Past Inside The Present is back with another of its quietly powerful ambient records, this time from Almost An Island, which is a collaboration between Kenneth James Gibson and husband and wife duo James and Cynthia Bernard. This black version of the self-titled oeuvre drifts through ambient, Americana and experimental soundscapes with musical elegance and tasteful restraint. Muted textures, swirling guitar, pedal steel and subtle vocals create a mood that draws you in close but is also grand in scale. Tracks like 'Quadrivium' and 'What Got Us To Our Feet' blur the line between memory and melody, while 'Palo Verde' and 'Promise to Fade' linger like a half-remembered dream. This isn't ambient as background-it's a fully formed emotional landscape that is both meditative and melancholic.

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Zach Frizzell (aka zakè) is a well-established collaborator and curator in the realm of analog drone, whose philosophy is centered on open communication and constructive interaction; the creative act, he believes, is most rewarding when shared and embraced among complementary talents. In addition to his solo efforts, duos, and trios, he relishes any opportunity to work with the sounds of those he admires, and on Selected Remixes he offers a collection of these reinterpretations, whose sources range from glitch-pop, to post-rock, to long-form ambient. Under his guiding hand, the results bear many trademarks of his extensive catalog: earth-shaking bass tones, haunting orchestral ephemera, and beds of analog hiss and crackle. It’s a beautiful, cohesive overview that exhibits profound love for his friends and colleagues, and demonstrates an innate talent for transformative sonic alchemy.

On his rework of Benoit Pioulard’s “Xaipe”, Frizzell overlays the main loop in a subtle but affecting distortion of time and melody, while incorporating the grain and clatter of field recordings and adding flourishes of sighing strings, reshaping the original into a deeply moving requiem. The mercurial, alien transmissions of James Bernard’s “II.VII [omnisphere -> glut]” are condensed into a sweeping, powerfully kinetic magma chamber of barely contained dark beauty, threatening to erupt at any moment but fading instead into a fine analog mist.

Pausal have perhaps the most in common with zakè’s own moods and modalities, and their “Nicotiana” is a sprawling quest through different ambient topographies, which here are arranged into a brief version with a luminous, harmonic glow, as well as a longer version (the digital-only, 28-minute “Nicotiana Suite”) that creates a generous space for meditation and deep listening. In approaching the anthemic post-rock of The American Dollar’s “Second Sight”, Frizzell dilates the guitars into pure drone, and adorns them with understated, flitting keyboard melodies, expertly conveying all the same widescreen wonder and emotional poignancy.

Throughout the central section of Selected Remixes, we find long-time Past Inside The Present label affiliates and close collaborators like City of Dawn, Celer, and Dawn Chorus and the Infallible Sea, reimagined with lavish amounts of diffuse haze and drift, and ballasted by subterranean rumbles and gorgeous, ghostly reverberations. “They Come Around”, a standout from Inquiri’s PITP debut See You Someday, is refocused on the melancholy of its plucked guitar line and Lacey Harris’s angelic vocals: “When they come around / I draw another circle / When it comes around / I follow it until I understand”. Her words are particularly striking in the context of a collection so pointedly based on loops and cycles as paths to self-knowledge.

Frizzell’s version of “Desviación” by Matsu foregoes the pulse and swing of the original, instead highlighting the rich, shifting tonal fields of its interior, and resulting in something akin to a forgotten Boards of Canada interlude. Rounded out by the miniature galaxy of “Noctilucent” (originally by Karen Vogt & Rodrigo Stradiotto) and the majestic catharsis of “per:me:ate” (originally by Drum & Lace), Selected Remixes is an exemplary demonstration of zakè’s respect for his craft and fellow craftspeople, as well as his rare knack for carefully selecting the elements of a given work to create a version that becomes thoroughly his own.


Remixes produced, arranged, and mixed by zakè, utilizing source material and stems provided by the original artists. Mastered by James Bernard at Ambient Mountain House. Photography by Benoît Pioulard on Polaroid SX-70 film. Layout and design by zakè. Marketing, distribution, and phonographic copyright: Zakè Drone Recordings. Pressed, manufactured, and assembled in Warsaw, Poland. © 2025 Zakè Drone Recordings. This is ZD-040. zakedronerecordings.com / zakedrone.com / pitp.us / pastinsidethepresent.com. With heartfelt gratitude to all the artists who graciously entrusted me with the opportunity to reinterpret their original works. This record was made possible with the kind and generous permission of each artist selected for this release.

