Passing by: Max Cooper, Segue, Mach V, Lusine and Silent Season

Max Cooper – Synesthetes Museum (Magnetic Mag Mix)

An adventurous journey through the British Museum and Max Cooper’s ingenious mind, this mix spans ambient, techno and historical recordings, all assembled around a turn-by-turn visit through the museum: “I mixed it in a way to be like a journey though the museum, turning corners and regularly coming across something totally different and unexpected, with each track being like a different exhibit.” More info.

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Tracklist:
01. Max Cooper – Binaural Museum
02. A Winged Victory For The Sullen – Steep Hills of Vicodin Tears (Erased Tapes)
03. Max Cooper – Woven Ancestry (Unreleased)
04. Adam Johnson – Anex (Merck)
05. Peiyou Chang – Song of Gu Qin (Peiyou Chang)
06. Vaetxh – Randolph Pactali (Unreleased)
07. Bonobo – Cirrus (Ninja Tune)
08. ThermalBear – U Love (Last Night On Earth)
09. Rockwell – Fluf (Shogun Audio)
10. Xu Zhengyin – Dragon Boat (China Record Corporation)
11. Unknown Origin – Gregorian Chant – Edit
12. MMOTHS – For Her – Max Cooper Remix (SQE Music)
13. Unknown Origin – The Call to the Lama from Afar (Jade)
14. Rrose – Waterfall (EAUX)
15. Nils Frahm – Peter – Max Cooper Remix (Erased Tapes)
16. James Yorkston – Woozy With Cider – Jon Hopkins Remix (Domino)
17. Max Cooper – Binaural Museum

Segue – Sgustok Magazine Podcast 039

Following in the footsteps of Aus and Markus Guentner, Segue has prepared a mix for Sgustok magazine exemplifying his warm and engrossing approach to ambient and dub-techno. More info.

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Tracklist
01. Group Bombino — Tenere
02. Boards Of Canada — Ready Lets Go
03. Segue — Honest And Truly
04. Yagya — Rigning Tvö
05. Segue — Snow Dub
06. Rhythm & Sound — Range
07. Segue — La Rue
08. WZRDRY & SKRS — Ouptost 1.0
09. Dil Withers — Rainy
10. The Caretaker — When The Dog Days Were Drawing To An End
11. Concern — Mending
12. Ruhe — Ostinato II
13. Loscil — Fern And Robin
14. Segue — North Saskatchewan River (Excerpt)

Mach V – I Love You/You Won’t Let Me

A slightly different mix from Mach V this time around, focusing on his Drum’n bass roots and including much of today’s music that has stemmed from this style, including Joe Synkro, ASC, Ulrich Schnauss and dBridge (also featuring some pretty sweet transitions too!)

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Tracklist:

01. Mario – Let Me Love You (Lapalux remix) (free download)
02. Synkro – Open Arms
03. ASC – Glass Walls
04. Submerse – Cluster
05. Jack Dixon – You won’t let me (Synkro mix)
06. Bop – Song about my Dog
07. dBridge – 5th Floor
08. Grimes – Genesis
09. Bulb – Lonely Gravity
10. Om Unit – Ulysses VIP (free download)
11. ASC + Ulrich Schnauss – 77
12. Lapalux – Guuurl
13. Holy Other – Know Where
14. dBridge – Cornered
15. Yumi & The Weather – Not Again (Manni Dee remix) (free download)
16. Marley Caroll -Woodwork (free download)
17. Ital Tek – Pixel Haze
18. Fybe:One – Harmonic Curve (Deft’s footwork remix) (free download)
19. Bering Strait – Apart
20. Synkro – Reflection
21. Aegis – Reso (free download)
22. Eagles for Hands – Glitterall (free download)

Lusine – Mix for MTV Hive

I always bang on about how good Lusine was when I saw him in Berlin a few years back. Well this mix kind of helps explain my experience – groovy electronic music that would move any dancefloor. No download on this one yet unfortunately.

Tracklist:

01. Emeralds-Diotoma
02. Sei A- You Can Bring
03. Lake People- Point in Time
04. Hobo- Blackwell(original Mix)
05. Matthew Herbert- It’s Only (DJ Koze Remix)
06. Lusine- Another Tomorrow (Jon Convex Remix)
07. Thomalia- Alftavatn(Original Mix)
08. Kuniyuki Takahashi- Bamboo City (Original Mix)
09. Dominik Eulberg- Taeuschnungs- Blume (Ryan Davis ‘Narciss’ Render)
10. Mathew Jonson- Dayz
11. M.A.N.D.Y, Adultnapper- Kindling (John Tejada Remix)
12. Ultraista- Small Talk (Four Tet Remix)
13. Manuel Tur- Maybe Next Lifetime Feat. Blakkat (King Britt Dub)
14. Yakine- Disaster Drop (original Mix)
15. Lusine- Lucky
16. Todd Terje- Ragysh (Original)
17. ManmadeScience- Phase (Original Mix)
18. Pezzner- Chapter Two (Original Mix)

