Deleted Scenes,Forgotten Dreams

Talkingmakesnosense – Coruscates

2011-12-28T00:20:00.002+01:00

Label:Rural Colours – RC042
Format:CD,Album,Limited Edition
Country:UK
Released:09 Sep 2011
Genre:Electronic
Style:Ambient,Drone

Trackisting:

1 - Coruscates (11:51)
2 - Diffuse (12:48)
3 - Photophobic (11:11)
4 - Aura (13:46)

From Label:

Talkingmakesnosense is Dominic Dixon of Glasgow who has been making music in one form or another since he was a child. Most recently, he’s been releasing records on the now sadly defunct Benbecula Records, and now a new album on Rural Colours.Coruscates consists of four long-form tracks, each tipping past the ten-minute mark.

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Saåad - Delayed Summer

2011-12-22T01:07:00.003+01:00

Label:BLWBCK
Released:21 December 2011
Genre:Electronic
Style:Ambient,Drone,Lo-Fi

Tracklisting:

1 - Pole (jam XIV) (03:10)
2 - Missing Parts (jam VI) (04:06)
3 - I Can Feel You (jam III) (02:13)
4 - You Showed Me The Way (jam V) (03:16)
5 - Utopie (jam XI) (08:24)
6 - Back Pain / Pain Back (reprise) (05:41)

From Label:

“Life seems to happen always at present time. We move on across the years challenged by the next day, living by the hour. Sometimes, we go back to places in our memory that resemble past remembrances, important moments or just the illusion of important moments, spotlight in our mind. Youth is one of such spotlights, it is a milestone on our development as individuals, accumulating experiences, failures and successes.Looking back at these memories we add phantasy to such moments. Sometimes because they are blurred in our memory and we don’t know exactly how they occurred. Other times we don’t need them to be truthful but more like a mirror to our needs. Delayed Summer is like one of these novels written on the subject of youth past memories.Coming back to the house where he grew up Romain Barbot felt the urgency of recreating is memories, smells, images, souvenirs of a long gone period. Delayed Summer is born from this impulse, and much like an urge it was automatically pursued in the shape of jam sessions wih a couple of friends and minimal resources. Delayed Summer is trespassed with an energy filtered by years that passed by. Among the instruments, the guitar can be heard more loudly, reflecting the electricity that is youth. Using a couple of webcam microphones to capture this instants a lo-fi characteristic is achieved, that suggests the blurring of memories that exist in Romain Barbot’s mind.”

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always mighty Saåad :-)

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Larkian & Yellow6 - Offtempo

2011-11-27T23:28:00.003+01:00

Label:Three:four Records
Format:CD, Album
Country:France
Released:25 Oct 2011
Genre:Electronic
Style:Shoegaze,Ambient,Drone,Post-Rock

1 - Jazz F2B (4:48)
2 - Walz (7:44)
3 - Rita (5:11)
4 - Untitled3 (6:55)
5 - Pool (7:16)
6 - E62 (9:38)
7 - Séquences Inversées (17:26)

Neither Larkian or Yellow6 are easily categorised, but both differ from each other. The mixing of the two styles creates something all its own whilst retaining the individual. By using an impressive range of effects and ways to play guitar ‘Offtempo’ offers various sound textures and landscapes, from shoegaze inspired reverb to atmospheric ambiences or epic post-rock melodies. At times, it is hard to say who played what, which is a good thing, showing it is not just a superposition of two different styles.

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P. D. Wilder - When You Force Me Against The Breaking Earth

2011-11-25T09:58:00.002+01:00

Label:Self Release
Released:2011
Genre:Electronic
Style:Ambient,Drone,Post-Rock

Tracklisting:

1 - The Outline And Its Earth (05:02)
2 - Over-Exposed (05:30)
3 - A Bouche Ouverte Comme Point De Reference (04:21)
4 - Orange (04:17)
5 - In December (Austin) (08:22)
6 - Peter's Colony At Delaford (08:50)
7 - In The Subtle Frequency Of Life 04:49
8 - Soft As The Underbelly (09:41)

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Run DMT - Dreams

2011-11-10T09:43:00.002+01:00

Label:Culture Dealer – CD04
Format:Cassette, c30
Country:US
Released:2011
Genre:Electronic
Style:Lo-Fi,Experimental

Tracklisting:

1 - Portal (1:31)
2 - Romantic (3:00)
3 - Blondie Mothership (3:34)
4 - Richard (2:22)
5 - Cash For Gold (3:28)
6 - Montana Mountain Groan (3:31)
7 - Hallway Jingle (0:55)
8 - Winn Dixie (1:56)
9 - Mineral Beings (1:16)
10 - Dreaming (2:54)
11 - Far Outro (3:07)

From Label:

DREAMS is the first RUN DMT release in over a year. The album starts on the shore of a reservoir in MASSACHUSETTS then plunges into oblivion with a taste for tennessee fried DOO WOP for the RAINBOW GATHERING.

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Algol - Heaven Debris

2011-11-07T11:18:00.002+01:00

Label:Snowy Tension Pole – STP-005
Format:CDr
Country:Poland
Released:01 Feb 2011
Genre:Electronic
Style:Dark Ambient,Drone,Ambient

Tracklisting:

1 - The Colour Out Of Space (9:48)
2 - Tunguska Event (8:07)
3 - Vitim Event (9:17)
4 - Impact (7:53)
5 - Extinction (11:44)

From Label:

Earth has gone through periods of abrupt and catastrophic changes due to the impact of large celestial objects. A few of these impacts may have caused massive climate change and the extinction of large number of plants and animal species. It is important to be aware of the fact, that objects with diameters over 50 m strike the Earth approximately once every thousand years, producing explosions comparable to the one known to have detonated above Tunguska in 1908. Siberian impacts have shown that we are not detached from unexpected visit of guests from Outer Space.Asteroids over 1 km in diameter, that actually cross the Earth's orbital path, can be esimated as more than 1000.Through "Heaven Debris" we are contemplating a possibility of fatal impact."The one which brings to Earth a new coil of evolution or deadly silence".
"Heaven Debris" was created by using guitar and piano only, no synth were used on this record.

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Lunar Miasma – False Memories

2011-11-04T09:35:00.002+01:00

Label:Sacred Phrases – SP-24
Format:Cassette, C28
Country:US
Released:Jul 2011
Genre:Electronic
Style:Drone,Ambient,New Age

1 - Mind Travels (4:15)
2 - False Memories Pt. 1 (9:16)
3 - False Memories Pt. 2 (7:44)
4 - Control (5:53)

Hailing from the fabled city of Athens, Greece, Lunar Miasma’s Panos Alexiadis creates gorgeous ambient synth music that floats and progresses in a uniquely melodic and spacious manner. For that reason, he has a truly distinct voice, and his numerous releases always arrive to high expectations. His latest album – one of four offerings in Sacred Phrases’ awe-inspiring newest batch of tapes – is another example of why few artists can compete with Alexiadis. Four pieces of haunting glacial beauty unfold over two sides, reverberating and melting into one another, while False Memories builds into a truly magical work of art.

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Wind in Willows - Overall Aura

2011-10-31T10:15:00.004+01:00

Label:6'th Planet Records – SPD-01
Format:CDr, Limited Edition
Country:Russia
Released:Sep 2011
Genre:Electronic
Style:New Age,Drone,Ambient

Tracklisting:

1 - Elephant Dreams, Dolphin Take (me) (8:00)
2 - Space Swirl (7:45)
3 - Improper Harmony (6:42)
4 - Ceremony (7:30)
5 - May Clouds Fly Away (7:53)
6 - How Long Is The Night (13:00)

Wind in Willows is a solo project of Anton Filatov, from Republic of Karela losted in swamps and forest in Russia, just near by the Finnish border. Childish synths, cutting your ear walls of guitar drones, and peacefull psychedely sometimes turning into new age.

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David Andree – In Streams

2011-10-30T10:29:00.003+01:00

Label:Sunshine Ltd. – SUN006
Format:Cassette, Album, C45
Country:US
Released:2011
Genre:Electronic
Style:Drone,Ambient

1 - A Front (8:24)
2 - Breach (Surrounded) (3:09)
3 - It Comes In Waves (And Settled In My Chest) (10:41)
4 - Gradually Drifting Along (4:38)
5 - Eventually Lifting (5:42)
6 - Only To Disappear In The Distance (11:54)

From Fluid Radio:

Like so many artists working today, David Andree’s practice finds expression in various forms: painting, installation, video and sound. For his first tape release, on Florida’s Sunshine Ltd., he has produced 45 minutes of warm ambient sounds and tape manipulations, recorded in real time without overdubs.The result is like seeing sunlight hit the surface of water from underneath. Like moving underwater, each track is fluid and graceful, without implying a lack of energy or direction. Brightly coloured sounds dart about, singly or in shoals, before fading back into the murk. The lack of overdubs means that arrangements are kept simple, but Andree uses this simplicity to his benefit, creating open, transparent textures.It’s true that the warmth and character attributed to analogue media do not necessarily guarantee good music, but in this case Andree’s choice of working methods and format clearly pay off. I found “In Streams” to be a rich and immersive release, with enough delicate shifts in tone and timbre to keep me listening again and again. If you’re a fan of ambient music, and you don’t own a tape deck, this album is reason enough to get one.

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Delta M45 - Space Probe

2011-10-30T10:07:00.004+01:00

Label:Self Release
Format:Mp3
Released:2011
Genre:Electronic
Style:Ambient, Drone, Minimal

Tracklisting:

1 - The Noise We Leave On Earth (14:11)
2 - Towards Unknown Space (6:53)
3 - Towards Unknown Place (10:20)
4 - Traveling Without Moving (10:03)
5 - Charming Chaotic Change (8:53)
6 - Distant Cry (11:32)

Delta M45 was created last summer.The whole album is a live session.behind this project were two men Dragoljub Curcic from Serbia (Subotica) and Goce Gligurovski Macedonia (Bitola)
The perfect album for sleeping and dreaming.

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William Cody Watson - Night Music For Driving

2011-10-30T10:02:00.002+01:00

Label:Self Release
Format:Mp3
Released:2011
Genre:Electronic
Style:Ambient, Drone

Tracklisting:

1 - Corvette (2:49)
2 - Keys To Ecstacy (2:54)
3 - Put On Your Lipstick, We're Going For A Ride (3:30)
4 - Black Leather Night (4:52)
5 - Parking Garage (2:14)
6 - I Won't Let Them Through That Door (3:48)
7 - Pearl Handle (2:20)
8 - You've Never Seen The Ocean? (3:09)
9 - No Heaven For Us (3:12)

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Villages – Grey East

2011-10-30T09:52:00.004+01:00

Label:Hooker Vision – HIV096
Format:Limited Edition, C44
Country:US
Released:19 Jul 2011
Genre:Electronic
Style:Drone, Ambient

1 - Postpone Joy (6:39)
2 - Mourninga (3:15)
3 - Cemetary Lights (6:37)
4 - Opt Abysmal (5:02)
5 - All The Bells Stopped (4:00)
6 - Front Street (4:07)
7 - The Cryptids (14:53)

From Foxy Digitalis:

Ah Villages, now here’s a tape that I can really get into. I had never heard of this artist before, but boy am I glad that this showed up on my doorstep! You may have heard that it takes a village to raise a child, but it takes Villages to raise one helluva release. Grey East comes to us from soundscaping visioneer Ross Gentry of Asheville, NC. I’ve heard that this is for the long, dark, cold nights of winter, but I don’t hear anything quite so bleak here. To me, these haunting drones are just for quiet moments, reflective solitude, and coherent dreaming. There’s nothing inherently depressing or sinister about this release, so I have trouble understanding why other reviewers would have described it that way. I guess each review divulges autobiographical information by describing what things sound like to them. Perhaps because it’s a sunny day on an October afternoon and I don’t have anywhere I need to be or anything I have to do right now that I hear something that’s a bit less downcast. However, what I do hear is a charming disposition, a beautiful existence, and an entrancing contemplation behind these seven compositions. These are just some really excellent pieces of drone. Most of them have a subtle presence that could pull me in regardless of what mood I was in. But I remember one track in particular, which I think was the second one on Side B, and that had a cool Barn Owl/Elm style guitar loop over the drone that just hit the spot for this Evan Caminiti/Jon Porras fan. All I can say is that this first cassette release for Villages has left me satisfied and smiling and I will be on the lookout for more from him. Released on solid grey pro-dubbed tapes with green imprint in an edition of 100. The art is by Grant and Rachel Evans. Truly a release you can’t miss.

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EUS - Aire

2011-10-30T09:38:00.003+01:00

Label:Self Release
Format:Mp3
Released:2011
Genre:Electronic
Style:Ambient, Drone

Tracklisting:

1 - Aire (6:25)

Outtake song from 'Vhinto No Dresce.One track but amazing.

