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Sonic Poetry Colored Vinyl Edition

Release: 2024 / UK – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Vion is the 29th full-length album to bear the name of Italian soundtrack composer, engineer, and producer Lorenzo Montanà. It is his first solo effort for Oakland-based emotive electronics outpost n5MD.

Vion began as a means for Montanà to experiment with jazz brush drum patterns. The album slowly took shape, and further experimentation gave way to stylistic shifts that, in turn, broadened the album's palette to include ought-era experimental electronica motifs and percolating ambiance. Motion is a constant with nearly all of Montanà's output; details are ever-evolving, rarely static. The brushed drums and leftfield production comple- ment each other and give Vion a sense of lightness juxtaposed with its somewhat melancholic tonality.

With Vion, Montanà has stretched beyond his recent more ambient offerings to include a cross-section of his electronic music output thus far.

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Gimmik

2LP | 2022 | EU | Original (n5MD)

37,99 €*

Iluiteq + Lorenzo Montana

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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The follow-up to last year's return-to-form collection, Cloudwalker. Sonic Poetry is a refined group of works showcasing Gimmik's adeptness at fusing experimental electronic music minutia with overarching melodicism. Those that have followed Gimmik's carrier–and subsequent return–will take pleasure in Sonic Poetry's veracity and bolstered production. Leftfield/IDM, Breaks, Downtempo, Electro, and Ambient get dissected and reformed to create a truly authentic album in which it is evident that there is no coincidence in that the opening track is named "Here I am."

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Kata Metron White Vinyl Edition

12" | 2024 | UK | Original (n5MD)

Reflections From The Road

Release: 2024 / UK – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Katà Métron is the Greek mythology-inspired collaborative album from Italian ambient auteurs Iluiteq and Lorenzo Montanà.

For Iluiteq, Ancient Greek culture, with its myths and philosophy, has strongly influenced their everyday lives and has provided constant inspiration in their musical endeavors. The Greek expression "Katà Métron" means "according to the right measure," representing how human beings should live in harmo- ny with themselves and nature. More often than not, the dominant model is to go beyond our limits, and having a "sense of measure" is not capitalistically profitable as we must nourish our constant desire to always wish for more, not caring for the consequences of such a "bulimic" attitude.

Lorenzo Montanà should need little introduction, with a more than two-decades-long career, a vast body of work on labels such as FAX and Projekt, and highlighting such collaborative partners as Pete Namlook and Alio Die. Iluiteq approached Montanà as they admired his textural take on ambient. The duo presented the Greek mythology concept in which they might collaborate, and Montanà became instantly inspired to partici- pate. Montanà's contributions to "Katà Métron" shape the sound of Iluiteq in new, evocative music territo- ries, where meticulously crafted rhythmic patterns and melodic echos blend with the Italian duo's soothing and ethereal ambient soundscapes.

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ILUITEQ

LP | 2023 | UK (n5MD)

12" | 2022 | EU | Original (n5MD)

Release: 2023 / UK

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Loosely inspired by the book "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy, ILUITEQ's fourth album, "Reflections From The Road," expands the novel's theme, where human beings are overwhelmed by an ordeal that completely changes the course of their lives. Events that suddenly interrupt the "ordinary movements" of life in a new, unpredictable, and often dangerous way. A strong sense of motion permeates Reflections From The Road's ten tracks in a new and unexpected way compared to previous works by the Italian ambient duo.
With "Reflections From The Road," ILUITEQ explores new music territories, strongly contrasting pristine textures and glitchy sounds.

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Jason Van Wyk

Descendants

29,99 €*

Deeper Than Static Transparent Red Vinyl Edition

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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The followup to “Threads”, his 2021 debut on n5MD, Descendants advances the narrative of van Wyk’s broad- er-scope, atmospheric sound. This new work brings into focus an approach that builds on van Wyk’s production methods. Underlying elements are taken further and pushed to the extremes while the influence of his film composition work continues to shine through. Descendants is a slow dive into enigmatic depths; disarming, explorative, evolved. A tentative descent into introspection, with each track a sonic rumination of drifting elements, tunneling into a subterranean wilderness.

