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Ryan Crosson’s Part II—the latest installment in his three album set with NFI recordings—leaves behind the first LP’s cinematic horizons in exchange for the somber realpolitik of darker atmospherics and sound design. If Part I looked to the empty, open spaces of an oddly Covid-evacuated world, Part II  examines instead the closed space of the self cut off from it. Granular sampling and synthesis become, in the conceptual scheme of the record, more than production techniques to process sound but rather tools by which to process the granularities of selfhood re-worked by Covid's dislocations. Still unwilling to commit to a full album of low frequency metronomes and rhythms (because there is no rhythm to our current life), Crosson’s Part II employs instead prepared pianos and dub leaning textures, while nodding to Ennio Morricone and the soundtracks of Spaghetti Westerns, to better approximate the out of tempo percussive and affective swings of the previous year.

Notes From Isolation Part II

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Rafter

Ryan Crosson’s Part II—the latest installment in his three album set with NFI recordings—leaves behind the first LP’s cinematic horizons in exchange for the somber realpolitik of darker atmospherics and sound design. If Part I looked to the empty, open spaces of an oddly Covid-evacuated world, Part II  examines instead the closed space of the self cut off from it. Granular sampling and synthesis become, in the conceptual scheme of the record, more than production techniques to process sound but rather tools by which to process the granularities of selfhood re-worked by Covid's dislocations. Still unwilling to commit to a full album of low frequency metronomes and rhythms (because there is no rhythm to our current life), Crosson’s Part II employs instead prepared pianos and dub leaning textures, while nodding to Ennio Morricone and the soundtracks of Spaghetti Westerns, to better approximate the out of tempo percussive and affective swings of the previous year.

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Artwork by Hernan Sanchez

Deeper Spiral

Notes From Isolation

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Monoceros

Lyra

Follow up single to Notes From Isolation.  Keeping in theme with the album series.

NFI Recordings launches in 2021 with a series of three albums from Visionquest founder and label head Ryan Crosson. Recorded between the lean, Covid months of May and December (2020), Ryan’s sonic triptych, inspired more by the cinematic expanses of empty New York avenues than the cramped netherworlds of Berlin dance floors, is his most personal work to date. Liberated from the tyranny of the kick drum, Ryan explores more explicitly the film scores, ambient, and experimental electronic music that have always tacitly inspired him. The result is a sound that feels especially sensitive to the introspective moods wrought by Covid’s solitary, meandering days. Studio experimentation, lo-fi guitars, heavy sub bass, astral planes of thick slowly morphing reverb, and the ever present comfort of white noise—all of these elements shift in the foreground of the horizon’s gray distance, untalkative, out of reach.

Known worldwide for his dance music record label and group alias, Visionquest, Ryan has been representing the Midwest in electronic music for over fifteen years and has toured the world extensively since 2007. Having remixed the likes of Tracey Thorn and David Lynch, Ryan is no stranger to cross-genre productions and the ever increasing landscape of contemporary music. Equally at home in the studio or a dusty warehouse, Ryan’s production and sampling practices depart from the worlds of house or techno by referencing musique concrète, Downtown New York funk, drone, ambient and East African jazz. While Ryan was born and raised on a steady diet of post-apocalyptic landscapes, dark warehouses, and the sounds of Plastikman, Matthew Dear, and Villalobos, Ryan continues to expand the horizon of possibility within his music by continually venturing outside of his comfort zone to explore new territory.

Vida Cabin

Monoceros with Kenneth James Gibson

First single from Notes From Isolation Part III.  Full album to complete my isolation series will be out in late 2020.

Notes From Isolation PartIII

Notes From Isolation Part III

NFI003 7. Interstellar

After a wonderful summer filled with meetings of friends, endless walks and gorgeous views, I want to present a new bouquet of emotions and a wonderful aftertaste in the third part of the "herbarium" compilation.

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Anton Kubikov • Herbarium III (Preview)

[BP052] Lee Burton - Root Note

Second album from Cesar Merveille & Ryan Crosson

D2.  MCYH

G-Prod - Disobedience (Fourier Transform Records)

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A Motor City, Berlin, London hybrid, Ryan Crosson is a complex artistic creature. Equal parts energetic, down to earth Detroit native and ultra-refined, musical aesthete, Ryan has one ear to the club and one ear far, far beyond. Known the world over for shape shifting, shoulder shaking tracks on groundbreaking labels including M_nus, Supplement Facts, Spectral, Wagon Repair, and his own Visionquest, Ryan’s production and sampling practices depart from the worlds of house or techno by referencing musique concrète, Downtown New York funk, and East African jazz. Born and raised on a steady diet of post-apocalyptic landscapes, dark warehouses, and the sounds of Plastikman, Matthew Dear, Magda, and Villalobos, Ryan’s DJ sets aim to expand the horizon of possibility without sacrificing dance music’s core element of sweaty, hedonistic fun. His unique musical vocabulary and tireless dedication insure him a place in the dynasty of forward-thinking techno transplants.

Alongside Lee Curtiss and Shaun Reeves, Ryan is responsible for the day-to-day running of Visionquest, one of dance music’s most cherished and eclectic imprints. Ryan and his partners in Visionquest have honed a whole new landscape of lush, organic techno and esoteric leftfield electronica. In 2014, Ryan oversaw the construction of Visionquest’s newest venture—their digital arm and sub-label Brachtune. Full of off-kilter, loopy and positively circus vibes, the tracks showcased on Brachtune will remind long-time friends and fans of Ryan’s early morning sets in the notorious “Tesh Club” basement.

In addition to his work with Visionquest, 2014 was Ryan’s most prolific production career yet, with a staggering number of releases on labels such as Darkroom Dubs, Mobilee, and . Highlights include Bricolage, Ryan’s hotly anticipated first EP for Visionquest, especially the labyrinthine, twisted “Club Chimes,” a heady collaboration with long-time friend and fellow Visionquest artist Cesar Merveille. The year also saw Don’t Be Left Out, a mix CD with another fellow traveler Matt Tolfrey, which has been described as “deep, diverse, and exciting all the way through.”

Monoceros with Kenneth James Gibson

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