ODG214 : Akira Film Script / Fox

 

Cover art by Ryan's daughter

ODG214: Akira Film Script / Fox

Akira Film Script is the wide-reaching electronic music output from electronic musician and producer Ryan Watts. With sonic scopes ranging from blissful ambient and melodic techno, to post-everything noisecore; nothing is off limits for his musical expressions and sound explorations under the Akira Film Script banner.

Heavily influenced by Detroit, Chicago, Japanese, and European electronic and experimental artists, Neo-Classical and Jazz concepts, 80s/90s VHS-era anime, and science fiction/fantasy literature, Akira Film Script seeks to transcend our day-to-day in favor of the more transcendental realms.

Hear more at akirafilmscript.com

Ryan says about the album:

"The inception of "Fox" began with the cover art; a picture my daughter drew at school of a cute fox, curled up taking a nap. I told her I'd scan it and make it the artwork for a new album that I was yet to create.

For weeks, she asked me when I was going to make the "fox music" and kept telling me she wanted to be involved somehow - playing, singing, field recording (a favorite practice of hers, strangely). 

We travelled for 14 days at the end of last year, and I'd recently expanded my field kit a bit, and as such, had a very portable, DAWless setup for the first time ever. We recorded FM and AM Jazz samples and radio oddities from local radio stations between California, Oregon, Nevada, and Virginia direct to an OP-1 field, recorded friends and family's instruments (including my mother-in-law's favorite upright piano, and my wife's childhood church's organ), as well as silverware in drawers, clicking clocks, wind storms, rain storms, a babbling creek; all sorts of audio epherma.

These are the results of those recording and field sessions, composed into ambient jazz works - vignettes of the memories we built compiling the source material. To give it a nod of nostalgia, many parts were downsampled, recorded to digital and physical tapes for altered playback, or tape loops to give additional character for the final recording sessions."

Ryan - Akira Film Script

Digital release on the 25th of April 2025.

Track listing:

1: Fox

2: Etheridge Manor

3: Days

4: Phoenix and Talent

5: Shortloaf

6: Duck Pond

7: Ashland Snow

8: Mount Pleasant

9: Chichos

10: Deer Trail

11: Soft Storms

12: Promenade

13:Fox (Reprise)

Itunes, Spotify, etc.:

https://bfan.link/fox

And on Bandcamp:

OJP081 : Miss Canine Hoe - Alinovsky / A Ping and A Pong

 

Cover art by A.L.

OJP081 : Miss Canine Hoe - Alinovsky / A Ping and A Pong

The encounter of Miss Canine Hoe and Alinovsky gives us 2 tracks based on a simple sin wave evolution in 2 different ways: a Ping and a Pong! Enjoy.

Digital release on the 18th of April 2025.

Track listing:

1: A Ping

2: A Pong

Itunes, Spotify, etc:

https://bfan.link/a-ping-and-a-pong

And on Bandcamp:

ODG213 : Arash Azadi / Sociology of Perception

Cover art by Hasmik Badoyan and Gohar Martirosyan

ODG213 : Arash Azadi / Sociology of Perception 

After his magnificent and intriguing album 'Mathematical Labyrinth' (see ODG105), Arash returns with another extremely interesting project. 

What Arash says about his album: 

“Sociology of Perception” is an avant-garde exploration of sound and perception—a three-track experimental electronic album that challenges the boundaries of mainstream music through the transformative power of granular synthesis. The album emerges as a bold commentary on how mainstream media and popular genres shape our sensory and emotional frameworks, conditioning us to derive pleasure and entertainment from tightly controlled, consumable patterns. 
In contemporary capitalist societies, mainstream media operates as an architect of sonic perception, framing our notions of enjoyment within the narrow constructs of commodifiable genres such as hip-hop, techno, and pop. These genres, while diverse on the surface, often rely on formulaic loops and repetitive structures that serve to normalize consumption-driven habits. This phenomenon subtly aligns individual perception with the capitalist system’s needs, reinforcing conformity and limiting the scope of artistic and personal liberation. 
“Sociology of Perception” seeks to dismantle these constructs by repurposing and deconstructing loops sourced from these popular genres. Employing granular synthesis—a technique that breaks sound into minuscule fragments and reconstructs them into new forms—the composer transforms the familiar into the abstract. This sonic deconstruction serves as an allegory for liberating perception from the confines of standardized pleasure, encouraging listeners to question and expand their auditory and emotional experiences. 
The album’s creation is rooted in live improvisation, a method that rejects the rigidity of premeditated structures. Each track begins with loops extracted from mainstream sounds, chosen deliberately for their repetitive, archetypal qualities. Through real-time manipulation using granular synthesis, these loops evolve into complex, abstract textures that break free from the confines of their origins. The improvisational nature of the process allows spontaneity to guide the compositions, reflecting the unpredictable and fluid possibilities of liberated perception. 
The album aspires to more than just sonic innovation; it is a manifesto for the liberation of individual perception. By breaking down familiar sounds and reconstructing them into unpredictable abstractions, “Sociology of Perception” challenges listeners to resist passive consumption and engage actively with sound. It proposes a pathway toward sonic liberation as a metaphor for broader personal and cultural emancipation. 
In “Sociology of Perception,” the composer invites the audience to step beyond the comfort of familiarity and venture into an expansive world of sound that defies categorization and challenges the normative. It is an auditory rebellion against conformity and a call to rediscover the infinite possibilities of perception."  

