Having doubts can feel uncomfortable, but it can also be helpful. Doubts can stop us from becoming too confident, push us to become better, and help us understand things in a deeper and more thoughtful way.

Who is he

noisy old boy

~ LAAPS 046 ~ [SEQ.06 - LP46]

artist : Offthesky
album : Nocturnas
duration : 40.28 mn
date : August 28th, 2025

edition :
-  vinyl : limited to 200 copies / marble pink/purple LP / selective UV varnish (front+back) / hand numbered 
- cd : limited to 150 copies / pantone / hand numbered + handcrafted, sealed

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pre-order : August 01st, 2025 / official release : August 28th, 2025
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Sound and composition by Jason Corder
Vocals by Rin Howell
Created in Thailand and Colorado, 2022 - 2024

Mastered by Offthesky
Artwork by Gaël Bonnefon
Design by Sprflxgrfzm
 
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Links :
https://laaps-records.com/
https://www.instagram.com/iikki_laaps/
https://offthesky.bandcamp.com/
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Offthesky - Dying Within Dreams

Joseph from ACL mixes the latest in new releases, showcasing records recently reviewed on the blog as well as some special treats. This week, a mix dedicated to experimental drumming in honor of ZERO, 999..., the new record from Riccardo La Foresta. 

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Tracklist

Chris Cutler, “Signal 66 1” (Solo)
Riccardo La Foresta (with Valerio Tricoli, Anthony Pateras, and Ale Hop), “20230704_102400.jpg”
Vladislav Delay, “Mustelmia”
DNA - “Blond Red Head”
Steve Reich, “Drumming, Part I”
Milford Graves, “Nothing 19 [edit]”
Riccardo La Foresta - Drummophone - III
Christian Wolff, “Sticks”
Efraín Rozas, “El miedo a la muerte (The fear of death)” 
Sunny Murray, “Black Art”
Art Blakey &  The Jazz Messengers, “A Chant For Bu”
Andrea Centazzo, Alvin Curran & Evan Parker, “In Real Time #3”
Sulla Linea, “Niente, Amore”
Vladislav Delay Quintet - “Untitled vd5”
Preston Beebe, “live at ateliers le château, Montreal - 27 Sept 23”
Milford Graves Trio, “Unknow”
Francesco Gregoretti, “Faithful Walking Stick”
Christian Wolff / Anla Courtis, “Stones”
Andrea Belfi, “Anticline”
Vladislav Delay Quartet, “Santa Teresa”  [excerpt]
Henry Cow, “Living In the Heart of the Beast” [excerpt]
Andrea Centazzo, “First And Last Freedom”
Riccardo La Foresta (with Renato Grieco and Ale Hop), “The Lower Primate In Us 2”
Chris Cutler, “A Walk Through Nancy 6” (Solo) [excerpt]

a closer listen  for CAMP.fr / 13th April 2025

Speed Taping #8
Vinyl mixtape recorded by Djane Ki in Republic of Lorèze, August 2025, the 25th
Tracklist :
- Marcel, « Promised Land »
- Minus 8, « Zero - G »
- AIR, « Modulor »
- Sergie Rezza, « Wof »
- MAX 404, « Quiddity (Last Visit) »
- Bomb The Bass « Bug Power Dust » remixed by Kruder & Dorfmeister
- Harmonic 313 « Quadrant 3 »
- Autechre, « rew(1) »
- Harmonic 313, « When Machines Exceed »
- The Andronechron Incident, « Crimson Skies And Vapour Trails »
- Harmonic 313, « Music Substitute System »
- Photek, « Pyramid »

Dj Ki, Speed Taping #8

https://bricolageglasgow.bandcamp.com/album/colour-kinetica-bc095

The Dormon brothers have been honing their craft since the 90's. Releasing a raft of albums and EPs on some great labels like Piehead, Lom, Senton, Progerik and the seminal Toytronic, over the years. "Toytronic" in particular, was one of the labels that inspired what we do here at Bricolage. It had a huge impact on me as a teenager and the Multiplex "Pinghaus Frequencies" album from the label was constantly on rotation in my bedroom. It's pretty surreal that now, more than twenty years after hearing that album, we can welcome them onto the label. The world works in magical ways.

"Multiplex recordings are far from the standard studio format, as we build up the tracks on two sets of music equipment, in two countries, with two biased opinions of what the final result should be. But instead of fighting for control of the studio and the mix, we surrender control of our ideas to each other, which has worked well so far."

The result makes for raw, analogue chaos. When they go hard they go all in but there's also the other side that seeps through with their more textured electronica that breezes along so smoothly.

The "Colour Kinetica" album has all the Multiplex hallmarks. Abrasive yet vibrant melodies, cyber basslines and elastic rhythms. They take the genre's bleeps and bass elements and put them through their own audio grinder to create a unique brand of head spinning electro.

