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PROJECT STS-31 | Spiralgalaxie (Hubble Telescope Series Vol. III) - CD/LP

PROJECT STS-31 | Spiralgalaxie (Hubble Telescope Series Vol. III) – CD/LP

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Celebrating Solar One Music‘s 40th release and 10th anniverary, this split LP sees two stars under various disguises, Heinrich Mueller (aka Der Zyklus and various other projects) and German producer Robert Witschakowski aka The Exaltics, back to back in a no return odyssey through the depths of the Galaxy.

Expect nothing but contemplative and cosmic electro beats using original outer-space sounds from the Universe. The final chapter of the series dedicated solely to Hubble and all the great scientists and engineers at the NASA and ESA, comes with a beautiful cover print picture taken by the Space Telescope.

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Scandinavian Swords II | Northern Electronics - 3×12″

Scandinavian Swords II | Northern Electronics – 3×12″

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30 releases strong, Northern Electronics calls to arms for an entire army-strong release. Scandinavian Swords II collects new players next to the regular stable into a 3×12″ release, where the labels many facets gets showcased through the hands and minds of its artists. In this wonderful sonic mixture lies the trademark sound of Northern Electronics, buried deep into the minds of the forward-thinkers.

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TANGENT | Collapsing Horizons (n5MD)

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Collapsing Horizons is the third full length album from Netherlands based deep ambient duo Tangent. This album much like the two preceding it – 1mk2 (Mindtrick) and 20Transience (Tympanik) – is a sonic journey with arching atmospheres and themes. An aural representation of the formation of matter and it’s disintegration in unison. The music, much as the album’s namesake, could very well be the soundtrack to new universes being created on the ashes of collapsing ones. Ralph van Reijendam and Robbert Kok who are the two behind Tangent moonlight in a long list of paradoxical musical projects. Fire Walk with Us, Rob Klerkx and the Secret, Disavowed, and Synesis Absorption are all quite different from Tangent‘s sprawling yet steady ambience. Collapsing Horizons is available on CD & Vinyl format.

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SHIELD PATTERNS | Mirror Breathing (Gizeh Records)

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Manchester-based duo Shield Patterns return with a new album entitled Mirror Breathing. Released on band member Richard Knox’s own Gizeh Records label, Mirror Breathing follows on from the critically acclaimed debut album Contour Lines. Where it’s predecessors took a more stark, electronic and processed approach, Mirror Breathing is an altogether warmer, more cinematic record. The cello of guest collaborator Julia Kent (Antony & the Johnsons / The Leaf Label) introduces a new element and a new energy to the sound, pulling the songs into a more symphonic form. The electronics, drones and field recordings are intricately and painstakingly arranged by the duo, meandering between haunting vocal passages, clarinet swells and delicate synth phrases. The album ebbs and flows through hypnotic beats (Dusk, Blue Shutters, Glow), ethereal and tender piano-led songs (Bruises, Anymore) to more aggressive, heavily experimental, free-jazz elements (Balance & Scatter). Available on CD & Vinyl.

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BIOSPHERE | Departed Glories (Smalltown Supersound)

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It’s easy to forget that Norway shares a short stretch of frontier with Russia, right at the northernmost tip of the country. That region is where Geir Jenssen, the Norwegian electronic producer behindBiosphere, comes from, and where he has been composing his austere, disturbing and deeply textured ambience since the early 1980s. Biosphere has released many albums to date including Substrata, voted the greatest ambient album of all time on the Hyperreal website, and has collaborated with Arne Nordheim, Higher Intelligence Agency, Deathprod, Pete Namlook and Bel Canto. His 12th album Departed Glories is his first in almost five years and marks a new deal with the Oslo independent label Smalltown Supersound.

