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Artist: Coppice Halifax
Title Of Album: Solus Variations
Year Of Release: 2014
Label: Milieu Music / MML097
Genre: Dub Techno, Ambient
Quality: MP3
Bitrate: 320 kbps
Total Time: 01:19:41
Total Size: 182 mb

Tracklist:
Solus Variant I [Berossus] (8:44)
Solus Variant II [Chryselephantine] (10:01)
Solus Variant III [Mausolus] (9:29)
Solus Variant IV [Pharos] (14:40)
Solus Variant V [Nekoma] (8:34)
Solus Variant VI [Colossus] (8:55)
Solus Variant VI [Artemis] (19:14)

Solus Variations is the result of my own excavation, extraction and repurposing of the gems I found while exploring Solus in my studio. Tangential processing techniques yielded deeper and more mutated results as the recording sessions continued. These seven pieces are themselves mirror images of Solus, albeit focusing on singular aspects of the original piece rather than the whole. You could even say that each “variation” is actually a segment of Solus, zoomed in on to a microscopic level, to reveal more intimate and engaging levels of detail that were deliberately avoided in the original piece. This is the sound of me taking Solus to different climates and exotic locales, applying it like a layer of paint over the landscape itself, then removing the landscape and examining the alien and organic shapes that remain.

For the intrepid listener, other possibilities may present themselves in the practice of playing these variations over/under Solus itself, creating a potentially endless and unique atmosphere tailored to your own listening needs.

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Artist: Coppice Halifax
Title Of Album: Whitehope
Year Of Release: 2014
Label: Milieu Music / ABX33
Genre: Ambient, Dub techno
Quality: MP3
Bitrate: 320 kbps
Total Time: 01:02:53
Total Size: 143 mb

Tracklist:
1. Whitehope 01:02:53

Several years ago, I imagined a place named Whitehope. It formed in my mind as naturally as any logic or observation might – it almost seemed to already exist. I had to look it up to make sure it didn’t. Once the seed had been planted, I imagined even further – what was Whitehope like? It was blurry, slightly warm, sunny with buildings made of smoothed ivory that could either be churches or lighthouses. A lighthouse might make sense, because I knew that Whitehope was an island, surrounded on all sides by a furious bubbling blue sea. It submitted to the ocean waves via rocky crags and clay-colored sand, while inland there were mountains surrounded by rolling green hills and pastoral fields filled with yellow flowers. It all sounded so perfect. I had to etch out some kind of aural tribute to this fictional place, perhaps even something that could stand up to the feeling of actually being there. So I set out on my course to find Whitehope in my instruments and on my tapes. Three different attempts to reach it failed, and landed me in different territories altogether that have themselves been issued under other names. Only when I began to give up on ever finding Whitehope did I arrive there, and when I did, I didn’t even know I had made the trip. I had relinquished all hope of constructing my passage to this beautiful place to the fact that some ideas are just too perfect to ever create or attain. Then one night, while chasing some tangential idea in my studio that felt good, I did it. At first it was like remembering a dream – that foggy sensation that something made sense, even though it was not supposed to, and that you just couldn’t forget it. I went to sleep that night with my completed recording and when I woke up, I realized what I had done. Cradling the sound of Whitehope are several layers (about a dozen) of oceanic field recordings – sea sound reconstituted into fantasist backdrop. Then nestled deep inside are buoyant stabs of chords that punctuate and propel a coalescing haze of pads, glossing lazily over a subdued rhythm section that could almost be a heartbeat. By the end of the hour, everything chimes together in a shimmering white glow, pure harmony. Now that I’ve finally reached Whitehope, I don’t need to worry about ever leaving it, and neither do you.

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Artist: Coppice Halifax
Title Of Album: Chloroformic Forests
Year Of Release: 2014
Label: Milieu
Genre: Ambient, IDM, Dub Techno, Electronic
Quality: MP3
Bitrate: 320 kbps
Total Time: 00:54:23
Total Size: 128 mb

Tracklist:
Rephrase I
Rephrase II
Rephrase III

Dream-state fog rolls over dew covered kick drums left to fill up with rain water in the bottom of a ravine. Everything is blurry, slow like syrup, but if you squint and close one eye you can make out movements and a few round shapes in the abyss. Bliss lights up your mind and skin like a new drug, you could feel like this forever and never go back. Endless endless endless. Goodnight.

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Artist: Coppice Halifax
Title Of Album: Whitehope [Versions]
Year Of Release: 2014
Label: Milieu Music / ABX33B
Genre: Dub Techno, Ambient
Quality: Flac
Bitrate: lossless
Total Time: 00:52:05
Total Size: 175 mb

Tracklist:
1.Whitehope [Parts 1 & 2] 27:05
2.Whitehope [Part 3] 25:00

Recorded during the same dream-state session as Whitehope, these three versions subtly mutate and tangentially explore the hour long centerpiece track on the CD-R. When ripping the tape the recordings were laid to, it became apparent that the cassette itself was degrading the audio more than usual. Having tested the rest of the cassettes I ordered in the same batch, I determined that all of them shared this odd trait. The tapes record and play back just fine, yet they seem to process the audio in interesting ways that actually add to the quality of the music. So I decided to release this cassette version of the album, on intentionally degraded black cassettes, essentially making this the “black” version of Whitehope. The nature of the cassette degradation means that no two copies of the cassette will sound alike, and future listens may reveal deeper grades of degradation, making for a truly unique and transforming listening experience. Deep analog forests of cloudy techno!
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Artist: Coppice Halifax
Title Of Album: Cornucopiad
Year Of Release: 2014
Label: Milieu Music / ABX36
Genre: Dub Techno, Ambient
Quality: MP3
Bitrate: 320 kbps
Total Time: 01:17:27
Total Size: 177 mb

