Stephen Becker

Phosphenes & Allegories

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Brooklyn-based artist Stephen Becker conceived his latest, Phosphenes & Allegories, as a soundtrack to “a silent film that continues to be watched and interpreted by new people in new ways.” And as soundtracks go, Phosphenes & Allegories presents a range of emotions, ambiguities, questions, and soundscapes all united by Becker’s distinctive guitar levitating within. Phosphenes & Allegories oozes with a cinematic warmth. In many ways, that warmth harkens back to Becker’s first encounters with improvisation and “the idea of abandoning it all, creating one’s own language, letting the music flow outward with no required context.”

Release Date: October 20, 2023

Shayna Dunkelman & Javier Areal Vélez

Miru Mira

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The album's title, 'Miru Mira,' means "to see" in Japanese and Spanish consecutively. Senses play a significant role in this daring collaboration between percussionist Shayna Dunkelman and composer Javier Areal Vélez. Combining a playful exploration of the senses with phonological connections between Spanish and Japanese languages, Miru Mira takes inspiration and finds connection through linguistics and sound.

Release Date: February 10, 2023

Landon Caldwell & Friends

More Unity

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For several years, composer Landon Caldwell has iterated on his Unity concept. In essence, Unity looks to composition as a spiritual realm for connection through time and space between different selves and different people. It tries to be everything; composition and improvisation, ensemble and solo, etc. More Unity is a continuation of that pursuit and the latest iteration to manifest via Caldwell and an expanded ensemble of collaborators, including Patrick Shiroishi, Thom Nguyen, Yuri Osuka, Mark Tester, Drew Davis, Jordan Allen, and Nick Yeck-Stauffer.

The challenge in conceiving and executing More Unity was to create an album with a singular sound that encompassed as many dualities as possible. Those dualities are apparent in not only method & engineering but also in concept. In exploring the intersection between improvisation and composition, Caldwell discovered that they aren’t that different.

Release Date: October 7, 2022

Urner

Exits

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Urner is the moniker of Isaac Pearl, a composer and programmer based in Ridgewood, Queens. Exits, his debut release for Atlantic Rhythms, is the culmination of a year of compositional experimentation, personal growth, and deep introspection. The album’s live improvisations explore the spaces between environmental music, video game soundtracks, and deep listening.

Pearl’s approach to composition is highly influenced by his training in computer science as well as a deep appreciation for the world-building of video games. Exits, according to Pearl, “feels like a checkpoint before I venture outwards into the next phase of my creative practice. It takes ideas that I’ve been working with for years – both musical and process-oriented – and elevates them to a place where I feel ready to release them.”

Release Date: July 22, 2022

George Cory Todd

The Other Kind

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The Other Kind, George Cory Todd's third release on Atlantic Rhythms, was inspired by ambient artists Tetsu Inoue, Eliane Radigue, painters Franz Kline and Morita Shiryu, and more. Todd describes this new album of eight compositions as representing "a psychological breakthrough." Utilizing traditional ambient/glitch textures with a taste for new and evolving inspirations, he explores the beauty and tragedy of the weather of mind.

Release Date: June 17, 2022

Zekarias Thompson

GOODNIGHT SHIVA

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Oakland-based artist and musician Zekarias Thompson’s impressive debut collection arrives in the form of Goodnight Shiva, an album with six meditations that formed, first, from an impetus to listen. The album is about isolation and an attempt to reunite with the body. “A body,” Thompson says, “that I have never known how to define nor been of want, yet has been identified for me so frequently. It is about blackness (in the undefinable sense, and in its expositions).”

Thompson deftly weaves the organic and inorganic on Goodnight Shiva. From emotionally entrancing saxophone to field recordings to drum machine and synth experimentation, Thompson controls a litany of surprises for maximum impact. Goodnight Shiva, as an exploration, is best digested in repeat listens where one can pull at the strands of patience, truth, experience, and poetry. That is, if you listen closely...

