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14 August 2012 at 05 : 54 AM
Josh VarnedoreSun Chapter
Igloo Mag
Fully encapsulated atmospheric emotion is thread throughout each piece of Sun Chapter. Calm, collected and engaging worlds are explored and effortlessly evolved in a plasma-induced stream of forward-moving melodies and glittering bubbles. Micro-layering of abstract details are buried deep within the (ambient) core as sheets of debris reminisce with lava flows of sun-soaked charm. There’s just [...]
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14 August 2012 at 05 : 32 AM
Grzegorz BojanekRemaining Sounds
A Closer Listen
The title of Grzegorz Bojanek‘s latest effort implies sorting, attrition, deterioration. At one time, more sounds – perhaps all sounds – existed. Now, only these remain. In the process of composing, Bojanek distilled a batch of possibilities, settling on these distinctive sources. By eliminating the banal, the artist creates an aural allure. Take for example the opening (title) [...]
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20 May 2012 at 22 : 30 PM
New project on Dynamophone: Ryan Hicks
In addition to being an absurdly talented designer, Ryan has been meticulously working on his debut album for about 8 years, and we are so very honored to be partnering with him in its release. Altogether mesmerizing, ‘Arc and Static’ is warm, sparse and ideal. Equally inspired by his daily commute as by Marsen Jules, Funkstorung, [...]
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16 February 2012 at 00 : 21 AM
Cast | No. 005
Pawn – We are Alone Until the End of the World The Beautiful Schizophonic – Lifetime Grzgorz Bojanek – Broken Heroes never Drink Cola DOWNLOAD
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29 January 2012 at 21 : 40 PM
The Beautiful Schizophonic
[portugal]
![The Beautiful Schizophonic<q> [portugal]</q>](http://dynamophone.com/test/wp-content/themes/Video/thumb.php?src=http://dynamophone.com/test/wp-content/uploads/jorge.jpg&w=250&h=180&zc=1&q=80&bid=1 "The Beautiful Schizophonic<q> [portugal]</q>")
“The Beautiful Schizophonic is the pseudonym of Portuguese audio artist Jorge Mantas. Starting this moniker in 2004, the artist soon developed his own vision of drone music through the composition of shimmering melodic layers, creating a delicate web of micro-textures and undulating waves of sounds. In records or in live performances, The Beautiful Schizophonic is [...]
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29 January 2012 at 21 : 48 PM
New project on Dynamophone: The Beautiful Schizophonic
We are honored to have the Dynamophone family become even more global with the new addition of Portugal’s own ‘The Beautiful Schizophonic’. The rich and emotive vignettes on Jorge Manta’s sixth upcoming album ‘Belkiss’ are a welcome addition to our catalog.
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10 January 2012 at 05 : 55 AM
Geskia!
MuonReliver
It’s no secret that I’m an uber-fan of ambient—the more immersive and achingly drawn-out, the better. One of my favorite DIY/bedroom ambient record labels is called Dynamophone. Pretty much every single release they champion puts me in a “Can we go watch Solaris on Benadryl?” sort of mindset. The same is true for their latest, [...]
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19 August 2011 at 05 : 52 AM
A Lily
Wake:SleepRadio Protector
Electronica is a very vague term- some would say it’s fairly self-explanatory, others wave their genre cleaver and yell things like “NO NO THAT’S IDM.” OR “THAT’S JUST A POP SONG WITH SOME BLEEPS IN IT.” I’m not really a fan of genres, historical context aside, and even that can be wildly open to debate. [...]
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19 August 2011 at 05 : 12 AM
A Lily
Wake:SleepGet Up With It
A Lily’s Wake:Sleep is a record a fellow writer of mine over at Prefix turned me on to about 6 months ago. Although I didn’t care for the record much at first, the more I consume this as the months pass, the more it keeps me pondering. This was one of the better releases of [...]
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19 August 2011 at 05 : 49 AM
A Lily
Wake:SleepPlastic Ashtray
Yndi Halda might be a name familiar to some, it is inevitable that a band that already have gybe as fans are destined for some wider recognition. It was through hearing a sublime Yndi Halda remix that I became aware of A Lily, and as it turns out A Lily is infact guitarist James Vella [...]
