Recent posts: Ambient / Downtempo

Artist: Coppice Halifax
Title Of Album: Solus Variations
Year Of Release: 2014
Label: Milieu Music / MML097
Genre: Dub Techno, Ambient
Quality: MP3
Bitrate: 320 kbps
Total Time: 01:19:41
Total Size: 182 mb

Tracklist:
Solus Variant I [Berossus] (8:44)
Solus Variant II [Chryselephantine] (10:01)
Solus Variant III [Mausolus] (9:29)
Solus Variant IV [Pharos] (14:40)
Solus Variant V [Nekoma] (8:34)
Solus Variant VI [Colossus] (8:55)
Solus Variant VI [Artemis] (19:14)

Solus Variations is the result of my own excavation, extraction and repurposing of the gems I found while exploring Solus in my studio. Tangential processing techniques yielded deeper and more mutated results as the recording sessions continued. These seven pieces are themselves mirror images of Solus, albeit focusing on singular aspects of the original piece rather than the whole. You could even say that each “variation” is actually a segment of Solus, zoomed in on to a microscopic level, to reveal more intimate and engaging levels of detail that were deliberately avoided in the original piece. This is the sound of me taking Solus to different climates and exotic locales, applying it like a layer of paint over the landscape itself, then removing the landscape and examining the alien and organic shapes that remain.

For the intrepid listener, other possibilities may present themselves in the practice of playing these variations over/under Solus itself, creating a potentially endless and unique atmosphere tailored to your own listening needs.

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Artist: Poordream
Title Of Album: Ninetynine
Year Of Release: 2014
Label: Tympanik Audio / TA087
Genre: IDM, Ambient, Downtempo
Quality: MP3
Bitrate: 320 kbps
Total Time: 00:48:04
Total Size: 105 mb

Tracklist:
01. Despair
02. Urbanies
03. Bangla Razor
04. Ninetynine
05. Proof
06. Open Probability (feat. Zinovia)
07. Backbiter
08. Flying Blind
09. Acceptance
10. Acceptance (Zinovia remix)

From Greek-born composer and sound designer John Valasis aka Poordream, comes his debut LP ‘Ninetynine‘. Recently added to Ninja Tune’s publishing house alongside artists Bonobo, Amon Tobin, and Flying Lotus, Poordream now offers this collection of songs that take the listener on an intense journey, set to explore the contrasts between earthly and urban, fragility and harshness, hope and despair. From ambient, organic and cinematic to experimental sound sculpting with electronic means, Poordream masterfully blends real instruments and field recording with digital textures and atmospheres in order to synthesize a unique mixture of world and contemporary electronic music.

‘Ninetynine‘ reaches into the human consciousness, illuminating undiscovered aspects of mind. The ordinary life of the city and other hidden, mystic secrets meld together between complex beats and stark melodies in a work of art that is unique in its diversity. By combining elements of dreamy, atmospheric IDM, breakbeats and world music, and expertly utilizing the deep singing of cello strings, chopped up and arranged to constitute beatwork, Poordream has constructed a listening experience that is both gritty and ethereal.

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Artist: Owen McLean
Title Of Album: Hitomi’s Diary / Modern Kitchen
Year Of Release: 2014
Label: Where To Now?
Genre: Ambient, Drone
Quality: MP3
Bitrate: 320 kbps
Total Time: 00:37:03
Total Size: 90 mb

Tracklist:
1.Cram School Suicide On The News 01:06
2.Studying Blues (sigh) 01:38
3.Untitled Devastation 2004 00:58
4.Chem Test Blues 02:00
5.Girls Putting On Makeup and Tansforming in the Bathroom 00:44
6.Limerence Lament 00:48
7.Night Bus Home After School 02:17
8.You in a Dream 03:19
9.Suicide Nightmare 01:19
10.No Relief 02:47
11.Infinite Train Ride, Sun Reflecting off Lake 02:06
12.Modern Kitchen 01:00
13.Poland Spring 02:14
14.Untitled 2 00:47
15.Feng Shui 02:04
16.Garden View 01:04
17.Stainless Steel Dream 01:06
18.Processor 03:47
19.Haunted Kitchen 00:53
20.Modern Kitchen 2 01:06
21.Penultimate Kitchen 02:09
22.Untitled 01:44

