Destined to put together sounds that are a bit more exciting than the predictable four to the floor, Pedro Aguiar's album Landscapes and Heartbreaks contains more twists and turns than a particularly indecisive river. With everything from choirs to wind instruments to all sorts of technological goodness, you can listen to the album one track at a time below as Pedro guides you through this aural adventure. Here's how he describes his debut aural outing;

"This album represents my occasional urge to escape the 4/4 world. I love the freedom of not worrying with what people will think of my music or if they will play my songs or not. I guess this is quite a selfish album in the sense that I didn’t really wanted to please anyone. I had no grand plan to make an album nor any aspirations to release it with a record label but about a year ago, I had a listen to a variety of my unfinished projects that I had made over the past 3 years and most of it really sounded like an album when pieced together. And so my first album was born."

Pedro Aguiar - Landscapes And Heartbreaks

Blog List Tracks 23.06.2015

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EJECTA - DOMINAE 12" VINYL LP PRE-ORDER (North America Only):
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Ejecta - Afraid Of The Dark

LightOn

K&F Thema (pizzicato)

A Violent Sky

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Remix of the track 'Fragments of Self' from 'Fragmented Self' by Max Cooper and Tom Hodge.

http://www.fieldsldn.net/

When trying to make creative decisions based on the results of somebody else's process it makes you try things out that perhaps you wouldn't normally think of and I'd say with every remix I've ever done I've come away with something new.  Sometimes its interesting to take a track in a completely new direction but in the case of Max and Tom's collaboration I was immediately drawn to the subtle harmonic undercurrent of the synth lines beneath the main piano parts and figured it would be interesting to put together an arrangement that brought that to the fore. 

I started with a rough layering and overlay of the piano samples - trying to re-arrange them into different combinations than in the original to create something that had the same feel (on a side note, its always pleasing to work with recordings like this of instruments that sound played - i.e., you can hear the movement of the pedals and the fingers on the keys rather than a surgically-extracted sequence of notes) but that came to the main melodies from a different angle.  I can't really compete with Max's glitchy rhythmic production and since this is so distinctive it seemed like a bit of a cop-out to make too much use of these samples in any case so in the end the main part of what I used of the rhythm was a short kick drum sample that I processed in various ways to create the studded melodic cross-rhythm that I used for most of the middle of the track.

With the bare bones in place the majority of the rest of the work came from layering up the arrangement with the kinds of synths and strings that I make use of in my Petrels stuff.  Like I said, I was drawn to the low root synth line in the original that casts a subtle melodic shade over the piano lines so using this as a starting point I slowly built up the orchestration around it so as to make it much more of a focal point.  In the end, hopefully the result is something akin to a huge group of assorted musicians attempting a spontaneous live version of what essentially started as a duet performance. Well that was the idea anyhow.

Max Cooper & Tom Hodge - Fragments of Self (Petrels Remix)

Transoceano

this track is now available on vinyl!! — http://bit.ly/Beets3LP

download this track for free (or the full album for $5) >> https://birocratic.bandcamp.com/album/beets-3

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Deadboy marks his return to Numbers with a brand new EP, accompanied by an animated video from visual artist & director Thomas Traum.

Watch the video on YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qto85Dhhd0k&hd=1

The EP is available on 12” & digital from 28th April and the title track is available now as an instant download...

Download on iTunes - http://glnk.it/2i9
Download & pre-order 12” on Bleep - https://bleep.com/release/51107-deadboy-return

Deadboy - Return (NMBRS33) Released 28th April on 12" & digital
1. Return
2. Des Niles
3. YHVH
4. Life Code

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Return

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Deadboy - Return

*** NOW WITH ADDED DOWNLOAD GOODNESS *** 

Manfredas' EP 'Pink Industry' - the second release from Ivan Smagghe's new label Les Disques De La Mort - has been getting us all hot under the proverbial collar - it's summer now so less shirts are being worn.

Now, the rather fine Lithuanian producer has gifted us an exclusive remix of Finnish wunderkind Jaakko Eino Kalev for all you lovely R$N-ers to hear.  

Feast your ears on this sublime piece of sunshine-fuelled Finnish pop. Funny how a few solar beams of light outside turn this from glacial to sunshine-fuelled.

Pink Industry is out now, available on vinyl only. 
For more information, check out the Les Disques De La Mort website.
http://www.lesdisquesdelamort.org

Buy Vinyl Here

Premiere: Jaakko Eino Kalevi - No End (Manfredas Remix)

Featuring the vocals of one of our favourite singers in the world ever, Ms. Beth Ditto, Belgium's Netsky has delivered an epically soulful D&B banger with Running Low. Premiered by Zane Lowe last month, the single has just been given the remix treatment; expect Wookie to deliver a UKG wave, but for now, enjoy the i-D exclusive premiere from garage royalty, Todd Edwards. In the hands of Todd The God, Running Low becomes an even more joyful, sky-hi-fiving anthem. Arriving just in time for the heatwave headed our way, press play and get ready to par-tay. Running Low is out 24 August.
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Premiere: Netsky ft Beth Ditto- Running Low (Todd Edwards Remix)

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My new song "Myself & I" is OUT NOW:
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"Bittersweet pop music from the future haunted by ghosts from the past." Andrew Weatherall

C.A.R also known as Chloé Raunet formerly of Battant follows up the release of her album, ‘My Friend’, with single Glock’d. 

