Producer, DJ and performance artist Nahi Mitti (@user-219228556) teams up with DJ and illustrator @noanunoparty - who's behind the incredible artwork for this compilation - for an unfolding cut that morphs from one form to the next, moving through experimental rhythms, ambient and deconstructed club music.

Read + Donate: http://bit.ly/DT002NahiMittiAnu

Part of DT002, our collaborative release with UK-based collective @daytimers_uk in aid of Covid-19 relief in India.

All money raised through Bandcamp sales goes directly to Hemkunt Foundation, Goonj and Citta India, so please give generously.

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Nahi Mitti feat. anu - Mitti Attar [7:14]

Taken from 'I Had Too Much To Dream Last Night' LP/Download [ELP063]

Sublime debut of lilting sketches for guitar x synth by manc bosom buds Celestial, quietly resplendent in a classic vein of soft touch Balearic blues and kosmische hues that comes very highly recommended if you’re into anything from The Durutti Column to Vincent Gallo’s classic ‘When’ album or even the instrumental splendour of HTRK at their most diaphanous.

Bathed in moonlight, ’I Had Too Much To Dream Last Night’ is the gorgeous debut by childhood friends Celestial, arriving in the glistening wake of 2021 gems on the same label by Romance, Not Waving, Spivak, claire rousay & more eaze. Convecting a richly sanguine sound gleaned from a Sequential Circuits Sixtrak synth and Fender guitar with the results mottled to frail AGFA tape, it’s the modest and warm soul on display that speaks to a quieter side of the rainy city psyche, picking up a fine thread of etheric inspiration that leads back to The Durutti Column via Ry Cooder’s ‘Paris, Texas’ soundtrack and Iasos’ intoxicating new age, with a fragile, gauzy vision of instrumental songcraft ripe for getting lost in dappled fantasy.

Practically synaesthetic in their spatial sensitivity and psilocybic tactility, the six songs make a real virtue of reverb, echo and tender hiss that swaddles their lyrical phrasing with a cottony texture. Subtly but crucially favouring analogue enigma over digital clarity, their sound unspools with a kaleidoscopic, nostalgic quality surrendered in shimmering waves of bliss and back-of-the-eyes swirl between the hash haze of ‘Endless’ and northern gothic tone of ‘Lonely Weekend.’ Tape hiss resembles drizzle outside in the lowlit langour of ‘Hat Full of Rain’, and we can practically taste the petrichor in ‘The Perfumed Garden’, leading to ASMR levels of synth tingles with an unmistakeable northern melancholy of ‘At The Rivers Edge’, especially in its gloaming coda.

A reel low-key stunner.

Mastered by Alessio Natalizia

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CELESTIAL - THE PERFUMED GARDEN [ELP063]

@suzemusique takes inspiration from architectural structures in Bristol and Sheffield for his debut EP on @roomiirecords.

Read More & Buy: https://www.stampthewax.com/2021/11/24/premiere-suze-structure-1/
Listen on Youtube: https://bit.ly/SuzeStructure1

Structures 1-5 [RIIR005]

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Suze - Structure 1 (STW Premiere)

Nozinja (Shangaan Electro, Warp Records) teams up with Tessela (R&S Records) for a split 12" release to be released by Bleep on February 9th.

Pre-order now: http://link.bleep.com/nozinja-tessela-wa-chacha

Wa Chacha (Tessela Version)

‘Echoes From Mamori’ was originally commissioned by my friend Adnan Yildiz who was curating a show called There Is No Audience in Montehermoso, Spain in 2009. They wanted to have a theme song running on loop in the exhibition space. I’d just been in the Amazon recording sounds for the Darwin theatre piece with Hotel Pro Forma and thought it could be fun to make something dancey with the animal sounds I’d collected. The track features frogs that sound like birds, fed into my sampler and played on a keyboard, resulting in fun arpeggios and melodies. I think it might also feature some birds I recorded in the forests around Berlin. ‘Echoes In Mamori” was only made available as a CD handed out at the exhibition so it's nice to see it finally get a proper release via Rabid Records.

