experimedia 2009 upcoming release preview mix
December 24, 2008A gift of sorts. This was first heard on electronicexplorations.org podcast number 050…but I wanted to make it available on its own as well. As I mentioned we are very excited about the upcoming release schedule. Here is a little preview mix with bits from the next seven Experimedia CD releases featuring sylive walder, ian hawgood, jason/shinobu, offthesky + billy gomberg, ryonkt, jonas ruchenheaver, and carlos suárez sánchez.
Tracklisting:
00:40/ sylvie walder - the most abstract to date (expcd007)
06:40/ ian hawgood - north india in 1998 with my dad (expcd008)
11:50/ jason/shinobu - his head had beams like star beams (expcd009)
19:20/ offthesky + billy gomberg - they were at the beach (expcd010)
23:32/ ryonkt - sora [excerpt] (expcd011)
29:20/ jonas ruchenhever - birds flew here once [excerpt] (expcd012)
36:48/ carlos suárez sánchez - o discurso da diversidade (expcd013)
happy holidays and new year
Wanted to wish everyone a Happy Holidays and Happy New Year. 2008 has been a great year and I wanted to thank everyone for their support. 2009 is poised to be an even better year…with a release schedule we are really excited for….the relocation of the Experimedia offices and studio…and even more time our hands to dedicate to our endeavors. Here is to a fantastic creative production 2009 for everyone. Thanks again to all those who have supported us over the years.
Experimedia on Solipsistic Nation podcast
December 23, 2008
Podcast Solipsistic Nation No.21 features a track by two Experimedia artists. Koen Park and Bubblegone (Jason Engling). Enjoy…and thanks to Solipsistic Nation for the support.
http://solipsisticnation.com/
Vryashn Max Schaefer’s 2008 Review Top 20 for TheMilkFactory
Along with including Experimedia in his thanks to labels who maintained a challenging dimension in his 2008 Review for TheMilkFactory, Max Schaefer also rated Jeremy Bible & Jason Henry’s album Vryashn #5 in his top 20 of the year. That also puts us in TheMilkFactory’s top 20 overall. Thanks to Max and TheMilkFactory!
aquarius records say nice things about experimedia releases
December 18, 2008
San Francisco, California based record shop Aquarius Records (est.1970) has been stocking Experimedia titles as of recently and their descriptions make some very flattering comments/comparisons regarding our releases. Thanks Aquarius (Jim Haynes).
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Jeremy Bible & Jason Henry - Shpwrck [expcd005]
We’ve picked up another title from the Ohio based field recordists / audio collagists Jeremy Bible and Jason Henry, after being suitably impressed by their earlier album Vectors. The title alone to Shpwrck offers unsettled maritime references, and the lulling pace of lugubrious half melodies and creaking metal does little to alter the course down to the bottom of the ocean. The opening track is effectively simple repetition of a haunted melody, with all of the tape oxidization and murk that makes for a successful Disintegration Loop for William Basinski. Bible and Henry introduce quiet cracklings which sporadically make themselves known, sort of like embers popping in the aftermath of a fire. This combination is so effective, immediately other sublime works with seaworthy themes come to mind: Nurse With Wound’s Salt Marie Celeste, Elegi’s Sistereis, or the Philip Jeck / Gavin Bryars / Alter Ego redux of The Sinking Of The Titanic. More recognizable instrumentation comes to the forefront throughout the rest of the album, with twinkling bells and flutes contrasting next to a dystopian blurt of a post-Cosey Fanny Tutti trumpet with matching bellows from huge metallic objects being struck and then twisted into a deep, dark ambient smear. There’s even some piano which alternates between maudlin impressionist gestures and angry minor key strikes. For all of the baroque objects which litter the descent way way down, Bible and Henry coax an even surface of atmospheric shadow and tactile grit into the mix. A very fine collection of work that is also quite limited. 150 copies, we believe.
