nouveau chapitre [EP], by Hipster Pug

This is the first EP I made for monochrome motif records.

I started with this project without knowing a good name for it. But when I already had a couple of songs, I thought about this title “Nouveau Chapitre”.

Not only did I choose this because I absolutely love the French language, but it was also what this album was for me.

A new chapter after a year that was not really good. I lost my feeling for making music and did not enjoy it as much as when I started.

Working on this EP has brought the spark back and I finally felt like I could do it again and make a new album/EP. It was time for a new chapter, take the next step to follow your dreams and achieve your goals.

While working on this album I had the feeling I wanted people to feel like everything will be alright, even when it feels you’re stuck or don’t reach your goals, don’t worry and start that new chapter. It might be scary, but you can do it

With that in mind I made this 5 song EP, and I can only hope that you enjoy it.

Love

Hipster Pug

Released November 4, 2022

all tracks written, performed &
produced by hipster pug

except track one lyrics & vocal by
pascal normand

The Mars Transmission . . .

Coming next month . . . planetary eruptions in the form of post-rock & experimental din . . .

Introduction to Nonviolence I: Fall Term, by Tobias Reber

Released January 7, 2019 

Composed and recorded by Tobias Reber in January 2012 

Mixed and mastered by Markus Reuter 

Artwork by Bernhard Wöstheinrich

pattern interrupt

pattern interrupt | Experimental/Ambient/Minimal/Noise | 80:18

Experiments in aural pattern-shifting; by way of sonic syllogism, parsed prologism . . .

. . . and a deft segue or 2 (track 1 is a mashed up intro)
(* some titles have been changed to protect the environment)

Equaless. Enumbrious. Enchivenato.

Caveat:
This will be our final posting to Mixcloud as we migrate to Hear.This
(the rules have changed & so must we).

Listen via Mixcloud or Hear.This

01 Intro:
…… a. Remixing the World – Early Warning
…… b. Richard Chartier – A Hesitant Fold (chopped + mangled edit)
…… c. Pan Sonic – Ilma Air
02 Marcus Fischer & Simon Scott – Branches (excerpt)
03 Léna – Meeting by the Cliff as Dark Becomes Light (edit)
04 Pjusk – Trenger å Være Stille
05 Taylor Deupree – Desaturation
06 Tapes & Topographies – The Inverse is Also True
07 Abstract Audio Systems – Particles
08 Steve Roach – Drift Departure (edit)
09 Henrik Meierkord – Jordgloben
10 Matthew Whiteside & Emma Lloyd – Solo for Viola D’amore & Electronics
11 Brian Eno – Formation*
12 SVR – Surge -II (excerpt)
13 The Grid & Robert Fripp – Empire

Madre At​ó​mica, by sarghuma incoxis

Interesting EP, released October 7, 2022

Sarghuma Incoxis – Madre Atómica

Recorded by Alejandro Gomez between July and September 2021 in Stuttgart, Germany.
Compositions, arrangements and instruments by Alejandro Gomez.
Mixed and mastered by Lucas Carnagui at Estudio Montaña Sagrada, La Plata, Argentina.
Artwork by Ghoulmez

zero dark thirty

zero dark thirty | Minimal/Techno/Post-Rock/Noise | 87:00

Up before dawn (@ dark) to hit the gym, the trail and/or Nordic Track . . . with coffee & . . . some beats!

Made for working out (with a little stretch-time @ the beginning) – a gift from me to, uhm . . . me as a reminder that, a la Jocko Willink: Discipline = Freedom! It also has the added advantage of blending in some nostalgia, especially Plastikman, Tibbetts, Add N To (X), Speedy J, Photek & noisy Brian Eno.

Strap on your seat belt & swab out yer ears . . . this one rocks!

Listen via Mixcloud or Hear.This

01 Alessandro Adriani – Casting the Runes
02 Venitian Snares – Felbomlasztott Mentökocsi
03 Nine Inch Nails – The Waltz (surgical edit)
04 J.Peter Schwalm & Stephan Thelen;
……w/ Eivind Aarset, Tim Harries & Manuel Pasquinelli – Pluto
04 Plastikman – Consumed
05 Shifted – Seel
06 Lucy – Laws and Habits
07 Sendai – Inverse Array
08 Steve Tibbetts – Dzogchen Punks
09 Add N To (X) – FYUZ
10 Speedy J – Drill
11 Lucy – tof (Tommy Four Seven remix)
12 Photek – The Fifth Column
13 Tony Levin, David Torn & Alan White – Crunch Time
14 Brian Eno – Horse

u n f o c u s e d _ 6

unfocused s i x | experimental/ambient/minimal/noise | 77:45

More signal-to-noise & glitchy stuff; like meandering an ambient storm drain sans flashlight.
(includes a pdf booklet with all unfocused podcasts posted to date).

