First Terrace Records

24/01/2025

It’s here ! ‘Lucid Dreams’ by is out today ✨

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Artwork by .secio

16/01/2025

‘Lucid Dreams’ by is out next week ✨

Wonderful artwork images by .secio

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Artwork by .secio

18/11/2024

First Terrace Records are thrilled to present the new album ‘Lucid Dreams’ from the prolific Japanese artist Chihei Hatakeyama out on January 24th 2025.

‘Lucid Dreams’ is an evocative sonic exploration that invites listeners to drift between the waking world and the dreamscape, to experience ‘dreams you are aware that you are dreaming’.

Known for his deep atmospheric textures and minimalist approach to sound, Chihei Hatakeyama new project expands on his signature style, exploring new emotional territories with LA based multi-instrumentalist .hunter on the first single ‘Wind From Mountains’ out today.

Pre-order album now on Bandcamp & listen to the single on streaming platforms ✨

Slide 1 : Chihei Hatakeyama
Slide 2 : artwork by Maria Seccio
Slide 3 : Nailah Hunter by

02/03/2023

We are thrilled to announce SPECIMENS fourth album ‘POWER, PAIN, PRIVILEGE’, out on April 21st on First Terrace Records.

Pre-order now : https://specimensmusic.bandcamp.com/album/power-pain-privilege

‘POWER, PAIN, PRIVILEGE’ is SPECIMENS’s most personal work to date - an abstract sonic exploration of biracial identity, in its historicity as well as through the lens of Ives’ own personal experience of being British-Jamaican. The album is a departure from his largely ambient work and explores haunted and twisted dancehall rhythms, industrial drones, and spoken word pieces that track a course through painful incidents of imposter syndrome, shame, privilege & racism. 



The album is accompanied by a film directed by the photographer & director Lucie Rox which premiered last October at the Southbank Centre (who commissioned the piece) and is now set for its Paris debut this Saturday 5th of March at 3537.org. 



SPECIMENS will be live scoring the piece for the shows and Kleopatra Divine will be providing tunes in between the two screenings. A few exclusive advanced copy of the LP will be available to purchase on the night. Make sure to not miss it if you’re in town!

Film showing at 7pm and 9pm (20min).
Basement 2.
Free Entry.

09/02/2023

NikNak’s Night EP is out now 🌚

Go have a listen on our Bandcamp - there’s a very limited run of tapes available. Each tape has a different antique photograph as a J-card.

Listen / Buy : https://firstterracerecords.bandcamp.com/album/night-ep

Also join us this evening to celebrate the launch at I K L E C T I K in London. NikNak will be joined by Nexcyia & X**a.

Tickets : https://link.dice.fm/ef5e3877313c

07/02/2023

New NikNak tape out this week!

Night EP sees the experimental turntablist & producer operating on a kind of smudged trip-hop angle, conjuring ghostly, weathered atmospheres and marking them throughout with needle-scratched voices 🛰

London folks have the chance to see her live on Thursday 9th of February, at the beautiful I K L E C T I K in Waterloo. See you there for an evening of great music & tranquility ✨

Pre-Order : https://firstterracerecords.bandcamp.com/album/night-ep

Tickets : https://link.dice.fm/ef5e3877313c

02/02/2023

Super happy to announce our next release in collaboration with expermintal turntablist & producer NikNak.

‘Night EP’ will appear as a limited run of tapes, released on February 9th, coinciding with her show at I K L E C T I K in London.

You can hear ‘Murmurs:Fireflies P2’ on our Bandcamp now - a kind of semi-submerged, beatless trip-hop shadow, with chopped up utterances and periscopic needle-scratches glinting through the fog.

Listen / Pre-order : https://firstterracerecords.bandcamp.com/album/night-ep

26/01/2023

Watch the lo-key beautiful new video for Bianca Scout’s ‘This City Had a Wall’ ✨


The surreal mystery of a rainy night on Oxford circus is unravelled by two souls and their 30x digital zooms as they trip through the city centre.

Film by Elena Isolini
Grade by John Lowe

Watch the full video : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I1O-rUSqXNo

Bianca is also playing a few live shows this week, make sure to not miss it if you’re in town :

Berlin 🚨 26th Jan at 8MM Bar
London 🚨 28th Jan at SET

From the new album out on First Terrace Records: https://firstterracerecords.bandcamp.com/album/the-heart-of-the-anchoressFilm by Elena IsoliniGrade by John ...

24/01/2023

We are back at the beautiful I K L E C T I K in Waterloo on 9th February with a triple bill of starry-eyed ambient dreamsters.

Experimental turntablist NikNak will present a live interpretation of an upcoming EP (👁️ keep them peeled for more news on this 👁️) along with an immersive visual element.

Joining on the bill we’re blessed to have Nexcyia and X**a, two bright celestial bodies of the London ambient scene.



