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Locust - Three Suns Of Lanuvium
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Locust - y Vel
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Locust - Sea Tides
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Locust - Spindle Flames
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Locust - Tell Me
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Locust - She Knows
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Locust - OX-HO
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Locust - Miriam
Limited Edition 140g Black Vinyl LP, Full-color Jacket & Poly-lined inner sleeve, with original photography and artwork by Grant Aaron and Gabriel Benzur
For nearly 40 years, English producer Mark Van Hoen has been making challenging music that eludes easy categorization under his own name, as Locust, and in the groups Autocreation, Scala, and Drøne. While his output has skirted around the fringes of IDM, techno, trip-hop, ambient, drone, and electropop, it has mutated these genres' elements in distinctive ways, revealing a mind always questing for unprecedented sounds.
This is Mark Van Hoen’s ninth album as Locust, and an instant classic.
Drifting, hanging, holding. Hoping, seeking, searching. And then finding.
Mark Van Hoen's ninth album as Locust is a cosmic whisper, a tender touch, where candid songwriting commingles with the afterimage of trip-hop and jungle. Across eight tracks, spectral melodies dance between languid breakbeats, and a formless murmur drifts through the ether, seeking a common thread.
Layered in strata, "The First Cause" reveals itself anew with each listen. Delicate tones share space with bass weight. Drums crunch, and rhythms cascade. Voices loop and intone, bodiless. What at first seems melancholy, you may later find reoriented—toward promise.
We seek solace in each other, and we seek solace in sound. Kinship isn't easy to come by. When a record offers its kind embrace to us as this one does, without reservation, we should take heed.
Written, performed and produced by Mark Van Hoen
© Touch Music/Fairwood Music UK Ltd
2023 Mark Van Hoen under exclusive license to Mysteries of the Deep
markvanhoen.com
Mastered by Rafael Anton Irisarri at Black Knoll Studio, NY
Photography by Grant Aaron
Design by Gabriel Benzur
Words by Chris Zaldua
Pressed by: AFG Record Manufacturing More
For nearly 40 years, English producer Mark Van Hoen has been making challenging music that eludes easy categorization under his own name, as Locust, and in the groups Autocreation, Scala, and Drøne. While his output has skirted around the fringes of IDM, techno, trip-hop, ambient, drone, and electropop, it has mutated these genres' elements in distinctive ways, revealing a mind always questing for unprecedented sounds.
This is Mark Van Hoen’s ninth album as Locust, and an instant classic.
Drifting, hanging, holding. Hoping, seeking, searching. And then finding.
Mark Van Hoen's ninth album as Locust is a cosmic whisper, a tender touch, where candid songwriting commingles with the afterimage of trip-hop and jungle. Across eight tracks, spectral melodies dance between languid breakbeats, and a formless murmur drifts through the ether, seeking a common thread.
Layered in strata, "The First Cause" reveals itself anew with each listen. Delicate tones share space with bass weight. Drums crunch, and rhythms cascade. Voices loop and intone, bodiless. What at first seems melancholy, you may later find reoriented—toward promise.
We seek solace in each other, and we seek solace in sound. Kinship isn't easy to come by. When a record offers its kind embrace to us as this one does, without reservation, we should take heed.
Written, performed and produced by Mark Van Hoen
© Touch Music/Fairwood Music UK Ltd
2023 Mark Van Hoen under exclusive license to Mysteries of the Deep
markvanhoen.com
Mastered by Rafael Anton Irisarri at Black Knoll Studio, NY
Photography by Grant Aaron
Design by Gabriel Benzur
Words by Chris Zaldua
Pressed by: AFG Record Manufacturing More
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Locust - Answering Now
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Locust - A Beginning
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Locust - Let Me See
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Locust - Music Box
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Locust - If You Knew
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Locust - Metals
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Locust - The Longest Day
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Locust - Towers
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Locust - St. Cecelia
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Locust - Out Here
Locust - known for his seminal early '90s releases on R&S and Apollo Records, returns with a new LP and a new sound. 10 melodic synthscapes, with clear nods to Cluster and early-Kraftwerk. Jacket designed by The Designers Republic.
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Portland, OR-based multimedia artist William Selman returns to Mysteries of the Deep with his third album for the label. Drawing on influences such as David Toop, Beatriz Ferreyra, Elizabeth Waldo, and David Behrman, “The Weather Indoors” melds live and synthesized instrumentation, field recordings, and digital processing techniques in a new, more melodic and approachable direction.
Immersive site recordings open into melodic woodwinds, orchestral instrumentation, bass guitar, gongs, and vibraphone. Borrowing from the anthropologist Tim Ingold’s concept of “inversion,” this widescreen staging cuts immediately to the core of the project: the way human beings use the faculty of imagination to aestheticize their built surroundings with architecture, images of distant locales, and domesticated flora and fauna to contain the anxiety for the natural world that surrounds human life.
