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Gi Gi - Optio
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Gi Gi - Pink Dirt
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Gi Gi - Some Of
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Gi Gi - Argue
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Gi Gi - Going 2
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Gi Gi - Downswept
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Gi Gi - Harmless
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Gi Gi - Separate Lateral
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Gi Gi - Acumen
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Gi Gi - In Lieu
Gi Gi describes his process as “dubwise sampledelia.” It begins with fragments and ends somewhere else entirely, destabilizing its source material until it stops pointing backward. A borrowed sound, looped and bent, eventually forgets where it came from; it stops referencing anything but itself.
This liquid sensibility shaped his earlier work, music that hovered between drift and propulsion, suggesting the dance floor without fully stepping onto it. Presence was implied, edges stayed soft. The center was always there, but diffused like mist on a screen.
With In Lieu, that center comes into focus. Half written in Texas, half in Australia, the shift isn’t simply geographic, but internal. The record moves with a coiled, anticipatory energy; the drums arrive with more force and the bass organizes the room instead of melting into it. It's dense with the feeling of more bodies in the frame. Textures still smear and refract, but they move around a clearer axis.
Where past records circled their core, these inhabit it, pulling closer to the body. “Some Of” and “Arque” lean into low-end pressure without abandoning his instinct for drift. "Pink Dirt" circles around mechanical drums and dizzying vocal chops, head-down and visceral. Elsewhere, voices gain newfound contour, materializing in “Downswept” with intimate musings and nearly forming a lead vocal on the title track before dissolving again.
In Lieu moves with a newfound confidence, compressing inward, sounding closer to the source of its own pulse.
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This liquid sensibility shaped his earlier work, music that hovered between drift and propulsion, suggesting the dance floor without fully stepping onto it. Presence was implied, edges stayed soft. The center was always there, but diffused like mist on a screen.
With In Lieu, that center comes into focus. Half written in Texas, half in Australia, the shift isn’t simply geographic, but internal. The record moves with a coiled, anticipatory energy; the drums arrive with more force and the bass organizes the room instead of melting into it. It's dense with the feeling of more bodies in the frame. Textures still smear and refract, but they move around a clearer axis.
Where past records circled their core, these inhabit it, pulling closer to the body. “Some Of” and “Arque” lean into low-end pressure without abandoning his instinct for drift. "Pink Dirt" circles around mechanical drums and dizzying vocal chops, head-down and visceral. Elsewhere, voices gain newfound contour, materializing in “Downswept” with intimate musings and nearly forming a lead vocal on the title track before dissolving again.
In Lieu moves with a newfound confidence, compressing inward, sounding closer to the source of its own pulse.
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More records from Gi Gi
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Gi Gi - Wicker
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Gi Gi - Dreamliner
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Gi Gi - Omnibus
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Gi Gi - Plume
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Gi Gi - Thistle
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Gi Gi - Dizzying
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Gi Gi - Microbi
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Gi Gi - Far-Flung
Gi Gi returns to Quiet Time with a new album, Dreamliner. His last full-length for Quiet Time, Lumino Pleco, was built on familiar samples, melted into a skunky sludge. It evoked a heat-warped meditation cassette unearthed from a Goodwill located in a black hole. The Texas producer’s latest, Dreamliner, is comparably immediate and propulsive. Here, Gi Gi explores spacey, kosmische-laced trip-hop. At first, these eight tracks come across placid and twinkly — calling to mind glitter stars twinkling atop a navy canvas, or tropical sun beams cutting through crystal water. But a jaggedness becomes apparent when lended a focused ear. Beneath slow motion arpeggiations and lullaby melodies, dubby percussion and sound effects gnash and quiver.
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Gi Gi - The Lower
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Gi Gi - Maiolica
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Gi Gi - Pyxis Glint
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Gi Gi - Palm Slick
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Gi Gi - Sinews (Feat. Hysterical Love Project)
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Gi Gi - Lifted Song
New INDEX:Records transmission comes courtesy of Texan vibist Gi Gi. Trodding his own path of introspective, nu-age-infused ambient scapes and trip-hop-laced downtempo divagations, Gi Gi eases us in a distinctively soothing headspace. A self-driven, immersive audio bubble engineering a polychromatic mix of organic field-recording, exotic dub shades, lushly textured envelopes and smooth loungey jazz accents.
From the A1, “The Lower”, a steady-churning combo of retro-stepping UK dynamics, 90s-schooled atmospheric dub and low-slung, LA beat-style swagger, down to the verbed-out summer pop of “Sinews” featuring Hysterical Love Project, Gi Gi puts on a riveting synthesis of seemingly distant varietals.
On “Maiolica”, the mystique-imbued power of drums and shadowiness of the bass collides with the faux-organic vibrancy of singing robot birds; “Pyxis Glint” shows off an ambiguously feverish ASMR-like temper with its tightly woven web of chimey Andean melody and straight out Rephlex-fashioned escapism, whereas “Palm Slick” heads for further exhilarating heights through Hassellian brass flights a la “Blues Nile" and breaksy off-piste, all set at buckling a few knees along the way.
A full-fledged, soulful trip-hop number disguised in matching neo-vintage camo, “Lilted Song” treats us to a fulfilling blend of bleached pads and FX-laden slo-mo percussions swaying with a strong couldn’t-give-a-damn attitude. Gi Gi coming up with the mind trip.
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From the A1, “The Lower”, a steady-churning combo of retro-stepping UK dynamics, 90s-schooled atmospheric dub and low-slung, LA beat-style swagger, down to the verbed-out summer pop of “Sinews” featuring Hysterical Love Project, Gi Gi puts on a riveting synthesis of seemingly distant varietals.
On “Maiolica”, the mystique-imbued power of drums and shadowiness of the bass collides with the faux-organic vibrancy of singing robot birds; “Pyxis Glint” shows off an ambiguously feverish ASMR-like temper with its tightly woven web of chimey Andean melody and straight out Rephlex-fashioned escapism, whereas “Palm Slick” heads for further exhilarating heights through Hassellian brass flights a la “Blues Nile" and breaksy off-piste, all set at buckling a few knees along the way.
A full-fledged, soulful trip-hop number disguised in matching neo-vintage camo, “Lilted Song” treats us to a fulfilling blend of bleached pads and FX-laden slo-mo percussions swaying with a strong couldn’t-give-a-damn attitude. Gi Gi coming up with the mind trip.
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Peach - Bathtime Bliss
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Peach - Batangas Beat
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Peach - Accidental Zoom
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Peach - Rainy Season
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Peach - Christian's Song
Peach’s Soak Vol. 1 is a cross-Canadian link-up with Mood Hut that moves through slower, deeper waters.
The mini-LP was written after a tour through Asia that opened up something new in how Peach approaches making music. The turning point, as she tells it, came during a visit to a neighbourhood sento in Tokyo, while surrounded by steam rising in suspended time, something clicked about the relationship between the body and the sounds she wanted to make.
She’d been learning about cycle synching and working out with the phases of her hormonal cycle, respecting energy fluctuations throughout the course of a month, and decided to apply the approach to writing music. She allowed shifts in energy to guide tempo, density, and emotional tone rather than strictly answering to the floor.
Soak came out of this exploration, sketched and layered with field recordings from her trips to Vietnam and the Philippines during a challenging time in her life. Fragments of heat, air, and shoreline are absorbed into the music itself. Vapourous pads, low-end weight, fractured percussion, and melodies hover at the edge of dissolution. Water runs structurally through the record in surges, in tidal pacing, in the slow accumulation of texture.
Wherever this music finds you, please enjoy the Soak.
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The mini-LP was written after a tour through Asia that opened up something new in how Peach approaches making music. The turning point, as she tells it, came during a visit to a neighbourhood sento in Tokyo, while surrounded by steam rising in suspended time, something clicked about the relationship between the body and the sounds she wanted to make.
