AD 93

"Pulso is about sexual desire, my desire. Me as the subject, not only the object of it. I sing my pleasure and daydreams, because it's my body and my imagination, so I know what I like to feel."

Sonically inspired by reggaeton, a genre that is personally nostalgic and reminiscent of times spent at parties listening to the imported genre as a teenager in her home country, Spain.
Clara! works with producers who don’t usually dabble in the genre - SKY H1, Pearson Sound and Low Jack - in order to mix their own, unique universes with it.

Australia born, London based producer Surusinghe debuts on AD 93 with her EP Brake Fluid, due for release on the 27th October 2023.

Featuring four tracks of alien club music designed for the dancefloor - Bop, the lead single, has been doing the rounds at clubs all over the world since the start of this year and we're delighted to finally share with you.

‘My Noise is Nothing’ is the collaborative LP between Lord of The Isles and Scottish poet Ellen Renton, set for release on the 29th September 2023.

For the pair, both the poems and music came to them in a quick and concentrated period.

Renton's poems were written during 2020 and capture something of that time- that feeling of having no obstacles between ourselves and our emotions. Especially the feeling of anger, which is expressed by Renton as a feeling that is not wholly negative but complicated, necessary, unifying and even joyful.

Likewise, Lord Of The Isles’ dusky and unfurling production refuses obstacles- embracing experimental live recordings using pedals and vintage synths. It is warm and fuzzy, but most importantly organic, with all the imperfections and character of a living entity.

Out of time, alone sometimes, wide awake, thinking, I must have been here before? In a dream, or vision of a memory, and it’s hard sometimes, but I wrote this for you to ease. Something to carry with you on and on, seasons change, but the bite of Scorpio remains…. ‘So let it go, don’t be a cell to yourself.’

‘Scorpio’ and its dubby anagram, ‘Ether,’ are brought to you by hoodie x james K. Made together, from across the ocean, this 10″ comes in the balm of heat, just before the fall.

𝒮𝑜𝓂𝑒𝓉𝒾𝓂𝑒𝓈 𝓎𝑜𝓊 𝒸𝒶𝓃'𝓉 𝒽𝑒𝒶𝓇 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝓌𝑜𝓇𝒹𝓈......𝓈𝒾𝓃𝒸𝑒 𝒶𝓃𝓎𝓉𝒽𝒾𝓃𝑔 𝒷𝑒𝓎𝑜𝓃𝒹 𝑒𝓋𝑒𝓇𝓎𝓉𝒽𝒾𝓃𝑔 𝓈𝒽𝑒 𝓌𝒶𝓃𝓉𝓈 𝓉𝑜 𝑔𝒾𝓋𝑒 𝓎𝑜𝓊 𝒶 𝒽𝒾𝓃𝓉......𝒾𝓉'𝓈 𝓃𝑜𝓉 𝓅𝓇𝑒𝓉𝓉𝓎 (𝒷𝓊𝓉 𝒾𝓉'𝓈 𝓅𝓇𝑒𝓉𝓉𝓎).

Composed, produced and arranged by Evangelia VS, the artist behind Abyss X, Freedom Doll is the culmination of a year of emotional unloading through songwriting, offering an introspective journey into the ocean of her mind. Produced and recorded between an artist residency near the Mayan jungle in Mexico and her Berlin home, the album chronicles transformations the performer tackled mentally during the writing process, tracing the rollercoaster of falling in love during the pandemic, as well as the pleasures and tribulations of womanhood.

Freedom Doll encapsulates the romantic escapade between her voice and the guitar. The amalgamation of seduction, sexual tension, vulnerability and assertiveness pulses throughout the entirety of the album, spiralling out of the cracks spawned from her vocal chords. From the twirling dance between her lush harmonies and the progressions of the acoustic guitar in tracks such as Ascend and From Hot to Cold, to the explosive confrontation between the metallic and operatic qualities of her voice, the searing sound of the electric guitar in industrial rock / psychedelic anthems such as Torture Grove and Banyana and the cathartic momentum found in the gospel inclined chants in A CHEW - Freedom Doll untethers the dramatics and theatricality that defines Abyss X’s vocal performance and music production, while maintaining the sensual vibrations of her creative essence.

