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Smoke Point

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Stephen P Glittering ambience and rolling beats. Great take on the abstract/ambient jungle sound, brought up to date for today's listeners. Favorite track: Waterwheel.

Lars Gotrich rian Foote (Nudge, Fontanelle, Kranky) and Sage Caswell (Spring Theory) in ambient-house mode, locked into minimally sparkling grooves, but uninterested in innocuous chill. www.vikingschoice.org/archive/vocaloid-emo-egyptian-specters-finnish-prog/ Favorite track: Spawn Point.

PannionSeer Smoke Point make ambient house just how I like it--serene, unflappably minimal, and teeming with hushed, ultrafine detail. Favorite track: Waterwheel.

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1.	Awakening 03:52	buy track
2.	Steam Machine 08:07	buy track
3.	Waterwheel 05:57	buy track
4.	Spawn Point 06:16	buy track
5.	Smiley 09:46	buy track
6.	Locked Grv. A 00:57
7.	Locked Grv. B 00:57
8.	Locked Grv. C 00:57
9.	Locked Grv. D 00:57

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Smoke Point is a duo composed of Brian Foote (Peak Oil, Leech, Kranky) and Sage Caswell (Spring Theory). With their self-titled debut LP on Geographic North, the Los Angeles-based duo takes a captivating cruise through heady ambient drifts and ruthlessly rhythmic loop dreams.

Foote and Caswell first teamed up to create a series of improvisational atmospherics throughout a multi-room art gallery. The pair conceived of a sprawling, dynamic experience with tones, rhythms, and textures that varied from room to room, yet were inextricably tuned and melded together. Visitors could serve as a sort of human crossfader, moving through the gallery and dialing up or down aural aspects as they pleased. And although the collaboration came together to create music for a specific physical space, the concept was never fully realized until what is now the duo’s first record.

Smoke Point brings five extended, cruise-controlled exercises that calmly violate the Venn diagram's overlap between boundless dance music and unfathomable ambiance. But beyond the boundaries of an album as a set of songs, Foote and Caswell cracked things wide open and recontextualized the album as an actual DJ tool onto itself; ambient leaning and melodically focused. To achieve this, Smoke Point offers a bounty of loops in the form of endless locked grooves on the vinyl edition and brief but equally utilitarian snippets on the digital edition of the LP.

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released June 10, 2022

Smoke Point is Sage Caswell & Brian Foote
Mastered by Josh Eustis
Designed by Farbod Kokabi

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