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Singles
Graffi Gravi
Graffi Gravi (140 gram vinyl double 12")
Cat: GRA 010. Rel: 11 Mar 19
Yoshinori Hayashi - "Dissociative" (8:25)
Telephones - "Kalimbalimbo" (6:12)
DB.Source & Riccardo Schiro - "Montevago" (3:02)
Dynamo Dreesen - "Reactivate" (7:59)
Oyvind Morken & Kaman Leung - "Tunnel Visjon" (5:31)
Acidboychair - "The End (At Any Speed)" (4:48)
Review: REPRESS ALERT: Gravity Graffiti has been doing great things with its series of split 12"s already, but now the Italian label goes one better for its tenth release with this mighty double pack of heavy hitters. First up is the ever-untouchable Yoshinori Hayashi, who gets as straight up as he possibly could with the freaky house burner "Dissociative." Telephones is feeling particularly dubbed out and groovy on "Kalimbalimbo", while DB.Source and Riccardo Schiro take things strung out and textural on "Montevago". Dynamo Dreesen is in rave mode for the pepped up and delightfully weird "Reactivate", leaving the final side to Oyvind Morken & Kaman Leung's chugging "Tunnel Visjon" and the rubbery side swipes of Acidboychair's "The End (At Any Speed)".
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Darkness Darkness
Cat: PSY 027LP. Rel: 29 Jun 23
Darkness, Darkness (9:58)
No Services (7:07)
Review: A collaborative new single by sampletronic master Kieran Hebden (aka. Four Tet) and guitarist and composer William Tyler, two acclaimed musicians and both longstanding friends. Part of a recent spewing-forth of Hebden-adjacent material to hit the shelves after the artist's oft-reported-upon "agent of chaos" phase, these two tracks, pressed to a furtive 12", provide a neat counterpoint to that assessment. Rather than a pair of riddim bangers, the record flaunts Hebden's signature electronic textures and Tyler's guitar into a hypnotic, nominally dark soundwhirl, reminiscent of the earliest days of Text, but with a unique edge - a sonic corner never quite scoured before by either artist.
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Theories Of Time
Theories Of Time (limited heavyweight green & black smoke vinyl 12" + digital bonus track download code)
Cat: LPY 13. Rel: 27 Nov 23
Distortion (5:18)
Travelling (9:16)
Shift (3:52)
Delay (7:35)
Review: Hidden Sequence have appeared on legendary dub techno label Mosaic in fine form of late and now they land on the Lempuyang imprint with four more serene fusions. Their Theories of Time EP opens up with the swaggering dub rhythms and bottomless depths of 'Distortion', a cut as heady as they come. 'Travelling,' as the title suggests, has a deeper rolling groove and more movement to it as it snakes through underwater dub caverns. Flip it over for more widescreen and serene explorations of the ocean floor with 'Shift' and mysterious leads of 'Delay' which is a fourth and final frictionless dub dream.
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Tags: Dub Techno
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Piano Versions
Piano Versions (limited blue vinyl 12" + MP3 download code)
Cat: RUG 1217TX. Rel: 02 Jul 21
Dawn Chorus (3:23)
Heron (4:03)
Modern Driveway (4:06)
Wintergreen (3:21)
Review: Seven years after he gave us the spectacularly beautiful Asleep Versions, Jon Hopkins presents four minimal piano stunners to help us return to those half-awake moments of absolute bliss. The bit before the dark in the back of your eyes turns red and you realise it's going to be another 12 hours or so before you're climbing back into the sack and returning to a place where, let's face it, most of us are pretty happy.

In terms of the music itself, this is Hopkins and therefore you know the score in terms of vision. Opening on the tranquility of 'Heron', which sounds as though it was recorded by a lakeside in southern England complete with wildlife on tape, from here things only get more intoxicating, until the delicate pitter pattered notes of 'Wintergreen' close us out on a subtle but moving air.
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Session One
Session One (12" + MP3 download code in die-cut sleeve)
Cat: 9128 1. Rel: 06 May 22
Track 1 (20:06)
Track 2 (21:19)
Review: The inaugural 9128.live label release came from the UK's Jo Johnson and Hilary Robinson, featuring subtle, harmonic drones and manipulated piano, originally aired as part of the duo's set for the CALMA (Madrid) takeover on 9128.live, April 2020. Released digitally in 2020, the set is now available on 12" vinyl, split into two long-form compositions.
