Name: Threshold by seancostello
Duration: 2 min
Description: Prophet-10 through 3 parallel instances of ValhallaDelay (dotted 1/8th note echo, 1/4 note echo, 2 bar backwards pitch shifting delay).

Tapes and Topographies is US based artist Todd Gautreau, who has had music releases on labels such as Past Inside the Present, Dronarivm, Shimmering Moods and his own imprint, Simulacra. His project has been active since 2014 following his previous alias Tear Ceremony and he also produces a downtempo as Sonogram.

With each new album, Todd follows a different workflow to achieve new details and results in his sound. Increasingly, his work has been aided by the use of hardware and outboard effects.
In his latest album Amplitudes, he has taken a set of sounds and fed these through a looper, experimenting with altered loop speeds. He used FM synthesis for the first time in this body of work, alongside some of his tried and tested methods, joined by field recordings.

These nine compositions clock in at almost 50 minutes; a compelling listen through dreamy, organic textures. Todd has created a lot of music in the last 18 months and Amplitudes is the latest in his continuous process of distilling his sounds and ideas down to their essence.
The album’s artwork is a macro-photograph of a stone, as the fine details are ‘amplified’ by the magnification effect of the camera’s lens. There is not a clear concept but inspiration is drawn from film and literature, as well as self-reflection, memory, loss and dreams. As these compositions play out, you’ll find yourself concentrating on fine details, whilst at other times, in a blissful state, zooming out to absorb the bigger picture.

Amplitudes

wlr104 Tapes and Topographies - Amplitudes

Prologue opens the journey with a sense of drama and anticipation — blending brooding synth textures, swelling pads, and steady rhythmic pulses. Written as a cinematic cutscene cue, it evokes the tension of rival factions on the brink of war, setting the stage for the battles and exploration to come.

🎵 From the Beyond the Stars album — 25 tracks of electronic/sci-fi inspired music.
🎮 Perfect for opening sequences, lore cutscenes, or cinematic storytelling in games.
📡 ISRC: USCGJ2549637

Beyond the Stars

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Prologue

SubTonic - Everlasting Love ( make love no war )

Horizontals - Wild Light
welcome to HORIZONTALS the new ambient / balearic project from London based dj & producer LEO ZERO

It was born out of Leo’s longstanding love-affair with Ibiza's sunset / chill-out culture which he became a devotee of since first visiting Cafe Del Mar in 1989. Leo went on to co-write one of the defining tracks of the scene - Chicane’s ‘Offshore’

Now with 30 years as a music producer under his belt, and a long history scoring bespoke music for film, tv and advertising, Leo has returned to the original Balearic sound he fell in love with, whilst also tuning into modern global sunset bar scene in Bali, Tulum and beyond. Across 10 tracks we touch on classic folk and flamenco leaning Spanish flavours, to glacial ambient synth soundscapes, and bang up to date organic / minimal house tracks.

Written, produced, engineered, arranged, mixed, and mastered by : LEO ZERO for Leo Zero Studio productions.
P Leo Zero Studio 2025 C Zero Songs 2025
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released September 16, 2025

Written, produced, engineered, arranged, mixed, and mastered by : LEO ZERO for Leo Zero Studio productions. P Leo Zero Studio 2025 C Zero Songs 2025 @leozerostudio email: leo@leozerostudio.com 

04 Horizontals - Long Gone

This has been a stormy fall, and in Finland has been already 40 days with stormy wind speeds as the average is 27 a year.  A small, but intense low pressure passed over creating wind speeds up to 31,3 m/s in the gusts and 27 m/s as average. 

I couldn’t resist recording this storm just in our backyard as it was evident when I opened the front door in the morning that this wind is going to make damage. (The picture)

Recording storms creates mostly undefined white noise that’s not very pleasant to listen. But it seems, that when the wind gets hard enough, there occurs (more or less) strange noise patterns with regular shapes that can make it sound interesting. 

In situ I could hear cars passing and chainsaws running.  I hope there’s a bit of this weird noise left in this recording, at least when listening with headphones.

And yes, when the gusts were as strongest, two trees come down. One pine on the roof of our neighbors sauna building 6.50 and an other one with the tree trunk breaking 8.28 

(MKH8020 ab80cm, SD702, nothing done in edit, 24/48 flac)

Jan Eerala Finland

Storm in my Backyard - 19/11/2020 - Makholma Finland

Prophet-10 through 3 parallel instances of ValhallaDelay (dotted 1/8th note echo, 1/4 note echo, 2 bar backwards pitch shifting delay).

Threshold

PPG3 Sound Demo

a rework from Mean Flow of "piano patterns n°14" by Marco Lucchi

for "piano patterns" vol. 2, a project by Marco Lucchi
https://soundcloud.com/marcolucchi/sets/piano-patterns-vol-2

dicembre 2020

Marco Lucchi & Mean Flow - Last Star (piano patterns n°14)

A slow one, having a reflective sort of day.

Reflection

African Desert is a collection of soundscapes recorded in the Namib desert. It covers a variety of locations, from sand dunes and canyons to desert pavement and rocky outcrops. Available at https://mindful-audio.com/african-desert/

Downloadable demo - all rights reserved. License agreement available at https://mindful-audio.com/eula

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