Title: Paradise Yard

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Description: ‘Paradise Yard’ is ambient minimalist composers Darkroom’s second release with Champion Version. The source material was recorded by Andrew Ostler with guest bassist Jordan Muscatello during the Champion Version Edition 1 live event, which was held Thursday, 12 October 2017 in London. These initial recordings were then reconstructed, edited and mixed by Darkroom members Andrew Ostler and Michael Bearpark with suggestions from Elif Yalvaç whose voice recordings are featured between February and June 2018. Restrained and elegant, the stature of Darkroom’s innate talent emerges in their treatment of the original recordings focussing and polishing them into extraordinary clear and new forms. Faint sound experiments extend into dream-like figments, while intricate manipulations build, resonate and disperse. More abstract than much of their previous catalogue with echoes of tape minimalist compositions and cinematic sound art, ‘Paradise Yard’ is a remarkably enduring piece of work. Incredible indeed.

Track(s): 1. Heavenly Meter 2. Paradise Yard

Catalogue: CV201813

Format: 10"

Edition: Limited to one copy per person/household

Released: 12 August 2018

Title: Performances Of Masculinity

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Description: An enthralling suite of music composed and performed by Yann Novak. These two recordings contain some truly exquisite sound organisation by Novak who is regarded equally for his concepts and his music. ‘Performances Of Masculinity’ features a fascinating, fundamental blend of harmonic and discordant forces. Two beautiful renderings and some of the most absorbing recordings in Novak’s catalogue. Reserved but quietly optimistic. Gorgeous and essential.

Background: “For this pair of tracks Novak drew inspiration from his upbringing in the Midwestern US, minutes from rural farmland, as a queer youth. ‘Performances Of Masculinity’ ruminates on toxic masculinity, its influence on human development and its broader presence in experimental music communities. ‘Crushing Vulnerability’ opens with a delicate drone that is slowly decimated by distortion and noise, mirroring a relationship to masculinity in which vulnerability is treated as a weakness in need of eradication. ‘Stifling Sensitivity’ follows with a dense, emotional drone that is slowly eroded until barely anything is left, reflecting masculinity’s doctrine of never revealing emotions. Sonically, both works reference noise and other aggressive forms of experimental music (or as close as Novak is able to get) with the intention of bringing awareness toward those spaces that still foster and sometimes celebrate toxic masculinity. The cover features a photo by longtime friend and collaborator Steven Miller.”

Track(s): 1. Crushing Vulnerability 2. Stifling Sensitivity

Catalogue: CV201812

Format: 7"

Edition: Limited to one copy per person/household

Released: 12 August 2018

Title: Melting Colours

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Description: Assured guitar experiments blended with tapes, ‘Melting Colours’ is constructed with a deliberate ambient fragility, moving through beautiful tapestries of sparse electronics and shimmering strands of guitar. For ‘Eraser Lazer’, Dollemore instills the feeling of icy stasis wandering through delicate guitar arpeggios and cinematic reverb leads, all building to a stunning resonant piece of measured post-rock. Next is the understated ‘Earth And Green’ where guitars drift freely together in the most wonderful fashion. You’ll find yourself being incapacitated by its all-enveloping slowness. Spatially enriched, otherworldly and thoroughly shrouded drone, ‘Melting Colours’ is one of Adrian Dollemore's most accomplished works to date. Just excellent.

Track(s): 1. Eraser Lazer 2. Earth And Green

Catalogue: CV201811

Format: 10"

Edition: Limited to one copy per person/household

Released: 12 August 2018

Title: Every Little Bit Of Space

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Description: This is the debut Champion Version release from Rick Jensen’s The Oneirologist. Oneirology is the scientific study of dreams that seeks correlations between dreaming and current knowledge about the functions of the brain. The Oneirologist as a name is entirely appropriate and actually perfectly corresponds with the incredible music Jensen has created for this record. Being a contemporary of the free jazz scene in London, you know you can expect music of the highest order from Jenson. We appreciate that free jazz can divide some listeners, but Jensen’s work on ‘Every Little Bit Of Space’ has the capacity to sway the uninitiated, it manages to be absorbing without being trying, a major achievement in itself. Simply put, Jensen's work here is exemplary. Far out excursions.

