It’s here. It’s finally landed. The third Hjalti album, If Once We Lose This Light, is finally available to the general public. We’ve been teasing you about it long enough! Go take a look, and head over to Bandcamp to stream the full album, and purchase it on CD and a variety of digital formats, including FLAC and high-quality MP3.
If you’d prefer to buy in person, come out to the Lo-Fi Gallery tonight, where Hjalti and Miniature Airlines will be bookending a showcase of our pals on Pleasureboat Records tonight. It’ll be the first time the album is available, but there’s an official release party coming up later this month. Stay tuned!
Since the new Hjalti album is finally available, we felt it was about time to give you a little bit of insight into the album from the man himself. We sent him a few questions while working out the final release details, and he sent back some great responses that give you a sense of the personality and history behind this unique release. Dive into the interview after the jump…
Here’s the long-awaited new version of d.iscontent.com. Nice, don’t you think? Take a look around, soak in the details, and appreciate the refined new layout we’re sporting. Let us know if you run into any issues with the site.
And then come back in the morning, when we release the new Hjalti album onto the world.
Final masters for the new Hjalti album will be out the door and ready for pressing early next week – this means that with a little luck, we should have CDs in hand on April 15th. Why is April 15th an important date? Well, Hjalti will be playing at the Lofi Gallery, along with Miniature Airlines, Monty Luke, Jon McMillion, and the Pleasureboat Records lineup! This will be the first time the new album, is publically available, but there will also be an official CD release show later in the month. More detail on that soon!
Also this month, Miniature Airlines and Chrissy will be DJing shoegaze and shoegaze-inspired tracks on vinyl and cassette, as part of James Grindle’s new recurring shoegaze DJ night, Vapour Trail, at the Living Room. Coem enjoy some blissful noise, and antiquated technology at one of the coziest bars in Capitol Hill on April 10th.
We thought you might be interested in getting a sneak peek of a few tracks from If Once We Lose This Light - so here you go! These are just short snippets from three of the tracks from the upcoming album, to give you a bit of a taste of what’s to come. We’ll be posting a short interview with the man himself soon as well, so keep an eye out for that.
Well, it’s 2011. We’ve come a long way since registering this domain name at the very tail-end of 2007, and launching our first release in May of 2008. 7 releases and a couple dozen shows later, we’re preparing for our biggest year yet.
The biggest news of the moment is the impending release of the third Hjalti album, In Solace’s Hands. Final mixdowns are in progress as we speak, and artwork concepts are percolating. The new album is a progression from the previous records, showcasing Hjalti’s continuing exploration of the dark, delicate, and destructive side of abstract electronic music. We’ll be dropping a preview track for you shortly, so pay attention.
We also have more big news coming up regarding our second release of 2011, which will be following hot on the heels of the Hjalti album…but we’re not quite ready to let the details slip yet. All I can say is that we’re really excited to be expanding our boundaries a bit with this release…
Finally (for the moment), Miniature Airlines will be playing live later in January, in Bremerton, WA. Again, we’re not ready to spill the details, but rest assured, once everything is finalized, you’ll see that info here.
This will be a busy week for the d.iscontent crew, a perfect way to end a pretty busy year.
On Saturday, December 4th (yes, that’s tomorrow night!) Miniature Airlines and Hjalti will be playing short sets at the Emerald City Supportersyear-end party, along with the Uninvited, Grammatrain, and more.
Then, on Wednesday, December 8th, the boys will be returning to the Living Room, along with Powermitten (aka visuals mastermind Looptid) for a jam-packed Show & Tell evening.
And if that wasn’t enough, Miniature Airlines will be returning to the Seattle Laptop Battle on Saturday, December 11th, to duke it out with 15 other contenders. Chop Suey will be full of geeked out audio nerds and their lovely fans, for an evening of audio carnage.
Hope to see you all out there in the real world. I hope 2010 was good for you, and we know 2011 will be even better.
UPDATE 8/20: Sad to say, but we will not be appearing at Occidental Park tomorrow. There has been a last-minute shift in direction for this event, and any future Music in the Square events will essentially be under new management. It’s too bad, as this was a fun event while it lasted, and our pal Grindle worked tirelessly to pull it off. But fear not, we’ll be back in the public eye in no time.
