noise / ambient

The new album 'Spaces' out now on CD/2xLP/Digital via Erased Tapes.

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‘Frahm truly excels’ 9/10 Uncut 
‘Frahm works his magic’ ★★★★ Mojo
‘The infinite elasticity of sound’ 7.8 Pitchfork 
‘Improvisatory, wild, heartfelt’ Interview Magazine
‘A fantastic record’ The Guardian Album of the Week 
‘Frahm creates something mesmerising’ ★★★★ The Observer
‘My favourite new piece of music this year’ Mary Anne Hobbs, BBC 6 Music

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Spaces

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Nils Frahm - Says

In Greek mythology, Scylla (pronounced /ˈsɪlə/, sil-uh; Greek: Σκύλλα, Skulla) was a monster that lived on one side of a narrow channel of water, opposite its counterpart Charybdis. The two sides of the strait were within an arrow's range of each other—so close that sailors attempting to avoid Charybdis would pass too close to Scylla and vice versa.

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Sound sources:
Propellerheads Reason, Hungarian shepherd's flute, crackling vinyl, crackling fire, North Atlantic Ocean, my own voice, a buzzing fluorescent tube, pulling a bunch of branches over the ground


Scylla

In Greek mythology, Charybdis or Kharybdis (pronounced /kəˈrɪbdɨs/; in Greek, Χάρυβδις) was a sea monster, once a beautiful naiad and the daughter of Poseidon and Gaia. She takes form as a huge bladder of a creature whose face was all mouth and whose arms and legs were flippers and who swallows huge amounts of water three times a day before belching them back out again, creating whirlpools. In some variations of the tale, Charybdis is just a large whirlpool rather than a sea monster.

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Sound sources: Propellerheads Reason, Hungarian shepherd's flute, metal wind chimes, glass wind chimes, crickets and sea waves in Canada (recorded by Axel Baune), jumping on a fallen tree in a swamp, my own voice, a small bell, processed water recordings

Charybdis

The dedication of the opus is twofold. On the one hand I wanted to commemorate the hungarian pioneer electronic composer: Iván Patachich. On the other hand I wrote it to my friend, the excellent percussionist Gábor Palotás, who is also the customer of the piece.

Formerly I read in a scientific magazine that planets and stars play music, in bigger celestial bodies the soundwaves are capable to modulate the light of the stars. This moved my fantasy and driven me to dig deeper into the territory of the music of the spheres, In no time I started gathering the sounds of planets and stars. I wrote letters to the SETI and NASA, who in a turn of mail provided me with countless radio signals transformated into hearable audio ranges. I collected samples and read about the topic for years, until once it combined and came to my mind what I wanted to do.

Böethius’s writing about the Music of the spheres, the various conjunctions of planets, moduses in what planets dominate have inspired numerous composers already. Nevertheless centuries had to elapse so with the help of our technical evolution we could grow gigantic „radioears” to ourselves and listen to the eternal music of the Cosmos. Today we can listen to the non-stop radio stream of the Universe anytime.

The first „transmission in the aether”, the first music which played was undoubtedly the Big Bang. These first soundwaves are about 52 octaves deeper than our regular musical „a” sound. Making calculations it is easily shown that this is an infinite looking period, in which one soundwave sounds only once in 200 000 years.

Modern science proved, that sound influences the same spectrum’s higher waves too, namely the light. Such as in the air on Earth soundwaves spread in the huge, compressed, excessively hot gas spheres and incandescent stars. These sounds are similar from a physical point of view to the pipes of an organ, they remind us to them. According to astronomers the sound of a star depends on a few parameter, like its age, size, extension and chemical structure.

The sound appears as the vibration of the star. I was mainly interested in residual stars , i.e. the special types of neutron stars: pulsars (really quickly rotating neutron stars, for example the period of the Crab-pulsar is 33 milliseconds) and magnetars (neutron stars with gigantic magnetic field).

I composed a bouquet out of these. Strangely it made organlike all-interval, really dense cluster. Later, to somehow make this vertiginous monster move, I used various effects. I wrote down chaotically swaying pendulum motion them thus getting an irregularly increasing and sinking yet constantly static/restless mass of sound.