Release Date: May 13, 2022

MAW

A Maneuver Within

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Jessica Ackerley, Eli Wallace, and Frank Meadows are MAW, a trio based between New York City and Honolulu. The three met through the thriving experimental and improvised music scene in Brooklyn and have honed a unique musical language and chemistry as a collective unit.

The pieces on A Maneuver Within, the debut album by MAW, are a product of a transitional recording session from October 5, 2020. After years of lively sessions and discussions across the New York improvised music scene; Jessica Ackerley (guitar), Eli Wallace (piano), and Frank Meadows (bass) considered it a requirement to document a convergence before Ackerley’s looming move to Hawaii. MAW seeks to present an aesthetically untethered voice, motivated not only by a love of exploration with “absolute sound," but by a desire to explore elevated modes of preparation and execution.

Release Date: April 8, 2022

Rob Magill

The Beast of Our Nation / Tired Times

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Composer, artist, multi-instrumentalist, and Weird Cry Records proprietor Rob Magill’s latest offering is a pair of lamentations recorded during the lockdown in 2020. From his home in Ojai, CA Magill recorded “The Beast of Our Nation” and “Tired Times” over a four-month period. To complete these pieces, Magill played, performed, and composed with over 20 instruments.

Magill’s knack for painting with sound and instrumentation is on full display with "The Beast of Our Nation” and “Tired Times.” With these two pieces, Magill traffics in the sounds of now by creating an unruly salve for these beastly and tired times.

Release Date: January 28, 2022

Shoeb Ahmad

Breather Loops

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Shoeb Ahmad conceived of the Breather project during peak lockdown on the Australian continent. Ruminating on a dry season marred by devastating bushfires led Ahmad to start writing the A Body Full Of Tears album. Plunged into isolation and confronting the trauma of environmental degradation and pandemic realities, Ahmad decided to continue exploring and started to create a space for long-form, meditative compositions. That space was also important for processing the new, lockdown realities of working from home and wrangling two homeschooled children.

These loops, when collected together, could be randomized to dovetail in and out of a playlist with a sense of endlessness. These works drew on a sound palette recorded for many previous projects over the years but reshaped and contorted into new forms, many unfamiliar with the artists who performed them with Ahmad. It was an exercise in restraint – adhering to an ambient wallpaper aesthetic for continual respite from the uncertainty we currently live within.

Release Date: February 18, 2022

Bu.RE_ & Carlos Ferreira

Momentary Ghosts

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Momentary Ghosts was developed as an improvisational conversation held between Bu.Re_ & Carlos Ferreira in a shared space separated by 6,000 miles. As a means to overcome this distance, an aural space was fabricated, where sounds could coalesce in the most organic manner.

In this space, the guitar and piano improvisations are pure and candid— words spoken between friends. Very little post-production and overdubs have been added - just a few field recordings and electronic textures to provide color.

Release Date: October 29, 2021

Black’s Myths

Blacks’ Myths I & II

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Atlantic Rhythms presents a special re-issue of the first two Blacks' Myths albums, now available in a double cassette edition. Blacks’ Myths, is the inimitable rhythm section featuring bassist Luke Stewart and drummer Warren “Trae” Crudup III.

From The Wire:
"On the meditative and majestic 'Upper South' a repetitive 17 note bass line sails through choppy waves of subtle polyrhythms at a steady clip. Its companion 'Lower South' is marked by a melancholic, weighty meandering. The range of tones that Stewart gets from his bass is intriguing. Here, he plays with harmonics whose haloes vibrate outward through a short delay. Stacking these patterns over a long loop gives rise to sonic structures that grow like crystals within the interference patterns. 'Black Flight' is a sentient fog in a realm of visceral stillness, with pacing so restrained that when the drums finally enter, they arrive like a staircase rolling down from the heavens."

Release Date: September 17, 2021

AN-PHUONG LY

NEW MOON

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Designed and naturally hand-dyed by An-Phuong Ly, “New Moon” is the latest bandana collaboration now out on Atlantic Rhythms. The limited-edition bandana features two designs in brilliant, hand-dyed indigo. Purchase of the bandana comes with a digital version of our Remote Rhythms benefit compilation.

