“Three pots of coffee and four packs of cigarettes later, we’ve finally hashed out your structural comprisal numbers. We’re gonna need a raise…”
Structural Comprisal # by COM Surrogate is now out on Sub65 Media!
A few months after the lovely P8 phase 3, our regular contributor Doedelzak comes back with another longform composition using an hybrid methodology and taking inspiration from various musical aesthetics. Ilpyd is subtle and catchy, hypnotic and surprising in the same time.
Notes by the artist
“Ilypd was created partially through algorithms, with a slow and alsmot imperceptible evolution. Though, there is a big change between the beginning and the end.
Although there are small internal changes, the evolution of the global structure is strictly continuous. The perception of changes (and notably the perception of acceleration) may appear intermittently as if on particular moments the listener’s mind was suddenly creating the image of a new step being crossed, but ilypd is perpetually changing.
Ilypd can be listened in one go, or on the contraty intermittently. It is not necessary to hear it from the beginning, nor until the end.
Inspiration for this work came from traditional African music, Gamelan, and Steve Reich. This is a musical material more than a composition – and I simply wanted to make this material beautiful”
Song #6 in my series of singles released on the Genetic Trance netlabel. When the singles series is finished, I’m thinking of compiling them all into an album
Arranged and recorded on January 2nd and 3rd 2019 in room 1075 at Fredonia University.
“Mela” means to gather. We are a collective of musicians from Buffalo, Chicago and NYC that meet for the purposes of originality in a world of imposed forms.
We’re just happy to share our music. Thanks for your support! Enjoy “Mela Two”!
released June 1, 2019
“Mela Two”
Produced by Paul Sottnik, Frank Valente and Taylor Ford
album art by
Haley Flight
featuring
Paul Sottnik on Piano, Celeste, Vocals and Acoustic Guitar
Frank Valente on Vibraphone, Shaker and Electric Piano
Taylor Ford on Electric Bass and Electric Guitar
Jake Payne on Drumset
recording engineers
Tyler Will and Jaden Zhang
**They built the whole studio from scratch!**
1. Hopelessness
2. Repression
released June 14, 2019
W+P: Carlos Sicrock
Mastering: Mudrost / Audioworkshop
Artwork: John Bushby
“I assure you, the entry fee is worth the cost. Everybody gets a gold medal at the Failcore Olympics.”
Failcore by Thrust Pomp is now available on sub65
#TrustPomp #experimental #progressive #speedbass #extreme #freestep #eleganza #lobit #sub65media
Hey kids… great news… today we’ve got another couple dope A.Moss tracks for you to bump! Hopefully, along with one more scheduled fortyFive, they’ll hold you over a little longer until the July 19th release of his incredible, forthcoming EP “Gravel King”. Get ready!
Once again Moss… thank you, sir! It’s dope to get these joints out to bloc listeners. Wait until they hear Gravel King!
Of course, thanks once again to you for downloading & listening. We always strive to deliver the music you’ll love. Please spread the word about blocSonic, if you enjoy what we do. Remember… everything we release is cool to share! Always keep the music moving… share it… blog it… podcast it! If you’re in radio… support independent music and broadcast it!
Third round of our new interview series also brings a little insight
on Mikk Rebanes life and music.
Sai, the dedicated studio project of Yasen Penchev, has been evolving a lot throughout the years, including since his debut album “Perspective seen from different point of view” was released in the summer of 2016, but the core of the project remains in experimentation with analogue and digital recording techniques and extensive use of various string instruments, with results varying from minimalistic ambient atmospheres and melancholic soundscapes to furious polyrhythmic drum patterns syncopated with loads of guitars and progressive rhythmic and melodic structures, music that has usually been fitted under Post rock, Math rock, Ambient and Trip rock and such.
3 years after releasing his outstanding debut Mahorka proudly presents “Random motion of particles”, Sai’s second masterpiece for the label and a notable milestone in the project’s evolution. Keeping the polymetric and polyrhytmic structural approaches and unique sound production techniques, he further extends and builds upon, this time less processed, even clean, guitars, less distortion, more melodic and harmonic compositions, more cinematic and atmospheric overall feeling with more and lusher ambient passages that include even whole tracks on their own.
“Random motion of particles” comes as free (cc) digital download and a precious limited edition (50 pcs) cassette release with outstanding design by Angel Draganov and Yasen Penchev himself. The tape has a different version of the album where the tracks have been redone in different edits and fused together by the artist for two side-long (30 minutes each) trips.
All music produced and recorded by: Yasen Penchev
Artwork design: Angel Draganov and Yasen Penchev
Released: June 16, 2019
“Melting Clinamen” was born from a small deviation from the methodology used by Failure Circle in this serie of compositions Frozen Clinamen that normally uses only sounds recorded while no human intervention is applied to the used set-up ( no-input mixer most of the time). The creation of the first track of this album followed the same rules – except that it used a recording that features some little changes created manually (this sound can be heard between 3min11 et 12m06). This is also the first release in which Failure Circle doesn’t use a no-input mixer but a semi-modular analog synthesizer, the Neutron by Behringer, with no effects except its built-in ones. Another notable difference with the past volumes lies into the way the material has been edited & mixed. The other track of the album (Frozen Clinamen #2M) follows more strictly the Frozen Clinamen methodology, but all sounds were also created with synthesizer. Thus, Melting Clinamen is and isn’t part of the Frozen Clinamen serie.
Methodology of the Frozen Clinamen serie
step (1) Tweaking the set-up until it produces some seemingly autonomously self-sustained sound sequences.
step (2) Stopping tweaking and recording for at least 20 minutes without any intervention on the set-up.
step (3) Repeating steps (1) & (2) several times.
step (4) Using the generated sounds as only source in a posteriori compositions. The only variations used while mixing are equalization, panoramics and volume levels.
step (5) play it at low/high volume with open/closed window while complety asleep / fully conscious.
