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Boduf Songs: Inter...
Limited edition of 200 copies made in beautiful jackets, designed by Sweet himself, and printed in lush silver ink on black paper by Druckwerkstatt in Aachen, Germany… Boduf Songs is the name taken by Mat Sweet. Boduf Songs was Sweet’s first attempt at recording himself playing his own songs, using a sparse variety of instruments. Mostly vocal and guitar oriented, it would be easy to confuse him with singer-songwriters. But Sweet’s compositions are way more bleak and abrasive than what most people associate with the genre. Sweet has a profound love for loud and heavy music, which he takes in …
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Annelies Monsere: ...
Limited 10″ edition of 150 copies for the world… Annelies Monseré is one of those artists who graces us with excellent ep’s that at the same time are a sort of missing link between full lengths, and being records that have enough qualities to be justified to be listened to on their own. Nest is no exception to this. The loud, built up start of the record gives a glimpse on what to expect on her yet unreleased third record, but is still heavily relying on the melodies that made her second album Marit so remarkable. The b-side of the …
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Kink Gong: Xinjian...
Special vinyl pressing of 300 copies mastered and cut at Dubplate @ Mastering by Rashad Becker. All tracks were recorded on location in the ILI prefecture, Xinjiang province, China by Laurent Jeanneau… Kink Gong aka Laurent Jeanneau is a Field Recording artist based in Dali, China. He spends his time recording ethnic minority music, mostly in Southeast Asia and releasing the results on his own CDr label, Kink Gong Recordings as well as occasionally contributing to Sublime Frequencies compilations. He also composes electronic music that includes and transforms those recordings. For Xinjiang, Laurent based his soundscape around the recordings he …
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Celer & Machi...
Limited edition of 250 numbered copies. Comes in a matte full colour jacket. Includes download with two videos by Marco Douma… After the release of their first 7-inch, ‘Maastunnel/Mt. Mitake’, Will and Rutger decided to make it a series, and continue with another. ‘Numa/Penarie’ is the second collaboration, containing all-original audio pieced together from snippets of much longer source material. The artwork is a collage of old postcards from Jimbocho in Tokyo, and the single is again accompanied with two beautiful videos by Marco Douma.
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Karina ESP: Detach...
Limited CD edition of 150 for the world… Karina ESP has been releasing select cd-r’s, cassettes, 10”es and other modern record formats since 1998 already, which gathered founder Chris Gowers quite a cult status within the ambient scene. He creates Warm and dark drones, mostly guitarbased but his vague melodies and select use of other instruments creates a unique environmental atmosphere. Gowers is also founder of the labels Evelyn Records and Trome Records, a member of Signals and Rome Pays Off (both with Mark Beazley of Rothko) and a frequent collaborator with the likes of Isnaj Dui, Circle Bros and …
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Kim_Nasung: Places...
Digipak limited run of 500.. There are the places where we can not get. Or we can only if our imagination helps. Mysterious images, dreamy shapes, reminiscences and unrecognisable traces. Sometimes we can sense them, so close to us. We can understand them the way we understand old pictures of people whom we never met. People whom we only know from the stories. Those seemingly cold and remote worlds and events, covered with the fog which steels the colour… Those worlds create the chain of extraordinary cycles. They lead to nowhere besides themselves. Pulsating and imaginary places. Discover them. Stalk …
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Joe Evans: Eclipti...
This release is available in limited edition 100 x CDr & Data-DVD using high quality Aquaguard (matt) or Watershield (gloss) discs (depending on availability). The covers are made from recycled card. The video is released as a data file to ensure the highest possible quality is available… The Music: I think it’s safe to say that space, and more specifically, the sun and planets, have been the inspiration behind a large number of musical projects over the years. While this work deals with some of this familiar subject, it does so with the emphasis on time and particularly by how …
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David Newlyn ̵...
The second in a new series from Time Released Sound comes from David Newlyn, entitled “Ruins”. Like the Taskerlands release, the music on this release comes in the form of two long 20+ minute tracks. With the usual finesse that David shows on all his work, he brings us here an absolutely stunning blend of neo-classical beauty featuring laptop, keyboard, guitars, minidisc and field recordings. This is headphone music for sure…it’s delicate yet insistent flow, and depth of ambient nuance is in fine keeping with David’s previous release on Time Released Sound of last year, “Brittle”. Newlyn has such a …
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Bing & Ruth: ...