Echoes from Mamori

"On this 6-track album, the musical world of Golden Ivy comes full circle as he introduces these seemingly different elements to each other. On one hand, there is the cold precision of programmed rhythms pulsing through the base layers: echoes of the urban industrial cityscape in which it functions. On the other hand, the sliding howls across the strings of the violin reaches much further out into the wilderness. And still - melded together - they manage to convey a feeling of “home”.

Taking inspiration from the fourth world concept of Jon Hassel, Ivar finds a delicate path where influences of folk music from various cultures can be captured and contained within a modern frame of mind. The violin and flute are present throughout the album like a red thread. Perhaps they are the perfect instruments to capture the melancholy, isolation and beauty of being alone with nature, and of being home in oneself.

But there’s also Ivars jovial sense of humour that peers through, for instance on the pirate fantasy of “Long John Silver” or the jittery bounce of “Game Vän”. Oddball touches of lefthanded debauchery pass by here and there, but the focus remains on simplicity and repetition. The compositions are focused and tightly harnessed to the rhythms which carry them. "

Words: Simon Eliasson

Album release date:
20 November 2018

A1 Golden Ivy - Söndagsmålare Vinyl

With assists from Ramzi and R Weng, Canadian trio Priori, Ex-Terrestrial and Emmanuel Thibau collaborate on a fourth world jam as New World Science. 

'Osmos (Movements)' is out early March on Temple Records.

Pre-order: bit.ly/2ErnWH1

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Premiere: New World Science – Movement 2 [Temple]

"Ride" is a new track from ELLLL, who's set to continue her prolific 2019 run with the striking new EP ‘Glisten.’ Fresh off releases on Glacial Industries and First Second, the Irish-born, Berlin-based shapeshifter takes a creative turn here, setting aside her bassy excursions and techno flirtations for something much more cinematic in scope. Rich in melody, this record finds ELLLL taking an orchestral approach, weaving together piano swells and delicate strings to create a truly immersive listening experience. 

All music by ELLLL.
Mastered by Rupert Clervaux.
Artwork by Oficina de disseny.
Photograph by Claire Cichy.

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ELLLL "Ride"

Read more: https://electrocorp.fr/2019/06/18/wilson-tanner-ii/ 

"These eight compositions pull in a by-catch of maritime folklore; of Siren and Selkie, Seagull and engine oil slick". This is how we got introduced to the new album of Wilson Tanner. 

Wilson Tanner is the mutual project of Australian artists Andras (Andrew Wilson) and Eleventeen Eston (John Tanner). Here they release "II", a follow up to their debut full-length published in 2016. 

Through the 8 tracks, Andrew and John captured Ambient and Electronica landscapes, all recorded in 3 days, on September 2017, aboard a 1950s riverboat with weatherproof instruments. 

While listening to the LP, we instantly felt in love with the whole aesthetic and the peaceful feeling that spead throughout the tracks. "All Hands Bury the Dead" is our pickup from the release with its early 70s / late 60s electronic sound that brings back a lot of music and visual memories.

Premiere: Wilson Tanner - All Hands Bury the Dead [Efficient Space]

Sheffield prospect Yak returns to Version with another round of nutty drum workouts. 

Read more: https://hyponik.com/features/first-listen-yak-umbra-version/

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@version111a

VERSION 013

First Listen: Yak - 'Umbra' (Version)

The man traced his pen on the page. Back and forth, back and forth; with each line he added more force. No words were coming to him, his mind was completely blank. Lately, his dreams had become hazy, forgettable and no longer worth documenting. Before he dreamt of the strangest things; nonsensical happenings and imagined pursuits that felt so vividly real. At times the dreams entertained him and left him feeling hopeful, at other times they terrified him and thrust his darkest thoughts to the fore. But bad dreams were better than none at all, he enjoyed these hypnotic nightly rituals...

The traditional and the contemporary meet on the latest 12" from South Korean label Tonal Unity. Continuing the label's appreciation of organic and meditative sounds, experimental percussionist Haedong has enlisted some of Seoul's most talented musicians to explore early music and ritual ceremony over two original tracks, while on the flip Antinote regular D.K.provides two hypnotic reinterpretations for the dance floor.

PREMIERE: Haedong Seoungguk - Daegeum Dosa (D.K. Huru Mix)[Tonal Unity]

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PREMIERE: Haedong Seoungguk - Daegeum Dosa (D.K. Huru Mix)[Tonal Unity]

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