Good morning, and welcome to the quietest week of the year. Did you have a good holiday? Before I sign off for the year, I think I’ve got one more gem to share with you. Here's a wonderful label showcase and a reflection on this past year from a lovely independent Valencia-based imprint, Archives, curated and operated by Agustín Mena, aka Warmth. I’ve profiled plenty of its releases since its inception in 2015, and I must admit that Warmth’s Parallel (2018) has been on repeat more than others. If anything, it is only rivalled by Glow, which is his collaboration with Fionnlagh, recently released on December 8th, 2023 (you’ll hear a few tracks on this mix). In any case, enjoy the mix, and please support the featured artists! For full details and tracklisting, visit Headphone Commute's main site.

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Archives 2023

Warmth - Archives 2023

~ Deep Breakfast 242 by Hollie Keniff ~

Tracklist:
01. Goldmund - Circle
02. Akira Kosemura - Yure
03. Sophie Hutchings - Cradle
04. Olivia Belli - Artemisia
05. Daigo Hanada & Yoko Komatsu - Ichi
06. Library Tapes and Julia Kent - Branches
07. Hollie Kenniff - Soft Slowed (Helios Remix)
08. Markus Guentner & Joachim Spieth - Praeludium
09. Rafael Anton Irisarri - Every Scene Fades
10. Shaded Navy - Introspection
11. Aukai - Lumi
12. Aether - Siren Song
13. Karen Vogt - Opa
14. Awakened Souls - As You Are
15. Foam and Sand - Circle 30 (feat. Robot Koch)
16. Claire Deak - Dampen The Waves
17. Alaskan Tapes & Moshimoss - Afterglow
18. James Heather - Ultraviolet (Alexandra Hamilton Ayres Rework) 
19. Taylor Deupree - Eev
20. Julia Kent - Echo of Wings
21. Shida Shahabi - All In Circles
22. Marie - Entrance in two Spheres (ft. Sachi Kobayashi)
23. Antarctic Wastelands - Oscillations

Deep Breakfast 242 ~ Hollie Kenniff

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Martin Nonstatic - Beyond Lightning Part 4

Beyond Lightning
[DTR071 | Dewtone Recordings]

Written and produced by Martin Van Rossum aka Martin Nonstatic
Mastered by Mattias Fridell
Photography by Robert Bahn

Released by Dewtone Recordings from Vancouver, Canada
Release Date: February 20, 2024

Martin Nonstatic will need little introduction to those that have been following our imprint for a decade or more. The Austrian-based producer has developed an ardent following for his cerebral portrayals of terrestrial life.

After a string of impactful releases with Ultimae, we welcome one of our oldest friends back into the fold. Martin embarks on a hiatus from his rhythmic endeavors to deliver a five-part concept that plunges listeners into the depths of a storm cloud.

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Illuvia - Starlight Skin (priyesh p's Utopia)

this monthly mix series is curated by cynthia bernard (www.marineeyes.bandcamp.com) and has an archive of past mixes available for listening and downloading at cloudcollecting.substack.com. thanks for your support!

women of ambient ~ april ’24

Haiku Salut- How The Day Starts (secret name)
marine eyes- hushed (Past Inside the Present): 4:22
Jasmine Wood- VI (Friends) (ad93): 6:50
Dimming- Palacy (s/r): 11:32
ganavya- el kebda, let it go (Native Rebel Recordings): 13:07
Ola Szmidt- San Jiao (s/r): 18:10
Leah Kardos- Open Again Eventually (Bigo and Twigetti): 23:00
Michelle Moeller- Nest (AKP Recordings): 28:15
Paige Emery- Washing (Leaving Records): 31:10
Elsa Hewitt- Wash The Sea (Tompkins Square): 36:48
Spivak- Laura (Electroménager): 39:30
Meg Mulhearn- Calm and Bright (Ceremony of Seasons): 42:32
Isabel Pine- Crescent (s/r): 46:15

women of ambient~ april '24

More info and buy links: http://asip.me/asipv046 

As a professional sound engineer by day, Colin Dunkerley aka Lapsed Pacifist, spends much of his time traveling and rarely gets to focus on producing his own music. Despite high praise from those who have become familiar with his work over the years, Colin’s previous productions have mainly consisted of shares with friends and DJs in smaller circles through his Negative Neutron alias. 

Colin envisaged a more pronounced and darker ambient style to emerge one day but struggled to dedicate the time. Hypatia came to life over an extended and fragmented period, with field recordings and loops of audio created on the go, later processed through his modular setup. In the autumn of 2022, Colin spent time collating and listening to these many fragments and field recordings, making notes in a book as he wandered around cold, unfamiliar places with headphones on, trying to shape disparate starting points into something thematically connected.  

The title of Lapsed Pacifist’s debut album, Hypatia is a reference to one of the many fantastical descriptions of imaginary places by Marco Polo in the book, Invisible Cities. Written as a dialogue between Mongol emperor Kublai Khan and Marco Polo, the book became the inspiration and a clear parallel for how Hypatia came to be and what it means to Colin today. 