Freedom Doll is the encapsulation of the Minoan woman, the elusive harlequin tiptoeing her way through the “circus of terror” that is living and loving her way through womanhood. With this visual reference, Abyss X pays tribute to her ancestors and their groundbreaking ancient artistry. The back cover of the vinyl features a reiteration of depictions of bulls leaping found in Minoan frescoes; an inherently male cultural act that in the ancient Minoan times presumably gave expression to a tension that underlies man's somewhat tenuous mastery of nature. Freedom Doll’s artwork challenges this preconceived notion through an eco-feminist approach, bringing the Minoan woman slash Gaia in the seat of the bull leaper, taming the unhinged and predominantly male earth - threatening human force.

Outsider jams that rolled out of the studio.
Part experiments, part sketches.

Mastered by Rupert Clervaux
Artwork by Moin

‘Dogs’ is transcendent in its composition; a lone piano radiating like a lighthouse through a smoky sea of ambience, dirt and rare archival opera recordings. Murphy’s otherworldly vocal glides above the track, swooning from tranquil ASMR calm to glassy unease and operatic climax. Gently processed and manipulated, her voice wanders into the uncanny valley of the almost-human.

World-renowned drummer-composer Valentina Magaletti teams up with music producer and multi-instrumentalist Zongamin in their East London studio to create an album of Dub / Post-Punk influenced material, featuring Vanishing Twin's Cathy Lucas, Coby Sey and Venus Ex Machina.

Dub postcards, east London boats, reflections in the eye of a cat, swallowing your tarot card, spitting echo from calming substances, yellow paint on our shut down local brunch spot, post-punk golden rules, shaking metal memories in a glass jar.

Absence of sound shaped in summertime 2022.

3 years on from his debut album Second Language, Minor Science returns in a giddy rush of beats, bass and pitched-up samples.
064 is a cheap thrill ride through a world consumed by work. Inspired by several years of hard hustle, "Workahol" and "Casheine" mash up hardcore, bassline, electro and booty bass to offer (over)stimulation for crisis-era dancefloors. "If you want my lovin' you've gotta work harder..."

Inspired by distant memories, fairytales and transcendental experiences. “Where all the souls unite, drifting as one, dancing into the night”
credits

‘Blue Car’ is a collection of songs from Joanne's archive of unreleased solo recordings, similar to ‘Painting Stupid Girls’, these tracks attempt to record the moment, and where she was at emotionally that day, similar to diary entries. The dates she wrote these songs is unknown, they span roughly a ten year period.

A collection of loops recorded between 2016-2021

Anunaku b2b Tasker
Coby Sey
Lauren Duffus
SKY H1

Anunaku
Minor Science
Shannen SP
Willow

Two prayer-loops on cultural displacement as life experience.
Growing up somewhere all you can think about is somewhere else. Musical themes and instrumental arrangements displaced and re-imagined, unrealistically linking island to island.
A distillation of open tabs and lyrical overflow as the vacant doodling in the margins. Everyone just holding each other up, exhausted.
Excited anticipation.
A hopeful anxiety.

PERSON 1: See you there!
PERSON 2: Can’t wait!

The dubplate is a limited edition of 20, cut by Vinyl Pressure

You Always Will Be is the new album by artist Dylan Henner.

The follow up to 2020's well received 'The Invention of the Human', the new record touches on themes of nostalgia & longing for times passed; innocence yielding hardships and vice versa; ageing; the soul; life changes; parents and children; loss; love.

Dylan says:

"The piece tells the story of a single life, from birth to death. I've been thinking about the passage of life a lot recently as I lost all four of my grandparents but celebrated the birth of my daughter all within a short period of time. The brevity and preciousness of being really hit me."

The vinyl release consists of a ~ 40 min piece split across two sides, while the digital release features extended versions of the music in that piece, making up 11 individual tracks.

In the beginning, woman was the sun, and then the monster put its hand in the fire.
Knowing without knowing.
Nature versus Nurture.

Mastered by Kassian Troyer
Artwork by Noah Baker

Coby Sey
Moin
bar italia

‘Paste’ is the new album by Moin, due for release on the 28th October 2022 via AD 93.

The follow up to their well received debut album ‘Moot!’, the record draws influences from alternative guitar music in its many forms, using electronic manipulations and sampling techniques to redefine it's context, not settling on any one style but moving through them in search of new connections.

By exploring these relationships, Moin delivers another collage of the known and unknown, punctuated by words that are just out of reach.

A+A is Anunaku and Avalon Emerson.
Their first EP features four tracks of melodic club music, made together while in London and on tour.

