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22/10/2022

I'm Not Smiling t-shirt, Asher Levitas´ new album on Line Explorations.
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21/10/2022

I’m Not Smiling, Asher Levitas’ 3rd solo album is out today!

01/09/2022

Third episode of Nocturnal Explorations the past Tuesday, August 30th on , a journey through the line discovering sound spaces, ambient music, new age and krautrock of the past, present and future.

https://radiokapital.pl/shows/nocturnal-explorations/episode-003-night-language-ii/

28/08/2022

Today we shared The pale faced family on the hill´s video for ‘Slime light bends 1’ filmed by Australian´s film director Thomas M Wright

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The pale faced family on the hill with Oliver Coates - Slime Light Bends 1From The pale faced family on the hill [LE006]Releases May 6th, 2022Video by Thomas...

04/08/2022

Happy to finally announce ‘I'm Not Smiling’, Asher Levitas' 3rd solo album, is an ambient DIY pop record written between 2017 - 2021. The record contains synth improvisations, re-amplified and re-recorded in Epping Forest and on his roof, melancholy pop songs, vocal experimentations, drifting drum machine jams, toad calls, imaginary marshland ambience and more...

LE007 will be released in CD and digital format, expected October 21st, 2022

Artwork by IDEEN Studio

Preorder: https://asherlevitas.bandcamp.com/album/i-m-not-smiling

03/08/2022

- FROM EAST TO WEST -

Second episode of Nocturnal Explorations, a journey through two sides of the globe.

02/08/2022

Nocturnal Explorations episode #002 ‘From East To West’ tonight from 23:00-00:00h at .
A journey through two sides of the globe, new age and early electronic sounds meet with contemporary pieces revolving around Asia, Europe and America.

https://radiokapital.pl/

07/07/2022

Hi guys! First episode of Nocturnal Explorations on Radio Kapitał, a journey through the line discovering sound spaces, ambient music, new age and krautrock of the past, present and future

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https://radiokapital.pl/shows/nocturnal-explorations/episode-001-night-language/

First episode of Nocturnal Explorations, a journey through the line.

05/07/2022

Hello hello!

Tune in to Radio Kapitał at 23:00h. First episode of Nocturnal Explorations spotlighting by the label ́s heads.

https://radiokapital.pl

29/06/2022

Line Explorations presents Nocturnal Explorations, a monthly episode traveling through the line on spotlighting by the label´s heads and ocasional guests, in order to discover music from past, present and all over the universe.

Tuesdays, every 4 weeks, 23:00-00:00, starting from 5th of July.

24/06/2022

Thank you Vidal Romero for the review on the Ocimag latest print edition 💙

17/06/2022

Happy return of Asher Levitas to Line Explorations!

Originally emerging as part of the experimental audio/visual collective Old Apparatus, Asher has gone on to work on a number of projects, including producing Paper Dollhouse’s ‘The Sky Looks Different Here’, collaborating with Hannah Archambault on ‘Nous N'étions Jamais Vraiment Là’ and releasing his solo debut album ‘Lit Harness’ on Planet Mu.

More info soon...

16/05/2022

“Compelling, incognito ambient/noise jams from a London-based cabal flocking around cellist Oliver Coates. A must check for fans of Alex Zhang-Hungtai, Philip Jeck, Lawrence English

The intrigue, and stuff, is high on this one; a suite of unpredictable improvisations recorded for the sheer f**k of it, and presented mixed down to tape, sans overdubs or edits. All contributors aside from Coates will remain anonymous, letting the music do the talking across a handful of pieces that scale from screwed vignettes to smeared widescreen soundscaping, each blessed with a textural bite and attrition that infects from the first go.

Prizing a lack of conceit or imagery that’s all too rare and much needed in a contemporary scene where artists are expected to be overt narcissists, The Pale Faced Family on the Hill simply do their thing without all the s**t modern trappings, and sound better for it. Pivoting live cello improvs by Oliver Coates, the ensemble use a range of strategies, from live sampling/processing to mixing with field recordings and more “esoteric ways of generating sound”, to arrive at a sore, magisterial sound that recalls to these ears the enigma of Philip Jeck (R.I.P) as much as Alex Zhang-Hungtai’s inventive sax experiments.

’Slime light bends 1’ initiates the mystery with a haar-like occlusion of strings and silty distortion that sets the tone for the EP’s two related, durational works, pooling into the cinematic 10 mins of its part 2, and the aching 21 min motherland of part 3, with its nuanced oscillation of dream-like and ‘parish sentiments. The other two tracks act as fine palate cleansers, with ‘Vega’ churning up tempestuous, blistering shoegaze shapes and distorted amp workship, while ‘Clones of Vega’ keeps it wayward on a crushed sort of screw-gaze flex.”

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Compelling, incognito ambient/noise jams from a London-based cabal flocking around cellist Oliver Coates. A must check for fans of Alex Zhang-Hungtai, Philip Jeck, Lawrence English The intrigue, and stuff, is high on this one; a suite of unpredictable improvisations recorded for the sheer f**k of it...

11/05/2022

EP of the week ! Bleep.com 💙

09/05/2022

Proud to be featured in the best Single/EP of the week in Bleep.com! ~~
'The pale faced family on the hill' available on Bleep exclusive transparent white vinyl limited to 100 copies.

https://bleep.com/release/290249-the-pale-faced-family-on-the-hill-oliver-coates-the-pale-faced-family-on-the-hill

06/05/2022

Happy release day! 💙
The pale faced family on the hill is a debut album from the anonymous collective The pale faced family on the hill with Oliver Coates.

