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At The Top Its Just Us

Swan Palace - Reflecting What's Left Of You

"@hydropsyche is hollowed out club music for the post-anthropocene. The debut album Scree, inspired by ancient history and the vestiges of our own time explores evolving polyrhythmic melodies and composition within a pre-defined tonal structure. 
In the future, our civilisation is detectable as a sediment layer of aluminium. The instruments this music was made on, the speakers it was played on, and the club it was played in will all be the same matter, and the humans that listened to it a layer of carbon beneath."

Artwork by Lilian Hardouineau 
Mastering by Lorenzo Targhetta

Scree EP

U - 020

Hydropsyche - U - 020

old Tristram

Donnie Drums
Nathan YESOMG Lead
Ornine Pad/Chords
Edgar almostcool Bass

84 BPM 18 BARS

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DoubleQuinte

Artist: Diamond Soul
Album: Maya'mi
Format: Vinyl / Digital
Release: July 3, 2020

https://orangemilkrecords.bandcamp.com/album/mayami

Music by Alex Colombo
Visual art by Keith Rankin
Mastering by Angel Marcloid

“Sand Dollar Lingo” features amplified clarinet and motion triggers by Eric P. Mandat
“Rose Gold” features synths, vocals, and saxophone, and bass by more eaze

Maya’mi is the third release and first LP on Orange Milk from Alex Colombo’s Diamond Soul project. The album continues to experiment with hyper-abstracted electronics and collage aesthetics, which Colombo refers to as ‘mixed media’ music. Even though samples are used sparingly on the album, it retains a sense of micro genres and varied sources colliding on a moment to moment basis, a feel that I alway find comparable to fellow Orange Milk artists Koeosaeme, toiret status, and DJWWWW. Colombo views the music as a metaphor for the uncertainty and fragility of culture and our own memories through time. 

He says: “when I started work on the album I was thinking about things from my past that I never fully realized or maybe erased on my own through building new reality as you get older.” 

I’ve always related to this style of rapid, through-composed music because it moves at a pace similar to an agitated mind, with thoughts appearing and going on tangents second by second. Of course having touched on the music’s pace, I would regret not mentioning that there are also moments of beautiful calm and lengthier melodic phrases at play, like the album closer “Screens” or the ascending lyrical melody in “Sand Dollar Lingo”, where featured artist Eric Mandat’s affected Clarinet sounds like a sampled opera singer. (For those not aware of Eric Mandat, he’s an established educator, composer, and clarinetist that I would recommend looking up.)

The track “Rose Gold” is also a collaboration with Mari Maurice aka more eaze, whose signature auto-tuned vocals meld with MIDI choirs and saxophone before disintegrating into one of the albums sparsest moments where light scratching electronics punctuate stretches of silence.

Diamond Soul -  Sand Dollar Lingo ft. Eric Mandat

Nondi Shadow

123ABC[8810]

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Smooth but transposed to the whole tone scale as favored by schoenberg

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