Mastered by Matt Colton
Cover photograph taken by Suleika Mueller
Design by Noah Baker

Bambounou
Bradley Zero
Paquita Gordon
Tasker

Two-tracker of club ready tunes from the don Pessimist.
He says: "Hardcore / jungle techno done my way. These are two tunes for the dancefloor, no messing around, straight to the point, to be fair they've been doing damage wherever I go!"

2 mixes of recent discoveries, some old, some new, some you may know, some you may not, all worth advocating.

Placid Angles is the alias of seminal electronic artist John Beltran. We're delighted to present this 4-track EP which will come out on July 22nd 2022.

John Beltran:

"Surprising to most this is my first Placid Angles “EP”. I’ve only released long players under this moniker and I couldn’t be happier with this four tracker. I’m also super excited to be working with Nic and AD 93.
I really wanted to get back to a 90’s energy for this project. That genuine IDM energy and feel that inspired me so many years ago. I have also thrown in some subtle 303 arps on this for your enjoyment!
I always kicked the idea around that I would only produce a couple more Placid Angles records for personal and nostalgic reasons then be done with it but the outpour of love and enthusiasm for my Placid material has me ALL in and wanting to keep at it with this special side project. So I will!"

Coby Sey steps out with his remarkable debut album 'Conduit', set for release via AD 93 on September 9th 2022.

"'Conduit' is a statement of intent, reaffirming my dedication to transcend the tangible through music – it’s my way to continue and contribute to the musical lineage laid by those before me, locally and worldwide." - Coby Sey

Written, performed, instrumentation (various), produced, arranged, mixed and engineered (all tracks) by Coby Sey.

Electronic percussion (tracks, 1, 2) by Raisa Mariam Khan.
Tenor saxophone (tracks 1, 2, 7) and loops (7) by Ben Vince.
Alto saxophone (tracks 1, 2, 7), recorder (track 7) and loops (7) by CJ Calderwood.
Electric guitar (track 7) by Biu Rainey.

Created in Lewisham, London and Hackney, London.

Ehua
Tasker
Vivian Koch
Vladimir Ivkovic

DJ Python revives his cult alias, Luis, with a reflective ode to his best friend. The five tracks here represent the inscrutable mix of detachment and contentment that made DJ Python's Mas Amable a modern touchstone, but the 057 (Schwyn) EP also possesses the heartfelt '90s sheen that is Luis's sonic signature. Idiosyncratic rhythms and twinkling ambience build patiently before arriving at the blissed breakbeat closer.

"missen and loven. schwyn and i go into each others lives here and there quiet and present. always missen and loven. to know he is on the earth is to know that it is beautiful." - Brian Piñeyro

Dedicated to Matthew Schnipper

Specific States of Mind

Mastered by Kassian Troyer
Artwork designed by Dimitri Erhard

A song about regret, frustration and trying to explode gracefully.

The dubplate is a limited edition of 20, cut by Vinyl Pressure

CONFUSION AND SIMULATION
feeling of disorientation
a HYPERMODERN hym
For posthuman ontology.

Syphon is the second instalment of an ‘alchemical’ trilogy which started with The Funnel on Akashik records.

The record consists of speculative medieval and renaissance music, imagined composed in the future, where it is reconstructed from the ashes of the past, via incomplete fragments.
"In a future where the old semantic systems don’t apply anymore, what we are left with is some kind of delirium."

The album features 3D printed instruments, multilayered bagpipe chanters, double recorders and other hybrids.
With additional voices of soprano Eden Girma and Emmy Broughton.

SKY H1 presents her long-awaited debut album, Azure, on AD 93.

The widespread success of her first EPs and appearances captured the blurring lines between her foundational experiences in drum and bass, grime, dubstep, and techno, all tilted towards schematic bursts of pop. Azure builds on these foundations and explores a delicate medley of experiences, forms, and functions, culminating in an imaginative and evocative debut album.

The title, Azure, was chosen to evoke memories of her mother, to whom the record is dedicated.
The song titles reference the Access Virus synthesiser, an instrument series that made a deep and lasting impression on dance and electronic music in the early years of the new millennium.

Recorded by Dr Tom Richards live at Camden Art Centre, London, July 2021

The dubplate is a limited edition of 20, cut by Vinyl Pressure.
Half the copies will be on sale on Bandcamp and the other half will be on sale at the Indie Label Market at Coal Drops Yard in London, on the 27th November.

No frills mix of outsider alt rock, hardcore and other underground splinter weirds from past and present. Some diggings, some obvs. All belters.

Where does the memory of a melody reside? Lucid phrases and half-remembered intonations buried somewhere, folded into times and places.

