smoke break.

fell asleep too early, just woke up & feeling very awake (it's 11:20pm here) so listening to this while smoking & reading hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy.

beyond the sunrise.

not my first time posting yoshi wada here. this album from 82 is utterly breathtaking, two long tracks to get lost in & forget about yr surroundings if for just a little bit.

standing on top of a mountain.

i recently posted another heavenly music corporation so figured i should throw this one up as well. more gorgeous ambient jams for the weekend.

qualchan. ~ vera's dream. c20 now available!

my newest album, vera's dream., has come out through the wonderful aescape sounds label outta beautiful austin, tx. i spent a lot of time on this album, & i think it might be my best yet. it continues off from the sounds i was exploring on my last tape, the spectacle., a sour take on new age inspired by robert turman, dj screw & ernest callenbach's ecotopia.

i have also posted my latest smoke signals mix over at mixcloud, because let's face it, most everyone these days streams music, so i thought i'd make it easier. a summery blast of screwed dreampop & minimal synths, it arrives just in time for you to get lost in the clouds.

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listen to smoke signals vol VI here

qualchan. ~ the spectacle. c42 out today!

the spectacle. was written in late summer/early fall of 2k16 & is influenced by ted kaczynski's anti-tech revolution: why & how & guy debord's the society of the spectacle. it is my sour take on new age & reflects my feelings towards the alienation of humans from each other & from nature & the rising wave of automation pressed on by late stage capitalism & what that means for human society at large.

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qualchan ~ ninety nine flowers is out on cassette!

my latest tape just came out today via magical garage taste, who is absolutely one of the nicest & hardworkin fellers out there. this album deals with the loss of freedom, & is inspired by nagamatzu, sauce twinz, bobby turman & sandwell district. the title comes from roberto bolano talking about pushing forward as a new vanguard of culture. it's dark but is maybe my most accessible work yet. anyway, it also comes with a cd-r of the latest smoke signals mix



you can purchase the tape or download for nyp here

qualchan ~ ninety nine flowers

ps tape is sold out, but is getting a repress through illuminated paths early next month! :)

drip from my walk.

beautiful drones from fluxus extraordinaire yoshi wada recorded back in 84. transports you to the headiest of clouds.

father's gun.

been feelin this on rainy afternoons smoking weed lately.

two new qualchan tapes just came out today!

hey there! i just had two tapes come out today. the first a split with my good friend al, deep ambient dreaming on that one. the second is a chopped&screwed hip hop tape compiling some of my favorites off of my old mixtapes i put out years ago, plus a few new ones. hope y'all are enjoying spring!

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walking in the shadows.

recorded in 1985 in holland, it was produced by fullman rubbing rosined fingers on 70 foot long strings creating a hauntingly beautiful drone. amazing, can not recommend this one enough.

night train of valhalla.

jon gibson has played with glass (he was a founding member of philip glass' ensemble), reich, riley, curran & lamonte young. beautifully droning minimal ambient. just get it.

valley of the birds.

aaron turner's wife & some chicago dude make pretty in the teeth doom drone.

qualchan. // smashing in the face of youth culture.

sorry to be that guy, but here is my latest album. i recorded this live at various locations here in seattle throughout last year & some of this one. lo-fi ambient synth rubs shoulders with field recordings. if yr interested, i'm going to start posting more of my work here.

& before i totally destroy any shred of respectability i have by posting all of my work here, this will be my last one. chopped & screwed loops of experimental library, funk, soundtrack, & jazz loops. heavily inspired by robert turman, croiners, & the my dream date with boyd rice tape comp. this got released by the lovely scott over at ailanthus. support them here. thanks for putting up with this, i promise i have a few more awesome posts for the next couple of days.

look for me at the bottom of the sea.

my favorite coil record. don't be fooled by all of those shitty fat goths who listen to icp & claim coil is an industrial band. that's like saying ahmad zahir is a black metal band. this album will literally fucking crush you. chew up a bunch of morning glory seeds & jam on the one.

pines of rome.

vangelis is on this shit! how does that not immediately sell this to you? this is one of my favorite new records, & it will definitely be yrs as well.

i still love the girl from bennington.