A clear peak in Selman's extensive catalog, “The Weather Indoors” captures his work at a moment expanding his musical and aesthetic project: Neither genre ambient nor musique concrète, but a unique sound world dense with conceptual play and moments of more traditional harmonic beauty.
“We are contaminated by our encounters: they change who we are as we make way for others. As contamination changes world-making projects, mutual worlds—and new directions—may emerge. Everyone carries a history of contamination; purity is not an option.” —Anne Lowenhaupt-Tsing, The Mushroom at the End of the World
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'A Soft Degeneration' was featured in a mix from Mysteries label boss, Grant Aaron, entitled 'Sundays are for' – hosted by Delayed.
William Selman has releases on Mysteries of the Deep, Critique of Everyday Life, Going In, Hausu Mountain. More
Immersive site recordings open into melodic woodwinds, orchestral instrumentation, bass guitar, gongs, and vibraphone. Borrowing from the anthropologist Tim Ingold’s concept of “inversion,” this widescreen staging cuts immediately to the core of the project: the way human beings use the faculty of imagination to aestheticize their built surroundings with architecture, images of distant locales, and domesticated flora and fauna to contain the anxiety for the natural world that surrounds human life.
A clear peak in Selman's extensive catalog, “The Weather Indoors” captures his work at a moment expanding his musical and aesthetic project: Neither genre ambient nor musique concrète, but a unique sound world dense with conceptual play and moments of more traditional harmonic beauty.
“We are contaminated by our encounters: they change who we are as we make way for others. As contamination changes world-making projects, mutual worlds—and new directions—may emerge. Everyone carries a history of contamination; purity is not an option.” —Anne Lowenhaupt-Tsing, The Mushroom at the End of the World
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'A Soft Degeneration' was featured in a mix from Mysteries label boss, Grant Aaron, entitled 'Sundays are for' – hosted by Delayed.
William Selman has releases on Mysteries of the Deep, Critique of Everyday Life, Going In, Hausu Mountain. More
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NATHANIEL YOUNG - Limitation Without Direction
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NATHANIEL YOUNG - Zion Waits For No One
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NATHANIEL YOUNG - Comfort In Form
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NATHANIEL YOUNG - Recessed Constraint
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NATHANIEL YOUNG - Communal Dysphoria
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NATHANIEL YOUNG - Extrasolar
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NATHANIEL YOUNG - May I Speak Candidly
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NATHANIEL YOUNG - Graying Dawn
LP with full color jacket, deluxe printed sleeve, 140g White Vinyl, Digital download code
Tracklist
A1. Limitation Without Direction (5:57) A2. Zion Waits For No One (7:02) A3. Comfort In Form (7:55) A4. Recessed Constraint (6:50) B1. Communal Dysphoria (7:36) B2. Extrasolar (5:16) B3. May I Speak Candidly (7:06) B4. Graying Dawn (5:53)
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"Accosting Form, Pure Intent" - Nathaniel Young's new album for Mysteries of the Deep - is a contradiction that makes sense. At once raw and elegant, it emerges from a place of constraint and desire. Its individual tracks reflect this paradox as the album unlocks itself like a koan: a riddle that, once solved, dawns on the listener like an epiphany.
Metallic emanations in "Communal Dysphoria" and "Comfort in Form," interpolated with echo and reverb, arise from the void and disappear back into it, moving like scattered precipitation over rugged, rhythmic terrain. Certain tracks speak to certain influences: in "Extrasolar" and "May I Speak Candidly," drone is tempered by synth pads and wistful ambience. "Zion Waits for No One" brings to mind a sense of the Chthonic: a dark, primitive creature submerged. A monster from the loch that at times breaks through the still, watery surface.
Despite the assorted elements at work, a visceral quality binds everything together. Even the record's more subdued works are textured and tangible, at times balancing or playing against the serrated edges of its more structured pieces. Like all compelling works, the sounds here exist in a liminal space that is not entirely classifiable. Still, it is wholly cohesive in both its moodiness and its adeptness.
Releases on Umor Rex, Blankstairs, Phinery Tapes, Hospital Productions
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Tracklist
A1. Limitation Without Direction (5:57) A2. Zion Waits For No One (7:02) A3. Comfort In Form (7:55) A4. Recessed Constraint (6:50) B1. Communal Dysphoria (7:36) B2. Extrasolar (5:16) B3. May I Speak Candidly (7:06) B4. Graying Dawn (5:53)
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"Accosting Form, Pure Intent" - Nathaniel Young's new album for Mysteries of the Deep - is a contradiction that makes sense. At once raw and elegant, it emerges from a place of constraint and desire. Its individual tracks reflect this paradox as the album unlocks itself like a koan: a riddle that, once solved, dawns on the listener like an epiphany.
