My favorite sound scapes.

bleeding moonlight

dåså serru

keinseir

Wav on Bandcamp

Feel You Are Gone Again

Wires

Back to the Digitakt, back to glitch, piano and strings - first one where I used almost all available audio and MIDI tracks. Maybe this one will evolve into a longer one.

Video to this track: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMu-JhIGnME

Sketch: Digitakt Organic Glitch and MIDI Piano

Oceania - 1180

~ LAAPS 021 ~ [SEQ.03 - LP21]

artist : Tomotsugu Nakamura
 album : Nothing Left Behind
duration : 41.06 mn
 date : July 21st, 2022

edition :
-  vinyl : limited to 300 copies / marble ultra-clear + violet LP / hand numbered 
- cd : limited to 200 copies / hand numbered + handcrafted, sealed

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pre-order : June 27th, 2022 / official release : July 21st, 2022
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All songs written and produced by Tomotsugu Nakamura.
Recorded between Nov 2020 and Sep 2021.

Mastered by Taylor Deupree
Artwork by Russel Burden
Design by Sprflxgrfzm

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Links :
https://laaps-records.com/
https://tomotsugu.bandcamp.com/

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℗ & © 2 0 2 2 - L A A P S - L A A P S 021

Tomotsugu Nakamura - Poolside

Some musings on this album: 

"Hier und Dort" (eng: Here and There) really wasn't written about anything particular or specific. All three tracks were born out of spontaneous "jams" with no set goals in mind. 
When listening back to them, contrasts between the inner and outer world, the inner dialog and outer perceptions come to my mind. For everything beyond that, you are invited to let your own thoughts and interpretations wander. 

As far as the production goes, all tracks, but especially "Hier" (Here) play with tiny snippets of sounds - derived from organic and synthesized meditations on sound, that have been recorded, cut into small pieces and rearranged - somewhat like a puzzle, trying to find interesting rhythms and tonal relationships and to assemble a coherent picture. 

"Dort" (There) opens up the sound world some more, allowing room for reverb - evoking larger spaces. To me, it feels more like a reaction to something that presents itself from the outside, rather than an introspective. It has a sudden change of perspective at about half-way, but emerges back into that external world. 

"Dazwischen" (In-between) was somewhat of a challenge, because it is derived from a somewhat less-than-perfect 4-track recording, so very little editing or volume changes between the instruments and elements of the track was possible. I liked the original, melancholic nature of the improvisation, so I kept that and played with progressively intricate edits of the whole track, as opposed to single elements.. 

As always, I tried to find a balance between detailed, "macro-editing" and a spontaneous flow as well as an element of rawness, as I feel this is what keeps the life in the music, be it electronic or organic. 

In any case, I very much hope you enjoy these pieces. If you want to share your thoughts, you a more than welcome to - I would love to read/ hear what you think. 

Be safe, 
keinseier 

released April 26, 2023 

Everything done by keinseier

04 HIER (REMIX)

03 DAZWISCHEN

While working on my full length, much more abstract and involved album I decided to release these two calm tracks as some sort of hold over - dare I say "by popular request"? At least it was requested a lot (well, that's relative) on Instagram. 

These grew out of quick sketches and improvisations, which I later reworked. I like the simplicity, both harmonically as well as production-wise. I left them untitled, as they were not written for a specific event, emotion or purpose. I'll leave it to you to fill these with your own images and thoughts. 
I sincerely hope you like these versions.

Untitled Track from 220531

EYES (Sketch from 221220)

Sensorama - Echtzeit

green to blue

green to blue (super slowed version)

Track taken from the AUM 12" LP released on Opal Tapes Jan 2015. Find full album here opaltapes.bandcamp.com/album/gondwana-aum

Belief-based Blindness

boys never cry

Included in The Wire Tapper 44, the CD compilation included with the August 2017 edition of The Wire.

Badalisc (from The Wire Tapper 44)

We are thrilled to announce the signing of Pariah for a debut full length, Here From Where We Are, due for release on July 13th 2018. The artist’s first release in six years marks a natural progression in his sound across nine interconnected pieces.

Arthur Cayzer was a relative late comer to dance music. He grew up in various hardcore and punk bands before moving to London and being swept away by dubstep. After just six months messing around making his own stuff on Logic, Pitchfork coverage piqued the interest of the legendary R&S, and over the next two years he released three EPs with the Belgian label. Each one showed subtle evolution and further established Pariah on the international scene. 

Since then, Arthur has continued to DJ round the world and play live with Blawan as Karenn. Musically, though, he’s been adrift. With countless unfinished projects cluttering his hard drive, he felt he’d pressured himself into making the music people expected, rather than music that was an honest reflection of himself. It was only by taking a step back to analyse the music that has always resonated with him—and where, how, when and in what context it did—that gave him a renewed confidence in his work. After one track was finished, an album of coherent pieces naturally followed.

Although Here From Where We Are is inspired by a series of very personal reflections, responses and reactions, Arthur is keen for people to process it in their own way, free from interference. Opening with the transcendental ‘Log Jam’ which spills into the huge, empty and plaintive ‘Pith’, the artist distills his experiences into an album of nine moving, multi-layered tracks, where peculiar textures combine with rich harmonies and absorbing melodies into a heady mix of abstracted environments, formally structured songs and sound collages. Absorbing from start to finish, Here From Where We Are is a long overdue return and accomplished new direction for this rejuvenated producer.

Here From Where We Are
VINYL / CD / DIGITAL

01. Log Jam
02. Pith
03. Seed Bank
04. Linnaea
05. At The Edge
06. Conifer
07. Rain Soup
08. Drug The Lake
09. Here From Where We Are

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Pariah - Linnaea

Recorded live, in one pass, with an Electrix Mo-FX processor and nothing else.

List of modules used for those that like this sort of thing and also to pass the time whilst this is uploading the 180MB file:

Eardrill's Pendulum Ratchet, Pulse Balloons, q.vca & d.lfo
Cyndustries ZOe
Buchla's 266e, 281e, 292e, 227e, 206e, 223e, 210e, 297, 250e, 2 x 261es

The Buchla Electrix

Surreal Voices / CotK C 1660

Happy to share some new music from ISAN member Robin Saville today: "The Deepdale Halophyte Economy" is the first glance on the upcoming album "Build A Diorama". 9 minutes of ambient bliss, merging the aesthetics of his main project with field recordings & gentle drones. Available now everywhere, f.e. on Bandcamp, Spotify & Apple Music / iTunes.