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Anthroposcene
Saphileaum - "Prologue" (5:16)
Alfred Czital & Moon Patrol - "Act I" (6:11)
Human Space Machine - "Act II" (5:44)
Owl - "Act III" (5:27)
Orca Silent - "Act IV" (9:38)
Martinou - "Epilogue" (3:07)
Review:  Lost In Translation's debut release, Anthroposcene, is a vital coming together of various artists each with their own take on ambient. It is all airy soundscapes and lo-fi pads to start with from Saphileaum's 'Prologue' while Alfred Czital & Moon Patrol bring in some silky broken beats and warped electronics on 'Act I.' Human Space Machines's 'Act II' is deep rolling techno bliss and on the flip, we get everything from cavernous underwater soundscapes to Orca Silent's edgy dub 'Act IV' and Martinou's soothing closer 'Epilogue.'
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Height/Dismay
Height/Dismay (hand-stamped 7" limited to 300 copies)
Cat: ES 024. Rel: 24 Feb 22
Blood Pressure In The Sand (2:45)
Dusk (1:23)
The Tinning Test (4:52)
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Oblique
Oblique (12")
Cat: ASG 007. Rel: 19 Jan 23
Oblique (7:10)
Haze (Temple dub) (7:16)
Haze (7:17)
Veio (6:52)
Played by: Joachim Spieth
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PRINTTRACK 05
PRINTTRACK 05 (hand-numbered 10" + inserts + MP3 download code in die-cut sleeve limited to 300 copies)
Cat: PRINTTRACK 05. Rel: 13 Jul 20
Endless Melancholy - "Elusive Movements" (10:47)
Hotel Neon - "Gleo" (10:51)
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Observatory
Cat: AD 001EP. Rel: 23 Nov 23
Observatory (7:19)
Hounfour (Temple) (7:35)
Review: As Bobby Krlic's project The Haxan Cloak makes a return after some ten years of silence with the 'N/Y' single, it's a fine time to track back and catch up on some of his small but perfectly formed catalogue. Observatory originally came out in limited quantities in 2010, and now it sees a repress to stave off the sharks and allow more people to experience this engrossing short form release. The title track is a strong melodic mantra riding a densely packed organ-like figure into oblivion, allowing the resonant frequencies and harmonics to become the dynamic movement in the track with an expert patience. 'Honfour (Temple)' is a subtler, more shapeshifting piece with gorgeous blooms of ambience and submerged pulses that lead you deeper into Krlic's evocative sound world.
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Post Radiance
Cat: E2E8 02. Rel: 12 Oct 21
Post Radiance (7:05)
I Know This Road (6:44)
Dirty Chords (6:46)
Let It Go (live) (15:17)
Madsituation (6:41)
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Juniper EP
Juniper EP (limited cassette single)
Cat: PITPHSP 76. Rel: 24 Jun 22
Drazak's Theme (5:19)
With You I Am Always Spinning (6:50)
Retract R (5:36)
Retract R (Type K) (3:45)
Review: Another collaborative effort from the consistently fascinating US ambient kings Past Inside The President, this time with Hendrix - not that one - and Wayne Robert Thomas, whose atmospheric guitar-led work has featured several times on the label before. If the average ambient album has its head in the clouds, this is more grounding, more gamboling in the fields perhaps than floating in the ether, with gentle flute and guitar giving the walls of synth sounds some perspective. That said, the closing track of the four, 'Retract R (Type K)', sizzles away like something by Growing or even Spaceman 3 left to fry in the sun. Magnificent stuff..
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N/Y
N/Y (1-sided clear vinyl 12")
Cat: AD 004S. Rel: 23 Nov 23
N/Y (4:34)
Review: In a move many might have believed not possible, Bobby Krlic makes a welcome return as The Haxan Cloak with this monumental single. It's no less than ten years since we last heard from the industrial-tinged electronica maverick on his Excavation album, but now he's back with a bruising new piece called 'N/Y' which pops up on both sides of this clear 12" platter. It's a high pressure release full of jackhammer percussion and noise blasts, plus some sirens thrown in for good measure. Holding true to the industrial tradition, it's entirely engineered as a blast of intensity, and Krlic has considerable talent to render such an approach in a powerful, provocative way.
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Variierende Tone Vol 1
Variierende Tone Vol 1 (180 gram white vinyl 12" limited to 200 copies)
Cat: MELVA 01. Rel: 13 Oct 22
Polygonia - "Gaping Void" (6:18)
HRNR - "Delta" (7:21)
Andrea Cossu - "Ossia" (6:46)
Simone Bauer - "Halo" (5:50)
Natasha Giordano & Filip Sijanec - "Katabasis" (6:10)
Camilla Pisani - "Schenk Mir Deine Trane" (5:19)
Review: After the inaugural EP from Berlin-based collective Melantonia by the label's co-founders founders Hanna Maria and Mattia Onori, together with Feral and Plants Army Revolver, they're back with the first episode of a VA series "exploring uncharted sonic realms". The results check in somewhere between techno and ambient, harnessing the best of both. So Andrea Cossu's 'Ossia' pulsates with a Geiger Counter beat reminiscent of early Panasonic/Pansonic, Simone Bauer's 'Halo' is like Plaid doing dub and Camilla Pisani's 'Schenk Mir Deine Trane' uses field recordings and the distant strain of melancholic melody, all three, like everyone here, creating something fresh and previously unheard.
