Recent posts: Ambient / Downtempo
Padmasana – Padmasana II
Label: Dakini
Release date: 01-11-2013
Source: WEB
Format: MP3
Quality: 320 kbps
Size: 101 mb
Genre: Electronic
Style: Ambient, Dub, Techno
Tracklist:
01 Transition
02 Evolution
03 Vibration (Part One)
04 Vibration (Part Two)
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29.11.2013 Album Ambient / Downtempo TechnoARTIST:Dakini, Padmasana Read more
Sun Glitters – Scattered into Light
Label: Mush
Catalog#: MH293
Release date: 29-11-2013
Source: WEB, Album
Format: MP3
Quality: 320 kbps
Size: 105 mb
Genre: Electronic
Style: Chillwave, Downtempo, Dreampop
Tracklist:
1 When the Train Comes 4:22
2 Soft Breeze 3:04
3 I, You, We… Know 3:52
4 Three, Four Days 4:11
5 Closer to the Sun 3:54
6 Lonely Trip 4:16
7 Scattered into Light 4:37
8 Only You 3:19
9 And the Sun Goes Down 3:49
10 Feeling Young 4:49
11 Too Much to Lose (Acoustic Version) 3:05
Scattered Into Light is the Mush debut from the Luxembourg based electronic act, Sun Glitters. The eleven-track album remains true to the glitchy r&b and deep tech-house sound that has blasted Sun Glitters into the consciousness of electronic music fans over the last two years. Stuttering beats and wobbling synths are soft-focused through a sun-bleached lens in a way that will appeal to synth-pop, ambient, and dustup fans in equal measure. Scattered Into Light is the first Sun Glitters release to completely integrate a vocalist, as Italian ingenue Sara Cappai lends her talents to over half the tracks. The result is awash with star-gazing melodies, bubbly bass, and textured beats that give equal nod to house and hip-hop. Scattered Into Light is an wonderful release and makes a compelling case for Sun Glitters as an artist on the verge.
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Mosaik – Aerials
Label: Self
Release date: 27-11-2013
Source: WEB
Format: MP3
Quality: 320 kbps
Size: 63 mb
Genre: Electronic
Style: Ambient, Post-Rock
Tracklist:
01 Aerial [ 2:06]
02 Icarus (ft Hunz) [ 5:51]
03 Prosperous [ 3:47]
04 Heart Racer (ft Maria Seger) [ 3:57]
05 Vercors [ 5:08]
06 No Way Out But the Sky (ft Hunz) [ 5:35]
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Migrations In Rust – Two Shadows
Artist: Migrations In Rust
Title Of Album: Two Shadows
Year Of Release: 5 nov 2013
Label: NNA Tapes – NNA 065
Genre: Ambient, Experimental
Quality: MP3
Bitrate: 320 kbps
Total Time: 00:32:44
Total Size: 87 mb
Tracklist:
1. Had We Left / Doors Between (03:42)
2. Two Shadows Cast (05:22)
3. Canticle For Melting Gold (04:03)
4. Cradled Under Fern (04:03)
5. Behind My Skin (04:45)
6. You’re Near (04:56)
7. Drawing Down The Moon (05:50)
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Sun Glitters – Closer To The Sun
Label: Mush
Catalog#: MH-095
Release date: 26-11-2013
Source: WEB
Format: MP3
Quality: 320 kbps
Size: 35 mb
Genre: Electronic
Style: Downtempo, Chillwave, Dream Pop
Tracklist:
01. Closer To The Sun
02. Closer To The Sun (Moon Bounce Remix)
03. Closer To The Sun (Teeel Remix)
04. Closer To The Sun (Botany Remix)
“Closer To The Sun” is the haunting first single from the new Sun Glitters album, Scattered Into Light. The original features Italian vocalist Sara adding her etherial magic to an electronic production as cuttingly beautiful as anything Sun Glitters has released. Moon Bounce completely changes the mood of the track with a synthesized chord progression that re-imagines a forties pop-ballad as produced by a Prince protege. Teeel builds a New Order inspired electronic dance remix that focuses on the Siouxsie & The Banshees timber in Sara’s vocal delivery. Botany raps up the single with an eerie breakbeat laden remix that twists and turns the vocals into just another instrument.
