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Bvdub – Explosions in Slow Motion (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:17:31 minutes | 725 MB | Genre: Electronic, Ambient
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © n5MD

“Van Wey’s previous n5MD album Heart- less found him harnessing the turmoil around him to create something vast, emotive, and brooding, yet somehow comforting, allowing you to cradle in its weight. Months after Heartless’ release Van Wey moved from turbulent times of his native California home to the chilling winter of Warsaw Poland. A divergence. Alone against the icy cold, confined to the indoors in search of protection against the world outside, Van Wey channeled, as he always does, his surroundings as they coalesced with his self-imposed aberration. The outcome of this move, and period of near total isolation, is Explosions in Slow Motion.

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bvdub – Epilogues for the End of the Sky (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:15:36 minutes | 669 MB | Genre: Electronic, Ambient
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Glacial Movements

bvdub is Brock Van Wey, a native of the San Francisco Bay Area. Devoting his life to the SF rave scene in the late 80’s, he began to DJ and promote his own deep house and ambient events in 1991, rising 10 years before a self-imposed exile to China in 2001 to escape the state of a scene he could no longer accept.

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bvdub – Burn Back Time (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:18:44 minutes | 834 MB | Genre: Electronic, Ambient
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Silent Reign

Magnificent work. The treated pianos echoing in the distance create a perfect nostalgic atmosphere that is both melancholic and hopeful at the same time.

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bvdub – 101 Rooms (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:19:05 minutes | 765 MB | Genre: Electronic, Ambient, Downtempo
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © bvdub

As an avid (see: addicted) reader, vast swaths of my life and psyche are formed, guided, and influenced by books. With Wrath and Apathy I addressed this directly for the second time… this album was actually the first.

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Bvdub – Violet Opposition (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:18:21 minutes | 846 MB | Genre: Electronic, Ambient
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © n5MD

Brock van Wey’s BVDub project has long been a source of inspired, sonic detailed and aurally grandiose ambient, where experimental sound design techniques and the overdriven noise of dub techno add untold layers of complexity. Violet Opposition, his latest full-length excursion under the alias, continues in this vein, with waves of fuzzy, hard-to-pigeonhole noise, effects-laden chords, mutilated instrumentation and cascading, ear-pleasing melodies combining to create a quartet of epic, opaque ambient soundscapes. It’s an approach that pays dividends though, with the immense beauty of van Wey’s arrangements and instrumental choices consistently breaking through a wall of echoing, intoxicating aural fuzz.
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bvdub – Hearts of Stone (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:19:13 minutes | 840 MB | Genre: Electronic, Downtempo, Ambient, Deep House
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © bvdub

This was never shunned by labels, nor called nasty names. In fact no label ever heard it. No one has heard it but me.

It has sat, untouched, since the day it was finished nearly a year and a half ago, silent in the archives with so many others still yet to ever see the light of day. I don’t know what causes any one’s trajectory after its completion, any more than I know how on earth it became what it was in the first place. Thus, I don’t know why now felt like the time to end its silence. Nor whether that decision was correct. As always, that judgment lies not with me.

Maybe because it reminds of a time before my music and times took darker turns. Before my own heart turned, somewhat, to stone.

Don’t let them turn you into a statue of who you were. Who you said you would be. Who you can be.

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