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THESIS 13
THESIS 13 (hand-numbered 10" + MP3 download code in die-cut sleeve limited to 300 copies)
Cat: THESIS 13. Rel: 21 May 20
Early James (13:36)
A New Kind Of Air (8:54)
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In A Bloopy Mood
Cat: LFS 1. Rel: 03 Dec 21
Honey Mango (feat Sarathy Korwar) (4:19)
In A Bloopy Mood (4:37)
Played by: Thomas wood
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Spectral EP (reissue)
Cat: BOY 8846. Rel: 12 Jan 24
Cario (Trance Side) (6:54)
Mark IV (5:41)
Eclypse (Chill Out Side) (6:34)
Spectral (12:45)
 in stock $14.20
Halling
Halling (12")
Cat: BWAA 011. Rel: 28 Apr 21
Bird Clock (3:55)
Another Begin (2:19)
Branches (5:00)
Bird Shuffle (3:23)
Singer (3:28)
Drone Peace (16:30)
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Chaotic Affair
Chaotic Affair (heavyweight vinyl 12" + MP3 download code)
Cat: TITR 001. Rel: 20 Jan 22
Chaotic Affair (9:34)
Beautiful Weekend With Friends (8:13)
Switching Gears (11:35)
One (14:19)
Stain (5:29)
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Accident
Accident (numbered 12" limited to 250 copies)
Cat: DEONTOLOGIE 15. Rel: 13 Jul 20
Chelou & Hardakt - "Accident" (9:29)
Chelou & Z-Lab - "Yayobb" (10:11)
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Nighthawks
Cat: NER 002. Rel: 16 May 22
Day Trader (8:05)
Johnny HC (8:28)
Valentina (5:51)
Bridge Of Sighs (1:50)
Morning Sun (3:57)
Coda (4:36)
 in stock $12.09
Albums
Vernal Equinox (reissue)
Cat: NDEYA 2LP. Rel: 20 Mar 20
Toucan Ocean (3:50)
Viva Shona (7:05)
Hex (6:22)
Blues Nile (9:52)
Vernal Equinox (21:54)
Caracas Night September 11, 1975 (1:55)
Review: Reissues don't come more significant than this. Jon Hassell's work new and old has been enjoying plentiful appraisal in recent years, with his outlook on Fourth World music finding fresh relevance with a modern crop of artists. While much of his catalogue has been given a fresh lease of life, they've been saving one of his most seminal works. Vernal Equinox was originally released in 1978, one of Hassell's first albums alongside Earthquake Island. It's essentially the blueprint for outernational music - a heady brew of global signifiers stewing together in one unclassifiable pot marked out only by Hassell's inimitable trumpet style. From ambient heads to sonic explorers, you won't want to miss the chance to own this most precious of albums.
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Late Night Tales
Jon HOPKINS / VARIOUS
Late Night Tales (limited heavyweight vinyl 2xLP + print)
Cat: ALNLP 39. Rel: 24 Feb 15
Ben Lukas Boysen - "Sleepers Beat Theme" (3:24)
Darkstar - "Hold Me Down" (5:21)
Holy Other - "Yr Love" (3:30)
Teebs - "Verbena Tea" (with Rebekah Raff) (3:10)
Nils Frahm - "More" (6:15)
Songs Of Green Pheasant - "I Am Daylights" (2:16)
Evenings - "Babe" (2:04)
Letherette - "After Dawn" (3:19)
Jon Hopkins - "I Remember" (exclusive Yeasayer cover version) (4:16)
David Holmes - "Hey Maggy" (4:54)
Alela Diane - "Lady Divine" (5:09)
Last Days - "Missing Photos" (1:55)
School Of Seven Bells - "Connjur" (4:36)
Peter Broderick - "And It's Alright" (Nils Frahm remix) (4:32)
Four Tet - "Gillie Amma I Love You" (5:45)
Bibio - "Down To The Sound" (2:30)
A Winged Victory For The Sullen - "Requiem For The Static King" (part One) (2:40)
Helios - "Emancipation" (2:31)
Rick Holland - "I Remember" (exclusive spoken word piece) (3:17)
Review: The Late Night Tales mix series - going strong since way back in 2003 - never ceases to both amaze and please our eardrums when they're in need of a sonic massage. With legendary artists such as Fatboy Slim, Jamiroquai, Groove Armada, MGMT and many others on their roster, you just know it's going to be quality throughout. This time it's up to Domino man Jon Hopkins to give us an outlook onto his own tastes and musical influences. The selection is vast and varied, with everyone from Four Tet to Darkstar and even Peter Broderick featuring within. An incandescent blend of sci-fi electronica, tropical bass nuggets and lighter shades of drone-fuelled house. Quality.