9 Airs took shape during an unconscious reconnection with music long since forgotten; an instinctive recall for melodies played out on guitar, low whistle and voice.

Recordings of these revived melodies became the starting point for new pieces, the audio manipulated, processed and folded back into the fabric.

October 22nd:
Minor Science presents 'Absent Friends' A/V show with Mau Morgó

November 19th:
SKY H1 & Mika Oki A/V Show

Still here? Further lamentations from a dead city.

Silent Mantras and hectic Movements. Delicate depression. Post hope.

How to get out?

Inner emigration? Inner conflict. Escape? Give me a light.

°s is inspired by patterns in urban nature: language; behaviour; seasons, and alongside poetry, explores the cyclical psychological peaks and troughs experienced during the pandemic.
Live multi-instrumental improvisations apply the fibonacci sequence to create melodies and rhythms that mimic fractal patterns in nature, and are situated within binaural field recordings captured during essential travel in the first lockdown.

The album features the poem: The Rub written by Syd Hawes. Narrated by darker.
Violin by Taro.
Voice canon by darker.
Synths, field recordings, acoustic guitar, electric guitar, flute and composition by Aboutface.

A serendipitous conversation brought the project to life.

Moot! allowed the group to re-appreciate the recording process, using a combination of live recording and studio techniques. The album spans psych, alternative rock and post-punk mixed with their signature electronics and sampling practice.

The record was made as an experiment, to be enjoyed, not as spectacle.

Once you enter the field of unity
You will feel the infinite source

Once you enter the field of unity
You will serve in presence

Once you enter the field of unity
I promise
you will meet yourself

Turn of Phrase is rooted in place and bound by time, yet is simultaneously unstuck in both of these things. The record spans a range of locales; the remote coastal town of Morecambe and its harshly beautiful surroundings, the technicolour glamour of the heart of LA, and London - a city whose maze of contrasting environments and tunnel-visioned bustle offers a totally blank slate.

The music however is anachronistic, technically guided by a strict set of rules based in time, the record’s memories and environments are allowed to wander and overlap. The familiar and the personal swirl and collide within an unfamiliar soundscape. The result acts something like a decaying memory, brief shining moments of clarity fighting against something unclear and untethered.

E' come un gioco, ma non troppo,
quello della spirale, simbolo intrigante,
ineffabile ed inestricabile:
dal nulla alla volta celeste,
alle galassie e ritorno;
dalle immensità del tutto al niente,
dall'infinito al buco nero.

I sogni della materia. Lo scienziato divino.

“I don’t know what’s going on, I’m sorry I can’t make it out. Hello? hello? Am I dreaming or is it a show?” -MEG ’

An ode to the corals.

Venus Ex Machina is a composer, sound designer and interdisciplinary artist. We're thrilled to present her debut album Lux, due for release in January 2021.

Lux is a digital sanctuary, a choral ambience, layered electronics, no in-put mixer scree, a requiem for an earth beset by environmental change.

Angel’s Flight is the new album from highly-acclaimed producer and composer Biosphere, set for release on vinyl and CD in January 2021.

It features twelve tracks based on Beethoven’s String Quartet No. 14 that deftly tread the peripheries of classical and electronic composition.

Much of the music was initially composed for Uncoordinated Dog, a dance production by the Ingun Bjørnsgaard Prosjekt in 2019 that explored the personal, the ambiguous, exposure and beauty – which gives you a sense of what the album holds.

Avalon Emerson follows up her critically acclaimed DJ Kicks compilation with a three-track 12” set for release on the 11th December 2020.

Lead single ’Rotting Hills’ is a study in contrasts, both tonally and emotionally. Mixing feelings of hopelessness, while also trying to enjoy what we have right now in the present.

‘Winter and Water’ is for Hunter.

‘One Long Day Till I See You Again’ is for mom.

The language of magic is sacred.

Four new artists to the label, each submitting a reflective atmosphere, from different corners of the globe.

'The Invention of The Human' is designed as a response to the question "what makes us human?" The question has become increasingly important in this period of history, in that many of the answers aren't good enough. "Civilisation" could be one answer; but what good is civilization where there is so much misery within it? "Progress" could be another; but what good is progress without kindness and empathy to sustain it? Taking the thought of man's relationship with technology as a measure of humanity, I asked the computer "what do you think a human sounds like?", and with that I built this album of synthesised vocals, wondering if technological development can help explain what we are.

