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Following Synkro AKA Joe McBride 2015's stellar debut album 'Changes', Apollo Recordings is proud to present a collection of his formative early works.
This 12' sampler follows the 17 track album which was released on CD and digital formats only.
The A-side contains three tracks from the 2CD set and the B-side has three tracks from this period that are previously unreleased but that are in high demand amongst Synkro fans.

300 pressing on cream vinyl

Dirk Jan Muller's esteemed Cosmic Ground returns with a killer mini-LP/extended EP featuring two side-long epics of mind altering kosmische. Two previous outings on the Deep Distance label sold out in the blink of an eye and this is expected to follow suit. To Berlin School obsessives, Tangerine Dream heads and fans of the mind frying, sequenced workouts of Klaus Schulze, this is highly recommended. These two jams were originally produced during the creation of the mighty 'Cosmic Ground III' LP in 2016. Now they appear on vinyl for the first time.

LTD and numbered
3 digipack packed ina box

Loads of good techno, ambientish and minimal... to Acid... to Tribe... to groove and to explore !

Debut release by Cuban / Iranian group - Second release on MANANA / Records following the groundbreaking MANANA / Festival in Santiago, Cuba in 2016 - DJ support from Gilles Peterson, NTS, Radio 3 Late Junction and many more - Limited edition vinyl format - 500 copies only

"Frozen Refrains" ist das fünfte Studio-Album von dem elektroakustischen Komponisten Bérangère Maximin. Es erscheint auf dem Label Atlas Realisations des New Yorker Produzenten Craig Leon (Ramones, Blondie). Zuvor hat Bérangère Maximin bereits Alben auf den Labels Tzadik, Sub Rosa und Crammed Discs veröffentlicht. Seine Kompositionen sind stark von der Musique Concrète beeinflusst. Er nutzt Naturaufnahmen und Geräusche und verarbeitet diese stark verfremdet in seinem Werk. Das Album ist von abstrakten Sound-Scapes geprägt, in den Melodie- wie Soundfragmente kurz aufblitzen. Für Fans von: Pierre Henry, Brian Eno, Luc Ferrari, Laurie Anderson und Pole.

London based producer Jimmy Billingham has been releasing experimental electronic music under various names for the last few years.But it 's his HOLOVR moniker (which focuses on his own brand of ambient electronica) that has gained him the attention he deserves.He's had well received releases on Firecracker Recordings, Opal Tapes and his own Indole imprint.

LM05 HOLOVR is the first release on Likemind Records (regarded as one of the labels that helped kick start the mid 90's IDM / electronica scene in the UK) for 20 years.

Both tracks lean towards that 90's sound and will appeal across techno, ambient and electronica genres as well as to DJ's and cratediggers who focus on the deeper sides of house and techno.

40 Copies Ltd Edition - Bass and barré ...with a B-side Space clocloche ! Bulgarian XP music !

"This is the first project they have worked on together for 25 years. And it sounds timeless."

25 YEARS LATER.
BEATE BARTEL and GUDRUN GUT do share history. They were both part of "the first german Punk Band" MANIA D. - John Peel's "Queens of Noises". 1981 Beate continued with LIAISONS DANGEREUSES and Gudrun with MALARIA! - Then experimented in sound and visual arts and released three albums with Matador along with Manon P. Duursma. Now the mature ladies got together again - kind of. Both did 5 tracks for Myra Davies spoken word album "Sirens" (moabit21)- independently as solo artists and producers. Moabit Musik releases a very special vinyl edition: the Instrumentals for Sirens.

They both did new extended mixed which differ from the original recordings.

Beate and Gudrun have gone in different musical ways for 25 years but on this album this does not count. It seems time does not matter. Both sides stand on their own right but also belong together somehow.

GUDRUN GUT is known for her activities in the Berlin music scene since the 80s, with MALARIA! and recent solo work as well as collaborations with AGF (GREIE GUT FRAKTION) and Hans-Joachim Irmler (GUT UND IRMLER). Latest work: "Gudrun Gut: Vogelmixe - Heimatlieder aus Deutschland remixed".

