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Artist: Bügsküll
Title Of Album: Collapsed View
Year Of Release: 2014
Label: Digitalis
Genre: Ambient, Experimental
Quality: MP3
Bitrate: 320 kbps
Total Time: 00:43:42
Total Size: 106 mb

Tracklist:
01 Heaven_California
02 Olde Growth
03 Billow
04 Icarus Rising
05 Demapped
06 Druids
07 Collapsed View
08 Victory Lapse

Sean Byrne’s Bugskull project returned in 2009 after a long hiatus with the Digitalis-released “Communication.” A few years later they released the acoustic curveball, “Strange Mountain,” on legendary Inland Empire label, Shrimper. We’re very happy that the proper follow-up to “Communication” has landed on the Digitalis shores again.

“Collapsed View” is a whimsical summer excursion through jaded forests and crystalline tides. On the plucked acoustic opener, “Heaven/California,” you’re gently dropped into Byrne’s hazy lair. The repetitive main dirge moves like molasses until you’re appropriately comatose. It’s a dizzying beginning that settles nicely into the bass crunch of “Olde Growth.” Forward movement in the form of a canned ramshackle beat underlines the drawn out leads that appear to floating in a puff of smoke. “Icarus Rising” steals the show with it’s jet propulsion bass line and psych-infused guitar leads. It’s an intoxicating combination that gets better with repeated listens.

Byrne breaks out all the stops on “Collapsed View,” mutating gamelan-esque electronics into an oceanside romp on “Druids.” Hypnotic guitar swells wrap around the piece, elevating it onto a different plane. It begins the second side which, compared to the A-Side, is a meditative ambient affair. Saxophone lamentations puncuate the title track drawing a circle around a star-filled night in the middle of nowhere. There’s an aimless feeling to the piece but in a good way so that you feel weightless as you listen.

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Artist: Frank Bretschneider & Steve Roden
Title Of Album: Suite Nuit
Year Of Release: 2014
Label: Line / LINE_068
Genre: Abstract, Ambient, Experimental, Glitch
Quality: MP3
Bitrate: 320 kbps
Total Time: 00:52:52
Total Size: 119 mb

Tracklist:
1. part 1 live (22:06)
2. part 2 rehearsal (30:50)

Frank Bretschneider is a musician, composer and video artist in Berlin. His work is known for precise sound placement, complex, interwoven rhythm structures and its minimal, flowing approach. Bretschneider’s subtle and detailed music is echoed by his visuals: perfect translated realizations of the qualities found in music within visual phenomena.

Bretschneider (1956) was raised in Karl-Marx-Stadt (Chemnitz since 1990), where his aesthetic developed as he listened to pirate radio and smuggled Beastie Boys tapes in the former East Germany. After studying fine arts and inspired by science fiction radio plays and films he began experimenting with tape machines, synthesizers, and modified guitars in 1984, as well as exploring the possibilities of exchange between visual art and music by various means such as film, video and computer graphics.

In 1986, after establishing his cassette label klangFarBe, Bretschneider founded AG Geige, a successful and influential East German underground band. Though limited to the East before the wall came down, they were invited to perform across Germany and internationally after 1989 and released three albums before splitting in 1993.
In 1995, Bretschneider and fellow AG Geige member Olaf Bender founded the Rastermusic record label which eventually merged with Carsten Nicolai’s noton to form raster-noton in 1999.

Steve Roden is a visual and sound artist from Los Angeles, living in Pasadena. His work includes painting, drawing, sculpture, film/video, sound installation, text and performance. Roden’s working process uses various forms of specific notation (words, musical scores, maps, etc.) and translates them through self-invented systems into scores, which then influence the process of painting, drawing, sculpture, and composition. These scores, rigid in terms of their parameters and rules, are also full of holes for intuitive decisions, failures and left turns.

The inspirational source material becomes a kind of formal skeleton that the abstract finished works are built upon. In the visual works, translations of information such as text and maps, become rules and systems for generating visual actions such as color choices, number of elements, amounts of time and form building. In the sound works, singular source materials such as objects, architectural spaces, and field recordings, are abstracted through humble electronic processes to create new audio spaces, or possible landscapes. The sound works present themselves with an aesthetic Roden has described as lower case —sound concerned with subtlety and the quiet activity of listening.

