'Lake George' was recorded during a four-day recording session in a remote farm house outside of Canberra.

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Lake George

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Manchester-based producer and visual artist - catch92 provides another insight to his forthcoming album ‘Patchwork’ in the shape of the classic soul-tinged sample flipping track ‘Anor’.

Coming via Asta Hiroki's Folded Music imprint the album is a melting pot of hip hop beats, jazzy bumps, and downtempo electronica on his first full-length for the label -with ‘Anor’ a standout from the bunch.

When creating, catch92 uses any and every production method at his disposal, with the overarching ethos of being entirely open to exploring any musical avenue and not worrying about maintaining a specific sound, instrument, or narrative throughout the collection.

Starting life as a handful of sample chops and a break thrown together he arranged a basic idea to perform at the regular Workinonit hip hop event. After road testing it to a great reaction, the idea captured his imagination as to what it could become and he reworked the project to its current state - a high-quality soulful beat a la J Dilla’s ‘Donuts’, or the widespan creations of Madlib, and Knxwledge.

Despite the bittersweet nature of the music there is still room for a smile, with the title is a tongue-in-cheek reference to the vocal sample which sounds to say “I Know” through a Yorkshire accent - which the producer is fond of.

Having steadily gained a reputation as one of the most interesting names working with leftfield hip hop styles catch92 has received praise and regular spins on BBC 6 Music, FIP, Couleur 3, RadioEins, and across the Radio Campus network, in addition to some big placements on key Spotify hip hop editorial playlists.

Patchwork

Anor

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Reworks: Vol2

Immortal Beloved (Freya Arde Rework)

Lectern is the first single from Rosie Tee's new mini-album, 'Night Creature' out on 26 April via Kikimora Records.

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Night Creature

Lectern

Taken from the ninth album "Walking After Dark" from this long-running New Haven group is a sprawling travelogue through the band’s strengths. Across two LPs the quartet weaves heady, improvised jams with melodious, hazy lyricism, balancing fried, stony brilliance with outré excursions of experimental serenity. Released May 17th, 2024 via Trouble In Mind Records (www.troubleinmindrecords.com)

RIYL: Neil Young "On The Beach" / Amon Düül "Psychedelic Underground" / Bardo Pond "Bufo Alvarius" / Movietone "s/t"

The Sun Shines On The Moon

The Sun Shines On The Moon (edit) (Trouble In Mind Records)

To watch the video, which incorporates prop comedy, 90s footage and a balloon that looks like Ron Mael from Sparks, please visit: https://youtu.be/QHqJ6cU5ufc

Apophonia

Is It Too Late For Fan Clubs?

This is a sneak preview of a tune for a paired-single release coming later this year. Above/Below comes from several visits to a pool in the Shropshire hills ANOB, where I've been recording sounds from above and beneath the water for the past year. I took these recordings back to the studio and created music inspired by the sounds as a celebration of the incredible life that exists in these places. I'm looking forward to sharing that whole mastered version later this year with its partner track!

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Moda

Slow Heart Music is the acoustic side project of ambient and drone musician Ben Rath. Based in Manchester, UK, Ben has released music under his own name with labels including Sound in Silence, Unknown Tone Records, Eilean Rec., Cathedral Transmissions, Moonswing Netlabel, Triple Moon Records and Whitelabrecs. As Slow Heart Music, Ben focuses more closely on solo acoustic guitar instrumentals and has released albums exclusively through Whitelabrecs.
The majority of Ben's musical output finds its home in the rich and diverse territory of experimental ambient and drone music. Ben creates compositions using original recordings of guitar, keyboard, and piano, as well as samples, field recordings, and digital synthesizers. These sounds from various sources are then moulded, transformed, and edited together to form instrumental arrangements which span a wide variety of styles, tones, and emotional registers, with inspiration drawn from pioneers in the genre such as Tim Hecker and Lawrence English, the early ambient works of artists such as Sean McCann and Colleen, and the emotional weight and resonance of Constellation Records greats such as Godspeed You! Black Emperor and Esmerine (among many others).

Under the Slow Heart Music moniker, Ben strips things back to explore the simple joy of the acoustic guitar. His playing, influenced by the likes of Eric Chenaux and Richard Dawson, as well as the gentle beauty of solo piano works from artists such as Nils Frahm and Olafur Arnalds, combines a sense of playful and spontaneous improvisation with arrangements and compositions that often express a gentle and tender emotion.

For his new album ‘Hope’, Ben returns to the artful acoustic arrangements and soulful guitar playing that marked his debut as Slow Heart Music, ‘This Body Is Not Me’ (2017). Armed with the same £5 half-size classical guitar which was used to record the first time around, Ben adds a second classical acoustic borrowed from his girlfriend in the spirit of using whatever was to hand to create with. He had a vision for the sound he wanted to achieve, which builds on influences from artists that embrace the mournful and melancholic, but also find beauty and uplift amidst the sadness. As Ben explains, “I’ve struggled with my mental health ever since adolescence, and music was the thing that often provided me with the most solace and comfort. The artists that inspired me were those who were expressing something that felt real to my experience, that taught me that I was not as alone in my feelings of deep sadness and anxiety as I often felt, and that meaning and beauty could still be found and expressed in the midst of it all.’’

Those who know him would describe Ben as a quiet, calm, and reserved person, but his music is the space where he is able to express himself more fully. ‘Hope’ is a collection of soft and minimal pieces, steeped in emotion and feeling, at times mournful, at others uplifting, but never seeking to prematurely soothe or distract from the suffering of the world, instead sitting in the mud of it all, and seeing what can be created from there. It is Ben’s sincere hope that his music may help some other lonely soul feel that little bit more connected and understood.

Hope

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William Bleak - Skin On Skin

Recorded & Produced by Ben Hampson 
Released October 2017

Dreaming

Since they formed, Brighton’s PROJECTOR have stubbornly gone their own way. Bringing angular industrial drum machines to hook laden alt-rock, and lush melody to frenzied post-punk, the band have never hesitated to prioritise sonic breadth and an experimental attitude to pop. It’s this confidence in craft that have lead them to tour Europe with rock giants Cleopatrick while simultaneously haunting the airplay of BBC Radio 6’s left field Steve Lamacq and Amy Lamé shows.

PROJECTOR deal in nuance of expression and the true insanity and grit of modern life, psyche and politics (although they don’t like to talk about lyrics.) With the same attitude to recording, PROJECTOR have kept a firm grip over their creative output by producing and recording themselves for the last few years.

PROJECTOR’s debut album ‘NOW WHEN WE TALK IT’S VIOLENCE’ moves effortlessly between artful derangement, aggression and the pop hooks that have regularly seen the band gatecrash the mainstream rock scene. At times it’s drenched in the dark, industrial brutalism of Joy Division, at others it’s a spectacular of hyperactive, Squid-flavoured rant-pop. The album features climaxes that stagger into acid-soaked country, warped with drum machines and lush harmonies, before leaping into blisteringly paranoid Incesticide-era grunge, topped with melting Lana Del Rey-flavour choruses.

Above all, the band’s tightly wound intensity drives the album with the strange fervour of early Pixies that reflects the energy of their live show. PROJECTOR will celebrate their debut with a UK and EU tour, starting February 2024.

Dreaming

PROJECTOR

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