BEATE BARTEL was a part of the experimental impulse that made its way into today's art world and museums. Growing up in West- Berlin, Beate Bartel's interest in sounds and noise made her a sound engineer and she became a founding member of bands like MANIA D., EINSTÜRZENDE NEUBAUTEN, LIAISONS DANGEREUSES and MATADOR with Gut & Duursma.

MYRA DAVIES: Sirens
"Mischung', the German version of the visual art term "Mashup', describes this dynamic album of Word and Electronica. Myra Davies lyrics lean towards european culture through a lens of feminist authorship. But far from being an academic exercise, this is a Pandoras Box of biting Zeitgeist, past, present and future - propelled by beats, contrapuntal dynamics, broken rhymes, scraps from here and there, and fragments of great white deadmen. It is an acknowlegement, a connection and an affirmation of liberty to cut up any sacred cow. For Davies, clearly the personal is political and Art is even more so.

Davies & Gut have worked together since 1991 on several releases (DAVIES & GUT: MIASMA 1-3) and multi media performances. The last CD release was Myra Davies' CITIES & GIRLS, where BEATE BARTEL composed HANOI and was in parts performed together as part of "Paradiesisches Tor" at the Kulturbrauerei Berlin in 2011.

On SIRENS, Bartel and Gut have each contributed music for five tracks.

Dog Lady Island, also known as Dog Lady — monikers of multi-instrumentalist Michael Collino — plopped out of the sewers of Michigan in 2009 via the same skate scene that included Aaron Dilloway, Nate Young and Heath Moerland... TIP!
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They composed their rigs from homemade instruments and deteriorated electronics to create a particular brand of Michigan noise — sparse, horror-inflected and psychedelic. Dog Lady's early work was mostly of the drone violin variety, later evolving into de-tuned strings and rewired Marantz tape deck antics.
On 'Chopin', Dog Lady Island turns the spotlight on the dark side of the disco ball, rendering the composer's famous Nocturnes and Preludes with just a zither and with mesmerising results.

Ambient electronica, with some crazy disograzied bassy breaks, a very industrial environment and a full reverb effect that brings a Dub feeling to these cold metallic sounds... Metalic Insect awaits in the dark... doin' they dirty job of shade creation...

Dark Entries is honored to present

'Lips' pairs Roman Hiele (Ekster) — the ultimate Antwerp cocktail karaoke swinger — and Lieven Martens (Dolphins Into The Future), field recordist and English teacher. Drunken master style.... BIG TIP!
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This outing, the duo's first, was recorded at the venerable electronic studios of Worm in Rotterdam and at Studio De Ziltige Olijf in central Antwerp, where the stench of salty human bulk creeps into your mouth from about a mile away. During Hiele-Martens' few concerts one could detect and, indeed, savour a Jiskefet-like attention to detail: the correct lighting, and a sensitivity towards 'tiny' sounds (such as ice cubes — shaken, not stirred — and little
bells). The recordings on this LP make the ears work like they should, and they therefore require your full attention.

Electro abstract hip hop in a Slam style... Abstract and second views sound. A superb peace. 40 copies Ltd Edition !

2x 10" BOX !

If you fancy the idea of conceptual sound art that recalls Oval wrecking Wendy Carlos Clockwork Orange score, you're recommended to read and listen on...
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Principium 2.1 is the result of the result of a result, drifting further and further away from its original idea, as usual... The foundations for these recordings were laid when fellow Belgian artist Vaast Colson invited Remörk to interpret one of his artworks using sound. The chosen work was Principium which is based on the sheets of colour dot stickers that galleries typically use to denote sold artworks. Drawing random lines across these sheets, Colson ended up with small fragments of lines on the stickers which he then reassembled into a new continuous line or a closed shape, and which in turn he thought would make interesting graphic scores.

The sticker sheets, with their 8x12 grid resembling a sequencer, immediately appealed to Delacourt. This paved the way to Principium 1.0: a modified casio keyboard from which all keys but a single octave were removed, and to which an 8x12 sequencer was added. The latter uses the same layout as the sticker sheets, activated by placing white magnets on its surface to build sequences, mirroring the blank spaces of the missing stickers in the original artwork.