The vinyl release consists of two ~ 20 min pieces, while the digital release features extended versions of the music in those pieces, making 8 individual tracks.
Anyone that purchases the album from our bandcamp will also be credited with the two ~ 20 min pieces.

Synchronised with Henner’s core inquiry, the physical packaging (designed collaboratively between Alex McCullough and C’estainsi studio) employs a combination of machine learning and mechanical plotting to mimic the human mind and hand.

A digital copy of supplementary document ‘034: A Graphic Score’ will be made available for download on release date.

Controlled urgency, bonding as friends.

+447845564295

Until the day breaks
And the shadows flee

The connection between destruction and creation. Creation in different shapes. Life's complexity and finding a devotion to the Flux. Some tracks are begining to transmit new visions.

Lord of the Isles and Scottish poet Ellen Renton join forces for a reflective record that touches on themes related to climate change, both in the present and future.
“Ellen’s poem ’Passing' blew me away and I felt compelled to provide it with a musical accompaniment. I liked how Ellen's vocal recording sounded lo-fi, so I created an environment around it to make it feel cinematic.”
‘Inheritance’ the closing track, picks up where ‘Passing’ leaves off, completing a journey it feels like many of us will experience.

Minor Science presents his debut album 'Second Language', out on the 3rd April 2020.
The LP gives us a widescreen view of a musical world previously glimpsed through the producer’s series of 12" releases. A kaleidoscope of tempos and intensities, the record is often fast but rarely heavy, fizzing with detail but full of space, euphoric in places but frequently blue in mood.

As the title suggests, the album takes translation as a guiding principle, putting an idiomatic spin on familiar styles - from Detroit-ish techno and hyperspeed electro to twilit electronica, musique concrete and sour modal jazz. Minor Science's language is a knotty one, packed with odd time-signatures, brain-bending sound design and a playful palette of switch-ups, fake-outs and digital hiccups. But it's also soft and emotive, and shot through with vibrant melody.

Minor Science’s relationship with languages is a strong feature of the record. More precisely the relationship between a second and third language, and a mother tongue.
It signals an effort to get out of familiar habits, echoing the relationship he has with his own music writing and music making. Regardless of attempts to be precise, a translation can never fully capture the original meaning.

“Parce que c'est plus facile d'écrire sans style” - Samuel Beckett

Initially commissioned by the Barbican Centre for their Silent Film and Live Music series, Music for Screen Tests features 11 original pieces performed live as one 54-minute session. The live soundtrack accompanied a 16mm film screening of Andy Warhol's Screen Tests in the venue's cinema space in February 2020.

From the Barbican:
Between 1964-66, Warhol would ask some visitors to the Factory to sit in front of his tripod-mounted 16mm Bolex camera, face forward, and hold still. They each sat for three minutes; the films that resulted are known as the Screen Tests.
The sitters’ responses to this ordeal, and their decisions about how to perform themselves for the camera, make these films hugely revealing. Some are reduced to weeping; some are overcome with self-consciousness; some meet the camera with an equal force of personality.

Timeline:

00:00: Intro
05:50: Ethel
10:45: Barbara
15:20: Robin
20:00: Jane
25:00: Lou
30:00: Edie
34:00: John
38:30: Jonas
43:10: Ann
49:10: Paul

An unapologetic ode to rave, the record was influenced by her initial experiences of dance music as a teenager - a release for those that must imagine world's unseen and a projection of what it felt like to experience a new reality for the first time. Turbo Olé.

Lena Willikens
Minor Science
Jane Fitz b2b Jade Seatle
Tasker

A window, a portal, a room.
A space one can see, but not enter.
A fleeting force burning the ether.

We've been fans of Happa for a while now so it's great to be starting off the year with Blue 07. Two tracks aimed at the floor ,with a running theme being the human voice, from screaming to singing and laughing.

"Vocals aren’t a rarity in dance music obviously, but I wanted to experiment with them in a more instrumental and textural sense. Plus I think you don’t hear enough kinda weird shit in the more formulaic dance tunes - only on the more experimental edges of club music ya kno?".

"Are you still there?"
"Yeah so she said the body is the mind's measuring instrument or something - the mind renders information registered on its sensory surface, combines it with old info from the same source and keeps the whole accumulated stock poised to guide action"
"Hence why it sounds like this?"
"Yeah exactly"

'Steal A Golden Hail' is presented within deconstructed sleeve packaging. Each includes a unique airbrush edition, the product of a collaborative performance between Lucas Dupuy and Alex McCullough.
Fastened by a plastic bolt through the centre.

