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Aïsha Devi's 'Of Matter And Spirit' LP encapsulated the spiritual metamorphosis and transcendental journeys of this other-worldly figure. 'Of Matter And Spirit Remixes' offers a series of new perspectives on the sonic wonders hidden within. Irish duo Lakker's take on 'Anatomy Of Light' adds a heavy dose of syncopated percussion. Recent Ninja Tune signing Throwing Shade transforms 'Kim & The Wheel of Life' into an introspective session. The remix EP boasts two reworks of 'Mazdâ'. Berlin's Mind:Body:Fitness interprets the track as a whirlpool of trance, and the spooky Killing Sound version features MC/vocalists Rafael Shafique and Bogues. The collection enhances and twists the ethereal beauty within 'Of Matter And Spirit' and leads this singular, meditative artist straight into the ritualism of the dancefloor.

Now Wait For Last Year has been unavailable on vinyl since its original '85 pressing on Earthly Delights

Blackest Ever Black and Klanggalerie present the first ever vinyl reissue of Caroline K's outstanding 1985 album, Now Wait For Last Year. This haunting, wistful work of post-industrial synthesizer music - the late Nocturnal Emissions co-founder's only solo record - has accrued a fervent cult following over the past 30 years, and copies of the original pressing are today extremely rare and sought-after. Appropriately enough for an album concerned with the disruption of linear time - it takes its title from a Philip K. Dick novel concerning a highly addictive hallucinogenic drug, JJ-180, that induces time travel for its users - the music on Now Wait seems to exist firmly outside of it. Tags like industrial, minimal synth or proto-techno can't really do justice to the richly cinematic sound-world that Walters describes: from the sustained ambient tension of sidelong opener 'The Happening World' to the future-primitive rhythms and stately piano flourishes of 'Animal Lattice', and the melancholic, deep-frozen synth sequences of 'Chearth'. Fans of Wendy Carlos's A Clockwork Orange, Chris Carter's The Space Between, and early Detroit techno should pay special attention, but this searching, future-proof masterpiece demands to be heard by all.

I:Cube delivers 5 pieces of music to suit different moods and activities quite different from his usual style with an emphasis on contemplative and haunting dense soundscapes.
Please take some time to listen, and enjoy the experience. Try this in the dark

Limited Edition Deluxe - 2 colored LP in limited deluxe edition in replika gatefold sleeve with CD incl.

It's hard to believe that it's been over a decade since Digitalism broke through with their anthemic 'Zdarlight'. Nu-rave and dubstep came and (largely) went; hip-hop morphed into trap; and EDM made pop stars out of dance DJs. Back with their third album, 'Mirage' - some five years on from sophomore record 'I Love You, Dude' - the German duo have wisely resisted any vogues or trends. Instead, they present a record that takes their much-loved sound and opens it up to new permutations and possibilities.

'Mirage' sees Digitalism return in their most complete and coherent incarnation yet; the album spanning euphoric radio-friendly electronic pop and guttural dancefloor bangers with equal aplomb. Their songwriting craft has stepped up a notch too, their vocal tracks delivered with more conviction than ever and once again firmly placing them in a position as an act with big crossover potential.

With a newly focused approach, the duo put together 'Mirage' in the relatively short space of six months. 'This time the production felt so natural and clear,' says Isi. 'Our secret is our new light-heartedness.' The album was inspired by 'deprivation and travel' - a nod to both the trials of their extensive touring that has taken them everywhere from Coachella to Melt!, and their respective residences in London (Jence) and Hamburg (Isi). 'Usually, the best ideas just come to us when there's not much going on immediately around us', Jence explains of their creative process. 'When you're forced to imagine things, that's when inspiration is best. You know, when you switch off the light in our bunker studio, it's really dark, and there's nothing - until you start creating things in your head - and then as music.'

Dashes of disco, French touch, prog rock, rave and hip-hop are thrown into an eclectic sound palette that colours the album. From the full-power electro-indie of 'Battlecry' to the upbeat rock flavour of 'Go Time' and the euphoric melancholy of 'Utopia', their sensibility for storming riffs and melodies hasn't waned one bit. Then there's the scintillating epic 'Destination: Breakdown' and glitchy electro-rap 'Ism' showing yet more accomplished diversity. The two-part title track shows the evolution of their synth work in stunning fashion, beaming in inspiration from the greats like Vangelis and Tangerine Dream across a mesmerising twelve-and-a-half minute journey that makes for an impressive album centrepiece

'First of all it's probably a snapshot of our thoughts, like a brain scan', says Jence on his evaluation of the new album. "It's a soundtrack to our own world, but so vaguely put again that other people can identify with it, or come up with their own analyses. It's meant to be something fantastic, something beautiful, yet fragile. Maybe a parallel universe that you step into, and you get stuck there. Or you get back into normality, had a hell of a ride, and count the days until you can visit it again. It's meant to stimulate your imagination.'