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25.11.2013 Ambient / Downtempo Lounge / ChilloutARTIST:Mush, Sun Glitters Read more
Steve Moore – Pangaea Ultima
Label/Cat#: Spectrum Spools – SP 032
Year: 16 December, 2013
Source: WEB
Format: MP3
Quality: 320 kbps
Size: 132 mb
Genre: Electronic
Style: Ambient, Experimental
Tracklist:
1. Endless Caverns (06:05)
2. Planetwalk (05:11)
3. Deep Time (05:40)
4. Nemesis (06:19)
5. Pangaea Ultima (08:48)
6. Logotone (05:53)
7. Aphelion (07:16)
8. Endless Mountains (06:07)
9. Worldbuilding (06:53)
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Empusae – Sphere From The Woods
Label/Cat#: Ant Zen Germany – ACT 292
Year: 25 October, 2013
Source: WEB
Format: MP3
Quality: 320 kbps
Size: 122 mb
Genre: Electronic
Style: Ambient, Experimental
Tracklist:
1. Ritual For Saille (08:14)
2. Sphere Des Bois (15:00)
3. Into The Abyss Of The Forest (09:20)
4. Cadence Chamanique (08:56)
5. Dirge (07:04)
6. Rutsu (06:24)
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Eguana – Paraequilibrium
25.11.2013 Album Ambient / Downtempo Lounge / ChilloutARTIST:Eguana, Plexus Read more
bEEdEEgEE – SUM/ONE
Artist: bEEdEEgEE
Title Of Album: SUM/ONE
Year Of Release: nov 2013
Label: 4AD – EAD 3341A
Genre: Experimental, Beats, Downtempo, Electronic
Quality: MP3
Bitrate: 320 kbps
Total Time: 00:44:08
Total Size: 94 mb
Tracklist:
1. Helium Anchor (04:56)
2. Like Rain Man (feat Lizzi Bougatsos) (04:44)
3. Empty Vases (feat Douglas Armour) (07:48)
4. Overlook (03:12)
5. (F.U.T.D.) Time Of Waste (feat Alexis Taylor & Lovefoxxx) (07:01)
6. Bricks (04:06)
7. Flowers (feat Lovefoxxx) (06:22)
8. (intellectual Property) (01:02)
9. Quantum Poet Riddim (04:51)
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24.11.2013 Album Ambient / Downtempo Electronic ExperimentalARTIST:4AD, bEEdEEgEE Read more
John Lemke – People Do
Label: Denovali
Release date: june 2013
Source: WEB, Album
Format: MP3
Quality: 320 kbps
Size: 92 mb
Genre: Electronic
Style: Ambient, IDM, Downtempo
Tracklist:
1. End of Endless (04:51)
2. Shatterbox (04:33)
3. The Air Between (05:11)
4. Dorothea (02:08)
5. Ivory Nights (07:02)
6. Illuminations (05:40)
7. Nolands (03:24)
8. Dorothea II (03:04)
9. When We Could (06:00)
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Alvin Curran – Shofar Rags
Artist: Alvin Curran
Title Of Album: Shofar Rags
Year Of Release: nov 2013
Label: Tzadik / TZA 8176
Genre: Ambient, Experimental, Avant Garde
Quality: MP3, Album
Bitrate: 320 kbps
Total Time: 01:00:53
Total Size: 131 mb
Active since the mid-’60s, Alvin Curran is one of America’s most courageous and outrageous musical mavericks. A true forefather to the Downtown scene, his music embraces the dialectics of composition/improvisation, tonality/atonality, minimalism/maximalism, electronic/acoustic and more. Alvin’s use of the Shofar in experimental music making goes as far back as 1988, and this long awaited release features several compositions for Shofar and electronics, ranging from meditative Ambient environments to flamboyant, fast moving collage.
