This is our report of “The Long Now” hosted at Kraftwerk Berlin, a place for the enduring present, comprising over thirty hours of concerts, audio-visual installations and live electronic performances, which the public are invited to experience in many ways: be it listening, watching or even sleeping to them.
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Leandro Fresco & Rafael Anton Irisarri: La Equidistancia
Leandro Fresco and Rafael Anton Irrisari ’La Equidistancia’ released on Ryan Griffin’s A Strangely Isolated Place imprint is ambient of the most epic kind – with layer upon layer of undulating sound. A delicately unfurling liminal hinter world at times as cold as the cover art, at others warm and embracing.
Nocow: Ledyanoy Album
Stylistically complex albums can be difficult to pull off. Ledyanoy Album – roughly translated as ‘Album Made Of Ice’ – spans house, techno, experimental, ambient and everything in between, but it continues to ask why this can’t be the case, when one pervading mood so cleverly invites us to look upon the album as a whole.
Premiere: Fyodor The DJ – Ambient
Since its launch back in 2010, Adam Lundberg and Oscar Villata’s Geography Records has undoubtedly lived up to its juvenile, playful motto – “Geography is our name and house
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Phil Struck: Klint
If LL.M.’s first three releases ploughed a more “regular”, club-ready furrow with some outstanding contributions from Berlin’s favourite Annanan, Phil Struck’s ‘Klint’ makes for a massive bend towards antimusic and concrète realms that won’t fail at surprising those who expected the Münster-via-Berlin based imprint to stick to the tried-and-tested 4/4 recipes.
Rebellion in Music: Galaxian talks up his new EP for Foul-Up
Eager to find out more about Galaxian’s unique vision and new Blowback EP on Foul-Up, we sat back with Glasgow-based producer Mark Kastner to discuss his views on politics and society, art of secretiveness and how music can change things from within. Stream the breaks-heavy ‘Forget About It’ within.
Discover who’s playing when at our stage this summer at Farr Festival
Today Farr Festival reveal a day-by-day stage breakdown of who’s playing when over the three day event, which means we can reveal when our guests are performing at the Campfire Headphase stage, dedicated to ambient and experimental music.
In Perspective: Nummer talk up their debut album ‘Second Sight’
We caught up with Berlin-based duo Nummer to discuss their new album ‘Second Sight’, creative process, sources of inspiration and special relationship with Brian Not Brian’s forward-pushing imprint.
Varg: Nordic Flora Series Pt.3: Gore-Tex City
Nordic Flora Series Pt.3: Gore-Tex City is one of Varg’s most approachable albums to date, yet, it never fails to sound as genuine as you could expect. Given the fact the record is more than seventy minutes long, it is quite an achievement.
Various Artists: Dawn Records Various Artists #1
After a string of boundary-pushing releases on both digital and 12″ formats, Parisian label Dawn Records deliver a polyamorous jumble of machine-based music for literally anyone keen on transcendental trips and off-the-leash audio deconstructivism.
Various – Outro Tempo: Electronic And Contemporary Music From Brazil 1978-1992
Outro Tempo opens doors, unveiling the unknown but inherently fascinating…like everything else to have surfaced in the Music From Memory story so far, we’re brought into a musi-verse we never knew existed but now can’t do without.
GAS announces new album ‘Narkopop’
We thought this would never happen – Wolfgang Voigt has announced the resurrection of his GAS alias with the release of a new album ‘Narkopop’ set for release on 21st April via Kompakt.
Inverted Audio x Farr Festival: Huerco S., Leafar Legov, Terekke, Machine Woman
Time has come to reveal the lineup to our 3-night stage takeover at Farr Festival, dedicated to ambient and downtempo music, which will see the finest of otherworldly music aces come through to deliver some deeply-immersive late night moments.
Music Video: Michael Vallera – Pollen Blot
To accompany the release of the album ‘Vivid Flu’, Denovali and Vallera have had a video done for ‘Pollen Blot’, which we’re no short of glad to premiere today. Setting the dissonant synths and machinic hiss of the track into a hazy tableau of hallucinated desert visions flickering like mirages interlaced with retinal images frozen in a dazzling haze. A multisensory trip.
Listen back to Emotional Response x Inverted Audio at Brilliant Corners
Chuggy kicks off the recording with an array of ambient excursions from the Emotional catalogue, Luca Schiavoni ramps up the pace with pure David Mancuso loft vibes, whilst Antepop brings the deepness.
Music Video: The Orb – Wireless (Leandro Fresco Mix)
Fresco’s music video for The Orb literally transports the viewer above and below the clouds, submerging you deep into an otherworldly scenario of mundane reality juxtaposed with sub-aquatic crustaceans, jelly fish and the majesty of a hungry Hippopotamus. Take a moment to switch off from whatever you are doing and let the music take hold of you.