She’d been learning about cycle synching and working out with the phases of her hormonal cycle, respecting energy fluctuations throughout the course of a month, and decided to apply the approach to writing music. She allowed shifts in energy to guide tempo, density, and emotional tone rather than strictly answering to the floor.
Soak came out of this exploration, sketched and layered with field recordings from her trips to Vietnam and the Philippines during a challenging time in her life. Fragments of heat, air, and shoreline are absorbed into the music itself. Vapourous pads, low-end weight, fractured percussion, and melodies hover at the edge of dissolution. Water runs structurally through the record in surges, in tidal pacing, in the slow accumulation of texture.
Wherever this music finds you, please enjoy the Soak.
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Jack J - A1. Wrong Again
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Jack J - A2. Foolish Man
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Jack J - A3. Red Cloud
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Jack J - A4. Down the Line
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Jack J - A5. Pink Shoes [Part I]
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Jack J - B1. At Last
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Jack J - B2. At My Door
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Jack J - B3. My Other Mind
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Jack J - B4. Falling Down a Well
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Jack J - B5. Born Without a Smile
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Jack J - B6. Pink Shoes [Part II]
Just a little over two years since the release of his debut album Opening the Door, Jack re-emgerges with a new full length album. On Blue Desert, the Australian-born Vancouver-based multi-instrumentalist, singer, songwriter and producer wades deeper into the stylistically prismatic pool of his own creation: melancholy dub-funk, jangling psychedelia, moon-burnt sophisti-pop and stained glass folk mutations float freely together.
Entirely self-produced at Mood Hut Studios in Chinatown, Vancouver between 2022 and 2024, the album picks up where Opening the Door left off; the songwriting concise and refined, the voice front and centre on almost every song, the pensive mood irresistible and dense.
The apparently effortless melodic interplay of voice, guitar, synthesizers and bass that Jack is well known for is ever present but despite the clear-eyed harmonies and energetic rhythms there is a shadow that quietly haunts the album. The lyrical buoyancy of his early EPs and even some of the more explicitly sunburnt instrumental moments of his last record have continued to fade and peel like paint. Regret, remorse and melancholy are woven into almost every turn of phrase; the self-deprecating longing of Tracey Thorn and Sade Adu can be heard alongside the plaintive echos of Mark Hollis and Arthur Russell. The Mood Hut Records founder and NTS host digs deeper in all the directions that he only brushed upon on Opening the Door, creating a kaleidoscopic index of his omnivorous listening habits: from Underworld to Kate Bush, Disco Inferno to Bryan Ferry, Julian Cope to Arthur Verocai.
The LP will be released on Jack’s own Mood Hut Records on November 1st and will be followed by a live tour in the UK and Europe in November and December, featuring a string of dates opening for revered Los Angeles artist Jessica Pratt.
- Mood Hut Records, Vancouver
Produced by Jack Jutson at Mood Hut Studios, Chinatown Vancouver
Mixed by Jack Jutson and CZ Wang
Saxophone by Linda Fox
Strings on Falling Down a Well by Aiden Ayers
Bass on Down the Line by Diego Herrera
Additional synth on Red Cloud by Liam Butler
Artwork by Mela Melania + Jack Jutson
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Entirely self-produced at Mood Hut Studios in Chinatown, Vancouver between 2022 and 2024, the album picks up where Opening the Door left off; the songwriting concise and refined, the voice front and centre on almost every song, the pensive mood irresistible and dense.
The apparently effortless melodic interplay of voice, guitar, synthesizers and bass that Jack is well known for is ever present but despite the clear-eyed harmonies and energetic rhythms there is a shadow that quietly haunts the album. The lyrical buoyancy of his early EPs and even some of the more explicitly sunburnt instrumental moments of his last record have continued to fade and peel like paint. Regret, remorse and melancholy are woven into almost every turn of phrase; the self-deprecating longing of Tracey Thorn and Sade Adu can be heard alongside the plaintive echos of Mark Hollis and Arthur Russell. The Mood Hut Records founder and NTS host digs deeper in all the directions that he only brushed upon on Opening the Door, creating a kaleidoscopic index of his omnivorous listening habits: from Underworld to Kate Bush, Disco Inferno to Bryan Ferry, Julian Cope to Arthur Verocai.
The LP will be released on Jack’s own Mood Hut Records on November 1st and will be followed by a live tour in the UK and Europe in November and December, featuring a string of dates opening for revered Los Angeles artist Jessica Pratt.
- Mood Hut Records, Vancouver
Produced by Jack Jutson at Mood Hut Studios, Chinatown Vancouver
Mixed by Jack Jutson and CZ Wang
Saxophone by Linda Fox
Strings on Falling Down a Well by Aiden Ayers
Bass on Down the Line by Diego Herrera
Additional synth on Red Cloud by Liam Butler
Artwork by Mela Melania + Jack Jutson
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Musicentrydelete - 1izm
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Musicentrydelete - K1Deep
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Musicentrydelete - RiseMODX
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Musicentrydelete - Sub AM
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Musicentrydelete - Musicentrydelete
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Musicentrydelete - Wavebeats
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Musicentrydelete - wavebeats (dub)
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Musicentrydelete - 1 electric
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Musicentrydelete - Depth
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Musicentrydelete - eBase
2xLP produced by Hashman at DubStation.
Ten extremely heady and emotionally significant cuts straight from one mind to another, designed to connect.
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Ten extremely heady and emotionally significant cuts straight from one mind to another, designed to connect.
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Slow Riffs - Vertical Horizon
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Slow Riffs - Cosmic Joke
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Slow Riffs - Talking Drum
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Slow Riffs - Her Shining Abode
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Slow Riffs - Sleep Weel
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Slow Riffs - Simulacra (Feat. Alex Ho)
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Slow Riffs - Skywatchers
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Slow Riffs - Mutual Dreaming
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Slow Riffs - Lascaux Caves
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Listen if You Like = Jon Hassell, Hiroshi Yoshimura, Terry Riley, Rhythm & Sound, Laurie Spiegel, Ariel Kalma, Laraaji, Steve Roach, Kerry Leimer, Suzanne Ciani, Yu Su, Hotspring, La Monte Young, Erik Satie, Music From Memory, Brian Eno, O Yuki Conjugate, Harold Budd, Robert Guthrie, Leif, Gigi Mason, Gaussian Curve, Patricia Wolf, Muslim Gauze, Manuel Göttsching,
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Listen if You Like = Jon Hassell, Hiroshi Yoshimura, Terry Riley, Rhythm & Sound, Laurie Spiegel, Ariel Kalma, Laraaji, Steve Roach, Kerry Leimer, Suzanne Ciani, Yu Su, Hotspring, La Monte Young, Erik Satie, Music From Memory, Brian Eno, O Yuki Conjugate, Harold Budd, Robert Guthrie, Leif, Gigi Mason, Gaussian Curve, Patricia Wolf, Muslim Gauze, Manuel Göttsching,
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Cousin - Catsu
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Cousin - Overpass
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Cousin - 3 x a Charm
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Cousin - Muster
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Cousin - Citta
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On New Year's morning, Cousin took a weary-eyed walk... ‘HomeSoon’ he thought, whilst cutting to the path by the Angophora Forest. As he made it down to the overgrown sidewalk, he caught a sudden sense of warmth from the surrounding flora. On closer focus, it was as if the plants and flowers had come alive...pulsing forward down the path as they bounced, smiled, and sneered all around him. Against logic, he was struck by an almost Garsonian desire to communicate with them.
This feeling lingered, persisting through several studio sessions. The music written over this period makes up this EP. How directly this experience informed the music is hard to say. What effect it had on the surrounding plant life is even harder to tell… we do hope, however, through listening to it, you’re a little more tuned in to them.
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On New Year's morning, Cousin took a weary-eyed walk... ‘HomeSoon’ he thought, whilst cutting to the path by the Angophora Forest. As he made it down to the overgrown sidewalk, he caught a sudden sense of warmth from the surrounding flora. On closer focus, it was as if the plants and flowers had come alive...pulsing forward down the path as they bounced, smiled, and sneered all around him. Against logic, he was struck by an almost Garsonian desire to communicate with them.
