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Reissues

Artist: Allen
Title: 'Critical Stage'
Label: Axis Records
Cat. #: ASD059
Format: Digital
Release: 1st August, 2022
Pre order: https://www.axisrecords.com/axis-shop/

Sounds From NoWhere is pleased to premiere a new Allen' gem on 'Axis'.
Sensors on a classified U.S. government satellite detect what is the first known interstellar meteor entering the Earth's atmosphere. A large fireball is reported breaking up over the coast of Manus Island, Papua New Guinea.
Hidden deep in the depths of the Pacific ocean, a covert research team led by mission agents from NASA's Center for Near Earth Object Studies is deployed. 
Their Mission: to retrieve fragments of the interstellar object. If these meteors were cast out from the habitable zone of a star, they could transfer life from one planetary system to another. What they found no one could imagine.

@axis-jeff-mills

Interstellar Orbit

Premiere: Allen - Critical Stage [Axis Records]

(Disclaimer) We do not own this song. All songs found on the Soundcloud Channel Cresswell Radio are for promotional reasons only. Any artistic perspective portrayed in any of the songs comes from the artist of the song only. No views expressed in the songs come from Cresswell Radio, only the artists themselves

Lawrence - Fifteen Minutes With You

Gigi Masin - Clouds out in 1989 on Sub Rosa.
For more informations about rare repressed and reissued records, visit us :
http://www.morerepress.com/blog/2015/08/04/charles-hayward-gigi-masin-les-nouvelles-musiques-de-chambre-volume-2/

Gigi Masin - Clouds

From May 1992, yep, this is us too.

Never On Sunday ‎– Day By Day
Label: 430 West ‎– 4W-165
Format: Vinyl, 12", 33 ⅓ RPM 
Released: May 1992

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Never On Sunday - In The Breeze (produced by Octave One)

A Rushing Into Water

I´m happy to announce the pre-order possibility of my 7inch LURCH VERSION incl. a remix by Peder Mannerfelt directly through my website. Please go to http://pole-music.com for further details.This is a limited edition, so make sure to get your copy early.

A Limited 7" release by POLE including a remix by PEDER MANNERFELT!
After his album „WALD“ pole releases a version of his track „Lurch“ which was available as bonus download track in Japan only. The flip side includes an exceptional stripped to the bones remix by Peder Mannerfelt (Roll The Dice, Subliminal Kid)
Limited to 300 copies!

http://pole-music.com
https://soundcloud.com/the-subliminal-kid
http://www.apelago.com/Peder-Mannerfelt


Lurch (Version - Peder Mannerfelt Remix)-Snippet

Pass This On

Superpitcher - Voodoo - Snippet

Superpitcher - Baby's On Fire - Snippet

Superpitcher - More Heroin - Snippet

Someone's Gonna Die Tonight (Blitz Cover)

Release date: March 31st, 2017

http://www.bureau-b.de/con-struct.php


Who is Conrad Schnitzler?
Conrad Schnitzler (1937–2011), composer and concept artist, is one of the most important representatives of Germany’s electronic music avant-garde. A student of Joseph Beuys, he founded Berlin’s legendary Zodiak Free Arts Lab, a subculture club, in 1967/68, was a member of Tangerine Dream (together with Klaus Schulze and Edgar Froese) and Kluster (with Dieter Moebius and Hans-Joachim Roedelius) and also released countless solo albums.

Who is Pole?
The Düsseldorf-native musician, producer, remixer and mastering engineer Stefan Betke looks back on a steady two decade career in abstract electronic club music. Together with Barbara Preisinger he created the label „scape Records” and his own mastering studio „scape-mastering”. 

What is the concept of the Con-Struct series?
Conrad Schnitzler liked to embark on daily excursions through the sonic diversity of his synthesizers. Finding exceptional sounds with great regularity, he preserved them for use in combination with each other in subsequent live performances. He thus amassed a vast sound archive of his discoveries over time. When Jens Strüver, the producer of the Con-Struct series, was granted access to this audio library at the outset of the 2010 decade, he came up with the idea of con-structing new compositions, not remixes, from the archived material. On completion of the first Con-Struct album, he decided to develop the concept into a series, with different electronic musicians invited into Schnitzler’s unique world of sound.

