Toxic City Music

NYC based artist Evan Caminiti breathes life into the Dust Editions imprint with the release of Toxic City Music. Caminiti has explored electro-acoustic music since the mid 2000’s, the latest transmission being 2015’s Meridian. While that album was Caminiti’s first to omit electric guitar, he has now returned to the instrument. Here it is buried it in an electronic mist and melted down, it’s sonic fabric reshaped.

Toxic City Music was inspired by the psychic and physical toxicity of life in late capitalism. Conceived throughout 2015 and 2016, Caminiti captured the sounds of NYC’s machinery and voices before weaving them into his studio experiments. This collection of song mutations unravels in hazy plumes and serrated edges; concrète sounds mesh with disembodied strings and corrosive electronics on “Joaquin”, drones ripple under stuttering rhythms and crude synth detritus throughout “NYC Ego”. On “Toxic Tape (Love Canal)”, layers of digital degradation smear guitar clusters, dissolving into a dubby devotional-ambient space.

Recorded and produced by Evan Caminiti. Featuring Jefre Cantu-Ledesma on “Joaquin”. Additional production and mixdowns by Rafael Anton Irisarri at Black Knoll Studios.

Mastered and cut by Rashad Becker at Dubplates and Mastering.

Artwork by Evan Caminiti.

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Released March 3, 2017

The Story Surrounds Us, by Kate Carr

Kate Carr melds the exquisite details of her field recordings with an ephemeral approach to the song. this australian has relocated herself to london after many trips around the globe. with each orbiting journey, she has collected innumerable sounds from the urbane to the aqueous and from the frenetic to the sublime, contextualizing all of these into compositions rippling with primordial melodies through guitar, piano, and electronics.

The Story Surrounds Us follows her highly acclaimed albums i had myself a nuclear spring (first released on her own flaming pines imprint in 2015) and carr’s debut for helen scarsdale in 2016, it was a time of laboured metaphors. emblematic of her work is a gentle dislocation between the environmental sounds and her drone-dub ellipses of somnambulant melody. the clatter of a frozen dock or a vibrational shimmer from rustled objects or the unintelligible whispers displaces the sense of self amidst a sea of disparate symbols and coded thought. more a travelogue in and out of one’s own body than to any particular place.

Carr suggests

“In a way, it is about restlessness, an uncomfortable tossing and turning in all these many different places, a struggle somehow to forge a connection between my own internal world and all these places and persons i have encountered. i think this holds a sense of unease and strain, with both beautiful and failed moments of intimacy and connection which are made either possible or impossible in the difficult and distorted context of being away. it is quite sad, really.”

Look to Carla dal Forno, Alan Lamb and those moments of clarity in the shapeshifting ethos from jewelled antler for neighboring sounds to Kate Carr’s chimerical compositions.

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released May 26, 2017

This album involved a lot of travel from ólafsfjörður, iceland to sian ka’an in mexico, to falun in sweden and velez blanco in spain. special thanks to listhus artspace, biospheres soundscapes, joya arte + ecologica for hosting me in iceland, mexico and spain respectively, to lina sofia lundin for having me to sweden, andrea ancira garcia for letting me use her wonderful field recording taken in mexico in ‘1001’, to jim haynes for his support in releasing this, and to tanya serisier for her support in all things.

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Part 2 (of 2) of a Classical+Neo-Classical mix w/ a touch of Ambient & Glitch (with a little  Fripp & some Bowie/Eno included) – inspired by Daníel Bjarnason‘s ‘Recurrence’, performed by the Iceland Symphony Orchestra.