The motion of the marimba is controlled by the equation of the mathematical or the physical pendulum. The really quickly increasing and sinking, small motives made out of a few sound – which are slowly altering in time – made an audible contrast with the electronic material. 

Several synthesizers, variously tuned gongs and percussions can be heard beside the  clarinets, trumpets, trombones, detuned piano and japanese mouth organs – such as the shō.

Ákos Nagy - Wailing of Pendulum (electroacoustic version)

Here’s what we’ve been working on this year. We’re bringing you our biggest and probably most diverse compilation album to date, 18 tracks all carefully selected, nurtured, and mastered for your sonic pleasure - all for free. 

DOWNLOAD: http://shop.chi-recordings.com/album/chi050-allstars-uncovered

Alongside main label heads Fine Cut Bodies and AMB, on this release you’ll find producer veterans Chris Carter, Modul, Cadik, up and comer label regulars like Kodek, Zomblaze, iamyank, ICR, Synus006, tshabee, Eril Fjord, ANEZ, Headshotboyz, and even raw new talents that we literally bumped into only months ago. 

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Artwork: Balint Jokuti 
Master: AMB

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[Free Download] Eril Fjord - And Give

You might recognise this as the theme to Salad Fingers 10 - it is also the intro to my new album, which isn't quite finished and hasn't got a name yet, and neither have you. Downloads are not available yet because I think I might still tweak this a bit before putting it out.

Birthweek

Tales From Liasufam Desert
The apocalypse [Aftermath] has destroyed everything that once has been the beautiful world we have known. The planet is now covered by ashes and dust forming endless deserts. That’s where Mafusail, the hero who survived lives now.
The album is showing his life as he travels through sandstorms and oases showing the hard and the beautiful parts of his jurney.  

Artist: 
soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/stas_from_liasufam
facebook: https://www.facebook.com/StasMusic

Stas - Time

Different kind of synthetic microtune scales

Zsuzsanna Aba-Nagy: harp
Zsolt Szabó: viola da gamba
Roland Szentpáli: serpent
Róbert Mandel: hurdy-gurd 

recorded/mixed by: Mihály Kádár/ Ákos Nagy
http://www.hangmunka.hu/

HOMMAGE Á ROTHKO

I’ve been searching for a long time how I could totally merge the spectrums of the acoustic instruments with the spectrums of electronic instruments. I would like to do some „Mission Impossible” thing as I am trying to handle an acoustic medium as it would be an electronic one and vice versa.

Robert Mandel found me with the idea that he and Zsuzsa Aba-Nagy wanted to widen their own-founded Geneamus Ensemble named formation which used historical instruments from Vienne and Budapest and electronic instruments together.

As I think to myself as a par excellence electronic composer because I am trying to make electronic soundings in acoustic medium I really liked the idea of mixing the electronic music with the olden instruments which are much more richer in intonation and have more colours than modern instruments.

I have been experimentalising a kind of multitimbral way of composing where the melodies are accompanied by shade voices. In this case I mean the melody as a vectorial direction and I mean the same for the tonal melody but maybe while listening to the tonal melody the listener can feel an arrival or disappointment feeling (unresolved, surprise-cadence, Neapolitan destination tone, minor edge VI, alterations, et cetera). These shade voices are the main reasons for making the unisono voices multitimbral. The multitimbrality is when there are more tones at the same time which can turn into each other back and forth. At this time the spectrum is broadened or narrowed by harmonics or inharmonics so the fluctuation is continuous.

This can be easily put with my former multilayer way of composing together, where I could get complex sound density because of the several hundreds of layers which I wanted to control afterwards. We could call it vectorial multitimbral synthesis where the oscillators and the acoustic instruments morph each other’s tone as a frequency or phase synthesis.

