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Coming November 2024

Tracklist:
01. False Dawn
02. Datura
03. Ritual Destruction
04. Sarkanda
05. Temple of Dusk
06. Raijū's Claw
07. Vigilia
08. Humida
09. Four Tusks
10. Nymphaea
11. Mistral
12. River Bank Funeral

Four Tusks

SDMLP01 "Four Tusks" (snippets)

Courtesy - Ways of Raving feat. Aaron Altaras and Geoffrey Mak [Against Interpretation]

Hesaitix - Noctian Airgap (PAN 152)
Label: PAN
Cat.No.: PAN 152
Release Date: 06 December 2024
Purchase: pan.lnk.to/NoctianAirgap

Through the haze we could make out hardly anything. Just the black line of the horizon. And in the distance the faint glimmering of the sea.

James Whipple returns from a long period of musical dormancy with his first full length LP for PAN since 2017.

As M.E.S.H., he honed a singular and unpredictable sonic identity on his debut album Piteous Gate. Re-emerging as Hesaitix, the now-familiar motifs have become streamlined, the sound palette both more refined and more elaborate. Even at its most abstract, there is an uncanny presence permeating the record, a convincing emotional reality with its own narrative and spatial logic.

Opener ‘Cusp of Unknowing’ announces itself with crushing low end synths feathered with delicate chimes before dissolving into the oceanic din of a data center. Rolling, engine-like subs mark the start of ‘Taurian Shade,’ a low- tempo percussive drive past iced-over chords and angular synth lines. ‘Geflatnet’ and ‘Volunteer’ dip into grooves bordering on nostalgic, referencing a misremembered golden era of electronica long-players. On ‘Santarosae (Black Dolphin),’ a sense of primordial awe comes to the fore, while ‘Black Line,’ originally presented as an audio installation in 2022, uses the human voice to explore a narrative approach to sound. ‘Noctian Airgap’ and ‘Anticrime’ return to syncopation and its complex moods, while ‘Subdermal’ and ‘Hypersea’ embrace repetition in service to atmosphere.

Hesaitix - Cusp of Unknowing

btwn Earth+Sky is Lara Sarkissian's conceptual platform in which sound and music are prioritized across visual art realms and immersive experiences. Sonically, the label encourages collaboration between electronic music producers and musicians, to create ephemeral, once in a lifetime recordings and live performance.
Lara Sarkissian is a sound artist, electronic composer, filmmaker and former cofounder of label CLUB CHAI. Emerging from multidisciplinary practices, she invites you into her world of music spanning across genres and regions which inspire her production; sounds encountered from film, archives, the dance/electronic underground and Armenian, SWANA performance communities. 
Find the full tracklist and related episodes on NTS: https://www.nts.live/shows/lara-sarkissian/episodes/lara-sarkissian-15th-january-2025

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btwn Earth+Sky is Lara Sarkissian's conceptual platform in which sound and music are prioritized across visual art realms and immersive experiences. Sonically, the label encourages collaboration between electronic music producers and musicians, to create ephemeral, once in a lifetime recordings and live performance.
Lara Sarkissian is a sound artist, electronic composer, filmmaker and former cofounder of label CLUB CHAI. Emerging from multidisciplinary practices, she invites you into her world of music spanning across genres and regions which inspire her production; sounds encountered from film, archives, the dance/electronic underground and Armenian, SWANA performance communities. 
Find the full tracklist and related episodes on NTS: https://www.nts.live/shows/lara-sarkissian/episodes/lara-sarkissian-12th-march-2025

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btwn Earth+Sky is Lara Sarkissian's conceptual platform in which sound and music are prioritized across visual art realms and immersive experiences. Sonically, the label encourages collaboration between electronic music producers and musicians, to create ephemeral, once in a lifetime recordings and live performance.
Lara Sarkissian is a sound artist, electronic composer, filmmaker and former cofounder of label CLUB CHAI. Emerging from multidisciplinary practices, she invites you into her world of music spanning across genres and regions which inspire her production; sounds encountered from film, archives, the dance/electronic underground and Armenian, SWANA performance communities. 
Find the full tracklist and related episodes on NTS: https://www.nts.live/shows/lara-sarkissian/episodes/lara-sarkissian-6th-may-2025

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Selections from a special personal archive of mine, from a USB drive I thought I had lost — 
In 2016, I was staying in Stepanakert, Artsakh for a couple of months. An Armenian Stepanakert local named Saro, had been running this tiny music store there for 20 years (which was also a GIF/wedding photo animation business on the side). It was my birthday that day, and we got to listen and pick hundreds of tracks from his computer. He burned these for me onto CDs or dropped them on this USB drive. Tracks range from Armenian, Uzbek, Tajik, Iranian, Russian, Lezgin, Georgian, Greek, Soviet — pop, trance, EDM, early 2000s ringtones, and more. 



As Stepanakert and the rest of Artsakh faced occupation post-2020 war, this resulted in the displacement of indigenous Armenian families, local businesses and l... 
Find the full tracklist and related episodes on NTS: https://www.nts.live/shows/lara-sarkissian/episodes/lara-sarkissian-2nd-july-2025

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btwn Earth+Sky is Lara Sarkissian's conceptual platform in which sound and music are prioritized across visual art realms and immersive experiences. Sonically, the label encourages collaboration between electronic music producers and musicians, to create ephemeral, once in a lifetime recordings and live performance.
Lara Sarkissian is a sound artist, electronic composer, filmmaker and former cofounder of label CLUB CHAI. Emerging from multidisciplinary practices, she invites you into her world of music spanning across genres and regions which inspire her production; sounds encountered from film, archives, the dance/electronic underground and Armenian, SWANA performance communities. 
Find the full tracklist and related episodes on NTS: https://www.nts.live/shows/lara-sarkissian/episodes/lara-sarkissian-26th-august-2025

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V/A - mono no aware もののあわれ

Format: 2xLP / Digital
Label: PAN
Cat.No: PAN 77
Release Date: 17 March 2017

http://p-a-n.org/

purchase:
site: http://bit.ly/2mQN5AO
bandcamp: http://bit.ly/2n9ToSm

mono no aware (もののあわれ) is the first compilation to be released on PAN, collating unreleased ambient tracks from both new and existing PAN artists.

Featuring Jeff Witscher, Helm, TCF, Yves Tumor, M.E.S.H., Pan Daijing, HVAD, Kareem Lotfy, ADR, Mya Gomez, Sky H1, James K, Oli XL, Bill Kouligas, Flora Yin-Wong, Malibu, and AYYA, the compilation moves through more traditional notions of what is called ’ambient’, to incorporating wider variations that fall under the term.

“Mono no aware”, ‘the pathos of things’, also translates as “an empathy toward things", or "a sensitivity to ephemera”. A term for the awareness of impermanence, or the transience of things. A meditation on mortality and life's transience, ephemerality heightens the appreciation of beauty and sensitivity to their passing. In investigating the passing of time, the boundaries between memory and hallucination become blurred; between fiction and reality. The movement of time transforms into an eternal present.

The album is mastered and cut by Rashad Becker at D&M, featuring photography by Molly Matalon and design by Bill Kouligas. A limited version of 100 copies will be released as a special art edition in collaboration with Mount Analog for the LA Art Book Fair 2017, before going on general release.

mono no aware

3. Yves Tumor - Limerence (PAN 77)

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