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.
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.”…
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.
Discover AUTOMATISME | Momentform Accumulations (Constellation)
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.
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.
Discover JASON SHARP | A Boat Upon Its Blood (Constellation)
‘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.
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…
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.
Join us at the record shop this Saturday for a showcase with Partition Libre.
De Stijl, Røpe & Focal will be performing from 4pm to 8pm.
Bring something to share, free admission.
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
The new EP from Less is Techno is out now. Mastering by Ultimae Studio.
James Murray upcoming EP “Ghostwalk” gets a premiere on Igloo Magazine…
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
Excellent reviews of Far & Off and Unyt on Igloo Magazine. Thank you Nocturnal Ghost.
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.
NOVA (Ultimae) will be performing a special Dj set this Saturday at Tribal Village. Two Music Rooms & mezzanine Chill Out area with Chai Bar by Soma PsyLounge. Main Room Deco by Floating Bush Collective (UK). Second Room Decc by Kailash Productions (Portugal). Video Multi-Mapping by Delta Process/14c0
With other artists : EVP (UK) / NIRMAL (TrippyTrail, GOA) / M-THEORY (UK,Italy) / YOUNG KIM (South Korea) / Jay OM (UK,Italy) / ALIJI (UK) / JON SANGITA (UK) / MR. MUSH (UK) / DILLAN M (South Africa) / IMRY (Italy) / ALEXAMPT (South Africa) / SPINDRIFT (UK) / LAUREN LYON (UK) / PSY TUGA (Portugal)
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Here we are again, back from our summer holiday, fully recharged, and ready for great music !
To start with, let’s celebrate the official release of Martin Nonstatic’s « Nebulae Live at the Planetarium » on CD today, if you placed your pre-order, then your package is already on its way.
If you’ve not discovered the album yet, check the link below and let yourself go !
Discover MARTIN NONSTATIC | Nebulae live at the Planetarium
We are happy to have AES DANA feat. MIKTEK‘s Far & Off reviewed on Headphone Commute website.
This record, reissued by the San Francisco-based label Superior Viaduct, was originally released in 1970 by Shandar, a small French label that made an outsized impact on American musical modernism: in its decade-long existence, the imprint managed to release works by Albert Ayler, La Monte Young,Cecil Taylor, Sun Ra, and many others. Like any good champions of the musical avant-garde, they were eventually punished by fate: in 1979, a flood destroyed most of their original vinyl stock, effectively ending the enterprise.
But for a while, places like Shandar were safe harbor for then-misfits like Reich. The two pieces here,Four Organs and Phase Patterns, come from an era of Reich’s work when he was still in an obsessively scientific mode, boring down on a single capital-I Idea to extract from it whatever secrets might be unlocked from it. The idea here was his first big one, and the one that he remains most associated with: If you took two tones, set them apart from each other, and then moved them in and out of frequency incrementally, you could push open a gate of perception. The idea began with tape loops, but Reichsoon moved it into live instrumentation, and then pushed its way into larger forces, where that original idea could be heard more as a whisper more than a shriek. Here, it is the work of four monomaniacally focused musicians: The Farfisas are played by Steve Reich and Philip Glass, joined by Arthur “Art” Bixler Murphy and Steve Chambers, while Jon Gibson supplies the steady maraca shakes…(Jayson Greene | Pitchfork)
These walls have made us the beings we are. They have listened and echoed, our words, our creed, our hate. These walls have tied down the souls of us; they made us insane, hysterics, in observing defenceless, uncredulous that there was not, any reaction. We can only halt us, after having used up our nails, over these walls now rough because of our shouts, our burned hopes, by our passions damned; by our minds, dinned. None could ever help us, because as slaves we feel and now we are, of these cursed walls and of these walls damned that, however still give a sense, to our cold life.