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music tagged with: ambient

Abjective – Into the Labyrinth

Abjective – Into the Labyrinth
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Abjective

“Into the Labyrinth”

Abjective first arrived on Kahvi back in December as part of the VA compilation (Waves). Now they’re back with an album entitled ‘Into the Labyrinth’.

Heading towards the more glitchy end of the audio spectrum, the nine track album scratches on the edges of ambient (slightly reminiscient of Curious Inversions or the Orb), while including a touch of Autectre to give the tracks more of a distinct feel.

The album could be seen as a cleanse of the palette, taking the listener to more pleasant times, a summertime shower, or spring sunshine.

Tracks of choice: Summoning of the muse, Organium drone.

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posted 25 February 2016

Zé Trigueiros – Bear With Me

Zé Trigueiros – Bear With Me
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Zé Trigueiros

“Bear With Me”

Drummer of the band dUASsEMICOLCHEIASiNVERTIDAS and noise therapist of the A.T.R. collective, Zé Trigueiros shows us for the first time a set of homemade songs, created in recent years between trips and stops… A melancholic instrumental work, which has the collaboration of the musician and luthier Domenikos de Visser on the bass and tzouras, “Bear With Me” was recorded in 2014/15 at his home in Amsterdam.
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posted 07 February 2016

M-PeX – hado [remastered]

M-PeX – hado [remastered]
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M-PeX

“hado [remastered]”

M-PeX revisits his debut album Phado, originally put out in 2007 by Thisco and Fonoteca Municipal de Lisboa, now remastered and available free for download at Enough Records. The album is dedicated to his grandfather, Luís Tomás Pinheiro, master of the portuguese guitar, who introduced M-PeX to the fado universe. In Phado, M-PeX assumes the portuguese guitar as a characteristic trait of his musical identity, mixing it with electronic music. Cover artwork by Marco Madruga.
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posted 31 January 2016

K.Markov – Excerpt One

K.Markov – Excerpt One
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K.Markov

“Excerpt One”

The first release for 2016 is from guest artist K.Markov. A ten track ambient album showcasing a selection from three of his existing albums – The Mist, Transmission and Liquid, which you can find on his bandcamp page.

Following on from his first release on Kahvi under the name Phrulex (which was a single several years ago) K.Markov shows us that his style has evolved into a more mature ambient and chilled out vibe, much akin to Curious Diversions and Solar Fields.

Gently floating atmospheres, mixed with sweeping arpeggios and melodical interludes to keep you listening closely.

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posted 31 January 2016

Purple Mountain Peal – The Day That Forgot To Break

Purple Mountain Peal – The Day That Forgot To Break
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Purple Mountain Peal

“The Day That Forgot To Break”

“The day that forgot to break” is the third album by Purple Mountain Peal.

This release marks a more piano driven declination of what the duo has to offer in terms of improvisation, creativity and madness. To sum up, what you are about to witness is less chaos and more melody. Take it with a grain of salt by the way, it’s Purple Mountain Peal after all…

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posted 28 January 2016

Cuarto / Indiosingracia – Krilin Split

Cuarto / Indiosingracia  – Krilin Split
[LBN033]

Cuarto / Indiosingracia

“Krilin Split”

“Krillin Split” is a valuable collaboration between two promising young Spanish musicians: Cuarto and Indiosingracia
Tradition, modernity and ingenious experiments gather in ten tracks melting folk, electronic, ambient and pleasant oddness.
“Krilin Split” is cozy, warm, friendly and candidly melancholy.
The first step towards something new.
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posted 26 January 2016

Cousin Silas – A Moment Lost

Cousin Silas – A Moment Lost
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Cousin Silas

“A Moment Lost”

Sucu Music’s 2016 begins with the third release by Cousin Silas, whose trademark guitar-laden form of ambient and soundscapes is here to delight our ears and souls alike. The overall tone of “A Moment Lost” – this is the title of the new album – is less somber than in the previous works, and, apart from the closing track, the not-too-long playing time of the tracks allows the listener to sort of breathe between one aerial trip and another.
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posted 26 January 2016

Various Artists – 15 Years Mixtape

Various Artists – 15 Years Mixtape
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Various Artists

“15 Years Mixtape”

Mixtape release celebrating 15 years of Enough Records activity, selected and mixed by ps from the Enough Records catalogue. Cover artwork by Rosana Margarida.
Full tracklist:

01) Inf – Canadian Peach [00:00:00]
02) Julien Neto – From Cover to Cover [00:06:06]
03) ps – 320_030905 [00:10:54]
04) Gilo – Lei #4 [00:17:41]
05) Firnwald – The Woodlake [00:22:19]
06) M-PeX vs Dream Metaphor feat. Dalila – Neural Interface [00:24:52]
07) ps vs Sektor 304 – Toxic Malice [00:30:01]
08) Jenifer Àvila – Si Va [00:39:17]
09) Amitron_7 – Tonicshifter [00:45:13]
10) The Easton Ellises – Liquorstore [52:24]
11) dUAS sEMIcOLCHEIAS iNVERTIDAS – corta-unhas [00:56:14]
12) .crk – Fallout [00:57:59]
13) Dyman – Kill the Flesh [01:04:53]
14) Azureflux – Boss Ass Bits [01:07:44]

All tracks from the Enough Records catalogue. Mixed by ps.

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posted 19 January 2016

José Soberanes – Letras, Sonidos y Composiciones Que Causan

José Soberanes – Letras, Sonidos y Composiciones Que Causan
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José Soberanes

“Letras, Sonidos y Composiciones Que Causan”

Here we are again, with a new release, our first one for 2016. We would like to thank José Soberanes, who honoured us by entrusting us to start our journey into this new year in his company.
José Soberanes | Letras, sonidos y composiciones que causan conflicto
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posted 10 January 2016

Jim And The Galaxy – Cosmic Conspiracies

Jim And The Galaxy – Cosmic Conspiracies
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Jim And The Galaxy

“Cosmic Conspiracies”

João and João have been playing together since the early nineties. First in a death metal band, then in a covers band, now in a quartet, always taking it as heavily or lightly as possible.
Jim And The Galaxy was their first incursion as a duo – then electric bass, double bass, fx and magnetic tape – when a collective of friends commissioned a piece for a special evening.
Now, probably 20 years after, the first recording of a “live at home” session (no overdubs!) is released as the corollary of the many musical experiences they’ve had throughout the years.
Plain and simple, straight to the point and laid-back.

João Santos: electric bass, fx;
João Ricardo: electric guitar, fx.

Graphic design by Shutupandance!

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posted 09 January 2016

Moolsaasa – Sleepless EP

Moolsaasa – Sleepless EP
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Moolsaasa

“Sleepless EP”

Our first release of the 2016 comes by the artist Moolsaasa in CD format, It´s a dedicated work 100% dub techno with five tracks of high quality.

Designed and mastered by Retouched (Raul G.)

Limited to 50 copies, do not stay without yours!

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posted 07 January 2016

DRONARIVM – Into The White (New Year’s 2016 free compilation)

DRONARIVM – Into The White (New Year’s 2016 free compilation)
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DRONARIVM

“Into The White (New Year’s 2016 free compilation)”

Year’s end, all
corners of this
floating world, swept.

– Basho

credits
released January 3, 2016

Compiled by Bartosz Dziadosz (Pleq) & Dmitry Taldykin
Mastered by Porya Hatami
Cover photo by Lena Lello

posted 03 January 2016

V/A – Lo​-​Fi Fidelity

V/A – Lo​-​Fi Fidelity
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V/A

“Lo​-​Fi Fidelity”

New melancholic compilation “Lo-Fi Fidelity”, arranged through the efforts of two producers – Hank Hobson and Hobotek within the framework of their collaborative project H + H2 – is designed in a cold and sometimes gloomy tone. The tone which creates that autumnal touch specific for the season. Plangent ambient and drone, pensive trip-hop and experimental electronica make one wonder about the internal quality of music, its message and the atmosphere created by the melodies. Musicians whose works are represented in the compilation protest against the lack of spirit in the modern world where the value of ideas is substituted by the masterly performance, and brandish their fidelity to the ideals of the past, when the music was considered to reflect the musician’s perception of the world. The ideas that are so often forgotten now.
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posted 28 December 2015

Ars Sonor – Future Journeys

Ars Sonor – Future Journeys

Ars Sonor

“Future Journeys”