Metallic emanations in "Communal Dysphoria" and "Comfort in Form," interpolated with echo and reverb, arise from the void and disappear back into it, moving like scattered precipitation over rugged, rhythmic terrain. Certain tracks speak to certain influences: in "Extrasolar" and "May I Speak Candidly," drone is tempered by synth pads and wistful ambience. "Zion Waits for No One" brings to mind a sense of the Chthonic: a dark, primitive creature submerged. A monster from the loch that at times breaks through the still, watery surface.
Despite the assorted elements at work, a visceral quality binds everything together. Even the record's more subdued works are textured and tangible, at times balancing or playing against the serrated edges of its more structured pieces. Like all compelling works, the sounds here exist in a liminal space that is not entirely classifiable. Still, it is wholly cohesive in both its moodiness and its adeptness.
Releases on Umor Rex, Blankstairs, Phinery Tapes, Hospital Productions
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Birds of Prey - 01 Naming Names
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Birds of Prey - 02 Emanation
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Birds of Prey - 03 Vanishing Point
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Birds of Prey - 04 XYZ
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Birds of Prey - 05 Hyperbola
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Birds of Prey - 06 Strange and Eternal
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Birds of Prey - 07 Astrolabe
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Birds of Prey - 08 Geomancy
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Birds of Prey - 09 Moebius
translucent blue vinyl LP with full color jacket, deluxe printed sleeve, 140g Vinyl, Digital download code
Tracklist:
A1. Naming Names (3:32) A2. Emanation (4:14) A3. Vanishing Point (4:49) A4. XYZ (5:00) B1. Hyperbola (4:53) B2. Strange and Eternal (6:25) B3. Astrolabe (6:17) B4. Geomancy (4:36) B5. Moebius (3:42)
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If emptiness is heaviness is Godliness, Birds of Prey's third full-length LP is an immaculate conception from on high. The record luxuriates in the spaces between. What's left out says as much as what made it in. Deep, droning, and dub wise, "Vanishing Point" cascades in elegance. Its reference points call towards the sample manipulation of American tape music and the downward gaze of amniotic British bass music. It charts its own path nonetheless, building its own space for drifting off to.
Unlike many peers operating in similar realms, Birds of Prey are a proper band, a foursome: Grant Aaron, Clay Wilson, Eric Holmes, and Camille Altay. Each are artists in their own right with a distinct practice. In Birds of Prey, their collaborations in studio take on a greater shape, whittled and edited into cosmic formlessness.
Although borne of improvisation, you may never know that in the listening. "Vanishing Point" is a tight, coherent work, the sound of a cadre of talented musicians locked in flow. Rippling tones become glacial melodies. Cavernous drums emerge barely from the ether. Rhythms interlock, interpolate. Patterns repeat and dissolve whence they came. There is untold potency in simplicity, and Birds of Prey make it known.
Releases on Kathexis
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Tracklist:
A1. Naming Names (3:32) A2. Emanation (4:14) A3. Vanishing Point (4:49) A4. XYZ (5:00) B1. Hyperbola (4:53) B2. Strange and Eternal (6:25) B3. Astrolabe (6:17) B4. Geomancy (4:36) B5. Moebius (3:42)
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If emptiness is heaviness is Godliness, Birds of Prey's third full-length LP is an immaculate conception from on high. The record luxuriates in the spaces between. What's left out says as much as what made it in. Deep, droning, and dub wise, "Vanishing Point" cascades in elegance. Its reference points call towards the sample manipulation of American tape music and the downward gaze of amniotic British bass music. It charts its own path nonetheless, building its own space for drifting off to.
Unlike many peers operating in similar realms, Birds of Prey are a proper band, a foursome: Grant Aaron, Clay Wilson, Eric Holmes, and Camille Altay. Each are artists in their own right with a distinct practice. In Birds of Prey, their collaborations in studio take on a greater shape, whittled and edited into cosmic formlessness.
Although borne of improvisation, you may never know that in the listening. "Vanishing Point" is a tight, coherent work, the sound of a cadre of talented musicians locked in flow. Rippling tones become glacial melodies. Cavernous drums emerge barely from the ether. Rhythms interlock, interpolate. Patterns repeat and dissolve whence they came. There is untold potency in simplicity, and Birds of Prey make it known.