Limited Edition of 32 hand numbered copies, comes with a download code inside the sleeve. The second release in the new tape series comes from Bing & Ruth, led by New York residing composer David Moore. Limited Edition of 32 numbered copies. – Printed card inner sleeve – Hand typed insert on hand-made paper – White cassette tape – Download code included – Housed in a brown card outer case
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Isle of Sodor: Gos...
Limited edition tape comes in a hand numbered edition of 111… Electronic meditations to put your mind at ease. Adam Miller’s music is the perfect sonic equivalent to a sun-drenched afternoon for swimming in an artificial lagoon. An idealised and synthetic, friendly and mild tempered environment designed to comfort you. And that’s a good thing, actually.
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Venn Rain: Cymatic...
Limited edition tape comes in a hand numbered edition of 111… Synth-driven and meditative excursions into a vast landscape and towards a receding horizon. There’s no rainbow to reach anymore – there’s just time going by while travelling endless spaces full of nothing. All you can do is just to move on and enjoy the ride while it lasts!
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For Machines (Limi...
Super Limited edition of 50 cassettes with accompanying hyperactive/disorientating essay (screen-printed). All assembled by hand. C90 cassette with bonus Side B: minimal Background sounds and unassuming drones.
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Magpie Magazine Is...
Featuring 96, full colour pages of prose, poetry, interviews, enticing images and new music reviews. Each copy comes paired with an exclusive, limited edition, compilation CD of rare and recent musical releases… Content: Hanna Tuulikki Magpie’s cover illustrator uncovers the secrets of her symbolic world. Chrysalis An excerpt of ‘Chrysalis’ by Kim Todd, which explores the life of Maria Sibylla Merian, a 17th century botanical illustrator, and her quest to uncover the mystery of metamorphosis. The Museum of British Folklore We speak to Simon Costin, the founder of a new museum set up to celebrate the weird and wonderful folk …
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AspidIstrafly R...
Back In Stock: Limited numbers available… Comes in a 48-page artbook edition (21 x 15cm) featuring photographs and collages by April Lee and Miu Nozaka, with styling by Rika M. Orrery, who have, from their expeditions during the making of this album, directed a dream sequence around the encompassing atmosphere of a secluded hilltop cottage, a forest hued in the splendor of autumn and distant, rocky shores. In the autumn/winter of 2010, Singapore-based April Lee and Ricks Ang of AspidIstrafly (also founders of Kitchen. Label) embarked on the recording of their second album A Little Fable in Japan in collaboration with several …
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Ironomi – Sk...
Back In Stock: Limited numbers available… Comes in 32 pages hardcover artbook edition featuring photography by April Lee, taken in the immediate surroundings of the recording site in Mashiko City (Tochigi, Japan) in the late summer of 2009. Artbook is professionally offset printed on the new Maple Bright premium matt paper stock, courtesy of RJ Paper of Singapore. Maple Bright is FSC and PEFC certified environmentally friendly. “On a summer’s day, there was an artist sketching the chorus of insects, sketching them using his sense of hearing, adding various colors to a white canvas” Ironomi’s delicate field recordings capture the …
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Haruka Nakamura &#...
Back In Stock: Limited numbers available… Comes in 48 pages hardcover artbook edition. Artbook is professionally offset printed on non acid free newsprint paper. Within its pages, polaroid photos by haruka nakamura are bound to a hardcover with CD enclosed in an envelope attached to inner back cover. As time passes, the material quality of the paper itself will undergo subtle changes naturally. “From the car window, view of streetlamps from atop the hill, like the lighthouse keeper feeding the bonfire with firewood.” An emerging talent on the Japanese ambient/eletro-acoustic scene, haruka nakamura’s second solo outing refines the lyrical, pastoral …
Ekca Liena – Slow Music for Rapid Eye Movement (2xCD)
Re-issue of sold out debut album from Daniel Mackenzie aka Ekca Liena. Originally released on CDr in 2008, the album has been re-edited, remastered and expanded, featuring a whole extra disc of remixes. The album was originally released in a limited edition of 100 in special tin packaging and promptly sold out thanks to high praise from Norman Records. Since then, Daniel has released work through labels Under the Spire and Phantom Channel, released the follow up to “SM4REM” entitled “Sleep Paralysis” on Dead Pilot (now available at a reduced price) and is also due to release a split with A Death Cinematic on the Small Doses label. Daniel has also self released 2 EPs in hand made packaging and 1 digital B-sides collection.
