This release is borne of a remote partnership that was ignited during a 2023 performance Abul Mogard and Rafael Anton Irisarri did in Madrid for the opening of the SoundSet Series at the Condeduque cultural center.
Chimet, named after the Chichester West Pole Beacon, maps meteorological and sea state data onto various musical values to create a continuous electronic music soundscape.
Day is Nils Frahm latest collection of solo ambient-ish piano music, and his first album since 2022’s three-hour Music For Animals.
Jasmine Wood created Piano Reverb by recording the reverb of sustained notes and chords from an antique, Blüthner grand piano in a vacant Irish church.
Indigo is the first single from the Lawrence English and loscil collaborative album, Chroma, that releases April 5, 2024.
The Depth of Rain is the new LP by Brock Van Wey (bvdub) born through finding a handmade steel tongue drum, made by his girlfriend’s uncle.
33 34 is the final release by the avant garde duo made up of the late Peter Rehberg and Nik Colk Void, NPVR.
Ambients is an EP mostly comprised of previously released Oneohtrix Point Never tracks with the exception of the opening track, CC.
At Dusk Hour the Crickets incorporates field recordings of crickets, wind and campers’ chatter that Daniel Field captured by leaving his field recorder on top of his car on a warm, late-summer night in Oro-Medonte, Ontario.
Not necessarily a new release for Celer as it was originally released as a limited edition CD-R in 2008, Cursory Asperses, an album that combines cassette tape recordings of sounds from various bodies of water and tape instrument recordings from synthesizers, an organ, cello, piano, and bowed instruments, is now available on Bandcamp.
Halloween Theme cover I recorded using the Moog Mother-32, DFAM and Sub37 synthesizers. The original’s famous and odd piano line almost feels like it could have been written on a synth sequencer so it felt fitting to try it out on the Mother-32’s sequencer. Other than the driving 16th note percussion from the Moog DFAM, the rest of the musical bed comes from various layers of Moog Sub37.
In May of 2022, Thanatos reached down and cut a lock of hair from composer Vangelis’ head. Vangelis, possibly most known for scoring Chariots of Fire, also created the soundtrack for the sci-fi noir classic Blade Runner. A lot of synths include patches that make reference to the synth-heavy soundtrack, including the ASM Hydrasynth. At the time of Vangelis’ passing, I decided to try to make a quick rework of Blade Runner Titles using only preset patches from the Hydrasynth. Listen to the track in the video below.
First playlist of 2014 and first post in a very long time. Includes songs by Majical Cloudz, Flume, Shlohmo, Solids and many more. Super fresh tracks from Canadians with upcoming albums, Mac Demarco and Timber Timbre. Enjoy.
A selection of tracks including new Nine Inch Nails, Disclosure, Jon Hopkins, We Are Wolves (Montreal!).
Before there was even such a thing as punk music, three black brothers with a band by the name of Death were playing hardcore in Detroit. After recording an album, they quickly disbanded when no one would sign them because of their name and that they were black teens playing white-boy rock instead of the Motown music that was in vogue. The story of the “first black punk band” is chronicled in a new documentary called A Band Called Death. Here’s the trailer:
Individual tracks:
“Pusha Man (Paranoia)” – Nosay Thing & Chance the Rapper
“Heartbreaks + Setbacks” – Thundercat
“Bring You Back” – Beacon
“Doused” – DIIV
“All Your Gold” – Bat For Lashes
“I Bought My Eyes” – Ty Segall Band
“Sail to the Sun” – Wavves
“Song For Zula” – Phosphorescent