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Put 'em Down, Tuck 'em In -- thesoundof

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Now: FELDERMELDER - THE SOUND OF REMIXES

FELDERMELDER - THE SOUND OF REMIXES - OUS018

Release: April 19, 2019 Format: digital Buy on Bandcamp.

FELDERMELDER REMIXED BY ZAVOLOKA, FELDERMELDER AND SHAO.

Feldermelder backs up his «The Sound Of» EP that was written in hotel rooms around the world with two remixes by outstanding electronic musicians with whom he has toured and collaborated.

Ukrainian artist and composer Zavoloka explores the depths of analog and digital synthesis, her fine-tuned signature sound is deeply rooted in electronica and IDM. Her remix of «Another Place» is a crystal-clear, floating piece in space. Beijing-based Shao released his two most recent albums «Doppler Shift Pt.1» and «Pt.2» on Berlin’s history-charged Tresor label. His music fuses elements from the Techno- and Electronica-universes into a singular sound. His remix of «Shanghai» is a slowly breathing piece that holds time. Feldermelder himself contributes the third remix of «1st _ 62nd»: turning the lightsome original into it’s mere opposite, delivering a high-energy, grinding take.

___Tracklist (digital)

Feldermelder - Another Place (Zavoloka Remix) 2:49 Feldermelder - 1st _ 62nd (Feldermelder Remix) 8:58 Feldermelder - Shanghai (Shao Remix) 4:35

___Release: April 19, 2019

Format: digital EP

___Credits

All tracks written and produced by Feldermelder Remixes by Zavoloka, Feldermelder and Shao Mastered by Manuel Oberholzer Cover by Manuel Oberholzer Design by Mathias Forbach

___Shops

OUS Bandcamp: https://feldermelder.bandcamp.com/album/the-sound-of-remixes Boomkat: https://boomkat.com/products/the-sound-of-remixes Kudos: https://ous.kudosrecords.co.uk/release/ous018/feldermelder-the-sound-of-remixes Beatport: https://www.beatport.com/release/the-sound-of-remixes/2549390 Traxsource: https://www.traxsource.com/title/1122922/the-sound-of-remixes iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/the-sound-of-remixes-single/1457333376

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Video: FELDERMELDER - SHANGHAI

FELDERMELDER — SHANGHAI A slightly moving still by Manuel Oberholzer.

«An attempt to capture the nightly nothingness while transforming random lights into an emotional journey.» Artist, installation artist, musician and mad scientist Manuel Oberholzer captured the video that gave rhythm and birth to his musical piece Shanghai.

A visual work as method of composing music: In Shanghai the artist captures the feeling of his nightly strolls through empty spaces of the Chinese mega city Shanghai sitting for while in the center of a else wise busy road, giving a sense and feel to the juxtaposition of the daily chaos of the city with the nightly emptiness and quietness. It is a poetical view of nothingness, distorting the real feel of space and time, giving an emotional value to the else wise lonely traffic lights while shifting everything into its right place in the greater scheme of composition. Render everything into meaning.

«Feldermelder - Shanghai» is part of the EP «The Sound Of» released on -OUS records as flexi disc with digital EP: https://ousooo.bandcamp.com/album/the-sound-of

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The Sound of the Elements

Joe and I decided to do the Elements after he showed me some great tunes with lots of water sounds. We decided to do the show as 15 min segments, each with us doing our half on each of the elements. Here’s mine:

Air:

The air segment is (of course) quite light and floaty, whilst also containing songs that are generally slow and then quite fast. This was to represent the nature of wind - all over the place and lots of speeds!

At 2 mins in you’ll hear a recording of a news bulletin announcing London’s pollution crisis - with one road in London surpassing the capital’s air pollution limit for the year in one week. This was particularly pertinent to me, as I pretty much cycle everywhere in London and the pollution is v.noticable.

After that, I play O$VMV$M - Flora, which to me sounds like a breathing rhythm.

At (13:20mins) I play a bit of a haunting tune I made from a sample of a humming bird, and lots of bass which is made to sound like it’s passing through air at speed.  

Earth:

I was the most excited about this element. I guess I’d consider myself someone who’s environmentally conscious, I’ve been vegetarian and then vegan for a number of years due to agriculture’s damage on the earth. So it was fun to include a bit of my lifestyle/politics into music. There’s recordings from Conspiracy in there, discussing facts on the agriculture industry.

