We are proud to offer you MAN1K's dark remix of 'On Stilts'.
MAN1K is an avantgarde /experimental artist from Kyiv, Ukraine.
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'On Stilts' originally appeared on Abstrakt Lake's first album, released in 2024.
abstraktlake.bandcamp.com/album/abstrakt-lake
Original track written and performed by Balthazar Klimt - Field recordings by Balthazar Klimt
Remix by MAN1K.
Mastered by MAN1K.
Cover by Sonia / BK.
The bases of this track come from a field recording session in Meaux, France. I found this lovely place, near a bridge, where you could hear both nature sounds (birds, water, trees...) and, from afar, urban sounds - softened by the distance and the falling of the evening. The recording was then reworked in studio, with pads, vintage synths and a lot of effects - and beautifuly mastered by Alexander, who already worked on the alternative version of "Road to Lapland Part II" (on the 'Lapland EP').
Written, arranged, performed and mixed by Balthazar Klimt.
Mastered by Alexander Kostruba.
Cover pic by Sonia.
The music on this EP comes from field recordings made in Stockholm, Sweden ('Airy Ferry'), Budapest, Hungary ('Kálvin Tér'), Bergen, Norway ('Oslokfjellet'), Magny-le-Hongre, France ('Zeugma'), Meaux, France and Jurgaičiai, Lithuania ('The Abysmo').
Trams, ferries, wood, rocks and ambiances samples were turned into percussion, pads, synths - and then embelished with vintage synths and drum machines, mostly from the Soviet period, chosen for their metal or plastic quality. The result is urban yet ambient - at times peaceful, at times frightening - but always organic.
Written, performed and arranged by Balthazar Klimt.
Mixed and mastered by Artem Pahomov.
Citole on 'Oslokfjellet' by Max Kerner (from Kings & Beggars).
Cover artwork by BK.
'For Nuns And Clowns' originally appears on Wormhole World Records' compilation 'A Wormhole Xmas 2024' : https://wormholeworld.bandcamp.com/album/a-wormhole-xmas-2024-2
Written, arranged and performed by Balthazar Klimt.
Mixed and mastered by Kylian Barthès.
Main loop, pads and drums created from field recordings made in a well-known store, in Claye-Souilly (France).
Cover artwork by Sonnlamb.
Abstrakt Lake was born of my growing interest in field recording. After a first single in 2024, “The Pond Below”, noticed by UK magazine 'Prog', and followed by an eponymous album,the project is backin 2025 with 'Meanderings'. The new album follows in the footsteps of the previous opus, while taking the music to sometimes more electronic shores.
The tracks are based on sounds recorded in Slovenia ('Škofja Loka'), Latvia ('A Rainy Day in Valmiera'), Paris ('Entre les Péniches') and the French countryside. In the studio, field recording sounds become loops, percussion, pads or synthesizers, and form the basis of the 8 tracks, which are then enriched by more conventional instruments (guitar, mandolin) and vintage electronic sounds (drum machines, synthesizers). By turns, the music is dreamy (the single 'Psittacalling' and its ethereal video, with guest appearance by Ukrainian cellist Artem Litovchenko), ambient, melodic, strange or sometimes downright wild ('Keys of Baba Yaga')! Influences range from Lluvia Acida to Autumnist, via Porcupine Tree ('Voyage 34' period), Dead Can Dance, Marius Leirånes and Molesome.
Like the first album, 'Meanderings' was mixed and mastered by Latvian musician Vadik Squarez (from pop-metal band All the Devils), and is distributed by Wormhole World Records.
Abstrakt Lake - God’s Money Box
New single from my electro-organic project. Most of the sounds come from field recording made in Köln’s cathedral. Soviet synths and drum machines were added afterwards.
Mixed and mastered by Rokas Klimas.
ABSTRAKT LAKE - The Lapland EP
This EP consists of edit, alternative and remix versions of the epic track 'Road to Lapland', originally on the first eponymous AL album.
Written and performed by Balthazar Klimt, except 6 performed by BK/LÖVI.
Tracks 1-4 : mixed and mastered by Vadik Squarez.
Track 5 : mixed by BK - mastered by Alexander Kostruba.
Track 6 : remixed and mastered by LÖVI.
Cover artwork by Olga Pasmurova.
ABSTRAKT LAKE
Abstrakt Lake is my electro-organic project, under the name of Balthazar Klimt.
The bases come from sounds recorded in various places (in Croatia, Germany, Finnish Lapland, but also in the French countryside), dressed with vintage synths and retro drum machines. Abstrakt Lake's music is electronic but organic, ambient but melodic, contemplative but traveling. The first album is released by Lancashire label Wormhole World records.
Written, arranged and performed by Balthazar Klimt.
Mixed and mastered by Vadik Squarez.
Cello on "Ežeras" by Artem Litovchenko.
Artwork by Dmitriy Kalmykov.
ABSTRAKT LAKE
Electro-organic project based on field recording, vintage synths and retro drum machines.“Road to Lapland (Part III)”, the second single of this project, is a part of a 15 minutes track, to be featured on the eponymous album (release date : October).
Mixed and mastered by Vadik Squarez. Artwork by Dmytro Kalmykov.
Abstrakt Lake “The Pond Below”
Abstrakt Lake is BK’s electronic side-project, based on field recording, vintage synths and retro drum machines.
“The Pond Below” is AL’s debut single, from the forthcoming eponymous album. It was mixed and mastered by Vadik Squarez.
In Your I “In Memoriam”
In Your I is Ricardo Da Silva’s instrumental metal project. Ricardo plays 6 and 7 strings guitars on my albums “Las Ilusiones” ans “Hic sunt dracones”.
On “In Memoriam”, I played the keyboards and took the photo that became the cover. The music is a mix of heavy, black and thrash metal.
Frédéric Gerchambeau
& Bruno Karnel “N+8”
Following our 2019 album “Amra”, this 3 tracks EP continues to mix modular synth sequences with post rock guitars and acoustic instruments, with French and English vocals. Polina Faustova, from Kharkiv, plays the cello on the opening track “Selinofilimeni”.
Mixed and mastered by Omid Ardalan. Artwork by Anton Marinyuk. Distributed by Patchwork music.
Frédéric Gerchambeau
& Bruno Karnel “Amra”
Our debut album, mixing Frédéric’s modular synth sequences with my art rock songwriting.
Mastered by Louison Oranjor. Artwork by Anéva Gerchambeau. Distributed by Patchwork music.