A great inspiration to all of us and I'm sure a great friend to some has passed. Thanks for posting this Mr. Rimbaud; carry the torch.

RIP Sleazy...tnx for the huge inspiration....why no one mention the COIL ?

dec31 2020

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Akari is the third album from Tokyo duo Illuha. Following 2011’s debut Shizuku (12k1067) and 2013’s Interstices (12k2028), Akari takes the next artistic step for the band. While Shizuku was recorded in the US and completed separately by the artists, Interstices captured the duo creating their exceptionally detailed music together live during a Japaneses tour. Akari, in turn, is the first studio album where Illuha recorded and mixed together, throughout the entire process. The beautiful st-robo studio in Tokyo put a collection of amazing equipment at their fingertips, from vintage mics and outboard gear to a vast collection of instruments, both acoustic and electronic. Their writing sessions were numerous and long with details meticulously obsessed over for nearly a year. The result is the most bewildering music Illuha have created to date. An album swimming with the most delicately tactile sounds and instrumentation that draws the listener in with hushed, motionless attention.

While Illuha’s Corey Fuller and Tomoyoshi Date are often drawn to the most sparse notes of Rhodes and Wurlitzer electric pianos, acoustic grand piano and guitar, the breadth of instrumentation is partially what makes Akari so abosrbing. They have succeeded in creating their own universe of sound, so beautifully recorded, where each element not only has its own space but connects and interacts so fluidly with the other sounds. It is as if they are placed perfectly by nature, the compositions are fluid and organic, a far cry from anything calculated or structured. It is this open space that the music exists in which in turn defines the music itself. There is ample room to breathe within this forest of gentle tines, bubbling analogue synthesizers, clicking percussion and quiet field recordings. This is subtlety at its most refined; hushed without being saccharine, distant without being morose.

Akari is the Japanese word for light. Conceputally the duo used this word as a guide, as if they were searching through the dark, trying to keep the light alive, as if one is cradling a candle doing everything in their power to keep it alight in a storm. It is this almost visceral sense of sheltering, of protection, that gives Akari a very human and personal sound whose intensely deep focus is as impressive as it is arresting.

Akari

Structures Based on the Plasticity of Sphere Surface Tension

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Structures Based On The Plasticity Of Sphere Surface Tension

Live off the board recording of In Threes at Vancouver New Music's Nomadic Streams festival at VIVO, Oct 23, 2015.

In Threes - Live

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From the 1996 album '(Ch-Vox)' reissued on Warp in 2021. 
Purchase 'Rupt & Flex' now; a reissued collection of LPs and EPs spanning 1994-'96 + formerly unreleased archive tracks. Available now on Warp Records. Purchase here: seefeel.warp.net/94-96-reissues

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Alessandro Cortini, live instrumental set at Death By Audio, NYC, December 11 2011. Performed on a Buchla Music Easel.

Alessandro Cortini - live at Death By Audio, december 2011

First track from the new album, entitled "II: Plains/Patterns", out on Azure Vista Records March 31!

CD/DL/LP (vinyl limited to 300 copies!). Preorder here: https://billowobservatory.bandcamp.com/

Billow Observatory – the trans-atlantic duo consisting of Detroit's Jason Kolb (Auburn Lull) and Danish producer Jonas Munk (Manual) – are back with a follow-up to the their debut album from 2012. 

”II: Plains/Patterns” departs from the first LP’s amorphous ambient haze with a more rigid, albeit subtle, underpinning of rhythm and pulse. The duo’s obsession with “place and space” comes clearly into focus with an album that draws deeply from Munk and Kolb’s individual proximity to the geographically distant, but oddly similar, sounds of Germany and Michigan, past and present. 

 Traces of shoegaze, modern minimal electronica, and kosmische appear on every track, but are mutated into something mysterious and new. ”Pulsus”, for example, opens the album with a driving teutonic stutter and washes of serene guitar loops that are punctuated by bursts of filtered synth patterns; a combination that seamlessly bridges the gaps between disparate genres and periods of time. 

 Centerpiece, ”Plains”, expands the ambient formula into an inspired epic in three parts, where swells of processed guitars, distant voices and faint echoes of Detroit techno are weaved together to form a kaleidoscopic whole. And tracks such as ”Vex” and ”Plum” seem to pay as much homage to Slowdive and Eno's Harold Budd collaborations as to the modern minimalism from Cologne or Berlin.

Plains

2018 repress now available. 

Excerpts from the powerful new double LP from Caterina Barbieri comprised of compositions for analog synthesizer. Highly recommended to fans of Alessandro Cortini & Eleh. 

"Patterns Of Consciousness finds Caterina Barbieri at her best, elegantly moving between melodically pleasant yet twisted sequences and comforting, reassuring sonic spaces. Every piece, while given a singular identity, is part of the bigger picture: a work of art that will push you, pull you, and then eventually leave you with your back against the wall once you get to the last track. " Alessandro Cortini (Nine Inch Nails)

Patterns Of Consciousness

Caterina Barbieri - Patterns Of Consciousness - Album excerpts - 2LP April1 2017

Peter 'Sleazy' Christopherson BBC 6 Music with Scanner & Daniel Miller

Twenty-fifth guest of the clubs podcast series is a member of Downwards Records, 47, Stroboscopic Artefacts, German DJ, Producer and live-performer - Oake

KHIDI Podcast NR.25: Oake

Twenty-seventh guest of KHIDI podcast series is a German resident of the club, founder of Persephonic Sirens and Ancient Methods, DJ, producer and live-performer - Ancient Methods

Tracklist:

