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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: 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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Label: Milieu Music
Release date: 2014
Source: WEB
Format: mp3
Quality: 320 kbps
Size: 133 MB
Genre: Electronic
Style: Acid House/Techno

Tracklist:
1.Paul The Pylon 05:30
2.Polypsilon VI 04:14
3.Polymatthew 02:26
4.Phallusaurus Jox 05:17
5.Polychord 00:13
6.Polar Cyclone 03:59
7.Polyester 04:52
8.Plywood 02:51
9.Polypsilon VII 06:00
10.Polypsilon VIII 01:59
11.Polly Epsilon 03:46
12.P-Boots 08:46
13.Polyth 09:04

Hot on the heels of Part 1 comes Polypsilon, Part 2! The second half of the BRIAN-DANCE odyssey is another hour of colorful electronics and bedroom production values. Arguably more diverse than Part 1, with krautrock influenced motorik tracks like “Paul The Pylon”, jungle strains in “Phallusaurus Jox”, a little Boards of Canada peeking through in “Polly Epsilon” and a nod to SAW 85-92 on “P-Boots”. Of course, melodies are still the focus of the material, along with a nice settled in comfort level from working with so many familiar sounds and machines. The whole thing inevitably caves in by the end, and trails off along some long-lost ambient coastline from the depths of my mind. Printed and pressed on a super-limited special edition of 30 copies on white cassette tape, with hand-cut red cardstock J-cards and black text decals. Don’t miss out!

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Artist Coppice Halifax
Title Static Physics
Genre Dub Techno
Label Milieu Music
Catalog# –
Released 2013
MP3 Download Source CD (LP)
Play Time 140:32min
Total Tracks. 5
Bitrate 320 kbps

1. WB-SPV (25:30)
2. MX-DV (24:53)
3. NSF-EMX (19:33)
4. M113-SSD (54:54)
5. MD-DV (15:42)

Built from extensive recording sessions happening concurrently with the creation of the Static Pharming material, Static Physics is a double album of deep drone techno works. The Halifaxian template in 2013 has become a wider and more exploratory one, and translating audio from thought to form is a more and more detailed language with each new recording session. Static Physics represents only the beginning of what is likely going to be a very lengthy mining operation into the cliffs and ruins of years past. Reappropriation of sound as an artifact, rather than a sentimental thought, is key. Only through extensive reduction, transfiguration and mutation can true aural composting – or “pharming”, in this case – occur.

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Artist: Milieu
Title Of Album: Polypsilon- Part 1
Year Of Release: 30 jan 2014
Label: Recycled Plastics / RPC1-A
Genre: Techno, Electro, IDM, Electronic
Quality: MP3
Bitrate: 320 kbps
Total Time: 00:55:56
Total Size: 128 mb

Tracklist:
1.Prepsilon 00:15
2.Polypsilon I 03:59
3.P-Q 05:19
4.Polypsilon II 04:04
5.Polite Trams 00:11
6.Polyglide 06:27
7.Pinup Salon 03:54
8.Polypsilon III 04:59
9.Polyp 00:13
10.P-291733 02:30
11.P.O.L.Y.F.N.K. 04:55
12.Playtime 01:48
13.Polypse 05:43
14.Polypsilon IV 06:57
15.Polypsilol 00:24
16.Polypsilon V 04:10

Polypsilon, Part 1 is – as the title implies – the first half of two separate 60-minute cassette releases, and the first tape released at RP!

As a Milieu album, Polypsilon is possibly the most “genre music” type thing Milieu has done, filled with all the staples of feel-good braindance as well as my first foray into acid. The recording sessions were impulsive and tangential, and by the end, there was far more material than I was expecting to make, giving way to this two-part release.

It’s probably a spiritual follow-up to Academy Stripes, although it should be noted that Polypsilon was intended to be a sidetrack thing, and not “the next big new Milieu record”, so I guess consider it as a gigantic 2 hour EP.

I can’t really think about how to describe it, so I’ll leave you with the music. There’s lots of 606/707/808 drum machine action, as well as my usual soft spot for a couple breaks and my Korg ER-1, and the synths used include my Roland SH-32, Casio PSS-50 and MT-210, the wonderful Fahtacon softsynth made by my friend Robin and of course the Milieu go-to Lowrey Magic Genie organ, among other things. Everything was meant to be loose, sporadic, playful and tingly on the earlobes, so hopefully that comes through in the final result.

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Label: Milieu
Release date: 30-12-2013
Source: WEB
Format: MP3
Quality: 320 kbps
Size: 298 mb
Genre: Electronic
Style: Ambient, Experimental

Tracklist:
01. Leaves Painted Purple, Part 1
02. The Space Between
03. MML059B A2 Assemblage
04. Leaves Painted Purple, Part 2
05. Delphine
06. Sedentary Lifestyles
07. Battle Hymn Of Tranquilized Dissonance
08. Translucent Forestation

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Label: Milieu
Catalog#: MMD025.
Release date: 16-03-2013
Source: WEB, Album
Format: MP3
Quality: 320 kbps
Size: 1,19 gb
Genre: Electronic
Style: Ambient / Drone / Experimental

Tracklist:
01. Bottleneck
02. Humidity
03. Lavender Billows
04. Trace
05. Plywood Acoustics
06. 6-16 AM, August 23rd
07. The Descending Crystalline Hand
08. Inkstain Ribbon Skyline
09. Latent Cloak
10. White Smoke
11. White Canyon Erosion
12. Perfumes Made From The Dusts Of Sunken Kingdoms
13. August Fourth -In F#
14. Dustwreck
15. Galivants Ferry
16. A White Light In The Woods
17. Swamp Bike At Dusk
18. Happy To Be Going Home Again -Live On Phoning It In – Studio Recording
19. Dust Assemblage
20. Sander
21. Diesel Turbine Barricade
22. Humid Evening Screen
23. Bell Bath – Threaded Guitar
24. Sander II
25. AR 2008
26. Whitelight
27. UA 2005
28. Whitemane
29. Vengeance Droned
30. Hands
31. Power Crust
32. Moth Cancer
33. Roche Mouttonnée
34. Olympus Mons
35. Tocatta And Sludge In Z Minor
36. Downers In A Mirrorball
37. Undead Undead Undead
38. Oubliette
39. Black Diagram

Perfumes is a massive and exhaustively comprehensive collection of music written for now-extinct EPs, splits and compilations, as well as rare and unreleased material from the Milieu Music vaults. 8 discs, each one a meticulously arranged and sequenced album, bearing a vivid and tangential account of my experimental and drone work for the guitar (among other instruments) since 2005. Every piece has been carefully retrieved from the master tapes and remastered especially for this collection, and collectors will note the presence of many unreleased items in the set. A mindbending and essential release for any fan of my drone work or of experimental music in general – this is something you should buy and digest over a week off with either headphones or high fidelity audio systems with good low-frequency output.

To further add to the significance of this collection, Perfumes is being released to herald the arrival of the fabled SUN-DAY set – a 24-hour work of ambient experimentalism that will be released one hour per month over the course of the next two years, starting in May 2013. Sun-Day was conceptualized in 2004 and recording work on the project has been in progress ever since. More information about Sun-Day will appear online in May.

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