Monday, 01 August 2011 04:06
Trigg - Soil
GENRE: Electronic, Ambient, Trip Hop
Label: Clinical Archives
Release date: 2011
Total running time: 00:52:54
Bart Knol, a.k.a Gritt also works under the Trigg moniker. A totally different style and feel. While Gritt is known for his hard hitting dubstep bangers, Trigg Is easy going, full of playfull melodies and cinematic atmospheres.
Follow trigg in his journey into the land of soundscapes, eclectic beats, lush melodies and atmospheric grooves. This album contains 13 tracks, each of them in a different space.
Label: Clinical Archives
Release date: 2011
Total running time: 00:52:54
Bart Knol, a.k.a Gritt also works under the Trigg moniker. A totally different style and feel. While Gritt is known for his hard hitting dubstep bangers, Trigg Is easy going, full of playfull melodies and cinematic atmospheres.
Follow trigg in his journey into the land of soundscapes, eclectic beats, lush melodies and atmospheric grooves. This album contains 13 tracks, each of them in a different space.
| TRACKLIST |
| 01 - Soil 02 - Square Methods 03 - Oneiro 04 - Leaving Traces 05 - Until You See 06 - Being Human 07 - Gravity 08 - Manjaro 09 - Odd Species 10 - Colliding 11 - Ludium 12 - At Night They Grow 13 - Seed |
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Tuesday, 12 July 2011 02:59
The Merricks - Monkey Way
GENRE: Electronic, Ambient, Dark, Ritual
Label: Sirona Records
Release date: 2011
Total running time: 00:43:35
Marc Ackermann aka The Merricks is a one man band from Geneva (CH). Born in 1972, he started learning piano and electric guitar. He formed a few bands in the 90′s (New wave, Punk, Electro) as lead singer and guitarist. The Merricks is an experimental solo project lead by the desire to find harmonies into chaos.
Influences? Velvet underground, LPD, Depeche Mode, SPK, Einsturzende Neubauten, The Residents, Wire, Skinny Puppy, Psychic TV, Foetus, Sonic Youth, Dirk Ivens, Steve Reich, Sigur Ros and so many others that thrill your skin and brain.
Label: Sirona Records
Release date: 2011
Total running time: 00:43:35
Marc Ackermann aka The Merricks is a one man band from Geneva (CH). Born in 1972, he started learning piano and electric guitar. He formed a few bands in the 90′s (New wave, Punk, Electro) as lead singer and guitarist. The Merricks is an experimental solo project lead by the desire to find harmonies into chaos.
Influences? Velvet underground, LPD, Depeche Mode, SPK, Einsturzende Neubauten, The Residents, Wire, Skinny Puppy, Psychic TV, Foetus, Sonic Youth, Dirk Ivens, Steve Reich, Sigur Ros and so many others that thrill your skin and brain.
| TRACKLIST |
| 01 - Don't Mess With The Monkey 02 - Far From Home 03 - You'll Never Get Me 04 - On The Bridge 05 - Vanishing Memory 06 - Moving Meat With Flies And Hot Salsa 07 - The Wait 08 - Can't Change My Nature 09 - Resistance 10 - Gradmad |
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Friday, 08 July 2011 15:18
Candlegravity - Lost at Sea Parts I & II
GENRE: Electronic, Ambient, Chill Out, Downtempo
Label: VKRS
Release date: 2011
Total running time: 01:32:33
Candlegravity (aka Sean Crownover) is originally from California, USA but now lives in Japan. Sean studied electronic music production at San Francisco State University . After making music for video games for a short stint in LA , is now a full time programmer in Japan. He has a relatively strange collection of instruments both acoustic and electronic and plays the Japanese Koto (harp), Piano, Guitar, Trumpet, Sax, a number of East Asian flutes.
"Making music has always been a very personal thing for me. Sharing it with others is something I'm trying to a better job of. Although I make music for my own sanity rather than trying to make a living doing it, it's always gratifying and extrememly humbling when others find value in something I've made."
Label: VKRS
Release date: 2011
Total running time: 01:32:33
Candlegravity (aka Sean Crownover) is originally from California, USA but now lives in Japan. Sean studied electronic music production at San Francisco State University . After making music for video games for a short stint in LA , is now a full time programmer in Japan. He has a relatively strange collection of instruments both acoustic and electronic and plays the Japanese Koto (harp), Piano, Guitar, Trumpet, Sax, a number of East Asian flutes.