Tracklist:
1. Shofar Puro Alap (06:28)
2. Shofar X 17 (13:09)
3. Shofar T Tam (10:49)
4. Alef Bet Gimel Shofar (04:41)
5. Shin Far Shofar 1 (11:22)
6. Shofar Der Zeit (04:00)
7. Shin Far Shofar 2 (10:20)
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The Next Mission: Part Three
Label: Dubmission
Catalog#: CDDUBM037
Release date: 21-11-2013
Source: WEB, Compilation
Format: MP3
Quality: 320 kbps
Size: 197 mb
Genre: Electronic
Style: Ambient, Dub, Psychill
Tracklist:
1. Animat – A Promise of Snow (Dub Mix)
2. Kukan Dub Lagan – Blessing (Dub)
3. Vacuum Science – Don Dada
4. Scubba vs Yechidah – Beyond the Illusion of Life
5. SUBSET – Ghostline (Missing Time Mix)
6. Vacuum Science – Tree Fingers
7. Animat – Horsehead Dub
8. SUBSET – Awake but Dreaming
9. Kukangherita SoundSystem & Antoine Salem – Future Combination Authentic Sensation (Kukan Dub Lagan Remix)
10. Yechidah – Embracing the Sun (Blue Sunrise Mix)
11. Animat and Misled Convoy – Lost in the Valley of the Scintilla Strings
12. Yechidah – Maha Mistis (Dance of the Elements Mix)
13. SUBSET – Interbody Fusion (Bottoms Up Mix)
14. Kukan Dub Lagan – Rush (Dub)
15. Vacuum Science – Golden
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Zes – Love Will Take
22.11.2013 Album Ambient / Downtempo ElectronicARTIST:Fog Mountain, Zes Read more
Amentia – Caliope
Artist: Amentia
Title Of Album: Caliope
Year Of Release: 5 nov 2013
Label: Merkaba
Genre: IDM / Glitch Hop / Broken Beat / Ambient / Psychedelic
Quality: MP3, Album
Bitrate: 320 kbps
Total Time: 01:15:09
Total Size: 163 mb
Tracklist:
01 Octa Via 07:19
02 Roses 09:16
03 Collective 08:14
04 Caliope 08:07
05 Sonic Hue 07:34
06 Then Do It 09:52
07 Curves326 07:39
08 Worship 09:26
09 Four Day Mist 07:38
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Melodium – Lixiviat 2
Label: Melodium
Release date: 17-11-2013
Source: WEB
Format: Flac
Quality: Lossless
Size: 105 mb
Genre: Electronic
Style: Ambient, IDM, Experimental
Tracklist:
01. Queen
02. Quantum
03. Quota
04. Quasar
05. Quest
06. Qualm
07. Qui Vive
08. Quartz
09. Qwerty
10. Quarantine
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LuminoStation – Invisible Microspace
Label/Cat#: Space Radio – SPRD 17
Year: 31 October, 2013
Source: WEB
Format: MP3
Quality: 320 kbps
Size: 136 mb
Genre: Electronic
Style: Ambient, Experimental
Tracklist:
1. Untouched Nature (original mix) (08:48)
2. Ticket To The New Era (live mix) (05:54)
3. Space Enlightenment (original mix) (12:00)
4. Space Garden (original mix) (11:39)
5. Walking On Layers Of Graphite (original mix) (11:48)
6. Trip Into The Past (original mix) (10:03)
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Glockenspiel – Dupleix
Label: Babel
Release date: 17-06-2013
Source: WEB
Format: Flac
Quality: Lossless
Size: 184 mb
Genre: Electronic
Style: Ambient, Post-Rock
Tracklist:
01 Larven
02 Dupleix
03 Bellville
04 Tramadol
05 Fentanyl
With allegiances that spread as far and wide as the ambient post-rock, UK free improv and Norwegian avant-noise scenes, the duo Glockenspiel are a perfect example of just how much these subgenres of contemporary creative music have in common. On Glockenspiel’s new album Dupleix, guitarist Adrian Dollemore and drummer Steve d’Enton send these apparently diverse areas of experimental underground music into a fresh liaison, connecting them with the kind of energy and spirit associated with the outer limits of both compositional and improvised music. Both musicians have a background in the UK free improv scene, playing extensively with saxophonist Tony Bevan as well as Paul Rutherford and the young, internationally acclaimed contemporary jazz pianist Matthew Bourne. Released on the Babel Label, the second Glockenspiel recording is a spooky sweet slab of electric drone effects-jazz, Sonic Youth-like guitar and hypnotic post-rock and krautrock rhythm.