For this CD re-issue, Slow Music For Rapid Eye Movement was stripped down to the individual stems of each track and completely remixed and remastered by Kevin “Pupilar” Ingham over a period of 3 months. He also mastered each of the remixes himself.
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Working with heavily distorted guitar and synthesizers, Mackenzie sculpts his harsh sound into unexpectedly digestible rhythms and melodies, the material nodding subtly toward artists such as Tim Hecker and Fennesz. Once again dealing with a stage of sleep, the music is well suited to this subject and the use of reverb-laden guitar lines suit the atmosphere perfectly without becoming overly concerned with the theme.
Following the ambient dirge of opener Unfolding, Fire Emerging From Mist is a track epic in scope. Beginning at first with electronic static awash, this static is succeeded by a repetitive guitar riff which continues for some minutes until it is at first threatened with, and then ultimately destroyed by, sweeping modulated distortion. The mammoth Further Longer blends an eastern mysticism with noise for an almost EP length of seventeen minutes before the album closes with Missing Ending / Unfolding Revisited.
Though it is a later addition, the remix disc is itself worth exploring, as rather than feeling like a hastily thrown together CD for the sake of appealing to completists, care has gone to making the remixes true value for money and they stand on their own merits. From the jazz-leaning Reverse Erasing Cover by Nick Hudson to Clem Leek’s remix of Missing Weeks, there is a wealth of audio here and almost an hour of additional music.
Whether one is revisiting the album or listening for the first time, Slow Music For Rapid Eye Movement is another fine release from the consistently excellent Dead Pilot Records. – Fluid Radio
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Karina ESP: Detach...
Limited CD edition of 150 for the world… Karina ESP has been releasing select cd-r’s, cassettes, 10”es and other modern record formats since 1998 already, which gathered founder Chris Gowers quite a cult status within the ambient scene. He creates Warm and dark drones, mostly guitarbased but his vague melodies and select use of other instruments creates a unique environmental atmosphere. Gowers is also founder of the labels Evelyn Records and Trome Records, a member of Signals and Rome Pays Off (both with Mark Beazley of Rothko) and a frequent collaborator with the likes of Isnaj Dui, Circle Bros and …
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Boduf Songs: Inter...
Limited edition of 200 copies made in beautiful jackets, designed by Sweet himself, and printed in lush silver ink on black paper by Druckwerkstatt in Aachen, Germany… Boduf Songs is the name taken by Mat Sweet. Boduf Songs was Sweet’s first attempt at recording himself playing his own songs, using a sparse variety of instruments. Mostly vocal and guitar oriented, it would be easy to confuse him with singer-songwriters. But Sweet’s compositions are way more bleak and abrasive than what most people associate with the genre. Sweet has a profound love for loud and heavy music, which he takes in …
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Limited 10″ edition of 150 copies for the world… Annelies Monseré is one of those artists who graces us with excellent ep’s that at the same time are a sort of missing link between full lengths, and being records that have enough qualities to be justified to be listened to on their own. Nest is no exception to this. The loud, built up start of the record gives a glimpse on what to expect on her yet unreleased third record, but is still heavily relying on the melodies that made her second album Marit so remarkable. The b-side of the …
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Limited Limited Limited!!! This rare ep from Winter’s Day introduces us to the exciting, if somewhat unlikely pairing, of Aaron Martin and Dawn Smithson… At just two tracks long and available on only 250 7” pressings, a succinct pair of tracks leaves the listener intrigued by what may follow from this talented duet. When Dawn Smithson burst on to the scene five years ago with her Kranky debut ‘Safer Here’ listeners were provided with a heart wrenching selection of love songs which married her distinctive voice with acoustic guitar. Last year this was followed up by ‘Earth Machine’ an album …
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