Back catalogue: Leftfield

Notes: Asphodel's premiere DVD release features the Australian duo, turntablist Martin NG and guitarist Oren Ambarchi in collaboration with visual artists Tina Frank and Robin Fox for an AV expedition into the sublime and fascinating worlds of "Fateless". Since their teens the Australian electronic composers have produced with congruent obsessions in mind. After Ambarchi crashed one of NG's experimental basement jams with other local improvisers, they discovered their unique love for Buddhist harmonics and harmonic sound phenomenology. Their convergent interest in weird sounds lead to a long-lasting, musically productive friendship. In the summer of 2000 after Amarchi's own "What is Music" Festival, the two began formally producing together as respite from what they refer to as "a particularly long hot summer of antipodean improv noise fests." Commonly containing improvisational chaos with contemporary computer music's standards of pulses and glitches, the duo maintains balance of consonance and dissonance. Like the harmonic meditations, space is filled with bold resonance, expanding and contracting in tandem with Tina Frank's and Robin Fox's visual experiments. The combination of guitar and turntable remains mysteriously uncharacteristic of their sources, but this package of optical and sonic apparitions provides an eloquent passage into the realms of a separate reality.

Notes: The DVD comes in a cardboard cover with special laser engravings. The booklet contains 15 full colour photos.

Notes: Their first DVD release in the more than 10 year history of Aural Float, the ambient project founded by Alex Azary, Gabriel Le Mar and Pascal Feos - the three pioneers of the electronic music scene - have set a multimedia-based benchmark once again. Finally they are moving with the continuity of the origins of the project at the beginning of the nineties. Then, Azary and Le Mar hosted the legendary Sunday Chill Sessions in the Frankfurt cult club XS, Germany's first ambient club, where they already worked with visuals quite intensively. From this germ cell, the Aural Float story did not only lead to their revelled debut album "Introspectives" in 1995, but to the founding of the exclusive label platform Elektrolux as well.