In 2013, Peter Fengler of De Player/DOB records asked Dennis Tyfus to make a Principium 1.0 record, though Delacourt wasn't entirely comfortable with the idea of a 'definitive' recording. After some processing and rethinking the whole thing Principium 2.0 saw the light of day in 2015: an edition of 12 ten inch records, each one containing a different note combining to the full 'octave'. (The drones on each record contained various layered octaves, so that last bit is not strictly accurate.) The first record has the original recording, which is a slowly-shifting ten-minute organ-and-synth improv thing in a C note. Each subsequent record has that same recording sped up until it reaches the correct pitch: B note at around 5'20". The Principium 2.0 edition also contained a custom-built device that plugs in between the record player and stereo, switching the sound of the record on and off using a magnetic sensor. The magnets are placed around a 12' metal plate (also included) that sits underneath the record, turning the turntable into a sequencer.

For the presentation of Principium 2.0 at Stadslimiet Remörk used six turntables, matching-up with the original six sticker colours (which were replicated for the vinyl). Delacourt programmed a random score generator in Pd that determined which (if any) of the two records for each turntable was to be played, at what volume, and the mode the electronics should be in (the magnets can cause either gaps in the sound, or bursts of sound in the silence). This score was then followed for eight hours continuously. The Principium 2.1 LP contains four straight excerpts: no edits, no processing. These excerpts, selected by Remörk, quite accurately represent the possibilities of the installation, but also hold their own as musical miniatures.'

First press 50 copies only - A side carry 3 ambient noises and B-side 4 Hip Hop or Slam tunes... creative out of the comon fields music remind me some of the Cavage Label... Restless !

The Owl's Map...some of the most delightful electronica to arise in Britain since Aphex Twin, the Black Dog and Global Communication.' Bethan Cole, The Sunday Times

First released in 2006, The Owl's Map was the second LP from Belbury Poly, the recording alias for Ghost Box's co-founder Jim Jupp. By turns jaunty and dark, the music was inspired by TV soundtracks, library music, English folk music and 1970s electronic music technology. Although its antecedents may have been Boards of Canada, Stereolab, Plone and the Look Around You TV series, this album was to set the tone for the now familiar hauntological culture of Penguin book style packaging, 70s horror movie occultism, blogs from imaginary English towns, ersatz public information films and darkly ironic fakes of forgotten children's TV & books.

The Owl's Map has been re-mastered by Jon Brooks for this first outing on vinyl. Ghost Box designer, Julian House has adapted the original CD artwork and text to the new heavyweight vinyl format. It includes a colour card inner sleeve with a visitor's guide to Belbury and a free download code card.

"If Ghost Box are the torch bearers for the hauntology zeitgeist', as Simon Reynolds suggests in The Wire 273, then label cofounder Jim Jupp's Belbury Poly is the psychogeographer amongst his cohort. On The Owl's Map Jupp aims for nothing less than the (re)creation of previously unknown topography."
Jon Dale, The Wire

"Belbury Poly's music, while ripe with anodyne melodies and soft-toothed waveforms, is unsettling. What unsettles, of course, isn't just the thought that all the snoozer science reels called to memory were actually much more quietly batshit and fascinating than I'd ever realised as a kid. It's the possibility that my memory has distorted it even further, that my reaction to Jupp's music is itself queasy, misfired nostalgia."
Mike Powell, Stylus

Rephlex-ian electronix by Brainwaltzera, sometime somewhere. Don't ask, just play and make braindance great again. 4VJ/MI/EOIN/PAJ/DKAPE/AP/SP. STRICTLY NO REPRESS.