Inspired by cosmology and ancient mythology, the Anunaku project is a continuation of TSVI’s debut album 'Inner Worlds' and aims to explore the use of various drums from around the world combined with elements of UK underground club music.

Carl Gari are a trio of German musicians made up of Jonas Yamer, Till Funke and Jonas Friedlich. Abdullah Miniawy is an Egyptian musician and poet, currently based in France.

We're hugely honoured to share their latest release with you, a six-track extended EP due for release on 6th September 2019.
A meditative and provoking listen focussed around the poem in 'B'aj بعاج' that forms the lyrical centrepiece of the record. In this song Abdullah is the protagonist, jumping from the 8th floor of a building in Cairo. While falling he describes a unique scene happening on every balcony, painting a dark picture of Egyptian society.

The EP was mixed, arranged and produced by Carl Gari members Jonas Yamer and Till Funke, providing a melancholic backbone for Abdullah’s lyrics and melodies.

Avalon Emerson
Kenny White
Rupert Clervaux
Cõvco
Tasker

Rupert Clervaux
Cucina Povera
Maria Somerville
Amelia
James Marrs

Three tracks by Pugilist exploring cross sections of bass, breaks and techno. Great variation to the styles but all have the Australian producers signature mastery of rhythmic low end.

Forest Drive West debuts on Whities with two sub heavy rollers perfectly crafted to move human limbs.

Made up of six tracks but presented as two 17-minute pieces, the record meanders through warm chordscapes, glistening synths and loose live percussion, weaved together with field recordings and ambience.

Loom Dream invites us to peacefully reconnect with the living world by placing us amongst lush sonic verdure.

An interactive site created by Joseph Pleass and Alex McCullough accompanies the release, where users can navigate a virtual world, learning more about the plants referenced throughout the record (the site is best experienced on mobile via chrome).

The record features guest performances from saxophonist and trumpet player Eben Bull, singer Sian Ahern, and renowned experimental artist Anna Homler (aka Breadwoman) whose inimitable voice ushers us into the record’s opening prelude, and out of its redemptive final piece.

The design by Alex McCullough and Kia Tasbihgou illustrates a 1:1 scale etched steel plate; the industrially machined casing through which an abstract landscape by the late Brian McMinn is visible. The printed sleeve is a reproduction of this steel ‘breach artefact’, bound with custom produced elastic band denoting the tracklist, strapping in place an accompanying poetry chapbook to it’s outer.

‘After Masterpieces’ sets six recitals of Rupert’s poetry in unique, unpredictable and expansive musical scenery. The enigmatic and densely compacted texts, reworked and gently honed throughout the album’s slow creation, find an aerial perspective from which a lifetime of reading, listening and thinking is carefully re-mapped. The broad thematic scope takes in aesthetics, ancient mythologies, the origins of language and music, epistemology and ecology––to name just a few––all of which remain tightly intertwined, resistant to abstraction, and imbued with a sense of inquisitive ambiguity which treats all certainty with suspicion: the listener is invited to find their own threads, draw their own conclusions and think their own thoughts––as Anna Homler once aptly said of her own work, “…it’s not didactic, it’s poetic.”

Initially deriving its impetus from the mood and rhythm of the words, the album’s music utilises a wide-array of performance and production techniques. Clervaux draws on his full range of musical interests, creating long-form pieces that at turns support the recitals and then lead the way for the instrumental swathes within and between them. The sounds of ‘After Masterpieces’ revolve through the melodic ambience of ‘Her Fingers of Pink Light’; the dark electronics and multi-layered samples of ‘In Shadowlands of Like and Likeness’; the tentative interplay of piano and voice on ‘Damper and Drum’; and the riff-like patterned percussion and free improvisation of ‘Make Nature Speak.’ As the LP draws to a close, Homler and Bull join Rupert on ‘L’amore che Muove il Sole’—a sprawling anti-hymn, echoing the structure of ‘The Divine Comedy’, which discovers, in place of Dante’s heavenly paradise, a fragile optimism for positive change in the wreckage of failed grand narratives.

Additional thanks go to Noel Summerville, James Marrs, Laura Lies In and Ju Canon for their work on this project.

Forest Drive West
Josey Rebelle
Leif
Tasker

Bambounou
Inga Mauer
Re:ni
Tasker

Taking inspiration from a collection of music that was made specifically for his fantastic set at Freerotation in 2017, the tracks all showcase the Parisian's flair for minimalistic rhythms and groove. It's music that feels most at home in that heads down part of the dance, where it pulls everyone into the same collective consciousness.