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Sugarm - Songs About Guns

2011-09-09T16:30:00.003+02:00

Label:Self Release
Release:2011
Genre:Electronic
Style:Ambient,Drone,Noise

Tracklisting:

1 - Two-Winged Dove (10:41)
2 - Wipe Out Forever (02:35)
3 - Cockfighters (05:10)
4 - Belt Pkwy Mama (03:42)
5 - Swedish River (06:18)
6 - Leaving the Sandbox (04:02)
7 - Oak Island Dinghy (04:35)
8 - Utah 148 (04:46)
9 - The Man in the Camel Club (05:40)

From Mike:

I'm a 21 year old guy in New York City and I started making drone music as it was therapeutic in a way nothing else could be. I've been playing music since I was a little kid and this project is the ultimate recontextualization of my musical history- this album is only made up of keyboards (which I've been playing for a decade and a half) and samples of finger-picked folk guitar which I've been playing for the past several years. Those samples are much more pervasive that you may think. I wear glasses and miss my dog. My current bedroom is very small, which inhibits the whole bedroom studio thing. Hopefully this will change soon.

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THIS IS A BOMB :-)

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Black Unicorn - Squid And Whale

2011-08-28T13:07:00.004+02:00

Label:RCN Recordings
Catalog#:RCN004
Format:Cassette,Limited Edition,C27
Country:US
Released:14 May 2011
Genre:Electronic
Style:New Age,Drone,Experimental,Ambient

Tracklisting:

1 - Squid (14:56)
2 - Whale (12:04)

Heavy underwater arpeggios and synthesizers prove the ocean and outer space as selfsame, both representing the universal expanse and individual intimacy in the titular animals' struggle for identity and awareness. With a heavy focus on drone, pulsing patterns, and dramatic accidentals, Squid and Whale is a journey that evokes the classic synthesis of Tangerine Dream and John Carpenter, as well as bedroom synthesizer contemporaries—but this isn't another kosmische revival or throwback tribute album. Black Unicorn carefully balances drone and rhythm, noise and melody, pattern and chaos, and pulls these elements together to tell a story, one that is elaborated upon through the artwork and micro-fiction accompanying text.

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Call Back the Giants - The Rising

2011-08-23T10:34:00.002+02:00

Label:Kye
Catalog#:KYE12
Format:Vinyl,Album,LP,Limited Edition
Country:US
Released:2011
Genre:Electronic
Style:Abstract,Experimental,Drone

Tracklisting:

1 - Passage Of Arms (1:37)
2 - Lay In Line (3:21)
3 - The Rising/The Lizard (9:26)
4 - Stranger Worlds (4:58)
5 - Jungle Hilton (4:28)
6 - Whirl Wing (4:16)
7 - The Pharroh Man (4:13)
8 - Just Rises (4:45)
9 - Passage Of Arms (1:48)

Keyboard/electronics player for the Shadow Ring, Tim Goss, plus a lady & a gent. Although Goss' dour murmuring is here, this is much more of a pop record than their self-titled from last year. Arpeggiated keyboards are slightly busier, although you still get those wonderful slow transitions that remind of awkward silences. Pure & soft vocals of Chloe Mutter are also impossible to miss.

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Aeon-Lost - Coma Voyager

2011-08-23T00:09:00.004+02:00

Label:Self Release
Release:2011
Genre:Electronic
Style:Ambient,Drone

Tracklisting:

1 - Coma Voyager (06:24)
2 - The Rook (05:14)
3 - Axis Of Apathy (04:13)
4 - Burning Age (06:50)
5 - Under Europa (05:05)

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Father – Return Of Father

2011-08-22T09:50:00.004+02:00

Label:Root Strata
Catalog#:Root Strata 85
Format:Cassette, Limited Edition
Country:US
Released:2011
Genre:Electronic
Style:Ambient,Drone

Tracklisting:

1 - Drain (1:01)
2 - Rugs (2:30)
3 - Dyatlov Pass (7:00)
4 - Berets (1:01)
5 - Damp (2:00)
6 - Invisible Cindy (3:03)
7 - Gourd (4:00)
8 - Straws (1:00)
9 - Soup (6:00)
10 - Yak (2:30)
11 - Recalls (1:03)
12 - Oil (1:00)
13 - Columns (4:58)

From Label:

Hopefully lost dreamscapes rife with broken strings, disembodied ethereal voices, multi-dimensional logic. Behind the veil, a constant breath, steering you home.

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Postdrome - Never Without

2011-07-24T19:53:00.002+02:00

Label:Self Release
Release:08 July 2011
Genre:Electronic
Style:Ambient,Drone

1 - Pt1 (3:04)
2 - Pulse (1:39)
3 - Lakes (4:13)
4 - Pause (2:34)
5 - Gap (1:49)
6 - Ceremony (5:25)
7 - 7 (2:02)
8 - End (9:29)

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Bo Becker - Brecilian

2011-07-19T23:37:00.002+02:00

Label:Self Release
Release:08 July 2011
Genre:Electronic
Style:Ambient,Drone

Tracklisting:

1 - Byrja (06:04)
2 - Islands of Memory (04:46)
3 - The Brecilian Forest (09:53)
4 - Ascension (06:08)
5 - Expansion (08:45)
6 - Metaverse (08:52)
7 - Descension (05:41)

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EUS - Vhinto No Dresce

2011-07-15T14:00:00.004+02:00

Label:Self Release
Released:2011
Genre:Electronic
Style:Ambient,Drone

Tracklisting:

1 - I:Vorágine (09:07)
2 - II:Incapaz (04:17)
3 - III:Dolorosa (07:51)
4 - IV:Tuyo (06:25)
5 - V:Vhinto No Dresce (05:32)

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THANKS JOSE FOR AMAZING MUSIC :-)

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Karnak Temples - The Din of Light

2011-07-13T10:37:00.000+02:00

Label:Debacle Records
Catalog#:DBL064
Format:CD,Album
Country:US
Released:July 2011
Genre:Electronic
Style:Ambient,Drone

Tracklisting:

1 - Soft Borders (07:21)
2 - Foul Nest (14:28)
3 - The Din of Light (15:33)

Adam Svenson of Little Claw, Dull Knife, Du Hexen Hase drops his first solo release! Three long tracks of echoed guitar and daybreak chants. The pieces slowly unfurling, unwind into mantric spirals of lo-fi six-string tessellations. Think of a Jeweled Antler member partying in Dylan Carlson’s basement.

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First Human Ferro - Homo Shargey

2011-07-04T16:35:00.005+02:00

Label:New Nihilism,Requiem Records,Triangle (3)
Catalog#:NN VII,RP 33/2011,TR 046
Format:CD,Album,Limited Edition
Country:Poland
Released:2011
Genre:Electronic
Style:Dark Ambient,Drone,Experimental

Tracklisting:

1 - Alone Under Stars (2:55)
2 - Moon Route (9:04)
3 - Steps & Leaps (4:18)
4 - Trassa Paradoksa (5:43)
5 - Trajectories (3:07)
6 - Dove In The Tunnel (7:28)
7 - Heavens' Resident (3:35)
8 - The Open Book (4:02)
9 - Space Cradle (3:52)
10 - Astra Incognita (6:42)
11 - Dark Matter (4:21)
12 - Memory Crater (3:51)
13 - Rendezvous Forgotten (2:19)
14 - Mare Internum (5:51)
15 - The Visionary (6:40)

The lost trail of really elaborate concept albums is regained with the coming up of this beautifully designed and published album which barely holds the worn out label of "dark ambient" - here refined up to the mystical and spacey level of human inner compulsion to generate something "bigger than life".Story of Alexander Shargey (also known as Yuriy Kondratyuk)with a literary touch of secrecy and unknown part of space exploration gives a food for thought to keep one's awake. A great outlet story for spacey and analogue ambient embellished with great sense of harmony and touch of gentility.

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Voder - Motes

2011-07-03T23:37:00.003+02:00

Label:Distance Recordings
Catalog#:dist023
Format:Mp3,Flac
Country:UK
Released:2011
Genre:Electronic
Style:Ambient,Drone

Tracklisting:

1 - Approach (5:19)
2 - Knot (5:34)
3 - Siena (10:26)
4 - Nest (4:17)
5 - Cine Dust (6:53)
6 - Momentary Blink (6:26)
7 - Soother (4:27)
8 - Leaving-Cylon Tape Loop (6:42)
9 - Ending (3:36)

Motes' is Brighton-based musician Paul Nadin's sophomore release on Distance. While his previous album, 'Ísland', was an attempt to create an audio documentary of his travels around Iceland, Nadim says "[Motes] consists of audio sketches based on my nostalgic experiences of people and places close to me". The tracks on the album are mainly comprised of processed electric guitar and field recordings and range through spacious, ambient soundscapes to more dense, hazy noise filled drone pieces.

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Saåad - Raincoats

2011-06-27T10:44:00.003+02:00

Label:Self Release
Released:01 July 2011
Genre:Electronic
Style:Ambient,Drone,Experimental

Tracklisting:

1 - Love Is A Rent (5:00)
2 - She Is Electricity (3:38)
3 - The Frontier (2:50)
4 - Back Pain / Pain Back (5:40)

The idea behind this release was born during a stormy evening in january. I was recording 'Love Is A Rent' when electricity started to hardly wave. When I listened to the recording, the rain changed into thunder and the sound was strangely undulating, sometimes cracking and clicking. I had to wait until june to record 'She Is Electricity' which ends this work of waiting. These four songs have been recorded at different times and possess their own alterations.

For me this is the best of Saåad so far

AS BEFORE MEGA HIGHLY,HIGHLY RECOMMENDED :-)

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Blue Angels - Isidora

2011-06-24T23:19:00.004+02:00

Label:Digitalis Limited
Catalog#:ltd #204
Format:Cassette,Limited Edition,C30
Country:US
Released:May 2011
Genre:Electronic
Style:Shoegaze,Drone,Ambient

Tracklisting:

1 - Crisp (9:22)
2 - Ceiling (5:08)
3 - Short Era (5:41)
4 - Weekend (6:00)
5 - Wakeuppainted (2:54)

blue angels is the maryland stronghold of blown-out, drone pop with a subterranean gaze from rob kusterer. "isidora" represents the first available release from the project and is crackling with hooks and spooked-out beats. everytime i get drawn into the opener, "crisp," i feel like i'm stuck outside in the street while some megarave is happening next door. it's simultaneously awesome and agonizing.

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Shingles - White Out

2011-06-12T22:32:00.002+02:00

Label:905 Tapes
Catalog#:905.148
Format:Cassette,C30
Country:US
Released:2011
Genre:Electronic
Style:Drone,Ambient,Experimental

Tracklisting:

1 - Night Beach (15:02)
2 - Blood Fuel (2:57)
3 - Thoughtlace (6:58)
4 - Living Lands (4:07)

From Label:

Why jesse derosa (the dude in grasshopper with the glasses, not the hats and shoes) has waited so long to drop material from his solo effort shingles makes no fucking sense to me. these four tracks, recorded in 2010 using only an evi and loopstation, are next-level impressive. derosa creates and manipulates multiple pastel layers, delicately maneuvering through ripples and waves of sound with hannibal lecter-esque focus. this is fine-grained fantasy music. to get similar results, pop a dark crystal vhs into your vcr, but switch the audio and video cables so you can listen to the sound that the images create. bam. white out.

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Kontrolorgan - Kingfisher Exile

2011-05-30T09:15:00.003+02:00

Label:Ghostdrome
Catalog#033
Country:Denmark
Released:2011
Genre:Electronic
Style:Abstract,Drone,Experimental

Tracklisting:

1 - Amulet (4:02)
2 - Nomad (7:42)
3 - Black Creek (5:21)
4 - Another Sister (11:48)
5 - Kingfisher Exile (3:44)

From Label:

We present you with a new album by Kontrolorgan. This one took forever to finish and the result is a rich soundscape from a lurid suburban utopia. Resonance of satanic worship and ornothological static remembrance. Rapid wings. Guitar repetition and flickery vocal shards among swampy murmurs. Broken family escapism. Midnight bug hunting. Hidden spaces.

