Flatland Frequencies – Page 12 – Horizontal Sounds of the Flatlands

Fields We Found – Distance

Post author By Luke Sanger
Post date May 19, 2022

Seil – May ’22

Layers of noise (that good kind) envelope this new LP from Fields We Found. The delicious Cocoquantus artefacts are scattered all over, but the vibe is as much steered by the operator.

There is a looseness to the compositions which has a certain freeform quality, letting sounds play into the loops and letting them bounce around to do their thing. It’s as much about know when to remove an element, as it is to introduce one and this is something executed successfully across the album.

Out now on cassette and digital via Bandcamp.

Andrew CS & Glia – Nimi

Post author By Luke Sanger
Post date May 19, 2022

Cached Media – May ’22

Gorgeous micro looped tones and fuzzy, cascading drones form the sonic landscape of the 12 varied pieces here. From the organ-like tonalities in ‘Wind for Weighted Keys’ sometimes reminiscent of A Rainbow In Curved Air (albeit mangled in a most pleasant way), to the crunchy tape-like twists and turns in ‘Outcrease’, there’s a real positive energy coming from the LP, of which I’ll be returning for repeat listens.

Out now on CD and Digital via Bandcamp

Ambient Feature Premiere

PREMIERE: Jo Johnson – Track 3 – Less Popular Than Cats

Post author By Luke Sanger
Post date April 20, 2022

Flatland Frequencies · [PREMIERE] Jo Johnson – Track 3 – Less Popular Than Cats

We’re pleased to share this exclusive premiere of track 3 from ‘Less Popular Than Cats’ compilation, by Jo Johnson – released next week on Verdant Recordings. A beautifully pulsating long-form piece, which gently ebbs and flows in a particularly organic manner, like leaves floating on an expansive loch.

Tags Jo Johnson, Premiere, Verdant

Aesthetics Art Culture

Tree Translation Excercise – Sarah Wood

Post author By Darren Poynton
Post date February 22, 2022

“Trees sending messages that we can maybe translate if we look hard enough.”

Electro House Techno

Jeran Portis – Mutant Radio (January 2022)

Post author By Jeran Portis
Post date February 6, 2022

Tracklist:

Posatronix – Posatronix
Cliff Dalton – Cleopatra’s Matrix
Dany Rodriguez – Spirit 82
Priori – Receptivity
minorINVENTION – Exposition
Gary Martin – Lounge Blue
Jeran Portis – Unproven [Forthcoming]
Najel Monterio – Cassis
Ian Pooley – Chord Memory
Andre Holland – Vector Research
Fluxion – Correlation
Julian G – Press Reset (Featuring Harry Dennis)
Mark Hawkins – Snow Day

Feature Premiere Techno

PREMIERE: Tudor Acid – A Static Electricity Overload (Tudor Beats)

Post author By Jeran Portis
Post date January 19, 2022

A highly personal theme for Tudor Acid on this new release is close identification with the emotions of cyborg and robotic characters in fiction. The character portrayed by the album (who Tudor Acid says is “obviously a stand in for me”) is on a mission to prove that its machine-generated or machine-mediated emotions are as equally valid as purely organic ones.

Following a two-year hiatus, he returns to the Tudor Beats label with a new album, ‘Empathy for Cyborgs’.

Flatland Frequencies · PREMIERE: Tudor Acid – A Static Electricity Overload (Tudor Beats)

What results is an album which represents the conflict between one’s own sense of self – and external, negative perceptions from others.

The cover drawing of Tower Bridge was intended as a counterpoint to this – the sense of a digitally constructed brain demonstrating its sentience and humanity in the process of the art being generated.

Artist: Tudor Acid
Title: Empathy for Cyborgs
Label: Tudor Beats
Cat. No: TB-2626
Format: Digital
Released: 27 January 2022

Dub-techno Electro Feature House Techno

2021 Flatland Favourites – Electro / Techno / House

Post author By Jeran Portis
Post date December 23, 2021

Fluxion – Correlation (Vibrant Music)

V/A – Mood Compiled 2 (Greyscale)

Star_Dub – Voodub EP (Dubwax)

Jon Dixon – Detroit Get Down (4evr4wrd)

V/A – Dark Planet (Avoidant)

Roi – Crunia EP (Fanzine)

Detroit’s Filthiest – Fight To The Finish EP (Defrostatica)

V/A – Consortium Vol 3. (Motech)

CYMBA – Secret Loser (Obole)

Jayson Wynters – Filtered Xploits (Eon)

Tags 2021 roundup, best of 2021, best of 2021 ambient, end of year list

Ambient Experimental Feature Synth

2021 Flatland Favourites

Post author By Luke Sanger
Post date December 20, 2021

Ambient / Synth / Experimental:

T. Jervell – (K) En sommerdag i Kroken (Ruter)

Hoavi – Music For Six Rooms (Balmat)

V.A – Anthology of Experimental Music From China (Unexplained Sounds Group)

International Sangman – Death Roads & Spirit Ways (Ish Records)

Never Temple – Throwing Around an Invisible Ball (Golden Ratio Frequencies)

Polypores – Crystal Shop (Waxing Crescent)

The Transcendence Orchestra / Ali Wade – Storming Heaven / Demons (Frequency Domain)

Richard Norris – Hypnotic Response (Inner Mind Records)

Lewis Hunter – Folk Album (Bandcamp)

Hainbach – Schwebungssummer (Misc.)

Tags 2021 roundup, best of 2021, best of 2021 ambient, end of year list, end of year list 2021

Art Film

Faulty Borders – Jez Riley French

Post author By Darren Poynton
Post date December 16, 2021

“As a species we’re builders of borders & escapists. We construct structures that contain and we long to escape them. At least, that is what we think we are doing but we often invent new systems to deal with the old systems. In escaping we simply replace one uniform with another. One border with another. Perhaps it’s in our nature to constantly need these straight lines.

I’d like to talk about borders. Faulty borders.”