Hamburg artist SPR made a most intriguing debut earlier this year, inaugurating the V I S label from Pudel's Nina and Tobias Duffner with the abstract and affecting EP 1. SPR now resurfaces on JSME, a fresh new concern from Berlin-based artist Saele Valese, delivering a quite intoxicating three track foray into immersive sound design with the enigmatic title Her Eyes Are An Abyss. Lead track "Untitled Ritual" sets the tone, a faint beat taking on the appearance of irregular and distant footsteps amidst some unnerving ambience, whilst "The Purest Ore Is Produced From The Hottest Furnace" is reminiscent of the recent, under-rated Sa Pa album on Forum. The title tracks hogs the B side and is quite beautiful.

- Throwing Shade continues her patchwork of peripheral pop over five new tunes. Leading track 'hashtag IRL' is a nod to what she calls the ironic 'anti-social reality of social media,' full of digital glitter and contemporary colloquialisms but pervaded by an uncanny emptiness too. While 'hashtag IRL' exemplifies her voice - part of the makeup of SOPHIE's 'Lemonade' - the rest of the EP focuses squarely on Throwing Shade's multifaceted production skills: light-footedly gliding on 'Marble Air', nodding to 1980s cinema on 'Ecco Echo'; compelling idle feet to dance on 'Fear Of Silence' and slipping through the haze of half-sleep on 'Underneath My Eyelids'.- 12' white vinyl with printed inners inside a 300gsm 'HD Gloss' sleeve with 3mm spine.
- Purchasers of the 12' EP have the chance of finding one of ten randomly included 10' by 10' handmade prints by the single's artwork designer Tom Flynn.

Das Duo Essaie Pas, jüngst untergekommen bei DFA Records, veröffentlicht sein neues Album "Demain Est Une Autre Nuit". Hinter Essaie Pas verbergen sich die in Montreal lebende Marie Davidson und ihr musikalischer Kompagnon Pierre Guerineau. Die Geschichte hinter dem neuen Album ist geprägt durch einen Neuanfang. Als die Band von ihrer ersten Europa-Tour zurück nach Montreal kam, mussten die beiden erfahren, dass ihr Proberaum und Studio einer schnellen Gentrifizierung zum Opfer gefallen waren, auch ihre Wohnung verloren sie nach einem Streit mit dem Vermieter. Einen Neuanfang konnten Essaie Pas in den Industriehallen von Le Filles Electriques wagen, einem Veranstalter für verschiedene künstlerische Events. "This environment influenced our music", sagt Pierre. "The sounds are more clear and open, the production has more depth, on a full frequency range." Die Musik von Essaie Pas lässt sich schwer in ein Genre zwängen, vielmehr ist es ein Grenzübertritt zwischen verschiedenen Sounds.

Coming from the home of Future Sound of London and credited to their 'producer' Yage, Ignition Of The Sun is a deep and evolving journey through liquid spewing analogue sequences, warm saturated swampy sine waves.
It calls back to a time from the early 70s with bands such as Tangerine Dream and Klaus Schulze. All sounds were created and sequenced entirely on the Legendary EMS Synthi AKS, multitracked and mixed to 15ips 1/4 Revox tape. The EMS Synthi AKS was first introduced in 1971, one of the earliest Synthesisers available and as used by Radiophonic Workshop, Pink Floyd, Brian Eno.

Four aces from one of the brothers behind the dope Ilian Tape label, out of Giesing, Munich. Spaced, rocking, multi-pronged.

Night Slugs resume the Club Constructions DJ tools series with 4 fire beats from DJC.

Recorded live at Cafe Oto as part of Touch presents... on 31st January 2016

Simon Scott is a sound ecologist and multi-instrumentalist from Cambridge, England. His albums 'Insomni' (Ash International) and 'Below Sea Level' (Kesh/TouchLine) are out now (see above). His work explores the creative process of actively listening, the implications of recording the natural world using technology and the manipulation of natural sounds used for musical composition. He plays the drums in Slowdive and has recently collaborated with artists James Blackshaw, Spire, Taylor Deupree (Between), Isan + many more.

M83, aka Anthony Gonzalez, announces the highly anticipated details of his forthcoming full-length album, JUNK, out 8th April on Naive. Following the critically acclaimed silver album Hurry Up, We're Dreaming, featuring Grammy nominated single Midnight City,' and two triumphant years of world touring, Gonzalez - who serves as M83's musical architect, songwriter, front man and primary vocalist - returns with an artistic evolution, explaining, I want to show different sides of me on this album. I want to come back with something more intimate, yet somehow with...less me!'