credits

Recorded live at Azadi's home studio in Yerevan, Armenia, January 2025. 
Visual concept and design: Hasmik Badoyan, Gohar Martirosyan

Digital release on the 11th of April 2025.
Track listing:

1: Broken Machine of Juxtaposed Media
2: Interconnected Web of Extreme Consumption
3: Mass Hypnosis

Itunes, Spotify, etc.:

https://bfan.link/sociology-of-perception

And on Bandcamp:

ODG212 : DISORGANISM - Alinovsky / CREVÉ

 

Cover art by DISORGANISM

ODG212: DISORGANISM - Alinovsky / CREVÉ

DISORGANISM (see also ODG209) meets Alinovsky for an 18 minutes / 160 bpm pagan trance dance end of all tracks. You'll probably be 'CREVÉ' when you reach the end!

Listen with headphones or really really loud!

DISORGANISM original version is a 31 minutes epic journey! Become a Dervish and Enjoy!

Digital release on the 4th of April 2025.

Track listing:

1: CREVÉ - DISORGANISM version - Bandcamp only
2: CREVÉ - Alinovsky version

Itunes, Spotify, etc.:

https://bfan.link/creve

And on Bandcamp:

ODG215 : Swallow Earth / Swallow Earth

 

ODG215 : Swallow Earth / Swallow Earth

First album from your guys from Arlon / Belgium! 
Metal from the south of the country flirting with some of the great names in metal!

Fast and efficace, Enjoy!

Digital release on the 1st of April 2025.

Track listing:

1: Trash Barzotti 

2: Global Extermination 

3: Eradicate

4: The Plague

5: Creation

6: Black Goat

7: Human's Fall 

8: Ortolan (Hommage à Maïté) 

9:  Prophet Of Destruction 

Itunes, Spotify, etc.:

https://bfan.link/swallow-earth

And on Bandcamp:

ODG211 : Les Boucles Absurdes / Rue de la Cochette

 

Cover art by Jean-Pierre Jonckheere

ODG211 : Les Boucles Absurdes / Rue de la Cochette

Les Boucles Absurdes are back with a different approach this time. 

A unique journey rooted in the Meuse landscape where the album was recorded.
Less electronics, more real instruments, field recordings and a guest on sax which brings another dimension to their universe.

An album that you want to listen again and again and... Enjoy!

Jean-Pierre Jonckherre: the music
Fred Williaume: the sax

Digital release on the 28th of March 2025.

Track listing:

1: L'homme assis devant sa porte

2: Rue de la Cochette

3: St. Valentin (feat. Fred Williaume)

4: Gaza

5: En route vers Joseph

6: Dans les bras du volcan (feat. Fred Williaume)

Itunes, Spotify, etc.:

https://bfan.link/rue-de-la-cochette

And on Bandcamp:

OUI050 : Alinovsky - Nick Calligeros / Collaterals

 

Pic by Kiekebix

OUI050 : Alinovsky - Nick Calligeros / Collaterals

Alinovsky says:

"I wrote a few tracks thinking to ask Nick (who I meet digitaly when I released the beautiful album (see OCD053)and EP (see OUI029) from We Will Intersect) to add his impeccable and creative trumpet. He choose 5 tracks and I built 2 more using his stems. I think the result is beyond what I expected and hope you will enjoy this music for a moment of peace of mind."

Nick says:

"Last yearAlain suggested a collaboration and send me some of his fascinating electronic tracks to contribute trumpet to.
It came at a good time as I had begun experimenting with trumpet through digital manipulations and pedals. I played around with spatial ideas, a bunch of wet effects and micro loops, which Alain mixed back in.
I think the seven tracks weave a bunch of interesting textural and melodic ideas into a fascinating listen.
Check it out please."

Alinovsky: basic tracks, edits, mixes
Nick Calligeros: trumpets
Pierre Vervloesem: mastering

In Luminous Dash muziekzine (here):

"Everything is somewhat in line with the Off label work, but here we have mainly an interesting collage of avant-garde, soundscapes and a sound carpet that at times goes in the direction of ambient. They themselves put it under the heading of electronic jazz. What is noticeable is how much work has been put into the almost perfect tuning and mixing of the various tracks. On the one hand this was to be expected from someone with such a rich background, but also the way in which some things are pushed to the foreground and then seamlessly worked away so that the picture is ultimately right."

Digital release on the 21st of March 2025.

Track listing:

1: Collateral Assumption

2: Collateral Answer

3: Collateral Sin

4: Collateral User

5: Collateral Image

6: Collateral Power

7: Collateral Ending

Itunes, Spotify, etc.:

https://bfan.link/collaterals

And on Bandcamp: