Label Description: Tunes recorded to Fostex 280 4-track in Leeds between 1992 and 1994. ‘Ill Moon’ and ‘Moon Raid’ mixed by Thomas Ragsdale. Mastered by Antony Ryan at RedRedPaw in 2025. Cover art by Jermaine Legg.
Tag Archives: electronica
Solar X – Masters Of Meanders (Ant-Zen)
Label Description:
this is a digital reissue and extended version of the 3″cd ‘masters of meanders’ by the pioneer of post-perestroika russian electronic music roman belavkin aka SOLAR X. 5 songs were originally released as 3″ cd via the compilation ‘travel sickness’ on hymen records. enriched and completed with three lost and unreleased songs, recorded in the same period of time.
roman belavkin, known as SOLAR X, is a russian artist praised for his contributions to electronic music, martial arts, and artificial intelligence. SOLAR X’s unique sound draws from idm, electro and experimental electronica, characterized by deep basslines and delicate melodies. his compositions often evoke themes of space, nature, and human emotion, guiding listeners through introspective and cosmic journeys.
his second album ‘xrated’ (1997) was reissued and recognized by the wire for showcasing the soviet union’s untapped talent. in 1998, he signed with london’s worm interface label, and his album ‘little pretty automatic’ has been lauded as one of the best in electronic music. a key figure in russian electronic music, belavkin founded the art-tek records label, introducing post-soviet artists to the world. recently, ptuch magazine named SOLAR X the most influential person in modern russian electronic music.
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released February 24, 2025
track 01-04 & 08 originally released on: v.a. travel sickness. 8×3″cd box set. hymen records ¥410
track 05, 06 & 07 previously unreleased
layout by stefan alt
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INTERVIEW:
a man with no borders: phd in computer science and musician SOLAR X
en.tight.media/post/interview-solar-x
LITTLE PRETTY AUTOMATIC (EXTENDED VERSION). digital re-release of the classic album & bonus tracks
thesolarx.bandcamp.com/album/little-pretty-automatic-extended-version
thesolarx.bandcamp.com
solarx.net
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{AN} EeL & Lezet – Gummy (Pan Pan Pan Avian Distress Call)
Label Description:
Editorial Stance
Love at first Glance
C’mon, Baby
Let’s Dance
And Shuffle
The Night Away
Down The Swans,
They Shiver
By The River
By The Lake,
Near The Shore
J’tiem Adore
Not To be a Bore,
But For
Ever More
Forevermore
You Dig ?
Love at first Glance
C’mon, Baby
Let’s Dance
And Shuffle
The Night Away
Down The Swans,
They Shiver
By The River
By The Lake,
Near The Shore
J’tiem Adore
Not To be a Bore,
But For
Ever More
Forevermore
You Dig ?
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released February 24, 2025
Sounds & Noises = Lezet & {AN|} EeL
Track # 6 = ( ft. Dj Odraz )
Text & Image = {AN} EeL
Ossa – Early on 2004-2008 (Waxing Crescent Records)
Label Description:
Ossa returns to Waxing Crescent after joining forces with Global Goon for 2023’s Bruit Électrique. Here, Ossa serves up some of his favourite previously unreleased material.
Hardware:
Korg Monopoly
Korg MS2000
Korg Electribe EMX-1
Korg KPR-77
SH 101
Roland TB303
Roland TR505
Roland R-8
Roland Cr-80
Tascam DR-05X
Software:
Sonar Systems 2002/2004
Audiomulch (Australia)
Ableton Live 2-11
The Cube Of Unknowing – Bog Summoner (Library Of The Occult)
Label Description: Renowned composer and sound artist Francis Heery, under his alias The Cube of Unknowing, announces the release of his latest sonic expedition, ‘Bog Summoner’, via Library of the Occult. This immersive electronic album blends kosmische, motorik rhythms, and spectral atmospheres, drawing listeners deep into the mysterious heart of the Irish Midlands.
A visionary in avant-garde music, Heery’s compositions have been performed by ensembles including the RTE Symphony Orchestra, Crash Ensemble, Quiet Music Ensemble, and Talujon Percussion Ensemble. With ‘Bog Summoner’, he channels his deep-rooted fascination with science fiction, occult mysticism, and bio-aesthetic philosophy into a record that pulsates with both history and otherworldly energy.