Feeling a renewed kinship with Gonzalez's early musical inspirations like Tangerine Dream, Aphex Twin, and genre-expanding visionaries like Brian Wilson and Kevin Shields, Gonzalez both returns to his roots with this album, yet makes a logical leap forward. And while M83 albums has always combined genres in a nostalgic and provocative way - from shoegaze and ambient to synth-pop and '90s alt-rock - for JUNK, Gonzalez experiments adventurously with sounds and styles he's never previously attempted in his music. All my albums have layers of eclecticism to them, but with this album I wanted to take that even further,' he says.

On the album title 'JUNK,' Gonzalez divulges, "Anything we create today is going to end up being space junk at one point anyway, and I find it really fascinating and scary at the same time - beautiful too in a way. I have this image of pieces of humanity floating in space, lost forever. It also means that nowadays everything goes so fast and everybody is kind of throwing away art in a certain manner. People will listen to an album for instance and just pick a track they like to put on a playlist. They're not going to take the time to listen to an album anymore because they have to jump on the next thing.'

Edition of 100. Cover printed on Curious Metallic Perle Akoya paper. Red transparents tapes.

It's hard to believe that it's been over a decade since Digitalism broke through with their anthemic 'Zdarlight'. Nu-rave and dubstep came and (largely) went, hip-hop morphed into trap, and EDM made pop stars out of dance DJs. Back with their third album, 'Mirage' - some five years on from sophomore record 'I Love You, Dude' - the German duo have wisely resisted any vogues or trends. Instead, they present a record that takes their much-loved sound and opens it up to new permutations and possibilities.

'Mirage' sees Digitalism return in their most complete and coherent incarnation yet, the album spanning euphoric radio-friendly electronic pop and guttural dancefloor bangers with equal aplomb. Their songwriting craft has stepped up a notch too, their vocal tracks delivered with more conviction than ever and once again firmly placing them in a position as an act with big crossover potential.

With a newly focused approach, the duo put together 'Mirage' in the relatively short space of six months. This time the production felt so natural and clear,' says Isi. Our secret is our new light-heartedness.' The album was inspired by deprivation and travel' - a nod to both the trials of their extensive touring that has taken them everywhere from Coachella to Melt!, and their respective residences in London (Jence) and Hamburg (Isi). Usually, the best ideas just come to us when there's not much going on immediately around us', Jence explains of their creative process. When you're forced to imagine things, that's when inspiration is best. You know, when you switch off the light in our bunker studio, it's really dark, and there's nothing - until you start creating things in your head - and then as music.'

Dashes of disco, French touch, prog rock, rave and hip-hop are thrown into an eclectic sound palette that colours the album. From the full-power electro-indie of 'Battlecry' to the upbeat rock flavour of 'Go Time' and the euphoric melancholy of 'Utopia', their sensibility for storming riffs and melodies hasn't waned one bit. Then there's the scintillating epic 'Destination: Breakdown' and glitchy electro-rap 'Ism' showing yet more accomplished diversity. The two-part title track shows the evolution of their synth work in stunning fashion, beaming in inspiration from the greats like Vangelis and Tangerine Dream across a mesmerising twelve-and-a-half minute journey that makes for an impressive album centrepiece

First of all it's probably a snapshot of our thoughts, like a brain scan', says Jence on his evaluation of the new album. "It's a soundtrack to our own world, but so vaguely put again that other people can identify with it, or come up with their own analyses. It's meant to be something fantastic, something beautiful, yet fragile. Maybe a parallel universe that you step into, and you get stuck there. Or you get back into normality, had a hell of a ride, and count the days until you can visit it again. It's meant to stimulate your imagination.'








[H] 08. Mirage [Part One]
[I] 09. Mirage [Part Two]

A master of crafting complex, intelligent, original productions, 2016 sees Flume return to the spotlight with the much anticipated 'Skin' album, via Transgressive Records. 'Skin' features such global superstars as Beck, Vic Mensa and the UK's own AlunaGeorge. Lead track 'Never Be Like You' (featuring Kai) roared to the top of the Australian singles charts and has gone on to become a genuine global hit.

CD 1 | Helix
CD 2 | Never Be Like You feat. Kai
CD 3 | Lose It feat. Vic Mensa
CD 4 | Numb & Getting Colder feat. Kucka
CD 5 | Say It feat. Tove Lo
CD 6 | Wall Fuck
CD 7 | Pika
CD 8 | Smoke & Retribution feat. Vince Staples & Kucka
CD 9 | 3
CD 10 | When Everything Was New
CD 11 | You Know feat. Allan Kingdom & Raekwon
CD 12 | Take A Chance feat. Little Dragon
CD 13 | Innocence feat. AlunaGeorge
CD 14 | Like Water feat. MNDR
CD 15 | Free
CD 16 | Tiny Cities feat. Beck

She was a composer who wrote scores with geometric shapes, a poet who became a pioneer of early electronic music. Joanna Brouk's little-known body of work exists at the nexus between ambient, new age, drone, and classical minimalism—stark in its simplicity, lush in its expanse. Studying under Robert Ashley and Terry Riley at the fabled Mills College Center For Contemporary Music before graduating into the margins of the 70s bay area new music scene, Ms. Brouk blazed her own trail well outside of the musical establishment to create uncompromising electronic and acoustic work of sleek beauty and primal power. Describing herself as less a composer than a channel, she took her cues from the frequencies of the natural world and the talents of collaborators like Maggi Payne and Bill Maraldo. Hearing Music collects for the first time the deepest cuts from her beguiling and rare cassette releases and her archive of previously unreleased recordings.