Ákos Nagy - Hommage á Rothko [Geneamus version]

To many, classical and club music inhabit completely different worlds. For Jack Sheen, however, he brings influences from both in his own work. A recent transplant to London from Manchester, Jack is a classically-trained composer and conductor who has worked alongside the London Symphony Orchestra, BBC Philharmonic Orchestra and the Lucerne Festival Academy Orchestra among others, as well as currently running a successful concert series 'ddmmyy' with Tom Rose from Slip Discs. What distinguishes Jack is the breadth of his influences, however, with a keen interest in jazz and techno in particular. His most recent work, the Jupiter O.S.T. EP, was originally created as a soundtrack for George Haydock's film Jupiter and in turn made into a more coherent release. Percussive by nature, the release channels Sun Ra, Steve Reich and Iannis Xenakis as well as conscious nods to the intensity and density of the likes of Mark Fell and Russell Haswell. These influences have been put together in a mix by Jack for Generic Greeting collective which paints a picture of who and what inspired him for the record both directly and indirectly. We're incredibly pleased to premiere 'Jupiter/Saturn' from the EP and Jack kindly spoke to us about his musical background, ddmmyy and, of course, the EP.

Read more: http://truantsblog.com/2015/premiere-jack-sheen-jupitersaturn/

Premiere: Jack Sheen - Jupiter/Saturn

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Aluphobia - Kambu

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Let's Get Down Tonight

Let's Get Down Tonight (Lost Twin Remix)

Achluophobia

Seroquel XR

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Bud Sturgess - "Blues For Mazzacane"

Soundcloud: @know-va @lowridersrecordings

Having contributed the second instalment of the Digital Dubplate series on DJ Shadow's Liquid Amber label in 2015, the Know V.A guys now return with a follow-up to their previously released Lowriders Recordings release from the year before. Since that first O Horizon EP they've been slowly making their mark in the city of Amsterdam; hosting events under the name Hoax, being invited to play the Warp and LuckyMe parties at ADE, and playing at our very own Truants x Subbacultcha party back in 2014. Describing their sound themselves as being influenced by the Los Angeles beat scene and the ever-changing UK sound, their newest release, Clusters, is a determined push at their own musical boundaries and a step up in maturity in their sound. Specially designed to be seen as one track divided by three track names, the three productions originate from a sample/synth pack made specifically for this EP. It's an interesting approach to sound design that gives each of the three different tracks its own distinct elements while still retaining an overarching theme. We're able to premiere a track called 'Echoes' today, which acts an echo of the track 'Caves'; stripping down the track to an almost 'devil-mix' state. Out early next month, it's a strong follow-up for the two producers.

Premiere: Know V.A - Echoes

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tobias & distance decay - sens/sent

하늘의 색 (오디오 파일은 휴식을위한).
BUY (WITH BONUS TRACK) : https://misogi.bandcamp.com/album/-

My album drops MAY 23rd

하늘의 색 (오디오 파일은 휴식을위한).

From an album that I am still making. It's been a long time since 2011 - and a lot has happened.

Mortician's Wife

tracklist:

Information - Nightwheel (Remix)
Monolake - tetris
Deadbeat-vampire_(dub)-kouala
Boards of Canada - slow this bird down
Architrav - volle fahrt
The Flashbulb - undiscovered colors
T++ - voice no bodies
Aleph - 1_c_a_c_08
Chaotic Echoes - odin iz na
CCCR - NIBIRU
Marow - Samsara [my cosmic dust will still love you]
Cepia - Hoarse
Vladislav Delay - lumi
Kiyoshi Mizutani - Wind at Dohdaira
Techno Animal - the mythillogical b dub
Carl Calm - after hours stereomars
Karsten Pflum - thael spir
Scorn - then woke
Mater Suspiria Vision - house of the 7 witches
Muslimgauze - In Indigo Hazan
Pleq - the ribbon (nebulo remix)
Twine - violets
The Flashbulb  - a raw understanding
Blue Daisy ft. LaNote - space ex
Maps And Diagrams - Cucullospora
Board of Canada - chinook
John Hughes - get me lost-driving in la (telefon tel aviv remix)
Fonica - whirr
Twine - halo
Deepchord presents Echospace - in echospace
Wolfgang Voigt - Ruckverzauberung 1
Ishq - Leaf
DJ Spooky - penguins
DJ Spooky - water

noise / ambient

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