Favorite Releases from November 2021
With winter around the corner, November brought us coolness, long nights, the start of the holiday season, and many impressive albums, releases, and remixes featuring Lord Of The Isles, Nali, Valentino Mora, Adam Strömstedt, Martinou, Parris, Aleksi Perala, Laura BCR, Zemög, Segue, and Mucho Sueño.
We compiled a list of 10 tracks released this past month for you to enjoy.
Lord Of The Isles
Betula
Kimochi Sound
In honor of Kimochi Sound's 50th release, Scottish producer Neil McDonald, better known as Lord Of The Isles, graces M50's respected imprint with the new album "Acceptance." Lord Of The Isles' extraordinary musicianship is distinctly evident throughout the eight-track album with astoundingly filigreed multi-layered sounds, immersive atmospheres, and acid-tinged rhythms. Fusing ambient textures with dubby overtones, the album's opening track "Betula" creates a warm and enveloping atmosphere of tranquility.
Nali
Chance Encounters
Patterns Of Perception
Patterns Of Perception inaugurates its new imprint with the "Chance Encounters" EP courtesy of Australian producer Nali further embracing their connection with the Australian electronic music scene. The four-track package offers introspective panoramas wound together with muscular rhythms driven by uncompromising, acid-induced basslines with a futuristic edge. The opening title track radiates the euphoric energy through the tightly undulating bassline that perfectly compliments the colorful, harmonious synth chords and lo-fi electronics.
Valentino Mora
Hydrosphere
EDO
After establishing his IDO (Intercontinental Dance Organization) imprint over the last five years, Valentino Mora unveiled the brand new sub-label. In it he explores the concept of "Active Meditation" through the lexicon of deep knowledge and organically-textured ambient house and techno. The new outfit EDO (Exothermal Dance Organization) opens up a new chapter of its musical odyssey with the Hydrosphere EP from the label boss himself.
Here is what the label intends to say about this release:
"Taking its name from the chemical release of heat, EDO's exothermic first EP delivers four tracks of heady, transformative techno atmospheres. Charting Mora's evolution from multi-channel acoustic recordings, samples, and digital-analog hybridity, Hydrosphere EP continues his production complexity yet arrives at this point via the singular expression of modular synthesis."
"Hydrosphere" is a subaquatic journey transcending the listener to inward-spiraling dimensions filled with frosty modular synth under the murky veil of deep and atmospheric techno mysticism.
Adam Strömstedt
Tie Dye
KANN Records
Following his 2019 "Redfern" EP, Swedish producer and Lyssna Records boss Adam Strömstedt returns to KANN Records with a debut album "Escalator Music." Across eleven tracks, the artist focuses on emotive subtleties, striking vignettes, and percussion-driven rhythms that gradually draw the listener in with their intangible sense of nostalgia.
Drawing from the elegant palette of breakbeat-inducing soundscapes, the EP's third track, "Tie Dye" carries a blend of tinted in melancholy melodic elements accentuated by a twisted bassline and leftfield synth pattern woven from abstract textures.
Parris
Movements With Carmen Villain
can you feel the sun
UK artist Parris presents his long-awaited debut album, "Soaked In Indigo Moonlight." Released on can you feel the sun’, the label he runs with Berlin-based artist Call Super, the album is an outstanding display of open-minded rhythmic experimentation influenced by pop, drum & bass, UK garage, and breakbeat. The dynamic and vibrant record also features collaborations with Eden Samara, Carmen Villain, James K, and Call Super. In artists own words:
"The only constant truth is change. This is a record about understanding yourself. This is a record about finding the support you trust so you can have the confidence to start building. It is a record about friendship. About hanging out, about skating. This is an album built on Pop, then torn into my thing. Charli XCX, Lana Del Rey, Frank Ocean, Kewngface, Digga D, SL, Unknown T, Vince Staples, Lil Peep, Denzel Curry and Emmy the Great: if you've known me then you've known these are the reverberations in my head. I write music in blue, this album is my indigo. They say only moonlight shows your true reflection, that is the light of this record."
Carmen Villain joins Parris on the "Movements With Carmen Villain," a sublime track that transmits balmy, tropical vibes with a funky bass line and shifting breaks that dance along with soft vocal samples and flute passages, filling the imagination with illusory images of undiscovered realms.
Martinou
in all it's splendor
Nous'klaer Audio
Martinou steps up to the next release on the Rotterdam-based record label, Nous'klaer Audio. The debut album "RIFT'' sees the co-founder of the Sewer Sender imprint traversing a beautiful realm of sounds that bend and fold amongst intricately layered textures, vibrant rhythms, and impressive ideas. We at Delayed had a pleasure to premiere the closing track "…in all it's splendor." Read the complete article by Elena Lisovin.
Laura BCR
Rebirth
Semantica Records
November marks the release of the fourth installment of Semantica's four-part cassette compilation series. Entitled "In. SEMANTICA 130.4", the 10-track selection features new recordings from the likes of Queen, Mary Yuzovskaya, Desroi, natural/electronic.system, Laura BCR, and several more capturing the very essence of Madrid-based label.
Laura BCR joins the label with a deep and reflective techno track, "Rebirth." The mastermind behind On Board Music imprint seamlessly blends spacious pads with mysterious synth textures and moody atmospherics to create an elegant and hypnotic journey.
Zemög
Hiking In Chicaque (Segue Dub)
Huinali Recordings
Colombian producer Zemög debuts on Huinali Recordings with a deeply immersive EP, "Nature Chants." The four-track package presents a pastel gallery of sounds and timbral textures, bringing to the fore ambient swells, modulated field recordings, dubby electronics, and Pacific guadua (Bamboo) acoustic instruments such as Marimba and the Guasá.
Canadian artist Segue refits the natural beauty of the "Hiking In Chicaque" track. He gives the original composition a dubby twist with an esoteric rhythm and silken melodious atmosphere filled with shimmering trails of tropical-flavored ambient subtleties.
Mucho Sueño
Relacional
All Centre
Following appearances on the compilations on Whities and Twin System, the Santiago-based artist Mucho Sueño delivers his first solo record through the UK All Centre imprint. The three-track EP has a leftfield flavor driven by intricate modulations and percussive rhythms with lush pads and melodic elements woven in.
The opening title track “Relacional” carries an unmistakable nostalgia, as somber melodies, futuristic sound effects and masterfully layered percussive elements unite over the sub-infused rhythms.
Aleksi Perälä
FI3AC2159100
AP Musik
Aleksi Perälä unveiled the second part of his beautiful continuous mix, "Phantabla," released via AP Musik. In his subsequent record "Phantabla II," the intriguing and highly prolific Finnish producer puts forth his unique programming skills and vision, blending alluring frequencies and western percussion-driven rhythms to create a mesmerizing work of electronic intelligentsia. "FI3AC2159100" weaves a kaleidoscopic tapestry of shifting sound that draws heavily on reverb mallet-driven percussive sequencing patterns and airy harmonies, adding color and texture to the thin layer between melody and rhythm.