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Tracks & Traces
Welcome
Atmosphere
Vamos Companeros
By The Riverside
Luneburg Heath
Sometimes In Autumn
Weird Dream
Almost
Les Demoiselles
When Shade Was Born
Trace
Aubade
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Music For Psychedelic Therapy
Music For Psychedelic Therapy (limited gatefold clear vinyl 2xLP + inserts + MP3 download code)
Cat: WIGLP 458X. Rel: 25 Mar 22
Welcome (with 7RAYS) (5:48)
Love Flows Over Us In Prismatic Waves (6:51)
Deep In The Glowing Heart (8:57)
Tayos Caves, Ecuador (19:03)
Ascending, Dawn Sky (with 7RAYS) (9:11)
Arriving (with 7RAYS) (4:43)
Sit Around The Fire (with Ram Dass, East Forest) (8:24)
Singing Bowl (Ascension) (19:46)
Review: At this stage in his career, Jon Hopkins should be able to do whatever the hell he likes. After proving his synaesthetic abilities throughout the 2010s - with masterpieces like 'Light Through The Veins' and his last album 'Singularity'- it's clear this climactic electronica artist knows no bounds. Now he debuts a new full guided meditation-style LP documenting his ketamine-fulled revelations realised in a remote Ecuadorian cave. Relinquishing beats and drum sounds, this is a fully ambient affair from Hopkins, and routinely features soothing, sampled vocal snippets from the late yogi and guru Baba Ram Daas, as well as collabs with producer and psychedelic ceremony guide East Forest.
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Listening To Pictures: Pentimento Volume One
Cat: NDEYA 1LP. Rel: 08 Jun 18
Dreaming (6:04)
Picnic (5:57)
Slipstream (2:55)
Al-Kongon Udu (5:10)
Pastorale Vassant (3:58)
Manga Scene (5:44)
Her First Rain (1:38)
Ndeya (7:07)
Review: Since the release of Jon Hassell's last album in 2009, there's been an upsurge in interest in the "Fourth World" style he pioneered alongside Brian Eno way back in 1980. It seems rather fitting, then, that the 81 year-old trumpeter turned experimentalist has returned to show the pretenders how it should be done. Listening To Pictures (Pentimento Volume 1) is every bit as alluring as you'd expect, with Hassell delivering thrilling new soundscapes that pull the Fourth World template (think combinations of American minimalism, ethnic styles from around the world, advanced electronics and manipulated trumpet sounds) in a variety of directions. It's in turns trippy, hypnotic, beautiful, poignant and otherworldly, with each ambient composition being accompanied by another where Hassell draws influence from contemporary IDM or drowsy experimental jazz.
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Seeing Through Sound: Pentimento Volume Two
Cat: NDEYA 7LP. Rel: 24 Jul 20
Fearless (7:59)
Moons Of Titan (4:14)
Unknown Wish (2:50)
Delicado (4:01)
Reykjavik (2:15)
Cool Down Coda (1:40)
Lunar (6:23)
Timeless (8:10)
Review: Two years ago, Jon Hassell made more than a few jaws drop with "Listening To Pictures (Pentimento Volume 1)", the genre-bending trumpeter and composer's first studio album in nine years. On that album, he effortlessly updated his trademark "Fourth World" sound - a decidedly cosmic, impossible-to-pigeonhole mix of traditional, otherworldly, exotic and cutting-edge sounds - for a new era. He takes a similar approach on this "companion album", somehow fusing experimental jazz, disparate global sounds, ambient, electronica and digi-dub in a myriad of thrilling, boundary blurring ways. It's a startling piece of work and one that defiantly rewards repeat listens, but then we expect nothing less from someone of Hassell's skill and standing. Recommended.
