Tracklist

Mücha – Feel (fd18)
Polypores – Gargantuan Part 1 (fd017)
Matt Whitehead – Pris’s Dream (fd005)
Forest Drive West – Scafell Pike (fd006)
Linnley – Simmer (fd006)
Apologist – No Closer Than The Moon (Extended Tape Version) (fdlp001)
Southfacing – Opt Out (fd006)
The Transcendence Orchestra – Storming Heaven (fd016)
Polypores – Gargantuan Part 2 (fd017)
Datassette – Overtone Crystal (fd010)
Dogout – Cratch (fd001)
Bass Clef – Maze 2 (fd015)
Southfacing – Out of the Park (fd013)
Shasta Cults – Sine Waves With Subtle Phase (fd010)
Matt Whitehead – Beyond the Eschaton (fd005)
Apologist – Architects Dub (fdlp001)
Ali Wade – Spore (fd012)
Jo Johnson – Careless (fd010)
Ali Wade – Imago (fd006)
Luke Sanger – Piano Breeze (fd008)
Southfacing – The Marking Song (fd013)
Ali Wade – Demons (fd016)
Luke Sanger – Natural Resources (forthcoming fd020)
Anthony Child – Remember a Time When You Weren’t Sure Which Way Was North (fd003)
Pelican Daughters – Happiness (fd006)
Constantine ft. Christos Sakellaridis – Between Worlds (fd010)

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Tracklist

Andrew Lang – Lift
Jeff Brown – Place Your Faults at the Door
zakè – Evidence of Things Not Seen
Mi Cosa de Resistance – Structure (whitelabrecs)
Jordan Christoff – Matriarchy
Carnivorous Plants – An Ocean Above The Clouds
Winterwood – Populace
Bowditch – Apollo 12
SELVEDGE – BLOOM IN RUST
Hymns57 – Bitcrush Butterflies
Matt Atkins & Slow Clinic – On The Inside I

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Keep 2021 at bay with a baker’s dozen of outstanding compilations from last year…

The list numbers a baker’s dozen. It mostly comprises conventional collections of a single label’s output, though one collects disparate pieces from a single artist. It also includes a mix confined to a single label, which seemed both eligible & worth celebrating too.

Read on to find out more about compilations from 2020 picked by our comrades at LMYE – we’re talking Dronarivm, Past Inside the Present, Home Normal, Moving Furniture, Beacon Sound and numerous other labels…

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Reckless Yes is an independent record label working ethically and collaboratively with artists to make great things for our membership and other music fans.

We release internationally across all formats, and look for options which have the least negative impact on the environment. Our membership directly support our roster of artists through offsetting the costs of release, and in return get early access to all our releases plus a host of other benefits.

RECKLESS YES CLASS OF 2020

1. Liines – Sorry (7″ single, released 6 Nov 2020, RY059)
2. Eilis Frawley – Stats (taken from the CD and digital EP ‘Adult Life’ released 23 October 2020 RY070)
3. Duck – R*ck St*r (taken from the vinly LP ‘There Are No Normal Conversations Anymore, released 20 November 2020, RY063)
4. Captain Handsome – I wish I had a Dog (Taken from the CD EP ‘I Am Not An Animal’ released 31 January 2020, RY041)
5. Dactylion – Stutter (Digital single, released 24 January 2020, RY051)
6. Bugeye – When the Light Go Out (taken from the vinyl and CD LP ‘Ready, Steady, Bang’ released 19 June 2020, RY052)
7. GodNo! – Hulk (Taken from the CD EP ‘Too Much Future’ released 7 August 2020, RY050)
8. Grawl!x – Epicene (Taken from the digital album ‘Peeps’ released 14 February 2020, RY048)
9. Order of the Toad – Lady’s Mantle (Taken from the vinyl LP and CD ‘Re-Order of the Toad’, released 2 October 2020, RY061)
10. Hearts Beating In Time – Simone’s (Digital Single, released 30 October 2020, RY076)
11. Fightmilk – I’m Starting To Think You Don’t Even Want To Go To Space (Digital Single, released 20 March, 2020, RY058)
12. Nervous Twitch – Keeping Faith In Something (Digital Single, released 9 October 2020, RY072)

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We Are Joiners – Clients + Carriers (Totally Real Records)

Lance Bangs – Whammy (Citrus City)

Landowner – Consultant (Born Yesterday)

Dark Tones – Pulling Nails Out of Walls (Self Released)

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Eyes Everywhere – Through the Eye of Justice EP

Mount Mole – Flee Marker

Tiger Village – Amblyopiac

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Jilk fuses a bewildering collage of home-found sounds with the ambient soundscapes of washy synths, insect-like clicks & cuts, and huge gorgeous waves of all encompassing experimental noise. A Bristol based producer who started out as one man and his lap top; 10 years later Jilk are now a collection of musicians whose live shows create a spectacle of electronic ethereality. – Folk and Honey

clipping. – Visions of Bodies Being Burned

R.A.P Ferreira – Purple Moonlight Pages

The Body – I’ve Seen All I Need to See

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Past Inside the Present (PITP) is an American ambient label with a focus on offering up some of the very best ambient, drone, soundscape, and minimal music by passionate artists from across the globe.

