Name: Death by Landscape - Pyrosphere (ft. Steve Vanoni) by TRUE AETHER
Duration: 5 min 50 s
Description: ⋰⋱ a response to the conditions of light and humidity, reacting to changes in temperature and pressure fields ⋰⋱ it is the channeling of the force beyond notes, that illuminates the imagined planes of Mugwort Prairie⋰⋱

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Mt. Fuyu - A Mirror To Weave
Cat. Nr: DN024
Format: DL
Release Date: June 2, 2023
Buy / stream: dansenoire.ffm.to/MtFuyu

A grave and sprawling epic, Mt. Fuyu’s A Mirror to Weave swells with implication. Written, recorded, and produced from the heart of a person who’s lived through life’s struggles much too young, the album is a ferment of ideas and experiences that together capture the sheer strangeness, beauty, and terror of existence. Born in China and immigrating to the United States with his parents in infancy, the Kansas City-based artist—otherwise known as Fu Liu—moved from the coastal province of Shandong to America’s Midwest in the early 2000s. The dot-com crash to follow led to living precariously with his father in Canada, then a short stint in foster care, before settling into a strict regimen of academic and musical pursuits on the family’s return to the US.

This classical jazz education and scholarly background comes through in A Mirror to Weave, where an endless inventory of influences—crossing Coil, The Caretaker, Burial; Mark Fisher, Hito Steyerl, Carl Jung, and more—is steeped in a sublime brew of drone, post-industrial and ambient; hauntology, dub and bass. Rife with the trauma of the past, and the expansive landscapes of the present, opener “Temple” billows with decayed, distended, and eerily pitched vocals, as an arrhythmic pulse grows then crashes in a surge of noise and distortion. The disturbance rumbles through other tracks too, as the subaqueous current of “Swamp Nymphs” roils and fizzes around a crumble of pads and sine waves, while resampled and effects-laden drums charge head-first into the spooky atmospherics of “Ovre” with an erratic urgency.

Although often muted, muffled or restrained, the voice and its whispered words play a central role in A Mirror to Weave. It’s in the existential drift of “Shells”, as Fu Liu’s sweetly sung words (“seen it all/ a black hole”) ripple over a melancholy piano solo; environmental field recordings fluttering delicately just beneath the surface. The audio is taken from the parks, streets, bars, as well as online spaces Fu Liu inhabits, giving the record its heavy sense of grief and alienation. Wandering through the emotional state of pandemic-era estrangement, while also mourning the passing of friends, A Mirror to Weave is a requiem for the worst that’s already been, and an exaltation of the best that’s yet to come. 

Mastered by Rashad Becker
Design by Niels Wehrspann and Solène Gonnet

A Mirror To Weave

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Mt. Fuyu - Close2U

Reforged. Reimagined. Elements tamed and wielded. Distilled frequencies sent back through to the world. Re-focused and reconstructed. A transmutation of will, etched to disc. The long journey’s end. A signal sent between worlds and back again, a vision realized and now, delivered.

Original music by VR Chads.
Remix by Klotang (@klahrk x @djjoeleb).
Mastered by SIM.
Album cover by LCL Stream.

C U On Da Flipside Remixes

Forsythia.glb

VR Chads - Forsythia.glb (Klotang Remix)

Cull [Caninal - VA01]

Othem

Poppy

⋰⋱ a response to the conditions of light and humidity, reacting to changes in temperature and pressure fields ⋰⋱ it is the channeling of the force beyond notes, that illuminates the imagined planes of Mugwort Prairie⋰⋱

Scorched Belts of The Earth

Death by Landscape - Pyrosphere (ft. Steve Vanoni)

Blood of Aza - VON DUTCH
Sleigh Bells - Tell 'Em
Lil Uzi Vert - Fire Alarm (ft. Snow Stripper)
NAAFI - Sinais (Estoc Remix)
Bassvictim - Canary Wharf freestyle (feat Oatmilkandcodeine)
trngs - TEEETH
Charli XCX - B2B X CLUB CLASSICS (KAVARI 4X4 MIX)
Crystal Castle - Alice's Practice (AUCO edit)
DJ WARLORD - VISA (SPIRITOTEM EDIT)
Skitzaph0nic - Very Disturbing
Charli XCX - Everything is Romantic

🫨BURNEDOUTSUMMER🔨

Epic orchestral fantasy track of a powerful Blizzard Queen commanding icy storms. Cinematic, dramatic, and majestic, perfect for trailers, games, and epic storytelling.

Obsidian Spire - Ode to the blizzard Queen

Dream of Sand

Dark ambient soundscapes for your pleasure. Relax, chillout and enjoy.

DARK AMBIENT - THE DESOLATE SHORE

Engame & Chai T   (22nd February 2017)

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Death by Landscape - Pyrosphere (ft. Steve Vanoni)

TRUE AETHER

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