Track(s): 1. Every Little Bit Of Space 2. My System Is Flawless

Catalogue: CV201810

Format: 7”

Edition: Limited to one copy per person/household

Released: 12 August 2018

Title: Bias III+IV

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Description: A beautiful collection of faint minimalist compositions from London musician Thomas Stone. Integrating contrabassoon, various looping devices with activated percussion, the playing across the four parts of ‘Bias’ is completely, almost impossibly measured and recorded wonderfully. Profoundly unsettling and mesmerising, ‘Bias’ is free of any overextended intricacies with Stone conversing the most vital modern, minimalist music. He unfolds a delicate sound that develops with quiet melodic dexterity into something quite magnificent. An integral listen, ‘Bias’ really is a delight. Stunning.

Track(s): 1. Bias III 2. Bias IV

Catalogue: CV201809

Format: 7"

Edition: Limited to one copy per person/household

Released: 12 August 2018

Title: Bias I+II

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Description: A beautiful collection of faint minimalist compositions from London musician Thomas Stone. Integrating contrabassoon, various looping devices with activated percussion, the playing across the four parts of ‘Bias’ is completely, almost impossibly measured and recorded wonderfully. Profoundly unsettling and mesmerising, ‘Bias’ is free of any overextended intricacies with Stone conversing the most vital modern, minimalist music. He unfolds a delicate sound that develops with quiet melodic dexterity into something quite magnificent. An integral listen, ‘Bias’ really is a delight. Stunning.

Track(s): 1. Bias I 2. Bias II

Catalogue: CV201808

Format: 7"

Edition: Limited to one copy per person/household

Released: 12 August 2018

Title: Cantilevers

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Description: Transcendent, thick and looped ambient layering from Andrew Cooke and his excellent Saltings moniker. Cooke assembles a moving sound world fashioned from samples of dense drone layered with substantially manipulated field recordings. Over both sides, the results provide a broad sense of space and place with its declining harmonic structures and shimmering, sparse melodies reduced in an abstract impressionist fashion. Sprawling, epic and vast in scale, you have one week. 

Track(s): 1. Cantilevers I 2. Cantilevers II

Catalogue: CV201807

Format: 7”

Edition: Limited to one copy per person/household

Released: 1 July 2018

Title: Cybals/Toy

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Description: Adrena Adrena is a collaboration between visual artist Daisy Dickinson and Japanese drummer E-Da Kazuhisa. Featuring a striking blend of electronica and progressive percussion welded into resonant shimmers, Adrena Adrena's first release for Champion Version is titled 'Cybals/Toy'. Over two sides we are immersed in the echoing glisten of Kazuhisa's ceremonial practice, revealing a wonderful relationship between space, minimalism and texture. The A side establishes a determined trajectory, first demonstrating its vast parameters with bright harmonics that move supremely into a mix of pulsating and rolling percussion. The second side is focussed on the development of soft metallic pipe samples that are underpinned by slow and brooding drum loops creating a swirl of otherworldly atmospherics. In addition to the 7", 'Cybals/Toy' comes with an accompanying book featuring striking photographs by Dickinson. The 28 page book is landscape orientation with final 21cm x 14.8cm dimensions printed onto 100% recycled, 115gsm white paper. Music and imagery to submerge. 

