Psychedelia,  space rock, stoner,  krautrock,  shoegaze, ambient, dream pop,  psyfolk, trippy dub & loops of spacey synths.                               (play in shuffle)

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Playlist
01. Poltrock - Planetary Community Chicken
02. Hosini & Jones Meadow - 8 Hours, Still No Rain
03. Bag Raiders - Shooting Stars (Edit)
04. Felix da Housecat - What Does It Feel Like (Royksopp Return to the Sun Remix)
05. LEfrenk - Chocolate Eyes
06. Bicep - Apricots
07. Stimming - Judith MAria
08. Ben Böhmer, Nils Hoffmann & Malou - Breathing (Dominik Eulberg Extended Mix)
09. Budakid - Silent Summer
10. Luttrell - Snoop Dawk (Extended Mix)
11. Monkey Safari & Borneo - You And Me
12. Nora En Pure - World of Rules (Extended Mix)
13. Marsh, Phenoir & Mariel Beausejour - Don't Wait (Frost Extended Mix)

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Award-winning Belgian composers @Poltrock & @adriaanderoover wield elemental certainties in 'VACUUM', a dramatic album blurring the borders of modern classical and deep ambient music.

VACUUM

Straight Line Training

Poltrock & de Roover - Straight Line Training [Consouling Sounds]

Musicians David Poltrock and Adriaan de Roover (whom you may know as Oaktree) team up with Aïda Gabriëls (direction), Pieter Desmet (dance), Wim Piqueur (video), Jan Van Lindt (lighting design), Yoran Cambier (sound) for an all-immersive performance in quadraphonic sound, scheduled to premiere in Belgium in the next couple of weeks (see more details and live dates). Meanwhile, the score for this “sound choreography” is released as an album under the same name, VACUUM. The recording features binaural mixes which are designed to be experienced in headphones, capturing spatial positioning of sound to convey a three-dimensional “spherical” space. That’s all very rich and technically exciting and all, but what about the music? You know I wouldn’t be featuring something here if I didn’t connect with the piece. Hence my decision to host an exclusive premiere of “44,2 km” – a fourth track on the album, which I really enjoyed [in headphones]. On the track, advanced digital sound processing deconstructs the sounds of my favourite acoustic instrument and then places it back in the centre of a resonant space. The bass bottoms out beneath the piano, while sliced-up tiny sonic grains float up and flicker in a chamber of a hollow void to paint unexpected delays and reverbs in a space without time. A mesmerising sonic scape, one which, I imagine, could only be better if experienced during the performance mentioned above.

44,2 km

TRACK PREMIERE : Poltrock & de Roover - 44,2 Km (Binaural Version - intended for headphones)

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Sometimes so much modern classical and ambient music drives me to a desire to cut it up a bit. Slice all of those expanding pads with a sharp-edged and surgically-precise glitchy blade, which is an intrinsic part of my sonic DNA. With that said, I can always rely on the trusted raster to serve me a delicious cocktail of spiked-up goodness. In the case of their latest album, scheduled to drop this upcoming Friday, November 25th, the master chef, chief surgeon, and dystopian storyteller is the one and only Franck Vigroux, who, albeit has not appeared on these pages in the past, has been on my radar for many years, particularly from his releases on Leaf, Monotype, Aesthetical, and Matière Mémoire. In 2020 Vigroux appeared on this Chemnitz-based (Germany) artistic platform with his album, Ballades Sur Lac Gelé. This follow-up, titled Magnetoscope, is part of the same series of releases that "interrelate strict and cool analogue sounds, drum machines and noise landscapes in an epic, almost cinematic way." The title and the synth sounds which appear throughout the album (and on a piece which I'm premiering for you today) refer to the "terrifying time" of the 80s. The influences of "Blade Runner" as watched through an old VHS tape, the sounds of a warped cassette tape left out to melt in your steaming brick of a car in the parking lot, the unruly analogue music machines that never followed your directions and seemed to have a mind of their own - all of this is here, on Magnetoscope.

Magnetoscope

Paris NYC

TRACK PREMIERE : Franck Vigroux - Paris NYC

Trans-national brothers Hot & Cold make clouds of psychedelic post-punk infused with electronic undertones. The tandem packs a serious punch, swirling bass guitar hooks around the sounds of what could be servile automatons gaining sentience for the first time, creating a complex musical backdrop to echoic vocalizations. There’s a tinge of Suicide and Spacemen 3, but the electronic freakout is entirely their own.

Hot & Cold - Flynt

Martin Kohlstedt is a German electronic musician, pianist, and film composer with a particular approach to production, where his pieces “are always in movement and never resort to a definitive form – even during concerts.” For his latest album, titled FELD, Kohlstedt has produced a series of films complimenting the singles [you can watch these on his YouTube video collection], with the entire production culminating into “a movie with an immersive, captivating story.” For today’s premiere, I’ve selected the track “DIA”, which, even without the visuals, conveys his flavour of modern electronic sound fused with acoustic instrumentation, projecting the motion of emotion as it flows throughout your mind. The piece opens up with soft piano sparkles wrapped by a blanket of rhythmic glitches until the whirlwind of edgy electronica whisks it into action of wide-angle cinematic soundscape. “This is possible because Kohlstedt, while trusting the clarity of composition of his modules and pieces, intuitively allows unforeseen events that he also sees as an integral part of his live performances: a certain fragility, constant searching and possible failure, a dash of chance and unbridled flow.”