Releases on Kathexis
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LORI SCACCO - Coloring Book (4:16)
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LORI SCACCO - Strange Cities (4:48)
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LORI SCACCO - Cosmosgraphia (7:26)
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LORI SCACCO - Interactivity in Plastic Space (5:14)
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LORI SCACCO - Back to Electric (4:28)
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LORI SCACCO - Tiger Song (4:53)
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LORI SCACCO - Red Then Blue (3:35)
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LORI SCACCO - Other Flowers (5:50)
LP with full color jacket, deluxe printed sleeve, 140g Vinyl, Digital download code
Tracklist
A1. Coloring Book (4:16) A2. Strange Cities (4:48) A3. Cosmographia (7:26) A4. Interactivity in Plastic Space (5:14) B1. Back to Electric (4:28) B2. Tiger Song (4:53) B3. Red Then Blue (3:35) B4. Other Flowers (5:50)
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"I think of myself as a naturalist no matter the palette," says Lori Scacco, the New York
multi-instrumentalist, composer, and electronic musician whose new album, 'Desire Loop,' is
Mysteries of the Deep's third full-length LP.
Natural indeed: Scacco's music effuses warmth, enveloping listeners like a gentle embrace. Her
first album, 'Circles,' was released in the early aughts on Eastern Developments, an imprint
co-founded by Guillermo Scott Herren, aka Prefuse 73. She spent much of the interim period
composing music for performance, film, and classical ballet, influences audible throughout
'Desire Loop.'
Flush with incandescent scree, bubbly synthesizer, and easygoing dulcet tones, the album's
simplicity belies its emotional impact. At times — "Cosmographia" and "Other Flowers," for
instance — Scacco's songwriting approaches a therapeutic purity that feels nearly virtuous,
immaculate. This is by design: she wrote this album as counterpoint to today's destructive
political landscape. "I had to create an empathic means of access for myself, and in turn,
for the listener, using the core of all that I value as my way into the music,” she explains.
"I wanted to provide a vehicle for the listener to impart their own emotional experience without
imposing my own meaning. I found myself returning to that space over and over again.” After listening to 'Desire Loop,' we expect that you will, too.
Releases on Eastern Developments, Too Pure
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Tracklist
A1. Coloring Book (4:16) A2. Strange Cities (4:48) A3. Cosmographia (7:26) A4. Interactivity in Plastic Space (5:14) B1. Back to Electric (4:28) B2. Tiger Song (4:53) B3. Red Then Blue (3:35) B4. Other Flowers (5:50)
Short info:
"I think of myself as a naturalist no matter the palette," says Lori Scacco, the New York
multi-instrumentalist, composer, and electronic musician whose new album, 'Desire Loop,' is
Mysteries of the Deep's third full-length LP.
Natural indeed: Scacco's music effuses warmth, enveloping listeners like a gentle embrace. Her
first album, 'Circles,' was released in the early aughts on Eastern Developments, an imprint
co-founded by Guillermo Scott Herren, aka Prefuse 73. She spent much of the interim period
composing music for performance, film, and classical ballet, influences audible throughout
'Desire Loop.'
Flush with incandescent scree, bubbly synthesizer, and easygoing dulcet tones, the album's
simplicity belies its emotional impact. At times — "Cosmographia" and "Other Flowers," for
instance — Scacco's songwriting approaches a therapeutic purity that feels nearly virtuous,
immaculate. This is by design: she wrote this album as counterpoint to today's destructive
political landscape. "I had to create an empathic means of access for myself, and in turn,
for the listener, using the core of all that I value as my way into the music,” she explains.
"I wanted to provide a vehicle for the listener to impart their own emotional experience without
imposing my own meaning. I found myself returning to that space over and over again.” After listening to 'Desire Loop,' we expect that you will, too.
Releases on Eastern Developments, Too Pure
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William Selman - Lithic Reduction
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William Selman - Thick Description
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William Selman - Polysemy
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William Selman - The World Without Us
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William Selman - Inferno Of The Same
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William Selman - The Island Before The Internet
Mini LP (total time: 38 min) with full color jacket, deluxe printed sleeve, 140g Vinyl, Digital download code (download card includes WAV & MP3)
Tracklist
A1. Lithic Reduction (3:06) A2. Thick Description (9:31) A3. Polysemy (5:21)
B1. The World Without Us (5:05) B2. Inferno Of The Same (8:41) B3. The Island Before The Internet (5:59)
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What if music had no beginning, no end? Can music exist "for itself" or "of itself," without structure constraining it, defining it? Can music be non-linear, non-narrative, simply experiential, existential? The second full-length album on Mysteries of the Deep, Musica Enterrada from Portland's William Selman, neither answers these questions nor supposes them. But in listening, one can't help but wonder: What if I disappeared into this record forever? In another time and place, William Selman was known as Warmdesk, an alias through which he issued a series of sharply precise minimal techno records. In recent past, Selman shifted gears, shedding the dynamics of tension and release that characterized his previous alias' output. Under his own name, Selman began releasing process-oriented, freeform experimental music on cassette-focused outlets like Digitalis and Hausu Mountain. Now comes Musica Enterrada, a diaphanous, weightless musical vision not unlike the theoretical square root of GRM and Popol Vuh's early electronic forays. Split into six tracks across two sides of vinyl, Musica Enterrada bubbles, churns, drifts, and dozes. Dulcet tones pile up gently like waves on shore. Patterns repeat and reconfigure, as if heard from different angles. Rhythms appear, shift the frame, then disappear, into the ether whence they came. Play Musica Enterrada on repeat. And if you disappear into it, fret not — you have drifted into solace.
