100

Our 100th main series release showcases how far we’ve come with the label over the years. Many, if not all, of the styles we’ve had over the years on the label are on display from many artists to have released on the label and friends of the label. Loads of different styles to please the listening palette

Tracks

  1. Coppice Halifax – 111
  2. Static Transient – Sentient Transmission
  3. HLER – Unassailable Piker
  4. DeepWarmth – Reflection of Yourself [Owen Ni’s Reflection]
  5. Quaternion – Sleeping Cities Bear Seas
  6. Wolf Asylum – Harthanwolf
  7. Sage Taylor – Clear?
  8. V. Mihaj – Tristan Da Cunha
  9. DeepWarmth – Journey
  10. Substak – Cold Fiction Story
  11. John Hatch – Atmosphere
  12. aspect. – puzzler
  13. V. Mihaj – Bjørnøya
  14. Kraut Sounds – Lakeside View
  15. SecondFace – Objects Moving Through Space
  16. Haaj – Gavity Well

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1 hour 55 minutes 07 seconds

About the artist: aspect. View releases

Portland, Oregon musician Sage Taylor has been experimenting with sound and electronics as a hobby for over a decade, and has tapped into a wide range of styles in the electronic music spectrum throughout the years. His present-day output is likely to touch on quiet ambient music, soft, melodic IDM or dubbed-out ambient techno, but the goal remains the same as always: to create new compositions for people to zone out to.

About the artist: Coppice Halifax View releases

Brian Grainger started making music somewhere after his parents’ divorce in 1997. He played multiple instruments in a number of different bands and projects, teaching himself how to play guitar, drums, bass and keyboard without the aid of classical training. In 2001, Brian began dabbling in psychedelic and ambient music, and by 2002 he became interested in writing computer-produced (but still organic) songs.

About the artist: DeepWarmth View releases

DeepWarmth has been around since the year 2010, with music previously and sometimes released as lilmanjs up until 2014 which saw the ending of lilmanjs with the track Journey (It Only Starts). DeepWarmth is a sonic melding of beats, usually but not limited to, Dub Techno and Ambient Techno. Also included on this are Ambient works of various kinds as James Shain. Since 2009 James Shain has striven to carve out his own place in the vast world of Electronic Music with his style influenced by quite a number of artists from all over the world including Japan.

Artist of release: Haaj View releases
About the artist: HLER View releases

HLER combines the initials of Heikki Lindgren and Esa Ruoho. It also describes the improvisational creative process of this ambient drone duo from Finland.
A couple of years ago, Heikki came across a second-hand Peruvian synthesiser. The machine quickly revealed its potential for endless sonic creativity, mainly because Heikki found it almost impossible to recreate the exact same sound twice. He soon introduced the machine to Esa, and together they decided to explore the machine’s inherent sonic instability in a live setting.

Each performance follows the same creative process, but with wildly different results every time. Digging in to the Mochika XL’s front panel, Heikki begins mining for sound. Esa then processes Heikki’s discoveries through his laptop, revealing hitherto undiscovered facets to Heikki’s freshly unearthed sonic gems. Then, with the twist of a dial, Heikki introduces something new to Esa, and the whole process continues onwards and upwards.

“We are always surprised by the spaces we find ourselves in, and the directions the sounds take during a performance. We cannot repeat anything in exactly the same way, even if we wanted to! Just turning the Mochika XL synthesiser off and back on, keeping all of the knobs untouched in exactly the same position, leads to a changed sound.”

“It has been incredibly rewarding to work as a duo, as the unpredictability of the creative process is so refreshing. Thanks to the unstable nature of the Mochika XL synthesiser and the intuitiveness of Esa’s live processing, each performance is unique. The whole live situation is based on improvisation and the sonic discoveries extracted during the encounter.”

File under: organised improvised noise, clicks, hums, drone, “Hey, this sounds kind of like space music from the ’70s!”, a captured submarine humming in the hangar of a space station, “Are you sure you guys are alright and that the cables work?”<

Artist of release: John Hatch View releases
Artist of release: Kraut Sounds View releases
Artist of release: Quaternion View releases
About the artist: Sage Taylor View releases

Portland, Oregon musician Sage Taylor has been experimenting with sound and electronics as a hobby for over a decade, and has tapped into a wide range of styles in the electronic music spectrum throughout the years. His present-day output is likely to touch on quiet ambient music, soft, melodic IDM or dubbed-out ambient techno, but the goal remains the same as always: to create new compositions for people to zone out to.

About the artist: SecondFace View releases

SecondFace is Frank Vilbæk Jensen, who is from Denmark.

Artist of release: Static Transient View releases
About the artist: Substak View releases

Kostas Staikos (aka Substak) was born and raised in the city of Athens.

The start of his journey into music began in 2011 when he decided to escape a bit from real life and start mixing and producing.

His music genres include Ambient, Dub, Dub Techno, Minimal, and Minimal Techno.

Artist of release: V. Mihaj View releases
About the artist: Wolf Asylum View releases

Matt Wolf is the solo artist of the sonic project known as Wolf Asylum [circa 2010]. He writes Glitch, IDM, Industrial, and Ambient Electronic Music.

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