Tickets : https://link.dice.fm/ef5e3877313c

📸 Sophie Jouvenaar

20/01/2023

OUT TODAY 🎈

Bianca scout ‘The Heart Of The Anchoress’

The story of this record started with a late night session on a little church organ in South London in 2019… a year later we were back doing a full recording session, and then through the next odd years these sprawling source tapes were plucked, pruned and nurtured by Bianca until they found this final form.

Boomkat.com call it right: “a spellbinding compound of narcotic chorals, blunted after-hours ambience, and chopped-n-screwed sacred music”. We’re super happy to get this out there. Please enjoy

Featuring collaboration with :

Elena Isolini
Sim Viscous
Sabkkii
Bradley Creswick

Album cover : Skum King
Back cover design : Auden Woodhall

🎈ORDER / LISTEN NOW : https://smarturl.it/biancascout/ 🌟

17/01/2023

‘The Heart of the Anchoress’, Bianca scout ’s latest album is coming out this Friday 20th of January via First Terrace Records ✨

Boomkat.com writes : ’In a cultural landscape trapped in a nostalgia loop, but it's refreshing to hear an artist make distinctly British music that's haunted without being hauntological. Scout avoids the most obvious references, opting to tarnish more distant pasts with a musical vocabulary that's as informed by contemporary pop as it is experimental forms. In her hands, Medieval church music is a color that compliments AutoTuned vocals, wobbly afterhours bass drones, and cultural references to a lifestyle that's rooted in the post-pan reality. 'The Heart of the Anchoress' is a folk album that feels philosophically lashed to the club, yet makes none of the usual broad strokes it takes to get our minds there.’

The ‘brillant […] levitational hypnagogic aether-pop’ (Boomkat.com ) album features collaborations with :
Elena Isolini

Sim Viscous

Sabkkii

Bradley Creswick

Pre-order now : https://smarturl.it/biancascout/ 🌟

Album cover Skum King

12/01/2023

Watch / Listen 🌟

Bianca scout offers a new track & video from her forthcoming record.

The video, shot on VHS by New York filmmaker Skum King, is cut from footage of Scout’s performance ensemble in Autumn ’22.

The track, 'Lamina', is a floaty foggy number, occasioned by soaring pipe-organ melodies which appear like shafts of light through a cloud bank.

Watch the full video : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jk3Lg_5Ra_g

'The Heart Of The Anchoress' is out 20th January.

Pre-order : https://smarturl.it/biancascout/

Video credits ✨

Camera: Skum King
Edit: Luisa Mateo Dupleich Rozo & Sim Viscous
Performers: Amber joy, Alo 3, Clara Moeschlin, Kendra, Sim Viscous, Isabelladuckworthlimapinto, That Travis
Stenographer: Luisa Mateo Dupleich Rozo

Lamina is one of the songs featured on The 'Heart of The Anchoress' , a newly commissioned gothic opera composed, choreographed and designed by interdiscipli...

17/12/2022

Watch Justin Wright’ s new music video for his track 'Hellbrunn Automatons'.

📺 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QI2rHxgbHP8

The composer & cellist teamed up with his close friend and 3D animator Max Kaplin to create the mesmerising video. Using solely the CT scan images of the musician’s body during his recent recovery from cancer, 3D models were rendered that morph to display different tissue types.

'Hellbrunn Automatons' appears on Justin’s most recent album, 'A Really Good Spot', still available via on First Terrace Records & Beacon Sound : https://smarturl.it/std913

Composer, cellist, and recent cancer survivor Justin Wright presents a new music video for his track Hellbrunn Automatons, created entirely from CT scan slic...

07/12/2022

Super happy to announce that musician & choreographer Bianca scout will release her new record ‘The Heart of The Anchoress’ through First Terrace Records in January.

For now you can listen to the beautiful first single ‘This City Had a Wall’ - https://smarturl.it/biancascout/

The track is a low key portal into moments of after-hour intimacy & self reflection, with Scouts dream-chorus voicing finding it's space between samples of airy church organ and the creaky field recordings collected during the album’s initial recording sessions.

‘The Heart of The Anchoress’ is out on January 20th 2023.

Pre-order : https://smarturl.it/biancascout/

📷 Skum King
📝 Bianca Scout

03/10/2022

TOMORROW (Tuesday 4th) First Terrace Records Tour is back in London for another special night at I K L E C T I K in Waterloo 💗

Performances coming from :

JC LEISURE & 'SKIP'SUMMERS

SPECIMENS
& SOFHESO

Tickets :

IKLECTIK presents, First Terrace on tour: Sofheso + Vida Voyage + more Tuesday 4 October 2022 | Doors: 8pm | First Act: 8:30pm Our outdoor Kiosk is open from 6pm Tickets: £11.50 Advance / £13 OTD https://link.dice.fm/I32ec925e152 The First Terrace Records convoy lands at the beautiful IKLECTIK spa...

29/09/2022

🚨 Sunday 🚨

Join us for 5 years anniversary at the ❤️

With & play The Beacon Sound Choir, 's The Heart of the Anchoress, & A/V & Sofheso.

🎟 via link in bio 🎟

The event will be live-streamed on