A massive thank you to the artists, and also to those who ♥ and repost this playlist :)

Ambient, chillout, atmospheric, instrumental, piano //05/2016

2k16•07

Here's the perfect chillout session. A variety of new music. Songs that make you slow down and feel something profound.

Slowdown Sunday | Vol. 20

[p*dis] distribution sampler for September 2016

p*dis sampler 2016.09

cosmos

warm fog

ambient moods - mostly piano

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* Pre-order: https://yapp.bandcamp.com/album/gasoline

With his debut release Yapp delivers a stunning blend of house, breakbeat, and trance across four compelling tracks. The carefully crafted production and rich sonic tapestry create a mesmerizing energy that is sure to keep the dancefloor packed. Yapp's innovative approach to electronic texture blending results in a fresh and unique sound that is both forward-thinking and unforgettable. From the rhythmic beats of the opening track to the dreamy soundscapes of the closing number, the EP takes the listener on a captivating journey through Yapp's artistic vision.

PREMIERE: Yapp! - Mindful Flirt

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/track/0bf5EW1aMSEpvysqe16iUB?si=CD_igLkpTemBuLVyVEKSLw

Epiloog

More info: http://www.xlr8r.com/news/2015/07/premiere-hear-a-track-from-the-latest-wa-wu-we-a-k-a-sebastian-mullaert-release/

Full stream of "A1," from 'Wa Wu We 02,' the second of six Wa Wu We releases from Sebastian Mullaert (a.k.a. Minilogue).

@sebastianmullaert
@minilogue

Wa Wu We - A1

3 veteran producers in the genre, Apocryphos, Kammarheit & Atrium Carceri, collaborate on this behemoth of an album. Each utilizing each others strengths to bring forth a dark and emotional ride through distant memories. 

Onyx is a soundscape journey related to the reflection of dispirited memories and obscure sorrows felt by mankind. With the multitude of techniques used by each artist, it also reflects the rich history of the dark ambient genre and how it has progressed through the decades. 

The signature analogue darkness of gargantuan caves of Kammarheit is combined with the sacral and emotional layering of Apocryphos and the rhytmical bass throbbing and isolated pianos of Atrium Carceri. 

This album was created by cross linking 3 studios in Oregon (US), Pennsylvania (US) and Umeå(Sweden). It took over 3800 lines of studio notes to finalize the album. 

Full Album

Apocryphos, Kammarheit, Atrium Carceri - A Lonely Strain

A track made for @BestFitMusic's Canadian Christmas album:
http://www.thelineofbestfit.com/new-music/discovery/donwload-free-christmas-album-2015

Frost and Furrow

LNT: http://po.st/olafurLNT  
iTunes: http://geni.us/LNTolafurarnalds
Bandcamp: http://po.st/olafurBC 

Standing at the intersection where techno meets classical music, Ólafur Arnalds directs the new Late Night Tales.

“When I was asked to do the next installation of the Late Night Tales series I thought "This will be fun and easy, only a couple of days work. No problem!". Six months later, I was still pulling my hair out in some kind of quest to make the perfect mix. As someone who has never really done mixes before, I learned a lot of things along the way and the whole experience was very inspiring. I decided to approach the mix in a similar way as I would one of my scores. This is the soundtrack of my life. I included songs from many of my friends and collaborators and tried to deliver a mix that represents who I am as an artist and where my influences are coming from - both personally and musically.” - Ólafur Arnalds, March 2016

Follow Late Night Tales:

Web: http://latenighttales.co.uk
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/latenighttales1
Twitter: http://twitter.com/LateNightTales
SoundCloud: http://soundcloud.com/latenighttales
YouTube: http://youtube.com/latenighttalestv
Instagram: http://instagram.com/latenighttalesofficial
Spotify: http://goo.gl/Q98T7d
Apple Music: https://music.apple.com/us/curator/late-night-tales/1233898093
Bandcamp: https://latenighttales.bandcamp.com/

Ólafur Arnalds - Kinesthesia I

Taken from the album (For Now We See) Through A Glass Dimly, Delicate Power also forms part of a remix EP, Delicate Power (In The Hands Of Others), which will be released digitally on 31st May 2016. The EP features remixes by Marconi Union, Markus Mehr, Lvmark and Antonymes.

antonymes.bandcamp.com/album/delicate-power-in-the-hands-of-others
https://antonymes.bandcamp.com/album/for-now-we-see-through-a-glass-dimly

Delicate Power

little experiment I did few days ago based on granular synthesis using random loops of piano and glocks, fieldrecordings recorded through tape.

feel free to follow me:
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https://www.instagram.com/davidgeorgos

and buy my music here:
https://unperceivedrecords.bandcamp.com/album/became-a-leaf

Memum : Enviro Scape

Another beautiful track from the upcoming release from Kiel, Germany, based artist Morgen Wurde (Wolfgang Röttger)...cinematic ambiance at it's finest!

