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In A Landscape

by Sa Pa

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wilson-c
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wilson-c Great sounding album nicely sequenced and this is where it steps up... Favorite track: Fireworks.
Michael Upton (Jet Jaguar)
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Michael Upton (Jet Jaguar) Curious submerged techno sounds that roam about and come and go in ways that you can't really expect. Recommended if you liked dub techno back in the day and don't want something to samey.
PannionSeer
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PannionSeer A lot of experimental electronic music comes across as sterile and lifeless (I'm looking at you, Pan Records--how many pitch-shifted samples of glass shattering do I really need to hear?) but this album feels like a microscope lowered onto a petri dish swarming with microbial organisms. Highly recommended. Favorite track: Fireworks.
robu robu
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robu robu "Rose bay" is massive!
The whole album is stunning ✨
RA タバラ
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RA タバラ Sa Pa makes brilliant, extraordinary music that's beyond everyone's understanding. I love that about him!
Memory Lab
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Memory Lab From ambient to abstract dub techno, the overall soundscape reminds me of Porter Ricks’ legendary album “Biokenetics” or their “Shadow Boat” EP – dynamic, thick and endlessly deep like an ocean consisting of lush drums and heavily reverberating field recordings. The standout tracks in my opinion are “Ripsketch, “Melody Hop”, “Recovery” and “Hallucingentic”. Thankfully this album is available in 24-bit wav which gives you the best listening experience.

Favorite track: Recovery.
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Ripsketch 06:58
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Gokotto 04:09
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Melody Hop 04:51
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Recovery 09:58
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Rose Bay 04:25
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Slow Walk 00:56
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Fireworks 06:31
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Féerie 03:15
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Rain, spit, ice, neon, mercury, arcing electricity, plants, steam, soil, and dust; this is dream music from Sa Pa. Following up on his 2015 debut 風物詩 [Fuubutsushi], In A Landscape provides rich content for fantasy and the fertile imagination, establishing a rich terrain of visual, poetic, and abstract sound that draws on techno and dub ambient.

Somewhere between pastoral impressionism and cyber-noir, its surface evokes the tensions of a fluctuating, fizzing atmosphere, pictures emerging and dissolving in the mind’s eye. Thick layers of field recording - some salvaged from a recorder lost in Bassiani during the police raid last year and recovered in January - flood tracks fabricated from erratic, oddly distanced rhythm.

The sensation whilst listening is not unlike hearing the world from a place within the body; swimming in the bloodstream, cutting through the turbulent landscape secure in a metal tube.

Or being over-exposed to lushly textured environments with the anatomy far receded; an out-of-body experience where subtler senses are heightened and the landscape begins to take on surreal qualities.

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released October 18, 2019

Art by Matthew Kent and Gustavo Eandi
Vinyl mastered and lacquer cut by Mike Grinser @ Dubplates & Mastering, Berlin.


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