A few words from Pole on his con-structions
To be honest, in earlier times I never quite warmed to Conrad Schnitzler's work. Back then, in the middle of the 80s, we were still occupied with traditional band projects. We played hip-hop, jazz, avant-garde, but with guitars, drums, etc. We still asked ourselves the question: "How can we actually get away from these instruments and structures?" They seemed so outmoded. Then came my first contact with Conrad's productions: a Tangerine Dream album that he co-produced and on which he played violin, synthesizer and typewriter. It wasn't a good start. I didn't much like the album. Nevertheless, something had happened. I made a unilateral decision for the band, brought a TR-808 and a Minimoog to rehearsal and announced: "We're going electronic." After that, everything happened all by itself. I found out more about this Schnitzler from Berlin who always impressed me with his complexity, his humorous nature and almost absurd variety. So years later, when I was asked if I would participate in the Con-Struct series, there was no way I could refuse. His influence had since become too important for me. Contrary to the original Con-Struct concept, however, it was my idea to do it half and half: 50 percent sounds from Conrad and 50 percent from me. The collaboration went according to the following rules: I myself use four things – a modified old rhythm machine, two old synthesizers, and my modular system. From Schnitzler come four complex sounds, which are always run through a modular patch. Coincidence should play an important role. Then I sent everything through my mixer – for dubbing. It worked almost automatically. His sounds led and I joined in. It felt a little bit like we could understand each other. The two of us. I would have liked to have met him.

Con-Struct

Conrad Schnitzler & Pole - Con-Struct (Snippets)

Amazed

Uppgång och Fall

Despite his status as a key figure in the history of Japanese ambient music, Hiroshi Yoshimura's music remains tragically under-known outside of his home country. Empire of Signs – a new imprint co-helmed by Maxwell August Croy and Spencer Doran – is proud to reissue Yoshimura's debut Music for Nine Postcards for the first time outside Japan in collaboration with Hiroshi's widow Yoko Yoshimura, with more fully licensed reissues of Hiroshi's work to follow in the future.

Working initially as a conceptual artist, the musical side of Yoshimura's artistic practice came to prominence in the post-Fluxus scene of late 1970s Tokyo alongside Akio Suzuki and Takehisa Kosugi, taking many subsequent turns within Japan’s bubble economy afterward. His sound works took on many forms - commissioned fashion runway scores, soundtracking perfume, soundscapes for pre-fab houses, train station sound design - all existing not as side work but as logical extensions of his philosophy of sound. His work strived for serenity as an ideal, and this approach can be felt strongly on Music for Nine Postcards.

Home recorded on a minimal setup of keyboard and Fender Rhodes, Music for Nine Postcards was Yoshimura’s first concrete collection of music, initially a demo recording given to the Hara Museum of Contemporary Art to be played within the building's architecture. This was not mere background music in the prior Japanese “BGM” sense of the word, but “environmental” music, the literal translation of the Japanese term kankyō ongaku [環境音楽] given to Brian Eno’s “ambient” music when it arrived in late 70's Japan. Yoshimura, along with his musical co-traveler Satoshi Ashikawa, searched for a new dialog between sound and space, a new way of listening: sound not as an absolute, but as something that interlocks with a physical environment and shifts the listener’s experience within it. Erik Satie's furniture music, R. Murray Schafer's concept of the soundscape and Eno’s ambience all greatly informed their work,  but the specific form of tranquil stasis presented on releases like Nine Postcards is still difficult to place within a specific tradition, remaining elusive and idiosyncratic despite the economy of it's construction. This record offers the perfect introduction to Hiroshi's unique and beautiful worldview: it's one that can be listened to - and lived in - endlessly.

Music for Nine Post Cards

Hiroshi Yoshimura (吉村弘) - "Water Copy" from Music for Nine Post Cards (EOS01) OUT 11/17/2017

DC Promo Tracks #114: "Morning Splendor" by Pauline Anna Strom is part of the upcoming release "Trans-Millenia Music" on RVNG Intl. @igetrvng

Pre-Order: https://smarturl.it/rervng10-rvng

Pauline Anna Strom’s unique style of inner space music reaches across time to futures and pasts far from our own. Trans-Millenia Music compiles eighty minutes of Strom’s most evocative work, composed and recorded between 1982 and 1988, for the first authorized overview of the enigmatic Bay Area composer. 