GUS Callahan

FROM SUN TO SOUND

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Gus Callahan is a sound designer, composer, and audio engineer. From Sun to Sound, his latest for Atlantic Rhythms, employs texture, collage, and space to build worlds of sound rooted in both ambient experimentation and adventurous arrangements. On From Sun to Sound Callahan, Callahan sublimely introduces us to the symbiotic sounds of an imaginary geography that balance sonic exploration and minimal pop.

Starting as a loose collection of fragments, sketches, and sound experiments, From Sun to Sound slowly and methodically took shape in a piecemeal recording process. Callahan methodically refined and fused those elements, incorporating the composer’s experience as a sound designer for both film and award-winning gaming apps.

From Sun to Sound will be available as a limited edition cassette with a Riso printed j-card.

Release Date: August 20, 2021

Evan Zierk

Endless Gesture

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Endless Gesture, Evan Zierk's second release on Atlantic Rhythms, expands on the sonic approaches he developed in his 2017 debut, Drifting/Bending, using stochasticism as a means of embodying the serendipitous sound-moments that emerge out of soundscape listening. He uses both real and digitally-mimicked acoustic sound combined with relatively subtle digital signal processing as a means of extending sounds into imperfect digital representations of themselves. His work aims to approach music as something that is defined not necessarily by its own structures but rather by the relationship between sound and listener or composer.

Endless Gesture presents Zierk’s unique approach to sonic exploration through chance, endurance, and emotion. A limited edition, purple vinyl LP will be available in August 2021.

Release Date: July 16, 2021

Jackson Ryland

A Million Questions

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A Million Questions is the latest full length from DC-based producer Jackson Ryland (Superabundance, Rush Plus, 1432 R). The album’s eight hazy explorations comfortably flow from bliss and hiss ambience to hyped-up and hard charging experimental techno. A gossamer-like film is present through it all — part of the charm and pull of A Million Questions. Ryland’s sensibilities reflect a pathfinding quality — that of a perpetual sound tinkerer diving into the recording process in search of answers.

Release Date: February 26, 2021

Amy Reid

Isolated Bliss Remix EP 2

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Two new interpretations of "Water Talks" from Amy Reid’s transportive Atlantic Rhythms debut, Isolated Bliss. Reid's original slowly weaves a sonic collage -- building an environment via layers of placid tones, sonic pads, and aquatic samples.

Genie’s begins with a nod to the original's layered soundscape. A breakneck, stuttering drum pattern propels the lushness forward while incorporating arpeggiation and chopped vocal samples. Graffititech's version detonates with breakneck club percussion, but zeroes in on the austere quality of Reid's original composition. The combination of melancholy chords and rapid-fire BPMS carves a rare experimental club music experience.

Release Date: March 5, 2021

Dura

MERCURY

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Mercury finds Dura (Mattson Ogg) continuing their exploration of interior and exterior spaces. Even as we try to orient ourselves, navigate or slow down, everything continues to move and cycle around us. With Mercury, Dura interprets our spatial structures through a prism of acoustic processes and performer interactions. The results form lightly distracted and oblique inner monologues rendered via guitar and delay into colorful voids across two tape sides.

Included as a digital bonus is a long form meditation on the texture of the release. "Mercury (Octaves and Grains)" further slows down the source material, smearing, reinforcing and ruminating on its timbre.

Release Date: January 8, 2021

Jeff Zeigler & Dash Lewis

Eraserhood

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Atlantic Rhythms is very excited to announce Eraserhood, the new release from Jeff Zeigler & Dash Lewis. Zeigler owns and operates Uniform Recording and is a producer, engineer, and multi-instrumentalist from Philadelphia, PA. Synthesist, multi-instrumentalist, and vocalist Dash Lewis is based in Richmond, VA. The two collaborators are both prolific musicians in their own right, steeped in their respective scenes. 