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Artist: Vladislav Delay
Title Of Album: Visa
Year Of Release: 2014
Label: Ripatti / Ripatti 09
Genre: Ambient, Experimental
Quality: Flac (tracks+.cue)
Bitrate: Lossless
Total Time: 00:53:36
Total Size: 270 mb

Tracklist:
1. Visaton
2. Viaton
3. Viisari
4. Vihollinen
5. Viimeinen

Following the frenetic, rhythmic experiments of the Ripatti 12” series, Vladislav Delay returns with his first ambient album in over a decade. ‘Visa’ is a thing of immense, absorbing beauty – harking back to his classic albums for Chain reaction and Mille Plateaux, extending 6 longform pieces over an hour of heady dub reductions. And in the fine tradition of some of the best albums, ‘Visa’ was borne out of serendipity – Ripatti was denied entry to the United States and was forced to cancel an entire tour. Suddenly left with unhindered time and a surplus of creative energy, he produced this material in a span of just two weeks. As he explains: “a valve broke open… and I collected what came out the pipes.” ‘Visa’ is complex yet immersive – never fading into the background, instead building layered soundscapes that shift and build before switching direction, changing focus. It’s a technique that Ripatti has crafted and honed over the years – almost 20 years in fact since his shocking ‘The Kind Of Blue’ debut for his own Huume imprint, and here once again subtly augmented via industrial noises and dream-like melodic loops. Made almost entirely with analog hardware, the album was designed to be listened to at high volume and in full detail – and is perhaps the most substantial and rewarding Delay release since ‘Demo(n) Tracks’ over a decade ago…

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Label: Abbey Road Live Here Now
Release date: 2014
Source: WEB
Format: mp3
Quality: 320 kbps
Size: 291 MB
Genre: Electronic
Style: Ambient, Dub Techno, Electronic

Tracklist:
Disc 1 (01:07:04)
1. Spanish Castles In Space (9:03)
2. Plateau (10:01)
3. Outlands (5:32)
4. Blue Room (8:06)
5. Toxygene (7:51)
6. Slug Dub (9:13)
7. Towers Of Dub (8:40)
8. Waltz (0:53)
9. Pomme Fritz (7:45)

Disc 2 (01:00:18)
1. U.F.Orb (1:36)
2. O.O.B.E. (1:24)
3. A Mile Long Lump Of Yard (6:30)
4. Earth (Gaia) (5:45)
5. A Huge Evergrowing Pulsating Brain That Rules From The Centre Of The Ultraworld (7:07)
6. Star 6 & 7 8 9 (4:42)
7. Perpetual Dawn (8:00)
8. Assassin (11:48)
9. Little Fluffy Clouds (13:26)

Electronic godfathers The Orb are currently riding the crest of a new wave, including a world tour with a string of headline, big venue shows, proving the Orb has lasting influence as a bastion of quality electronic music.

On 15th March 2014 Messrs Paterson and Fehlmann return to the location of their first ever gig. These limited edition four-disc sets include a double live CD and live DVD of the show at Brixton Electric, plus a bonus DVD of special features. Please note, the current release date is yet to be confirmed.

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Label/Catalog#: Mordant Music / MM074
Release date: 2014
Source: WEB
Format: mp3
Quality: 320 kbps
Size: 60 MB
Genre: Electronic
Style: Deone, Experimental

Tracklist:
01. Locomotion (15:11)
02. Locomotion (DLR reMMix by Mordant Music) (6:50)
03. Locomotion (Ghost Train Version) (4:19)

Mordant Music surpass themselves again with this unearthed, alien gem by library composer Donald Fraser and British folk band, Steeleye Span, recorded in 1975. The 15 minute ‘Locomotion’ is a real ace, locked into a tunnel of glue-huffing krautrock groove suffused with the fumes of psychedelic folk and ritual drums. MM’s DLR remix squashes the thing to a demented acid church-hall bogle sparked up with gremlin voices and mutant electronics beside a eerily detached, barely-there Ghost Train Version left to roil in the murk. Or, as MM put it: “Radiophonic folk in continual accelerando for Geoffrey Jones via the Stockton & Darlington Railway composed by station master Donald Fraser & performed by members of Steeleye Span…teased from ’75 state-of-the-art electronics & pulsing like a possessed Mallard…MM buffer a headphone reMMix on the DLR & Donald Fraser ghosts a version into the sidings…ticket pleads…IBM”

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Label/Cat#: Sonata Recordings – SONREC 020
Year: 10 November, 2014
Source: WEB
Format: mp3
Quality: 320 kbps
Size: 274 MB
Genre: Electronic
Style: Dubstep, Drubm & bass, House, Downtempo, Electronic