Shit & Shine's sidestep from percussion led bunny rabbit rock ensemble performance based glee to ultimate heavy fools of the sticky dancefloor remains one of the more inspiring turn around's in recent years. With highly acclaimed releases on Editions Mego, Diagonal, Riot Season and others Shit & Shine have wasted no time clearing away the rubbish whilst cutting up their own path towards giddy bass heavy shape shifting dance mutations. Snapping the twigs of disco, hurling clouds of exquisite dissonance, mangling modulations, boiling beats, twisting tweaks... this is a crew that will throw anything at the wall, and you. Some People Really Know How To Live presents a machine music built for the house, the street, the beat. For now, for never. In paradise all (earlybird) tickets are free and as you face your maker it is Shit & Shine who will truly set you free.

This Triple album brings together the two main strands of FSOL's current output, namely the From the Archives" series and the "Environments' albums. Comprising a total 48 tracks, 35 of them are new or previously unreleased:
Vinyl 1 is the Archives album which pulls 8 previously released tracks from the series but in some cases new mixes of these tracks have been created specially for this release. The other 9 tracks are unreleased Archive tracks from the vast vaults of FSOL. The "From the Archives' series is no exercise in barrel scraping, FSOL are well known for their prodigious output regularly going through periods of creating several tracks a day. Many of these tracks would be 'lost' only for not fitting current projects, created only for special live events and broadcasts or would change so drastically during the recording process that the original version would bear little resemblance to the released track. From the Archives seeks to give light to these tracks that are as good as anything released on their 'official' albums.
Vinyl 2 is the Environments album 16 Brand new tracks which continues the journey along the ambient environmental path. As the title suggests, each Environments album is a journey through a specific mood, place or environment.
Vinyl 3 brings together much of the piano work FSOL have done over the years and also includes 2 new cover versions of tracks by Brian Eno and his brother Roger Eno. The piano is mainly played by Grammy Nominated / Ivor Novello Winner DANIEL PEMBERTON - well known for his film score work - (Gold, Steve Jobs, King Arthur).
Views contains 10 previously unreleased tracks - 15 tracks in total 

The second edition of 'Vicarious Memories' by These Hidden Hands realises 5 finely crafted remixes of last year's expansive LP of the same title. This version features powerful reworks from Telefon Tel Aviv, Hypoxia, Lustmord, JK Flesh and Death In Vegas, out on June 23rd, 2017. Telefon Tel Aviv offers up his reinterpretation of 'Glasir;' a solemnly disconcerting reduction of the original flooded with warmth, depth and space. This is followed by a contribution from Hypoxia a.k.a the illustrious Drumcell, who makes his mark on the beautiful vocalised track 'Telepath,' imparting a heavy sense of melancholia and depth on to the listener. A dark atmosphere is woven by Lustmord on his remake of 'Socotra,' with its enveloping celestial melodies and ominous reverberating drones that unfold throughout. JK Flesh boosts the energy of the release with his distinguishably distorted mix of industrial, dub and power electronics that shuffle and roll the listener along this spectrally bright reincarnation of 'Dendera Light.' British producer Death In Vegas embraces the mystical facet of 'Angkor;' patiently exploring serene soundscapes with much depth and colour.

Dark Entries is proud to release the latest offering from Bézier, a 3-track EP titled 'Primes'. Bézier is the moniker of San Francisco based musician Robert Yang, who is also part of the Honey Soundsystem crew. A multi-instrumentalist, Robert planted his roots in San Francisco in 2005. Over the years in SF he has built an impressive analog synth-based studio, which also serves as the creative hub for his riveting live performances.

'Primes' represents the theme of primordial origins and creation with three tracks that explore disparate, sonic environments in each song. The title track flows and ebbs like currents in an oil slick. Out of something messy (like primordial ooze) arises organized chaos. 'Stranger' is a moody dark electro/wave track for a sweaty night cruising on the west coast of Holland. Set against an underwater sound canvas the song features seductive guest vocals and lyrics by Nicole Ginelli. Doc Sleep of Jacktone Records provides additional production duties. The final track, 'Imperial Tranz Am', is an airy, ethereal slow burner clocking in at over 13 minutes. It originally appeared as the soundtrack to an experimental queer fantasy film of the same name by SF film maker Aron Kantor.

