Killer tone the first 20 seconds. Hooked from the first note.

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Lyrics:
Stranger still,
 today feels right, 
so glad you stayed
A subtle look was all it took
and we got away
So many times I wished for this, 
are these thoughts allowed?
A little freedom feels like sin 
and we got it now
Here we go against the clock on another day
Stranger still, it all feels slow, 
but time gets away

First of July

Figures creeping on the ceiling
Numbers changing time away
Blue wings and coloured photographs
They're replacable, no reason to stay
The tides on the shores pulse and sway

I flare up and burn bright in the pitch black sky
I am colours and I am sound
I'm a long forgotten northern light
I am not lost, but I will be found, I will be found.

Awake by the river, watch the day grow pale
Wait for the city to come to life
A long way from home, even further in my mind
Over the water, a flock of birds takes to flight
Swinging themselves into inconceivable heights

I flare up and burn bright in the pitch black sky
On emptiness and nicotine
I'm a long lost child of uncommon sights
Invisible now, but I will be seen, I will be seen

Don't let me fade again into the shadows
Don't let me slip into the dark
Hold my hand through my nightly terrors
And calm the storm in my heart
Illuminate the space between the stars
Between the stars

Northern Light

A lo-fi demo of a song I wrote in my head (at least parts of it) while the love of my life was sleeping in my arms.

"I catch your falling body
Breathing slowly in my arms
Draped in soothing waves of honey
We take and give each other warmth
Abandoned lifelines are reformed

Without hesitation
I step into the dark
We follow burning constellations
Black mirrors carrying our bark
Made of porcelain with crimson marks

My head lies calm between your hands around my face
Thoughts come to rest and leave the labyrinth of old days
The air goes back and forth between our naked lungs
Two heartbeats counting seconds, filling hours,
One by one by one by one by one

Engraved in aeons of creation
In peaceful innocence aligned
Old planets ceasing alteration
Good omens and growing faith entwined
And nothing's left but our souls immersed in time

Now golden particles of dust
Are swirling down from way up high with endless trust
Like light falling through amber stained with rust
The universe alone surrounding us"

The Lovers

recorded 4 years ago at 2am with eddie alteslieben crouched over electric drum pad and Amy Faunce squezzed in corner on bass and Rabeah Lteif on guitar ...after she was done with a double shift of bartending we recorded it at 230ish am ...(music and words originally written by Amy Faunce on the day of Rabeah Lteifs dear friends funeral service...this is the 1st version which was ment to remain a Mechanical Heart track but was re- recorded @ carlot studios by Robie Buxton for Electric lIons Last Lp release..enjoy

02 Bryan (Version One)

similar to Bryan version 1 this song was originally meant for Mechanical Heart but Electric Lion sound wave ended up playing the song and eventually re recording it under the clever name Come down now Ver 2 and released also on the last E.L.S.W.E Lp .....original recording has Rabeah Lteif playing the simple drum pattern on the tom and snare ,then overdubing all other instruments with vocals written and performed by Lteif and Faunce,
ENJOY!!!

Come Down Now Version 1

Title track from the forthcoming 2018 House of Blondes album TIME TRIP.

Time Trip (Main Theme)

Physical: geographic-north.com/#/GN40-detail
Digital: https://geographicnorth.bandcamp.com/album/love-is-the-capital
Catalog #: GN40
Limited to 300 LPs on clear vinyl
Mastered by Paul Gold at Salt Mastering

'Love is the Capital' the debut LP by Hiro Kone, the recording alias of Nicky Mao. The album is a follow-up to the incredibly well received 'Fallen Angels' cassette, bringing with it some of Mao's most emotionally and politically driven work yet. It is Hiro Kone’s long coming opus, examining a number of all-too-relevant themes: capital, the state, egoism, anxiety, and steadfast optimism. 

The eight songs on 'Love is the Capital' highlight Mao’s austere, politicized techno battling for the greater good. Songs are visceral meditations of rhythm, noise, and melody in the vein of Pan Sonic, Chris & Cosey, Muslimgauze, and Kangding Ray.

The sounds were often recorded in scenes of isolation, whether physically or emotionally. “Infinite Regress” was during a trek with Roxy Farman (Wetware) up to the sleepy, upstate NY town of Palenville. There, frozen in a cabin with the most DIY of recording booths, Mao recorded Roxy’s vocals and what would be the track that would put into motion the entire album.“Less Than Two Seconds” was written in a single afternoon in late December 2015 when it was revealed that the grand jury had declined to indict the police officer who shot to death 12-year old Tamir Rice.

