very nice! how did you build the sounds in the dat? how many tracks? what were you using then? one can totally see the seeds of what became the shuttle358 sound in optimal.lp for instance...

Thanks. It was all Emu Morpheus and I think a Roland drum machine sequenced in Cakewalk

Continuing our ambitious People Like Us vinyl reissue program with Welcome Aboard – a strangely relevant 10-year-old album (originally released in May 2011) when People Like Us aka Vicki Bennett became stranded in the US after the Icelandic Eyjafjallajökull volcano eruption closed much of northern Europe’s airspace. 

More info at www.discrepant.net

Welcome Abroad LP

People Like Us - Sing (from Welcome Abroad LP)

Purchase: bit.ly/3wjrs0f
Catalog #: GN65
Apr. 16, 2021
LP+DIGI

Matthew Sage is about seeing the big picture, but focused through the most intimate and personal lens possible. Best exemplified on the gauzy, cartographical opus 'A Singular Continent', as well as his impulsively meditative Geographic North debut 'Catch a Blessing', Sage’s imagination yields fully realized sonic suites to worlds both imaginary and referential to his own. 

Now, the Chicago-based composer, producer, label owner, and publisher returns with 'The Wind of Things', a personal and pastoral oblation to the wild and wind-blown waters and mountains, both from Sage’s own memory and writ large. Absent are the processed sounds and filters that have come to define Sage's work; the album finds Sage stripping away the synthesized sounds that alchemied his past work into aural gold, instead favoring an entirely acoustic and natural 
palette.

Sage called upon a myriad of long-time collaborators, who together form the aptly-titled Spinnaker Ensemble (featuring Patrick Shiroishi, Chaz Pyrmek, Nate Henricks, Chris Jusell, Allison Sheldon, Martin Albertz, David Hirsch, Matt Wenzel, and Ang Wilson) to help realize his vision and further the melodic potential of the living and breathing field recordings that permeate the album. Tapping into an intimate sense of self, these field recordings derive from natural places that are significant to Sage. Lakes, mountains, and rivers he grew up boat-racing on and swimming in; tall fields of grass in rural Nebraska near his family’s birthplaces; wildlife on the pond of his in-laws home in Texas; the harbors and beaches of Lake Michigan that he frequents; all serving as places of occupation for these compositions to live in and blow through.

Opener “Cloud Plexus” is a fog-laden float in a calm lake of unrestrained optimism. The serenity soon glissades into “Harbor Dive”, a shimmering and elegant rift of sloshing harmonies. “Launching Mossing Scow” finds its flourish in the flotsam, tinkering with rusted refrains and oblong melodies. The action quickens with “Zephyr: Ponderosa Pollen,” charting a speedy course with only a shoddy sonic sextant as its guide. “Starboard Reach” offers a moment of playful clarity before “Luffing Adrift” and “Sail-Shaped Light,” a murky pool of darkness and light that ripples into the ether.

“Slipping the Mooring/Pond” opens the B-side in an amorphous din of familiar auditory accoutrements that gather into a single, slow-motion blur. “Dazzling Shallow Bay,” “Portside Mark,” and “Tell Tail Tale” play a dreamlike suite of a waterside piano finding its fins and diving below the waves, discovering its blithe buoyancy, and exploring the depths unencumbered by the weight of the world. The hopeful meditation of “Spinnaker on a Southerly” serves as a calm before the (rain)storm that is “Hiked Way Out,” a welcome reflection on past, present, and future maritime melancholia.

The Wind of Things

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M. Sage - "Starboard Reach"

Radio programs recorded in taxis and some field recordings made while traveling throughout the Maghreb & the Sahel. Recorded, assembled, and mixed by Matthew Lavoie from the great WALLAHI LE ZEIN! cassette blog. The cover photo was taken from a taxi in Dakar, Senegal.