Bambounou
Upsammy
Overmono
Tasker

Whities 019 is a three-track 12" of varying styles, all showcasing an impressive dexterity with melody, texture and emotion.
The record comes in a sticker-fastened sleeve, featuring notes that nod to Overmono's early introduction to rave in the Welsh countryside.

Perhaps his finest and most heartfelt work to date, Whities 018 features four tracks that Alex wrote "around winter ‘16-‘17, as I decompressed from an episode of deep prang. While they bear out my mood at the time, they also chart a path of recovery through nature, slowness and humour."

'Telephone Rose' is the debut solo release of E-Talking, one half of French duo Nummer. We’ve been admirers of the pair for a few years now, so are very pleased to present this expertly-moulded peak-time rhythm.

Laksa is on the B with 'It Feels Like I've Been Here Before’. He follows up two excellent releases on Ilian Tape with this low slung tune that nods to 90's jungle and incorporates his trademark dusty breaks.

De School resident Upsammy has provided two tracks for the EP, 'Vacate Or Annihilate' and 'Warm Puddles' – the first of which is a sort of cathartic expulsion of energy stemming from a transitional period in upsammy's life, and the second a contemplative, balmy antidote to the tension.

'Kueen' from BFTT is bass-heavy, with an intricacy, preciseness and evolution to it that makes it extra special. 'Enin' is a driving but delicately hypnotic track with a melancholic leaning that grabs you by the aorta.

Amelia
Cõvco
Giant Swan
Jules Venturini
Kenny White

In Nathan’s words: "These are without a doubt the most personal tracks I have written to date. I made them as a sort of exercise in self-therapy during my first few months in Berlin. As time has gone on, more meanings have unfolded with each listen. For me, these tracks are a rebuttal to the endless churn of negativity in the news and online. They have become my battle cry in the club, something to mobilize while also offering a chance to escape it all, even briefly."

Bambounou
Oliver Hafenbauer
Tasker
Jaures

Bristol-based pair Giant Swan have built a much-deserved fanbase seemingly overnight thanks to their hybrid sound (drawing on noise, dub, pop etc etc), DIY approach and emotionally-charged live shows. Tasker: “I came across their music after receiving their 2016 EP ‘Earn’ on FuckPunk by mistake. RWDFWD clearly decided it was better than whatever thing I’d tried to order – and I’m glad they did."

The sleeve incorporates 1:1 scale floral embroidery design with a hi-vis metallic silver back.

SMX are Max O'Brien and Sam Purcell (Blank Mind). 'Sleep' is an intoxicating live jam recorded in October 2015 during a period of emotional upheaval, exploring themes of discordance and euphoria.

On 'Thief', Koehler says: "Take what you need and take it anyway you can. If you get it, you deserve it, because it means you earned it. But just remember one thing: whatever you take can be taken from you too, so think long, act fast and do so with honour and pride or all will become chaos."

Quirke returns with three introspective tracks that take inspiration from philosophical queries and wonderment related to both the world we live in now, and that which we have inherited from those that came before us.

Vladimir Ivkovic
Jules Venturini
Amelia
Tasker

Avalon Emerson (all nite)

Avalon Emerson
Minor Science
Tasker

Minor Science
Joseph Pleass
Alex McCullough

The latest installment in an ongoing mix series, Absent Friends Vol. 2 presents Minor Science’s take on ambient: a hyper-dense, micro-edited collage form incorporating music, sound and speech. Progressing by a series of lulls and wild crescendos, its structure mimics the volatile behaviours of weather systems; over time, an oblique but powerful emotional narrative emerges.

“We may be stranded in the rain, sometimes…”

The latest installment in an ongoing mix series, Absent Friends Vol. 2 presents Minor Science’s take on ambient: a hyper-dense, micro-edited collage form incorporating music, sound and speech. Progressing by a series of lulls and wild crescendos, its structure mimics the volatile behaviours of weather systems; over time, an oblique but powerful emotional narrative emerges.