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Jeremy Bible & Jason Henry - Shpwrck [expcd005]
Jeremy Bible and Jason Henry are two Ohio based sound artists, who draw heavily from field recordings from the rust belt and obfuscate them into seductive, occasionally dark pieces of fizzing ambience. The details of decaying leaves from the artwork of Vectors immediately translates into the opening passages of Vectors, as a tactile crackling nestles into a womblike drone. The soft crunch could easily come from Loren Chasse’s meditations on broken earth and crumbled leaves, but they could be confused for the vintage turntable collages of Philip Jeck. But as the passages for layered tones and variable loops begin to articulate themselves against the tactile grit of those aforementioned sounds, Bible and Henry showcase themselves more as digital sculptors closer to Aidan Baker and Tim Hecker. Their looping repetitions progressively appear as a slowly generative kaleidoscope with cross-hatched smears, refracted distortions, and slightly eerie abstracted noises, all set against a static electrical hum. Flickered haunted melodies appear and disappear amidst thobbing metallic drones, 8-bit distortion and post-Fennesz fizzing ring modulation before seamlessly shifting into an obfuscated field recording. On one occasion, a blustery chorus of blackbirds breaks through the shimmer and pixelation; on another, the two include the modulated Doppler effect of cars roaring past along a freeway, recalling the Hafler Trio’s revelation that God told him to record the sound of cars passing by. Limited edition to 150 copies, or thereabouts.
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Illusion of Safety - The Need To Now [expcd002]
2008 marks the 25th year for Illusion Of Safety. Once an ensemble of misanthropic electron engineers, Illusion Of Safety has effectively reduced itself down to a single member in Dan Burke who has arrived at the silver anniversary with some of his best work produced throughout the sprawling Illusion Of Safety catalogue. There was the Quell & Sedition 10″, the In Session cd, and now this small edition cd-r, all of which are exemplary versions of the Illusion Of Safety signature sound for psychologically challenging compositions. The Need To Now is more of a blackened cosmic headspace music, with all of the psychedelic flourishes that burst out of Klaus Schulze or Expo ‘70 turned towards something much much darker and much more brooding. There is oblivion in front of you when you are floating alone in outer space, and Burke presents that sublime fiction replete with wonder and horror. For all of the bleak subtext of the album, Burke keeps things very subtle preferring to focus on the minimalist dronesmear ruptured with occasional detours. The shadow and vacuum of Illusion Of Safety’s aerosolized drone always has something ominous just outside of earshot, something lurking the corners of those corroded metal tones and already eerie passages of sci-fi incidental music slowed way the hell down. Illusion Of Safety breaks up the long-form drones with tense glitch workouts that could be an extract from a CoH production, with all sorts of misfired squiggles, poorly grounded bursts of electricity, and erratic charged samples; but unsettled ambience overcomes each of these crescendo like a creeping suffocating fog of toxic gas. It’s an austere and powerful record, in spite of the many subtle twists and turns. Fucking incredible is what The Need To Now is. Limited to a mere 150 copies.
experimedia loves restingbell.net
I wanted to take a moment today to once again express my love of the Resting Bell label. Probably one of the greatest net labels on the planet. Their catalog is approaching 50 releases of beautiful ambient music. I actually have resting bell to thank for the discovery of many of the artists and friends we will be working with in the near future including Ian Hawgood, offthesky, Ryonkt, Entia Non, and Segue. Major respect to Christian for collecting together a fantastic catalog of music and presenting them in a suitably elegant fashion. restingbell.net
exp050 - mental health consumer - the measurement spoils the data
December 15, 2008
mental health consumer
the measurement spoils the data
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Scientist and artist Brian Ruskin (aka Mental Health Consumer) seeks to achieve the careful balance between the calculated and emotive, well-crafted music that also resonates with the listener. His new EP, The Measurement Spoils the Data is inspired by the differences between spring and autumn.
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new and/oar in stock: isobel clouter & rob mullender - myths of origin (and32)
December 12, 2008The new release from the and/oar label, isobel clouter & rob mullender - myths of origin - sonic ephemera from east asia (and32/cd), is now in stock. GET IT HERE.