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19 August 2011 at 05 : 39 AM
A Lily
Wake:SleepDecoy Music
This is the feeling of recognition.The subconscious mind is still actively conjuring up wild dreams, and this is precisely the audible feedback filtering through the cerebellum. The clicks and glitches and pulses and ambiance and voices are merely the activity of electronic signals being passed among the synapses via neurotransmitters. As a listener, the first [...]
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19 August 2011 at 05 : 32 AM
A Lily
Wake:SleepTextura
In his solo project A Lily, James Vella creates willowy instrumental dreampop whose pitter-pattering beats, chiming melodies, softly murmuring voices, and fluttering guitars sound like they’re emerging from behind a translucent scrim. Inspired by his girlfriend Leanna, Wake:Sleep is a valentine set to music created by the Canterbury resident and Yndi Halda guitarist using primarily [...]
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19 August 2011 at 05 : 29 AM
A Lily
Wake:SleepAll Music
It’s an appropriately titled album for this one-man band (real name James Vella, also a member of Yndi Halda) — Wake: Sleep does capture a combination of energy and lassitude as a phrase, and musically A Lily’s debut album is an at times inspired blend of various strands of ambient and contemplative music, from Brian [...]
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19 August 2011 at 05 : 57 AM
R/R Coseboom
Beneath Trembling LanternsAll Music
Far removed from their two other projects – Halou and Invisible Ballet, the Cosebooms, singer Rebecca and producer programmer, Ryan, now embark upon a sonic journey into slumberland. As fans have come to expect from this pair, the music within Beneath Trembling Lanterns defies easy categorization; ambient, chill, soundscape, a guarded yes to all three, [...]
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19 August 2011 at 05 : 28 AM
The Abbasi Brothers
Something Like Nostalgianowlikephotographs
t won’t be available to the public until July, but we’re just too excited about this album to wait until then to tell you about it. The brotherly Berkeley duo of Amman and Yousuf meld seemingly every aspect of the spectrum of gorgeous epic instrumental music. Covering every base, including ambient swells, bedroom electronica skitters, [...]
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19 August 2011 at 05 : 58 AM
The Abbasi Brothers
Something Like NostalgiaHeadphone Commute
Yousuf and Amman Abbasi create “sound-scenes” that immediately fill the void left by your daily mundane routines with an intricate, dreamy, and nostalgic sound. Closing my eyes I can’t help but see moving images of nostalgic events that took place somewhere in another life. This is the music for the waving hands on the platform [...]
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2 August 2011 at 17 : 21 PM
Wallpapers | Classic
The full set of the original 14 wallpapers presented for the Dynamophone launch in 2005.(1400px X 900px) DOWNLOAD (3.5mb)
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2 August 2011 at 17 : 28 PM
Wallpapers | Nao
2 versions (2560 X 1440) 2 versions (1920 X 1200) DOWNLOAD (4.8mb)
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1 August 2011 at 20 : 46 PM
Wallpapers | Seven Saturdays
1920×1200 red version 2560×1440 red version 1920×1200 white version 2560×1440 white version DOWNLOAD (5.4mb)
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1 August 2011 at 20 : 46 PM
Cast | No. 004
Amman/Josh – Leawood Moshimoss – Slow Days it was Super Pawn – Limpid Glass Layer Josh Varnedore – Golden DOWNLOAD
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1 August 2011 at 19 : 20 PM
Cast | No. 002
Abbasi Brothers – Clouds are Sleeping The Balustrade Ensemble – Tangle in Delirium Disinterested – January Po- The Sound of Summer Silence DOWNLOAD
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29 July 2011 at 21 : 53 PM
New project on Dynamophone: Grzegorz Bojanek
We exuberantly welcome to our fold, the multi-talented and hard working Grzegorz Bojanek from Poland. His upcoming album ‘Remaining Sounds’ is due to be released in June 2012
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18 July 2011 at 06 : 59 AM
New project on Dynamophone: Geskia!
We are honored to have Geskia! as a new member of the Dynamophone family.Geskia! is an innovator of Japanese underground IDM. His new transitional release entitled ‘Muon’ (Silence) is a mesmerizing combination of soundscapes, ambient and IDM.
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18 July 2011 at 06 : 51 AM
The Balustrade Ensemble
CapsulesAngry Ape
Mark November 5th in your diaries, for this is the day Dynamophone unleash the lavish steampunk sounds of Capsules upon an unsuspecting music world. Capsules weaves such textural instrumentation, through dark and nostalgic ambiances and leaves an overwhelming feeling of mysticism. Those of you intent in discovering music that shies from contemporary structures will find [...]
