"The CD is scratched.” A saying from the early millennium, it describes the phenomenon of skipping music on a damaged CD, the locked, repetitive groove. For nearly a decade, Fossilized Wilderness has been experimenting with a peculiar modification to CDJ equipment, birthed by long hours sorting through promotional CDs sent to a radio station. In embracing choppiness, a body of abrasive but bright ambient work has been constructed from the refuse of musical commodification.

The CD skip is both rhythm and tone on this LP, but if you expect the monotonous motions of a concept album, don’t: The moods here are just as granular. The six tracks shift from digital euphoria to shoegazing sentimentalism, a balanced mix of terror, plaintiveness, and joy, an impressive feat considering that the scratch of a CD produces potent nostalgia as well as Pavlovian irritation for many—a drive to eject the thing and fix the problem.

For those not growing up with it, the scratched CD is a relic phenomenon, something that happened with an artifact format. But just because it’s an artifact doesn’t mean it’s obsolete. On this LP, Fossilized Wilderness uses a sonic palette of subtly-shifting broken loops to create something new: delirious spectres rising from an ocean of plastic.

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Fossilized Wilderness is Ryan Martin, a pillar of the North Carolina underground music and arts scene. His most active artistic alias is Secret Boyfriend, with numerous cassette, vinyl, and CD releases on labels such as Blackest Ever Black and his own long-running DIY-informed imprint, Hot Releases. 

releases April 5, 2021

mastered :: Nathan Taylor

Fossilized Wilderness - 4 (ENMB07)

"An EP of Occult beat music I made to stay sane.
I love you."
- Lvers

Produced and mixed by LVERS

SC : soundcloud.com/lvers
IG : www.instagram.com/l.ver.s

Artwork : T. Strochnis
www.instagram.com/te_strochnis

Mastering : Declared Sound (Dominic Clare)
www.instagram.com/d.glare/

Duplication : Phil Tremble (Nantes)

BANDCAMP

4 LIMBIC GATE - COMA MOB

A Different River Once

Haron - Wandelaar

Format: LP / digital
Catalogue: QUEESTE002

bit.ly/queeste002

A1 Lotuseter
A2 Maangerij
A3 Caverne
A4 Selenieten
B1 Foschia
B2 Sepia
B3 Music for Elbows

Queeste emerges with the nocturnal sounds of Haron's Wandelaar, an album exploring his long-term interest in music's talent for inducing and affecting dreams, successfully turning listening into an act of transport, leaving you in the midst of falling asleep, at a junction of dislocation, hazily arriving in a liminal world. In Wandelaar we hear Haron's playful reaction against the confines of dance music, gathering energy from his estrangement from the scene and using it as a means to reorder and interrogate sound.

The modest piano takes centre stage, allowing each solo note to becoming fertile and full, suspended and considered, guided by the principles of minimal composers such as John Cage and Ryuichi Sakamoto. Haron delicately translates sparse chords into a cinematic narrative of ascension, conjuring up a 'moony landscape,' grey and desolate from afar, intricately detailed on approach.

Haron’s Wandelaar is available 6 July 2018 on LP and digital platforms. The vinyl release includes an art print by Fallon Does, who is also responsible for the graphic design of Wandelaar. All tracks written and produced by Haron Aumaj, mastered by Wouter for Brandenburg Mastering. Words by Jo Kali.

Worldwide distribution via Clone Distribution.

Wandelaar

Available now!

Haron - B1 Foschia

Excerpt of B2 from

Eks - Echo Courts - C20

Out September 28th on Archivio Diafonico

www.archiviodiafonico.org
archiviodiafonico.bandcamp.com

Eks - Echo Courts - B2 (excerpt)

This EP is a collection of 6 tracks of melancholic computer funk, as 6 states of a robot’s mind which can experience and transmit feelings in his daily life.

Mastering at Studio900 – bit.ly/_STUDIO900
Artwork by Adri Valls – www.adrivalls.com

Vf089 - Drk.Bot.Rx2

My Broken Nails

Glass - My Broken Nails

ABADIR  showcases a more meditative tone with a largely beat-less pulse on his album 'Liminal'.

More: https://ins-rt.net/audio/abadir-9-9-8

Liminal   

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Premiere: ABADIR - 9.9.8

a track i made for colorsquad 8 compilation:
https://colorsquadrecords.bandcamp.com/album/c-o-l-o-r-s-q-u-a-d-0-0-8

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