Ancillary Tones & Isaac Tumor - Metacognition

March 24, 2025

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Combining cross-atlantic talents throughout their active years, the Israel-based Isaac Tumor and US-based Ancillary Tones both come from backgrounds in eclectic beats music and electronic productions. What separates them apart from the pack is the clarity and depth to their compositions, eschewing the old methods of “cut first, clean later” in favor of hygienic mixdowns and clear motifs. Consequently, it’s also what had us hooked on their latest collection of collaborative experiments and compositions, so we couldn’t be more excited to host the premiere of their Metacognition LP as our latest release.

Straight from the jump, the word that comes to mind is “lush”; the tempos vary from slow-churning to brisk in their stride, but the palette of tones throughout every track underpins the warmth and dynamics to their sound design and layering choices. Generous bits of foley dance throughout the album’s backdrop, taking playful shape against pocketed percussion and one-off licks. Where tracks like “Dust on the Scales”, “Plateau”, and the opening “Microcrystalline” take the steady downtempo path, twisting brooding and vibrant synthesis atop brackish beats, “Ambivalent State”, and the album’s closer “Arbelito” push a jolt of energy into the mood, bringing the overall vibe and bpm to a brisk dance floor swing. Between all of that rests the homegrown trip-hop fusion that marks the discographies of both individual contributors. Found wherever good tunes call home, Metacognition has the instant appeal of longevity, with so many nooks, crannies, and sonic crevices to explore, and we couldn’t be more satisfied to brand it as the Rust Music’s 93rd label release.

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Ancillary Tones (aka Bell’s Worth) on: Soundcloud

Rumpistol - Nebula [Singles + Vinyl Pre-order Out Now]

March 14, 2025

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‘Nebula’ comes out on MAY 13.

On the list of recurrent Rust favorites, Rumpistol has kept us enamored with his compositions for the entirety of our label’s active years. A musician and producer of remarkable vision and professionalism, each successive Rumpistol release has gradually unveiled more and more of the story hidden in sound, playing out more like a musical drama than just a catalog. Consequently, Nebula is much more than just an album:

The LP is inspired along two mingled fronts, being both a testament and a love letter to the waning awe that the Space Race (and its implications) imbued amongst the many peoples of the world, while also being designed with an implicit focus on the results on stage. Nebula’s arrangements work in tandem with these ideas, combining jazz, classical motifs, space rock, and modern electronic music, utilizing an array of both vintage and contemporary tones, synthesis, and compositional approaches to channel the all-encompassing wonder of the cosmos. Its pacing is entirely unlike the more dance-oriented offerings in the Rumpistol discography, replacing frenetic energy with the draw of tempered, introspective listening. Explicitly recorded and designed alongside a cast of instrumentalists and visual designers, the record is the next logical step in Rumpistol’s recent grounding in his consistent live ensemble, breaking out of the traditional molds that tend to keep producers narrowed to a single lane. Naturally, for The Rust’s upcoming 95th release, we can think of no more perfect a match than the Nebula LP.

Artwork and design by Nicolas Freng. Photography by Jakob Arthur Andersen.

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“Rum” is a Danish word for “space”, “room” or “reverb”.

With industry plaudits including Gilles Peterson and musical comparisons to composers such as Nils Frahm and Max Richter, award-winning Danish producer, film composer, electronic musician and pianist Jens B. Christiansen (aka Rumpistol) finished his Piano Trilogy (After The Flood, Isola & Going Inside) in 2023.

Characterized by his meditative and cinematic sound, the trilogy sits in a beautiful space somewhere between ambient music, jazz and neo-classical stylings and is the result of Rumpistol’s two decades of experience in creating electronic ambient music for the inner canvas, but is also largely influenced by feedback received from people who use his music to get through difficult crises such as grief, anxiety, stress and depression.

Rumpistol sought out a team of skilled instrumentalists to feature on his new music, as it was important to him that his audience could sense the human presence in his recordings. Lush strings, fretless bass, mesmeric vocals, harp, alto flute, and guitars give Rumpistol’s cavernous soundscapes a sense of intimacy and closeness.