This feeling lingered, persisting through several studio sessions. The music written over this period makes up this EP. How directly this experience informed the music is hard to say. What effect it had on the surrounding plant life is even harder to tell… we do hope, however, through listening to it, you’re a little more tuned in to them.
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Hotspring - Blood
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Hotspring - Could You?
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Hotspring - Day, Moment
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Hotspring - Dealt Hand
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Hotspring - Don't Hum Without Me
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Hotspring - Fifty Summers
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Hotspring - Glanzstrasse 6
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Hotspring - Organ With Fire
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Hotspring - Three Of Swords
Hotspring is the alias of musician Scott Gailey.
Recent collaborative releases include a 2023 appearance on 0 Records’ 02 alongside C3D-E and Hashman, and a 2022 drop of three releases by loose Vancouver collective Kinda Green; past solo releases include 2019’s Polysensuality on Séance Centre and 2020’s Obit for Sunshade, also on Mood Hut.
The forthcoming Apodelia is Gailey’s second solo release on Canadian mainstay electronic label Mood Hut, and is partly a further exploration of song forms, studio techniques and instrumentation explored on 2020’s Obit for Sunshade. Apodelia explores lifting into revealing; scouring fidelities, playing with emotion, and improvising by night.
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Recent collaborative releases include a 2023 appearance on 0 Records’ 02 alongside C3D-E and Hashman, and a 2022 drop of three releases by loose Vancouver collective Kinda Green; past solo releases include 2019’s Polysensuality on Séance Centre and 2020’s Obit for Sunshade, also on Mood Hut.
The forthcoming Apodelia is Gailey’s second solo release on Canadian mainstay electronic label Mood Hut, and is partly a further exploration of song forms, studio techniques and instrumentation explored on 2020’s Obit for Sunshade. Apodelia explores lifting into revealing; scouring fidelities, playing with emotion, and improvising by night.
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Oro Azul - Lemuria
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Oro Azul - Atlantis
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Oro Azul - Mantarraya
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Oro Azul - Eros
Oro Azul‘s debut offering, ‘Water Seeds,’ takes us through 4 shades of an aquatic garden. Dembow floats underneath the waves while woodblock melodies bubble up through the weeds. Sub bass shifts the tide. Some sounds are moss-like, a protective balm. Other tones come through as minerals and metals, shining in the refracted light from above.
A collaboration between Ultima Esuna and Michael Red, the music of Oro Azul took shape over the course of a year of purposeful and transformative studio sessions. This release follows the pair’s solo releases on DJ Python’s Worldwide Unlimited, Nervous Horizon, and Isla.
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A collaboration between Ultima Esuna and Michael Red, the music of Oro Azul took shape over the course of a year of purposeful and transformative studio sessions. This release follows the pair’s solo releases on DJ Python’s Worldwide Unlimited, Nervous Horizon, and Isla.
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Freak Heat Waves - The Time Has Come
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Freak Heat Waves - In A Moment Divine (With Cinty Lee)
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Freak Heat Waves - Endless
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Freak Heat Waves - Music Has An Interesting Power
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Freak Heat Waves - How Do We Come Alive
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Freak Heat Waves - Off My Mind
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Freak Heat Waves - Altered States
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Freak Heat Waves - Mondo Tempo
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For more than a decade, Freak Heat Waves have been steadily amassing a cult following and earning acclaim from both critics and underground aficionados alike. Their music is a heady cocktail that defies easy categorization, blending elements of post-punk, psych, dub, ambient, house, and techno. Their eclectic sound has served as the soundtrack to countless DIY punk shows, outsider galleries and sleazy discos, establishing the duo as iconoclasts with a reputation for ignoring expectations and subverting genre conventions. While at times, the term ‘acquired taste’ may have seemed fitting, their latest release offers their most alluring output to date. Mondo Tempo, the duo's fifth LP, released through Vancouver's Mood Hut, was primarily recorded at their home studios in Montreal and Victoria. Building upon the electronic explorations of their previous record, Zap The Planet (Telephone Explosion), they inject their signature sound with a smoother and sweeter blend of dance music. The album’s tracks feature midi smoothness, trance mantras, dancehall grooves, ambient textures and vocal samples, creating a world that is both captivating and immersive. Notably, the lead single “In A Moment Divine” features a collaboration with Cindy Lee, resulting in a dance floor number that boldly ventures beyond the familiar wheelhouses of both acts. With Mondo Tempo Freak Heat Waves solidify their reputation as one of the most exciting and unpredictable acts around.
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For more than a decade, Freak Heat Waves have been steadily amassing a cult following and earning acclaim from both critics and underground aficionados alike. Their music is a heady cocktail that defies easy categorization, blending elements of post-punk, psych, dub, ambient, house, and techno. Their eclectic sound has served as the soundtrack to countless DIY punk shows, outsider galleries and sleazy discos, establishing the duo as iconoclasts with a reputation for ignoring expectations and subverting genre conventions. While at times, the term ‘acquired taste’ may have seemed fitting, their latest release offers their most alluring output to date. Mondo Tempo, the duo's fifth LP, released through Vancouver's Mood Hut, was primarily recorded at their home studios in Montreal and Victoria. Building upon the electronic explorations of their previous record, Zap The Planet (Telephone Explosion), they inject their signature sound with a smoother and sweeter blend of dance music. The album’s tracks feature midi smoothness, trance mantras, dancehall grooves, ambient textures and vocal samples, creating a world that is both captivating and immersive. Notably, the lead single “In A Moment Divine” features a collaboration with Cindy Lee, resulting in a dance floor number that boldly ventures beyond the familiar wheelhouses of both acts. With Mondo Tempo Freak Heat Waves solidify their reputation as one of the most exciting and unpredictable acts around.
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Knopha - Fizz
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Knopha - The Light Ft. Fishdoll
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Knopha - Mizu Le Goût
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Knopha - Corundum ft Voision Xi
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Knopha - Corundrum
Knopha steps out on Mood Hut Records with 'Kwong'. Ranging in tone from downtempo drum and bass to Herbert-like cut up house tunes, from esoteric pop to digital abstractions.
After years of friendship, we're very proud to release Knopha's beautiful music. We hope you enjoy.
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After years of friendship, we're very proud to release Knopha's beautiful music. We hope you enjoy.
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Big Zen - Prayer Bass
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Big Zen - Sugarcoated
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Big Zen - Cash Splash
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Big Zen - Rumble Ball
Big Zen makes his entrance on Mood Hut records with Prayer Bass, a freely focused collection of euphoric funk-splashed club-cuts from the much-loved Vancouver underground legend. Those who have seen him play at free parties in the park or at the many under-cover basements of Vancouver City will already know what Prayer Bass is all about.
After many sessions and years of friendship both on and off the dance floor we are pleased to finally work with Big Zen. Following up his recently self-released 'Mirror Cut' 12" here Big Zen continues to swim out into the technicolour deep: Prayer bass is purple, Sugar Coated is frosty cream, Cash Splash is lightning blue, Rumble Ball is tangerine.
Dj support from Shanti Celeste, Hunee, Titonton Duvante, Bradley Zero, Ron Like Hell, Giant Swan, Anthony Naples
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After many sessions and years of friendship both on and off the dance floor we are pleased to finally work with Big Zen. Following up his recently self-released 'Mirror Cut' 12" here Big Zen continues to swim out into the technicolour deep: Prayer bass is purple, Sugar Coated is frosty cream, Cash Splash is lightning blue, Rumble Ball is tangerine.