At long last, after a culmination of delays amounting to 3 years, and/OAR is extremely happy to finally present a full length releasefeaturing “singing sand” and “booming sand” recorded in Japan andMongolia by British sound artists Isobel Clouter and Rob Mullender.”Singing sand”, “booming sand”, “whistling sand” or “barking sand” issand that produces sounds of either high or low frequency underpressure. The sound emission is usually triggered by wind passing overdunes or by walking on the sand.
Also featured are field recordings of a traditional Japanese SawaraMatsuri festival, a Suikinkutsu (underground water zither), Uguisubari (orNightengale floor), Chion-in temple and Saiho-ji temple .
The recordings came about as a result of a project instigated in late1999, which bears witness to a long held fascination with how theenvironment generates and shapes culture, memory and myth. Therewas no desire to conduct any scientific or anthropological field work, butto collect a set of recordings which would serve to illustrate how preciousthe sonic environment can be, and to act as founding materials for asoundscape collection at the British Library Sound Archive.
Track listing:
1. Sawara matsuri, Singing sand, Suikinkutsu
2. Kotohiki-hama - Kotoga-hama beaches
3. Chion-in temple, Nightingale floor, Saiho-ji temple
4. Dune ascent / descent
5. Aosigetunoer descent
6. Baoritaolegainuoer Natural Booming
7. Baoritaolegainuoer descent
8. Dune 3 descent
9. Tibetan Prayer wheels, Xiahe
The audio CD also features a PDF of extra photos pertaining to therecordings that can be accessed on a computer, and comes packaged in a four color digipak and a 12 page booklet.
This CD is dedicated to the memory of Professor Shigeo Miwa, whose warm generosity and enthusiasm was invaluable to the success of this recording project, and whose work is mentioned in an interesting articleabout booming sand and the environment, a PDF of which can be found here.
Tibetan Prayer wheels, Xiahe.
This brief (and silent) video clip pertains to track 9
Jonas Ruchenhever on Timetheory’s Falter Compilation
December 10, 2008Timetheory’s newest compilation ‘Falter’ features a track created by Experimedia artist Jonas Ruchenhever in 2006. The piece is called ‘Stukje herfst voor Ann’ (’Little piece of autumn for Ann’). You can download the whole album or the track for free here:
http://www.archive.org/details/tmth043
Experimedia DJ set at Annabell’s in Akron tonight 11:30
Kind of last minute but I will be djing a set of experimental dance music (lots of Raster-Noton type stuff) at Tek-Know?’s weekly (re)vision at Annabell’s in Akron tonight (Wednesday) at 11:30pm. Its going to be loud, hard, rumbling, and glitchy. (my acoustic pads in my studio were falling off the wall from the bass while I was preparing last night).
Come check out the sounds coming from Berlin label Raster-Noton during my set as we may be bringing them to the area in June.
http://www.raster-noton.net/
10:00-11:30 _ 1 Auxy (minimal techno / house) Tek-know?
11:30-12:30 _ *special set from* Jeremy Bible (Raster Beats) Experimedia
12:30-1:30 _ N:Coder (Koala Tea/Konkrete Jungle)
1:30-close _ Nate Thomas (Breaks Syndicate/New Ascension)
Re(visi0n) @ Annabell’s Lounge presented by Tek-Know?
http://www.myspace.com/annabellsbarlounge
782 W Market St
Akron, OH 44303
(330) 535-1112
http://www.myspace.com/tekknow
http://experimedia.net
Experimedia Upcoming Release Preview Mix on Electronicexplorations.org
December 8, 2008Experimedia recently contributed a mix to electronicexplorations.org which contains select tracks from our upcoming CD release schedule. Enjoy.
01 - Intro
02 - Sylvie Walder - The Most Abstract To Date - [Expcd 007]
03 - Ian Hawgood - North India In 1998 With My Dad - [Expcd 008]
04 - Jason/Shinobu - His Head Had Beams Like Star Beams - [Expcd 009]
05 - Offthesky + Billy Gomberg - They Were At The Beach - [Expcd 010]
06 - Ryonkt - Sora [Excerpt] - [Expcd 011]
07 - Jonas Ruchenhever - Birds Flew Here Once [Excerpt] - [Expcd 012]
08 - Carlos Suárez Sánchez - O Discurso Da Diversidade - [Expcd 013]
experimedia acrylic cards
Our friend Entia Non in Australia designed these fantastic acrylic business cards for us and we will be getting a shipment of them in the near future that will be included with orders and promotional efforts.
rope swing cities - ‘koen park - grey night clouds’ - top 5 albums of the year
Joshua from rope swing cities named ‘grey night clouds’ in his top 5 albums of the year.