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Ex Confusion – Something To Remember

2011-05-29T01:01:00.004+02:00

Label:U-Cover CDr Limited
Catalog#:U-COVER cdR 077
Format:CDr, Album, Limited Edition
Country:Belgium
Released:2010
Genre:Electronic
Style:Drone,Ambient

Tracklisting:

1 - No Name #1 (3:09)
2 - Lonely Flower in Her Hand (3:24)
3 - To Know Who You Are (3:54)
4 - Early Winter (4:18)
5 - For Friends (4:59)
6 - Prologue (Before We Begin) (13:43)
7 - Monologue (Second Lie) (11:41)
8 - Epilogue (Death) (4:56)

From Label:

Ex Confusion is Atsuhito Omori who live and work in Japan. "Something to Remember" is composed mainly with his guitar and effects and a synths on some of the tracks. The result is a very open and spacy ambient that still sounds real emotive and comes out of his heart. Beautiful beatless tracks that brings you into misterious and a rich eastern journey.

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Jon Porras - Undercurrent

2011-05-26T02:23:00.004+02:00

Label: Root Strata
Released: 2011
Style: Ambient, Drone

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California Gothic set to the tidal rhythms of the Pacific and tuned into the metabolic pathways of the northwest coast. Porras (Barn Owl/ Elm) has scripted a love poem to the mist, a prayer cast in ghostly reflected guitar and deep pools of distortion. The ominous opening of 'Gray Dunes' is a dense and impenetrable murk, a fear that eventually succumbs to distortion but then gives way to a endless open space of delay in its second half. Its trajectory is symbolic of the record as a whole, with many of the darker paths on 'Undercurrent' leading to lush other worlds of delicate beauty, fragile guitar notes that emerge from the sea for a moment or two then fade back into the whole. 'Calm' and 'Lands End' are lovely spots of respite, clear beams of moonlight breaking through the clouds, a shot of light that ushers in the lone funerary come down of closer 'Gaze'.

Tracklisting:

1) Grey Dunes (9:59)
2) Seascape (5:21)
3) Shore (6:22)
4) For ARH (4:43)
5) Calm (1:17)
6) Peering (5:23)
7) Land`s End (2:18)
8) Gaze (4:17)

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Alessio Ballerini - Me And

2011-05-21T09:09:00.004+02:00

Label:Somehow Recordings
Catalog#:SR-04
Format:CDr,Album,Limited Edition
Country:UK
Released:Oct 2010
Genre:Electronic
Style:Drone,Ambient

1 - Half Water (4:17)
2 - Me And (3:59)
3 - Movement Two (5:02)
4 - In All Of Us (6:58)
5 - Sun Of Venere (6:10)
6 - Movement Three (7:14)
7 - You (5:12)

Norman Records Review:

Lush sound design, deep drone & ambiance from this talented producer. Long lingering washes of sound & gentle crackle give way to a track which demands the title "post-shoegaze shimmer of loveliness". This tune radiates both warmth & power, it fluctuates between neo-classical style drone & epic post-MBV style fuzzscapes. How much fun can you have with longingly sustained notes & blankets of digital static? Some of these sort of releases leave me stuck for words but this often has that grand, ascending quality which can take you up to the skies & leave you floating helplessly & happily up there. This definitely comes across as one of the more spiritual & fully realized drone/ambient releases we've had in for a while - quietly powerful music that literally carries you through different dimensions within the space of one short movement. The relatively long gaps between each track are very welcome as they give you a chance to absorb the peaceful waves of noise from the previous number before welcoming in the next ponderous introduction into the unknown. Really quality gear!

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Meditative Sect - Laceration Points

2011-05-18T15:59:00.003+02:00

Label:Magic Bullet Records
Catalog#:MBL137-1
Format:Vinyl,LP,Album,Limited Edition
Country:US
Released:10 Aug 2010
Genre:Electronic
Style:Drone,Ambient,Psychedelic

Tracklisting:

1 - Eviscerate The Anaconda
(Pre-Colonial Retrospection) (5:46)
2 - Spirit Descends
(Like A Dream, Like A Nightmare) (1:51)
3 - Nuestra Reina De La Montana (1:45)
4 - Holy Liquor, Healing Blood (5:37)
5 - Tres Potencias (Post-Colonial Aspiration) (0:46)
6 - The Reclamation Of Empty Spaces
(Syncretism And Empowerment) (1:31)
7 - To Behead The Apostate Tyrant
With His Own Crucifix (4:30)
8 - Santos Malandros
(Marginalization And The Will To Power) (2:31)
9 - The Power Remains - Looming Ourobouric,
Casting Bloodied Glares Towards The Holy Mountain (4:38)

From Label:

MEDITATIVE SECT is a new project that finds the existing incestuous partnering of creative minds becoming even more incestuously tangled toward the next logical degree of collaboration. Brent Eyestone and Graham Scala not only make up half of the punk band FORENSICS, but also moonlight with solo works under AUGHRA and VENTOUX respectively. All three entities release music under Eyestone’s Magic Bullet label. Mike Haley and Sean Connolly collaborate under the BLOWN DOORS moniker, with Haley moonlighting as WETHER, and Connolly drumming in PYRAMIDS. BLOWN DOORS tends to release material on Haley’s 905 Tapes label, while the other projects are released across several labels. Additionally, Eyestone and Haley are bandmates under the decidedly dark and terrifying BIG CHINA & LITTLE TROUBLE partnering, with numerous releases on both Magic Bullet and 905 Tapes.Now then, if you take all four of these men and put them in a room filled to the rafters with pump organs, guitars, circuit-bent electronics, stacks of SUNN amps, hand-built effects boxes, and vintage recording gear, you get MEDITATIVE SECT, a beast unlike any of the above.Early moments of experimentation were captured, documented, and released via the Uneasy Coexistence album (2×3” CD on Magic Bullet, cassette on 905 Tapes) in 2008. The most recent sessions bring us to Laceration Points, the band’s first true full length. Exclusively being released on vinyl LP, Laceration Points captures an intense and focused experiment in both sound and mood, of which there is virtually no distinction upon playback.Album opener “Eviscerate the Anaconda (Pre-Colonial Retrospection)” initially eases into the listener’s atmosphere like a thick fog over water; rolling and sprawling, yet deliberate. As the album opens up and delves deeper, the sound becomes something along the lines of an ominous or even menacing beauty. Think a drumless SIGUR ROS at home in Iceland while Eyjafjallajokull rains volcanic ash across the European continent. Sure, it’s awe-inspiring and uplifting in a dark way, but you’re still not sure if it’s safe to leave the house when it’s over.Recorded and mixed by the band themselves, sleeved in a stunning 3-color silkscreened chipboard jacket drawn and hand-built by Eyestone, Laceration Points is the perfect companion for those nights and early mornings where one truly wants to be alone.

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Saåad - Pink Sabbath

2011-05-14T10:45:00.004+02:00

Label:Self Release
Released:2011
Genre:Electronic
Style:Ambient,Drone,Experimental

Tracklisting:

1 - Pink Sabbath (2:58)
2 - HIMVLYYV (3:20)
3 - Onkalo (2:59)
4 - SouthBerry Tower (8:29)

Saåad is back with a brand new EP, recorded last year in Brooklyn and somewhere on the Baltic Sea, between Turku and Stockholm. 4 tracks for 17 minutes of cursed chant and vaporous waves of sound, mastered at the infamous LasPolloVegas by Sylvain Suquet.

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Saåad - It Was

2011-05-14T10:39:00.006+02:00

Label:Lacrymal Records
Catalog#:LYL017
Country:France
Released:2010
Genre:Electronic
Style:Ambient,Drone,Experimental

Tracklisting:

1 - Predivan Si (6:42)
2 - Evermoore (6:02)
3 - Try Everyday To Destroy The World (4:37)
4 - Sister (4:49)
5 - The Garden (7:04)
6 - It’s Gone (5:48)
7 - Heather. (3:11)

From Label:

Saåad plays with only digital compressed sounds. ‘It Was’ was recorded with a laptop webcam microphone during december 2009 and mixed between Christmas and New Year Eve by Romain Barbot. 7 tracks of cursed keyboards and epic ukulele, a pink sabbath, certainly drug-free. The perfect soundtrack for a sad winter morning or for your next road trip across Netherlands.

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EUS - Tras El Horizonte

2011-05-13T20:22:00.003+02:00

Label:Self Release
Released:2011
Genre:Electronic
Style:Ambient,Drone

Tracklisting:

1 - Albora (5:40)
2 - El Camino (9:00)
3 - Transparencia (8:19)
4 - Tiempo Muerto (6:46)
5 - Erosión (7:32)
6 - Manos Frías (5:07)
7 - Disolvernos En El Espacio (13:40)

EUS is a one man project from Costa Rica, formed by Jose Acuña in 2008. Its first year he recorded several experimental songs, influenced by Avant Garde music; but was until 2009 that he starting recording his first official album, ‘Última Inhalación’, mixing Ambient and Post Rock styles.His diverse influence, of artists like Brian Eno, Tangerine Dream, Sigur Rós, Stars of the Lid, Windy and Carl, Lustmord, and many others from diverse genres, culminate in an experimental sound keeping into Ambient/Drone note, using diverse recording techniques, MIDI synths, guitar effects, and different music programs.

This new album kick-ass,more good albums on bandcamp,check

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Hobo Cubes - Timeless-Mindless

2011-05-12T13:21:00.000+02:00

Label:Debacle Records
Catalog#:DBL059
Format:CD,Album
Country:US
Released:May 2011
Genre:Electronic
Style:Ambient,Drone,Experimental,Abstract

Tracklisting:

1 - Reaching the Surface (06:31)
2 - Enigmatic Fields (04:15)
3 - The Seeking (05:52)
4 - Revealed (01:56)
5 - Afterbirth (04:02)
6 - Entering Cycle (06:36)
7 - Pure Light Streams (03:30)
8 - Tunnel Wisdom (04:25)
9 - Abstracted (01:01)

From Label:

Frank Ouellette offers up a synth soundtrack to a forgotten X-Files episode, where Mulder and Scully laze around the Area-51 am/pm and talk backwards about dolphins. Fantastic display of synth control by this modern master.

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Shivering In Static - Forgotten Measures

2011-05-11T14:29:00.002+02:00

Label:Self Release
Released:2011
Genre:Electronic
Style:Ambient,Drone,Abstract,Experimental

Tracklisting:

1 - Forgotten Measures (3:46)
2 - Yearnings (6:00)
3 - An Overpowering Aspect (12:26)
4 - Shores And Wet Shoes (3:48)
5 - (Tunelvision) (3:24)
6 - Late And Long Dub (4:07)
7 - Perscriptions...All Night ...(5:49)

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André Foisy/High Aura’D - Split

2011-05-06T01:38:00.003+02:00

Label:Stunned Records
Catalog#:no.118
Format:Cassette,C45
Country:US
Released:2011
Genre:Electronic
Style:Ambient,Drone

Tracklisting:

A - High Aura’d – Dusk Latitudes (22:45)
B - André Foisy - Untitled (21:44)

From Label:

John Kolodij is the one-man powerhouse known as High aura’d, and lately he’s been gaining a much earned reputation for his six-string style and masterful sense of both studio & live composition. Cutting his teeth last year with an excellent Reverb Worship debut as well as accompanying Barn Owl on their 2010 tour, High aura’d beckons us yet again to journey the guitar-guided serpentine path. Entitled “Dusk Latitudes,” this side is a three-part display of the impressive range High aura’d takes his craft on levels of both amplified frequency and pure human feeling. The wonder and awe conjured here will be necessary anchor-points upon entering André Foisy’s spooked arena of souls on Side B. This member of esteemed Chicago group Locrian presents a grim monolith sculpted by his mighty guitar and dystopic groans. Not a trip for the weak of heart, Foisy invites all courageous initiates into an unforgettable labyrinth where quite anything can happen. Limited edition of 111 pro-dubbed & imprinted c45 tapes w/ double-sided color jcard.

AMAZING SPLIT

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Godseye - No More Cake Here

2011-05-04T23:20:00.003+02:00

Label:Notice Recordings
Catalog#:NTR014
Format:Cassette, Limited Edition, C40
Country:US
Released:01 Mar 2011
Genre:Electronic
Style:Drone,Spoken Word,Experimental

Tracklisting:

1 - No More Cake Here (8:56)
2 - Prison Diaries (11:09)
3 - A Menace To Liberty (12:00)
4 - Gideon Asleep By The River (8:23)

"Godseye (Eden Hemming Rose, Brad Rose, and Nathan Young) has wowed us with their first two releases focused on spoken-word readings. With No More Cake Here, texts from Natalie Diaz, Edward Kuznetsov, Emma Goldman, and Seth Abramson are read over beautifully crafted synth textures. From the opening words of the title track, the intensity present in the slow, even readings and barely concealed chaos is unmistakable. Beneath wells of feedback and roiling synths, occasional bursts of light emerge on “Prison Diaries 20th December.” “A Menace To Liberty” delivers a pointedly defiant text from Goldman, and “Gideon Asleep By The River” is contemplative and yearning, almost like a requiem, but perhaps hopeful. This tape mines beauty in the darkness lurking in all corners. Unique and very compelling."

