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Mean Flow – And The Loser Is… (Self-Released)

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Label Description: Current catalogue number is : MF349

Mean Flow is a solo project of Theofil Tsiolakakis from Thessaloniki, Greece.

All 17 tracks of this album have written and recorded between 13th February to 5th of March 2026. Total duration is 01:33:21 (10 main tracks plus 7 bonus (collaboration) track(s), so totally 17 tracks).

Many thanx to the following musician for his collaboration with me to the bonus tracks of this album :

– {AN} Eel (Neal D. Retke) (Toronto, Ontario, Canada) for my rerwork to his track : no 11 “Monks Lick Lips”.

There are also 3 previous remixes/reworks by me to his music and 3 by him to mine on my previous albums : “Enclosed Sky”, “Imaginary 10” #4 Remixed (By Various Artists)”,”Vauge Emotions”, “Unsolved Labyrinth Remixed (By Various Artists)” & “Forgotten Crimes”.
Also many Mean Flow tracks included in various artists compilations released by {AN} Eel netlabel called and I hope there are more in the future.

Here are some {AN} Eel/Neal D. Retke links :
panpanpanaviandistresscall.bandcamp.com
www.facebook.com/-AN-Eel-Neal-D-Retke–499622230055214/
www.discogs.com/artist/2768834-Neal-D-Retke
deepwhitesound.com/an-eel/


– Sabila Orbe (Rancagua, Chile) and his projects Filmy Ghost, Insectoid Girl, Yaka-anima and Miss Spectra (Rancagua, Chile – Born: Cali, Colombia) (along with Sabila Orbe) and their project Humanfobia for our collaboration track (me adding music to their voice track) : no 12 “Fire Walk With Me”.

There are more collaborations with the projects above with 32 tracks inluded on my previous albums “Enclosed Sky”, “Eternal Call”, “Imaginary 10” #4 Remixed (By Various Artists)”, “Greatest Failure”, ”This Feeling”, ”Darkness Versus Light”, “Humanfobia’s Letargo Sumergido E.P. Reworks”, “Subduction Zone”, “A Monument To The Ruined Age”, “Humanfobia’s Realidades Paralelas Reworks”, “Reductio Ad Absurdum”, the compilation “Mean Flow x Humanfobia – ▼​👻​░​░​░ (2022)”,”Unequal Equality”, “Suffocating Pressure”, “Ambient Landscapes”, “Liquid Material”, “Demolition Of Ideals” & “Exhausted”.
Also many Mean Flow tracks included in various artists compilations released by Mist Spectra/Humanfobia netlabels called “Cian Orbe”, “Gothic Spectra Compilation”, “Internet Daemon Netlabel” & “Dawn Of Darkness”.

Here are Filmy Ghost, Yaka-anima, Humanfobia, Insectoid Girl, Cian Orbe, Gothic Spectrea Compilations, Internet Daemon Netlabel, etc various sites (older & newer) :
humanfobia.jimdo.com
soundcloud.com/humanfobia/
humanfobia-official.bandcamp.com
www.facebook.com/humanfobia/
www.discogs.com/artist/5341348-Humanfobia/
humanfobia-official.blogspot.com
humanfobia.jimdofree.com/filmy-ghost/
hearthis.at/filmy-ghost/
humanfobia.jimdofree.com/insectoid-girl/
bandcamp.com/tag/sabila-orbe/
filmyghost-humanfobia-doppelganger.bandcamp.com/music/
humanfobia.jimdofree.com/filmy-ghost/
insectoidgirl.bandcamp.com
www.facebook.com/yaka.anima.noise/
humanfobia.jimdo.com/insectoid-girl/
gothicspectracompilation.bandcamp.com
www.discogs.com/label/1702681-Gothic-Spectra/
internetdaemon.bandcamp.com
www.discogs.com/label/2098360-Internet-Daemon/
archive.org/search?query=creator%3A%22Internet+Daemon+Netlabel%22/
archive.org/details/dawn-of-darkness/
www.soundshiva.net/netlabel/internet-daemon/
www.discogs.com/label/3828785-Dawn-Of-Darkness/
www.instagram.com/dawn.of.darkness.compilations/
www.reverbnation.com/dawnofdarknesscompilations/
www.facebook.com/dawnofdarkness.netlabel/


– Marco Lucchi (Modena, Italy) for my rework in his 4 tracks : no 11 “The Scarecrow [Naviar Haiku # 629]”, no 12 “Arpeggios Are Very Selfish N*5”, no 13 “Poetry Makes Nothing Happen” & no 14 “Slowly Gliding [Naviar Haiku # 632]”.