"Making music has always been a very personal thing for me. Sharing it with others is something I'm trying to a better job of. Although I make music for my own sanity rather than trying to make a living doing it, it's always gratifying and extrememly humbling when others find value in something I've made."
| TRACKLIST |
| Part I 01 - Prologue 02 - Everything I Do 03 - My Symphonies 04 - Global Culture Collision 05 - Other Sources 06 - Weathered Home 07 - My Teenage Secrets Part II 01 - Let's Talk Under The Covers 02 - Take Me With You 03 - Calling In Sick 04 - The Little Radio That Loved Me 05 - Dolphin 06 - Always 07 - We're Not That Different 08 - By Your Side 09 - You Are Not Alone |
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Wednesday, 06 July 2011 04:10
Esgi - Echoes In Time
GENRE: Rock, Fusion, Pop Rock, Ambient, Guitar
Label: Bandcamp
Release date: 2008
Total running time: 01:09:34
Essentially a concept album comprising twelve tracks of varying pace and feel. Written over the space of a few months in 2007 initially for a sound track, the project developed into this album. Now re-edited and remastered, 'Echoes In Time' is intended as a chilled out escape and something to drift away to.
From the rhythmic pulse and guitar of 'With No Beginning', the Eastern orchestral chants of 'Dawn Of Mind', the smooth melancholy of 'Alone Again' and the filmic feel of 'Destiny', Echoes In Time seeks to explore the world of fantasy, film and emotion.
'I Wonder' with its Close Encounters influence proves this in point and 'A Paradise Lost', which takes us back to primordial lands after a Great Extinction and its rebirth in 'A New World'.
The title track drifts between here and then, slightly disconnected from the rest of album, while 'Of Wars And Power' explodes with violence and fury.
'The Drifter' captures the relief of surviving absolute terror. (Ripley in the escape pod at the conclusion of seminal classic 'Alien').
'In Your Heart' is a more contemporary, guitar solo based track and 'There Is No End' completes the journey with a strings and breakbeat style affair.
I hope you enjoy the album!
Love,
Esgi.
Available in FLAC!
Label: Bandcamp
Release date: 2008
Total running time: 01:09:34
Essentially a concept album comprising twelve tracks of varying pace and feel. Written over the space of a few months in 2007 initially for a sound track, the project developed into this album. Now re-edited and remastered, 'Echoes In Time' is intended as a chilled out escape and something to drift away to.
From the rhythmic pulse and guitar of 'With No Beginning', the Eastern orchestral chants of 'Dawn Of Mind', the smooth melancholy of 'Alone Again' and the filmic feel of 'Destiny', Echoes In Time seeks to explore the world of fantasy, film and emotion.
'I Wonder' with its Close Encounters influence proves this in point and 'A Paradise Lost', which takes us back to primordial lands after a Great Extinction and its rebirth in 'A New World'.
The title track drifts between here and then, slightly disconnected from the rest of album, while 'Of Wars And Power' explodes with violence and fury.
'The Drifter' captures the relief of surviving absolute terror. (Ripley in the escape pod at the conclusion of seminal classic 'Alien').
'In Your Heart' is a more contemporary, guitar solo based track and 'There Is No End' completes the journey with a strings and breakbeat style affair.
I hope you enjoy the album!
Love,
Esgi.
Available in FLAC!
| TRACKLIST |
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Sunday, 03 July 2011 09:06
Waterplea - Rudiments
GENRE: Electronic, Ambient
Label: Bump Foot
Release date: 2011
Total running time: 00:35:43
Waterplea, a Russian electronic music duo and also contributors to Mixgalaxy Records, finished a 4 piece album with some obsolete technological feel "Rudiments".
It is described in the first track "Satellite", using several languages (there is Japanese version as well).
Rudiments makes us feel we are floating in space. A highly recommended release is this pure ambient mini-album.
Label: Bump Foot
Release date: 2011
Total running time: 00:35:43
Waterplea, a Russian electronic music duo and also contributors to Mixgalaxy Records, finished a 4 piece album with some obsolete technological feel "Rudiments".
It is described in the first track "Satellite", using several languages (there is Japanese version as well).
Rudiments makes us feel we are floating in space. A highly recommended release is this pure ambient mini-album.
| TRACKLIST |
| 01 - Satellite 02 - Bathyscaphe 03 - Zeppelin 04 - Scaphandre |
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Thursday, 30 June 2011 05:05
B_Side - Smooth Season
GENRE: Electronic, Ambient, Downtempo, Trip Hop
Label: Dusted Wax Kingdom
Release date: 2011
Total running time: 00:54:33
Wonderful debut of the Minsk based band B_Side. "Smooth Season" is an impressive live approach to the ambient trip-hop perfection with delicate female vox, chilled melancholic background strings and dreamy drum patterns.