Silent Season – Campfire Stories

2hr:45min of deep electronic music curated by Silent Season head-honcho Jamie McCue, including some relatively obscure artists for you to explore. Be warned though, I found myself dancing around the campfire, not necessarily telling campfire stories…

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Tracklist:

Docetism – Bonfire
Docetism – The Temptation of St. Anthony
Mikrokristal – Dark Introduction Ends
Sam KDC – Excursion
Sam KDC – Surrender
Aes Dana – Oxyd
Aes Dana – Adonai
Mon0 – Magnetic
Esko Barba – Parhelia
Esko Barba – Noctilucent Awakening
Blamstrain – 6pm
Intrusion – Angel
Intrusion – Intrusion
Intrusion – Tswana
Octal – Himinglæva #1
JS – Track 4
JS – Track 5
Yuka & Dino Sabatini – U4
Edanticonf – Planet (Abdulla Rashims Inca Edit)
Edanticonf – Planet
Tomas Rubeck – Factions
Sys – Nocturnal
Blazej Malinowski – Factory of emotions
Blazej Malinowski – Key
Refracted – Oo-koo-hé
Luke Hess – Awareness
Blazej Malinowski – Dreams of tomorrow
Skyscaper – Noctilucent Clouds (Kasm remix feat. SuhniSea)

Passing by: Alveol, Altus & The Green Kingdom

Alveol – No Point In Holding On

If there’s one label out there who’s sound I could pinpoint a mile off, it’s Dewtone. That’s not to say they are predictable, but more that everything they put out is right on point for me; warm, melodic and dubby – especially this man Ludvig Cimbrelius, aka Alveol. His latest album ‘No Point In Holding On’ is similar to his previous works as Purl (yes, that brilliant Purl and Deflektion album) and equally as addictive. Available to buy digitally here.

Altus – The Sidereal Cycle 4

Looking back now, it’s hard to believe I haven’t featured Altus on ASIP yet (apart from in my Modyfier mix). Free Floating, (Altus’ label) have featured, but it looks like i’ve been missing four amazing pieces of work by Altus up until now. His Sidereal Cycle’s are now four-parts strong and all equally as brilliant. This is what I like to call ‘classic’ ambient music, with very little immediate structure but an overarching sense of direction amongst some beautiful instrumental improvisation. You can download Sidereal Cycle 4 here, with links to all previous versions too.

The Green Kingdom – Dustloops: Memory Fragments

Some more warm-fuzzy goodness that believe it or not, isn’t on Dewtone, but instead on the equally brilliant SEM label. If you like the above Alveol, or even slow, melodic ambient dub-techno that the likes of Segue has been putting out recently, then you’ll love this recent effort byThe Green Kingdom. Download / purchase limited edition CDR here.

(ghost) – ‘Departure’ exclusive stream

I’m always excited to share new music, especially from new artists on great labels. So it gives me pleasure to bring to you all an exclusive first listen of (ghost)‘s new album, ‘Departure’ soon to be released on one of our favourite outputs, n5MD.

(ghost) is Brian Froh, from Connecticut, USA. Influenced by the likes of fellow label mate Proem, as well as the notorious Boards of Canada, ‘Departure’ is a personal journey blending together “an eclectic series of moods including hope, fear, and the pursuit of a better self”. The mixture of evolving and dynamic states are clearly evident throughout the album, wrapped amongst skittering beats, addictive melodies and evocative synth-work.

A sound similar to the likes of Loess, Ametsub, Crisopa and the aforementioned Proem are evident throughout, but (ghost) does a very good job of evoking feeling throughout – something that’s very hard to do with this kind of electronica. Complex beat structures and multiple instruments sometimes do little to compensate the narrative of music, but as the likes of Aphex Twin and Autechre have mastered, when it works, it works well and (ghost) is definitely someone who has started to nurture this process with Departure.

It’s an album that evolves, and does much to the imagination, a superb debut and an even better addition to the ever-growing roster on n5MD.

Depature will be available on the 9th April through n5MD and can be pre-ordered here

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isolatedmix 36 – Justinas Mikulskis (Secret Thirteen)

ne of the best things for me when spending hours and hours curating and exploring music for ASIP, is that there’s other people out there doing the same job and making mine just a little bit easier. Yes, the challenge is in the find, but one of the biggest reasons for starting ASIP is that there just wasn’t enough of what I liked out there. After nearly 5 years trawling the web, various sites and blogs, a select bunch of curators have risen to the top of my favourites pile, and Secret Thirteen is one of the many greats now gracing an expansive and ever evolving music community.

Just last month I was invited to participate in Secret Thirteen’s mix series – a privilege i’m not sure I deserve, which sat me alongside legends such as Biosphere, Loscil, ASC and Anders Ilar. It was of course, destiny that the curator of such an amazing mix series put his ear a little closer to the output and create a mix himself. not to mention the fact I wanted to hear what made him tick. With such a similar taste in music, evident throughout many of the mix contributors, I was pretty sure S13 head-honcho Justinas Mikulskis would put together a rather epic selection.

