Vaellus 010

“I used to balance my clock-radio on a wardrobe to catch the faint pirate FM signals from the nearest city, dreaming of what raves would be like when I could finally escape and become a New Age traveller.”

“inspired by the warm glow and fuzzy logic of hypnagogic states - the realms of consciousness between sleep and waking.”

“There's a mist that hangs over Andrea's second album. It's not the usual weed haze of Ilian Tape records, but instead something more tangible, a thick fog that makes everything around it feel sloshy and exaggerated, like a natural form of reverb” - Resident Advisor

“the moment where Mc Pherson show their full hand, using crackling sound effects, ghost vocals and uneven rhythms to build a textural landscape that's so evocative you can almost taste it.”

“ thuds resonate and arpeggios climb like rockets before visceral factory-sourced percussion forms an orchestra of power drills, jackhammers, and buzzsaws in a menacing display of audio alchemy.” - Bleep

“Focusing on warm and evocative sequences and simple proto-techno structures, Bluetech restricted his sound palette to purely analog sources and focused on allowing the pure tonalities to guide the unfolding and hypnotic pieces.”

“After bending to find this specific universal frequency, time evaporates altogether. The Notional Pastures of Imaginary Softwoods is a document of the universe as we comprehend it, designed to vanish as soon as it is felt.”

“Mioclono don’t waste a second of it, fleshing out their pitter-pat congas and metallic clang with air-raid sirens, dubby squalls, and a gravelly voiceover that brings to mind Vincent Price muttering spells over a bubbling cauldron.” - Pitchfork

“I rely on my body as an object and resonant instrument. Now, what begins inside my body and continues on the computer is one process, and the ideas that result from it are my instrument.”

“this is music of austerity and ambiguity, purgatorial and seasick. A jagged anti-relaxant for our medicated age, rough-hewn and undefined.”

“There’s plenty of rawness evident, with spiky sonics keeping ears on high alert – full of endorphin-flooded rave energy.”

“a cross-cultural collaboration that swerves simplicity but refuses to over-complicate itself - it's about interaction, improvisation and passion.”

“The idea that one could reach a level of indulgence into something so strong that they need help exercising restraint always frightened me. This ep is about falling in love with someone in that space.”

“Their combined powers open pathways to heightened realms of deep listening and bewitching restraint, finding flickering infinities in ancient configurations of wind, brass, stone, and dust.”

“sounds like an urban jungle with cumulative layers of escalating ambient waves, vibrant jumping electronic passages, and stately clarinet parts in counterpoint to these fluctuations.” - The Quietus

“Wailing odes tell the story of the catastrophic activity of eroding waves and winds shaping the land that are enhanced by the climate crisis.”

“ The glass rises and the glass falls and in the background there are sirens, fog horns, church bells and Eno, and on the sea bed there are the scattered remains of a once great city.”