The Eraserhood section of Philadelphia (aka Callowhill) is where, until recently, Zeigler lived and ran his studio for 13 years. Once a post-industrial inspiration for David Lynch’s Eraserhead, the neighborhood is now on the other side of a condo and shiny shared workspaces boom. Jeff and Dash wrote, recorded, and mixed the album at the old studio - one of the last projects to come out of that incarnation of Zeigler’s studio. The two spent hours and hours in that version of Uniform, both as friends and collaborators, so they decided to honor that space and neighborhood by naming the album Eraserhood.

Release Date: December 11, 2020

George Cory Todd

That Dark Electric LP

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That Dark Electric, Todd’s second full length release on Atlantic Rhythms, explores the ebb and flow to things - a dark chaos, contrasted by moments of deep serenity. The music captures the space between extremes and embodies that moment – floating in oblivion, with the electricity of the heavens all around you, constructing new worlds within limbo.

Since moving to California in 2018, George Cory Todd fixated on the change in landscape: sprawling mountainous horizons, deep rivers, light moving through the forest. Backpacking trips connecting to nature brought him closer to making sense of his new geography — a cross country move from Brooklyn to Berkeley – in a way he never previously considered. That Dark Electric, Todd’s latest effort, captures the sound of relocation. New job, new city, new commute – all building a new relationship to untrodden possibility for George Cory Todd.

That Dark Electric will be released as a limited edition, translucent tan LP.

Release Date: August 28, 2020

George Cory Todd

Not Even The Ghosts They Were

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“Not Even The Ghosts They Were,” the second single from George Cory Todd’s forthcoming album That Dark Electric, encapsulates the composer’s sound and musical process. Pieced together note-by-note, Todd meticulously built the piece from old voice memos -- sketches of piano melodies and percussion -- creating one of the more raw, emotional moments on That Dark Electric. Three remixes from Haldeman, HALCYON, and Omar Akrouche highlight the second of two remix EPs commemorating the release of That Dark Electric.

Release Date: August 5, 2020

George Cory Todd

Precisionism

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"Precisionism" is a track that captures the energy of the last glimpse of sunlight before a storm hits. It is also the first single from George Cory Todd's forthcoming LP, That Dark Electric.
Three reinterpretations from rrao, LXV, and JAB (John Also Bennett) highlight the first of two remix EPs commemorating the release of That Dark Electric.

All proceeds from this EP will go to the Equal Justice Initiative, which works to end mass incarceration, excessive punishment, and racial inequality.

Release Date: July 24, 2020

Landon Caldwell

Unity

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Indianapolis-based composer Landon Caldwell explores the language of intuitive modal playing, hovering between the work of American minimalists, kosmische, and organic ambient. Unity, Caldwell’s latest release on Atlantic Rhythms, collects three thematic improvisations recorded over the course of two years in various places with various technology. Utilizing modality and intuition, Caldwell delivers something mind-bending and engrossing -- a rich exploration of sound and the hidden continuity behind the facade of difference.

Unity is an environment, a note to self, a program, a picture of a better world, a meditation.

Release Date: July 31, 2020

Amy Reid

Isolated Bliss Remix EP 1

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Here’s the first of two remix EPs from Amy Reid’s transportive Atlantic Rhythms debut, Isolated Bliss. Percussionist extraordinaire Jeremy Hyman (Future Times, Lifted) communes with waves of celestial transmissions for his flip of “Luminescence.” And for “Acid Island” Ki Oni (Atlantic Rhythms) opens up a blissfully sonic portal to it-feels-like-I’m-floating.

All proceeds from this EP will go directly to Baltimore Safe Haven, an organization focused on providing outreach, drop-in and housing services for Baltimore's most vulnerable LGBTQ community members.

Release Date: July 24, 2020

Janel Leppin, Susan Alcorn, Meghan Habibzai - Sister Mirror

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Sister Mirror collects two previously unreleased collaborations featuring Janel Leppin, Susan Alcorn, and Meghan Habibzai. “Bachianas Brasileiras No. 5,” recorded by cellist Janel Leppin and soprano vocalist Meghan Habibzai, interprets Heitor Villa-Lobos’ Brazilian masterwork into something all their own — hauntingly beautiful and otherworldly. Sister Mirror also captures a very special live recording of longtime improvisers Leppin and pedal steelist Susan Alcorn at the 2640 Space in Baltimore, MD in 2012.

