Track 5 from 'Superstate', available here: https://ianhandsley.bandcamp.com/album/superstate

Superstate

Shipping - Welt

"When I get asked to do mixes I often take that as an opportunity to put together a selection of my favourite pieces from a specific era, genre or composer. In this case I compiled a number of my favourite Japanese electronic tracks as I have been listening to a lot of that stuff for the past year or so."

Throughout the last decade Ulrich Schnauss has produced three albums which perfectly captured his vision of taking the 90's 'Shoegaze' aesthetic - very uncool at the time as we'll discuss below - and placing it into an electronic context. With the new album 'A Long Way To Fall' Ulrich felt the need to change and explore new avenues. And it's another beauty.

On the 3rd July, German born musician and producer Ulrich Schnauss will play an extra special live A/V show at Electrowerkz. We decided that this was the perfect time to have him create his Ransom Note Mix and we caught up with him to find out a bit more about his background, his mix and his general thought on music;

Read all here: http://www.theransomnote.co.uk/music/mixes/ulrich-schnauss-the-ransom-note-mix-talk/

Tracklisting:

01) ryuichi sakamoto: before long
02) inoyama land: apple star
03) testpattern: souvenir glace
04) sandii: zoot kook
05) ymo: expected way
06) ryuichi sakamoto: exhibition
07) chiemi manabe: うんととおく
08) yukihiro takahashi: curtains
09) haruomi hosono: hotel malabar roof garden
10) testpattern: ring dance
11) testpattern: ryugu
12) ymo: perspective
13) ymo: 音楽
14) haruomi hosono: madam consul general of madras

Ulrich Schnauss - The Ransom Note Mix

Tracklist: http://hyponik.com/mixes/hyp-192-applescal/

Twenty-something Dutch born, Berlin-based producer Pascal Terstappen is better known to the world under the production guise of Applescal. Blurring the lines between Beats, Ambient Electronica & low-key Techno,  Applescal's cinematic sound will take you on a sonic journey through the upper echelons of the dream world.

Having released three albums and a string of singles on his own Atomnation imprint, Cologne based Traum Schallplatten & Italy's Tarvisium Electronique and others he's prolific by nature. With a strong ear for melody he holds the ability to create beautiful textural soundscapes that swirl, stall and plateau for a thoroughly engaging listening experience. His latest work, the five-track 'Mirage' EP is a rough and ready package of oscillating acid Techno, cinematic House with some Eastern flavours. Darker than is previous endeavours it's not dissimilar to the work of Jon Hopkins.

Pointing in the sonic direction of his own label and also Berlin's Project Mooncircle, Hyp 192 is a blend of syncopated beat lullabies and organic sampled sounds that will wash over you like a flood of warm, positive energy. Opening with a transcendental symphony from PMC's Long Arm, the mix is peppered with nostalgia, featuring cuts from Télépopmusik, the badman Deft, Portable Sunsets & there's even a subtle Arcade Fire edit slipped in. Meditative and free-flowing, you will feel as if you have woken from a long and peaceful sleep after listening...

@applescal
https://www.facebook.com/applescalofficial

Hyp 192 : Applescal

NEW: County Sound 'Surrey & NE Hampshire' (1986) - Demo - Alfasound

one of the tracks on my " sense of life " Ep released on dew tone rec. in sept. 2015 
http://dewtonerecordings.com/album/sense-of-life

martin nonstatic - "Organic" Dewtone  recordings

Maarten van der Vleuten & Grey Lotus - I Break The Waves (Somfay Remix)

This is a live recording of Bersarin Quartett at the Krake Festival opening at the church Passionskirche in Berli, August 6th 2012. 

 mon, aug 6th // 19:00
 KRAKE OPENING AMBIENT NIGHT @ PASSIONSKIRCHE

 MURCOF (leaf, static discos)
 THOMAS KÖNER (touch, mille plateaux)
 BERSARIN QUARTETT (denovali records)
 FLOEX (quazi delict records)

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 wed, aug 8th // 20:00
 STROBOSCOPIC ARTEFACTS presents STELLATE SERIES SHOWCASE

 PERC (perc trax, stroboscopic artefacts) - experimental live set
 LUCY (stroboscopic artefacts) - experimental live set
 DADUB (stroboscopic artefacts) - experimental live set
 BILL YOUNGMAN live)
 + lecture feat. ANNE HAHN, ULI HANNEMANN & ANDRE BERGELT

 visuals by:
 OBLIVIOUS ARTEFACTS

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 fri, aug 10th // 23:00
 KRAKE @ SUICIDE CIRCUS

 ULRICH SCHNAUSS (domino, scripted realities) - live
 POLE (~scape, pole music) - live
 KID 606 (tigerbeat6) - live
 SHRUBBN!! (shitkatapult) - live
 ALEX SMOKE (vakant, soma)
 CASSEGRAIN (prologue, killekill)
 GONER (gone) - live
 ADAM WEISHAUPT (krake)
 DJ FLUSH (killekill)
 AXIOM (crazy language, killekill)
 STYPE (killekill)

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 sat, aug 11th // 23:00
 KRAKE @ SUICIDE CIRCUS

