Released on December 5, 2017 as an infinitely looping minisite and limited edition cassette.

"The latest installment in an ongoing mix series, Absent Friends Vol. 2 presents Minor Science’s take on ambient: a hyper-dense, micro-edited collage form incorporating music, sound and speech. Progressing by a series of lulls and wild crescendos, its structure mimics the volatile behaviours of weather systems; over time, an oblique but powerful emotional narrative emerges."

“We may be stranded in the rain, sometimes…”

Music used, in order of appearance:

Peggy Lee - Going Rowing
Steven Halpern - 7th Chakra: Keynote B (Violet)
Michel Redolfi - Immersion
Steve Hauschildt - Eyelids Gently Dreaming
Mike Ratledge - Riddles Of The Sphinx Sequence 7
Leif - Untitled (GAL006 B2)
Arthur Russell - The Name Of The Next Song
Aisha Devi / Laurel Halo - Aurat (Tool) / Wow (Minor Science Call & Response Blend)
Robin Fox - Antlers
Robin Fox - A Small Prometheus
Georges Aperghis - Avis De Tempête: Avis 6
Pita - Vent-Glass
Linkwood - Outside In
Mike Ratledge - Riddles Of The Sphinx Sequence 6 (Minor Science Eternal Return Excerpt)
Qasim Naqvi - Preamble
François Bayle - L’Aventure Du Cri
Luc Ferrari - Presque Rien Avec Filles
David Behrman - On The Other Ocean
Eli Keszler - Willing To Be Open
Peggy Lee - “Audio Book” interview w/ Wink Martindale (Minor Science Gratitude Cutup)
Joanna Brouk - The Sounding (Minor science Divine Stepladder Edit)
Jaap Blonk - Flux-De-Bouche
Bernard Parmegiani - De Natura Sonorum: Deuxième Série
Arca - Extent
LOFT - Yes
Carlos Niño - Gongs, Cymbals and Bells
O Yuki Conjugate - Cloud Cover
Alvin Lucier - Oases
Bernard Parmegiani - De Natura Sonorum: Première Série
Guy Reibel - Franges Du Signe
Alderaan - The Idea Of Having A Soul
Guy Reibel - Granulations-Sillages
Ben Vida - Damaged Particulates
James Pugliese / Visible Cloaks ft. Motion Graphics - Freeze / Terrazzo (Minor Science Blend)
Vanessa Rosato - This Is A Recorder
Diseño Corbusier - El Circulo De La Infancia
Sidsel Endresen - One: Untitled Track 2
Atom TM - Naturalist #3
Braaxtaal - Spraakwater
Masayoshi Fujita & Jan Jelinek - Vague, Yet
Eli Keszler - Corresponding Probably To Quanta
Minor Science - Temporising Peggy
Blonk, Gustafsson & Zerang - Rorr
John Martyn - Small Hours (Minor Science Chord Aug Excerpt)
Michel Redolfi - Pacific Tubular Waves

Minor Science - Change Now Megamix, featuring excerpts from:
Andrea - Floating
“Blue” Gene Tyranny - Timing
Joanna Brouk - The Sounding (Minor Science Divine Stepladder Edit)
Minor Science - Hungup
Mike Ratledge - Riddles Of The Sphinx Sequence 6 (Minor Science Eternal Return
Excerpt)
and,
Jaap Blonk - AA 60
Jaap Blonk - Flux-De-Bouche
Jaap Blonk - Gramm
Jaap Blonk - Seepferdchen und Flugfische
Jaap Blonk - Zieuwis
Jaap Blonk & Cor Fuhler - Notches of Mycoplasma
Braaxtaal - Kwik-Me-Dit Schar-Luup
Braaxtaal - Spraakwater
Five Men Singing - No Drone Rising
Five Men Singing - Tough and Rumble
Eli Keszler - Willing To Be Open
Yann Leguay - IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL
LOFT - Yes
Carlos Niño - Gongs, Cymbals and Bells
Bernard Parmegiani - De Natura Sonorum
Michel Redolfi - Pacific Tubular Waves
Minor Science - Richardstraße Downpour
Guy Reibel - Franges du Signe
Guy Reibel - Granulations-Sillages
Rully Shabara - Faring
Zeitkratzer - Mort Aux Vaches: Random Dilettantes