"Colour Kinetica" is their first new album in quite some time and it's safe to say it's been worth the wait as we get to enter into an innovative sonic realm. 


https://soundcloud.com/user-64321338

Colour Kinetica

Multiplex - Citra21 (from the "Colour Kinetica" album)

Multiplex - The Long Way Ohm (from the "Colour Kinetica" album)

Büszke vagyok, hogy részese lehetek ennek a fantasztikus módnak, amellyel megünnepelhetjük a zene egy évtizedét.

https://bricolageglasgow.bandcamp.com/album/x-bc094

Büszkeség

Gray Acres has always been a space for subtlety and restraint, distinct from the denser, more cinematic atmospheres of Hotel Neon. Where that project often explores process, technique, and narrative arcs, Gray Acres tends to be produced "in the moment" and stays still. It lets you think for yourself. Soft Erasure especially embraces that characteristic stillness.

This is the first full-length Gray Acres album since 2021’s “Dreams and Phantoms.” It’s a project that came together slowly with an intentionally light touch…more about dissolving sounds than constructing them. Subtraction vs. addition.

The title Soft Erasure came about as we noticed a recurring quality across the recordings: a sense of tangible things like guitars, pianos, and strings fading, softening, and slipping just out of reach as we shaped and processed them. The music feels like it’s constantly on the verge of vanishing, or being gently wiped away into an indistinct atmosphere. That idea of erasure not as violence, but as gentleness, decay, or transformation, felt like the right metaphor to latch on to. It speaks to memory, distance, and time, and how all of those forces shape and reshape our perception of sound and self.

Musically, this album is built mainly from resampled acoustic instruments: delicate piano lines, sustained strings, frozen and looped guitar textures. Much of the source material was recorded clean, then stretched, blurred, and layered until it became something abstract…like an impression of a song, or a half-remembered phrase. In some ways, we were trying to find the most washed-out and ephemeral version of each sound. The result is a record that is designed less for narrative and more for immersion.

If you’ve followed this project before, I think you’ll hear a natural continuation of its aesthetic. But if you’re new to Gray Acres, this is a great entry point. It’s music that tries not to demand attention, but rewards those who tune in closely for a while.

Gray Acres - Soft Erasure
Music by Andrew & Michael Tasselmyer
Mastered by Alex at Quiet Details

Gray Acres - Vestige

Alstad

#1
Track list:
- R.J. Stefanski - Approaching Blue Heron Lagoon [edited for Shimmering Moods]
- Nikita Bondarev - Siberian Ruins, part 1 (Klammklang)
- Å Asher- Yates - Intro (forthcoming Shimmering Moods Records)
- Embers Below Zero - Forget About Me La Mer Profonde (forthcoming Shimmering Moods Records)
- Gareth Davis & Machinefabriek - Theme Part I (White Paddy Mountain)
- Timedog - The Pilgrimage (Shimmering Moods Records)
- Viewfound - Triptych (forthcoming Shimmering Moods Records)
- Offthesky - Form Light (eilean rec.)
- Gideon Wolf - Hunger (Fluid Audio)
- Embers Below Zero - The Ashes Of Our Past (forthcoming Shimmering Moods Records)
- Å Asher- Yates - (Rain) (forthcoming Shimmering Moods Records)
-  Å Asher- Yates - Breeze In The Sun (forthcoming Shimmering Moods Records)
- Viewfound - Lukewarm (forthcoming Shimmering Moods Records)
- Benjamin Finger - The Woods Are Not What They Seem (Shimmering Moods Records)
- Adzuki - In one's fading consciousness (Shimmering Moods Records)
- Aleks - Shimmering (Shimmering Moods Records)
- Aleks - Dark Chords & Dreamscapes (Shimmering Moods Records)
- Arkadelphia - Untitled 22 (Shimmering Moods Records)
- Ard - Her Eyes Over The Ancient Castle (forthcoming Shimmering Moods Records)
- Parallelism - 03 Untitled (Shimmering Moods Records)
- ISM - Vertical Order (forthcoming Shimmering Moods Records)

Get lost in sound:
Shimmering Moods will host a new series of radio shows on 
Resonance Extra , UK's most creative independent radio station. Every month at https://extra.resonance.fm, this is the first show from Wednesday 20th July at 20:00-22:00 BST/21:00-23:00 CET
Experimental-Ambient-Electronics-Soundscapes-Drones-Field Recordings-Outsider Techno-Noise-Acoustics & more … released, unreleased, exclusives tracks from various labels & artists around the globe. 
Dates for the rest of the year:
Wednesday 17th August at 8pm
Wednesday 7th September at 8pm
Wednesday 2nd November at 8pm
Wednesday 7th December at 8pm
Next to this we will continue our monthly radio shows on Red Light Radio, next RLR show: 22.8 14:00-16:00 CET.

About Resonance Extra:
Resonance Extra is a pioneering new digital radio platform launched in December 2015, available on DAB to listeners in Central Brighton and online to the rest of the world. Dedicated foremost to the global artistic community and with a focus on long–form international music programming and sonic experimentation, Resonance Extra exists to mobilise diverse and emergent communities of sound artists, musicians, broadcasters, academics and expert curators.




Shimmering Moods @ Resonance Extra #1 (20.7.2016)

*S O U N D S C A P I N G*
Contact: Shimmeringmoodsrecords@gmail.com

Other projects:
Slow Tone Collages 
https://soundcloud.com/analogue-chat

*Monthly Radioshow @ Resonance Extra: First Wednesday at 8pm / 21:00-23:00 CET www.extra.resonance.fm