Resynthesize track Supersynth in Sven Swift Mix
Experimedia artist Resynthesize’s track Supersynth from exp039 is featured on Sven Swift’s latest mixtape.
Experimedia on Andrew Duke’s In The Mix Again
Two tracks this time…one from Asymmetrical Head (Qorser Mix) and Bleupulp again.
Thanks for the support Andrew!!
http://cognitionaudioworks.com/AndrewDukeInTheMix.html
Cognition Audioworks presents Andrew Duke In The Mix 08Dec08 show:
01. Variant–As Time Stood Still (from The Setting Sun) (Echospace [Detroit])
02. Model 500–Starlight (Mike Huckaby’s Synth mix) (Echospace [Detroit] 313LE)
03. Tokyo Black Star–Game Over (Loco Dice’s 5AM At The Tsukiji Market mix) (from Bit Commander) (Innervisions 019)
04. Gys featuring Isaac Haile Selassie–Settlers Dub (De’fchild 009)
05. Terrence Dixon–Marathon (from Sabbatical) (Diggarama 014)
06. Blaze–Lovelee Dae (20:20 Vision remix) (Playhouse 015)
07. Kenneth Scott–The Business (Clint Stewart’s Business In The Front mix) (Nightlight 014)
08. DJ Sodeyama–Slow Mist (from Now Is The Time) (Archipel 055)
09. Someone Else–Elevator Music (from Pen Caps And Colored Pencils) (Foundsound CD01)
10. Rhythm & Sound featuring Bobbo Shanti–Poor People Must Work (Carl Craig remix) (Burial Mix BMX4)
11. Xtrak–Speed (from Back Up) (Yore 001)
12. X District–Color Correction (Jimmy Edgar’s LTNT mix) (Playhouse 149)
13. Anthony Rother vs Telekraft–Planet Telekraft (Telekraft 002)
14. Tim Fuller–The Slightest Touch (Miguel Graca dub) (from The Slightest Touch remixes Vol. 1) (Bombay 131)
15. Modul–Tekno (from Acid Reborn V) (Chi 023)
16. Barada–Glue (Definitive 018)
17. Mike Edge–Walking Alone (Patrice Scott’s Atmospheric mix) (Sistrum 007)
18. Nebraska–Me Me Me (from Vicarous Disco) (Down Low 014)
19. Christian Orlo–La Tempestad (Chris Fortier’s 40oz mix) (Dialtone 028)
20. Transparent Sound–Cider Club (Fine Cut Bodies remix) (Chi 021)
21. Acid Junkies–Chica Go Sexy (from Crane Dance) (Acid Junkies 0801)
22. Terrence Dixon–Minerals (Matt Chester remix) (from The Remixes EP) (Nice &nd Nasty)
23. 2000 And One–Line Dimension (from Neverending Cycle) (Eevolute 003r)
24. Name + Relucto–Long Black Curly Teeth (from Spawn Of Spoon) (Hum + Haw 004)
25. Arkipov–Our Network (from b.59 EP) (Diplomatik 002)
26. Rework–Love Love Love Yeah (Chloe remix) (Playhouse 138)
27. Orlando Voorn–Game One (Nightvision Retro)
28. Javier Drada–Pa Los Santos De New Orleans (Kitty Kat Sacrifice mix) (Resisted Resonance 004)
29. Tres Demented–Brainfreeze (Carl Craig’s Sessions mix) (Studio !K7 CD224)
30. Varga Zsuzsa–Be Infected (Fine Cut Bodies’ This Is Infected mix) (Chi COC012)
31. Movido–Lagrimas E Palito (from Movido Dubs) (Loveslap! 047)
