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Stray Theories - Empath

The Vision Reels - Memory Layer featuring DB1
Collective Vision [re:35 / re:st]

Produced by Adam O'Hara aka The Vision Reels  and Dylan Brownsworsand aka DB1
Mastered by Noel Demello
Artwork by Lcp
Label Sticker by Efentwell
Released by re:st from Berne, Switzerland
Release Date : April 13th. 2022
Format - Vinyl and Digital

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Collective Vision

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Eagerly awaited yet patiently bubbling under the surface, UwU dust bath emerges with its primal offering, a deeply generous and authentic sonic array from lowkey prolifics Purelink. Despite the
Chicago trio’s humbly mysterious presence, the transcendental music speaks resoundingly.

The most unforeseen plot twist comes via xphresh (Special Guest DJ & Ben Bondy), causing Rihanna’s notoriously iconic vocals to drip like honey, seeping into the fuzzed post-dancehall daydream; a sunkissed celebration.

Words by Katie Campbell 

vinyl preorder : www.one-eye-witness.com/release/16539…link-Purelink
digital preorder : uwudustbath.bandcamp.com/album/purelink

releases July 1, 2022

Purelink

pi pi pi premiere: Purelink - Butterfly Jam (xphresh Bad Girl version)

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Fabled ambient label Housecraft Recordings has resurfaced with a new 2xLP from Jeffry Astin, J.P. Wright, and Brian Kinkade aka Ahem.

It's chock-full of smoked out dub-bient chuggers, deep-Appalachian drones, and acid-soaked psy-op jams guaranteed to wash your brain.

Vinyl / digital preorder over at https://housecraftrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/ahem

Cover art by Joe Roberts (LSD World Peace)

releases August 5th 2022

pi pi pi premiere: Ahem - Project Bluebird

get sweet

Floating in nebulous and sublime, @broshuda inaugurates his No Vacancy alias on @kinlaw's @ceramicslabel label.

The eponymous album strips his trademark sound down to a suite of minimalistic, meditative environments. This isn’t quite ambient, nor is it drone, but slots nicely into the German artist’s discography. 

Leaving listeners in a state of suspense, our premiere dials the drowsy, hypnogogic qualities up to truly mesmeric effect. Quietly cathartic and cloaked in lo-fi haze.

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Premiere: No Vacancy - 4 [Ceramics]

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Ronan (ft. ANIMA)

This is my submission for Ambient Online’s “One Sample Dare” recurring challenge, #13.  See http://www.ambientonline.org/forum/showthread.php?1664-One-Sample-Dare-13 for more details.

I created 2 new samples from the original recording:

Sample_A:  Cropped the first 29 seconds of the recording, then mirrored it (like a single ping-pong loop).  Then I stretched it to be 8x the original length with PaulStretch, swapped the left/right channels, and added fade in/out.

Sample_B:  Cropped the first 42 seconds of the recording, then mirrored it (like a single ping-pong loop) and added fade in/out.

Then I brought those two samples into Renoise for sequencing and effects.

Track 1:  Play Sample_A 2 octaves lower.
Track 2:  1 minute later, play Sample_B 3 octaves lower.
Track 3:  1 minute later, play a second instance of Sample_A 1 octave lower.

Tracks 1 & 3 are routed to a shared effects track, which has an Exciter to enhance 500Hz and 2kHz and a reverb (native effects in Renoise).

In addition to sending audio to the Master track, that effects track also sends its audio to a second effects track, which has a high pass filter at 1kHz to filter out all the bass.  There is also a resonant bandpass filter, which sweeps up and down the frequency range via LFO with a 30 second period.  Another LFO pans left/right with a 1 minute period.

No effects on Track 2.  It sounded too glorious as-is.  I lost a few hours just listening to that…  :)

I routed everything below 100Hz to a separate effects track with a -5dB gainer to help tame some of the bass.  

For the Master track, I have a 5kHz lowpass filter to eliminate some high frequency detritus, and a bus compressor to bring up some of the quiet bits and even out some of the spiky dynamics.

Lissajous v0.50

M. Geddes Gengras - "Ishi" June 24th
180g 12" tip-on _ CD & digital include 40min bonus 'Vigil'
http://www.stonesthrow.com/store/album/mgg/ishi

“No dream, no wildest nightmare, prefigured for Ishi a city crowd, its clamor, its endless hurrying past to be endlessly replaced by others of its kind, face indistinguishable from face.”