Various - REMOTE RHYTHMS

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The Atlantic Rhythms family presents its latest compilation, Remote Rhythms, a collection of new and unreleased music raising money for No Kid Hungry and GetUsPPE. Remote Rhythms represents a cross section in contemporary, deep sounds from some of our favorite artists, including Bu.Re_, Gus Callahan, Cofaxx, Carlos Ferreira, Ki Oni, Janel Leppin, Maymind, Anthony Pirog, Jack Propane, Amy Reid, Jackson Ryland, Landon Caldwell, George Cory Todd, and Evan Zierk. Expect placid and peaceful drones, introspective compositions, and out-there club experiments.

100% of donations from this compilation will go to No Kid Hungry and GetUsPPE.

Six Six - Six Six

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Six Six is the Washington, DC duo of Anthony Pirog (The Messthetics) and Luke Stewart (Irreversible Entanglements, Blacks' Myths). Their long-awaited recorded debut delivers two slabs of serenity and storm. Pirog (guitar, effects) and Stewart (bass, effects) showcase their full range, pushing their unique improvisational language forward to find new spaces and sounds that deliver something both heavy and hypnotic.

Release Date: May 1, 2020

Amy Reid - Isolated Bliss

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On Isolated Bliss, Amy Reid stops time and space, transporting listeners to a place existing somewhere between reality and a distant world. Each track is a kaleidoscope of rich textures, soft beats, cascading synths, and natural sounds that showcases Reid’s sharp sonic instincts and musical aura. Together, Isolated Bliss is a meditative flow of sounds and feelings that oscillates between soothing rhythms and otherworldly ambience.

Release Date: May 8, 2020

Evan Zierk - Life in Cue

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“Life in Cue” is the opening track of Endless Gesture, Evan Zierk’s forthcoming album, which will be released by Atlantic Rhythms this summer.

At the beginning of a recording session at Figure8 Recording in Brooklyn, New York, Zierk gathered a pallet of sounds from a collection of synthesizers. But what was initially meant to be a diverse sampling quickly became focused on a single patch. By opening and closing the filter of a Juno 60, Zierk isolated the low-end frequencies of the arpeggiating synth-patch, creating the fixed beating that serves as the backing for “Life in Cue.” Layering percussion and patches from a Korg DW8000, “Life in Cue” creates a sequence of upward inflections, as if posing a question.

Release Date: March 20, 2020

Moon Mullins - Goes Swimming

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Goes Swimming is the new solo outing from Moon Mullins, aka drummer/multi-instrumentalist Sean Mullins of Wilder Maker and String Boys. Goes Swimming smolders with influences as wide ranging as ambient/environmental composer Hiroshi Yoshimura and the Rhythm King Maestro drum machine (dubbed “The Funk Box” by Sly Stone). Mullins finds a way to create space for both past and future times, employing wistful melodies and rhythmic explorations. It’s an album that feels besides and beyond, like a whirling half memory, peculiarly peaceful.

Release Date: April 10, 2020

Blacks’ Myths I LP

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Atlantic Rhythms presents the re-issue of Blacks' Myths self-titled 2018 debut, now available on limited edition vinyl LP. Blacks’ Myths, is the inimitable rhythm section featuring bassist Luke Stewart and drummer Warren “Trae” Crudup III. The duo’s first outing established a space for ambience and eruption, building hypnotic rhythmic structures and exploratory soundscapes. Limited to 300 copies.

Release Date: March 20, 2020

Nakata - El Sueño de Lilith

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Nakata is Patrick Shiroishi and Paco Casanova, a sax-piano duo based in Los Angeles. El Sueño de Lilith, was recorded in a single take at the end of the band’s 2019 tour. What results is a band at the height of its improvisational power, channeling the duo’s attraction to spontaneity, beauty, and impulse. El Sueño de Lilith is comprised of two movements entitled “The Flood Invades My Spirit.” The pair begin and end the recording with a meditative dialogue which unravels slowly revealing a fierce and powerful narrative.