Label: Dusted Wax Kingdom
Release date: 2011
Total running time: 00:54:33
Wonderful debut of the Minsk based band B_Side. "Smooth Season" is an impressive live approach to the ambient trip-hop perfection with delicate female vox, chilled melancholic background strings and dreamy drum patterns.
| TRACKLIST |
| 01 - Rytmy Gorada 02 - Lotasy 03 - Happy End 04 - Ya Ishla 05 - Through Fingers 06 - Vetry 07 - Stop Silence 08 - Anjoly 09 - Kropli Dushy 10 - Brooklyn 11 - Akijany |
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Friday, 24 June 2011 05:23
Robert Carty - Photonic Movements
GENRE: Electronic, Ambient, Space
Label: Earth Mantra
Release date: 2011
Total running time: 01:00:02
Robert Carty is justifiably beloved as one of the masters of pure space music, and as one of its most prolific artists as well. For nearly two decades now, he has been producing serene and magnificent electronic music of the highest order. With more than fifty albums available from his web site alone, Robert has such an immense body of work that it is difficult to grasp just how diverse his music is, and how deep his talent runs. But his latest work, Photonic Movements, serves as an outstanding introduction to his art to those who are unfamiliar, just as it will delight those who have known and loved his work over the many years.
And what a significant release this is. Folks, we listen to a lot of ambient music, but it is easy to tell when there is a master at work. There are so many superlatives we could use to describe Photonic Movements, but we'll mention just a few. The thing that strikes us first as we listen is the flawless polish that Robert has imbued the album with. The music fits together absolutely perfectly, a completely immersive experience without the merest instant of distraction throughout its entire one-hour duration. It is pure blissful space music, beatless and flowing, like the great sky river itself spanning the entire cosmos from horizon to horizon. Just enchanting.
The visuals inspired by the music are intense. The thought of laying back on a blanket, listening to this release, while gazing up at a huge desert night sky simply puts goose bumps on our skin and sends shivers down our spine. This is the kind of music that transforms the listener, the sort of experience that can temporarily transport one's consciousness to a whole new realm, a peaceful and yet energetic journey away from the mundane world into a place of sheer beauty. Stunning is a word that is overused when describing space music, but there is no better way to describe Photonic Movements. This truly is a gem of an album, a masterwork by any measure.
So with great pleasure, we proudly introduce Robert Carty to the Earth Mantra listening audience with his new release Photonic Movements. Certainly an album that we believe will go down as one of the top space music releases of 2011, and in our humble opinion, nothing less than music for the ages.
Available in FLAC!
Label: Earth Mantra
Release date: 2011
Total running time: 01:00:02
Robert Carty is justifiably beloved as one of the masters of pure space music, and as one of its most prolific artists as well. For nearly two decades now, he has been producing serene and magnificent electronic music of the highest order. With more than fifty albums available from his web site alone, Robert has such an immense body of work that it is difficult to grasp just how diverse his music is, and how deep his talent runs. But his latest work, Photonic Movements, serves as an outstanding introduction to his art to those who are unfamiliar, just as it will delight those who have known and loved his work over the many years.
And what a significant release this is. Folks, we listen to a lot of ambient music, but it is easy to tell when there is a master at work. There are so many superlatives we could use to describe Photonic Movements, but we'll mention just a few. The thing that strikes us first as we listen is the flawless polish that Robert has imbued the album with. The music fits together absolutely perfectly, a completely immersive experience without the merest instant of distraction throughout its entire one-hour duration. It is pure blissful space music, beatless and flowing, like the great sky river itself spanning the entire cosmos from horizon to horizon. Just enchanting.
The visuals inspired by the music are intense. The thought of laying back on a blanket, listening to this release, while gazing up at a huge desert night sky simply puts goose bumps on our skin and sends shivers down our spine. This is the kind of music that transforms the listener, the sort of experience that can temporarily transport one's consciousness to a whole new realm, a peaceful and yet energetic journey away from the mundane world into a place of sheer beauty. Stunning is a word that is overused when describing space music, but there is no better way to describe Photonic Movements. This truly is a gem of an album, a masterwork by any measure.
So with great pleasure, we proudly introduce Robert Carty to the Earth Mantra listening audience with his new release Photonic Movements. Certainly an album that we believe will go down as one of the top space music releases of 2011, and in our humble opinion, nothing less than music for the ages.
Available in FLAC!
| TRACKLIST |
| 01 - Shimmering 02 - Particle 03 - Waves |
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Wednesday, 22 June 2011 04:41
Waterplea – Dream Catcher
GENRE: Electronic, Ambient, Downtempo, Chill Out
Label: Mix Galaxy
Release date: 2011
Total running time: 00:41:59
Do you remember our regular contributors Waterplea who were with us from the beginning? They prepared their first solo LP to be released here. Let you not be tricked by a short tracklist for it’s a 40 minutes trip with detailed conception, ever-changing pace and mood. It takes you from your chair/sofa/bed to a deep sleep state, laying a road before you and inviting you to visit unexplored worlds drawn with blended colors of rich imagination of the authors. Traversing dark ambient soundscapes through intense vivid beats to engaging downtempo grooves this solid music piece touches dozens of different styles and evokes a broad range of emotions and pictures in listeners head.