The taut techno, industrial minimalism, and aural upheaval is embedded in tracks “Rukhsana” (featuring Drew McDowall, formerly of Coil & Psychic TV, on modular synthesizer), “The Place Where Spirits Get Eaten,” and “Less Than Two Seconds,” an emotionally wrought blitz of serrated Monomachine tones flanked by timeless recordings of essayist, poet, and social writer James Baldwin. Mao ventures deep into heady, prismatic runs of hypnotic techno, on “Don’t Drink the Water” and “The Declared Enemy.” On opener “Being Earnest” and “Love is the Capital,” foreboding motifs brood their way back into the narrative.

Still, the album maintains a sense transformation, burdened with an alien tension– the awareness of an impending and necessary collapse. And what may come next.

Hiro Kone - Rukhsana (Feat. Drew McDowall)

unhappybirthday - Smileys

US/ROW: geographic-north.com/vinyl/lifetime-of-love
UK/EU: soniccathedral.co.uk/moondiagrams
Digital: geographicnorth.bandcamp.com/album/lifetime-of-love
Catalog #: GN41 & SCR125
Mastered by Heba Kadry at Timeless Mastering

'Lifetime of Love' is the debut album by Moon Diagrams, the solo recording project of Deerhunter co-founder and drummer Moses John Archuleta. Recorded in Georgia (Atlanta and Athens) and Manhattan (East Village) over a 10-year period, 'Lifetime of Love' finds Archuleta processing various stages of love, loss, and regeneration via forlorn outsider pop, minimal techno, and warm, weightless experimentation.
 
Archuleta follows sudden fits of inspiration or moments of chance, letting the unknown happen naturally while still confining himself to a specific set of boundaries. Samples were often taken from thrift store-sourced LPs, removed from their sleeves and chosen at random to find loops and textures. Elsewhere, Archuleta would anonymize digital songs and sound files, erasing track names, and re-recording new versions of the randomized mixes.

'Lifetime of Love' is the result of three extended fugue states, each marked by specific moments of catharsis. In 2007, between the release of Deerhunter’s breakout LP Cryptograms and 2008 LP Microcastle, Archuleta began his earliest solo experiments. The nascent exploration was enough to free himself and create sounds without inhibition. “Bodymaker” and “Nightmoves” are products of Archuleta’s earliest solo recordings, capturing his willingness to venture outside of the taut, mesmerizing drone rock of his main band. The chilling, ambient techno of “Nightmoves” perfectly foils and compliments the broodingly sullen but sincerely beautiful shuffle into the dark.
 
Between 2012 and 2015, Archuleta experienced a reset of sorts, including the collapse of his marriage (a 10-year long relationship), touring support for Ariel Pink and James Ferraro, and a rekindled interest in his solo material. He began actively cutting himself off from a number of personal relationships and experimented with various drugs to begin recording again. Locking himself in his practice space, Archuleta would use only the spare instruments he found laying around in recording sessions. This period yielded a disparate mix of sonic sketches, from eerily bucolic choir recordings (“Playground”), dusty art-pop (“Moon Diagrams”), and infectiously jubilant dance pop (“End of Heartache”).
 
For the final period, Archuleta found inspiration following an extended stint in Berlin, when he had flown out of the US on Christmas day, largely estranging himself from his friends and family. While holed up in the Michelberger Hotel, Archuleta fully intended to finish his debut LP. Instead, he remained in a state of relative isolation, haunting the hotel and taking in the city’s dark energy. After three weeks, Archuleta returned home in Atlanta, without having made much headway on the album. Feeling unproductive, depressed, and marred by jetlag, Archuleta resolved to finish the LP, working in a three-day fury of productivity that resulted in “Blue Ring,” “Ghost and the Host,” “Magic Killer,” and the final edits of 'Lifetime of Love.'
 
Subtly grandiose and quietly epic, the album explores a hopeful and curious beginning, a morose middle, and a bittersweet, optimistic end.

Moon Diagrams - End Of Heartache

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Christoph de Babalon - Brilliance
Ryo Murakami - Stunning
Source Direct - Approach & Identify (Demdike Stare Remix)
Kondens - Valvet (Substance Remix)
Flxk1 & Ena - B2
Shao- Winter 2012
Varg - Asocial 46
Peder Mannerfelt - Blog Kept A Growing
Imugem Orihasam - I
Photek - Halogen
Skee Mask - Glass Museum
Andrea - TP
Valanx - Those Who Will Be Held Responsible
D.Å.R.F.D.H.S. - Att leva i intet
Shed - RQ-170
Tobias - Spectrum 5
Theme - Passage 7
Felix K - Flower Of Destruction #4
DB1 - Ktz1
Ancestral Voices- Jadian Sun
Forrest Drive West - Nothing Else
Deaf Center - Weir
Mokira - Axis Audio
Space Afrika - u+00b1
Uon - J
Cio D’Or - OFF

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