All songs have been mixed by Mark Pistel (Meat Beat Manifesto, Consolidated) at Room 5, San Francisco and EQed for vinyl by George Horn at Fantasy Studios. The vinyl comes housed in a jacket featuring a Quadtone pastel earthtone of pixelated celluar ooze designed by Eloise Leigh. Each EP includes a postcard with an image still from the 'Imperial Tranz-Am' movie. 'Do I hear what I see, is it real or just a feeling, a vibration of N-R-G.'

The first release by Parisian iconoclast Joakim for his friends and European colleagues at DJ Tennis' Life And Death records is a miniature nocturne for dance floor meditation, a cascade of unfurling fizzy moods and introspection, finally tuned and expertly rendered by the electronic music maestro.
"I met Manfredi (Tennis) through Luke Jenner (ex The Rapture) in NYC. When Manfredi has a few days off his busy touring schedule, he comes to my studio to work with Luke on their collaboration project. We usually talk about synths, food, DJ gossip and complain about espressos in NYC. About 6 months ago we were eating Korean fried chicken and Manfredi asked me if I'd like to do something for his label Life & Death. At the time I had a bunch of club tunes I started working on and somehow had a feeling some of them could be a fit for Life & Death so I played those and Manfredi very quickly picked one, 'Daemon'. I thought putting out something on Life & Death was at the same time kind of odd (and if you didn't notice yet, I like when things are unexpected) and totally appropriate.

REPRESSED !!

Hot on the heels of 'Inre Rydmen', the EP that the Swedish multi-instrumentalist group Tommy Awards released via Origin Peoples in mid-June, come the remixes. Drafting in a cohort of the very best, this impending release will see the likes of Jonny Nash, Coyote and Mystic Jungle Tribe jump on the remix duties, touching original productions with their unmistakable idiosyncrasies. Bartosz Kruczynski, the Polish producer better known under his 'Earth Trax' guise, is another name credited on the release, offering up a 15-minute epic as he reinterprets penultimate track, 'Hans Logan.' Also to see an appearance on this EP is the Romanian Eirwud Mudwasser, offering up a rendition of the track 'Mike Sierra Foxtrot' reworked in a similar esoteric expanse, albeit it quite a bit more lucid.
Oscillating electronics mesmerise and an arpeggiating synth melody gradually make way for marimbas. Sweeping, elongated strums of guitar stretch out like the horizon and the dialogue between various melodic elements continues throughout as we bear witness to various transformations. Irregardless of pacing, the meditative quality remaining consistent throughout each glorious edit.

Limitiert auf 300 EH für Indies only!
Mitte November 2016 wird bei Ninja Tune Romares lang-erwartetes zweites Album "Love Songs : Part Two' erscheinen. 'Love Songs: Part Two" entwickelt und erweitert die lässige Brillanz seines Debütalbums "Projections". Es war die Art von gefeiertem Album, die einen weniger talentierten Künstlers ins Straucheln gebracht hätte. Vom DJ Mag zum "Album des Jahres" gewählt, erhielt es begeisterte Kritiken auf der ganzen Linie. Es wurde von Größen wie Bonobo, Four Tet und Annie Mac unterstützt und etablierte Fairhurst als Produzenten, den man gesehen haben muss. Es scheint, als nehme er diesen Druck recht gelassen hin. "Love Songs: Part Two" zeigt eine Erweiterung, Entwicklung und Vertiefung seiner Techniken. Obwohl Sampling von Vinyl noch immer eine wichtige Rolle für ihn spielt, hat Fairhurst weitaus mehr Musik auf dieser Platte selbst eingespielt: von monophonen Synthesizern über den Rekorder seiner Großmutter und die Mandoline seines Vaters, bis zum E-Bass sowie einer Vielzahl von Gitarren und Keyboards, die ebenfalls zentrale Rollen einnehmen.
- Weißes 180g Heavyweight Doppelvinyl in schwarzer Innenhülle inkl. Siebdruck des Original Artworks von Romare & MP3 Downloadcode

Thousand Knives & Plastic Bamboo by the legendary Ryuichi Sakamoto are taken from the incredible Better Days label catalog. Both killer slices of 80ties Japanese electronic music. Latest addition to the RH store Japan 7inch series. Recommended!

