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CIS 141LP
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RELEASE DATE: 9/19/2025
Cryptophasia is the third album from Scottish twin brothers Andy and Mike Truscott under their Kinbrae moniker. Shifting focus from their previous landscape-based releases, Cryptophasia sees the band explore their relationship growing up as twins and how this has shaped and formed them as people both individually and collectively. Reflecting on experiences across their lives, the album deals with themes including family dynamics, lived experiences and memories, identity, sibling rivalry, isolation and battles with mental health. Working with producer and frequent collaborator Ben Chatwin, the band were awarded a Jerwood Bursary to initially experiment and improvise with new instruments and techniques, with these early drafts used to then structure fully formed pieces. At its core, the record incorporates modular and analog synthesizers that are intertwined with brass layers and melodies. These sounds are further developed with the use of field recordings, piano, live percussion and bass guitar to both further establish and build upon the band's signature ambient and melancholic sound. The KInbrae sound is a mixture of brass, synthesizers, percussion and field recordings, heavily influenced by their environment. The pair are interested in the intersections of sound, place and image, using a combination of these to explore and highlight the themes in their work. Throughout their career, Kinbrae have been backed and supported with funding/bursaries from the likes of Creative Scotland, Jerwood Arts and The Tay Landscape Partnership. This has led to their being named as some of the most exciting composers working in the field of contemporary classical and electronic music.
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CIS 070LP
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$34.00
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RELEASE DATE: 9/19/2025
Originally released December 3, 2021. Castles in Space presents the first ever vinyl release for Mordant Music's landmark 2006 release Dead Air. Remastered for vinyl with all new artwork from Admiral Greyscale. "Dead air" is what broadcasters are supposed to avoid at all costs, what continuity personnel are employed to plug up with pleasantries. Mordant's fascination with that lost figure, the TV announcer, led them to track down Philip Elsmore, whose warm, soothing tones will be recognizable to anyone who grew up in the UK in the 1970s from his work for ITV regional franchises like Tyne Tees and Thames. The duo persuaded Elsmore to come out of retirement and provided continuity for Dead Air, his reassuring voice applied to an increasingly bizarre series of utterances, from "apologies for the sundry glitches -- in the meantime, keep your nerve" to "the following contains graphic scenes of a strobing magpie's wing" to "keep sporing in the nessst." Near the end, Elsmore declares that "Mordant Music will be back once the dust has settled with more vague unpleasantness." "A mild sense of apprehension is actually far more acute than out-and-out drama," says Greyscale. "It's everyday, what the Mordant virus feeds on."
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CIS 106LP
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$34.00
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RELEASE DATE: 9/19/2025
Released November 29, 2023. The inspiration for Winter Resort Music is derived from a childhood passion for Winter Sports. It's all about the spooky synths, mainlining radiophonic electronics, subconscious TV memories and an awe about what these athletes could do on the slopes when you were living in the suburbs. Can anyone forget the glowing figure-skaters, dancing into the public consciousness? The perfect beauty that melted girl's and boy's hearts around the world. Sunday afternoons spent watching guys flying on long jumps into the endless white cosmos. Portugal's Stellarays were watching and have distilled these memories into a gloriously authentic reimagination of how those memories still reside within. Winter Resort Music is such a potent memory bomb which takes what listeners know and enhances it in order to make it better. A prism of nostalgia that speaks to the purity of the whiteout. This wonderfully handsome release with artwork by Castles in Space mainstay, Nick Taylor is a perfect artefact of library music beautifully put together by Bruno, Centeio and Corinna.