Dj support from Shanti Celeste, Hunee, Titonton Duvante, Bradley Zero, Ron Like Hell, Giant Swan, Anthony Naples
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Local Artist - Head Right
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Local Artist - Expanding Horizons
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Local Artist - Without You
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Local Artist - Neo Wise
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Local Artist - Rif Kibdani
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Local Artist - Self Healing
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Local Artist - Good Enough
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Local Artist - Give You My Love
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Local Artist - Distance Calling
Previously known for his underground party starters Dancer and Boys Cry. This debut LP by Local Artist takes us further towards the intimate end of the radio dial, recording music as a way to process the emotions of watching his father and partner battle cancer pre-pandemic. Themes of love, loss and living life emerge in a moody brew to help you through. Don’t miss this!
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Gravity was finished in a Moroccan Air BnB after Jack J offered up a tasty arrangement of a previously loose ass live demo. Touch Tone started as a jam with Cloudface then was completely reimagined, keeping his keypad melody, and later touched up with Jack adding live drums. Boys Cry is dedicated to the memory of my Dad. Miss you and love you forever. And Fruits is just being itself.
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Ciao - Gemini Month
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Ciao - Hits From The Bongo
Regularfantasy and Void Mirror met up at the Dance Music Workshop in beautiful Victoria, B.C. during the dog days of summer to track down the house. The music here represents some of the results: melted italo, evergreen synths, and shining energy.
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People Plus - No Title
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People Plus - No Title
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People Plus - No Title
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People Plus - No Title
Third Space was inspired by a digital painting of a house by Marilyne Blais. A printout of the untitled work was pinned to the wall in Casa de Haikustudio, becoming an unexpected influence on the record. The duo realized early on they had started to imagine the soundscape inside the dream-like dwelling. The depth of field is fuzzy, angles are confused, and the structural integrity is unclear. On Third Space, People Plus wander freely between real and psychedelic territories, dipping into trip-hop, downtempo, and jazz. They find their sonic context in a hybrid space - neither the bedroom nor the dance floor.
Third Space is the second release from People Plus, a collaboration between Joli B and Mood Hut’s CZW.
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Third Space is the second release from People Plus, a collaboration between Joli B and Mood Hut’s CZW.
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pender street steppers - No Title
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pender street steppers - No Title
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Here's a new EP from Pender Street Steppers. Thanks for listening!
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neo image - Winskill Dub
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neo image - Duckberg
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neo image - Positive Pressure
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neo image - Crystal Pool
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And here is MH017, an Untitled EP by Neo Image. This one has been percolating for a while now in the hard drives of the Hut, with tracks seeing play on the misty flyways and byways from Bilbao to Burnaby, saunas to squash courts. Choose your own adventure with a variety of moods and grooves spread over 5 tunes.
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A7 The Love
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Label:PRO ERA / EMPIRE
Cat-No:ERE427
Release-Date:21.08.2026
Genre:HipHop / Beats
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Genre:HipHop / Beats
Configuration:2LP Excl
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Originally released in 2012, 1999 is the definitive debut mixtape from Brooklyn MC Joey Bada$$ that helped reshape the modern underground rap landscape. Leaning heavily into the golden era sound, a 17-year-old Joey earned instant critical acclaim by paying flawless homage to the 90s. Beyond timeless standout tracks like "Waves," "Survival Tactics," and "Snakes," the 15-track mixtape boasts production from icons like Chuck Strangers, Lord Finesse, MF DOOM, and J Dilla. It remains a crucial time capsule for the Pro Era collective, featuring memorable verses from Kirk Knight, CJ Fly, Nyck Caution, Rokamouth, Dessy Hinds, Dyemond Lewis, T'nah Apex, and the late Capital STEEZ. A classic that still sounds as fresh today as it did a decade ago. Pro Era Forever.
Key Selling:
- The debut mixtape from acclaimed New York rapper, Joey Bada$$
- 1999 has over 222.5M+ total streams on Spotify, and an average of 15M streams per song
- Official music videos released for "Hardknock" (5.1M views), "Survival Tactics" (24M views), "FromdaTomb$" (3.5M views), and "Waves" (15M views)
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- The album was given an 8.0 by Pitchfork upon release
- First time black has been available at wide retail
- First time back in print since 2023
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A1/1. Summer Knights
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A3/3. FromdaTomb$ (Feat. Chuck Strangers)
A4/4. Survival Tactics (Feat. Capital STEEZ
A5/5. Killuminati (Feat. Capital STEEZ)
B1/6. Hardknock (Feat CJ Fly)
B2/7. World Domination
B3/8. Pennyroyal
B4/9. Funky Ho'$
C1/10. Daily Routine
C2/11. Snakes (Feat. T'nah Apex)
C3/12. Don't Front (Feat. CJ Fly)
C4/13. Righteous Minds
D1/14. Where It'$ At? (Feat. Kirk Knight)
D2/15. Third Eye Sh*t (Feat Pro Era, Capital STEEZ, CJ Fly, Chuck Strangers, Dyemond Lewis, Nyck Caution, Kirk Knight, Rokamouth & Dessy Hinds)
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YT: 256K subs / 68.8M views
Twitter: 1M followers
FB: 1.1M followers
IG: 2.2M followers
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About:
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B2/7. World Domination
B3/8. Pennyroyal
B4/9. Funky Ho'$
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C3/12. Don't Front (Feat. CJ Fly)
C4/13. Righteous Minds
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D2/15. Third Eye Sh*t (Feat Pro Era, Capital STEEZ, CJ Fly, Chuck Strangers, Dyemond Lewis, Nyck Caution, Kirk Knight, Rokamouth & Dessy Hinds)
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Press response to Io:
"Not so much ambient, more environmental music, Io lets you bring as much (or as little) of your surroundings in as suits your mood. Every listen can be different. Interactive ambient at last.”
IO is pure ambience. Relying on motif as opposed to melody, MLO have produced a truly evocative album.
Peter McIntyre, Mixmag, UK 1994.
"[MLO's] influences range from the likes of Eric Satie and the intellectual salon music of his era to the more predictable reference point of dubby, modern techno, though they feel, perhaps rather contentiously, that "ambient music can exist in isolation from the rest of the dance music arena". Can it? Take a trip to Io, and find out."
Generator Magazine, UK 1994.
"If you like your ambient deep and moody with long chords that creep along at approximately the speed of drying paint then check out MLO’s Io."
Mixology, UK 1994.
"MLO set the controls for the heart of headspace for their first full album release. Io is top grade ambient brain… Ace album…"
Select, UK 1994.
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b2. Lagoon
c1. Moon Over Lagos
c2. Ghost
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d2. In Search Of Lost Time (Part 2)
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Press response to Io:
"Not so much ambient, more environmental music, Io lets you bring as much (or as little) of your surroundings in as suits your mood. Every listen can be different. Interactive ambient at last.”
IO is pure ambience. Relying on motif as opposed to melody, MLO have produced a truly evocative album.
Peter McIntyre, Mixmag, UK 1994.
"[MLO's] influences range from the likes of Eric Satie and the intellectual salon music of his era to the more predictable reference point of dubby, modern techno, though they feel, perhaps rather contentiously, that "ambient music can exist in isolation from the rest of the dance music arena". Can it? Take a trip to Io, and find out."
Generator Magazine, UK 1994.
"If you like your ambient deep and moody with long chords that creep along at approximately the speed of drying paint then check out MLO’s Io."
Mixology, UK 1994.
"MLO set the controls for the heart of headspace for their first full album release. Io is top grade ambient brain… Ace album…"
Select, UK 1994.
