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Album |
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Description |
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Price (incl. 19% VAT) |
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| DISCORDLESS |
Fear on Every Side |
MC |
recommended dark / apocalyptic drone noise from Bucharest, Romania, no harsh noise but very unsettling otherwordly soundscapes unfold, very bleak... on Bulgarian's premier experimental label AMEK, C-60, lim. 100 prof. design
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2021 |
€8.00 |
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| SHRINE |
Harmony, Bliss, Rust |
MC |
the very first SHRINE release from 2006 was a "file-only" net release and consisted of three long tracks; the Bulgarian label AMEK (home of MYTRIP) has now re-issued this timeless, beautiful rustling ambient album (that evolves into more powerful and harsher territories) for the first time on physical format: a cassette with prof. cover & duplication, only 66 copies made, C-40
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2018 |
€7.00 |
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| V.A. (VARIOUS ARTISTS) (COMPILATIONS) |
Hyperakusis II |
CD |
label compilation for the 10th anniversary of this label, with 1 or 2 tracks by each involved project: SPHERICAL DISRUPTED, NERTHUS, TARDIVE DYSKENESIA, MORTAJA, 2KILOS & MORE, MANDELBROT, ALARMEN.... betweeen dark / electronic ambient, rhythmic industrial and IDM, the approach is comparable with Bulgarian label AMEK and provides a high quality underground listening experience through these genres..
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2014 |
€6.00 |
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| CONJECTURE |
V |
LP |
"In 2017 Conjecture released "My Body, Your Temple" for Amek. In this five-track EP he showcased a deeper, more sinister and beautifully atmospheric take on his usual rhythmic take on post-industrial music. Now we are beyond excited to present you "V", his brand new full-length release and a first appearance on vinyl.
“V” is an anti-body statement. The individual's disengagement from the human body and from all kinds of physical hypostases is portrayed through unconventional industrial sound forms. Sometimes being oneiric, sometimes frozen and aggressive, while in the same somewhat erotic, Conjecture’s musical expressions are well-constructed and climax into the literary metaphor of the human body deconstruction. “V” is dedicated to the process of seeking out the individual existence, which is able to occur beyond the barriers of life, death or creation.
Each track on the album reflects a fragment of a bigger entity, which by its end becomes whole. “V” unveils the materiality of flesh and the frailty of thoughts, personality and physical restrictions. Conjecture seeks a new concept for the human being and its very existence beyond logic. This album is an obsessive manifest against the flesh-cage, a hymn for the consciousness, found standing silent in the background and reflects the true nature and cause of personal existence."
https://amekcollective.bandcamp.com/album/v
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2019 |
€15.00 |
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| MYTRIP |
Circle of Loss |
MC |
Loss is the only thing we'll take from this world to our very end.
credits
released October 17, 2017
Written and recorded by Angel Simitchiev.
Mastering by Ivan Shopov at Etheraudio Studio.
This is amek020.
amekcollective.blogspot.com
mytrip.bandcamp.com/album/circle-of-loss
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2017 |
€6.00 |
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Keeper |
LP |
"The new Mytrip full-length album “Keeper” is a work of progress and growth, of pushing oneself out of comfort zones while managing to stay true to a carefully nurtured and developed aesthetic. A continuation of the sound hinted at in “Filament” (Amek, 2016) and Angel Simitchiev’s recent work with other projects, “Keeper” is a more rhythmic and loop-based work that explores and juxtaposes a plethora of atmospheres and moods, thus resulting in a sonically and emotionally complex and mature piece of music that manages to communicate its author’s singular vision.
The backbone of “Keeper” was originally written for a live performance at the Bulgarian National Radio in October 2018. Self-recorded with the intention to be preserved as a live album, most of the music retains the original structure, feeling, and intensity of this first performance but was further explored and expanded during recording sessions and selected live shows throughout the next year. Some ideas were dismissed while others were expanded on. As a result, “Keeper” has become a record that is polished and meticulous, while sounding and feeling utterly real, raw, and immediate."
https://amekcollective.bandcamp.com/album/keeper
"It has been a couple of years since I last checked in with the activities of Mytrip, but their 2016 album Filament was an excellent release which has received occasional spins over the years. In my review from 2017 I noted it: ‘operates at the border regions between dark ambient, drone, (modern) industrial and (abstracted) experimental techno, therefore encompassing a sound that defies easy categorisation’ (full review here). Keeper is the brand-new six tracks album and while continues also substantially builds on the earlier sonic framework by blending its elements in more varied yet unified way. Also, according to the promo blurb, the core of the album has its basis in a 2018 live performance at the Bulgarian National Radio, which has been further expanded and reworked.
