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MfM and the more chill Stroom releases (especially the Cybe album) have been on heavy rotation at Chez Paolo during the current unpleasantness. I've got about £70 worth of MfM records arriving in the post sometime soon as well

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No that's totally a peeve with some labels' digital or specifically Bandcamp pricing, especially with the VAT thing. It makes it an awkward choice if nothing 3lse, and takes the piss really as they will be making proportionally more straight profit on the digitial.

Nice one, paolo, what did you buy?

70 quid worth of MFM is 2 records right? They're about $35 each in shops here.

The Gigi Masin one, the Musica Esporadica one, the Terekke one and the Dip In The Pool single, which is £12.50 for about ten minutes of music but I've not been spending my cash on anything else so I might as well blow it all on records. And they're pretty reasonably priced in the UK for the most part. I think most of their double albums are about £20 or less with nice packaging.

Music From Memory - now more than ever

I was listening to that single today, actually.

great thread, and wish i would have read it earlier! after eventually landing on gigi masin and listening to the MfM comp and Wind pretty obsessively,
a spotify radio thing based on masin led me to the 2019 Yu Su release Roll with the Punches. it's been...36 hours? i think i have listened to it at least 10 times already. while purchasing the 12" today, i went ahead and grabbed Tower of Silence (30 seconds of "Woman of Water and Music" was more than enough to convince me) and Toshifumi Hinata's Broken Belief, based on the enthusiasm on the thread. i move like molasses but i have noted that i need to look into Stroom as well

Everyone needs to look into Stroom

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PIRfQ92j6nw

New one forthcoming from Suso Saiz and Suzanne Kraft. It sounds very nice.

Those are all A+ picks ZS. It's cool that Gigi Masin is like a landing spot for a lot of people who will then venture from there on. Yu Su and Hinata's 'Broken Belief' are both excellent (the organ sound on the latter is *insert cool ascii looking thing*). I'm going to check out Tower of Silence now!

That Suso Saiz/Suzanne Kraft sounds nice, I hope Vini Reilly and Pat Metheny get their royalties!

mfm adjacent stuff from javier bergia:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wyEGY28zwig

^ this video is EXCEPTIONAL btw

from the same album, this one's a bit less wacky and a bit more gigi-esque:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1JYOPGsxv4

just when i though 2020 couldn't get much weirder, one of my most listened to records at the moment is a solo album by the drummer from grizzly bear

https://assets.boomkat.com/spree/products/657720/large/mfm047-foolsharp-web-front.jpg

definitely a good record!

yes I was pleasantly surprised by that, thanks Nick

This sounds so good! Top of the want list it goes

https://music-from-memory.bandcamp.com/album/between-no-things

Suso Sáiz & Suzanne Kraft

https://f4.bcbits.com/img/a2867916005_16.jpg

in a recent mail order i threw in Toshifumi Hinata's Broken Belief on a whim, based on a few quick listening samples.

it's a collection of his music from 1985-1987, a lot of simple piano/melody lines, warm pads, and samples.

to put it another way: it is somewhere in a space between angelo badalamenti and ryuichi sakamoto

forgot to say the most important thing: i love it! it was kind of a grower, but it has come to be daily listening while i work

Beautiful album, couldn't agree more.

This thread has opened up a whole bunch of stuff for me in the last six months or so. I think it'll be my abiding lockdown music (from memory).

That Hinata album is lovely. My latest find has been Masahiro Sugaya's Horizon compilation from last year. It's mainly piano-based but has that lovely 'woody' thing going on. I can't get enough.

Excited for this

Music From Memory is turning 50! Beyond happy to finally announce no less than our 50th release since we kicked things off back in 2013! This time with a special one:

VA - Virtual Dreams: Ambient Explorations In The House & Techno Age, 1993-1997 https://t.co/7OZwWWFU81

— Music From Memory (@MusicFromMemory) September 15, 2020

Wow, thanks for the heads-up! That Move D track sounds fantastic.

Is there a track list somewhere? I love that Solitaire album definitely one of Move D's best.

