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Cat: PITP 53R. Rel: 06 Nov 24
Complete Nonsense
Review: zake's untouchable ambient imprint Past Inside the Present revisits James Bernard's classic 1994 album Atmospherics and has remastered it and paired it with some fresh reinterpretations by bvdub, a longtime friend and collaborator. Since the original release, music and technology have evolved significantly but the timeless craft and rich textures of Bernard's work remain evident. Atmospherics achieved cult status during the ambient music boom after being crafted solely with a keyboard, sequencer, 12-bit sampler, drum machine, and bass guitar, all created in real-time and without edits. Bvdub's reinterpretations honour the originals while adding new dimensions and infusing them with a melancholic air that enhances its emotional depth.
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Atmospherics (30th Anniversary Edition) (hand-numbered 2xCD + insert limited to 200 copies)
Cat: PITP 53. Rel: 24 Sep 24
Review: Past Inside the Present looks back to a classic ambient work here from James Bernard. His 1994 ambient masterpiece, Atmospherics, has been newly remastered and paired with a fresh track-by-track reinterpretation by bvdub, a friend and collaborator, for this new reissue. A lot has changed in terms of music and technology (and much more, to be honest) since the original version was made and these new versions were crafted by the timeless musicianship and textural richness still shine through. Amongst those who know, Atmospherics achieved cult status during the rise of ambient music and was created using only a keyboard, sequencer, 12-bit sampler, drum machine, and bass guitar. It was all crafted in real time with no edits and bvdub's tasteful reinterpretations honour the original while exploring new dimensions with a melancholic touch.
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Review: Melancholy maestro Brock Van Wey aka Bvdub returns with more immersive and beautifully sad sounds on his latest album In Iron Houses. It is an ambient work that is far too evocative to serve simply as aural wallpaper. Opener 'Madness To Their Methods' for example has a vocal swirling about the synthscapes that is utterly arresting and conveys great emotional pain. 'The Broken Fixing The Broken' is another lament of epic proportions and 'Iron Houses At Night - Star Track' has a little sense of hope in the brighter melodies and another vocal, which this time carries love not loss. 'Perpetual Emotion Machine' shuts down with subtle celestial celebration.
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Review: Since debuting in 2007, Brock Van Wey has released more albums as bvdub than most artists manage in a lifetime but his latest work "Explosions in Slow Motion" is something to behold. Van Wey has rarely made anything quite as heart-achingly poignant, beautiful and sorrowful as this. Fom start to finish, it's a stunning piece of work. Built around electro-acoustic manipulations of layered neo-classical works, the album's eight tracks variously throb, hum, pulse and slowly unfurl, offering slowly-shifting movements that sit somewhere between the kind of claustrophobic ambient works delivered by dub techno producers, classical minimalism and stretched-out drone works. In a word: breathtaking.
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Review: Sound scientist Brock Van Wey decided to mix things up during the making of his latest album, the decidedly bittersweet and weary "Ten Times The World Lied". To begin with, he decided to deliver an album without vocals - the first time he's ever done that - before opting to record a track a month, on the tenth day of each, for ten months. Furthermore, each densely layered track was recorded and mixed live. The results are impressive, with Van Wey offering mostly melancholic - but intensely beautiful - collages of layered ambient chords, effects-laden melodic movements and extreme aural textures that fill every invisible nook and cranny of the sound space.
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Review: Under the BVDub alias, ambient, drone and electronica explorer Brock Van Wey has amassed a vast discography of full-length excursions. Despite this, he continues to offer up magical, immersive and meditative sounds, and here delivers a hugely enjoyable set directly inspired by what van Wey calls the "magical realism" of Japanese writer Haruki Murakami, and specifically his "underlying teachings on loneliness, isolation and the human condition". We're not well versed enough in Murakami's work to spot the sonic references, but there's much to admire amongst the four lengthy tracks on show, not least the producer and sound processor's uncanny ability to create musical gold with little more than layered and effected instrumentation, slow-release ambient chords, gentle IDM beats, tactile aural textures and melodies that linger long in the memory.
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Review: Brock Van Wey is one prolific producer. Born In Tokyo is, staggeringly, his fourth album this year alone, and 20th in total. Given his prolific nature, it's a pleasant surprise to find that it's also rather good. Unlike some previous excursions, there's a heavy emphasis on melody, with a more obviously musical outlook. His usual crusty textures and glitchy atmospherics provide a canvas for all manner of melodic treats, from twinkling pianos and dreamy chords, to spaced-out ambient vocals and glistening electronics. It makes for enveloping soundscapes, blissful moments and melancholic compositions. In other words, it's rather good.
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Review: When it comes to creating powerfully spacious, enveloping ambience, few producers can match the output of Brock van Wey. For proof, check the San Francisco native's latest full-length, the intensely beautiful - and therefore arguably oddly titled - "Heartless". It's full of tracks dominated by swirling, reverb-laden aural textures. To begin with, these sooth but seem a little cluttered. Listen carefully, though, and you start to spot all manner of subtle musical touches buried within the dreamy audio soup. First time round, we detected neo-classical orchestral movements, half-heard delay-laden vocal snatches, softly spun piano solos and all manner of attractive synthesizer sequences. It is, then, an album that genuinely rewards repeat listens. Given that it's so beautiful, that's hardly a chore.