LFDM - Ant Hills
Headlock - Again

Absent Friends Vol. 2

everything seems to be back where it's meant to be, but like it's now even farther out of place 

everything is enough

Kansai Bruises

Silhouette

Different Stories, Same Worlds

Ivons & Senglar - Lobomental

~ LAAPS 047 ~ [SEQ.06 - LP47]

artist : Seabuckthorn
album : A Path Within A Path
duration : 42.03 mn
date : October 03rd, 2025

edition :
-  vinyl : limited to 200 copies / red (oxblood) LP / selective UV varnish (front+back) / hand numbered 
- cd : limited to 150 copies / pantone / hand numbered + handcrafted, sealed

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pre-order : September 11th, 2025 / official release : October 03rd, 2025
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All music composed by Andy Cartwright, except the guest parts on tracks 2, 5, 6 ( Dean McPhee, Claire Deak, Loscil)
Recorded in Saint-Pierre-d'Argençon, France between July 2024 and January 2025.

Mastered by James Plotkin
Cover photo by Andy Cartwright
Design by Sprflxgrfzm
 
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Links :
https://laaps-records.com/
https://www.instagram.com/iikki_laaps/
https://seabuckthorn.bandcamp.com/music
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℗ & © 2 0 2 5 - L A A P S - L A A P S 0 4 7

Seabuckthorn - Black Boar

A new track from my latest release 'Configured'
You can get it here https://florklang.bandcamp.com/album/configured

Forces

here is the second remix of this track:
https://soundcloud.com/n_o_i_r/lanark-artefax-10-metallur-loader77-lodyr77-second-remix
and this is the first:
https://soundcloud.com/loader77/lanark-artefax-metallur-loader-77-remix
original track here:
https://soundcloud.com/lanark-artefax/lanark-artefax-metallur

Lanark Artefax  -  Metallur  ( Лодырь third remix )

Freman Hrd Wls

woven ambient, dub, experimental, idm, and glitch.

Life as Collage w/ yusk: 23rd November '25

Debut full length from London based 3 piece originally hailing from New Zealand (Matthew Hyland), Germany (Anja Büchele) and Romania (Dennis Debitsev) Precious Waste In Our Wake (full title written nowhere: "The Fucking Terrible Receding Shapes, We Shed Precious Waste In Our Wake") is an endlessly beautiful, dense and chaotic crawl through so many forms it can be difficult to ascertain what is actually at play. Ostensibly a ‘rock’ band carved from the same plank as previous outfits Philosopie Queen, The Mean Streaks, etc Triple Negative have shaken a somewhat complacent London with their wildly original blend of chaos and beauty rolling around a maelstrom of politics, spite and humour. Bloodclaat Orange, Fatna Bent Lhoucine, The Associates, Aby Ngana Diop, Royal Trux, Brigitte Fontaine/Areski and Babyfather are all somehow wished into the scenario, either suggestively, explicitly quoted or manifesting as some malformed degree of inspiration. 

Precious Waste features bloody-minded Schlagzeugspiel by Stephen Robinson (Aufgehoben) & Rohan P. Thomas (The Mean Streaks, Sigma Editions) + guest verses by Maria Callas/P.-P. Pasolini, Marlene Dietrich & actually existing urban foxes of Northeast & South London.  Also contains "Destroyer", the 1st song written by Cameron Bain for The Mean Streaks (2000. complete lyric sheet: Destroyer!), followed immediately by Dr Moreau-style fusion of Herman Melville & Peter Perrett in glass-all-void Immigrant Song. Also bass sound of the miraculous Stylophone Beatbox, plus Casio MT 45 psychick dancehall and 3 pairs of strings, not 4, on the bouzouki. 
Following on from the quietly released TOWERS, OPEN, FIRE/Looking For Business 7″ on Penultimate Press towards the end of 2018, Precious Waste In Our Wake is a Malediction Forbidding Mourning, a portfolio of old pathologies folded into a sleek new nervous wreck. Precious Waste In Our Wake is a hulking ride of audacious rhythmic passages swaying alongside the meanest of melodies suddenly swept over by flights most fragile.  We think these are ‘songs’, packaged in a high gloss sleeve with insert and precious zero by way of peers.

Precious Waste in our Wake

Triple Negative Precious Waste In Our Wake  (excerpts)

The most daring, audacious and amazing record label on the planet - Le Monde