“A new door opens through the broken heart, and, sadly, it’s always like that. It’s unbelievable… how much pain is around still, how much stuff I have to release… henceforth. The more you dig, the more comes up. But, I’m afraid, there’s no other way, other than this kind of therapy. Releasing old music. It’s still a lot to do, but at least with less stuff I’ll be able to crawl through this hole to another side. It looks as bleak as on this side, but it’s better than stay here. And then… future journeys will be possible” (Ars Sonor)
posted 28 December 2015

Dr.800XL – Epifanía

Dr.800XL – Epifanía
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Dr.800XL

“Epifanía”

“Epifanía (Epiphany) (From the Latin epiphanīa: f. manifestation, appearance, or revelation). – This corresponds to the final album of the trilogy initiated in 2006 with ‘Anomia‘ (pn007), continued then with ‘Vesania‘ (pn047) in 2009; and, as such, it continues the course and the dynamic of these 3 states (the diffuse confusion in the beginning, the unbridled madness of the mature conflict, and then, the illumination and calm of the resolution), trying to give an account of various biographical and creative states of the author. ‘Epifanía‘ establishes itself, at the same time, as a point of inflection with profound changes to the stylistic and discursive in this delightfully haphazard route that is life and its creatures-creations.”

Felipe Zúñiga Herranz aka Dr.800XL
(Santiago, Chile, diciembre 2015)

“‘Epifanía‘ (Epiphany), completes the trilogy of Dr.800XL for Pueblo Nuevo… an exercise in electronica of high flight, fresh and full of spatiality. Reunification of samples in a Down-tempo beat, with techno tinges and with a palette of spatial/temporal synthesis of ambient tone. In this multiverse of intricate breaks, playful glitches, with contemplative tone and with a marked experimental accent, Felipe Zúñiga Herranz drives the pulleys to give us a work that makes its impression on the listening, through the richness and variety of the compositions. A disc that crowns in an exiting way this musical/discursive continuity… in good time Doc.”

Héctor “Polar” Aguilar
Integrante del dúo Lluvia Acida / Lluvia Ácida member.
(Punta Arenas, Chile, diciembre 2015)

“The Sound as a tool of echolocation for tracing emotional and mental maps. The Beats like serial lightning strikes forming thoughts. The Sequences forming successive images that vanish at the boundary between the Conscious and the Unconscious. Glitches like nervous tics that we strive to conceal. Arpeggios of Acoustic Guitar that evoke moments that will not return. Synths that move around like cirrus in the sky that our eyes can span. Reverbs that bounce off the walls of our internal cavern. This is how I can describe this “Epiphany” that Felipe Zuñiga gives us today. Fast, enlightening, but not ephemeral. If we listen carefully to them, his pieces take the form of portals, on whose threshold oscillate vibrations that evoke a wide palette of colors, playful and far from the claim of superiority of the Musician above the Listener. Thank you very much for this album, Felipe: I believe that you were happy creating it, and in these times, to share that is a significant and necessary gesture.”

Rafael Cheuquelaf
Integrante del dúo Lluvia Acida / Lluvia Ácida member.
(Punta Arenas, Chile, diciembre 2015)

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posted 24 December 2015

LZRVS – For tonight you’re only here to know

LZRVS – For tonight you’re only here to know
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LZRVS

“For tonight you’re only here to know”

Artist: LZRVS
Artwork: Luca Mascioli
Mastering: Fulvio Vitale aka Flux
Title: For tonight you’re only here to know
Genre: Future Beats
Released on: 04/12/2015

Description (Curated by Marco Stilo)

[EN]
In full consciousness and introspective phase. Perhaps this is the key to open Lzrs sound door. Certainly, it’s the essential theme between the producer and Sostanze Records for the making of ‘For Tonight You’re Only Here to Know’, the winning debut record by the Italian artist. Such a release pushing for getting what we have around us. A sound apparently melancholic which does not hide emotive charges towards a romantic evolution. Lzrs softly gets up on the stage but at the same time his elegance shows immediately a significant attetion for its message, codified by distorsions and atmospheres playing up the trip created by its music. In love with Lzrs.

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In piena fase introspettiva e di sviluppo della conoscenza . Forse è questa la chiave per aprire la porta dei suoni di Lzrs. Sicuramente è il filo conduttore tra il produttore e Sostanze Records nella realizzazione di ”For Tonight You’re Only Here to Know” , debutto vincente dell’artista italiano. Una release che penetra nella voglia di riflettere e capire ciò che ci circonda. Un suono all’apparenza malinconico ma che non nasconde cariche emotive tendenti ad un’evoluzione romantica della musica proposta dall’artista. Lzrs è morbido nell’entrata in scena ma al tempo stesso la sua eleganza desta subito grande attenzione per la profondità del messaggio codificato da distorsioni e atmosfere che amplificano la missione del viaggio creato dalla sua musica. In love with Lzrs.

