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Almost seven years in gestation, Verdant Compost is finally ready to enter the public consciousness on Earth Day, 2017. A mammoth undertaking larger than any previous remix projects I've attempted before, Verdant Compost collects six discs of reconstituted Verdant Acre source sound, produced by a long and talented list of craftsmen from all over the world.
The first four discs are sequenced sets of mixes, and the final two are themselves full-length album affairs by Zwei Kreise and Orson Throb, respectively. From deep and dubbed out techno to thick, textured drones, and everywhere in between, Verdant Compost casts a wide range of colors, temperatures and atmospheres, all built using source recordings from the same damaged vinyl sides and drum machines I used to create the original six volumes of the Verdant Acre series. I owe a huge debt of gratitude to the many talented musicians who took part, in order of appearance:
Lamont Kohner (aka Electricwest / Eluder):
lamontkohner.bandcamp.com
Mind Over MIDI:
mindovermidi.bandcamp.com
The Green Kingdom (aka Dustcraft):
thegreenkingdom.bandcamp.com
Submersion:
audio.submersion.info
Ourson (aka Plantre / Meadows & Labyrinths):
ourson.bandcamp.com
The Nautilus Project (aka Nemo):
thenautilusproject.bandcamp.com
Atheus:
atheus.bandcamp.com
Minute Of Arc (aka Arjen Schat / Ohrwert):
arjenschat.nl
Giriu Dvasios (aka 101):
giriudvasios.bandcamp.com
A.P. (aka Anders Peterson / Relapxych.0 / Skyscaper):
www.ghostsounds.net
aspect. (aka Textural Being / Parallelism):
sagetaylor.bandcamp.com
Brother Blue (aka Tim Gray / Ethernet / Tanuki House):
ethernetmusic.bandcamp.com
36:
3six.net
Musicians With Guns (aka Zzzzra):
zzzzra.bandcamp.com
Grey Deer (aka Radere):
radere.bandcamp.com
Am.Light:
soundcloud.com/am-light
As If:
kenneth-werner.bandcamp.com
Overcast Sound (aka Mikaere):
www.overcastsound.com
Purl (aka Ludvig Cimbrellius / Alveol):
eternell.net
COAL (aka John-Paul Kramer / Casio Commander):
tibbar.bandcamp.com
Substak:
substak.bandcamp.com
Zwei Kreise (aka Axs):
superfine.bandcamp.com
Orson Throb (aka Matias Bagato):
temiongrecordings.bandcamp.com
The box set comes with six special glossy 4x6" photographic prints, mutated and reconfigured from the original Verdant Acre photography, housed comfortably with the six discs inside a VHS-tape sized black plastic box that matches the recent Verdant Acre reinstatement and the ambient companion Verdant Night.
A humble and grateful thanks to all of the amazing producers who took part in this gigantic project - without you, we may have never known these half-familiar sound fields.