hostile soundscapes


1. Sinister Overture
2. Rude Awakening
3. Proton Impostor
4. The Boundary / Back To Beyond


Conceived and produced by Chris Sigdell 2015-2016
Mastered at The Loft 2018
Photography and original design by Chris Sigdell

Thanks to Bugsy Alex for making the necessary introduction

© 2019 b°tongmusic - a light severed
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Originally released as limited Digipack CD on Marbre Negre 2019

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a dark ambience from Greece


1. Absence
2. Black Hole
3. Time Ticks Away
4. The Dwarf
5. Hidden Notes
6. Hypnosis
7. Ephemeral
8. Cyclothymia
9. In Silence
10. Rest In

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ambient electronic beats


1. Artifacts
2. Echo Lake (Original)
3. The Expanse (Groove Cut)
4. Limelight (Remastered)
5. The Edge (Remastered)

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a musical journey along Zenapolæ's timeline celebrating its 20^th anniversary
happy birthday to you all ;-)

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Nik, aka 4T Thieves, from Finland, has crafted an awesome 4-deck live remix of 23 tracks taken from Zenapolæ's catalog, in roughly chronological order. This 40-minute continuous remix track beautifully reflects the label's development over time, at the same time creating its own, unique atmosphere. From our electronic beginnings, through the dark ambient phase, into its present more experimental orientation.

Tracks used in the remix

1. zen001 - d/form: What Are You Thinking? - 6. 00:29:21::00:37:02 (1999)
2. zen005 - Instruction Shuttle: Open Sad Circuit - 12. DNADegrade (2003)
3. zen015 - ecux: Eastern Cross - 5. Luthm (2003)
4. zen080 - Many: Processed - 1. zsea (2011)
5. zen021 - Aidan Baker: Paeu Sensible - 2. Distal Akirl (2003)

6. zen037 - lolpix: Unrealized - 2. Bent (2007)
7. zen035 - Raumwerk: Eine Mögliche Reise - 3. Sting Meets Green (2007)
8. zen043 - Jopy: Bojjhanga - 3. Dhammavicaya (2007)
9. zen049 - Thomas Maos: Chill In Drill Out - 12_GoodVibrations (2008)
10. zen049 - Thomas Maos: Chill In Drill Out - 5. Filterwand (2008)

11. zen075 - Venus Vulture: Pylon Suite - 1. Pylon Suite I (2010)
12. zen001 - d/form: What Are You Thinking? - 00:05:51::00:11:58 (1999)
13. zen129 - affaire difficile: questionable things - 6. scene 4: organic talk (2016)
14. zen142 - 4T Thieves: Waves of Change - 3. Tranquil (2016)
15. zen153 - Daniele Ciullini: Forgotten Monuments - 2. empty factories (2017)

16. zen155 - MUTE - 4. Cielo Enorme (2017)
17. zen167 - Reverberant Evenings: Where Were We My Friend - 2. The Silver Ray (2018)
18. zen174 - affaire difficile: Certain Aspects of Proliferation - 1. Slice 1 (2018)
19. zen179 - El Wud: Ianua - 2. Dinamic Memory Sequences (2018)
20. zen181 - Mustlord: zenCompilation - 2. Deep Time III (2019)

21. zen142 - 4T Thieves: Waves of Change - 4. Drifting in the Clouds (2016)
22. zen184 - EE7A: No Summer - 2 Skeleton Down (2019)
23. zen043 - Jopy: Bojjhanga - 7. Passadhi (2007)




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a more concrete ambience for space adventurers


1. Ghosts Of Industry - Radiation Skies Revisited
2. Oberth Effect and Flight Path Simulation
3. Oumuamua A2017 U1
4. The Future Remains
5. Please Don't Stand At My Grave And Weep (featuring Mary Panjoma)
6. Shades Of Dusk
7. Ode To Elon - Beautiful Dreamer
8. The Romulan Whisper

Bonus Track
9. Distant Trains Of Distant Planets

Video
Shades Of Dusk - Virtual Real Estate Tour


A haunting, electronic undercurrent carries through this ethereal, darkly romantic ambient release
Jackie Perks, Classical Jams Piano YouTube Channel

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a silent ambience


1. Tal
2. Tal (Pitched)

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an auditory journey through the worldly seasons


1. Sacrifice
2. Skeleton Down
3. Rise
4. No Summer
5. Winter (Departure)


No Summer is an auditory journey through the infinite procession of the worldly seasons, and hopes invoke feelings of calm and acceptance of the changes that this unstoppable trek through space and time brings with it.

