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@ahemahemahem

Fabled ambient label Housecraft Recordings has resurfaced with a new 2xLP from Jeffry Astin, J.P. Wright, and Brian Kinkade aka Ahem.

It's chock-full of smoked out dub-bient chuggers, deep-Appalachian drones, and acid-soaked psy-op jams guaranteed to wash your brain.

Vinyl / digital preorder over at https://housecraftrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/ahem

Cover art by Joe Roberts (LSD World Peace)

releases August 5th 2022

pi pi pi premiere: Ahem - Project Bluebird

Meeting as solo artists billed for the same show (Brookyn 2021), Will August Park and J were compelled to get in the studio together. The unification of Will’s impressionistic solo piano compositions and J. Alberts blunted electronic music style lent itself to a holistic workflow, and in this flow they discovered their commonality in taste and musical expression. The two musicians, versatile in both acoustic instruments and electronics, bring together their distinct styles on "Flat Earth". The composition process involved free improvisation, crafting layers of lush resonance and paired back beats. The 5 track EP sometimes dances across the mind with ease of groove, while also hyper-focussing on the bold personality of instruments to create textural symphonies.

Cassette & Digital

J. Albert Meets Will August Park - Motion Picture

Starfrog Slipmoded

Starfrog (JP's Little Shinety Clouds remix) [feat. Ben Bondy]

The first single from jp's forthcoming album, 'we're here all the time', out October 24th on Theory Therapy. 

https://theorytherapy.bandcamp.com/album/were-here-all-the-time

The vinyl is shipping later this year. It's available on One Eye Witness: https://www.one-eye-witness.com/release/1757422963/jp-we're-here-all-the-time

@whatdotjp
@oneyewitness

jp - lite blue light (feat neal m)

https://theorytherapy.bandcamp.com/album/were-here-all-the-time

@whatdotjp
@theory-therapy

Theory Therapy is pleased to present ‘we’re here all the time’ by jp (aka J.P Wright) – the New York producer behind one of last year’s shinetiac remixes on the OST label, and a member of Housecraft Recordings’ trip-bient group Ahem.

Compiling several years of well-worn material, the Brooklyn artist’s debut solo LP was the result of many hours of hardware jams and happy accidents, later meticulously edited down into these seven arrangements. Blending first-thought-best-thought spontaneity with extended DAW labouring, Wright delivers some of the most immediate music yet on Theory Therapy.

The album is reminiscent of ’90s and early-’00s IDM. Syncopated rhythms and atmosphere swirl into a mutable whole, as hardcore breakbeat, ambient trance and acidic electro bleed together into a liquid mélange. The sequencing drifts from gauzy, ethereal openings into tensile, club-ready pressure before swerving toward moments of stillness – like lingering in an emptied club hours after the crowd has gone.

There’s a distinct physicality to the music too. Kick patterns jitter like loose live wires, delays ripple through the fog-soaked air, yet the album’s finest moments lie in its more subtle textures and tonal shifts. This is proper braindance that keeps you suspended in its pulse, caught in non-linear time. Wright lets the music wander in unpredictable arcs, moments folding back on themselves, stretching in multiple directions at once – tracing and retracing a memory that refuses to settle. 

pi premiere: jp - perf (Theory Therapy)

recorded in Gainesville, FL 2015

https://jeffryastin.bandcamp.com/album/fragrant-bush

Jeffry Astin & J.P. Wright - Fragrant Bush - A4

Towhead Recordings presents New York Dance Music III. A 22 track various artists compilation by artists based in the tri-state.

100% of proceeds will be donated to Black Visions Collective & National Bail Out.

Black Visions Collective is committed to a long term vision in which ALL Black lives not only matter, but are able to thrive. What we know to be true in order to create this world is that oppressed people, especially Black people, need to build collective power in order to create systems transformation. Through the development of powerful strategic campaigns, we seek to expand the power of Black people across the Twin Cities metro area and Minnesota. This can look like delivering mobilization and action goals as part of a national coalition in which Black lives are centered, but it most often looks like visioning and leading targeted collaborative local campaigns that advance a concrete impact for people’s lives here, while also advancing a shift in public narrative that connects to transformative long-term change.

National Bail Out is a Black-led and Black-centered collective of abolitionist organizers, lawyers and activists building a community-based movement to support our folks and end systems of pretrial detention and ultimately mass incarceration.

1. TAH - Track 09
2. James Bangura - Bountiful Fruit
3. DJ NJ DRONE - Collapse Syn
4. BASSBEAR!! - Heard Voices Today
5. Ase Manual - When The Fire Rains (Pick A Side)
6. Bergsonist - Fragment
7. MoMA Ready - Black Fluid
8. SUCIA! - DANCE!
9. DJ SWISHA x Kanyon - Fleece
10. John Wright - Earth2
11. Kush Jones - Jazzy
12. El Blanco Nino - No Tek
13. The Nativist - Netwerxxx
14. guerrer@ - Get Thru My Depression
15. Kanyon - Systems Blur
16. JWords - Noisy
17. quest?onmarc - Cabin Fever (?'s Radial Blur Tool Live Edit)
18. AceMo - Summer Jam
19. Color Plus - FOH
20. Drew. - Entropy
21. J. Albert - Cipher
22. AMEN the Producer - Blinded by the Light

New York Dance Music III

New York Dance Music III [TOW-VA003]

jp - we're here all the time (TT011)
https://theorytherapy.bandcamp.com/album/were-here-all-the-time

Starfrog Slipmoded
https://o-s-t.bandcamp.com/album/starfrog-slipmoded

Ahem: 
https://housecraftrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/ahem
https://housecraftrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/live-in-nyc

Libra Mix 113: https://libramix.org/

misc:
https://towheadrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/new-york-dance-music-iii
https://jeffryastin.bandcamp.com/album/fragrant-bush