We've got the great honour of premiering the The Asphodells aka Andrew Weatherall and Timothy J. Fairplays remix of the track. GLOCK’D is C.A.R’s trademark washed out sarcasm and bleached cynicism. The track forages paths through Chloe’s dark mind. It was one of the first songs she wrote on her own, and was recorded down in the bunker with Timothy J Fairplay himself. The remix from Andrew and Tim voyages through ethereal atmospheric electronics and edges into glam-stomp territory.

Get it in your ears here: 

Elsewhere Les Disques De La Mort protégé and R$N favourite Manfredas reworks album track Angelina plus there's also a fresh new track ‘Silk’. A Rhodes rendition recorded live in Paris "on a cold winter’s day."

Check the rather fine video for the track here:

C.A.R – Glock’d EP 
B/w The Asphodells & Manfredas
Label: Kill The DJ | www.killthedj.com

A1. Glock’d
A2. Silk
B1. Glock’d (Asphodells Remix)Anchor
B2. Angelina (Manfredas vocal Remix)

Premiere: C.A.R - Glock'd (The Asphodells Remix)

This is a little something I made a while back after first hearing Jim James 'State of the Art'.  It never saw the light of day, but to show my gratitude for your continued support, I decided to give it away for free.  My good friend Atnarko has offered up his techy and dubby remix for grabs as well.  

https://soundcloud.com/lonelyboymusic/we-need-the-dark-atnarkos

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Deadboy's 'White Magick' EP is out April 20 via Local Action. 

Read more here: http://pigeonsandplanes.com/2015/04/premiere-deadboy-white-moon-garden/

Pre-order here: https://localactionrecords.bandcamp.com/album/loc022-white-magick

Deadboy - "White Moon Garden"

Bosco's "Like That" EP. 
3 awesome remixes alongside the original from Irish Producer Bosco. Out 22/06/15 on New Politics Records, exclusive to Beatport for 2 weeks then on iTunes, Traxsource, Juno and Spotify.
Tracklist:
00.00 Original mix
01.48 Carlos Pirez remix
03.21 Deep Intentions remix
04.56 Georg Navarro remix


Bosco - Like That EP - Out 22/06/15

Get your foot on the accelerator and set your body to pumping mode. Other than the fact that your car will start moving in a motion not unlike that of a less-than-intelligent cow, you'll be in the right place to get this new selection of sonic belters from John Heckle into your ears.

Set for release via Midnight Shift on 8th June, we're bringing you the title track which opens up Heckle's Wet Noises triplet of tunes. This particular element is a no frills affair that's more banging than a circus cannon. It'll feel like you're on a caffeine rush in the middle of the day and that the only way to calm yourself is with MORE CAFFEINE. 

Go on, get this down your throat... I mean your ears;

MORE INFO

PREMIERE: John Heckle - Wet Noises - Midnight Shift

Pedro Aguiar - Hypnagogia

Pedro Aguiar - Black Palm

Pedro Aguiar - Lost In You

Pedro Aguiar - Redemption

Pedro Aguiar - The Ceremony

Pedro Aguiar - Western Digital

Samuel Proffitt's Soundcloud, check out his music: https://soundcloud.com/samuel-proffitt

Jamie xx - Just Saying (Samuel Proffitt Remix)

Phillip Lauer seems to be generating a vast amount of music at present. Every couple of weeks an email will drop into our busy inboxes with a new release or remix from the Tuff City Kids member. His album for Permanent Vacation last year caught our attention with it's zealous melodies and excitable percussion. It was a real feel good affair which can often go amiss. His sensibilities remain similar on his latest release for Futureboogie. It seemed an odd choice of release for both the label and artist, however, after a listen it begins to make perfect sense.

MORE INFo

PREMIERE: Lauer - Birsk - Futureboogie Recordings

Full of cyclical riffing, circulating clapping and rotating reverberation. A revolving, coiling, chaotic, corkscrewer of a rekkid. Wind it up.

PREMIERE: Benoit Gagnon & Massimiliano Pagliara - In Spirals - Correspondant

Science of Fear (acoustic) is taken from "The Temper Trap - Australian Collector's Edition" and the "Acoustic Sessions" EP. Both out now: <a href="http://smarturl.it/TTTAUcollectors">Australia/NZ</a> | <a href="http://smarturl.it/TTTAcoustic">Rest of world</a>.

The Temper Trap

Science of Fear (Accoustic)

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