Anticipate

Anticipate is a record label which combines elements of electro-acoustics, ambient, slow motion techno and found house with traces of filtered influences ranging from jazz, post rock, classical, dub, musique concrete and minimalism. The emphasis is on using electronics to rework, reassemble and redevelop sound - whether it be instrumental or otherwise - from outside the computer, with the hope of finding the best balance of two worlds - creating something new and unique that has roots in our physical realm, but is abstracted in the digital one.

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Come to Mutek, and while you're there catch Ezekiel Honig w/ Chika on visuals on May 28, in the Savoy Room at Metropolis.

*NEW RELEASES:
*Mark Templeton's new album Inland - CD / digital is out now!  
*The massive CD+DVD project from M. Templeton + aA. Munson, entitled Acre Loss, is available now. Digital release also available.
Check the Anticipate website for details, audio clips and a video trailer. Preview the video trailer here also:

* NEW: A limited 7" vinyl single of two tracks from Ezekiel Honig's Surfaces of a Broken Marching Band is now available direct from the Anticipate website and Boomkat. It features the tracks "Porchside Economics" and "Past Tense Kitchen Movement" and is strictly limited to 300 copies worldwide.

*NEW T-SHIRTs:
There is a new Anticipate t-shirt for sale directly from the website for a recession friendly 20$ US. Blue logo on a slate gray American Apparel shirt, in your size.
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New Anticipate t-shirts, hoodies, and more:
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Anticipate Releases (click image to find it on itunes):

M. Templeton + aA. Munson - Acre Loss

"Absolutely essential in every respect and from the looks of what I have seen from Munson's visual work, Acre Loss is sure to be an unparalleled achievement in terms of cross-media collaboration." - Forest Gospel
"From sound one it is one of the most evocative and complete marriages of audio and visual elements I've seen in many years." - Exclaim!
"Scattering materials across the visual and sonic fields like Jackson Pollock throwing paint onto canvas, Templeton and Munson build up layers of effects until multi-hued arrangements of intricate design gradually come into focus and cumulatively bring into being the envisioned scenes." - Textura

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Ezekiel Honig - Surfaces of a Broken Marching Band

Surfaces of a Broken Marching Band, by Ezekiel Honig, has been named in the best albums of 2008 list in Resident Advisor , Time Out New York, Textura and many others.
"...Honig's sure-handed subtlety is marked enough for declarative moments on my part: there hasn't been a better "ambient" album this year."  - Resident Advisor
"There is a wealth of beauty invested in this album, and the payoff is incredibly rewarding. Superlatives they may be, but for all this praise, nothing can come close to describing just how amazing this release really is."  - Cyclic Defrost
"...a freakishly good ambient record, ... attributable to the immersive depth of Honig's ornate production style. Brilliant, and the sort of record you could recommend to just about anyone with an interest in electronic music..."  - Boomkat
"...impeccably crafted tracks, clever yet unpretentious and warm without ever being sugary."  - Other Music
To read more about the album, listen to audio clips, and to purchase, please go here: http://www.anticipaterecordings.com/releases/ANT_006/index.p hp

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Nicola Ratti - From the Desert Came Saltwater

"The different layers create a sense of depth and perspective, with sounds rushing to fill the front of perception, like an ever unfolding horizon seen through the windscreen on a long car ride through a flat heat-hazed landscape." - The Wire

"...characterised by ghostly guitar phrases, often bookended by slow string bends into nothingness." - Boomkat

Read more press/reviews here.

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Klimek - Dedications Part 2 EP

Klimek - Dedications

“So called 'ambient albums' rarely reach the grandeur or expertise of Meissner's expansive productions, and it seems fitting that Anticipate should welcome him to the fold with one of the loveliest albums of the year.” – Boomkat
“...clusters of electric guitar or crisp piano shiver together in gaseous spaces before being slowly drawn out into a quiveringly resilient spider's web of sound.” - The Wire
“...a collection of perfectly realized drifting tones, humming drones and rustling static … arranged with a painter’s touch and awash in milky reverb.” – Resident Advisor

  Klimek interview in No Spectacle
  Klimek interview in Serial Consign

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Sawako - Madoromi

“...they all carry a warm, homely quality, softening edges of the decaying chimes, wineglass harmonics and fragile, echoing vocal fragments.” – The Wire
“Hazy echoes of instruments intermingle in slow-motion, resulting in resonating streams of hypnotic stillness.” – Textura
“...mystifying pastoral deconstructionism.” – Foxy Digitalis
“...whichever space Sawako canvasses, the music is stately throughout.” – e|i

  Sawako interview in BlowUp Magazine (English version)

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Morgan Packard - Airships Fill the Sky

“…uncommonly sensorial, summoning images that sit behind your eyes.” - Earplug
“A fusion of minimal Techno, Dub, contemporary textural work and organic / electronic music that is so sublime, so intricately woven, that to dissect it is to do it a disservice.” - Smallfish
“This collection manages to systematically re-invent and reconfigure genres as diverse as breakbeat, ambient electronica, and even techno and house in one beautifully crafted album that effortlessly bristles with creativity and a sharp, canny production aesthetic.” - White Line
“…an interplay of sounds that are bold and sensitive in their treatment of space and absolute abstraction.” - Cyclic Defrost
Read the Textura interview with Morgan Packard here.

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Mark Templeton - Standing on a Hummingbird

“With every sound, he builds something compelling, beautiful and meticulously crafted. Standing on a Hummingbird is the kind of album you could live in.” - Resonance

“...as breathtaking and important as any album of its ilk we've heard in recent years, making this a true classic in the making for all lovers of fragile music that pulls at the heartstrings while challenging accepted musical conventions.” - Boomkat

“..as inventive as it's abundant with sonorous tonal warmth.” - Grooves

“...pieces exploit the tension between the contemplative languor of the acoustic guitar playing and the churning swirl of haze that, in its smeary, prickly, rippling, and crackling diversity, becomes an instrument unto itself.” - Textura

Download Mark Templeton's Holden Into Ryley EP from the Anticipate site here .

Interviews with Mark Templeton:
Vue Weekly (cover story)
See Magazine

Video for Mark Templeton's song, "Tentative Growth."  Video by aAron munson.

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