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Label: Spectrum Spools
Release date: 2014
Source: WEB
Format: mp3
Quality: 320 kbps
Size: 105 MB
Genre: Electronic
Style: Ambient

Tracklist:
1. Post Landing
2. Storm In Stickney
3. Crater Chain Observations
4. The Gravity Of Limtoc
5. Travelling On Kepler Dorsum
6. Life On Laputa Regio
7. The Secret Revealed

There’s a large empty space on your record shelf, in between Nurse With Wound’s “Space Music” and Pete Namlook & Tetsu Inoue’s “Shades of Orion”: a gap between the cold, lifeless experimentations of Steven Stapleton—space heard as a largely silent void punctuated by the sudden and infrequent arrival of massive objects—and the romantic imaginings of 90’s space ambient which filled space with idealistic longings of earth. There aren’t many records to put right between those two. But now Neel has given us one, Phobos, and it’s both a lustrous and shadowy beauty. After debuting stellar live performances at Mutek in Montreal as well as Berlin Atonal, the time to release an album documenting the material has arrived.

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Label/Catalog#: Dronarivm / DR-25
Release date: 2014
Source: WEB
Format: mp3
Quality: 320 kbps
Size: 120 MB
Genre: Electronic
Style: Ambient, Experimental

Tracklist:
1. Intermittent Musical Box 04:30
2. Lampara 05:28
3. Sleep With Noise 06:38
4. Filo Di Voce 07:38
5. 1001011011 x 2 05:07
6. In Mare 04:39
7. Fieno 09:10
8. Intermittent Musical Box (Ghost and Tape remix) – digital bonus track 05:36
9. In Mare (Porya Hatami remix) – digital bonus track 04:52

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Label: Mexican Summer
Release date: 2014
Source: WEB
Format: mp3
Quality: 320 kbps
Size: 100 MB
Genre: Electronic
Style: Experimental, Downtempo

Tracklist:
01. I’m Flexible
02. She Happens
03. Afterprom
04. Return to The Pec Deck
05. Acceptance Speech
06. Because of M.A.S.K.
07. Under Wolf Rule
08. There Was a Time

Torn Hawk is the audio project of producer and video artist Luke Wyatt. Over the past couple of years, Wyatt has unfurled a serial tapestry of content arguing for a reconciliation of aesthetic irony with compositional sincerity and emotional vulnerability. Let’s Cry And Do Pushups At The Same Time is Wyatt’s most recent full-length statement as Torn Hawk, and marks the onset of a more emotionally manipulative and sonically confident direction.

It’s difficult to neatly categorize Wyatt’s genre-refracting productions, which formerly have found a home on L.I.E.S., Not Not Fun, Rush Hour’s “No Label”, 1080p, and several other labels, including his own imprint Valcrond Video. The nuts & bolts of Let’s Cry’s eight tracks are built from live guitar, drum machines, junky synths, and layers of acid-washed samples. Wyatt smears the disparate elements of each track into a cohesive whole that transcends the (banality) (thrift-store dustiness) of each: the result is a series of heart-tuggingly confessional watercolors, framed with cinderblocks and distressed leather.

In the foreground of each track, Wyatt’s guitar moves between the shag carpet meditations of Manuel Göttsching, the digital delay jangle-grid of The Chameleons, the sunstroke saturation of Medicine, and the modal wankery of Tom Verlaine. Throw in the unabashed melodrama of something a sax might do on a Don Henley hit, and you get a better idea of Torn Hawk’s sensibility.

Movies and television also leave an undeniable impression on this album, which should come as no surprise to anyone who has followed Wyatt’s parallel video efforts, which he calls “Video Mulch”. The influence of film scores comes through in the inspirational mood cues of tracks like “Afterprom”, which presents a bouquet of guitar scrawls wrapped in a black garbage bag, and “Because of M.A.S.K.”, which would sit perfectly over the end credits of a rom-com set within the subculture of identity theft.

Elsewhere, “She Happens” takes the precarious tenderness of a brand new love affair and holds it over the edge of an audio cliff by the scruff of its neck; “Acceptance Speech” evokes the feel-good podium glow of awards-show public masturbation; and “Under Wolf Rule” balances threat with inspirational thrust: it’s the ideal soundtrack to decapitate to, and then thoughtfully consider the floral arrangements that are to be placed around the heads. Closing out the album, “There Was A Time” hovers in the strip mall of emotions between the storefronts of regret and expectation, expertly evoking the temporal hang-ups that feed or defeat our day-to-day happiness.

As its title suggests, Let’s Cry grapples with the duality of internal conflict and persona construction. It’s a theme that also ties in with Wyatt’s aesthetic interest in “parodying toughness”. In his visual presentation, Wyatt often presents a South Florida machismo in tandem with a vulnerable, self-help softness. It’s this kind of playfully sincere doubling that Wyatt thrives on; he is committed to making music that pumps you up and tugs at your heart stuff – he is making music for you to work out and weep to.

Let’s Cry And Do Pushups At The Same Time will be released November 10 (UK/EU) and November 11 (US) on LP, CD and digital formats.

