P030: Cabeza de Vaca – Ambient

A beatless program this week as we play all ambient on Cabeza de Vaca show and Scanner FM. The show is split into two halves. The first half focused more on experimental and left-field music is also divided into two halves.

 

The first two tracks are from Spanish artists and labels. First up is Mikel Lauki from Pais Vasco (the Basque Country) who is apparently resident in Barcelona. This is his second release after “69º54´S​-​135º12´E” which came out on the Audio Gourmet netlabel in 2011 and available for free on Bandcamp.

 

 

 

His latest release comes on the prolific and highly interesting Audiotalaia label which is also based in Barcelona. All or most of their releases are also available for free by following links from the Audiotalaia website . There is plenty there if you have a look around, including some compilations.

 

Also for free is the recent release from Lovethechaos, another Barcelona-based label. This release, recently made available on cassette, has an interesting history and I quote from the label’s website

 

“Engendrons emerges as a result Of an experiment by Lovethechaos Records, in an attempt to bring together different artists under one same project.

 

In a secretive exercise, five artists were invited to create a 15min long sound piece.none of them knew who participated in this project nor the aim of it. The only premise was to create an unrhythmical piece to lay them over afterwards and create a unique composition unknown to the artists until it’s release.”

 

As for who the artists might be, one could be D.forma who we played on the recent Spanish music show, although there are plenty more there as well.

 

One artist and release that I did not play on the show this was by Alex Gámez aka Asférico and Störung organiser which you can also download for free:
 

 

 

The second quarter of the show features tracks from two albums recently released on Aguirre, the Belgian experimental and ambient label. We feature a segment of Quiet Evenings (Grant and Rachel Evans; Motion Sickness of Time Travel) and a whole track by JD Emmanuel who has been releasing music for over 30 years.
 

 

 

One of his most surprising releases is perhaps a track that came out on Innervisions a few years ago:

 

 

The second half of the show is taken up by some techno and house artists, mostly B sides, but the Anthony Child (Surgeon) release is obviously more stand-alone. In particular, the Udacha label track by Bipolardepth has some beautiful qualities and we will be focussing an entire show on them in the next few weeks. As for Anthony Child, I always wanted to start a set with “Not-two” the ambient sound design track from the end of “Breaking the Frame”

 

Number	Artist	Track	Label	Year
1	Lauki	Atlas	Audiotalaia	2013
2	Engendrons	Side-A	Lovethechaos	2013
3	JD Emmanuel	Illusions	Aguirre	2013
4	Quiet Evenings	Telepathic Heart	Aguirre	2013
5	Anthony Child (Surgeon)	The Space Between People and Things (Part 1)	NNA Tapes	2013
6	Len Faki	BTX3	Ostgut ton	2013
7	Planetary Assault Systems (Luke Slater)	Beauty In The Fear (The Black Dog's Destroyed On Purpose Mix Pt. 1)	Ostgut ton	2012
8	Bipolardepth	Posevy	Udacha	2012
9	Space Dimension Controller	Music For Spaceports	R & S Records	2013

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