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Red Stars Over Tokyo – Melody Attack
Artist: Red Stars Over Tokyo
Title Of Album: Melody Attack
Year Of Release: nov 2013
Label: Testtoon Records / TTTB70
Genre: Experimental, Techno, Ambient
Quality: MP3, Vinyl, Album
Bitrate: 320 kbps
Total Time: 01:11:29
Total Size: 167 mb
Tracklist:
1. At the End of August (5:50)
2. Melody Attack (4:59)
3. The Night Shines on Your Face (8:19)
4. Girls from Pyongyang (11:19)
5. A Place Where People Hide (7:03)
6. Stretch the Distance (4:50)
7. Leutesdorf 4am (12:14)
8. Sign Language (8:19)
9. At Night at Home (8:18)
After releasing two highly acclaimed remix 12″s earlier this year, Red Stars Over Tokyo now delivers the hauntingly beautiful Melody Attack album. A double gatefold, mastered to subtle perfection by Dubplates & Mastering in Berlin, RSOT delves even further into his own unique mix of the subtly trancey, emotionally driven and understated forward motion of his previous productions. As always, his tracks have an undeniable song quality, the emotions within referencing the small and mundane, whilst the inspiration behind often references a so-called bigger picture. The whole album fades in and out of focus and attention, giving its different parts room to breathe and develop. Somewhere in there, there’s a a downsized cover version of Fra Lippo Lippi’s song ‘Sense of Doubt’—its stylistic minimalism a perfect counterpart to RSOT’s ambitions. ‘Melody Attack’ is RSOT’s own dark, elegiac version of what, for sake of simplicity, could be called 90’s IDM or Ambient Techno. His is an appealing darkness that does not forbid the sun to shine through. Its sense of isolation is filled with compassion for the one isolated. This is post-dancefloor music for post-dancefloor use. An ambitious, purposely ambiguous musical stream of consciousness that never cuts ties with its past, but offers a new and intricately organized perspective that makes it modern to a tee.
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Maps and Diagrams – In Circles
Label: Time Released
Release date: 16-11-2013
Source: WEB
Format: MP3
Quality: 320 kbps
Size: 145 mb
Genre: Electronic
Style: Ambient
Tracklist:
01. Talavera (03:37)
02. Bosque (05:20)
03. Valargo (06:09)
04. Ten Black Cards (04:06)
05. Kimura (Cadiz) (02:37)
06. A Bump In The Night (05:04)
07. 1895 (Moth Evolution) (07:36)
08. Batika (Rust) (02:58)
09. Moorish Star (06:16)
10. Locus (05:04)
11. Madrid (03:44)
12. At Home Again (05:22)
13. Yesterday (Feat. I Am Dive) (05:00)
Maps and Diagrams – the solo project of Tim Martin. To date an enviable back catalogue with releases for such respected sound houses as Static Caravan, Unlabel, Expanding, Smallfish, Awkward Silence and Handstitched* – the latter of which he runs.One of the finest ambient alchemists in the sphere of modern electronic music, Maps and Diagrams blend delicately formed sound sculptures upon a minimalist ambient palette that are all at once shy, tender, fragile and beguiling.
