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Artist: Ando Laj
Release: Remember
Format: Album (Digital & Cassette release)
Cat#: DSK056


1. I Will Always Be There For You
2. Eel Soul
3. Cool Autumn Day
4. Kinsmen Sound
5. Northern Ontario
6. Witness
7. Static Acid
8. Final Wash

We are excited to further our 10th year of the Diskotopia label with Ando Laj’s magnetic album, Remember. Formerly based in Toronto, now residing in Seoul, Ando Laj first released on Diskotopia in 2019 with his EP, Isle. With this return, he brings an even more evolved palette of kaleidoscopic textures and a mutant rhythm science to paint the enticing eight windows into different worlds found across this LP.

On this 2021 full-length offering, Ando Laj serves an assemblage of grained-n-granulated circa-2000-era post-rock, hip hop, and electronica, saturated with the liquid-crystal synth timbres of lost New Age catalogues, and all reprogrammed through a mixtape-like approach to storytelling.

Remember is essentially augmented healing music, with stone-washed sci-fi soundscapes engulfing fragmented strains of ASMR for droids. But in the midst of the metaphysical relaxation, there are also moments like listening to DOOM’s Special Herbs volumes on an intense acid trip or “Mike Ladd and Brothomstates Play the Hits of Sun Araw” on a water-damaged MiniDisc player.

With its introspective and erratic mood swings, a composed yet temperate work, Remember recites passages of inimitable dialogue in an AI-rendered future language that translate perfectly for both modern ambient and experimental electronic music 2021 world stages.

Remember

Ando Laj - Remember

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In this episode we explore contemporary challenges to rationalism in an age of data, asking what the unique effects of technological mediation are on the culture of spirituality, by inviting artist and founding member of Black Obsidian Sound System Evan Ifekoya for a discussion, along with a mix from multifaceted art platform Most Dismal Swamp.

Jared talks with Evan on topics spanning astrology and digital mediation, ritual practices, and music’s relation to mysticism, as explored in exhibitions such 'Ritual without Belief' at London’s Gasworks, and their work for the major group show 'Transformer: a Rebirth of Wonder' exhibition at London’s 180 The Strand in 2019.

This is followed by 'Night Science (Deep Tissue mix)' by Most Dismal Swamp, a London based interdisciplinary art project and curatorial platform producing exhibitions, online events and music releases. We invited Most Dismal Swamp to contribute a mix on the theme of mysticism and technology, being interested in the way the platform speculates on weirding and reality in our online age.

AQNB's Reversal Agents - Episode 3: Ritual Technology with Evan Ifekoya and Most Dismal Swamp

Distributed by SDS | Releases on November 24th 2021 via Kudatah.

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PJS - Forest

we celebrate Black History Month as an annual observance 
of important people and events in the history of the African 
diaspora presenting the 5th studio insert series entitled:
Compass- An Obsolete Musical Voyage.

Traxx- Studio Insert 5- Compass- An Obsolete Musical Voyage

Troubling times in the world usually means, over the course of the last few years especially, a fractioning of my music preferences into one of the following camps: mind-emptying drone, and serrated, aggressive sonics. 

This recording is taken from the first PAIJATA night at GRID, Prague, and represents both sides of that coin. The full 4-hour set, available to listen in the dedicated playlist on my channel, sprawls out across more diverse and rhythmic sounds. 

Recorded Live at GRID

~SEQUENCE I~
Drone
Sawako - 963hz light wave [Tiny Tiny Press]
Wild Card - Crosstown Express [Self-Released]
Stanislav Abrahám - Ravine [Self-Released]
Hems - I Know This Road [E2-E8]

~SEQUENCE II~
Felinto - Não Tem Volta [Bokeh Versions]
Rainforest Spiritual Enslavement - Thought To Be Bad Omens [Hospital Productions]
J Josephine - Squash [Self-Released]
Eliane Radigue & Frederic Blondy - Occam XXV [Organ Reframed]