So, if anyone needs a couple of Live PA sets tonight, for any sort of event (house party, bar mitzvah, wake?), please let us know, as we are suddenly available.
Original Post: Hello, faithful fans. Just wanted to mention that the d.iscontent roster will be playing live in Occidental Park, in Seattle’s Pioneer Square neighborhood, on Saturday August 21st, as part of the ongoing Music in the Square series. We’ll be playing alongside DJ Veins and Ill Cosby, and there will be an open decks segment after we play, which serves as an audition round for entry into this years Battle of the MegaMixes. It’s a free outdoor show, so make sure you don’t miss out.
Also check out the lineup on this Saturday, Aug. 14th. You’ll be able to catch a live set by Gunnar Lockwood, a friend of d.iscontent, along with DJ Eddie, Epaulettes, and Electrosect.
While some say that the red sun that lingered over Cascadia yesterday was merely the result of smoke plumes from British Columbia drifting through the air over the Puget Sound, we choose to think of it as an omen, a portent for things to come.
First, we have a collection of remixes from the recent Miniature Airlines album Arrivals & Departures. Since the album’s release, a group of the finest producers from Cascadia and beyond have been tirelessly deconstructing, reconstructing, rearranging, and manipulating bits and pieces of these songs, and the results are stunning. If all goes well, this collection of 10 tracks will be up on the d.iscontent Server of Doom by next Tuesday, just waiting for you to download it.
And as if one upcoming release wasn’t enough, we’d also like to remind you that Hjalti’s next epic musical journey is nearing completion. The as-yet-untitled opus has been revised, refined, and extended over a series of months, and has already been performed twice in partial, incomplete form. In fact, you can hear a preview of the in-progress version right here. If all goes well, we’ll be able to hear this in it’s final form this Fall. Stay tuned…
Finally, if you’d like to see a live preview of the new Hjalti album, along with a set by Miniature Airlines, plus a special guest or two, keep your eyes opened for our next live performance later this month. Naturally, details will be posted here soon. It will be a free, outdoor show, so you have no excuse to miss it.
While digging through the grim and frostbitten caverns that house the d.iscontent archives, we stumbled across an unmarked recording. Upon further investigation, it turned out to be a recording of the first live appearance of our very own Hjalti, purveyor of destruction. We decided that the risks inherent in unleashing it onto the unsuspecting populace (widespread panic, mass hysteria, possible loss of life) were not great enough to dissuade us from posting it for general consumption. May future generations judge us kindly, and know that we intended well.
It’s here kids. You’ve heard him talking about it (probably incessantly). You saw the sneak preview of the cover art last night, if you follow him on Twitter (@miniair). You may have been one of the lucky few to hear some previews on Soundcloud. But this is it, for really reals.
Arrivals & Departures, the first full length album from Miniature Airlines, has….um….arrived. And you can get it here. For free.
That’s right, 11 tracks of blissed out, sliced up, melodic, synthtastic laptop pop, all available for download right this very minute. So go on, download the album, give it a spin on your listening device of choice, blast it out the windows of your car, and spread the word. We hope you enjoy it thoroughly.
D.iscontent is a Seattle, Washington based online label focused on releasing highly-crafted and cohesive musical statements by artists working on the periphery of the electronic music world. More...
The third full-length album from Hjalti is finally here, and it’s a monster. Chords stretch and drag, pulled like tides reacting to some distant mass, while thundering drums press in from all around…
rom deep, deep bass, welling up from nothingness, to the harsh metallic screams that herald some vague apocalypse, this new Hjalti album is a journey of extremes…
Monty Luke and Jon McMillion and the Innerflight Resident DJS
Plus Pleasureboat Records showcase, with Naturebot, Potato Finger, Relcad, Mr. Zillion and d.iscontent guests Miniature Airlines and Hjalti
At the LoFi Performance Gallery
9pm – 3am, $10 at the Door, 21+
NQ | On Sinking: Remember NQ’s remix from the Arrivals & Departures Remixes album, last year? Check out his new pay-what-you-like release, On Sinking. […]
The source code for the audio application Pure Data being interpreted as audio data by…Pure Data itself. Hjalti has used a similar technique to generate samples before - opening the executable file for an application as if it was raw audio data, and choosing snippets of the results to build compositions with. It’s an interesting and sometimes surprising appr […]
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