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SELF PROMOTION / Nils Quak – Aether now available on Nomadic Kids Republic

« on: July 31, 2012, 01:04:41 am »

After releasing "Aether" earlier this spring didn't work out as planned due to personal reasons, I'm happy to tell you that Aether is now officially available from Nomadic Kids Republic. After "Long Forgotten Days Under a Dust Covered Sky" released earlier in the month, "Aether" is the second release this year for this nice Japan based label.

Aether is the first album I produced entirely on a modular synthesizer in combination with additional processing and fieldrecordings. Although it is one hell of a dark record, it also is my most introspective and personal album. Most of the tracks are based on improvisations and aleatoric processes inside the synthesizer. The results are dark, slowing pulsating rooms,  oozing a neon void, a dark glow like a promise of empty wet streets at dawn.
The album is available at your favourite record stores and online shops. You can also purchase it directly from me for $15 including postage or together with my "Long Forgotten Days … " album for $ 22.5 including postage. Just drop me a line.

Here's a preview:
http://soundcloud.com/nomadickidsrepublic/nkr015-nils-quak-aether

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SELF PROMOTION / my new album on Nomadic Kids Republic

« on: June 25, 2012, 08:28:38 am »

hey gang just want to point you to upcoming release called "Long Forgotten Days under a Dust Covered Sky" on Nomadic Kids Republic. It's on pre-order at the moment and will be on available by the end of the week.

here's a first review by the nice chaps from Fluid Radio:
http://www.fluid-radio.co.uk/2012/06/nils-quak-long-forgotten-days-under-a-dust-covered-sky/

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SELF PROMOTION / Nils Quak ~ Aether

« on: April 13, 2012, 04:59:32 am »

My latest release "Aether" is available as of today

Aether is probably the most introspective album, I released so far.  It is entirely produced with my 9U of eurorack goodness, plus some external fx and processing.  Sounds to keep me company, noises to drown in - soothing dark drones slowly float beneath flickers of noise and static, soft synth tones and fuzzy modulations.

Aether is the emptiness, the vast lucid void, the dark glow that emanates permanently. Sinking without falling, drifting without direction to finally become nothing.

Here's a sample:
http://soundcloud.com/nq_nhlsqaik/sets/aether/

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SELF PROMOTION / Nils Quak – Elegy for Seaweed (Clothbound Recordings) now available for order

« on: December 20, 2011, 04:19:27 am »

Hey Hey 12k forum.
2011 ends for me with a really exciting release.
My latest album "Elegy for Seaweed" is now available for order at Clothbound Recordings.
It is a 2x 3" CDr that comes in a hand crafted clothbound book that includes ten pages of poetry by me and accompanying pictures.

The album is $35 including worldwide shipping.
To order it, contact clothbound at info@clothbound.net

here is a preview track:
http://soundcloud.com/clothbound/pg-1-1

And here's a review on fluid-radio:
http://www.fluid-radio.co.uk/2011/12/nils-quak-elegy-for-seaweed/

This is what the press release says:
Wrapped up into a handmade cloth-bound book and spread across two 3" CDrs,
Nils Quak - Elegy for Seaweed is the first release of Portland, Oregon-based Clothbound Recordings.

Alternating between floating and drowning the listener in a sea of sound, Elegy for Seaweed is a collection of seven tracks woven together with the bittersweet sadness of nostalgia and a long unfolding doubt. Field recordings, fragments of found sounds, bits of improvised acoustic instruments and layers of synthesizer textures build the foundations of these introspective pieces.

A collection of poems written by Nils Quak (one for each track) accompanies the music & pictures contained within the 10-page book.

Elegy for Seaweed has been painstakingly produced in a hand-numbered, letterpressed edition of 50. The first 15 copies will include a bonus track with an additional poem. 

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SELF PROMOTION / NQ – Our Own Distance (Neo Ouija)

« on: November 11, 2011, 03:07:30 am »

As of today my latest release called "Our own Distance" is available through all digital retailers (except beatport it seems – but i couldn't care less).


This is what the label says about it:
NQ is Nils Quak. It is his second appearance on Neo Ouija after his contribution to the Diaspora Cottage Industry 5 compilation in 2008. With "Our Own Distance" he returns to more beat based music after a couple of ambient releases under his real name. "Our Own Distance" is a testament of longing – euphoric, melancholic, at times naive, yet confident and reflective. A lot of the tracks were produced on long train rides between different cities to shut out the noises on the outside and inside, watching things pass and resonate.