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Boy Is Fiction

LP | 2022 | EU | Original (n5MD)

The Light Inside, The Dark Outside

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Deeper than Static is the third solo album by Australian producer Alex Gillett and his affecting Boy is Fiction project.

Limited edition transparent red vinyl, limited to 250 Units worldwide.

Those familiar with n5MD might remember Gillett's recent collaboration with Light Out Asia's Chris Schafer on 2018s A Single Beam of Light which perfectly merged the two band's styles. Deeper than Static finds Gillett at laser focus, refining the Boy is Fiction sound to near perfection.

Electronic, often glitched-up beats embrace astute piano pacing and swashes of melodic synths. It's affecting and can be, at times, some- what catchy, all with a haunting lean that Gillett has whole- heartedly embraced in his nearly fifteen-year career. Such melodicism leads to the immediacy of the works on Deeper than Static which as a bonus get some added vibrancy by way of mixing, mastering, and additional production by n5MD label head Mike Cadoo (Bitcrush/ Dryft).

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ILUITEQ

LP | 2022 | EU | Original (n5MD)

LP | 2021 | EU | Original (n5MD)

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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The Light Inside, The Dark Outside is Italian ambient duo ILUITEQ's third full-length album. The Light Inside, The Dark Outside is out on May 6th on limited edition orange vinyl (plus download card with bonus track) Influenced by the uncertainty and precariousness of the current times, the album was conceived as a means to nourish the light inside all of us, no matter how difficult and dark the reality can turn out to be. Such "light" is reflected in the album's widescreen and hopefully ardent ambient. In contrast to their previous albums, The Light Inside, The Dark Outside is permeated by a strong sense of motion. The Light Inside, The Dark Outside is an evolution for the duo, themed by the inner need for brightness and hope.

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Dryft

From Stasis

LP | 2021 | EU | Original (n5MD)

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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From Stasis is the fourth full-length album from Mike Cadoo's Dryft alias. The album finds the n5MD owner-operator shifting his focus back toward more industrialized forms of electronic music.

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Jason Van Wyk

Threads

PCM (Pulse Code Modulation)

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Threads is the 4th solo full length from Cape Town, South Africa based composer Jason van Wyk and his debut album for n5MD. Previously known for his progressive trance works, van Wyk has spent a lot of his time as of late composing for the film industry. In 2013, his solo output switched to more pastoral forms of neo-classical leaning ambient with his first full-length Days You Remember, before moving into more piano-based composition for Attachment (2016) and Opacity (2017).

Threads does reflect some of his previous ambient works; however, the album shows van Wyk composing music for (and of) current times. There is a much-welcomed underlying beauty to Threads, but there are also threads of anxious- ness and unwavering intensity throughout its forty-minute run-time. It's an engaging listen full of texture where each piece takes you on an engrossingly escapist journey.

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Macro Transparent Orange Vinyl Edition

2LP | 2021 | EU | Original (n5MD)

2LP | 2020 | EU | Original (n5MD)

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Macro will be out on transparent orange vinyl, meticulously mastered by Rafael Anton Irisarri at Black Knoll Studios. Macro is the sophomore album from Milan-based ambient trio PCM. Francesco Perra, plus Matteo(s) Cantaluppi and Milea, have returned with a shimmering majestic offering that sidesteps their previous album Attraveso's use of drone and more crystal clear classic ambient motifs to display something more texturally visceral.

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Wrath & Apathy

37,99 €*

Entre Les Chambres Colored Vinyl Edition

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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The lead-off and title track of Brock Van Wey's 38th bvdub album Wrath and Apathy establishes itself with a noir hued Rhodes piano and idly lurching beats that provide an intoxicating beginning, which is, fittingly obstructed by a resonant synth-line that paces the song to new heights.

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Gimmik

LP | 2020 | US | Original (n5MD)

23,99 €*

LP | 2020 | EU | Original (n5MD)

Release: 2020 / US – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Gimmik

Entre Les Chambres

23,99 €*

LP | 2023 | UK | Original (n5MD)

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Martin Haidinger has released music on Worm Interface and Toytronic Records as Gimmik and is one half of Abfahrt Hinwil. Released initially on hand-numbered cassette on Martin's own Hidden Reality micro imprint in October 2019, Entre Les Chambres gets the remaster treatment by n5MD for release on vinyl in early summer of 2020.

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PCM

Dreamland

Before The Last Night Is Blown

Release: 2023 / UK – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Dreamland is the third album from Italian ambient band PCM. This time out, the trio of Francesco Perra (P), Matteo Cantaluppi (C), Matteo Milea (M) veer away from the inter-cellular themes of their previous collections to shed aural light on what humans spend most of their life doing: sleeping. Each track on Dreamland focuses on a phase of sleep from that ever-frustrating half-awake feeling to tranquil R.E.M. and from disaffect- ing nightmares to blissful dreaming. As a result, each of the album's works float by, some with a cloudiness that mirrors confused sleepy feelings and others that display the vividness of the most memorable of dreams.

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Shedir

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (n5MD)

26,99 €*

Before The Last Light Is Blown Copper Vinyl Edition

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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The album follows her two previous collections released by French-Canadian shadow ambient imprintCyclic Law. Betti's output has been strongly shaped by the juxtapositional nature of the island shecalls home. A beautiful Mediterranean island that is also home to a petroleum refinery's and itssignificantly haunting presence. There is conflict in that ideal, and Betti's music has always displayeda sense of beauty, yet with ominous undertones.With Before the Last Light is Blown, Betti focused on the transience of life as a means of inspira- tion.It is human nature to move forward, consume, and always reach the next goal and to never give muchthought to the briefness of our time here. The impermanence of life may seem like a dark topic, but tothe contrary, pausing to think of such brevity could allow us to see the beauty we are missing in ourendless need to fulfill and consume.Betti takes us to a dark place only to show us the beauty within, a vital constant in her output asshedir.

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Shedir

12" | 2023 | UK | Original (n5MD)

Years Failed Successfully Red Vinyl Edition

Release: 2023 / UK – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Shedir is Sardinian ambient producer Martina Betti and Before the Last Light is Blown is her 3rd full-length. soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/n5md/sets/shedir-before-the-last-light-is-blown/s-QT2cd29U7Vs

The album follows her two previous collections released by French-Canadian shadow ambient imprint Cyclic Law. Betti's output has been strongly shaped by the juxtapositional nature of the island she calls home. A beautiful Mediterranean island that is also home to a petroleum refinery's and its significantly haunting presence. There is conflict in that ideal, and Betti's music has always displayed a sense of beauty, yet with ominous undertones.

With Before the Last Light is Blown, Betti focused on the transience of life as a means of inspira- tion. It is human nature to move forward, consume, and always reach the next goal and to never give much thought to the briefness of our time here. The impermanence of life may seem like a dark topic, but to the contrary, pausing to think of such brevity could allow us to see the beauty we are missing in our endless need to fulfill and consume.

Betti takes us to a dark place only to show us the beauty within, a vital constant in her output as shedir

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Suumhow

12" | 2023 | UK | Original (n5MD)

Volume One Transparent Vinyl Edition

Release: 2023 / UK – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Mysterious Belgian experimental electronics duo Suumhow returns with their third album, Years Failed Successfully.

The album opens with the duo's signature melodicism and broken glitched-up beatwork. It then ebbs into more sinewy territory with swaths of pulsing static and overarching widescreen vivid ambiance. It's new ground for the duo that displays some rather aurally fitting symbolism to the state of the pandemic era, with ambient music on the edge of hysterical hope and arrested emotions.

It's a gripping album that displays fine detail in its coarseness and somehow relief in its muted melodicism. When things seem like they might be getting too ominous, the duo boomerangs the listener back to their harmonious and glitched-up world as a means of much needed escapism.

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Deepriver

12" | 2023 | UK | Original (n5MD)