Release Date: February 28, 2020

Jack Propane - Cool Canyon

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Jack Propane returns his latest heavy and hypnotic release, Cool Canyon. Tagging along is Propane's collaborator and fellow psychedelic troubadour Paul Reality. Their collaboration is a potent mix of meandering new age tracks recorded live to tape using found nature recordings and an array of analog and digital synthesizers, filters, and effects. Propane and Reality present six ambient tracks that make up this sprawling, spaced-out journey. From the slyly soulful title track to the centering calm of "Ending Location," Cool Canyon produces wave after wave of psychedelic serenity.

Release Date: December 13, 2019

Cofaxx - Isles

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NYC producer Cofaxx drops some of his deepest heat with his latest release Isles. The A(mbient) side is made up of air-y cuts aiming to keep the warmth of summer a close memory while the B(eat) side features Cofaxx's left-field rhythmic sensibilities. A producer at the top of his craft, Cofaxx stretches and propels sound into a deep, layered narrative that travels from hazy downtempo to liquid-y experimental house.

Release Date: December 13, 2019

Black’s Myths -Blacks’ Myths II

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Blacks' Myths is a duo from Washington, DC comprised of Luke Stewart on bass and Warren G. "Trae" Crudup III on drums. The group's latest, 'Blacks' Myths II' collects thirteen tracks from a marathon recording session in the summer of 2019.

Two of DC's most active and versatile musicians, Stewart and Crudup build symbiotic rhythmic pieces by locking into something both hypnotic and free. Their collaboration is redefining the rhythm section by dismantling its tropes and injecting unpredictability as well as a sense of vibrancy and freedom.

Release Date: September 6, 2019

George Cory Todd - “Nacre Hypnos” Remix

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George Cory Todd reimagines "Nacre Hypnos," taken originally from Iku Sakan's debut for Atlantic Rhythms, Bloom Strings. Todd's version takes flight immediately, flipping the original into something air-y and warm with scattered melodies tucked under the effected surface.

Release Date: July 26, 2019

Ki ONI - You Made It Out of The Forest Alive

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Chuck Soo-Hoo’s exquisite and prolific project, Ki Oni, drops yet another slab of bliss in 2019 with You Made It Out Of The Forest Alive. His first for Atlantic Rhythms, Ki Oni’s latest delivers four bubbling originals that stretch and straddle between dubbed out ambient and late night club-y atmospherics.

Release Date: June 14, 2019

Amy Reid - “Icon” Remix

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Baltimore mainstay and musical force, Amy Reid, remixes the title track from George Cory Todd's Atlantic Rhythms debut, Icon. Reid's reimagining of "Icon" works within the original's luminescence while adding a powerfully unpredictable and stuttered percussive arrangement.

Release Date: April 12, 2019

George Cory Todd - Icon

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George Cory Todd's new Atlantic Rhythms full length, Icon, has the freshness and exuberance of discovery. Throughout the album's six tracks, Todd's use of space and texture shows a composer in full bloom. “I Will (Not!)” begins with soft, rhythmic repetition, like something turning in the light. A higher tone, glitching, breaches through momentarily. Everything dies down in an instant to bowed strings before synthesizers, clips and textures take over again, undulating, sounding like a collaboration between John Luther Adams and Tim Hecker.

RELEASE DATE: February 26, 2019

Various RhyThms

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Various Rhythms compiles and commemorates the first three years of Atlantic Rhythms with a selection of music from each cassette released on the label thus far. For the uninitiated, Various Rhythms, is great introduction with music from Blacks’ Myths, Curved Light, Maymind, Jack Propane, Evan Zierk, Aaron Leitko, Iku Sakan, Jadelain, Trevor Keen, and TOWN. A new, previously unreleased track by the newest Atlantic Rhythms artist, George Cory Todd, is also included.

