When snakes meet

Night Arcade   - Trance Dance Music  2025

Soon on streaming platform.
With love,
eeben

blooming

Steadfast

“Maisha” is the Swahili word for life.

This album to me expresses the feeling of embracing life in all its forms, with its different perspectives, moods, sounds, energies. In contrast to previous work, which was somewhat more reflective, this album was made with a lot of creative energy and drive. When starting each track I felt like I was overflowing with ideas that I had to try out and get down as soon as possible. Sometimes the inspiration would come from listening to various new albums on Bandcamp from around the world: jazz, African folk, hip-hop, Neo-soul, funk, afrobeat. Other times the inspiration would come simply from biking around Los Angeles and taking in sights and sounds from different parts of the city.

I think there can easily be pressure when making to album for it to feel as though each album has to embody a sophisticated concept or make some specific statement. Albums expressing abstract concepts or political or social statements are important for the musical culture, to be sure; but music is also an expression of where the artist is at spiritually, emotionally, and creatively at a certain point in time. This is what Maisha means for me. It represents the joys, excitements, and bursts of creative feeling, as well as the tranquility and nostalgia that I felt at times while making it. With this work, as with my previous work, I am ever seeking to defy genre. Of course, it’s clear that downtempo and trip-hop music form the backbone of what I am doing, but I am also trying to challenge those labels all the time by exploring different rhythms, scales, arrangements, and instruments.

I hope this album helps you find inspiration to express yourself or explore in whatever ways are possible or speak to you in your life, as it did for me.

Thanks for listening.

x

Tristan de Liège

Personnel:
Conor Malloy: Drums 
Parker Law: Drums
Yvette Holzwarth: Violin
Isaac Takeuchi: Cello
Moana Avvenenti: Vocals
Carly Barnette: Vocals
Selina Carrera: Vocals
Steven Robinson: Trombone
Henry Solomon: Flute, Saxophone
Tristan de Liège - Flute, Saxophone, Clarinet, Guitar, Bass, Percussion

All tracks written and produced by Tristan de Liège, except:
Hawa (feat. Carly Barnette) written by Tristan de Liège and Carly Barnette, and
Mbali (feat. Selina Carrera) written by Tristan de Liège and Selina Carrera.

Maisha

Hawa (feat. Carly Barnette)

'Surfaces' is the debut EP from the Barcelona-based electronic duo @palladianmusic. Out Feb. 26, 2021 via @FutureArchiveRecordings.

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Coming off of their debut year (2020), PALLADIAN will drop their first EP titled ‘Surfaces’ on Feb. 26 via Future Archive Recordings. A powerful combination of contemporary IDM & electronic, with a classic downtempo feel, PALLADIAN quickly turned heads following their first few singles. ‘Surfaces’ will feature these songs alongside two new tracks to round out their debut collection of songs. Living up to a COVID era release schedule, PALLADIAN has also been releasing rooftop and apartment setting live videos, all from their home base in Barcelona, Spain. Already seeing features among staple downtempo blogs and channels, as well as solid DSP numbers, PALLADIAN is a noteworthy new act to watch, and ‘Surfaces’ will surely find its place as a soon-to-be classic for the genre.
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INQUIRIES: hello@futurearchiverecordings.com
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Carpets (Sun Glitters Edit)

Carpets

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PALLADIAN - Carpets

CORPUS DEI is the new album from @arms-and-sleepers. Out Dec. 4, 2020 via @FutureArchiveRecordings.

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https://ffm.to/corpus-dei
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Arms and Sleepers continue their journey through a turbulent 2020 with the 5th installment in their 6-part music series being released this year. The new full-length album, titled CORPUS DEI, will be out on Dec. 4 via Future Archive Recordings.

Arms and Sleepers is the electronic music duo Max Lewis and Mirza Ramic. Formed in Boston, USA in 2006, the group has amassed over 30 releases, nearly 2,000 live performances, and countless TV and Film music placements in their 15-year history. 2020 has been the group’s busiest year yet, and the upcoming new album CORPUS DEI looks to add another signature stamp in Arms and Sleepers’ diverse music catalog.

