Benge The View From Vega DiN82

Release date 17th November 2023
Limited to 300 copies 180g Vinyl / 300 copies Digipak CD

Ben Edwards, better known by his pseudonym Benge, has been exploring the sonic possibilities of electronic instruments since he was a young boy, in the1970s.  After graduating from art school in 1990 he set up his own music studio and started recording his unique blend of experimental electronica, culminating in his debut album "Electro-Orgoustic Music" and the formation of Expanding Records in 1995. Since then he has released dozens of albums as Benge, as well as collaborating with various luminaries from the electronic music world on many other album projects. He has formed several notable and ongoing bands such as John Foxx & The Maths, Wrangler (with Stephen Mallinder / Cabaret Voltaire and Phil Winter / Tunng), Fader (with Neil Arthur / Blancmange), and his most recent project Creep Show (Wrangler + John Grant). Benge's creative output now centres around his Memetune Studio Complex, located in one of the UKs remotest moorland locations, writing and producing his various music projects as well as making video art and TV programmes about his activities.

“The View From Vega”, his debut solo album on the DiN imprint, is primarily an ambient suite of tracks inspired by the space-music typically produced in the late 1970s and early 1980s. It uses a selection of vintage synthesisers, sequencers and FX units to provide a fertile sonic landscape to explore. The idea was to use simple sequences (using both analogue and digital units), sustained synthesiser pads and electronic piano improvisations, alongside various ancient delay, flange and reverb units. The beautiful, warm quality of the tones that exude from such instruments are very evident on the six tracks that slowly unfold their oscillations in organic, melodic soundscapes.

An unashamedly vintage sounding album in all its analogue glory, “The View From Vega” is released both as a 180g Vinyl edition and a Digipak CD with stunning artwork from Wendy Carroll that matches the music perfectly.



01 The View From Vega (Part I)   06:44
02 The View From Vega (Part II)   05:07
03 The View From Vega (Part III)   06:14
01 The View From Vega (Part IV)   06:54
02 The View From Vega (Part V)   05:21
03 The View From Vega (Part VI)   07:32

Total Time :  37:54

The View From Vega

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With Hughes Devos (bugle), Christophe Seval (synth), Philippe Van Bellinghen (cello), Olivier Taskin (drums), Antonin De Bemels (groovebox) and poems by Shantala Pèpe and Jean-Philippe Convert

Artwork by Stéphane Jossart

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"Endless Pit" is the fifth track of Amek's "Vanishing Standards III" compilation. 

Featuring vocals from my main project @niandraz .
Visualizer: https://youtu.be/QUM7u7ANGaE

Vanishing Standards III:
"The third installment of our bi-annual Vanishing Standards compilation series closes the year of our fifteenth anniversary. As usual, we wanted to have as many members of our extended family aboard as possible, as well as welcome new ones into it. Of course, they are in the company of Amek regulars, whom, whenever we could, we tried to inspire to work in new collaborations and configurations. The result is not only the shortest volume in the series but also the first one dominated by atmospheric, yet noisy, tracks that are punctuated with some unexpected heavy hitters."

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released December 18, 2023

Mastered by Marius Costache
Artwork by Nikola Kostov

This is amek070.
https://amekcollective.bandcamp.com/album/vanishing-standards-iii

погледни / отрази / черни дни / пропадни .

Vanishing Standards III

Endless Pit (ft. Niandraz)

SenSen - Lago

Al atardecer
Fuimos mas fragiles
La noche nos dio alas
Y la aurora 
Degollo nuestros sueños

Atardecer

a musical conversation with artist "the humble bee"

https://iikki.bandcamp.com/album/here-in-absence

featuring the voice of rin howell (psychic secretary), and the flute of shilpi gupta (silverness)

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Huge day today! Normil Hawaiians’ first new album in 40 years will be coming out on Upset The Rhythm on May 24th. Titled ‘Empires into Sand’, the record is an incredible patchwork cloak of ideas drawing on ambient drone, motorik impulse, folk idiom and a certain cosmic uncanny. 

A Windswept album recorded in a windswept Scottish coastal retreat, ‘Empires into Sand’ swims with short wave radio interference and overheard satellite transmissions. These are winding rivers of song, peopled with the displaced, determined, downhearted yet hopeful. Swirling atmospheres, field recordings, tape-looped drums, rapid synth flights and soaring vocals all abound in this echo from the now.  

‘Empires into Sand’ will be released on gatefold LP, CD and digitally on May 24th, it is available to pre-order now from our shop now: https://upsettherhythm.bigcartel.com/

Lead single ‘Exiles’ is released today, exploring the continuous movement of human beings, check out the video for more sublime signs from the firmament: 
https://youtu.be/DVFJEufA2aw

Normil Hawaiians - 'Exiles'

La cancion habla acerca de como los seres humanos estamos condenados por nuestras elecciones, arrastrados como perros, aunque hasta en la mas absoluta oscuridad pueden surgir las redenciones mientras gimen los vientos en el silencio

Youtube video
https://youtu.be/UBgmTrGeYUA?si=bArrQR3ep4rIh_oE

En el rincón oscuro de la existencia,
La redención desvanece
Es el poema de nuestras penas
Canto maldito que en la sombra enloquece

Criaturas de un cuento olvidado
Marionetas sin rostro
En un escenario sombrío
El destino y su cruel acertijo

Gimen los vientos en el silencio
Susurran lamentos
Penas antiguas
Triste melodía del desencuentro

Condenados como perros
Arrastramos nuestros huesos
Oliendo mierdas de otros
Soportamos estos tiempos

Laberinto de dolor sin salida
Invisibles cadenas aprisionan el alma
En esta danza macabra de despedida
La luz, la esperanza, se desarma

Gimen los vientos en el silencio
Susurran lamentos
Penas antiguas
La triste melodía del desencuentro
Gimen los vientos en el silencio
Susurran lamentos
Penas antiguas
La triste melodía del desencuentro

En la penumbra del destino atados,
Condenados al silencio y los pecados.
En las sombras de la noche oscura,
Nuestro destino, trágica aventura.

Condenados, sí, por nuestras elecciones
Aún en la oscuridad, surgen las redenciones
Cada lágrima derramada, cada suspiro
Teje la posibilidad de un nuevo respiro

Gimen los vientos en el silencio
Susurran lamentos
Penas antiguas
La triste melodía del desencuentro

Condenados

Yzak125

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UPSET THE RHYTHM is a live music promoter and record label based in London, which is collectively run with enthusiasm, commitment, a sense for adventure and a desire to have fun in the process. 

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