Recent posts: Ambient / Downtempo

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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Label/Catalog#: Line / LINE_SEG03
Release date: 2014
Source: WEB
Format: mp3
Quality: 320 kbps
Size: 157 MB
Genre: Electronic
Style: Ambient

Pinkcourtesyphone returns with Description of Problem, its 4th full length and most vital, disconcerting collection to date. If its debut, 2012’s Foley Folly Folio, sounded less like an echo chamber than a shattered hall of mirrors, and this year’s A Ravishment of Mirror captured the weary sighs of washed-up starlets gazing out into the perfumed smog of Los Angeles, Description of Problem is a busier signal indeed.

An unprecedented group of vocal collaborators—including William Basinski’s haunting voicemails, AGF, Evelina Domnitch, and the legendary Cosey Fanni Tutti (Chris & Cosey, Throbbing Gristle, CTI) and Kid Congo Powers (The Gun Club, The Cramps, The Bad Seeds)—join Pinkcourtesyphone’s party line for obsession and revenge musings and ache all down the wires. Sound artist Richard Chartier monitors the call, offering the sounds of chiffon rustling, the buzzing void of messages never received, and the fey wonder of calculated desire and boredom.

These songs are important to us. Please stay on the line…

Tracklist
1. Pinkcourtesyphone – Description of Problem / More Everything (feat. William Basinski) (16:12)
2. Pinkcourtesyphone – Perfunctory Attachments (11:14)
3. Pinkcourtesyphone & AGF – Our Story (6:07)
4. Pinkcourtesyphone & Cosey Fanni Tutti – Boundlessly (for M.Heyer) (18:36)
5. Pinkcourtesyphone & Kid Congo Powers – Iamaphotograph (Darkroomversion) (8:54)
6. Pinkcourtesyphone – I Wish You Goodbye (feat. Evelina Domnitch) (7:40)

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Artist: Monolyth & Cobalt
Title Of Album: Polarlicht
Year Of Release: 2014
Label: Time Released Sound / TRS041
Genre: Ambient
Quality: MP3
Bitrate: 320 kbps
Total Time: 01:03:49
Total Size: 135 mb

Tracklist:
1.Polar (Introduction)
2.Blooming Stones 06:48
3.Titanium (Geology)
4.Flügel Schlagen
5.Dùthaich 07:46
6.Skyscrapers / Sleepwalkers 05:46
7.Adolf Wolfi Never Died
8.Et Ces Arbres
9.Verhaal 03:14
10.Birds (Are Some Holes In The Sky Through A Man Can Pass) 09:06
11.Licht

“‘Polarlicht’ fits the criteria of an concept album better than many similar experimental releases, which can often present as collections of disconnected slices of audio; the eleven tracks breathe at different rates, allowing the listener to experience both peaks and troughs. The trip may be cold, but feeling the ice in your lungs is refreshing.”
Fluid Radio

” Polarlicht is the sound of an alluring, untamed and dangerous land, wrapped in white and shrouded in a sub-zero cloak (…) The music is frosty and crisp, a fine accompaniment to the coldness of the tin.”
A Closer Listen

“Polarlicht conjures up cinematic atmospheres which are made with great delicacy.”
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Label: Kranky
Release date: 2014
Source: WEB
Format: mp3
Quality: 320 kbps
Size: 98 MB
Genre: Electronic
Style: Ambient

Tracklist:
01 Made of Metal
02 Clearing
03 Call Across Rooms
04 Labyrinth
05 Lighthouse
06 Holofernes
07 Holding
08 Made of Air

Liz Harris, aka Grouper, has announced a new album called Ruins. It’ll be out on October 31 via Kranky, and follows last year’s The Man Who Died in His Boat. She also shared a statement about the album, which she says was made mostly in 2011, except for one song recorded in 2004.

She wrote:

“Ruins was made in Aljezur, Portugal in 2011 on a residency set up by Galeria Zé dos Bois. I recorded everything there except the last song, which I did at mother’s house in 2004. Iʼm still surprised by what I wound up with. It was the first time Iʼd sat still for a few years; processed a lot of political anger and emotional garbage. Recorded pretty simply, with a portable 4-track, Sony stereo mic and an upright piano. When I wasnʼt recording songs I was hiking several miles to the beach. The path wound through the ruins of several old estates and a small village.

The album is a document. A nod to that daily walk. Failed structures. Living in the remains of love. I left the songs the way they came (microwave beep from when power went out after a storm); I hope that the album bears some resemblance to the place that I was in.”

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