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CIS 111LP
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$34.00
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RELEASE DATE: 9/19/2025
"First released on August 18, 2023, Outline of Nature started as an experiment in building a modular synthesizer system and ended up as a voltage-controlled outpouring of love for the natural world. Sylvan-born and pastoral-powered, sap-blooded and lightning-charged, this album grew out of the damp florescent corners of the woods, each note and sound, a fractal extension of their seedling sounds. It was nurtured into being at The Twilight Research Centre, a studio facility situated on the border of Somerset and Dorset. During Covid lockdown 1.0, I spent the outdoor hours we were permitted, wandering through the center's surroundings, in the green lanes, woodlands and corridors of the wilds with their wary and flickering inhabitants, beneath the distant eyes of the soaring buzzards and the hulking red kites. I didn't expect it, but it was in the quiet, ferociously vibrant dens of nature, that I found a deeply profound connection with the natural world. It once again made sense to feel as much a part of the woods as the trees were; I felt like a natural entity in its habitat again, not something I'd properly felt since running wild through the gullies, dells and fells of the Midlands as a child. And I became afflicted with a powerful urge to build strange electronic sound systems that were organic, chaotic, fractal and in some way reflective of the awesome natural systems that surround us and surround the center. I plugged in the modular, and went searching for signs of life. Adding to this, just before the lockdowns, I stumbled across a three-volume nature encyclopedia in a local charity shop, called Outline of Nature in the British Isles by Sir John Hammerton. The sub-heading reads 'A Comprehensive Photo-Survey of the Varied Life of Field and Hedgerow, Moor and Mountain, River, Pond and Sea,' and it's a stunning collection of grainy photographs, beautiful illustrations and wondrously poetic writing, some of which inspired track titles and of course, the album title. I also rekindled my love of Ladybird nature books such as the What to Look for in Spring/Summer/Autumn/Winter series, Birds and How They Live and Butterflies, Moths and Other Insects, rebuilding a small collection I had as a child and discovering numerous volumes new to me. Between the two literary sources, I had a rich well of imagery, writing and pastoral nostalgia to draw from." --Twilight Sequence
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CIS 103LP
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RELEASE DATE: 9/19/2025
Originally released April 14, 2023. This debut album is the work of London based producer, sound artist and composer, Paul Cousins. Paul works with meticulously maintained reel to reel tape machines to transform and alter his electronic compositions. His prepared tape loops form the basis of Vanishing Artefacts' 12 intricate compositions. The original ideas processed through 1/4" tape become a hazy facsimile of their former state as tape is manipulated and effected to mold something new. "A question I returned to whilst creating this album was: what if audio imperfections were lost forever? As recording technology continually improves, the limitations of audio formats are less of a concern. But there is character and great freedom in limitations, especially when using tape. Being able to physically touch and manipulate the sound is a very important and visceral part of this process. Opposed to other ambient music I have written, I want this music to be tactile, and very tangible. Yes it can float away, but I also want to show the string tied to the balloon. For this reason many of the tracks contain the sound of the room, and the wonderful noises these machines make."
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CIS 128LP
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$34.00
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RELEASE DATE: 9/19/2025
Originally released June 28, 2024. With 2021's Mystery Fields, Phil Heeks delivered a stunning homage to 1970s library LPs and soundtrack compilations, in his debut record as The British Stereo Collective. The long-awaited sequel Iniquitous brings together two-decades-worth of TV music from an alternate reality. Says Phil: "I feel that Volume 2 nails the concept of the TV themes compilation much more successfully, being more varied and more expansive, and with greater authenticity." Once again, this volume of the "Sound Library" is a heart-felt homage to a beloved era of classic themes and channel idents, inspired by the combined influences of Vangelis, Jeff Wayne, Peter Howell, Mike Oldfield, Jean-Michel Jarre, Tangerine Dream, Barry Gray, Francis Monkman, Paddy Kingsland, and countless others. Pressed up on beautiful "green leaves" vinyl and featuring a TV Times referencing insert, the album works as a complete and aesthetically gorgeous time capsule for those who are perennially nostalgic for the golden age of TV. Melodic, eclectic, part-electronic, part-traditional, Iniquitous sits comfortably among your Geoff Love and BBC Themes albums and adds to the ever expanding and impressive body of work that Phil is building.
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CIS 159LP
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$34.00
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RELEASE DATE: 9/19/2025
"The collection of songs that make up Detached Engagement are our most personal and emotionally revealing tracks. Recorded over a period of emotional turbulence where we lost loved ones and uncertainty seemed the only constant. Our studio became a hide away, a place of refuge where we could direct our energies into a creative act of understanding and hope. We reconfigured our subversive pop to fit our present situation, the distortion was dialed back, the gauzy tape worn ambiguity was replaced by a more in focus directness. Every song was stripped back to its essential elements revealing a newfound complexity in our song writing and arrangement. Our devotion to the power of pop has not diminished, we still hold firm that it is a subversive medium to communicate ideas outside of the conventional messages of love and other frivolities. It still has the power to bring people together around a shared vision of how things could be. We are happy to present these ten missives of post-industrial romance, existential melancholy, new beginnings, songs that linger in the half-light of '80s synth-pop, '90s trip-hop and electronica. It's not all that heavy, this one is for the slow dancers and the close dancers." --The Mistys
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CIS 156LP
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RELEASE DATE: 9/19/2025
Will Gardner's debut album Remains is a personal story about loss, memory, and care-work told through poignant, disfigured soundscapes and half-remembered idylls of haunting, impressionist piano. Gardner recalls his experiences caring for his father through late-stage Parkinson's dementia -- exploring a "sonic imagining" of dementia alongside his own experience as a carer -- the grief of losing a parent in slow motion; and what it means to grieve for someone who is still alive. At the heart of the album are his father's diaries. Fragments of the text were used to derive the rhythms and melodies on which the album is built before the text was then removed so only the music remained. Remains, released via Castles in Space, is Will's debut album and first release as an artist in his own right. His work is influenced by his experiences working across a variety of musical genres -- often combining processed, improvised piano, vocals and other instrumentation to create digitally transfigured contemporary classical soundscapes.