Other 289 Marco Lucchi’s tracks, remixed/reworked by Mean Flow are also included in my previous albums “Viridis Achates”, “Inmost Silence”, “Floating Thoughts”, “Blurred Imagination”, “Eternal Question”, “Black Veils Over Sad Tales”, “Enclosed Sky”, “Eternal Call”, “Dark View”, “Noise Elegance”, “Distant View”, “Obscure Details”, “Greatest Failure”, “This Feeling”, “Marco Lucchi’s 100 First Reworked Tracks”, ”Darkness Versus Light”, “Subduction Zone”, “Winter Tales”, “Anchored Dreams”, “Vauge Emotions”, “Directed Public Awareness”, “A Monument To The Ruined Age”, “Reductio Ad Absurdum”, “Tunnel Vision”, “Ιnsufficient Εnergy”, “Low Profile”, Secret Place”, “Unknown Aspects”, “Endless Destination”, “Timeless Experiences”, ”Elegant Plan”, “Under Epidermis”, “Temporary Respite”, Marco Lucchi’s Reworked Tracks Volume 2″, Marco Lucchi’s Reworked Tracks Volume 3″, “Τhe Τruth Οf Εach”, “Marco Lucchi’s Reworked Tracks Volume 4”, “Dead End”, “Marco Lucchi’s Reworked Tracks Volume 5”, “Unequal Equality”, “Suffocating Pressure”, “Marco Lucchi’s Reworked Tracks Volume 6”, “Ambient Landscapes”, “Liquid Material”, “Social Castration”, “Creative Destruction”, “Forgotten Crimes”, “Rights Vs Prejudices”, “Marco Lucchi’s Mello_w_tron Reworked”, “Hollow Impressiveness”, “Profit Sacrifices”, “Under Destruction”, “Preset Sensitivity”, “Unhealed Scars”, “Traceless”, “Marco Lucchi’s Reworked Tracks Volume 7”, “Pointless”, “Decriminalized Pleasures”, “Hidden Items”, “Marginalized Snapshots”, “Self Destruct”, “Law Of Action And Reaction”, “Pensive Mood”, “40 Years”, “Demystification”, “Marco Lucchi’s Reworked Tracks Volume 8”, “Tired”, “Outside”, “New Member”, “Sad But True”, “Demolition Of Ideals”, “Soft Razors”, “Guilty Silence”, “Fundamental Elements”, “Imagination Release”, “Marco Lucchi’s Reworked Tracks Volume 9”, “Truth Or Dare”, “Short Journey, Infinite Distance”, “No Fair”, “Cornucopia Of Pleasures”, “Green”, “Unpleasant Expectations”, “Sky Limit”, “Destruction Signature”, “Mortgaged Life”, “Life Will Never Stop Being Unfair, Very Unfair”, “Crushed Life”, “Haunted Figurehead”, “Truth Relativism”, “Abnormal Regularity”, “Attribution Of Blame”, “Convalescence”, “Abuse Of Power “, “Unjust Guilt”, “Democratic Dictatorship”, “Clarity Over Compulsion”, “Fight The Sickness”, “Online Decay”, “Negotiated Portrayal”, “Meaningless Purpose”, “Mental Reset”, ”Allegorical Interpretation’ & “High Mental Load”‘.

Here are Marco Lucchi’s facebook, bandcamp & soundcloud links of his too many and very good releases :
www.facebook.com/Marco-Lucchi-110608112312364/ & www.facebook.com/orchestra-eclettica-e-sincretista-111790807863/
www.facebook.com/musichevirtuali
marcolucchi.bandcamp.com
soundcloud.com/marcolucchi & soundcloud.com/musichevirtuali
soundcloud.com/flyingtonefis


– Scott Lawlor (Albuquerque, New Mexico, U.S.A.) for my remix to his track : no 14 “Glittering Lights Above The Clouds”.

There are also 7 tracks made by Scott Lawlor and reworked/remixed by Mean Flow for a collaboration album called “Nocturnes, Volume 8”. It’s a part of project where many people rework/remix all of some of these tracks for collaboration albums. First 2 parts of these reworks are included also on my previous album “40 Years”.