The mind of Owen Mclean appears to be a chaotic place – the 22 tracks which rarely exceed 2 minutes presented here are impossible to keep up with in the best possible way. This is the work of an imagination that cannot sit still, a place where distorted yet absolutely familiar samples crash head on against solid walls of pulsing noise, where slick pop has been dragged kicking and screaming into the future, forced to adapt or risk self destruction. Owen’s world feels like it could completely collapse at any moment, but always soars when the rubble beckons. Imagine James Ferraro scoring a theatrical adaptation of a JG Ballard short and you’re getting warm.

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Artist: Morkebla & Tihkal
Title Of Album: Split
Year Of Release: 2014
Label: Indole Records / IND02
Genre: Ambient, Experimental
Quality: MP3
Bitrate: VBR V0
Total Time: 00:30:17
Total Size: 47 mb

Tracklist:
1. Morkebla – Heal my Wounds with Resin 04:04
2. Morkebla – Emoji of Sorrow 03:52
3. Morkebla – Carcosa’s Dreamscape 06:24
4. Tihkal – Haywain 15:57

Confirming Italy as a fertile source of distinctive electronic artists at the moment, another Italian, Morkebla (Alberto Rosso), appears in this batch, teaming up with Jimmy’s new sample-based project, Tihkal, for a spilt tape of submerged ambient/not-ambient. With a release on Where to Now? and one forthcoming on Reckno, Morkebla is ploughing an interesting vein of fugged-up, textural electonica, where percussion clatters as if on the verge of collapse, voices murmur beyond comprehension and synths unsettle as much as they ease. On the flip, Tihkal loops fragments of harmonic synth phrases and crinkled field recordings to craft a phase-shifting collage of blissed-up stumbles.

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Label/Catalog#: Quietus / QUIETUS008
Release date: 1 dec 2014
Source: WEB
Format: mp3
Quality: 320 kbps
Size: 174 MB
Genre: Electronic
Style: Ambient

Tracklist:
1. I Break All Around You (14:26)
2. You Tell Me To Be Strong (16:44)
3. As We Remember A Life Of Love (15:14)
4. I Pray To A Godless Sky (10:16)
5. And I Want To Be As Strong As You (11:28)
6. But I Am Broken (8:10)

Brock Van Wey’s newest record is meant “as a tribute to life itself,” and was recorded live over a week—one track each day—after the passing of his cat Tanto, who he describes as his “brother and best friend.” It marks a reopening of his Quietus label, which has been dormant since 2011, and is made and printed locally in the Bay Area “on an actual printing press, using real paper and ink.” 100 percent of proceeds from the LP will go to benefit the UC Davis Center for Feline Infectious Peritonitis. Check an excerpt from Van Wey’s letter below.

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Label: Ultimae
Release date: 2014
Source: WEB
Format: Flac
Quality: lossless
Size: 102 MB
Genre: Electronic
Style: Ambient, IDM

Tracklist:
1. Evenfall (07:24)
2. 6am (07:00)
3. Cut. (05:52)

The Cut. EP associates the works of AES Dana (Vincent Villuis) and MIKTEK (Mihalis Aikaterinis), the first chapter in a series of three.
Ambient outlines, strong altered Drums, interrupted sequences, abrupt changes of soundscapes carved by poignant themes.
These 3 songs, structured like a tryptic, narrate the incisions and separations that everyone experiences during his lifetime.

