FOCAL dj set – Ultimae | Showcase #001
We start a series of mixes recorded during our showcases at Ultimae Record Shop, Lyon, France. To get the ball rolling, we are happy to share with you an Ambient mix by the talented Focal. Enjoy!
We start a series of mixes recorded during our showcases at Ultimae Record Shop, Lyon, France. To get the ball rolling, we are happy to share with you an Ambient mix by the talented Focal. Enjoy!
X – Ten Years Of Artefacts, Mortellaro features solo as Lucy, in collaboration with Rrose as Lotus Eater and together with Speedy J as Zeitgeber. (Rrose also appears alone with The Myth of Purity). Shifted, Efdemin, L.B. Dub Corp (Luke Slater), James Ruskin, Denise Rabe, Adriana Lopez, Chevel, Alessandro Adriani and Serena Butler each feature, representing a group of singular artists whose relationships with the label range from years to months.
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As we start this new cycle with our heads full of music and ideas we’d like to share our gratitude for following and supporting us for the last 20 years, each day is a dream come true, eyes wide open, and none of this would have been possible without you.
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We’re off to celebrate with families and friends and will return on January 2nd.
We wish you all a fantastic holiday!
With Love,
The Ultimae Team
What better way to celebrate Ultimae’s 20th anniversary year than by releasing an album such as Inks by Vincent Villuis aka AES Dana.
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The excellent French webmedia Tartine de Contrebasse dedicated to the electronic musics chronicled with finesse and elegance our latest production JAMES MURRAY & FRANCIS M GRI | Remote Redux. We invite to read it.
We just received the LPs for James Murray & Francis M Gri’s Remote Redux album, looking and sounding wonderful.
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Andy Stott’s first release since 2016 and first EP since 2011, It Should Be Us is a double EP of slow and raw productions for the club, recorded this year and following a series of EP’s that started with Passed Me By and We Stay Together early this decade.
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Victory Over The Sun is the first Wanderwelle and Bandhagens Musikförening (Isorinne & Hypnobirds) collaborative album.
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Pop Ambient Music is medicine against illnesses, that you don’t even suffer from. It’s giving everything, demanding nothing. Musical lotus leafs, off which the virtual wastewater of our time is rolling like the reality is dripping off the matrix.
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The fifth studio album by Shed aka Rene Pawlowitz centers thematically on the Oderbruch region in former East Germany where the producer and DJ grew up and continues to split his time (when not in Berlin).
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The Fifth Kingdom presents it’s second release, 3 transcendental trips from label head Ancestral Voices.
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Lee Holman delivers a deep, atmospheric, dreamy and bewitching three-tracker for Knotweed. Lee explores the inner depth of his synthesizers and drum machines to come up with some heavy layered pieces of techno.
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fallow definition: [verb] – to leave (land) fallow (uncultivated and un-sown for a period of time). The songs herein are an ode to the still beauty of forgotten light, the smell of dust-covered memory, and time-stained fragments of abandoned space at the edge of winters past.
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The recording of Improvisational Loops began in 2012 during yoga classes at Body Actualized Center in NYC. In the spirit of past New Age or Minimal music, it aims to open up a space within the room giving the listener a chance to explore inward or outward.
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Konfusion is the debut album by Germany’s Jonas Meyer. It is a collection of pulsing, shimmering electro-acoustic pieces. A multitude of sound sources, (including piano, percussion, synth and others I can’t identify) are treated and layered up, often underpinned by a strong pulse.
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Luc Kheradmand, under his “nom de plume” Voiski, has created a gem of a record for Ara, named At The Speed Of Love. His highly distinctive sound is distilled into 5 stunning tracks which feel both analog and futuristic.
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Vanessa Wagner‘s Inland is a special album for many reasons, especially since it is our 50th album (released in April 2019). To continue this quest for excellence, the remixes that accompany this release had to be as magical as the interpretations of the French pianist.
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Following up his pair of cryptically luminous EPs for Northern Electronics in the past years, Evigt Mörker presents his debut album, Krona.
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Samuel van Dijk (also known as Mohlao and VC-118A) takes up his Multicast Dynamics alias for his fifth album on Denovali.
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