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Clearing - Keepsake

2011-04-20T00:25:00.003+02:00

Release: 2011
Label: No Kings Records
Style: Ambient, Drone

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Murfreesboro resident and prolific mastermind Joseph Volmer (Party Trash, Skylines, etc.) somehow dredges up this album of magical tones from deep spiritual oceans and other parts unknown, and from the first note sends the listener into liminal space. Something heavy and transformative in these sounds, I can hardly believe so much depth can be contained on such a small strip of magnetic tape. A door opening, a very special, very large door, that you didn’t know was there. Just breathtaking. More Clearing items out soon on Wonder Beard, Friendship Bracelet’s UUU tapes, and Solid Melts

Tracklisting:

1) Side A (18:17)
2) Side B (18:10)

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Lunar Miasma – Arrival

2011-04-19T20:55:00.003+02:00

Label:Field Studies
Catalog#:05
Format:Cassette,Limited Edition,C20
Country:US
Released:22 Mar 2011
Genre:Electronic
Style:New Age,Drone,Experimental

Tracklisting:

1 - Arrival (10:11)
2 - Second Moon (9:41)

From Label:

Two long-form reflections on heavy, cosmic synth immersion from Athens, Greece-based Panos Alexiadis. Rather than drifting through the void, his focused, circling analog figures turn inward, suggesting new frontiers not of empty unknown but for expanded personal consciousness. Outer space as inner mantra.

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Vozrozhdeniya - Atmosphere

2011-04-14T22:36:00.003+02:00

Label:Self Release
Country:Mexico
Format:Mp3
Released:04.April 2011
Genre:Electronic
Style:Dark Ambient,Drone

Tracklisting:

1 - Tropopausa (8:09)
2 - Boreas (11:15)
3 - Stratosphere (6:32)
4 - Cronos (6:50)
5 - Thanatos (6:20)
6 - Thermosphere (7:40)
7 - Gagarin (13:13)

Amazing new album from a guy from Mexico.I can not decide which album is better.respect this artist for sure :-)

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UUUUUU - The Astral Travels

2011-04-08T21:51:00.003+02:00

Released: 2011
Style: Ambient, Drone

UUUUUU is Scotland's Derek McArthur. The Astral Travels is a sprawling 75 minute album of lucid guitar drones, flowing through the cosmos at slow-motion-lightspeed. Pretty melodies develop over top of the patient compositions and unfold in a most comfortable fashion.

Tracklisting:

1) Kikujiro (10:24)
2) Shakatari Mound (9:50)
3) Mirror Lies (6:23)
4) Pouring Water into a Pail (7:09)
5) The French Eye (10:47)
6) Dowsed In Theory (10:41)
7) Kindred Spirits of the Inept (8:43)
8) Falling into Lucidity (11:26)

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David Tagg - I Am The Wolf

2011-04-08T01:29:00.002+02:00

Label:Second Sun Recordings
Catalog#:SSRCD-15
Format:CD, Album
Country:US
Released:24 Jan 2011
Genre:Electronic
Style:Ambient,Drone

Tracklisting:

1 - Wolf Suite I (11:46)
2 - Wolf Suite II (17:20)
3 - Wolf Suite III (32:50)

From Label:

Am The Wolf encompasses many of David's trademark styles, from emotive loops to dense layers of drones, while also bringing something new - the sound of David's raw, untreated guitar - to the fore. Wolf is a living breathing space filled with bone-white arch like structures that tower high above an ebbing red ocean. Bits of sonic debris silently fall like snow, making ripples of echoes as they land in the water. A looming sadness pervades the area - perhaps giving us the feeling that we are, in fact, standing in a grave. David's masterful way with etching despair, isolation and total disconnection out of six bronze strings continues to be nothing short of a dreamlike experience for listeners, who themselves are drawn directly into the gloom and tasked with lighting a torch, climbing the stairs out of the Pentecost cellar, and finding their way out of the castle. Outside the tower, the massive red unnavigable landscape watches, waits, knows - knows that no one who has been drawn inside it can leave without being marked.

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2011-04-05T21:42:00.005+02:00

I just updete two track from the new album Sundrip.track 6 and 7 added.also added a new link.sorry about that. enjoy folks :-)

Demian Johnston & Kevin Gan Yuen - Keep Your Hands

2011-04-05T11:21:00.002+02:00

Label:Debacle Records
Catalog#:DBL055
Format:CD,Album
Country:US
Released:2011
Genre:Electronic
Style:Ambient,Drone

Tracklisting:

1 - Told Outloud Indoors (12:27)
2 - The Thought of This... (15:06)

From Label:

Demian Johnston (Great Falls) teams up with Kevin Gan Yuen (Sutekh Hexen) for a blackened doom trip. Densely layered guitars and field recordings. Mastered by Pete Swanson.

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Sundrips – Just a Glimpse

2011-04-05T10:46:00.005+02:00

Label:Debacle Records
Catalog#:DBL057
Format:CD,Album
Country:US
Released:2011
Genre:Electronic
Style:Ambient,Drone

Tracklisting:

1 - When (03:23)
2 - Perseids (06:50)
3 - Greyscale (04:27)
4 - Awash (05:42)
5 - Suspended (03:59)
6 - Access Point (05:26)
7 - Just a Glimpse 05:56

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Nick Maturo and Ryan Connelly exploded out of Montreal last year with no less than 10 tapes of hazy guitar/synth drones. Just a Glimpse finds the duo experimenting with shorter edits and more diverse song-forms than their sidelong tape experiments. Picking a concept out of a jam and distilling it down to its purest part. Making feints and nods towards past heroes like Eno and Shulze but keeping pace with modern masters such as Tim Hecker and Emeralds.

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M. Geddes Gengras - This Could Be The Last Time

2011-04-04T12:38:00.003+02:00

Released: 2011
Label: Stunned Records
Style: Ambient, Drone

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You’re only a moment from pressing play on M. Geddes Gengras’ newest cassette, but nothing can prepare you for the irresistibly lush world that awaits you on the other side of such a simple action. ‘This Could Be the Last Time’ features star-guided tones of gold, silver, and crystal orbiting each other in pure moog magnetism – startling proof of MGG’s commitment to draw listeners to ever-higher elevations of body and mind. A fascinating stage of this maestro’s unfolding synthesizer odyssey

Tracklisting:

1) Splashed Into Mine (4:43)
2) I Receive The Calls (3:14)
3) Light Up (3:04)
4) Comfort Station (9:28)
5) Holy River (1:55)
6) All Night (6:12)
7) Dream Solo (5:46)
8) Freeway (6:16)
9) Trip Thru Hell (8:12)
10) IXI (7:56)
11) For Billy Angel (3:27)
12) Interlude (3:43)
13) Find Yr Love (4:22)

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The Dawns - In Heat & Angels Dust

2011-03-31T17:09:00.003+02:00

Label:Bathetic Records
Catalog#:BATH032
Format:Cassette,Limited Edition,c18
Country:US
Released:2010
Genre:Electronic
Style:Noise,Drone,Ambient

Tracklisting:

1 - In Heat (8:29)
2 - Angels Dust (8:43)

From Label:

Between the ivory, the dirt settles. Flesh becomes swollen. Distorted, amplified woodwinds mixed with relentless, flourishing ARP synthesizers. The dirt is on us all, blood is on all our hands. We're sliced and diced. The Dawns grips the chisel and crawls back into the cave.

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Quonset Slut - Quonset Slut

2011-03-25T11:23:00.003+01:00

Label:Distance Recordings
Catalog#:DIST21
Format:File,MP3,Album,320 kbps
Country:US
Released:2010
Genre:Electronic
Style:Drone,Experimental,Ambient

Tracklisting:

1 - Fuck Backwards (7:28)
2 - Hair (6:56)
3 - Fantasy (12:36)
4 - Ten (17:17)

Ted James Butler is an electronic musician and visual artist from Providence, RI. As Quonset Slut he explores the darker side of guitar based ambient music, creating a sound with is at times both haunting and desolate.The four pieces on this album are comprised of several layers of improvised electric guitar, each layer a direct reaction to the previous. The result is just under 45 minutes of dark, looming ambience which blends elements of doom metal and post-rock.
The cover art, also by Ted, is a colour treated photograph of one of his oil paintings. In addition to the free download available here, Ted is selling this release as a limited edition, hand numbered c44 cassette which repeats the album on both sides.

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Stitched Vision - Open Palms

2011-03-25T01:29:00.002+01:00

Label:Not On Label
Catalog#:none
Format:Cassette,Limited Edition,c24
Country:Australia
Released:2010
Genre:Electronic
Style:Ambient,Drone,Noise

Tracklisting:

1 - Botanic Trance (5:16)
2 - First Loss (6:25)
3 - Expectation (3:23)
4 - Open Palms (8:05)

Newcastle noise musicians have probably had a gutful of people postulating that their work aches to convey something dystopian, post-industrial, or otherwise quintessentially Novocastrian. It’s tempting to draw parallels between Newcastle and Detroit’s noise scene – Newcastle suffered severely from the 1990s recession, which was exacerbated by a 1989 earthquake that left damage untended for years due to the dire economic climate. BHP – formerly one of the city’s major employers – closed its steelworks in 1999, leaving behind a coal mining city that sometimes feels gutted and spread thin to visitors unsure where to go. Superficially, it’s the perfect Australian city for a noise scene.Stitched Vision’s music evokes highways lined with caryards, boarded shopfronts and monolithic box retail outlets on the edge of town at night, lit by yellow street lamps and approaching headlights. Jason Campbell’s spacious synth arpeggios are awash in a viscous hum that feels like passing through a bleak environment while cocooned in the safety of a vehicle. It’s disarmingly calming music, given the way Campbell’s minimalist synth melodies soundly weather a storm that only occasionally threatens to endanger. The analogue tones present an archaic futurism that the surrounding melee of white noise struggles to oppress: the noise is the decay to the synth’s melodious prosperity. It’s hopeful music then, because the synth always prevails.As is the case with much of Newcastle’s noise output over the last decade, this is beautiful and cathartic music, devoid of the macho banality, or academic wizardry, that the genre is commonly bonded with. Open Palms is a paean to the strange malignancy of the urban: harsh, angular and unpredictable, a world moulded and dismantled by human (or corporate) whim. Whether we have Newcastle to thank for Stitched Vision is still a point of conjecture, but this is a moving debut.

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Billiam Wutler Yea - Y Eso Que Muerte

2011-03-18T16:12:00.003+01:00

Label:Debacle Records
Catalog#:DBL035
Format:CDr,Album
Country:US
Released:29 July 2010
Genre:Electronic
Style:Ambient,Drone,Psychedelic,Noise

Tracklisting:

1 - Inner Pole a (01:27)
2 - Inner Pole b (01:17)
3 - Inner Pole c (01:14)
4 - Inner Pole d (00:58)
5 - Inner Pole e (02:23)
6 - Inner Pole f (03:33)
7 - Inner Pole g (02:08)
8 - Inner Pole h (01:22)
9 - Inner Pole i (01:00)
10 - Outer Pole j-z (21:43)

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Emerging out of Moscow comes Billiam Wutler Yea with this disc of seriously damaged and beautiful sampledelica. Like High Wolf being mixed by Mathew Bower “Y Eso Que Muerte” is a dense album of blown out micro-loops and spiraling vortexes of reverb. Themes come in and out of focus. The highs pierce and screech and the fuzzy middle flows constantly, never sitting still. There is a definite focus on enthographic samples here but chillwave this is not. This is true psych-noise at its best and most powerful.

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L.A. Lungs - Cryptic Snuggling

2011-03-17T11:16:00.002+01:00

Label:Debacle Records
Catalog#:DBL034
Format:CDr,Album
Country:US
Released:15 Jun 2010
Genre:Electronic
Style:Ambient,Drone,Psychedelic

Tracklisting:

1 - Cryptic Snuggling (4:07)
2 - Railcar Fracas (4:06)
3 - No Weary For The Wrestlers (6:11)
4 - Don't Be Afraid, The Crow Is Afraid Too (5:30)
5 - Eddie Guerrero (1:44)
6 - Ruffled Rivers (24:10)

From Label:

Epic new dark drone and new-new-age workouts from my favorite married couple Afterthought and Leeward Lung. Cryptic Snuggling is a leap forward into the deep waters of melancholy. The five initial tracks are a trip down the back roads of a torn psyche. Synths hover and dematerialize while strings circle and menace. Fog rolls in and pulls you closer to the sleeping dirt. You think “this would be fine place to die.” Yet, just as you let go, “Ruffled Rivers” picks you up and cradles you downstream.“Ruffled Rivers” may just be the most beautiful thing I have every released and a towering 25 minute opus that shows just how amazing these wonderful artists have become. For fans of Popol Vuh, Curstallistas, Loren Chasse, Anduin, Xela…etc..