32. Rhythm & Sound–Si Mi Version (Basic Reshape) (Burial Mix BMX4)
33. Mossmoss–Eighty Ate (from Eating Glass) (Nightlight X03)
34. Jose James–Desire & Love (Moodymann remix) (Brownswood 034)
35. Reggie Dokes–Release Yourself (Mix 1) (Prime Numbers CD02)
36. DOP–Lighthouse (radio mix) (from The Lighthouse) (Orac 028)
37. Kuniyuki Takahishi–All These Things (from Remixes #1) (Theo Parrish remix) (Mule Musiq 028)
38. Ezekiel Honig–Broken Marching Band (from Surfaces Of A Broken Marching Band) (Anticipate 006)
39. Francesco Tristano–Auricle Bio On 1 (Moritiz Von Oswald remix) (Infine 1004)
40. Motor City Drum Ensemble–Sun Sequence (Four Roses 004)
41. Pole–Alles Gute (Scape 056)
42. $tinkworx–Coelacanth (Strange Life 017)
43. Asymetrical Head–Abandoned Bike (Qorser’s Flat Land mix) (from Feeling Sorry For Inanimate (remixes)) (Experimedia 047)
44. Bleupulp–Haus No (from Your Interest Toward People) (Experimedia 048)
45. Matt Chester–Down & Out In EC2 (from Endless Days) (Eleventh Hour 006)
46. Rayuela–Non Dispedere (from Non Dispedere) (Archipel 053)
47. Justin Martin–My Angelic Demons (dub 1) (Buzzin’ Fly 040)
48. :Papercutz–Ultravioleta (The Sight Below remix) (Apegenine 006)
49. Xtrak–Flada (from Back Up) (Yore 001)
50. 2000 And One–Monobass (from Neverending Cycle) (Eevolute 003r)
51. Convextion–Solum Ferrum (from Convextion) (Down Low VEXT CD)
52. Stefny–Fallin’ For (from Migratory Insertion) (Archipel 054)
53. LOD–Sabado Gris (Tomas Jirku’s Scooby-Doo Gristle mix) (Klitekture)
54. Hirnlego–Bit Holes (from Andrew Duke Chain Reaction contest) (FOEM/Crema 004)
55. Onark–Circuit Breaker (Trulz and Robin remix) (Fine Art 010)
56. Acid Junkies–Haunted Memories (from Crane Dance) (Acid Junkies 0801)
57. Jens Loden–First One (Andre Lodeman remix) (Fine Art 009)
58. Common Factor–Get Down #3 (from That Was Then) (Playhouse 111)
59. Dubloner featuring Isaac Haile Selassie–Impakt Dub (De’fchild 009)
60. Christian Prommer’s Drumlesson–Dirty Drums (Sonar Kollektiv)
61. Detroit People Mover–Strangers (Twilight Encounter) (6ONE6 unreleased)
62. AMB–Pellet (Dan F’s Killer Bunnies mix) (Chi 020)
63. Splatter–Urban Witchcraft (from Clynical Swamp) (Dialtone 026)
64. Arthur Oskan–Aerial (from Flight Patterns) (Matrix 017)
65. My My–Pelourinho (from Songs For The Gentle) (Playhouse 129)
66. Andy Vaz featuring Alton Miller– Bygone Times (Yore 012LTD)
67. Matthew Bandy–Derty Werk (Asad Rizvi mix) (Reverberations 022)
68. Chaircrusher–Battery3FM8 (Cornwarning unreleased)
69. Kris Moon–Bossman 2.6 (Fourth City)
70. The Trinity–Burning Spear (Underground Resistance 7-063)
bleupulp on Andrew Duke’s In the Mix 1Dec08 Show
December 1, 2008A track from the recent release on Experimedia by Bleupulp is featured on…..
