Hypatia by Lapsed Pacifist As a professional sound engineer by day, Colin Dunkerley aka Lapsed Pacifist, spends much of his time traveling and rarely gets to focus on producing his own music. Despite high praise from those who have become familiar with his work over the years, Colin’s previous productions have mainly consisted of shares with friends and DJs in smaller circles through his Negative Neutron alias.  Colin envisaged a more pronounced and darker ambient style to emerge one day but struggled to dedicate the time. Hypatia came to life over an extended and fragmente ..read more

  A new mix for the brilliant Monument platform, and their new series ‘Waves’ which looks to feature more of the ambient side of things, rather than the deep techno world they are known for, if the first of the series by Chris SSG is any indication. After our label showcase mix I did for them a few years back, I was extremely pleased to return to Monument again and decided on a new approach for #2. Taking inspiration from the podcast series’ title, I aimed to create a mix that focused on repetition and layers, as if staring out to sea watching blankets of waves roll in from miles out; ch ..read more

  After Sa Pa’s isolatedmix contribution last month, we continue in an unintentional alphabetical spectrum of brilliant producers, with Saphileaum. There comes a time after listening to some musicians for many years that certain instruments and musical approaches begin to stand out. Sure, most of the time you probably know what album you’re sticking on the turntable, but when you have those days you put on shuffle (or when you’re listening to 9128.live, cough cough), some producers start to stand out and trigger the music-geek in you from the first few seconds. It can take many years or ..read more

I’m excited to announce a new signing to the label and a new dimension to our roster of music, with Lihla’s upcoming album ‘Socha’. “Music gives us a place to be lost. Washing away thought, place, time and identity. It’s in the falling into the river, the dream, that we find just who we could be”.  Classically trained cellist, composer and storyteller Lihla (Lih-Qun Wong) presents her debut album, ‘Socha’ for A Strangely Isolated Place. Combining a vast instrumental skillset of piano, cello, electronics, and spoken word, she crafts intensely immersive aural-hallucinatory worlds ..read more

  It’s been nearly two years since Brendon Gregoriy’s (Chymera) Merrin Karras alias graced us with a new release, but since his magnificent Berlin School opus, Silent Planet (following 2020’s ‘Northwest Passage’, and 2016’s ‘Apex’), Brendan has been quietly musing on the next evolution of his beloved synthesizer-laden sound. Until that day arrives, we’re being treated to a recording from one of his rare live appearances, capturing special moments from across his catalog in one expanded set. In a similar style to the extended long-players of early Berlin School masters, Brendan’s live pe ..read more

  As someone who enjoys the process of putting together mixes- specifically more conceptual ambient leaning mixes- I often think about how I would approach playing an event designed for sleep. I’m yet to play a set like this live, but I did tackle something similar in the Portals series by roughly mixing styles that aligned to specific sleep stages (eg, REM, deep etc). But in person, sleep is never as predictable as hypothetical sleep stages for a recorded mix, let alone the idea of a room full of people mirroring these stages at the same time. To approach an in-person set for sleep woul ..read more

  Our first release of 2024 welcomes New York musician Salvatore Mercatante and his new album 'Ø', a stunning suite of electronic music born from the idea of starting from nothing, again and again. With previous releases on Castles in Space, Werrafoxma, and Subexotic along with his own label Nocimiste, Salvatore’s output can bridge many styles, and here, we’re treated to a crowning mixture of ambient, IDM, downtempo, and techno influences, all underlined by his mastery of soundtracks. ~ The concept of naught (Ø) has challenged Salvatore Mercatante throughout his musical care ..read more

  As with all past ‘Reflection’ year-end mixes, I start with a collection of albums, EPs, and compilations I have enjoyed over the past year. Through the process of compiling a mix, tracks are selected from this extensive collection. This ultimately means many of my favorite tracks and albums are often omitted in this process, due to the organic process of compiling a mix, things don’t fit, or fall by the wayside. There are many albums I had on high rotation missing from this mix, but I have to stop somewhere. As I say every year, this isn’t a definitive ‘best-of’ list, but a selection o ..read more

  A showcase of individual tracks from our 2023 label releases and a special continuous mix of select tracks from todos. It’s become somewhat of a tradition since our first annual compilation release in 2019, and each year I find it tough to separate tracks from their album releases in this way. We pride ourselves on delivering an album format, and more often than not, specifically a conceptual album format that works best as a whole. So I appreciate the artists who allow us to separate their musical children for this worthy annual exercise. It’s so easy to skip over releases nowadays ..read more

  ASIP is going on fifteen years of existence now (as a website and blog at least), and a few things have remained a constant over the years helping keep us going. One of them has been the support of Juno and in particular, Milo Bragg, who was the first distributor to take us on as a label back in 2013. As many labels and musicians will know, it’s pretty hard to get your start in this world, and Juno can be held up as one of only a few who have kept an open ear to our style of music and given it a home (and subsequently many other labels like us). Over these past ten years or so, Milo an ..read more