Tracklist
1. ‘Speaking English’, Bolgatanga Radio, Bolgatanga, Ghana. 2014
2. Sunday morning, Bolgatanga Radio, Bolgatanga, Ghana. 2014
3. Donso N’goni rehearsal, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso. 2011.
4. Kidussie, Orthodox Tewahedo Church funeral prayer for General Seare Mekonnen, Ethiopian National Radio, Ethiopia. 2019
5. Ethiopian radio in early morning traffic, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. 2019. 
6. Abu Hakim, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso. 2014. 
7. Rooster, Petit Paris, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso. 2016.
8. Seydou Koita practicing at home, Gounghin, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso. 2018.
9. Senoufo Balafon ensemble performing at christening party, Gounghin, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso. 2015. 
10. RTM Amazigh, unidentified group.  Rabat, Morocco. 2019. 
11. Morocco wedding. 2017. 
12. Nana mint Mohamed Cheikh, Maouiya, and Idoumou ould Abba, Nouakchott. Islamic Republic of Mauritania. 2018. 
13. Maouiya performing keyboard Wezin at wedding in Tevragh Zeina, Nouakchott. Islamic Republic of Mauritania. 2018.  
14. Adhan, Central Market. Lilongwe, Malawi. 2019. 
15. Recitation, Radio Al-Fajr. Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso. 2015.
16. Solo Kidussie, funeral for General Gezai Abera. Ethiopian State Radio. 2019. 
17. Call sign for 108 FM, Radio de la Resistance. Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso.  September 2015.  [In September of 2015 there was an attempted coup d’état in Burkina Faso. For two weeks the entire city of Ouagadougou was locked down.  All stores, ministries, offices, banks were closed.  The coup plotters took over the radio and television and shut down a lot of commercial stations.  A few days after the coup, however, a pirate radio station took to the air, ‘La Radio de la Resistance’.  The station was broadcasting using a mobile transmitter calling on all Burkinabé to resist, to fight the plotters.  The station would broadcast communiqués and revolutionary songs and a casio keyboard interpretation of the national anthem.  The signal was horrible but I loved their call sign. 
18. Abu Hakim, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso. 2014. 
19. Baba Omar Rabat Morocco, 2019.
20. Hembe Mauritania.

Taxi Music (RIAFC057)

Propulse & Zachary Gray - Corium / Palindromes Remixes (AB005)

RIYL: Boards of Canada, Bibio, Oneohtrix Point Never, Clark

Genre: Electronic 

Propulse and Zachary Gray do one another a courtesy with this split remix release. Gray’s take on Propulse’s ‘Corium’ includes Bibio-style guitar passages with an electro rhythm through the kaleidoscopic lens of Boards of Canada. Propulse’s refix of Gray’s ‘Palindromes’ takes form in glacial drones and submersive sub-frequencies, sounding something like Oneohtrix Point Never doing Eno. Beauty stuff.

Corium / Palindromes Remixes

Propulse - Corium (Zachary Gray Remix) [taken from Corium / Palindromes Remixes]

from "Burung" CS
https://vicbang.bandcamp.com/album/burung

Burung

Vic Bang - "Uze"

pre-order: IMPREC.com
release date: 11.25.22
format: 2LP

Tod Dockstader's Aerial series, an electronic/drone masterpiece, is cherished among fans of the artist's work and this first volume is available in a double LP edition of 500 copies with 100 copies on clear vinyl exclusively for Imprec mailorder customers. 

     15 years in the making, Tod Dockstader's Aerial series is sourced from his life long passion for shortwave radio. Dockstader collected over 90 hours of recordings, made at night, and comprised of cross signals and fragments plucked from the atmosphere.

       Opening with airwave drones, Dockstader gradually allows elements to slowly come and go, summoning an ominous atmosphere of ethereal cloud clouds. Malignant placidity continues, giving the feeling of eavesdropping upon late-night audio activity not unlike discovering number stations while sweeping the dials. These sounds pull you in as their density and rhythms come and go. 
 
