snow Works
6	.	Abul Mogard	.	Abul Mogard - Trembling With Tenderness	.	In Death's Dream Kingdom
7	.	Abul Mogard	.	Where Not Even	.	Above All Dreams
8	.	Abul Mogard	.	House On The River	.	Circular Forms
9	.	Abul Mogard	.	Black Dust	.	In Immobile Air
10	.	Abul Mogard	.	Over My Head	.	Above All Dreams
11	.	Abul Mogard	.	Bound Universe	.	Circular Forms
12	.	Abul Mogard	.	Staring at the sweeps of the desert	.	The Sky Had Vanished
13	.	Abul Mogard	.	Despite Faith	.	Abul Mogard
14	.	Abul Mogard	.	Airless Linger	.	Drifted Heaven
15	.	Abul Mogard	.	In Immobile Air	.	In Immobile Air
16	.	Abul Mogard	.	The Roof Falls	.	Above All Dreams
17	.	Abul Mogard	.	Tumbling Relentless Heaps	.	Drifted Heaven
18	.	Abul Mogard	.	Everything I Imagined Had Been Forgotten	.	SEQUENCE8
19	.	Abul Mogard	.	Slate-Coloured Storm	.	Circular Forms
20	.	Abul Mogard	.	Clouds	.	In Immobile Air
21	.	Abul Mogard	.	On A Shattered Shell Beach	.	In Immobile Air
22	.	Abul Mogard	.	The sky had vanished	.	The Sky Had Vanished
23	.	COH meets Abul Mogard	.	Far Distances Above	.	COH meets Abul Mogard
24	.	Abul Mogard	.	Studded Procession	.	SEQUENCE7
25	.	Abul Mogard	.	Above All Dreams	.	Above All Dreams
26	.	Abul Mogard	.	The Room	.	Abul Mogard
27	.	Abul Mogard	.	In True Contemplation	.	In a Few Places Along the River
28	.	Abul Mogard	.	Desires are reminiscences by now	.	The Sky Had Vanished
29	.	Abul Mogard	.	Upon The Smallish Circulation	.	Above All Dreams
30	.	Abul Mogard	.	Drooping OFF	.	Abul Mogard
31	.	Abul Mogard	.	The Goldfinch Rises	.	Kimberlin (Original Soundtrack)
32	.	Abul Mogard	.	Half Light Of Dawn	.	Circular Forms
33	.	Abul Mogard	.	Post-crisis Remembrance	.	Drifted Heaven
34	.	Abul Mogard	.	The Other Room	.	Drifted Heaven
35	.	Abul Mogard	.	Drifted Haven	.	Drifted Heaven
36	.	Abul Mogard	.	Sand	.	In Immobile Air

Abul.Mogard.megamix.by.Roel.Funcken

Release date: 01/09/23

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180g vinyl//original artwork by Theo Ellsworth.

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A year on since the collaborative Mystic AM project in 2022, Rod Modell returns solo to Astral Industries with AI-35. The album - entitled ‘Ghost Lights’ - comes as a gatefold 2x vinyl LP, showcasing the latest epoch of Modell’s signature soundscapes. Spread across four parts, ‘Ghost Lights’ draws out a wide, cinematic sound - with long arching contours, rippling textures and cavernous sound design.

Woven with layer upon layer of hidden fragments and supernal transmissions, each chapter takes the listener successively deeper into the twilight zone. Harking to dramatic off-world topographies and interstellar spaces, the work glistens with opulent sound treatment and monumental grandeur. Dense pulsations move with oceanic force, marked by washes of celestial light and subterranean drones. Exercising another side to Rod Modell's typically atmospheric productions, this album comes with an ambitious framework and a more assertive sound. Featuring some of Modell’s most epic storytelling to date, ‘Ghost Lights’ delivers a powerful immersive experience.

Ghost Lights

Side B

Dream Horizons

Crystal Valley

Legendary dub techno artist Paul St. Hilaire (AKA Tikiman) announces new collaborative album, marking 10 years of Kynant Records. 

Building on the success of Paul St. Hilaire’s landmark solo album for Kynant in 2023, w/ The Producers switches up the formula to pair St. Hilaire with a different producer on each track. Referencing fellow dub techno pioneers Mark Ernestus & Moritz von Oswald’s acclaimed album w/ The Artists as Rhythm & Sound, St. Hilaire flips the concept to feature as the lone vocalist.

Over the album’s nine tracks, St. Hilaire offers a range of conscious song-writing and headtop musings, such as the spoken-word dread of “What’s This” or the sparse call-to-action of “Send Them On”. w/ The Producers is yet another essential record in St. Hilaire’s unmatched discography.

The album marks 10 years of Kynant Records, with label owner Richard Akingbehin curating an eclectic but sonically connected group of producers. These include luminaries such as Digital Mystikz boss and dubstep trailblazer Mala, or the elusive Chain Reaction artist Shinichi Atobe. They sit alongside some of the most exciting names in recent electronic music - Batu, Gavsborg, Azu Tiwaline, Priori, Cousin, Russell E.L. Butler, Aurora Halal and DJ G - all of whom bring different elements of dub techno into their productions.

w/ The Producers finds Kynant Records bridging the original voice of dub techno with the genre’s new wave. It’s a statement of intent from the label, which began 10 years ago with deep, hypnotic techno and has veered gradually towards more dubwise sounds.

