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Holmur's Dementophobia is a haunting exploration of the mental and emotional toll of dementia. A soundscape album that delves deep into the struggles of memory loss, confusion, and the disintegration of the self. Each track on this melancholic journey addresses a different facet of the disease – from insomnia and anxiety to the trauma of lost identity and the overwhelming effects of hallucinations. With its raw, atmospheric tones and heavy themes, Dementophobia offers a deeply immersive, unsettling experience that will resonate with anyone who has witnessed the devastating impact of dementia.

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Published by Zero Tolerance Publishing

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Suzanne Ciani
Buchla Concerts 1975
FKR082LP
Finders Keepers Records

Finders Keepers invite you to witness the incredible first ever Buchla synthesiser concerts/demonstrations providing a distinctive feminine alternative to The Silver Apples Of The Moon if they had ever been presented in phonographic form. This is history in the remaking.

This spring Finders Keepers Records are proud to release an archival project that not only redefines musical history but boasts genuine claim to the overused buzzwords such as pioneering, maverick, experimental, groundbreaking and esoteric, while questioning social politics and the evolution of music technology as we’ve come to understand it. To describe this records as a game-changer is an understatement. This record represents a musical revolution, a scientific benchmark and a trophy in the cabinet of counter culture creativity. This record is a triumphant yardstick in the synthesiser space race and the untold story of the first woman on the proverbial moon. While pondering the early accolades of this record it’s daunting to learn that this record was in fact not a record at all… It was a manifesto and a gateway to a new world, that somehow never quite opened. If the unfamiliar, modernistic, melodic, pulses, tones and harmonics found on this 1975 live presentation/grant application/educational demonstration had been placed in a phonographic context alongside the promoted work of Morton Subotnick, Walter Carlos or Tomita then the name Suzanne Ciani and her influence would have already radically changed the shape, sound and gender of our record collections. Hopefully there is still chance.

In short, Suzanne was a self-imposed twenty-year-old employee of the Buchla modular synthesiser company, San Francisco’s neck and neck contender to New York’s Moog. Buchla was run by a community of festival freaks and academic acid eaters whose roots in new age lifestyles and the reinvention of art and music replaced the business acumen enjoyed by its likeminded East Coasters. In the eyes of the consumer the creative refusal to adopt rudimentary facets like a piano keyboard controller rendered the Buchla synthesiser the more obscure stubborn sister of the synth marathon, steering these incredible units away from the mainstream into the homes and studios of free music aficionados, art house composers and die-hard revolutionaries. Championed and semi-showcased by composer Morton Subotnick on his albums The Bull and Silver Apples Of The Moon, Buchla’s versatility began to open the minds of a new generation, but the high-end design features and no-compromise modus operandi was often confused with incompatibility and, in the pulsating shadow of Moog’s marketing, the revolution would not be televised nor patronised. Suzanne Ciani, as one of the very few female composers on the frontline (and also providing the back line) did not lose faith.

These “concerts” are the epitome of rare music technology historic documents, performed by a real musician whose skills and academic education in classical composition already outweighed her male synthesiser contemporaries of twice her age. At the very start of her fragile career these recordings are nothing short of sacrificial ode to her mentor and machine, sonic pickets of the revolution and love letters to an absolutely genuine vision of and ‘alternative’ musical future. In denouncing her own precocious polymathmatic past in a bid to persuade the world to sing from a new hymn sheet, Suzanne Ciani created a bi-product of never before heard music that would render the pigeon holes “ambient” and “futuristic” utterly inadequate. Providing nothing short of an entirely different feminine take on the experimental “records” of Morton Subotnick and proving to a small, judgmental audience and jury the true versatility of one of the most radical and idiosyncratic musical instruments of the 20th century. These recordings have not been heard since then.

Suzanne Ciani - Buchla Concerts 1975 (Excerpts)

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Stars Of The Lid Boiler Room NYC Live Show

Fan mix of rarities, remixes, live, classics, fakes, source samples, edits and dialogue.
As featured at http://www.djfood.org/djfood/music-top-10s-for-2009

Download and tracklist at http://skywavesystems.net/abocmix

A Boards of Canada mix

One Hour with The Stars of the Lid

youtube.com/watch?v=oge4VxjAHqA

Hiroshi Yoshimura ~ Pier & Loft ** FULL ALBUM || 1983

Another electronica tribute : http://soundcloud.com/funky_jeff/fsol-tribute

Tracklisting : 
 
