Interstellar Radio Transmissions 01 – Shampoo Douglas (live at Hoppetosse)

“Interstellar Radio Transmissions 01 – Shampoo Douglas”

Interstellar Radio Transmissions from the Rings of Neptune

— Episode one by @shampoodouglas (live)

Recorded live at Hoppetosse, Berlin, on the 14th of December 2019 at the @ringsofneptune concept debut event.

More info here: www.residentadvisor.net/events/1354659

Visual interpretation by Max Binski aka Cleymoore

 

[PNR013] Shampoo Douglas – Kepler 66 Hotline

Shampoo Douglas
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[PNR013] Shampoo Douglas - Kepler 66 Hotline

Originally planned as the first part of a 3xLP album, ‘Kepler 66 Hotline’ is a collection of tracks deeply inspired by 90’s sci-fi infected Detroit electro, drenched in deep mellow tones, weird outer-worldly timbres and sharp drum-arrangements.

According to its creators:

“This post-apocalyptic journey is set in 2046 A.D. far out on the Kepler 66 Planet, where The Douglas Brothers (Alchemists of Sound) have now set up their inter-dimensional sonic fortress. Due to complications on Earth and a third world war breaking out, Earth’s population was forced to migrate to unknown territories. Those with pride choose to stay, while others took off to finally create their Utopias on alternate dimensions.

Insufficient Credit. Thank you for calling Kepler 66 Hotline. For more virtual space-time continuum travel, insert credit. To speak with the manager, press 1. Do nothing, and you will be automatically rebooted to reality in 30 seconds.”

Limited edition vinyl. Artwork by Santiago Mac-Auliffe.


Pluie/Noir Recordings 013
Shampoo Douglas – ‘Kepler 66 Hotline’
12″ EP

A1. ‘Thrill of Romance’
A2. ‘G Domain’
B1. ‘Reedonko’
B2. ‘Arobogosta’


Written & Produced by @shampoodouglas
Mastered by Mike Grinser at D&M Berlin
Artwork by Santiago Mac-Auliffe
Design & Copy by Max Binski
“Kepler 66” script by @shampoodouglas
Manufactured at MPO France
Distributed by @yydistribution

Links: facebook / soundcloud / bandcamp

Pluie/Noir Interscapes 01

8 years after our debut we decided to press the reboot button and return to our roots. With a new format and back to a regular monthly schedule, Pluie/Noir Interscapes will feature audio collages, mixes, live interviews and live recordings from P/N artists, friends, and other collectives we admire.

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

II/III 
aka 
Two out of
Three 
— 
“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

Thomas Romain & Christine Wodrascka launch their new label Sonidos Del Arbol with Ricardo Villalobos Remix

—Thomas Romain & Christine Wodrascka
"Amasmous"
[SDA001]

Newcomer Berlin based independent label Sonidos Del Arbol welcomes mother and son Christine Wordascka & Thomas Romain with a long trip ambient track on side A and Ricardo Villalobos RMX on B side.

“Thomas Romain & Christine Wodrascka – Amasmous (Ricardo Villalobos Remix)“ 


Imaginary Radio Stations — “IRS C60 VOL 1”

Imaginary
Radio
Stations
—
“IRS C60
Volume 1″

 

“IRS C60 VOL.1″ is the first album of Imaginary Radio Stations, a collection of otherworldly noise and terrestrial tectonics from three Slovenian monks sequestered in a greenhouse far from civilization.

Imaginary Radio Stations is a project by three Slovenian music enthusiasts, DJs and artists, founded in Berlin. Its existence is as an expression of pure intent without fitting into flavor-of-the-week hype columns, purist approaches and associated micro-scenes. The aim is timelessness, always inspired by concrete ambients, settings and states of mind, beckoning the wandering ear to tune in. Its concept reflects the commodification and atomization of music culture. By blurring the lines between genres and styles, producers and consumers it mirrors a fragmented culture of innumerable acteurs where everyone curates their own imaginary radio.

 

“a collection of otherworldly noise and terrestrial tectonics from three Slovenian monks sequestered in a greenhouse far from civilization.”

 

Imaginary Radio Stations host events in Berlin at Club Maze since 2018. They are constantly working on new music and events. You can keep up to date on their work right here:

official webpage
soundcloud
bandcamp

STEREOCITI – Constant Turbulent Riot EP [GR034]

STEREOCITI
—
"Constant Turbulent Riot EP [GR034]"

Vinyl only. Drexciyan kind of record. Stereociti releases his most defying EP to date. Beautifully mysterious and brightly dark at the same time, this new record puts him on the front seat as one of the most exciting japanese producers of current electronic scene. This is yet another exploratory angle of his already unmistakably edgy productions for labels like Mojuba or artless.

“Stereociti releases his most defying EP to date.”