RELEASE DATE: December 10, 2018

Yonsei - “Unravel” Remix

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Jadelain’s first full length came in the form of the richly beautiful Unravel. Throughout the album, the Queens-based composer/producer captured an environmental and ambient music all their own, exploring percussive melodies both uplifting and mystical. And now the album’s title track receives its own mystical remix by ETCH’s Yonsei. With faint echoes of the original as an anchor, Yonsei’s take on “Unravel” ebbs and scatters with aplomb. Percussive elements are refried and multiplied mirroring the original’s emotional heft while diving into a territory all its own.

RELEASE DATE: November 30, 2018

Maymind - Wait for Me Out Front

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Just a few months after the release of Cheap Storage, LA-based DJ and producer Maymind returns to Atlantic Rhythms with a new three-song EP of atmospheric techno entitled Wait For Me Out Front that finds the artist grappling with warped acid, meta-deconstruction and modern classical influences. Micro-tensions abound in the dark layers as the title track unfolds, a frantic coil of energy bouncing back and forth between the speakers.

RELEASE DATE: November 16, 2018

Trevor Keen - Upon Reflection

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The latest Atlantic Rhythms release, Upon Reflection, is a full-length cassette of whirling experimental house originals by Washington, DC’s disc jockey journeyman and producer, Trevor Keen. The six tracks on Upon Reflection trek an impressive terrain of styles, but remain tethered to the producer's rhythmic sensibilities honed from years of helming parties like Private Joy and Modern Class and becoming a reliable mainstay for local DC clubs like Flash and Jimmy Valentines. From the massive opener, “Guildford Ave 2,” to the refried-acid of “Cutoff Slopes” and “Untitled 303,” and the off-kilter bubble of “Cascading Sunset,” Keen is shaping a psychedelic style all his own.

RELEASE DATE: November 2, 2018

Maymind - Cheap Storage

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Next up on Atlantic Rhythms is Cheap Storage, an album of rainy day electronics and left-field beat inquiries from Los Angeles-based producer, DJ, and music scribe, Maymind. The seven tracks on Cheap Storage were recorded live and in an improvisatory mode, making the most out of a limited set of tools — an MPC sampler / sequencer, a few small synthesizers, and a cheap vocal mic. The resulting textures are varied yet always hypnotic, and place groove and blunted atmospherics on equal footing. 

Read the Pitchfork review of Cheap Storage for more info.

RELEASE DATE: August 24, 2018.

IKU SAKAN - Bloom Strings

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Iku Sakan's Bloom Strings features three new intoxicating electronic works by the Osaka-born and Berlin-based musician/DJ. Sakan's command of repetitive and meditative rhythms is in full display on Bloom Strings. This triptych is rich with subtlety, yet manages to mix both maximal and minimal flourishes.

RELEASE DATE: July 21, 2018

Blacks' Myths - Blacks' Myths

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Blacks' Myths new self-titled cassette is the twelfth release from Atlantic Rhythms. The DC duo is comprised of Luke Stewart on bass and Warren G. "Trae" Crudup III on drums. The two create pulsing, hypnotic rhythmic structures that churn unpredictably, all while exploring the cracks and ambience in between.

RELEASE DATE: June 22, 2018

JADELAIN - UNRAVEL

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Jadelain is a Queens-based musician and producer channeling environmental and ambient music through mystical melodies and collected memories.

Unravel, uniquely and expertly weaves disparate influences from video game music; the company of familiar ghosts; percussive club music; as well as years of studying upright bass and jazz performance. It’s a sound of singularity – one of humanity and technology – bursting as one with heart, melancholy, and playfulness. 

RELEASE DATE: March 13, 2018

Cofaxx - "Bending" Remix

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Our latest release is a remix of Evan Zierk's "Bending" from his Atlantic Rhythms debut, Drifting/Bending. Cofaxx re-envisions the standout single with an equal mix of ambient textures and syrupy backbeat. Grip it and the original version exclusively via our Bandcamp site on December 7, 2017. 

RELEASE DATE: December 7, 2017