We don't know too much about Chinaski. He's been plying his trade for the ever-efficient Live at Robert Johnson label for a bit - making appearances on both compilations to date - but The Video Dead charts as his first solo flight on the imprint. And oof, is it a huggable affair. Fuelled by an infatuation with the VHS-style, visual aesthetics of the 1980s and old-school synths, its a project consistently enveloped in humid tones. Analogue-based deep house pumps trickle in-and-out of proto hip-hop and hypnotising jackers like a warm day back and forth between sauna and beach towel.

"Midnight Workout" is a harmonious voyage, planting super-sensitive synth harmonies into a vintage-pop bed with poise.

Catch the release on Live At Robert Johnson on July 6th 2015.

Chinaski "Midnight Workout" - Boiler Room Debuts

BOX - indie pop hip hop instrumental beats

BOX - indie pop hip hop instrumental beats (29)

📡 Lost Signal – Ambient Lo-Fi & Chillhop by Nexus & Lo-fi OldBoy

Lost Signal drifts into the static of quiet nights, where ambient lo-fi textures and chillhop rhythms blend into a hazy dreamscape. 🌙✨ Nexus and Lo-fi OldBoy create a sound that feels like tuning into forgotten frequencies — warm crackles, echoing melodies, and beats that pulse like distant signals in the dark.

Perfect for late-night studying, introspection, or simply letting go, this album captures the beauty of disconnection — where silence, space, and music meet in harmony. 📻🌌

Whispering Brass

Moment 4

Tracklist: https://www.thefader.com/2019/01/18/bradford-cox-fader-mix-stream

FADER Mix: Bradford Cox

Wait (Ouri Remix)

WAIT(Ouri Remix)

Wilson Tanner come to shore with a new album of floating melodies, lightly salted. Throwing electroacoustic conventions overboard, Andrew Wilson (Andras) and John Tanner (Eleventeen Eston) recorded this new work aboard a 1950s riverboat with a resourceful array of weatherproof electronic instruments and a long extension lead. These eight compositions pull in a by-catch of maritime folklore; of Siren and Selkie, Seagull and engine oil slick. A change of course from their debut album 69 (Growing Bin Records, 2016), the ambient temperature drops as II casts out to sea in uncertain weather and returns to the safe harbours of Port Phillip Bay. 

The seafarers head out to My Gull’s poised optimism. The birds watch but do they listen? By the arrival of Loch and Key, the shoreline has dissolved completely, the boat floating in serene infinity as the rest of the world spins. Conditions soon take a treacherous turn on Killcord Pts I-III - a 12 minute odyssey that battens down the hatches as these sailors eye merciless waves and blinding ocean spray, jointly channelling Berlin-school electronics and sea legs. In the aftermath, the waterlogged bleeps of Idle survey the damage as our parched crew sound the distress signal and ultimately descend into delirium. 

Known for navigating individual courses as solo musicians, Wilson and Tanner’s collective storytelling is saturated in detail, buoying between tension and harmony. II modestly stands as some of both artists’ most accomplished material.

01 Wilson Tanner - My Gull 2:11 (ES013)

Out May 1st, 2020. 

In the mid 1970s, Mariangela Celeste signed to a major label at 13, she would go on to record her self-titled album with rising European superstar Vangelis. Though tragically overlooked upon its release, Mariangela is a gem of early electronic pop with sparkling synths, drums machines, and lush arrangements propelling the songs of an unapologetically strong-willed adolescent.

Mariangela - You Are The One

Hope U Are Well

Memory Screen

Stream/download everywhere: https://ffm.to/ax2020
Bandcamp: https://bit.ly/2T0YqzM
GoFundMe: https://www.gofundme.com/f/atlanticsx

Astro Nautico’s Atlantics X is a compilation celebrating a decade of the label’s existence and fundraising to provide financial assistance for its community members impacted by the Covid-19 pandemic.

A wide range of beloved artists return to the label, including Photay, Time Wharp, Honey Oat, Michael Beharie, Lee Clarke, IGBO, Tatiana Heuman, Persona La Ave & Baraka, Andre Wiken, Basile3, and C. Form. Label co-founders Paul Jones (P X A), Sam O.B., and Kuhn all contribute new music in the tradition of the original Atlantics Vol. 1-3 compilations (’09-’13).

Astro Nautico’s first all-label compilation since 2013’s Atlantics Vol. 3, Atlantics X serves as an index of the artistic and curatorial development of a ten-year exploration of the interstices of genres, moods, and modes of musical creation.

From Photay’s chirping, thunderous dark mechanics on ‘Sea Urchin’ to Time Wharp’s feather light synth meditation ‘12-31-12,’ dynamic curves traverse a terrain of many sounds at many plateaus. Pop experimentalism in Michael Beharie, IGBO, and Sam O.B. sets a heartbeat that cracks, melts, and is resampled in the shattered electronics of Tatiana Heuman and fragmentary lo-fi trap of Kuhn, while Andre Wiken and C. Form differently treat the dancefloor as a space of reverie and intrigue.

Atlantics X is a crowning jewel of the mutual aid fund and fundraising campaign of the same name. Astro Nautico initiated this fundraiser in spring in response to the Covid-19 pandemic. All sales and streams of the Atlantics X compilation support members of the label's community with financial needs due to Covid-19. Since May, the label has published 12 projects, from singles and EPs to albums and contemplative dance videos, in this series. Astro Nautico has distributed $4,262.65 to date to fund recipients, with priority to BIPOC recipients.

More information and donation links for the Atlantics X mutual aid fund are available on GoFundMe: www.gofundme.com/f/atlanticsx  
credits

Mastered by Sam O.B. in Enfield, NH
Artwork by Bennett Kuhn
Graphics by Kewi Bedoyan
Illustrations by Lee Clarke, Manuela Guillén, Michelle Ishikawa, Paul Jones, Bennett Kuhn, Sam O.B., Demi & Parker

Photay - Sea Urchin

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