'I realized that, in many instances, it didn't matter what you said, it mattered how you said it: the tone of the voice, the rhythm, the sound.... Because sound has an incredible effect on other people, it can mak e them dance, put them into trances, it can control emotions by a certain pitch, a certain depth.' - Joanna Brouk

'Explosive, buoyant, electronic R&B, comes across like an oddball Stevie Wonder filtered through a 23rd century landscape' Clash

'Sitting somewhere between a less animated Thundercat and a more off-the-wall Stevie Wonder, Abacus' serious soul-n-funk really adds up..." i-D

'Hooked up with psychedelic synths woven together like a Tame Impala/Neon Indian cross-stitch, Abacus vows to not melt away like the drippy sonics his Soul Train-via-Flaming Lips soundscapes evoke.' SPIN

Hailing from the 'wonderful world of people from different cultures' that is South London, Jodie Abacus sprang onto the scene this year with a sound that is as classic as it is futuristic.
In early 2015, Jodie uploaded 'I'll Be That Friend' to Soundcloud - a track that picked up over 100,000 listens in its first week; it catapulted through the blogosphere and immediately hit the #1 spot on HypeMachine. His organic blend of feel good creations was deemed a breath of fresh air and championed by the likes of Clash, DIY and more recently, Tidal and i-D. Now, his appropriately titled first single, 'Good Feeling' danced from strength to strength after being backed by Radio 1Xtra stalwarts MistaJam, and Trevor Nelson and his recent single, 'Hot Kitchen' was championed by Annie Mac and Lauren Laverne across the BBC Radio Networks.
It's Jodie's infectious and humorous attitude that is truly the driving force behind his music. His inspiring lyrics, quirky nature, and vibrant visuals create a surreal and original world, all stitched together with a humble yet animated approach.
Enamoured with the LA school of funk (think Thundercat and Dam Funk) but taking inspiration from artists like Stevie Wonder and The Beach Boys, Abacus is creating uplifting soul music, filtered through contemporary, electronic beats. Whilst being described by many in the same breath as Pharrell Williams, Jodie knows he has a long way to go and can't wait to share more of his neo-funk pop tunes with us.
One thing is for sure, Jodie Abacus is a natural magnet for the good times and if you don't believe us, follow him on Snapchat- @jodieabacus

Lone AKA Matt Cutler presents his 6th album 'Levitate' - which marks a point of departure from the inviting warmth of 'Reality Testing's blend of hip hop and house - the listener is taken on a rapid joy ride through breakbeats that at times will leave them gasping. Following previous album 'Reality Testing' (and it's all conquering single 'Airglow Fires'), Cutler was left at somewhat of a musical impasse - a 6 month dry period with no new inspiration that was showing no signs of abating. The 'epiphany' moment came in New York. Bed ridden and feverish for days Cutler started to hallucinate; 'It was pretty terrifying - I'd try to go to sleep and I'd be hearing mad rave tunes form in my head. When i recovered i was left with all these ideas for fast, feverish tunes. Following that we went to LA and hung out with friends, driving round all day in the baking sun playing jungle and hardcore edits - all the best bits from rare jungle tunes spliced together. There was something that really seemed to fit hearing these energetic tracks whilst speeding around LA under perfect blue skies, that was amazingly similar to music I'd been dreaming up whilst in New York. I couldn't wait to get home and start putting this together - I had a new theme.' The result is an incredible 9 track LP, a breakneck psychedelic journey through hardcore, jungle, ambient, clocks in at a fat-free 34 minutes.

Following on from the underground success of Florist's debut EP, All Caps first release of the year sees the label pluck from the ether 6 transmissions by debut artisté - Neuroshima.

Cavernous Breaks. Fluid Subs. 1992. 2016.

My friend & i used to listen to this during the summer of 94, gazing out his bedroom window at sunset, watching the birds fly past the water tower on the horizon. One of the rare times when both of us would shut up for a few minutes and get lost for a bit...'

*Each record comes packaged in a mirrored silver-board sleeve + custom insert designed by Florist.*

"Convivium" is Mario Diaz de Leon's third album under his ONEIROGEN alias, and follows the "Plenitude" EP, released in 2015. It was developed over a period of two and a half years, primarily through live performance in the metal and noise underground of NYC. Like its predecessor, the album's core instrumentation is an array of hypnotic synthesizer riffs, pummeling percussion, distorted vocals, and surging noise. With "Convivum", Diaz de Leon has crafted a powerful and singular work of heavy electronic music.

