Very rich soundscape with a wonderful depth.

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Tycho "Awake" LP on Ghostly International
Release date: MARCH 18, 2014

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For nearly a decade, Tycho has been known as the musical alias of Scott Hansen, but with the release of Awake – his second LP for Ghostly International – the solo project has evolved into a three-piece band. Relating closer to post-rock than ambient soundscapes, the record is situated in the present, sounding more like Hansen than drawing from his influences. “This is, in many ways, the first true Tycho record.”

Following 2011’s Dive LP, the San Francisco-based designer toured extensively, and with a full band on stage, his sound coalesced into a percussive, organic whole. Zac Brown (guitars, bass) rejoined Scott on the road for this tour, but it was the particular addition of Rory O’Connor’s live drumming that ultimately sent Hansen back to the studio with a more precise vision. “After the tour, I decided that I wanted to capture the more energetic, driven sound of the live show on the next album,” Hansen recalls. Bringing musicians into Tycho’s creative process was a step towards expanding his own songwriting and advancing the project beyond its current sound.

In a cabin near Tahoe last winter, Zac and Scott began fleshing out the structure of the new record, but it wasn’t until they set up shop in the hills of Santa Cruz with Rory that it all fell into place. “It crystallized the vision of how the drums would come to the forefront on this record,” says Hansen. The sound was much more stripped-down and concise with more organic instruments in the fold. Songs like “Montana” and “Awake” are a departure from Tycho’s previous material – unique to the group effort poured into the songs on the new record – while “See” and “Dye” echo ideas from previous works, bridging a middle ground between the old and new. Working with Count Eldridge, who also engineered Dive, the team could fixate on the pulses that Tycho might previously layer under synthesizers and exhume them with distinct bass and guitar patterns.

Also known for his design work as ISO50, Hansen’s visual and sonic efforts have dovetailed throughout the course of his career. “This is the first time in my life I've dropped everything to focus on one artistic pursuit,” notes Hansen. Previous Tycho releases came to fruition when an amalgam of songs were nearing completion, but Awake is where music becomes the focus and true expression becomes the result.

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Awake

Sebmann is a creator of all things deep, dark and 808-laced. Lurking in the depths of Edinburgh, his musical passions lie in bass-led house and techno that never fails to deliver anything less than rumbling chest, with his forthcoming 'Shtun EP' on Nineteen89 Records speaking for itself. It's Friday, it's dark outside and it's time to get dirty with this week's exclusive i-DJ mix from Sebmann. 

Tracklist: 
1. Lowtec - Joni
2. Pev & Asusu - Remnants
3. Andrea Parker - Invasion
4. Gunnar Haslam - B61
5. Randomer - Bring
6. Ten Walls - Gotham
7. S.L.0 - Transmission Funk
8. Sand People - Brandy Station
9. Trikk – Back to Back
10. Sebmann – Time
11. N.Y.T.A – 95
12. Andrea Parker – The Swamp
13. Boddika – Crack
14. Sebmann – Kase 2
15. Kowton – Dub 05
16. Paleman – Etch
17. Llesca – Wretch
18. Joe – Slope
19. Instra:Mental – 8
20. Arka – Underground
21. Special Request – Cold Blooded
22. Call Super – Leosengor
23. Loefah – Western (Did A Skank)

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1st track of debut album You Never Know What Is Enough / Unless You Know What Is More Than Enough  -- by New Routines Every Day.

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2xLP Standard Black 12" - 180g Vinyl
Release: 9 June 2017 
Pulver Und Asche Records

Recorded on analog tape in April 2015. Live to stereo track. No mixing.
Rudy Deceliere - field recordings et harmonium 
Marcel Chagrin - guitar, amplifier, foot drums 
Recording & Mastering : antoine etter
Thanks: Samantha Granger, Anne Delahaye & Nicolas Leresche, Le lapin

Rudy Decelière et Marcel Chagrin have known each other for many years, each experiencing a singular mutual tacit comprehension like a kind of silent brotherhood. In 2014 the occasion to work together was met by a carte-blanche commission to Marcel Chagrin by the Film Festival of Locarno, CH. They decided to call themselves New Routines Every Day and recorded their first album You Never Know What Is Enough / Unless You Know What Is More Than Enough.
They prepared their first concert during a session in a studio in Lausanne where the sounds of Rudy Decelière encompassed mind soundscapes while the melodies of Marcel Chagrin suggested the narration. Together a cinematographic universe was created without images and without words which asks the listener to create his/her own story and film frame.

About the record
You Never Know What Is Enough / Unless You Know What Is More Than Enough (title taken from William Blake) was written and recorded on analog in 2015 during an intensive week in Lausanne, Switzerland, by Antoine Etter (Sophie Hunger, The Young Gods). Through its technical and aesthetic choices, the composition and the recording of the work are intimately linked by many constraints: the analog sound directly mixed to stereo, the limited duration of the magnetic tapes and the limited duration of the vinyls, etc. necessarily involve particular attention to the final piece of work, without the possibility of cuts, mixing, or any further improvement. What is recorded is what will be heard!
In addition to these voluntary constraints, the recording pays particular attention to the possibility of a cinematographic narrative. Each piece is composed as a result of the previous one for the sake of coherence of the whole. One could almost say that each piece is a sequence shot. In the end, the film is infinite: it is a consequence of the involvement of the work with the imagination of the listener.

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Dust and ashes can look the same – an undefined gray sand – but if you take a closer look they are very different.Dust is sedimentation of time, measurement of becoming, reflecting calmness. Ash instead is the result of a flash, recently vanished ardour, transmigrated matter. In their union you can recognize the essence of Pulver & Asche Records.

Because it catches the instant without forgetting the past from where it comes from.
Because it loves to reflect with lucidity but also adhere to unpredictable outbursts of the contemporary.
Because it slips through your fingers without being noticed and it becomes part of you.

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