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Another week, another new release from the unstoppable ambient powerhouse that is zake. His latest full-length LL has two new cuts by the American maestro with remixes from a hefty selection of equally prolific producers all served up on his home label Past Inside the Present and no fewer than six sides of vinyl. Across this immersive two hours of music, there is a mix of ambient, drone, drum & bass, electronica, and deep techno from Warmth, Aural Imbalance, ASC and Bvdub. It is yet another essential release from zake and co.

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Past Inside the Present label regulars zake and Tyresta at long last come together for a well-overdue collaboration. This collection of sounds is called Drift and is all about reflective mood music that will send you deep inside yourself. It's a typically immersive listen from two of ambient's finest practitioners with lots of wide open spaces for you to sink into, slowly shifting timbers to gaze at and poignant atmospheres that cannot fail to leave an indelible impression. As usual, the sound design is top-notch here and the attention to detail second to none. It was well worth the wait, then.

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Past Inside The Present has really gone to town with the re-release of this 36 album The Lower Lights: it comes in several different formats and vinyl versions with this one being a limited, numbered and opaque red vinyl including a download code. Musically it is just as essential as a collection of tracks from a year-long 'Audio Diary' project undertaken by 36 between April 2018 and April 2019. It first came back in May 2019 and soon sold out, such is the quality of the vibrant and eclectic ambient sounds within. This is not sleep-inducing background material, but rather emotionally charged soundscaping with a mix of dark, futuristic and urgent pieces all making the cut.

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Ambient innovator make seems to drop something new almost every week. But you won't hear us complain because few have a breadth and depth of sound that matches his lo-fi and absorbing output on his home US label Past Inside the Present. He dropped the first volume of his Orchestral Tape Studies way back in 2019, and finally follows it up now with a second volume. Once again this is a selection of richly layered movements of fragmented orchestral loops that all pay homage to minimalist symphonic composers and orchestras and makes use of field recordings as well as gentle drones to soothe your soul.

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Past Inside the Present's 'Pulse' series is an investigation into ambient tech and beat-driven ambient sounds. Who better for the job on this second edition than master craftsmen ASC and Joachim Spieth? ASC opens up with 'Tidal Disruption Event', an understated, underwater rhythm with jittery percussive patterns and bright shards of melodic light piercing through the mix as more coarse soundwaves break over the top. Spieth's 'Subtle' is just as artful and delicate a mix of persuasive rhythm and melodic beauty. A classy Nitechord remix closes out this fascinating EP.

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Back in February, the prolific Past Inside The Present label boss Zake hooked up with Marc Ertel, James Bernard, and From Overseas at Crown Hill Cemetery in Indianapolis for a very intimate live show in a historic Gothic Chapel. A vast array of instruments were used including a Fender Telecaster, Meris Mercury 7, Eurorack modular synthesizer, Stingray bass guitar and literally tens more tools and toys and the resulting eight tunes of absorbing ambient are all presented here. It is another mystic and mystifying release from this label that reaches sublime new emotional highs.

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Los Angeles-based marine eyes (aka Cynthia Bernard) and Melbourne-based IKSRE (aka Phoebe Dubar) come together for this new album on Past Inside The Present and it is one that draws on their respective backgrounds as musicians, multi-instrumentalists and sound healers, as well as their shared love of field recordings. The album came about when each heard the other's music and decided to share sounds through an email pen-pal format. The mail chain included notes and pictures and became a geographical lesson and exploration of emotional landscapes. It blends ambient drone with neo-classical, sound healing, dream-pop and gentle lullabies onto something warm, comforting and introspective.

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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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Only a week or two after dropping the second of two ambient albums in 2022, masterful sound sculptor ASC is back with another release. This one finds him embracing drum & bass on limited coloured vinyl for Past Inside The Present. The majestic Eye Of The Storm is a suspensory trip through the heavens with delicate drum & bass rhythms and lush swathes of synths. 'Reflection' is just as awash with smeared synth beauty over the floating drum breaks, then 'Low Tide' is a lo-fi workout from the depths, a vibe that continues on the more busy and dark 'Life Cycle.' Another exceptional bit of work form the one and only ASC.