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18 July 2011 at 06 : 17 AM
The Balustrade Ensemble
CapsulesThe SIlent Ballet
A journal of delicate and clandestine reflections of yesteryear where simple elegance abounds… Capsules is the discerning gentleman’s choice, spinning one-handed from sodium vapour streetlamps on the corner of 49. Ethereal and efflorescent, this is the stuff that dreams are made of.
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18 July 2011 at 06 : 20 AM
The Balustrade Ensemble
Capsulestextura.org
The album’s ten deeply ethereal settings conjure Victorian-styled universes where music boxes, rickety keyboards and strings re-animate the nightmarish current burbling below the surface of the Grimm brothers’ folk-tales… The Balustrade Ensemble believes ‘listening need not be difficult to be compelling,’ and its thoroughly engrossing Capsules is certainly proof of that.
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18 July 2011 at 06 : 22 AM
The Balustrade Ensemble
CapsulesAquarius records
“Each (piece) seems to glimmer out through Victorian lace curtains yellowed and slightly threadbare from age, through shatters of antique crystal goblets dappled with droplets of deep red, through a flaking, clouded gilt mirror, through deep sea greens and azures. Very cinematic… Very recommended. “- AQUARIUS RECORDS
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10 July 2011 at 07 : 00 AM
Josh Varnedore
186,000 Endings per SecondDerives
Half of the Amman/Josh duo, whose last year “Places” EP was a real jewel but whose future seems apparently in indefinite hiatus, Josh Varnedore is back with an EP under his own name, preceding a full length. Four tracks of instrumental ethereal ambient dreampop music with the same usual suspected influences, Hammock, RF, Sigur Ros, [...]
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7 July 2011 at 07 : 43 AM
Geskia!
Silent 77boomkat
Japanese producer Geskia has fashioned an impressive hour’s worth of advanced underground hip hop and post-IDM electronica on this enormously enjoyable release for the Flaü label. The real strength of this music lies in the sophisticated, densely layered beats that keep Silent ’77 thumping along with a powerfully constructed elegance. You might compare the high-gloss [...]
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7 July 2011 at 07 : 26 AM
Geskia!
[japan]
![Geskia! <q> [japan]</q>](http://dynamophone.com/test/wp-content/themes/Video/thumb.php?src=http://dynamophone.com/test/wp-content/uploads/geskia360b.jpg&w=250&h=180&zc=1&q=80&bid=1 "Geskia! <q> [japan]</q>")
Geskia is an innovator of Japanese underground hip-hop and breakbeats. He started his journey in sound making in 2001, and became a part of the down-beat unit “coma5”. Although Geskia’s music style is heavily influenced by industrial music (especially by Industrial icons like Coil and Einstürzende Neubauten), trip-hop and techno, the unique music that he [...]
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5 June 2011 at 21 : 10 PM
Josh Varnedore
186,000 Endings per SecondTextura
An appetizer for the projected summer release of Josh Varnedore’s Seachild full-length, 186?,?000 Endings Per Second presents twenty-six minutes of heartfelt and expansive electronica in tried-and-true Dynamophone fashion. The title track begins with sparkling keyboards and the soft murmur of Lucé Cupery’s speaking voice before a bass melody enters, marshalling around it additional forces such as percussion, [...]
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5 June 2011 at 21 : 27 PM
Seven Saturdays
Love in the Time of Anticipated DefeatTextura
That Jonathan D. Haskell’s material originates out of Los Angeles, California and specifically draws its inspiration from nocturnal prowls through the Mulholland Hills area is entirely fitting, given the cinematic character of his headphones-friendly Seven Saturdays soundscaping. Haskell’s Love in the Time of Anticipated Defeat presents fifty-one minutes of ambient slow-burn that’s by turns and sometimes [...]
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31 May 2011 at 06 : 10 AM
Grzegorz Bojanek
[poland]
![Grzegorz Bojanek<q> [poland]</q>](http://dynamophone.com/test/wp-content/themes/Video/thumb.php?src=http://dynamophone.com/test/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/grzgorz1.png&w=250&h=180&zc=1&q=80&bid=1 "Grzegorz Bojanek<q> [poland]</q>")
Grzegorz Bojanek (1975), also known as Eta Carinae, is the founder of the net label: www.etalabel.com. Since 2007 he has been the artistic producer of Warsaw Electronic Festival. As an artist he consequently introduces field recordings and electroacoustic sounds into his compositions which are the combination of the modern melodics ambient and sometimes noise. He cooperated with many [...]
