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music tagged with: experimental

DR – January Recordings

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DR

“January Recordings”

DR (Dominic Razlaff) is an Electronica & Ambient musician from Braunschweig, Germany. Uses Synthesizers, Field Recordings, Tape Loops & some digital Effects to create Melancholy, Deep, Ambient / Drone Soundscape.

Tracklist:

1. 26_01_2016 06:01
2. More Compression (But not a Brick) 05:44
3. Untitled Tape Loop 08:06
4. Five Chords With Tremolo & Distortion 06:04
5. Coffee & Cigarettes 07:25

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posted 01 March 2016

C. Reider / Jeph Jerman – Pop Variations

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C. Reider / Jeph Jerman

“Pop Variations”

Netlabel Pan y Rosas Discos has released a new collaborative album from C. Reider and Jeph Jerman. The album consists of a single 30 minute track comprised of edited vinyl pops and crackles. C. Reider wrote the following about the album:

in 2015, my friend jeph jerman sent me a very lovely lathe-cut record. one side has a twelve minute track of the pops and crackles that are typical of vinyl records. all of the sounds in pop variations were derived from that recording, using various techniques, like running the pops & clicks through a de-clicking algorithm, or slowing down the recording to the point where you can hear the needle bouncing at each pop.

-CR

You can download the full release from the label’s website

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posted 25 February 2016

FRVSNT – Lote

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FRVSNT

“Lote”

“The duo FRVSNT navigates the convergence of at least three grand streams: contemporary music, electroacoustic in real time, and free improvisation.

Luciano Giambastiani makes use of clarinets in different registers to provide a sound world that is based on the broad spectrum of instrumental techniques associated with contemporary music, passing through materials defined by pitch, multiphonics, keyed percussion and the classic rough sonorities of the frullatos.

For his part, Rodrigo Castellanos contributes the electroacoustics through digital processing, where the aural richness is not always easy to explain, but certain techniques may be recognized, such as sampling and transposition of the sound captured by the computer, synthesis, delay and reverb among others, all in real time.

The general feeling is of symbiosis, an integration in terms of color that generally has a continuous evolution, sometimes accentuated by gestures of greater contrast. It is probable that Castellanos makes use of complex techniques such as monitoring of pitch, spectrums and dynamics or granular synthesis, and if the latter is true, it does not appear clearly or with the typical quality common in mixed music.

It is interesting to note that, according to the musicians, they never rehearse; rather they simply get together and play. Of course they do not start completely from scratch, as they know each other (eight years ago to be exact), they know what the sound space of their counterpart is, but from there they launch a dialogue that goes vibrating in a spontaneous and ‘effervescent’ way. They call it creation in situ, and this, as one may appreciate, they link not only to a determined physical space wherein the music awakens, but also to mental, emotional and conceptual spaces. Their previous communications are realized on a more generic level, where they discuss ideas of diverse nature, beyond the purely musical question.

Because this is a stereo recording, unfortunately it remains distinct from the multichannel component manipulated by Castellanos in the duo’s live performances, where the use of loudspeaker systems delivers an enveloping spatial element truer to their creative vision.

The album is a collection of miniatures, pieces that situate themselves in a minute and a half, two minutes, three and a fraction or at most five minutes and sixteen seconds. Juxtaposed with these pieces are micro-compositions of a few seconds (16, 18, or 24 seconds), of a concise and effective style, that exploit a sonority, rather a gesture that closes itself in but is able to connect with the preceding and the ensuing, with the general coloration awarded by the authors materials.

We hope this album is only the beginning of one or more subsequent contributions, either in stereo or why not in some multichannel format.”

Alejandro Albornoz
(Sheffield, England, Febrero / February 2016)

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posted 24 February 2016

José Guillén – Conversaciones con el demiurgo

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José Guillén

“Conversaciones con el demiurgo”

It is with great pleasure that we are able to present for the second time José Guillén as a guest in our experimental home and we would like to thank him for giving us this opportunity.
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posted 20 February 2016

Martin Rach – Winter Quartets

Martin Rach

“Winter Quartets”

doubt v2. – kalimba, zither, metalophone and sound forge
first snow – electric wind accordion, metalophone, mixer feedback and sound forge
techno valentino (second) – kalimba, korga v. bass controlled with recorder, sound forge
heart of cold – korga v. bass controlled with orla synthesizer, empty mixer channels, sound forge
dream(slow) – orla synthesiser, electric wind accordion, korg v. bass, sound forge

sound forge for recording and looping/editing while playing.

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posted 20 February 2016

Don’t Look At Me I Am Deformed – Ha Ha Ha Oh ¯_(ツ)_/¯

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Don’t Look At Me I Am Deformed

“Ha Ha Ha Oh ¯_(ツ)_/¯”

Another delivery from the legend of troglodisco! Snippets of manicness inspired equally by 90s viva german dance music and teutonic ebm industrial – in attention deficit portions reminiscent of the Residents’ commercial album and similar tongue-in-cheek approach to the genre.

