Cave of Secrets...

Light Years After Departure

nine

anthems of a vanished spring

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/0ajngb18413ni3k/AAD8gH6cnoH_KDjR_G0wlV9ya?dl=0

yre den - firmaments_forests_Laugh

Super duper cool mix by ity!

Artwork: Bobbie 0rkid
@0rkid

What Time Is It? No. 4 - Guest mix by ity - Stranded FM

Robyn Macoy

He's mine

Artist: galen tipton
Album: Ungoliant
Format: Cassette / Digital
Release: Oct. 30 2020

Pre-Order: https://orangemilkrecords.bandcamp.com/album/ungoliant

what started as nearly an albums worth of leftovers from fake meat quickly mutated into the pulsing, spitting, fleshy mass that is ungoliant 
 
drawing on many of the same influences, ungoliant doubles down on meaty soundscapes and the playful darkness only found occasionally on the sister album. the attention to detail and dense production is still here, almost to a monstrous degree, but focusing much more on a dark fantasy atmosphere taking musical and visual cues from the elder scrolls, the works of tolkien, and the dark crystal

while fake meat was a sleepover ungoliant is the scary stories u tell to each other to stay awake, and the restless nights that follow. evil but playful, never true danger outside of the mind. a tender malleable fear

the dramatic habitats of ungoliant find solace and truth in the catharsis of darkness, mystery, mist, the grotesque, big emotions 
in the blurred veils between life, death, fear, trauma and fantasy 
in spells and enchantments of nostalgia growing from the deepest strangest parts of ourself

finding clarity thru muck of escapism
and emerald colored memories 
hypnagogic logic & ancient mysteries caked in filth 
 
ungoliant the sound of all of this being dumped from your minds trash bin into the void
 
"Then the Unlight of Ungoliant rose up even to the roots of the trees, and Melkor sprang upon the mound; and with his black spear he smote each Tree to its core, wounded them deep, and their sap poured forth as it were their blood, and was spilled upon the ground. But Ungoliant sucked it up, and going then from Tree to Tree she set her black beak to their wounds, till they were drained; and the poison of Death that was in her went into their tissues and withered them, root, branch, and leaf; and they died. And still she thirsted, and going to the Wells of Varda she drank them dry; but Ungoliant belched forth black vapours as she drank, and swelled to a shape so vast and hideous that Melkor was afraid."
 
"Of the fate of Ungoliant, no tale tells. Yet some have said that she ended long ago, when in her uttermost famine she devoured herself at last."

- J. R. R. Tolkein

music by galen tipton
visual art by Sam Balfus

galen tipton - electric drama

Originally aired February 2021 on n10.as
@desireprocess & @mileswong

s.M.i.L.e. Radio 051 : Turtle Dreams

https://soundcloud.com/oxhy x Avant

London-based producer and member of the collective https://soundcloud.com/xquisite-2 , Oxhy presents “Earth’s barren kiss”.
As recalled in the title of the mix, the artist’s composition seems to describe a landscape of ancient times, an era when humans and non-humans universes were not divided yet, a world still dominated by the primordial and neverending clash between the forces of light and darkness.

Streamed February 12 2021 on RadioVirus, Macaomilano

Oxhy - Earth's barren kiss - Avant radio mix n.67

CLMxGUN is happy to present Chain of Whispers, a two-fold EP exploring further collaborative production processes. Like a murmur in the wind, a secret being delivered from ear to ear, it is born from a playful approach to sound manipulation and its transformation when passed from one hand to another. An embodiment of how music can be altered by each and every contribution.

Through a defined set of constraints based on the Telephone game, the concept is simple : each successive track is a remix of the previous one, and the contributors could not hear what was done before them. So on and so forth. A continuous cycle of appropriation and re-interpretation.

From this experiment resulted two 7-track EPs, two chains which gathered 11 artists, each with their own identity and their own input. With each new link in the chain, the sound mutates, speeds up or slows down - some of its elements are exacerbated, while others are concealed or juxtaposed to new ones.

The second chain welcomes 71W3, GRIG, jjjacob, Lithe, Lukann, and SNKLS. Covering a broad spectrum of sounds, it moves back and forth between heavy club material and ethereal soundscapes, finding peace and closure in this constant state of unrest.

++ TRACKLIST ++

01. SNKLS - Mito-shi
02. Lukann - Angler
03. Lithe - Distant Voice
04. jjjacob - Flight Fragility
05. 71W3 - Birds
06. GRIG - Trees at Night
07. SNKLS - Mito-shi (Full Chain Mix)


++ CREDITS ++

Visuals by k095c
www.instagram.com/k095c

Mastering by Lorenzo Targhetta

Tracks produced by 71W3, GRIG, jjjacob, Lithe, Lukann, SNKLS
https://soundcloud.com/71w3
https://soundcloud.com/griigg
https://soundcloud.com/jjjacob
https://soundcloud.com/lithetrax
https://soundcloud.com/lukann4
https://soundcloud.com/snakeleserpent

DOWNLOAD

jjjacob - Flight Fragility

Shadows Making Imperfect Love Endlessly 

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