Title: Guesswork

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Note: This super limited edition 7" will be lathe cut to order and will only be available for 7 days. It will never be released by Champion Version on this format again and we will only make as many copies as are pre-ordered. Orders shipping out within 28 days of being placed. Limited to one copy per person/household.

Description:  La Monte Young, one of the originators of drone, defined the genre in 2000 as "the sustained tone branch of minimalism". When it comes to genre-defining releases, few sum up drone like the music contained on this masterful 7". Completely and utterly essential.

Track(s): 1. Disownership 2. National Blither

Catalogue: CV201724

Format: 7"

Edition: Limited to one copy per person/household

Released: 17 September 2017

Title: The Broca Ensemble With Georgina Brett

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Note: This super limited edition 7" will be lathe cut to order and will only be available for 7 days. It will never be released by Champion Version on this format again and we will only make as many copies as are pre-ordered. Orders shipping out within 28 days of being placed. Limited to one copy per person/household.

Description: Ian Faragher, Jonathan Wood, Nigel Bryant, Richard Thompson and Michael Bearpark are joined by Georgina Brett for the Broca Ensemble's debut with Champion Version. The music here highlights just how undeniably beautiful such simple elements can be moving beyond precision to deftly exhibit the enthralling breadth and quality of the collectives glacial structures. The result is magnificent and combined into a force much larger than its individual parts. A means to an exuberant end. Quite honestly, this record is essential.

Track(s): 1. The Broca Ensemble With Georgina Brett 2. The Broca Ensemble

Catalogue: CV201723

Format: 7"

Edition: Limited to one copy per person/household

Released: 17 September 2017

Title: Iris/Ellipsis

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Description: Tomas Phillips and Kenneth Kirschner come together for their 'Iris/Ellipsis' 10". 'Iris' is a beautiful composition of minimalist improvisations made up of gentle piano textures and evoking avant-garde experiments. Their beautiful work continues with 'Ellipsis', an exemplary study into abstract minimalism that unfolds slowly with sparse piano phrases and unsettling atmospherics. Phillips and Kirschner are on top of their game, masters of a highly poignant and wholly engaging sound palette. A completely enveloping record. Brilliant freeform refractions.

Track(s): 1. Iris 2. Ellipsis

Catalogue: CV201722

Format: 10"

Edition: Limited to one copy per person/household

Released: 16 July 2017

Title: New River EP

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Description: Using guitar, various effects pedals, bass clarinet, modular synth and a laptop, the two movements on Darkroom's 'New River EP' 10" sees Michael Bearpark and Andrew Ostler dissolving orchestration into more abstract static with slow moving glacial motifs blended with ghostly shifting chord sequences. 'Tiny Life Reflecting Blue' is classic Darkroom, developing a soothing, yet repetitive atmospheric hum while 'Land Of Cake And Confusion' underlines Bearpark's and Ostler's versatility and persevering drive as composers, presenting a supreme and emotive soundscape. Droning transmissions. You know what to do.

Track(s): 1. Tiny Life Reflecting Blue 2. Land Of Cake And Confusion

Catalogue: CV201721

Format: 10"

Edition: Limited to one copy per person/household

Released: 16 July 2017

Title: Fight Score

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Description: Stirring up a sea of texture, 'Fight Score' is intensely focussed, powerful and concentrated. The music here has a claustrophobic feel, at times reminiscent of a John Carpenter soundtrack for all its otherworldly complexities. This new 10” illustrates just how masterful Machinefabriek is these days. Cinematic drones and glacial structures.

Background: Memo Akten (as part of Marshmallow Laser Feast) and Rutger Zuydervelt worked together before, for Alexander Whitley's dance performance 'The Measures Taken'. But this time, dancers aren't doing the moving, but the viewer is. FIGHT is a virtual reality experience that's equally hypnotizing and disorientating. Memo Akten's virtual reality artwork FIGHT premiered at the art/technology biënnale STRP (Eindhoven, March 2017), and was also shown at Sónar. Wearing an Oculus Rift headset, the viewer enters an abstract, exceedingly psychedelic 3D world. The video shows different patterns and colours to each eye, causing 'binocular rivalry', an effect in which the brain makes its own fluctuating mix of the images. With the driving music by Rutger Zuydervelt (Machinefabriek), FIGHT is an incredibly immersive experience. In the virtual reality version, the music is spatialized, reactive to the movements of the viewer. The Champion Version released soundtrack EP presents the music as a mixed stereo version. The second track on this EP is the soundscape that played in the room in which the installation was exhibited.