Morgen Wurde... "Jemals Wusste"  Vocals by Maria Estrella Aggabao

Fund/preorder here: https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/alex-kozobolis-weightless#/

Weightless is an EP of intricate original piano compositions by UK artist Alex Kozobolis. With a series of solo releases over the past few years and collaborations with artists such as Lee Chapman, Harry Edwards, and Anna Rose Carter, Weightless represents Alex's unique approach to composition and melody. 

His touch on the piano is light and fluid; moving between dense sustained runs, which evaporate as soon as they are heard, to spaciously plotted notes. Weightless is the sound of weight itself lifting, of the earthly effect of gravity removed and allowing the listener to be suspended within mid-air, uninterrupted by pressures and restrains of the physical world. Coursing with energy, and running to take flight.

Each of the four tracks have been remixed by Siavash Amini, Tom Adams, Trnspt and Hedia, with very different, but cohesive results, expanding the tone of the EP into new areas.  

Weightless will be available on limited clear vinyl, digipack CD and digital editions.

Tracklist 

Side A
1. Unravel
2. Closure
3. And Find Yourself
4. Weightless

Side B
1. Weightless (Tom Adams Remix)
2. And Find Yourself (Siavash Amini Remix)
3. Closure (Hedia Remix)
4. Unravel (Transept Remix)

Closure by Alex Kozobolis

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Release date:
June 3, 2016


Dirty Whispers

Another Sunday piece, when everything is shimmering and still... If you like this, check out my mini-album on  1631 Recordings, titled "Unhinged" : https://1631recordings.bandcamp.com/album/unhinged

Mike Lazarev - Sunday

Free Download:
http://goo.gl/kQ1hKz

✌♫♪ "Lauren" video : 
https://youtu.be/TNsSBhl_2LI

Lauren:

There’s a voice I always trust 
Its friendly helping hand tells me leave, I must 
Cause I can’t stay forever
By my window

Cause I can’t stay forever
Cause I can’t stay forever

Rather chase a gentle breeze 
Set my thoughts by taller trees 
Cause I can’t stay forever
By my window

Cause I can’t stay forever
Cause I can’t stay forever

I need whispers that make me move 
Riding the country for driving’s sake 
Sync me within the outside world 
So I can better miss my home

Lauren

Free Download

Melbourne's Eckul teams up with Sydney vocalist Blanco Son to deliver this atmospheric arrangements of fuzzy synths, haunting percussive echoes and dark minimalistic production.

Eckul:
https://www.facebook.com/Eckul-130463873645995 
https://soundcloud.com/eckul 
https://twitter.com/eckul83

Blanco Son: 
https://soundcloud.com/blancoson
https://twitter.com/BlancoSon

Publicity:
http://www.mammalsounds.com

Buy full EP

Venice (A Long Decay) - Ft.Blanco Son

Second Nature

https://galoremag.com/premiere-stalking-gias-new-song-second-nature-natural-hit/

Artwork by BLANDA
Written by Stalking Gia // Noise Club
Production by Noise Club
Warner Chappell
SLUMBO
Brooklyn, NY

Free Download <3

Second Nature

From the album Momentform Accumulations by Automatisme

Automatisme
Momentform Accumulations
180gLP/CD/DL
CST118

cstrecords.com/cst118
automatisme.bandcamp.com/

Momentform Accumulations

Automatisme • "Simultanéité 1"

Dead Light was created after Anna Rose Carter and Ed Hamilton moved from London to a quiet, remote space in the countryside. The migration out of the sprawling metropolis to their new rural refuge was a transition that significantly impacted them both, and one that continues to turn and shift under the ambivalence of change, loss, and new beginnings.

Dead Light is released on vinyl, CD and digital download on October 14th, 2016.