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Tracklist
A1. Lithic Reduction (3:06) A2. Thick Description (9:31) A3. Polysemy (5:21)
B1. The World Without Us (5:05) B2. Inferno Of The Same (8:41) B3. The Island Before The Internet (5:59)
Short info:
What if music had no beginning, no end? Can music exist "for itself" or "of itself," without structure constraining it, defining it? Can music be non-linear, non-narrative, simply experiential, existential? The second full-length album on Mysteries of the Deep, Musica Enterrada from Portland's William Selman, neither answers these questions nor supposes them. But in listening, one can't help but wonder: What if I disappeared into this record forever? In another time and place, William Selman was known as Warmdesk, an alias through which he issued a series of sharply precise minimal techno records. In recent past, Selman shifted gears, shedding the dynamics of tension and release that characterized his previous alias' output. Under his own name, Selman began releasing process-oriented, freeform experimental music on cassette-focused outlets like Digitalis and Hausu Mountain. Now comes Musica Enterrada, a diaphanous, weightless musical vision not unlike the theoretical square root of GRM and Popol Vuh's early electronic forays. Split into six tracks across two sides of vinyl, Musica Enterrada bubbles, churns, drifts, and dozes. Dulcet tones pile up gently like waves on shore. Patterns repeat and reconfigure, as if heard from different angles. Rhythms appear, shift the frame, then disappear, into the ether whence they came. Play Musica Enterrada on repeat. And if you disappear into it, fret not — you have drifted into solace.
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Certain Creatures - Cross Star Woman
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Certain Creatures - Nyau Dust
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Certain Creatures - Golden Circle
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Certain Creatures - Tachyon
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Certain Creatures - Nasadiya Sukta
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Certain Creatures - We Live Inside A Dream
Mini LP with full color jacket, printed deluxe sleeve, 140g Vinyl, MP3 Download code included
Tracklist
A1. Cross Star Woman A2. Nyau Dust A3. Golden Circle
B1. Tachyon B2. Nasadiya Sukta B3. We Live Inside A Dream
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A voice in the ether. A calm, clement drone. A gentle, pulsing throb. Like the ghost of a forgotten future as imagined by the distant past, Certain Creatures' sophomore LP Nasadiya Sukta is a study in timelessness - crystalline, heartfelt ambient music designed to push light through shadow. Nasadiya Sukta is the debut release on Mysteries of the Deep, a record label dedicated to total sensory immersion. Mysteries (as it's known colloquially and affectionately) launched in 2011 after a particularly fruitful late-night mixing session, first as a cult podcast series dedicated to narcotic music of all kinds, subsequently expanding into a series of seasonal events. Now, with the release of Nasadiya Sukta, Mysteries of the Deep becomes a full-fledged outlet for music to play in the dark. Certain Creatures is the alias of Brooklyn-based artist Oliver Chapoy, and Nasadiya Sukta was crafted especially for Mysteries of the Deep. Its genesis came when Grant Aaron, Mysteries' proprietor, tapped Chapoy to perform at Mysteries' Halloween event in 2015. His performance was the night's axis point, bridging earlier subdued sounds with late-night upbeat moods. Two years later, reworked and reconfigured, this performance is reborn as Nasadiya Sukta. Although divided into six tracks, Nasadiya coheres into a single extra-terrestrial mass, its beautiful understated elegance encouraging repeat listens. Simultaneously harking back to ambient classics from the '90s (you know who they are) while cementing Chapoy as a visionary artist with his own unique voice, Nasadiya Sukta is one for the space travellers indeed.
