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After much deliberation and work, Install is proud to unveil its first vinyl release: Milieu’s Phosphene Weather LP. Notable for also being the first time Milieu’s work has appeared on the vinyl format, Phosphene is a special affair, limited to 150 copies on randomly colored vinyl inside custom silk screened sleeves with hand-numbered inserts, sporting a modern design by David Tagg. Musically, Phosphene Weather inhabits a similar universe as previous Milieu ambient output, such as A Warm Wooden Hollow, Of The Apple or Brittle Paper Cathedrals. The record’s three songs walk slowly through an Autumnal landscape that is as colorful as it is eroded, and over the course of 40 minutes the listener is treated to liquid sunset immersion, surrounded on all sides by soft wind sweeping red leaves over orange fields and cloudlike formations of chords that arrive right on time with the warm hum of a pedal bass. Swells of log cabin isolation, woodwind and guitar drones and pure sleepy thought filter through the horizon line. Phosphene Weather is total night music, and quite possibly the pinnacle of Milieu’s ambient output to date.

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Since the completion of A Warm Wooden Hollow in 2006, this is the first ambient Milieu record in about three years. For fans of Of The Apple, Brother, or either Infraction release, Brittle Paper Cathedrals is sure to deliver.

Musically this material consists of three ’suites’ made up of clusters of separated tracks. Meandering (yet pretty) melodies and tones swirl around with barely any repetitions, and organ pedalbass-lines anchor the chord changes down beneath that. There’s also lots of crumbly textures and muted dynamics and even a few very straightforward organ melodies. Very sad and very distant, much like my previous ambient output. This one is limited to 100 copies, with hand-cut vintage cardstock patterns in jewel cases.

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In other Milieu news: Colortone is now SOLD OUT. Thank you to everyone who picked up a copy. If you’re still looking for one, the remaining copies are at Smallfish Records in the UK and Linus Records in Japan.

The second single from the forthcoming Swaying Palms album, Waverider presents seven starry-eyed feelgood Milieu tracks
full of funky basslines, sex-on-the-beach synths, big breaks and melodies sweeter than a Capri Sun on LSD. Some crusty tropical
crunk for those of you who can remember those family vacations in the 80’s, building sandcastles, getting pulled down the shore in
the tide, baking in the sun. Put on your shades and grab your board – it’s time to go! Think “Theme From A Nude Beach” meets Casino
Versus Japan meets Henry Mancini at 16 RPM. Limited to 50 copies.

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Kicking off a brand new catalog set (which you can read more about here) is something of a new “era” of the Coppice Halifax sound.
Entering for the first time into truly deep and dubby territory, this three track EP is the beginning of what will be the charted course for
Coppice Halifax in the 2009 year. Taking heavy influence from pioneers like Basic Channel, Wolfgang Voigt, Monolake and Pole, as well as newer
favorites such as Rod Modell, Yagya and Anders Ilar…these three tracks are bouncy, minimal and clean, yet not without a very notable texture and
atmosphere. Roomy reverbs phase in and out over the mix while skittering delays dance all over a punctuated drum sequence. Sometimes subdued, other
times four-to-the-floor, but all around deep and minimal. Expect this series of EPs to grow throughout 2009 in a hopefully new and interesting way.

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The second EP in the AB series, and even more minimal than Ganymede Icecaps. Pristine open spaces are filled with intricately placed rhythms and
micro-melodies. Off-white, clean and full of reflected fluorescent light. “Porcelain” is the closest to the Berlin techno sound Coppice Halifax
has come so far, while parts one and two of “Icecaps” bring a little more familiar funk into the picture. Simple music for those who like it that way.

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FINAL COPIES OF COLORTONE REMAIN!!! GET ONE BEFORE THEY’RE GONE!

MILIEU – COLORTONE

You may have caught me hinting on the mailers about 2009 seeing the release of lots of new Milieu, and so appropriately with the new year starting, here is the first. A three track 3″ CD-R containing some of the bounciest tropical punch Milieu sounds ever laid to tape. This single serves as a precursor to the forthcoming album (no definitive date yet) Swaying Palms, which will be equally tropical. The title track may make some listeners recall the dubby tropical atmosphere of “Sway Leaf” (from the In Hills Made Of Clouds 3″ at Earstroke)
only this time it has been seriously expanded upon and drawn out to a lazy 10-minute affair. Limited to 50 copies.

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The first Coppice Halifax release of 2009, which, like the Milieu EP, will preface a handful of new releases under that moniker as well.
This 3″ single sees some really psychedelic ambient techno happening, somewhere between the tropical-clouds of Ocean Lion and the crackly wash of the self-titled EEDCD-08. “Luxury” samples Delius and builds a smoky dubby limo-drive through the boulevard at night…you can even roll the window down and see everything moving in super-slow-mo. Two versions of “Dancehall” follow, the first sounding like an ocean-faring cousin of “Nettles” with bouncy house beats and crackly seafoam melodies, and the second bringing to mind influences of Gas or Basic Channel with some liquefied drum sounds pooling around a rich symphonic drone and a huge sub-bassline. Limited to 50 copies in clear plastic sleeves with rad lazer-80’s paper inserts.

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Two other new releases are also available in limited quantities, including:

MML050 / MILIEU / PINWHEEL CAROUSELS: FOUR YEARS OF MILIEU MUSIC CD-R
MML052 / BRIAN GRAINGER & DAVID TAGG / VARIANTS CD-R

This was quietly announced for a preorder a month ago, and now this long-awaited Milieu CD-R is officially released and shipping! For those of you who dig the flavor of Milieu records like Our Blue Rainbow or New Drugs – get this one! Loads of psychedelic grooves over a 10 track/forty minute disc. Think absolute LSD melody overload! Only $12.50, housed in a snazzy jewel case with full-color photos taken over Spring/Summer 2008, and available in a quite limited quantity directly from me!

On a side note, there are those of you out there probably wondering what happened to the vinyl release of this album that was supposed to happen earlier in 08…well sadly it just didn’t work out and we didn’t really want to sit on the album any longer as it is now already a full year old! There are only 100 of these in existence and more than half of those are already gone, so this announcement may actually be the last you see of this album…

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Several other new releases are also available in limited quantities, including:

MML047 / BRIAN GRAINGER & SHINOBU NEMOTO / CD-R
MML049 / BRIAN GRAINGER & TANNER MENARD / METAMERS / 3″ CD-R