'If Miniature World Is Our Safe Space, Then Pass Me The Shrink Ray’ is the new album from the Russian Linesman. The project features a number of collaborators, most significantly Mercury Music Prize nominated Maps (Mute Records), Lederrick, Valeska Rautenberg, Marta Hagen, Lív Næs, Scarlet Season and Cesca.

The album was inspired by a rummage through old boxes of lyrics and diaries during lockdown, this musical journey explores the emotional complexities of navigating modern life while yearning for the simplicity of the past. It delves into the weight of expectations and obligations, transporting listeners to moments of wonder and enchantment and rekindling a sense of curiosity long forgotten.

Psychology-wise, the whole concept came from internal coping strategies during lockdown, nostalgia and warm past memories juxtaposed with the affliction of growing older and the world forcing change upon you. It fits in with the work of Johannes Hofer and Krystine Batcho on the psychological purpose of nostalgia. Does nostalgia strengthen our sense of self, or is it something that holds us back?

If Miniature World Is Our Safe Space, Then Pass Me The Shrink Ray (Album)

Eight Fragments Of An Illusion

Polychrome

Narkomfin

Return To Burlington

Vibration Consensus Reality (for Spectral Multiband Resonator) / Scatterbrains

Vibration Consensus Reality (for Spectral Multiband Resonator)

She Will Forever Be Known As The Chanteuse Of The Stars (feat Marta Hagen)

We Have Taken Too Much From The Creatures Of This World (feat Valeska Rautenberg)

Can You Suggest An Authentic Dutch Experience In A Nearby Village (feat Marta Hagen)

Once You Stray Into The Labyrinth, You Can Never Come Back (feat Scarlet Season)

If Miniature World Is Our Safe Space, Then Pass Me The Shrink Ray (feat Valeska Rautenberg)

The Dinosaurs Were Investigating A Cowboy Robot (feat Cesca)

First release of our label is the second part of the Wide & Shallow project from Fatih Tuter comes out with remixes of Ruxpin, Derivate aka Havantepe and Fingers In The Noise. Original album released in 2009 without track no 8. 7 tracks, 55 minutes of pure bliss on offset printed CD-R's inside of natural/recycled handmade card sleeves with the artwork of Nivi Jasa. 100 copies available now. http://goo.gl/J7dPZc

Fatih Tuter - Wide & Shallow W/Remixes Part 2 [UNKT01] (now on bandcamp)

Taken from the album 'Reworks: Vol2', released 03 November 2023 on Ahead Of Our Time: https://jamesheather.lnk.to/reworks-2So

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In Your Spirit (Mogwai Remix)

Rivers By Cold Mountain

Artwork by Keffer

The new album Love + Light is out now on Phantasy and Mute – http://smarturl.it/DA_LL

Love + Light

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A Story In E5

Timelapse

In Dreams

Recording music in his secret lair. Capturing snippets of vocals, guitars and pianos, and enclosing them in a digital sarcophagus. I am NOT Russian #standwithukraine

She Will Forever Be Known As The Chanteuse Of The Stars (feat Marta Hagen)

Russian Linesman

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