The release – recorded earlier this year at the Circle Studio. In Circles is Maps and Diagrams second suite for Time Released Sound. Described by its author as his ‘most musical’ opus to date it features a guest appearance by Spain’s I am Dive on the parting Yesterday. Combining frosted hymnals, forlorn lullabies and celestial mirages; In Circles is richly textured and delicately spun.
In Circles will appear in two formats – a strictly limited edition cork digipak hand finished in antique wallpaper and a standard digipak issue. [Time Released Sound, October, 2013].
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Media Them – An Expensive Vase
Label/Cat#: Recycled Plastics – MT1
Country: US
Year: 20 Jun 2013
Source: WEB
Format: MP3
Quality: 320 kbps
Size: 103 mb
Genre: Electronic
Style: Ambient
Tracklist:
1. Fjord The Water (08:34)
2. Waking Up (04:20)
3. Ticonderoga (06:24)
4. Finally Forgotten (13:05)
5. Aggregates (02:21)
6. The Door (09:56)
7. Interlude-28 (00:52)
8. Vitatha (02:38)
9. Balance (05:21)
An Expensive Vase is the first of several scheduled albums by Media Them at Recycled Plastics. The sound of Media Them is a unique blend of warm atmospherics and organic rhythms – electronic music reduced to the simplest of loops, repeating infinitely. It is both minimalist and maximalist at once, as Media Them’s composition lies not in the makeup of these loops, but rather, the size of the window we’re glimpsing them through. Small breaths of melody, heart flutters of bass, snare and hi hat and the coziest bedroom production give way to expanding universes of color and sonic exploration without end. Did that sound just repeat one more time than it did before? Was that other sound even playing since the start of the track? Media Them beckons you to refocus your ears and get lost in a beautiful hypnosis of music and mind.
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Candle Nine – Lost + Directionless
Label: Candle Nine
Release date: 01-11-2013
Source: WEB
Format: MP3
Quality: 320 kbps
Size: 115 mb
Genre: Electronic
Style: IDM, Glitch, Ambient
Tracklist:
01. Nowhere (5:17)
02. Ego Hunter (5:39)
03. Reach (5:31)
04. Hierarchy (3:35)
05. Nausea (4:42)
06. Persona (8:02)
07. Rapunzel (5:03)
08. Singularity (5:24)
09. Gone (5:54)
Following his acclaimed 2010 debut “The Muse in the Machine” [Tympanik Audio], Lost + Directionless is a project years in the making. A decisive continuation of the musician’s haunting body of work, Lost + Directionless is his most cerebral and ambitious project to date. An album which strikes the delicate balance between form and formlessness. Between nostalgia, and a crumbling, decaying vision of the not-too-distant future.Through Candle Nine’s ever-evolving style, from his early performances as a singer-songwriter, to his bloom into electronic music, he has become adept at exploring the contrasts of beauty and dissonance. Candle Nine’s use of glitched-out synths, multi-layered guitar assaults and harsh, yet nimble, percussions creates an atmosphere which is both eerie and serene.
