Now available: Gastón Arévalo / Terrain (ASIPV024)

I stumbled across Gastón’s music listening to his album on Marsen Jules’ Oktaf label, ‘Rollin Ballads’. Releases after this were few and far between from him, so it was a lovely surprise to hear a demo come through from Gastón.

Within ‘Terrain’, Gastón aimed to depict an adventurous journey, where each track captured a specific moment over an imaginary, daring ascent. An intimate meeting with nature, the album rises from the ground to our highest peaks - with the two extremes captured in the album’s artwork (a collab between Noah M and I, featuring photography from myself and Gastón).

Field recordings from Patagonia enhance the feeling of freedom, one can only find from the great outdoors. Adorned with drifting harmonies; shimmering guitars; dense pads of cloud; gentle rising mists; the sound of shallow rivers and morning bird-calls, it all comes together to create a vivid and intrepid scene told across a variety of full-length tracks and short interludes, acting as breathers and moments to reflect amongst mother-natures finest grandeur.

Terrain is available in color-in-color, Transparent + Gold Gatefold 2LP vinyl and digital formats, mastered by Rafael Anton Irisarri.

See the release page for more information and links to buy.

Now available: Markus Guentner / Gradient Spirits (ASIP032)

The lockdown has inspired many artists and none more so than Markus Guentner. Not only did Markus prepare a special live set recently for Data.Wave, but Markus also had this lovely Live set in him, which to me is the equivalent and worthiness of any full album release. A magical, sweeping and majestic hour’s worth of improvised material, available for you to download as ‘Name Your Price’ over on Bandcamp.

With mastering by our regular-master-controller, Rafael Anton Irisarri, Gradient Spirits highlights Guentner at his very best since his last album on ASIP (Empire), and should live shows resume sometime soon, this set is a brilliant example of the journey Markus can create within a live setting.

Buy / download on Bandcamp.

Now available: Wanderwelle / A State of Decrepitude

Today we release the fourth full-length from Amsterdam-duo Wanderwelle. Their albums so far have been nothing but original and groundbreaking in terms of vision and concept, and we like to think their latest, ‘A State Of Decrepitude’ continues in the same manner.

See the release page for more information, listen to previews and where to buy.

Pre-order: Wanderwelle / A State Of Decrepitude (ASIPV021)

I’ve been a big admirer of Phil and Alexander's music for years now.

Their albums on Silent Season remain some of the most unique music you'll hear touching on the dub-techno/ambient realm, and their latest album last year alongside Isorinne as Bandhagens Musikförening, was just as beautiful and intriguing.

The new Wanderwelle album for ASIP is a dark and delicious dive into a new world, peppered with samples, textures and field recordings, all manipulated into a slowly decaying sense of dystopian reality.

See the release page for more information, listen to previews and all links to buy.

Astral Industries 9128.live Takeover April 4th/5th/6th

*Now updated with Mixes that were posted online after the event*

Our good friends at Astral Industries were set to throw a weekend of music at Cafe OTO in London recently, but had to cancel due to the Coronavirus situation. Instead, we’ve teamed up to present a similar weekend over on our radio station, 9128.live.

During the event, we’ll be asking for a small donation of anything you can spare, to be split between Astral Industries (to help recoup the thousands lost on the cancellation), the artists involved and the South London Refugee Association, who provide expert advice, specialist services and effective support (made even harder given the current situation) to refugees, asylum seekers and vulnerable migrants in South London.

See 9128.live for the full schedule and to tune in.

Lineup + details:

Exclusive material:

The Chi Factory premiere new material and future releases on Astral Industries.

Deepchord presents 2hrs of previously unheard ambient works, as well as a 1hr live mix of Immersions, including the previously unheard Immersions III & IV.
A first full play of LF58’s forthcoming album on Astral Industries - Alterazione - out on Monday.

Craig Tattersall, aka The Humble Bee, premieres an hour of new music.

Get a sneak preview of Waveform Transmission’s next LP, V 3.0-3.9.

Wolfgang Voigt presents an hour of music from his unreleased ‘Konstrakt’ project.

Live sets:

Enjoy previously unheard exclusive live mixes from Ligovskoï and Sa Pa.

Listen to a 90 minute live mix from Menion comprising of solely his own productions.

A first airing of Multicast Dynamics’ live set at FOMO Club, Białystok last month.

Sonmi451 digs into past, present and future tracks in a one hour exclusive live mix.

An hour of Tape Loop Orchestra’s own productions, including fresh, unheard material.

Wanderwelle share a specially made one-hour live set, including a track from their forthcoming album.

DJ recordings:

Check out 90 min cuts from both Ario and Guillam’s DJ sets at the Astral Industries takeover of Haimney Gallery in Barcelona back in November 2018.

A first listen back to Chris SSG’s mix from Kizen Records x Astral Industries in Hong Kong in December 2018. 

Claudio PRC dives deep for 2hrs at Ambient Bar x Vurt, Seoul back in September 2019.

An exclusive first play of LF58’s marathon live set at Brancaleone, Rome.

DJ mixes:

Anthony Linell (including an exclusive unreleased track of his own), ASIP (including eight forthcoming tracks on A Strangely Isolated Place), Azim Fathi, Djilogue, Eight Fold Way, F-on, George Sova, Grant Aaron, hems, HVL, islas, Koen Hoets,  Koshin, Lynne, o.utlier, Refracted, Romi, SUNA & Unjin.

Mixes posted after the event: