Under Bright Ghosts #1

Under Bright Ghosts is the first release from the freshly minted Herhalen record label. Contributors were asked to build whatever they wanted from ten pre-determined audio samples, ranging from pig slaughter and story-telling to factory noise and children’s music boxes. The resulting compilation is a brilliantly confusing mix of drugged minimal techno, melancholy tape collage, scalding industrial noise and hovering digital drones that sits just right come the wrong side of bed time. Putting the brakes on the endless march to the technological horizon that occupies most modern laptop producers and honing in on the simple, lo-fi sounds of the everyday, the project was designed to try and sidestep the ceaseless same of a now dizzying release schedule assault.