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Steve Brand – Coniunctio – Front Cover

Coming in early August – a special double album from Steve Brand featuring two long form ambient works.

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Steve Brand on Somafm DroneZone June 2010 playlist

Congratulations to Steve Brand for getting on both the “by spins” and “by listeners” charts for DroneZone! I’m very proud of Steve’s album on Relaxed Machinery – and love his albums on Hypnos and AtmoWorks. Steve is a consistently wonderful artist and person.

John

DroneZone for June 2010…

http://somafm.com/charts/dronezone/dronezone-12Jun10.html

Top 30 Artists BY SPINS
1. Steve Roach (46)
2. Igneous Flame (23)
3. Cleveland Wehle (19)
4. Stephen Philips (18)
5. Stars of the Lid (17)
6. Solyaris (16)
7. Biosphere (15)
8. Robert Scott Thompson (15)
9. Harold Budd (14)
10. Jim Cole & Spectral Voices (13)
11. Cliff Martinez (13)
12. Dilate (12)
13. A Produce (11)
14. Vidna Obmana (10)
15. Maitreya (10)
16. Gas

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"Circular Scriptures" Ping Things Review

I’m always happy to hear about new labels and the music that each brings, and I was particularly happy to hear that my buddy John Koch-Northrup of Interstitial was starting a new label called Relaxed Machinery (check it out at http://relaxedmachinery.com/). Not only has John come up with a really fair and sensible business model for label work, he’s also got really great taste so I have every expectation that he’s going to put out some great music. Certainly the first release, “Circular Scriptures” by Steve Brand lives up to and surpasses all my expectations with the label. I was

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Beta Cloud – Live in Toronto – 2009 (YouTube)

Live video of Beta Cloud playing in Toronto in 2009. Carl (Beta Cloud) will be releasing an album on Relaxed Machinery later this year.

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Steve Brand - Song for Illumination (YouTube)

I stumbled across this video (actually it’s a still image) for a track off of Steve Brand – Awakensong which was self-released by Steve in 2007. It’s 11 minutes and worth the listen!

Buy the download if you’d like: Steve Brand on CD Baby

UPDATE: Unfortunately the youtube user decided to remove the video. Steve and I both thought it was cool – hopefully they’ll post it again! jkn

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Change my artist name from Interstitial?

I’m pondering a shift from using my artist name “Interstitial” to using my real name from now on. To me, Interstitial was a great name and sort of defined the music I wrote at that time.

In the 1990′s I used to describe my own music as “ambient techno industrial piano” – which admittedly is a slightly odd combo and a little tongue in cheek. One of the main reasons I used Interstitial for a long time was because I thought of my music as “between genres”. I used to have on my website around 2001-2003 a “between” statement which I

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Chris Russell

I’d like to welcome Chris Russell to Relaxed Machinery. He’ll be releasing an album called “Frozen” at some point in 2010 (date to be determined). I’ve been listening to it frequently this week and it’s truly excellent ambient work. He released two albums in 2009 on AtmoWorks: “Aralu” and “Merge”. ( Chris Russell at the AtmoWorks store )

I look forward to working with Chris in 2010!

.: Reminders! :.

Steve Brand – Circular Scriptures is scheduled for release on Jan 11, 2010. It will be available for download from CD Baby and as a CDR in the Hypnos store first… and

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