Synthesizing Your Future

Time Travelling Kodama

Order here:
https://muzaneditions.bandcamp.com/album/stadium-ambient-live-in-japan

Muzan is incredibly proud to offer a special Japan edition of The NRG’s Stadium Ambient, a studio album so legendary by a band so mythological in stature that they may not even have existed.
This double cassette reissue not only features re-edits of the original release, but also two never before heard recordings from The NRG’s completely fictional 1993 Japan tour.
So sit back, turn up the volume, and travel back to a parallel 1990’s with the world’s foremost pioneers of “big room ambient”.

The NRG - De-NRGizer

The second release of POSITIVLAND by Mancunian artist:

Faff
@ffaf

PSTVLND 002 - 04/01/2024
positivland.bandcamp.com/

Limited ≈200 copies in Black vinyl, 180g.
Very Limited 26 hand-numbered copies, Splatter vinyl 180g
* Release Limited Edition 25/01/2024

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Note from the artist:


Faff’s Scrapbook.ep

This record is a collection of tracks I made from the start of 2019 to the end of 2021. They all exist completely independent of each other. My intention while working on music during this time was to create a time capsule/memory album for me to remind myself of my moments with. I had a lot of different experiences and substantially changed during this time. The early tracks were made by a completely different person than the person typing this. Of the 6 tracks on this EP, only one of them was made with the knowledge that it would be put together with the others and released as one cohesive article.

I wanted to make music again after abandoning it for 3 years. One of these tracks marks the turning point where a projected pipe dream of determined mastery was cracked through by what the speaker cone did when piano roll blocks were placed intuitively for the first time. 

In this .ep, I present:

THE CONCEPT

In its disjointedness, this music has presented itself to me as a scrapbook. It is rough around the edges, vague in its sentiment, and has more of an emotional than abstract association. While brainstorming for visual ideas to package these tracks in, I spat a bunch of words into a GAN and the words might be useful for you to get a sense of the general themes:  “synthesizer drum machine back catalogue emotional syneasthesia-inducing dance music” “vibrant energy synthesiser music record” “faffing about analogue synth music maker colour-changing light experiment” “bedroom studio acid bass sentimental rave artisan” “braindance analogue synthesiser data catalogue metaphysical music” “psychedelic synthesiser contemplation heartfelt breakbeat lullabies” “reaction diffusion rephlex records melancholic analogue music journal” “cerebral rave chromatic anthem dirge synth memories” “tr-808 analogue rave cerebral music energy ritual”

There is a dualistic nature to this EP, as it is a highly organised arrangement of totally disparate tracks. They are all (except one) built inside a DAW, but largely featuring live performance recordings of analogue hardware. The recordings are then processed after the fact. Layers on layers of humanity and machine, analogue and digital, specificity and ambiguity. All of the tracks are also subjectively experienceable pieces of music, but they sit in an objective folder structure on my laptop. Each one also was ignited by a unique occasion, but absorbs new meanings and connotations as time flows through and around them. These polarised paradoxes are key to the idea of this EP. Even to have a concept EP assembled from standalone tracks without any uniting concept is an example of the intertwining of opposites. Visuals associated are DAW architecture, poorly managed cables in thrown-together bedroom studio, piles of photographs printed out, computer folder structure, MIDI information in piano roll/automation envelopes, synthesiser encoders and pots.

Buy it:)!!

Special thanks and love go to Weefween, Robert and Chloe 

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credits
release January 4, 2024

Written, composed and produced in Manchester, UK, by Faff.
Mastered in Groningen, the Netherlands, by Johanz Westerman at Balyhoo Studio Mastering.
Designed in Manchester, UK, by Faff + Weefween + Positivland.
Distributed from Sardinia, Italy, by Desslab.

www.desslab.net
www.positiv.land

Faff - Shallow Focus (Snippet)

2024's hatsuyume on @noodsradio 🫧

Full tracklist: https://noodsradio.com/shows/dream-theories-w-yingtuitive-16th-january-24

Noods Radio - Dream Theories w/ yingtuitive 16.1.24

Dragos is a London based, Romanian DJ and Radio Host exploring the emotional bond between records from a wide array of genres and times. With the aim to further deepen the point of contact between experimental sound and the primordial need for rhythm.

https://www.instagram.com/dragoshes/

Dragoş @ The Lot Radio 01-19-2024

The inaugural psychedelic ambient event, Resonance is an exploration of the harmonic relationship between light, sound, and settings in some of the Calderdale (West Yorkshire) most ethereal and intriguing spaces.

Taking place at 9A Projects featuring John Haycock (Kora, woodwind + electronics) on January 27th, with accompanying visuals by Jamie House (crystal motion projector and refractor).

These events will highlight the natural reverberation of the spaces themselves as musical instruments and explore how their acoustic architecture interplays with the space and visuals.

Resonance DJs continue the ambient flow into the evening and we are really happy that NTS host AHRKH (of the Golden Ratio Frequencies show) will close after John with his selection of mind-expanding, transcendental deep vibrations.

The Resonance theme will continue with further events held in different locations throughout Calderdale, West Yorkshire and we are excited about hosting the first of these experiences at 9A Projects, Todmorden within the historic walls of Robinwood Mill.

A free event although donations are very welcome to help continue the series.

John will play at 4pm

Resonance w/ Adam 21/01/24

Digitone fell

Diesko - Nikolajev 25.01.24

More @k-atou: https://stegi.radio/podcasts/tuesday-s-child-is-full-of-grace

Tuesday's Child Is Full Of Grace w/ Janet Davis (26.01.2024)

chug club rehearsal mix, dub, minimalism, krautrock, post rock & electronic pop

edv3ctor 31/03/24

Lowfish live set from June 30, 2005 (we think this was from a show in San Francisco...anyone?)

I was in electro mode (mostly) at this time having just released a 12" on Satamile and was nearing the completion of the album "Burn The Lights Out", also on Satamile.

You can buy it here: 

https://satamile.bandcamp.com/album/burn-the-lights-out-by-lowfish

Time Travelling Kodama

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