PUDDLE – Independent Multi-Genre Music Label
Upcoming & Current Releases
Maqueta – La Semilla
Single – Listen Here
(PUDDLE_017)
On his second single for the upcoming album ‘Platitud’, Maqueta takes a hard turn from the dream-pop single ‘Imposible’ into a serpent-way of genres. It starts with a minimalistic electronic beat and a sub bass counterpointing the voice, and slowly transitions into a monochord bass with modulating chords on top, building up a wall of sound that eventually disintegrates into a dreamy choral arrangement and an epic math-rock ending. Even writing these words we got a bit lost, but we have one thing for certain: we liked the ride we were taken on !
Maqueta – Imposible
Single – Listen Here
(PUDDLE_014)
‘Open the dam’, the opening lines on his first release in over 5 years, couldn’t be more fitting words for this release, as it’s the first of many singles, EPs and Album(s) that will be released throughout 2024, after a long time of keeping them stored away.
The beginning of this nostalgic and psychedelic song, with a simple and catchy melody, contrasts heavily with the vocal play of the second part that, repeating syllables but alternating notes, ends up creating a hypnotic vocal arpeggio, that feel almost as a part of another song, while still counterpointing against the main melody.
Chasys – Parque Centenario
Single – Listen Here
(PUDDLE_016)
Music often works as a diary, and listening back to songs we did years ago can remind us of how we used to feel, and how we used to see the world. This is what Chasys felt when he found this old album from 2017, a sort of imaginary soundtrack to ride your bike at night to. Long warm nights in Buenos Aires, pedalling around aimlessly, finding friends, having random encounters, listening to music, being young and a bit more careless. That’s ‘En Bici de Noche’ (translating to ‘On the Bike at Night’), and this single works as a teaser for it!
Koiwa – Live at MACBA (Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Buenos Aires)
LP – Listen Here
(PUDDLE_009)
This mesmerising album was captured live during his sound activation for the exhibition MONTES NO VISIBLES (Órganos Inespecíficos) at MACBA on 30/09/23.
True to his nature, Cristián AKA Koiwa created an introspective audio journey for the spectators, blending his sounds seamlessly with the art pieces and making the whole space vibrate to his frequencies. With this release, the listeners can transport themselves into that space and time.
Chasys – Tunnel Mountain
LP – Listen Here
(PUDDLE_006)
On this LP, constructed in its entirety by heavy processing of field recordings and vinyl samples, composed and produced during his 2018 residency at the Banff Centre for Arts & Creativity, Chasys sets out to explore a palette of calm, slowly evolving pad-like textures, overlapped with various layers of sound-design, dream-like (and sometimes noise-like) textures, giving the listener a warm and surrounding pillow of sound to relax and get lost in for a few minutes.
Koiwa – Post Ambient
LP – Pre-Save Here
(PUDDLE_005)
On his first full LP release through Puddle, Koiwa shares this massive collection of 14 immersive tracks that showcase his domain of evocative, slow evolving textures, drone soundscapes and noise layers that transport the listener into a fully contemplative state. It features five varied reworks of his single ‘smrsms’ by the artists ‘Matt Cianfo, ‘Pablo Reche’, ‘maeri, ‘Catu Hardoy’ and ‘Eric Olsen’ which mark the different stages of instrospection that this album has to offer.
Koiwa – smrsms
Single – Listen Here
(PUDDLE_004)
On this second single, paving the way for his first full LP to be released through Puddle, Koiwa creates a much more sparse, open and spacious ambient track, that will surely relax and calm the listener with it’s contemplative release-filled silences, much in contrast with his first drone single, showcasing his capacity to create very different, yet always hypnotic tracks.
Koiwa – Peña
Single – Listen Here
(PUDDLE_015)
This album, captured during the session performed at ‘Peña’ by Koiwa, showcases both sides of the ambient producer: On one hand, his ethereally curated expansive and dreamlike pads & textures are present, while on the other, his more experimental noise and drone tendencies have free reign, washing over the listener as a giant wave of sound, sometimes gentle, sometimes abrasive. This two-faced album is perhaps his most disruptive, and yet the most inviting for deep listeners that want to be taken on a sonic trip.
Nicolás Aimo – Ras
Single – Listen Here
(PUDDLE_012)
We’re so happy and honoured to welcome Nicolás Aimo to our community, announcing his upcoming, first release through Puddle.
On this new single, Nicolás creates a deep and hard hitting, yet ethereal and hypnotic, downtempo banger. Just when you think you’ve got the song figured out, it takes a turn for the unexpected, removing the floor from under the feet of the listeners, but with the gentleness of keeping them floating without weight, descending slowly into a nostalgic and evocative trance.
Koiwa – smrsms (Disonar Remix)
Single – Listen Here
(PUDDLE_008)
We’re so happy to shared this smashed banger by Disonar, based on Koiwa’s ‘smrsms’ single. On this remix, Koiwa’s ethereal and spaced out pad serves as a backgrop for Disonar’s relentless and unforgiving drums and textures, which eventually give way to the softest dreamscape, a lush open field of frequencies that elevate the listener to a blissful state, just before the drop brings us back to an epic and inspiring ending. Truly a gem, and what we hope will be the first of more collaborations between Disonar & Puddle.
Ariel Schlichter – The Rip (Original Short-Film Soundtrack)
Mini EP – Listen Here
(PUDDLE_007)
We’re excited to share this mini collection of small tracks composed for the short-film documentary ‘The Rip’ by Martín Nitram, showcasing the process of a mural removal and conservation using the antique Italian technique ‘strapo’.
The tracks, composed using asmr-like sounds from the film itself like ripping, folding, scratching, etc, produce a collection semi-glitch, ear-candy tracks that will surely tickle the fancy of the attentive listener.
Chasys – Digital Voltage
Single – Listen Here
(PUDDLE_003)
Chasys’ new single marks a departure from his dreamy ambient-electronic debut LP ‘Decomposition Method‘ (Released on Lassi International). On his first release through Puddle, Chasys explores the darker tones of an evolving, aggressive and sometimes even distorted sequence. However, upon its self-destruction, the sustained distortion becomes a warm blanket of gentle sound.
Ariel Schlichter – FUME
Mini-LP – Listen Here
(PUDDLE_002)
We are proud to re-release Ariel Schlichter’s eclectic soundtrack for FUME, a platform video-game created by Javier de Azkue and Luis Cruz under their design company ‘Estudios Del Umo’. With a variety of genres from IDM to ambient, all the way through lo-fi beats and sound-design, this release proves to be much more than a soundtrack, becoming it’s own listening experience.
Koiwa – Mohenjo-Daro موئن جو دڙو
Single – Listen Here
(PUDDLE_001)
Koiwa is Cristian Garcia Laborde’s ambient, drone, experimental electronic project. On his first release through Puddle, Koiwa hypnotizes the listener through his slow oscillating droning synths layered with soft evolving noise. This is the first release towards his first full album under the same name.