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Sun Of 81 - I

2011-03-16T10:09:00.003+01:00

Label:I Had An Accident Records
Catalog#:ih039
Format:Cassette, c32
Country:US
Released:2010
Genre:Electronic
Style:Experimental,Ambient,Drone,Psychedelic

Tracklisting:

1 - Side I (14:55)
2 - Side II (14:35)

From Label:

Sun of 81 is the collaborative effort of California’s Gilbert Avila and Arizona’s Stacy Stephens. A long ride through vast desert lands and red rocky hills in such a dry heat the body’s sweat vaporizes immediately. A broken air condi- tioner full blast blowing hot air countering the heat pouring in the open windows as the afternoons sun reaches its peak. Blistering, sweltering, a thousand verbs to describe one deafening sensation. Limited fluid supply leaves the mind to wander in hysterical desolation. Attempting to cope with such conditions has led to haunting echoes and distant visions that are all but lucid. The road seems to be floating in a dreary haze yet the persistent hums of the engine let you know you are not asleep. 30 minutes with no turning back; you’ve made your commitment.

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Je Suis Le Petit Chevalier - Tropical Malady

2011-03-16T01:12:00.002+01:00

Label:I Had An Accident Records
Catalog#:ih040
Format:Cassette, c36
Country:US
Released:21 Sep 2010
Genre:Electronic
Style:Abstract,Experimental,Drone,Lo-Fi

1 - Teach (5:16)
2 - For The Jungle (5:33)
3 - Maine Jungle (2:59)
4 - Sundust (3:23)
5 - Portland Thailand (10:02)
6 - Circles (7:41)

From Label:

From France, living in Belgium, Tropical Malady was recorded during a residency in the United States - Je Suis Le Petit Chevalier brings out sounds from Portland Oregon and (oddly enough) Upstate New York. Tropical Malady is a haunting auditorial interpretation of Apichatpong Weerasethakul's Tropical Malady; a sound experiment - a ghostly ambience with chant like vocals and echos. Mysterious drone soundscapes and tones set against a television frequency, the motion of the ocean the ebb and flow of emotions

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Kevin Greenspon - Bracing

2011-03-16T01:02:00.006+01:00

Label:Obeast Tapes
Catalog#:15
Format:Cassette,Limited Edition,Album,C30
Country:US
Released:Nov 2009
Genre:Electronic
Style:Experimental,Ambient

Tracklisting:

1 - Softened (3:16)
2 - Ache (3:25)
3 - Petty Dream (3:30)
4 - Sundowner Lane (2:04)
5 - The Frail Body (2:27)
6 - Crutch (3:27)
7 - Bracing (4:53)
8 - Reveille (2:27)
9 - Bloom (4:29)

From Label:

"One of the most unabashedly gushed about records of last year. Full of warm and inviting guitar tones with a dangerous streak of harsh noise running beneath... 9 songs of gorgeous, hazy guitar drones that have nary an equal. ...a strong contender for album of the year."

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Kevin Greenspon - Corridor

2011-02-21T23:02:00.004+01:00

Label:Bridgetown Records
Catalog#:BTR-19
Format:CDr,Limited Edition
Country:US
Released:Feb 2010
Genre:Electronic
Style:Lo-Fi,Noise,Shoegaze,Experimental

Tracklisting:

1 - Once By Chance (1:14)
2 - Sinking (2:59)
3 - Drift Away (3:45)
4 - Alarming Return (2:10)
5 - Eyes Forward Still (2:12)
6 - Unbearable Keepsake (3:14)

From Label:

Corridor is the follow up EP to Bracing, and in my opinion they work more or less as a double album. Corridor picks up where Bracing left off, and ventures into more repetitive tones, and slightly more into the category of noise or ambient than the instrumental pop of it’s counterpart. With this EP Greenspon masters the art of creating space through sound. As the title implies Corridor is an album that expresses space, and time, not only in the length of the songs but rather the distance the encompass in their sonic frequencies. Greenspon recorded this album in City of Industry, CA and on the Central Coast, and I feel that the recording in multiple locations contributes to the depth and feel of the record. ”Drift Away” is a track that I feel exemplifies what I mean when I say music that encompasses space using long tones, and minimalist melody, and ambient noise to bring you from one place to another.

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Bo Becker - Transpiritus

2011-02-16T00:59:00.005+01:00

Label:Self Release
Release:28 February 2011
Genre:Electronic
Style:Ambient,Drone

Tracklisting:

1 - Transpiritus I (10:45)
2 - Transpiritus II (13:15)
3 - Transpiritus III (8:33)

This is something I have wanted to do for a long time. It is one, consistent journey. Much work and time was put into it. It is meant to be played loud, with eyes closed and mind open. I hope you enjoy.Bo Becker

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Everyday Loneliness - An Error In Judgment

2011-02-12T01:15:00.002+01:00

Label:Ekhein
Catalog#:EK39
Format:Cassette,Limited Edition,C31
Country:US
Released:Jun 2010
Genre:Electronic
Style:Drone,Ambient

Tracklisting:

1 - A Contemplation Of Regressive Thoughts /
Prelude To The Darkness (14:56)
2 - Watch Over (14:38)

From Label:

"A collection of grieving cycles from Jon Borges (Pedestrian Deposit, Emaciator, Monorial Trespassing Label). Through use of very simple and to-the-point cassette loops, Borges conveys someone coming to a conclusion on this release. There is always a lesson to be learned. First solo works in quite some time. "

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Demian Johnston & Mink Stole - Trailed & Kept

2011-02-01T15:45:00.003+01:00

Label:Debacle Records
Format:CDr,Album
Country:US
Released:01 Feb.2011
Genre:Electronic
Style:Ambient,Drone,Noise

Tracklisting:

1 - Crept Into Homes (03:59)
2 - Burn Under Our Fingernails (17:33)
3 - Devil Takes the Something (05:28)
4 - Dust and Sad (12:58)
5 - The Whitening (08:19)
6 - Virgin Piles (07:17)
7 - Of Our Rivals (07:15)

From Label:

Demian Johnston of Great Falls, Playing Enemy, and the phenomenal Dead Accents label teams up with Mink Stole (Chris Negrete of Radiation 4) for a colossal mind-warp. Born in Seattle from one single take guitar/pedal improv by Demian, “Trailed & Kept” was then sent to Chris in LA to mangle how he saw fit. What resulted is a monumental mixture of drone, metal, and noise tied together with a rich dose of processed vocals, a mixture couldn’t have resulted from either of these artists working alone.For fans of: Aethenor, Kevin Drumm, Pyramids, or Ajilvsga.

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Yellow Crystal Star - Rainbow Bridge To Dream Mirror Orb

2011-01-31T23:55:00.001+01:00

Label:Jugular Forest
Catalog#:J4F4340
Format:Cassette,Limited Edition,C30
Country:US
Released:Mar 2010
Genre:Electronic
Style:Ambient,Drone,Noise

Tracklisting:

1 - Amaranth (14:32)
2 - A Way In A Way Out (14:43)

From Label:

unrestrained walls of guitar from mark billings.field recordings and guitarwith more collage and straight drone than his previous tape on jugular forest.hidden mardi-gras energy. this is a different version of mark's upcoming LP on oms-b.

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whirr - Black Island

2011-01-30T23:27:00.003+01:00

Label:Self Release
Format:Digital
Country:Catalonia
Released:2011
Genre: Electronic
Style:Ambient,Drone

Tracklisting:

1 - Clouded (1:34)
2 - Hipotermia (2:46)
3 - Vigilia (5:00)
4 - Quars (1:52)
5 - Summerged (4:07)
6 - Kaleidoscuro (3:35)
7 - Lost Chant (7:22)

Whirr is Andres from Catalonia. Black Island is his first rec. after some years working with visuals.

"His sound try to introduce you in the inner island of hidden consciousness. He use synths and some acoustic intruments, some guitar, some voice. A few simple layers ringing slowly through space, vibrating and resonating, looking for the connection between waves and states of mind."

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Pyramid Sessions - Pyramid Sessions Vol.1

2011-01-28T12:35:00.003+01:00

Label:Mars Pyramid
Catalog#:MP012
Format:CDr,Album
Country:US
Released:2010
Genre:Electronic
Style:Ambient,Drone,Psychedelic

Tracklisting:

1 - Shields of Innocence (19:34)
2 - Sovereign's Boast (18:43)
3 - Wars Against Reality (20:07)

From Label:

The Pyramid Sessions evolved from a series of irregular improvisational jam sessions by Burlington based MARS PYRAMID recording artists, held at the Pyramid Studios. The first volume of these sessions captures the diversity of musical styles by these artists, combing their unique individual aesthetics to achieve surprisingly cohesive and mesmerizing compositions that show that the whole often is greater than the sum of its parts.MARS PYRAMID artists involved in Pyramid Sessions “Vol. 1 include Kevin Lynam, Tyler Brassard (Even The Dew Is Porous), JB Ledoux, Adrian Benoit, Rebecca Kopycinski (the le duo) and Jay Blanchard

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Konntinent - Down With Candy

2011-01-26T12:45:00.004+01:00

Label:Debacle Records
Format:Cdr
Country:US
Released:25 Jan 2011
Genre:Electronic
Style:Drone,Experimental,Abstract

Tracklisting:

1 - Down With Candy (6:03)
2 - 45 Magnificent Horses (6:02)
3 - Red Lion (5:28)
4 - New Neo Tokyo / From the Beach, Odaiba Bay (9:41)
5 - All Gamma, All Night (6:01)

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Recently hailed by Pitchfork as a contemporary of Emeralds, Black to Comm, and Oneohtrix Point Never, Antony Harrison’s Konntinent project takes another turn on Down With Candy. Recorded as single take live improvisation for an OTObahn show at London's Cafe Oto in November last year, later edited into a complete release via the power of Logic. Antony blends the crystalline tones and timbres of a dubstep producer with the kosmische approach of Rene Hell into a travelogue of a cold London.

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Motion Sickness of Time Travel - Awakening

2011-01-23T17:51:00.004+01:00

Label:Dial Square Tapes
Catalog#:DSQ050
Format:Cassette,Limited Edition,C45
Country:US
Released:29 Oct 2010
Genre:Electronic
Style:Ambient,Drone,Psychedelic

Tracklisting:

1 - Awakening (11:14)
2 - Eulogy To You And Your Kids (9:27)
3 - 1984 Or The Secret Place (20:25)

From Label:

"Rachel Evans writes the obituary for all things beautiful and sends them off on a crystalline voyage to another world, her vocals as mesmerizing as ever."

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Tidal - Hyperlight

2011-01-22T14:39:00.004+01:00

Label:2:00AM Tapes
Catalog#:2AM21
Format:Cassette,Limited Edition,C30
Country:US
Released:2010
Genre:Electronic
Style:Drone,Ambient,Noise

Trackilsting:

1 - Space Cloud Seed (16:00)
2 - Prism (4:32)
3 - Double Death (7:44)

Foxy Digitalis Reviews:

"Hyperlight" is a very good, well-played series of three pieces composed of repeating synth chords, tape loops, and murmured vocals, and is the first release by the musician Jimmy Billingham's musical project Tidal. Although the music on the cassette isn't conventionally breaking the boundaries that it is composed within—on a wider level, there are not many formal or aesthetic ideas per se from the recordings to set them apart from similar-sounding artists—the strength and the originality of the music comes instead through Billingham's working intelligently within his chosen framework, as well as in his ability to write dark, compelling chord progressions and to set a mood. The timbre of the music itself and the use of musical development is solemn and moving, and reminiscent at times of Francis Seyrig's organ score to "Last Year at Marienbad."The cassette's A-side, made up of a long piece called "Space Cloud Seed," begins as taped notes are played at varying speeds against very interesting keyboard figures, making up the strongest part of the album's overall design. The piece then progresses into intensely layered, wavering tones. The cassette's B-side, made up of pieces called "Prism" and "Double Death," is not as strong, and its pieces are at first arranged in a quiet, subtle fashion before returning to a harsher, more ominous sound. Although the album does feel in a sense like it loses its focus near its end, it will be interesting to see where Billingham will take his sound, and to hear further recordings from this project.