Eyepiece opens the album with amorphous and ethereal drones blended with jittery programming and functions to immediately draw focused attention, before the mid-track it twists off in a different direction with sustained synth melodies. We Are All Shadow People follows and has a sense of stationary motionlessness resulting a series of duelling looped textures and abstracted synth lines. In then arcing away from this stasis, Unsealing Colossus divergently features widescreen vistas with sweeping ‘wind textured’ drones, muted melodious pulses and other semi-fractured rhythmic elements. Blood Black Like Water is then as brooding as the title suggests, based around a murky aquatic churn and throbbing base pulse, while a slow bass kick edges the track forwards. Upheaval shifts the mood again and is extremely filmic in tone, given its driving / throbbing techno pulse and maudlin cinematic synths, while the album’s concluding piece Warmth Patterns, is perhaps the most melodious track of all, with interweaving ‘glimmering’ textures (and perhaps draws a fleeting compassion to the likes of Fennesz).
Each of the six album tracks sits at around the five-minute mark, meaning the total run time is around 30 or so minutes, yet given its compositional variation it nebulously feels to be much longer than this. Equally the abstracted line-work found within nature as illustrated on the the cover is a suitable visual metaphor for the flowing complexity of the music. More varied, freeform and self-assured than Filament, Keeper is equally immediate as it complex in sonic construction, meaning it draws attention on first listen and maintains it on repeated rotations. Recommended." [Noise Receptor]
"Angel Simitchiev is the man behind Mytrip and also acting as the label boss here and as such we know him as a man who loves mood music of the somewhat darker variety. It has been a while since I last heard a full-length work by Mytrip (Vital Weekly 1059 I believe) and I wrote that he "no doubt plays guitar, electronics and field recordings", but that was based on nothing, to be honest. There is a picture of Mytrip on the insert, just second before he starts performing and there is no guitar in sight. A laptop, some 'gear' and that's all. Maybe there has been a shift towards different instruments in recent years that I am not aware of. In the music, this shift is quite clear. The music was written for a show in Studio 1 of the Bulgarian National Radio and later on, some fragments were dropped and others expanded upon. The dark mood from field recordings tuned and turned in drones is a still a presence but rhythm also plays a role now. Not stomping around, but carefully placed when needed, and omitted on other occasions. In 'Upheavel' the "rhythm" sounded like a Muslimgauze sample from the 'Azzazin' era. There is a warm glitch effect to most of the music here, which makes a nice effect for a change. It is perhaps a reminder of the warm days of laptop glitch from a long time ago, but Mytrip cleverly combines this with the best of processed drones and spacious dark ambient music, stringing together another hybrid of what ambient can be. Not something that is entirely new but with the addition of rhythm samples coming up with six fine slabs of dark mood music, which, strange as it may seem, never is the sound of despair, but of light and hope. Maybe I am all wrong but that's how it all sounded to me. Great record, all together." [FdW/Vital Weekly]
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2020 |
€16.00 |
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| SHENTOV, IVAN / ANGEL SIMITCHIEV / MARTIN LUKANOV |
Palimpsest |
MC |
The source material for “Palimpsest” was recorded over several fairly different sessions. Some of them took place in the live setting, others happened in the confinement of the Kontingent Records studio. These recordings were then carefully examined, subtly (re)arranged, and barely overdubbed. Four long-form pieces were shaped in the end. Despite having collaborated on many different occasions and in varying formats, “Palimpsest” is the first full-length recording in which the different approaches by Shentov, Simitchiev, Lukanov are utilized in pursuit of a unified musical direction.