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Artist: Tineidae
Title Of Album: Shadows
Year Of Release: 2014
Label: Tympanik Audio / TA085
Genre: Ambient, Glitch, IDM, Electronic
Quality: MP3
Bitrate: 320 kbps
Total Time: 00:54:28
Total Size: 128 mb

Tracklist:
01. Damaged Datastream (05:18)
02. Be.heavier (04:30)
03. Ntt (04:56)
04. G_RN (03:26)
05. Chased By A Moment (05:17)
06. Antidote (04:11)
07. Shapeshift (06:18)
08. Alta (05:23)
09. Lotus Feet (Feat. Trickle) (05:24)
10. Subconscious (05:01)
11. Echoing Lights (Feat. Anodised) (04:44)

After the unprecedented response to his debut album ‘Lights’, Tineidae returns to present his follow-up album ‘Shadows’. Focusing on beat-oriented IDM and tightly-textured ambient sounds, this young Ukrainian producer manages to harness intensity and precision to create an engaging sound motifs that will certainly resonant with the listener.

By fusing expansive ambient atmospheres, harmonic notions, dissonant glitches and broken beats that guide along haunting melodies, ‘Shadows’ creates the impression of a hollow chamber, in which sounds ricochet from tunnel walls. Tineidae shares his vision of a dystopian metropolis – a glimpse at the origins of future life, from millions of merging datastreams. And having awoken from the terrible vision of the dystopia that lies ahead, we’re reminded that the future is not set in stone.

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Artist: Matt Thibideau
Title Of Album:The Tape Project
Year Of Release: 2014
Label: Eclipse
Genre: Ambient, Dub Techno
Quality: MP3
Bitrate: 320 kbps
Total Time: 01:12:32
Total Size: 161 mb

Tracklist:
01. Artificial (Extended Mix) (12:24)
02. Circle of Time (11:36)
03. Cold Waves (13:39)
04. Flood Rush (7:41)
05. Poly Holds (4:38)
06. The Thaw (13:55)
07. Volcaninc (8:33)

The Tape Project was recorded between 2010 and 2012.
The concept of this was to make songs that were entirely free of the computer (from making sounds all the way to the final mix). This started a new way of working and capturing a bit more freedom and allowing to focus on arrangement more with ears instead eyes.
All tracks were produced with a small eurorack modular synthesizer with analog step sequencers in it. This system worked well with a TR-808 and other older synths, then every synth was routed to the mixing console and then finally recorded to cassette tape.
The tape support has been choosen for the added sound of the compression and the added extra noise seemed to gel nicely with the compositions.
Spanning from ambient to deep techno with few dub elements, the album consists of seven full lenght original takes recorded on tapes. No edits, no post-production, no computer.

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Artist: Coppice Halifax
Title Of Album: Whitehope
Year Of Release: 2014
Label: Milieu Music / ABX33
Genre: Ambient, Dub techno
Quality: MP3
Bitrate: 320 kbps
Total Time: 01:02:53
Total Size: 143 mb

Tracklist:
1. Whitehope 01:02:53

Several years ago, I imagined a place named Whitehope. It formed in my mind as naturally as any logic or observation might – it almost seemed to already exist. I had to look it up to make sure it didn’t. Once the seed had been planted, I imagined even further – what was Whitehope like? It was blurry, slightly warm, sunny with buildings made of smoothed ivory that could either be churches or lighthouses. A lighthouse might make sense, because I knew that Whitehope was an island, surrounded on all sides by a furious bubbling blue sea. It submitted to the ocean waves via rocky crags and clay-colored sand, while inland there were mountains surrounded by rolling green hills and pastoral fields filled with yellow flowers. It all sounded so perfect. I had to etch out some kind of aural tribute to this fictional place, perhaps even something that could stand up to the feeling of actually being there. So I set out on my course to find Whitehope in my instruments and on my tapes. Three different attempts to reach it failed, and landed me in different territories altogether that have themselves been issued under other names. Only when I began to give up on ever finding Whitehope did I arrive there, and when I did, I didn’t even know I had made the trip. I had relinquished all hope of constructing my passage to this beautiful place to the fact that some ideas are just too perfect to ever create or attain. Then one night, while chasing some tangential idea in my studio that felt good, I did it. At first it was like remembering a dream – that foggy sensation that something made sense, even though it was not supposed to, and that you just couldn’t forget it. I went to sleep that night with my completed recording and when I woke up, I realized what I had done. Cradling the sound of Whitehope are several layers (about a dozen) of oceanic field recordings – sea sound reconstituted into fantasist backdrop. Then nestled deep inside are buoyant stabs of chords that punctuate and propel a coalescing haze of pads, glossing lazily over a subdued rhythm section that could almost be a heartbeat. By the end of the hour, everything chimes together in a shimmering white glow, pure harmony. Now that I’ve finally reached Whitehope, I don’t need to worry about ever leaving it, and neither do you.

