Collected: Vol 6

Dreamfish - Dreamfish

There are a few LPs I have been hunting down for a long time now, and the original Dreamfish 2LP is up there. I've never seen it in the wild, and a Bandcamp comment suggests only 500 copies were originally pressed back in 1993. Silent State is slowly working through some of the most majestic titles from this era, and now Dreamfish is up for reissue, with preorders on Feb 7th. Read this interview I did with Nils from Silent State a while back who is on a mission to share more from the Namlook estate.

Snad - Bubblescope

I’ve been on a Smallville kick recently - well, probably since the Joe Davies album reminded me they exist, and they constantly churn out some of the best house music going. This latest one from Snad was playing in Passenger Seat Records in Portland when I asked what it was… of course, it turned out to be on Smallville. A lovely slice of dubby relaxing house music to float away to. The B-side, the standout.

Kiln - Seltzer Boa

Every year since 2021, Kiln has offered up a single through Bandcamp on January 1st, as a sonic snapshot of their groovable electronics. Many will know of this group through their releases on Ghostly, defining a specific sound that is perhaps the most organic and instrumental way possible to approach the listenable side of early IDM. Look out for more from Kiln arriving very soon….cough cough.

PFM - Equilibrium VIP

It’s not often you get an unreleased gem from one of the kings of atmospheric / liquid drum’n bass making an appearance on Bandcamp. PFM has been dropping a bunch of singles on his own bandcamp in recent years (often deleting the releases once people have downloaded them), but looks like this one is set to stay, with a vinyl press to boot.

Roller.

Simon Littauer - Modular

Everyone hates on Instagram for many reasons, but once in a while, if you follow bunch of music nerds, it presents you with… more music nerds, jamming in front of their expensive rigs. Most sound as you’d expect, but Simon Littauer’s got a knack for intertwining some absolutely beautiful pads and melancholy amongst the complex analog glitch and breaks. This album is name your price right now, too.

Find these albums and many more over on my Bandcamp Collection.

ASIP - atmoteka 88 (DnB mix)

An invite to contribute to the brilliant Atmoteka mix series had been extended to me a while back, but I have never put together a solely DnB focused mix so wasn’t going to rush into such an effort. But after becoming inspired by the likes of our Illuvia release, Ludvig’s isolatedmix, Spyros’ Portal’s feature, not to mention a whole host of amazing DnB influenced releases making a resurgence this year and filling my shelves, it seemed like the time had come…

Here’s my accompanying text to the mix.

Thank you to Atmoteka for inviting me to contribute to the series. I haven't put together a 100% focused DnB mix before, so it was a fun undertaking. There are plenty more knowledgeable people than me in the DnB genre (many of you listeners no doubt), so I didn't try to overthink the tracks that went into it too much - whether they were underground, brand new, well-known, classics or not. Instead, I picked tracks that I love through and through for many different reasons, and did my best to work them into a narrative. It became more of a "mixtape" in style with chapters, ups and downs, layering, and a few small loops or edits.

I don’t often say this about my mixes, but it’s one of the most enjoyable I’ve had the pleasure of putting together.

Head over to the Atmoteka Soundcloud to listen and download directly and pay a visit to some of the other amazing mixes in the series from the likes of ASC, Seba and Blu Mar Ten, to name just a few DnB heavy-hitters!

Buymusic club list also found below!

atmoteka · ASIP - atmoteka 88

Tracklist:

1. Unknown - Videobox [Death Is Not The End]
2. Bakground & Sangam - 90’s Living [Lobster Theremin]
3. Special Request - E3LS1 [Self released]
4. Unreleased
5. Antonello Teora - La Cura (Thugwidow remix) [Blizzard Audio Club]
6. Adam F - Aromatherapy [F-Jams]
7. Marc Atmost - The Dnieper River [Energostatic]
8. PFM - The Mystics [Good Looking Records]
9. Aural Imbalance - Europa [Advection Music]
10. CFCF - Closed Space [BGM Solutions]
11. Ethereal 77 - Somnambulism [Basedaddy]
12. PFM - One & Only [Good Looking Records]
13. Wardown - Rapture [Blu Mar Ten]
14. Illuvia - Nirmala II [A Strangely Isolated Place]
15. Sophia Loizou - Order of Elements [Kathexis]
16. Special Request - Quiet Storm [Self released]
17. Commix - Japanese Electronics [Metalheadz]
18. Aphex Twin - Lichen (1136 remix)
19. Aphex Twin - Lichen [Warp]
20. Unknown - Dedications [Death Is Not The End]

Podcast download.