Two new albums representing a period of immense personal change for Ishq, a sensory bridge between everything lost and all that remains, from the meticulous precision of high summer skies into the dark beauty of a winter spent reflecting in all directions, free of limitation.
Gently stripped patterns of pure Cornish minimal tech, shifting outwards and forever onwards to the looping edges of deep space, a darker, timeless, broken beauty smiling with you as it all makes endless sense and navigates the void.
Two new albums representing a period of immense personal change for Ishq, a sensory bridge between everything lost and all that remains, from the meticulous precision of high summer skies into the dark beauty of a winter spent reflecting in all directions, free of limitation.
Gently stripped patterns of pure Cornish minimal tech, shifting outwards and forever onwards to the looping edges of deep space, a darker, timeless, broken beauty smiling with you as it all makes endless sense and navigates the void.
Recorded between 1984 and 2016. Mixed and rendered at Studio FWD. Astro Myrmex continues the journey initiated by the Nibiru Cataclysm via the various paths previously described in The Data Logs of Astro Myrmex. In order to navigate the vast regions of interstellar loneliness, guide “lockstars” are identified and used as signposts. To document the deep space anomalies encountered, a soundtrack of events has been composed and presented here. Good bass response recommended for faithful rendition of recorded material.
Luke Vibert is back on Planet Mu with a new album called Bizarster’. It’s his seventh full length under his own name with others having been released on Mo Wax, Warp and most recently Hypercolour. Luke first came to prominence in 1994 with his debut Wagon Christ album ‘Phat Lab Nightmare’ on Rising High records which was quickly followed by the evergreen classic ‘Throbbing Pouch’ with which he cemented both his sound and reputation. He has released on Rephlex and Ninja Tune as well as major label Virgin too. What makes Luke’s music so essential is his rare ability to blur the boundaries between genres by combining his irresistibly wonky dayglo funk with a British sensibility. Put another way, Luke’s music is informed by UK dance’s history. But ‘Bizarster’ is no empty eulogy, its a hall of mirrors with a happy bounce, re-tooled with skill, and always with a sense of fun.It’s these things that make the hip-hop speed bleep ‘n’ bass of opener ‘Knockout’ seems completely natural, or ‘Officer’s Club’ with it’s funky disco samples, reggae vocals and joyous synths sounding like the kind of delirious idea no one else could come up with. A track like ‘I Can Phil It’ is a piece of sampladelic hip hop with a punning title, but that’s not to say he can’t play it serious. ‘Manalog’ for instance, which is sharp spiralling low-slung synth funk, a gloriously deep track, while something like ‘L-Tronic’ is top draw spaced-out electro. The title track’s cut and paste space-age samples remind one of his Jean-Jacques Perrey collaboration and ‘War’ is the type of groovy instrumental hip-hop reminiscent of DJ Shadow at his peak. The album finishes on the fun-filled vortex of Dont Fuck Around, a cut-up jungle masterpiece with heart in throat chords. Enjoy the ride.
LA based UK born artist Mark Van Hoen continues to contribute to the electronic music fields and fabrics from the inspirations, observations and movements experienced in the past three plus decades. From earlier Eno, Industrial & Krautrock affinities found in the earliest output going back to 1981, to entering the rave and post-rave cultures of acid-house, dance based pulses with his R&S affiliated imprint Apollo Records debut in 1993. With a background working in the media realms of television, radio, film; Mark’s foray into the new electronic etched realms of drone and dance pop saw releases from Touch, Editions Mego, City Centre Offices, The Tapeworm, to Saint Marie Records, and still counting.
Contributing to the double helix of the EDM / IDM canons with releases like Truth Is Born Of Arguments, Playing With Time, The Revenant Diary to a wealth of notable collaborations and numerous side projects. Aurobindo: Involution was made with Seefeel’s Daren Seymour, a collaboration with Slowdive’s Neil Halstead and Nick Holton as Black Hearted Brother, work with Louis Sherman as Locust, Martin Maeers with Children of the Stones, and a plethora of remixes. Van Hoen’s new album Nightvision for Saint Marie Records finds the artist discovering modern day applications for his electro-droning visions of sound. Returning to form, Nightvision switches on the high and low beams that send scanning synths that drive through the infinite interstates through the engines of steady rhythm and the power steering smarts of serious synthesizers.”
The continuation of a project with a long history.. 9 years ago the first in the -Silence- series came to life and since then the worldwide Ambient scene has grown. This recording bears some technological innova- tion as well as Environmental sounds and beautiful Soprano passages that take you on a journey through Ambient Music. While listening to these sounds of healing nature, your soul will travel to another place. The music is desi- gned to induce relaxation and to remove you from your otherwise hectic day.
During his studies in Berlin in summer 1990 Gabriel heard about a street demo called loveparade and joined this crazy gathering dancing in the streets… Years later he met Dr. Motte, originator, multiversal artist and inventor of the loveparade, and they took the decision to meet in studio for jams which took place in Frankfurt at Gab´s Lab, where they celebrated a creative clash that is manifested in the albums seven tracks. The result is a trip on the dancefloor with deep, floating grooves and predominantly 4-2-4 beats on the first four tracks, while the last three tracks become an after hours party filled with deep, energetic, beatless grooves with a dubby atmosphere. At the beginning, Dr. Motte introduced Gabriel to another special method of producing music, using a tonal scale that is based on the frequencies of the rotating planets from our solar system, because the rotation of the planets differ from each other along with gravitational principles. For each track, they tuned their musical equipment to the corresponding planetary frequency of one of the planets in our solar system. The earth’s tuning, for example, is the 435.92 Hz ‘G’ tone.
Aythar released his debut CD Astronautica on Carpe Sonum in March 2016 and was critically acclaimed by the ambient community as one of the best releases this year.
Dream of Stars album teaser https://soundcloud.com/txt-3/aythar-dream-of-stars-album-preview
“While creating my music I try to act as a cosmic channel the energy flows through me and manifests itself in my creations. Typically I just improvise and the separate pieces of the composition almost imperceptibly develop and eventually come together to form a single unit. I believe that my cosmic sounds carry the resonance of the Universe and the whispering of the distant stars.
This is an improvised, experimental music, which is composed by the creative spirit, a strange intuition guided by the author from his inner most being, perhaps even from his subconscious!
These certain inspired and unexplained moments convey my feelings and moods through the emerging musical notes like some flow of energy through a channel. Just like a musical mandala: an unrepeatable improvisation!
Each piece is an instinctive impression of a universal moment and the flash of feelings are the mapping of infinite universes oceans of stars to the mysterious internal dimensions of musical notes.
The origins are sought across the infinite universe but lies in our innermost being. While listening to the very special cosmic world of sounds, I find myself in distant galaxies, taking over the vibrations of the Universe’s planets and star systems, while almost feeling the great mystical entity, where we resonate with all creation! A truly amazing spiritual experience! Listening with closed eyes is even more special, because not only we feel, but we see what the vibrations that the music is conveying!”
Five years after his debut on FAX Krystian Shek delivers this extraordinary CD. His music presents a fresh version of both Chill Out and Techno. This CD was inspired not by the dreadful wars of our time, but by the way people treat each other when they meet by accident in everyday places such as airports and train stations. He collected these impressions and transformed them into musical ideas. He does not try to describe the meetings; instead, he reveals the different perspectives, each in their own beauty, and enables them to coexist peacefully. We at FAX fell in love with this album and regard it as his best work so far.
