2020 ASIP Label Showcase (Mixed Edition + CD)

After our successful 2019 edition, our annual label retrospective has now evolved in tradition to include a mixed edition available on CD (and of course digital).

Featuring one track from each of our 2020 releases, the digital download is now available alongside the CD, with the latter featuring a few additional tracks that aren’t available individually.

The artwork is always a personal choice for this compilation - and reflects my year in some way or another. This time, it features screen-grabs from a film that not only visually felt relevant, but captured the notion of everyone being inside - wishing to be somewhere else. I won’t say which film it was incase I get into issues, but lets just say it’s a heart-warming film about a man who did everything he could to escape reality and get in contact with others.

A big thank you to all of the artists for a brilliant year, and to you, for listening and supporting our music.

We also have a limited set of download cards available to purchase with this release - a perfect gift to introduce someone to the label maybe!

Available on Bandcamp.

ASIP artist playlist: Other Strangely Isolated Places

You may or may not already be a subscriber to the ASIP Currents.fm page where we post goodies every now and then, but either way you can access this playlist featuring music by ASIP artists that appears on other labels, other monikers, etc. Check it out and hit play from the top - moving from experimental and ambient through to more electronic realms from the ASIP artist crew, new and old.

Visit or subscribe to ASIP on Currents.fm

Video: Olga Wojciechowska's 'Images Imprisoned Within You'

Released last year, we’ve all likely spent the last few weeks cozying up to calm and tranquil music like Olga Wojciechowska’s ASIP release, Infinite Distances. Now, courtesy of Valentin Lurthy, we have some beautiful visuals to match the track ‘Images Imprisoned Within You’.

Olga’s Infinite Distances is available to buy here on 12” Red vinyl and digital.

Now available: Olga Wojciechowska / Unseen Traces EP

Olga Wojciechowska presents a new piano-focused EP ready for this, the 88th day of 2020, and perhaps more appropriately, as music for our times.

Including two tracks that were previously written for dance pieces and one new composition, these softer acoustic productions don't often find their way on to Olga's full-length albums, so instead are presented here for Piano Day 2020 and as a musical remedy for the listener.

Mastered by Rafael Anton Irisarri and featuring artwork by Marco Vannini, who provided the lovely art for Olga’s 2019 LP, Infinite Distances.

Available now on Bandcamp as a digital download.

““I hope this music will soothe your nerves and bring you some kind of enlightenment that we are drowning in it all together, here and now, as one organism.Let’s start working on rebuilding what we haven’t lost.Silence will not protect you.Speak up,be creative,be kind,..your flock will not let you fall” ”

— Olga Wojciechowska

ASIP 9128.live Takeover

*Updated with mixes from the event below*

We’re taking over our radio station 9128.live this weekend with a marathon live stream of exclusive music, DJs and live sets.

When:

Saturday March 21st, beginning at 10am PST (5pm GMT), running all the way until:-
Sunday March 22nd, ending at 9pm PST (4am GMT).

Why:

Firstly, because of what is happening in the world surrounding the Coronavirus. Most of us are at home (or should be!) And as a result, many shows are cancelled (including our first label showcase in London). So not only do we want to replicate that event online, we want to try help raise some money for a good cause, support more artists and labels, and offer some solace to everyone staying at home. We will be adding links to donate to a chosen charity during the event, should listeners want to give something back and help those in need as a way of saying thank you. We have also compiled a Buy Music Club list of all the artists featured in the program for you to support the featured artists directly.

Who:

The weekend programming will feature a mixture of live sets, new material and exclusive music to 9128 from the below artists/labels. Check the schedule tab for set times. Featured artists are listed in alphabetical order.

36 (Live) Dennis will be compiling a very special “Slow The F@ck Down” set featuring edits of his own material.

Benoît Pioulard (Exclusive material)Tom has prepared a very special hour of music containing guitar, voice, harmonium, piano, OP-1 & Moog synthesizers, and magnetic tape alongside several pieces taken from the subscriber-only album "Underwritten".

Bluetech (DJ/Live set)Evan has prepared a special hybrid DJ/live set featuring his own material along with tracks from an upcoming compilation he has compiled.

Certain Creatures (Live set)Mysteries of The Deep, Oliver Chapoy presents a rare live set.

Damm (Album Premiere)Joel Mull will be reviving his electronica alias Damm, set to be released on ASIP soon and will be playing tracks from the forthcoming ASIP album.

Digitonal (Live)A rare live set from Mr Andy Dobson of Digitonal

Field Records / AHPR & Sébastien (DJ set)Debut of a live set by Field Records’, AHPR & Sébastien taken from Organik Festival in 2018, Taiwan.

From Overseas (Album Premiere) First listen of the new album ‘Home’ upcoming on Past Inside The Present.

Gadi Sassoon (Live set)Set to release his debut album on ASIP this year, Gadi will be performing live from his studio amongst locked-down Italy. Check out his work here.

Grant Aaron (DJ set)The Mysteries Of The Deep label boss will be providing an exclusive DJ mix titled Shelter.

Isaac Helsen (Live set)The PITP co-founder and producer will be presenting new and improvised material alongside unreleased music.

James Bernard (Live set) James has been preparing a very special ambient-acid set, and will debut it here on 9128.

Jamie McCue (Live DJ set)The Silent Season label boss will be providing an exclusive Live DJ mix straight from the Silent Season Forest.

Jane Fitz (Live DJ set)Jane was set to close out our London event, and will complete her set instead from her studio with her entire vinyl collection to choose from.

Max Würden (Exclusive material)
Max will be presenting a piece of soundtrack work, mixed and edited with samples taken from the accompanying film ‘Derailed’.

Merrin Karras (Live + Album Premiere) The new Merrin Karras album is set to drop on Monday 23rd, and Brendan will be playing live with music from the album.

Multicast Dynamics (Live + exclusive DJ mix)We’ll be debuting a special previously unheard 2-hr live DJ mix from Samuel alongside as well as a live set straight from his studio.

Olga Wojciechowska (Live set)An extended, previously unheard live set by the ASIP composer.

Purl / Ludvig Cimbrelius (Live + exclusive material)
Ludvig will be making two appearances, the first with a preview of upcoming Purl material, and the second with a special raw piano live set.

Quiet Places (Album Premiere) Dennis White, Charlie May and Dave Gardner (Quiet Places) were set to debut at our London show. We’ll get a glimpse of their upcoming ASIP material this weekend.

r beny (Live set)A special live set from the admired synthesizer master.

Thesis Project (Exclusive material)Two hours of exclusive material from The Thesis Project catalog.

todos (Live DJ set)An admired DJ on ASIP for years, todos has soundtracked some of our finest journeys. Here, he will be spinning vinyl from his extensive collection in the UK to kick off the weekend program.

Tom Middleton (DJ/Live set)A very special DJ set featuring exclusive Global Communication tracks to close out our program.

Warmth (DJ set)Agus, producing as Warmth but also the man behind the Archives and Faint labels has compiled a mix full of exclusive label material including tracks from SVLBRD, Robert Farrugia, Powlos, Lauge, Christina Giannone, Purl and Javier Marimon

William Selman (Album Premiere)The Mysteries Of The Deep artist will be debuting his new upcoming album.

ASIP (Live DJ set)Lastly, A Strangely Isolated Place label boss ASIP will be spinning test-presses and unreleased label music.