Sitting somewhere between ambient electronica, neoclassical music, progressive rock, and jazz, the piano trilogy is a dynamic exploration of meditative moods built with wide ranges of processed electronic and organic instrumental texture. Rich comforting harmony, lyrical melodies and thoughtful arrangements come together to flood the listener in peace and warmth.

In essence, Rumpistol brings together the many facets of a career which includes the band Kalaha, computer games, dance, theatre and film scores into a sound that brilliantly defies easy classification.

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For Danish composer Rumpistol, two huge driving forces behind his music are the search for beauty and the search for new sounds. These sonic and aesthetic curiosities, which can be firmly traced back to his self-titled 2003 debut, now considered a bit of an IDM classic, have taken him to many diverse fields of the electronic as well as the more acoustic landscape. His releases as well as his live sets ranges from soft neo-classical piano pieces to spaced out bass-driven electronic music, often hard to categorize but always full of melody.

Rumpistol has performed his detailed sound across the US, Europe, Mexico & Brazil including venues like Boom Festival, Tipper & Friends, Boiler Room UK and MUTEK Montreal. Apart from producing under the name Rumpistol, he also creates scores for film, theatre & contemporary dance and plays keys and produces for the Gilles Peterson approved Danish supergroup Kalaha.

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GUNK - Now That's What I Call GUNK!

March 4, 2025

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With the new year comes a slew of new beginnings, and for Josh Kipersztok and David Westbom, that means unveiling the start of their new co-produced GUNK project. Josh is near and dear to us here at The Rust under his Smigonaut moniker, and David’s reputation precedes him as the mind behind Asteroids and Earthquakes, so it should come as no surprise that we’re incredibly excited to host the premier of their first minted EP for our 92nd release. Combining their creative talents to explore a frenetic new direction, the fruits of their efforts are bared full in Now That’s What I Call GUNK.

Brolic, energetic, and brackish where it counts, Now That’s What I Call GUNK is injection-molded for the dancefloor. Meaty bass lines meet dense, percussive breakdowns for a vibe that punches above its weight class. Searing synthesis takes the spotlight for the EP, with every track tearing through the mudpie of patches on the ingredient list. It’s an engaging and fresh take on upbeat Neuro Hop, bringing sound design back into vogue through bodacious groove and production finesse. Available wherever good tunes are found, Now That’s What I Call GUNK is sure to stay in rotation throughout 2025 and beyond.

Faelow - Lumivora

February 4, 2025

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We’ve been keeping a close eye on Faelow since the premiere of his debut Floating Underground EP, and in the five years since then, he’s shown remarkable artistic growth and vision. Having stayed the course of downtempo, scintillating electronic music throughout that time, there’s a certain polish that’s evident in both sound design and composition across his maturing catalog. To that end, The Rust is incredibly excited to host the first full length Faelow LP, Lumivora, as our 91st release.

In the wake of his widely lauded ambient set at The Rendezvous in 2024, Faelow had the ingredients for this album already in the works. Pushing these arrangements over the compositional finish line, he’s turned out 8 tracks with meandering and tempered gaits. Favoring detailed soundscapes over high-energy rollers, this release is populated with aqueous instrumentation and reverberant, subsurface percussion. Dialed in for both the stage and the home, Lumivora is a stand-out release that sets a bar standard for 2025’s potential additions in the landscape of melodically-rich electronic productions.

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Faelow’s work has always been about creating spaces that embody feelings. Faelow’s fascination with spaces started at a young age, with a focus on painting surreal landscapes. The ethereal calmness evoked by environments filled with teal pigments gave way to his moniker, a phonetic spelling of the blue-green pigment phthalo. After turning to audio as his primary means of exploration, Faelow’s work has focused on creating immersive stereo images that paint a world in the listeners imagination, populated by an ecosystem of auditory entities.