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Helpling & Jenkins – Found
Artist: Helpling & Jenkins
Title Of Album: Found
Year Of Release: 12 nov 2013
Label: Spotted Peccary – SPM-9074
Genre: Ambient, Downtempo
Quality: MP3, CD, Album
Bitrate: 320 kbps
Total Time: 01:12:39
Total Size: 162 mb
Tracklist:
1. The Opening (05:31)
2. Sun Racer (06:19)
3. Through And Through (06:39)
4. Almost Never (05:34)
5. Lost (06:55)
6. Only Ashes (13:11)
7. Through Tears (08:31)
8. Edge Of Tomorrow (07:04)
9. Found (Featuring Miriam Stockley) (07:24)
10. For The Ages (05:31)
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Vytis – Underground Movement
Artist: Vytis
Title Of Album: Underground Movement
Year Of Release:15-07-2013
Label: Silverfield Records / sfr-001
Genre: Techno, Ambient
Quality: MP3
Bitrate: 320 kbps
Total Time: 00:56:04
Total Size: 128 mb
Tracklist:
1 Planetesimal 10:33
2 Metropolis 05:44
3 Factory 05:52
4 Tyrant 09:21
5 Ghost Rider 04:33
6 Train 19:58
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Torn Hawk – FIST
Label: Beer On The Rug
Catalog#: BOTR020
Release date: 03-09-2013
Source: WEB
Format: MP3
Quality: 320 kbps
Size: 50 mb
Genre: Electronic
Style: Experimental, Ambient, Techno
Tracklist:
1. ’96 Galant 04:35
2. Pretend to be a Cop 02:33
3. Take Off Your Glasses 02:08
4. Gags and Broken Fingers 08:24
5. Two Winter Graves 03:55
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Deepchord – RA.390
Label/Cat#: Resident Advisor – RA.390
Country: UK
Year: 18 Nov 2013
Source: WEB, Mixed
Format: MP3
Quality: 320 kbps
Size: 208 mb
Genre: Electronic
Style: Ambient, Dub Techno, Experimental
Tracklist:
b]1.[/b] Various – RA.390 (90:35)
The dub techno artist goes off-piste.Rod Modell is an artist very firmly associated with a particular style, namely dub techno. Since the late ’90s, the Detroit native has mined this murky and atmospheric sound, whether on his own or with Steven Hitchell as Echospace and cv313. Though clearly inspired by Basic Channel and its related projects, Modell has always been committed to moving beyond dub techno’s old testament, creating something fresh and modern with each new release. These days Modell is moving faster than ever before. He splits his time between Amsterdam and Detroit, and seems completely uninterested in the past, especially when it comes to his own music. Deepchord’s latest album, the almost beatless 20 Electrostatic Soundfields, is his most experimental yet.
On RA.390 we see him at his most unhinged, weaving a strange and dreamlike bricolage that’s at once completely new and unmistakably Deepchord.
What have you been up to recently?
Just back to Michigan from Amsterdam. Will be here for a few months, then back to Holland after the holidays. For the past three to four years I’ve been splitting my time between Amsterdam and Michigan. In the studio lately I’ve been more obsessed with sound design in lieu of making songs. The sound design aspect seems more important at the moment. I think sound design in electronic music is 25 years behind. Everyone’s obsession with old analog synths is perpetuating this. Instead of focusing on up-to-date options, everyone is hoping for yet another incarnation of classic gear from the 1970s synthesizer graveyard. It’s retarding music.
How and where was the mix recorded?
Recorded in Michigan with a pair of DJ CD players, DJ mixer and outboard filters / FX.
Can you tell us about the idea behind the mix?
Lately, I find myself drifting farther and farther away from techno / dub music in favor of the stuff I liked 15 years ago. I haven’t bought a techno record in three years. Around my home, I listen to old 1940s/50s music and field recordings. Electronic music overall seems to be stagnating. I can’t remember the last truly innovative record that I’ve heard. Naturally there may be a few exceptions, but they are (too) few and far between. This mix was done in the midst of rediscovering a few boxes of old CDs that I packed away several years ago. They were boxed up when I moved from my last home to the current one (and I’ve been here for about nine years). Wasn’t anything precontrived, just my top tunes for the moment. Since rediscovering some of these old favorites, it’s becoming difficult to return to the current glut of mediocre, formulaic grid music.
You said that your latest album is full of quick “audio sculptures.” Could you expand on this?
The music on 20 Electrostatic Soundfields was never made with the intention of having it released. Over the years, I found myself dabbling in video a little, and I made music for these video experiments. This is the music on 20 Electrostatic Soundfields. It’s a collection of soundtracks. Generally, they were assembled quickly to fit the video. The dance floor was never a consideration. They are sound designs to infuse the visuals with a particular intended emotional vibe. They feel organic because they are primarily unsequenced. It was liberating to sit in a room with an ultra-basic setup—pair of studio monitors, keyboard, looper, FX unit—and record into a twotrack recorder (Alesis Masterlink). No computer. No multitracking. Total flow-of-consciousness style without overthinking or overdubs. Come up with an idea in my head, practice playing it a few times, then press record and do it for real. Much of 20 Electrostatic was done like this.