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Given the respective outputs of committed ambient explorers and sound designers Zake (best known for releasing no less than five fine albums in 2019) and 36 (most recently seen on A Strangely Isolated Place with the superb album "Fade To Grey"), you'd expect this trip into aural deep space to be rather good. It is of course, with the four tracks mixing echoing sonic tones and drifting sound effects with slow-burn electronic melodies and the kind of immersive, sustained chords that were once the preserve of German maestro Pete Namlook. The third track in the suite, appropriately titled 'Stage 3', is little less than stunning, in part because of its grandiose, almost classical intent. With a second volume about to emerge and this first instalment long sold out, Past Inside The Present have decided to re-issue it in a number of new coloured vinyl editions.

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Given the respective outputs of committed ambient explorers and sound designers Zake (best known for releasing no less than five fine albums in 2019) and 36 (most recently seen on A Strangely Isolated Place with the superb album "Fade To Grey"), you'd expect this trip into aural deep space to be rather good. It is of course, with the four tracks mixing echoing sonic tones and drifting sound effects with slow-burn electronic melodies and the kind of immersive, sustained chords that were once the preserve of German maestro Pete Namlook. The third track in the suite, appropriately titled 'Stage 3', is little less than stunning, in part because of its grandiose, almost classical intent. With a second volume about to emerge and this first instalment long sold out, Past Inside The Present have decided to re-issue it in a number of new coloured vinyl editions.

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36 and Zake follow up the epic work of Stasis Sounds For Long Distance Space Travel Part 1 with another eighteen chapters "of aural anesthetics" which "continue their journey through the outer reaches of space in hypersleep." The album comes in different coloured versions and this yellow copy boasts the sort of grainy and immersive ambient that immediately takes you out into the farthest reaches of space. It's widescreen and cinematic and makes for the sort of journeying album that is perfect for zoning out of everyday life and enjoying some mindful moments to yourself.

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Anyone who's cast even the most casual eye over their ever expanding catalogue will have realised that one thing Past Inside The Present do best is bring artists together for unexpected and inspired collaborations. Departing in Descent is the first collaboration between James Bernard and Bvdub but their creative conversation effectively started as far back as 1994 when the latter bought Bernard's Atmospherics album in 1994 when it was "mistakenly stocked" in his local house music store. He says it was and remains his favourite ambient album, so when the pair found themselves crossing paths for one night in LA years later, a collaboration was the only logical conclusion. The results are more organic and friendly on the ear than some ambient offerings, with real instrumentation meshed with walls of woozy synths and delays, but no less fantastical and ambitious for it.

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UK producer Dennis Huddleston goes by the artist name of 36. He is a much-loved producer with a fine back catalogue which is investigated here with The Box, a new collection of his earliest and perhaps most admired works. They were all written between 2005 and 2012 and are drawn from albums such as 2009's Hypersona, 2010's Hollow and 2012's Lithea. The bumper six vinyl collection also features a bonus album, Orphans, of all new and previously unreleased tracks. There is a real depth of range and emotion to these tracks so it is no wonder the artist says they are some of the most personally cherished works he has written.

1. "Signal"
2. "2249"
3. "Inside"
4. "Intercept"
5. "The Box"
6. "Nephyr"
7. "Beacon"
8. "Hypersona"
9. "Juliet"
10. "Dream Window"
11. "Forever"
12. "Track 12"
13. "Hollow"
14. "Find Me"
15. "Home"
16. "Tunnel"
17. "Geiga"
18. "Ghostfields"
19. "Fiona's Room"
20. "Siren"
21. "Darkroom Distortion"
22. "Equassa"
23. "Freefall Peak"
24. "Arc"
25. "Lightout"
26. "Clear"
27. "Cocoon"
28. "Susurrus"
29. "Lithea"
30. "Deluge"
31. "Radio"
32. "Reunion"
33. "1983"
34. "One"
35. "World After April"
36. "Seance"
37. "Dreamscape"
38. "Dayasan"
39. "Broken Toy"
40. "Leviatha"
41. "Levitate"
42. "Saphron"
43. "Saphron"
44. "Another World"
45. "Movarian Fields"
46. "Two Doors"
47. "Vision"
48. "Point Of No Return"
49. "Sine Orphan"
50. "Fressa Fa" (Slow version)

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Space is the place - at least, it's the place uppermost in the mind of midwest US label Past Inside The Present founder zake and his sonic partner Ossa - location given as the north pole according to his Twitter - as they embark on collaborative 10 tracks. The fact that that the National Aeronautics and Space Administration - NASA to you and me - has supplied them with celestial sound emissions for the tracks is a bonus. But ultimately, the real headline factor once it's actually on your turntable is the vivid atmosopheres and gorgeous textures that the pair are capable of generating. The album's closer, 'Metric Expansion', is a tremulous glory, peaking and slipping away like rays of sunlight. 'Space & Time', meanwhile, is a simple, gliding analogue delight, and 'Drifting' proves you can carve imperceptible beauty from a couple of well crafted chords.