Preorder here: https://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/dead-light/id1138056150

www.villagegreenrecording.co.uk

Dead Light - Blooms

Pre-order the album 'Aforger' out October 14th on LP/CD/DL here: http://phonofile.link/aforger

In a digital age where memories are mimicked by pixels and identity is as malleable as static, Douglas Dare’s new album Aforger questions the boundaries between reality and fiction. 

Inspired by recent events and revelations encountered in his life these songs depict Dare at his most vulnerable, whilst simultaneously reflecting our own obsession with reality and technology back at us.  

Aforger was mixed at the iconic Abbey Road Studios and produced by long-time collaborator Fabian Prynn. In the following conversation Douglas strips back the personal journeys and realisations which preceded its recording.

In a conversation with Douglas Dare on July 11th 2016:

The album title plays with the idea of a forger – someone creating imitations or copies, and reimagines them as the creator of something that’s no longer real. Prior to writing the record, I came out to my father and came out of a long relationship, both were hugely challenging for me and questioned my idea of identity and reality. These thoughts leaked out into the record and formed the core of Aforger. I was determined not to write a break-up album or repeat what I’d done before..

I grew up on quite an isolated farm in Dorset, surrounded by fields and not much besides. My mother taught piano from home and we didn’t have a computer, or the internet or mobile phones. In fact, my family still chooses not to use these things. It’s worlds apart from my life now in London where technology seems to dominate everything I do.

After finding out my boyfriend had been leading this double-life, I became obsessed with the question of what is real and George Orwell’s 1984 felt appropriate for me to re-read. Orwell explains this idea of reality control and Doublethink, and it struck a chord with me. The idea that truth can be steered or changed, and we might be able to believe two contradictory things at once. In my case, ignorance was my protection from the truth and ignorance really is bliss, until you’re no longer ignorant.

Binary talks about the idea that technology is allowing us to live on after we’re gone. A relative of mine whose parent passed away kept a picture of them on their phone as a background image. A friend saw this and asked ‘how can you have that there to constantly remind you of your loss?’ They replied, ‘no I have to, it shows me that they’re still here’. This resonated with me and I thought ‘okay, this is just an image to me but to them it’s more than a reminder or a reassurance, it’s a reality’. At the same time, I was finding myself haunted by the digital reminder of my ex-partner and wishing they would disappear. I had to realise that it’s all just pixels on a screen. 

I think New York can be thought of as this fabricated, magical place. I was there with my boyfriend after touring the U.S., but when I came back to London I discovered all these lies and began questioning everything. I even questioned whether New York actually happened or not. New York is a song that’s literally describing that very real feeling of not knowing who or what to believe any more – scary and magical at the same time. 

Lyrically I wanted to be as honest as possible. The album deals with so much dishonesty, so I felt the lyrics had to be the counterbalance. I was inspired by Björk’s album Vulnicura and how everything is almost awkward in its honesty. Like my first album, Aforger started as poetry, but I consciously tried to be less poetic. For instance, Oh Father is an example of complete unambiguity. It’s certainly the most personal song I’ve put out there, and the realisation that people may hear it makes me feel very vulnerable. That’s the most real feeling of all for me right now. 

Aforger

Doublethink

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Douglas Dare - Doublethink

Title : Dance
Artist : Marihiko Hara & Polar M
Cat # : mnc017
Release Date : September 2016
Format : CD / Digital
Genre : Post-Classical / Instrumental Pop 

01. Duo
02. The Season Changes
03. Ray of Light
04. Monologue
05. Dance
06. Ocean of Night
07. Beryl
08. Asia
09. Gone Gone Gone
10. On The Silent Way 

“Laughing, singing, dancing
Laughing, singing, and dancing
Howling, sobbing, shouting
Howling, shouting, sobbing
Laughing, singing, and dancing

Dancing.”

After releasing their critically acclaimed debut album “Beyond”, Kyoto-based Marihiko Hara and Polar M (Masumi Muranaka) have embarked on a series of live performance around Asia region, including Korea, Malaysia and many places in Japan. Each time they performed together, the sense of how their individual sounds complement each other grew stronger. And with these live performances, their interweaving sounds have underwent subtle refinement – they become even more profound and exquisite, and far more interconnected.