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Jason Dungan (aka Blue Lake) / Johan Car - A2. Clouds
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Jason Dungan (aka Blue Lake) / Johan Car - A3. Hymn
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Jason Dungan (aka Blue Lake) / Johan Car - A4. Mornings with Rita
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Jason Dungan (aka Blue Lake) / Johan Car - A5. Routine I
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Jason Dungan (aka Blue Lake) / Johan Car - B5. Sweden Organ
Territories: WORLD MINUS US,CA,UK
LP, LTD Transparent Clear Vinyl
- First pressing (500 copies worldwide)
- Limited Edition Transparent Clear Vinyl
- Printed on heavyweight board outer sleeve
- Vinyl comes in black poly-lined protective bag
- Hype front sticker
- Vinyl pressed at Optimal media GmbH
2. GENRE/S: Ambient/Balearic/Kraut/Electro
3. FOR MUSIC FANS OF: Tara Clerkin Trio, Arthur Russell, Mabe Fratti, Visible Cloaks
4. TRACKLISTS:
A
1. Chords
2. Clouds
3. Hymn
4. Mornings with Rita
5. Routine I
B
1. Silence
2. Home I
3. Home II
4. Reunion
5. Sweden Organ
5. SHORT INFO:
Jason Dungan (aka Blue Lake) and Johan Carøe find beauty in the rhythms
and repetitions of domestic life for collaborative album, 'Routine' - out September 25
Copenhagen-based multi-instrumentalists Jason Dungan and Johan Carøe didn't set out to make an album. Instead, as the title 'Routine' suggests, they found their way there through a process of habitual making and listening, developing an intuitive musical language to reflect the dreamlike meanderings and creative play of life's quiet moments. 'Routine' blends pop orientated sounds, Avant-garde minimalism, folk and new age with the emotive depth of film-score.
Their meeting was not entirely coincidental. Previously in bands such as Squares and Triangles, Jason Dungan has since recorded multiple albums under the moniker Blue Lake, including the lauded 'Sun Arcs', pursuing his passion for self-built percussion and multi-string instruments. Johan Carøe meanwhile is a composer whose film soundtrack work has seen him collaborate with Angelo Badalamenti, Arp, and Sofie Birch, at whose Andersabo residency (curated by Dungan) the pair first met, resulting in the highly praised album 'Repair Techniques' written by Birch and Carøe.
'Routine' emerged organically over many years against the backdrop of great personal change. As Carøe said goodbye to his father and welcomed his first child, the pair sent each other fragments of melodies and patterns, working up responses when time allowed to assemble a sonic palette that combined acoustic instrumentation of zither, clarinet, cello, saxophone (among others) with the textures of tape, drum machine and Yamaha DX7 synth. Inspired by the vulnerability and DIY ethos of Arthur Russell's home recordings, the vision of labels like Disques de Crepescule, and the art pop, experimentation inherent to late '70s and early '80s recordings from NYC and Japan alike, Dungan and Carøe conjured new forms for their folk, leftfield pop and avant garde influences from the low-lit living rooms of Copenhagen and rural Sweden. "I'm very interested in the ways in which music and art emerge from our wider experiences as people, workers, parents and in the daydreaming activity of making music," Dungan explains of a process which allowed the duo's individual styles to drift apart and merge together seamlessly. "I think the process was definitely capturing moments in time, but over a long time," Carøe adds. "It was a bit like improvisation, but with time stretched."
The music floats with grace and humility, remaining sophisticated yet acutely introverted.
Whether on 'Clouds', where soft layers of zither and clarinet are moved along by a featherlight bass riff and the hypnotic clip-clop of the primitive groovebox, or the gentle grandeur of cello rising and falling through 'Routine 1', the album reveals itself over 10 instrumental tracks, evoking the ineffable calm that descends when the light changes and the world turns inwards. The act of time passing became a key creative ingredient to the evolution of the album, enriched with the exciting challenge to transform their passing rounds of home recordings via a slow release musical dialogue. Jason found creative moments in the twilight hours to lay down zither, melodica, acoustic guitar to name but few, while Johan utilising "line-in and headphones" would manipulate, stretch and pitch Jason's melodic pathways during newly born naptimes.
Carøe rhythmically plucks and slides the stringed cello instrument, leaving palpable foundations on 'Hymn' and 'Chords', in a treated, stylistic approach akin to Mabe Fratti, while 'Silence' draws to a close with a gospel touch. Dungan's harp-motion zither flourishes reveal more classical connotations on 'Reunion' with inspiration of Bedroom Community's Nico Muhly as organs rise with Moogs, culminating with a climatic choral outro from friend, mezzo-soprano Anna Caroline Olesen.
'Routine' then is their first collaboration, an album of deep and sincere reflection with inviting overtones that gesture with unrushed authenticity. A document of a new-found friendship that opens a window into the most personal of spaces, where the daily practices of music and life exist side-by-side to wondrous effect.
6. VITAL SALES POINTS:
- PR + Radio campaign by 9PR (UK/USA) / Dense PR + Radio campaign (EU)
Selected Press
"Magical in its simplicity and all the more compelling for what's just out of frame." - Pitchfork (Blue Lake)
"Uniquley traverses the intersection between Ambient and Folk with a distinct nordic aesthetic" - NPR, Best New Music Friday (Blue Lake)
"Shimmering like dappled sun on water" - The Quietus (Blue Lake)
"One of those rare albums that impresses with minimal gestures" - HHV (Sofie Birch & Johan Carøe)
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LP, LTD Transparent Clear Vinyl
- First pressing (500 copies worldwide)
- Limited Edition Transparent Clear Vinyl
- Printed on heavyweight board outer sleeve
- Vinyl comes in black poly-lined protective bag
- Hype front sticker
- Vinyl pressed at Optimal media GmbH
2. GENRE/S: Ambient/Balearic/Kraut/Electro
3. FOR MUSIC FANS OF: Tara Clerkin Trio, Arthur Russell, Mabe Fratti, Visible Cloaks
4. TRACKLISTS:
A
1. Chords
2. Clouds
3. Hymn
4. Mornings with Rita
5. Routine I
B
1. Silence
2. Home I
3. Home II
4. Reunion
5. Sweden Organ
5. SHORT INFO:
Jason Dungan (aka Blue Lake) and Johan Carøe find beauty in the rhythms
and repetitions of domestic life for collaborative album, 'Routine' - out September 25
Copenhagen-based multi-instrumentalists Jason Dungan and Johan Carøe didn't set out to make an album. Instead, as the title 'Routine' suggests, they found their way there through a process of habitual making and listening, developing an intuitive musical language to reflect the dreamlike meanderings and creative play of life's quiet moments. 'Routine' blends pop orientated sounds, Avant-garde minimalism, folk and new age with the emotive depth of film-score.
Their meeting was not entirely coincidental. Previously in bands such as Squares and Triangles, Jason Dungan has since recorded multiple albums under the moniker Blue Lake, including the lauded 'Sun Arcs', pursuing his passion for self-built percussion and multi-string instruments. Johan Carøe meanwhile is a composer whose film soundtrack work has seen him collaborate with Angelo Badalamenti, Arp, and Sofie Birch, at whose Andersabo residency (curated by Dungan) the pair first met, resulting in the highly praised album 'Repair Techniques' written by Birch and Carøe.
'Routine' emerged organically over many years against the backdrop of great personal change. As Carøe said goodbye to his father and welcomed his first child, the pair sent each other fragments of melodies and patterns, working up responses when time allowed to assemble a sonic palette that combined acoustic instrumentation of zither, clarinet, cello, saxophone (among others) with the textures of tape, drum machine and Yamaha DX7 synth. Inspired by the vulnerability and DIY ethos of Arthur Russell's home recordings, the vision of labels like Disques de Crepescule, and the art pop, experimentation inherent to late '70s and early '80s recordings from NYC and Japan alike, Dungan and Carøe conjured new forms for their folk, leftfield pop and avant garde influences from the low-lit living rooms of Copenhagen and rural Sweden. "I'm very interested in the ways in which music and art emerge from our wider experiences as people, workers, parents and in the daydreaming activity of making music," Dungan explains of a process which allowed the duo's individual styles to drift apart and merge together seamlessly. "I think the process was definitely capturing moments in time, but over a long time," Carøe adds. "It was a bit like improvisation, but with time stretched."
The music floats with grace and humility, remaining sophisticated yet acutely introverted.