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zake & Wayne Robert Thomas come together to serve up a thoughtful and healing deep dive into "what it means to continue living life in the face of loss and uncertainty." Their album is one of great depth emotional and full of subtle struggles that we can all relate to. 'To Those Who Dwelt in a Land of Deep Darkness' was first put out as a 10" lathe but now gets pressed dup properly to 12" vinyl with three extra tracks taken from the original recording sessions. They say the best art comes out of adversity and that is certainly true here.

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With her third album, composer and bandleader Jasmine Myra has stepped confidently into the next stage of her unique musical explorations. Where Light Settles is a cohesive artistic statement from a distinctive and confident voice in UK music, and a significant evolution from the critically acclaimed Horizons (2022) and Rising (2024).
Track Listing:
A1. Opening
A2. Reflections
A3. Likeness & Shadow
A4. Some Rain Must Fall
A5. Echo

B1. Breath
B2. Fragments
B3. In an Instant
B4. Where Light Settles

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One of the most innovative and ambitious albums ever made, Genioh Yamashirogumi’s Ecophony Rinne is a sonic masterpiece featuring over 200 musicians that expanded the limits of what music and sound could do.

Before Akira there was Ecophony Rinne. Originally released in 1986, Ecophony Rinne is a four-part symphony of “ecological music” by Geinoh Yamashirogumi that married ancient tradition with technological innovation, and changed the way we listen to music in the process.

Half-speed mastered at Abbey Road by Miles Showell, Time Capsule’s high-tech analogue reissue is the first to reproduce composer Ohashi’s ground-breaking “Hypersonic Effect” theory on vinyl, cutting frequencies beyond the realm of human hearing into wax to capture the full spectrum emotional impact of this extraordinary work.

Founded by genius polymath Tsutomu Ohashi aka Shoji Yamashiro, Geinoh Yamashirogumi is a shapeshifting collective of over a hundred members from across disciplines. Rejecting professional musicianship, Ohashi cultivated an ethos where neuroscientists, psychologists, doctors, journalists, engineers and students could critique society through artistic expression and pursue their research in ethnomusicological performances that spanned global traditions, Eastern spirituality and Western classical form.

Ecophony Rinne represents the pinnacle of this vision - an expansive orchestral suite made with over 200 musicians that channeled Ohashi’s thinking about mankind’s relationship with nature, and fundamental questions of life, death and rebirth.

Here pipe organ synths made from sampled Tibetan horns sit alongside field recordings from Central African forests, Buddhist mantras circle dummy head microphones, Javanese Jegog percussion ensembles pulse like verdant ecosystems, and the acoustics of temples, caves and landscapes are conveyed in the mix. Weaving together culture, nature and technology, it is a record that vibrates with the polyphony of life on Earth.

But Ecophony Rinne was not only musically innovative. Noticing the difference between vinyl and CD versions of the album where digital reproduction limited the sound, Ohashi developed a theory of “Hypersonic Effect”, determining that ultra-high frequencies above 20khz can impact human perception even if they are inaudible. At once a physical and a psychological experience, to listen to Ecophony Rinne is to feel music differently.

The rest is history. After its release, Ohashi was approached by director Katsuhiro Otomo to produce the soundtrack for Akira, the work for which Geinoh Yamashirogumi is best known. Emerging from the shadows at last, Ecophony Rinne was its transcendental blueprint, reissued in its most complete hypersonic form on vinyl for the first time.

Rather than describe nature, Ecophony Rinne embodied it. Rather than reflect culture, Ecophony Rinne defined it. Rather than explore technology, Ecophony Rinne changed it. As a work of art, it is more relevant than ever. You won’t have heard anything like it.

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Recorded between the iconic Abbey Road and Polish Radio studios, Hania Rani’s original music for Joachim Trier’s Cannes and Golden Globe winning, Oscar and Bafta nominated ‘Sentimental Value’ is a deeply intuitive collaboration, composed before a single frame was edited.

Track Listing:
Tracklist
A1. Sentimental Value
A2. The House
A3. Childlike
A4. Lighter and Lighter
A5. Riksarkivet
A6. Agnes

B1. Rachel
B2. Speaking to the Past
B3. Gustav
B4. Nora


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