Releases on Styles Upon Styles, Medical Records
Label Promo + Tour
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Tracklist
A1. Cross Star Woman A2. Nyau Dust A3. Golden Circle
B1. Tachyon B2. Nasadiya Sukta B3. We Live Inside A Dream
Short info:
A voice in the ether. A calm, clement drone. A gentle, pulsing throb. Like the ghost of a forgotten future as imagined by the distant past, Certain Creatures' sophomore LP Nasadiya Sukta is a study in timelessness - crystalline, heartfelt ambient music designed to push light through shadow. Nasadiya Sukta is the debut release on Mysteries of the Deep, a record label dedicated to total sensory immersion. Mysteries (as it's known colloquially and affectionately) launched in 2011 after a particularly fruitful late-night mixing session, first as a cult podcast series dedicated to narcotic music of all kinds, subsequently expanding into a series of seasonal events. Now, with the release of Nasadiya Sukta, Mysteries of the Deep becomes a full-fledged outlet for music to play in the dark. Certain Creatures is the alias of Brooklyn-based artist Oliver Chapoy, and Nasadiya Sukta was crafted especially for Mysteries of the Deep. Its genesis came when Grant Aaron, Mysteries' proprietor, tapped Chapoy to perform at Mysteries' Halloween event in 2015. His performance was the night's axis point, bridging earlier subdued sounds with late-night upbeat moods. Two years later, reworked and reconfigured, this performance is reborn as Nasadiya Sukta. Although divided into six tracks, Nasadiya coheres into a single extra-terrestrial mass, its beautiful understated elegance encouraging repeat listens. Simultaneously harking back to ambient classics from the '90s (you know who they are) while cementing Chapoy as a visionary artist with his own unique voice, Nasadiya Sukta is one for the space travellers indeed.
Releases on Styles Upon Styles, Medical Records
Label Promo + Tour
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'Just Can't Stop' is a record which fell through the cracks, deemed not commercially viable enough by the major label that Serpico was signed to at the time. Determined to get the music out there, Baker decided to self-release a limited run of blue labelled vinyl. Several big independent labels of the '90s were subsequently interested in putting out the tracks, however it never came to fruition.
Over 30 years this record has aged gracefully, inspiring generations of diggers with its quirky euphoric feel, weighty low-end and intoxicating synthwork becoming a prized possession for some of the biggest names on the scene, with original copies trading hands for £100+. Whether you draw for the ecstasy-inducing Incantation Mix or the acid-infused Orca Space Dub, there’s no denying this is a timeless masterpiece from the UK underground.
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Over 30 years this record has aged gracefully, inspiring generations of diggers with its quirky euphoric feel, weighty low-end and intoxicating synthwork becoming a prized possession for some of the biggest names on the scene, with original copies trading hands for £100+. Whether you draw for the ecstasy-inducing Incantation Mix or the acid-infused Orca Space Dub, there’s no denying this is a timeless masterpiece from the UK underground.
Moonworks have worked closely with Serpico to bring this gem back down to earth, restoring the tracks from the original DAT tapes at Gat Decor’s studio, remastering them to modern standards and finally giving this music the official release it deserves. More
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Alien Rave - Tanzen
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A1 Alien Rave - Tanzen
A2 Alien Rave - Folge Mir
B1 Alien Rave - Tunel
B2 Alien Rave - Dark Matter
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Here's the first vinyl record release by Alien Rave. We still can't explain the strange circumstances surrounding this record, which came to our attention in a mysterious and unexpected way. A coded message through Ableton Live led us to a strange place where we found the recordings. The instructions were very clear - all we had to was follow them You'll find the results on this interstellar '94 electro-break track. Alien Rave sets out to get inside your head, introducing evocative and epic mental moments that give way to energetic tunnels built on a solid rhythmic foundation carefully designed to withstand elegant ultrasonic bass frequencies. For electro-break fans, this record could be seen as a journey which originated in the German-inspired Florida scene before eventually finding its way back to Spain. It's funny how Florida, home to some of the most robotic and extraterrestrial electro-break music, is also one of the hot spots of the global UFO phenomenon. Coincidence? Maybe, but we're looking forward to the next contact: we know it's coming. More
A1 Alien Rave - Tanzen
A2 Alien Rave - Folge Mir
B1 Alien Rave - Tunel
B2 Alien Rave - Dark Matter
Sales Note
Here's the first vinyl record release by Alien Rave. We still can't explain the strange circumstances surrounding this record, which came to our attention in a mysterious and unexpected way. A coded message through Ableton Live led us to a strange place where we found the recordings. The instructions were very clear - all we had to was follow them You'll find the results on this interstellar '94 electro-break track. Alien Rave sets out to get inside your head, introducing evocative and epic mental moments that give way to energetic tunnels built on a solid rhythmic foundation carefully designed to withstand elegant ultrasonic bass frequencies. For electro-break fans, this record could be seen as a journey which originated in the German-inspired Florida scene before eventually finding its way back to Spain. It's funny how Florida, home to some of the most robotic and extraterrestrial electro-break music, is also one of the hot spots of the global UFO phenomenon. Coincidence? Maybe, but we're looking forward to the next contact: we know it's coming. More
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DJ Marathon - Untitled
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Ebende - Elevate
Next up on this new hand-stamped series, incognito DJ Marathon takes us into uncharted territory with a trippy techno cut that will go the distance. On the flip side, Ebende returns with another dubbed out groove on the dreamy yet crystal clear Aniara frequency.