Tracklist

1. Punk Skin
2. Lost Keys
3. We Raving
4. Struggle feat. D R H O N E

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posted 22 December 2015

Various – Waves

Various – Waves
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Various

“Waves”

Here at Kahvi we’re exceptionally proud of our yearly compilation release – and here, finally, is the VA release for 2015! It’s been a mammoth undertaking, collecting tracks, compiling the release, mastering, creating the cover artwork but finally we can announce that ‘Waves’ is here!

This year, we have a massive 50 of the best tracks from some familiar faces, along with many guest artists that submitted their tracks for inclusion. Some really amazing talent is out there with very little exposure, and the VA is our chance to redress the balance. For a playlist visit our Mixcloud page. The VA is made up of a huge range of diverse tracks from ambient to IDM, chill to drum and bass – and even a couple of more experimental tracks to give your ears a treat!

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posted 21 December 2015

Splicey and Tracky – Horses, Horses … Horses!

Splicey and Tracky – Horses, Horses … Horses!
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Splicey and Tracky

“Horses, Horses … Horses!”

Horses, Horses … Horses! is the late October 2015 debut release from the collaboration, Splicey and Tracky (Dave Keifer & Jess Lemont). In this case, the tracks featured are from Keifer’s end of the ongoing project.
Recently, Vuzhh Music Blog (C. Reider) produced its annual list of Notable Netlabel Releases, which includes the debut. Reider’s description: “Skittering and simultaneously loping, riffing and simultaneously free-jazzing group work featuring the brilliant Jess Lemont. This coheres really well, and is very groovy, even when they’re at their most free-improv-y.”

And, they’re just getting started. Be sure to stay on the lookout for more Splicey and Tracky releases, and, if possible, listen with your eyes closed!

Credits:
Dave Keifer (Cagey House): virtual instruments, software, etc. Shifty editing, occasional brief embellishments.
Jess Lemont (Be a Waterwolf): all real instruments including drums, voice, guitar, bass, mallet percussion, keyboards, xaphoon, etc. Large-scale intricate lace improvisations.

(Tracks created jointly between April and August of 2015)

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posted 20 December 2015

Secrets Of The 45 – Wake Bell

Secrets Of The 45 – Wake Bell
[UPL 065]

Secrets Of The 45

“Wake Bell”

“It was about time to pay tribute to my only addiction – caffeine, which has become a necessity to properly start my day. And what better way to honour it than by making an album entirely out of the sounds of my trusted coffee machine?

Like an old friend, this familiar buzz has been present in my life for years, setting rhythm to my workday. I decided to make its warm, enveloping orchestra of hums, hisses, gurgles into a pleasant ambient album – with help of effect pedals and analog processing.”

-Secrets Of The 45

And there you have it, a set of droning, ever-morphing etudes based on a hum of a coffeemaker. Each piece paints the noise in a slightly different shade, mirroring different stages of the wake cycle (or the “wake bell” as the album cover depicts) – from the hushed whalesong of “drowning in drowsy” to the urgent, stuttering “c16f” with hisses and sirens going off to give the listener a good waking kick.

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posted 17 December 2015

Mint – The Minotaur’s Head

Mint – The Minotaur’s Head
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Mint

“The Minotaur’s Head”

The second release for Christmas 2015 is a new album by Kahvi regular artist ‘Mint’.

The curiously named ‘The Minotaur’s Head’ is six tracks of Mint’s blend of oldschool inspired beats and sounds, with today’s IDM techniques. Progressive and subtle in places, with earth shaking beats and basses.

The Minotaur’s Head includes influences of some previous Kahvi artists – like Aaron Jasinski (Tribal Shake) along with oldskool 8bit soundtracks (Distant Signals) and even a nod towards some very early Kahvi releases by Xhale and Epoq (Spirit Touch).

Track of choice , most definitely for this oldschool fan: The unpronouncable ‘Pharmacopoeia’ which is epic progressive oldschool at it’s best!

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posted 17 December 2015