The Wire has pointed to the latest EP by obe:lus, which is the recording moniker of Sean Albiez, co-editor of Kraftwerk: Music Non-Stop. The ambient techno of I Saw No Shadow of Another Parting From Her (the EP's name is of course borrowed from Charles Dickens' Great Expectations, as are the tracks' titles) was made using very early voice recordings unearthed via FirstSounds.org. "The Days Have Worn Away" employs a re-processed recording of Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville singing the traditional French lullaby "Au Clair de la Lune". Listen to the magnificent result below and get the whole EP over here.
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The Wire has pointed to the latest EP by obe:lus, which is the recording moniker of Sean Albiez, co-editor of Kraftwerk: Music Non-Stop. The ambient techno of I Saw No Shadow of Another Parting From Her (the EP's name is of course borrowed from Charles Dickens' Great Expectations, as are the tracks' titles) was made using very early voice recordings unearthed via FirstSounds.org. "The Days Have Worn Away" employs a re-processed recording of Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville singing the traditional French lullaby "Au Clair de la Lune". Listen to the magnificent result below and get the whole EP over here.
obe:lus - The Days Have Worn Away
All though you can argue this to be a bit of an early announcement, we simply can't hold it back: From The Mouth of The Sun's Woven Tide is already one of our favourite records this year, exploring the classical ambient space with bright, magnificent beauty. Being the result of a collaboration between Gothenburg's Dag Rosenqvist (aka Jasper TX) and Topeka, Kansas composer Aaron Martin, both Godspeed You! Black Emperor and Berlin-based composer Mac Richter will instantely come to mind throughout its 44 minute long spin. However, I can't help but drawing an additional line to Tim Hecker in Woven Tide; sometimes playing with vast elements of drone somewhere deep inside of their beautiful, organic creature. It almost fits a little too well to the sound of my own shoes walking down the slowly awaking streets of Berlin — adopting sounds from the environment like a soundtrack to a film, but with constant motion in this chaotic world.
Have a first listen to "Sitting in a Roofless Room" below, and don't forget to look out for this musical journey on January 31 via Experimedia.
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All though you can argue this to be a bit of an early announcement, we simply can't hold it back: From The Mouth of The Sun's Woven Tide is already one of our favourite records this year, exploring the classical ambient space with bright, magnificent beauty. Being the result of a collaboration between Gothenburg's Dag Rosenqvist (aka Jasper TX) and Topeka, Kansas composer Aaron Martin, both Godspeed You! Black Emperor and Berlin-based composer Mac Richter will instantely come to mind throughout its 44 minute long spin. However, I can't help but drawing an additional line to Tim Hecker in Woven Tide; sometimes playing with vast elements of drone somewhere deep inside of their beautiful, organic creature. It almost fits a little too well to the sound of my own shoes walking down the slowly awaking streets of Berlin — adopting sounds from the environment like a soundtrack to a film, but with constant motion in this chaotic world.
Have a first listen to "Sitting in a Roofless Room" below, and don't forget to look out for this musical journey on January 31 via Experimedia.
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After last year's stellar Midnight Crimes tape on Not Not Fun, Stockholm's Sand Circles returns with more Vangelis-informed ambient synth incursions into the lost future of our shared past. "Endless Nights" is a mind-altering cruise through deserted urban canyons and wasted red light districts, alarmingly capturing the daunting anxiety that sets in after a seemingly endless night just before the break of dawn.
The track will be part of Sand Circles' Motor City cassette which will be out via NNF sometime in late January or early February.
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After last year's stellar Midnight Crimes tape on Not Not Fun, Stockholm's Sand Circles returns with more Vangelis-informed ambient synth incursions into the lost future of our shared past. "Endless Nights" is a mind-altering cruise through deserted urban canyons and wasted red light districts, alarmingly capturing the daunting anxiety that sets in after a seemingly endless night just before the break of dawn.
The track will be part of Sand Circles' Motor City cassette which will be out via NNF sometime in late January or early February.
Sand Circles - Endless Nights
Fresh off his excellent LP on Mexican Summer last year comes new stuff by San Francisco bedroom weirdo David Speck aka Part Time, more soft-filtered, 80s-informed synth jams that are part post-adolescence futureless melancholia, part hazy beach time chilling, all drenched in a syrupy sheen custom-made for pre-apocalyptic karaoke escapism. Wonderful.
The Visions of the Future 7 inch is now out via Loglady.
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Fresh off his excellent LP on Mexican Summer last year comes new stuff by San Francisco bedroom weirdo David Speck aka Part Time, more soft-filtered, 80s-informed synth jams that are part post-adolescence futureless melancholia, part hazy beach time chilling, all drenched in a syrupy sheen custom-made for pre-apocalyptic karaoke escapism. Wonderful.
The Visions of the Future 7 inch is now out via Loglady.