Suzanne Ciani (born June 4, 1946) is an italian american pianist and music composer who found early success with innovative electronic music.

She received classical music training at wellesley college and obtained her m.a. in music composition in 1970 at UCB where she met and was influenced by the synthesizer designer, don buchla. She studied computer generated music with john chowning and max matthews at stanford's artificial intelligence labs in the early 1970s.

In 1982 Ciani began to record albums in the new age genre, characterized by a mix of electronic and traditional instruments. Her first album, Seven Waves was first released in 1982 in Japan, and was later released in her native US in 1984 through atlantic records. Her 1986 album [[The Velocity Of Love, released by rca records, featured Ciani's best known song, the title track. In 1987 she signed to the private music label, which released a number of albums from 1988 to 1992, including re-issues of her first two albums. Although emphasizing electronic music in her recordings, her solo piano album Pianissimo, from 1990, became her best-selling album. Ciani ended her contract with Private Music with the compilation The Private Music Of Suzanne Ciani, in 1992.
In the 1990s Ciani founded her own music label, Seventh Wave, from which she has released all her subsequent albums, which have been more classically oriented than her previous recordings. 1994's Dream Suite was recorded in moscow with the Young Russia Orchestra, and was Grammy-nominated. 1999's Turning featured her first composition with lyrics, in the title track, sung by Taiwanese artist chyi yu.
In early 2006, Ciani's Silver Ship won in The 5th Annual independent music awards for Best New Age Album. Ciani was also an inaugural member of the independent music awards judging panel to support independent artists.
Five of Ciani's albums have been nominated for grammy awards. - wikipedia

just discovered her recently. ridiculously good. sublimely beautiful & utterly essential for everyone remotely interested in catchphrases like ambient, drone or finding yr footing in an ever shifting & boundless genre. for the lo-fi tweens out there in ripped sweaters & skinny jeans, here is yr new ferraro.

forest hymns.

so i made this mix for my partner in crime since we've been making a lot of trips to the forest lately, & i thought i would share this with you as well.

1. Hearts & Flowers - Save Some Time
2. Six Organs Of Admittance - Hazy SF
3. Josephine Foster - Little Life
4. Fursaxa - Cle Elum
5. Skygreen Leopards - Julie-Anne, Patron Of Thieves
6. Rangda - Sacophagi
7. Golden Hotel - Hiawatha
8. Mirroring - Silent From Above
9. The Famous Boating Party - The Great Sled-Makers
10. Joanna Newsom - Bridges & Balloons
11. Eternal Tapestry - Night Realms
12. Arborea - Dark Is The Night (In The Wind)
13. Mike Gangloff - Ironto Special
14. Wooden Wand - Spitting At The Camera
15. King Blood - I'll Take What's Mine
16. Vashti Bunyan & Devendra Banhart - Rejoicing In The Hands
17. The Birdtree - Everyone Of Us A New Leaf
18. Giant Skyflower Band - Rainbows & Dreams
19. Feathers - Old Black Hat With A Dandelion Flower
20. The Once & Future Herds - New Hills
21. Kathleen Baird - Breaking The Roofs
22. Glassine - Orchard
23. Fire On Fire - Heavy D
24. Jack Rose - Dark Was The Night, Cold Was The Ground
25. Surface Of Eceyon - Dragon Breather

lies heavy on the new weird amerikuh tip, but i've had a rediscovery period with that shit since it sounds so very nice when yr walking through clouds amongst the green green trees.

tropical belles.

more teenage mutant glue huffing channel surfing neon jams from everybody's favorite martyr of 2k11. not quite as good as grippers nother onesers, but definitely still very much worth yr while.

one sided tape looping infinitely.

chuck person is the nom de plume of daniel lopatin (kgb man, skyramps, infinity window, total system point never, games, oneohtrix point never). nothing like anything he has done... well, i guess this was kind of the precursor of the new opn album replica. i didn't really care for that album, but this chuck person tape is dope as fuck. chopped & screwed steez perfect for green afternoons.

san francisco sun tans.

growing is one of my favorite drone bands, & these are my two favorite records from them. just really beautiful pastoral drone that takes you away & sends you skyward floating above forests of gorgeous reverb. great for astral traveling if ya catch my drift.