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Yellowknife - Shimerbox

2011-01-18T00:36:00.002+01:00

Label:Mars Pyramid
Catalog#:MP010
Format:CDr,Album
Country:US
Released:2010
Genre:Electronic
Style:Ambient,Drone,Field Recording

Tracklisting:

1 - Shimerbox (47:30)

From Label:

The premiere release by Vermont duo Josh LaClair and Jay Blanchard, Yellowknife’s “Shimmerbox” is a 47-minute long epic track that combines computer-generated drones with lush synthesizer melodies, vinyl loops & crackle, field recordings and a grand finale featuring a gamelan session. Highly recommended for fans of Philip Jeck or William Basinski.
Mastered by Greg Davis (Kranky, Carpark, Autumn Records)

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Dead Drums - Fashion Defense / Human Hair

2011-01-16T11:42:00.003+01:00

Label:Bathetic Records
Catalog#:BATH031
Format:Cassette, Limited Edition, c40
Country:US
Released:2010
Genre:Electronic
Style:Lo-Fi,Drone,Experimental,Ambient

Tracklisting:

Fashion Defense

A1 - Literally Illiterate (2:20)
A2 - Girls (1:46)
A3 - Fashion Defense (1:25)
A4 - More Perfecter (2:48)
A5 - Mr.Horse/Let Us Build A Wood Bridge
Together (3:33)
A6 - Narcoleptic Shock (2:11)
A7 - We Live In A House (2:31)
A8 - Edna (1:22)

Human Hair

B1 - Total Fitness (2:07)
B2 - Carousin USA (5:55)
B3 - Baabbby (2:34)
B4 - Carpe Diem (2:27)
B5 - Richmond Clam / Likelihood (4:33)
B6 - A Thousand (1:07)

From Label:

A slow motion trip into a flooded city for fun. Extended stay in the bubbles, the surges of white wash, the drowning neon gashes. We wanted to believe there would always be this white light. It faded and got more beautiful.

FOR MEDITATION,HEALING,FOR OLD MEMORIES,CHILDHOOD,FOR EVERYTHING YOU WANT JUST IMAGINE :-) AMAZING

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Jüppala Kääpiö - Rainbow Mask

2011-01-13T23:24:00.003+01:00

Label:omnimemento
Catalog#:om 02
Format:Vinyl,12,Limited Edition
Country:Switzerland
Released:23 May 2010
Genre:Electronic
Style:Shoegaze,Drone,Psychedelic,Ambient

Tracklisting:

1 - Rainbow Mask (19:14)
2 - Masked Rainbow (18:38)

"Rainbow Mask" is a 12" record which contains a long piece on each side. The sound was originally taken from Jüppala Kääpio's first session in Geneva in Autumn 2006. Hitoshi processed Carole's viola and voice through various effectors in realtime. And they kept playing until the studio space was totally filled with our harmony and noises. Although the sound was quite rough, the experience in the space was strong enough to impress themselves. They have listened, edited and forgotten the recording, again and again. Then finally the brewed results were contained in this record. The process often happens during Hitoshi's sound work. He seriously considers the effect as 'sound fermentation', that increases the astringency and richness of the sound, even if it's in decaying process. Side A is a noisy psychedelic drone music which is closer to the original session. It may remind you some of Hitoshi's work, as "Spiracle" (if you know the name). Side B is a quiet work, like an ambient music. They played piano together while listening to the original session, and Carole acoustically overdubbed viola tracks afterwards. Then, the sound of the original session was mostly removed. This side sounds nice by 45 rpm as well. The mask on the cover was made by Carole, when she was 12 years old. The titles of each piece were also borrowed from this innocent craziness. How about their "rainbow fermentation technique" which comes from the country of cheese and wine 'Switzerland', and the country of natto (fermented soybeans) and sake 'Japan'?

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Nobuto Suda - Ecotone

2011-01-12T12:39:00.003+01:00

Label:Somehow Recordings
Catalog#:SR-02
Format:CDr
Country:UK
Released:2010
Genre:Electronic
Style:Ambient,Drone,Field Recording

Tracklisting:

1 - Ecotone (16:48)
2 - Connected Place (11:07)
3 - Fluidity (7:32)
4 - Abundant (8:00)
5 - Fragment Of The Sun (3:54)
6 - Somewhere (9:14)

Based in Kyoto, Japan, Nobuto Suda blends field recordings with ambient drones to produce a glacial slide through almost an hour. Even in such stark soundscapes as these, it’s easy for field recordings to clutter the work but Suda succeeds in keeping his unobtrusive and they never once feel disruptive to the flow of the sound. Graceful and spacious, Ecotone is a must for anyone who likes to immerse themselves in miminalism.

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Moods - The Sanctuary In You

2011-01-07T01:19:00.003+01:00

Label:Sacred Phrases
Catalog#:SP-14
Format:Cassette,Limited Edition,C41
Country:US
Released:2010
Genre:Electronic
Style:Drone, Ambient

Tracklisting:

1 - The Pure (6:21)
2 - Made In Dreams (2:15)
3 - Earthling (6:39)
4 - Vibrational Elements (4:27)
5 - Fantasies Laced With Pearl (6:23)
6 - Energy Relics (2:33)
7 - Heal For Infinity (7:29)
8 - Aerial (3:19)

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Interrupted streams of thought. Keys rippling in the air. This audio wavers amidst the calm atmosphere where familiar emotions linger disguised as waveforms. This is a must for those craving a retreat.

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Happy New Year

2010-12-31T02:14:00.003+01:00

Hi Folks :-)
Another year behind us and a lot of good music.I hope that next year will be better.
I wish you all the best,and much good drone :-) See you next year.

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VCV - HD 98618

2010-12-31T02:06:00.003+01:00

Label:Second Sun Recordings
Catalog#:SSRCD-03
Format:CDr, Album, Limited Edition
Country:US
Released:28 Feb 2010
Genre:Electronic
Style:Drone,Minimal,Ambient

Tracklisting:

1 - Untitled (12:17)
2 - Untitled (3:48)
3 - Untitled (5:00)
4 - Untitled (20:38)
5 - Untitled (13:58)
6 - Untitled (6:17)

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Recorded live during David's visit to South Carolina in May, 2007 and sufficiently aged like a dry red wine in the SSR cellars since then, HD 98618 is VCV singing in the deep southern Summer. Open windows, palm trees and humidity, VCV have never sounded this warm or inviting before. Where you could say the first three records were transmissions from a distant planet, light years away, HD 98618 is the sound of a band in a room next door, playing towering tributes to the trees and the night air. This record is also a more diversified sound for VCV, as Brian played more organ and bass than guitar, and David utilized a more stripped-down guitar setup as well. Woodshop droning and water-tower bass, covered in the textural airy production sound from Brian's Eight Thousander album, which was recorded at the same time. Packaged in a similar style as David's Wind Blown Guitar album and limited to 100 copies.

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Emuul - Crawling Across The Rafters

2010-12-31T02:01:00.003+01:00

Label:Anathema Sound
Catalog#:AS31
Format:Cassette,Limited Edition,C46
Country:US
Released:2010
Genre:Electronic
Style:Ambient,Drone

Tracklisting:

1 - Into Darkened Hallways (8:01)
2 - Without Breathing (14:57)
3 - A Shipwreck Waltz (10:31)
4 - Haunting With M (7:06)
5 - Firenze (5:07)

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You'd be hard-pressed to find a better, more fully realized debut from 2009 than Emuul's The Ghostwood Estates. Since its release, Seattle's Kyle Iman has consistently proven himself to be a master of subtle, moody atmosphere. His newest release shows an artist continuing to craft and mature an already singular and accomplished aesthetic. With a sound perfectly befitting of its haunting title, Crawling Across the Rafters utilizes the sparest traces of guitar, synth, and whispered vocals to weave passages of deep sadness and beauty. There's a remarkable amount of variety between these tracks, from long form instrumentals to breathy, morose pop. Yet Iman manages to navigate all spaces with a sense of care and delicacy that's immediately evident and undeniably moving to behold. Highly recommended listening for the deepest hours of night."

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Mendel Kaelen - Remembering What Was

2010-12-31T01:52:00.002+01:00

Label:Self Release
Catalog#:SR001
Format:CD, Album
Country:Netherlands
Released:2010
Genre:Electronic
Style:Ambient,Drone,Experimental

Tracklisting:

1 - Satori (29:08)
2 - Forgetting To Remember (13:13)
3 - In The Stillness (13:13)
4 - Light Of Nature (10:25)

Some ambient music is a direct expression of the landscapes that engendered it. A good example would be a great deal of Scandinavian (dark) ambient, where desolate environments and long periods of light and dark leap vividly from the soundscapes. So, why couldn’t we do the same in the Netherlands?Remembering What Was Forgotten by Mendel Kaelen might just be an attempt at achieving such an effect. The four long soundscapes on this album revolve around field recordings and lovingly produced synths and arhythmic percussion, such as rainmakers. The massive first track definitely goes in that direction, at least, giving center stage to water in many forms, that element so quintessential to Dutch culture. “Forgetting To Remember” links the theme of defective memory (or even dementia?) to barren, windswept musical landscapes, achieving a calm but melancholic whole. “In the stillness” continues in this vein with some treated minimalist piano sounds and soft drones. The final track builds up more intensity, coupling bright layered drones with more percussion.Altogether, this is an ambient album by the book, with meticulous production and a level of refinement not often encountered in Dutch artists. As a quick comparison, I’d say it sounds a bit like Northaunt, transposed down a few degrees to Dutch latitudes. It is self-released on CD in a zen-like digipak, so quite professionally formatted as well. Mendel Kaelen has delivered very fine work here, that comes highly recommended to ambient lovers.

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1958-2009 - III

2010-12-31T01:37:00.002+01:00

Label:Ekhein
Catalog#:EK41
Format:Cassette,Limited Edition,C30
Country:US
Released:Jun 2010
Genre:Electronic
Style:Ambient,Drone

Tracklisting:

A - Untitled (14:54)
B - Untitled (12:55)

april 2010 release ; final release from this duo project between matt “earn” sullivan & alex “mirror to mirror” twomey, heard here riding a crystal glacier through the neverland ranch, halting only inches from the face of the floral clock ...

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Matthew Florianz - Koude Handen

2010-12-27T00:57:00.003+01:00

Label:Not On Label (Self-released)
Catalog#:none
Format:9 x File, MP3
Country:Netherlands
Released:01 Oct 2010
Genre:Electronic
Style:Dark Ambient,Drone,Experimental

Tracklisting:

1 - Koude Handen (5:08)
2 - Wakker (8:06)
3 - Vert (4:07)
4 - Klein (7:28)
5 - Tra (7:03)
6 - Wissel (6:10)
7 - Gloed (6:33)
8 - Fonkel (5:33)
9 - Pas (5:05)

From Homepage:

Following the brooding music of Maalbeek (released in 2008), Koude Handen threads similar paths. Matthew writes; "... I don't seem to want to leave those familiar surroundings in which I found Maalbeek, GrijsGebied and really all of my music. When I thought to have discovered everything about that place, it surprised me with this new find ..."Koude Handen recordings took place between December and January of 2009/2010. The album's unique sound is a result of Matthew's approach to creating music. He uses only one synthesizer (the Korg X5d) supplemented by environmental recordings. An approach to creating music that he has used since his first album release of Grijsgebied (2001).

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Earn - In a Year

2010-12-24T16:48:00.002+01:00

Label:Jugular Forest
Catalog#:J4F4341
Format:Cassette,Limited Edition, C30
Country:US
Released:Mar 2010
Genre:Electronic
Style:Drone,Experimental,Ambient

Tracklisting:

1 - In A Year (3:04)
2 - Hayward Call (0:52)
3 - Tri-City (4:35)
4 - White Car (3:07)
5 - Twin (2:32)
6 - No More Days (0:39)
7 - Feather (For Charles) (2:18)
8 - Six Circles (1:51)
9 - A Blue Room (5:07)
10 - Brengle Terrace (0:56)
11 - Proper Age (3:02)
12 - Lucy (1:33)

From Label:

a collection of guitar-based pieces from matthew sullivan (ekhein label). delivered in a variety of ways with sweet and hopeful ambient interludes, self-punishing loops,the saddest air organ, and beautiful guitar lines buried thick under harsh, static lashings.recorded over a large amount of time in many different places.a melody for every city,a reminder of time taking its toll.

