Phase Three

Lately Lady saw . Stereotyp meets alhaca

Walden

@bencowper

Bristol based DJ & producer Cowper (aka Count van Delicious under his italo disco alias) presents his debut EP ‘I Can See You, Can You See Me?’. 

Cowper’s low, slow, dark and experimental beats go deep into hypnotic psychedelia. His debut weaves together a woozy trip of ambient, industrial, EBM and trance.

BC Pre-order: https://c0wper.bandcamp.com/album/i-can-see-you-can-you-see-me

pi pi pi premiere: Cowper - Hazer On

Coalesce Ext

Patterns

Face Up

midi day job, pt. 4

The second release of POSITIVLAND by Mancunian artist:

Faff
@ffaf

PSTVLND 002 - 04/01/2024
positivland.bandcamp.com/

Limited ≈200 copies in Black vinyl, 180g.
Very Limited 26 hand-numbered copies, Splatter vinyl 180g
* Release Limited Edition 25/01/2024

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Note from the artist:


Faff’s Scrapbook.ep

This record is a collection of tracks I made from the start of 2019 to the end of 2021. They all exist completely independent of each other. My intention while working on music during this time was to create a time capsule/memory album for me to remind myself of my moments with. I had a lot of different experiences and substantially changed during this time. The early tracks were made by a completely different person than the person typing this. Of the 6 tracks on this EP, only one of them was made with the knowledge that it would be put together with the others and released as one cohesive article.

I wanted to make music again after abandoning it for 3 years. One of these tracks marks the turning point where a projected pipe dream of determined mastery was cracked through by what the speaker cone did when piano roll blocks were placed intuitively for the first time. 

In this .ep, I present:

THE CONCEPT

In its disjointedness, this music has presented itself to me as a scrapbook. It is rough around the edges, vague in its sentiment, and has more of an emotional than abstract association. While brainstorming for visual ideas to package these tracks in, I spat a bunch of words into a GAN and the words might be useful for you to get a sense of the general themes:  “synthesizer drum machine back catalogue emotional syneasthesia-inducing dance music” “vibrant energy synthesiser music record” “faffing about analogue synth music maker colour-changing light experiment” “bedroom studio acid bass sentimental rave artisan” “braindance analogue synthesiser data catalogue metaphysical music” “psychedelic synthesiser contemplation heartfelt breakbeat lullabies” “reaction diffusion rephlex records melancholic analogue music journal” “cerebral rave chromatic anthem dirge synth memories” “tr-808 analogue rave cerebral music energy ritual”

There is a dualistic nature to this EP, as it is a highly organised arrangement of totally disparate tracks. They are all (except one) built inside a DAW, but largely featuring live performance recordings of analogue hardware. The recordings are then processed after the fact. Layers on layers of humanity and machine, analogue and digital, specificity and ambiguity. All of the tracks are also subjectively experienceable pieces of music, but they sit in an objective folder structure on my laptop. Each one also was ignited by a unique occasion, but absorbs new meanings and connotations as time flows through and around them. These polarised paradoxes are key to the idea of this EP. Even to have a concept EP assembled from standalone tracks without any uniting concept is an example of the intertwining of opposites. Visuals associated are DAW architecture, poorly managed cables in thrown-together bedroom studio, piles of photographs printed out, computer folder structure, MIDI information in piano roll/automation envelopes, synthesiser encoders and pots.

Buy it:)!!

Special thanks and love go to Weefween, Robert and Chloe 

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credits
release January 4, 2024

Written, composed and produced in Manchester, UK, by Faff.
Mastered in Groningen, the Netherlands, by Johanz Westerman at Balyhoo Studio Mastering.
Designed in Manchester, UK, by Faff + Weefween + Positivland.
Distributed from Sardinia, Italy, by Desslab.

www.desslab.net
www.positiv.land

Faff - Voicenote (Snippet)

DJ Gerard - Blink

Here it is, a cover of my favourite song from the Undertale Soundtrack.
I always wanted to make it for a special occassion and, even though I am a bit late, I'm happy that it gets to release today.
I don't think I've ever put so much love in a song before, but I think that's fitting because of how much I love this game.
Sufficed to say, if not for Undertale, I wouldn't be here.
I wouldn't be passionate about music, I wouldn't realise that I can be a writer, I wouldn't have a community to appreciate what I do.
Undertale has brought so much joy to my life that it's hard thinking where I would be without it.
But as much as I love it, I must admit it's hard to branch off from it.
More and more I've been trying to create something on my own, my own songs, my own characters etc.
The first attempts were horrid, and well... they still kinda are...
Maybe sometime in the future I'll grow a pair and show you lmao
I want to treat this anniversary as a turning point for me.
Yeah I'll still make tons of fancontent for this game, but it will drift from being my main focus as time goes on.
As much as I love Undertale, I don't want this game to define me as a person.
I want to finish COTW in the next few years and after that, I'm going to create my own games.
They're not gonna be nearly as good, but I hope you'll eventually enjoy them.

To all those who are listening, thank you.

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Time Spent: 19 hours 32 minutes + 8 hours 4 minutes
[WILL POST THE FLP/MIDI IF ANYBODY WANTS IT]
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Listen to this song on other platforms (soonish)!

[Spotify] open.spotify.com/artist/1k4Lg0ub7f3t9E8DBAqaEU
[Youtube] www.youtube.com/@PlacekTheStar
[Apple Music] music.apple.com/us/artist/placek/1667113797
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Thumbnail art by https://x.com/mrvoiddy (THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR LETTING ME USE IT)
Undertale and "ASGORE" by Toby Fox
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©Emder Studio

ASGORE [Late 10th Anniversary Special]

Cosmonection - Despair Roads

Label from Helsinki. http://wejazzrecords.bandcamp.com

midi day job, pt. 4

We Jazz