Marco Shuttle's third album, Cobalt Desert Oasis, features a varied collection of music recorded across a two year period. Often traveling to remote destinations, Marco would come back to Berlin with field recordings, images, and other inspirations to process in his studio and turn into sound.

The theme of the journey turns into a something more abstract than a travel diary, where environmental sounds blend in with modular synthesis, drum machines, effects and analog oscillators resulting in a cinematic listening experience where psychedelia, ritualism, and mysticism weave together in a sort of alien soundscape - that as the title of the album suggests, is reminiscent of a parallel utopian world.

The album is rich in complex rhythmics, and more than in any of his previous work, has strong acoustic elements. Amongst other percussion instruments, Marco used the Tombak, a traditional Persian hand drum capable of reaching a very wide range of frequencies - from deep round subby toms, to high pitched sharp rimshots, throughout the record.

Marco Shuttle is certainly not new to these sort of elements, but in Cobalt Desert Oasis he brings the environmental element of his sound into the forefront in a way that takes the listener into a hazy expanse where it is sometimes difficult to distinguish the machine elements from the natural - and where the music almost becomes a visual experience, which relates to Marco's own photography used throughout the cover and insert images.

Written and Produced by Marco Sartorelli
Mastered by Neel @ Enisslab
Design by Josh Abramovici
Photography by Marco Sartorelli 

'Acrobat' is taken from Marco Shuttle's 'Cobalt Desert Oasis' LP
PREORDER: Vinyl 2x12"/Digital: https://marcoshuttle.bandcamp.com/album/cobalt-desert-oasis
Out October 15th, 2021

Marco Shuttle
@marcoshuttle
https://marcoshuttle.bandcamp.com/album/cobalt-desert-oasis

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Marco Shuttle - Acrobat [INC-012]

Buy at: luridmusic.bandcamp.com

Alex from Lurid Music:

'Aggelos first approached Lurid Music with the idea for this project a few months ago. We agreed on one condition, that all proceeds be donated to refugee causes, like we did with his Black Sea EP which supported the Syrian refugee crisis. When Russia invaded Ukraine, we decided our focus had to be helping the Ukrainian refugees who were forced to leave their homes in search of safe havens abroad.

We discussed this with most contributors to the project and the consensus was that donations should strictly go to humanitarian groups and not any armament funds. There were also some thoughts about helping conflict-affected peoples in other parts of the world but we decided it was too much to tackle for a relatively small project like this one.

Therefore, donations stemming from the sales of this release will be distributed to the following humanitarian groups currently active in Ukraine or neighboring countries welcoming refugees:

- International Medical Corps: internationalmedicalcorps.org/emergency-…n-ukraine/
- Urgent Action Fund for Women’s Human Rights - Ukraine Urgent Response Fund: urgentactionfund.org
- Polish Humanitarian Action: www.pah.org.pl/en/donate/
- World Central Kitchen: wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine
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released April 1, 2022

Original tracks written and produced by Aggelos Baltas.

Remix duties handled by the following, thank you for bringing your "A game" to this project: A Hand, Adhémar, Aditya Permana, Anna vs June, Ayaz, Black Seed, Bunzinelli, BXP, Cantillate, Christian Coiffure, DimDJ, Facets, Frank Butters, GK Machine, Infuso Giallo, Itzel, Jacques Satre, Krokakai, Komodo, Koyil, Misha Sultan, Mr. TC, NVST, Pannotia, Petros Spatharos, Philipp Otterbach, Poperttelli, Sepehr, Skynet 75, A Strange Wedding, Sun Genam, Tadan, Tagliabue, Tassilo Vanhöfen, T.D.O.S., Théo Muller, Vidock, YNV, Zillas On Acid.

We were fortunate to receive pro bono contributions from four highly-esteemed mastering engineers: Taylor Dupree (www.12kmastering.com), Brian Kage (kagemastering.squarespace.com), Dietrich Schoenemann (completemastering.com) and Tim Vitek (timvitekmastering.com). We are thankful for their meticulous work, especially to Dietrich for enlisting his fellow engineers to help with the massive remix load, 44 tracks are definitely too much for one person to listen to in such a short span.

The artwork was provided by Bill Brown, a Maryland native who lives and works in Ukraine. When the war started, he made his way safely to Germany via Poland. This illustration is an homage to Maria Prymachenko’s “May That Nuclear War be Cursed!”, which also inspired the title of this release. You can follow him on Instagram at www.instagram.com/takomabill/.