Tracklist

Pallette ‘It’s The Little Things, Pt.I’

‘Pathways’ is a collection of four stunning loops created by the artist during an introspective period of his life. These majestic, consonant arrangements breathe slowly as fleetingly beautiful melodies; a gorgeous account of ebb and flow repetition. Pathways is cautiously sanguine and equally melancholic of which many today can personally and intimately relate to. A universal desperation and yearning for hope in a dispirited civilization.

Lamasz ‘Dégradé’

Nature Morte is a concept album created from seven nostalgic tape loops. Restricting myself to the bare minimum, I like to think I toyed with the imperfections of the hissing sounds to create beautiful overlapping textures, like a still life painting slowly taking form. – Pier-Luc

Grandbruit ‘La marée sur ton corps’

Created from intertwining guitar layers, Ruptures is a lofi catalyst; a luminous journey of eloquent patterns and hypnotic textures. The inspiration of these arrangements stem from written poetry and the intimate beauty, rhythm, technique, uniqueness, and expression it radiates.

See also: Possible Musics

Tapes and Topographies ‘You Saw Nothing in Hiroshima’

Influenced by classic film, and borrowing a Scott Walker lyric from the 60’s for an album title (!) , Gautreau explains that on this new release, he attempted to strip things down to find beauty in core ideas, instead of over-embellishing tracks. – Deepest Currents

36 & zakè ‘Stasis Sounds for Long-Distance Space Travel (Stage 2)’

Stasis Sounds For Long-Distance Space Travel is audibly rich in its delivery with an array of tranquil billows and patient tones. It is a journey and soundtrack that commences at Earth’s thermosphere, gently moving towards the untraveled parts of space, lushly floating on forever. – Ultimae Records

Polar Moon ‘Alone Again’
TR Jordan ‘Unsaid’
Jörgen Kjellgren ‘Invincible Summer’
Carlos Ferreira ‘Still Breathing’
Tyresta ‘Not Quite’
anthéne ‘Faint’
r beny ‘The Dashboard Cast a Spectral Glow’
Slow Dancing Society ‘What We Knew As Children’
The Green Kingdom ‘Dawn’
Bedroom ‘Latibule’
From Overseas ‘Astronomer’
Marc Ertel ‘Overture No. 5’
Low Howl ‘Tundra’
Hotel Neon ‘Illumination’
Isaac Helsen ‘Before The Wind’
Pausal ‘Circadia’
AUSKLANG ‘Abschied’
36 ‘(Second Sequence)’
Pepo Galán & Sita Ostheimer ‘Distance’
Ecovillage ‘Letting Go Of All Things [feat. Ludwig Cimbrelius]
worriedaboutsatan ‘Sunk’
Endless Melancholy ‘Collapse’

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Here’s 15 of my favourite tracks from 2020, from WFR and other electronic labels.

Tracklist

Soul Flask – Six Miles Down (The Twilight of Flight – WFR)

Soul Flask was the first artist outside the WFR friend bubble that we signed – The Twilight of Flight is an amazing album, full of emotion and weight. Six Miles Down is the track that really hit me the hardest, and we released it as a single, backed with a Werra Foxma remix, before the album in August.

Further Reading: Igloo Magazine

Dohnavùr – Accept and Move On (You Can and You Shall – WFR)

The first track from the first ever release on WFR in March of this year, which pre-dates the label by 3 months. This LP set Ali and I on an unexpected rapid ascent which saw Dohnavùr get signed to the mighty Castles in Space for a slew of releases in 2021. The trademark Dusty breaks, acid tweaks, big bass and floaty synths are all here.

Bendu – The Crown (Sagittarius – WFR) ** NEW FOR 2021**

The wickedly talented Bendu (LA based Ben Vance) came to me to master his album for him, but after one listen, I was hooked, and took the opportunity to work with him to release it next year. The Crown sums up Ben’s work nicely – big downtempo beats, imaginative vocal samples, pulsing bass and scorching lead lines. It also came out on a self-released lathe cut 7” prior to ben signing to WFR, which i snapped up just this month.

See also – review by Survey Channel

Listener Depleted – Colleen (You Slept, I Didn’t – Music Is The Devil)

I caught wind of Listener Depleted on Kate Bosworth’s amazing Dark Train show, and Colleen stopped me dead in my tracks. It captures the sound inside my head most days; beautiful, epic and damaged. I can’t recall breathing the whole time i listened to it, it was that impactful. It’s everything I want from ambient/beatless music, and is one of only two tracks i’ve heard this year that made me cry. Outrageous.