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Ravedeath 1972
Ravedeath 1972 (gatefold 2xLP)
Cat: KRANK 154LP. Rel: 28 Mar 11
The Piano Drop
In The Fog I
In The Fog II
In The Fog III
No Drums
Hatred Of Music I
Hatred Of Music II
Analog Paralysis, 1978
Studio Suicide, 1980
In The Air I
In The Air II
In The Air III
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The Pearl (Original Masters Series)
Cat: ENOCDX 13. Rel: 01 Aug 09
Late October
Stream With Bright Fish
Silver Ball
Against The Sky
Lost In The Humming Air
Dark-Eyed Sister
Their Memories
Pearl
Foreshadowed
Echo Of Night
Still Return
 in stock $5.53
Harmony In Ultraviolet
Harmony In Ultraviolet (gatefold 2xLP)
Cat: KRANK 102. Rel: 01 Jan 90
Rainbow Blood
Stags, Aircraft, Kings & Secretaries
Palimpsest
Chimeras
Dungeoneering
Palimpsest II
Spring Heeled Jack Flies Tonight
Harmony In Blue I-IV
Radio Spiricom
Whitecaps Of White Noise I
Whitecaps Of White Noise II
Blood Rainbow
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Music For Psychedelic Therapy
Music For Psychedelic Therapy (gatefold 2xLP + MP3 download code)
Cat: WIGLP 458. Rel: 25 Mar 22
Welcome (with 7RAYS) (5:48)
Love Flows Over Us In Prismatic Waves (6:51)
Deep In The Glowing Heart (8:57)
Tayos Caves, Ecuador (19:03)
Ascending, Dawn Sky (with 7RAYS) (9:11)
Arriving (with 7RAYS) (4:43)
Sit Around The Fire (with Ram Dass, East Forest) (8:24)
Singing Bowl (Ascension) (19:46)
Review: Much has been made of Jon Hopkins' intentions with his new album Music For Psychedelic Therapy, but whether you're a devoted tripper or a sober psychonaut his new album has plenty to offer. Of course Hopkins has more than proved himself over the years as a phenomenal producer and composer, but here he's replaced his brooding cinematic techscapes for blissful ambience draped in rich overtones and gently drifting patterns of melody and rhythm. It's wholly invigorating and relaxing, clearly designed to soothe the listener in stark contrast to the shock and awe he normally inspires amongst his considerable fan base.
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No Highs
No Highs (limited gatefold 2xLP)
Cat: KRANK 239LP. Rel: 26 Jun 23
Monotony (11:13)
Glissalia (3:55)
Total Garbage (3:28)
Lotus Light (11:24)
Winter Cop (3:26)
In Your Mind (4:53)
Monotony II (4:15)
Pulse Depression (2:57)
Anxiety (11:09)
Sense Suppression (6:09)
Living Spa Water (6:11)
Review: Noted as a "beacon of unease against the deluge of false positive corporate ambient currently in vogue" (we're looking at you, Spotify) Tim Hecker's No Highs is a righteous paean for what ambient music should be. And that certainly isn't mindful background music for turning you, the listener, into the best and most productive capitalist you can possibly be. Instead, Hecker's latest invites considered and focused listening; an alternative to the mediated, telescreeny musical SSRIs that impose on us today. A world turned upside down, the album presents highlights such as 'Lotus Light', 'Pulse Depression' ad 'Winter Cop', which suggest anarchic themes, while also fastening a sense of jaggedness and tumult, in a style of music that is so incorrectly expected to be neither of those things.
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Early Water (reissue)
Cat: MG 603. Rel: 16 Feb 23
Early Water (part 1) (24:26)
Early Water (part 2) (24:28)
Review: Michael Hoenig and Manuel Gottsching were two prominent German kosmische / film composers, with the latter particularly known for his helming of the world-famous Ash Ra Tempel project. 'Early Water' is a lesser-cited collaborative live album performed by the pair in Autumn 1976, but it wasn't released until way later in 1995 - and even then, the album remained accidentally deleted by the label Musique Intemporelle, and was thus unavailable for a period of time. A rare find and relic of the Berlin school, this is an impressively blue-mooded arpeggiator, as easy for soundtracking fantastical swimming pools as it is for home lounging.
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Notes Of Forestry
Cat: WRWTFWW 034. Rel: 04 Jun 20
Notes Of Forestry (6:15)
Pascal (7:47)
Sprial For Multiple Instruments (8:07)
Nude (17:14)
Review: For the latest release in their ongoing "Esplande Series" focusing on the work of Japanese ambient minimalists, Swiss reissue specialists WRWTFWW have decided to deliver a new edition of Motohiko Hamase's rather good - but very hard to find - 1988 release "Notes of Forestry". It remains a remarkable work, sitting somewhere between the fluid and heavenly electronics of new age ambient, the cyclical minimalist movements of Steve Reich, free-jazz and the kind of free-wheeling, loose-limbed works most often associated with experimental percussionists. Hamase is a bass player by trade, and its' his fast-fingered fretless bass playing that catches the ear throughout (though it by no means dominates the sound space).
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TV Slang
Cat: RNR 001. Rel: 11 Apr 23
Humming Bird (3:12)
TV Slang (6:39)
Stutter Dub (5:05)
Deez Things (4:19)
Hang Time (4:18)
Traces (5:06)
Sylvio's Dream (6:08)
Park Dub (4:27)
Coconino (7:27)
Review: Kicking off his new R&R imprint, LA-born and Berlin-based producer Huerta brings us TV Slang - an LP which exists somewhere between rhythmic and ambient house. For the title track, woozy voice samples drift in and out of focus, existing in a space just outside of reality. 'Stutter Dub' emerges as one of the more dance-geared tracks, yet it's still decorated with the hazy sound design of the release's ambient numbers; its buffed-out environment softening the edges of Huerta's percussion. On the B-side, 'Traces' features dreamily reverberating piano chords embellished with glittering breaks. This is a highly multi-faceted release which promises to take listeners and dancers alike into a beautifully realised soundworld.