Jam packed comp of skits, scratches and jams courtesy of friend's, past guests and contributors to Antwerp's premium freestyle throwdown, Destination Eaaaaarth.... more info and final artwork coming soon... TOP TIP!

Limited Edition Of 2000 CD. Packaged in Wallet Slipcase

Featuring Music From The New Season Of Twin Peaks recorded by Italians Do it Better label head honcho and producer Johnny Jewel (Chromatics, Glass Candy).

Produced & Mixed By Johnny Jewel

Chains EP, is a meltin pot of dub vibes, breaking leads, and melancholic vocals.
An obscure path through secret prophecies, sewing new worlds, combining ash and bones.
A born spell, takes you into uncharted lands, a journey up to a mirage of a desert lake.
Axel Boman remix is fresh breath into e melancholic landscape, as a shaman hypnotizes you , and takes possession of your most magical vibration.
Beacon Remix is a velvety story into a melody that cradles you in a soft dream without break away from a wild energy.

* New album from cult Finnish producer Jaakko Eino Kalevi (Domino/Beats in Space) and Long-Sam.
* Features Sean Nicholas Savage.
* Eight new electronic hits.* Jaakko Eino Kalevi is the winner of a 2017 EBBA award and was a 2016 Nordic Music Prize finalist
* Man Duo played shows in Europe, including Eurosonic and ByLarm, before anyone heard their music.
Remixes coming from Lung Dart, Ali Renault, Monkeyshop

Man Duo is the second coming of Jaakko Eino Kalevi and Long-Sam: cherished producers and good friends from Helsinki whose 2012 debut Amateurs de Vérité refracted outsider electronics through the prism of psychedelic folk. Now the pair are back with a new name and a new album, Orbit, that takes the exotic pop we've come to associate with both artists far beyond the dance floor.

Written and recorded together at Sami's place in Helsinki and Jaakko's Berlin studio during 2016, Orbit plots a serene course through styles close to the duo's hearts. Across eight tracks, Jaakko and Sami zone in on krautrock, funk, electro and spaced-out cyber-ballads, executing each with characteristic elan and tunefulness. In fine voice throughout, the pair's lyrics - sung in English, Finnish and Italian - draw on the absurdities of life and love in the modern world.

In the time between Amateurs de Vérité and Orbit, Jaakko has enjoyed international success courtesy of his Dreamzone EP and self-titled 2015 album for Domino and the Yin Yang Theatre EP for Beats In Space. Recognised as one of Finland's most exciting musical exports of recent years, he's toured the world with his three-piece band and picked up a couple of awards. His links to Sami go deep, however: the pair lived in the same neighbourhood of Jyvaskyla when they were younger and put out their first single - a dubbed-out free-jazz 7-inch - as teenagers in 2001. 'We're more professional now,' says Jaakko, 'but still have the spirit of amateurs.'

Orbit finds both artists pushing each other in a bid to attain new levels of harmony, whether that's in the silken electronic funk of opener 'One Formula', which unravels like some blissful mid-80s Pino Donaggio scene-setter, or in the pulsating 'What If It Falls', a satisfyingly unorthodox cut that calls to mind Simon & Garfunkel and Dopplereffekt. 'This song deals with events of an almost catastrophic nature,' says Jaakko.

On 'The Middle', an epic slow-burner laced with a terrific guitar solo by Sami, the singer Sean Nicholas Savage blurs the personal and political with an impassioned turn. 'We worked on this one for quite a long time but eventually what really made it work was Sean's vocals. Took some time to realise that,' says Jaakko, who knows Sean from their time in Berlin. For 'Ile's Dream' - 'a krautrock-influenced song based on a dream that a friend had,' according to Sami - Man Duo channel the wide-eyed euphoria of La Dusseldorf.

Then there's 'Tanyan Teema' - 'Tanya's Theme' in English - a sweet, bubbly groove about a film character called Tanya that first surfaced on the CORD soundtrack a year or two back, and the sleek electro of 'Vanessa', which relates the story of a no-show at a concert in both Finnish (narrated by Sami) and Italian (by Cecilia Butini) before bursting into colour. 'The Boss' closes proceedings, its layers of synths and saxophone providing a dusky end to a rich and rewarding album.