 TIM EXILE (warp) - live
 CEEPHAX ACID CREW (rephlex) - live
 LAKKER (killekill, blueprint) - live
 PHLEX schematic - live
 TORNADO HORR -schematic - live 
 BARKER (ostgut ton, leisure system)
 JAMES DEAN BROWN (perlon)
 SWARM INTELLIGENCE (skank, stasis)
 KRAKE BOYS (krake)
 MONTY (vru music)

  Find more info on this night as well as on the single artists on www.krake-festival.de

Bersarin Quartett Live @ Krake Festival - 2012-08-06 (Passionskirche, Berlin)

Out now on Air Con Records.
Listen now on all platforms: https://ditto.fm/ama-phondupe

Ama is a contemplative, ambient piece, taken from Phondupe's forthcoming debut album ONYKIA.  The track casts a trance through its ethereal synths that ebb and flow with a hypnotic oceanic sensibility in line with the producer’s recent singles, which explore the allegory of the deep sea. Angelic Japanese field recordings float through the track, recorded by Phondupe himself on amongst temples on Teshima Island, Japan. 

FROM PHONDUPE: 

"There’s a universal connectedness about the word “Ama”, which means something different in over 50 languages - “loves” in Italian, “now” in an Indigenous Aztecian tongue. It’s also the name of Japan’s infamous female free-divers who scale the bottom of the ocean for pearls.  ⁣⁣
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There's something in that - holding your breath for a pearl. ⁣
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A lot has changed in the last 6 months, and while we wait it out, submerged in uncertainty, looking for a glimmer, I've also learned to stop and enjoy the view underwater. ⁣⁣
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The field samples in this track were recorded outside a temple on Teshima Island in Japan, on a trip I took a few years ago. ⁣
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I hope it helps you dream x⁣"

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All Bandcamp sales of this track will go towards the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Healing Foundation.

All Music Written, Performed & Produced by Phondupe
Mix by Phondupe | Mastering by Mark Galup @ Reel Recording
Cover Art: @emdillon_ @rowdyunderscore
© AIR CON RECORDS

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INSTA: http://instagram.com/phondupe
FB: http://facebook.com/phondupe
BANDCAMP: http://bandcamp.com/phondupe

Sometimes, an album comes along which blows everything else out of the water. Then, you learn it’s the artist’s very first release in this particular style. And then, that little tingly feeling you get from discovering a new favourite artist creeps up your back at you sit clasping your headphones with eyes wide open, in anticipation for the next track, for more, and more.

This sounds pretty dramatic, but this is exactly how I felt when I first heard Roger Martinez’s self-titled production as Horizontal Excursions. The electronic DJ/Producer from the Netherlands had well and truly grabbed my attention under his new moniker and his album, was easily one of the best releases of 2011.

Two years later, Roger has revisited his Horizontal Excursions ambient guise, taken a trip into nature’s beating heart and pulled off another absolutely beautiful piece of work that ambient enthusiasts like me, simply fall for again and again.

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The wilderness stirs something primal and unfathomable in us all. We become overwhelmed, awestruck, even emboldened, by these untamed frontiers, content to revel in the unspoiled beauty or compelled to explore what lies within. For some, it’s a cold, harsh reality; an unforgiving tundra of survival and subsistence. But, when afforded the indulgence, this isolation is the purest of them all.

“There aren’t many places left in Western Europe where you can still immerse yourself in pure wilderness” Roger begins, “in fact, the only environment where I have truly experienced this is in certain parts of Switzerland. My latest trip to Zermatt, located in the canton of Valais, has greatly shaped the music in this symphony and I was reminded that all of nature is something that should be respected and revered.”

A regular traveller through the country, Roger’s willingness to lose himself (in every sense of the word) in the abundance of natural beauty heralded Symphonica Helvetica – an untainted journey through the mysticism of the Alps, velveteen swoop of Swiss valleys, and the siren-song of nature.

“Away from the large cities of Zürich and Basel, you enter into a totally different kind of environment,” he states. “For me mountainous areas epitomize something indescribable, something sacred. I lose sense of identity and, sometimes literally, become lost in the landscape around me.

Inspired by the power of his surroundings, Symphonica Helvetica crystallizes those moments, and Roger captures, and softens, the endeavour of trekking through the terrain. A symphonic soundtrack that casts a heavy ambient blanket, there’s a sense of uphill resistance as the summit nears; the enormity of casting an infinite gaze for miles; the deep, contented inhale as you survey the forest canopy thousands of feet below and feel, for that moment, like it’s all you.

“In these places you really see nature at work: sculpting, flowing and grinding through the mountains,” Roger explains. “The fruits of my past trips through the mountains of Switzerland have amalgamated into the symphony that I present to you here. This is the musical translation of the visions and experiences I had standing on the edge of mountain cliffs, overlooking valleys, walking through snow-clad forests, enchanted by mountain tops in full view. These are the shamanic songs of Mother Nature still at reign in her grand domain: a living myth put into sound pressure waves.”

http://asip.me/ASIP024

ASIP024 Horizontal Excursions - Symphonica Helvetica

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