The result is an album that explores minimalist drone territories through a purposely limited toolset and in a recording environment that relies heavily on intuition, spontaneity and patience. The record also carries delicate traces of raw ambient, found sounds and field recordings, processed guitar and electroacoustic improvisation. While the first three tracks are slightly more condensed in both length and substance, the closing piece, which spans over the whole B-side of the album, is where this collaboration peaks. During its almost thirty minutes, it majestically unfolds its textures and synthetic artifacts, which are layered over a subtly shape-shifting backbone of guitar drones, melodic fragments and loops.
https://amekcollective.bandcamp.com/album/palimpsest
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2022 |
€8.00 |
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| SHRINE & MYTRIP |
Descent |
7inch |
“Descent” is a two-track collaboration between key Bulgarian ambient acts Shrine and Mytrip. Sharing a passion for loud and textural ambient sound, they delved deeper in organic sounds and looping tonal layers, which are intertwined with sparse industrial soundscapes. This brief musical offering successfully showcases both artists’ signature takes on ambient. The heavy-weight sound production, courtesy of Shrine, makes “Descent” a memorable experience, certainly worth owning on a 7” vin
https://amekcollective.bandcamp.com/album/descent |
2022 |
€9.00 |
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| SPECIAL INTERESTS (MAG) |
No. 16 |
mag |
North Central
Ominous Recordings
Artur R. Sztukalski
"TRANSFUTURISM – THE END OR THE BEGINNING OF ART AND HUMANITY?" Essay by Rafał Kochan
"WHY & HOW TO RECYCLE" Essay by Mikko Polus
Commando 15
"NOISE & INTIMACY" Discussion of Mikko A & Commando 15
"NOISE COLLAGES" with Amek-Maj, Aprapat, OMM and Government Alpha.
Chuck Collison / Premature Ejaculation
"THE CONTEXT : Noise from the people known for their music" Discussion of Mikko Polus & Mikko A
Testing Vault
60 / A4 pages, english.
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2024 |
€9.00 |
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| V.A. (VARIOUS ARTISTS) (COMPILATIONS) |
 DRONE-MIND // MIND-DRONE Vol. 7: OPENING PERFORMANCE ORCHESTRA, MYTRIP, SKELDOS, SPECIMENS |
LP & CD |
...finally a new issue in our "drone-explorers" LP-series, for the first time with full bonus CD!
Featuring: SKELDOS (the new drone-melancholia phenomenon from Lithuania), OPENING PERFORMANCE ORCHESTRA (Prague - incredible dense and tight drone waves with scientific approach - full length/different version of their piece on the bonus CD), enchanting guitar/field recording drones from London based SPECIMENS, and MYTRIP from Bulgaria continues his mission to create timeless expanses of pulsing, spectral synth drones..
DRONE-MIND // MIND-DRONE - Volume 7 LP + CD
The series shows the various sides of todays experimental drone-music.
This LP-series from Drone Records is dedicated to the Drones of the World, and the Drones of our Minds.
A kind of continuation of the Drone 7"-series, with artwork based on paintings by British artist PETE GREENING.
Drone Music is seen as more than a mere 'music style', it expresses an approach to perceive and understand the world. DRONE-MIND and MIND-DRONE build a circle of diverse inter-relations. The Drone as a metaphor for everything that vibrates, that releases energy - from atoms and elementary particles to the hum of the earth and the universe. The Drone as an entity that connects everthing that exists within our own "mind-space", perception and self.
Four "Drones" on one record! Volume SEVEN (MIND-07), for the first time with full bonus CD, is OUT NOW (05/2019) feat.:
SPECIMENS ҉ SKELDOS ҉ MYTRIP
OPENING PERFORMANCE ORCHESTRA
Behind SPECIMENS we find the London based ambient/drone artist Alex Ives. His productions pull together delicately arranged but often highly driven cassette loops, synth layers and field recordings as well as often employing wider instrumentation such as organ drones, guitar swells & saxophone hidden beneath the noise. Two excellent LPs have been released so far on his own label First Terrace Records and SVS Records.
Alex Ives also co-hosts a monthly experimental radio show on Resonance Extra.
