{"title":"CASSETTES","description":"\u003cp\u003eA category that keeps evolving, especially across experimental and ambient genres, cassettes have seen a huge revival over the past years, particularly with smaller, independent labels and the DIY mentality is quickly percolating across other genres.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOur range of cassettes continues to grow, and includes releases from some of our favourite labels, including \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/swims-records\"\u003eSwims Records\u003c\/a\u003e and \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/objects-and-sounds\"\u003eObjects \u0026amp; Sounds\u003c\/a\u003e. \u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"akhira-sano-to-material-past","title":"AKHIRA SANO - TO MATERIAL PAST","description":"\u003col\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMomentary\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCelebratory\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eVisionary\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCustomary\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eImaginary\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eOrdinary\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ol\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA beautiful release from Japanese multi-disciplinary artist Akhira Sano, who serves up the six track 'To Material Past' on the London-based (and Kaninhål favourite) \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/swims-records\"\u003eSwims Records\u003c\/a\u003e. Delicate and reflective - a really warming piece of music and well packaged as cassette format. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNotes from the label - \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAkhira Sano is a Tokyo-based artist working across sound, drawing, installation, and video. His practice finds generative potential for music in life's fleeting incidents, etching meaning from unassuming spaces and resonances. With releases on 12k, LAAPS, IIKKI, and The Trilogy Tapes, Sano has steadily carved out a distinctive voice within minimal and experimental music - one that privileges attentiveness and patience over spectacle.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"To Material Past\", Sano's debut for \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/swims-records\"\u003eSWIMS\u003c\/a\u003e, carries this thread with a 30-minute expedition built solely using glockenspiel tones and field recordings from his local neighbourhood. This is a night walk with no map or end point; Sano follows irregular, coiling fragments that extend to form a tessellating luminous whole - like a subliminal mass of tree roots quietly shifting the concrete slabs beneath our feet.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eUnder this faded gauze of gestures and interactions, Sano's glockenspiel interjects like a grandfather clock, softly marking the partitions that make up a day's collected experience; clicking and chiming like the sleeping brain, as it sifts and catalogues a lifetime's ephemera of thoughts, faces and puzzles.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIf you like this, why not check out our other \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/ambient\"\u003eambient music\u003c\/a\u003e releases, as well as other music from \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/swims-records\"\u003eSwims Records\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"SWIMS","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53213816291674,"sku":"SWIM14","price":11.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0959\/8117\/5130\/files\/ToMaterialPast-AkhiraSano.jpg?v=1767186053"},{"product_id":"stefan-schneider-monti-oasy","title":"STEFAN SCHNEIDER MONTI - OASY","description":"\u003col\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ethe red red\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ecool yours\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003epower of two\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003enever quite arrives\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ehuff notes\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eabenda blue arm\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eclean my hands\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ol\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA beautiful concept album from experimental Belgian imprint \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/objects-and-sounds\"\u003eObjects \u0026amp; Sounds\u003c\/a\u003e, who call upon genre-bending composer Stefan Schneider Monti to release 'Oasy', a loop-riddled seven-track album complete with synthesized bleeps and drones. As visually striking as it is audibly, with the cassette wrapped in a custom design from artist Zin Taylor. Limited run of total 150 copies!\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNotes from the label - \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eCircuits reveal a curious syntax on “OASY”, where Stefan Schneider unravels the irregular regularities of machines. Under his intuition, diverging rhythms coalesce under a cohesive cadence.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSynthesized thought-loops emerge from a random access memory, appearing in various forms from jittery blips and rumbling haptics to whirring drones. His approach draws from cities such as Lisbon, Accra, and Osaka, where sonic streams come all at once from unpredictable directions. The polyrhythms coursing throughout this record likewise evoke a flurry of activity, animated and wholly alive.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eRarely following a premeditated course of action, Stefan senses out frequencies by exploring the possibilities and limits of hardware synthesizers. An intentional improvisation underpins his method as a self-taught musician and sound engineer: “Nowadays, it is quite difficult or even obsolete to separate composing, playing, recording, and mixing from one another, as they are all part of a consistent but non-linear process.”