As authors say the album was mostly composed sequentially, that’s why it was decided to keep the most of it in a single track to underline the theme of one thing transforming into another as your thoughts move from it as it often happens when you sleep. When one is seeing a dream it is hard to tell when it started or how he got here because it’s in a constant change yet all is still connected. This album is something you’d probably like to return to, because of its multilayered atmosphere and numerous details that make listener want to give it another shot to explore something he missed before. There was also a limited number of physical copies printed; images created for its booklet are included in the archive.
Label: Mix Galaxy
Release date: 2011
Total running time: 00:41:59
Do you remember our regular contributors Waterplea who were with us from the beginning? They prepared their first solo LP to be released here. Let you not be tricked by a short tracklist for it’s a 40 minutes trip with detailed conception, ever-changing pace and mood. It takes you from your chair/sofa/bed to a deep sleep state, laying a road before you and inviting you to visit unexplored worlds drawn with blended colors of rich imagination of the authors. Traversing dark ambient soundscapes through intense vivid beats to engaging downtempo grooves this solid music piece touches dozens of different styles and evokes a broad range of emotions and pictures in listeners head.
As authors say the album was mostly composed sequentially, that’s why it was decided to keep the most of it in a single track to underline the theme of one thing transforming into another as your thoughts move from it as it often happens when you sleep. When one is seeing a dream it is hard to tell when it started or how he got here because it’s in a constant change yet all is still connected. This album is something you’d probably like to return to, because of its multilayered atmosphere and numerous details that make listener want to give it another shot to explore something he missed before. There was also a limited number of physical copies printed; images created for its booklet are included in the archive.
| TRACKLIST |
| Fall-a-Sleep DD Wakeup-Dream Strays |
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Tuesday, 21 June 2011 05:23
Syrtis Major - 6
GENRE: Electronic, Ambient, Experimental
Label: Black Square
Release date: 2010
Total running time: 00:38:09
"The album "6" has a high emotional charge, it's about feelings that were wrote down using notes. Every song tells a different story, the album it's not supposed to be played all at once since you can not like all of the songs at the same time. Try to enjoy the song you hear. It is for the sad people." - Syrtis Major
Label: Black Square
Release date: 2010
Total running time: 00:38:09
"The album "6" has a high emotional charge, it's about feelings that were wrote down using notes. Every song tells a different story, the album it's not supposed to be played all at once since you can not like all of the songs at the same time. Try to enjoy the song you hear. It is for the sad people." - Syrtis Major
| TRACKLIST |
| 01 - Winter's Clear Sky 02 - Delusional Belief 03 - Death In Springtime 04 - To Alfred Lewis Vail 05 - Depressive Episode 06 - Shattered Memories 07 - Paperworks 08 - Death In Springtime (no reverse) 09 - Psychoactive Chemical Compound |
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Wednesday, 15 June 2011 05:21
Kendall Station - Mend
GENRE: Electronic, Ambient, Soundscape
Label: Test Tube
Release date: 2011
Total running time: 00:24:37
«Hailing from the USA is Michael Simpkins with his Kendall Station ambient project. Not much is known about this except for an excellent previous release on Endless Ascent 'Nebulae and Gridlock' and that maybe Michael grabbed the name from a well known train station at MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology).
Anyway, 'Mend' was a bit of long time waiting in line for the release schedule, but finally it came around and oh what a nice little EP it is! The first three tracks are pure light (as opposed to dark) ambient, something that Kendall Station works quite well. Fourth and last track 'Barge' is a short piece reminiscent of the calmest and most instrospective moments scottish act Boards of Canada had to offer in their days. Works a bit like an outroduction and works quite well in it. Perfect release for the spring days to come. Be sure to listen to this with you eyes closed or while contemplating a nature scene.» - test tube
Label: Test Tube
Release date: 2011
Total running time: 00:24:37
«Hailing from the USA is Michael Simpkins with his Kendall Station ambient project. Not much is known about this except for an excellent previous release on Endless Ascent 'Nebulae and Gridlock' and that maybe Michael grabbed the name from a well known train station at MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology).
Anyway, 'Mend' was a bit of long time waiting in line for the release schedule, but finally it came around and oh what a nice little EP it is! The first three tracks are pure light (as opposed to dark) ambient, something that Kendall Station works quite well. Fourth and last track 'Barge' is a short piece reminiscent of the calmest and most instrospective moments scottish act Boards of Canada had to offer in their days. Works a bit like an outroduction and works quite well in it. Perfect release for the spring days to come. Be sure to listen to this with you eyes closed or while contemplating a nature scene.» - test tube
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