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01 Michel Banabila – Dissolve_2017 (excerpt, sampling
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02 Kaija Saariaho – Nocturne, for violin solo
03 Iceland Symphony Orchestra – Aequora
04 Izumi Kuremoto – Epilogue
05 John D. Reedy – The Great Long Distance
06 Andy Partridge & Harold Budd– Bruegel [#]
07 Daníel Bjarnason –  Dreaming
08 Gustav Holst – Saturn, the Bringer of Old Age
09 Iceland Symphony Orchestra – Emergence_ III. Emergence
10 Kronos Quartet – Black Angels, Largo movement I
11 Robert Fripp, Andrew Keeling & David Singleton – Black Light
12 Philip Glass – Some Are [Low Symphony]

Markus Reuter @ Glaus Haus, by Dutch Rall

I’m a big @MarkusReuter fan (heavy Robert Fripp influence, but with his own unique sound). This is a soft & beautiful piece of ambient guitar from Mr. Reuter.

Check out his work with Stickmen (w/ Tony Levin & Pat Mastelotto) too.

Ambient on Mission

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Nest, by Arovane & Darren McClure

Will definitely be grabbing several choice tracks from this album…

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“Nest” is the second collaboration between Arovane and Darren McClure. This time their focus was on the sonic possibilities of granular synthesis, turning sound into music and music into sound.

The album was named after a photograph taken by Arovane, which perfectly described the creation of the music: layers of twisted audio, processed and bent into new shapes and soundscapes. Each track title is a different type of nest building, just as each track was created through different approaches to granular synthesis.

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released July 1, 2017

Mastered by Porya Hatami.

Breaking: Mix Secrets Revealed!

CNN dug deep…& forced a confession from our engineering staff…

BREAKING: Our mix secret? Soviet agents regularly #hack our software; When we wake up, wonderful mixes are already loaded!
🤣😂 #Ambient pic.twitter.com/FP185S282j

— Ambient Landscape (@AmbientLndscape) July 10, 2017

Bipolarity

new mix project, fresh from the studio:

Where does the dividing line between cognitive clarity (as a time/space/emotional issue), & cognitive dissonance reside? Further: how does cognitive dissonance, as regards genre selection, play into the mix-making process? Not that it’s a “serious” issue at all…different genres each have their own appeal – but I wanted to fuse several together on this project: Ambient, Experimental Ambient, Minimal Techno & Electronica – as opposed to one primary genre dominating the mix.

This project, honed from over 2 hours of original material*, spans the real/perceived distance between ambient & experimental techno/glitch and pushes gently, but firmly, upon the borders of multiple genres.

It’s a slightly caustic/scratchy amalgamation of sound, jump-started by the release of Focal’s remix project ‘Polarity‘…on Ultimae (which has served me over the course of 2 mixes: ‘mute space‘ & now this); plus a little help from my friends over @ Stroboscopic Artefacts.

[I think you’re going to enjoy it — it’s probably the best thing I’ve mixed this year!] | 78:53

01 Markus Guenter – Paragon
02 Triac – Day 2
03 Claudio PRC/Focal – Hyacinth
04 Steve Roach & Robert Logan – Ecdysis Activation
05 Hammock – Dropping Off (edit)
06 Dadub – Iridescent Fragment
07 Off.The.Sky – See Through and Through
08 Bob Ohrum – Subliminal Listening (edit)
09 Will Bolton – Canvas
10 Siavash Amini – Agarthini (edit)
11 Lucy & Rrose – Foil Gardens (edit)
12 Kinosura/Focal – Paradoxical Escape
13 Sendai – Geotope
14 Steve Roach & Robert Logan – The Biomechanoid Lifecycle Revealed (edit)
15 Speedy J – Caligula (w/custom ending segue)
16 Dadub – Life

(artwork restructured from the original on ‘Polarity)

This mix project* incorporates a satellite/companion mix, Hyacinth_7 (7 being the # of times I tweaked the audio-flow): produced from the overage, along with several tracks from my private “glitch-bin”. It has a running time of approximately 60 minutes & includes tracks from Steve Roach+Robert Logan, Focal (Polarity Remix), Si Begg, Scott Solter, Entia Non, Biosphere/Deathprod & AES Dana.

Bipolarity Journal Entry 3

‘Bipolarity’ (a mix project) will incorporate a satellite/companion piece, Hyacinth_6

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