Release date: 22/04/22

If you would like to review this release, please email info@astralindustries.co.uk

2x12” 180g gatefold vinyl//mastered by Noel Summerville//leaflet included//original artwork by Theo Ellsworth.

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Son of Chi returns to Astral Industries, alongside Spanish artist Clara Brea, for the collaborative release of AI-29. A product of fate, chance experiments, but most of all, sensitive artistry - ’The Wetland Remixes’ exists as a confluence of two kindred musical spirits, a wayfaring epic that draws together a rich archive of ecological field recordings, live instrumentation and higher inspirations. 

Ahead of Hanyo’s concert at ‘Avalovara listening club’ (Madrid) at the end of 2019, the curators (Diskoan & Josephine’ Soundscapes) organised a special dinner and arranged the meeting of Clara and Hanyo. As Hanyo recalls, “It was like stereochemistry. There was an instant match and understanding, and basically we decided in a split second to exchange recordings and to collaborate on future live and studio experiments.”  

The auspicious meeting of the two ignited a remote exchange of materials and ideas, as the world descended into a series of pandemic-related lockdowns. The first of said recordings included the stems of Clara’s ‘Wetland Project’ - a site-specific audiovisual project originally produced for Eufonic Festival (Spain), using field recordings from the Ebro Delta nature reserve (one of the most threatened regions of climate change on the Iberian peninsula). 

From this initial impetus, Hanyo began working on the first sketches of the album back in Rotterdam, Netherlands. Just like their meeting in Madrid, the project developed naturally and spontaneously with extraordinary ease. Later, Hanyo started adding field recordings from the Magic Cave and Wetlands of the ‘Kallikatsou’ (Patmos, Greece) as well as organic and acoustic overdubs, featuring bass, drums, percussion, guitars, oud, piano, hammond organ, wurlitzer, flutes, bells, and mouth harp. 

In the distance, the sound of birds peak through the effervescent wash of the wetland soundscapes. The pass of running water flows deeper into a land full of secrets never told. On the strike of dusk, the silhouettes of shapely trunks and foliage melt slowly into the impenetrable darkness. As darkness passes, light emerges, with exquisite moments of tranquility that seemingly emerge from nothingness.  

Beneath the shimmering veneer of textures, wildlife and melodies, one may hear the deeper references of ’The Wetland Remixes’. With credit to Clara’s input, for Hanyo the album process became a kind of refuge, and ultimately inspired the return to the core of Abstract Sound - what the Sufis call “Saut-i Sarmad.” Such references allude to the spiritual quality embedded in the music - the autonomous process of self-expression, the great mystery. Hanyo: “An ambience like this cannot be created by routine. There is no blueprint. The music has to find you. It’s like a blessing if it happens. You should not interfere, just observe and be impressed...” 

Deep, luscious mind trips as per the classic Chi sound, ‘The Wetland Remixes’ beautifully correlates the interconnecting dots of geography, ecology, and mythology’s forgotten lore.

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Side D

Konduku's 4th EP on his K-series! Proud to present the two tracker Gelgit. Vinyl is out now, digital on May 27.

Pre-order here: ffm.to/gelgit

Buy/Stream

Konduku - Gelgit - Nous'klaer K4 (previews)

Indefinite Pitch PREMIERES. Edition 417

Eafhm - Waning Quarter (Aiôn Lazura Assimilation)

Autumn Sounds
[MLF008 | Melifera Records]

Produced by Eafhm
Remix by Aiôn Lazura
Mastered by Eafhm at Secuencias Temporales Studio
Artwork by Daisy de Montjoye

Released by Melifera Records from Marseille, France
Release Date: November 30, 2022

Eafhm

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Aiôn Lazura

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Melifera Records

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https://meliferarecords.com
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Indefinite Pitch. Yantai

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Autumn Sounds

Waning Quarter (Aiôn Lazura Assimilation)

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Indefinite Pitch PREMIERES. Eafhm - Waning Quarter (Aiôn Lazura Assimilation) [Melifera]

C'est au tour de Subsism de nous dévoiler plus d’une heure de set pour nous plonger dans son univers trancy avec soupçons de breaks et autres rythmes scandaleux

E.T 018 - Subsism

Third Space - dot points

https://3rdspace.bandcamp.com/album/dot-points

01. Second Parse
02. Whole Mantle Convection
03. a whole planet covered in circles
04. Pendant Group
05. 5 at 170

Digital + Limited 2xCD

Third Space has firmly cemented himself back into that head-snapping drum ‘n bass percussion he initially poked his head through. While his recent jaunt for Longform Editions reached into smeared and smudged time portals, stretching time into its most razor-thin edge, this release brings these two worlds together in harmony. Although, those abstract whirlpools have reappeared, through noise and blown out static-as-percussion akin to Emptyset, Ikeda etc. etc.

Throughout dot points, there is an acute awareness around how much solid ground to allow an audience. An instinctive ear for rhythm and texture pushes composition to its limits but keeps more recognisable elements an arm’s length away, keeping immersion consistent, constant – an idea that’s been in Third Space’s work from the start. The tracks are daringly short but remain fully fledged songs, rich with layer and consideration, percussion building as lyrical prose, unwinding stanza by stanza.

While definitely drifting back into the realm of dance music, this is not Third Space leaving drone and tonal shifts behind him. This is merely dipping his toes back into the water of the world he first started in, ready to contribute something new after coming up for air.

Mastered by Joseph Buchan
Artwork by Mary MacDougall
Words by Henry Rowe
ABSORB03

05. 5 At 170

The thoughts floated in and out, images danced atop an empty screen as the voices echoed and cried with great whimsy and wonder. These were the moments of wild dreams, a place in which the most careless and most reckless fantasies roamed as the limits and shackles of society were removed.

Anything might exist up here for anything could.

Wandering from room to room of the empty house, there were strange visions and moments to be found within each. Some were haunting whilst others were wildly euphoric like the stuff of a delicate fantasy.

Who knew which door might lead where and what lay behind each?

La Serpiente remixed by Elena Colombi. Now this is a combination we can get behind, this one sounds like something out of a sophisticated art noire film, a horror of sorts with wandering melodies and echoes atop a stomping repetitive kick.

PREMIERE: La Serpiente - You Are Dreaming! (Elena Colombi Remix) [Random Number]

SW20 w/ Temple Rat // 08.06.24

Wilma

Good to Goon

Pumpkin Bass

Originals written, produced and mixed by Pelle Härdstedt.
Artwork by Michel Iseneld.
Mastered by Mattias Fridell.

A1 - Sanyo Blue (6:56)
A2 - Shill (6:15)
B1 - Sanyo Blue (@LuigiTozzi Dub Mix) (6:07)
B2 - Shill (@Ntogn Edit) (5:57)

Love and light

Sanyo Blue

Härdstedt - Sanyo Blue

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