8. That's Because I Don't Really Know What I'm Doing Here

Wow this is some pretty special experiment

Introducing a brand new label of mutant, fusioneering styles from Edinburgh's Firecracker Recordings!

The maiden voyage by Healing Force Project traverses further and deeper into the wormhole that was first explored in his Gravitational Lensing EP on Firecracker.

A full panoply of bubbling, semi-submerged, electro-acoustic abstraction, lysergic drones and oblique, polymetric time signatures recalling the work of Italian avant-jazz outfit Gruppo d’Improvvisazione while simultaneously picking up distant echoes from 'Pangaea' era Miles Davis, 23 Skidoo, Source Direct, Squarepusher, The Heliocentrics, This Heat and Mosquitoes.

'Fizz-cracking drum machines and sparring breakbeats knitted with eyes-shut chord progressions and a seemingly mystic sampler that spits pure magick vibes'.

This is electrified, psychozoic jazz fusion for tomorrow's unlocked vortices!

All music by Healing Force Project aka Antonio Marini (https://soundcloud.com/h_f_p)

Artwork by Drew Miller (https://drewmillerstudio.com)

Released End of June 2021

Pre-order here https://tendingthevoid.bandcamp.com/album/future-form-functionless

TTVO.ID001 Healing Force Project - Future Form, Functionless (Clips)

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https://rings-around-saturn.bandcamp.com/album/rc-15-no-face

[RC-15] - No-Face

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https://soundcloud.com/sandpit_alias

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PROXIMITY II, the second instalment of the annual Pure Space compilation series. Across twenty one different artists, the release finds synergy through surging electro, percussive techno and experimental breakbeat.

Together the artists put forward a collection of contemporary electronics that provide a wealth of complexity for the ear while shaping the sound of local music.

Devoted Pure Space listeners are joined by new producers, friends and some of our most aspired Australian producers to form this exciting release.

100% of proceeds will be donated to Aboriginal Legal Services; based in Redfern it is the first Aboriginal Legal Service in Australia and the first free legal assistance service in the country. www.alsnswact.org.au

Big thank you to Brendan from Cirrus audio and Mikaela Stafford for their contributions to this fundraising release.

Artwork: Mikaela Stafford
Mastering: Brendan @ Cirrus Audio
Format: Digital

Sandpit Alias - Macroworld

@soundsoflaluna @wexrecords @glovedhands

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The debut full length album from Gloved Hands, entitled Empty Terminal, finds the musician straying from the dance floor in search of something amorphous and less tangible. Ambient in nature, the eight tracks that comprise the LP have a deep focus on texture, space, and human feelings rather than a need for constant propulsion and momentum.

The A-side, the more rhythmic and percussive of the two, is awash with vague echos and smudged, slow-moving chords. Subaqueous drums shift in and out of focus. Sound sources are at once distant and intimately close. The curtains part to reveal a glimpse of a crystalline melody or a fraction of a vocal phrase only for the room to fill with fragrant smoke and go dark. It is a place beyond the dance floor. Perhaps it's a place without any floor at all.

The B-side is even more fragile and diaphanous. The foreground and background are obscured, leaving a hazy mesh of delicate, interwoven forms and rhythms; glistening and brushing against one another in the warm, dimly-lit space in between. With a swirling mix of cavernous bass and sweet-but-never-saccharine melody, the details are stretched and abstracted into something new yet familiar. The compositions ripple in midair, appearing and vanishing, close but just out of reach.

[PREMIERE] A Pummeling Light - Gloved Hands | La Luna [2022]

Neida | 09.12.22

JUNGLE GYM RECORDS presents the official (self-titled) full-length debut of Jungle Gym legends Lac Seul! Largely quiet following 2017's "Kenora" cassette (JGT12) and 2016's "Districts" 12" (JG02), the mysterious duo reemerge from the shallows with their strongest offering to date, an instantly iconic collection of atmospheric swamp-dub and transcendental moss-covered-river-rock techno. Up Pacific coast tributaries and over secluded waterfalls, Lac Seul traverse temperate ambient rainforest, a timeless voyage via limited edition cassette... exclusively from JUNGLE GYM.