Whether on 'Clouds', where soft layers of zither and clarinet are moved along by a featherlight bass riff and the hypnotic clip-clop of the primitive groovebox, or the gentle grandeur of cello rising and falling through 'Routine 1', the album reveals itself over 10 instrumental tracks, evoking the ineffable calm that descends when the light changes and the world turns inwards. The act of time passing became a key creative ingredient to the evolution of the album, enriched with the exciting challenge to transform their passing rounds of home recordings via a slow release musical dialogue. Jason found creative moments in the twilight hours to lay down zither, melodica, acoustic guitar to name but few, while Johan utilising "line-in and headphones" would manipulate, stretch and pitch Jason's melodic pathways during newly born naptimes.
Carøe rhythmically plucks and slides the stringed cello instrument, leaving palpable foundations on 'Hymn' and 'Chords', in a treated, stylistic approach akin to Mabe Fratti, while 'Silence' draws to a close with a gospel touch. Dungan's harp-motion zither flourishes reveal more classical connotations on 'Reunion' with inspiration of Bedroom Community's Nico Muhly as organs rise with Moogs, culminating with a climatic choral outro from friend, mezzo-soprano Anna Caroline Olesen.
'Routine' then is their first collaboration, an album of deep and sincere reflection with inviting overtones that gesture with unrushed authenticity. A document of a new-found friendship that opens a window into the most personal of spaces, where the daily practices of music and life exist side-by-side to wondrous effect.
6. VITAL SALES POINTS:
- PR + Radio campaign by 9PR (UK/USA) / Dense PR + Radio campaign (EU)
Selected Press
"Magical in its simplicity and all the more compelling for what's just out of frame." - Pitchfork (Blue Lake)
"Uniquley traverses the intersection between Ambient and Folk with a distinct nordic aesthetic" - NPR, Best New Music Friday (Blue Lake)
"Shimmering like dappled sun on water" - The Quietus (Blue Lake)
"One of those rare albums that impresses with minimal gestures" - HHV (Sofie Birch & Johan Carøe)
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Chihei Hatakeyama, Ken Ikeda - Chapter 1
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Chihei Hatakeyama, Ken Ikeda - Chapter 2
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Chihei Hatakeyama, Ken Ikeda - Chapter 3
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Chihei Hatakeyama, Ken Ikeda - Chapter 4
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Chihei Hatakeyama, Ken Ikeda - Chapter 5
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Chihei Hatakeyama, Ken Ikeda - Chapter 6
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Chihei Hatakeyama, Ken Ikeda - Chapter 7
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Chihei Hatakeyama, Ken Ikeda - Chapter 8
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Chihei Hatakeyama, Ken Ikeda - Chapter 9
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Chihei Hatakeyama, Ken Ikeda - Chapter 10
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Chihei Hatakeyama, Ken Ikeda - Chapter 11
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Chihei Hatakeyama, Ken Ikeda - Chapter 12
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Chihei Hatakeyama, Ken Ikeda - Chapter 13
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Chihei Hatakeyama, Ken Ikeda - Chapter 14
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Chihei Hatakeyama, Ken Ikeda - Chapter 15
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Chihei Hatakeyama, Ken Ikeda - Chapter 16
CHIHEI HATAKEYAMA, captivating the world with his beautiful ambient/drone works, and KEN IKEDA, an original improvisational musician radiating a unique presence. This work, both artists spent approximately ten years recording and meticulously editing down to the finest details, explores the theme of "a mental landscape where distorted dreams and crumbling daily life intersect, where anxiety and darkness seep into the cracks, and faint light flickers within the depths of silence." A total of 16 imaginative soundscapes unfold like shifting scenes in a film. The jacket design features artwork by the cutting-edge visual artist MIKA TAMORI.
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Label:Smallville Records
Cat-No:smallville76
Release-Date:03.07.2026
Genre:Deephouse
Configuration:12" Excl
Label:Smallville Records
Cat-No:smallville76
Release-Date:03.07.2026
Genre:Deephouse
Configuration:12" Excl
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Joe Davies - Ton, Scheine, Sterben
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Joe Davies - Born Yesterday
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Joe Davies - Something on my Mind
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Joe Davies - Shine Shine
Artwork & Typography by Stefan Marx
Joe Davies back on Smallville, providing his skills to double the magic on the fly!
Soundscapes that will tickle your sweetspots. straight-but-quirky, far-out but still to the point – Joe is a master of his craft. His highly-acclaimed 2023 longplayer „Shields In Full Sunlight“ is still on the plates of oh-so-many heads out there, same for us. We are truly happy to present his latest vision of a cloudy night- all with Wonderful Tempo.
Comes with a stunning full cover artwork from Stefan Marx.
Tracklist:
A1 Ton, Scheine, Sterben
A2 Born Yesterday
B1 Something on my Mind
B2 Shine Shine
All Tracks written & produced by Joe Davies
Additional Production on A1 by Ossia
Additional Production on B1 by Johan Kaseta
Mastering & vinyl cut by Helmut Erler at Lathesville
Artwork & Typography by Stefan Marx
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Joe Davies back on Smallville, providing his skills to double the magic on the fly!
Soundscapes that will tickle your sweetspots. straight-but-quirky, far-out but still to the point – Joe is a master of his craft. His highly-acclaimed 2023 longplayer „Shields In Full Sunlight“ is still on the plates of oh-so-many heads out there, same for us. We are truly happy to present his latest vision of a cloudy night- all with Wonderful Tempo.
Comes with a stunning full cover artwork from Stefan Marx.
Tracklist:
A1 Ton, Scheine, Sterben
A2 Born Yesterday
B1 Something on my Mind
B2 Shine Shine
All Tracks written & produced by Joe Davies
Additional Production on A1 by Ossia
Additional Production on B1 by Johan Kaseta
Mastering & vinyl cut by Helmut Erler at Lathesville
Artwork & Typography by Stefan Marx
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Triangle - Doty Walk
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Triangle - Tribes Of Gargantua
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Triangle - 20 Miles
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Triangle - Bossa Luv
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Triangle - Planet X
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Triangle - Mantra Dub
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Triangle - Ceremonial T
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Triangle - Natural Living
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Triangle - Todo
2026 repress
Tracklist 12" Album:
A1. Triangle - Doty Walk
A2. Triangle - Tribes Of Gargantua
A3. Triangle - 20 Miles
A4. Triangle - Bossa Luv
B1. Triangle - Planet X
B2. Triangle - Mantra Dub
B3. Triangle - Ceremonial T
B4. Triangle - Natural Living
B5. Triangle - Todo
Short Info:
The sonic movement once known as downbeat continues to cast a long and intimidating shadow over the Austrian electronic music scene, with influential figures like Kruder & Dorfmeister reigning atop a metaphorical mountain of venerable dubplates, resembling ancient gods.
Now, emerging from the depths of this mountain, comes "Triangle," poised to rejuvenate the genre with its eponymous album, brimming with the purest liquid downbeat gold.
Featuring an abundance of dusty breaks, reggae vocals, atmospheric keys and strings, dub stabs, wonky acid sequences, and deep basslines, these tunes check all the right boxes without ever feeling like mere imitations. The overall vibe remains warm, mellow, and hazy, while each track seamlessly weaves in an array of peculiar soundbites.
Dive into the depths of "Triangle," an album that bridges eras of timeless electronic soundscapes.
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Tracklist 12" Album:
A1. Triangle - Doty Walk
A2. Triangle - Tribes Of Gargantua
A3. Triangle - 20 Miles
A4. Triangle - Bossa Luv
B1. Triangle - Planet X
B2. Triangle - Mantra Dub
B3. Triangle - Ceremonial T
B4. Triangle - Natural Living
B5. Triangle - Todo
Short Info:
The sonic movement once known as downbeat continues to cast a long and intimidating shadow over the Austrian electronic music scene, with influential figures like Kruder & Dorfmeister reigning atop a metaphorical mountain of venerable dubplates, resembling ancient gods.
