Contemporary dub techno from Japan.

Tracklisting and download: https://bit.ly/XLR8Rpodcast_Altone

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XLR8R Podcast 869: Altone

Two hours of pure groove, recorded live from Nuits Sonores festival.

Download: https://bit.ly/XLR8Rpodcast_DaniloPlessow

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XLR8R Podcast 870: Danilo Plessow

Glittering ambient from Japan.

Tracklisting and Download: https://xlr8r.com/podcasts/podcast-871-kaito/

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XLR8R Podcast 871 - Kaito

Relaxed bass-heavy stylings.

Tracklisting and download: https://bit.ly/XLR8Rpodcast_Tadleeh

XLR8R Podcast 872: Tadleeh

Ethereal ambient.

Tracklisting and download: https://bit.ly/XLR8Rpodcast_AndyGraham

XLR8R Podcast 873 - Andy Graham

Haze

Magenta

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Minor Premise (Short Version)

"We’re already drenched in beauty, predisposed to like these tracks; and like them we do."

"The music becomes a living object. The synthesizers wrap around the field recordings like tree trunks growing over embedded objects. Everything is mutable."

A Closer Listen (acloserlisten.com/2018/04/20/ebauche-mutable/)

Three years after the release of Adrift, Ebauche (aka Alex Leonard) returns with a beautiful new ambient LP. It is inspired by a strange disconnected dream during a long cross-country journey through Poland in the depths of winter in 2014. Mutable reflects the rhythms of that journey and the ethereal dreamscape which enveloped him.

Each track on Mutable pulsates and wraps around itself, gradually evolving its soundscape and encasing the listener in a deep and rewarding world. There is careful exploration of polyrhythmic variations within juxtaposed morphing drones bubbling out from stacks of synthesisers. The pieces are densely layered with fine detail, often only revealed on repeated listens, and are subtly backed by field recordings from locations around Poland.

Each piece on the album is accompanied by a unique painting created by Polish artist Adrianna Snochowska. The paintings are 50 x 35 cm mixed media (texture & oil paint) on canvas. Adrianna spent many hours listening to the draft mixes whilst creating these paintings and moulded the texture effects to the sounds on each track.

Additionally, long-time producer Arovane has provided a remix of Chwiać which is included on the release. The remix picks up on Chwiać’s pulsing polyrhythms and wraps them in layers of gritty distortion and subtle melodic nuances, underpinned by driving beats. 

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