London-based keyboardist/producer Dan Nicholls (of Y-OTIS) introduces a new album project ‘Mattering And Meaning’ to be released by We Jazz Records on August 13th. Nicholls' music uses acoustic piano as its key element, transporting the instrument into new territories that sound remarkably natural and organic, whilst displaying a strong kinship with the world of abstract electronic music. The music utilises piano loops and field recordings as its key elements, forming what might be described on the surface as a fascinating ambient jazz record – but at the same time there's so much more at play here on deeper levels. Dan's music sounds at once otherworldly and immensely inviting.

With its uncanny landscape of fine sand drifts, juniper fields and pine, the ancient Beerze forest in the North-East of the Netherlands is a site of many unusual convergences of human and other than human stories. 'Papa' continues to unravel the threads of a deep artistic collaboration and kinship between pianist and producer Dan Nicholls and the Dutch filmmaker and anthropologist Louise Boer. These fuzzily collaged images and sounds represent a common love for finding the in-between places in which ideas can find deeper roots, channeled here through a dreamlike world which holds within it the location in which Louise’s father, Henk Boer, found his final resting place.

Mattering and Meaning

Exclusive Premiere: Dan Nicholls "Papa" (We Jazz Records)

Tracklist + download: http://boilerroom.tv/upfront/upfront-041-nonclassical/

"In most of the tracks on this mix, the kick drums and percussion that you hear were actually created from acoustic, classical instruments (e.g. those crunchy drums are all made from plucks and slaps made with a cello). It gives the remixes a very unique and organic feel, what we call the 'nonclassical' sound."

- Gabriel Prokofiev, @Nonclassical

Upfront 041: Nonclassical

Dream Intruder

One Hand Clapping (1989 N.O.W. Records)
Mystic Dreams - A New Age Mystical Music Experience (1994 Madacy)
Constance Demby - Ambrosial Waves (2011 Sound Currents)
Inner World 3 (1990 Relaxation Products)
Moods - Sailboat Voyage / Moods - Backyard Stream (1986 Gateway)
Randall McClellan - Healing Music of Rana [Mindflight Edit] (1987 Rana Press / 2014 Sun Ark)
Petr Michael Hamel - Nada (1980 Celestial Harmonies)
Sounds Of The Womb - Dr. Jay Freed (1996 self-released)
Daniel Kobialka - Sun Space (1993 LiSem Enterprises)
Inner-Harmony Music by Upper Astral - Entrance To The Secret Lagoon (1983 Valley of the Sun Publishing)
Matthewdavid's Mindflight - Orchestrator & Rhodes Improvisation (unreleased)
Laraaji - Deep Chimes Meditation 1 (unreleased)
SunPath - Stream and Crystal (1984 Jeff Berry / 2016 Leaving Records) 

A New Age Mystical Music Mix

It's the bottom of the 9th... let's take home that trophy.  ,,,,,,  Home run!

A Big Victory

@VonParty and @DreemsDreems are the dynamic duo behind international label @MultiCulti. It was back in 2013 that Montreal’s Von Party (who is also A&R for his brother Tiga’s Turbo Records and recently revealed that his name should be pronounced FUN PARTY - ideally in a German accent) teamed up with the Sydney producer and self-proclaimed Cosmic Sherpa known as Dreems. Proud of their roster of artists making “pan-globo-sexual soulstyle for our times”, the twosome are purveyors of music to dance to, music to trip to, and music to mediate to. 

Serial makers of sleep time soundtracks, we called on the label heads to put together a mix that’ll guide listeners to a peaceful slumber. Featuring music from Brian Eno, Aphex Twin, and the lesser known Dolphins Into The Future, it’s smooth, soothing and we’re planning to fall asleep to it tonight. Great dreams guaranteed.

slumber session: multi culti

Original Material:
"J.J. Barnes - Touching You"
Will take down upon request

Matthias Zimmermann - Patrick

Made on the Waxing Gibbous Moon 2014 in Mt. Washington / Highland Park, and Altadena, Los Angeles.

Matthewdavid & EMV - Waxing Gibbous Moon

Bones And Sky

Buy: https://www.juno.co.uk/products/florian-kupfer-4ever-ep/727390-01/

German talent Florian Kupfer takes to the steadfast Axe On Waxx sub-label Axe Traxx with his '4 Ever' EP packed with deliciously raw and gritty house cuts, including the smooth and sensual ballad 'Why' that's packed with infectious breaks. 

The '4 Ever' EP is out now.

Florian Kupfer - 4 Ever Ep (AXTX009)

More exclusive music

Premiere: Florian Kupfer 'Why'

From Sub-Aquatic Meditation Vol.2, out now on Muzan Editions:
https://muzaneditions.bandcamp.com/album/sub-aquatic-meditation-vol-2

Panabrite - Odyssea

Connecting club culture to the wider world, on screen and irl through parties, film and video.

Upfront 041: Nonclassical

Boiler Room

Recent comments

Triz

underthediscoball

𝖘𝖔𝖗𝖗𝖔𝖜 𝖙𝖗𝖎𝖆𝖓𝖌𝖑𝖊 ☹

Marcell Bozsik

Related tracks