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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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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voices of ambient protest


1. Teología de Bar
2. Que Funden Un Partido
3. De Momento Fíjate
4. Lo Primero Son Las Comisiones
5. Gravemente Peligrosa
6. Tal Vez Rockefeller Patrocina
7. El Nervioso Discurso De 4 De ESO
8. Nuestra Señora


Playground is a project that aims to be a sound landscape, an electro-acoustical essay about the protests during the Spanish crisis (2007-2016) and the social agents who took sides, mostly from the political left side, with the aim to make visible the inequalities, especially after the protests of the movement of the "outraged", also known as 15-M.

Sometimes the underground ideas become mainstream, and the political discourse, which is full of messages of hope, ends up becoming a kind of school playground.

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electric ambience


1. Absent Space
We wrongly consider that things (including the human self) possess their own inherent nature. The subtle and profound emptiness realized on the bodhisattva path is an ultimate truth. This ultimate truth is a negative phenomenon --the mere absence of a certain type of self (i.e., a certain kind of existence) in phenomena. In Buddhism, ultimate truth is an absence, not a presence.

2. Dinamic Memory Sequences
A memory dinamic sequence consists of music, images and moments of our past and future lives. A new life can make our memories fade but this does not mean they should be forgotten.

3. Angya
Angya is a term used in Zen Buddhism in reference to the traditional pilgrimage a monk or nun makes from monastery to monastery, literally translated as "to go on foot." The term also applies to the modern practice in Japan of an unsui (novice monk) journeying to seek admittance into a monastery for the first time.

4. Waves and Wind
There are waves and there is wind, there are visible and invisible forces. Everyone has these same elements in his life, the visible and the invisible, karma and free will.

5. Dry Leaves
Music composed for this haiku written by a member of Africa Haiku Network Jamil Dan’bala Umar "Harmattan winds / clattering dry leaves / count their days".

The etymology of the Latin word Ianua (door) would refer to the god Ianus, usuallyde picted with two faces (the so-called Giano Bifronte), since the god can look at the future and the past, but also because, being the god of the door, he can look both inside and outside. Already the ancients put the name of the god in relation to the movement: Macrobius and Cicero made it derives from the verb ire (to go), because according to Macrobius the worldalways moves in a circle and returns from itself to itself. Modern scholars have confirmed this relationship by establishing a derivation from the term ianua, door, but it is with Georges Dumézil that the meaning is specified: the name Ianus derives from the Indo-European root *ei-, expanded in *y-aa- with the meaning of passage that, through a form *yaa-tu, has also produced the Irish ath (ford).

If possible, listen to it with headphones. Thanks.

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Cover Design: Vincenzo Arena. Dancer in the cover: Amina

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sinister sounds with bad beats


1. We're Not OK
2. Reflex
3. Namaste
4. The Horrible Life
5. The Martyr Just Around The Corner
6. The Last Panopticon
7. Amplify The Hate
8. Revenge Of The Worst
9. A Therapy For The Future

The “Horrible Life” is the summit of an almost apocalyptic thought about the future and the way in which society works lately. From an omniscient narrator point of view and dealing with different issues, a state of hopelessness can be perceived, a new way of passively dealing with what cannot be changed; understanding, in the end, that the only possible path to take is the change of Circle.

A critique on new age and its consequences in “nama$te”, “the martyr just around the corner” is present. There is also an analysis on madness, lack of understanding and depersonalization in “we're not ok”, and “reflex”. In the midst of passivity and trying to assume what is already given: the horrible life and the last panopticom.

Reaching freedom from resentment, the coming of an impending end and a breath of fresh air for the future in amplifying the hate,revenge of the worst and a therapy for the future. Crunchy synthesizers, grave sounds, electronic expressions and processed voices lead to a rough but atmospheric and melodic sound with mid tempos.

After 3 albums, Turvia, a project based on ambient, techno, electronic, darkpop and some industrial traits, makes it to a much more melodic sound in which the lyrics gain more importance than in previous works.

Recorded by Dan Abdala
Mixed and mastered by Pablo Fontan

Synth and Vocals by Dan Abdala

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squiggly lines in a straight book, left sounds in a right universe


1. The Doppelgänger
2. Los Angeles 2090
3. Qur
4. Hungry Morlocks
5. My Lai
6. Archeoastronomy
7. Spookshow
8. Night Parade of 100 Demons
9. Fried Fox
10. Western Wind
11. Time

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a fine-grained experimental ambience


1. Curious Thought

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Hamunkansu  

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delicate electric atmospheres


1. Ensö
2. Inamorata Mori Arrows
3. Windcrawlers Parade


Jukai by Tomorrow's Man & Aairria was conceived and recorded in 2018
as a result of spontaneous collaboration.

Track 1 was composed by Tomorrow's Man using sounds provided by Aairria.
Track 3 was composed by Aairria using sounds provided by Tomorrow's Man.
Track 2 was composed by both using a recording of an accidental mixer feedback noise.

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a scenic journey from leisurely pastures into more difficult terrain


slice 1
1. scene 31: heart of stone
2. intermezzo 14
3. scene 32: springfield
4. scene 33: easy easy
5. scene 34: indira sunshine

slice 2
6. scene 35: die garnelen
7. scene 36: requiem 4V
8. scene 37: ax bows
9. scene 38: hi M

slice 3
10. intermezzo 15
11. scene 39: to the seas
12. intermezzo 16
13. scene 40: hillbillies in the white house
14. scene 41: quite nite
15. scene 42: woven
16. scene 43: tutti K

slice 4
17. scene 44: terje
18. intermezzi 17 + 18
19. scene 45: boost 11

all tracks arranged from live session recordings 2016 - 18

“die garnelen” is based on the poem of the same title by Frank Ruf,
who, again, also gave his voice

this album is dedicated to Mrs. Vera Lang (1959 - 2016)

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(note: since all the 19 parts are meant to constitute one unified piece, the album zip contains a single-file continuous mix, with a track list)




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Cover artworks by AnnCath Herrmann

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