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My wife loves this track, calling it soothing and relaxing. She especially likes the sounds of nature that the field recording aspect brought to the music.
Favorite track: Retreat [Coppice Halifax Excavation].
Assembled by hand, one copy at a time, in the White Pillar Workshop! Two white 5" recordable discs, printed and duplicated via an Imation D20 disc duplication machine, held inside a clear plastic cast polypropylene sleeve (with a flap and a inner cloth membrane separating the discs), with a 4x4" glossy photographic print (set onto a 5x5" piece of black cardstock) insert visible on the front, and custom text sticker work on the back cover. Ships in a waterproof bubblemailer to keep your sonic artifact dust and moisture-free.
Includes unlimited streaming of The Revisionist's Matterhorn Excavation
via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
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ACRM0026 / Valley Revised [5x7" Recycled Art Assemblage + Digital Album]
Poster/Print + Digital Album
A ready to frame 5x7" handmade recycled art assemblage, created with photographic elements from The Revisionist's Matterhorn Excavation. This option is for collectors who are interested in art editions & digital audio only - no CD-R will be shipped with this option. For more information on the ACRM catalog: photofugues.tumblr.com
Includes unlimited streaming of The Revisionist's Matterhorn Excavation
via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
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Deluxe Edition 2xCD-R + 5x7" Ashcan Readymade Set
Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album
Supporters of this edition of ABX98 will receive the standard 2xCD-R release along with a very very limited and handmade 5x7" Ashcan Readymade recycled art assemblage. The piece is titled "Valley Revised" and bears the catalog number ACRM0026. It comes hand-numbered, titled, dated and signed by the artist with the Milieu Music PO box stamp (all on the reverse side), and ships ready to frame. For more information about the ACRM catalog: photofugues.tumblr.com
Includes unlimited streaming of The Revisionist's Matterhorn Excavation
via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
After the recent issuance of an extended ambient Milieu recording, The Synthesist's Alphorn Retreat, fellow sound designer and friend Rimas Campe (Downscope, Treadset, Dreams Without End) decided to surprise me by crafting a remix of the piece. I was impressed with his reinterpretation of the music, and after thinking for a little while about how best to present it, I opted to follow suit with a Coppice Halifax iteration, and release both mixes together as a split-remix album.
Both of our remixes were done in a similar production approach, which entails using the original recording as 90% of the source material, and introducing only a single origin of rhythmic matter into the DNA of Alphorn Retreat. For my take, it was the use of a vintage Yamaha RX11 digital drum machine, which I have used in a similar fashion before on Ferrolog and sessions for Static Pharming and Green Shape. I also set the entire passage against a field recording backdrop of my neighborhood at 3 AM during a Summer night, and the rhythm of the RX11 actually seems to play with the outdoor sounds in magical ways. For Downscope's remix, his rhythmic input (as I understand it) consisted of a more traditional drum loop sample that was processed/reprocessed and mutated into the subtle pulse you hear anchoring his extended rework.
Together, these two mixes accumulate into something a bit more than simply remixes - they become a night (in)version of a sunny mountainside, trading in the orange hues of warm Summer light for the cool blue of a snowy valley quietly sleeping through the Winter. The photograph used for the cover was taken from my bedroom window, coincidentally the same bedroom window that graces the Ferrolog cover, and it felt appropriate for the transfiguration of Alphorn - a sustained fantasy of musical escapism, now brought back home again, to my bedside looking down on the trees in the valley.
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released September 25, 2019
Written by Milieu. Remixed and produced by Coppice Halifax & Downscope. CH mix recorded at White Pillar Workshop, August 2019 / Mastered by The Analog Botanist. Downscope mix recorded in Maryland, August 2019 / Mastered by Downscope. Text, photography and design by ABM&D. This is Milieu Music number ABX98. www.milieu-music.com / www.analogbotany.com
Special thanks to all of the members of the Milieu Music Fan Club at Patreon (www.patreon.com/analogbotany). With their continued support, more music like this release can happen! At the present moment, the members of the Fan Club are: Burt T / Brian S / Jake P / Christ S / Damian H / Levi G / Brian C / Arthur W / Joel B / Peter H-B / Rik J / Jose S / David P / Helge J / Peter C / Alan A / Alex G / Seth B / David T / Devin H / Mathieu L / Andy B / Francois H / Benoit P / J.C. Bastos
Many humble thanks to the subscribers of the Deep Earth series. Without them, this music might not exist, and if it did, you might not be able to hear it. Support deep electronic mining initiatives today: malfokusita.bandcamp.com
A spacious 2.5 hour soundtrack for Eufloria, an ambient strategy game currently available on Steam, Nintendo Switch and the Playstation Network. Coppice Halifax
A triple-album "beginner's guide" with 50 tracks selected from the first 10 years of Milieu releases. As apt a starting point as you're likely to find. Coppice Halifax
supported by 11 fans who also own “The Revisionist's Matterhorn Excavation”
I bought the original CD when it was released however had to have this also for the quality package, beautiful extra tracks and to stream on BC .
This is one of the most hauntingly beautiful albums of all time. Hooked me in right away and I have followed this wonderful music from Lee and his colleagues ever since. Probably has to be in my top ten ambient albums. A really stunning album. thirdsystem
