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The new LP from Loess for n5md is a slowtronic gem, where machine rhythms encourage the dense, slow moving ambient clouds to part occasionally allowing glimmers of familiar sounds & melody to light up the sombre yet captivating soundscapes.​

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Loess is the work of Clay Emerson and Ian Pullman, two friends who found a mutual interest in music and a desire to create their own sounds. Guided by the environments they live in, Loess approaches their music with a strict focus on the source and character of sound. Though inherently ambient, Loess tracks typically feature a percussive element to guide the songs and foster a feeling of building and collapsing. Their production techniques attempt to blur the lines between rhythm, melody and sound. Loess released their eponymous debut album on their own Nonresponse imprint in 2001. Philadelphia became their home base in these early years and as their self-titled album gained attention, they released a couple of EPs by way of the second chapter of Toytronic's 3D Concepts and their installment of n5MD's early 7ransparen7 series of clear 7 inches. Their next full length 'Wind and Water' was released by n5MD in 2006 to widespread positive reviews. Having fully relocated into the Pine Barrens of New Jersey, 2009 saw the release of 'Burrows', a compilation of rare singles, previously unreleased material, and a few new tracks which suggested a slightly darker direction. To the frustration of many of their listeners, the production output of Loess could be described as progressing at a glacial rate. 2017 brings their glacial period to an end with their new full-length 'Pocosin', an album that reflects the duo's collective anxiety and optimism.

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It's not often an artist comes along and shakes up a genre with hardly any reference to what came before but MADTEO is one. His new LP for Honest Jon's Records is a slo-mo deep, dark, wild atmospheric twisted house dive sounding like an ecstatic dance soundtrack for K-Hole exploring urban deviants rather than group hugging hippy 2.0s.

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Visceral, elemental, electronic funk, conjured from scraps of sound, breath, mutterings, dubwise remembrances, scuffling, sweat and blood, thin air - ‘crawled out of the slime’, as the opener puts it, self-engendering like the baddie in Terminator - all harnessed to cruelly grooving earthquake bass and b-boy drum science. 
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Rhythmically it has ants in its pants and it needs to dance, with an improvisatory, streetwise nervous energy and uninhibited, purposeful rapture - akin to this guy, say, eighteen minutes in - crossed with on-song Pepe Bradock and stripped-to-the-bone, mongrel hip-hop. 

It’s unruly and edgy, a bit off its rocker, emotionally ranging - typically anxious, often nostalgic - and riveting dance music.

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Not many producers have been dropping lush laidback beats for as long or as reliably as J-Walk. In his latest LP cosmic soulfulness meets low gravity grooviness in this NASA approved synth soaked space station soundtrack. One for all you space rangers.

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Forget trying to be a city slicker....unless you just wanna be a hologram jam ...so go to a world someplace else...maybe catch the hypercruiser to an underworld galaxy and just chill bien...or ride the night machine for a winter moon rendezvous and an equinox desire...it's just fait accompli. 

Because someplace in the scheme of things, this world must touch another…a world where a mutant fantasy strange brew of street soul, electronic funk, slow motion disco and ambient rave can be found and heard…a place of perpetual twilight where the sun and the stars both shine bright… 

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"Great musicianship....it's all really excellent....sounds like a lost pen-friend from Lille who moved to the Pacific Ocean and sent back paintings...." (Mark Rae)
CreditsAll songs written, arranged, produced and mixed by Martin Fisher 

Martin Fisher: synthesizers, electric guitar and drum programming 

Mastered by Joseph Reiser 
Mastering coordination by Rik Walker 

Artwork and design by Sarah Hardacre  
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Celebrating the rural idyll, Igor Yalivek plants his bucolic synth sounds with natural field recordings, in this most gentle & scenic ambient stroll for Polar Seas Recordings & reminds the world's increasingly cramped city dwellers another way is possible.

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Polar Seas welcomes Igor Yalivec to the label with his gorgeous new record “Still Life”. Igor has released several works as part of Gamardah Fungus, but this solo work is his most peaceful music to date. The album was inspired by the beauty of old villages in the Carpathian forests of Ukraine, with their unhurried pace of life, calming atmosphere and wild nature. Composed using modular synthesizers and field recordings, Still Life feels like music for plants as much as for humans, with its plucked tones and moving ambience. Released in an edition of 100 on clear vinyl. 

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written and recorded by Igor Yalivec 
mastered by Ian Hawgood 
artwork by Dmitry Khabarov​

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