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No Highs
Cat: KRANK 239. Rel: 11 May 23
Monotony
Glissalia
Total Garbage
Lotus Light
Winter Cop
In Your Mind
Monotony II
Pulse Depression
Anxiety
Sense Suppression
Living Spa Water
Review: A curveball for the ambient artist, 'No Highs' represents the longtime Tim Hecker's focus on the present state of the world. Compared to the textural blissouts of his earlier work, the clue for the meaning of this album is in the title. 'No Highs' is rather bleak and unsettling, reflecting the polluted and chaotic state of many parts of the world - all of it if we continue on the same path. Hecker's usual sonics are replaced with distortion, noise and dissonance, using electronics, saxophone and strings. Not intended to soothe or distract, as is often assumed with much 'ambient music', this is an album that succeeds in confronting and challenging instead.
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Psychogeography: Zones Of Feeling
Psychogeography: Zones Of Feeling (gatefold 2xLP + MP3 download code)
Cat: NDEYA 9LP. Rel: 16 Feb 23
Aerial View (2:33)
Neon Night (Rain) (5:19)
Cityism Superdub (4:34)
Harambe (3:35)
Freeway (4:59)
Cuba Libre (3:35)
Midnight (5:12)
Waterfront District (3:21)
Favela (2:57)
Emerald City (5:51)
Cloud-Shaped Time (5:49)
Review: Jon Hassell's later albums were increasingly influenced by the post-jazz composer's favourite philosophies and thinkers. 'City: Works Of Fiction' - reworked into 'Psychogeography: Zones Of Feeling' here - is a strong case in point. Inspired by the work of French anarchist Guy Debord, who wrote extensively on topics such as surrealism, anti-consumerism and art, culminating in an umbrella philosophy known as situationism, Hassell's later works are perfect hazes, indeterminate ambient jazz storms through which to experience the past via psychic explorations of one's immediate surroundings.
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The Haxan Cloak (reissue)
The Haxan Cloak (reissue) (gatefold 2xLP + insert)
Cat: AD 002. Rel: 23 Nov 23
Raven's Lament (4:13)
An Archaic Device (5:30)
Burning Torches Of Despair (3:36)
Disorder
Fall (5:09)
The Growing (8:18)
In Memoriam (2:43)
Parting Chant (5:08)
Review: In light of the first new Haxan Cloak material in a good ten years, we're being gifted the opportunity to comb back through Bobby Krlic's back catalogue and fill in any missing pieces. Krlic is reissuing his back catalogue on his own label, Archaic Devices, which is a fine reminder to drift into the poised majesty of his debut album. Building on the promise of the earlier EPs Observatory and the limited CDr from 2009, this was when we started to comprehend the full scope of Krlic's charged world building. Roundly defined by his tense violin and cello cast in solemn spatial chambers, this album has lost none of its power in the decade since its release.
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Immunity (10th Anniversary Edition) (remastered)
Immunity (10th Anniversary Edition) (remastered) (limited gatefold purple vinyl 2xLP + booklet + insert + MP3 download code (indie exclusive))
Cat: REWIGLP 176X. Rel: 05 Oct 23
We Disappear (4:43)
Open Eye Signal (7:49)
Breathe This Air (5:52)
Collider (8:31)
Abandon Window (4:50)
Form By Firelight (5:35)
Sun Harmonics (10:12)
Immunity (11:29)
Review: Jon Hopkins' fourth album Immunity is a bona fide classic that is now a full ten years old. To celebrate the milestone, it has been newly remastered for this special reissue. Listening back now reminds you just what a confident and adventurous record this was - a creative trip deep inside Hopkins' mind that brought totters everything he had done and learned up to that point. The focus was firmly on the dancefloor but still, the tracks come with plenty of emotional nuances, from sad piano motifs to stirring choral drones but shifting rhythms and real-world sound effects that brought the whole thing to life.