All music recorded live using a Eurorack format modular synthesizer, accompanied by an Arturia Microbrute and various FX pedals.

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a Chinese approach to Marx. somewhat exotic, be prepared.


1. Goods As Religions
2. Exchange Generates Money
3. Goods And Money
4. Transformation
5. Labor And Valorization

6. Constant And Variable Capital
7. The Rate Of Exploitation
8. Labor Day
9. Surplus Value Mass And Rate
10. Absolute And Relative Surplus Value

11. Cooperation
12. Manufacturing
13. Machine
14. Productive Work
15. Strength Labor And Surplus Value

16. Rate Formulas
17. Salary As Value
18. Timed Salary
19. Piece Wage
20. National Wage Difference

21. Simple Reproduction
22. Surplus Value Becomes Capital
23. Industrial Reserve Army
24. Original Accumulation
25. Colonization

Eighth album for the NonMiPiaceIlCirco! Project. This time, they got it. Nobody takes seriously if you have strong political point of view. So they took The Capital from the shelf to read again. But who remembers it, especially young people? Let's s get rid of guitars and songs to give a didactic approach to the music.

25 tracks, one for each of the First Book's 25 chapters. They use the lyrics as Hinduist mantras, where repetition is the key for a deep understanding of our life, and Marx as well. Its music, besides being lo-fi and badly made, is just an excuse. The lyrics are a summarized version of the aforementioned book and are spoken by 25 different Mandarin native voices, completely unaware of the reason behind the recording. Still time to die as a Marxist(?). Developed and recorded in China. Of course.

Matteo Preabianca: voice, furniture, no plastics empty bottle, boxes, guqin, tibetan bells, field recordings, pipe, keyboards.
Zhan Qi Lu: background voices, guzheng, erhu.
Liang SiQi: drum machine, taping.

All tracks composed by Matteo Preabianca.
Recorded at XixiLu, Hangzhou, Zhejiang (China).

Mantra Marx Press Kit (PDF)

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There is also an English version of Mantra Marx, for those not so fluent in Mandarin:
  zen183e.zip (English version)

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Somber Fuss Experiments brings reverberation chaos, minimal soundwaves, experimental noises, dark and soft ambients


1. Queue To Die
2. The Craving
3. Goodbye (Nasty Little Friend)
4. Down In The Mouth
5. Painstacking Filth
6. Painstacking Filth (Overcast)
7. Leaden Bridge I
8. Aldreu's Shimmering Plates
9. Leaden Bridge II

This album offers manipulated acoustic guitars, extremely reverberated spaces, tape effects, drone tibetan cup and other vibrating instruments, modulation and oscillation with synths, odd pianos, field recording soundscapes, loops and noises.

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dense atmospheres, a brooding organic sound, in a delicate arrangement


1. Deep Space IV
2. Deep Time III
3. Autosomal Compelling Helio-Ophthalmic Outburst (ACHOO)

All tracks were created from the artist's own acoustic and electric guitar samples, processed through a range of audio algorithms and effects. The original sounds were taken from the bands Finger Picking Good (acoustic) and ChiaroScuro (prog rock), both available on bandcamp (finger-picking-good.bandcamp.com and chiaroscurouk.bandcamp.com).

Deep Time and Deep Space are from the first two releases in a planned trilogy of ambient albums which can be found at mustlord.bandcamp.com

Those affected by photic sneezing may find relief by shielding their eyes and/or faces with hats, scarves, and sunglasses.

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Cover Design: Distant supernova (or: spilled beaker at Bristol UWE laboratories)

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