Author: dave

The late Mexican electronic musician Oscar Menzel, aka Airwaves, only realized a small handful of recordings in his short lifetime (including one under the alias 29), but the two Airwaves discs issued on the Opcion Sonica label back in the mid 90s remain one of the many undiscovered gems scattered across the vast graveyard of obscure, one-off electronic music projects and recordings. Released during the era when musicians the world over were firing up banks of synthesizers to inaugurate their own take on the ambient subgenre, Menzel’s cosmic creations took the stuff of legend (Eno, Tangerine Dream, Schulze, Namlook, and a gaggle of others) and recontextualized them via sonic easels adorned with fresh daubs of paint. This resulted in such sparklingly effective concoctions as the two-part shimmer festivities of “Biomechanical”, the gorgeous starshine twinkle of “A Little Twilight Moment”, and the Steve Roachian broadbase expanse of “Sunset Mists Distant Peaks”; in short, an exploration of tones and timbers that sounded strangely familiar yet still eerily unplaceable. Menzel’s fire burned but for a brief time, but electronic music aficionados can rejoice that his art exists to further illuminate the planet.

At the start of 2017, Mick Chillage released “Exulansis” A lengthy voyage exploring a vast sonic landscape that is Ambient music. At the end of 2017, Mick returns to txt with “Harmonic Connections” something of a departure from “Exulansis” showcasing his passion and ability to blend and mix many genres within the electronic music sphere. From the spacious grandeur of “Beyond the Infinite” to the soulful Detroit Techno strains of “Choice” the acid-tinged “Room 303” echoes and pays a little respect to the Berlin School experimentalism of the 70’s yet keeps its feet firmly in the 21st century. “Harmonic Connections” reveals a connection in the cosmos, nature and music and is a glimpse of Mick’s vast musical influences from soundtracks to ambient and experimental electronica that effortlessly connects with moments of IDM and Techno rhythms, often melancholic and equally optimistic “Harmonic Connections” looks to the past and the future with a rich sonic tapestry.

Limited edition cd of 150 copies

Artist__Christ..Qeshi…Ambidextrous..Coppice Halifax..Roel Funcken..Lackluster..Tim Koch…Custola&Morgan..Ola Bauriman..Metamatics..Mick Chillage..Cryostasis..Derek Carr..Dokun..Min-Y-Llan..Ruxpin

Off Land is Tim Dwyer, and he makes beautiful ambient music. Period. He’s pretty much a ‘young ‘un’ on the scene, having only released music since 2008 or so, but it’s amazing what ten years will do, once you allow discipline, dedication, practice, exposure, and even a modicum of good fortune to envelope you in a large, warm blanket. To that extent, Dwyer’s paid his dues, and now the sonic birds have come home to roost, and we’ve lucky enough to receive this, Dwyer’s second for Carpe Sonum. And it might well be better than his first, for after some physical editions proffered by the likes of Psychonavigation and Stasis Recordings, not to mention a gaggle of releases self-issued and sprung across numerous platforms and net-labels, Dwyer’s artform his manifested itself as one to be reckoned with, every bit the analog measured by yardsticks’ Namlook, Chillage, Mixmaster Morris, Eno, et al. Put simply, held aloft by the gorgeous shifting astronomies of “Zodiacal Light”, the luxurious purring sequencers of “Pulsar”, or the inner-ear candy of “Redshift”, this is yet another way that Off Land achieves both aural and critical lift-off. Period.

The 2CD package includes Relics, which can be downloaded separately for those who have already purchased the download of Afterglow.

Nagual 4 is housed in a clear Eva box with mini card for artwork.Each box is numbered in gold ink.Nagual 4 is a collection from Txt that collates various albums together into one vast, mind-meltingly beautiful mass. Spiralling illusionary circuits of sound once again taking us out past the edge of reason into a reality of the imagination focused on the trip itself, not the future, not the past, not now. Limited to 70 copies worldwide with only 50 available from the TXT website.
Music by

Mick Chillage
Nacht Plank and Aoide
Autumn Of Communion
Ishq
Juta Takahashi
Steve Brand
Tim Koch
Hakobune
Off Land
Si Matthews
Solipsism
Tsone
Experiments in Silence
Katsura
Au Voyage

A collaboration between Si Matthews and Aoide tells the story of humanity’s salvation leaving behind an earth no longer viable for life. A sonic exploration describing the search and journey to another habitable planet. The music ranges from deep space ambience to IDM and takes in some of that early 90s Warp sound along the way. As man’s destiny hangs in the balance, where will this deep space mission take them?

