(someone good, 2009)
Light In August, Later is the latest work from Tokyo based musician and composer aus (Yasuhiko Fukuzono). It's a measured and paced collection of pieces that evoke warm visions of open plains, sun causing mirages to gather on the ground. In this vision the detail of the environment close at hand somehow becomes united with the epic horizon laid out beyond it. It is in fact this relationship between focused detail and sweeping texture that is at the very heart of this edition. Matching cycled melodic passages with tiny electronic clicks and tones, aus generates a music that borrows the harmonic intent of pop but reduces it to a fine grain. Melodies blossom, are swept up in a gauze of processing and become transformed into something exquisitely intimate and engaging. Collaborating with Viennese musician Glim on two pieces, and joined by artists such as Cokiyu on others, this is a record that speaks to aus's abilities not only as a composer, but also a sound crafter of the highest order. An essential and compelling deconstruction of electronic infused pop by one of Japan's most impressive young artists.
RIYL: The Remote Viewer, Fourcolor, Helios

(home normal, 2010)
The album is obviously an offthesky aka Jason Corder (color cassette) record, with its minute attention to detail and its beautiful, often creeping, sometimes sporadic, bursts of melody. Essentially Jason’s plan was to make an album of heavily processed vibraphone pieces, yet it became so much more featuring clever use of warbly guitar tones and textures throughout.
RIYL: Ben Frost, Tape, Fennesz, Mitchell Akiyama

(home normal, 2010)
‘Slow Films In Low Light’ is a collection of remixes and re-workings by friends and artists from now deleted album ‘Soundtrack To A Film In My Head Which Will Never Get Made’ by Ian Hawgood.featuring remix from The Remote Viewer, Geskia!, Ten and Tracer, Pan Am Scan, ederico Durand, Danny Norbury, Hannu, Yuri Miyauchi, Miko, The Green Kingdom, Library Tapes, Chihei Hatakeyama and He Can Jog feat.Nick Sanborn.

(nothings66, 2010)
the first compilation of our friend' label Nothings66, It features a bunch of tracks by folks who are well liked around these parts. Namely The Gentlemen Losers, Helios, Dub Tractor, Yagya, Fieldhead, L'usine, September Collective, Ezekiel Honig, Stafraenn Hakon, Goldmind The Sight Below and loads more!
"Yep it's another comp with a stellar line up but we know you like 'em so much we always get 'em in for ya! The styles here vary a lot...It's a thoroughly entertaining listen from start to end and I'd recommend this to all fans of the drifty, the experimental and the electronic." - norman records

(home normal, 2010)
Chihei Hatakeyama is the Tokyo microsound composer delivered exceptional albums for Room40 and Under The Spire, now he's on the verge of releasing another pairing of long-players over the next couple of months. The first of these comes via the dependably excellent Home Normal imprint, and bases itself upon field recordings made on a trip to San Francisco in 2006. Appropriately, the record is titled A Long Journey, and takes on the feel of a dreamlike sequence of scenes from different locations. There are eleven excellent compositions here.
RIYL: Taylor Deupree, Elvium, Fennesz

(home normal, 2009)
Le Lendemain is the new project between Danny Norbury and David Wengrenn (Library Tapes). Following on from their early collaboration under David’s Library Tapes moniker (Sketches).
RIYL: Peter Broderick, Sylvain Chauveau, Goldmund, Hauschka and Max Richter

(preco, 2008)
This is the much anticipated remix album of aus' most successful album "Lang". The project of "Lang Remixed" was not possible if without the participation of many excellent artists around the globe! "Lang" album, which exhibits IDM/pop electronica at its finest forms, was re-thought, re-invented and remixed into various stunning music styles, including ambient, experimental, electro-acoustic, breakbeats, shoegaze and etc. This is a truely joyful album for a wide range of electronic music fans out there! Remixers that sprinkle their magic dust onto this fabulous album are Sons of Magdalene (a.k.a. Joshua Eustis of Telefon Tel Aviv), Ulrich Schnauss, Kettel, Manual, Dosh, Epic45, ISAN, State River Widening, Bracken and The Remote Viewer.

(home normal, 2009)
Mountain Ocean Sun’s search for deep peace, heavy drones, and sound healing has found them jamming with Deerhoof in Detroit, starting an organic music society in the extreme tropical heat of the Matthaei Botancial Garden on new years day, and all the way back to their first performance at a 500 year-old buddhist temple in Osaka, Japan. Bowed strings, harmonium, indian shruti boxes, gongs, ghosts, sea shells and bells are the spirit tools that these elemental earth’s children bring to this sixty-four minute peace conference.
“Recorded on a mountain, in the woods, near a river, a lake, and the city, the summer air was heavy and we sweated a lot. When it was over I was blind. I was pummeled by the minimalixm”

RIYL:His Name Of Alive, Ida, Tarentel

(home normal, 2009)
It’s hard to describe an album of moods, emotions and distant memories, but to me that’s what I find myself doing with Katie English’s music. Katie under her Isnaj Dui guise uses conventional and her own home made instrumentation to add loops and layers, until the track is ready to take on its own shape and form.
This music triggers for me a different experience with every listen. Maybe it will be the sound of a lonely alien crying on a tranquil moon, a field of singing flowers staring at the sun, or just my past dreams sailing away on an endless ocean.