Pauline Anna Strom’s Trans-Millenia Music is available November 10, 2017 on double LP, CD, and digital formats. Vinyl and CD editions feature original artwork by visionary Karma Moffett.

Trans-Millenia Music (ReRVNG10 - Promo)

Pre-Order

DC Promo Tracks #114: Pauline Anna Strom "Morning Splendor"

Ojinga's Own

This is a rework of the fabulous track Guá from Caetano Veloso and his beautiful Brazilian experimentalism. 

Track made by Pigmalião and https://soundcloud.com/facchi-768783896

Cover art by the talented > www.ibbritta.com

Guá

Buy!

Caetano Veloso - Guá (Pigmalião & Facchi Rework)

The third and final part of the "waldgeschichten" 12inch series highlights and expands upon pole´s distinctive sound, connecting to the first two parts of the trilogy in a charming way. Again a fundamental element is the very specific drum sound embedded in complex dubby structures, seamlessly unified with the warm and deep basslines.

If you have had the pleasure of listening to one of pole´s live concerts recently, then you will immediately recognize the "lurch" and "moos".


 

After the stripped down second part of the trilogy, with its wintery atmosphere, these tracks appear to be floating in melancholy. The field recordings and sounds fade away into echoes, grounded with massive bass.

 

This is a perfect conclusion to the series, offering a foretaste of the upcoming pole album.

A Lurch-SNIPPET

Pole, aka musician, producer and mastering engineer Stefan Betke, has announced the remastered reissue of his debut album releases, 1, 2 and 3, available on Mute as a box set on 24 April 2020. 
The box set will be distributed to record stores world wide and is already available for pre-order here:  http://mute.ffm.to/POLE123

Released on vinyl (for the first time in nearly 20 years) and CD (remastered since its 2008 reissue), the box set releases mark 20 years since the trilogy was completed and a return to the label for the groundbreaking artist. The vinyl edition includes a bonus 12", RAUM, originally released on DIN records in 1998.

The Trilogy will be available as digital files on bandcamp from april 30th 2020

www.pole-music.com
https://pole-stefanbetke.bandcamp.com/album/1-2-3
www.mute.com

Silberfissch

pole - silberfisch

Nagranie koncertu podsumowującego Mikrorezydencję BDK#3, który odbył się 3 grudnia 2016 r. o godz. 20.00, w Sali Grudniowej (211) Katowice Miasto Ogrodów Instytucji Kultury im. Krystyny Bochenek.

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Mateusz Wysocki (@fischerle)
Urodzony w Białymstoku w 1985 roku. Żyje i pracuje w Warszawie. Zajmuje się muzyką elektroakustyczną, preparowanym field-recordingiem, słuchowiskami poświęconymi m.in. mniejszościom etnicznym, dub techno i instrumentalnym hip-hopem.
Publikował w MonotypeRec, Further Records, Minicromusic, Resopal Schallware, Farbwechsel, Crónica, Astral Spirits, BDTA, Where To Now?, Wounded Knife, Czaszka Records, Chemical Tapes, U-Cover. Regularnie współpracuje z Lechem Nienartowiczem (Porcje Rosołowe), Michałem Wolskim (Mech), Łukaszem Kacperczykiem (Bouchons d’Oreilles) i Robertem Skrzyńskim. Razem z Lechem Nienartowiczem prowadzi kasetowy label Pawlacz Perski. Jest również autorem książki dla dzieci pt. „Skrytki”, do której ilustracje wykonała Agata Królak.
https://www.residentadvisor.net/dj/fischerle
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Mikrorezydencje artystyczne Biura Dźwięku Katowice to zainicjowany w 2016 roku cykl pięciodniowych wizyt studyjnych, podczas których zaproszony artysta przygotowuje specjalny koncert/słuchowisko w kwadrofonicznym systemie nagłośnieniowym. Dotychczas odwiedzili nas: Robert Skrzyński (Micromelancolié), Mirt, Lubomir Grzelak (Lutto Lento), Mikołaj i Piotr Tkacz, Emiter, Mateusz Wysocki (Fischerle), Jacek Sienkiewicz, Patryk Daszkiewicz (DMNSZ), Nicola Ratti, Miasto Masa Maszyna (Kolarczyk, Baran, Oleś), Grupa Etyka Kurpina, Krzysztof Freeze Ostrowski, FOQL + Edka Jarząb oraz Gerard Lebik, Beniovska.