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LUSTMORD | Dark Matter (Touch Music)

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This project is derived from an audio library of cosmological activity collected between 1993 and 2003. It was gathered from various sources including NASA (Cape Canaveral, Ames, The Jet Propulsion Laboratory and Arecibo), The Very Large Array, The National Radio Astronomy Observatory and various educational institutions and private contributors throughout the USA. While space is a virtual vacuum, it does not mean there is no sound in space. It exists in space as naturally occurring electromagnetic vibrations, many well within the range of human hearing while others exist at different regions of the electromagnetic spectrum and these can be adjusted with software to bring them within our audio range. The recordings of these interactions in space come from several different environments including radio, ultra violet, microwave and X-ray data and within these spectra a wide range of sources including interstellar plasma and molecules, radio galaxies, pulsars masers and quasars, charged particle interactions and emissions, radiation, exotic astrophysical objects, cosmic jets and flares from magnetars.

Conceived and Produced by B.Lustmord.
Recorded in Los Angeles October-December 2015.

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PLANETARY ASSAULT SYSTEMS | Arc Angel (Ostgut Ton)

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With Arc Angel, Planetary Assault Systems departs to new musical frontiers by focussing on melody, but staying rooted in the purist values of Techno that Luke Slater shaped over his decades- and generations-spanning career. While the album title may sound like a reference to spiritual matters, it hints to rather secular affairs – piety is a relict of the past after all. Arc Angel is a postmodernist, non-comfortist Techno album first and foremost, catering as much for club contexts as for accessibility in new melodic terms.

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MURCOF & WAGNER | Statea (Infiné) | CD & Vinyl

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Appearing unusual at first, this collaboration between Mexican Ambient figurehead Fernando Corona(better known as Murcof) and multi-award winning French classical pianist Vanessa Wagnersurrenders a sublime logic. Both classically trained, their career paths took different trajectories, but converged toward the same enthusiasm when it comes to minimalism. The project was initiated in 2010 at InFine‘s own creative retreat – the Workshop InFiné festival in Normandoux next to Poitiers in France. Six years on from that initial meeting, and many captivating performances later, they’ve crafted a unique studio album that captures the essence of their concert.

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JHEREK BISCHOFF | Cistern (Leaf)

JHEREK BISCHOFF | Cistern (Leaf)

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Cistern is an album inspired by time Bischoff spent improvising in an empty, two-million-gallon, underground water tank, with a 45-second reverb decay. The unique acoustics of the space forcedBischoff to slow down and adapt his compositional approach – something which, unexpectedly, brought him back to his childhood, and the slow-pace of life he experienced growing up on a sailboat.

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HUMAN RAYS | A Tension (Further records)

HUMAN RAYS | A Tension (Further records)

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Human Rays – Stockholm, Sweden producer Robin Smeds Mattila—says that the music on A Tensionwas made during nocturnal sessions in a studio full of mostly cheap analog and digital gear, all in one take. “I kind of let the mood guide me and just go with it,” he says. The result is a gripping fourtrack´suite of emotionally charged minimal ambient that was created quickly but sounds like it was rigorously sweated over for many weeks.

After a handful of releases that explored noisy, quasiindustrial techno, Mattila here deviates into a more abstract, melancholy mode with A Tension. His creative process involves experimenting “to see how far I can push a sound with a pretty lofi setup. Improvisation and limitations are part of the thing that makes it interesting.”…

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AUTOMATISME | Momentform Accumulations (Constellation)

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Momentform Accumulations compiles much of Jourdain’s most recent and most rhythmically-driven work. We’re very excited to be issuing this as Automatisme’s first official full-length physical album release – and while Jourdain continues to pursue his studies in Art History, his practice as a painter and installation artist, and his work at Saint-Hyacinthe’s excellent Fréquences record store, we also anticipate diverse and fascinating future recordings from Automatisme that will stake out a multi-faceted identity for this viscerally engaged young producer. We also urge interested ears to check out Automatisme on Bandcamp for previous recordings that similarly reveal the project’s multiplicity.

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TRIPSWITCH | Vagabond (Iboga) - Vinyl

TRIPSWITCH | Vagabond (Iboga) – Vinyl

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The long awaited return of Tripswitch sees this veteran of the chillout scene evolve into a producer of the finest deeply melodic, progressive house music.

