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An absurdly mild winter is upon us. Swiss banks are now refusing to loan money to Alpine ski resorts below a certain altitude – they have no snow this year and, as the climate continues to be alterted, may not for several hundred years or more. Every generation has its own apocalypse and ours is catching up with us as the post-fear-of-nuclear-destruction hangover becomes a memory. Even so, winter has a certain type of music that’s got more to do with light (at least at this latitude) than cold. Here’s some music for a low sun.

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Donato Wharton can call Cardiff, Germany and London home. Here’s a track from his 2004 LP ‘Trabanten’. His latest is available as an mp3 download from Boomkat.

Donato Wharton – Sieben Mal Weisser Als Weiss 192k 10.5mb

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TBA is one of several musical psudonyms for Natalie/Tusia Beridze, a Georgian producer who releases on a German label. She recently featured on the excellent ‘4 Women No Cry‘ compilation (more). She also operates with the Tbilisi-based Goslab multimedia collective. Her releases are available through forced exposure and elsewhere. This track is taken from 2005’s ‘Georgia is like spiritual Tokyo’.

TBA – Wrestler 320k 4.9mb

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Otomo Yoshihide’s New Jazz Orchestra was one of my favourite releases from last year. Over the past 15 years or so Yoshihide has been operating as a turntablist, musical theorist and maker-of-strange-instruments. The track I’ve posted here is a cover of the title track from Jim O’Rourke’s Eureka LP.

Otomo Yoshihide’s New Jazz Orchestra – Eureka 192k 15.4mb

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Dave Miller is living in London but hails from Perth, Australia. He’s got a few projects forthcoming for next year so watch ****Space. This track was recorded in April as part of a live set in Tokyo. The entire set is available here. You can order his releases through Smallfish.

Dave Miller – Broken Fun Now Fixed 12.6mb

(outsourced from minlove)

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Hailing from the land of the lowest sun (Iceland) Yagya is an alias of Aðalsteinn Guðmundsson. His 2002 LP ‘The Rhythm of Snow’ is highly recommended. This is taken from this year’s Draumar Um Kaut Sulmar.

Yagya – Walkman 192k 9.7mb