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mastering: Piotr Figiel
@piotrfigiel

Mikrorezydencja BDK#3 - Fischerle

taken from the album "2", originally released july 1999.
re-released on Mute as a box set (vinyl / cd) 24 April 2020.
https://mute.ffm.to/POLE123

Fahren

pole - Fahren

taken from the album "1", originally released july 1998.
re-released on Mute as a box set (vinyl / cd) 24 April 2020.
https://mute.ffm.to/POLE123

pole - Modul

My dad was 42
When I was in pre-school
My mummy was 35
They used to have fights
Roughly every other night
I kept saying 'I hate my dad'
I'm alone and I miss you
Now I want to speak to you
Because you're still hurting me inside
I could never reach you
Not if you don't love me too
So I must learn to say goodbye
Uncle Denny smelled of cash
It was dark but I felt his moustache
On my smooth girly face
I was awaken and I was despaired
His hands were everywhere
Left me shocked and terrified
I was then in primary school
Now I want to speak to you
These things are still getting me down
I was then so afraid
Had no idea what I'll face
It's still haunting my weary heart
I was 24
Thought love knocked up on my door
I was happy but living a lie
I couldn't lose a friend
So they both made me pretend
Until all emotion slowly died
I was wrong and believed you
Now I wouldn't speak to you
It happens to me all my life
I was in love and I missed you
Now I won't speak to you
Because things aren't getting me down

from Health, Beauty & Ghosts, releases 25/09/2020
written, recorded, performed & produced by Małgola, No
mixed by Adam Sowiński at Indiana Records Cymru

Joey García, Oszkar Casper

zajebac sie (poimprezka cover)

bknd & zamojski - Free Man

ANNA JANTAR - TYLE SŁOŃCA W CAŁYM MIEŚCIE (MŁODY BÓG REMIX)

"Zero Gravity" is a part of "Nebula" LP - cosmic record produced by Himalaya Collective.

PREORDER CZARNEGO WINYLA:  https://shop.uknowme-records.com/produkt/nebula-black/
PREORDER KOSMICZNEGO WINYLA: https://shop.uknowme-records.com/produkt/nebula-cosmic/ 
BANDCAMP: https://uknowme.bandcamp.com/album/himalaya-collective-nebula

The album is due out on the 21st August 2020 on U Know Me Records.

Himalaya (HC16) - An interstellar collective of beatmakers connected by a common goal to blur the boundaries between what's audible and what can be seen through the eyes of imagination. First observed over the Polish sky in 2016, it sends an irregular signal which is decoded by terrestial observatories in a form of original musical material. The signal is proven to originate from a mysterious matter of high-density, which accumulates in the very core of the collective - The Vibe.

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Himalaya (HC16) - Międzygwiezdny kolektyw producencki, złożony z beatmakerów połączonych wspólnym celem zatarcia granic między tym co słyszalne, a tym co widać oczyma wyobraźni. Po raz pierwszy zaobserwowany nad polskim niebem w 2016 roku, emituje nieregularny sygnał, który przez instrumenty badawcze ziemskich obserwatoriów odbierany jest w formie autorskich kompilacji. Dowiedziono, że odpowiada za to osobliwa, charakteryzująca się wysokim stopniem gęstości materia, skumulowana w głębi kolektywu - Zajawa.

Nebula

Prometh - Zero Gravity [UKM 081]

booking contact: info@folkwisdom.net

In 2022 the Düsseldorf-native musician, producer, remixer and mastering engineer Stefan Betke looks back on a steady 25-year career in abstract electronic club music. In particular, the seven albums that he released during this period under the Pole moniker have lastingly shifted the coordinates of electronica.

See pole´s full bio here:
https://pole-music.com/bioinfo/

pole - Modul

pole original