- Theodora Kroeber, from Ishi: In Two Worlds


M. Geddes Gengras has inhabited the Los Angeles experimental music scene for the last 7 years, bouncing through various bands, monikers, and a critically acclaimed collaboration with Sun Araw and The Congos. The producer perhaps shines most brightly, however, when left to his own bespoke devices. His solo work is largely based in modular synthesis, comfortably straddling a variety of forms while remaining rooted in a deep affinity for the limitations of analog electronics and a keen ear for timbral manipulation.


Ishi finds the producer diving headlong into beautiful, sprawling ambient explorations and deep, mystical drone. Its title is the name given to “the last wild Indian” in North America, who emerged in 1911 at the age of 49. Hidden all his life in the wilderness of northern California, Ishi spent most of his life completely unexposed to the modern world lurking just beyond his own timeless reality. His only exposure to the “civilized” world came from Gold Rush settlers, whom he watched massacre and disease each and every member of his family and tribe, until he alone remained. When he was found, communication between the miraculous survivor and this strange new world was understandably difficult and frightening— but the knowledge gained through the process proved invaluable.


Sometimes the most effective and direct means of communication and understanding exist outside of human language. Gengras’ highly expressive instrumental record reveals itself via sweeping tonal gestures and striking, intensely colorful washes of heavily processed electronic sound. “Ambient” is insufficient to describe the uniquely evocative soundtrack presented here, a lushly nuanced sound world generated directly from the deeply personal relationship between one man and his meticulously cultivated machines.


“The record is about the schism that exists between the world we live in and those stuck on the margins of it— perpetual outsiders and their quest to understand the torrent of information they are constantly subjected to. I was directly inspired to these pieces by two people in my orbit who died this year, one accidentally and one not, both of whom suffered this affliction and eventually lost their lives to it. The music was a reaction to these losses and a sort of offering of something peaceful but at the same time respectful of the conflict and dissonance of life, with movement always in the distance. I look at it as music for passage between different realms, conscious & un, this world & another, layers of reality... ISHI is a metaphor for that— the man who walks into our world understanding none of it but forced to live in it regardless. This is somewhere in between a prayer and a lullaby for him and for the rest of them, but also something for those of us left behind.” - M. Geddes Gengras

M. Geddes Gengras - Passage

“From a certain point onward there is no longer any turning back. That is the point that must be reached." Franz Kafka

The above quote was kindly provided by Chris SSG for our sixth installment of our podcast series which features a set by him. A good friend of the collective, he needs no further introduction. This podcast is a recording of his set at the final of five parties we threw late last year to celebrate the 10 years anniversary of the Observatory. Chris’s set was the final one in a long series, closing what was a  wonderful sequence of events. Forward indeed.

Chris SSG - NLDMIX 006

I lost my 16 year old son - Fragility - Flawed Mangoes - Slowed

Softly-spun ambient from New York and Public Records affiliate 320

Q+A + tracklist: www.lowendtheorists.com/theory-therapy-mixes/75-320

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Theory Therapy 75: 320

Rafting plays her favorite ambient tracks.

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Trans·Ambient Airwaves : Rafting plays her favorite ambient music :)

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Trans·Ambient Airwaves #10

Aurora Halal, DJ set recorded live at Planetarium on March 10th, 2023. Best listened to lying down in the dark, through some good speakers with some friends. 

Aurora plays a deep listening set at Planetarium: A Weekend of Deep Listening at the Omega Institute in Rhinebeck on the weekend of October 24-26, 2025 alongside Drumloop, Judith Grodowitz, Rena Anakwe, Justin Carter, Laraaji and Arji Oceananda. More info is here: 

https://www.eomega.org/workshops/planetarium-weekend-deep-listening 

Mastered by Michael King.

Aurora Halal, DJ Set from Planetarium, March 10, 2023

This piece was written for the Winter Solstice - I performed it live at a venue in Salem, MA. My friend Phil Wyman sat in on ambient guitar....one of several improvisational jams we've done to my music.

Waning Gibbous Moon

Shadow On The Lawn

I am waiting for you last summer - Nothing between us (digital moss remix)

Halogenix Presents: Lordel

Out now on Deadbeats

Lordel

Lordel - Philly To Pittsburgh

Mixing: Andrei Proniaev
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Machinedrum & Holly - Berry Patch EP OUT NOW via Vision Recordings!

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Machinedrum & Holly - Bramble

Moments, Places

A Moment To Be In Silence

Brand new track from 'Dewdrop LP' by @volorflex_trampique

Download 'Dewdrop LP': https://volorflextrampique.bandcamp.com/album/dewdrop-lp-2020

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Dewdrop, LP (2020)

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Volor Flex - White Walls

Tomokari - Shelter

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