~SEQUENCE III~
LF58 - Utopia [Northern Electronics]
Koyil - Gihon [GOST ZVUK]
Gulls - Splice Floatation (Featuring Amanda Spring) [PDXINDUBTING]
Abul Mogard - Staring At The Sweeps Of The Desert [Ecstatic]
Waveform Transmission - V 3.7-3.9

~SEQUENCE IV~
Zenxen - Cloud Connection [Enmossed]
Drew McDowell - Agalma V (ft. Kali Malone) [DAIS Records]
PDPIII - Walls of Kyoto [Shelter Press]
Nina Pixel - Look After The Planet [Self-Released]
Stanislav Abrahám - Personal Coltrane [Self-Released]

~SEQUENCE V~
Killing Sound - Six Harmonies [Blackest Ever Black]
Jan St. Werner - Molecular Meditation (ft. Mark E. Smith) [Editions Mego]
D. Nojoke - Berlin Gamelan #7 [Clikno]
Ani Zakareishvili - Dadga Kali [CES Records]
Gi Gi - Parched No Lake [Quiet Time]

~SEQUENCE VI~
El Mahdy Jr - Lost Bridge (Killing Sound Version) [Danse Noire]
Saint Abdullah - Broke My Heart in ’52 [Purple Tape Pedigree]
Gantz & El Mahdy Jr - Black Sun 
Fis - Treat Inner Eris [Subtext Recordings]

PAIJATA @ Netil Radio | 09/03/22

https://www.nts.live/shows/elena-colombi/episodes/elena-colombi-21st-march-2022

Elena Colombi w/ Cucina Povera 210322

Track list 

Dip in The Pool -Calling I
Grouper -Close cloak
Petra Echolalia -Th(0)ugh
Nilufer Yanya -Experience?
Jenny Hval -Kingsize
Current 93 -All The Pretty Little Horsies
Claire Tolan -CICADA GAMES
Grouper -Labyrinth
The Lux Radio Theatre -His Girl Friday
Frederic Chopin, Clara Rockmore, Nadia Reisenberg -Nocture in C-Sharp Minor, B.49.(Arr. for the Theremin and Piano
Jenny Hval, Laura jean, Vivian Wang -The Practice of Love
Ana Roxanne -Camille
Pauline Oliveros -Beautiful Soop (1966)

(everything else is made by me)

The Sandman  w/ Charlie Ambery - March 2022

Shaded Explorer - Between The Blue [SSD11]

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Shaded Explorer lives in a place where the music is hidden behind a dense fog and dreams are suffocated by an unpromising reality. This stimulates him to continue his research of magical places around the world, being them ethereal landscapes, deep cenotes or blue seas. In those places he discovered and created new sounds, melodies and rhythms that melted together create soundscapes for escape. 
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http://silentseason.com/ssd11/index.html

Between The Blue

01. High Above Water
02. Before The Storm
03. Rainfall
04. Waterfall Soul
05. Pacific Island
06. Submerged
07. A Quiet Storm
08. Secret Cliff
09. Sea Mist

Written and produced by @emanuelepertoldi
Mastered by @neel
Photography by Danthon

Available in limited CD or digital formats. 

Silent Season Mailing list: goo.gl/NIwCtz

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info@silentseason.com
www.silentseason.com

Bandcamp

Shaded Explorer - Between The Blue [SSD11] Sampler

SPK - From Science To Ritual

From the original CD (GABRIEL PAIUK: res extensa
sedcd043 | Released in 2006 | http://www.sedimental.com/catalog/index.php?ID=41) 
Res Extensa is a tape piece based on the superposition and juxtaposition of different layers of sound registers. These registers are layers of sound materials related to our everyday sound environment and coming from different origins: marginal sounds from electric devices, analogue sources, field recordings, amplification of micro-sounds, recordings of machine noises, digital errors and music. These sounds do not carry a traditionally codified expressive meaning but rather an emotional register linked to our everyday experience, an affective and tactile charge related to what we are exposed to. Within them, a great variety of articulations and nuances are connected to our feeling and understanding (of the world). The aim of the piece is to unfold, friction and break up this matters to expose them in their affective characters and our connection to them. Recorded sound can be thought of as a specific kind of acoustic event. This, as well as the sounds of all kind of electric phenomena, have become part of our listening culture. The fragments used in Res Extensa, different levels of recorded sound, are not a representation of the world but rather extracts of our vibrational experience, of our shared surface of perception, feeling and thought. The idea is to create a musical event based on the assemblage of different modes of listening. In Res Extensa sound matters and their implied listening habits are put against each other. The idea is to build a dramaturgy of the grain of sound in which each layer unfolds an array of sensations, a plane of continuous movement stripped of the acquired mechanisms of perceiving musical sound. Music as a language of matter, but language as an articulation of experiences rather than as a representative system.

