Today we have the privilege of sharing an early stream of ‘Nocturnal Obsessions Pt. I‘ the latest full-length album from Athens, Greece-based minimal electronic project P.S. STAMPS BACK. Active since the early 2000’s by way of the fellowe behind the 1000+1 TiLt label their work seeks an intentionally dark channel for obsessive rhythms, drones and analog synth/sequencer driven negativism. Presented as its title suggests this first part of ‘Nocturnal Obsessions‘ captures nighttime wandering sessions recorded back in 2024 as the artist meditated upon “gravity and its relation to the “heavenly” bodies outside our atmosphere” wherein both internal and external headspace is extrapolated. If you’ve as much love for minimal analog synthesizer and sequencer work as I do this should prove a beyond worthy trip in eight parts, resembling a circuitously orbiting exploration of buzzing and pulsing waves.
Thanks goes out to P.S. Stamps Back and Wave Guardian Records for the opportunity to share this album early. Scroll down to the Bandcamp embed below to finalize your descent… As always, support the worldwide experimental music underground and grab a copy on Cassette (or CD via 1000+1 Tilt) this coming June 21st, 2026:
Per the Press Release:
PS Stamps Back is the solo project of the person behind the label 1000 + 1 Tilt (https://tiltrecordings.org/) and Nocturnal Obsessions Pt I is the first half of a dual album in partnership with Wave Guardian Records. Hailing from Athens, Greece the project roots itself in the underground ethos of individual thinking and not taking everything from the superficial level. Focusing the sound creation with various synthesizers and effects the album maintains sonic familiarity with the forerunners of atmospheric/ambient music such as Tangerine Dream and Klaus Schulze but adds its own element of darkness and despair from the vast unknown of astronomical science still to be discovered.
Releasing on cassette here in the States via Wave Guardian with Pt II releasing in Greece on compact disc via Tilt, Pt I features 8 tracks dealing with gravity and its relation to the “heavenly” bodies outside our atmosphere. It is a sonic journey through the internal and external void of mind and matter that takes you full circle.
‘This is the result of a few night sessions in my home studio, in 2024, with the soma cosmos pedal, behringer k-2 and mfb nanozwerg synth. More of a presence than a concept, what somehow shaped these sound wanderings, was gravity.
Gravity is the most known and directly experienced force of the four fundamental ones. And yet it’s also the more mysterious and difficult to integrate in the existing theories and models. Every attempt for a unified field theory, or theory of everything, a theory that will explain the universe in its entity, has failed again and again because of gravity. Recently, the scientific community was obsessed with the Higgs particle, or particle of god, and the experiments in CERN promised to reveal it and thus officially establish science as the new religion. The Higgs boson was finally discovered in 2012, amidst great enthusiasm and even greater arrogance; alas, if it was indeed god’s particle, it was the particle of a lesser and forgotten god. Gravity refused to be incorporated in any unified theory along with the other three fundamental forces (electromagnetism and weak and strong nuclear force) and instead of a conquered, determined universe which is the holy grail of all ideologies of control, we are still left with a vastly mysterious universe, full of wonders and more dimensions than our imagination can grasp.
In a more metaphorical sense, gravity is the connection with earth and the natural procedures; life, death, giving new life, growing old; the serenity of early winter and the reassurance of a spring to come. In a way it’s what reminds us of our bodies and biological essence – in defiance to the post-humanism doctrine of our times, where the “everything is possible”, transformed from an advertising slogan to the dominant motto of our lives.
In an era when the techno-industrial complex threatens to transform all life to millions of artificial “enhanced” versions of it, gravity is one major natural force that still refuses to be domesticated.
Track List:
Side 1
- waveshaping dreams
- gravitational singularity
- accelerating towards a dead star
- form collapses into chaos
Side 2
- journey to a planck star i
- waveshaping dreams ii
- the banality of von der layen
- when thought waves collapse
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https://www.instagram.com/wave_guardian_records/
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