Pure ambient

Late night chillwave

Pure Ambient

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Puro ambient

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Enigmatic shapeshifter PHONDUPE is back with a six-track ambient EP entitled Air Conditioning Vol. 1. Landing eight months after the release of his acclaimed debut record ONYKIA, the EP sees the Sydney artist embracing a more tranquil side on a one hour journey through meditative landscapes and undulating analog tones.

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FROM PHONDUPE:

Proud to pull back the curtains on my latest EP, Air Conditioning Vol. 1: Sixty-one minutes of slowly evolving ambient tones for holding space.

The concept of “holding space" felt a bit esoteric/woo-woo to me for a long time, until recently. Especially over the last couple of years that have been turbulent for basically everyone, myself included, I’ve slowly learnt the importance of just being there. To not fight what's there, to not colour the situation or offer advice... to listen, to co-exist momentarily…

These six minimal ambient tracks were created to help people be with however they are, in that moment - to not colour their experience, or tell them how to feel, but to offer them a momentary portal into themselves.

The tracks were originally written as part of a suite of meditations composed for Mary Hoang's audiobook: Darkness Is Golden.

This is the first volume in what will become a series of ambient works that are kind of the antithesis of my regular output in many ways - non-compositional, no fixed emotion, no direction… weightless, music for being.

And yes, I know. Air Conditioning Vol 1 out on Air Con Records. Is that a bit much? Probably.

Just be with it.

Rich x 
credits
released November 4, 2021

MUSIC:
All music written, produced and performed by Rich Lucano (Phondupe).

MIXING:
All tracks mixed by Phondupe and Mark Galup, Reel Recording (Nashville) | @reel_recording

MASTERING:
Mark Galup, Reel Recording (Nashville) | @reel_recording

COVER ART:
Em Dillon | @emdillon_

ANIMATIONS:
All animations / Spotify Canvas by @Babekuhl

© AIR CON RECORDS 2021

Probe 6-8

Raum

Listen to this track as you walk from the first place to the second place within the Royal Botanic Garden.

4. 'Middens to skyscrapers' - JWPATON and Jazz Money

LER 1028: Picture Music – Picture Music

Concocted in a share house in the South of Brisbane in the mid-80s, a small collective of well-acquainted musicians including Jon Anderson, Rainer Guth, Gary McFeat & Rod Owen gathered to compose film soundtracks, music for pictures, therefore ‘Picture Music’. To this end, a ‘spec’ tape of Picture Music recordings would be produced to give to potential clients and or sold to local stores. A distinct album comprising a collection of ambient, minimal-jazz and experimental music.

If there is a red thread running through the Picture Music album, it is its "late night" ambience. The wrath of the sub-tropical summer heat of Brisbane is not kind on electronic equipment, which would crash regularly by day. So, all recording was done in the relative cool of the late evening, in a room only dimly lit by lamp and candle. The Picture Music collective would make music and party all through the night, departing around sunrise. They would sleep through the heat of the day, only to return in the evening for more of the same.

This 2021 double LP reissue of their self-titled 1987 cassette, was taken from the original master tapes and remains an evocative representation of the music that resulted from the late-night, dimly-lit, atmospheric-enabled environment, that sparked the creativity of a group of like-minded friends in a tiny corner of Brisbane.

Dedicated to the memory of Rainer Guth (1955-2016)

Distro through Rushhour in EU, or direct in the Antipodes. Release date 2nd of July 2022

Picture Music

Pillow Music

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DINORWIC

The Reverent Sky

Heart of Compassion

Colours - Ultramarine

The Fear of Never Landing

Through The Heat Waves

Inhale

Faith

Looked Me Right In The Eye

original upload: 31 march 2025
file: mood - sci fi - nothing is lost (A minor to F) (1 April 2025 bounce, idea from 2022) - bounce 2
latest upload: 1 april 2025 - 12:13 AM

nothing is lost

In Distance Pavilion

The Way Of Time

The Old Way Was Gone

Melt

Within the heartbeat of stars

Release Date: June 5, 2025
Artist: Rhian Sheehan, Arli Liberman
Title: Sentio
Catalogue Number: LPD257
Label: Loop Electronic
Format: Digital Single
Genre: Electronic, Ambient, Post-Rock

Sentio

Waning Traces

Latency alla Villa Medici III

According to the Sounds of Anonymous Hives

Muzak for the Encouragement of Unproductivity

Muzak for the Encouragement of Unproductivity One

well, here we are

and you were gone

Lifeboats and Follies

Cut The Reins

Befunde ab 1999

YOGA IN KARACHI

SPORES OUT NOW on AIR CON RECORDS:
https://ditto.fm/spores-phondupe

Debut album, ONYKIA:
https://ditto.fm/onykia

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BOOKINGS / ENQUIRIES:
mgmt@phondupe.com

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