Cognition Audioworks presents Andrew Duke’s In The Mix 1Dec08 show:
01. Kevin Saunderson–Good Love (Jay Haze edit) (from History Elevate 4) (KMS)
02. John Tejada and Arian Leviste–From Empty Words (from Back For Basics) (Palette)
03. Luciano–Mousa Big Band (from Family) (Desolat)
04. Morgan Geist–Detroit (Carl Craig C2remix2) (from Detroit) (Environ)
05. Christian Orlo–La Tempestad (Manuel de Lorenzi remix) (Dialtone 028)
06. Hercules & Love Affair–Blind (Serge Santiago remix) (DFA)
07. Kyaro–Vortices (Stewart Walker remix) (Auralism)
08. Los Updates–4 Wheel Drive (Ricardo Villalobos 4WD remix) (First If You Please: The Remixes Part 1) (Cadenza)
09. Tiefschwarz–Troubled Man (Ruede Hagalstein remix) (Souvenir Music)
10. Modeselektor featuring Thom Yorke–The White Flag (Trentemoller remix) (Bpitch Control)
11. Phonopsia–Killsat (label tba)
12. Jackpot–Move In The Light (Hampus Drake and Serge Santiago edit1) (Permanent Vacation)
13. Let’s Go Outside–You Make Me Struggle (Area remix) (label tba)
14. Cosmic Sandwich–Scatter Realm (Area remix) (label tba)
15. Rayuela–Hydrae (from Non Dispedere) (Archipel 053)
16. Stefny–Anagostic Bonds (from Migratory Insertion) (Archipel 054)
17. Terry Fuller–The Slightest Touch (Chicken Lips remix) (from The Slightest Touch remixes Volume 2) (Bombay 132)
18. Modul–The Black (from Acid Reborn volume 1) (Chi 023)
19. Justin Martin–Fugitive (Winner’s Circle mix) (from My Angelic Demons) (Buzzin’ Fly)
20. Koyla featuring DJ Primat–Have No Inkling (Manali 008)
21. Camea and Insideout–Azimuth (Clink)
22. A Guy Called Gerald–Sufistifunk (Sugoi)
23. Alter Ego–Why Not (Tim Deluxe remix) (Klang Elektronik)
24. Jimmy Edgar–Function Of Your Love (from Deeper) (Dazed Digital)
25. Amb–Pellet (Phil K and Habersham anamolies remix) (Chi 020)
26. Dada Attack–Clearly Imply (Gui Boratto remix) (K2/Kompakt)
27. Mossmoss–Eating Glass (Travis Dalton’s Bleeding Gums remix) (Nightlight NLMX03)
28. Calisto–Get House (original mix) (from Acid House For All 2) (Definitive)
29. Francesco Tristano featuring Moritz Von Oswald–Auricle Bio On 2 (Infine 1004)
30. Javier Drada–Beep Beep (Detroit mix) (from Beats And Textures) (Resisted Resonance 004)
31. Arthur Oskan–Stopover (from Flight Patterns) (Matrix 017)
32. Maus + Stolle–Adore (Reboot and Meat’s Lake Of remix) (Klang Elektronik 137)
33. Matt Chester–Kick It (DJ 3000 remix) (from Endless Days) (Eleventh Hour 006)
34. East Island–Atomie (Estroe remix) (from Near Death) (Eevonext 007)
35. Kriss–Undersun (from No.Mad) (Unfoundsound 038)
36. Losoul featuring This Time–The Number (Playhouse 143)
37. 6884–Inner Climate (from Here Maybe) (Foem Crema 009)
38. Bluepulp–No Fellow (from Your Interest In People) (Experimedia 048)
39. Matthew Bandy–Derty Werk (Reverberations 022)
40. Rayuela–Anagrame (from Non Dispedere) (Archipel 053)
41. Prosumer–The Craze (Plahouse 105)
42. Alex Smoke–Neds (Vakant)
43. Lopazz vs Heidi–Funkshovel (Get Physical)
44. Arthur Oskan–More Time Than Space (from Flight Patterns) (Matrix 017)
45. Andrew Duke–Consumer Vs. User (Tomas Jirku remix) (Stratagem Musik)
46. Terrence Dixon–Device (Nasty Bobby’s Fuck Detroit remix) (from The Remixes) (Nice + Nasty)
