Category Archives: Releases

Remember When We Were Thriving

For some time now, artists in and around the orbit of the Panda have been quietly exchanging files, fragments, long-form recordings, loops, textures, field recordings, and unfinished ideas. Some of these artists have worked together for years. Some have crossed paths only occasionally through shows, compilations, online exchanges, or overlapping projects. What emerged from these connections is Remember When We Were Thriving, our newest compilation.

The compilation features work from:

  • Chester Hawkins
  • Kreisecho
  • Nathan McLaughlin
  • Beau Finley
  • Michael Hendley
  • TL0741
  • Jardin Grotesk
  • Immanent Voiceless
  • Tag Cloud
  • dedBoi

Spanning ambient music, drone, tape manipulation, modular synthesis, improvised electronics, and other difficult-to-categorize approaches to sound, Remember When We Were Thriving is not a unified genre statement. It’s a document of continued activity, of proof of life, so to speak, in the midst of a society evolving in awful yet predictable ways.

Some tracks are dense and slow-moving. Others are brittle, unstable, or nearly evaporative. Across the compilation are recurring themes of memory, duration, interference, repetition, collapse, and persistence.

Remember When We Were Thriving continues that tradition while reflecting the particular atmosphere of the present moment: fragmented scenes, isolated creative practices, and the strange endurance of underground music communities long after they stop being visible from the outside.

The compilation will be available on our Bandcamp: https://fuzzypanda.bandcamp.com/.

RANGELAND by Mule Death

Rangeland is out now. This droning and doomy release by Mule Death stretches across the open plain like a giant land octopus leaving only desolation where once the tentacles squiggled.

This EP is an excellent follow-up to Symmetry. Mark Sharpe explores some different, more oppressive landscapes. With just one 14-minute track, this will quench your thirst for long songs and short EPs. And if you like drone, post rock, and minimalism, you’ll really like this piece.

Isolation

18 tracks. 90+ minutes of music. All for a good cause.

Isolation is a compilation benefitting Bread for the City’s Covid-19 Response Fund. Bread for the City is a nonprofit in Washington, D.C. that provides food, clothing, and social services to those in need. COVID-19 has hit economically vulnerable communities particularly hard. Access to medical care and social services continues to be difficult and COVID-19 ‘s effects on our nation’s health and economy have made such access more difficult. All of this means that folks need whatever help we can provide now more than ever. We know that every little bit helps, so we are using our noise, drone, and experimental music to help others.

If you like the sounds on this compilation, please check out additional music by the talented and generous folks who have made it happen. If you hate the sounds on this compilation, please express your disgust with a massive donation to Bread for the City.

‘Oumuamua

pdsexton’s Fuzzy Panda debut, ‘oumuamua, is a magnificent entry into the world of synth explorations and the indescribable majesty of spacey ambience.

The release is immediately enveloping and transportive: it begins with a rushing synthesizer that remains propulsive throughout the track as sonorous low-end echoes of Spacemen 3 reverberate under a wash of synthesized strings. We’ve left our atmosphere and are on our way out of Earth’s orbit. How much time has passed? Each track is a new planet. Where are we? Our wise captain has returned us home and must continue his journey without us.

We’re down here on Earth, fighting a microscopic virus, but in the great vacuum of space, ‘oumuamua is out there, forever traveling, exploring galaxies we may one day see.

You can lose yourself in this album at https://fuzzypanda.bandcamp.com/album/oumuamua

The Toneshift Review of Slow Light

The inimitable Toneshift has reviewed the fantastic new cassette, Slow Light, by Tag Cloud.  The review is available here:  https://toneshift.net/2019/08/11/slow-light-by-tag-cloud/.

Here’s a sample from the review:
[Videll’s] is a sound enriched by undertones, by the flexing buzz that pinpoints its central nervous system, even though the attitude is quite cool, collected. Videll embellishes surfaces with bountiful slow-motion drama, fermented by the expert nimble ear of Mark Beazley on the mastering deck.

Thanks, Toneshift!

Slow Light – Reviewed!

In one of the more interesting reviews a Fuzzy Panda release has received, Yeah, I Know It Sucks wrote some poetry about Tag Cloud’s new cassette Slow Light:

Music surreal , vague and amazing
everything sounds hypnotic and pretty
once you know you don’t mind me praising
lovely strokable like a little kitty

Ambient music that flows in natural ways
from one world into another
no reason to go loopy and blaze
with music like this you shouldn’t bother

Experimental tones of pleasant material
gliding by like a trip for shrooms
eating with milk and some soggy cereal
into a wonderworld in which everything blooms

Slow Light is available here in download and cassette formats.

 

 

Slow Light

Tag Cloud is Chris Videll, who has distilled his decades of appreciation of ambient drone and experimental music to its most basic elements, and imbued with depth and emotion.  Slow Light is a moving collection of four pieces, encompassing synthesizer explorations, textured drones, and hidden melody.  It is Videll’s fifth release as part of his Tag Cloud project and Fuzzy Panda Recording Company’s first cassette release(!).

 

 

Space is the Place

April 12th is the 57th anniversary of the first manned flight into space. We’re paying tribute to humanity’s exploration of space with a compilation made entirely from radio emissions recorded by spacecraft and converted to audio.

Celebrate the International Day of Human Space Flight and Yuri’s Night and download the compilation at https://fuzzypanda.bandcamp.com/album/lvii-xxxvii.

This compilation features a wide array of compositions by Chester Hawkins, Arthur Loves Plastic, J. Surak, Michael Hendley, Love of Ruins, Fast Forty, Small Craft, Immanent Voiceless, BLK TAG, NarkotroniK, Inffinte Sstar Zzero, and PraxisCat.