Attaching music to a place and time can become a very powerful and long-lasting memory. Across its eight tracks, Hypatia depicts fragmented glimpses of color and textures –a scrapbook of senses– traversing the optimistic first steps; the first smell of cold air; cityscapes burnt into your head; and the many emotions from exploring new places that stick with you longer than any photograph ever could. 

“The experience of moving between places so frequently can be fascinating but also dislocating and often quite lonely. I have so many small stories about places I’ve been, but I often think they aren’t necessarily real reflections of anywhere, no more real than anything Invisible Cities author Calvino dreamt up”. - Lapsed Pacifist.  

Hypatia is available on transparent Copper smoke 12” + digital, mastered by Rafael Anton Irisarri and featuring artwork by Noah M / Keep Adding.

Lapsed Pacifist / Hypatia (ASIPV046) [Previews]

Dissolvi

Grand River and Abul Mogard - Dissolvi

this monthly mix series is curated by cynthia bernard (www.marineeyes.bandcamp.com) and has an archive of past mixes available for listening and downloading at https://cloudcollecting.substack.com. if you like this series and want to see more, please consider a donation at https://ko-fi.com/marineeyes. thanks for your support!

women of ambient~ may '24

1. The Seven Fields of Aphelion- Wildflower Wood (Rad Cult)
2. marucoporoporo- Cycle of Love (Flau) 3:40
3. Anita Tatlow- nocturnae (slow echo) 7:30
4. Lara Somogyi- jól (Mercury KX) 9:30
5. Mary Yalex- February Tale (self-released) 12:10
6. Claire Rousay- iii (Thrill Jockey) 15:40
7. Marisa Anderson- In Waves (self-released) 18:40
8. Arushi Jain- Exquisite Portraiture (Leaving Records) 21:50
9. June Shaukat- Your Shaking Hand (self-released) 26:00
10. Julia Gjertsen- Midnight Sun (Moderna Records) 27:20
11. Birds of Passage- These Things Don’t Matter Now (self-released) 30:10
12. Asia Dojnikowska- Morning, The First Day (self-released) 33:16
13. Angela Winter- stars and lovers (self-released) 38:00
14. sawako- jupiter c.loud (tiny tiny press) 42:00

women of ambient ~ may '24

Help fund the campaign and secure a copy of this quintessential album on vinyl. The campaign is run by my record label LILA लीला with kind support of the original record label Silent Season. 

Go here to join the project: https://lila.8merch.com/product/purl-stillpoint-2lp-pre-order/

The campaign runs from 10/5 to 10/6 - 2024. 
We need 100 confirmed orders to begin pressing records.

Thank you for the consideration.

Ludvig/Purl ♥


– Stillpoint –

At the center of us is a focal point of consciousness
Perfectly still, yet vibrant with life
This is our natural state
Ever at peace, yet ever expanding

Ever at peace
In knowing that being can never cease to be
Thus there is no death
Only eternal life

Ever expanding
In knowing that eternity is never done
We are in continuous motion towards what lies beyond
Across endless new horizons

–
released June 5, 2015

Written and produced by Ludvig Cimbrelius

Photography by Danthon

Stillpoint

Baleine 〰 'Stillpoint' vinyl campaign 10/5 to 10/6 - 2024

Minimix with some pieces of the forthcoming album 'Claroscuro'.
Dark drone explorations.

Warmth - Claroscuro (Forthcoming)

~ Deep Breakfast 258 by https://soundcloud.com/vanoni ~

Tracklist:
1. Diane Barbe - Meanwhile The Blue Forest At Night (Part 1) [On Board Music]
2. Al Wooton - Peace Of Passau [Berceuse Heroique]
3. Ancestral Voices - Wishbox [The Fifth Kingdom]
4. Zemög - Timbiquí [Circular Limited]
5. Koraal - La Casa Del Volcan 7 [Nous’klaer Audio]
6. Emeka Ogboh - Palm Groove [A-TON]
7. Blackwater - Thanet [Ethbo]
8. Cosimo Damiano - Spoils Of The Two Doors House [Survive LTD]
9. Mystic AM - Once Upon A Time In Yazd  [Astral Industries]
10. DOLTZ - En [Huinali]
11. Oreste - Swelling Truth [Anulled Music]
12. Marco Shuttle - AfA [Incienso]
13. Dino Sabatini - Plena Lunae [Outis Music]
14. Jarguna - Uroboro [Rites]
15. O Yuki Conjugate - Raindance [Emotional Rescue]
16. Rrose - Feeding Time [EAUX]

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Deep Breakfast 258 ~ Vanoni

Making music as Warmth and SLVBRD.
Label owner of Archives and Faint.

12" Vinyl, CD and Digital on Archives.
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Warmth - Claroscuro (Forthcoming)

Warmth | SVLBRD

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