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Substrata is an international contemporary experimental music label based in México City.

From a research and multicultural optics, Substrata investigates, tracks and signs experimental and innovative artists and composers.

Transcending the genre boundaries we bet for adventurous and epistemically powerful sonic acts from Mexico and the world, in an effort to lead the listener to a transcendental experience.

Substrata sees from the media archaeology optics, offering high quality albums made for specific format.

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With over 100 physical releases since its inception by Taylor Deupree in 1997, New York-based music label 12k has decisively defined and developed the concept of minimalism in the realms of electronic music for more than a decade. Fusing elements from Ambient and Electro-Acoustic Composition with carefully arranged digital textures and associative micro-noises, the label's aesthetics revolve around a precisely-outlined, yet deeply emotional concoction of the technological and the organic. Eschewing the typical marketing mechanisms of the commercial music industry, Deupree has sculpted a platform whose influence today extends well beyond the confinements of the experimental community. 12k's integral approach, in which the label's instantly recognizable, elegantly spartan artwork enters into an inseparable symbiosis with the music, has created a timeless audiovisual language respected and appreciated all over the world.

Immersive ambient composer, guitarist, and producer. Co-founder & Director of Envelop. https://christopherwillits.com

Christopher Willits is an artist, musician, and guitarist who creates immersive ambient music. As one of the core artists on the Ghostly International label roster since the early 2000s, Willits has continually evolved his craft, producing one of the most diverse and prolific catalogs within contemporary ambient music. Releases span introspective solo albums, widescreen audiovisuals, and unbridled collaborations. His process is an expression of love, inspired by an international audience of listeners, and the conviction that music can catalyze personal transformation and spiritual awakening.

Willits began his career with a string of critically acclaimed albums on the 12k label. The minimal sound introduced on those recordings remains at the core of his work: warm guitar tones woven into smooth, harmonic surfaces. Willits made his Ghostly International full-length debut with 2006 landmark Surf Boundaries. He’d expand his vision next through collaboration, working with Ryuichi Sakamoto (2008’s Ocean Fire and 2012’s Ancient Future), Zach Hill of Death Grips, Taylor Deupree, and, for 2014 LP Opening, with the whole band of Tycho. He also lent a hand in mastering the latter’s album Awake, composed the original score for documentary The Art of Listening, and continues to lead music production and meditation classes in San Francisco.

In 2017, Willits put forth Horizon, the first ever spatial audio release on Ghostly International. The album’s innovative 3D mix is mapped to surround listeners and align with sleep patterns, meditation, and other mindful practices. Willits is also the director and co-founder of the nonprofit, Envelop; leading a mission to amplify the connective power of music through immersive audio venues and spatial audio production tools. Like Horizon, his 2019 album Sunset utilizes Envelop’s cutting-edge technology to encourage listening from within. The five compositions move from warm to cool designed as a soundtrack to embrace the day's end; a collective letting go. Another skyward, pioneering project from an artist who occupies a unique corner of the electronic music universe.

Wouter van Veldhoven creates music, instruments and installations. Most of it has the following ingredients: taperecorders, toy-instruments, lots of hiss, nostalgia and moving parts. Old means, new music.

offthesky (a morpheme of 'off the sky') - is an experimental ambient electronic musician / video artist from denver.  this soundcloud page serves as the dwelling spot for offthesky's comp pieces, b-sides, sketches, album previews or otherwise unreleased sonic studies.  you can peruse(and even buy) offthesky's full discography(including past side projects) here: noise.offthesky.com

jason corder is also involved in the following side projects: color cassette, muridae, social system, aeris ash, shelters end, and pillow garden.

cover photo credit: sarah miller

“The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance”

Led by versatile soundartist Dirk Serries this is a haven for the free and wilful :  featuring music that originates from a fascination for free improvisation and modern minimal music.

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