Tracklist:
1. Humans & Trees – Came Down From The (10:13)
2. Dean Baker – Come Back To Me (6:32)
3. Das & Glok – Salmagundi (7:17)
4. SiPa & JoCo – Walking Away (7:58)
5. Das/Glok/Spiel – Carol’s Growler (6:41)
6. Melos – Destination Defunked (8:38)
7. Arv DeLux – Fukdelux (6:26)
8. Melos – Destination Defunked (SiPa & JoCo remix) (9:18)
9. Melos – Segurist (8:24)
10. SiPa & JoCo – Hot In The City (7:20)
11. Dean Baker – Come Back To Me (SiPa & JoCos Barbershop Quartet mix) (7:52)
12. SiPa & JoCo – San FranDisco (7:27)
13. Dealo Brown – Stargaze (5:17)
14. Aplex – Skeptic (3:39)
15. Aplex – Take Me Away (3:43)
16. 3rd Linc – Master (8:11)
17. Dealo Brown – Ampricot Branty (5:34)

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Label/Cat#: Meteores Music – 65027
Year: 17 November, 2014
Format: mp3
Quality: 320 kbps
Size: 38 MB
Genre: Electronic
Style: Ambient

Tracklist:
1. Volcano (4:36)
2. Cite Radieuse (5:02)
3. True Love (pt 3) (6:58)

Saycet is a name that’s been on an increasing number of lips over the last few years, like a secret too precious to keep to oneself. With just a few releases to his name, the project by Parisian producer Pierre Lefeuvre has elegantly evolved in a resolutely modern fashion, attracting attention more or less everywhere around the world from people who like their music electronic and heavy with organic emotion. Using electronic music as his original inspiration, and influenced by the hypnotising, minimal sounds of both Germany and Iceland, Saycet has matured his sound thanks to intensive touring of Europe, Russia and Asia, gaining international fans at every stop. His new (third) album, due for release in early 2015, was nourished by this experience of travelling and playing live over the past few years. More directly, the new Saycet has taken inspiration from images and forms (a certain interest for design, architecture, and visits to Le Corbusier’s ‘Cité radieuse’), widening his style to include pop and radiant sonic mirages in which one can get deeply, deeply lost. The aim is no longer to choose between black and white and spirals of colours, but to stimulate emotion and take you on a journey, without or without a return ticket.

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Label: Echospace detroit
Release date: 2014
Source: WEB
Format: mp3
Quality: 320 kbps
Size: 271 MB
Genre: Electronic
Style: Dub Techno, Ambient

Tracklist:
Disc 1:
1. “aurora’s dream” [solar mix]

Disc 2:
2. “aurora’s dream” [polar mix]

Limited 2XCD Edition from echospace’s variant project inspired by the the mystical universe around us.. The objective for this venture was to create an ever evolving sonic ocean utilizing the enigmatic spheres of ambient structure and rhythm, wherein movements are methodically rendered from various forms of synthesis, subdued with mystical ghostly harmonics and artifacts from aged analog hardware. Rigorous experimentation has yielded resonating enchanting echoes meant to induce the notion that this quantum phenomena is, indeed, measurable and continuously changing as it is in the universe.
For the curious one, this recording consists of 2 near 60 minute infinite pieces of perceptual distortion that voyages into unfamiliar quiet zones. Those who were immersed with previous Variant projects, such as the work featured on ”The Setting Sun” and or cv313’s epic “Beyond The Clouds” will have a lot to love here. This will be an experience meant for anyone with a quest for absorption. “Aurora’s Dream” is the exploration into invisible dimensions of undulating synergy, one devoid of space and time. From our heart to yours, thank you.

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Artist: Jana Winderen & Thomas Köner
Title Of Album: Cloitre
Year Of Release: 2014
Label: Touch / Tone 51D
Genre: Ambient, Drone
Quality: Flac
Bitrate: Lossless
Total Time: 00:44:36
Total Size: 182 mb

Tracklist:
01. Cloitre (44:36)

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Artist: Kashiwa Daisuke
Title Of Album: 9 Songs
Year Of Release: 2014
Label: guns N’girls Records / GAGR-002
Genre: Ambient, Glitch, Electronic
Quality: Flac (tracks+.cue)
Bitrate: lossless
Total Time: 00:52:12
Total Size: 311 mb