GPaiuk ResExtensa (2005) [StereoVersion]

Roughly 30 minutes of all original tunes, Everything produced, mixed, and mastered myself.

Packaged
Play
Miles Away
Turn of the Millennium
Double Helix
Bardo
Pebble Tossed
Folding

Special thanks to Dave Tipper & crew for accepting this mix, giving me the opportunity to present my art to the community, and embracing me as one of your own - forever grateful for you fools :P <3

A Full Moon Bicycle Ride

From the upcoming Album "Vegetal Negatives"
Release Date 29 March 2019
Hallowground.com
HG1901
Vinyl / Digital

”Let us unfold the animal outward: the bronchia will become a thick foliage, keeping its respiratory function, but in reverse, naturally (CO2 absorption), reversed also concerning color, from the tint of calves’ lungs to its complementary cabbage green. The digestive system will become roots, maintaining its role of drawing in nourishment from the outside environment. […] for each animal form there exists a corresponding vegetal form. The man who would find his vegetal negative and unite with it would restore the integrity of the cosmos.”

Vegetal Negatives is a game of sonic mutations, mimicry, inversions, and association inspired by a text called "On pataphotograms", by the French writer René Daumal – a quasi-metaphysical essay that toys with breaking the conceived separateness of natural forms through poetic imagination.

Marja Ahti (b. 1981) is a Swedish-born artist living and working in Turku, Finland. She has been an active part of the Finnish experimental music scene for more than ten years. Now arriving at her debut LP under her own name, Ahti explores a new formal language and sonic palette that ventures far from the path of her earlier work.

The four electroacoustic compositions on the album combine and arrange field recordings, electronic feedback, Buchla and ARP synthesizers, bowl gong and harmonium, textures of detailed acoustic sound, and sustained tones with gentle microtonal beating into a precise musical narrative. She juxtaposes recordings of rooms and empty vessels, natural and artificial climates, spontaneous and staged events. Ahti draws upon Annea Lockwood's ideas about associative movements between sounds based on shared characteristics and sonic energy. Her approach to field recordings is neither diaristic, documentaristic, nor purely acousmatic, but rather it starts out from somewhere in between these notions: the sounds hover between abstraction and the deeply familiar, moving into a realm of poetic metaphor where they are set in relation to each other, fleetingly mirroring or shadow-dancing. Acoustic environments mutate into synthetically derived shadow forms.

The opening track, "Coastal Inversion”, moves from a seemingly familiar seascape into an ocean of wavelike synthetic staccato patterns, turning itself inside-out on the shore, before diving back into a sea of resonance. ”Rooftop gardens” arranges a series of largely unprocessed field recordings into a dream-logic sequence of upward movement towards the clouds. On the other side, ”Symbiogenesis” brews a slow evolution of wet, airy and earthy sounds and resonant friction. The closing track, ”Chora”, imagines a meditative space of breath: filter resonance posing as organ pipes against a backdrop of breezy industrial hoovers merges halfway with a harmonium improvisation that foregrounds the frictions of the wooden instrument itself, just before filtering out into resonant harmony.

Tracklist:
A1) Coastal Inversion (12:14)		B1) Symbiogenesis (07:22)
A2) Rooftop Gardens (05:44)		B2) Chora (10:47)

Credits:
Marja Ahti: composition, production, field recording, Buchla 200 and ARP 2600
Recorded at EMS, Stockholm, WORM, Rotterdam, and on locations in Greece, Alaska, Finland and Sweden.
Mastered by Giuseppe Ielasi
Designed by Ruth Stofer

Vegetal Negatives

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MARJA AHTI - Symbiogenesis (HG1901)

Track 2 from Lea Bertucci 'Resonant Field' [NNA120].
Available July 19th on Vinyl, CD, & Digital formats.
http://nnatapes.com

Resonant Field

Lea Bertucci "Warp And Weft"

A collection of ten tracks by a mysterious artist, characterized by melancholy, nostalgia, and introspection.

Ecstatic and refined aesthetics encompass the whole playtime, providing an enticing reverberation of self-consciousness and revelatory effects.

Themes such as nature, cosmos, and mysticism are well-represented in this album. From beatless to 4/4 with organic drum patterns, the outcome is always warm and pleasant.
A wonderful narration ranging between laid back meditative moments to more uplifting parts that keep the listener in an energetic lucid dreaming state.

The sensitivity of the artist emerges through exceptionally programmed soundscapes that transport the listener into a lush exploration of self.

Overall, the full length provides a dreamy, mind-altering and timeless experience that will hardly be forgotten.

Cassette only edition limited to 60 copies.

I Promise That I Won't Die Before You Do

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Lapith Girl - I Promise That I Won't Die Before You Do LP (SLS001)

RIP Chynna

Tracklist:

Caleb Belkin - Water
Christian Löffler - Like Water
Chynna - Asmr
Brent Falyaz - Poison
Anfa Rose - In And Out
Shuhandz ft. High Flown - Deliverance
Kamandi - Goldie
Sugi.wa - Urtha1
Evil Needle - Vibin In Seoul
Sol Rising - Float
Dylan Sitts - Toasted
Ryan Trey  - LV Smoke
Kamandi - Moon
Bearcubs - Unfold
A.CHAL - Gazi
The NorthaZe - DayTwoRescue
Tiara Thomas - Retro 1's
Fitz Suppe ft. Kupla - Mutiny
Ian Erwing ft. Kenny Reichart - Aphlion
Giyo - Strangers
Octavian - Molly Go Down
_91nova - Darko
Dylan Sitts - Plotting
Mike Gao - Heart Of The Continent 
Mount Kimbie - Carbonated
Pascäal - Drowning In You
Persian Empire - Jugo
Kavern - Raver
Nimino - It's Alright
Mt. Wolf - Burgs

Mind&Body

CLOVER - Piano and Voice
SUNDREAM - Guitar

Meditation in D (CLOVER & SUNDREAM)

Here we are again.

For our second episode, we invited SOUS:SOL label owner, producer and deejay Karla Böhm to take us on a musical journey. Karla aka Fanny was born in 1992 in Liège, Belgium, where she made her first appearances behind the decks. At present, she is a well known figure in Brussels and makes regular appearances in the city. If she isn’t playing music, working on her label or on graphic design projects, Karla keeps travelling around Europe in order to widen and refine her personal conception of sound. 

We admire her concise and profound sens for groove and melodies and are therefore very excited to present this podcast to you, witness of her curious and creative mind.

We would also like to benefit from the occasion and welcome Fanny into the Brüxsel Jardin family, as she is part of the collective from this season on, welcome Fanny! ♡

signs of growth n°2 w/ karla böhm

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Welcome to the Merkaba Music Online Showcase Series. In times of reclusion and separation, many artists have focused on their productions and have performed online to ensure the spread of good frequencies and the connection between lovers of electronic music. Thus, we are honored to bring together some of our artists in a totally online and exclusive event to provide us with moments of union between the musical and visual arts.

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SONIC SAMADHI :: Merkaba Music Online Showcase #1 (27Jun20)

Alexi's Visions - Subjective Loss

Know V.A.: Hibernation Remixes (Knives)
Release date: 22nd January, 2021

@uccharlo

Artwork by Nicholas Law & Winston Duke
Mixed by Julian Osti

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