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Recently I was messaging with LLM guest mixer, Roquen Lómë, about Type records - an experimental record label that was active from 2003 to 2013. Founded by John Twells & Stefan Lewandowski in the U.K., Type released some creative music in those ten years ranging from delicate piano to sculptured noise to glitchy electronica to ambient to psych folk.
I thought it would be fun to create a mix of music from Type records catalog - then I looked at that catalog and, wow they sure did release a ton of music. There's no way to make an exhaustive review of their releases so I decided to go chronologically through some of my favorites. That still only scratched the surface, I think I have more than 40 Type records in my collection.
It was nice listening to some of the recordings for the first time in years and I hope you too enjoy this little trip into the past.
Tracklist is in the comments.
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The Xela track is sooo beautiful
Yes, I totally agree! Thanks for listening and commenting. Cheers!
Can’t stop playing it
Type & CCO were my favourites when I first discovered Boomkat and their physical store Pelicanneck.
Oh man, I remember discovering Boomkat! Of course that was before it became prohibitively expensive to ship to the U. S. If you’re interested I created a CCO mix 9 years ago, you can find it here - https://www.mixcloud.com/lowlight/city-centre-offices-impact-inspiration/
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thanks
Super relaxing.
Type along with city centre offices were two of my favourite labels from back then...lovely to see a type mix..maybe a CCO one in the future? Hehe
I was about to comment that a CCO mix is a great idea. But then my slow brain remembered that I had already created one 🤪
You can find it here - https://www.mixcloud.com/lowlight/city-centre-offices-impact-inspiration/
Thanks so much for this. Around the time i used to listen to a lot of their releases. Personally they were a go-to figure in terms of ambient and experimental music but they faded very quickly. Do you know what happened to them?
The label essentially ended when founder John Twells relocated to the United States. Following the move, Twells shifted his primary focus towards other projects and his work with related imprints.
T R A C K L I S T :
00:00 Mokira - Untitled #3 (Album 2003)
04:25 Deaf Center - Walk (Neon City 2004)
07:21 Golden - Door of Our Home (Corduroy Road 2005)
10:37 Julien Neto - I(one) (Le Fumeur de Ciel 2005)
13:35 North Sea & Rameses III - Night Blossom Written in Sanskrit (Night of the Ankou 2005)
19:19 Xela - Bobble Hats In Summer (For Frosty Mornings And Summer Nights 2007)
25:08 The Alps - Trem Fanstasma (iii 2008)
31:14 Richard Skelton - Grange (Marking Time 2008)
34:00 Koen Holtkamp - You Mean The World To Me (Field Rituals 2008)
36:20 Grouper - We've All Time To Sleep (Dragging a Dead Deer Up A Hill 2008)
39:12 Helios - Hope Valley Hill (Caesura 2008)
44:05 Black To Comm - Hotel Freund (Alphabet 1968 2009)
47:57 Jóhann Jóhannsson - Pods (And in the Endless Pause There Came the Sound of Bees 2009)
50:55 Ezekiel Honig - Drafting Foresight (Folding In On Itself 2011)
54:35 Sylvain Chauveau - The Unbroken Line (Singular Forms (Sometimes Repeated) 2010)
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