A charged sense of anticipation permeates the music, sustaining tension and mystery through spans of repetition and moments of rupture. The songs build towards hedonistic climaxes, which yield to sparse, expansive passages in which every sonic detail is vividly heard. Inspired in part by Bataille's "Erotism", which connects the "rupture of boundaries" common to sex, mystical ecstasy and ritual sacrifice, as well as the work of psychologist Stanislov Grof on the impacts of birth trauma on the human psyche, "Convivium" is an incantatory journey through primal and dark creative forces.

The artistic output of Mario Diaz de Leon spans a wide range. In addition to his work as Oneirogen, he is highly active as a composer of modern classical music (with a 2016 commission from the LA Philharmonic and releases on Tzadik and Denovali), and is the frontman of Luminous Vault, his recently formed death metal band. Envisioning all of his activity as part of a spiritual practice, he considers Oneirogen to be the most personal side of his work.

"It's just me producing everything, and of course I perform it alone as well." he explains. "Each album is a kind of personal trial or rite of passage. As someone who also works in the classical tradition, I think of them as my symphonies. Its a project where i'm open to all my influences, and i'm entering into mystery and the unknown, battling to carve essences out of formlessness."

Operating within the same realm as Pye Corner Audio, Pentagram Home Video's debut LP for Death Waltz Originals offers up a dystopian analog synth attack swathed in layers of distortion and heavy pounding drums, it works as an imaginary soundtrack in your headphones but also as a powerful beast on more adventurous dance floors all the time being super melodic too.

Strictly limited edition of 400 copies (200 for the UK , 200 for the USA) 180g black vinyl housed inside a 425gsm single pocket jacket.

Warm release again from the Arhus - Regelbau team. A 12 stuffed to the brim with music by C.K & Timeman, DJ Sports, Optic & Maizena !Rhythmical ambient house music á la izquierda !

DBA present another vinyl-only various artists excursion, once again mixing new arrivals to the label like London's Karen Gwyer, Raven Cru and Italy's Dukwa, with established label favourite Lily.

Clark liefert den Soundtrack für die von Warp Films co-produzierte Serie "The Last Panthers" auf Sky Atlantic. Dabei bricht er mit seiner bisherigen Diskografie und kombiniert - im Stile zeitgenössischer Künstler wie Mica Levi, Mogwai, Jon Hopkins oder Olafur Arnalds - Naturklänge mit klinischen, maschinell produzierten Geräuschen und einer experimentellen, erforschenden Attitüde. Die Auflagen der Tonträgerformate sind limitiert.

Pinhead (Hellraiser) in Fantasia (Disney). ooh ey...
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Esoteric synths and classical harmonies from The Skaters mastermind.

Pinheads in Fantasia is probably Spencer Clark's most out-there endeavor. At some point his records became more than just trippy music with crazy artwork and his use of symbols and poetry started to take a more central part in the releases. He even stopped calling them albums, preferring the term soundvisions instead.

Fourth World Magazine Vol. II is the culmination of these tendencies, sounding like the creation myth for a new cult founded by Julio Cortazar, L.Ron Hubbard and Philip K. Dick in the garden of Locus Solus. And I'm not exaggerating with this.

With the help of The Wire writer David Keenan and artist AR Faust, Spencer Clark has developed a multi-layered release, using accompanying video (or facehugging), text and a full-color magazine in order to create a more tangible artifact.

Again, we see the lines between fact and fiction blurring greatly, making Pinheads in Fantasia a pure work of primitive science-fiction. First off, the album was supposedly recorded in an Open Air theater and in a golden metal box simultaneously' . The title combines the character Pinhead, from the Hellraiser series with Walt Disney's 1940s movie Fantasia, with music composed and conducted by Leopold Stokowski.

Clark also suggests that the conductor's death around his birth has somehow affected his spirit, turning him into a vessel for the defunct spirit or a cenobite, an explorer. This album is like a puzzle-box that unlocks the door to other dimensions, giving Clark access into the listener's realm.
And all this just to give you just a taste of his new mythology.
The music is a strange mix of micro-tonal melodies, warped alien vocals, gore sound effects, ritualistic percussion and Claude Debussy, following the pleasure and pain motif of the Hellraiser series, inducing a deep, trance-like state.