“We may be stranded in the rain, sometimes…”

Music used, in order of appearance:

Peggy Lee - Going Rowing
Steven Halpern - 7th Chakra: Keynote B (Violet)
Michel Redolfi - Immersion
Steve Hauschildt - Eyelids Gently Dreaming
Mike Ratledge - Riddles Of The Sphinx Sequence 7
Leif - Untitled (GAL006 B2)
Arthur Russell - The Name Of The Next Song
Aisha Devi / Laurel Halo - Aurat (Tool) / Wow (Minor Science Call & Response Blend)
Robin Fox - Antlers
Robin Fox - A Small Prometheus
Georges Aperghis - Avis De Tempête: Avis 6
Pita - Vent-Glass
Linkwood - Outside In
Mike Ratledge - Riddles Of The Sphinx Sequence 6 (Minor Science Eternal Return Excerpt)
Qasim Naqvi - Preamble
François Bayle - L’Aventure Du Cri
Luc Ferrari - Presque Rien Avec Filles
David Behrman - On The Other Ocean
Eli Keszler - Willing To Be Open
Peggy Lee - “Audio Book” interview w/ Wink Martindale (Minor Science Gratitude Cutup)
Joanna Brouk - The Sounding (Minor science Divine Stepladder Edit)
Jaap Blonk - Flux-De-Bouche
Bernard Parmegiani - De Natura Sonorum: Deuxième Série
Arca - Extent
LOFT - Yes
Carlos Niño - Gongs, Cymbals and Bells
O Yuki Conjugate - Cloud Cover
Alvin Lucier - Oases
Bernard Parmegiani - De Natura Sonorum: Première Série
Guy Reibel - Franges Du Signe
Alderaan - The Idea Of Having A Soul
Guy Reibel - Granulations-Sillages
Ben Vida - Damaged Particulates
James Pugliese / Visible Cloaks ft. Motion Graphics - Freeze / Terrazzo (Minor Science Blend)
Vanessa Rosato - This Is A Recorder
Diseño Corbusier - El Circulo De La Infancia
Sidsel Endresen - One: Untitled Track 2
Atom TM - Naturalist #3
Braaxtaal - Spraakwater
Masayoshi Fujita & Jan Jelinek - Vague, Yet
Eli Keszler - Corresponding Probably To Quanta
Minor Science - Temporising Peggy
Blonk, Gustafsson & Zerang - Rorr
John Martyn - Small Hours (Minor Science Chord Aug Excerpt)
Michel Redolfi - Pacific Tubular Waves
Minor Science - Change Now Megamix, featuring excerpts from:

Andrea - Floating
“Blue” Gene Tyranny - Timing
Joanna Brouk - The Sounding (Minor Science Divine Stepladder Edit)
Minor Science - Hungup
Mike Ratledge - Riddles Of The Sphinx Sequence 6 (Minor Science Eternal Return Excerpt)

and,

Jaap Blonk - AA 60
Jaap Blonk - Flux-De-Bouche
Jaap Blonk - Gramm
Jaap Blonk - Seepferdchen und Flugfische
Jaap Blonk - Zieuwis
Jaap Blonk & Cor Fuhler - Notches of Mycoplasma
Braaxtaal - Kwik-Me-Dit Schar-Luup
Braaxtaal - Spraakwater
Five Men Singing - No Drone Rising
Five Men Singing - Tough and Rumble
Eli Keszler - Willing To Be Open
Yann Leguay - IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL
LOFT - Yes
Carlos Niño - Gongs, Cymbals and Bells
Bernard Parmegiani - De Natura Sonorum
Michel Redolfi - Pacific Tubular Waves
Minor Science - Richardstraße Downpour
Guy Reibel - Franges du Signe
Guy Reibel - Granulations-Sillages
Rully Shabara - Faring
Zeitkratzer - Mort Aux Vaches: Random Dilettantes

LFDM - Ant Hills
Headlock - Again

Minor Science
Tasker
Ash Scholem

Skee Mask
Giant Swan (live)
Kenny White

John Talabot
Minor Science
Tasker

Minor Science
TTB
Okzharp
Lanark Artefax (installation)

Rroxymore
Reckonwrong
Jules Venturini

Bruce
re:ni
Tasker

Coby Sey ft. Ben Vince
Reckonwrong
Tirzah, Brother May & Mica Levi
Vïsta

Avalon Emerson
Courtesy
Tasker

Vladimir Ivkovic
Coby Sey
Tasker

Galcher Lustwerk
Reckonwrong
Tasker

Willow
Minor Science
Tasker

Ondo Fudd
Reckonwrong
Tasker

Avalon Emerson
Reckonwrong
Tasker

Minor Science
Reckonwrong
Tasker

Kowton
Terron
Minor Science
Bake
Beatrice Dillon
Fergus Clark
Tasker

Terron
Sidney & Suleiman
Tasker