      Backward voices, deep echoing choruses of conversations flowing under the surface, ocean sounds, pulsing electro-rhythms, all seem to be created via the collaging of many hours of source recordings. A masterwork of collage and juxtaposition by an overlooked pioneer of American electronic music. 

Artwork by John Brien (Imprec) is inspired by the propagation of shortwave radio signals throughout the earth's atmosphere. 

Press: 

"This return of Dockstader is something to cherish, not just because his output has been so limited and scarce but because what we do have is so intriguing, persuasive and cliche-free; the music of an inspired explorer who trails in nobody's slipstream."  The Wire

Unequivocably awesome...Grand in scope, colossal in sound. Mimaroglu Music 

One of the great figures of musique concrete composition. Dusted 

Somewhere in the invisible night, the signal remains strong, broadcasting anew. City Page

Tod Dockstader - Aerial 2 - 2LP - available 11.25.22

very crude hardware physical modeling. trying to simulate a rather old and "lofi" drum recording

trümmlete

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I originally had an idea of macroscopic sound based on a book. I titled this demo on a DAT and mailed it to 12k. I don't think it had any relation to 12k's future "microscopic" direction, which made more sense than mine anyway. Luckily, Taylor's guidance helped me form the direction of what became shuttle358 with my following releases.

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Pre-s358 - macroscopic sound (12k demo, 1998)

The music of Naarm/Melbourne composer Lisa Lerkenfeldt channels a unique wavelength of foreboding, interstitial electronics, incorporating strategies of musique concrete threaded with veiled currents of melody and hypnosis. Recent recordings for Vienna Press, Longform Editions and Aught Void have demonstrated different depths of process and finesse but her latest, Collagen, captures perhaps the most complete and complex manifestation of her craft to date.

Drawing on a disciplined palette of peach wood combs, contact microphones, piano, strings, and feedback, the album moves in low, looming arcs, ascending to strange purgatories of opaque atmosphere. Lerkenfeldt cites a core aspiration to “elevate the everyday,” transforming common objects into otherworldly sound sources, which colors Collagen with a beguiling tactility, like vibrations traced in sand. The tracks shift in frequency and feeling, alternately heady and bodily, acoustic and synthetic, isolated states of static, light, and undertow skirting the outer rings of ambient, noise, and modern composition.

Although each piece exists in its own rare air the composite panorama they present is striking in its sweep and subtlety. Lerkenfeldt's muse seems one of evasion as much as evocation, navigating negative spaces for their subliminal whispers of dread or beauty. It's an aesthetic both ascetic and exploratory, minimalist mirages of resonance, texture, and gravity skewed through the pensive glow of room tone.

But Lerkenfeldt is too versatile an artist for purist restraint, which Collagen demonstrates dramatically in its closing cut, “Champagne Smoke.” A quivering bowed eulogy ebbs under a flickering film of distortion, slowly swelling in sorrow until suddenly the screech goes silent, revealing a murmuring phantom haze hidden beneath the strings, like a specter lost in an abandoned house.

14 Gestures associated with this album will be performed in experimental film and online viewing room of graphic notation at 14gestures.com from 29th July to 29th October, 2020.

Collagen releases on Shelter Press in LP / DL format on August 21, 2020. LP mastered and cut by Kassian Troyer at D+M, designed by Bartolomé Sanson with art by Lisa Lerkenfeldt, housed in reverse-board inner and outersleeve, including a 16 pages limited edition score book.

LISA LERKENFELDT 'The Weight Of History'

Taken from the album 'Death is perfection, everything else is relative' released as LP and Digital.

France Jobin 'p (excerpt)' (EMEGO 276)

Hey everyone. The music I put on SoundCloud was never released or monetized, but it's been here for many years and still being discovered daily. If you like it, please consider sending something with the PayPal link | Update: One year after posting this, I have received $40. Thank you to those who gave and hope more will consider. Update : Received another $50 from a fan after about 3 more years. I really appreciate it and put the money to use on more gear.

Pre-s358 - macroscopic sound (12k demo, 1998)

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