Josh Mason & Olli Aarni

Released in 2014 as the twelfth catalog entry for FET Press, this collaborative album brought together the distinct ambient sensibilities of American musician Josh Mason and Finnish artist Olli Aarni. The record serves as a meditative exploration of texture and negative space, emerging from a period in the mid-2010s where independent experimental labels were increasingly focused on physical media as a tactile complement to ephemeral digital soundscapes.

The album reflects the minimalist aesthetic synonymous with the FET Press imprint, which often prioritized understated, raw packaging to mirror the delicate nature of the music contained within. By pairing Mason’s propensity for warm, tape-saturated loops with Aarni’s meticulous field recordings and acoustic manipulations, the project was received by the experimental community as a thoughtful dialogue between two practitioners of modern ambient music, valued for its organic, unhurried progression.