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe eight tracks on this record are each units unto themselves, flickering in a self-generated Morse code. Some are laid under an austere fluorescent light, while others are warmly wrapped in a dense tangle of cables and wires serving as conduits. As if we\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"bcTruncateMore\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eare observing a schematic being deftly drafted, “OASY” reverse engineers speculative machines through sound.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBy design, the industrial and incidental become exquisitely intertwined. Stefan magnifies the fractals hidden in mechanical sequences, where disparate patterns find resonant frequencies. Before order cements itself, “OASY” offers a fleeting mind space—a moment to find speculation in perception.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIf you like this, why not check out our other offerings from the \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/objects-and-sounds\"\u003eObjects \u0026amp; Sounds\u003c\/a\u003e imprint, as well as our new \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/experimental\"\u003eexperimental music\u003c\/a\u003e releases. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Object \u0026 Sounds","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53691202011482,"sku":"OS002","price":18.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0959\/8117\/5130\/files\/OASYbyStefanSchneiderMonti.jpg?v=1772114983"},{"product_id":"zander-raymond-courage-left-in-a-tree","title":"ZANDER RAYMOND - COURAGE LEFT IN A TREE","description":"\u003col\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eabbott\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003easks for a hand\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eit goes side to side\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eheld on paper\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eif i look from the side\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eto point\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eeast toward damen\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eit came from under the wall\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eorange shape lower left\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003esold on tables \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eunderneath the pass\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003etwo sided ramp\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ol\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCharting the tangible yearn for sunnier days whilst travelling by bike, Chicago-based multidisciplinary artist Zander Raymond takes us on a blissful journey over twelve tracks, with 'Courage Left In a Tree', released in 2024 on \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/objects-and-sounds\"\u003eObjects \u0026amp; Sounds\u003c\/a\u003e. Synths, keyboards and other percussive elements are used delicately across the release, emulating the gentle movement on two wheels and when all put together, if you close your eyes, you're transported to a summer's day. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNotes from the label - \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eChicago-based Zander Raymond takes us on a reflective ride with 'courage left in a tree', an album inspired by the sonic and physical experience of travelling by bike throughout a metropolitan landscape in winter, yearning for the sensation of an August sun. The track titles reference sites and geographic points stumbled upon during his daily commutes to and from work, while the sounds heard throughout speak to a deeper personal process for Zander: “I am very sensitive to sound, so I turn to field recorders to capture the unpleasant, and I weave those into compositions in an attempt to understand them, but also as a way to make them beautiful.” Keyboards, field recordings, and modular synthesizer bring to life sounds found and made, where solid forms and sonic waves co-create in harmony.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe first track “abbott” opens Side A in a burst of motion. Crinkly sonic textures are in focus, a blurred frenzy stirring against a pallid line of sound. The steady line fades into a bellowing synth that expands and contracts on “asks for a hand,” beads of light cross-hatching the air. The light scatters, losing a sense of its dimension, as it breaks into bleeps of sound in “it goes side to side.” Soon the sherbet-colored sky fades. The buzz of voices and insect chirps take the listener to the edge of day on “held on paper,” where soft synth melodies thread through and delicately dance with the sky. Grainy sounds coagulate on “i look from the side,” their fuzziness instilled with a sense of vivid warmth while the synth’s gentle rumbles are barely scathed by an ensuing storm. Side A closes with “to point”—gossamer droplets whose uplifting melodies motion the listener to look up, dreaming of a blissful summer sunrise.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAs we enter Side B, a plum sky lies overhead with “east toward damen” inviting in a slightly darker atmosphere. Moving with a slower pace, “it came from under the wall” captures what sounds like a passageway where slight quivers shuffle in this darkened space. The ripple of sounds continue in “orange shape lower left,” resting under the shadows of the synth’s melancholic murmur. This murmur breaks with a flurry of bird chirps in “sold on tables.” Those feathery beacons of hope remind us that better weather is on the horizon. The atmosphere is sprinkled with pleasantries before an abrupt ending, the jolt mirroring the start-stop nature of a bike. “underneath the pass” brings us closer out of winter’s endless tunnel. The pulsating sounds feel like the sun breaking through, the gentle stir of what’s to come. We come to the last bits of our journey with “two sided ramp,” a tactile delight as found objects awaken for one final chorus of animistic wonder.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eZander notes that this album is not only inspired by biking, but captures the experience of easing into and adjusting to adulthood. 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