He could have gone many ways, as his introduction below begins to tell you, but Justinas decides to focus on a relatively unexplored genre on ASIP – but one which I and many of you im sure enjoy; IDM. I always take extra pleasure in listening to a mix associated with a good crate-digging session and this is definitely one of them, with genre pioneers Arovane, Autechre, Monolake and Speedy J all making an appearance. I’ll leave the rest of the introduction to the man himself…

Introduction by Justinas Mikulskis:

“Original and rhythmical electronic music shaped so accurately and sensitively that I immediately reach a pure listening satisfaction every time I hear these gems. I was a bit sentimental while crafting this selection as these sounds, in some ways influenced my life and cultural activities. Most of these pieces were discovered in the early 00’s when I just started exploring the diversity of music catalogs. Although this mix doesn’t clearly reflect my musical knowledge these days, it definitely shows my emotional and mental state I’m experiencing every day, especially at night.

I have a lovely girlfriend, a couple of close friends and even though everything seems to be perfect in my life, this mix uncovers another side of my personality. When I’m dreaming, hoping for a better tomorrow, staring at the night sky or just asking a lot of philosophical questions to myself, these sounds do not overwhelm these processes, but help to keep the inner-peace and strengthen the senses. Subtle glitchy beat patterns, repetitive percussions, nostalgic deformed melodies and varied cut samples are the main priority that weave and develop the main ideology.

Also, I thought there’s not so many of these types of selections nowadays, and as it was 5-10 years ago , I wanted to remind myself what beautiful and light melancholic music we had back in the day. I dedicate this mix to the mind architects, harmony seekers and diehard music lovers. Let the rhythms gently dance, the bass smoothly flow and the melodies sparklingly wave.”

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Tracklist:

01. Proem – Wall Of Knives 2 [n5MD, 2007]
02. Arovane – Norvum [DIN, 2000]
03. Autechre – Second Scepe [Warp Records, 1995]
04. Quinoline Yellow – Eu Jach [Skam Records, 2003]
05. Aphorism – Reconsider [Tympanik Audio, 2009]
06. Gridlock – Atomontage [Hymen Records, 2003]
07. Mitoma – Cpertad [Section 27, 2011]
08. Jack Marchment – Schult Abbey [Herb Recordings, 2009]
09. Lusine – Haze [Ghostly International, 2003]
10. TBA – Everything Pushes Me Further Away [Laboratory Instinct, 2009]
11. Monolake – White_II [Monolake, Imbalance Computer Music, 2003]
12. Funckarma – Spatial Convolution (Morphed By Funkstörung) [Djak-Up-Bitch (DUB), 1999]
13. Cenik – Blame [Isophlux, 2001]
14. Diagram Of Suburban Chaos – Hollow [Zealectronic, 2002]
15. Speedy J – Balk Acid [NovaMute, 2000]
16. Yvat – Grayish [U-Cover, 2010]
17. Bochum Welt – 8221SB [Rephlex, 2008]

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ASIP024 Horizontal Excursions - Symphonica Helvetica

 

The wilderness stirs something primal and unfathomable in us all. We become overwhelmed, awestruck, even emboldened, by these untamed frontiers, content to revel in the unspoiled beauty or compelled to explore what lies within. For some, it’s a cold, harsh reality; an unforgiving tundra of survival and subsistence. But, when afforded the indulgence, this isolation is the purest of them all. 

“There aren’t many places left in Western Europe where you can still immerse yourself in pure wilderness” Roger begins, “in fact, the only environment where I have truly experienced this is in certain parts of Switzerland. My latest trip to Zermatt, located in the canton of Valais, has greatly shaped the music in this symphony and I was reminded that all of nature is something that should be respected and revered.” 

A regular traveller through the country, Roger’s willingness to lose himself (in every sense of the word) in the abundance of natural beauty heralded Symphonica Helvetica – an untainted journey through the mysticism of the Alps, velveteen swoop of Swiss valleys, and the siren-song of nature. 

“Away from the large cities of Zürich and Basel, you enter into a totally different kind of environment,” he states. “For me mountainous areas epitomize something indescribable, something sacred. I lose sense of identity and, sometimes literally, become lost in the landscape around me. 

Inspired by the power of his surroundings, Symphonica Helvetica crystallizes those moments, and Roger captures, and softens, the endeavour of trekking through the terrain. A symphonic soundtrack that casts a heavy ambient blanket, there’s a sense of uphill resistance as the summit nears; the enormity of casting an infinite gaze for miles; the deep, contented inhale as you survey the forest canopy thousands of feet below and feel, for that moment, like it’s all you. 

“In these places you really see nature at work: sculpting, flowing and grinding through the mountains,” Roger explains. “The fruits of my past trips through the mountains of Switzerland have amalgamated into the symphony that I present to you here. This is the musical translation of the visions and experiences I had standing on the edge of mountain cliffs, overlooking valleys, walking through snow-clad forests, enchanted by mountain tops in full view. These are the shamanic songs of Mother Nature still at reign in her grand domain: a living myth put into sound pressure waves.”