Milieu – Azurine Droned
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