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Artist: Coppice Halifax
Title Of Album: Chloroformic Forests
Year Of Release: 2014
Label: Milieu
Genre: Ambient, IDM, Dub Techno, Electronic
Quality: MP3
Bitrate: 320 kbps
Total Time: 00:54:23
Total Size: 128 mb

Tracklist:
Rephrase I
Rephrase II
Rephrase III

Dream-state fog rolls over dew covered kick drums left to fill up with rain water in the bottom of a ravine. Everything is blurry, slow like syrup, but if you squint and close one eye you can make out movements and a few round shapes in the abyss. Bliss lights up your mind and skin like a new drug, you could feel like this forever and never go back. Endless endless endless. Goodnight.

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Artist: Coppice Halifax
Title Of Album: Whitehope [Versions]
Year Of Release: 2014
Label: Milieu Music / ABX33B
Genre: Dub Techno, Ambient
Quality: Flac
Bitrate: lossless
Total Time: 00:52:05
Total Size: 175 mb

Tracklist:
1.Whitehope [Parts 1 & 2] 27:05
2.Whitehope [Part 3] 25:00

Recorded during the same dream-state session as Whitehope, these three versions subtly mutate and tangentially explore the hour long centerpiece track on the CD-R. When ripping the tape the recordings were laid to, it became apparent that the cassette itself was degrading the audio more than usual. Having tested the rest of the cassettes I ordered in the same batch, I determined that all of them shared this odd trait. The tapes record and play back just fine, yet they seem to process the audio in interesting ways that actually add to the quality of the music. So I decided to release this cassette version of the album, on intentionally degraded black cassettes, essentially making this the “black” version of Whitehope. The nature of the cassette degradation means that no two copies of the cassette will sound alike, and future listens may reveal deeper grades of degradation, making for a truly unique and transforming listening experience. Deep analog forests of cloudy techno!
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Artist: Coppice Halifax
Title Of Album: Cornucopiad
Year Of Release: 2014
Label: Milieu Music / ABX36
Genre: Dub Techno, Ambient
Quality: MP3
Bitrate: 320 kbps
Total Time: 01:17:27
Total Size: 177 mb

Tracklist:
1.Cornucopiad I 10:40
2.Cornucopiad II 01:01:50
3.Cornucopiad III 04:55

Coppice Halifax has always been an elementally and seasonally inspired project, a fact longtime listeners know quite well by now. Cornucopiad is the bounty of my first Autumn recording session in 2014, heralding the return of cool air, the smell of smoky backyards and the turning from green to orange and brown. A celebration of inevitable death and decline, self-sacrifice in the name of composting and subsequent rebirth. Renewal through destruction and regeneration. Three pieces of Impressionist techno that tread the borderline between organic and electronic, as with most things this plentiful year has produced. So, make some coffee, put on a sweater and enjoy the first fruits of my Halifaxian Autumn.