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Excavation (reissue)
Excavation (reissue) (2xLP + insert)
Cat: AD 003. Rel: 23 Nov 23
Consumed (1:40)
Excavation (part I) (8:04)
Excavation (part II) (4:10)
Mara (3:04)
Miste (8:50)
The Mirror Reflection (part I) (6:55)
The Mirror Reflection (part II) (5:00)
Dieu (5:21)
The Drop (11:55)
Review: Ten years on, Excavation has lost none of its power. It's a fitting time to reflect on the last The Haxan Cloak album as we prepare to digest the first new material from Bobby Krlic since, and a return into the complex folds of this album are more than enough to get us excited. Originally released on Tri Angle, now Krlic is putting the album out on his own Archaic Devices and putting paid to some of the astronomical second hand prices. Draped in finely textured, gauzy atmospherics and deathly rhythm pulses, this is a journey into the depths of imagination, where industrial, ambient and the avant-garde collide and test your mettle, but with its clear-sighted intentions it's also an album you can latch onto and continually draw more understanding from. A modern masterpiece, to be sure.
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Dorian Portrait
Cat: SOTORO 1005. Rel: 03 Aug 23
Mykes (3:44)
All Wet (5:37)
Dissolution (3:41)
Picture Gray (3:47)
Reunify (2:54)
Rising Streams (9:46)
Cascade (5:33)
Nyonks Jarabi (4:20)
Review: The latest addition to the catalogue of Swiss label, Second Thoughts, John Haycock's Dorian Portrait is a striking fusion of jazz and ambient. Showcasing Haycock's Kora specialism - the 21 stringed instrument that has its roots in West Africa - this is an impressive debut studio album from the Manchester-based artist. The opening track, 'Mykes', fans out onto a rippling melody where the plucked strings of the Kora melt into the twin tones of Haycock's electronic components, striking an intriguing balance between a sound that feels age old yet resolutely new. Another standout track, 'Dissolution', grows out from a more prominent bassline, like a plant pushing through soil - leaves unfurling, stretching out towards the sun. This is a beautifully reflective album for quiet introspection and shared listening alike.
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Played by: PHANTOM ISLAND
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Venice: Infinitely Avantgarde (Soundtrack)
Venice: Infinitely Avantgarde (Soundtrack) (limited gatefold 180 gram vinyl 2xLP)
Cat: MOVATM 342. Rel: 26 Oct 22
Il Mondo Nuovo (Piano version) (7:51)
Inquieto (6:09)
Tristan (4:12)
Carnival (4:07)
G-Minor (5:16)
On The Island (4:49)
Tintoretto's Paradise (6:04)
La Serenissima (5:11)
Il Mondo Nuovo (4:06)
Funambolo (2:36)
Isolde (5:08)
Peggy (3:16)
At Dawn (4:07)
D-Minor (7:13)
Review: Venice: Infinitely Avant-Garde is a documentary which celebrates the unique history, culture and qualities of one of the most iconic cities in the world. To match the high art which spills out of the subject matter, the film's producers turned to Polish pianist, composer and singer Hania Rani. Her playing style is minimal and delicate, and she drew upon extended visits and explorations of Venice and its museums to create a fitting accompaniment to the film. Whether you have seen the film or not, this is a compelling collection of piano pieces with subtle modern touches which speak to Rani's accomplished career to date.
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Anterior Space
Anterior Space (heavyweight vinyl LP + MP3 download code)
Cat: FUR 110. Rel: 07 Dec 16
Into Light (11:02)
Apparent Motion (9:43)
Temporary, Autonomous (8:37)
Involution (11:11)
Review: British ambient producer Jimmy Billingham aka HOLOVR has previously flaunted his wares on respected imprints such as Opal Tapes, Firecracker and Indole where he presented the brilliant Line Of Flight LP last year. "Into Light" or "Apparent Motion" could pass for The Orb or even CTI's early ambient electronica experiments, both awash in soothing analogue pads, hypnotic bleeps and faint 303 acid flourishes. On the flip, there's more quality to be found on the cosmic journey "Involution" that's full of vintage analogue synth flair, screeching and squealing all over the place; it's pure bliss.
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The Surgeon Of The Nightsky Restored Dead Things By The Power Of Sound
Ravinia/Vancouver (20:44)
Paris I (5:44)
Hamburg (7:03)
Brussels (10:53)
Paris II (8:36)
Review: The Surgeon of the Nightsky Restores Dead Things by the Power of Sound, to give its full title, is one of the less talked-about Jon Hassell albums, but it's just as worthy of celebration. The Fourth World pioneer and raga trumpeter had established his fundamental sound by the late 80s, and this album works so brilliantly as a demonstration of that sound in action. Hassell's distinctive treated trumpet remains the central focus, while undulating rhythms and atmospheres unfurl around it as we're quickly buffeted away to strange and distant places. The mood Hassell captured on his finest works is a rare and unique thing - intense and subtle, ominous and calming, mysterious and yet so immediately appealing.
