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Delay Grounds 'Upcycling'

Mad, meticulous and playful five-tracker out of Bristol - TIP!!!

Patrick Tipler, known as Delay Grounds is a Bristol-based experimental sound artist, producer and composer. His music incorporates elements of abstract, sample-based percussion, experimental synthesis and techno.

Having played in various musical outfits over the last 10 years, Patrick decided to go solo in 2017 to nurture his individual relationship with sound, while developing a fresh abstract perspective on electronic & techno music.

Delay Grounds explains “Dance music has become a focal point for me creatively over the last few years and has pretty much taken over my life. A dance floor can serve as a temporary alternative version of reality, one where people are given the opportunity to let go. I want this to be reflected in the sound materials I used to produce my EP -a platform for expression with a purity of purpose that is open for interpretation and is being refreshingly reinvented constantly.”

While adding, “I am compelled to work with abstraction, focusing my creative energy toward the production of sounds that simultaneously respect the form and purity of dance music, while attempting to develop a fresh perspective.”

‘Upcycling’ is the embodiment of this philosophy. A 5 track EP, in which Delay Grounds collaborates with the artist, Liz Naden, to create electronic music, intertwined with the sounds of Naden’s unique sculptures.

The tracks and sculptures alike are made from rubbish found in skips, yet manipulated into eye-catching sculptures and organic sounds. The project embodies abstract hyper-realism within the material of the works to encourage a forward-thinking attitude, Upcycling the traditional artistic mediums into a means of communication.

Delay Grounds reveals, “Working with Liz on Upcycling has helped to develop my understanding of what a collaboration can be and how a collaboration can work, each piece had to be conceptually and aesthetically congruent.”

“The project has enabled us both to explore our own creative potential and create a work with layers of depth which we were not initially aware of before.”

https://soundcloud.com/delay-grounds
https://soundcloud.com/tropopauserecords

Upcycling EP

PREMIERE: Delay Grounds - Ball Run [Tropopause Records]

No genre frames or specific ideas on this compilation, except showing the diversity of our radio and musicians around us.

Love to every artist who contributed to this release.

Mastered by Alexey Letko 
Photo by Sereja Beachway 
Executive producer — Stanislav Kalivasin

Formally Unknown — Cadmium

𝐇𝐔𝐑𝐅𝐂𝐋𝐔𝐒𝐈𝐕𝐄 ➟ Delay Grounds - Wood Building

She squinted up at the sun through her fingers; it had been a lifetime since she'd felt the heat on her face. It changed everything; her mood, her conversations, even her willingness to get out of bed in the morning. Scrolling through the week's forecast, sun and blue skies filled each day; giving her assurance that her mind and body would thrive.

Bristol-based sound artist and producer Delay Grounds is "compelled to work with abstraction", an approach he channels wholeheartedly on his newest release 'Upcycling'. Working alongside artist Liz Naden, the pair have created an audio-visual concept using rubbish found in skips; Delay Ground producing organic electronic sounds, while Naden crafted unique sculptures. A forward-thinking project that 'upcycles' the regular artistic mediums, encouraging a narrative and an understanding between the pair, in Delay Grounds words it "enabled us both to explore our own creative potential and create a work with layers of depth which we were not initially aware of before.”

PREMIERE: Delay Grounds - Glass_Refract [Tropopause Records]

Wandering between the craters, from time to time he cast a glimpse back towards planet earth all those miles away. It was a radiant green and blue against a backdrop of sheer, dense black. The moon was now his home, a place in which he was free to meander and live out life amidst the nothingness, there was little inspiration up here but an endless eternity in which to dream and watch the stars. He was happy snoofing around, lost on a planet millions of miles away from all else. From time to time he would miss home but for now this is what it was for him... 

Moomin is a producer whom we have admired for years, his consistency is remarkable and his take on house music has lead to widely acclaimed praise and respect. His latest EP for Oath is no exception and features music which is as ethereal to listen to as it is dance.

PREMIERE: Moomin - The Snoofer [Oath]

PRE-ORDER: https://nervoushorizon.bandcamp.com/album/tsvi-sogno-ep

Nervous Horizon is happy to present ‘Sogno EP’, the new project by label co-owner Guglielmo Barzacchini, aka TSVI.

Embarking on a journey inside the mind’s most deep and intricate illusions and hallucinations, ‘Sogno EP’ is an exploration into various different types of dream states and altered states of consciousness. Characterised by intricate rhythms, slower beats inspired by techno, dancehall and little to no melodies, the record features Italian ASMR and spoken word to enhance the hazy and hypnotic mood permeating throughout.

Taking a close look at his own states of unconsciousness and channeling them into his musical creation, TSVI dives into the abstract and eerie worlds of the subconscious with a project inspired by surreal dreamscapes, trance states and the concept of shadow work, in which each track explores a different aspect of the depth of the human psyche.

