[VLS05] VA – V as Peace EP out soon

Evano & Nitz
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[VLS05] VA - "V as Peace EP"

After 4 dancefloor oriented EPs, the penguins take a nap.. Expect some downtempo, ambient and experimental sounds from all over the world for this new release. Total playtime 52min. 200 copies Ltd.

“downtempo, ambient and experimental sounds”

 

VLS05 . VA – V for Peace EP

A1. His Inorganic Being – Sub-project-58
A2. Dices – Drawing a Blank
A3. Burago Jurchanie
A4. Nitz – Antinode
A5. Koyil SG Dub
B1. Evano – Grandel_s Musyc
B2. Koyil – Moondog
B3. Astral Conspiracy – Interstellar Rain
B4. IRS – Arp Way There
B5. IRS – Bowel Movement
B6. Sasha Nevolin – Advice Sharing

“Little Pointers EP” by Nitz out now on Origin Records

Nitz
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"Little Pointers EP"
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After more than 10 years of active involvement in music, Tine Vrabič aka Nitz has become, with his unique sound and his immaculate sense for detail, an indispensable and binding figure of the electronic music scene in Slovenia. “Little Pointers EP” is a 6 track release taking you into an atmospheric landscape filled with sonic details giving the sound an added dimension .

 

“Atmospheric landscape filled with sonic details giving the sound an added dimension.”

Interstellar Travel Guide – Volume I out now on Bandcamp

Rings of
Neptune
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Interstellar
Travel Guide
Volume I

To celebrate our debut, we gathered all our artists and challenged them to create music unbounded by genre-specific constrictions. “Interstellar Travel Guide” is a two-part compilation featuring the agency’s 24 artists, and showcases a versatile array of music ranging from spoken vocals & ambient drones to exploratory techno. ‘Volume I’ is the compilation’s most experimental part, assembling 12 compositions of calm, awe-inspiring moments fundamentally aimed at contemplation, and meditation. Volume II will be released shortly after and will gather tracks from the other side of the spectrum, exploring rather beat-driven arrangements.

“Interstellar Travel Guide” is exclusively available on Bandcamp in both digital and limited-edition cassette format. In solidarity with recent protests against police racism and brutality, and in honour of the Stonewall riots of 1969, we’ll also be donating our revenue during the next two months to black-, trans- and queer-led anti-discrimination organizations committed to long-term systemic change, political education, and engagement within the communities such as NAACP, Black Visions Collective and Queer Refugees Germany. 

“12 compositions of calm, awe-inspiring moments fundamentally aimed at contemplation, and meditation.”

 

Links:

official webpage
soundcloud
bandcamp

 

Debut release by II/III – “It Could Be Paradise”

II/III 
aka 
Two out of
Three 
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“It Could 
Be Paradise”

The combination of restrained club electronics with expressive classical instruments in the creation of ambient music is most often presented as a kind of hybrid or crossover. Hybrid music has the power to draw listeners from both opposite poles while offering something more.

Two out of Three or II/III have long outgrown the genre boundaries of their musical instruments, so don’t be fooled by the name. There is no duality in their music, because their independent projects already force indefinite impressions and feelings into the music. Under the pseudonym rouge-ah, Urška Preis squeezed quintessence out of the harp, discarding a good deal of classical melody and rhythm for the sake of mystical echoing synthetic twitches. Tine Vrabič or Nitz tried to ground similar cosmic sounds with a dance rhythm and a pinch of melody. Thus, the duo moved from duality to unity, and the EP released by AmbientSoup reflects this perfectly.

 

 

“the duo moved from duality to unity, and the EP released by AmbientSoup
reflects this perfectly.”

 

“It Could Be Paradise” consists of four long tracks that are supposed to imprint on us the sediments of everything that makes it not a paradise. Each member of the duo relies on their personal motives and it is clear that project II/III is not premature, and has been developing into a behemoth of the Slovenian ambient scene.

 

Their mastery is reflected mainly in the skilful use of patterns and the resolution of individual sounds, which are always diverse, whether it is a selection of samples or skilful playfulness with strings. The atmosphere from the first song onwards is strained by the ominous buzzing that accompanies the performance, but then this slowly outgrows the melody and takes the loading of patterns even deeper. The listener, therefore, cannot refrain from anxiously waiting for something to strike in any sound form, and thus allowing him to take with him after listening a piece of the world formed by the duo. The third song “Mores” fulfills our expectation with the introduction of a strong rhythm, and the reins are taken over by Nitz. With moaning vocal clippings, the album is then brought into place, and rouge-ah backs it up with torn strokes charged with distortion that resonate until it is finally suddenly cut.

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II/III’s dramatic exploration of dark electroacoustic soundscapes
was premiered live at MENT 2020 in Ljubljana.
 

The album concludes with “Bad Blood” , which shatters the carefreeness of the journey in the most audibly illustrative way. It sounds like an impregnation of situational claustrophobia, yet its tension and drama keep the curiosity within us and encourage us to get to the end. The album is just under 30 minutes long, making it possible to condense the album into a single, timeless, listening moment.

The crystallization of these musical qualities introduces a much-needed contrast between calm melancholy and turbulent tension into one album. In “It Could Be Paradise” we are witnessing the sophisticated electro-acoustics of space and time, where the lines between individual consonances are erased, so that the listener can feel the density and power each composition, as if it were a multi-instrumental orchestration. 

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Music, recording & mixing: Tine Vrabič & Urška Preis
Harp: Urška Preis aka rouge-ah
Electronic composition: Tine Vrabič & Urška Preis

Mastering: Gregor Zemljič

Artwork: Blaž Rojs — Collage from analog photos by Urška Preis, centerpiece is a part of a photo of an art piece No Life Lost I, 2015 by Berlinde De Bruyckere

Media support: Festival MENT &  Radio Študent Ljubljana

The album was released on January 29, 2020 and is available for streaming or high-quality download directly from their Bandcamp. You can watch a live recording at Radio Student, consisting of entirely new material, here:

Find more about Rouge-ah:

Find more about Nitz:

Links:

soundcloud
bandcamp
ambientsoup

Text adapted and compiled to Engish from the following sources:

sigic.si
radiostudent.si
ment.si