Martin Nonstatic closes his sonic triptych with the Vyana EP. A short story built upon 4 tracks echoing the atmospheres of Apana EP and Treeline while opening to new sensations and emotions. 
The composer brings his distinctive array of pads, bass lines, glitchy textures and unfurls evanescent ever floating melodies to reach new grounds. 
Neither above nor below, here nor there, an absolute presence, as vital and essential as breath.

All tracks written, arranged, mixed and produced by Martin Van Rossum
Mastered by Vincent Villuis at Ultimae Studios
Artwork by Arnaud Galoppe & Vincent Villuis
Photo credits: Kuttelvaserova Stuchelova

Vyana EP

Apana Part 4

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MARTIN NONSTATIC | Apana Part 4

A Moment Beyond Time

Pitch Black’s fourth album finally gets the vinyl pressing it so richly deserves.

Originally released in 2007, Rude Mechanicals found soundcloud.com/pitchblacknz firing on all cylinders. The nine years since their debut had been spent touring their cutting-edge audio-visual show round the world, playing everywhere from Tokyo to Tauranga, Portland to Paris, Leeds to Las Vegas, finding fans and absorbing new sounds along the way.

They successfully combined and refined the stand-out elements of their previous releases to create an album that is alternately danceable and meditative: a genre busting excursion in sound, heaving with warm basslines and complex rhythms, topped up by haunting melodies and immersive soundscapes.

From the evocative opening South of the Line to the stepping 1000 Mile Drift, the dub is strong, as one would expect, and so is the influence of drum’n’bass on the bottom-heavy Bird Soul and the atmospheric Please Leave Quietly; trance on the pulsating Sonic Colonic (Live at Minikami) and slinky Transient Transmission (fig.2); ambient on the burbling Harmonia and softly snarling Fragile Ladders. The title track, meanwhile, finds them addressing climate change and greed, with lyrics by Auckland MC KP.

To create the double-vinyl release, soundcloud.com/auraluxmastering re-mastered the original audio files, while Hamish Macaulay polished the source artwork by Tom Quarelle and created a brand new collage for the centrefold using pictures taken at the time.

Rude Mechanicals will be released on 11th April 2025, except in Aotearoa New Zealand, where it will be released on 12th April 2025 as part of Record Store Day.

Pitch Black - South Of The Line (preview)

Microcosmos Records is pleased to announce Jungle Tales, a compilation album by DJ Synergia.

The luminous elfish image of Natalia Arustamova, a.k.a. DJ Synergia (St. Petersburg, Russia), is well known by the audience of electronic music festivals with her numerous performances. Her DJ sets are dazzling and groovy, and the flow of her performance is smooth and vibrant.

Jungle Tales is a compilation album of tracks by electronic artists of psy-bass, breaks, dark chill, and organic house. Its tracks are masterfully selected with the idea of combining nativity and novelty through beautifully blended ethnic electronica. It seems just like a musical game, in which realities and times are intermingled by a roll of the dice, the game that allows something wild and ancient to suddenly burst into everyday life, the act that becomes a trigger for the players to reconsider their perception of the reality.

Turn on Jungle Tales by DJ Synergia, dive into a smooth music journey full of genre twists, let the mysterious force take you into the fantasy worlds of "Jungle Tales", and go on a trip with Microcosmos Records!

Jungle Tribe

Further harvesting the raw power of electronics ⚡️
While shaping didgeridoos, synths and guitars in organic, downtempo stories 🦁 including some Live performances 🦜🌿

Stagnating energy versus dissipating waves.. 
Growly otherwordly soundscapes to soothing-sweet ambient..
Materialising the emotional rollercoaster of the past year 😅🍁

For those interested in supporting me 💛 you can buy it on:
Bandcamp: https://dissolving-official.bandcamp.com/.../from-the-depths

Happy Easter! 🐇🐾

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Inner Workings

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Derived from the Latin “Ultimae Terrae,” meaning “the furthest places,” the name Ultimae reflects a profound theme of exploration. This concept is at the heart of Ultimae Records, an ambient music record label and publisher dedicated to transporting listeners to the outer edges of experience through sound and offering a space for introspection and discovery within the vastness of the mind and beyond.

In 1999, Vincent Villuis and Sandrine Gryson, also known as AES Dana and Mahiane, united over a shared passion for the immersive world of electronic music. This collaboration led to the birth of the label. Initially envisioned as a musical portal, Ultimae’s mission was to explore and disseminate the diverse expressions of Ambient music far and wide through the production of records and the establishment of an online shop.

Over the years, Ultimae has expanded beyond its original scope, evolving into a multifaceted company with sound design, post-production, and mastering studios based in Lyon, France, along with professional services in publishing, music licensing, and synchronization.