Escape In Landscape

Norvik & Blear Moon - The World Inside (2021)
released 22 Oct 2021 on Valley View Records
https://blearmoon.bandcamp.com/album/the-world-inside

Norvik & Blear Moon - Enshaded In Forgetfulness Divine

Sustain Series returns for its third iteration, bringing together ever-more artists for another showcase of recycled music. Reworks and newfound collaborations make up this 27-piece album, demonstrating what can be achieved with ‘one’s trash and another’s treasure’.

 https://bit.ly/amb-sustain3

All Bandcamp proceeds of this album are to be donated to Eden Reforestation Projects, to help continue their work sustaining important local environments, and providing jobs to those that restore and maintain them.

James Bernard - Growth (I.P.U Recycle)

Not to Speak II

Surface 10 A Stray Ending DiN77

Release date 17th February 2023
Limited to 300 copies Digipak CD 

Surface 10 is the moniker of Californian electronic musician Dean De Benedictis. He has previously released albums on the DiN label with In Vitro Tide (DiN8) & Surface Tensions (DiN24). Finishing a hiatus of over a decade, which saw him pursuing several film projects, he returns to DiN with a stunningly original new album, “A Stray Ending” (DiN77).

The DiN label has always actively encouraged the blurring of genre boundaries and with this new opus Dean has certainly done that with influences as far flung as Electronica, Ambient, IDM, Berlin School, Glitch, Progressive Jazz Fusion, World and Cinematic music. Such a heady mixture is immediately apparent on the opener “Neverheart” with its achingly beautiful and haunting chordal themes overlaid with an intertwining tapestry of percussion and glitched out effects. The album rises and falls through layers of dazzling sound design and compositional complexity to reach its apex with the freak-out intensity of “Azz”. The following track “Dorothy Spearhead” is perhaps the most concise piece on show here, with its vocal melodic hook and danceable drum groove. This leads into the spectacular “Non Fi” which propels the listener on an epic tour de force of electronic invention before the album closes with the melancholic shimmering beauty of “Universal Winter (Rework)”.

This new album from Surface 10 is almost beyond categorisation and is full of so many inventive and detailed sonic and musical elements that it will give the listener something new to focus in on each and every listen. Another truly unique addition to the DiN catalogue.
 
 01 Neverheart   06:00
02 DT5 United   05:14
03 Pre-realm   11:17
04 Mac Took Air   08:47
05 You Died Before Time   07:35
06 Azz   09:46
07 Dorothy Spearhead   04:36
08 Non Fi   09:33
09 Universal Winter (Rework)   07:42

Total Time :  70:46

A Stray Ending

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A Stray Ending by Surface 10 (DiN77) Demo Mix

Legiac - Banisteriopsis Caapi

Official release will be the 24th of April 2023

Its A mega Stunning Vinyl In Sound And Looks, Each One Comes With Download Card

100 through Touched Music (UK)
touched.bandcamp.com/merch/legiac-banisteriopsis-caapi-limited-edition-coloured-vinyl-100-via-touched-music
The other 100 through Phainomena ( clone.nl)
clone.nl/item72184.html
Digital will be available on my Bandcamp and all other outlets later
roelfuncken.bandcamp.com/album/banisteriopsis-caapi

vinyl version will contain the following tracks:

a1.Mimosa Hostilis
a2.Psychotria Viridis
a3.Epicatechine
a4.Proanthocyanidine

b1.Solanaceae
b2.Malpighiaceae
b3.Banisteriopsis Caapi
b4.Brugmansia

For more than twenty years, Roel Funcken has been a cornerstone in electronic experimentation. Alongside his brother Don, this Dutch sound sculptor melted hip-hop, industrial and soundscapes under monikers like Funckarma and Shadow Huntaz. A prolific solo musician and collaborator as well, Funcken teams up with Cor Bolten to revive the Legiac project with the eight tracks of Banisteriopsis Caapi. Keys appear through a sorrowful haze in "Mimosa Hostilis", this machined mist difussing as distorted strings penetrate before a dawning of icy brightness. Modulated forms and shapes billow in the bubble and trill of "Pyschotria Viridis" before the orbiting interference and introspection of "Epicatechine." Percussion is reduced to a texture, the duo finding structure in droplets of water, the stretch of steel and a litany of field recordings. The partnership dive deep into their chosen sounds, elongating and expanding tones to find harmony in the absence and isol ation that is their focus. Pieces like "Solanaceae" bristle with an understated elegance, like starlight piercing a brooding night sky, while "Banisteriopsis Caapi" finds an eerie solace in its repurposing of voice as an undulating elegy. Legiac achieve a distant intimacy with their listener, a relationship forged through complex compositions, gentle movements and subtle shifts. 

