- Artist
- Simon James
- ReleaseProduct
- Shenzhen/Shanghai
- Label
- Musicity
- Catalogue Number
- MSCTY003
- Release Date
- December 10, 2018
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Nick Luscombe’s Musicity returns with a surprise release from Simon James aka Simonsound. On Shenzhen/Shanghai, Simon looks to the hidden sound world within the Chinese cities of Shenzhen and Shanghai, excavating the ambiance and using it as the basis for an album of tranquil, multi-leveled Buchla synthesizer compositions.
During the first half, we are taken on a sonic trip through Shenzhen, one of China’s youngest and fastest-growing cities. From the resonating, chamberlike cavernous silos that once held the chemicals needed to make glass but now hold nothing but reverb and dust, James transforms these empty spaces into a truly mesmerizing whirlpool of metallic sounds and vibrations that endlessly bounce around within the solid structure. On the second step of the journey, we move into Shanghai, where using a microphone attached to a massive cable reel, we experience the sound of the mic travelling across the floor of a huge hangar at West Bund Aircraft Factory, which is currently being transformed into a cultural hub on the banks of the Huangpu River. The final step of the journey brings forth an electromagnetic recording of Shanghai’s maglev train travelling Shanghai Airport, bringing this chapter of the Musicity project to a close.
A proper example of true industrial sounds and concrete brutalism captured forever on cassette by this always-evolving and ever important label.
Digital Tracklist
Simon James
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- Artist
- Simon James
- ReleaseProduct
- Electronic Breeze
- Label
- Lo Recordings
- Catalogue Number
- LO196DA
- Release Date
- October 14, 2022
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Musicity
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- Artist
- James Greer
- ReleaseProduct
- TOKYO の DENSHA
- Label
- Musicity
- Catalogue Number
- Musicity 002
- Release Date
- October 30, 2018
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Library and Field Recordings
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- Artist
- Sam Dunscombe
- ReleaseProduct
- Two Forests - Oceanic
- Label
- Black Truffle
- Catalogue Number
- Black Truffle 111 D
- Release Date
- November 24, 2023
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- Artist
- Felicia Atkinson
- ReleaseProduct
- Ni envers ni endroit que cette roche brûlante (Pour Georgia O’Keeffe)
- Label
- Portraits GRM
- Catalogue Number
- 880918263823
- Release Date
- September 15, 2023
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- Artist
- Various Artists
- ReleaseProduct
- Continuing A Worn Out Tradition III
- Label
- Archaic Vaults
- Catalogue Number
- AV011
- Release Date
- June 2, 2023
- LP (special)
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- Artist
- FTCCV
- ReleaseProduct
- The Ritual Year OST
- Label
- Folklore Tapes
- Catalogue Number
- FTCCV
- Release Date
- February 24, 2023
- 7″
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- Artist
- The Focus Group
- ReleaseProduct
- Sketches and Spells
- Label
- Ghost Box
- Catalogue Number
- GBX002
- Release Date
- January 10, 2005
- Vinyl
- CD
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- Artist
- Ernest Hood
- ReleaseProduct
- Back to the Woodlands
- Label
- Freedom To Spend
- Catalogue Number
- FTS022DIGITAL
- Release Date
- November 11, 2022
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- Artist
- Death Is Not The End
- ReleaseProduct
- Pause for the Cause: London Rave Adverts 1991-1996, Vol. 2
- Label
- Death Is Not The End
- Catalogue Number
- DEATH061
- Release Date
- September 9, 2022
- Cassette
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- Artist
- Death Is Not The End
- ReleaseProduct
- Pause for the Cause: London Rave Adverts 1991-1996, Vol. 1
- Label
- Death Is Not The End
- Catalogue Number
- 5050580789913
- Release Date
- July 29, 2022
- Cassette
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