CLOT MAGAZINE presents VAST HABITAT

CLOT Magazine

We are presenting a new mix that will transport you into the enchanting realm of the early autumn months. This special mixtape is curated by VAST HABITAT, a recently established record label, and it showcases a curated selection of artists and music from their freshly minted catalogue, as well as tunes that have inspired and resonated with them. Vast habitat founders are Daniel Lea and Michael Deragon, aka Heliochrysum (Bedroom Community Records), which we have featured in the past. The project grew out of the artists’s desire to create an environment where music, design and art can coalesce. A good demonstration of this is their crafted selection of music and a superb visual approach. The label launched with the release of two new solo albums — Lea's 'ENTHEOGEN' and Deragon's 'DAWN', and a compilation, VHS 001, which is the first in a series of engaging sonic conversations with artists working across electronic music, modern composition, and ambient. The compilation includes a remix by Heliochrysum from Pinkcourtesyphone, another of this house's favourites. For this mixtape, they share they have included things they were listening to while making their records, film scores they love, deep sound design elements, some ambient/electronic music, a few of the works from the VAST HABITAT catalogue and other works that we love listening to or moved us along the way. "As well as being an electronic-focused label, a lot of VAST HABITAT uses real instrumentation, working with amazing players like Yair Elazar Glotman, Bethan Kellough and Jamie McCarthy. So it’s nice to hear the instrumentation of Six Organs of Admittance; and Michael and I are huge fans of the 'Crash' Soundtrack from David Cronenberg scored by Howard Shore, which is all guitars very Glen Branca inspired." Tracklist: 1. Valerio Tricoli-Hic Labor Ille Domus Et Inextricabilis 2. Low- Quorum 3. Elliot Goldenhaul-Heat 4. Daniel Lea-Tactile Memory Is Still In His Left Palm 5. Abgail Mead-Leonard 6. Michael Deragon-When Rooms Were Full of Smoke 7. Colin Stetson- West of Arkham 8. Yair Elazar Glotman and Heliochrysum-Abandoned Image 9. Hildur Guonadottir and Sam Slater-Irreversible 10. Howard Shore-Crash 11. Six Orgrans of Admittance-Position of Cherry Blossom Spirits 12. Eric Truffaz and Murcof-Origin of the World 13. New Corroded-Chromosphere 14. E-Saggilia-9 Digest 15. Brian Eno-Signals 16. William Basinski-Meloncholia I