New from enmossed (3/3) Jake Muir's »Pareidolia« explores the consonances between so-called ambient music and extreme metal. LP now at www.anost.net

New from enmossed (2/3) Joe Fujinoki has created a highly distinctive synth microcosm on »Glass Torso«, like a vascular system pumping in and out its undulating liquidities. Now at www.anost.net

New from enmossed (1/3) Glyn Maier runs the label, lives in the countryside with his dog, spends time on walks and with intentional music practice. »after the deluge« uses field recordings (processed through analog filters) for a reflection on a month spent without power. LP now at www.anost.net

New from Peak Oil comes Leo’s »Cicada Burnt« – a collection of kinetic percussive experiments set against the backdrop of UK club music, merging hallucinatory polyrhythms with grimy basslines, overdriven D&B rasps with dembow syncopations and eerie cybernetic pads. Now shipping from www.anost.net

Kirk Barley's »Arc« continues his exploration of just intonation through a sparse but finely detailed palette of organic atmospheres, metallic shimmer, and off-kilter rhythms. Glassy pads, gamelan metallophones, clarinet, and guitar dissolve into fluid, dreamlike forms. Get a copy at www.anost.net

2nd try with front cover :) Hallucinator – »Landlocked« Released on CD via Chain Reaction in 1999, the album collected tracks that had previously appeared across various 12-inches.. Back in September on 2LP via Numbers Available to pre-order at www.anost.net www.anost.net/release/7871...

Hallucinator – »Landlocked« Released on CD via Chain Reaction in 1999, the album collected tracks that had previously appeared across various 12-inches.. Back in September on 2LP via Numbers Available to pre-order at www.anost.net www.anost.net/release/7871...

Michael J. Blood, best known for club music, swims in different waters as Sees. His stylistic switch reveals spiritual jazz, dub, ambient, and concrète music. »Ampersand Curve« is a unique take on ambient jazz. Out on DDS now available from www.anost.net

»Fight Fire With Fire« sees Joachim Nordwall playing detuned, industrial-styled synths, while the second half becomes more rhythmic. Out via iDEAL and now shipping from www.anost.net

Lauren Martin's book »Aftershock: The Seismic Impact of Dubstep« charts the origins of one of the 21st century’s most innovative music genres in an oral-history format. Hardback, 320 pages out via Velocity Press, now available from www.anost.net

After a brief odyssey through various customs clearance offices, »Uuuuuuuu«, the new double-pack by Picture, has arrived. Fast, percussive tracks mix with vaporous, Chain Reaction-spirited excursions. File under: too hot for German authorities. Out via Short Span, now available from www.anost.net

»Breathing Under Honey« by Static Cleaner Lost Reward was the last album released by Low Company in 2023. Zoned-out and dub-infected outsider pop, now back in print via Tarquin Maneks's Purely Physical Teeny Tapes. Reissue now available at www.anost.net

Félicia Atkinson’s new album »Sans Visage« was inspired by Georges Franju’s 1960 horror film »Les yeux sans visage«. It places improvised piano and keyboards within an electroacoustic topography inspired by the GRM. Now available at www.anost.net

Kassel Jaeger's new album »Sub Re« is a sound engineering masterclass. Two longform ambient pieces made from concrete and re-contextualized sounds. Out via Shelter Press. LP and CD now available at www.anost.net

Actress & Suzanne Ciani: »Concrète Waves« Shifting from gentle synth and piano tones to brutal bass drums and back, »Concrète Waves« features two haunting performances, bringing together the organic fluidity of Ciani’s Buchla expressions and Actress’ »R&B Concrète«. Now available at www.anost.net

The Sprigs is a trio featuring Rory Slater (Malvern Brume). They play guitar music – from experimental sketches to folk and noise, garnished with TV sound clips and other sounds. Out via Bison, »For Red Riverbank« is now available at www.anost.net

»Ethiopian Musics« documents Ragnar Johnson and Ralph Harrisson’s vivid 1971 field recordings from Ethiopia. The expanded reissue comes with twelve previously unreleased recordings. 2LP & 2CD now shipping from www.anost.net

Serokolo 7’s »Maramfa Musick Pro« has landed on vinyl. It’s an introduction to Mapanta, a sound from Limpopo, South Africa. It echoes Shangaan or Amapiano rhythms, but speeds them up. Out on Nyege Nyege Tapes, now available from www.anost.net

Gentle ambient x breakbeat hybrids on the latest Short Span by Bot1500 aka Shinichi Kobayashi. Minimalism, focus, harmonies. »The Black Sea« LP now available at www.anost.net

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David James 🍩@funkentechno.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Batu & Donato Dozzy - Exhale unsurprisingly this new collab album between the two techno behemoths is absolute fire. sounds like a perfect meshing of their sensibilities, with depth-charge build-and-release plunges in a dreamtime rhythm latticework batutimedance.bandcamp.com/album/exhale-2

tibslc is back with »City of Something«: eight fragments of hi-fi ambient that further dissolve us in digital haze. LP out via Co:Clear, now available at www.anost.net

Oren Ambarchi & Will Guthrie moved through abstraction and experimentation, but on »Cold Shoulder« there is a relaxed confidence, though sound-wise things get tense now and then. Lovely George Michael portrait on the sleeve. Out on @futuraresistenza.bsky.social, copies shipping from www.anost.net

On »Angel of the North«, Bobby Ingham presents social-realist take on ambient music: sub-bass-heavy liminal sounds, field recordings and regional dialect. Out on Sneaker Social Club and copies available from www.anost.net

Ulla's 28912 label brings an album by J and the Woolen Stars aka Justin Cantrell, part of Picnic and head of Daisart. »Puff« is gorgeous bouquet of lowercase wonders; a glistening pool of lush refractions and music-box lullabies. Get a copy at www.anost.net

»Surfaces of a Broken Marching Band«, Ezekiel Honig's full-length from 2008, wanders between concrète sounds and beat research. Originally released on CD on Anticipate Recordings, it now gets a vinyl reissue via Keplar. Get a copy at www.anost.net

Electronic bliss here from Gast aka Konrad Wehrmeister. While percussive studies were key to his »5050« release, on »Pond«, Wehrmeister focuses on dubby & beatless electronics. Truly timeless stuff on stamped 180g vinyl, paper sleeve, no bullshit. Out via Ilian Tape, now available on www.anost.net

Dewa Alit is a master of Balinese gamelan, known for a radical fusion of tradition and experimentation. »Baur Bentur« presents pieces where Gamelan Salukat performs alongside virtuoso pianist Sri Hanuraga. Out via @orenambarchi.bsky.social and now available from www.anost.net

New from @edicoescn.bsky.social : »Périodique des Chemins Boueux / Herbes Étincelles«. At the centre is Roxane Métayer's violin in conversation grasshoppers, blackbirds, frogs etc. Later voice of Katya Shirshkova enters the scene. Booklet with poetry by Sara Eelen. Get a CD at www.anost.net!

Emily A. Sprague’s new 7inch »Double Moon« for @rvngintl.bsky.social feels closer to the music of her band Florist than to her recent environmental/ambient compositions. Three pieces of fragile dream pop, now available at www.anost.net

New Tax Free Records! Economy of Meaning's »Mind Sink« consists of free-floating compositions and loopy fragments from Copenhagen. Screen-printed sleeve & recycled vinyl. Get a copy on www.anost,net