Part Time - Visions of the Future
Lay Bac's Thomas hit me up this weekend with the duo's forthcoming five-track EP named Shortcuts, set for release via Zoom Lens on January 21. Delicious, mildly deranged and psychedelic summer funk grooves that might not fit the season (unless you're down there), so set your alarm to June 1 to play it again for the full effect. For now, listen to EP standout "With You, With Me" below.
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Lay Bac's Thomas hit me up this weekend with the duo's forthcoming five-track EP named Shortcuts, set for release via Zoom Lens on January 21. Delicious, mildly deranged and psychedelic summer funk grooves that might not fit the season (unless you're down there), so set your alarm to June 1 to play it again for the full effect. For now, listen to EP standout "With You, With Me" below.
Lay Bac - With You, With Me
We're back with the first Video Sunday of 2012, this week featuring some truly magnificent visuals with soundtracks of Youth Lagoon (obviously), Stay+, Woods, Buchikamashi, 9mary and Judah Warsky.
Youth Lagoon - July (Directed by Tyler T Williams)
Stay+ - Dandelion (Directed by Stay+ featuring Psychologist and Miss Ballooniverse)
Woods - Any Other Day (Video by EyeBodega, Drawings by Jeremy Earl)
Buchikamashi - Super Mind (Video by D. Voigt)
Judah Warsky - "Painkillers & Alcohol" / "Asleep in the train" (Directed by Jamie Harley)
9mary - Blow Out
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We're back with the first Video Sunday of 2012, this week featuring some truly magnificent visuals with soundtracks of Youth Lagoon (obviously), Stay+, Woods, Buchikamashi, 9mary and Judah Warsky.
Youth Lagoon - July (Directed by Tyler T Williams)
Stay+ - Dandelion (Directed by Stay+ featuring Psychologist and Miss Ballooniverse)
Woods - Any Other Day (Video by EyeBodega, Drawings by Jeremy Earl)
Buchikamashi - Super Mind (Video by D. Voigt)
Judah Warsky - "Painkillers & Alcohol" / "Asleep in the train" (Directed by Jamie Harley)
9mary - Blow Out
Stellar new collaboration between two of Canada's finest contemporary synth experimentalists, Frank Ouellette aka Hobo Cubes and Christian Richer of Élément Kuuda (and The Haiduks), and the second amazing Moduli TV (aka Ouellette) video of the week. Literally spaced-out visualization that perfectly underscores the duo's magnificently precise analog synth excursions. The marvelous arrangements of "The Invention" will soon find proper company with the release of a Cavernes full-length entitled Discovering Years, though the album's details remain undisclosed for now. We'll keep you informed.
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Stellar new collaboration between two of Canada's finest contemporary synth experimentalists, Frank Ouellette aka Hobo Cubes and Christian Richer of Élément Kuuda (and The Haiduks), and the second amazing Moduli TV (aka Ouellette) video of the week. Literally spaced-out visualization that perfectly underscores the duo's magnificently precise analog synth excursions. The marvelous arrangements of "The Invention" will soon find proper company with the release of a Cavernes full-length entitled Discovering Years, though the album's details remain undisclosed for now. We'll keep you informed.
Been vibing out hard to the supreme synth jams on the latest Magic Rub Cassettes release, a superb split between Twins aka Atlanta, Georgia's Matt Weiner of Featureless Ghost and Joy and Revolution (about whom I don't have any further info except for the fact that the outfit appears to be a male/female duo). Excellent early 80s cold wave influences on both sides here that come along with some nicely dripping futurism, all in all a very rad listen and really recommended. Get the Futurescope Split Cassette now over here.
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Been vibing out hard to the supreme synth jams on the latest Magic Rub Cassettes release, a superb split between Twins aka Atlanta, Georgia's Matt Weiner of Featureless Ghost and Joy and Revolution (about whom I don't have any further info except for the fact that the outfit appears to be a male/female duo). Excellent early 80s cold wave influences on both sides here that come along with some nicely dripping futurism, all in all a very rad listen and really recommended. Get the Futurescope Split Cassette now over here.
All though you can argue this to be a bit of an early announcement, we simply can't hold it back: From The Mouth of The Sun's Woven Tide is already one of our favourite records this year, exploring the classical ambient space with bright, magnificent beauty. Being the result of a collaboration between Gothenburg's Dag Rosenqvist (aka Jasper TX) and Topeka, Kansas composer Aaron Martin, both Godspeed You! Black Emperor and Berlin-based composer Mac Richter will instantely come to mind throughout its 44 minute long spin. However, I can't help but drawing an additional line to Tim Hecker in Woven Tide; sometimes playing with vast elements of drone somewhere deep inside of their beautiful, organic creature. It almost fits a little too well to the sound of my own shoes walking down the slowly awaking streets of Berlin — adopting sounds from the environment like a soundtrack to a film, but with constant motion in this chaotic world.
Have a first listen to "Sitting in a Roofless Room" below, and don't forget to look out for this musical journey on January 31 via Experimedia.
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