@lac-seul-district

[JGT84] "Lac Seul" (s/t)

"Solitude in the Celestial Gateway" - Lac Seul

Bandcamp: https://solotape.bandcamp.com/album/days-on-end-pt-i


“Days On End” serves as a sonic archive of mid-pandemic moods. Through a collection of live-recorded tracks, it captures a raw, creative burst from Solotape during a period of stripped-down production. Signature rhythm-work and gritty sound design return for this extensive collection, released in two parts.

“I was kind of burnt out on music early during the pandemic - everyone at my house was suddenly home all the time and I never had any alone time to work on it. Eventually, I ended up renting a shared rehearsal spot nearby in San Francisco. My audio interface was still at home when I first moved in there, so I didn't have a way to digitally record. I brought my tape deck instead and pressed record when things started sounding good.”

“My whole setup was pretty basic with less instruments than I usually have. There was a sort of simplicity to making stuff that I think was good for me. I was just excited to work on music again, and wasn’t obsessing over the technicalities. I didn’t have any particular plans for what I was recording, and just set the tapes aside for a while. I had forgotten most of what I had recorded by the time I returned to them months later. I didn’t know what to expect once I listened back and essentially rediscovered all of the material like it was new. The tapes felt like a physical little time capsule of an earlier period. After I realized that I liked what I had made, I dubbed the tapes to digital and made some edits to clean them up. Almost everything from the three tapes is included here.”

Despite this simplified approach (or perhaps because of it), Solotape has created a body of work that is full of excitement, joy, and playfulness, as well as frustration, catharsis, and dread. At times rambling, at others immediate and visceral, it resembles a series of vignettes, tied together through a common tonal palette and form rather than emotional valence. “Days On End” strikes a balance of raw emotion and analog textures, providing an honest snapshot into the artist's internal world.


Solotape:
https://www.instagram.com/tapes_and_moire/
https://linktr.ee/solotape
https://soundcloud.com/enceence

Silva Electronics:
https://www.instagram.com/silvaelectronics/
https://silvaelectronics.bandcamp.com/
https://www.silvaelectronics.net/
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/11glIMvFlbpftSVUPrVLB0?si=8356319043d240c9&nd=1

Days On End (pt. I)

SE 15 //  Solotape - "Days On End (pt. I)"

Ovatow - The Negativity That Surrounds Me
Harbour City Sorrow [HCS0000]
https://clone.nl/item72574.html

Parental Advisory Frustrated Funk

Ovatow - The Negativity That Surrounds Me - HCS0000

Caldera - Styte [Flippen Bits]

Expressions of a Mind in Slumber is formed from fragments of sleep talking recorded by Sangre Voss (aka Jim Bremner) between 2017 and 2019. The recordings have been arranged into the nine episodes presented here, alongside ambient and experimental musical accompaniments.

The sleep talking recordings were made possible by the development of an open-source tool called Somnilopy developed by Maya Qiu, allowing for automated gathering of high-quality voice samples throughout the night. The GitHub repository for Somnilopy can be found here: github.com/mfmmq/somnilopy

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Expressions of a Mind In Slumber 2017-19 is the first of the Third Place Sleep Sequence, a series focused loosely around ambient music released on limited edition pillow shaped USBs.

03.07.2020

TPSS01
www.thirdplacerecords.com

Expressions of a Mind in Slumber 2017-19

Sangre Voss - Expressions of a Mind in Slumber 2017-19 [Clips] [TPSS01] 💤

A solo EP developed from live set material played during MUTEK in 2019. Available at idioms.bandcamp.com/album/pure-delusion-ep

Persuasion - Pure Delusion EP (Excerpts)

Record label run by @willhofbauer ✨

Contact: will@thirdplacerecords.com

www.thirdplacerecords.com

Sangre Voss - Expressions of a Mind in Slumber 2017-19 [Clips] [TPSS01] 💤

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