JAMES MURRAY | Ghostwalk (Ultimae) – Vinyl EP & Digital Pre-order

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We’re delighted to announce the upcoming release of James Murray’s Ghostwalk EP featuring remixes by Martin Nonstatic and Kinosura.

After releases on Eilean Records, Voxxov and a trilogy on his own Slowcraft label, the british composer return to Ultimae with a haunting teaser to the full length « Eyes to the height » album which is to come out later this year.

Available on vinyl and digital format, from our Ultimae shop if you’re especially interested in the Dolby and DTS formats, from both Ultimae and Bandcamp for the vinyl, mp3 and lossless audio files.

Discover it now ! And while you’re at it, do check out the records selected by Focal, there’s some for everyone’s liking, from dub techno to spaced out ambient.

Discover Ghostwalk | Ultimae Shop

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Igloo Magazine | A WINTER TRANSMISSION

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Excellent reviews of  Far & Off and Unyt on Igloo Magazine. Thank you Nocturnal Ghost.

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IAN MARTIN | Clairvoyant (diametric.) – Out today

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Ian Martin‘s new album is out today. Known for his diverse releases on labels such as Bunker, Panzerkreuz, Further or Shimmering Moods, Ian Martin has developed his very unique own brand of electronic music. To categorize his music is difficult which adds an immense appeal to his approch on his releases.

Clairvoyant is an uplifting and beautiful album based around three of Ian’s favourite synthesizers: Waldorf Microwave I, Ensoniq ESQ-1 and Korg M1. Ian describes this album as an emotional collection of tracks with a lot of fantasy. This description sums it up very well and diametric. is very pleased to be able to present this album. Please join us and dive into the fantasy world Ian has invited us in.

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CHPTR | CHPTR 003

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Very little is known about CHPTR, other than that the producers behind the alias are two very well known figures from contemporary techno. Their series launched last year with one three-tracker release in October, followed by a similarly formatted one in February of this year. Following on from those, CHPTR 003 takes much the same approach: three cuts of deep atmospheric techno.

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JACEK SIENKIEWICZ | Hideland (Recognition)

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Hideland is the new record by Polish electronic music producer Jacek Sienkiewicz, released precisely one year after Drifting, which largely explored tropes of classical club techno sound. Eight (nine in extended CD version) tracks comprising this album go beyond easy-to-pigeonhole genres, creating a microcosm of utopian sound constructs. Surprisingly unobvious and precisely composed release could be fascinating both for loyal fans and for new listeners looking for threads of experimentalism. It’s another intriguing proposal in Jacek Sienkiewicz’s growing discography, but above all – a laboratory where dreams and artistic visions metamorphose into concrete reality.

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MOGADOR | Overflow Pool (Further Records)

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Some records just barely nudge your consciousness, but they do so in such an intriguing manner that their tentativeness and ephemerality lure you in deeper than you expect. Such is the case withOverflow Pool by Mogador, a new project by Will Long. This prolific producer—who is best known for his profoundly meditative ambient music under the name Celer—favors the long-form, beatless approach to composition, as he lets his rigorously honed tones unspool with a gentle insistence.

Overflow Pool consists of three lengthy pieces full of lingering, aqueous chords that are spaced out by suspenseful lacunae. Each piece revolves around episodes of briskly struck piano chord clusters that are left to decay to near silence, for maximal contemplativeness. These are followed by a lower-keyed retort, as if to ground the listener and to keep her from getting overly optimistic from the preceding burst of Harold Budd-on-uppers tones. Similarities to Brian Eno‘s Thursday Afternoon are also evident, as Mogador methodically doles out morsels of oceanic calm geared to align your chakras like some 21st-century Stephen Halpern LP. It sounds ideal for flotation tanks, deep-tissue massages, and general relaxation.

Discover MOGADOR | Overflow Pool (Further Records)

CLARK | The Last Panthers (Warp)

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Warp legend Chris Clark was on sparkling sonic-form adding gravitas to the recent Warp Films/Sky Atlantic/ Canal + series, The Last Panthers (notable, also for the Bowie theme song). The best of the OST is now pressed up on limited vinyl and CD for your aural satisfaction. The nineteen cues here will surprise a few followers of Clark ‘The Techno Artist’, as he demonstrates a haunting way with organic instruments (treated piano, plucked and bowed viola, live drums, processed guitar), meshed into fragile arrangements of an “…unsettling, brittle sonic universe that reflected the tragic downward trajectory of the characters lives, with moments of immense enveloping warmth and softness.” A special soundtrack, handsomely packaged, as ever, by the Warp team.

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BEN LUKAS BOYSEN | Spells

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Who could’ve predicted neo-classical’s sudden surge in popularity ? Call it what you will – modern composition, ambient, sound art, or call it all three—it seems a greater portion of listeners than ever before have cottoned onto the delicate, slow-burning beauty of what, until recently, has been a kind of best-kept secret, preserved for those in the know. As is often the case when a style of music—if you can generalize it—catches aflame, one artist drove this upwards spike.

Nils Frahm, with his clever intermingling of electronics and classical tropes, has become its figurehead, (alongside a handful of others, like Max Richter), and this form of composition has had support from some prominent figures, such as the UK’s taste-making DJ, Mary Anne Hobbs. But if any one label can be said to be pushing the scene, it’s Frahm’s home imprint, Erased Tapes. The label has been quietly releasing an exceptional and very particular sound since 2006. Though counting more overtly dance acts among its stable, like Rival Consoles, for the most part, that intersection where machines meet human emotion, and instrumentation meets programming, has been their specialism. Ólafur Arnalds, who recently, like Nils, created an edition of the Late Night Tales compilation series, is among their rising names, as is Ben Lukas Boysen.

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Ultimae Summer Notes

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The start of the summer has been a joyful one, many festivals and gathering around the world, special moments shared with our beloved artists and you all.

And back at the studio there’s much going on as well, Scann-Tec spent two weeks with us working on « secret projects » with AES Dana and the new DTS format we’ll be offering soon for our releases, Mizoo and Mnnsk came to finalise the Greenosophy Chapter II compilation and Arnaud is creating new artworks for reprints of some of your favorite albums.