Evolving organically during the recording process, ‘Bog Summoner’ became a sprawling, shape-shifting entity. Influences range from the live recordings of Harmonia to the cosmic explorations of Tangerine Dream’s ‘Phaedra’ and ‘Rubycon’, all while steeped in what Heery describes as ‘Bog Gothic’—an eerie evocation of East County Galway’s mist-laden bogs and buried histories.
One key track, ‘Uí Máine’, takes its name from the medieval Irish clan that ruled the region. Heery was particularly intrigued by the 16th-century alchemist Edward Kelley’s claim to be a descendant of the Uí Máine, weaving an esoteric connection between occultism and the forgotten landscapes of rural Ireland. ‘Bog Summoner’ imagines Kelley’s spectral presence lingering in the bogs, appearing to seekers and outcasts, summoning spirits among ancient burial mounds.
Adding another layer of inspiration, the album draws from Ithell Colquhoun’s evocative writings on Ireland, particularly ‘The Crying of the Wind’, reinforcing Heery’s exploration of landscape as a portal to the arcane.
Neil Mason of Moonbuilding magazine describes ‘Bog Summoner’ as “a kosmische transmission from a distant realm, fed through a Berlin School conduit. Heery teases suspense with hypnotic, slow-burning tension, maintaining a delicate yet relentless momentum for the entire 45-minute duration.”
With ‘Bog Summoner’, The Cube of Unknowing crafts a soundscape that bridges past and future—an astral ritual invoking the echoes of lost worlds through dense synth textures, undulating rhythms, and cosmic reverberations.
Ivy Chalice – Noctifer (Library Of The Occult)
Label Description:
Ivy Chalice release their highly anticipated follow up to last years ‘Nachtmahr’, with Noctifer, on Library of the Occult Records. Drawing inspiration from classic cinema and the evocative sounds of the 1960s and 70s, Noctifer blends acoustic textures and ethereal vocals with a shadowy electronic edge, crafting a musical experience that is as haunting as it is hypnotic.
Noctifer (“bringer of night”) is an album of shadowed landscapes and eerie tales. Ivy Chalice conjures a soundscape where dark folklore, dreamlike acoustics, and modern electronic elements meet. The album’s narrative threads echo the haunting charm of films like The Blood on Satan’s Claw and The Wicker Man, as well as the spectral allure of British folk revival acts.
Maria Perez Query of Hellebore writes:
“The dense, dreamy atmosphere conjured by Ivy Chalice reaches its zenith in “Der Wald, Die Spiegelwelt,” which has echoes of the classic folk horror series Moondial (1988). Ethereal and eerie, Noctifer feels like wandering into the woods to find a ruined chapel, like opening a gate that leads to a secret realm.”
Featuring tracks that balance fragility and foreboding, Noctifer is both an homage to and a reinvention of folk horror soundscapes. The combination of acoustic instrumentation and shadowy electronic textures offers a contemporary twist on timeless themes of nature, ritual, and the unknown.
SABIWA, Queimada, Nathan L. – Sons of _ (Phantom Limb)
Label Description:
“Provides footholds like glimpses of truth, then snatches them away…Enjoy the experience of being dislodged.”
A Closer Listen
A Closer Listen
Rising Taiwanese sonic and visual experimentalist SABIWA teams up with Italian duo Queimada and Nathan L. for the release of strange and beguiling new EP Sons of _, marrying disembodied field recordings and processed orchestral instrumentation with coruscating noise and half-forgotten Taiwanese folklore.
“We wanted to achieve a unique sonic experience that gently pulls listeners into a calm, introspective realm of sound, visuals, and hidden stories,” write the trio. All based in mainland Europe, but bringing divergent and itinerant influences to the mix, SABIWA, Queimada, and Nathan L. each represent complementary elements to the deep and unpredictable elixir that makes up their collaborative debut Sons of _. The record is characterised by SABIWA’s heavily processed singing voice fluttering and glitching in strange, coded languages within a heavenly but deserted CGI cathedral rendered from crashed software. Italian brothers Marco and Lorenzo Colocci (Queimada and Nathan L. respectively) are both well versed musicians, exposed to classical schools as well as the outerspheres of experimental music. Their contribution to Sons of _ can be felt in its no-input thumps, its crawling of mechanical insects, its devastating waves of crushing noise. Together, the trio push at sonic realities and temporal structure to form an indecipherable messaging. “A rediscovery of a new self, unrecognisable from its former shape,” they offer.
