MILIEU
BELL’N DITHER
MMD009
CD-R ALBUM / 100 COPIES
Needing something soft, moody and bittersweet for those humid Summer nights on the way? Look no further. Bell'n Dither is a spiritual follow-up to 2006's dusky electronic effort Night Currents, and probably the most electronic Milieu album yet. Dither is overloaded with skittering, microscopically manipulated beats and spacious pools of warm chords. Droplets of sad, rainy melodies cover a hulking rusted sub-bass contraption while you roll the windows down in your car just so you can smell the air before a thunderstorm. Dither could be considered both a return to form as well as exploratory and new for Milieu, and should satisfy even the most discriminating of Milieu listeners. Limited to 100 copies packaged in a lovely design by David Tagg, who also appears as a guest on one of the album’s tracks.
NOTE: THIS IS A PREORDER! ALL ORDERS WILL SHIP ON OR BEFORE THE WEEK OF MAY 3RD. INITIAL ORDERS MAY INCLUDE A BONUS SURPRISE…
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MILIEU
REVERB MICROCOMA (PART TWO)
MML068
3” CD-R EP / 50 COPIES
Following the previous part one of this Milieu EP miniseries, Reverb Microcoma returns with even more "classic" Milieu sounds, ready to go in your Spring travels. While the first EP was set more in the Colortone universe, this one could fit squarely into the realm of Swaying Palms. Tracks like "Archipelagos" and "Blue Breeze" are total tropical Milieu, while "Melted Radio Tape" spits back a fuzzy space transmission, straight from Jupiter's moon Europa to your stereo. Five solid Milieu jams to rock your block with! Limited to 50.
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BRIAN GRAINGER
SUNBURNT UNDER THE EYES
WORKINGMAN’S DRONE SERIES / WD3
3” CD-R EP / 50 COPIES
Being a little late on the Workingman's Drone series this time around, "Sunburnt" should satisfy all of your needs for dense suburban drones. Probably the prettiest one in the series thus far, with a swelling guitar chord reminiscent of Ballasted-era SOTL set over a bubbling field recording that wouldn't be out of place on an early Coppice Halifax record. Warm and drifting, and limited to 50.
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BRIAN GRAINGER
WHITE KINGDOMS
SOUND & FURY / SF022
CD-R ALBUM / 75 COPIES
Having received my copies of this album from Sound & Fury, I have posted only ten copies for sale in the Milieu Music shop. As I understand it, Sound & Fury are nearly sold out of the record already, so anyone who wants to pick this epic drone record up, now would be the time! When these are gone, they’re gone!
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DAVID TAGG
PENTECOST
INSTALL / INST010
My longtime collaborator, friend and all-around partner in crime David Tagg has just released his first CD ever, Pentecost (all prior releases were CD-Rs). Being the huge devotee of David’s work that I am, it came as nothing short of an honor that he asked me personally to master and sequence the album for him. I can assuredly say that anyone who likes our work together as VCV or even some of my deeper ambient things like Leaves Painted Purple or some of the Eufloria soundtrack will LOVE this album. Beautiful cathedral drones from a true master of the form! Here’s what AC Fellig at Install had to say about it:
When the hard work of the day is done, and you go home and begin your nightly routine of winding down, there are only so many things that reciprocate that relaxed stillness. Here at Install, we're happy to say that we have the exact soundtrack for many of your sleepy evenings to come: David Tagg's newest album PENTECOST. Following in the wake of his Cold Spring Harbor EP, and utilizing a process that included using his grandfather's reel-to-reel tapes of organ playing for source sound, David has created what could be described as an "ambient novel". A superbly vivid work of musical nonfiction that tells the stories of 1000 photographs, long since forgotten memories and a crackling, eroded legacy, now exhumed from the dusty wine cellars of Tagg's sentimental estate. What all this wholly amounts to is a landmark recording, full of cool, subdued tones and soft shadowy movements. PENTECOST could be David's strongest ambient moment, if not only for consistency, but also for potency.
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