Sogno EP

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Premiere: TSVI 'Sogno'

Sleep had become her enemy; when night began to fall the panic set in, a feeling she knew all too well now. But the source remained unknown, she couldn't trace the unexplainable throes of her dreams — dreams that bordered on nightmares. Staying awake was not an option, though one she'd previously tried out of desperation, her only hope was to regain control of these unconscious moments, before she slipped too far beneath.

Rome-based producer Cosimo Damiano is making his return to Dj Inner Lakes’ Survive imprint for the third time with an 8-track LP titled 'Hypnos'. In parallel to the Milanese imprint's mission, Damiano seeks to connect styles and technologies from across different eras; an approach that manifests across his new album, so to does his previous work with classical and contemporary musicians. Inspired by the Greek god of sleep, he crafts his own language that examines the space between the conscious and subconscious, drawing from sonic references like acid techno producer Curley Schoop and Coil, as well as literature and cinematography.

Hypnos

PREMIERE: Cosimo Damiano - Consciousness [Survive]

This one taken from a super playful, modern and exciting 5 tracker from Bristol based Delay Grounds. Some of his best work yet!

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Release Date:
18th June 2021

Artist Name - Delay Grounds
EP Name - Upcycling EP
Cat Number - TROPOPAUSE001
Track Name - Metal Swinging
Label - Tropopause Records

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OS Premiere: Delay Grounds - Metal Swinging [Tropopause Records]

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Delay Grounds - How To Monetize Existential Dread (PDCOMP004)

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Our sixth VA compilation continues in the collective spirit at the heart of Pressure Dome; here taking its fullest form. The first of its kind in the label catalogue, ‘Two [Is Greater Than] One’ sees a selection of PD regulars and friends of the label put their heads together across eight atmospheric tracks, equally as suited to the club as to solo listening. 

Those who have followed the label for a while will be no stranger to the comp’s first collaborator. Human Resources teams up with London dub techno specialist, Keplrr, on ‘Spring’: a mood-led composition where the impact is contained in atmosphere. Fragmented drum breaks are engulfed by airy synth pads and punctuated by a dancehall-indebted rhythm that marches at 90BPM. ‘Yuppel’ welcomes Noods Radio mainstay Sid Quirk aka Keppel into the mix. He is joined by label boss, Yushh, on a ruminative percussive tool, guided by cavernous drums that fabricate a vivid, immersive environment. With the guidance of Brighton’s Caldera, the journey continues with Süss Choc. The reverb-laden synth plucks on ‘evoke water droplets, and hallucinatory details echo around them to create the illusion of being in a mountainous cove.

Delay Grounds – an audiophile in the truest sense of the word – is next to take the baton. Together, he and Yushh take it up a notch on ‘Telomere’ – a full-bodied club-ready track packed with glitchy chords and giddy drums. A gnarly, Pariah-esque breakdown segues into the track’s second wind where pitched-up vocal chops accelerate it to the compilation’s energetic climax. With the help of London drum specialist, Syz, ‘Fuzbidun’ keeps our feet firmly on the dancefloor. Breakbeats are chopped and rearranged, flitting between double and half time whilst a distorted mid-bass roughens things round the edges, prepping the ground for the compilation’s move to a more inorganic feel.

Bristol don, Forever, joins Yushh next on ‘Passing Notes’ – a groove-driven club track where skittish percussion ricochets from side to side, so palpable it tempts the touch. ‘Crash Bash Party At BUFOs’ is no different. The link-up between Delay Grounds and dance music’s stalwart of musique concrète, Wordcolour, is completely idiosyncratic to both artists: the perfect combination of found-sound percussion and skillfully rehashed vocal samples. It’s up to two PD mainstays – Roy Mills and Human Resources – to close proceedings. A chugging rhythm bubbles under the surface of ‘Sycophantasy’, sending us on a dubbed-out trip before picking the pace back up again.

Copy – Annie Parker
Artwork – Jesse Webb
Mastering – Matthew Bentley

Crash Bash Party at BUFO's

Delay Grounds X Wordcolour - Crash Bash Party At BUFOs (PDCOLLAB001)

Telomere

Delay Grounds X Yushh - Telomere (PDCOLLAB001)

For their ninth release, Redstone Press welcomes Tano to the roster, accompanied by remixes from Toumba & Delay Grounds. Having all embarked on making music around the same time and connecting through sharing said music, it felt only fitting to bring them together for this release.

Delay Grounds' remix of "Blend of Poetry" closes out the EP, taking it to new stratospheric heights. Elemental staccato synths hover above expertly balanced drums and bass, reaching a fever pitch of ecstatic euphoria. Through the subtle introduction of airy percussion, the track culminates in a classic, tranced-out breakdown adorned with bright luminescent horns and pulsating sub-bass.

Release Date: September 1st 2023

https://soundcloud.com/redstone-press
https://redstonepress.bandcamp.com/album/10-11

Premiere: Tano - Blend Of Poetry (Delay Grounds Remix) [RED009]

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