Written and produced throughout 2020 – while on US and European tours, unplanned quarantine in Latvia, and settling into a new home in Berlin – CORPUS DEI is a surreal musical journey that feels both free-spirited and highly tense. It is the culmination of a fragile, uncertain and difficult year, and a closing statement on an ambitious, multi-release conceptual project. CORPUS DEI is Arms and Sleepers’ fourth full-length album released in 2020 alone, which also saw the release of several EPs, standalone singles, and remixes. Each release has revolved around the idea of “self-destruction”, an eerily relevant topic that was conceived well before the pandemic-stricken year. Writes Ramic: “I started planning for this 6-part music release in 2019 as a way of dealing with and processing my own increasing existential obsession with mortality, meaning, and ultimate absurdity of life. I wanted each release to capture some broader, objective elements of human life as well as some more personal, subjective experiences. Little did I know that I would end up living in isolation in Latvia for nearly 4 months earlier this year. It was an incredibly bizarre period of my life, as it was—and continues to be—for much of the world.”

CORPUS DEI combines the varied sounds of Arms and Sleepers’ recent releases, merging elements of instrumental hip-hop, IDM, electronica, downtempo, and ambient music. The intricately textured beats and densely layered synths form a sonic palette that should be familiar to fans of Arms and Sleepers, but the static-induced, noisy and unsettling atmosphere of the album as a whole adds a new dimension to the group’s catalog. Experimenting more closely with sound design and focusing on the overall compositional flow, Arms and Sleepers manages to create a record that seems to—for better or for worse—capture the dreadful emotional weight of 2020. Writes Ramic: “The various song ideas for CORPUS DEI were written throughout 2020 in what seem like impossibly different contexts: a few days off on tour in Augusta, Georgia in warm southern weather in mid-February; a tiny hotel room in Odessa, Ukraine on the first day of a European tour; a strange 4 months in Riga, Latvia while stranded there in the midst of a pandemic; and a rejuvenating new chapter of my life in Berlin, Germany despite the continued uncertainty about the pandemic. This album feels like a collection of estranged fragments of my life this year – a year that has felt like an eternity.”

CORPUS DEI releases on Dec. 4 via Future Archive Recordings and will be accompanied by various special cinematic visualizers.
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CORPUS DEI

Center Of The Sun

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Arms and Sleepers - Center Of The Sun

Above the Corners

https://soundcloud.com/sunrainsunrain
@zeb-samuels
Out Now snd.click/breezeblowing

Deep Heads are proud to present the new single 'Breeze Blowing' by Zeb Samuels.

The single is taken from Zeb's forthcoming album 'Arrival' that is planned for release in the early part of 2021.
 
You can hear the music has come a long way since the first instalments of sounds from Zeb on the imprint and hears a diverse pallet of sounds incorporated into this recording. We hear Zeb's vocals are more progressed, hearing the artist presenting more of a chorus driven piece of music, that breaths settled confidence within his voice. 'Breeze Blowing' delivers the energy of a winter's day, yet captures a warmth, deep within the core of the artistry. A beautiful piano hook is at the very heart of the song, with 2step beats lacing the track together. We also hear the talents of Jed Bevington on Violin who contributes some mind-blowing layers.
 
Then on remix duties is the very talented Canadian born, Sunrain, that Zeb has been a fan of for quite some time. A Pianist at heart with exceptional production techniques, the remix takes the recording into new dimensions. It's stripped back without the vocal but utilises the main piano hook to create an ambient soundscape that is nothing short of exceptional. Definitely an artist to keep an ear on for the future.
 
Zeb Samuels has seen support from a number of tastemaker publications, including the likes of CLASH Magazine, Magnetic-Magazine, XLR8R, Electronic Groove, Decoded Magazine & Rural Sounds, as well as airplay from BBC Radio 6 Music's Gilles Peterson, Don Letts, Nemone & 5FM's Kid Fonque.
 
We hope you enjoy :)

Zeb Samuels 'Breeze Blowing' (Sun Rain Remix)

Surfaces

Soil

PALLADIAN - Soil

'Water Diary' is the new full length album from downtempo producer Good Lee. Expanding beyond his beat driven downtempo aesthetic, 'Water Diary' see's Good Lee explore organic & melodic house, IDM, and other sub genres, to emerge with a contemporary mix of electronic music. Leaning towards a more uptempo, and dance floor aesthetic, 'Water Diary' is an exciting progression for the up & coming producer.

Water Diary

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Good Lee - The Essence (feat. A I N Y)

Bookings:
Paolo Visci
Pentagon Booking
info@pentagonbooking.net

Licensing:
Marmoset
http://marmosetmusic.com/artists/stev

Other inquiries:
stefanostev@gmail.com

Above the Corners

Stèv