Key moment “Nothing blue – 無憂無慮” feels culled from a dreamlike, alien mythology, fugged into disparate and divergent worlds as if the dust from a newly-collapsed Tower of Babel has still not settled. The track loops and swoons with raw distortion, James Bond fever dream strings, and SABIWA’s mystifying vocal experimentation before introducing a lolloping rhythm of church bells and crackling, staticky snare. Next, “What is true is not true -無明大夢” almost proceeds like a song. It has a recognisable rhythm – rare for Sons of _ – and a processed vocal loop maintains a riverine melodic flow. But throughout, its foundations splinter and shiver under the weight of malfunctioning modems screaming to escape. Later, “The Root of Unwilled Existence – 無自性” breaks apart under its own weight. Clouds of noxious gas swallow whole its harmonic voicing as mischievous transversal pixies haunt a psychedelic, reverberant inner chamber.
Cover photo by @yoteng087
released November 8, 2024
Scanner – Columns (The Vinyl Factory)
Label Descriptions:
This digital release accompanies the very limited, hand-made vinyl production released on Vinyl Factory 2024. Available exclusively here:
thevinylfactory.com/product/columns-falling-columns/
* Two electronic soundtracks composed by Robin Rimbaud aka Scanner
* Music produced to accompany Ben Kelly installations commissioned by 180 Studios for the exhibition Future Shock (2022)
* Pressed on 180-gram white vinyl
* Gatefold sleeve printed International Orange (RAL2004) on Mirror board
* Hand signed and numbered by Ben Kelly and Robin Rimbaud aka Scanner
* Limited edition of 300 copies
Ben Kelly is one of the UK’s most influential designers. Kelly is best known for his interior design of the legendary nightclub, The Haçienda in Manchester. His practice has produced influential work for 180 Studios, Virgil Abloh, The Sex Pistols, The V&A, Vivienne Westwood, Malcolm McLaren and Factory Records.
The Vinyl Factory first collaborated with Kelly to commission and stage his installation RUIN, produced in collaboration with Virgil Abloh, at 180 Studios in 2017. 180 Studios subsequently staged Kelly’s Columns installation as part of the exhibition Future Shock (2022), the soundtrack to which, composed by electronic musician Robin Rimbaud aka Scanner, is released here.
An organic shaped die cut peephole is cut into the front of the sleeve as a homage to Marcel Duchamp’s final work Étant donnés (1946-1966) – a gateway to another world. The peephole reveals one of Ben’s orange columns and plinth with a gloss varnish on a black background. On removing the inner sleeve the statement: “CONCERNING THE BUILDING OF THESE COLUMNS WE HAVE NO CERTAIN NEWS” is revealed, printed on a Pigeon Blue background.
The rear of the inner sleeve contains a printed transcription of a conversation surreptitiously recorded via dictation, complete with mistakes and mishearing’s, between Kelly and Scanner. The transcription has produced a mashup version of the true conversation which has been printed in full. Across the two sides of the inner sides of the gatefold, a vertical full colour printed collage of columns, taken from the FALLING COLUMNS digital installation.
The rear of the sleeve contains a printed essay by Brian Dillon, beginning with a quote from Francesco Colonna, Hypnerotomachia (1499). This essay was originally commissioned by Ben to accompany his COLUMNS installation in 2022. A Chocolate Grinder is printed on the silver mirror board on the rear of the gatefold above the VF logo.
Scanner’s work traverses the experimental terrain between sound, space, and image. His diverse body of work includes soundtracks for films, performances, radio, dance, theatre and site-specific intermedia installations. Committed to working with cutting edge practitioners he has collaborated with Carsten Nicolai, Wayne MacGregor, Laurie Anderson, Hussein Chalayan, and Mike Kelley.
released October 28, 2024
Music composed and performed by Robin Rimbaud / Scanner Commissioned by Ben Kelly / The Photo Kid and VF on the occasion of: COLUMNS for the exhibition ‘FUTURE SHOCK and FALLING COLUMNS digitally exhibited in the Atrium, both at 180 The Strand.