Tracklist:
01. …out
02. Lilac
03. Faraway
04. Cello and Stalker
05. The spider’s thread (remix ver.)
06. Skyliner (album edit)
07. Fluorescent lamp
08. Labyrinth
09. Travel Around Stars (vocal ver.)
10. Where am I going
11. In…

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Label/Catalog#: The Bunker New York / BK 008
Release date: 02014
Source: WEB
Format: mp3
Quality: 320 kbps
Size: 50 MB
Genre: Electronic
Style: Techno, Ambient, Experimental

Tracklist:
01. Ground Loop 1
02. Ground Loop 2

Uwe Schmidt is one of the most prolific contemporary electronic musicians of our era, with over 200 releases produced under a dizzying array of aliases. Perhaps his most well known and celebrated project is Señor Coconut, of “Cha cha cha” Kraftwerk cover fame. We’ve heard many dozens of Uwe’s releases and consider more than a few of them to be Bunker classics that are in constant rotation at both our house and on our dancefloor.

When we first heard his compilation of tunes organized as a satirical history of acid house released under the Atom™ moniker – “Acid Evolution 1988-2003”, we started hounding Uwe about performing this material live at The Bunker. We eventually got him to perform an improvised live hardware set with Tobias, then were lucky enough to have him perform his A/V set for us, and most recently were treated to a solo techno set of the Ground Loop material just last year.

We asked Uwe to flesh out a few of the clips he’d put online of Ground Loop material with a view to releasing a record for The Bunker and two days later these two monsters landed in our inbox. Two brand new Atom™ dancefloor acid explosions that stand alongside the best of his work. Enjoy!

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Artist: Saint Leidal The 2nd
Title Of Album: Future Tiberian Baths
Year Of Release: 2014
Label: Farbwechsel / FARB010
Genre: House, Downtempo, Experimental
Quality: Flac
Bitrate: Lossless
Total Time: 00:39:28
Total Size: 202 mb

Tracklist:
01 – Body Bubble 1 4:18
02 – Body Bubble 2 3:29
03 – Bad 5:12
04 – Afterparty 2:11
05 – My First Car 4:28
06 – Over Me 1:46
07 – A Long Way To Renata (And Back) 4:49
08 – The Speaking Piano 2:18
09 – My First Car (Route 8’s 808 Soundtrack Mix) 5:53
10 – Body Bubble 2 (Norwell’s Popdream Mix) 5:04

If there was a Top Of The Pops for DIY electronics, then St Leidal the 2nd‘s slice of sun-kissed exotica heaven would probably be number one for months to come. Up and coming Hungarian producer, András Leidal had explored practically everything between shoegaze and acid before starting his solo project, St Leidal the 2nd in 2009 – he is part of Wedding Acid Group’s trio, whose anthology was released on Farbwechsel this past spring.

Following a couple of self-released EPs and a refined release on 8ounce records, Future Tiberian Baths is András’s most accomplished work to date. Similarly to St Leidal’s previous works, it is a collection of sample laden, beat driven songs that sound like listening to an octopus jamming to a sleazy 80s teenage movie theme from the inside of an aquarium. These eight originals are all built from an almost transparent fabric that melts both your mind and your body, recalling the best moments of vaporwave. What makes St Leidal the 2nd stand out though is his effortless, almost minimalistic approach that lets him fuse hopeful melancholy and nostalgia with an array of influences with suave ease and confidence.

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Artist: Oobe
Title Of Album: Digitalisea
Year Of Release: 2014
Label: 1080p / 1080P29
Genre: House, Techno, Ambient, Experimental
Quality: MP3
Bitrate: 320 kbps
Total Time: 00:53:26
Total Size: 132 mb

Tracklist:
1. Intro
2. Radiation
3. 166.166.166
4. Deep Space Lovers
5. Purplehaze
6. Disco from Wolf#359
7. Lightblue
8. Digital Sea
9. Morse From Europa (Digital Bonus Track)
10. Stardust (Digital Bonus Track)
11. Stardust#2 (Digital Bonus Track)

Turin based producer Yari Malaspina aka OOBE follows up last years’ Opal Tapes-released “SFTCR” cassette with a more clearly defined and uniquely digitized approach to ambient electronica.

Resting melancholy echoes onto slow rave rhythms, “Digitalisea” is a heavy, histrionic set of slow moves into Stargate-mining planetscapes and gaseous, computerized digi-psych. OOBE is deeply cosmic in all of these ultra synthetic dealings with tropes of both ambient techno and classic 90s euphoria, regenerating fragments of both into his own dense, amorphous blur of textural but rhythmic ambience that comes out somewhere between a processed and pixelated Huerco S. and crisply distorted Sci-Fi version of Actress.