This is a vision of dance music revelling in its own simplistic approach and playful in its bending of genre’s boundaries and limitations. Like a 12 year old fed only by early dance music and armed in an array of 80s music samples and a book of “rules of disco music” that he dropped into a vat of acid for a few seconds it is concentrated on fun and simply enertaining to watch it stumble, spin and burst at the seams with forbidden energy.

posted 18 February 2016

M.Nomized – Covering The Past

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M.Nomized

“Covering The Past “

RELEASE INFO:
ARTIST: Mnomized
RELEASE TITLE: Covering The Past (2010 – 2015)
CAT Nº: TRANZ057
RELEASE DATE: February 12, 2016
FORMAT: Mp3 / 320kbps / 44.100 MHZ
GENRE: Electronic
SUB-GENRE: Techno / IDM / Experimental / Avant-Garde
TOTAL TIME: 02:00:54
SIZE: 291 MB

TRACKLIST:

01. Evil Fly – 2010 (9:54)
02. Cart Wheel – 2010 (5:28)
03. Keydreams – 2010 (4:32)
04. Harmful Factory – 2011 (5:36)
05. Infinity Of Spheres – 2012 (5:04)
06. Infraloopy Life – 2012 (10:02)
07. Heart Factory – 2012 (7:00)
08. Rappel Stack – 2012 (7:59)
09. Behind The Mirror – 2013 (7:15)
10. Poison – 2013 (3:56)
11. Crash Test Dummy – 2013 (7:26)
12. Clipping – 2013 (4:56)
13. Start Atmos End – 2014 (7:20)
14. Good Day Sunchild – 2014 (7:22)
15. Borg Strobe – 2014 (6:08)
16. Deceptive Clones – 2014 (7:48)
17. Uncensored Girl – 2015 (6:16)
18. Abilities – 2015 (6:52)

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posted 17 February 2016

Hassan K. – Hykayat, l’exil accidentel

Hassan K.

“Hykayat, l’exil accidentel”

« The look of which I know is the look he knows me »

This sentence is taken from Western Exile, thoughts and mystical story of the Persian philosopher Suhrawardi. It sums up the album. Hykayat in Iran, is a mystical story. Western exile is a journey to the celestial pole, to immaterial palaces.

This album is a tribute to the Persian thinkers and scientists of medieval Islam. It invites the listener to travel throughout eastern lights, axioms of creative imagination that influenced alchemists, mathematicians, astronomers and western philosophers. It was designed to stimulate your light guides to accompany your souls to the house of chants. It passes through time and space through hybridization of genres, rhythms and tones (metal, swing, electro, rock, philharmonic…).

It’s a light album: live performance is played on stage with lights DMX reacting to sounds. The album artwork is black and white, inviting the listener to focus on sound work, on composition and to develop a photism experience (feel color through another sense than vision). Live performances are still ecstatic, energetic, wobbly and increased by some unusual instruments like a guitar tuned with a wiimote, a MIDI flute, and sometimes a robot santoor.

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posted 16 February 2016

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

Sam Fendrich – LIFE (terms and conditions apply)

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Sam Fendrich

“LIFE (terms and conditions apply)”

Composer Sam Fendrich’s latest collection (his fourth for Linear Obsessional) continues in the vein of the shorter works heard on “The Unquestioned Answer”, with concise, maximal, dense structures punctuated by allusions to other genres (in this case including jazz,blues and rock) and all employing the restless imagination and mordant wit that characterises his work.

“LIFE” (terms and conditions apply) however has an added urgency – all the pieces are recent compositions, worked on in grasped moments throughout a year that has seen a significant amount of personal turmoil.

Composed and Produced by Sam Fendrich in 2015.

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posted 19 January 2016

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

Project Mycelium – Pulse

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Project Mycelium

“Pulse”

Linear Obsessional is proud to release “Pulse” the debut EP from Project Mycelium, an experimental duo from Hackney, London.

Luke Brennan and Lorenzo Santangeli work from tiny minimalist fragments of acoustic samples- they explore texture and dynamics to build an extraordinary and beautiful piece of music, that seems to reference several stages in electronic music from the 50s and 60s whilst also being strikingly futuristic.

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posted 09 January 2016

NCRPTD.DSCRPTN – Abstract Meaning

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NCRPTD.DSCRPTN

“Abstract Meaning”

NCRPTD.DSCRPTN comes from Mexico and brings to us a strongly and consistent experimental techno sound with a dark touch. Techno and Experimental approach mixed together to build up a solid and magnetic music style. The Abstract Meaning ep is for free download through Stato Elettrico’s website.
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posted 08 January 2016

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

Martin Rach – Late Autumn Quartets

Martin Rach

“Late Autumn Quartets”

here’s another set – late autumn quartets

with a doubling on picking up sound (more earphone recording heads for strings of zithers)

and:
double swing – both ziters, metalophone and recorder placed under metal bowl, zooming in and out

squared circles – both zithers, kalimba, bongo drum

raving threads – both zithers, kalimba, korg volca bass, bongo drum

root architecture – both zithers, bongo drum and mixer routed onto itself

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posted 03 January 2016