Friday, 16 September 2022

Plastic Vanilla by Warm Natural

Plastic Vanilla, the latest EP from Warm Natural, utilises a muted palette of hollow synths and crackly beats to explore different emotional states. As Warm Natural, Miles Cosmo’s music probes areas of the human psyche that are difficult to describe. The title track Plastic Vanilla swings with a distant frigidity before opening up to an exuberant crescendo of grainy monosynths. This duality is present in all of Cosmo’s work, feelings of deja vu, faded nostalgia, and the call of the void, juxtaposed with playfulness and verve. There's a cautious intrigue that flows through this EP with Return pulsing through its runtime with alien machine rhythms, and Stages cycling through its many phases seamlessly with eccentric flair. Plastic Vanilla’s three tracks develop organically and with warmth and enthusiasm whilst maintaining an air of distant fragility and numbness. This is Plastic Vanilla.

warmnatural.bandcamp.com
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released September 16, 2022

Produced and Mastered by Miles Cosmo Philip.
Art by Miles Cosmo Philip.
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Up by the Lake by Arance Trickster

Arcane Trickster’s brand new double A-side single "Up By The Lake", backed with "Against All Odds". It is Techno, with dub and ambient seasonings their unique style.

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released September 9, 2022

1. Up By The Lake (Tech Dub Mix)
2. Against All Odds (Never Tell Me The Odds Mix)
3. Up By The Lake (Minimal Mix)
4. Against All Odds (Ambient Dub Mix)

1 & 3 written by Christopher Innes/ Damiano Verna.
2 & 4 written by John Crombie/ Damiano Verna.

Bandcamp: https://slicerecords.bandcamp.com/album/up-by-the-lake
Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3BM4Tpw

Produced, mixed & engineered by Arcane Trickster @ Tempest Studios.
Mastered by Allan Klinbail @ Steam Mastering.
Art by Ear Mind Eye.
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What Are We Rolling For?

What Are We Rolling For? It's always good to pose a question.

EME's 3rd EP of original psychedelic music, sprouted from ideas on tracks produced between 2010-2018, from a time when purity levels were higher. This psychonauts' excursion is inspired by the cyborganic counter culture and relatable experience in back yard sheds. Using creative procrastination, giving things time to happen themselves, (to be an "equal sign" in the equations of occurrences), finally the tracks are untethered in 2022.

Roll the dice, be the llama, and come convulse to the frequency, the rhythm, the vibration and activate the mystic path to gland curdling abundance.

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released August 26, 2022

Produced and mixed by Ear Mind Eye.
Mastered by Gareth Fox @ Studio Schizoid.
Photography and layout by Ear Mind Eye.
Logo design by Alison Lujan, reworked by Free Range Fox.
CAT#: SLICE059

Bandcamp: https://slicerecords.bandcamp.com/album/what-are-we-rolling-for
Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3dXKRyKhttps://spoti.fi/3dXKRyK

Dedicated to The Hartnoll Brothers. Special thanks to PVG, The Databats - Jon & Ras, Gareth, Jimmi, Damiano, Dylab, and Jarrad Wright for the Sassy sample.