Listen via Mixcloud or Hear.This


01 Alois Yang – MLMC At Punctum (Studio Take 1)
02 Carlo Giustini – Croon
03 Loscil – Deceiver
04 Rafael Anton Irisiri – Deception Falls
05 Illuminine – Alas, Orpheus
06 Jason van Wyck – Light Burns Out
07 Loscil – Orlova (excerpt)
08 Tunnelwater – At The Station
09 Hilyard – Inhale the Skyline
10 Otto Lindholm – Heliotrope
11 Fields We Found – Time
12 Shuttle358 – Out Out

Series PDF (podcasts posted thus far)

Moving our Podcast location

As #Mixcloud has just announced it will limit Tier 1 accounts to 10 published shows as of December 2022 (no new uploads allowed unless previous podcasts are deleted – to a maximum total of 10), we will be making shows available via #HearThis. This is a promotion of Mixcloud’s “Pro” business model ($180/year, U.S.) — which I’m sure works for radio stations and professional D.J.’s . . but not for those of us uploading for the sheer love of the mix.

You may stream or download the podcasts on Hear.This for a total charge of
. . . ZERO!

Our three November shows will be the last new releases on Mixcloud.
Beginning in December, we’ll post on ello, HearThis & Twitter (as well as right here).

Happy listening!

https://hearthis.at/ambient-landscape/

From Here to Eternity, by Kyle Bobby Dunn

From Here to Eternity’ is the first full length album from Canadian composer Kyle Bobby Dunn since his 2014 long play, ‘Infinite Sadness’. 

The use of processed guitar and his passion for cinematic swells reaches new realms that are markedly more ominous and dense than his previous long play. Kyle Bobby Dunn also recruited prominent ambient composers and a handful of his favorite musicians to arrange their own instrumentation for several works on this release that add multiple layers of mystery and intrigue of the human mind and heart. Artists that contributed to this effort are: Benoît Pioulard, Simon Scott, Loscil, Pan-American, Wayne Robert Thomas, Isaac Helsen, Mark Nelson, Robert Donne, Maryam Sirvan, and Michael Vincent Waller. 

Kyle Bobby Dunn wanted this album to be very much about the eternal conflict with all human emotions and life circumstances and to somehow go even further than the concepts left behind on ‘Infinite Sadness’. The moods and sounds range from angelic choral elements to motion picture soundtrack epics; permeating the skeletal system of the listener with a sense of boundaries and mortality. There are also moments that capture the dynamics of the artist performing in the live setting perfectly and were engineered meticulously by Matt Rogalsky and Kyle Bobby Dunn himself. Truly a difficult album of unending loss, confusion, pain, identity, disease and even death, but also include the most reflective and warm moments of his career to date.

Releases May 3, 2019 

Composed & Arranged from 2012-2018 at The End in Mile End, Montreal Canada 

Art Arrangement by Adam Brooks 

Layout by Past Inside the Present 

Additional Mixing by Connor C. Ellis 

Mastered by Jeremy Bible 

All compositions recorded by Kyle Bobby Dunn except ‘Eternity, the Stars & You’ recorded and engineered at the Isabel Bader Center of Kingston, Ontario in November 2014 by Matthew Rogalsky. 

‘Boul. Gouin’ and guitar elements of ‘The Flattening’ recorded at Scofield Septic Tank and L’auberge de France in Mile End, Quebec – February 2016-2017. 

Organ and synth processing by J.H. Barsky on ‘Zendel Holiday Hangover Toccata’ recorded at his studio in Toronto, Ontario – January 2012.

n o i s_e

n o i s_e | a PostRock/Experimental/Ambient Mashup | 80:24

Gradiently noisy (because not all noise is loud & boisterous!), with gradually increasing intensity (plus, whenever I can get Schwalm, Fripp, Torn, Summers, Cline, Rypdal & Beck on a mix..!)

Track 3 was a late edition. The mix was technically “complete”, when I came across the ‘Remixing the World‘ project & decided to stack 4 of their found-sound tracks to add another dimension to the atmosphere.

This was a fun project to construct — as I wanted a softer feel to the “noise” (as opposed to, say, elements_gear) with a slow ramp-up to what could be described as “din”.

Happy listening!

Listen via Mixcloud or Hear.This

01 Fuantei – Track 3
02 Terje Rypdal – Dawn (custom extended edit)
03 Remixing the World (mashup)
……a. Walthamstow Glass Factory | b. Birmingham City University
……c. Distant Bells_Tomba Brion….| d. Berlin Ubahn U5
04 Christophe Charles – D-E-G-D (excerpt)
05 Harold Budd – Feral (Odd Nosdam remix)
06 Conrad Praetzel – Blue Poppies
07 J.Peter Schwalm & Stephan Thelen
……(w/ Eivind Aarset, Tim Harries & Manuel Pasquinelli) – Eris (edited)
08 Motorpig – Cryptic Passage
09 Robert Fripp – Seascape (Lichtenvoorde 13 Jun 2004)
10 Ümlaut – Insight
11 David Torn – Where’d I Bury that Stupid Clock (excerpt)
12 Das German Quintet (see track #7) – Haumea
13 ProjeKct Two – Is There Life on Zarg?
14 Andy Summers – Bitter Honey
15 Nels Cline Trio – Cropped
16 Jeff Beck – Head for Backstage Pass