Released by The Vinyl Factory, 2024. VF392
Sleeve Design by Ben Kelly
Layout Artwork by BPD
Essay by Brian Dillon
Photos of vinyl by Feiyang Xue
Various Artists – paisajes en tundra
Label Description:
(ENG)
Glacier retreat, while a natural phenomenon in some cases, has been exacerbated by various human activities such as burning fossil fuels, deforestation and intensive agriculture. The accelerated melting of ice leads to a series of catastrophic consequences and irreversible effects that are impacting both natural ecosystems and human life.
This album was created as an initiative to raise awareness of this phenomenon, as well as to raise funds to support Glaciares Chilenos (www.glaciareschilenos.org), a Chilean NGO founded with the aim of educating and protecting the more than 26 thousand glaciers located in the national territory, through the development of educational programs and visibility of scientific content on glaciers.
In keeping the editorial line of the previous benefit compilation “migraciones”, Bahía Mansa decides to expand the previous sound palette and invites 10 other global artists to participate in this collaborative instance as part of the annual support for ecological causes.
All proceeds will be donated directly to Glaciares Chilenos (NGO).
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(SPA)
El retroceso de los glaciares, si bien es un fenómeno natural en algunos casos, se ha visto exacerbado por varias actividades humanas como quema de combustibles fósiles, deforestación y agricultura intensiva. Los hielos comienzan a derretirse más rápidamente, lo que conlleva a una serie de consecuencias catastróficas y efectos irreversibles que están afectando la vida natural y humana.
Este álbum nace como iniciativa para concientizar de este fenómeno, así también como para reunir fondos y donar a Glaciares Chilenos (www.glaciareschilenos.org), ONG chilena fundado con el objeto de educar y proteger los más de 26 mil glaciares ubicados en el territorio nacional, a través del desarrollo de programas educativos y visibilización de contenido científico sobre glaciares.
En esta línea, y continuando en la línea editorial del anterior compilado a beneficio “migraciones”, bahía mansa decide ampliar la paleta sonora anterior e invita a otros 10 artistas globales a participar en esta instancia colaborativa como parte del apoyo anual a causas ecológicas.
Todo lo donado va en directo beneficio de Glaciares Chilenos (ONG).
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Thank you infinitely to all the artists who contributed their talents and passion to this project, making it possible to extend this important message!
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released October 25, 2024
curated by bahía mansa
mastered by Nico Rosenberg at Alt-Köpenick Studio
artwork by shesoundvisual.
THANKS TO:
Nico Rosenberg (CL) – nicorosenberg.bandcamp.com
Anto Little (CL) – antolittle.bandcamp.com
David Cordero (ES) – davidcordero.bandcamp.com
shesoundvisual (CL) – shesoundvisual.bandcamp.com
Ryan J. Raffa (US) – rjraffa.bandcamp.com/music
Carlos Ferreira (BR) – carlosferreira.bandcamp.com
M. Linnen (US) – mlinnen.bandcamp.com
Yumi Iwaki (JP) – soundcloud.com/iwakiyumi
El Encanto de Lo Discreto (UY) – elencantodelodiscreto.bandcamp.com
emho (FR) – emho.bandcamp.com
plateau – Kushbush + Music for Grassbars (Artoffact Records)
Label Description:
PlatEAU’s 2007 release, Kushbush, is a psychedelic, dub-infused electronic album that blends ambient soundscapes with heavy, bass-driven grooves. The project, spearheaded by cEvin Key of Skinny Puppy and Phil Western, delves into themes of altered states and introspection, combining lush synth textures, hypnotic rhythms, and distorted samples to create a trippy, immersive listening experience. With its laid-back, smoked-out vibes, Kushbush is a sonic journey through hazy atmospheres and experimental beats, reflecting the duo’s unique fusion of industrial influences and chillout music aesthetics.
Music for Grassbars, released by platEAU in 1997, serves as the debut album for the duo, laying the groundwork for their distinctive sound that would evolve in later works like Kushbush. This album explores a more minimalistic and experimental approach, characterized by downtempo rhythms, ambient textures, and an eclectic mix of organic and synthetic sounds. With its playful track titles and dub-inspired grooves, Music for Grassbars captures a sense of curiosity and exploration, offering a lo-fi, laid-back soundscape that’s equally suitable for contemplative listening or background ambiance. It’s an early testament to platEAU’s ability to blend electronic innovation with a relaxed, hazy atmosphere.
Music For The Rest Of Us 