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From ambient soundscapes to glitchy beats and everything in between, Subexotic offers a unique listening experience that captivates and challenges its audience.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWith an impressive catalog of releases spanning over a decade, Subexotic has gained recognition as one of the leading labels in the electronic experimental music scene. The label's dedication to quality and innovation has garnered praise from critics and fans alike. Whether you're an avid fan or just discovering this captivating genre, Subexotic Records is your gateway to *unconventional sounds* that will transport you into uncharted musical territories.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"memorex-mori","title":"Memorex Mori","description":"\u003cp\u003eCaptivating soundtrack to Michael C Coldwell's film Memorex Mori. \"Last year I found a dusty box of old unlabelled VHS tapes at my parent’s house, including some early work of my own I’d long forgotten about. 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Following years of avid field recording, Neil explains how it came about through a series of epiphanies: \"It sort of started after I did a field recording introduction weekend workshop with the legend that is Chris Watson (the BBC wildlife team and ex-Cabaret Voltaire), just in terms of it being very inspirational and meeting like minded people. I've been sound recording for about 12 years now and have a good archive of sounds, and simply enjoy just listening and capturing the world. Since then over the years I've learned to really listen to the everyday soundscapes and as such I no longer walk down the street listening to a personal stereo anymore, the world can often be more exciting than music. A few memories of listening stick out which really helped form this album. 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Things really came together though when in summer 2022 I had a minor operation and was resting in bed after the operation, high on painkillers feeling quite spaced out. It was in the middle of a heat wave and the nurses had opened the ward windows, it was evening and I could see pink clouds but the sunset was out of view. I'd been listening to the Eno \/ Harmonia album and after that ended, I put on some Burial. I just lay there watching the clouds and the title Acid Field Recordings In Dub just came into my head... I could hear how the concept should be: made with field recordings, manipulating them and creating ambient soundscapes... dubby beats fractured in places and snatches of the acid 303. This is more or less what I wrote down that day and a few weeks later I started to create it... the process came easy and at first, I thought I'd need to spend some time making new extra field recordings but, to be honest, I has such an archive I pulled most of the sounds from that.\"\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Subexotic","offers":[{"title":"LP","offer_id":50415415230795,"sku":"2192915","price":22.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/Audio_Obscura__Acid_Field_Recordings_In_Dub_595bae34_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1726689993"},{"product_id":"night-scenes","title":"Night Scenes","description":"\u003cp\u003eFelix Machtelinckx is a singer, composer, producer and lyricist from Belgium. Featuring an array of film scores, dance soundtracks, pop, folk and electronic music, Felix's music resonates with a familiar, almost nostalgic patina, applied with a distinctly crooked touch. Through artistic collaboration, coaching and production, Felix has cut a dash in the pop and indie cult scenes of Belgium, especially with his band Tin Fingers, who are feted as one of the most promising indie acts of the moment. Night Scenes, Felix’s solo debut is, in contrast to his other work, more humble and less traditional, roughly hewn from a series of ambient soundscapes, earthy textures and playful structures. Felix’s voice, normally the flagship of his music, becomes more of a distant memory, an indistinct emotion feathered throughout the music. Many lyrics are improvised, sometimes unintelligible, conjuring haunted, uncertain undertones. Similarly, the album is innately peripatetic to the core, being created, written and recorded in Lithuania, Belgium, France, mastered in the US, and finally released in the UK. In the first instance, some of the tracks were created for the contemporary dance piece Doggy Rugburn by Brandon Lagaert of Kaiho and Peeping Tom; others were created enigmatically for a film that never surfaced; while the remainder are the product of more personal work and research. As Felix began to collect and review these disparate parts, the concept of a unified album began to evolve. With 'night' featuring as a suitably dark leitmotif, or backdrop to a series of emotionally fraught 'scenes', each track depicts a form of trauma, locked within the confines of the mind. Felix observes: \"Imagine yourself in a dusty old room unable to sleep. Emotions, fears and other demons haunt your mind. This in-between state makes your mind reach for other worlds. This is Night Scenes.\" For the most part, Night Scenes was created using a variety of old, and rare, analogue equipment. With almost no digital editing, the record was primarily mixed through a vintage cassette desk, giving it a nostalgic character with a noisy undertone. Felix fully embraced the synergy of his emotional themes and retrograde gear, enthusing: \"A lot of textures were created on an old Soviet synthesizer that causes a blackout when you hit the lowest note on the keyboard. The dysfunctionality of the synths was often used to create rhythm and texture.\" This unnerving ability Night Scenes has to comfort and confound the listener is summed up by Jordan Hudson, House Of Media producer, and music podcaster, when he concludes: \"Some songs on the album have this sort of fleeting comfort and tonality, which dissolves into a subtle rhythmic\/structural or modulated disarray the moment I settle into them - this really fits with my experience of the night .. 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Melodies rise up joyfully, hang around, and then become enveloped in treated sounds of unknowable provenance. “I hunt down really clean royalty-free acoustic guitar samples,” says Knott. “I like nylon strings and clear, sparkly tones – the brighter, the better. I pick the source material based on how sonically good and warm it sounds as well as the clarity of the notes. It really has nothing to do with the musical phrase.” Knott then manipulates those plundered sounds to create the diverse sounds heard across Nightmare Folk Art. \"My mantra is to destroy, create, then repeat. It’s really liberating, and I love working this way. I play acoustic fingerpicking guitar so I try to play my controller the same way. 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