1. Mary Stark - Lavender / Rome - La fin d’un monde
2. Spiderwrap - Strobe / Scarlit Port - Cheeta (rising)
3. Vere - Analogue (AEIT Remix)
4. SSSS - Damaged Beyond Repair
5. Owem - Man Of War / Arnica feat. Trepaneringsritualen - Guresar Guako
6. Rommek - Haraka Haraka / War Scenes - Gibletz (Exome Remix) 
7. NN - The Sky Is Burning From Our Hubris / Deathprod - Disappearance/Reappearance
8. Patrick DSP - Skip To My Dirt / Därr - e-316
9. Ogmah _ Sharp Objects / (5P4C3) - Don’t Let Nothing Get You Down
10. Mickey Nox - Midrange Mud / La Breiche - Le sortier thérianthrope
11. Relapse - Fire (6SISS Remix) / Haus Arana - Keine Tränen
12. Perc - Destroyed By Jazz / Tchaikovsky - Liturgy Of St. John Chrysostom Op. 41 VI. Cherubic Hymn / Soho Rezanejad - Stages II
13. SLV - Finding The Others / Group A - Trance
14. hel.IV - Midnight Mass / Mater Suspiria Vision - Uncontrollable Flesh
15. JTPC - Project #003 / Peter Hope & Exploding Mind - Apple Eye (Kuvera B Remix)
16. Tommy Four Seven & Ancient Methods - XIX / Christina Vantzou - Marmara Beach II
17. Second Tension - Schisma
18. Deena Abdelwahed - Wein Al Malayeen (Ancient Methods Remix)
19. DJ Boss - Depka / Muslimgauze - Arab American Radio 03
20. Phil Denton - Only / Manos Brujas - Dose Heroica
21. Dead Can Dance - Avatar / Gatto Nero - Dirt
22. Penelope’s Fiance - Revenge is a Double-edged Knife / Dubfire presents Evolve - Deadbug
23. Mystical - End Of The Brigade / Grand Lodge - Avekko
24. Militia - Demand For Pleasure
25. Tymon - Woodsman / Raed Yassin - A Fistful Of Stardust
26. Deep Dimension - Cold Rush / Theologian - Finding Comfort in Overwhelming Negativity / Géométrie Du Coeur - Le livre du serpent
27. Seleccion Natura - SNT0073 
28. Sharplines - Passion & Blazing Guns
29. Downwell - I Need Two More Bodies / Miracle - The Parsifal Gate
30. Roll Dann - When The Hate Goes Away / AGB - Brecht Hat Er
31. 2+2=5 - Descration / OFF - Be My Dream
32. Slime Coca - DCRF#2
33. Machino - Nada Es Real (Sarin Remix)
34. Asymmetrik - Before Dawn (EAS Remix) / Crush Of Souls - Confusion
35. Artillery Nightspace - Align / Templebeat - Horrock
36. Nathaniel - Entering The Gate
37. Black Kolor - Iceberg / Daren Seymour & Mark van Hoen - Involution
38. Mariano DC - The Black Bogle / Le Travo - Hips
39. Nightly - Luminescenza
40. Sydney Valette - PTSD / Luca Morris & Mozzy Rekorder - Paper Charms
41. Soj - Land Of Love and Hammers (IV Horsemen Remix)
42. Foreign Policy - What Can You Suggest / Chris Shape feat. Blind Delon - Shaped To Deform
43. Henning Baer - All Over (Inhalt Der Nacht Remix) / T.G.T.B. - Homebound
44. Inventory With Hamilton - You Feel By Mistake
45. The Panacea - Storm / Zero Call - Stellar Wind
46- Endrik Schroeder - Take Off  / Timothy Leary - excerpts from Turn On, Tune In, Drop Out
47-. Konstantin Unwohl - Ein Gewitter Zieht Auf

KHIDI Podcast NR.27: Ancient Methods

Most know him as head of Berlin-based record label aufnahme + wiedergabe, but to me, he is a very dear friend. Kicking off my new podcast series is Philipp Strobel. Enjoy his range of selections that range from punk to industrial to 80s and enjoy the 1.5 hour hiatus from techno.

https://aufnahmeundwiedergabe.bandcamp.com

Dead Inside Society Podcast 001: Philipp Strobel

Robin Rimbaud (Scanner) is an artist and composer working in the UK, whose works traverse the experimental terrain between sound, space, and image, connecting a bewilderingly diverse array of genres – a partial list would include sound design, film scores, computer music, avant garde, contemporary composition, large-scale multimedia performances, product design, architecture, fashion design, rock music and jazz.

Since 1991 he has been intensely active in sonic art, producing concerts, installations and recordings, the albums Mass Observation (1994), Delivery (1997), and The Garden is Full of Metal (1998) hailed by critics as innovative and inspirational works of contemporary electronic music. He scored the hit musical comedy Kirikou & Karaba (2007), designed the sound for the new Philips Wake-Up Light (2009), and campaigns for Stella McCartney (2017), Chanel’s Fall-Winter collection (2012) and Jaguar (2014).

In 2019 he designed the sound for the Cisco telephone systems used in offices around the world, whilst his sound work in Vex House in London was voted as RIBA House of the Year. His work Salles des Departs is permanently installed in a working morgue in Paris.

Committed to working with cutting edge practitioners he has collaborated with Bryan Ferry, Dangermouse, Coil, Laurie Anderson, Carsten Nicolai, The Royal Ballet, Wayne McGregor, Merce Cunningham, Hermes, Hussein Chalayan, Philips Design, Mike Kelley, and Miroslaw Balka. His work has been presented throughout the United States, South America, Asia, Australia and Europe.

Peter 'Sleazy' Christopherson BBC 6 Music with Scanner & Daniel Miller

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