Track(s): 1. Fight Score 2. Fight Ambient

Catalogue: CV201720

Format: 10"

Edition: Limited to one copy per person/household

Released: 9 July 2017

Title: Træerne & Intetheden XI-XII

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Description: This is it, the final part of the 'Træerne & Intetheden' series of 7"s by øjeRum. Continuing the theme, this is a tranquil reverie with gloomy currents of organ. It's a stunningly condensed and absorbing piece of music that will engulf the focussed listener. The perfect way to settle this perfect set of releases.

Track(s): 1. Part XI 2. Part XII

Catalogue: CV201719

Format: 7"

Edition: Limited to one copy per person/household

Released: 4 June 2017

Title: Studies In Dissonance

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Description: Orphax is Amsterdam based musician and trained drummer Sietse van Erve's musical project where the focus is firmly set on minimal ambient and drone. This is Orphax's debut release with Champion Version having previously released material through Barreuh, Broken20, Silken Tofu, Striate Cortex, Suggestion and his own Moving Furniture label. 'Studies In Dissonance' is beautifully distilled, arresting in its restraint and ease yet intensely resonant in its complexity. Beautiful music.

Background: Studies in dissonance is a release with two tracks in which I try to play with sounds from one sound source and search for a dissonant sound which (to me) still sounds very pleasant to listen to. This is partly the joy of experiment, but partly also a protest towards the sweet, nice, lovely and way to clean ambient drones which are wiped from any tension we have been brought by so many other musicians the last 10 to 15 years. Of course not much wrong with this clean music, but let's all be honest some dissonance in our life so once in a while does lighten up the fire again. Let's celebrate the out-of-tune music and welcome back mistakes in music.

Track(s): 1. Organs 2. Horns

Catalogue: CV201718

Format: 7"

Edition: Limited to one copy per person/household

Released: 9 July 2017

Title: Træerne & Intetheden IX-X

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Description: We have the fourth and fifth instalments of øjeRum's 'Træerne & Intetheden' 7" set available and more ambient drones to immerse yourself within. The music contained here is beautiful and languorous with harmonic reflections and fragmented tones. An absolute dream. Just wonderful.

Track(s): 1. Part IX 2. Part X

Catalogue: CV201717

Format: 7"

Edition: Limited to one copy per person/household

Released: 4 June 2017

Title: Moksha

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Description: Our first release with Bristol based duo Run Logan Run, a highly unique, highly abstract and highly accomplished punk/jazz collaboration between drummer Dan Johnson and saxophonist Andrew Hayes. 'Moksha' documents a tangle of ferocious and original expressions with luscious rhythms and heavily effected, oscillating, multi-layered saxophone textures. An amazing, wild, freeform 7", you'll be flipping between the A and B side time and time again. It really is an incredible record. You know what needs to be done.

Track(s): 1. I 2. II

Catalogue: CV201716

Format: 7"

Edition: Limited to one copy per person/household

Released: 11 June 2017

Title: Træerne & Intetheden VII-VIII

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Description: We have the fourth and fifth instalments of øjeRum's 'Træerne & Intetheden' 7" set available and more ambient drones to immerse yourself within. The music contained here is beautiful and languorous with harmonic reflections and fragmented tones. An absolute dream. Just wonderful.

Track(s): 1. Part VII 2. Part VIII

Catalogue: CV201715

Format: 7"

Edition: Limited to one copy per person/household

Released: 4 June 2017

Title: It Wells From The Rock, And Flows Away

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Description: Stereocilia's debut with Champion Version and what a cracker it is. 'It Wells From The Rock, And Flows Away' opens with 'The March Burn', an otherworldly ascent into Bristol guitarist John Scott's ambient timbre. It's a seductive soundscape of swirling guitar drone backwashes infiltrated by subtle electric bass textures. The sublime splendour of 'On the Plateau' follows with Scott establishing a spectral mood with haunting guitar chord progressions looped over droning overtones and effected feedback. Stunning atmospherics.

Track(s): 1. The March Burn 2. On the Plateau

Catalogue: CV201714

Format: 7"

Edition: Limited to one copy per person/household

Released: 14 May 2017

Title: Træerne & Intetheden V-VI

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Description: The second and third volumes in Paw Grabowski's øjeRum 'Træerne & Intetheden' six-part 7" opus on Champion Version. There are more transcendent moments with slowly moving soundscapes that are glacial, ominous and completely calming. Fantastically lavish music. And lest we forget a mention of the artwork, which is as spectacular as ever. Dazzling beauty.

Track(s): 1. Part V 2. Part VI

Catalogue: CV201713

Format: 7"

Edition: Limited to one copy per person/household

Released: 14 May 2017