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John Koch-Northrup - Temporal Arc

Listening Party! Steve Brand - Coniunctio - August 13

Join us on August 13th at 10 pm CDT on StillStream.com to listen to Steve Brand’s new double album, Coniunctio, in it’s entirety!

Darrell Burgan will once again host our World Premiere Listening Party and I’m very excited to hear the album in it’s entirety with a great group of people in the StillStream chat.

Please join us!

Would you like a sneak preview? I thought you might!

Steve Brand – Pale Blue Orb (Excerpts) by Relaxed Machinery

Steve Brand – The Beginning Of Days (Excerpts) by Relaxed Machinery

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New Releases / New Artist

Where to buy our new and recent releases:

Bob Ohrum – Elevated is now available as a download and as a CDR.

Chris Russell – Frozen is now available as a download and as a CDR.

Steve Brand – Circular Scriptures is also available as a download and as a CDR.

Chris Russell – Frozen – World Premiere Release Party

Tune in to StillStream at 10 pm CDT to hear the world premiere of Chris Russell’s 3rd album, Frozen. Darrell Burgan’s “Deep Water Drift Dive” radio show will feature the album in it’s entirety uninterrupted. Most of the Relaxed Machinery artists will be

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Label News!

I’ll be rolling out a lot of label news over the next month. We’ve got:

+ Bob Ohrum – Elevated – in the release process now
+ StillStream Listening Party on June 25th for Bob’s album!

+ Chris Russell – Frozen – in the release process now
+ StillStream Listening Party on July 16th for Chris’ album!

+ A new free downloadable track from Steve Brand

+ A ton of wallpapers and media for Bob’s and Chris’ albums.

+ Coming a little in the future is the release from Beta Cloud called The Book of Five Rings (Go Rin No Sho) – which all proceeds

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2010/2011 releases + welcome to åpne sinn, Disturbed Earth/Chris Russell

2010 is looking fantastic for Relaxed Machinery releases! I’m very happy to announce that åpne sinn will be releasing an album in last 2010 or early 2011 and that Disturbed Earth and Chris Russell have a wonderful collaboration that once I heard it I immediately offered to release it.

Here’s the schedule – release months are always tentative!

rM_0002 – John Koch-Northrup – Temporal Arc (reissue) – April
rM_0003 – Chris Russell – Frozen – May
rM_0004 – Bob Ohrum – Elevated – June
rM_0006 – Beta Cloud – The Book of Five Rings (Go Rin No Sho) – July
rM_0005 – John

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Steve Brand - Circular Scriptures Review by Peter Van Cooten

Peter Van Cooten has recently reviewed Circular Scriptures. Thank you, Peter!

http://www.vancooten.com/blog/?e=285

Steve Brand – Circular Scriptures
“Time is not actually linear”

Circular Scriptures is the very first (and until now: only) release of a brand new label: Relaxed Machinery, a label owned by John Koch-Northrup (previously a co-owner of AtmoWorks ), claiming that “all artists receive 100% of their release”.

That fact alone sounds like a good enough reason to track down this album on one of the major download outlets or get it as CDR from the Hypnos store .

Circular Scriptures indeed sounds like it’s created by or with ‘Relaxed Machinery’.

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Community: relaxedmachinery.ning.com

We’ve setup a community for all musicians, artists, photographers, writers, listeners, readers… everyone interested in creativity in its many forms. Please join us at:

http://relaxedmachinery.ning.com

You can upload your own music, your photos, your artwork, your blogs, and discuss topics with others. We’d love to have you join!

John

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Steve Brand - Circular Scriptures - Press Release Design

Steve Brand – Circular Scriptures – Press Release Design, originally uploaded by johei.

This is the first release on my Relaxed Machinery label. The graphic design was done by Steve Brand. The jpg version makes the image a bit fuzzy. If you’d like to download the original pdf:

Steve Brand – Circular Scriptures – PRESS RELEASE

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Steve Brand - Circular Scriptures Album Art Page 2

Steve Brand – Circular Scriptures Album Art Page 2, originally uploaded by johei.

This is the inside panel from the album art for Steve Brand – Circular Scriptures. This is the first release on my Relaxed Machinery label released in January 2010.

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Steve Brand – Circular Scriptures – ALBUM ARTWORK

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Steve Brand - Circular Scriptures Album Art Page 1

Steve Brand – Circular Scriptures Album Art Page 1, originally uploaded by johei.

This is the front and back panels from the album art for Steve Brand – Circular Scriptures. This is the first release on my Relaxed Machinery label released in January 2010.

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rM update

A quick update on Relaxed Machinery releases:

John Koch-Northrup – Temporal Arc . This is my solo album from 2001 originally released by the very fine Red Antenna label. I briefly re-released it last year on AtmoWorks, but with our split it’s off the market. I’m working on new artwork ideas.

Chris Russell – Frozen . This is Chris’ third album and the first on Relaxed Machinery. It’s gorgeous and features his interpretation of the winter solstice evolving into the renewal of spring. Mastering is done and artwork is underway. April release.

Bob Ohrum – Elevated

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