“Digitalisea” investigates glitches just under the surfaces of recent distroidian and post-internet sheens as much as the hauntological distant club echos that characterized “SFTCR”. It’s hard to tell if its straight up pitch black or solar-scorched, but it’s always blissed out beneath the claustrophobia.

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Label/Cat#: Air Texture Germany – AIR 004 CD
Year: 3 November, 2014
Source: WEB
Format: mp3
Quality: 320 kbps
Size: 316 MB
Genre: Electronic
Style: Ambient

Tracklist:
1. Steve Hauschildt – Watertowers (6:08)
2. Mirror To Mirror – Crush Ambien (3:37)
3. Le Revelateur – Another (Terminal) (7:06)
4. Heathered Pearls – In Memory Form (4:05)
5. Jonathan Fitoussi – Impressions (4:48)
6. Pulse Emitter – Border Crossing (4:43)
7. Dino Spiluttini – The Hostile Sea (3:07)
8. Gunter Schlienz – Dust (8:00)
9. Forest Management – Remote Rail Ex (6:43)
10. Event Cloak – One Or Twice (4:57)
11. Sarah Davachi – As The Morning (9:34)
12. Steve Hauschildt – Pismo (5:24)
13. Bnjmn – The Gloom/Lovelight (5:12)
14. Lukid – The Air You Breathe (2:32)
15. Brighton – Sendme (9:57)
16. Teebs – Whirling 84 (1:51)
17. Samoyed/Sam Playford-Greenwell – Bullocks Running (6:27)
18. Legowelt – Vanished In Tromso (9:42)
19. Best Available Technology – Sectomy (4:34)
20. The Hers – Mindy (7:40)
21. Vaghe Stelle – Sante (1:53)
22. Herva – Seaside (4:05)
23. Bnjmn – Forgive (2:04)
24. Hieroglyphic Being – Rumori Circostanti Di Melody Pops & Clic & Silenzio (7:17)
25. Alex Smoke – Cosm (5:08)
26. Heathered Pearls – Pacific Summits (Pulse version) (4:02)

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Artist: Ishqamatics
Title Of Album: Waterbound
Year Of Release: 2014
Label: ishqamatics
Genre: Ambient, IDM, Techno
Quality: MP3
Bitrate: 320 kbps
Total Time: 02:16:17
Total Size: 312 mb

Tracklist:
01. Aquatic Garden
02. Aqua Dub
03. Fathoms
04. Starfish(acid mix)
05. Blue Light
06. Blue Light(aquarius mix)
07. Fathoms(flow mix)
08. Fathoms(submerged mix)
09. Auqua Dub(Moon mix)
10. Fathoms(Mick Chillage mix)

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Label: Two Acorns
Release date: 2014
Source: WEB
Format: mp3
Quality: 320 kbps
Size: 128 MB
Genre: Electronic
Style: Ambient

Tracklist:
01 Circle routes
02 (12.5.12) Making tea over a rocket launch
03 In plum and magenta
04 (12.21.12) On the Shinkansen leaving Kyoto
05 Tangent lines
06 (12.20.12) Back in Kawaramachi, Kyoto
07 Equal to moments of completion
08 (4.8.13) A morning
09 Wishes to prolong
10 (4.8.13) An evening.
11 Attempts to make time pass differently
12 Attempts to make time pass differently (Extended bonus track)

Hill towns and empty mountains pass by, but the smoothness of the train blurs the view, and it’s easier than ever to fall asleep in the low morning sunlight coming in through the train’s windows. We’re sleeping, or staring out at the cities and landscapes; it’s easy to imagine the sound, and connect it with these events. There’s a contrast and connection between this reality and imagination. They’re separate, but happening simultaneously. On a walk through the crowded streets of Kyoto, or a half-asleep morning, what was it like? Later, what do you remember?

During a walk home one evening, I stopped on top of the street with a view over the train tracks, passed the intersection across from Mini Stop and the bakery, and went up the hill into the our neighborhood. There’s a particular sound when you step on the entrance grate by the doorway, and when opening the mailbox. Someday, I won’t be in these same places again, and for now, this is what they sound like. Even these minor moments are important when you look back on the memory, and then look out from this overlook, seeing the city lights blinking in the distance.

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