I haven't listened to nowt yet but had to come in and say hello because I'm a giant Negativland fan // I expect to enjoy Positivland

AI Series Mix #007 - Alberta Balsam
January2023

https://soundcloud.com/albertabalsam

TRACKLIST:

01. Vertical67 - A Beginning Without An End 
02. A-Sim - Séquence Polochon 
03. Alberta Balsam - Comic Bionic (Upcoming)
04. Noboot - Exe 
05. Unknown Artist - Pike 
06. Tadan x V2 - Welcome To The World 
07. Alberta Balsam - Unreleased
08. Nouveau Monica - Loop Collage	
09. Priori presents RED - Going Sour In The Heat 
10. EOD - dog_bits 
11. RTR - Luna 
12. Hooverian Blur - Kill Chain 
13. Morewood and Resting Cell - Record Something
14. Viers - Hidden Bone 
15. Oyubi - Reidai Rave 
16. サイケアウツ Cycheouts - 無人 O.B. Mujin O.B. 
17. Freddy Fresh (Freddie Fresh) - Sign Language	
18. Jerohme Spye - Unisini
19. EOD - ◙ – ◙	
20. Patricia - Husk		
21. RTR - Lights over Phoenix  
22. Johnny Broke - Planetary Terror  
23. rRoxymore - MULTIPLICITY 
24. SSIEGE - Virgo Oscura

AI Series Mix #007 - ALBERTA BALSAM

Royal Wavetable Mellodies & Old TDKs

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The second release of POSITIVLAND by Mancunian artist:

Faff
@ffaf

PSTVLND 002 - 04/01/2024
positivland.bandcamp.com/

Limited ≈200 copies in Black vinyl, 180g.
Very Limited 26 hand-numbered copies, Splatter vinyl 180g
* Release Limited Edition 25/01/2024

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Note from the artist:


Faff’s Scrapbook.ep

This record is a collection of tracks I made from the start of 2019 to the end of 2021. They all exist completely independent of each other. My intention while working on music during this time was to create a time capsule/memory album for me to remind myself of my moments with. I had a lot of different experiences and substantially changed during this time. The early tracks were made by a completely different person than the person typing this. Of the 6 tracks on this EP, only one of them was made with the knowledge that it would be put together with the others and released as one cohesive article.

I wanted to make music again after abandoning it for 3 years. One of these tracks marks the turning point where a projected pipe dream of determined mastery was cracked through by what the speaker cone did when piano roll blocks were placed intuitively for the first time. 

In this .ep, I present:

THE CONCEPT

In its disjointedness, this music has presented itself to me as a scrapbook. It is rough around the edges, vague in its sentiment, and has more of an emotional than abstract association. While brainstorming for visual ideas to package these tracks in, I spat a bunch of words into a GAN and the words might be useful for you to get a sense of the general themes:  “synthesizer drum machine back catalogue emotional syneasthesia-inducing dance music” “vibrant energy synthesiser music record” “faffing about analogue synth music maker colour-changing light experiment” “bedroom studio acid bass sentimental rave artisan” “braindance analogue synthesiser data catalogue metaphysical music” “psychedelic synthesiser contemplation heartfelt breakbeat lullabies” “reaction diffusion rephlex records melancholic analogue music journal” “cerebral rave chromatic anthem dirge synth memories” “tr-808 analogue rave cerebral music energy ritual”

There is a dualistic nature to this EP, as it is a highly organised arrangement of totally disparate tracks. They are all (except one) built inside a DAW, but largely featuring live performance recordings of analogue hardware. The recordings are then processed after the fact. Layers on layers of humanity and machine, analogue and digital, specificity and ambiguity. All of the tracks are also subjectively experienceable pieces of music, but they sit in an objective folder structure on my laptop. Each one also was ignited by a unique occasion, but absorbs new meanings and connotations as time flows through and around them. These polarised paradoxes are key to the idea of this EP. Even to have a concept EP assembled from standalone tracks without any uniting concept is an example of the intertwining of opposites. Visuals associated are DAW architecture, poorly managed cables in thrown-together bedroom studio, piles of photographs printed out, computer folder structure, MIDI information in piano roll/automation envelopes, synthesiser encoders and pots.

Buy it:)!!

Special thanks and love go to Weefween, Robert and Chloe 

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credits
release January 4, 2024

Written, composed and produced in Manchester, UK, by Faff.
Mastered in Groningen, the Netherlands, by Johanz Westerman at Balyhoo Studio Mastering.
Designed in Manchester, UK, by Faff + Weefween + Positivland.
Distributed from Sardinia, Italy, by Desslab.

www.desslab.net
www.positiv.land

Faff - Shallow Focus (Snippet)

2024's hatsuyume on @noodsradio 🫧

Full tracklist: https://noodsradio.com/shows/dream-theories-w-yingtuitive-16th-january-24

Noods Radio - Dream Theories w/ yingtuitive 16.1.24

READ > inverted-audio.com/premiere-reark-voor-lightstep

Succeeding the various artist 'FT ON NINA 02' compilation in December 2023, Paris-based imprint @frenchtabloid return with the collaborative 'Pilgrim' EP - courtesy of misfit duet VOOR (@user-356137840) and @Reark.

Pilgrim EP

Lightstep

REARK & VOOR - Lightstep [French Tabloïd]

blurry renaissance

`Cliche - The Third Planet (demo)` from the forthcoming album `Omniscience`

BIG MAN

A Milly Victory Laps (DonPaulo edit)

We Should Dance

POSITIVLAND. Records Made with Love (the One that Is In The Air)
London + Sant Joan de Mollet 

 Out now  12" Vinyl PSTVLND 02
by Faff
https://positivland.bandcamp.com/

Distributed from Sardinia, Italy, by Desslab.
www.desslab.net

Faff - Shallow Focus (Snippet)

Positivland

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