Mastered by Stefan Betke
Artwork by Grant Gibson
Distributed by N.E.W.S 

D2 Paul St. Hilaire & Russell E.L. Butler - What's This

Echo_Gains_Fifty_Pounds

In Geometrical Psychology 4, vibration becomes the primary language.
Microscopic tremors resonate through heavy bass fields, tracing invisible geometries of emotion and thought.
Here, sound is not heard — it is felt, pressing against the boundaries of perception.

Low frequencies drift like tectonic plates, slow and inevitable, while delicate oscillations shimmer at the edge of silence.
The composition unfolds as a study of resonance — between form and void, motion and stillness, body and code.
Each tone is both weight and wave, mapping the hidden architectures of the mind into sound.

Geometrical Psychology 4

Une immersion sonore durant 7 jours au Phare de Cordouan, situé en pleine mer, à plusieurs kilomètres de la côte Atlantique.
Départ de nuit un vendredi de février 2023. Nous rejoignons le phare dans la navette fluviale, avec l’équipe du bateau et les deux gardiens, qui relèvent le binôme sur place depuis 15 jours.  Aux premières lueurs du jour je n’en mène pas large quand il faut enfiler le wader, tenue étanche indispensable pour se mettre à l’eau et marcher du bateau jusqu’à l’entrée du phare. Une dizaine de mètres, pas plus, mais avec de l’eau jusqu’à la taille et en portant son matériel à bout de bras. Rien de plus banal pour les gardiens, qui échangent quelques phrases et accolades avec leurs deux collègues sur place depuis une quinzaine,  avant de se séparer. 
Nous voilà arrivés, isolés sur le plateau de Cordouan jusqu’à la prochaine relève dans 7 jours. Ma première impression est le calme et la sérénité qui règnent. Le roi des Phares, comme il est surnommé, nous domine de toute sa splendeur et le brouillard présent ce jour-là ajoute une touche mystique.
Durant cette semaine je vais avoir la liberté d’arpenter de long en large les lieux. Ici, la notion de temps change et l’on vit au rythme de la lune. Je marche de longues heures sur l’estran, plateau rocheux et sablonneux,  découvert seulement à marée basse. Je capte le fracas des vagues de l’océan au loin, les vaguelettes qui viennent s’échouer le long de la digue, les cris perçants des goélands et les piaillements des tournepierres. Cette quiétude est seulement perturbée par quelques rares passages d’un avion militaire. Mais le son le plus caractéristique de ce lieu est pour moi celui des balanes. Ces crustacés marins fixés au mur d’enceinte extérieur du phare, présents par milliers, et qui produisent un son très particulier (à écouter entre 7m20s et 7m50s). 
A marée haute, entouré par les flots, j’enregistre depuis les toits terrasses le déferlement des vagues, le bruit du vent qui s’engouffre dans les moindres interstices du phare et produit d’étranges résonnances. Je monte et descend les 301 marches qui font résonner mes pas et admire le coucher de soleil  depuis la salle de la lanterne, le point culminant du phare.  
Cette expérience unique et hors du temps,  j’ai souhaité la retranscrire sur une écoute immersive de 10 minutes. Je souhaite qu’elle puisse vous faire voyager et apprécier l’atmosphère de ce lieu magique. 

Merci au SMIDDEST et Marie Laure Cardenau d’avoir rendu cette aventure possible.
Merci aux gardiens du phare, Benoit et Thomas, de m’avoir accueilli et laissé partager leur quotidien durant ces 7 jours.


CORDOUAN

Wanderwelle ~ Gathering of the Ancient Spirits [SSV13]

The Amsterdam-based duo Wanderwelle return to Silent Season with their second album. Gathering of the Ancient Spirits is inspired by the last years of the life of Paul Gauguin, which he spent on the islands of French Polynesia. The album tells the alternative history of his search for a land that is untouched by modern society and whose inhabitants were still dependent on the gifts of nature and connected to their ancestors. During his stay, the painter encounters forgotten rituals and the primordial beings which haunt the islands since the dawn of time.

In 2018, it’s exactly 115 years ago that Paul Gauguin passed away. This album is an ode to one of the greatest artists that ever lived.

- @Wanderwelle

http://silentseason.com/ssv13/

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01. Primitive Dreams (6:13)
02. Sanctuary for Forgotten Birds (5:46)
03. Her Name is Vairumati (6:27)
04. An Offering of Gratitude (6:22)
05. The Seed of the Areoi (5:16)
06. Sacred Spring, Sweet Dreams (5:37)
07. The Fire Dance (4:50)
08. Ancestral Guidance (4:17)
09. The Haunted Shores of Hiva Oa (6:03)
10. Oviri (3:40)

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Available Summer 2018
- Gatefold 2x12" Color Vinyl
- Traditional Limited Edition CD
- Digital formats

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Written and produced by J.P.A van Dulm and A.G.A. Bartels
Illustration by Floor van het Nederend
Mastered by Shawn Joseph at Optimum
Design and layout by Jamie McCue
Vinyl distributed by Juno Records
[SSV13] Silent Season 2018

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