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Tracks & Traces
Welcome
Atmosphere
Vamos Companeros
By The Riverside
Luneburg Heath
Sometimes In Autumn
Weird Dream
Almost
Les Demoiselles
When Shade Was Born
Trace
Aubade
Played by: Wesley Matsell
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Atlas
Atlas (CD)
Cat: AWE 1CD. Rel: 21 Sep 23
Abandon
Naked To The Light
Late Night Drive
Sick Eros
Belleville
Sweat, Tears Of The Sea
Atlas
Reading The Air
Your Burn Me
Earthbound
Review: Laurel Halo has always forged her own distinctive path from one project to the next, at times toying with the structures of electronic music and at others heading in a more classically-trained, minimalist direction. As such, it's no surprise that her new album Atlas is both unpredictable in its style, and utterly magnificent with it. Playing out as 'a suite of sensual ambient jazz collages', Halo captures something of the ghostly, barely there atmosphere of The Caretaker but replaces the cracked sadness with cosy, comforting mood lurking in the middle distance. It's a hazy, sleepy Sunday afternoon experience with extravagant detail and intention folded elegantly into gorgeously understated music, as compelling as we've come to expect from a standout maverick.
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The Living City: Live At The Winter Garden
The Living City: Live At The Winter Garden (gatefold 2xLP + MP3 download code in spot-varnished sleeve)
Cat: NDEYA 8LP. Rel: 16 Feb 23
Ituri (10:43)
Alchemistry (9:31)
Adedara Rising (10:12)
Mashujaa (8:54)
Paradise Now (9:51)
Nightsky (16:41)
Review: The Jon Hassell retrospective series from Ndeya Records continues with 'The Living City', which captures the late composer at his creative peak, performing live at the renowned Winter Garden concert hall in New York in the 1980s. Forming something of an escape from his jazz-influenced ambient works, this performance instead shows off Hassell's interest in the popularity of sampling hip-hop at the time. With influences from Public Enemy to Teo Macero, this is a whirlwind of sampled noise and snippets, which all continually loop and circle back on each other in a mood of mild yet evocative madness.
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Crossing Water
Crossing Water (limited coloured vinyl LP (comes in different coloured vinyl, we cannot guarantee which one you will receive))
Cat: PITP V045. Rel: 27 Mar 23
Crossing Water (5:01)
August In Repitition (3:04)
Gradually Fade (6:04)
Soft Fruits (1:52)
Smoke & Oleanders (3:23)
Noisy Houses (4:40)
Taffeta Sails (2:06)
Swells (4:53)
Two Ways Home (2:41)
Review: Aussie composer Cat Tyson Hughes is an experimental artist whose new album Crossing Water on Past Inside The Present marks her debut long player. It comes after she's been involved with several other projects and offers a fragile and delicate mix of subtle instrumentation and rich voice textures imbued with an array of lovely field recordings. These are superbly patient and slow-burn tracks that really have a cathartic effect as nature and natural sounds permeate each composition. The melodies take your mind away as the freely structured, minimal arrangements really make you take note.

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Late Spring
Late Spring (LP + insert with obi-strip)
Cat: GB 1565OBI. Rel: 11 Jun 21
Breaking Dawn (2:38)
Rain Funeral (4:01)
Butterfly's Dream (3:18)
Sound Of Air (3:58)
Sound Of Air II (3:26)
Spica (2:47)
Thunder Ringing In The Distance (4:30)
Memory In The Screen (3:21)
Butterfly's Dream II (3:29)
Long Shadows (4:40)
Twilight Sea (6:02)
Review: If an act or artist sticks around for more than a couple of years then they've made it, at least in so far as the common conscious goes. Fade after that and people will ask where you've gone. Go to a decade and music probably defines you, and hitting the 20 year mark puts you at veteran status. 43 years deep you clearly know what it means to be owned by a piece of work.

Chihei Hatakeyama considers Late Spring to be among the most time-intensive musical projects he has ever worked on, and his career stretches back to 1978. The timbre certainly suggests the kind of work someone has burrowed into, tapping into ever deeper depths of sound. It's the kind of ambient you want to hear live from a real organ in a real church, and ideally with comfortable seats.
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Transition
Transition (limited coloured vinyl LP + download code (comes in different coloured vinyl, we cannot guarantee which one you will receive))
Cat: PITP V015. Rel: 14 Nov 22
Wanderer (6:16)
Temporary Relief (6:59)
Transition (5:52)
First Snow (3:14)
Stargazing (11:45)
At Night (4:15)
Review: Stockholm's Havenaire follows up a series of head-turning ambient releases on the likes of Shimmering Moods, Polar Seas and Glacial Movements with a limited new long player on Past Inside The Present. Across six slowly shifting soundscapes he layers up his misty-eyed chords into music that is designed to empty your mind but that also gently sweeps you heart. There is subtle hope and optimism amongst the ambient fog here that leaves you feeling cleansed and soothed. All six pieces have their own character but are very much united by a sense of calm and serenity that is utterly captivating.
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