Thanks to The pale faced family on the hill and Oliver Coates for the music.
We are also very grateful to Lynsay Holmes, Jasper Baydala and Joanne Robertson for making Vega´s track music video.

Filmed at Glasgow Necropolis


Order vinyl or digital directly in our bandcamp here:
olivercoates.bandcamp.com/album/the-pale-faced-family-on-the-hill

The pale faced family on the hill with Oliver Coates - VegaFrom The pale faced family on the hill [LE006]Releases May 6th, 2022Credits:Skater: Lynsay Holmes ...

04/05/2022

The pale faced family on the hill will be out this Friday, May 6th.

Thanks to The pale faced family on the hill and Oliver Coates for the music.

We are also very grateful to Lynsay Holmes, Jasper Baydala and Joanne Robertson for making Vega´s track music video.

Filmed at Glasgow Necropolis

03/05/2022

"In January 2020 right after I sent skins n slime to RVNG Intl. I was invited to go and play for a few days with The pale faced family on the hill. They are a small group of producers who meet and diffuse ambient music live for themselves, anonymously, making a big sound in a church hall with various ingredients for a recreational high. I introduced them to my slime loop distortion methods using cello and we recorded everything. When got in touch the decision was made to release it, so long as the recordings stayed intact and untouched.

There are 300 copies of vinyl ready now
And digital release everywhere Friday 6th May 2022.

1. slime light bends 1
2. Vega
3. slime light bends 2
4. slime light bends 3
5. Clones of Vega

Thanks to
And to .baydala for making videos"

21/04/2022

Slime light bends 3 is the second single from The pale faced family on the hill
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Releases May 6th, 2022
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Preorder in bio
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Video by .baydala

20/04/2022

The pale faced family on the hill with Oliver Coates - The pale faced family on the hill

May 6th, 2022

Preorder: https://bit.ly/3NLsvP0

19/04/2022

Listen back to The Wire: Adventures In Modern Music broadcast on Resonance 104.4fm. Presenter James Gormley played Slime light bends 3 from The pale faced family on the hill with Oliver Coates 💙

The 14 April edition of The Wire 's weekly radio show on Resonance FM featured tracks by Tashi Dorji & Marshall Trammell, Loraine James, LL OU J, Safa, Gaël Segalen, and more

12/04/2022

Excited to announce a limited edition transparent white vinyl from 'The pale faced family on the hill' with Bleep.com.

https://bleep.com/release/290249-the-pale-faced-family-on-the-hill-oliver-coates-the-pale-faced-family-on-the-hill

Releases May 6, 2022

+ Bleep exclusive
+ Transparent white vinyl
+ Limited to 100

06/04/2022

[LE006] The pale faced family on the hill with Oliver Coates - The pale faced family on the hill
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Recordings of The pale faced family on the hill took place over a week in January 2020 in a small church hall on the outskirts of London. A small number of electronic music producers decided to form a collective and make heavy ambient music for raw pleasure in the agreement that their identity be withheld. They invited Oliver Coates as a live musician to contribute cello drone which they would then add to, process, subtract from and mix with weather recordings and esoteric ways of generating sounds, including old sample packs and whatever else they had to hand. The results were mixed down to tape live without further editing or arrangement. Wishing to work under a cloak of anonymity, the process freed the producers from their other lives and released output, allowing them to enter a new group alias, to induce heady states of sound and to become a group without hierarchies.
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Releases May 6, 2022
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Preorder here: https://bit.ly/3NLsvP0

24/03/2022

Slime light bends 1 is the first single from 'The pale faced family on the hill with Oliver Coates - The pale faced family on the hill'
Mastered by Rafael Anton Irisarri at
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Releases May 6th, 2022
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Preorder

13/03/2022

Hi folks!

Five more vinyls of this beautiful red edition have just appeared!

Buy here: https://bit.ly/2OGjuwP

09/03/2022

ONDA EFÍMERA 175 | Rewind It

Thank you Skinnybone Love !

22/02/2022

Happy to welcome The pale faced family on the hill and Oliver Coates to the family !
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Preorder: https://bit.ly/34X3O0o
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Mastered by Rafael Anton Irisarri at Black Knoll Studio (NYC)
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Releases May 6, 2022

27/12/2021

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04/11/2021

LE006 coming soon…
Artwork by IDEEN Studio

21/09/2021

RIP to the electronic maverick and Cabaret Voltaire co-founder

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All of us at Warp are very sad to receive the news that Richard H Kirk has passed away.

Richard played a key role in the birth of Warp: his group Cabaret Voltaire were local legends in Sheffield who were massively influential, and as one half of Sweet Exorcist with DJ Parrot he was responsible for the third ever single on the label, the classic ‘Testone’, and the first ever Warp album release, ‘Clonk's Coming’.

Richard recalled this period in an interview: “It was quite exciting, with many warehouse parties, loads of people discovering M**A for the first time. A bit like casting off the past in the same manner of punk. Very DIY. Warp often came to the Cabaret Voltaire studio, Western Works, to listen to mixes and blag other favours, and I think they kind of enjoyed the connection with Sheffield's electronic heritage.”

Later on he released two brilliant solo albums with Warp: ‘Virtual State’ and ‘The Number Of Magic’.

Our thoughts are with Richard's family and all that knew him.