Sometimes, it’s good to be proud. Proclaim to the world that which is true to you. Stand UP, and be counted – and join the party!
Featuring overdubbed bass clarinet, frame drum, and shaker.
It is another new release in the MiMi Records catalogue. Oyasumi Days, the new album by Amayadori Café, is like a little music box discovered just before falling asleep.
Between toy music, ambient and indie electronica, each track transforms delicate sounds into tiny imaginary landscapes, where toys seem to come alive after the house has fallen silent.
With its handmade simplicity and minimalist sweetness, the album drifts through naïve melodies, microscopic rhythms and warm, welcoming electronic textures.
Oyasumi, meaning “good night” in Japanese, becomes an invitation to switch off from the world, close your eyes, and enter a universe where childhood, dreams and music still play together.
Compiled, artwork collage: Sábila Orbe.
//// Each track composed by the respective artists. Links:
– noxpox: https://noxpox.bandcamp.com/
– Black Market Brains: https://soundcloud.com/blackmarketbrains
– Lunar Eclipse: https://soundcloud.com/lunar_eclipse5150
– Amberdrake: https://soundcloud.com/amberdrake-384392657
– The Nemesida: https://nemesida.bandcamp.com/
– Zazie Productions: https://zazieproductions.bandcamp.com/
– Stepan Gradoboev: https://archive.org/details/@stepan_gradoboev2007
– BouncyTEM: https://bouncytem.bandcamp.com/
– Pere: https://soundcloud.com/pere-670977991
– Sonvol: https://archive.org/search?query=creator%3A%22Sonvol%22
– Topi Reta: https://topireta.bandcamp.com/
– el_masmore: https://elmasmore.bandcamp.com/
– Humanfobia: https://humanfobia-official.bandcamp.com/
The reed is red,
The time is blue,
A book is sweet,
And so are you.
Featuring clarinet and robotic reverb.
Some music occupies time. This album attempts to return it.
Where The Sound Learns To Breathe emerged from a single, uninterrupted real-time performance, without edits or overdubs.
A Steinberger guitar, transformed through the Mood, Tensor, Hologram and Cosmos pedals, becomes more than an instrument: it unfolds into an ecosystem where every resonance gives birth to the next, as though sound itself were slowly learning how to breathe.
The three pieces tell no story and seek no destination. Instead, they open a place. A place where duration regains its depth, where listening steps away from urgency, and where silence becomes part of the music’s living substance rather than the space between events.
The music unfolds at an almost geological pace, allowing subtle shifts of timbre, texture and resonance to reveal landscapes that exist only for as long as they are being heard.
This record is an invitation to suspend, for a while, the accelerating rhythm of contemporary life, and to allow the air to keep listening long after the final sound has faded.
What matters.
What matters?
This matters.
That matters.
Who clatters?
Those ratters,
in tatters
that shatter.
The matter
of Matter
is chatter,
not latter.
Featuring flute.
III For Phinney
by Charles Rice Goff III
1 The Coiled Cottonmouth
2 Big Muddy Memphis Distortion Blues
3 Southern Fried Anguish
INSTRUMENTS:
Korg R3 Vocoder/Synthesizer
Fender Hello Kitty Stratocaster Electronic Guitar
Various Analog Foot Pedal Sound Effects
Boss RC 20X Loop Station Loop Duplicator
FROM THE AUTHOR:
Chris Phinney and Charles Goff III began a friendship and artistic collaborative relationship during the middle 1980s, which continued to the very end of Chris’s life in the summer of 2026. Goff was informed of Chris’s passing on July 3, 2026, which turned out to be a challenging day in many ways for Goff. Chris himself was challenged by life’s unexpected disasters many times, resulting in tremendous physical and economic strains over the years. Chris never went down easy though, and his recordings often artistically channeled his frustrations. For Goff, Chris’s passing was one challenge that ate into his own soul so deeply that he cleared his schedule for that July 3 day and put his Taped Rugs Studio through a frustration-releasing improv session. Goff genuinely felt that Chris’s essence was there in the studio with him as he created the recordings.
The three recordings presented here are the end result of the session. A lot more material was recorded, but Goff specifically chose these three choicest bits to share with the general public as his respectful tribute to his late friend and associate. No materials that did not originate from the July 3 session were added to the final mixes. No artificial intelligence ( AI ) was employed in molding this presentation. These recordings are enhanced by Goff’s electric guitar playing, which, due to his own physical issues, have been absent from most of Goff’s productions for the last few years. This challenge was met and executed with the knowledge that Goff likely would physically pay for it later, which he did. (Challenge accepted!)
In the summer of 2006, during Goff’s 06/06 Tour Of The Southeast USA, Chris generously hosted Goff for a stay at his home in Memphis, Tennessee. The cover photo for this presentation was taken on Beale Street in Memphis during the visit. More information, recordings, and video from this visit can be found at this Taped Rugs site:
https://tapedrugs.com/TapedRugs0606TourArchive.html
Chris worked with hundreds of artists over the years. He initially shared his work and the work of several other artists on his Harsh Reality Music cassette label, which is well documented at the website below:
http://www.haltapes.com/harsh-reality-music.html
Chris later created an online Harsh Reality presence, was a co-founder of the Tapegerm interactive music collective, and produced a number of CDs and CDRs. Much of what is still currently offered to the public from these sources can be accessed at the websites below:
harshrealitymusic.bandcamp.com
tapegerm.org/chris-phinney/
A FEW COLLABORATIVE PHINNEY-GOFF PRODUCTIONS AVAILABLE FOR FREE STREAMING AND DOWNLOADING:
https://archive.org/details/MaestrosOfTheMagneticAge
https://archive.org/details/TapedRugsTourTennesseeOne
https://archive.org/details/TapedRugsTourTennesseeTwo
https://archive.org/details/TapedRugsTourVideo
copyright 2026 by Taped Rugs Productions
www.tapedrugs.com
A big welcome to Brandon Scott Duncan and his exciting music project, Worker Street UNION!