I include Bjork - Solstice (34:21mins) from her Biophillia album, a musical masterpiece inspired by the Earth/Bjork’s interest in the environment. Solstice was created using a group of pendulums, transmitting the movements of the Earth to the sound of a harp. Just listen to the lyrics and you’ll know why I included it!  

I’ve also included a great tune by Erikah Badu, not only an incredible musician but an environmentalist and fellow vegan, woohoo!

Water:

Where it all started! This obviously includes lots of tunes with water samples. I’ve included a tune I’ve made with some humpback whale samples in it too, the best animal ever. I think this is the most chilled of the four, calm waters…

Fire:

I started with a recording from my friends’ Alex and Jess’ fire. Fire is considered both the creator and taker of life. To represent this I included one of the oldest ‘electronic’ pieces composed ,Halim El-Dabh - "Wire Recorder Piece" (1944), (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j_kbNSdRvgo&feature=youtu.be). I’ve also included a tune that I listened to during a destructive time in my life, and one straight after that I listened to during a time of extreme happiness/loving feelings!

Fire is, of course, really intense. So I’ve included some tunes that reflect this, Mumdance’s Path of the Seer tunes being one of them.

Overall, I wanted to use this show to highlight how we interfere with the elements by generally not giving a shit about the planet. But on a lighter note also show how some artists can replicate those sorts of elemental energies in music.

JQ:

I wanted to illustrate the beauty but also the destructive nature of our planet, such as natural disasters and man’s negative influence on our environment.

Air

For this section I mainly focused on calming music, representing how I feel when focusing on breathing during meditation and also the music that I sometimes listen to while meditating. I included Rodger Winfield’s East Wind off of his Windsongs album, it only features recordings of aeolian harps, a musical instrument played entirely by the movement of the wind. It’s rad. 

The rest of the mix is a collection of old favourites like Lucky Dragons, Grouper and the Healing Music of Rana and also new artists likeRhucle and Lanark Artefax.

TL:

Grouper - Wind and Snow Rhucle - Air Flow Roger Winfield - East Wind Toshifumi Hinata - Colored Air Mkwaju Ensemble - Hot Air Lucky Dragons - Tune For Wind Dog Lanark Artefax - All That is Solid Melts Into Air Healing Music Of Rana - Vol III: Solarwindplay

Earth

I wanted to create some sort of disparity with the songs in the Earth section. I mixed J.G. Biberkopf's brooding Black Soil over Hiroshi Yoshimura's beautiful Forest Side, then going into Panabrite’s lovely Soft Soil, aiming to highlight the natural beauty and destruction of Earth.

At the end I played the beginning of J.D. Emmanuel’s Through Inner Planes, a song off his Solid Dawn album. Emmanuel says on hiswebsite that his music “allows a person to transcend time and space”.

I was thinking of playing 15 minutes of Earth 2, one of my favourite bands when I was younger, but it would have been too much. I saw them live once. It was very loud and I was very stoned.

TL:

Austin Wintory - And The Earth Did Not Yet Bear A Name A.r.t. Wilson  - Janine's Theme (Earth) Ben Babbitt - Hall of the Mountain King Hiroshi Yoshimura - Forest Side J.G. Biberkopf - Black Soil Panabrite - Soft Soil J.D. Emmanuel - Through Inner Planes

Water

I was aiming for the water section to be contemplative and relaxing, like watching the ocean or a stream.

Whenever I get caught up in watching the ocean or any huge natural feature I’m reminded of my own insignificance.

I included the strange and beautiful sound of the Zadar Sea Organ, another “natural instrument” like the aeolian harp, which goes into Kip Mazuy's Water Falling, a soothing song that I listen to every night to help me go to sleep. One of my favourite records is Jürgen Müller's Science of the Sea, an album I come back to again and again, I’ve played songs off it on Radar twice now. I wanted to play a very short song of mine called Underwater which was a hidden track on my Quiet Music release but it wouldn’t work for some reason, anyway I’ve put it on WeTransfer if you want to hear it.