RIYL:Deaf Center, Pjusk, Oren Ambarchi

(symbolic interaction, 2009)
Inhabiting the poppier end of the electronica spectrum, Nine Stories is the brainchild of All Apologies, a neo-pop unit formed in 2007 by flau artist Geskia! & (Forka). The group's debut album features nine songs heavy on whispered vocals and a stylistic fusion of shoegaze, electropop, and hip-hop.

RIYL:Radiohead, Milosh, Port-Royal, Hood

(home assembly music, 2009)
The beginning of the year is usually a quiet time for new releases so it’s with great pleasure that I can report on the first great album of 2009. It comes from the West Yorkshire-based musician Martin Cummings who records his ambient works under the self-explanatory moniker of Northerner. The fact that Cummings operates alone is perhaps the biggest surprise given the sheer number of influences and sounds his debut album demonstrates. Very few groups, let alone solo acts, show this much adventure and promise on their first recordings." RIYL:Labradford, Murcof, Durutti Column
featuring remixes from Bracken, Part Timer, aus, Portal, Epic 45 and more.

(home normal, 2009)
This is 1st release of new label Home Normal and the reissue of The masterpiece of Library Tapes with Danny Norbady.

(symbolic interaction, 2008)
Super compilation "The Silence Was Warm" from the japanese label Symbolic Interacion, Volume 2 continues the same formula but this time it's a 2 disc set!! This one features aus, Geskia, Phon°noir, Ontayso, Yellow6, Bitcrush, D_rradio, Moskitoo and tons more. Mix electronica, neo classical gear and post rock shenanigans into one mixing pot and serve as a 2 disc set on a bed of rocket.

(liquid note, 2009)
The remix album of Japanese electronic artist No.9's latest "Usual Revolution and Nine", feat.remixes from Kettel, aus, I Am Robot and Proud, Ametsub, Akira Kosemura and more.

(mu-nest, 2009)
Voices, melodies, and trailing reverbs of tender sounds, gliding through the echo-spheres of your heart, like light birds of sublime feathers flocking to strange yet familiar distant lands beyond reality; once again, mü-nest brings forth a collection of quiet simple wonderment, the remix compilation, in this nest, we found our winged tales.
featuring artists are aspidistrafly x haruka nakamura, hearts+horses x aus, flica xfjordne, dom mino’ x federico durand and me:mo x akira kosemura.

(mu-nest, 2008)
Thus is the magic of folktronica duo rist’s debut album weekend, which was amazingly conceived when they were on a week-long vacation, recording one track per day.
Like the relaxing tranquility of a well-deserved holiday, weekend showcases 10 tracks of ethereally entrancing music that presents the beautiful compositional capabilities of rist, merging heart-warming musical prowess with a delicate, captivating sensibility. featuring remix from Greg Davis, .tape., Taunus.
RIYL: The Books, Akira Kosemura, State River Widening

(moteer, 2008)
"micro-symphony of quite staggering beauty" - boomkat
"all just beautiful" - musique machine
"simply stunning...truly enchanting and accomplished collection" - londonmilk
"aus has crafted an album full of rich depths and textures..." - angryape
"où se joue une musique en cristal soufflé" - ondefixe
RIYL: Mum, Piana, Tujiko Noriko

(pickled egg, 2006)
this is the debut album of NOW. "My soul, my ears and my dancing shoes thank Now, who haven’t so much as made an album as created an antidote for musical apathy...it is a journey colourful, perplexing and astounding enough to warrant many return trips. Inspired and inspiring" - drowned in sound
"Did you ever wish Stereolab would just stop with the wussy leopard-skin lounge exotica and get thoroughly stuck into the krauty riffage? If so, you probably have to hear Frisbee Hot Pot." - plan b
RIYL:Stereolab, CAN

(own,2009)
On indication, his third album to date, Buerkner’s singing forms clear superior structures that are fragmented by subtle electronics and field recordings from a temple market in Kyoto. Closeness and reduction, contrasted with playful elements remain the focus of indication, which features guest appearances by Yasuhiko Fukuzono (aka aus) of co-owner of flau. RIYL: Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy, Nathan Michel, Gastr Del Sol, Mark Hollis, The Books.