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Review: Since the release of critically acclaimed full-length A Step In The Dark two years ago, Brock van Wey has gone back to his DIY roots, sticking out a couple of ultra-limited, home-made sets via CD-R and digital download. Epilogues For The End of The Sky marks his return to leading Italian ambient stable Glacial Movement, and is undoubtedly one of his most consistently strong albums for some time. As you'd expect, the ambient tracks pulse and shimmer with wintery beauty, while the more drone-inclined outings are impressively atmospheric and otherworldly. As the album progresses, van Wey turns his hand to ultra-deep techno, underpinning his fluid melodic movements with the distinctive 4/4 pulse of club-focused workouts.
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Four Forgetting (hand-numbered CD + MP3 download code limited to 300 copies)
Cat: SIS 103. Rel: 10 Aug 23
Review: Brock Van Wey is not an easy artist to keep up with. The Bay Area ambient techno mastermind has a staggeringly prolific output which has already seen no less than four other albums drop this year alone before this latest transmission on Greek label Sound In Silence. Fortunately, the quantity is more than matched by the quality, and Four Forgetting represents another exquisite glide into vast expanses of ambience charged with tangible feeling. There's even space for an elegant thread of pop on 'Two Loves & The World' and 'Three Skies Alight', albeit framed by monolithic slabs of melodious sound design.
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Cat: PITP 61. Rel: 31 Jan 25
Review: Brock Van Wey aka Bvdub has become a core part of the Past Inside The Present label in recent times and now he cements that once more with another superb new album to kick off 2025 on the right foot. It's the perfect CD to go to if you want some calm and pace, some tranquillity and a place to lose yourself in some lush ambient. All of these pieces are perfectly layered up with delicate keys offset by smeared chords, distant drones adding some weight while the beauty comes in the foreground and ever-shifting patterns. It's a rich, involving world of ambient perfection.
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Review: It wasn't so long ago we were writing about the joys of BVDUB's Fumika Fades, a new double pack in February that sunk us deep into moving ambient soundscapes. Now the Bay Area dub techno titan Brock van Wey is back once again with yet another album - he dropped plenty of them last year too so is clearly in a mad creative patch. Slowly Shifting Lakes comes in multiple formats, this one being a double CD. The ambient here is coarse and textured, fizzing synths stretching out over skittish rhythmic frameworks before sinking into calmer waters on cuts like the escapist 'Searching For Glowing Shores.' Another triumphant album for sure.
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Slowly Shifting Lakes (limited 2xCD + 2 x cassette + sticker)
Cat: PITP 33BOX. Rel: 21 Apr 23
Review: Barely a week goes by without BVDUB popping up with a vast new collection of his absorbing ambient music. Hot on the heels of February's Fumika Fades album is this, Slowly Shifting Lakes, another epic collection of fuzzy, lo-fi, gorgeously textured and lived-in ambient. It's intense and full by some ambient standards - soundscapes that demand the attention and go from misty, rainy visions to more serene and blissed-out vibes. This is the perfect way to pick this album up - as both a double CD and also a double cassette including download codes.
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Review: On his return to China in 2019 after a period away, Brock van Wey noticed a "strange, sound emitting item" on the table. It was a handmade 'steel tongue drum', a unique percussion instrument associated with spirituality and meditation in Asian culture. A few days later, van Wey recorded an extended jam of himself playing it, and later overdubbed electronic sounds, melodies, chords and textures. The result is The Depth of Rain, the long-serving ambient and drone artist's second Bvdub album of 2024. Where some of van Wey's ambient sets can tend towards the intense and claustrophobic, The Depth of Rain is a genuinely melodious, evocative and spring-like affair that ebbs and flows wonderfully throughout, providing entertainment and sonic bliss in equal measure.
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Destroyesterday (limited CD)
Cat: PITPDT 01/AY052. Rel: 14 Dec 23
Review: Past Inside The Present welcomes the excellent pairing of Brock Van Wey aka Bvdub and vocalists and instrumentalist Lacey Harris aka Inquiri for a brilliantly escapist new ambient EP, Destroyesterday. They combine to majestic effect with 'All The Weight Of The World' a swirling soundtrack with vocals floating amidst the melancholic pads. 'Alone In Crimson' is more textural and suspenseful and 'Please Let Go & Let Me Hold You' then has the spoken word vocals front and centre as intense synth crescendos sweep you up. The title cut is a hypnagogic delight that leaves you adrift in your own dreams.
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Review: Not all albums need a concept, but inspiration helps. In the case of this first collaborative full-lenth from Brock Van Wey and Scott Morgan, it seems to be Milton's "Paradise Lost" and the words of Thegony Hesiod. A touch grandiose, perhaps, but there's something beautifully intense, glacial and otherworldly - hallmarks of both men's work - about Erebus. Built around the twin attractions of wide-eyed synthscapes and production that maximizes space - sparse elements created to sound enormous, as if recorded in a cathedral - the album seemingly shimmers with ambient simplicity. There are reflective moments - see the tumbling pianos of opener "Aether" - but for the most part it's a spine-tingling journey into the touchy-feely potential of drone.
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Review: Glacial Movements is the perfectly named home for this collaborative album between San Francisco-based musician and sound artist Brock Van Wey aka Bvdub and Italian sound artist Netherworld. As the title suggests, this is a record about finding the balance between the respective sounds of the two artists. And they manage it perfectly across cold and icy dub depths, wide open frozen ambient tundras and arching chords that bring beauty and light in the most slow and subtle of ways.
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