Recorded in Kobe, Kyoto, Tokyo, September 2015 Photos by Jim O'Rourke. Layout by Shunichiro Okada Despite decades of activity and having crossed paths in various collaborations Editions Mego is honoured to release the first ever duo recording from two of the most highly regarded citizens of planet experimental electronic. Individually, Jim O'Rourke and Christian Fennesz have been responsible for numerous legendary works which merge the traditional avant-garde with contemporary sensibilities. On It's Hard For Me To Say I'm Sorry these giants of experimental electronic practice come together for an immensely powerful sonic experience. The signature of both O'Rourke and Fennesz cohabit this new release with O'Rourke's gurgling harmonies swimming amongst the shimmering frequencies and strummed melodies produced by Fennesz. Two side long tracks situate themselves as a warm electronic adventure. Simultaneously radical and comforting these works shift from gentle sonorities to fully distorted explosions all of which reside within a template of tension between musical and non-music matter. Timeless in execution and presentation It's Hard For Me To Say I'm Sorry is a deeply rewarding sonic experience from two of the most romantic gentlemen active in experimental music today.

Recorded in Kobe, Kyoto, Tokyo, September 2015 Photos by Jim O'Rourke. Layout by Shunichiro Okada Despite decades of activity and having crossed paths in various collaborations Editions Mego is honoured to release the first ever duo recording from two of the most highly regarded citizens of planet experimental electronic. Individually, Jim O'Rourke and Christian Fennesz have been responsible for numerous legendary works which merge the traditional avant-garde with contemporary sensibilities. On It's Hard For Me To Say I'm Sorry these giants of experimental electronic practice come together for an immensely powerful sonic experience. The signature of both O'Rourke and Fennesz cohabit this new release with O'Rourke's gurgling harmonies swimming amongst the shimmering frequencies and strummed melodies produced by Fennesz. Two side long tracks situate themselves as a warm electronic adventure. Simultaneously radical and comforting these works shift from gentle sonorities to fully distorted explosions all of which reside within a template of tension between musical and non-music matter. Timeless in execution and presentation It's Hard For Me To Say I'm Sorry is a deeply rewarding sonic experience from two of the most romantic gentlemen active in experimental music today.

Solas ('Light' in Gaelic) is Claire M Singer's debut album spanning 14 years of her work in acoustic and electronic composition.In recent years she has focused on writing and performing a mix of organ, cello and electronics with regular performances at Union Chapel where she is Music Director, running a diverse programme of concerts and educational workshops around the Chapel's Henry Willis 1877 organ.

Other performances include the Roundhouse London by The LCO Soloists, a' fàs soilleir, an audio-visual work, exhibited at Tate Modern London, XMV New York City and Ceremony Hall Austin TX and she has performed as part of Spire at Muziekgebouw, Amsterdam, Kunst-Station Sankt Peter Cologne and many more.

The Molendinar, which was co-commissioned in 2015 by Civic Room, Glasgow and Union Chapel, London to celebrate Glasgow's Molendinar Burn Project wiil be performed on the 14th June 2016 at Glasgow Cathedral to conclude the weekend festival.

Expanded RSD gatefold reissue 2LP on 130701. Includes 6 previously unreleased exclusive tracks (LP1306X)

Record Store Day 2016 exclusive - significantly expanded double-vinyl reissue of Hauschka's debut album for 130701, 'Room To Expand'. The album has been repackaged and extended with the addition of six previously-unreleased exclusive tracks, and has been made available on vinyl for the first time ever - arriving with new artwork, liner notes, full digital download coupon and gatefold packaging.
Upon its original release nine years ago, Hauschka was the little-known alias of Dusseldorf-based pianist / composer Volker Bertelmann. 'Room To Expand' was the album that in many ways laid the groundwork for Hauschka's future success. Its very title suggested a frankly-articulated portent of future growth for the artist - both creatively, technically and in popularity.
Gathered to fit a single, final vinyl side, the six new tracks were all recorded contemporaneously with the original album and breathe new life into it. They offer a wider lens onto into this period Hauschka's creativity, perfectly complementing and extending the original set. Aside from the heavily delay-processing 'Vakuum One', all six tracks are solo prepared piano works, moving from the playful 'Zooviertel' to the more strident, pounding, swelling 'Run Run' and the fidgety, skittling 'Fragments' and ending on the impressionistic, rippling, fizzy-textured 'Vakuum One'.Expanded RSD gatefold reissue 2LP on 130701. Includes 6 previously unreleased exclusive tracks (LP1306X)

Record Store Day 2016 exclusive - significantly expanded double-vinyl reissue of Hauschka's debut album for 130701, 'Room To Expand'. The album has been repackaged and extended with the addition of six previously-unreleased exclusive tracks, and has been made available on vinyl for the first time ever - arriving with new artwork, liner notes, full digital download coupon and gatefold packaging.
Upon its original release nine years ago, Hauschka was the little-known alias of Dusseldorf-based pianist / composer Volker Bertelmann. 'Room To Expand' was the album that in many ways laid the groundwork for Hauschka's future success. Its very title suggested a frankly-articulated portent of future growth for the artist - both creatively, technically and in popularity.
Gathered to fit a single, final vinyl side, the six new tracks were all recorded contemporaneously with the original album and breathe new life into it. They offer a wider lens onto into this period Hauschka's creativity, perfectly complementing and extending the original set. Aside from the heavily delay-processing 'Vakuum One', all six tracks are solo prepared piano works, moving from the playful 'Zooviertel' to the more strident, pounding, swelling 'Run Run' and the fidgety, skittling 'Fragments' and ending on the impressionistic, rippling, fizzy-textured 'Vakuum One'.