Here are some examples on soundcloud
http://soundcloud.com/neo-ouija/sets/nq-our-own-distance/

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SELF PROMOTION / Beth Kleist – Drei (DistanceRecordings/Tarkovsky Green) download + Cassette

« on: September 14, 2011, 03:34:19 am »

http://distancerecordings.com/dist024http://tarkovskygreen.com/

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SYNTHESIZERS + SOUND-MAKING HARDWARE / Modular synthesis

« on: August 01, 2011, 03:59:57 am »

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SELF PROMOTION / NQ – Recording Syntax (Progessive Form) available again for (free) download

« on: July 03, 2011, 07:58:34 am »

Hi guys

in 2003 I released an album on progressive form. That album is sort of out of print, so i talked with NIK of pf about releasing it on bandcamp. So here it is.

It has definitively nothing to do with my recent ambient stuff, but is a pure laptop, microsound, clicks'n'cuts (however you name it) record with some side-leanings towards more melodic sounds.

It is available as a pay what you want version, which means you can get it for free or donate whatever you feel is right.

This is, what Boomkat said about it, when it was released:

"The eagle eyed will have observed NQ's quiet appearance on the last Progressive Form sampler "Forma". Recording Syntax lives up to its name, dismantling the very processes of music making. Nils Quak is operating at the forefront of the Progressive Form credo - 'Panel' has a glorious, vulnerable melody line, swathed in the rhythmic dissembling, crackles and syncopated pops. Nils teases out from the miasma a gentle progression, there's the giant bass presence of "Nhls", almost a signature tune we imagine, which enters a central section of distortion before building again into a bright melody heard from askance, an absolute killer modulation. "Disthant" and "PlEhR" both allow Nils to show further rhythm chops, while "Juri" allows him to retreat inside a luminescent shell, waves of sound lapping against your ears. You all know the story with Progressive Form by now - pretty well all essential stuff and NQ is no different."

You can get it here:
http://nqmusic.bandcamp.com/album/recording-syntax

Hope you enjoy it

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SELF PROMOTION / Nils Quak "On Sinking" (Rural Colours) – now available

« on: May 25, 2011, 04:11:15 am »

Hey guys, just wanted to let you know that my release for Rural Colours called "On Sinking" is now officially available.

I think the subscription pack is already sold out at the source, but the digital download version is still available.

If you are into warm, droning textures and harmonies, you should definitively check this out.

http://ruralcolours.co.uk/news/?page_id=273

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SELF PROMOTION / Nils Quak – This Once Silver Sky on Ripples Recordings

« on: December 05, 2010, 06:17:47 am »

http://ripplesrecordings.webs.com/ for 7 Euros including shipping.

If you are writing for a magazine or a blog and want a promotional copy, please contact me.

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OTHER MUSIC / New Oval video

« on: June 28, 2010, 07:27:48 am »

http://vimeo.com/12620087

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SELF PROMOTION / NQ – Balconies & Backyards

« on: April 19, 2010, 08:49:58 am »

http://nqmusic.bandcamp.com/

If you are into clicky beats and textures, granular amtomspheres and disjointed rhythms, you'll probably enjoy this.

Hopefully this time, this album gets a bit more attention.


I hope you enjoy the release

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COMPUTER MUSIC / Free Absynth 5 patches

« on: March 15, 2010, 08:45:11 am »

I think the patches section is still missing, right?
Nevertheless here are some nice and mostly dark patches and textures for Absynth 5.
Hope you enjoy them.

www.resonantstrata.com

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OTHER MUSIC / New review/art/music blog – resonant strata

« on: March 03, 2010, 05:00:11 am »

I'm not sure it this is the right forum to post in, but it somehow seems to fit. (if you think it would be better some place else, please feel free to move this, Taylor)

For quite some time now i was toying with the idea of starting a blog that is mainly centered about record reviews. I get quite a bit of promo CDs and was always a little unsatisfied that a lot of magazine aren't really interested in publishing stuff that is a little bit more on the experimental side. As i always thought that these artists still deserve all the attention possible for putting out great releases, i decided to start this blog.

But at the same time i was interesting in mixing this with some more personal stuff. sketches i made, pictures, patches, you name it.

So here it is: resonant strata

It's still in the beginning age and there are quite a bit of things that will most likely change a tad. It's just a couple of reviews at the moment, but things will grow.

Visit here:
www.resonantstrata.com

And spread the word if you enjoy it.

Feel free to contact me, if you want your stuff reviewed