Paddy Lee
Bottom Up

Cynosure presents the fifth installment in the Focal Point Compilation series. This time with a focus on various studio collaborations with Mike Shannon, featuring recorded sessions from Mathew Jonson to Ricardo Villalobos. A diverse selection of works ranging from a smooth 100 bpm house with the Mole & Hreno to a rolling deep techno at 127bpm with Matt & Mark Thibideau. Mike pulls a few gems out of the recording vault to share on a stunning triple vinyl gatefold package.

Featuring music by ASWA, HOLOVR, Max Loderbauer, Petre Inspirescu, Supply, The Waves, William Selman, the album evokes luminous, iridescent and ethereal sonic spaces.Following the label’s consistent narrative, established composers once again provide a fertile and welcoming ground for upcoming artists to express themselves, opening an intimate and honest conversation on what it is to struggle and overcome, reflecting a human nature that values the collective over the individual, as the only way forward.The album opens with calm, bright and assertive tonalities, evoking mental spaces prone to exploration and wondering. Molecular textures and real-world sounds bring us closer to an intimate and physical sphere, a voice. Ultimately everything dissolves into a synthetic domain of acid-like washes, in a cinematic sense of departure.The album title ‘RADIANT’ willfully embraces the following meanings:1 a radiating rays, reflecting beams of light1 b vividly bright and shining, glowing2 marked by or expressive of love, confidence, or happiness3 energy emitted from within

Following their contributions to Unruh 01 and 02, Tachyon return with four tracks of their own for the Fried EP. After the funky breaks of ‘Fried’, things take a sharp left turn with ‘PCM Dub’ before we shoot into outer space with ‘Traffic’. The tweaked and blissed-out beats of ‘Late Chatter’ finish off the EP in style.

“Rosenbach Acoustic Piano (70’s)” is the first collaborative composition ever released on the label One Instrument. Two different individuals but the very same acoustic sound source.Released as a single, the track is a standalone experiment released the 25th of December 2019 on a limited edition colored tape cassette.Composed and produced by Aimée Portioli and Pier Giuseppe MaricondaMastered by Aimée Portioli, BerlinOriginal artwork and layout by Marco Ciceri