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Alley Of The Sun
Although many a vibe has shifted since the days of dubbing NNF001 one at a time on the floor of a Koreatown bachelor apartment in February of 2004, using stolen photocopies and tie-dyeing J-cards with wine, the label’s essential premise has not. Then, as now, the vision was to elevate and enshrine outsiders, foragers, hidden gems, and hybrid sounds on cheap tapes or affordable records, to be savoured and shared in the here and now. 399 catalogue titles later, the centre still holds.
To toast the label’s 20th anniversary and 400th release, we commissioned a gold roll call of alumni and affiliates: Alley Of The Sun. Named in homage to the Malibu mystic music fountainhead, skewed through a smoggy sideways lens, the 16-song, 90-minute, double LP suite spans every shade of NNF’s Pacific palette: rainforest ceremony, skyway motorik, Tascam rapture, silhouette shoegaze, basement vapour, astral ascension, jazz shadows, 5th world tropics, lucid dream drone, desert quests, prophecy electronics, ritual wreckage.
Equal parts snapshot, tapestry, and time capsule, the compilation reflects the breadth of NNF’s two-decade exploration and evolution, from simple soil to a sea of dunes. True undergrounds have no set sound or fixed polarity, only flashes of transient magic and forking paths, to be cherished and championed for as long as the candle lasts.
A1
Wind Chimes Voices
A2
Journey In Search Of The Holy Gray
A3
Grand Avenue
A4
Headlights In Rearview
B1
On Love
B2
Cold City
B3
Mirage Of Ocean
B4
V50 Tone Transfer
B5
Vienya
B6
Silver Wings And A Drop Of Blood
C1
Side Quest (Jaguar Altar / Hazy Palms / Bamboo Faraday Cage / Heart Chakra Dilemma)
C2
Evening Sky People (Yaman Dream)
C3
VI: La Corniche
D1
Bleached Skull In The Desert Moonlight
D2
Flesh Tectonics
D3
Drainage