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Winter Drones - Blood In The Coffin

2010-12-22T00:32:00.003+01:00

Label:Weird Forest
Country:US
Released:2010
Genre:Electronic
Style:Drone,Shoegaze,Psychedelic,Ambient

Tracklisting:

1 - Watch Your Eyes (3:50)
2 - Winnie Coopers Bones (4:43)
3 - Bongs Dream (7:21)
4 - Death Moon Reprise (2:55)
5 - Stiff Wizard (10:32)
6 - Undreamed/Unheard (2:24)
7 - Two Long Wks Prt.2 (2:50)

HIGHLY,HIGHLY RECOMMENDED

From Boomkat:

Amazing album of distorted shoegaze treatments and darkside drones from a member of Hush Arbors. Massive recommendation for fans of Altar Eagle and My Bloody Valentine* As the snow creeps over our green and pleasant land there could be little better than some seasonal drone music to ring around us as we settle in and batten down the hatches. From their name, you would expect Winter Drones to be able to deliver this kind of material in spades, but thisLondon-based band has more under the hood than just a few sustained tones here and there. In fact one of the first comparisons that springs to mind is My Bloody Valentine or early Jesus & Mary Chain; ‘Blood In The Coffin’ is jam packed with the kind of hazy bliss we last witnessed on ‘Loveless’ or ‘Psychocandy’. That’s not to say the band are some kind of nu-gaze pretenders, this music doesn’t feel forced or trite any more than it feels part of some kind of hip scene or another – rather you have the sense that the echoes of MBV come as a natural progression of their own base elements. Sure there are drones in the mix somewhere, but they come wrapped in heady white noise and surprisingly urgent percussion. When the band takes a turn for the ambient, it feels almost like a pit-stop before they embark on another urgent trip into heady post-shoegaze noise and the fact that the record comes with the coveted Weird Forest seal of approval makes you aware that you’re listening to something just that little bit more special than usual. A huge, snowy recommendation.

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Witxes - Scrawls #01

2010-12-18T00:51:00.002+01:00

Label:Self Released
Format:Cd-r Limited Edition
Country:France
Released:17 Dec 2010
Genre:Electronic
Style:Ambient,Drone,Experimental,Noise

Traclisting:

1 - The Wraith (02:38)
2 - Pitfallen (04:47)
3 - Disquietude (04:31)
4 - With Stung Eyes (03:03)
5 - The Dance (02:38)
6 - Six Pears (05:01)
7 - Burial of the Fox (05:32)
8 - Grenelefe (04:57)
9 - Shelley (04:17)
10 - Ramghost (on a Moonlit Avenue) (04:21)
11 - Julius & Hobbes (03:58)
12 - Before Strata (08:12)
13 - Aaron & Abe (06:14)

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Mortuus Auris & The Black Hand - Sleep

2010-12-16T09:56:00.003+01:00

Label:Stunned Records
Catalog#:no. 95
Format:Cassette, Limited Edition, c33
Country:US
Released:18 Oct 2010
Genre:Electronic
Style:Ambient,Drone,Experimental

Track listing:

1 - Drift (15:18)
2 - Doze (7:00)
3 - Deeply (10:18)

From Label:

His third release with Stunned finds MABH’s Peter Taylor explaining: "The journey to fatherhood took a turn I never expected. Upon the birth of my daughter I felt compelled to communicate in the early stages of her life. A newborn has a whole world of sound and shapes to contend with. I used this as a point of reference to begin a sonic trip into nebula static, white noise and otherworldly tones. I built a pallet from a hundred culled cassette tapes, eroded vinyl and electronic tones. ‘sleep,’ is conceived for ultimate spatial displacement, allowing the listener to absorb, focus and drift. Each tone is focused on a particular emotion and state of slumber — the drift, the doze and the deep sleep.

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Mike Shiflet - Llanos

2010-12-14T01:22:00.005+01:00

Label:Not On Label(Self-released)
Catalog#:none
Format:CD,Album
Country:US
Released:01 Nov 2010
Genre:Electronic
Style:Noise,Ambient,Drone

Tracklisting:

1 - Antrim (6:13)
2 - Llanos (5:27)
3 - Pink Meadow (11:57)
4 - Sunbathers (9:25)
5 - Web Over Glen Echo (3:42)
6 - Gunpowder (For Raglani) (6:10)

From Boomkat:

Prolific noise artist and Keith Fullerton Whitman cohort Mike Shiflet presents one of his most accomplished albums, amidst a back catalogue of over 50 releases, for his own Editions Shiflet imprint. As the accompanying sleevenotes describe, "Llanos is an album not only about late summer evenings spent in tall grass, but also a collision of worlds and tangled webs of memory", manifested in six wonderfully diverse tracks of immersive drone noise and avant-garde electronic expressions. Mike's music in 'Llanos' is all about visceral tones and textures with a special sensitivity to their most minute grain and shapes, and the subtly expansive quiet/loud spaces they inhabit. When he gets loud and noisy it's rarely overbearingly so, as the distinctly dynamic movement and finely sculpted shapes simply dazzle rather than offend, as with the crushing, O'Malley-esque riffage and gale force howl of 'Sunbathers', proving a superior skill to his craft. In quieter mode on 'Antrim' or the majestic title track he still deploys abrasive sounds but uses them to tenderise the more organic and melodic elements so they gently weep blood in the beautiful manner. However, the album's strongest tracks occurs when he tempers the harsh elements in 'Web Over Echo Glen' and 'Gunpowder (For Ragland)' to reveal a truly enigmatic display of Tim Hecker style ambient shoegaze, capturing that rarest, most intangible sense of gaseous mystery and intrigue. Most of all, he knows that the clean sounds need the dirt to put them in context, and he does this incredibly well

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Coldstream - South Island

2010-12-09T21:12:00.003+01:00

Label:Under The Spire
Catalog#:spire028
Format:CDr,Album,Limited Edition
Country:UK
Released:19 Apr 2010
Genre:Electronic
Style:Drone, Ambient

Tracklisting:

1 - South Island (9:51)
2 - Golden Road (11:47)
3 - Passing Place (12:27)
4 - Strond (14:04)

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All Black Everything - Gentle Floor

2010-12-06T01:46:00.004+01:00

Label:Self Release
Release:November 2010
Country:US
Genre:Electronic
Style:Ambient,Drone,Field Recording

Tracklisting:

1 - Anna (01:56)
2 - Haunt Haunt Haunt Haunt Haunt (06:07)
3 - Cute Without the E (06:14)
4 - Fox House (06:34)
5 - Disarm II (07:48)
6 - Coral (06:39)

All Black Everything is ambient/drone music made out of manipulated and looped household field recordings, found sounds, video and audio samples, and live instruments. "Gentle Floor" is the first collection of songs.

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Bo Becker - Zephyria

2010-11-26T18:59:00.002+01:00

Label:Self Release
Release:2010
Genre:Electronic
Style:Ambient,Drone

Tracklisting:

1 - Islands of Memory (4:46)
2 - Zephyria (9:26)
3 - Anthracene Fluorescence (6:55)

The Zephyria EP features the track "Islands of Memory" from the upcoming full length album by Bo Becker along with "Zephyria" and an unreleased b-side from Octodurum titled "Anthracene Fluorescence"

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Pale Blue Sky - Souvenir

2010-11-24T20:59:00.003+01:00

Label:Jugular Forest
Catalog#:J4F4249
Format:Cassette, Limited Edition, C23
Country:US
Released:Mar 2010
Genre:Electronic
Style:Drone,Ambient

Tracklisting:

1 - Visage (6:26)
2 - Lay, Wait (4:52)
3 - The Things We Leave Behind (4:52)
4 - Should (2:57)
5 - Fell (4:19)

The minimal synthesizer compositions of the Arbor label founder Mike Pollard have always fascinated me. From his work as Treetops to his latest moniker Pale Blue Sky, Pollard has proposed top-notch soundscapes. What makes his work so unique is its sonic capabilities; it doesn't present itself as a mind-blowing spectacle as much as it does provide a moderate amount of sound that seems too skeletal to ignore.With Souvenir, we have five simply beautiful pieces. Unlike other synth-utilizing contemporaries, the tone is very warm and emphasizes lower frequencies. These particular frequencies aren't the kind that would shake the speakers, but instead fill the room with a calm rumble. Every pulsating tone that Pollard generates overlaps into an enveloping blanket of keys that remains subtle and understated, even at its most lush moments ("Lay, Wait" for example). Field recordings are also creatively utilized on the closer "Fell" which translate into a subdued crackle rather than revealing any discernible outdoor sounds. To summarize, Pale Blue Sky stuns me once again (this being the second release I've heard aside Shades of Grey) with this gorgeously-suited-for-analog, 23-minute opus. Highly recommended.

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Oathless - Standing Where Our Paths Shall Meet

2010-11-23T10:57:00.003+01:00

Label:Hawk Moon Records
Release Date: 29th November 2010
Format:Mp3
Country:UK
Genre:Electronic
Style:Drone,Ambient,Minimal

Tracklisting:

1 - Under Porcelain Wings (6:21)
2 - Cascading Skies (5:07)
3 - A Single Rose (1:53)
4 - Winter (A Prelude) (3:48)
5 - White Horizons (2:00)
6 - Tigerlily (7:15)
7 - Winter Into Autumn (8:56)
8 - Ghost Providence (3:38)

From Label:

When Oathless was initially conceived as an acoustic folk effort in late 2006 by Simon Housley, the current sound associated with the project that has constantly evolved in the past four years would have been hard to imagine with the raw and simplistic sound that once existed. “Standing Where Our Paths Shall Meet” is an ambient release of much more sophistication and quality than the original three-track demo released in 2007. From the moment the first resonating ambient sounds of 'Under Porcelain Wings' reach your ears, there is a much darker sound than heard in previous releases. Following on from 'Zephyr' (the last release by Oathless), the sound of the album focuses on the upcoming cold of autumn and winter, embodied in particular in the aforementioned opening track and 'Tigerlily'. What has become a theme of more recent releases is still present, the slow, reverb-drenched strings that ooze. Heavily processed piano also underlies a number of tracks, none more so than the album's closer 'Ghost Providence', which ends the album in a very minimalist style to evoke a feeling of isolation and cold as winter approaches. Through subtle melodies and slow, reverberated chord changes, Standing Where Our Paths Shall Meet is an album that the listener can either choose to sit down and relax to use as a soundtrack for autumn and winter, or to listen to in more depth and to find more meaning in the sound after each listen, maybe attributing and associating their own experiences to the sound encapsulating them.

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Circle Bros - Haven

2010-11-20T01:49:00.003+01:00

Label:Morc Records
Catalog#:morc 55
Format:Vinyl, LP, Ltd
Country:Belgium
Released:25 May 2010
Genre:Electronic
Style:Shoegaze,Drone,Experimental

Tracklisting:

1 - No Turning Back (8:11)
2 - Sure (3:19)
3 - Your Sound (4:56)
4 - Sure 2 (5:01)
5 - Unlikely (6:18)
6 - Waiting Is Not Killing Time (6:49)

From Boomkat:

The first Circle Bros album in almost a decade, Haven has in fact been pieced together from tracks originally composed for a number of different releases, but ultimately found themselves compiled into a single sequence and mastered by Drekka's Michael Anderson. The first - and longest - piece introduces itself with layers of ultra-lo-fi guitars and jumbled, processed percussive details, all of which you tend to expect will collapse into a horizontal, droning arrangement. Instead there's a more pop-oriented (if still rather dark) agenda afoot. Using the kind of worn-out tape delay grooves that make Grouper recordings so vital and mysterious, Haven unfolds further with 'Sure' and 'Sure 2', spooling through layers of controlled feedback and warm, rumbling organ drones, all lined up alongside off-topic guitar musings and degraded vocals. Aiming for a softer, more hiss-laden approach, 'Your Sound' proves to be quite bewitching, taking the grotty, grinding thrum of the tape as its central instrument, while the final two entries ('Unlikely' and 'Waiting Is Not Killing Time') clear the air a little with a crisper collage-based approach to loop composition that stitches together found sounds as well as those ever-present blurred guitar melodies.

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Gloga - In Loving, We Dissolve

2010-11-17T23:22:00.003+01:00

Label:Self Release
Format:Mp3
Released:2010
Genre:Electronic
Style:Noise,Drone,Ambient,Experimental

Tracklisting:

1 - ...We Dissolve (02:25)
2 - Sweet Girls (03:34)
3 - Lip Sports (03:41)
4 - Pink (02:23)
5 - As Neon Crackles and Fades (03:15)
6 - Storm (02:58)
7 - Falling Into Myself (02:15)
8 - Squid (04:59)
9 - In Loving... (03:19)

This album is much more emotional, and less detached than the previous work I've done. Shorter songs, much more melody, and a wider range of sounds.Crumbling, distorted synts, distant vocal chants, and crippled feedback loops trudging through songs of love and love-loss.omes complete with hidden treats and subliminal messages underneath it all.