Further Reading: On the Fringes of Sound

Rei Nakatani – Ma (iydith – WFR) **NEW FOR 2021**

Rei’s work is incredible; disciplined, clinical, and with a sense of space. I am fond of electronic walls-of-sound, and over-cluttering my own music, but every once in a while, an artist comes along that resets your thinking. Ma is one of those tracks that is simple, yet hyper-modern, and goes about it’s business like a chess game. Utterly fascinating and addictive to listen to.

The Loop Union – Waving Not Droning (Serendipity – WFR)

One of my favourite tracks from a collaboration project with generative ambient/Ableton guru Mike K Smith, which we released in the summer. On this track, I took Mike’s beautiful, flowing ambient lines and overlaid jazzy funk breaks, RDJ style pads, and atmospheric piano in the breakdown section, inspired by the works of Number Stations chief songwriter Scott Mungin.

Autumna – Rafferty Sings the Blues (Autumna 2010-2020 Vol.1 – WFR) **NEW FOR 2021**

When Autumna (aka Belgian artist Emile Wauters) sent me an email enquiring about demos and submissions, nothing prepared me for the 50 odd releases in his back catalogue as a CV! As i combed through the dozens of EP’s and albums, about 25 undiscovered gems stood out (which we are collating for an incredible physical release on WFR in 2021) and Rafferty Sings the Blues is one of them; absolutely gorgeous in every way, and it’s one of those tracks just waiting for a movie scene to mesh with it.

Letters From Mouse – Helix Nebula (Watching – Music Is the Devil)

Steven (aka LFM) has played a massive part in the development of WFR. From the Räven Musen collaboration to inviting us to work together on the amazing Strange Selectors. Helix Nebula is my favourite from his latest LP; the highest compliment i can give it is that it sounds like it was made in 1975 – proper Kosmiche from one of Scotland’s finest producers.

Tayus – 53 (Synergism – WFR)

A moment of pure genius from two of my closest musical compadres – Ambient bliss from Mike K Smith combined with the modular powerhouse that is Ali O’May. The whole of Synergism is pure joy, but ’53’ sounds like it could be background music to scenes from the Queen’s Gambit – playful but melancholic, and utterly brilliant.

Correlations – Hot Pots 5 (Castles in Space)

One of my albums of the year – every track contains elements and sounds from the OSCar mono synth, and contains some of the most creative and beautiful arrangements and arpeggios I’ve heard from any release. There’s no fat on Hot Pots 5 – every sound has a purpose, but its not minimal in any way – it’s rich, epic and euphoric. A triumph.

Dohnavùr – Surmonter (Castles in Space Subscription Library)

This is the track that kinda changed my life in a way. Ali O’May and I had just released the debut Dohnavùr LP in March, 2 weeks before Covid lockdown. A few weeks later, Colin from CiS was asking for submissions for the Isolation Tapes, and we submitted the moody, cinematic ‘Surmonter’, which is french for ‘Overcome’. Colin placed it as track 1 of the Isolation Tapes downloads, and my feet haven’t touched the ground since. As a result of submitting Surmonter, Dohnavùr now have 5 vinyl releases coming out on CiS in 2021. Insane.

Further Reductions – Array (Knekelhuis)

I stumbled across New York’s Further Reductions via Stuart from Kl(äus) a few months ago, and Array is my favourite EP of 2020, with the title track the standout. Essentially polished live recordings, Array has that new/old house feeling to it, and would absolutely belong in the first hour of a modern day Aphex Twin set. Minimal, dirty, dreamy and funky all at the same time.

Räven Musen – Bubbling Brook (Secrets of Snow Diving EP – WFR)

Bubbling Brook combined my love of dirty drums and deep bass with LFM’s uncanny knack for off-kilter melodies. The most sinister track of the EP, it went down well with the hauntologists in our electronic community.

Pulselovers – Slope and Intercept (Northern Minimalism 2 – Do It Thissen)

Mat Handley aka Pulselovers has been one of my favourite artists this year. We got to know each other through Strange Selectors, and he has been super cool with us giving advice on how to conduct things with running WFR, with his experience running Woodford Halse to draw on. Slope and Intercept reminds me of the Rephlex/Analord output of the mid 2000’s, with plenty of analog fizz and CR78 drums to propel this little beauty along.

Dohnavùr – Einhliða (Concrete Animals – WFR)

We started this mix with the first Dohnavùr track we made, and we end with the last. A landmark release for our label, as this was the first vinyl release for us – something I thought personally would have been impossible within the first year of operation, but we did it within 6 months of starting up WFR. Einhliða is the AA side (Icelandic for On One Side), and contains all sorts of menacing electronics, married with epic live drums and bubbling, paranoid arpeggios.

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Nothing – The Great Dismal (Relapse / Daymare)
thisquietarmy – Kesselhaus (Midira Records)
Rødhåd – Mood (WSNWG)
Primitive Man – Immersion (Relapse)
Vile Creature – Glory, Glory! Apathy Took Helm! (Prosthetic Records)

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