Check out the teaser here

Limited to 150 glass mastered CDs!

Mick Chillage, the hardest working man in (ambient) show business, has joined forces with Eric “the” Taylor to make our daily lives go down just a bit sweeter. They’ve coined themselves the Architects of Existence, and, yes, it’s a weighty moniker, but listening to these four epic-lengths pieces of broadband drift you’re happy that the dynamic duo’s at least got lofty ambitions. It’s pleasing to know that between them they’ve cooked up one helluva work of sonic fiction here. Grandiose, epoch-spanning, this is the stuff that dreams are made of. Chillage and Taylor are two of electronica’s Nobel laureates, so that even the luxurious gyrating buzz of their metallic sequencers make nice on the inner ear while their synths gently weep. And hats off to the artists for wearing their analog hearts on their sleeves—the second movements’ slow-twist discourse is equal parts Steve Roach and mentor Namlook, along with a hint of Mark Isham’s score from The Hitcher–emotional environmental music of pearlescent luster and quiet reckoning, drawn with careful poise and an Architect’s touch.

Ishq is back to his beautiful cosmic best with Sen which completes his mind tripology of Lyght and Fhorm. Futuristic strawberry soundscapes from binoculars and musical pieces inspired by binoculars and static caravans, flowing imaginations that are dedicated to all those who have wandered under liquid heavens that form the pace of everything and anything. Personally Ishq just wanders around and he says “I always liked music more profound, dissipation from binoculars but many people you know don’t see it as nature but as Kosmischer Laufer. The Secret Cosmic Music Of The East German Olympic Program”. Sen is an album of extensive deep meditative arboreal professional acid binocular sounds that invoke images of the mind’s eye of green cloud forests and rainbow controlled beer gardens.

Limited edition of 150 glass-mastered CDs.

Double cd release and remastered and re-worked by Brand at The Treehouse 2013-14.

From the 2009 release notes:

Steve Brand says, “I’d been an Ishq (Matt Hillier) fan for about 3-4 years. I found his music as part of my complete immersion in Ultimae material (Ishq kept showing up in the ‘If you like this, you’ll like this’ area of iTunes). I bought ‘Orchid’ and was hooked. I love Matt’s atmospheres and beats, the delicacy, expansiveness and expressiveness of feeling, and his intuitive and spiritual approach to music…really feels like home to me.

Matt had some free loops of his sounds on his site at that time and I couldn’t resist – I used some in a piece and sent the piece to him, Matt kindly responded. I then suggested a collaboration. He quickly sent me an entire DVD of unique material…and here we are..very easy and organic. I think everyone will really enjoy these disks which are a very nice mingling of our individual sounds; you can hear the Ishq influence, but overall, probably a bit of a darker journey than his own work, but still spacious, organic, emotive.”

Limited to 150 glass-mastered double CDs.

Limited to just 100 CDs!

After two albums of electro-acoustic ambience as The Ashes of Piemonte back in 2013 (on Time Released Sound and Twice Removed), Lee Norris and Wil Bolton return under the new guise of Orphic Signals, a more purely electronic, hardware-based project. ‘Sounds of the Neutron’ blends influences from ambient, drone, Detroit techno, Berlin school, and the BBC radiophonic workshop. A palette of analogue sequencers, loopers, and vintage analogue keyboards plays slowly pulsing arpeggios and melodies, blurred and washed out with multiple reverb and delay pedals into droning, textural space music. Environmental sounds recorded by Richard Harvey at the Institut Laue-Langevin neutron science research centre in France provide an immersive and eerie backdrop to the music – the sounds of Geiger counters and neutron detectors reflected in the walls of concrete blockhouses and control cabins. This is the sound of machines adrift, a hazy psychotropic soundtrack to a sci-fi vision of a lone scientist working on an abandoned space station