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31 May 2011 at 06 : 42 AM
Nao
[japan/uk]
![Nao<q> [japan/uk]</q>](http://dynamophone.com/test/wp-content/themes/Video/thumb.php?src=http://dynamophone.com/test/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/nao.jpg&w=250&h=180&zc=1&q=80&bid=1 "Nao<q> [japan/uk]</q>")
Japanese implant to London, Dada-ist Nao builds delicate aural collages of found sound, toy instruments and voice. Her work is a fascinating combination of summer endlessness, human error and nostalgia.
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31 May 2011 at 06 : 29 AM
Josh Varnedore
[usa]
![Josh Varnedore<q> [usa]</q>](http://dynamophone.com/test/wp-content/themes/Video/thumb.php?src=http://dynamophone.com/test/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/josh1.jpg&w=250&h=180&zc=1&q=80&bid=1 "Josh Varnedore<q> [usa]</q>")
Joshua Varnedore has epic dreams. Dreams where massive, brilliant things happen. Grand vibrant landscapes and impossibilities and long lost people. And in his waking life, serendipity follows him around- chance meetings, repeating numbers. But instead of being investigated by Scully and Muller, he records an ongoing soundtrack to all of these events almost effortlessly. Utilizing [...]
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31 May 2011 at 06 : 37 AM
Moshimoss
[japan]
![Moshimoss<q> [japan]</q>](http://dynamophone.com/test/wp-content/themes/Video/thumb.php?src=http://dynamophone.com/test/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/moshimoss.jpg&w=250&h=180&zc=1&q=80&bid=1 "Moshimoss<q> [japan]</q>")
Born in the shadows of Mt Fuji, Kosuke Anamizu now lives in Tokyo, and believes that music and place are eternally connected. Inspired by great expanse, he endeavors to bring warmth and life to the wide barren landscapes of all our worlds.
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31 May 2011 at 06 : 19 AM
Amman/Josh
[usa]
![Amman/Josh<q> [usa]</q>](http://dynamophone.com/test/wp-content/themes/Video/thumb.php?src=http://dynamophone.com/test/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/ammanjosh.jpg&w=250&h=180&zc=1&q=80&bid=1 "Amman/Josh<q> [usa]</q>")
These days, it seems, we no longer have to concern ourselves with distance. Ever since the telephone, in-between has gotten smaller and smaller. But one thing remains important – the places we are. Their glimmering and expansive EP is a testament to the life spent where they are, strange since it was composed in far-flung [...]
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31 May 2011 at 05 : 57 AM
Christian Albrechtsen
[denmark]
![Christian Albrechtsen<q> [denmark]</q>](http://dynamophone.com/test/wp-content/themes/Video/thumb.php?src=http://dynamophone.com/test/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/christianalbrechtsen.jpg&w=250&h=180&zc=1&q=80&bid=1 "Christian Albrechtsen<q> [denmark]</q>")
At the mere age of 25, Christian Albrechtsen is gifted: Poet, musician, artist, Ssculptor, and singer. In addition to writing, performing and recording all the instruments (and voice) on each track , he is also an accomplished artist and sculptor- creating the wave mask and samurai-like costume ( made of layered white-collared shirts) presented on [...]
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31 May 2011 at 05 : 25 AM
Konntinent Interview
Ixmae
Interview with Konntinent about the making of Lonely in the Shallows Tell us how this piece came about: As a composite release – it was almost a happy accident. I’d spent a couple of months obsessisng over a couple of electronic tracks, both very process orientated, both detail intensive and both of which felt more like Math exercises [...]
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31 May 2011 at 05 : 28 AM
Konntinent
[uk]
![Konntinent<q> [uk]</q>](http://dynamophone.com/test/wp-content/themes/Video/thumb.php?src=http://dynamophone.com/test/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/konntinent.jpg&w=250&h=180&zc=1&q=80&bid=1 "Konntinent<q> [uk]</q>")
Konntinent is the project of London based Antony Harrison. He currently has 3 albums and 4 EPs. Aside from Konntinent, Antony co-curates drone net label Phantom Channel and hosts regular experimental live shows in east London. For live shows he is joined by cellist Andy Cordle, vocalist Lisa Madisson and former Rothko/Geiger Counter member John Meade, all [...]
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