While touring, the duo was also actively collaborating with dance choreographers. In early 2016, the duo was again commissioned to compose new pieces for a dance performance. It was during that time, their brand new 2nd album “Dance”, was conceived.

Through their interactions with the talented dancers across Asia, these two very gifted musicians started to explore the meanings of “dance”. Gradually, they have come to realised that, everything in our daily life can be regarded as “dance” – the rhythm of the changing seasons, the subtle movement of time, the weight of words, the shifting of emotion, the cycle of life, all parts that form our lives, are indeed in themselves – a “dance”. And in this gorgeous new album, using their ever delicate sounds, the duo graciously illustrated this aesthetic interpretation of “dance”.

Musically, the duo picked up where they left off in their very successful debut album - traces of refined post-classical, melodic folktronica, floating ambient, and glimpses of jazz, continued to be found in this 2nd album. What is more apparent in this new album is that the guitars had taken a more prominent role. As such, the sound textures and melody movements have become much richer and more diverse, which impeccably reflect the refinement that underwent for the musical style of Marihiko and Masumi.

The duo’s good friend, Mia Cabalfin - a renowned contemporary dancer from Philippines, who lent her wonderful voice in the debut album, continued to feature in this album by performing the hauntingly beautiful spoken words in the album title track. This album is tastefully mastered by Tokyo’s renowned musician and sound engineer, Chihei Hatakeyama, and features photo by Ken Furudate, and design by Seitaro Nishioka. In addition, the artist management for the duo is supported by the excellent people from Kyoto’s label and event organiser NightCruising. 

Credits:
composition, arrangement & mixed by Marihiko Hara & Polar M
track 5 : spoken words by Mia Cabalfin

mastering: Chihei Hatakeyama
photo: Ken Furudate
design: Seitaro Nishioka

To enquire about distribution, please kindly email us at info(a)mu-nest.com. Thank you. 

DANCE / Marihiko Hara & Polar M (album preview sample)

Portion / Acryl (SRCD065)

1. ?
2. ayahaaa
3. Acrylic
4. UUDDFF
5. PNA
6. 25mg
7. KKVMNBE
8. dio
9. Cola
10. Enamel

produce : Acryl (dagshenma & Madegg)
mastering : Ken'ichi Itoi
photo : Shun Ishizuka

Acrylic / Acryl

A beautiful vocal infused track from the new fictitious crime soundtrack from Morgen Wurde...entitled "Assassinous Act"...

Vocals provided by Maria Estrella Aggabao
https://soundcloud.com/mea-16

Morgen Wurde, "Assassinous Act".... Forgiveness

READ > inverted-audio.com/premiere-kerstone-new-season 

Kerstone's smoothly-curved 'New Season' @khasia_hills is the ideal soundtrack to the seasonal shift - one to help you transition effortlessly from the summer's all-enveloping blue to the autumn's thick, red-hued mantles of dead leaves in one gentle caress.

Khasia Hills 02

Kerstone - New Season [Khasia Hills]

Ratio (Full Mix)

Bandcamp

Saturnal

Track taken from the upcoming album 'And His Many Seas' by Moss Covered Technology...

Audio: Moss Covered Technology
Mastering: James Plotkin
Design: Daniel Crossley
Label: Fluid Audio
Release date: 30.04.18

www.fluidaudio.bigcartel.com

And His Many Seas

Moss Covered Technology - Sea #4

Sampled bits of the closer (and personal favorite) from my last album into my Digitakt. Messed around with it a bit :)

Free Download: https://hypeddit.com/track/rhx4io
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bAPd8dNVcYg
Original: https://jamesonnathanjones.bandcamp.com/album/what-dreams-may-come
Bandcamp Subscription (for more exclusive content): http://bit.ly/atticpass

What Dreams May Come

Reprised

FREE Download

Reprised - Digitakt Rework

Le Secret

Buy the album

Hymn

This is track from my collaborative album 'Moon Ate the Dark'

Moon Ate the Dark - Explosions in a Four Chambered Heart

Hello everyone!

Firstly...many of our releases are now available digitally here...

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Founded in 2011, Time Released Sound is a lovingly hand made, limited edition release music label that is as much an art project as it is a musical outlet. Focusing primarily on classically infused and folk based ambient and electroacoustic sounds by the artists we know, love and admire, we will be striving at all times to produce visuals and packaging for these fine releases that are as original and uniquely beautiful as the music itself.

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