T-shirt screen printing was kindly provided by Nolan, a grindcore bassist from Washington DC. You can follow him on Instagram at www.instagram.com/malokul202/'

Vol.1

Black Sea (Sepehr Remix)

Osm To Kbn, one of our alltime Khidja tracks is finally seeing the light of day. Khidja's Transmissions Part 2 is upon us as they say.
Release date 21/9

Osm to Kbn

Khidja - Osm To Kbn

Clone.nl pre order: https://clone.nl/item76425.html
Bandcamp: https://aleksiperala.bandcamp.com/album/cycles

Inspired by The Twelve Ornaments, a group of ancient Chinese symbols and designs associated with auspicious qualities and virtues. Aleksi Perala uses the colundi scales to heal and inspire with this specially blended collection of tracks. The power of repetition paired with the selected frequencies makes for a transcendent ambient experience.

Cycles

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Aleksi Perala - Cycles [RRR012]

VALS02E02 - Vollok

Enter the chill-out zone with the forthcoming album from https://soundcloud.com/radart-url, a new Naarm-based solo project, brought to you by the https://soundcloud.com/papercutslimited label. Featuring works composed by the creative mind behind the label from 2022-2024, Blips & Bleeps wanders toward blissful ambient, downtempo, and breaks in style. 

Find the full read here: https://www.minimalcollective.digital/editorial/premiere-radart---flying-fox-colony

Blips & Bleeps will be out on January 31st 2025. Pre-order a copy via https://paper-cuts.bandcamp.com/album/blips-bleeps-lp-pcltd10

Premiere: Radart - Flying Fox Colony [PCLTD010]

𝑷𝒓𝒆𝒎𝒊𝒆𝒓𝒆: Toki Fuko – Jātaka [SPCLNCHBLACK01]

Darkness hides stories we do not yet understand: echoes of the forgotten, shadows of the unexplored, traces left behind by something — or someone — beyond our perception. SPCLNCH-BLACK is a new series where sound becomes a gateway to the unknown, where minimalism, depth, and mystery unfold through music.

The first chapter — “Phantom Scripts” by Toki Fuko. Lost signals, vibrations beyond reality, and rhythms carrying messages from the void.

In 2045, researchers at MindTech discovered an anomaly in neural networks used for direct data transmission into the human brain. They called this phenomenon “Phantom Scripts” — mysterious glitches in the code that activate when a person falls asleep or closes their eyes. Deprived of visual stimuli, the brain becomes more receptive and starts responding to internal impulses from the neuro-interface, generating unexpected images and phrases, as if creating messages from the void.

Analysis revealed that these scripts are particularly active during deep sleep or meditation, when the mind is most vulnerable to external influence, as though an intelligent force is...  afficher plus

Original music by Toki Fuko
Mastering by Pheek
Write-up by Thomas Carmody

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Soundcloud : https://soundcloud.com/tokifuko
Instagram : https://www.instagram.com/tokifuko
Facebook : https://www.facebook.com/toki.fuko

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Phantom Scripts [SPCLNCHBLACK01]

Jātaka

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𝑷𝒓𝒆𝒎𝒊𝒆𝒓𝒆: Toki Fuko – Jātaka [SPCLNCHBLACK01]

Inspired by downshifting cyberpunk originating from Chornobyl, the album Anomaly from Kyiv native Lostlojic is a true artifact in electronic music, out via Mystictrax on May 23rd.

Pre-order: https://album.link/anomaly
More: www.orbmag.com/music

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Premiere: Lostlojic - Atomic Naїvity

Blackout

»decadent yet depraved«, the debut album by belief defect, finds shelter and complicity in raster as home and label.

familiar with the underground music scene and how its skeptical nature can also be an obstacle to overcome, belief defect abandon any claim or credit in an attempt to transcend the limits authorship imposes, avoid the boundaries or expectations earned or self imposed and find the clearest, most direct path to their music for themselves and the listener.

at the core of the album is the music that inspired them, the conclusion of countless recordings listened to in their formative years that ultimately result in a life-long devotion to electronic music: from dance floor to primal anger and self-annihilating noise, to transcendental, ambient escapism and intense self-reflexive sonic layering.

the result is a soundtrack for this apocalyptic time, an uncompromising reflection on the state of mankind and its uncertain future — underscored by a sense of religious and secular demise referenced in track titles, samples, and soundscapes scattered throughout the album.

yet, more than a political statement »decadent yet depraved« is an introspective journey, turning each listener into a spiritual soul-seeker staring into the abyss, reaching for some kind of cathartic truthfulness.

sculpture, prosthetics, photography by sarah sitken.

belief defect »slipping away« taken from »decadent yet depraved«

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