For MIND-07 we present three shorter SPECIMENS pieces: these raw, somehow perforated drones with lots of atmospheric noise remind on PETER WRIGHT or early TIM HECKER, creating a truly absorbing mood.
SKELDOS: This "drone-melancholia" phenomenon (active since 2011) doing "abstract, longing, flowing soundscapes with tender touch of a distant melody" from Lithuania breathed out one long track that befogs everything in sadnesss and emotion, built on waving sounds from accordeon, voice and other instrumental sources, slowly unfolding into multiple layers. The title of the track "Byra" means 'falling' or 'crumbling' and is encrypted through this fragmented sentence: "...or listening to the things you have barely touched falling... (sls.III)", coming from a never-ending sentence which was started with the first SKELDOS album.
MYTRIP from Bulgaria has been characterized by Tiny Mix Tapes with the phrase "ambient music as a weapon" and is surely standing at the forefront of the vivid electronic/ambient/drone scene there, active since about 10 years with the AMEK label. Two tracks of swirling and pulsing spectral synth drones show the newest development of the project, founded on "more melody-driven and textural soundscapes, where blurry rhythmic patterns meet with organic field recordings, found sounds and deconstructed instrumentation."
OPENING PERFORMANCE ORCHESTRA: Something very special is also the last act on MIND-07, O.P.O. from Prague, with a 12min. 'especially mastered for vinyl'-version of 'Creeping Waves', the FULL version (70 min.) of this piece is placed on the bonus CD. An incredible dense and steadily fluctuating drone expansion, based on the Creeping Wave theory, applied to acoustic phenomena: "According to the principle of diffraction, when a wave front passes an obstruction, it spreads out into the shadowed space. A creeping wave in electromagnetism or acoustics is the wave that is diffracted around the shadowed surface of a smooth body such as a sphere. Creeping waves greatly extend the ground wave propagation of long wavelength (low frequency) radio. They also cause both of a person's ears to hear a sound, rather than only the ear on the side of the head facing the origin of the sound. In radar ranging, the creeping wave return appears to come from behind the target."
cover-art by TILMANN BENNINGHAUS using two paintings by British artist PETE GREENING
Edition of 400 copies on TURQUOISE coloured VINYL. Mastering by PETER ANDERSSON
listen: soundcloud.com/drone-records order: www.dronerecords.de
Title: DRONE-MIND//MIND-DRONE Vol. 7
Track title Track time
Track 1 SPECIMENS - Broken Beams 5:16
Track 2 SPECIMENS - First Flight 3:58
Track 3 SPECIMENS - Over the Great Island 3:35
Track 4 SKELDOS - Byra 10:42
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Side B
Track title Track time
Track 1 MYTRIP - Death is my Heaven 4:24
Track 2 MYTRIP - I stood still 6:59
Track 3 OPENING PERFORMANCE ORCH. - Creeping Waves III 12:00
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2019 |
€18.00 |
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Terässinfonia Vol. 2 |
CD |
Terässinfonia – Steel Symphony: Sound of Finnish experimental noise.
For 25 years Freak Animal Records has published countless releases by Finnish artists. Activities of label has played part in shaping perception how many people see the Finnish noise and experimental underground. Despite vast amount of releases, label has never given full view that would reveal diversity of expression found among Finnish scene.
After quarter of century of work, Freak Animal aimed to take a task of compilation series under title Terässinfonia. To present Finnish noisy and abstract experimental sound in wider scale. Assumption is, that there would be at least three volumes, if not more. All volumes include many projects unknown for vast majority of people. Series will illuminate that Finland is at this moment experiencing surge of creativity on this field, even if it may happen widely unnoticed.
VOL2:
Nuori Veri ”Jatkumon Ahjo”
Parempi Ratkaisu ”Ali-ihmisten kärsimys”
AMEK MAJ ”Miksei”
Toteslaut ”strike the master sword”
Maskhead ”Tormented Pleasures”
Vitun Siat ”ole eläin”
YANA ”Tuntematon”
Circle Of Shit ”fake decoupe orgasm”
Ahola & Silander ”Koitos”
Electric Hobo ”Pripyat”
tyhjiø ”aurinko”
found from : |
2020 |
€8.00 |
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