Now, emerging from the depths of this mountain, comes "Triangle," poised to rejuvenate the genre with its eponymous album, brimming with the purest liquid downbeat gold.
Featuring an abundance of dusty breaks, reggae vocals, atmospheric keys and strings, dub stabs, wonky acid sequences, and deep basslines, these tunes check all the right boxes without ever feeling like mere imitations. The overall vibe remains warm, mellow, and hazy, while each track seamlessly weaves in an array of peculiar soundbites.
Dive into the depths of "Triangle," an album that bridges eras of timeless electronic soundscapes.
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Y.O.P.E. & AVVNT MM - Please Can I Ask
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Y.O.P.E. & AVVNT MM - Authority Has Left The Building
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Y.O.P.E. & AVVNT MM - My Buddy Skip
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Y.O.P.E. & AVVNT MM - Home Ft. Sam Nera
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Y.O.P.E. & AVVNT MM - See The Major
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Y.O.P.E. & AVVNT MM - All Sticks Must Die Be Gone
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Y.O.P.E. & AVVNT MM - Meat Feet Clean Sheet
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Y.O.P.E. & AVVNT MM - Hey
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Y.O.P.E. & AVVNT MM - Mr. Cickovski
This collaborative album is characterized by the unique taste and qualities of Dutch producers Joop de Graaf (Y.O.P.E.) and Tommy van Leuken (AVVNT MM). Where Y.O.P.E. is known as a live project based on groove, improv and electronic music, AVVNT MM has mainly been known for his soothing ambient projects. With this album these two producers find eachother in perfect harmony. Scratch your brains with some perfectly balanced confusion.
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Bot1500 - Abstract Springs
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Bot1500 - Shadows
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Bot1500 - XB 1
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Bot1500 - XB 2
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Bot1500 - Sails
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Bot1500 - Currents
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Bot1500 - White Flocks
First press sold out on presale - repress is coming soon!
Shinichi Koboyashi’s music as Bot1500 has such a beautiful signature to it. Using the layers and language of ambient IDM, artfully arranged pads & chords and crisp vectored breaks, he’s been creating a beautiful and highly individual sound.
The Black Sea, His first album since 2022’s Surreal on AD93’s sister label Lith Dolina, spaces things out more and focuses inward with a palette of minimalism and increased emotional resonance. It’s been a focus for Shinichi across his self-published studio work in the last few years.
The album’s tracks feel increasingly rooted in the principles and logic of dub. Utilising more space, more silence, and more focus on the simplicity and elegance of the composition folded into radiant arrangements of melody, snare, shade and echo.
The sea is both an inner landscape and a geographic image that hangs over the record’s mood. A dark humid summer night, like that on Japanese coasts. A small boat sails aimlessly. An eerie tone, but with a glimpse of beauty. The water is melancholic, enveloping, and endless.
Each track is written at 140bpm save for last track “White Flocks” at 120, for the image of heading south to close out.
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Shinichi Koboyashi’s music as Bot1500 has such a beautiful signature to it. Using the layers and language of ambient IDM, artfully arranged pads & chords and crisp vectored breaks, he’s been creating a beautiful and highly individual sound.
The Black Sea, His first album since 2022’s Surreal on AD93’s sister label Lith Dolina, spaces things out more and focuses inward with a palette of minimalism and increased emotional resonance. It’s been a focus for Shinichi across his self-published studio work in the last few years.
The album’s tracks feel increasingly rooted in the principles and logic of dub. Utilising more space, more silence, and more focus on the simplicity and elegance of the composition folded into radiant arrangements of melody, snare, shade and echo.
The sea is both an inner landscape and a geographic image that hangs over the record’s mood. A dark humid summer night, like that on Japanese coasts. A small boat sails aimlessly. An eerie tone, but with a glimpse of beauty. The water is melancholic, enveloping, and endless.
Each track is written at 140bpm save for last track “White Flocks” at 120, for the image of heading south to close out.
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Cat-No:MAT26/FDR03
Release-Date:03.07.2026
Configuration:LP
Cat-No:MAT26/FDR03
Release-Date:03.07.2026
Configuration:LP
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Tomo Katsurada & Jonny Nash - Stained Light
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Tomo Katsurada & Jonny Nash - Anone None
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Tomo Katsurada & Jonny Nash - Dwelling In A Cave
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Tomo Katsurada & Jonny Nash - Know My Name
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Tomo Katsurada & Jonny Nash - Sunshower Rite
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Tomo Katsurada & Jonny Nash - Nagare Ni
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Tomo Katsurada & Jonny Nash - Scent Of Limestone
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Tomo Katsurada & Jonny Nash - The Emerald Pool
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Tomo Katsurada & Jonny Nash - Black Leaf
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Tomo Katsurada & Jonny Nash - Someday We'll All Fall Down
Melody As Truth and Future Days Radio present ‘At the Emerald Pool’, an album by Tomo Katsurada and Jonny Nash.
Netherlands-based artists Tomo Katsurada (Ex-Kikagaku Moyo / Future Days Radio) and Jonny Nash (Melody As Truth) combine forces for an exploration into the sonic potential of the guitar duo, rooted in their experiences performing together over the last 12 months.
Friends and admirers of each other’s work for a decade, their musical collaboration began in 2024 with Katsurada asking Nash to contribute guitar to his debut EP ‘Dream Of The Egg’. Sensing the need to explore this further, they spent the following year performing together in different configurations, with Nash joining Katsurada’s trio and Katsurada in turn playing with Nash as a duo, across a wide spectrum of spaces, from churches and temples to concert halls, theatres and outdoor festivals. With new ideas developing organically out of these performances, recording new material became the next logical step. A short period of three days was set aside with a clear goal: to capture the essence of their fluid, intertwining melodies and guitar playing in a way that felt as direct and unfiltered as possible. Working from a handful of pre-existing sketches, they left ample room for experimentation to unfold within the process.
?The results are presented on ‘At The Emerald Pool’, a collection of ten pieces that offer the listener a full immersion into the pair’s sound. With guitar as the primary instrument for both artists, it is no surprise that the core of the album lies here, specifically in the fluid interplay between the two players. Layers of gentle, delay-soaked fingerpicking often make it almost impossible to distinguish where one player ends and the other begins. As soloists, both Katsurada and Nash have a gift for crafting melodic lines that feel open and ascending, expressive and hopeful without becoming saccharine. Longer, more abstract pieces are counterbalanced by a series of shorter songs, with five vocal tracks appearing across the album. The decision to share vocal duties lends the record a unique quality and a strong sense of variation, bringing a wide expressive range out of a deliberately focused musical framework.
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‘At The Emerald Pool’ represents the first chapter in an ongoing musical dialogue, an attempt to capture a moment of connection, openness and discovery, laying the foundation for what continues to unfold.
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Netherlands-based artists Tomo Katsurada (Ex-Kikagaku Moyo / Future Days Radio) and Jonny Nash (Melody As Truth) combine forces for an exploration into the sonic potential of the guitar duo, rooted in their experiences performing together over the last 12 months.
Friends and admirers of each other’s work for a decade, their musical collaboration began in 2024 with Katsurada asking Nash to contribute guitar to his debut EP ‘Dream Of The Egg’. Sensing the need to explore this further, they spent the following year performing together in different configurations, with Nash joining Katsurada’s trio and Katsurada in turn playing with Nash as a duo, across a wide spectrum of spaces, from churches and temples to concert halls, theatres and outdoor festivals. With new ideas developing organically out of these performances, recording new material became the next logical step. A short period of three days was set aside with a clear goal: to capture the essence of their fluid, intertwining melodies and guitar playing in a way that felt as direct and unfiltered as possible. Working from a handful of pre-existing sketches, they left ample room for experimentation to unfold within the process.