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Modex - Isometra
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Modex - Enagic
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Modex - Nairoosh
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Modex - Flow State
Perfect imperfections come one as Swiss producer Modex
journeys through an array of hypnotic melodies and driving
basslines, culminating in 4 cuts of future dance floor classics. More
journeys through an array of hypnotic melodies and driving
basslines, culminating in 4 cuts of future dance floor classics. More
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Funktor - Radiance
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Funktor - Critical Point
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Funktor - Receiver
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Funktor - Field Lines
We are glad to welcome talented producer Funktor with his debut EP "Emitter" for our 2nd release on Abstract Rhythm. His release contains 4 massive Electro tracks transforming electricity into machine funk heavy sound waves.
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Kerri Chandler - A1. No Suprise
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Kerri Chandler - A2. Remember This
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Kerri Chandler - B1. Glory To God
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Kerri Chandler - B2. All Join Hands
We have a truly hero of classic house music, for the 10th FRL Classic Edition instalment. Mr. Kerri Chandler returns with this classic from 1994. All four tracks feature the trademark Chandler bassline, jazzed-out trippy chords, and chopped up vocals. Pure deepness musicality with an oldschool twist
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Omar-S - I Hate
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Omar-S - Miss You
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Omar-S - Untitled
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Omar-S - U
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Omar-S - Set It Out
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Omar-S - U Set It Out
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Omar-S - U 2023
Omar-S celebrates 20 years with an expanded edition of AOS-002.
Now pressed as a double pack with two new versions of 'U' and 'Set It Out'
"Thank you very much and your support for 20 years!!!!!!
I really really appreciate you guys!!!!"
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Now pressed as a double pack with two new versions of 'U' and 'Set It Out'
"Thank you very much and your support for 20 years!!!!!!
I really really appreciate you guys!!!!"
Omar-S More
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Maleem Mahmoud Ghania & Pharoah Sanders - La Allah Dayim Moulenah
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Maleem Mahmoud Ghania & Pharoah Sanders - Bala Moussaka
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Maleem Mahmoud Ghania & Pharoah Sanders - Hamdouchi
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Maleem Mahmoud Ghania & Pharoah Sanders - Peace In Essaouira (For Sonny Sharrock)
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Maleem Mahmoud Ghania & Pharoah Sanders - Boulandi Samawi
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Maleem Mahmoud Ghania & Pharoah Sanders - Moussa Berkiyo / Koubaliy Beriah La'Foh
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Maleem Mahmoud Ghania & Pharoah Sanders - Salat Anbi
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Maleem Mahmoud Ghania & Pharoah Sanders - Casa Casa Atougra
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Maleem Mahmoud Ghania & Pharoah Sanders - Mahraba
Now repressed by popular demand! "The Trance Of Seven Colors" by master Gnawa musician MALEEM MAHMOUD GHANIA and free jazz legend PHAROAH SANDERS. Produced by BILL LASWELL and according to The Attic "one of the most important albums of Gnawa trance music released in the '90s". Originally released in 1994 on BILL LASWELL's AXIOM imprint, "The Trance Of Seven Colors" is the meeting of two true musical masters: MALEEM MAHMOUD GHANIA (1951 – 2015), son of the master of Gnawa music MALEEM BOUBKER GHANIAand the famous clairvoyant and "moqaddema" A'ISHA QABRAL, and a master of the traditional Gnawa style in his own right.MAHMOUD learned this craft as a youth along with his brothers, walking from village to village, performing ceremonies with his father BOUBKER and was one of the few masters (Maleem) who continued to practice the Gnawa tradition strictly for healing (the central ritual of the Gnawa is the trance music ceremony – with the purpose of healing or purification of the participants). With 30 cassette releases of music from the Gnawa repertoire with his own ensemble and performances at every major festival in Morocco, including performing for the King in various contexts, MAHMOUD GHANIA was also one of Morocco's most prominent professional musicians. In 1994, BILL LASWELL and PHAROAH SANDERS went to Mocrocco, equipped with just some mobile recording devices, to record GHANIA and a large ensemble of musicians (to a good part family members) in a very intimate set up at a private house with the legendary free jazz musician contributing his distinctive tenor saxophone sounds that gained him highest praise as a truely spiritual soul right from the days of playing with JOHN COLTRANE and his wife ALICE and on seminal solo albums like "Karma". The aptly titled "The Trance of Seven Colors" ranks among the best Gnawa recordings ever released, made it onto the list of "10 incredible percussive albums from around the world" by Thevinylfactory.com and is 25 years after its original CD release on finally available on vinyl!
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Peder Mannerfelt - Pumping Plastics
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Peder Mannerfelt - Vankelmotor
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Peder Mannerfelt - Eurotrashed
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Peder Mannerfelt - Liquid Rattan Mainframe
Sweden’s Peder Mannerfelt returns to Voam with “The Benefits of Living in a Hole”, his third EP for the label.