Track(s): 1. Cybals 2. Toy

Catalogue: CV201806

Format: 7"

Edition: Limited to one copy per person/household

Released: 8 April 2018

Title: Paper Universe/The Anthropocene

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Description: Magnificent blissed out explorations from London's The Untied Knot. The 7"s A side, 'Paper Universe', is a wonderful opener with evocative strangled guitar experiments sounding as if they are trying hard to work their way out of the loping bass melodies and glorious drum rhythms that are channelling from speaker to speaker. Toward the end of the track, the instruments all fall back and everything drops to a minimalist and twinkling backing. Just delightful. 'The Anthropocene' picks up where 'Paper Universe' left off filling the space with restrained airy atmospherics and loose improvising on the drums. The track builds superbly with a popping, insistent bassline and captivating drum patterns that are tightly locked together with barely perceptible electronic dashes that add further dimension. Fabulous production, beautiful arrangements and harmonies with moments of pure genius, the music on this 7" will have you flipping between sides incessantly. Much obliged.

Track(s): 1. Paper Universe 2. The Anthropocene

Catalogue: CV201805

Format: 7"

Edition: Limited to one copy per person/household

Released: 8 April 2018

Title: An Analogue Mind

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Description: Establishing itself in the epic glacial movements of 'This Changes Everything' and 'Whisperings', Red On Maroon have a seemingly unlimited source of anguish on which to draw. Over stratums of effervescent aural resources, 'An Analogue Mind' develops the kind of panoramic soundtrack that has your mind move back and forth between daydreaming and blacking out. An incredible, immensely haunting blend of sparse ambience and modern classical compositions. Just incredible music.

Track(s): 1. This Changes Everything 2. Whisperings

Catalogue: CV201804

Format: 10"

Edition: Limited to one copy per person/household

Released: 4 March 2018

Title: Seeking The Spheres

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Description: An arresting offering, this new release on Champion Version features a sublime collection of post-classical and post-jazz infused gestures by experimental duo Minus Pilots. With Matt Pittori on drums and percussion joining Adam Barringer on extended range electric bass duties, Minus Pilots shelve genre distinctions with a completely captivating suite of illuminating structures for their 'Seeking The Spheres' 10". The result is a poignant, at times dreamlike, and often impulsive melding of dynamisms conceivably best described in terms of it's stunning colours, volume changes and progressive individuality. The two proceed to unite, develop and dissolve across five pieces with beautifully natural subtleties and uncompromising crescendos. Spectacular and captivating to say the very least.

Track(s): 1. Mounting To Heavens 2. In Perfect Silence At The Stars 3. After Midnight Glimmer 4. I Know Of Nothing Else But Miracles 5. No Sleep Without Dreams

Catalogue: CV201803

Format: 10"

Edition: Limited to one copy per person/household

Released: 4 March 2018

Title: Vindens Segl

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Description: Modern-classical genius øjeRum presents 'Vindens Segl', his first 10" offering with Champion Version. 'Vindens' is a minimalist swell of solo guitar keys shrouded in shimmering strings, sounding out a blissfully suppressed and wistful atmosphere while 'Segl' is more stable harmonically with melodic bells and thumb piano pieces improvised over constant bowed string lines. From time to time this continual pulse is heightened and transformed through alternating patterns on the bells resulting in a beautiful calm. A highly contemplative release, this is absolutely recommended.

Track(s): 1. Vindens A 2. Segl

Catalogue: CV201802

Format: 10"

Edition: Limited to one copy per person/household

Released: 4 March 2018

Title: Factors

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Description: On his enthralling second release with Champion Version, London's Thomas Stone focuses his attention evenly between an entirely instrumental palette of contrabassoon, samplers, loop pedals and activated percussion to create the all-encompassing, often blissful, quiet and mystical 'Factors'. Relying on his meticulous feel for expressing resonant overtones, 'Factors A' is a deeply sombre, melancholic piece that's precisely focussed and wonderfully executed. Really magnificent work. Then comes the harmonic sculptures of 'Factors B+C', a majestic and glacially tense passage that quietly illuminates the blurred limits between acoustic and electronic practices. This track will completely engulf your senses. We are utterly blown away by this incredible record. One absolutely not to miss so be quick.

Track(s): 1. Factors A 2. Factors B+C

Catalogue: CV201801

Format: 10"

Edition: Limited to one copy per person/household

Released: 4 March 2018

Title: Guesswork

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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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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