Derek Rogers, Wild Safari Cassettes - Bathetic Records 2011

Two new cassettes on Bathetic!
Many thanks to Jon for sending previews.

Derek Rogers - Relative Quiet Cassette 

Here's a new 6-track work from well-known sound-maker Derek Rogers.
That's what Bathetic says:
'With Relative Quiet, Derek Rogers offers us 6 tracks of shimmering ambiance. Tremulous tones flirt with the sensitive areas of your psyche while the bass coos you into slumber. This cassette drifts into areas not too removed from the likes of Tim Hecker, Jefre Cantu-Ledesma, or Grasslung. '

Wild Safari - We Laid Our Heads In Their Laps Cassette

Wild Safari is a collaborative project between Bathetic's owner Jon Hency and William Cody Watson (ex-Pink Prist). The sound is tender and minimal. Hazy drones airily confuse nonchalant souls.
Wild Safari 'lay down sonic tumblers that drift in and out of nostalgic, schoolyard sidewalks into lush forests' (Bathetic).

Buy both cassettes from Bathetic. 

Endless Endless Endless, Derek Rogers - Ruralfaune/Synth series

Bruno from Ruralfaune label sent me two recent CDs. So take a look! 

Endless Endless Endless – Endless Endless Endless, CD Ruralfaune

This album consists of two pieces. The first track can be described as IDM and synth meditation with a smack of industrial. Quite interesting, right? Naked beat serves as a pillar which is being gradually sprouted by electric pulses, synth waves and at the end of the track – meditative vocals. Second track is stricter in terms of the style. We have here a tranquil psycho folk story, which deals with drawling synth roulades, faded guitar and arrhythmia. The sound engages a listener into its misterious games. And these games are beautiful games of the beautiful mind.

Compelling work!

Endless Endless Endless is a duo of experimentalists (Brett Renfer and James Tichenor) from New York.

Derek Rogers – Triagonals, CD Synth Series

This is what I do love about music. A linear and thorough research of the sound substance! The title of the record actually blurts the secret… Be prepared to be drowning in the ocean of cosmic signals and what they deliver. Vibrating drones smoothly and deliberately mantle consciousness. The sound is ambient and minimal. Cascades of geometric figures made of sound magma slowly approach through the vacuum. Almost physically palpable oscillations. Amazing. One more gem in Synth Series collection.

Derek Rogers is an electronic composer based in Austin.


You can buy these records from Ruralfaune or from distributors.