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Deep 6 - We’re Going Deep
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Ralph Falcon - Every Now And Then
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Tronic Pulse - Early A.M.
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Global Goone - Fin
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Low Key - Try Me Baby (Low Key’s Original Mix)
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The Afrodizzact - Strange
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Da Rebels - House Nation Under A Groove
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Iz & Diz - Down 4 U
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Kings Of Tomorrow - Untitled
2LP - Part I/II
Special Remarks : Gatefold Vinyl, Liner Notes by Gerd Janson
Tracklist
A1. Deep 6 – We’re Going Deep
A2. Ralph Falcon – Every Now And Then
A3. Tronic Pulse – Early A.M.
B1. Global Goone - Fin
B2. Low Key – Try Me Baby (Low Key’s Original Mix)
C1. The Afrodizzact – Strange
C2. Da Rebels – House Nation Under A Groove
D1. Iz & Diz – Down 4 U
D2. Kings Of Tomorrow – Untitled
Release Info:
The next issue in the on-going Mastermix series features a centerpiece of Frankfurt’s club history: Wild Pitch Club.
A predecessor to the esteemed Robert Johnson and a stepping stone for Panorama Bar’s very own nd_baumecker.
Founded by Playhouse masterminds Ata and the late Heiko M/S/O it was a Thursday club night that heavily featured house music as a prescription to the ongoing techno fever. Enamored with the US-American roots of it and all things deep, it not only presented the right records, but also their creators and protagonists. With a string of guest DJs from Robert Hood and Claude Young to Kerri Chandler and Theo Parrish as well as talent from the UK and Europe, it was one of the culture’s hubs at the time.
Here you have its testimony. Selected and mixed by Ata and nd_baumecker, it’s an authentic snapshot of the club’s vibe and spirit, spread over two 2x12” volumes, a collectable tape (download included) and a pleasant streaming version, it’s the full dosage. Like Roach Motel confessed: Wild Pitch, I love you.
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Special Remarks : Gatefold Vinyl, Liner Notes by Gerd Janson
Tracklist
A1. Deep 6 – We’re Going Deep
A2. Ralph Falcon – Every Now And Then
A3. Tronic Pulse – Early A.M.
B1. Global Goone - Fin
B2. Low Key – Try Me Baby (Low Key’s Original Mix)
C1. The Afrodizzact – Strange
C2. Da Rebels – House Nation Under A Groove
D1. Iz & Diz – Down 4 U
D2. Kings Of Tomorrow – Untitled
Release Info:
The next issue in the on-going Mastermix series features a centerpiece of Frankfurt’s club history: Wild Pitch Club.
A predecessor to the esteemed Robert Johnson and a stepping stone for Panorama Bar’s very own nd_baumecker.
Founded by Playhouse masterminds Ata and the late Heiko M/S/O it was a Thursday club night that heavily featured house music as a prescription to the ongoing techno fever. Enamored with the US-American roots of it and all things deep, it not only presented the right records, but also their creators and protagonists. With a string of guest DJs from Robert Hood and Claude Young to Kerri Chandler and Theo Parrish as well as talent from the UK and Europe, it was one of the culture’s hubs at the time.
Here you have its testimony. Selected and mixed by Ata and nd_baumecker, it’s an authentic snapshot of the club’s vibe and spirit, spread over two 2x12” volumes, a collectable tape (download included) and a pleasant streaming version, it’s the full dosage. Like Roach Motel confessed: Wild Pitch, I love you.
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Liaisons Dangereuses - Mystère Dans Le Brouillard
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Liaisons Dangereuses - Los Niños Del Parque
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Liaisons Dangereuses - Etre Assis Ou Danser
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Liaisons Dangereuses - Aperitif De La Mort
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Liaisons Dangereuses - Kess Kill Fé Show
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Liaisons Dangereuses - Peut Être ... Pas
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Liaisons Dangereuses - Avant-Après Mars
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Liaisons Dangereuses - El Macho Y La Nena
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Liaisons Dangereuses - Dupont
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Liaisons Dangereuses - Liaisons Dangereuses
A milestone in electronic music, is finally receiving its well-deserved re-release: Liaisons Dangereuses’ legendary self-titled debut album still fascinates today, through its innovative sound and the mystery encompassing it. Since its release in 1981, it has become a classic in electronic music. The 10 electrifying songs produced by Chrislo Haas (DAF) and Beate Bartel (Mania D. / Matador) – reinforced by Krishna Goineau’s French and Spanish Speech-Attack-Lyrics – created a unique style. The album – anything other than a Berlin or Düsseldorf ‘thing’ – was propelled to an international favourite. Songs such as “Peut Être... Pas” and “Los Niños Del Parque” played a decisive role in the development of Detroit and Chicago’s house sound, as well as various forms of European techno.
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