Get ready to dive into a unique fusion of Experimental Ambient, Glitch, and some very interesting beats that will take your ears on an unforgettable journey. Whether you’re chilling out or looking for something fresh and innovative, Brandon’s soundscapes are sure to captivate and inspire. Stay tuned for some truly boundary-pushing tunes!
This album is basically a nod to poverty and their attempts
at elegance.
This album is a romanticized pink flamingo. Love.
An audio version of seven minutes in heaven. Spinning the bottle,
hoping it lands on who you want and stepping into heaven with them. Falling in love and the awkward walk of shame through society.
Amphibia drifted beyond mapped constellations, communicating through pressure waves instead of language. Omni Dub awakened the vessel, its dub chords folding space into shimmering echoes. Leave dissolved gravity, allowing memories to float like luminous spores. Expo unfolded impossible architectures where experimental soundscapes replaced matter. On ignited a pulse—minimalistic rhythm structures guiding silent navigation across liquid galaxies. Orchid Dub bloomed in the vacuum, each resonance painting unseen atmospheres around forgotten moons. Pastele blurred the horizon into soft spectral colors, where time expanded between distant reflections. At the journey’s end, Dolphine surfaced from a cosmic ocean, singing through infinite delays until every echo became a new beginning. No destination remained, only endless drift inside the breathing resonance of Amphibia, where silence itself learned to bloom.
Insectorama234
all tracks by Lu Joyce
Mastering & Artwork by Markus Masuhr
Takashi Izeki presents Life, a sonic universe where the guitar breathes through ambient and atmospheric sound.
His music blends hypnotic rhythms with lush textures, guiding the listener on a serene and deeply emotional journey.
Between Memories, echoes of the past illuminate the present; Deep Sea and Labyrinth plunge into the depths of the soul; Wish transforms hope into a distant horizon.
His environmental music reveals minimalist, warm, and beautifully crafted synthesizer compositions, where every sonic landscape invites contemplation, inner balance, and discovery.
A contemplative, intense, and deeply immersive album, meant to be experienced without haste.
If you’ve ever tried hiking up scree, you’ve likely hiked down.
It’s called the scree shuffle – one step up, two steps back.
Featuring rocks.
Compiled, artwork collage by Sábila Orbe.
Each track composed by respective artists. Links:
– Innocent Darkness: soundcloud.com/innocentdarkness
– el_masmore: elmasmore.bandcamp.com/
– Zazie Productions: zazieproductions.bandcamp.com/
– Pizzabox: soundcloud.com/pizzabox92
– PressureWorks: soundcloud.com/pressureworks6/tracks
– UFO Sighting: ufosighting.bandcamp.com/
– Cafec: cafec.bandcamp.com/
– Double C: soundcloud.com/double-c-77891164
– Delsocks: open.spotify.com/intl-es/artist/4Da0og3qSCtXRVpfV2ol4W
– gon pulvo: soundcloud.com/poruvo/tracks
– Kleinhirnkammer: archive.org/details/@kontakt_kleinhirnkammer_de
– Humanfobia: humanfobia-official.bandcamp.com/
What is a vacuum? What does it accomplish?
If it functions well, it achieves nothing.
Featuring clarinet and robot vacuum.
Stefano Grasso – drumset, mixer, microphone, portable loudspeakers
Recorded by Stefano Grasso on May 12th, 2025.
Mixed and mastered by Volker Böhm in winter 2025.
Another new addition to the MiMi Records catalogue.
Selected Works 2000–2026 brings together more than two decades of Alcyon’s musical output, tracing a journey where ambient music intersects with memory, stillness, and emotion.
Inspired by feelings of familiarity, nostalgia, romance, and “saudade”, the album invites listeners into a contemplative experience, unfolding delicate and timeless sonic landscapes.
More than a retrospective, Selected Works 2000–2026 stands as a testament to Alcyon’s artistic evolution between 2000 and 2026.
Journeys through familiar places can proceed in strange ways. It is difficult to capture how, as we either fall back on tropes or into noise. Despite the distance between these extremes, their bounding lines are thin – porous.
Featuring clarinet.
Catalogue: DigitalDiamonds115
Format: EP
Released: June 2026
Three tracks, one city-Retropolis: melodic, progressive techno that maps chrome streets and glowing horizons. Step into the neon grid.
Triumphantly approaching, from either side – diving and dodging, far and wide. Success is at hand, but not yet here – the drive to continue is strikingly clear.
Based on the concluding fanfare from Liszt’s Les Préludes, as featured in the 1940s Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe. Featuring orchestra and improvised overdubbed clarinet.
Mauro Sambo – electronics, zither, bass and contra-alto clarinets, flute, percussion, gong
George Cartwright – alto and tenor saxs, acoustic and electric guitar, “deer call”
The titles of the CD and the songs are taken from the book “Flussi” by Matilde Sambo
cover art – Mauro Sambo
from the series “myodesopsie”
A new artist joins the MiMi Records catalog. Sora Fujishima presents Wind Of Lament, a four-track EP that drifts between ambient, field recordings, and drone. Inspired by the image of wind as a carrier of memories and emotions, the release unfolds through delicate and immersive sonic landscapes.
Ambient textures flow like ever-changing breezes, while field recordings capture echoes from the physical world and weave them into a contemplative narrative. Extended drones move through the compositions like deep air currents, expanding the listener’s sense of space and time.
Between the breath of ambient music and the gusts of drone, Wind Of Lament emerges as a subtle and engaging listening experience, where silence, atmosphere, and attentive listening take center stage.
