With "Subtle Movements" British artist Vinny Vortex makes his first full length album appearence on DWI. Some of you may remember Vinny from his contributions to our "Drone Works" compilations.

With "Subtle Movements" he presents a great set of meditative ambient drone soundscapes. The concept behind the project was to try and strip things down to the bear minimum, and to create soundscapes for sound therapy. In particular case for his daughter who struggles to sleep and quite often listens to his ambient compositions. The album is dedicated to her.

"Subtle Movements" was created on a very small modular system. This gave him real focus to maximise the potential of the system. Vinny is a firm believer of the 'less is more' concept.

Track list:
1. Layers Of Mist
2. Slow Rotation
3. High Altitude
4. Higher Plane
5. Beyond The Surface
6. Desert Wind

Digital Download @ https://droneworksinternational.bandcamp.com/album/vinny-vortex-subtle-movements

Release date: July 16, 2022
Drone Works International DWI 41

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Vinny Vortex - Snippets Of Subtle Movements (DWI 41)

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‘Floating World’ is an album by US based artist Todd Gautreau, who records as Tapes and Topographies. It was created in response to a collaboration project called Thirty-Six Views of Newland Island with British artist Jonathan S Hooper. The album follows last year’s ‘Amplitudes’ and is another entry to Todd’s discography, alongside music on labels such as Past Inside The Present, Dronarivm, Shimmering Moods and his own Simulacra Records.

Jonathan S Hooper is a mixed-media artist based in London, who works with paintings, photography, sculpture and film. Thirty-Six Views of Newland Island is an evolving multi-factorial project in which Hooper continues his exploration of ontological concepts of time and space through the landscapes of his native Cornwall. Specifically, the project focuses on a small uninhabited outcrop called Newland Island, which lies just off the Cornish coast in the Atlantic Ocean’s most westerly margins. The project’s title is inspired by Katushika Hokusai’s series of woodblock prints of Mount Fuji, drawing in Hooper’s broader interest in Japan’s artistic heritage. It also adds to the cultural connection between Cornwall and Japan first established in St Ives, in the 1920’s, through the collaboration of master potters Bernard Leach and Hamada Shoji. A collaboration that continued through much of the twentieth century.

A particularly fascinating consideration is that Mount Fuji is an instantly recognisable geographic icon, yet in contrast, Newland Island is unknown to most. This frees the project from the limits of preconception, opening up opportunities to explore further ideas of landscape, and our place within it. Through collaboration with Gautreau (who is based some 5000 miles away), Hooper sought to give creative licence to a composer, in order to encourage another viewpoint. He had first discovered Todd’s music through Elizabeth Alker’s BBC Radio 3 Unclassified programme, and subsequently reached out to invite him to work on a soundtrack, which has now become ‘Floating World’. He sent photographs of his paintings, scans of the polaroids and his studio notes; the work developed organically into a collection of nine soundscapes, in which Hooper sees as independent views of Newland Island in their own right.

Hooper will be working to share this project through galleries and installations and we felt it was apt to assign full creative control over the CD packaging design to these two artists. Todd, also a graphic designer, has pulled together some of the polaroids for the outer and inner sleeves. There is a 16 page booklet included, which contains paintings, further polaroids and text from both artists. This is also included with the digital version of this album.

Written and produced by Todd Gautreau
Mastered by James Edward Armstrong
Paintings and polaroids by Jonathan S Hooper
Design by Todd Gautreau

https://www.jonathanshooper.com/

floating world - reflections on 36 views of newland island

wlr126 Tapes and Topographies -Floating World - Reflections on 36 Views of Newland Island

A beautifully ethereal track from the Antonina Car album, Immersed Sensibilities.

Immersed Sensibilities

Antonina Car, Immersed Sensibilities "Reveries"

Closing the 2022 calendar year for Valley View Records in huge style is the incredible 18 track ambient masterpiece from renowned producer, Lauge.
Sceneries is an epic audio journey through sonic soundscapes and features 9 gorgeous originals with each track accompanied with a stunning remix from 9 of today's top ambient producers.
Do yourself a favor and set aside a chunk of time to sit down, unwind and let your mind travel across all these gorgeous soundscapes.
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released December 16, 2022

Lauge - Woodlands (Science Of Sleeping Remix)

Lauge - Chernobyl (Silent Travelers Remix)

Once again Millennium Jazz Music would like to welcome you to the Variations production series as we return with Variations volume 2.

We have put together another brand new full length album featuring several sound designers from various parts of the world of electronic music as they join our collective to bring you some of the most impressive moments in synthesized music composition.

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New listeners can check out all three volumes of Variations on the links below. We hope you enjoy. Also look out for new material from 2022 and beyond as the TekHedz platform has become more label based and focusing on bringing through more electronic artists and projects going forward.

bit.ly/TekHedzVV1
bit.ly/TekHedzVV2
bit.ly/TekHedzVV3

Enjoy!

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