Hi friends - hope all good :)
Beyond happy to share the next interpretation in the quiet details series from a true legend of today’s electronic music world, Brendon Moeller.
Out now on digital and limited CD with long-form edition, six panel digipack and fine art print. Digital half price until 11th October.
Listening Party tomorrow Thursday 3rd 19.00 UK time - link coming soon!
Under a range of monikers, Brendon has been at the forefront of exploring some of the deepest planes of electronic music for nearly two decades. Dub, house, techno, experimental, drum and bass and more - releases on labels such as Echochord, Electric Deluxe, Soul People Music, Silent Season, Delsin, Deep Space Media, Mule Music and many others, show how well-regarded and widely-loved his music is.
Mirage sees Brendon take this wealth of experience to create the most incredible journey of hypnotic atmospherics - we get the feeling of a composer completely at ease with themselves and their vision of electronic music.
Grounded by the heaviest of bass-weight, each track presents a vast and seemingly endless sonic universe - gorgeous trails of musical fragments drift in every direction, floating away on crumbling echoes and near-infinite reverberant decay.
Highly textured sonic particles come in and out of view - shifting drones, acidic undulations, synthetic waves, field recordings and broken percussion - all within a framework that harks back to the original dub masters, yet completely of today and this moment in time.
Deft and precise studio techniques mix with an intuitive and truly hands on approach to music creation - Brendon has a unique and innate understanding of both the exact sounds needed and the exact moment to let them live - conducting this dubwise ensemble with the maximum finesse to evoke the most powerful emotions and feelings at will.
As he says himself:
The soundscapes you’re listening to were recorded over a few days in the middle of a Summer heatwave in Patterson, New York, July 2024.
Endless hum... nature grinding slow, steady decay.Unmeasured rhythms syncopate... heat’s dissonance, fractured airwaves. Time drips, pools, melts—liquefied, slipping into cracks of unreality.
Like vapor, slipping between what is and isn’t. The mirage hums. Frequencies hit—familiar but formless, just the pulse.
Always the pulse.
So pleased to share it with you, a wonderful album of breathtaking beauty. Huge thanks to Brendon for everything, a wonderful addition to the series.
The artwork was made as always influenced by the music and idea behind the album - originating from a photo from Brendon which was then captured with analogue photography and processed here at quiet details studios.
As usual, the album is presented on the physical edition, a custom 6-panel digipack with a separate fine art print too.
The CD also has a special long-form continuous mix of the album, representing the music in its purest form.
Mastered here at quiet details studios.
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Also out today is the repress of one of the most unique takes on the qd idea, the irrepressible Whettman Chelmets with the mind-blowing A New Place.
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Now some shout-outs - as always huge thanks to the DJs, writers, radio stations and the independent journalists and media - support them however you can!
qd24
Alex Ruder playing a track on this Pacific Notions show on kexp.org
Leigh Wright including one on Zadagan Keep on Tak Tent Radio
Mike S with full coverage on KMXT FreeForm Radio
Francis Beaubois with tracks from qd24 and qd19 Loula Yorke on Electronic Therapy
Peter over on ambientblog.net with the lovely review
Trevlad with a wonderful quiet details playlist and another mix here
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Thanks again friends and enjoy the music :)
Much love
Alex
quiet details studios - mastering and audio services
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