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AUN - Black Pyramid

2010-11-16T21:12:00.003+01:00

Label:Cyclic Law
Catalog#:29th Cycle
Format:CD,Album
Country:Canada
Released:Oct 2010
Genre:Electronic
Style:Dark Ambient,Drone,Experimental,Noise

Tracklisting:

1 - Phoenix (7:04)
2 - Taurus Ten (6:19)
3 - Black Pyramid (7:59)
4 - Ursa Major (6:38)
5 - 2095 (8:02)
6 - Ursa Minor (2:42)
7 - Shining (9:15)

From Label:

Continuing on the foundations laid with the acclaimed 2009 album Motorsleep, AUN are further blurring the line where earth and space intersect with the ominous floating monolith "Black Pyramid". Casting a new shadow, the seven tracks that make up Black Pyramid are loosely inspired by the worlds created by visionary french artist Enki Bilal. While still dealing in dark matter, the twisted guitar and electronics mutations find the duo at their most melodic, luminous and accessible yet, but in the world of AUN there is always a very fine line between light and darkness. AUN's singular psychedelic ambient drones laid on Black Pyramid definitely marks this release as some of their best work yet, and this says a lot about the sheer power of this new album given their prolific and highly praised discography.Edition of 1000 copies in 4 Panel Digipack.7 Tracks, Running Time: 48:00

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Millipede - Full Bloom

2010-11-02T22:39:00.002+01:00

Label:Install
Catalog#:INST012
Format:CDr,Album,Limited Edition
Country:US
Released:2010
Genre:Electronic
Style:Noise,Ambient,Drone

Tracklisting:

1 - Ice Cream Melting (3:03)
2 - Confetti + Cupcakes (3:34)
3 - Cotton Candy Hair (2:09)
4 - Full Bloom (6:13)
5 - Nitrous Dream (4:50)
6 - A Rainbow Beam From Your Mouth (3:55)
7 - White Dwarf (1:14)
8 - Stargazer (3:18)
9 - Flowers Wilting (1:25)

Here's a super tidy set of noisy, overtone-filled guitar dronesmithery from Joseph Davenport, aka Millipede. Immediately (perhaps inevitably) the harsher end of Fennesz's output comes to mind so it seems quite fitting that a sample of his voice, recorded during a telephone interview, is used on one of the tracks. I guess Skullflower would be another obvious touchstone, but this is far less dark and more overtly psychedelic, even shoegazey in parts.. Actually, come to think of it, it's really making me think of when My Bloody Valentine when they do that 'noising one off' bit of 'You Made Me Realise' during their live sets. This talented chap's got all sorts going on in his stuff if you're of a mind to listen..

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Bo Becker - Octodurum

2010-10-23T00:39:00.002+02:00

Label:Self Release
Release:2010
Genre:Electronic
Style:Ambient,Drone

Tracklisting:

1 - 0100010101101101 (04:47)
2 - Octodure (12:45)
3 - Exalt (08:20)
4 - Zephyria (09:26)
5 - May 22 1944 (05:59)
6 - Mouth of Vistula (11:24)
7 - Aquanostrum (10:42)

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Clem Leek - Holly Lane

2010-10-22T01:03:00.002+02:00

Released: 2010
Label: HIbernate
Style: Ambient

from boomkat:

Opening with the effects-coated chiming of a grandfather clock, Holly Lane immediately sets out its stall as an album steeped in all things antiquated and dusty. Expect a slow barrage of 78rpm static, dissolved, haunted house piano motifs and strategically atmospheric field recordings throughout. Present throughout the album is a floating palette of synthetic ambiences and string-like pads, ranging from the grand and orchestral strains of 'Mistletoe Lane' to the more ambiguous blend of 'Holly Lane', which seems to mix vinyl static with a rumbling rhythmic sound not dissimilar to the to-and-fro of windscreen wipers. A strange and pleasingly evocative cocktail of sounds if ever there was one. Further contributing to the atmosphere of the album, even the song titles drip with a creepy, sepia-tinted quality, although thinking about it, 'Greylings Manor', 'Cliff Castle', and 'Smugglers Top' all sound like locations from an episode of Midsomer Murders. Another very fine piece of work in the Hibernate canon.

Tracklisting:

1) Mystery Moor (5:41)
2) At The Mercy Of The Waves (4:59)
3) Holly Lane (4:36)
4) Mistletoe Lane (5:39)
5) Greylings Manor (4:55)
6) Smugglers Top (6:21)
7) Cliff Castle (4:06)
8) The Burnt Home (6:35)

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Pasture - Composite

2010-10-18T23:13:00.003+02:00

Label:Silent Farm
Catalog#003
Format:Cassette
Country:US
Released:2010
Genre:Electronic
Style:Drone,Ambient,Experimental

Tracklisting:

1 - Wool (2:32)
2 - Delmonico (6:54)
3 - Gown (5:30)
4 - Seed (4:16)
5 - Household (9:36)
6 - Daughter (2:40)

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Brett Naucke - Southern California

2010-10-18T23:07:00.003+02:00

Label:Arbor
Catalog#:ARBOR128
Format:Cassette,Limited Edition,C30
Country:US
Released:2010
Genre:Electronic
Style:Drone,Ambient,Experimental

Tracklist

1 - Intro: (Moving) (1:44)
2 - Theme: (West) (3:31)
3 - Valley: (Night) (4:57)
4 - Clouded Sky: (East) (4:46)
5 - Channel: (Desert) (2:54)
6 - The City: (& Driving) (4:42)
7 - Outro: (Pacific Coast Highway) (6:57)

From Label:

The debut release under his own name, Brett Naucke’s Southern California is an aptly titled seven track suite. In the nature of his other projects, Face Worker and Exercise, Naucke continues his exploration of upward advancement through a contemporary approach to ambient, classically new age music; here he wholly embraces discrete structures allowing the tracks to carry a natural progression, transparently simple though deeply considered. Recalling the work of early 80’s West Coast composers such as Ray Lynch, Naucke’s command of smooth synthesis is both meditative and active; drifting washes of light, organized tones. Translucent, linear growth; following the clouds across the sky. In an edition of 125 copies with full color cardstock covers and labeled tapes.

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Arkhonia - Ttrails/Traces

2010-10-13T16:38:00.003+02:00

Label:White Box
Catalog#:WHITEBOX 006
Format:CD, Album
Country:UK
Released:06 Sep 2010
Genre:Electronic
Style:Experimental,Ambient,Drone

Tracklisting:

1 - AAOpening (1:24)
2 - BCTrails (14:33)
3 - CDTraces (6:40)
4 - DDRhodes (11:45)
5 - Events/Non-Events (3:47)
6 - FyldeFF (11:46)
7 - GDLadyburn (7:43)
8 - DDClose (5:41)

From Boomkat:

Arkhonia is a solo offshoot from one half of the long-defunct jz-arkh duo, who released two limited edition 7"s in 2001 before capturing the attention of Kompakt and the Pet Shop Boys, both of whom selected the track 'DDRhodes' for compilations (Pop Ambient 2002 and Back To Mine, respectively). Clearly this piece has legs: it also cropped up on a soundtrack to an experimental film and a commercial for the Norwegian Postal Service. An unedited, near twelve-minute original version of the track appears here, and you can certainly hear what the fuss was about. Positioned as the centre-piece of Trails/Traces, 'DDRhodes' gently swells through ruptured electric piano chords and synth-string sounds, going on to embrace watery, field recorded textures in its latter stages. It's a most musical take on all things ambient, eschewing the default settings of drone in favour of something far more structured and, above all, tuneful. Trails/Traces covers nearly a decade's worth of Arkhonia compositions, and this mysterious artist's catalogue proves to be a rich vault. 'GDLadyburn' hints at more nefarious, diabolic sounds with a spread of witchy organ intervals and wonderfully menacing discord, while the album's longest entry, 'BCTrails' takes on a more pensive character, floating through warmed-up waves of static in an alluringly ambiguous fashion. The album is dotted with a number of more concise, miniature compositions that help break up the sequence nicely, the finest of these being the strange, hollowed-out soundscape of 'Events/Non-Events' whose sub-four-minute duration charts considerable sonic depths almost by suggestion, putting reverb and spatial distribution to subtle but effective use. Excellent stuff.

album of the year, definitely.There is no need to say HIGHLY RECOMMENDED.

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Benjamin Dauer - Burning of Wine

2010-10-06T20:45:00.002+02:00

Label:Distance Recordings
Catalog#:DIST018
Format:File, MP3, 320 kbps
Country:US
Released:2010
Genre:Electronic
Style:Ambient,Drone,Minimal

Tracklisting:

1 - Anacrusis (pushing back) (2:57)
2 - Hovering Light (4:18)
3 - Duotone Pulse (2:43)
4 - Sense of Place (5:55)
5 - Interlude (3:34)
6 - Burning of Wine (4:09)
7 - Contoured Silhouettes (5:56)
8 - Succession (6:22)
9 - Exploding Into Space (hole in the sky mix) (4:25)

From Label:

Benjamin Dauer is a Washington, D.C based musician and composer who has most recently been working on scores for choreographed modern dance pieces. He has previously released on Distance as part of the duo Offsets, a long distance collaboration with Scottish musician Dominic Dixon.

‘Burning of Wine’ is his debut album under his own name and was recorded especially for Distance. The album is both spacious and subdued, and this is contrasted with moments of dense sonic intensity. Benjamin combines digital sounds with occasional processed field recordings and subtle swells from the bass guitar, his main instrument, creating a well balanced contrast between organic and inorganic textures. The deep sub bass pulses, digital drones and high frequency melodic turns already present throughout the album have all been given further emphasis by the mastering treatment carried out by James Plotkin Headphone listening especially recommended.

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talkingmakesnosense/death register - Split

2010-10-05T21:57:00.002+02:00

Format:Cassette
Released:May 2010
Genre:Electronic
Style:Ambient,Drone

Tracklisting:

1 - Untitled (19:50)
2 - Untitled (19:48)

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for all those who love autumn and rain

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Modern Lamps - Astral Qabalah

2010-10-04T15:35:00.001+02:00

Label:Hooker Vision
Catalog#:HIV047
Format:Cassette, Limited Edition
Country:US
Released:2010
Genre:Electronic
Style:Psychedelic,Experimental,Drone,Ambient

Tracklisting:

1 - Untitled (6:34)
2 - Untitled (14:20)
3 - Untitled (29:54)

From Label:

Featuring Grant Evans (Nova Scotian Arms, Quiet Evenings), Rachel Evans (Motion Sickness of Time Travel, Quiet Evenings) and Elliott McHugh (Jetplane Cinema, Skinny Insect, The Ghosts of Birds).

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Nova Scotian Arms / Motion Sickness Of Time Travel - The Fire Cult To Your Dream Child

2010-09-29T14:22:00.002+02:00

Label:Hooker Vision
Catalog#:HIV064
Format:Cassette,Limited Edition,C92Country:
USReleased:2010
Genre:Electronic
Style:Drone,Experimental,Psychedelic,Ambient

Tracklisting:

1 - Nova Scotian Arms - Exhausted The Hexagon (6:47)
2 - Nova Scotian Arms - Labyrinths (Part One) (2:00)
3 - Nova Scotian Arms - Axaxaxas Mlo (6:46)
4 - Nova Scotian Arms - Labyrinths (Part Two) (1:29)
5 - Nova Scotian Arms - Deep Obsidian (4:30)
6 - Nova Scotian Arms - Dreamt By Another (7:27)
7 - Nova Scotian Arms - Labyrinths (Part Three) (4:24)
8 - Nova Scotian Arms - Invisible And Unceasing (11:05)

9 - Motion Sickness Of Time Travel - Sounds And Forms Of The Universe (4:00) 10 - Motion Sickness Of Time Travel - Running A Race With The Storm (2:50)
11 - Motion Sickness Of Time Travel - Sink Endlessly And Decay (9:12)
12 - Motion Sickness Of Time Travel - Colorlessness (5:45)
13 - Motion Sickness Of Time Travel - Absorbed And Motionless (3:56)
14 - Motion Sickness Of Time Travel - Fathomless Air (8:36)
15 - Motion Sickness Of Time Travel - The Dimensions Of The Soul (10:26)

From Label:

"I saw an exceedingly high Wheel, which was not before my eyes, nor behind me, nor to the sides, but every place at one time. That Wheel was made of water, but also of fire, and it was (although the edge could be seen) infinite. Interlinked, all things that are, were and shall be formed it, and I was one of the fibers of that total fabric and Pedro de Alvarado who tortured me was another. There lay revealed the causes and the effects and it sufficed me to see that Wheel in order to understand it all, without end. O bliss of understanding, greater than the bliss of imagining or feeling. I saw the universe and I saw the intimate designs of the universe. I saw the origins narrated in the Book of the Common. I saw the mountains that rose out of the water, I saw the first men of wood, the cisterns that turned against the men, the dogs that ravaged their faces. I saw the faceless god concealed behind the other gods. I saw infinite processes that formed one single felicity and, understanding all, I was able also to understand the script of the tiger."

Jorge Luis Borges

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