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Release date: 19/08/22

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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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Side D

Full stream of Son of Chi & Arthur Flink's "Part One," taken from their upcoming EP The Fifth World Recordings on Astral Industries, out October 21.

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The Fifth World Recordings

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Premiere: Son of Chi & Arthur Flink - Part One

Full stream of Toki Fuko's "Part One," taken from Spirit Medicine LP on Astral Industries, out September 1.

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Spirit Medicine

Premiere: Toki Fuko - Part One

Step into the enchanting world of Mirage, a journey through the tropical jungles and the heart of the unknown. This album is a blend of Downtempo, Tribal and Balearic styles, inviting you to lose yourself in its exotic and mysterious soundscapes, where you feel the breeze of the sun and the ocean.

Each track on Mirage is infused with tropical flavors, evoking images of lush jungles and distant shores. The rhythmic beats and tribal drums conjure ancient totems and sacred rituals, guiding listeners to a natural high that transcends the ordinary.

Mirage is a tapestry of sound that captures the essence of the mystical and the serene, embarking the listener on a sonic adventure that is both timeless and transformative.

Produced & mixed by Saphileaum
Mastering by Paulie Jan at Agit Prop Studio
Photography by Yushi Arimura
Artwork by BLNDR & DJ Varsovie

INTERVISION033

Saphileaum - Natural High

Our mid-week listening session comes courtesy of multi-disciplinary Japanese artist, Makiko Iwaki, under her DJ alias, Iwamaki.

Aside from gracing the world with beautifully woven, introspective DJ sets, she performs live, and produces stunning drone and deep techno sounds under her alias, Menou. Having performed live at Barcelona’s Mostra festival, and releasing music on a string of labels, such as Orbitando, Initiate, and Accents, Iwamaki’s journey as an artist is one to keep your eyes on.

This mix is a live DJ set, recorded just three-weeks ago from MIMINOIMI at Polaris Tokyo, where she layered many sounds, and a unique fusion was born in that very moment.

Tracklist:

Abul Mogard & KMRU - Drawing Water on Matching Teal Surfaces
VAGALLY VAKANS - 852Hz + Pink Noise + Womb Sounds + (宮崎・天安河原の自然音)
Anthony Child - Turn on to the Hall of Perpetual Rotation
Patricia Wolf - Lay to Rest
Night Sea - Off Grid
Material Object - Exit
Rod Modell - Side B
William Selman - Frigidaire Idylls
Celestial Seed Sound - Pain and Tension Relief (174hz)
Individuo Atemporal - Abyssal Rhythms
Kali Malone - Living Torch II
Ancestral Landscapes - Old Timer
Ishtadi - Subheccha 01
Respira - Luminescent Lunar Master

https://soundcloud.com/makiko-iwaki

Artwork by Clayton Ciolac

The Observatory - Iwamaki

Stocked to welcome @arddhu on the Precept series with this dreamy and colourful ambient mix.

Arddhu is an artist currently residing amongst the mountains in Tasmania with a strong passion for music which reminds us of our connection and relationship to nature. With mixes for Deep Breakfast, EMC and blissed-out performances at Monument Festival & La Vallée Électrique, Arddhu aims to help people find that space of quiet and find themselves within it.

“The eye through which I see Nature is the same eye through which Nature sees me; my eye and Nature’s eye are one eye, one seeing, one knowing, one love.”

Precept 49 | Arddhu

Berlin and Lisbon's collaborative event series, Art Bei Ton, lifts the veil on its third release, "Some Sacred Grounds." This compilation explores the world of ritualistic sounds, featuring eight international artists who traverse a spectrum of intensity over the course of seven tracks, ranging from hushed ambient whispers to deep techno pulsations.

Our premiere showcases two artists revered by Delayed: Adhémar and Toki Fuko. Teaming up, they craft a nine-and-a-half-minute "seaweed techno voyage" – a low-slung groove that constantly morphs with intricate details. The rhythmic interplay between their percussion sequences is quite hypnotic, keeping the tribalistic energy flowing without ever getting stale.
Adhémar and Toki Fuko's "Dialogue" sets the perfect mood – ideal for an opening set at dawn or a smooth transition from ambient passages into chuggy rhythms.

'Some Sacred Grounds,' is due July 16, featuring very exciting works.

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PREMIERE: Adhémar & Toki Fuko -  Dialogue 1 [Art Bei Ton]

Release date: 11/10/24

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180g vinyl//LP booklet included//original artwork by Theo Ellsworth.

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For AI-38 Italian duo LF58 (Giuseppe Tillieci and Filippo Scorcucchi) present ‘Radials’. A site-specific concept piece that was recorded live on location in Venice, Radials showcases the powerful and transportive sound world which LF58 have become known for. 

Radials takes its name from the homonymous exhibition created by the Roman artist group Sbagliato, for the 2023 Biennale Architettura of Venice. 

Following a landmark renovation of the Fondacoo dei Tedeschi by renowned Dutch architect Rem Koolhaas, Sbagliato proposed the spatial transformation of the historic sixteenth-century building that would blur the lines between fiction and the real. 

The concept, to create unexpected “voids” within the fixed order of architecture, prompts the observer to question the fleeting and subjective nature of the reality that surrounds us. The building’s main loggia - a series of five archways exposed to the Canal Grande - take on a theme of reproduction and multiplication, giving rise to infinite perspectives in a dizzying mise en abyme. Through the portal-like potentialities of the loggia, the visitor enters the gateway to a fluid realm of distorted time and space. 

LF58 arose to translate the visual concept of Radials into sound, delivered through a special quadraphonic concert performed at the Fondaco dei Tedeschi in October 2023. Quadraphonics, with its four distinct audio channels, were used in direct correlation with the visual elements of the installation to immerse the audience in a dreamlike, multisensory experience. 

The opening scene of running waters and the cacophony of the bustling city streets quickly dissolves under the chiming of nearby bells, as hidden liminal spaces become revealed. It’s not long before all remnants of the ordinary are left behind, as the listener is submerged into the shimmering frequencies of parallel dimensions. 

A spatial soundscape of ever-moving forms and colours, Radials descends into ever-deeper waters. As the facade of what was once known falls away, a transportive journey of mind-body alterations begins.

Part One

Belgium artist Kato de Vidts is back with another forthcoming release on the experimental imprint, Futurepast. No stranger to us here at Delayed, we’ve kept a close ear to her productions and even had the opportunity to watch her and J.Noon perform live at Mostra earlier this year. Aerial Super Highway, their latest collaboration together, marks another strong release in the pair's auditory journey.

Tensions are rising, the string-like synths grabbing the attention of all present. Meridians evokes an introspective journey upwards as the melodic drones and undulating bass lines build and build to a crescendo long in the making before fading away back into the nothingness.

Meridians and the remainder of Aerial Super Highway will be released on the 1st of November.

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Aerial Super Highway

PREMIERE: Kato De Vidts - Meridians Ft J.Noon [Futurepast]

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Matrix Breeze” is a dub-poetic audio journey by Taba X — unfolding from mist to fire, memory to revelation. Fusing elements of reggae, spoken word, experimental hip-hop, and cinematic rock, the track echoes a world caught between spirit and system.

At its heart is the voice of resistance — baritone and burdened — layered with ancestral whispers and sacred warnings. Female harmonies swirl like wind and dust, while the beat flows from Massive Attack-style minimalism to Gilmour-inspired catharsis.

Every verse opens a portal. Every hook cuts deeper.

The final words remain:
“Do not speak against the Sun.”


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