Tracklist:
1.Cornucopiad I 10:40
2.Cornucopiad II 01:01:50
3.Cornucopiad III 04:55

Coppice Halifax has always been an elementally and seasonally inspired project, a fact longtime listeners know quite well by now. Cornucopiad is the bounty of my first Autumn recording session in 2014, heralding the return of cool air, the smell of smoky backyards and the turning from green to orange and brown. A celebration of inevitable death and decline, self-sacrifice in the name of composting and subsequent rebirth. Renewal through destruction and regeneration. Three pieces of Impressionist techno that tread the borderline between organic and electronic, as with most things this plentiful year has produced. So, make some coffee, put on a sweater and enjoy the first fruits of my Halifaxian Autumn.

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Artist: Coppice Halifax
Title Of Album: Marine Halide
Year Of Release: 2014
Label: self
Genre: Dub Techno
Quality: Flac
Bitrate: Lossless
Total Time: 00:21:20
Total Size: 98 mb

Tracklist:
1. [RX21] Marine Halide 21:20

September brings cooler air and shorter days, a welcome respite from the oppressive heat of each Carolinian sub-tropical summer. Appropriately, the ninth RX of the year is a cool, dusky sweep of burnt leaves and deep golden hues of setting sunlight, all carried fragrantly along on a light breeze that curves in the purple air like invisible poetry. A wondrous calm surrounds the listener with gently bubbling hi hats and AM radio fizzed chord stabs, while the last remnant of a house bassline repeats lazily in a lock-groove.

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Artist: Coppice Halifax
Title Of Album: Chemist Cloak
Year Of Release: 2014
Label: Milieu Music / ABX29
Genre: Dub Techno, Ambient
Quality: Flac
Bitrate: Lossless
Total Time: 00:47:41
Total Size: 261 mb

Tracklist:
1. Mk. I [Resin Peel] (7:07)
2. Mk. II [Blacksmoke] (7:12)
3. Mk. III [Soot Imprint Layer] (9:44)
4. Mk. IV [Artefacts] (11:14)
5. Mk. V [Red Yellow Residue] (5:12)
6. Mk. VI [Burnt Remains] (7:12)

“In 2012, while preparing for the Leaf Cloak album sessions, I recorded a tape of mostly live jams using a lot of the sound palette that would end up shaping Leaf Cloak. Almost immediately after recording these tracks, the cassette was misplaced, and wasn’t found until earlier this summer in 2014. My memory led me to think there were only a couple good moments on the tape, but when I ripped the audio, I found almost 50 minutes of raw atmospheric techno that mirrored the Leaf Cloak album perfectly in some places, and went in the opposite direction from it in others. I named the tracks Chemist Cloak, as the music sounded as if it were dipped in corrosive chemicals and then altered in strange ways. A lot of the content on Chemist Cloak ended up minimized and restrained on the Leaf Cloak album, which makes this album an interesting “behind the curtain” look at how those tracks were made. Even in the shadow of Leaf Cloak, Chemist Cloak is able to stand on its own legs, with solidarity earned via pure impulse and brute force. It is dirty, misshapen in parts and even primal at times. A formidable counterpoint to the gentle backyard rural techno of Leaf Cloak.”

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Artist: Coppice Halifax
Title Of Album: River Tableaux
Year Of Release: 2014
Label: Milieo
Genre: Techno
Quality: MP3
Bitrate: 320 kbps
Total Time: 01:19:37
Total Size: 183 mb

Tracklist:
1. River [MMXIV] 11:23
2. River [Secluded] 13:04
3. River [Inland] 4:42
4. River [Abandoned] 17:13
5. Riverside Acre 33:15

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Artist: Coppice Halifax
Title Of Album: Cmx V
Year Of Release: 2013
Label: Coppice Halifax
Genre: Dub Techno
Quality: MP3
Bitrate: 320 kbps
Total Time: 01:12:52
Total Size: 166 mb

Tracklist:
1.Fisstech 08:08
2.Textural Being – Tiefenwahrnehmung [Cmx 1a] 08:06
3.Asymmetrical Head – Emulsion Side [Cmx] 10:58
4.Contemporary Vision – Detail [Cmx] 06:40
5.Phasen – Syy [Cmx] 07:12
6.Textural Being – Tiefenwahrnehmung [Cmx 2b] 14:24
7.Mr. Myoplast – Cosmic Forest [Coppice Halifax’s Carolinian Forest] 08:08
8.Nacht Plank – Field Piano Form [Coppice Halifax Restructural] 09:11

The fifth volume in the ever-expanding cosmos of Coppice Halifax remixes, Cmx V contains eight tracks that fill your ears with 73 minutes of organic technoid forms and dense ambient forestry. Opening with “Fisstech”, an unreleased track from the Leaf Cloak sessions, the album is off to a bubbly Analog Botany bounce from the start. The remixes that follow vary in sound from the gritty dub of the Textural Being mixes, to the low-end worshipping minimal techno of the Asymmetrical Head and Contemporary Vision mixes. Another unreleased cut, a CH remix of Phasen’s “Syy” from 2010, ascends from the watery depths of the Analog Botany vaults, and finally the whole album gives way to the ambient techno gliding of the Myoplast remix and the beatless Nacht Plank remix, which was an absolute honor to make, as Lee Norris has been one of my musical heroes for years now.

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