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CIS 152LP
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$26.00
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RELEASE DATE: 9/5/2025
Released November 3, 2023. A special Submerge 12" featuring a bunch of reworks of this pivotal track from Apta's album The Pool. Kicking things off, Apta's own rework of the original sees the shadowy textures and droning wall-of-sound backdrop turned into a static-strewn dreamland of a piece, underpinned by a flickering guitar riff, cracked snare drums and fuzzed-out Odyssey strokes before launching into the euphoric half-time vocal refrain. The follow-up sees Clay Pipe boss, illustrator and musician step into her Hardy Tree guise for a beautifully hypnotic waft of wistful folk-tinged electronics and shimmering ambient textures. It's warmly nostalgic, and packed full of all the feel of a lovely Clay Pipe release. Following on from that, modular wizard Polypores takes pieces of the original and stretches them into an organic swell of texture and movement, warping the low basses and flickering modular plinks (and/or plonks) into a beautiful, undulating wall. Flip over and it's none other than the brilliant Pye Corner Audio, providing an organically blooming suite of saturated percussion and woozy drifting oscillators, in peak PCA fashion. There are few artists that can do as much as with little as Martin Jenkins can, and hearing his audio sunshine underpinning the vocal line is breathtaking. It's good to get the ears nice and soothed too before the aural assault and hypnotic spirit-cleansing heft of the legendary Gnod. Dubby throbbing bass and cavernous reverb tear the original into shards and piece it together as a churning, industrial powerhouse before shooting the rest into the endless reaches of space. Closing things out on a space theme is the ideal way to do things too, with Field Lines Cartographer's remix taking things waaay into the outer reaches. Grounding bass churns and stellar synth sweeps float below the modulated vocal line, resulting in a perfectly crafted drone, rich in melody but untethered to the earth.
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As humankind strives to create artificial intelligence what will faith, love, or morality look like to a nascent consciousness? Will it be capable of understanding its creators who often hold logic and superstition within themselves? In return how will humans comprehend its hallucinations? And the Sun, a ball of hot plasma oblivious to our existence continually burns hydrogen until it runs out and swallows its three closest neighbors.
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On a remote gravel-covered spit of land on the east coast lie the abandoned buildings of a government facility for weapons testing and experiments with radar. In the mid-1960s this site witnessed the construction of an over-the-horizon radar, a technological marvel bouncing signals off the ionosphere, built to covertly monitor the activities of other nations. The reflectivity of the ionosphere is a function of frequency, time of day, time of year and of the solar cycle. In essence, a sympathy for the celestial was required to fully exploit this manmade construction. Plagued by noise that created false returns on the monitors, the intended performance was never achieved, and despite several investigations the system was shut down and eventually dismantled in the early 1970s. The long dormant Cobra is now a nature reserve.
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CIS 191LP
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RELEASE DATE: 4/25/2025
Green color vinyl. After many years of city life, Andrea Cichecki discovered deep inspiration for her music in the nature surrounding her new home. Residing at the boundary where countryside meets woodland, she lives right at the "edge effect", a unique zone where different ecosystems converge, creating a diverse and vibrant natural beauty. This album is an emotional exploration of Andrea's past, touching on themes of loss and letting go, while also conveying hope and the enduring cycle of renewal found in nature and the cosmos. Andrea translates her emotions into music using electricity, with her synthesizers as her main instrument. Each track tells a personal story, complemented by field recordings from the Ore Mountains and Saxon Switzerland, creating an unparalleled intimate and immersive listening experience. There is genuine beauty here, harvested from the mind of a truly original artist.
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