Office Culture - Big Time Things - VINYL LP

Having crested the west coast modular-ambient wave in just a few releases- including 2018's Sharing Waves on the influential LA experimental imprint Leaving Records- Sean Hellfritsch has swapped the mossy analog synth improvisations of his prior output for refined melodic arrangements dressed in sprightly dawn-of-digital textures. Big Earth Energy plumbs the depths of Hellfritsch's multimedia mind and naturalist heart, spinning an impressionistic narrative world off of cultural touchstones like the PC game MYST, and the work of Studio Ghibli composer Joe Hisaishi. Inspired by the aforementioned, and guided by Hellfritsch's experience as an animator and filmmaker, Big Earth Energy is the soundtrack to a hypothetical video game with a pointedly ecological premise, and a twist of psychedelic charm. In Hellfritsch's imagined virtual journey, the player assumes the perspective of a treefrog sixty-five-million years ago, hopping epochs with each new level, forming a comprehensive picture of the massive hanges the planet has gone through over the eons. The ultimate goal of the game is not to amass resources, defeat enemies, or gain power, but to fully witness the unfolding of one of the biggest systems of energy imaginable- or as the album's creator puts it- Inchto explore the incomprehensibly vast energetic expression and mystery that is Earth.Inch Big Earth Energy is steeped in exploratory RPG intrigue, possibility, and contemplation, lovingly overlaid with Miyazaki-an sentiments and aesthetics. The through-composed, organic, meandering synthesis heard on previous Cool Maritime albums has been fully replaced by meticulous polygonal arrangements that recall the computerized sheen of late 80s work by composers like Hiroshi Yoshimura, and Yoichiro Yoshikawa- using true-to-period gear no less. Even given it's referentiality, Big Earth Energy comes off as forward-facing where s

Constant Future is the career-defining statement from Brooklyn-based noise-pop trio Parts & Labor. The album's 12 tracks deliver the bare essentials that made them sui generis totems of modern art-punk synthesized keyboard riffs distorted into oblivion, percussion pummeled hypnotically, crackling drones that haunt and soothe, fearless melodies hollered skyward. But fifth album Constant Future finds them crashing back to earth, focusing pointedly on what they do best unique, electronic landscapes melded with buzzing, anthemic hooks. Album Tracks 1. Fake Names 2. Outnumbered 3. Constant Future 4. A Thousand Roads 5. Rest 6. Pure Annihilation 7. Skin and Bones 8. Echo Chamber 9. Without a Seed 10. Bright White 11. Hurricane 12. Never Changer

Lambert - the German masked pianist, composer and producer of modern classical and electronic music - ventures into contemporary jazz with an electrifying and diverse jazz-electronic album. All This Time ranges from mesmerizing classic jazz vibes to high-energy, beat-driven alternative jazz fusing electronics, drums, double bass and piano, referencing the sound worlds of Portico Quartet and GoGo Penguin. Released jointly on Verve Records and Mercury KX. Album Tracks 1. Bummel 2. All This Time 3. Follow 4. Stolper Jim 5. Lucamballard 6. Pants 7. Loud 8. Cry Me a River 9. Positive Lambration 10. Vastness