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Artist: Coppice Halifax
Title Of Album: Marine Halide
Year Of Release: 2014
Label: self
Genre: Dub Techno
Quality: Flac
Bitrate: Lossless
Total Time: 00:21:20
Total Size: 98 mb

Tracklist:
1. [RX21] Marine Halide 21:20

September brings cooler air and shorter days, a welcome respite from the oppressive heat of each Carolinian sub-tropical summer. Appropriately, the ninth RX of the year is a cool, dusky sweep of burnt leaves and deep golden hues of setting sunlight, all carried fragrantly along on a light breeze that curves in the purple air like invisible poetry. A wondrous calm surrounds the listener with gently bubbling hi hats and AM radio fizzed chord stabs, while the last remnant of a house bassline repeats lazily in a lock-groove.

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Artist: Lawrence
Title Of Album: A Day In The Life
Year Of Release: 2014
Label: Mule Musiq
Genre: Ambient
Quality: MP3
Bitrate: VBR V0
Total Time: 00:40:24
Total Size: 63 mb

Tracklist:
1. Horses 3:02
2. A Day In The Life 3:20
3. Lucy, Lucy 2:56
4. Nowhere Is A Place 4:46
5. Marlen 4:03
6. Fainting 2:44
7. Simmer 2:35
8. The Visit 2:15
9. Dreams Are Dead 3:46
10. Blue Mountain 4:05
11. Bonheur 2:19
12. Lost In Joy 4:26

all art has to be combined with the notion of outlast. this can be only realized when the energies of the expenditure do not disappear and get stored in the creation. to get this creative process started, an artist needs to open himself to the world collapsing upon him.

“a day in the life” – the brand-new ambient and beyond album by lawrence, confirms this assumption – yet no world really collapsed on the dj and producer from hamburg. instead his emotional perception danced upon friendship and wanderlust and he put together twelve tracks for an album dedicated to his long lasting relation to toshiya kawasaki, man of action behind labels like mule musiq, endless flight and mule electronic, and the artist stefan marx.

besides co-running the label dial and the mathew gallery in berlin lawrence is constantly releasing music on his own labels

and befriended platforms like smallville records. furthermore the north german regularly contributes to kawasaki’s imprints mule musiq and electronic. just recently he dropped the ep “blue mountain” on mule musiq – a deep emotional foretaste of what “a day in the life” delivers on album length.

the music he shares on his latest long player isn’t linked to a special place or event. he mostly produced it up-road on his dj trips around the globe including toshiya’s homeland japan. back in his cosy backyard studio in hamburg he finished all musical pieces and mixed them down with a lot of joy.

they are listening to great track names like “nowhere is a place” or “lost in joy”, which allow in combination with the lovingly detailed sounds imaginative mind games. in terms of style ambient calls the tune and opens the genre into the wide open with the very own musical and emotive language of lawrence.

a track like “nowhere is a place” spreads smoothly twisted spectral vibes with blurring sounds that could easily originate from alienated instruments like a damaru or a conch horn. lawrence himself keeps it secret and let the music speak for itself. sometimes soft sizzling noise slides under gentle balanced ambient air like in the track “the visit”.

in other arrangements he let the chords dance with cute smacking electronic glimpses or odd slow-motion melodies remind on the work of hans-joachim roedelius and his love for the gentle swing.

all compositions float and sound like the improvisations of a virtuoso who has forgotten his virtuosity in order to drown real deep in his creations. for lawrence the album is “a triple buddy record” as not only his emotional content is included in the finished product. also his friends stefan marx – who is in charge for the artwork – and mule musiq head toshiya kawasaki have been profoundly involved in the outcome.

“since ten years the three of us work together. the record shows this very nicely in terms of our love for ambient music and cover artwork. the cover shows stefan’s sublet apartment in nyc – also a very ambient place.

the idea for the record emerged out of a sudden inspiration and this fits prefect to the way how toshiya runs a label where sharing a good natural wine is more important than marketing.”

lawrence confesses about the genesis of “a day in the life” and its emotional content. it is a weightless one where all feelings are stored supremely in what you can hear, see and hold in hand. and they are not made for them alone. they are there to share.

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