Bit more info on their FB post about it:

Music From Memory is turning 50! Beyond happy to finally announce no less than our 50th release since we kicked things off back in 2013! This time with a special release we’ve been working on for some time now:

VA - Virtual Dreams: Ambient Explorations In The House & Techno Age, 1993-1997 (3xLP/2xCD) is the first in a series of compilations, as well as more in depth artist-focused releases, which will delve into music produced during the 1990’s that redefined the boundaries of ‘Ambient’. This was music that explored the concept of Ambient within a new setting, created often by House & Techno music producers for a world beyond dance floors but made very much with the pre and post-clubbing listener in mind.

Returning to our own first discoveries of Ambient music in the 90s we’ve been revisiting some personal favourites as well as rediscovering amazing music from a youth spent watching Chill-out videos on VHS, staying up all night to watch MTV’s Chill Out Zone as well as some of our earliest dabbles in local record stores.

From Ambient and Chill-out classics, to lesser known one-off projects, as well as Ambient deviations by some of the House and Techno’s leading producers, volume one of Virtual Dreams features tracks by Bedouin Ascent, LA Synthesis, LFO, Marc Hollander, Mark Pritchard & Kirsty Hawkshaw, Richard H. Kirk and more.

Check the video for David Moufang’s stunning track ‘Sergio Leone’s Wet Dream’ from his CD-only album ‘Solitaire’ (1995), released on Peter Namlook’s cult Fax +49-69/450464 label. As always head over to our YouTube channel for the full track and stay tuned for more info!

Volume One of ‘Virtual Dreams’ is released Dec 8th

broken belief is spectacular, thanks for the look out upthread km

yeah, love that album. i originally caught wind of it through young marco's first mix for beats in space, which is great but behind a paywall now, unfortunately (but understandably.)

intrigued by MFM's upcoming 90's chill out explorations

i want that now! lol

the suzanne kraft / suso saiz album is also sounding spectacular and better than i imagined.

Looking forward to that

check yr ilxmail map

xxp

Oh good I was mildly worried I was the only one who got excited about that one. Suso is great!

you def aren't the only one! between no things is lovely

Hiya karl *cough cough*

gotcha

check yr ilxmail map

― karl...arlk...rlka...lkar..., Tuesday, September 15, 2020 8:05 PM (two hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

hehe thx any way u could give me a shout at struggin at gmail dot com

after one listen between no things is easily among the best things i've heard this year, just stunningly beautiful, wide and deep

YSI plz? TYIA

That was my takeaway as well, map

enjoy yr malware idiots

jk enjoy yr chill vibes

thanks, this is gorgeous

Between No Things is wonderful. I could listen to the Weak Wheel of the World for a, uh, week.

Happy to see David Moufang on here. Looks as though my long-dreamed about Fax revival is right around the corner

No pre-order link as of yet, I guess?

If you like Between No Things and slept on Suso's Nothing Is Objective, check it out because it is also fantastic.

ty karl!!

release date and tracklist confirmed, up for presale at the usual spots

https://www.musicfrommemory.com/release/6879/various-artists/virtual-dreams-ambient-explorations-in-the-house-techno-age-1993-1997

Psyched for this. Tracklisting looks great except for the Primitive Painter track. I just can't get past that Voodoo Ray sample they used lol. Anyway, props to Jamie Tiller for putting this together.

Hazy memory but I think I have APL - The Calling on one of the Ambient Dub comps though I think it might be a different mix? That guy's two tracks on that are an absolute highlight for me though iirc. Stoked for this comp if everything is of that standard.

BTW if anyone is buying anything from Juno in the near future, do yourself a favour and stick a copy of the Javier Bergia comp CD in your basket cos they're selling it for 99p at the moment. Very MFM adjacent - he was a member of Finas Africae, so if you know them, you'll know to expect top stuff

The Virtual Dreams: Ambient Explorations in the House & Techno Age 1993-1997 is out (and on Spotify if that's your thing). It's good! Tuomas mentioned on another thread that it's kind of what you'd expect really but that's more than fine.