Harleighblu's 'Futurespectve' album charts the excitng development and artstc exploraton of a
gifed young singer and songwriter, bringing an eagerly awaited physical release for tracks from her
acclaimed 'Futurespectve' digital EP series, alongside a previously unreleased track. The project sees
Harleighblu - one of the most tpped talents in the UK's soul/electronic world - fusing her classic, hip
hop-infused soul background with a varied and arrestng plater of future beats, and a joyfully free and
experimental vocal approach.

Since her earliest releases, Harleighblu's inimitable vocals have been hugely in demand by many of the
world's hotest producers; the 'Futurespectve' album illuminates a stunning collecton of songs that
have been developed over the last year in collaboraton with a cluster of internatonal talent. Taking
the boards, there's producton from SpectraSoul, Audio Sparks, Captain Supernova alongside label
mates Lost Midas, J-Felix and Jonny Faith. Each track brings a fresh sonic spin, with Harleighblu's charis-
matc vocals and heartelt, grity songwritng tying it all together into a deeply immersive listen.

Futurespectve sees Harleighblu taking the next defnitve step and crafing a sharp, forward-think-
ing style of soulful pop music dusted with grit and gliter in equal measure. As this young artst has
metamorphosed, via the experiences and consequences of success coupled with the natural twists
and turns of early-twentes life, so her frame of reference has shifed; in place of the more wide-eyed
romantc leanings of old comes a frank, self-possessed lyrical voice that pulls no punches and makes no
apologies.

On Silicon Tare, the sci-fi story that Seth Haley, who records as Com Truise, began on the Galactic Melt LP and continued on the Wave 1EP takes a dark turn. At the conclusion of Wave 1, the protagonist, Earth's first synthetic astronaut, successfully makes contact with the far-o­ Wave 1 colony but, once he does, things get fuzzy. He falls in love, there is a war coming. A story that began in hope and dreams of discovery ends on an uncertain note. Change is in the air.

It's evident Haley's style has matured since 2010's Cyanide Sisters. Sisters wonderfully warped sonics could have been the sound of broken VCRs spinning analog tapes, all of them singing in unison. His 2011 full-length Galactic Melt was rich and expansive, full of slowly-coasting synths, melodies that wriggled and popped, and masterfully-controlled rhythms. Since then, Haley's sound and production techniques have progressed, becoming wider and fuller -- high definition 3D madness. His always-cinematic signature sound and 4/4 kick drum patterns are present, of course, but the dynamics and tempos are increasingly more colorful and varied.
Silicon Tare opens with a skating sheet of synthesizer before easing into a steady, walloping beat. It doesn't stay there for long: halfway through, the lights come up, and synth notes crackle across the sky. Sunspot' is a departure-its soft-pink tone, synthetic slap bass and quasi-808 percussion recalls the edgier end of '80s pop. And he pushes the boundaries even further on Forgive,' a big, booming number with fat streaks of synth and a gleefully hectic rhythm track that stops, starts and sputters over and over again.

Silicon Tare moves Haley and the fictional Com Truise even deeper into the cosmos, discovering new lands along the way and o­ering a glimpse of where he may travel in the future. And if the characters at the center of his ongoing story may be in peril, Haley himself is in control. Tare sets the stage for the final chapter in Haley's Com Truise saga, which will be the first official follow-up to Galactic Melt. It's not only the perfect prelude to that finale, but the perfect representation of Haley's ever-expanding universe of sound.

Exploded View is a new collaborative project helmed by the UK-born, Berlin-based political-journalist-turned-musician Anika (Invada Records / Stones Throw). After playing a string of 2014 solo shows in Mexico with a backing line up composed of local producers Martin Thulin, Hugo Quezada and Amon Melgarejo, Anika and her new bandmates discovered a chemistry that they simply had to capture on tape.

Blackest Ever Black presents a new vinyl edition, and the first CD and digital editions, of Af Ursin's 2005 masterpiece Aura Legato. Af Ursin is the alter ego of Finnish autodidact composer/improviser Timo van Luijk. His work is rooted in the use of acoustic instruments (wind, percussion, strings), but his special sensitivity to the timbral qualities of each instrument, and his deft blurring of them, results in a sound-world that is mysterious, amorphous and hallucinatory, full of suggestive shadows, creaks and whispers. Informed by years of intensive listening to various types of free music, exploratory drug use and especially the 'irregular organic forms' of the Belgian countryside where he resides, van Luijk's process begins always with pure improvisation: music played in an intuitive, sensual way, without the employment of conscious technique. He performs and overdubs each instrumental component himself, and out of this process micro-structures and loose arrangements emerge: the piece becomes an improvised composition. Over time he has evolved his own richly poetic musical language, full of allusions to drone, acid folk, classical, Musique concrète and jazz, but beholden to none. Aura Legato is one of van Luijk's darker and more acutely psychedelic offerings: a work of profound interiority, but one that also conjures images of old Europe and fin-de-siècle decadence - dabblings in Thelema, the fog of the opium-den - and has earned comparisons to Third Ear Band, Nurse With Wound, Mirror and HNAS. Fully remastered and housed in die-cut sleeve with gold detailing and individually hand-glued labels.