?The results are presented on ‘At The Emerald Pool’, a collection of ten pieces that offer the listener a full immersion into the pair’s sound. With guitar as the primary instrument for both artists, it is no surprise that the core of the album lies here, specifically in the fluid interplay between the two players. Layers of gentle, delay-soaked fingerpicking often make it almost impossible to distinguish where one player ends and the other begins. As soloists, both Katsurada and Nash have a gift for crafting melodic lines that feel open and ascending, expressive and hopeful without becoming saccharine. Longer, more abstract pieces are counterbalanced by a series of shorter songs, with five vocal tracks appearing across the album. The decision to share vocal duties lends the record a unique quality and a strong sense of variation, bringing a wide expressive range out of a deliberately focused musical framework.
?
‘At The Emerald Pool’ represents the first chapter in an ongoing musical dialogue, an attempt to capture a moment of connection, openness and discovery, laying the foundation for what continues to unfold.
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John Beltran - Blue Green Eyes
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John Beltran - Sunrise and the Life We Live
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John Beltran - Austin
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John Beltran - The Echo Bridge
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John Beltran - Soft Rain
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John Beltran - Eire
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John Beltran - Lila
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John Beltran - The Watering
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John Beltran - Meant for Her
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John Beltran - Ikibana
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John Beltran - Ambala, Anders Ponsaing & Troels Hammer - Quiet Yellow Purple (Beltran_s LET IT
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John Beltran - Kenneth Bager & Findlay Brown - Stones and Steel (Beltran Remix)
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With Sunrise and the Life We Live, John Beltran returns to his ambient techno roots, the sound that garnered him global appeal in the 1990s.
Through ten tracks, the album journeys through lush, aerated textures and beatless expanse. Hypnotic grooves deepen and bloom in a flow of shapes and colors, creating a sound that is both meditative and full of life.
Thirty years after the release of his seminal Ten Days of Blue, Beltran's musicianship, vision and desire to produce remain at a fever pitch. With Sunrise and the Life We Live his gift of extracting emotion from the universe and turning it into
a unique musical experience puts him in a class of his own.
A1. Blue Green Eyes
A2. Sunrise and the Life We Live
A3. Austin
B1. The Echo Bridge
B2. Soft Rain
B3. Éire
C1. Lila
C2. The Watering
C3. Meant For Her
D1. Ikibana
D2. Ambala, Anders Ponsaing & Troels Hammer - Quiet Yellow Purple (Beltrans LET IT GO Remix)
D3. Kenneth Bager & Findlay Brown - Stones and Steel (Beltran Remix)
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With Sunrise and the Life We Live, John Beltran returns to his ambient techno roots, the sound that garnered him global appeal in the 1990s.
Through ten tracks, the album journeys through lush, aerated textures and beatless expanse. Hypnotic grooves deepen and bloom in a flow of shapes and colors, creating a sound that is both meditative and full of life.
Thirty years after the release of his seminal Ten Days of Blue, Beltran's musicianship, vision and desire to produce remain at a fever pitch. With Sunrise and the Life We Live his gift of extracting emotion from the universe and turning it into
a unique musical experience puts him in a class of his own.
A1. Blue Green Eyes
A2. Sunrise and the Life We Live
A3. Austin
B1. The Echo Bridge
B2. Soft Rain
B3. Éire
C1. Lila
C2. The Watering
C3. Meant For Her
D1. Ikibana
D2. Ambala, Anders Ponsaing & Troels Hammer - Quiet Yellow Purple (Beltrans LET IT GO Remix)
D3. Kenneth Bager & Findlay Brown - Stones and Steel (Beltran Remix)
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Damian Dalla Torre - Intro / Sprouts
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Damian Dalla Torre - Longitude
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Damian Dalla Torre - Nacre
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Damian Dalla Torre - Chives
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Damian Dalla Torre - Bupi
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Damian Dalla Torre - Slant
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Damian Dalla Torre - Loops
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Damian Dalla Torre - Tenki Ame (feat. Manami Kakudo)
LP
Special remarks: 180g, Limited Nebular Green Vinyl, includes balloon + holographic sticker
Tracklist:
A1) Intro / Sprouts 00:03:00
A2) Longitude 00:07:29
A3) Nacre 00:01:58
A4) Chives 00:06:22
B1) Bupi 00:02:05
B2) Slant 00:04:15
B3) Loops 00:01:51
B4) Tenki Ame (feat. Manami Kakudo) 00:04:35
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Damian Dalla Torre returns with People Pleaser, a record shaped by movement, collaboration and an ever-deepening relationship with sound as environment.
The Leipzig-based multi-instrumentalist, composer and producer first found wide attention with his 2022 debut Happy Floating, and his subsequent album I Can Feel My Dreams was named the #1 Contemporary Album of 2024 by The Guardian, an accolade that broadened his audience and deepened confidence in his evolving voice. That second album, written between Europe and South America, opened unexpected doors and took Dalla Torre to stages across New York, Japan and Italy. “When you release music, it’s very intimate,” he reflects. “You show your emotions pretty raw. I was kind of scared. But getting so much positive feedback gave me a lot of self-confidence to try out more.”
People Pleaser begins in that quiet shift of confidence.
The title stayed with him for months before he committed to it. “It was a working title for a long time,” he says. “I didn’t actually think I would use it. But this term also felt somehow relevant in connection with the phase of self-negotiation during the development process. Some aspects are related to pressure, others are positive.” The ambiguity felt right. Rather than presenting it as a statement, Dalla Torre leaves it open, an invitation rather than a confession.
At the centre of People Pleaser is collaboration. Guitarist Bertram Burkert, whose playing stretches from classical delicacy to electric abstraction, joined Dalla Torre in the studio for an intensive three-day session, recording a wide palette of textures that would become the backbone of the album. Vocalist Laura Zöschg, a key live collaborator, harpist Babett Niclas, organist Felix Römer, tape experimentalist Markus Rom, marimba and vibraphonist Volker Heuken and Japanese artist Manami Kakudo also contribute, creating a sound that feels intimate yet expansive.
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Special remarks: 180g, Limited Nebular Green Vinyl, includes balloon + holographic sticker
Tracklist:
A1) Intro / Sprouts 00:03:00
A2) Longitude 00:07:29
A3) Nacre 00:01:58
A4) Chives 00:06:22
B1) Bupi 00:02:05
B2) Slant 00:04:15
B3) Loops 00:01:51
B4) Tenki Ame (feat. Manami Kakudo) 00:04:35
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Damian Dalla Torre returns with People Pleaser, a record shaped by movement, collaboration and an ever-deepening relationship with sound as environment.
The Leipzig-based multi-instrumentalist, composer and producer first found wide attention with his 2022 debut Happy Floating, and his subsequent album I Can Feel My Dreams was named the #1 Contemporary Album of 2024 by The Guardian, an accolade that broadened his audience and deepened confidence in his evolving voice. That second album, written between Europe and South America, opened unexpected doors and took Dalla Torre to stages across New York, Japan and Italy. “When you release music, it’s very intimate,” he reflects. “You show your emotions pretty raw. I was kind of scared. But getting so much positive feedback gave me a lot of self-confidence to try out more.”
People Pleaser begins in that quiet shift of confidence.
The title stayed with him for months before he committed to it. “It was a working title for a long time,” he says. “I didn’t actually think I would use it. But this term also felt somehow relevant in connection with the phase of self-negotiation during the development process. Some aspects are related to pressure, others are positive.” The ambiguity felt right. Rather than presenting it as a statement, Dalla Torre leaves it open, an invitation rather than a confession.
At the centre of People Pleaser is collaboration. Guitarist Bertram Burkert, whose playing stretches from classical delicacy to electric abstraction, joined Dalla Torre in the studio for an intensive three-day session, recording a wide palette of textures that would become the backbone of the album. Vocalist Laura Zöschg, a key live collaborator, harpist Babett Niclas, organist Felix Römer, tape experimentalist Markus Rom, marimba and vibraphonist Volker Heuken and Japanese artist Manami Kakudo also contribute, creating a sound that feels intimate yet expansive.
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