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Artist: Andy Stott
Title Of Album: Faith in Strangers
Year Of Release: 2014
Label: Modern Love / LOVE098
Genre: Experimental, Techno, Ambient, Electronic
Quality: MP3
Bitrate: 320 kbps
Total Time: 00:53:55
Total Size: 123 mb

Tracklist:
01. Time Away
02. Violence
03. On Oath
04. Science & Industry
05. No Surrender
06. How It Was
07. Damage
08. Faith in Strangers
09. Missing

‘Faith In Strangers’ was written and produced between January 2013 and June 2014, and was edited and sequenced in late July this year. Making use of on an array of instruments, field recordings, found sounds and vocal treatments, it’s a largely analogue variant of hi-tech production styles arcing from the dissonant to the sublime. The first two tracks recorded during these early sessions bookend the release, the opener ‘Time Away’ featuring Euphonium played by Kim Holly Thorpe and last track ‘Missing’ a contribution by Stott’s occasional vocal collaborator Alison Skidmore who also appeared on 2012’s ‘Luxury Problems’. Between these two points ‘Faith In Strangers’ heads off from the sparse and infected ‘Violence’ to the broken, downcast pop of ‘On Oath’ and the motorik, driving melancholy of ‘Science & Industry’ – three vocal tracks built around that angular production style that imbues proceedings with both a pioneering spirit and a resonating sense of familiarity. Things take a sharp turn with ‘No Surrender’- a sparkling analogue jam making way for a tough, smudged rhythmic assault, while ‘How It Was’ refracts sweaty Warehouse signatures and ‘Damage’ finds the sweet spot between RZA’s classic ‘Ghost Dog’ and Terror Danjah at his most brutal. ‘Faith in Strangers’ is next and offers perhaps the most beautiful and open track here, its vocal hook and chiming melody bound to the rest of the album via the almost inaudible hum of Stott’s mixing desk. It provides a haze of warmth and nostalgia that ties the nine loose joints that make up the LP into the most memorable and oddly cohesive of Stott’s career to date, built and rendered in the spirit of those rare albums that straddle innovation and tradition through darkness and light.

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Artist: Mike Simonetti
Title Of Album: At The Juncture Of Dark and Light Vol. 3
Year Of Release: 2014
Label: Opal tapes
Genre: Ambient, House, Electronic
Quality: MP3
Bitrate: 320 kbps
Total Time: 00:56:56
Total Size: 136 mb

Tracklist:
1. Dark Light 28:48
2. Light Dark 28:08

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Artist: Bonobo
Title Of Album: The North Borders Tour. — Live.
Year Of Release: 2014
Label: Ninja Tune / ZENDNL202
Genre: Downtempo, Electronic
Quality: MP3
Bitrate: 320 kbps
Total Time: 01:03:40
Total Size: 136 mb

Tracklist:
1. Cirrus (Live) (5:48)
2. Stay the Same (feat. Andreya Triana) [Live] (4:57)
3. Heaven for the Sinner (feat. Szjerdene) [Live] (4:25)
4. Prelude/Kiara/Ten Tigers (Live) (8:09)
5. Kong/Ketto (Live) (8:08)
6. Emkay (Live) (3:57)
7. Towers (feat. Szjerdene) [Live] (6:05)
8. Recurring/We Could Forever (Live) (7:59)
9. Transits (feat. Szjerdene) [Live] (4:17)
10. Know You (Live) (5:20)
11. Pieces (feat. Cornelia) [Live] (4:29)

By the time Bonobo plays London’s legendary Alexandra Palace on 28th November 2014, the epic career-defining tour around his latest album The North Borders, the band will have travelled 180,000 miles, taken in 175 shows in 30 countries across 3 continents over 18 months in front of 2 million people.

This live album will be released in deluxe packaging with a CD, a 70 page hardback book of photographs and stories from members of the band, as well as a bonus DVD featuring glimpses of hi-speed photography. There will be standalone CD and 2LP edition too, it’s an exhaustive, beautifully captured record of the show.

The audio and video were recorded and filmed at The Roundhouse in London and in the incredible Pula Arena, a genuine Roman Amphitheatre. In addition, some of the tracks on CD are handpicked from breathtaking live radio sessions that happened whilst on tour. Packaged with the DVD will be moments of documentary footage filmed as the tour reached California.

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Artist: Sven Laux
Title Of Album: Elusive Moments
Year Of Release: 2014
Label: Dewtone
Genre: Ambient, Dub Techno
Quality: MP3
Bitrate: 320 kbps
Total Time: 01:01:13
Total Size: 140 mb

Tracklist:
01: Clear But Blurred Sky (04:04)
02: Stuck In Sympathy (07:52)
03: Floating Sidewalk (05:08)
04: Am I To Wait For You (05:11)
05: Soothing Harmony (06:40)
06: Hovering Between Hope And Reality (Part 1) (07:24)
07: This Too Will Pass (05:18)
08: Hovering Between Hope And Reality (Part 2) (08:41)
09: White Leaf (07:36)
10: Thank You, Goodbye (03:20)

In 2012, Sven Laux’s compositional focus set course beyond the boundaries of micro-house onto a path of ambient-leaning techno. The Berliner has been exploring this road ever since, refining a process that harnesses his foundsound-oriented past with the contemporary classical influences of today. His fifth studio album marks a peak in this development, fusing familiar clicks and playful cadence with live orchestration, animated textures and intimate themes for an expressive and cinematic long-play experience.

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LABEL: Apollo | AMB1412D
GENRE: Electronic, Ambient
RELEASED: 2014
MP3 DOWNLOAD SOURCE: WEB
BITRATE: 320kbps / 44100kHz / Full Stereo
TRACKS: 5
SIZE: 76.27 megs

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