12″ pressing on heavyweight 180g vinyl & CMYK printed labels, contained in a plain white sleeve with 3mm spine (reverse board for natural finish), including full colour artwork plus titles* printed using a Risograph on 135gsm ‘Context Natural’ A3 paper and finally all packaged in a polyurethane bag.
*Titles printed on the ‘Obi flap’ – excess paper folded around the spine.
Limited Edition: 100
Maastricht Research is a brand new project from Scottish artist Jonathan Hunter producing ambient/drone style material.
Written and recorded over a number of years whilst living in Amsterdam, Glasgow and Dublin, the Maastricht Research vibe is about as horizontal as it gets and is the perfect soundtrack to long, lazy days and balmy eves in the park, by the pool, in the bath etc! There are zero beats. It’s proper ambient / drone music and could well have been beamed in from another dimension, planet or century altogether, including field recordings, atmospheric fx, lush and eerie pads, with the occasional snatch of a weird vocal and generally other-worldly sounds.
Jonathan was part of the quartet behind the much-loved Slabs Of The Tabernacle parties at Glasgow’s now-legendary La Cheetah club back in the late 00s/early 10s. He’s also one half of The Three Lives, whose debut EP, Mud & Flame, came out via Glasgow’s Full Dose last year [follow up dropping imminently].
The record owes a debt to the likes of Manuel Gottsching, Cluster, Susumu Yokota, Detroit Escalator Company, Astral Industries and Alessandro Cortini, among others…
FEEDBACK:
“Loving it. Beautiful stuff here – all tracks doing it for me” ROLANDO (UR)
“This is great! Will use it on Ambient Flo” AUNTIE FLO
“Really diggin the MaastrichtResearch release” INTERGALACTIC GARY
“Love this, thanks for sending” DOMENIC (Sub Club)
“This sounds fantastic!” NICK CRADDOCK (Gateway To Zen)
“Really liking the sound of the record. Dublin air tugging on his emotive side by the sounds :)” JOHN HECKLE
“Mesmerizing music, something we all need to listen to because of so much chaos and stress in the world…with this, just sit back and zone out for a bit and regain balance….” DAN CURTIN
“This is nice music, thank you for sharing it with me. A3 is the one for me, really nice vibe” ARIO (Astral Industries)
“More emotive and soulful ambience and drone from this red hot label. Maastricht Research have been reviving the Poolside revellers at Pikes morning sessions this summer” DRIBBLER (Pikes, Ibiza // Paradise Lost, Red Light Radio, Pure)
“Beautiful collection of tracks” JAMIE THOMSON (La Cheetah, Clyde Built Radio, Radio Magnetic, Glasgow)
“Really like it” ANDY PIRIE (Groove Line Records, Loud & Clear HiFi, Glasgow)
“Yes, will definitely play on my upcoming radio shows – thanks for sending!” SNIDE RHYTHMS (aka Colvin Cruickshank, EHFM)
“Loved it! Each track is too short!!” KENTARO TANIGUCHI
“I really liked it” FEENA (EHFM, Underground Solushn)
PRESS/BLOGS:
“This was very good. I dropped a mention of it here: hcdi.gs/Nov6th” HEADPHONE COMMUTE
RADIO:
Lumenwood Kin played by Hannah Peel on BBC Radio 3’s ‘Night Tracks – After Dark’, 11.1.23
60 min. Maastricht Research mix broadcast on MAKOSSA’s ‘Liquid Radio’ show, Saturday 20.11.22 (FM4, Vienna/Austria)
‘Played winter lanterns from this, rather wonderful, album on Monday (31st Oct). Beautiful stuff’ PAT BENSBERG (Phonic FM, Exeter: phonicpat.blogspot.com)
