ITLP10 - Mana | Jake Muir

ITLP10 - Mana

by Jake Muir

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spacebbspice00 this is bomb ambient tones hadda buy it on vinyl ma dudes🦋❤️loveloveeee Favorite track: Smoke And Mirrors.

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wilson-c Potentially my favourite album from this label and artist, really special Favorite track: Grotto.

Harrison Phinney perfect way to start your day, with illbient in your pipe. riyl oil shimmers, urban spelunking, and/or being digested by carnivorous flora Favorite track: Dancing Vapours.

Chris Healey superbly epic collection, really varied sounds going on :)

clerk A real beauty – love it. Favorite track: Cauldron.

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1.	Tonic 04:49	buy track
2.	Twilight Transmissions 02:37	buy track
3.	Forest Of Whispers (w/ Caveman LSD) 04:41	buy track
4.	Siren's Call 04:44	buy track
5.	Spectre's Bonfire 05:48	buy track
6.	Cauldron 04:05	buy track
7.	Gleam 03:30	buy track
8.	Smoke And Mirrors 05:03	buy track
9.	Dancing Vapours 05:26	buy track
10.	Grotto 04:22	buy track

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Since he started producing music, Berlin-based American sound artist Jake Muir has been obsessed with sampling. His 2018 album "Lady's Mantle" was based on manipulated chunks of vintage Californian surf rock, and its follow-up, 2020's midnight symphony "The Hum Of Your Veiled Voice" was sourced from a wide variety of old records, and inspired by the work of experimental turntablists like Marina Rosenfeld, Janek Schaefer and Philip Jeck.

On "Mana", Muir looks back to a misunderstood musical movement. Around 1995, a group of New York producers and DJs - including DJ Olive, DJ Spooky and Spectre - pioneered a genre-dissolving sound by unifying hip-hop techniques with ideas pulled from dub, jungle, ambient music and industrial noise. Badged "illbient", it was a short-lived genre that felt like a high-minded psychedelic cousin of the UK's trip-hop.

Muir uses illbient as the springboard for "Mana", utilizing a selection of samples to inform his frothy drones and foreboding atmospheres. He ushers the material into 2021 by diverting it through his own contemporary worldview, attempting to recreate the hyperreal fantasy histories of Japanese RPGs (think "Dark Souls" and "Final Fantasy") and nod to sensual, tactile soundscapes of European industrial labels Staalplaat and Soleilmoon. The result is a magickal, sensory journey that's as physical as it is representational.

If the illbient producers were encouraging a burgeoning experimental music landscape to emphasize the tactile feeling of turntablism and sample manipulation, Muir is doing the same with "Mana". Each track heaves and breathes not just with his cultural reference points, but with layered, complicated emotions. We can hear joy, sadness, desire and anguish, obscured by disintegrating noise, hallucinogenic harmonies and sub-aquatic bass. It's electronic music that's rooted not in technology, but in touch.

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released November 16, 2021

w&p by Jake Muir
Mastered by Tangible Air
p&c Ilian Tape 2021

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