Orbit is released by Kaya Kaya in the UK and Ireland and by Solina Records in the rest of the world. The album was mastered by Norman Nitzsche at Calyx, Berlin. Its cover photo is by Arnd Dewald. Man Duo play a handful of dates this summer and will tour in the autumn.

Confirmed print reviews in Uncut, MOJO, Q, Mixmag with more to come.
Online support expected from Fader, Thump, XLR8R, The Quietus, Wonderland, Stereogum, Pitchfork, The Line of Best Fit, DIY and more.

MCDE proudly presents the debut works of 22 year-old Canadian, Michael Gracioppo. Featuring a remix from Fred P (Mule / Underground Quality)..very limited edition.
The label's first 10-inch is headed by My So-Called Friends-the Montrealers deeply personal ode to an over-indulgent past lover.

The fluid drum work and violent bass line sit alongside the words of a punkesque inspired vocal sample. My So-Called Friends tells the story of a sincere and vulnerable young woman facing an inner battle between excessiveness and self-restraint. These drugs they are making me so sad I can't stop taking them.

A2 is a testament of Gracioppo's focus on maintaining a balance between songwriting and sound design.
Sailing unpredictably back and forth in tempo, A2 has been left untitled so as not to taint the piece.

Enlisted on remix duties, the always excellent Fred P flawlessly Reshapes Gracioppo's A1 into a hymn suited for the early morning comedowns.
Fred Ps vibrant pads resonate up and down in frequency and wrap the wavering vocal in warmth and comfort.

Mister Mellow moves further away from the synthesizer-heavy
sounds of the recent Washed Out releases and more band-driven
sound of his work on iconic labels Sub Pop in America, and Domino in Europe. On Mister Mellow, Greene draws from the experimental collage techniques of musique concrète and plunderphonics artists such as The Residents. Combining styles as diverse as free jazz, house, hip-hop and psych together with interlude-esque voiceover samples, often pulled from anonymous YouTube vlogs, he creates a busy, chaotic, and caricaturish mix that mirrors the claustrophobic, hyper-stimulated psyche so familiar to young adults.
As he continues to carve out his innovative sonic identity,
influenced by the world around him but unafraid to buck trends,
it's fitting that Greene has partnered with legendary hip hop label
Stones Throw Records, long a home for beat-loving musical
rebels. His approach to releasing music is every bit as individual,
too: in an environment where compiling singles into an album
format or working with a single video director are the norm,
Greene has chosen to commission eleven different artists to
bring the visual aspect of his fully-realised album project to life.
On Mister Mellow, Washed Out steers clear of emotion to empathise
with the minutiae of the world around him. 'I've been much less
interested in sentimentality and emotion for the past couple of years,' says Greene, 'In some ways, I think its a reaction against getting older and having more responsibilities. Maybe I'm just nostalgic for a time in my life where I could just relax and block out the world for a moment.' Though Mister Mellow is an intensely personal album, its ideas and observations speak to the lived experience of so many young adults, an experience that we come to see as both funny and sad.

The fifth and sixth releases in the Aught catalog, remastered and pressed to clear vinyl in deluxe clear packaging. The first in a series of 2xLP reissues to bring the popular cassette series to vinyl.

Remastered by Rashad Becker at D&M, Berlin. Pressed by Gotta Groove, Ohio, USA. Edition of 300.

Among the most stunning and musical electronic works ever produced, these five compositions represent the complete electronic works of Norwegian composer Arne Nordheim (1931-2010). They have stood the test of time remarkably well and have been embraced by new generations of influencial musicians like Deathprod and Biosphere. This audiophile 2LP comes in an edition of only 500 copies in a beautiful gatefold sleeve with updated credits and liner notes. The sound has been mastered by Helge Sten (Deathprod) specifically for this vinyl edition, sourced from the original analogue master tapes and painstakingly restored before being transfered to 24bit/96kHz for the best possible audio results.