FELD

TRACK PREMIERE : Martin Kohlstedt - DIA

This morning I am delighted to spend more time with David Poltrock and his music. He is not completely new to my ears, as I have previously enjoyed and covered his piece with Adriaan de Roover, titled "44,2 km". Today I am premiering a track titled "Titanus Giganteus", taken off his upcoming release Aulus I, which, as I hope you can guess from the album title, is part of the diptych of two instrumental works, with the Aulus II coming out later in the year. It seems that we're all mesmerised these days [at least in my circle of musician friends] with sounds originating from strings, piano, tape, and light electronics. But even if the ingredients are all the same, it is the flavour of the dish that is important. In this case [as is the case with all of my previous musings on sound], it is the emotion behind each piece and the composer's ability to communicate and transfer that emotion into mine. It seems so simple, yet it's not. And if the musician truly accomplishes this task, then the ingredients don't matter. It could be just a piano. It could be just strings. It's great when each one has a place in the story. This is what I think about [and what I feel] when I listen to Poltrock's music. And that's the greatest compliment of all. For this piece, which is a rework of his previous original track, "Titanus" (Machines, 2018), Poltrock starts with the lofi piano and brings in the strings performed by Sun*Sun*Sun String Orchestra for a dynamic, intimate and soaring composition that wonderfully conveys the sound on his album as a whole. Beautifully sculpted, executed, and received.

Aulus I

Titanus Giganteus

TRACK PREMIERE : Poltrock - Titanus Giganteus

Dream Sequence

Rubycon Part One

Her Dress

Lady Remédios

Microcosmo

Artist: Chasms
Track: Shadow
Album: The Mirage

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The Mirage

Chasms - Shadow

A late-stage rehearsal straight to cassette for reference. Recorded shortly before going into the studio, probably at John Henry rehearsal rooms. This is Mark on guitar, Lee on drums, and myself on piano and organ (the bass was always addressed in the studio once the basic track was down, which is why it doesn't feature here).
It's best to take the 8 minutes out and listen to the end, preferably in headphones, and in a quiet space,

Eden rehearsal cassette

Berlin based composer and producer Ben Lukas Boysen has announced the release of his third album, the progressive and shape-shifting 'Mirage', on 1 May 2020. It follows 2013’s 'Gravity' and the acclaimed 2016 full length 'Spells', a record as much admired by his peers as it was loved by fans that not only yielded remixes from Max Cooper and Tim Hecker, but also opened Jon Hopkins’ Late Night Tales compilation.

Since the release of 'Spells', Ben collaborated with cellist and composer Sebastian Plano on the score for David OReilly’s landmark innovative video game 'Everything'. It was added to the long list for the Best Animated Short at the 90th Academy Awards, making it the first video game to qualify for an Oscar. 

As with 'Gravity' and 'Spells', Ben has an array of musical guests adorning Mirage, including long time collaborator, Berlin based cellist and composer Anne Müller as well as Australian saxophonist and composer Daniel Thorne — for whom Ben wrote parts specifically, having heard his 2019 solo debut 'Lines of Sight'. Lead track 'Medela' features both and takes the listener on a kaleidoscopic journey that slides with ease across sonic terrains.

While on 'Spells' Ben made programmed pieces sound indistinguishable from human playing, with 'Mirage' he set out to do the opposite and make the human touch unrecognisable, creating something of a mystery or a mirage.

“A lot of the elements and instruments you hear on the album are either not what you think they are, or exactly what you think they are but behave differently or they’re elements you definitely know but they are hidden, processed, or morphed into something else. With 'Spells' and 'Gravity' I was trying to hide the machines. On 'Mirage', I’m trying to hide the human” — Ben Lukas Boysen

Mirage

Medela

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Ben Lukas Boysen - Medela

Titanus

David POLTROCK is a Brussels-based composer, producer and sound designer.  

As a producer and keyboard player, he can boast countless collaborations with premium Belgian and international artists.

His first solo release as a recording artist under the Poltrock moniker was the 2018 instrumental trilogy ‘Mutes, Moods & Machines’ in which he displays an affection for intimate piano sounds, menacing drones and pulsating electronica. Poltrock’s music met with national and international acclaim earning him a Belgian ‘Music Industry Award’ for best musician in 2019. 

Poltrock’s first albums - cinematic as they are - paved the way for an increasingly succesful career as a composer for film and tv.  He scored award winning films such ‘Wild Gene’ (2019) and the Irish documentary film ‘Young Plato’ (2021) as well as critically acclaimed TV shows such as ‘Studio Tarara’ (2019) or ‘Billie vs Benjamin’ (2022).  His collaboration ‘Stay’ with RAVVEL was featured prominently in the French TV show ‘Il a déjà tes yeux’ and  his ambient album VACUUM (2021) with Adriaan de Roover grew into an enigmatic multidisciplinary performance with dance, video and 3D sound.

In 2023 Poltrock returns with  Aulus 1 & Aulus II.  A cinematic diptych exploring the vast space between classical and electronic music.  Between organic strings and pianos and experimental sound design.

Titanus

Poltrock

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