Velvet Rope Crowd Control is a collaboration project between Bryan Hilyard and Andrew J Klimek.

For years we had discussed post-rock and neo-classical collaborations, but this guitar-loop experiment fell into our laps first. Andrew (finally) bought some guitar pedals during lockdown in spring 2020 and recorded a few test riffs. Some time later, Bryan picked through a folder of these and started sampling & morphing them into drones. We both really dug the result and listened to them off and on for the next year. Finally in late 2021, Andrew added new layers and additional processing.
New Years Eve, we each made a beat-driven remix, hoping to release the album at the stroke of mid-night. We couldn't quite pull if off, so the project sat a little longer. In the mean time we were lucky enough to get 2 reworks by Agus aka Warmth.

Velvet Rope Crowd Control - Trillium (Warmth Remix)

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

Warmth - Claroscuro (Forthcoming)

Sometime in 2016, I came upon the California-based electronic musician, releasing his organic, evolving and highly textural synthesized compositions as r beny. I followed and watched many of his YouTube videos, where he showcased his modular skiff and various digital synthesizers (I particularly enjoyed watching the Novation Peak ambient showcase, which inspired me to purchase that synth). Throughout the years, I've been enchanted (as I'm sure some of you also have) with his particular aesthetic in creating warm, lush, and melancholic pads that stretch out their fingers and brush the worry away. When, in 2018, he got noticed by Dauw imprint, I reached out to premiere a track from his Saudade album. Since then, Austin Cairns' creations have continued to sell out - you can still buy digital copies of eistla (2018), echo's verse (2019), and natural fiction (2020) via his Bandcamp. By now, he has established a solid following, so it isn't easy to be useful with my words on HC. I can also say the same about the UK-based quiet details imprint, which has amassed a gathering of my all-time favourite ambient artists and relentlessly releases an amazing album every single month. This is almost a community now of all like-minded musicians sharing the label's aesthetic in creating pieces as an interpretation of the platform's name. I cannot keep up and cover every single album on there, so you might as well follow along on your own, and I promise that you won't be disappointed [for example, I failed to give my buddy James Murray proper coverage of his latest album, Weeds, thinking that, yeah, okay, you must already know that it's amazing]. Today, I'm dipping my toe back into the myriad of sonic seas and atmospheres with a track premiere from Cairns' upcoming album, discerned in the fugue of streams, because I think that it is very special.

Read more on Headphone Commute:
https://headphonecommute.com/2024/10/16/r-beny-fir-sweet-and-mossed/

discerned in the fugue of streams

fir-sweet and mossed

TRACK PREMIERE : r-beny - fir-sweet and mossed

Tracklist

01. Claire Rousay & Gretchen Korsmo - Spiral Branches
02. James Osland - The Last Breath Of Summer
03. Ghost and Tape - Pardinyas
04. The Deccan Traps - Kinder Ascent 
05. Julia Gjertsen and Gustav Davidsson - Into The Night
06. Pye Corner Audio - Memoria Del Agua
07.  Hadley Roe - When I Look Back...
08. Ian Hawgood - Live Texture I
09. Glacis -  To Begin Again
10. Masaya Ozaki - Frá Vatni
11. Darren McClure -Fernlike

427. Sleepy Sunday Podcast (Elm Records)

Dark ambient soundscapes for your pleasure

DARK AMBIENT - ABHORRENCE

Non-Reactive

Lullaby For You

Free Download

天 - 風

'Un Horizonte En Llamas', taken from Leandro Fresco & Rafael Anton Irisarri's album, 'La Equidistancia'. Available on 12" and digital, April 10th: https://astrangelyisolatedplace.bandcamp.com/album/la-equidistancia

ASIPV008 - Leandro Fresco and Rafael Anton Irisarri / La Equidistancia

Leandro Fresco & Rafael Anton Irisarri / Un Horizonte En Llamas (ASIPV008)

https://faintmusic.bandcamp.com/album/svalbard

Written and Produced by Agustín Mena.
Mastering by Neel.
Photography by Alexander Kopatz www.go70north.com
Faint001 // FaintCD001
Faint / 2016

SVLBRD - Hvit

'Foreign Winds' is the first collaboration between Hivetribe and Purl.

Written and Produced by Ludvig Cimbrelius, Oleg Puzan & Sasha Puzan
Mastered at Artefacts Mastering.
Photography by Alexander Kopatz.
www.go70north.com
FaintCD003 | 2017
Faint

Purl & Hivetribe - Invisible Forces

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

12" Vinyl, CD and Digital on Archives.
https://archivesdubmusic.bandcamp.com

Warmth - Claroscuro (Forthcoming)

Warmth | SVLBRD