released April 24, 2023

Written and Produced by Roel Funcken and Cor Bolten

Mastered by Exm (digital)

art by me, cover edit by moiCflo
artwork is here :
www.instagram.com/p/CZXkozAgHzL/

Hyperbolic Geometry by Legiac

Solanaceae by Legiac

Just A heads Up, Something That Was Planned Last Year Turned UP, Today
Legiac - Banisteriopsis Caapi

Its A mega Stunning Vinyl In Sound And Looks, Each One Comes With Download Card

art by me, cover edit by moiCflo
artwork is here :
www.instagram.com/p/CZXkozAgHzL/

100 through Touched Music (UK)
touched.bandcamp.com/merch/legiac-b…-touched-music
The other 100 through Phainomena ( clone.nl)
clone.nl/item72184.html
Digital will be available on my Bandcamp and all other outlets later
roelfuncken.bandcamp.com/album/banist…iopsis-caapi

Official release will be the 24th of April 2023

For more than twenty years, Roel Funcken has been a cornerstone in electronic experimentation. Alongside his brother Don, this Dutch sound sculptor melted hip-hop, industrial and soundscapes under monikers like Funckarma and Shadow Huntaz. A prolific solo musician and collaborator as well, Funcken teams up with Cor Bolten to revive the Legiac project with the eight tracks of Banisteriopsis Caapi. Keys appear through a sorrowful haze in "Mimosa Hostilis", this machined mist difussing as distorted strings penetrate before a dawning of icy brightness. Modulated forms and shapes billow in the bubble and trill of "Pyschotria Viridis" before the orbiting interference and introspection of "Epicatechine." Percussion is reduced to a texture, the duo finding structure in droplets of water, the stretch of steel and a litany of field recordings. The partnership dive deep into their chosen sounds, elongating and expanding tones to find harmony in the absence and isol ation that is their focus. Pieces like "Solanaceae" bristle with an understated elegance, like starlight piercing a brooding night sky, while "Banisteriopsis Caapi" finds an eerie solace in its repurposing of voice as an undulating elegy. Legiac achieve a distant intimacy with their listener, a relationship forged through complex compositions, gentle movements and subtle shifts.

Mimosa Hostilis by Legiac

Marcibagoly - Rainy Morning

Broken echo, but why fix what is broken when it is beautiful?

Inre rum

The opening track from my new album Always There, Somewhere out now on Esc.Rec. 

The album charts a journey of personal discovery through friendship. It’s a record about finding answers in each other, rather than from only within ourselves.

Limited Edition Cassette + Digital Album

Always there, somewhere

The World Recedes

Roel Funcken officially popped up on the scene in 2010, with his solo debut, titled Vade, out on Ad Noiseam. But fans of electronic music, and IDM in general, have been tracking this Dutch musician for over a decade prior, when, along with his brother, Don, the duo has released some of the genre defining music on labels such as Djak-Up-Bitch, Schematic, Sublight Records, Neo Ouija, n5MD , Arcola (Warp) as the one and only Funckarma. In 2009 the Funcken brothers kicked off their very own, digital-only, Funcken Industry imprint, which hosted a few of their other projects and offshoots, such as Shadow Huntaz, Scone, Quench, Automotive, and the latest from Roel's solo works. Roel continues to influence the evolution of music through numerous releases (Sapper Morton on Analogical Force, Semtinal Convex on Methlab and Prester Hynn on his own imprint to name a few) and active engagement in the community, with music festival curation, mixes on mixlr and soundcloud and weekly playlists on Soundcloud and spotify. Roel's music is advanced in sound design, often incorporating unique experimentation in electronic sound, with cut-up, twisted, atmospheric sonic soundscapes, leaving the cranium always begging for more. His ambient textures maintain a cinematic quality throughout, while his percussive arrangements retain a constantly mutating framework, always reconstructing its rhythm and structure, contradicting complex configurations and minimal design. It's always a pleasure to taste the latest treat from this aural engineer, and find the latest gem in his never-ending arsenal of sound. Definitely check out his music Funck’d subscription on bandcamp to check out his latest tracks and get some exclusive material).

Hyperbolic Geometry by Legiac

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