Name: Konx-om-Pax - Caramel by Planet Mu Records in Compilation ++++
Duration: 3 min 27 s
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Makes my head feel like a VHS tape with fucked tracking.

I'm so glad I can revisit this tune and it takes me somewhere different each time.

the restraint - i'd be tempted to put beats on this, but glad you didn't.. the arp tease and flow is beautiful - massive well done and thank you

Compilation ++++

Rou Aarons Remixes (Vol. 1)

Mount Kimbie - Four Years And One Day (Rou Aarons Rework)[BUY = FREE DL]

Electronic ensemble Snow Ghosts return with their fourth album, ‘The Fell’. A collection of old folk songs that were never written. 

More Info: https://hth.lnk.to/TheFell

‘The Fell’s’ instrumental arsenal consists of esraj, dulcimer, daf and bodhrán drums, violin, guitars, and a variety of synthesisers. Whilst equally vast, immersive and other-worldly, these tools are used to create intimate, personal stories. Sharing a mutual influence of the shadowy elements of folklore and the heavier side of experimental noise, a disparate array of reference points and this extensive collection of instruments combines to form Snow Ghosts’ bewitching and often intoxicating sound.

Available on vinyl and digital - 24th February 2023

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Curse

British musician Jo Johnson’s debut solo album for Further Records, Weaving, betokens an exciting presence in the world of minimalist composition. 

“Ancestral Footsteps” opens the LP with cascades of cyclical harp-like sounds, an homage to one of Johnson’s primary inspirations: Alice Coltrane. Channelling rigorous new age and mesmerizing Riley-esque/Reichian minimalism, the piece accrues heft and intensity, with occasional bursts of synthetic, tribal clapping until it fades out with cinematic flourish. The title track gradually alters simple guitar and keyboard phrases, along with a chiming motif that multiplies in a hall of mirrors. The disorientating arpeggios form moiré patterns against colossal bass notes. The mood lightens considerably with “Words Came After Music,” whose sweeping strings and drones could take you to whatever your idea of heaven is. Interestingly, the title of the piece is inspired by an anthropological theory Johnson stumbled across that musical ability predates language in humans. With its sombre, undulating synths and lustrous highs and lows, “In the Shadow of The Workhouse” plumbs profound emotional depths. Epic closer “Silver Threads” starts as an almost silent retreat in the vein of Laurie Spiegel's Appalachian Grove or Eno and Budd's The Pearl with the faint hum and buzz of telegraph wires, until four minutes in a stoic pulse and suspenseful chiming motif arise, buttressed by glowing synth sighs and the LP's only percussive thumps (think Incunabula era Autechre). 

While inspired by the "serious music" of Arvo Pärt, Wim Mertens and others, Johnson’s mandalas of tone mantras offer a playful, DIY sense of adventure, as you might expect from the former guitarist for incendiary punk group Huggy Bear and a long-term co-organizer of London’s Bleep43 techno club night and label. Weaving condenses Johnson's long love affair with free jazz, minimalism and electronic music and this unique ambient composition is invested with powerful emotional resonance.

Weaving

Final 15 - A Ghostly 15 Playlist Curated by Michael Cina

"Anyone that knows me, knows that my main passion is music. I spend all day listening to music at work and my vinyl collection of 16k pieces greets me when I get home. I knew about Ghostly International before they contacted me in the early 2000’s and we would write off and on. They used to send me big packages of white labeled vinyl, it was decadent.

Late 2007 I got a call from Ghostly asking if I was up for designing a new single for Dabrye. It was a dream come true and I feel like I found a friend who really understood me. I have had the distinct privilege to design over 100 covers for Ghostly, and that is only the half of it.

When they asked me to do a compilation, I was all about it. I wanted to do three or more compilations because I wanted to segment it up into different sections (Ghostly, SMM and Spectral). It is impossible to reduce the entire label to 15 tracks. Ghostly is dynamic, they don’t fit one sound, genre or idea.

So I approached it as a mixtape of sorts. I tried to find a common thread that spoke to me and create a mood around that idea. Some of my favorite tracks are not on here. JDSY 'Horizon Line' makes my head spin. Choir of Young Believers 'Paralyse' takes me to another place. There are so many more.

What you are hearing some songs that have spoken to me over the years in a distinct way. I don’t feel like they are obvious choices but they all are nothing short of amazing. I hope this compilation helps you see a different side of one of the best labels to ever do it." - Michael Cina

Tim Hecker - Sundown6093

X 4Ewi

Boards of Canada - Orange Romeda (plazmatron's 80's version)

Taken from 'NoGeo' LP by Logan Takahashi, out April 15, 2016.

Pre-order at The Ghostly Store: http://www.theghostlystore.com/products/nogeo
Or at the retailer of your choice: https://Ghostly.lnk.to/nogeo

NoGeo

Logan Takahashi - Cella

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Konx-om-Pax - Caramel

colundi every1 - a1 (Aleksi Perälä)
release date: 22 Oct 2015
colundi every1 benelux tour artists vinyl collaboration
black vinyl lp format
300 limited edition release
7 artists 7 tracks
32 minutes 35 seconds duration 
physical release sold out
colundi track video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iNWplgMr1l8)

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colundi every1 - a1 (Aleksi Perälä)

colundi every1 - a3 (Reid Dunn)
release date: 22 Oct 2015
colundi every1 benelux tour artists vinyl collaboration
black vinyl lp format
300 limited edition release
7 artists 7 tracks
32 minutes 35 seconds duration 
physical release sold out
colundi track video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8zlTqxDeMH0)