Sonic fissures sizzle the bacon they ain't faking "Blow your zip code". A subterranean world of street wisdom and Cosmo-ghettology. Sensational spits grit over the grit, keep them swaying as they stagger from grey luminous fog coming in off the Atlantic. A cohesive nugget of rolling energy "My presidential Rolex". Kruton whips up jagged shards of rhythm into the air. Elaborate thought processes conveyed through instinctive vocal responses "Cake!". Weapons grade Prana, hooks and bass.

* A five-piece band isn't something you'd expect to be linked to drum and bass label Med School but The Erised's elegant approach adds yet another string to Med School's forward-thinking bow. A unique collective from Ukraine, The Erised includes drum & bass producers Detail and Hidden Element, dancer turned singer/songwriter Sonya together with a collective of jazz, rock and pop musicians.* The band's impressive 2015 debut release, the Desire' EP, included the supremely popular Pray' and It's Over , immediately capturing the attention of music fans across Europe and beyond.
* Fast forward one year and The Erised are set to unveil their debut album, 'Room 414', a mature, impassioned creation that explores the band's vast emotional landscape. Sonya's voice is more absorbing than ever before, delicately crafting tales of sorrow and heartbreak before seducing the listener with her trademark, mesmerising choruses.* The Erised's moody instrumental textures capture a fine balance between tragic and euphoric, fire and water, spring and autumn. No track is the same, as every minute passes, a different part of the story is told.
* 'Room 414' is a landmark moment for both the band and the label, as all involved take a step into the unknown with this truly magnificent album.

Astrobal, nee Emmanuel Mario, burst onto the scene in his native France through collaborations with some of the country's most cutting edge artists, including Arnaud Fleurent-Didier, Holden, Institut, Iko Cérie... Most notably, his work as a producer and drummer with Stereolab's Laetitia Sadier left an indelible mark, rendering some of the most singular work from the iconic French chanteuse.

"Our blood runs hydrous with the seas/The essence of oceans spills through our veins." Laetitia Sadier matter-of-factly unfurls these words on the title track of Astrobal's first full-length, and they prove prescient. The album is aqueous, each track a slow wave building before a momentous crash of sound, with clean lines and fluid form. Symphonic strings and ethereal ambient washes are married to buzzing synths and Astrobal's crisp, crackling drums.

Take opening track "Everybody Loves the Sunrise": building slowly from Eno-esque synth gauze and swelling strings, it gradually layers in flutes, ricocheting drum snaps, and rubbery bass, crescendoing in a lush wall of sound before returning to its calm, Sunday morning peacefulness. The funky flipside to this opening chill is the strutting cool of "Isao & IO." Floating in on a laidback, Shuggie-Otis-on-quaaludes groove, Astrobal's wispy, French-accented vocals glide through crackling keys and chopped acoustic guitar, creating a melodic haze to get lost in.

Though eclectic, Australasie never feels less than a cohesive vision, with the guiding principles of texture and fluidity uniting the disparate threads. From the lounge-y slink of "Rubycon" to the hymnal warmth of "Trois Beaux Oiseaux du Paradis," Astrobal creates a universe one can swim around in; from start to finish, it is of a particular mood, all beholden to the vibe. It is an assured first full-length from an artist who has put in the time to find himself and build his own world.

In May 2015, an assortment of electronic musicians from Pakistan, the Maldives and Germany followed the footsteps of brothers Hannes and Andi Teichmann, otherwise known as Gebrüder Teichmann, the Forever South crew and the Goethe-Institut to meet in Karachi; Pakistan's industrial capital, harbored on the Arabian Sea.

A house was remolded into a temporary recording studio. It would become a place to meet, inspire and be inspired, record, play, eat and sometimes sleep. Musicians, together with a photographer convened, and the outcome of two weeks would transpire into the Karachi Files.

Karachi Files, a textural collection of electronic fused works is a me´lange of different cultural, immersed in a fixed space, of which predestined inspiration was taken from its surroundings. The corpulent body of work harmonizes a balance in the elements, delivering a variety of tracks, from electronic club music to electro acoustic experiments, particularly textured including a few more slowmo and raw.

Following the African European Ten Cities project and it ´s album release on Soundway in 2014, Karachi Files will be the first release on the Teichmann brother's new label Noland.