The Asphalt will Crack

Written by Hanjo Gäbler (ready to license soon)

Killer Instinct

Mercenary (MEGA SLOWED)

here one of 4 tracks of  my latest productions " autumn movement", released on silent season. (( thx for that))

http://shop.silentseason.com/album/martin-nonstatic-autumn-movement-ss16


Martin nonstatic "soundforest"   silent season -ss16     autumn movement

Future Perfect - Echoes Knows

« Hôtel Costes presents... » is a collection of exclusive music recorded at STUDIO HC, the hotel studio.

J.A.C stands as an offshoot of the Midminuit project which was released earlier in the Studio HC series. The story goes that Midiminuit member Jonatan Levi had to leave the recording process for a day, leaving the others - Julien, Adrien and Ceasar with a whole day in the studio which naturally led to experimentation and later the formation of J.A.C, an acronym for the trio involved. 

‘Take Off’ leads the project, a cinematic twelve and a half minutes of ethereal synth textures, swirling dubby echoes, bright emotive piano chords and vacillating bass tones. Up next is ‘In’, this time round embracing a tension building sub swell and crunchy, modulating drums at its core whilst heavily reverberated jazz piano licks and hazy effects flow throughout the composition. 

Opening the B-side is ‘Out’, laid out over five minutes with a snaking resonant synth lead and mind-bending drum and synth oscillations before ‘Landing’ concludes the release with a heady, pulsating sub bass line, resonant flutters and expansive pad swells.

STUDIO HC #04

J.A.C - Landing

Masomenos join forces with ambient artist E/Tape this April for the fifth EP in the Hôtel Costes Presents...Studio HC series.

Parisian duo Masomenos are the minds behind the fledgling Studio HC project, which has already gained widespread recognition for its contemporary electronic twist on a classical and jazz leaning aesthetic. Here we see the pair deliver a project alongside E/Tape, a Slovenian producer and DJ operating in the ambient and experimental scene and highly praised for his emotive, atmospheric style, which has seen him, play alongside the likes of Jan Jelinek, Midori Takada, Mark Ernestus and Jeff Mills.

‘The Sound Of The Earth’ is made up of two parts, both fourteen-minutes long and split across the two sides of the record. ‘Part 1’ on the A-Side sees the duo fusing murky pad swells and modulating synths alongside vacillating percussion and thunderous low end pulses.

‘Part 2’ then continues the composition with the introduction of mediative voices, more percussive nuances, tripped-out resonant synth licks and gritty bass leads ebbing and flowing throughout the track sporadically.

Hotel Costes presents Studio HC #05

B - The Sound Of The Earth Part 2

Hôtel Costes Presents... continues its Studio HC project with the ‘On Met Les Voiles’ LP by Les Coeurs Brisés.

For the fourth long player in the Studio HC series Hotel Costes Presents... introduces a new collaborative guise from some of the key figures from the project, namely Adrien De Maublanc, Adrien Boisseau and Julien Quentin who here form Les Coeurs Brisés.

The project was born out of heartbreak as Boisseau and Quentin both
suffered breakups just before hitting the album was due to be recorded, the result is a raw, emotionally fuelled long player much of which was captured in the moment with one take and embraces all the technical glitches, grounding noise, unexpected quirks and nuances that come with recording on the fly.

‘On Met Les Voiles’ sees the trio once again exploring a modern classical/jazz meets electronic aesthetic, ranging from delicate keys on closing cut ‘La Haut’ through to the more electronic leaning styles of ‘Dans La Tempete’ and its swirling bass line and ‘De Bon Matin’ with its bumpy breaks, choppy bass stabs and airy piano lines.
The artists also explore more glitched-out ambient leaning styles on tracks like opener ‘Tout Doux’ title-cut ‘On Met Les Voiles’ and ‘Et Plonge’ which lay focus on textural synths, modular whirrs, minute percussive flutters and stunning intricacies from the organic instruments. Once again Studio HC delivers a forward thinking take on classic influences.

Hotel Costes presents...On Met Les Voiles

Et Plonge

« Hôtel Costes presents... » is a collection of exclusive music recorded at STUDIO HC, the hotel’s studio, and here we see the series deliver its second album from Midiminuit, the outfit made up of pianist Julien Quentin, bass player Yonatan Levi and electronic musicians Cesar Merveille & Adrien de Maublanc (Masomenos).

Following on from the ‘Round The Clock’ LP back in September 2019, Midiminuit return with more of their atmospheric electronic twist on modern classical and contemporary jazz. Across the project they deliver hazy jazz jams like the bass noodle, wandering keys and metallic percussion fuelled ‘Kitchen Table’, the baroquely unfolding improvised feel of ‘Loop’ and the snaking dynamic groove of ‘Why Is The Bass So Low’.

The collective also veers into more abstract realms with contributions like ‘Welcome’, which features the ethereal stylings of vocalist Hani, the psychedelic opening piece ‘Do This Thing’ and the minimal modulating feel of ‘Barrio Acido’.

The album also presents some more new age aesthetics via the slowly blooming synthesis of ‘Deep In’ and the cinematic soundscapes of ‘Kindness’ which flutter amidst an intricately crafted rhythmic pulse.
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Release on November 20, 2020

Hotel Costes presents...The Key Boost

B1 - Welcome Feat. Hani

Shotanov Issa Bagayogo

The Sessions IV

10.32PM Session - Persepsjontransformasjon, Pt. 04 (Live at Øyafestivalen, Oslo)

Born in Berlin, raised in Paris @hotelcostes, and now expanding beyond borders.
STUDIO HC ORCHESTRA is a hybrid entity -part studio, part label, part ever-evolving ensemble founded by Joan Costes and 
Adrien de Maublanc (Masomenos)...A living orchestra without fixed form, shaped by collaborations, textures, light, and places.
It started in Berlin, then disappeared behind the construction dust of Hôtel Costes, where everything  grew quietly, in the in-between.
A studio carved into a building in transformation.
Music composed among unfinished walls, flickering bulbs, and dichroic filtered shadows. Private sessions in a space not yet meant to be seen — or heard. That’s where the orchestra found its voice.
Where silence, texture, and light became instruments in their own right layered not only with sound and silence, but with voices:
Terence McKenna, Aldous Huxley, Graham Hancock thinkers who challenge perception, decode the dream, the orchestra doesn’t just play.It listens, samples, reinterprets, and invites.
In the future: live conversations, unscripted dialogues with minds that bend the frame. This is not a genre. It’s a frequency. An invitation to tune in. Every contributor - sonic, visual, intellectual- part of the composition.