Vaellus 00C

“We are bathed in enrapturing and enveloping mists of psychedelic haze which take the listener on a vivid mental journey. This is intoxicating head music unfolding like an astral ascension and like any trip warrants repeat visitation.”

“It will not be a remix. It will not be some ‘inspired by’ abomination. It will be one composer instinctively reacting to—and finding space within—another composer's already completed work which he adores.”

“Mortazavi describes finding a balance between concentration and letting go as the core element of his musical work: a constantly changing movement in which the boundaries of body and mind dissolve into one another. ”

“James describes her jam-based approach for the sessions as ‘free-flowing, stopping when I felt like I was done,’ allowing her subconscious to lead. The improvisations have an intrinsic fluidity to them, akin to sudden weather events passing over a single environment — the location feels fixed while the conditions vary.”

“Music For Photographers was first created as a functional tool. For the last two years, we’ve been photographing our city and the brutal architecture that sits within the landscape. Photography, just like any other artform, needs to be practised and the skills need to be attained. Like music, it’s a constant battle.”

“Where his music has always embraced aerobic complexity, Sentinel is an energetic showcase of Datassette’s idiosyncratic ambient-electro. Triangulating a digitally corrupted mix of drum and bass, braindance, and ambient, Sentinel once again finds a way to make his frantic production feel impossibly effortless”

“Brainwaltzera navigates the turbulent waters of personal crossroads with cautious optimism for an uncertain future. Acting as a kind of ‘journal’ of the last four years of his life, each of the 17 tracks directly relate to events and experiences that transpired during their composition”

“The conceptual jumping-off point this time is ‘mycorrhizal networks’ – underground fungal pathways that, some scientists believe, constitute a kind of plant communication. It’s a fitting idea for a style of music rooted in analogue synthesis – imagine nature as an underground web of patch cables, creating circuits that run deep into the earth.”

“I wanted to make an album that was about the connections that fuel life, about relationships, about play, about the possibilities of rhythm, about joy and serendipities and who knows what will happen but let us see? So here is that story, here is that place. Soaked in Indigo Moonlight.”

“The ebbing melodics hark back to 90s ambient techno and yet possessing a rhythmic cut and thrust that navigates unchartered terrain. Transmuting beyond planet earth, further into the extra-terrestrial, Galante and Zacco mask fractal brushstrokes with hurrying rhythms. They smear primitive and sharp sonics, pressed with dizzying resilience.”

“brings the tempo up, opening the track with a compelling and intricate percussive work out. Chopped vocal snippets emerge before the introduction of ethereal chords, producing a heads-down track built for introspective moments in the club.”

“The graveyard orbit, also known as a junk or disposal orbit, lies far away from common operational orbits and is where satellites are moved to at the end of their operational life, endlessly circling space with no use or purpose.”

“Each atom of that stone, each mineral flake of that night-filled mountain, in itself, forms a world. The struggle itself toward the heights is enough to fill a man's heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy.”

“a pivotal moment in the emergence of the ‘Birmingham Sound’; a stripped-back sub-genre of Techno, Influenced more by Industrial, Music Concrete, and EBM than from the melodic sounds of its Detroit predecessor.”

“A dystopian ambient album and work of modernist meditation set firmly in an era when humanity is reckoning with its outsized place in the natural world, a process which may evoke humility, defiance, denial or despair.”