Feeling in need of a fresh challenge and creative new direction after 10 years of establishing himself as one of the world’s premium chillout producers, Nick Brennan has been focused on exploring and developing a more dancefloor-orientated ethos whilst adding to his ever-growing catalogue of tracks and remixes over the past 4 years. This new album project for 2016 is the culmination of his experiments in steadily upping the tempo of his renowned live performances

“Vagabond” is an elegant and refined collection of truly progressive house music, impeccably produced and full of the musicality and emotion that has cemented Tripswitch‘s reputation and high regard within the chillout scene throughout 15 years of releases.

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JASON SHARP | A Boat Upon Its Blood (Constellation)

JASON SHARP | A Boat Upon Its Blood (Constellation)

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Jason Sharp has been a fixture of Montréal’s experimental/improv scene for many years, chiefly as a saxophonist exploring drone and durational music, while also collaborating in a wide variety of jazz, avant and contemporary music ensembles – he has several prior links to Constellation, notably as part of Sam Shalabi’s Land Of Kush orchestra and Matana Roberts’ Coin Coin Chapter One band, and as a session player on Thee Silver Mt Zion’s 2010 album Kollaps Tradixionales.

Sharp’s work as a composer, conductor and band leader in his own right is now featured on A Boat Upon Its Blood, the first album-length recording to be released under his own name: a bracingly meditative multi-movement instrumental work that charts a highly compelling arc of shifting energies and intensities, tracing a heterogeneous cycle of minimalisms and maximalisms. Using custom-built equipment to translate breath and heart rate into variegated sonic triggers, along with other modes of signal processing and in tandem with traditional instrumentation, A Boat Upon Its Blood featuresSharp’s own reed playing and contributions from a few guest musicians, particularly Josh Zubot on violin and Joe Grass on pedal steel guitar.

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Cygna Enshrine 1 Malta

1st October 2016 | Enshrine 1 | Cygna Live performance 5.1 | Malta

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‘EnShrine‘ are Cygna’s new ethereal live surround sound performances. Cygna embodies the memories of the space and, as such, spatializes these memories through a recollection of vocal and synth works in reminiscence. EnShrine 1 will take place within St Anne Church in Pjazza D’Armi, Fort St Elmo on the 1st of October 2016.
EnShrine 2 & 3 will be announced in the near future.

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GAËTAN GROMER | Noise Level (Voxxov Records)

GAËTAN GROMER | Noise Level (Voxxov Records)

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The new release from VoxxoV records is available. Gaëtan Gromer Noise Level is an attempt of sound illustration of this idea and, like in the short story, the library holds a central place. All compositions in this disc are built from real sounds recorded in ordinary libraries. After transformation, these heterogeneous sounds blend into a new environment, where a coffee machine might as well be a melodic instrument and the sounds of book handling, a percussion set. The creative gesture then represents a link between the concrete manifestations of reality and the imaginaries…


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MERRIN KARRAS | Apex (A Strangely Isolated Place)

MERRIN KARRAS | Apex (A Strangely Isolated Place)

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Inspired by the sounds of artists like Klaus Schulze, Biosphere and Abul Mogard, and finding renewed focus in creating without external pressures or deadlines, Gregoriy‘s ambient experimentation emerged, fully-formed, as Merrin Karras. His debut album under this moniker, Apex, is released on A Strangely Isolated Place.

Written and recorded in two Berlin winters, it’s a record driven by a widescreen contrast between celestial beauty and engulfing black hole intent. Flawlessly produced, Vangelis panorama and vintage sci-fi exist in a space where drums and rhythmic elements have been willfully stripped out – and where the synths can truly breathe.

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STARSEED | Various Artists | Synphaera Records

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Matter spreads through space like a cosmic code traversing the universe inside solar windblown motes of space-dust or interwoven into encoded beams of starlight. Explore this cosmic migration through the stars and the origins of life, as the artists on STARSEED evoke the patterns and frequencies of the universe. Every man and woman is a star. Featured artists : ASCENDANT, MARTIN NONSTATIC, MOTION FIELD, GERMIND, SUBDREAM, FOURTH DIMENSION, CHRONOS, OMELIC, TRANSPONDER & SOLARIS. Compiled by Chris Bryant and Don Tyler for Synphaera Records

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