Here are some Scott Lawlor links (and links you can find Scott’s music) :
scottlawlor.bandcamp.com
auralfilms.bandcamp.com
earthmantra.bandcamp.com
www.youtube.com/c/ScottLawlor
www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100089272444198


– Finally ArtKlang, a collaboration project between Gildas Brugaro and his solo project “SRVTR” (Rennes, Bretagne, France – born: Saint-Malo, Bretagne, France) for my rework to his track : no 13 “Nuit Blanche”.
ArtKlang is a collaboration project between Gildas Brugaro (solo project “SRVTR”) (Rennes, Bretagne, France – born: Saint-Malo, Bretagne, France) and Bruno Green (Lennoxville, Quebec, Canada)

There are other 13 SRVTR reworked tracks by me included on my previous albums : “Black Veils Over Sad Tales”, “Dark View”, “Obscure Details”, “Dead End”, “Unequal Equality”, “Suffocating Pressure” & “Ambient Landscapes”.
There was also a collbaration track of ours called “Bug Sound” and there were 16 remixes by many various artists to this collaboration track, including also 2 remixes by each of us (Mean Flow & SRVTR), that released as an album called “SRVTR/ Mean Flow : Bug Sound Remixed” in SRVTR’s bandcamp link : srvtr.bandcamp.com/album/srvtr-mean-flow-bug-sound-remixed.
This collaboration track “Bug Sound” and my Mean Flow remix of it were included on my previous album “Eternal Question”.
Also he remixed Mean Flow’s track “Frozen Lake (SRVTR Remix)” included on my previous album “Imaginary 10” #4 Remixed (By Various Artists)”.

Here is ArtKlang bandcamp link :
artklang.bandcamp.com

Here are some Gildas Brugaro/SRVTR links :
www.facebook.com/GildasBrugaroSRVTR/
srvtr.bandcamp.com
soundcloud.com/gildas-brugaro
www.mixcloud.com/discover/srvtr/
open.spotify.com/artist/0LPvoRA2nHLAom7ivGQETm

And here are Bruno Green links :
brunogreen.bandcamp.com
www.facebook.com/bruno.green.989173


All other music, keyboards, any kind instruments, sounds-noises, sound effects to rest of the songs made by Mean Flow (Theofil Tsiolakakis), Thessaloniki, Greece.

Many thanx to all people who like and support my music. 

Alphabet Dust – Over Here, Asteroid (Self-Released)

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Label Description:

All organised noise by Kenneth Brown
except: Peter Russell, Clarinet on Euphrosyne

Recorded in the Cupboard Studio, Stirling
Pallas is an excerpt from a live performance at
The Old Hairdressers, Glasgow, 4th July 2024

© Another “Bite The Hand That Feeds” Production 2026

Surgeon – Shell~Wave (Tresor Records)

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Label Description:

Two years after releasing the acclaimed Crash Recoil, Anthony Child aka Surgeon returns to Tresor with new LP, Shell~Wave. Retaining the minimal equipment list and studio-version-of-live-show-sets approach of the previous album in order to focus on the work itself, Shell~Wave is a deeply personal document of both where Surgeon is and has been, converging three decades of experience with a continued curiosity in the untested.

“To make this project, I had to dig really deep in terms of what my relationship was to techno; I’ve been involved with it for a really long time and there’s a lot about it I feel dislocated from, so I had to really think hard about what techno is to me. I often get asked “what is techno to you?” but I can’t answer that with words; this album is the answer.”

From the complex, twisting track Infinite Eye to the caustic Soul Fire, the eight tracks that make up the body of the album are single-take explorations of the vast, hard yet minimal techno Child is synonymous with.

Neatly dividing the record in two, the emotional centre of the record comes in the form of Dying, a vibrating, beatless piece that with a mantra-like vocal loop steeped in reverberating effects.

Further echoes of dub production appear throughout the record as tracks like Divine Shadow, and Empty Cloud have an almost ever-present mist of reverberation, driven by the appearance of a new delay unit in the equipment list; while much of the philosophy of Crash Recoil’s creation is present, the process and the instruments have changed as Child again switches up his approach to studio work.

This insistence on trying novel techniques doesn’t preclude returning to old ones, as this use of modern digital machines with live, hands-on takes that are as inspired by 60s producer Joe Meek and 70s reggae as they are by this year’s synthesiser expos.

“For me, it’s an interesting experience returning to old techniques again after 30 years. [I’m] always exploring and finding myself back at the beginning. Connecting the present with the past.”