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colundi every1 - a3 (Reid Dunn)

colundi every1 - a4 (F. & M. D'Arcangelo)
release date: 22 Oct 2015
colundi every1 benelux tour artists vinyl collaboration
black vinyl lp format
300 limited edition release
7 artists 7 tracks
32 minutes 35 seconds duration 
physical release sold out
colundi track video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lYfTwgvyIKs)

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colundi every1 - a4 (F. & M. D'Arcangelo)

colundi every1 - b1 - GivitupChant413d (Jodey Kendrick)
release date: 22 Oct 2015
colundi every1 benelux tour artists vinyl collaboration
black vinyl lp format
300 limited edition release
7 artists 7 tracks
32 minutes 35 seconds duration 
physical release sold out
colundi track video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=66YVb_qTZIU)

all rights of the producer and of the owner of the works reproduced reserved. unauthorised copying, hiring, lending, public performance, and broadcasting of this record prohibited

colundi every1 - b1 - GivitupChant413d (Jodey Kendrick)

colundi every1 - b2 (Todd Osborn)
release date: 22 Oct 2015
colundi every1 benelux tour artists vinyl collaboration
black vinyl lp format
300 limited edition release
7 artists 7 tracks
32 minutes 35 seconds duration 
physical release sold out
colundi track video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_FykPEbOaRI)

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colundi every1 - b2 (Todd Osborn)

Andy Stott - North To South (2011)

'Yellow Rain' is taken from Normil Hawaiians' debut album 'More Wealth Than Money' (1982). Remastered and reissued this December through Upset The Rhythm.

www.upsettherhythm.co.uk/
normilhawaiians.com/

Normil Hawaiians had a transformative 1982. With two 7” singles and a 12” EP under their belts they suddenly found themselves disillusioned with the increasingly generic sounds surrounding them, so they forced the hand of change and began reaching out with that very hand. The band’s true constant in Guy Smith soon found himself with a new crew of musicians, Simon Marchant, Noel Blanden and Mark Tyler. Normil Hawaiians’ communal take on post punk quickly sprouted leaves from its mouth, and began carving out a new furrow. Greater emphasis was awarded to improvisation within the group and as a result their songs embarked on longer, freer journeys towards the beaten bounds. They wanted these new songs to bear the weight of their new collective spirit so comfort zones had to be left behind. Tape loops, echo boxes, extended percussive sessions and duteous faith in the tones emanating from a particular old wah-wah pedal were all employed by Normil Hawaiians to stretch their sonic fabric into wild and redolent new dimensions.

With Illuminated Records interested in the band’s new visionary approach, Normil Hawaiians relocated from their South London dystopia to a rural idyll in the Welsh hills, determined to develop further this raw language for themselves. They booked into Foel Studios near Llanfair Caereinion for an extended period of time, set the tapes rolling and didn’t look back. They were somewhere they knew they could experiment; at a studio that understood the results would be uncertain. Dave Anderson, who managed and engineered at Foel was exactly the right person to work with them. Anderson had come from an experimental background himself, having played in Hawkwind and Amon Duul II. Normil Hawaiians were encouraged to explore their ideas beyond limitations with Anderson happy to leave the tape recording to capture their embryonic improvisations taking shape. Anderson even joined in on bass for several of those sessions as the ensemble strove to find its authentic voice, supplemented further when their cellist friend Klaus dropped by to spend a spell with them.

At this very moment Normil Hawaiians existed solely for the music, living together in a small cottage in the studio’s shadow, sharing everything together and working long days to nurture and then burnish the music they had discovered between them. This is how the band’s debut album ‘More Wealth Than Money’ was formed, through trial and close listening, through cultivation and patient growth. Of course there were significant amounts of mushrooms involved too and several UFO sightings, but when the sheep began to march in time to the music Normil Hawaiians knew they were creating something unique.

On December 1st, 35 years since the album first appeared, Upset The Rhythm will be reissuing the newly re-mastered ‘More Wealth Than Money’ album, alongside a further full-length collection of demos and unreleased tracks from the album’s overlooked corners. Both the 2xCD and DLP versions also come with a booklet contextualizing the release, full of anecdotes and photos from all band members. This release follows on from 2015’s ‘Return Of The Ranters’, Normil Hawaiians’ lost final album from 1985, which ultimately saw the light of day in a different age through Upset The Rhythm too.

More Wealth Than Money

Normil Hawaiians - Yellow Rain

'Dead Guitars' is taken from Seefeel's self titled album, their first for 14 years.
The album is releasing Jan31/Feb 1, and coincides with a special headline show at London’s King’s Place on the same day.
The band have also just announced a run of UK and European dates in March.
"(Seefeel) underpin their dream-glossed, loop-heavy soundscapes and tunes with a heavy powerhouse of a rhythm section. The show was punishingly loud; played with a professional politeness that skirted-over any ‘it’s great to be back’-bullshit.” - Loud + Quiet, live review
Pre-order the album here : http://bit.ly/9novaN
Seefeel live dates
31/01/2011London @ King’s Place – http://bit.ly/geBDIl
18/03/2011Manchester @Islington Mill - www.ticketline.co.uk
19/03/2011Dublin @ Button Factory - www.tickets.ie
21/03/2011Glasgow @ The Arts School - http://bit.ly/ge9WWg
22/03/2011Birmingham @ Hare &amp; Hounds - http://www.theticketsellers.co.uk
24/03/2011Paris @ Point Ephemere - www.fnac.com
25/03/2011Brussels @ AB Club - www.abconcerts.be
26/03/2011Amsterdam @ Paradiso - www.ticketmaster.nl


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