It mostly comprises conventional collections of a single label's output, though one collects disparate pieces from a single artist. But we can't let 2020 go without acknowledging a raft of outstanding compilations that, like our recent Festive Twenty, succoured these ears over a challenging year. Also the way we treat & share our habitat." " The prism by which we should measure progress is the way we treat one another locally, globally. Unexplained Sounds Group's amazing geographic anthologies follow Electroacoustic Lebanese Musicforming part of LMYE's unpublished selection of 2019, for what that's worth.įinally, Le Berger's ' faint, warped, imperfect' pale blue dots: Longform Editions has featured in this slot before, but no matter: 2020's editions (including members of the LMYE pantheon like Celer, Robert Curgenven, Taylor Deupree, Chihei Hatakeyama & Strategy, as well as a host of welcome discoveries) were some of the strongest yet from this exceptional initiative. Sprawling brilliance also describes the continuing unfurling of A Year In The Country's ' year-long explorations of an otherly pastoralism, the undercurrents & flipside of bucolic dreams' - now entering their seventh year. Like other Bandcamp subscriptions, Scanner's Fan Club served this role for an individual artist - providing an insightful stream of often compelling exclusives from installations & other unreleased output. Note that both Broken20's 'proper ambient' Slow Notes series & Front & Follow's inspired Isolation & Rejectionbenefit deeply worthwhile charities.Įqually, Touch: Isolation - whose sprawling brilliance parcelled out across the lockdown spring was on a scale only matched by Boomkat's Documenting Sound (though without an Akira Rabelais mega-mix as the completist's reward.) - sought to support artists through the pandemic. Ida Toninato :: We Become Giants (Dragon's Eye) Three Point Circle :: Layered Contingencies (Palace of Lights) Richard Skelton :: LASTGLACIALMAXIMUM (Aeolian) Sontag Shogun, Stijn Huwels :: The Floating World & The Sorrowful World (Thesis) The hum of your veiled voice by Jake Muir Tom James Scott :: Mine Is The Heron (Students of Decay) Lynette Sandholm Evvers :: Fundamental Colours II (Other Forms of Consecrated Life) Jake Muir :: the hum of your veiled voice (sferic) Nothing Picked and Placed Nowhere by Isan Kim's Spirit :: Blossom Everywhere (A Red Thread) Kassel Jaeger :: Swamps/Things (Shelter Press)įrance Jobin :: Death is perfection, everything else is relative (Editions Mego) ISAN :: Nothing Picked & Placed Nowhere (wiaiwya) Haarvol :: Ridge of Humming Spoils (Moving Furniture) Oocyte Oil & Stolen Androgens by BLACK TO COMMĮMRA GRID :: five cycles through an empty chamber (LINE)įRKTL :: Excision After Love Collapses (self-release)ĭavid Fyans :: Crushing Depth (self-release) John Chantler :: Doing Nothing / Nothing Doing ( self-release) For me the idea of a flagship Model Cycles is really exciting.William Basinski & Richard Chartier :: Something From The Pink House (self-release)īlack to Comm :: Oocyte Oil & Stolen Androgens (Thrill Jockey)Ĭeler :: Wasted In The Waiting ( self-release).Why not capitalize on it with a new flagship device?.The distinction between Analog and Digital instruments is absurd, let’s mix everything.I LOVE the idea of assigning different engines/synthesis to different tracks. If you think about it, the success of Monomachine and Machinedrum is, at least in part, because of this openness.Why not leverage all the DSP knowledge and synthesis engines created by Elektron over these years (and new ones) and create a device which encompasses everything in the same platform we have already seen? They have the knowledge, and they’re experts at the “how to create a device with a porpouse that is playful enough to be taken in unexpected directions”.Look at all the wonderfull twisted ways people is using older devices with wonderful new results. You cannot judge the device for what some artists have created with it now.Versatility I think is the second message. This teaser has been great, “music first” is the message.Some random thoughts after a little bit of sleep and a quick visit to my therapist in order to deal with not knowking anything more after the streaming:
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