TL:

Zadar Sea Organ Kip Mazuy - Water Falling David Williams / Sounding the Deep - Underwater Cathedral Jürgen Müller - Das Unfassbare Seepferdchen (The Elusive Seahorse) Gaussian Curve - Dewdrops Steven Halpern - Waterfall (Part 1) Wounds - Chilling Waves

Fire

In contrast to India’s tense and dramatic fire set, my choices for this final section represent the idea of sitting around a fire at a campsite or watching a sunset, being slightly cold and melancholic with feelings of warmth. I wanted it to be mainly calm but to have a feeling of unpredictability.

I included lots of slower songs like Canyon Sunset off the Firewatch soundtrack and Fire Rites which is off a compilation called Mid-Winter Rites & Revelries. Heated Dust On A Sunlit Window reminds me being a kid and seeing dust particles floating in sunlight.

I played HKE’s restrained Fire, the last song off Dragon Soul, it’s a really good record.

Snowflake Dragon is a song by SunPath, off of the Dream Music cassette, an album of beautiful wandering organic sounds.

TL:

Soundscape of a forest fire

Rob St. John - Fire Rites  

Autistici - Heated Dust On A Sunlit Window

HKE - Fire

Chris Remo - Canyon Sunset

SunPath - Snowflake Dragon

Thank you for having me India : - )

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The Sound of Colour

India’s Mix:

This month’s theme was inspired by Deadboy’s NTS show and all of the New Atlantis artwork - lots of colour! Big thanks to him for the guest mix, such a great selection.

[If you haven’t already checked it, New Atlantis is a new age/ambient social at Rye Wax I’ll be taking over running as Deadboy’s moving to Canada - come along every 1st Sunday of the month!]

It’s not surprising that colour and sound are linked, each colour has its own frequency which can ultimately be translated into sound. Music evokes feeling, and feelings for some people can be felt as colour. I’m not sure if I have synesthesia myself, but I definitely feel certain colours for certain songs, or tunes remind me of a particular time when I was around certain colours.

I feel like this mix is a lot happier than usual (not that I’m not happy ofc.) it’s more that I prepared it when it was a really sunny day. For me, songs that make me feel lots of colours have a positive/light sort of sound. Although I have included some tunes that I listened to when I was going through a dark time.

Gonna explain the mix a little differently this month and with a full track list:

Bliss - Bass Communion - The artwork for this tune on youtube has loads of lovely colours! 

Circle of Fifths - pt.6 A Rainbow of Sound (youtube tutorial) Nice lil quote about music and colour I found

Green Relaxation Meditation Music Green nature sounds!

Riverside Drive - Seachel Nana - A bit more green,

The Sound of Colour - Sir Psych -  Doesn’t need an explanation really!

What I Need - A/T/O/S Make me feel red/dark maroon. Listened to this when going through a break up

Heart - Sundrenched This tune is so colourful to me! I just see lots of different colours of light beaming around.

Don’t Love you Like I Do (Drake - Sango Right Hand Remix) - This tune is has so many colours on the Serato waveform!

My Homeland - Renja Greeeeeeeeen

Recording of me sat by a purple/red tree in Hyde Park I wanted to record the sounds of being around lots of colour, I was sat next to a really red tree which stood out among all the green (image below) 

Gabriel Yared’s response to Cezanne’s Bathers - Soundscapes (National Portrait Gallery Exhibition) A really great exhibition with artists musical interpretations of paintings, I thought this quote was great

Mountain Goat - Amorphous Androgynous Spring time, lots of green and yellow!

Aqua - J A K O B Y - My fave tune from the additive colours collection (aptly named because of the 15 tracks on top of each other). This one Jakoby named colour because of the bubbley sounds.

Zodiac Shit - Flying Lotus.  This video!

Between Us (Instrumental) - Hazel Yellow, mainly due to the artwork & serato waveforms (I’m such a visual learner)

Electric Counterpoint - Fast (Movement 3) - Steve Reich & Pat Metheny All the guitars remind me of lots of yellow

Break With - Ryuichi Sakamoto. Such a beautiful tune. I see lots of blues and teals in it

Stay With you - Lemon Jelly Dark reds/maroons. Lemon Jelly make really colourful music

Haven’t You Heard - Patrice Rushden So many colours on the Serato waveform! lots of pinks

Recording of my walk down Prince Consort Road -  Again I wanted to include recordings where I was surrounded with colour. I work around lots of orange/red brick and this was on a bright day with blue skies.

Recording from the Boohbah’s TV show This show is fucked but really colourful.

