News from the Conning Tower: new release round-up

Blimey Charlie, it's been busy. Several new releases to catch-up on, so straight to business, if you please. Flavigula: JÄ“marazJÄ“maraz is an album incorporating ambient krautrock soundscapes, samples and live instrumentation that will delight fans of progressive and art rock. Each composition on JÄ“maraz creates colourful, heady landscapes that are simultaneously dark and light, disorienting …

News from the Conning Tower: Sommer

Our second (and final) release for July is Sommer by DR (Dominic Razlaff from Germany). Sommer is a collection of ambient drones combined with field recordings and found sounds, ideal for drifting away to on these long and languid summer days. Sommer is available as digital download, exclusively on Bandcamp.

News from the Conning Tower: Micrographia

So we have a brand new release tomorrow (10th July) and it's a split release from two artists new to the submarine, qualchan and Dogs versus Shadows. The split has been named Micrographia after the book (as per Wikipedia: Micrographia or Some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies Made by Magnifying Glasses. With Observations and Inquiries Thereupon …

‘Happiness’, from Incentive

Our first release of 2020 is an imprint of Incentive's brilliant Happiness album on cassette. It's urgent, dense, claustrophobic, playful, ominous, melodic, and visceral. It's instrumental, but certainly not ambient. James (Incentive) says: Happiness is an an album comprised of inspired and emotional compositions and production — a deep, complex sonic journey that amalgamates deep mechanical …

News from the Conning Tower: More from FROM

Just a quick update to let you know that the FROM album, 'A Memory of Tomorrow', is now available for pre-order on digital download and CD from our Bandcamp store. To tempt you in, we've made another track (the title track, no less) available to hear immediately:

News from the Conning Tower: FROM

This week sees the release of the debut single from the newest addition to our roster, FROM. She Stands is taken from their forthcoming album A Memory of Tomorrow which is scheduled for September. FROM is the long distance (New York via Brussels) collaboration between experimental electronic producer Michel Mazza and singer-songwriter Piero Delux. They describe their project as …

News from the Conning Tower: Modwump

Sound the 'important news' klaxon! This week sees the release of the debut album by Modwump. Entitled Animal Bitrate, it's pretty different to anything we've released before. It's noisy, beaty, cheeky, dancey, glitchy, provocative and impossible to ignore. Modwump are Sheffield-based duo/trio Craig, Tim and Frankie, risen from the foundry ashes of wonk-prog outfit Mangabros. They …