1)	Interview with RDJ
2)	Cliffs
3) 	Alberto Balsam
4) 	Milkman
5) 	Girl/Boy song 
6) 	Deep in Velvet (Phillip Boa & The Voodoo Club)
7) 	Your head my voice (Saint Etienne)
8) 	Time to find me (AFX fast mix – Seefeel) 
9) 	Ageipolis
10) 	Digeridoo (Edit at 33 RPM – 107 BPM Funky edit)
11) 	Laricheard 
12) 	Delphium
13) 	XMD5a
14) 	Window licker
15) 	08 – (AFX – CAT00897-AA1)
16) 	Analog bubblebath 1
17) 	Actium
18) 	On (Reload & U-Ziq mix)
19) 	Helosphan
20) 	Falling free (Curve)
21)  .215061
22)	Tha
23) 	w32.deadcode.a
24) 	Flap head
25) 	Polygon Window : Quoth
26) 	Scape
27) 	Isopropanol
28) 	On
29) 	Donkey rhubarb
30) 	Caustic Window : On the romance tip
31) 	Polynominal
32) 	Xepha
33) 	Untitled (From Green Universal indicator)
34) 	Polygon Window : Supremacy II
35)	73 yips
36) 	Start as you mean to go on
37)	Come on you slags!
38)	Acrid Avid Jam Shred
39) 	Come to daddy
40) 	Words
41) 	Vordhosbn
42)	Ventolin (Wheeze mix)
43) 	Film
44) 	Come to daddy ( Little Ford Faulteroy mix)
45)	PWSteal.Lpdinch
46) 	Ptolemy
47) 	Xtal
48) 	I
49)	Blue calx
50) 	Rhubarb
51) 	Interview
52) 	Stone in focus
53) 	Grey stripe
54) 	Quino – phec
55)	Final Words…

Aphex Twin Tribute Redux

Artist: ASUNA & Jan Jelinek
Album: Signals Bulletin
Label#: Faitiche18
 
Faitiche is delighted to announce the release of a new collaboration between the Japanese sound artist ASUNA and Jan Jelinek: the album Signals Bulletin brings together joint improvisations and compositions made over a period of three years in Berlin, Kyoto and Kanazawa. ASUNA’s meandering organ drones merge with Jelinek’s pulsating synthesizer and field recording loops to create dense superclusters that span broad harmonic arcs.

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Watching the Japanese sound artist ASUNA playing the organ, some people might be surprised. ASUNA is no virtuoso flying over the keyboard in a rage. Instead, with the calm gestures of an office worker, he cuts strips of adhesive tape to the correct length before sticking them onto the keys of his instrument. In this way, large clusters of keys are held down, creating a dense and sustained range of frequencies, while the sound artist continually prepares further sets of keys or removes tape again. I have rarely seen a more convincing performance concept, with such a power to fascinate.

I first met ASUNA when we both gave a concert at the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art in Kanazawa, his home city. He performed the organ drones as described above and I immediately knew I wanted to collaborate with him. Six years and five meetings later, we completed Signals Bulletin. The album includes both joint improvisations and compositions, recorded in Berlin, Kanazawa and Kyoto.

Whether using prepared organ, Casio keyboards or mechanical plastic toys, ASUNA creates rich textures of sound that barely change over long stretches of time. It is a music without breaks. For a while, I was unsure how my loops made using modular synthesizers and live sampling fitted here – until I realized the role I had to take in this duet: I would provide the rhythmically pulsating foundation over which his dense continuums could unfold.

The result is harmonically drifting superclusters that put us into a meditation-like state. It can perhaps be compared to Automatic Writing – a mode of creative expression floating somewhere between concentration and distraction. Both the structure of our pieces and our approach to our instruments allow a similar “absence”: we let the machines play and repeat themselves – while we, in a mild form of trance, adopt the role of observers, intervening only occasionally.

It is no coincidence that ASUNA owns a collection of Doodle Art – drawings jotted down during conversations or while talking on the phone. It is said that works made like this point to the unconscious and reveal pet motifs – because a doodler always inadvertently returns to his or her favourite themes. The artwork for Signals Bulletin features pictures from the collection, in this case sheets of paper from the pads provided in stationery shops to test out pens. The special quality of such doodles is that the jumble of drawings is the work of a collective whose individual members do not know each other. Layer by layer is added, by someone different each time – until it becomes a dense cluster of lines and symbols ...
Jan Jelinek, Berlin 2018

ASUNA & Jan Jelinek: Relief, Pt.1

Taken from the upcoming album Both Lines Will Be Blue, out July 12th on Smalltown Supersound. Produced by Carmen Villain. Flute performed by Johanna Scheie Orellana. Mastered by Matt Colton.

Observable Future

Four Organs: Phase Patterns

Phase Patterns (feat. Jon Gibson)

A lot of people love music. A lot of musicians love music, despite it being their job. After all, how many bin men love black bags? How many salesmen love their target? For musicians, work means another day in the studio, another set of A&R men to make happy, another day knowing you‘ve sold your soul for a strapon! Working in music is poisonous. Yet a lot of musicians love music anyway.

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