Third World Summer, “Displaced Voices” / Love in Athens, “Old Houses” (Split)
The split single, “Displaced Voices / Old Houses,” is the debut Number Line Records release from Third World Summer and Love in Athens. While these two artists take different approaches to electronic music, both tracks on this release traffic in a sense of movement, switching from uptempo beats that evoke dense city environments to dreamlike...
Modulogeek, Pipes and Palindromes (EP)
Following his remix of Outerhope’s “The Man with the Pipes,” monome artist Joon Guillen—aka Modulogeek—wrote five other tracks around it, each shifting in mood and key. The result is Pipes and Palindromes, a conceptual EP loosely structured to flow like the score of a musical, with reprises and recurring themes. The EP both builds on...
Multo, Upon Returning / Hallelujah and All Those Things (Single)
“Upon Returning/Hallelujah and All Those Things” is the second release under Number Line Records by Allan Lumba, a.k.a. Multo. While representing a bit of a departure from the stripped-down, guitar-based pop of his earlier work, they are similarly characterized by carefully considered words and beguiling tunes. “There really isn’t anything that ties together these two...
N/ COMPILATION VOL. 2
We’ve put together a new free sampler, a compilation of some of our favorite releases so far and new material from some of the artists in our collective. The sampler also comes with alternate covers by Poklong Anading, Louie Cordero, Nicole Coson, Dan Matutina, and Luis Antonio Santos. Stream and download the sampler below and...
Similar Objects, Finding Astral Lovers (album)
Beat producer Similar Objects (Jorge Wieneke) has been experimenting with meditation and astral travel. The result is Finding Astral Lovers, an otherworldly album that uses ambient beats and both small and lush soundscapes to evoke out-of-body-experiences. Written as a kind of dream journal, the album’s eleven tracks chronicle what Wieneke refers to as astral adventures...
Modulogeek, Transition (EP)
Transition is a collection of tracks from what Joon Guillen calls his “fumbling” phase. It includes several entries to Monome.org’s remix challenges as well as some tracks that were part of various collections, such as “No Laughing Matter” (from the Number Line Records sampler) and “The Beginning of a Beautiful Friendship” (We Are Triangle). The...
Tarsius, Primate (LP)
Primate is the debut album from laptop and drums duo Tarsius, comprised of wunderkind Diego Mapa (Pedicab, The Diegos, among others) and Jay Gapasin (The Radioactive Sago Project). Combining samples, electronic tracks, live drum tracks, as well as vocals from several collaborators, Primate is an eclectic collection that moves from dance-floor fillers such as “Deathless...
Some Gorgeous Accident, Imaginary Lines (EP)
Imaginary Lines is the first Number Line Records release from Some Gorgeous Accident, a California-based dream-pop and shoegaze project named after a Blueboy EP. D, the artist behind Some Gorgeous Accident, describes the making of Imaginary Lines as a process influenced by his tendency to analyze sound textures. He calls the resulting EP an “exploration...
Plant a Tree, Jumbngle (EP)
Jumbngle is the first Number Line Records release from Plant a Tree, the solo project of drummer Pat Sarabia. Best described as a series of sound collages, Jumbngle includes eight genre-defying, sample-based tracks that experiment with odd time signatures and abrupt and subtle progressions. Unlike the now familiar ‘mashup’, however, Jumbngle makes use of 0.5-3...
Similar Objects, The Limits of Thought (EP)
“An auditory journey pushing awareness and conscious evolution. Charged with highly positive frequencies to channel positivity and solitude. A musical exploration of concepts like Future Forms, Tangents, the Butterfly Effect, the Law of One, and more. The Limits of Thought is meant to propel the mind forward as a catalyst towards seeking the truth behind...
Big Hat Gang (EP)
The self-titled EP of Big Hat Gang, aka Mario Consunji, is a deeply layered introduction to the forthcoming split album with Plant a Tree and a play on images of space, place and movement. “Celestial Spomenik,” an epic track Consunji describes as a “soundtrack for space launches” evokes both the sense of turbulence and awe...
Slow Hello, “Minty Fresh” (Digital 7″)
Selena Salang, the writer and musician behind Slow Hello, wrote these two songs as opposite sides of the same situation, a failed connection. The first track, “Minty Fresh,” is a happy acceptance of what was, an appreciation of a connection in its short existence. “Cold Turkey” presents a sense of frustration; Salang describes it as...