This philosophy of ‘time travel’ is inherent to the music itself as the synchronised loops repeat while the delay and effects branch out, forming unique eddies; distinct quantum moments within the circular whole; the future leaking through the spaces between the sounds. All of the concepts on the album are perfectly communicated through the painting by Taiwanese artist Jazz Szu-Ying Chen which suggests the movement of water, sound waves, and the chitinous shells of sea creatures.
credits
released May 2, 2025

All tracks written and produced by Anthony Child.
Artwork by Jazz Szu-Ying Chen.
Design by Onlab.
Mastered by Mike Grinser at Manmade Mastering.
Published by Copyright Control.

Thanks to Albert, Dan, Doris, Jazz, Karl, Michael, Mum & Dad, Nancy, Richard, Terry, Thomas & Felix.

The Tear Garden – Astral Elevator (Artoffact Records)

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Label Description:

The Tear Garden, the legendary experimental project of Edward Ka-Spel (The Legendary Pink Dots) and cEvin Key (Skinny Puppy), is set to release their highly anticipated new album, Astral Elevator. This record marks a significant return for the duo, delivering a soundscape that is both familiar and refreshingly new. As with their past work, the album is a journey through surreal, often haunting electronic textures and Ka-Spel’s distinct, poetic lyricism and mysticism.

Produced entirely by The Tear Garden themselves, Astral Elevator is a testament to the enduring creative partnership between Ka-Spel and Key. The album also features contributions from a stellar lineup of guests, including the late Dwayne Goettel, who provides a poignant and powerful presence. The sound is further enriched by the talents of Randall Frazier and Dre Robinson, and the entire experience was brought to its final form by the expert hands of Greg Reely on mixing and mastering.

In addition to the album’s release, fans can look forward to a full visual experience. The stunning artwork for Astral Elevator was created by Simon Paul, perfectly capturing the album’s ethereal and otherworldly themes. Furthermore, videos directed by Cory Gorski will accompany the singles due out during the album cycle.

Astral Elevator marks not only a return for The Tear Garden, but also their first record for Toronto-based Artoffact Records, home to many of cEvin Key’s other projects.


Produced By The Tear Garden
Edward KaSpel and cEvin Key
with Guests Dwayne Goettel , Randall Frazier and Dre Robinson
Mixed and Mastered by Greg Reely
Artwork by Simon Paul

‘A Return’ video by Cory Gorski. youtu.be/Uv8TTeUHVpU
‘In the Name Of’ video by Randall Frazier youtu.be/M0y7b4wQr38?si=62yGmokf8PBJ4lVA

War Crier video by Cory Gorski youtu.be/pAoNDK3wjj4?si=vv3xnplhIQR1fIcy

Future Children – A disorganized body (Self-Released)

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Label Description:

This is a soundtrack to the short film about the very strange case of a French woman in the 19th-century known only as Mme X…

“DR. JULES COTARD had to be surprised and confused by the female patient (known only as brought to his office at the Pitié-Salpêtrière University Hospital in Paris one afternoon in 1882. The 43-year-old described a peculiar set of symptoms: she claimed she had “no brain, no nerves, no chest, no stomach, no bowels — that there was nothing left of her but the skin and bones.
Also, she claimed she had no soul, that there was no God and no devil, and that overall she was nothing but ‘a disorganized body’ with no internal organs and because of that she claimed to not need to eat anymore. Further, she expressed her belief in her own immortality, noting that she could not die a natural death, but ‘will live forever unless she is burnt, fire being her only possible end.’ Sadly she starved herself to death…”

This soundtrack, beyond the story of Mme X is also influenced by other 19th-century eccentrics (and brilliant artists) of her time such as Marcel Proust and Erik Satie.
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released October 5, 2025

Future Children are C C Sheehan and Kevin Coral
Additional vocals by Darrian Dawnstar
Additional guitar by Malcolm X Abram
Additional Drums/Percussion by Ty Landrum

All tracks recorded and mixed at Strawberry MIDI, Kent, OH
Mastered by Adam Boose @Cauliflower Audio

Additional synthesizers recorded at Vintage Synthesizer Museum, Los Angeles, CA

Special Thanks to Josh, Jason, Ella, Bernard, Nicolas, Jessica, JED

Some of the synthesizers used on this album include: Moog Polymoog 203a
EMS Synthi AKS
Sequential Circuits Prophet 5
Oberheim 4-Voice
Roland Jupiter 8
Korg PS-3100
Korg Trident MkII
Gleeman Pentaphonic
Elka Synthex
Yamaha CS-70m
Yamaha CS-80
PPG Wave 2.2 Roland Juno 60 Korg MS-20
Jen Synthtone
SX-100…

Artwork by Nicolas Nade