The picture disc version of the album features some of your photography. What sort of things do you tend to focus on?
My primary goal with photography is to record a certain space that I like so that I can go back there anytime I want. I’ve done this since I got my first camera at age five. I hate photographing people or objects. I guess I’m more of a landscape photographer, but not of pretty / pastoral scenes. I’d rather capture dirtier, unusual, or metaphysicallycharged places at 3 AM. Night seems to be a recurring thread in my photography. I rarely photograph during the day. I like the places where tourists rarely venture. I feel most comfortable / relaxed in these places. The tourist areas are generally staged for show and not a true representation of a place’s real vibe. Like a movie set. The new picture disc features the Amsterdam red light district (near my apartment) on one side, and the beach next to my house in Michigan on the other. Basically the two places where most of my friends reside, and where I feel most comfortable.
What are you up to next?
Trying to come up with an interesting perspective for new music. I never want to revisit something I’ve already done. It’s pointless and gets an artist stuck in a rut. The whole objective is to progress and develop. It would be easy to make another Coldest Season or Lumin (etc) over and over. No challenge in that. I think it’s vital to develop a new algorithm. Every second spent working with an old formula is a second wasted. I recently disconnected my studio and stored some main / favorite pieces, then reassembled things with some old equipment that I feel less comfortable with. We’ll see how this affects things. I’m trying to break from the familiar, get out of my comfort zone, and make new music that sounds nothing like Deepchord or Echospace.
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Olga Kouklaki – I U NEED
Label: Kwaidan
Catalog#: Two Disc Edition
Release date: aug 2013
Source: WEB, Album
Format: MP3
Quality: 320 kbps
Size: 277 mb
Genre: Electronic
Style: Electropop, Electro, Downtempo
Tracklist:
CD 1 – I U Need
01 I U Need (3:05)
02 Hollow Lives (feat. Liset Alea) (3:57)
03 Who Are U (feat. Tim Keegan) (4:02)
04 Antivirus (3:53)
05 Sweetheart (feat. Melanie Pain) (3:28)
06 Jukebox (4:18)
07 Gazstation (4:18)
08 Stop (4:03)
09 Ready (3:28)
10 One Way (4:05)
11 Time Goes By (3:27)
CD 2 – Expanded Edition Bonus Disc
01 Who Are U (feat. Tim Keegan) [New Wave Remix] (3:56)
02 I U Need (Lee Burton Remix) (5:29)
03 Antivirus (Telemusic All Stars [Kid Loco & Mr Gee] Remix) (5:02)
04 Antivirus (Telemusic All Stars [Kid Loco & Mr Gee] Dub Mix) (5:02)
05 Hollow Lives (feat. Liset Alea) [TT + CJ Remix] (6:17)
06 I U Need (Olga Remix) (6:13)
07 Hollow Lives (feat. Liset Alea) [T. Finland Remix] (6:26)
08 I U Need (Jori Hulkkonen Remix) (7:10)
09 Antivirus (Rosa Lux Remix) (7:19)
10 Hollow Lives (feat. Liset Alea) [Marcello Giordani Remix] (6:47)
11 Antivirus (Teeel Remix) (3:44)
12 Antivirus (NTEIBINT Remix Alternative Version) (3:42)
13 Hollow Lives (feat. Liset Alea) [Benjamin Marell Remix] (4:57)
14 Antivirus (NTEIBINT Remix) (4:33)
15 I U Need (What You Want Remix) (5:28)
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Jeff Mills – Where Light Ends
21.08.2013 Album Ambient / Downtempo TechnoARTIST:Jeff Mills, Lossless Label U/M/A/A Inc. Read more
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