You can do it - Spike Dark blue, purples, reminds me of driving late at night looking up at a starry sky.

Easy on Yourself - Jerry Williams The bass in this reminds me of a brassy brown, a real funky tune

Orange - J A K O B Y -  Another from the Additive Colour collection. Orange being the favourite colour of someone real special to meet

Something got me started - Simply Red I was listening to a bit of Simply Red over the weekend and this tune reminds me of being a kid singing to the tape in my living room!

Deadboy’s Mix:

For this mix I moved through the traditional ROYGBIV colour spectrum with black and white at the end with a track or 2 to represent each colour in some way: RED I started with DOWN HERE IN BABYLON by Brent Dowe, because red is the colour of the root chakra in eastern metaphysics and in kabballah this corresponds with Malkuth on the tree of life, the material, physical realm or earth, so down here in babylon represents the earthly plane with all its problems. Red is also the colour of Babalon, the Scarlett woman, in Aleister Crowleys metaphysical mythology, basically an archetype that represents the opposite aspect of the Virgin Mary archetype throughout mythology, so I followed this up with DEVIL IN A NEW DRESS, a Kanye West song along this theme, but I went with the Rick Ross version cos I prefer it, and its a lot about material things, and it has the lines “Cherry Red Cherryade excess is just my character, all black tux, n**a shoes lavender”. I finished red with SEEING RED by minor threat for obvious reasons and I guess it fits the theme material reality over spiritual ideals or some junk. PINK I went with SAKURA SAKURA, a traditional japanese piece for Koto, as it means Cherry Blossom, and thats the most vivid representation of pink I can think of. ORANGE Arthur Russell THE NAME OF THE NEXT SONG is a very orange song, the repeated line “California, Here I Come” makes me think of driving along orange groves in the LA sunshine. YELLOW A traditional Chinese piece, YELLOW RIVER from the Laments of Zhao Jun, again for fairly obvious reasons GREEN the greenest record I know is Hiroshi Yoshimura’s GREEN , its the sound of spring, nature, gardens, and renewal. I followed this up with Jordan CGZ - LUSHLYFE SLAP , Jordans LUSHLYFE series is pretty lush green house music and this track is also kind of blue and goes very nicely into: BLUE SEA OF TEARS by Goldie, a very New Age Drum n Bass tune from a very blue album. This goes into ALICE by Tom Waits which epitomises that smoky dark blue quality of jazz recordings and is a very dark blue and beautiful track, full of imagery of falling through the ice into dark water and being set adrift. INDIGO The reason we have Indigo and Violet in the colour spectrum is because Isaac Newton was into the Occult notion of a connection between the colours, the musical notes, the days of the week, and the known objects in the solar system at the time all being 7. Anyway Aeoliah is ultimate music for Indigo children. This is the B side to THE LIGHT OF TAO. VIOLET Went with DJ Screw - AFTER I DIE cos Purple is the colour of Purple Drank obvs. Plus it leads nice into BLACK Sunn o))) BATHORY ERSZEBET from the album Black One, it sounds like a graveyard made of oil at night. So Black. This goes into DUNKELHEIT by Burzum. Dunkelheit is norse for Darkness. This is pretty classic black metal so prob a good introduction to people who don’t really know any black metal, and theres a breakdown where he goes “suddenly, life has new meaning” which I always really liked. WHITE Paysage d’hiver is a one man black metal band who makes music that sounds like a blizzard. He also makes this kind of frosty ambient music that sounds like the aftermath of a blizzard, everything pure white and frozen and glinting in the light. this track is called EISHALLE. And finally finishing on Basic Channel - RADIANCE II, a track that sounds like pure white light, Kether at the top of the tree of life, the blinding source of everything.

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#thesoundof#autumn ♫ Bill Withers — Ain't No Sunshine released June 1971. Still remains one of my favorite singles for my september soundtrack, featuring #StephenStills on guitar, and #GrahamNash sitting in. "Ain’t no sunshine when she’s gone 
It’s not warm when she’s away. 
Ain’t no sunshine when she’s gone 
And she’s always gone too long 
Anytime she goes away. 
 Wonder this time where she’s gone 
Wonder if she’s gone to stay 
Ain’t no sunshine when she’s gone 
And this house just ain’t no home 
Anytime she goes away." #billwithers