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NEW AGE HIPPIES - FLIGHT EP 01 :: Wake Up Call (144 BPM) 02 :: Metamorphosia (140 BPM) 03 :: Love And Peace (138 BPM) 04 :: Im Over You (135 BPM) The release of the Flight EP marks the comeback of New Age Hippies (Marco Koeller), a German progressive psytrance project, on the newly minted Cyan Music netlabel. Koeller is no stranger to music production; alongside Michael Schab he released the album Sunshine & Rock ‘N Roll on Nova-Tekk back in 2001. True to form, this 4-track release ranges from groovy full-on psytrance to pumping atmospheric progressive, always with an uplifting and emotional edge. Download it for free in MP3/FLAC/WAV direct from Ektoplazm: http://www.ektoplazm.com/free-music/new-age-hippies-flight-ep/

V/A - BREAKING THE WALL CD1 01 :: Organikka - Midi Evolution (147 BPM) 02 :: Saga Conspiracy - Digital Texture (Remix) (146 BPM) 03 :: Paleo - Tae Kwon Do (147 BPM) 04 :: Abberation - Drugstore Cowboy (145 BPM) 05 :: Le Guide - Intickets (144 BPM) 06 :: Blizzard - The Final Flight Of The Phoenix (145 BPM) 07 :: Esterian Project - Escobar (Extazya Remix) (146 BPM) 08 :: Space Invaders - Aliens (145 BPM) 09 :: Manifest - In Search Of (140 BPM) 10 :: C-Virus - Sun Factor (144 BPM) CD2 01 :: Deep South - Earthquake (144 BPM) 02 :: Hyper Drive - Cartoon Network (146 BPM) 03 :: Undertaker - The One (148 BPM) 04 :: Erofex - Digital Void (150 BPM) 05 :: Meteor Burn - Open The Cave (154 BPM) 06 :: Nervous MiSH - The Power Of Puff (152 BPM) 07 :: Oxezy - We Love (150 BPM) 08 :: Silly Twit - Cabuya (150 BPM) 09 :: Plaxius - El Ser (145 BPM) 10 :: Majestad Valkyria - The Key To Transformation (127 BPM) Breaking The Wall is a massive double-CD compilation from the Bolivian netlabel Neurotrance Records. Compiled and mastered by Erofex (Efrain Candia), this release crosses through darkness into light with a wide-ranging assortment of energetic full-on psychedelic trance. The stated aim of this project is to provide raw material for breaking down the barriers of ego and lies that separate us from our true path. Through music, dance, and meditation, we can transform our consciousness. Download it for free in MP3/FLAC/WAV direct from Ektoplazm: http://www.ektoplazm.com/free-music/breaking-the-wall/

PROSECT VS REFLEKSHUN - IMAGINATION CORPORATION EP 01 :: ProSect - An Easy Escape (Broken Dub) (100 BPM) 02 :: ProSect vs Reflekshun - Shine (135 BPM) 03 :: ProSect vs Reflekshun - Lost In Rotation (125 BPM) 04 :: ProSect vs Reflekshun - Imagination Corporation (100 BPM) N.Division Media returns with an experimental downtempo and deep progressive trance release, the Imagination Corporation EP by ProSect vs Reflekshun. Chugging tribal beats, acoustic guitar, emotionally explosive melodies, electro-pop influences, and an unusual variety of vocals creatively intersect to yield a surprising set of tracks that break new ground for Andy Yakovlev (AKA Sound Field/Sonify). Download it for free in MP3/FLAC/WAV direct from Ektoplazm: http://www.ektoplazm.com/free-music/prosect-vs-reflekshun-imagination-corporation-ep/

This is solid. I recommend it.

Interesting! I love "The World Is Our Oyster" so much that I'll check this out for sure.

And here are a few shots from the clean-up effort:

This weekend I visited one of the most notorious city blocks in Detroit, West Robinwood, from Charleston to Woodward Ave., to pitch in with a community effort to clean up this mostly abandoned street. More photos can be found in this set: http://www.flickr.com/photos/ektoplazm/sets/72157622519092594/

He's the only producer I know that can still make fast sound really good to me so I'll give this a shot. I'm really itching to hear him do the other end of the spectrum though... ultra-psychedelic stuff at 125 BPM!

Cool, I was just listening to Stereopark while cycling home through the cold and rainy night how appropriate. Check out these releases on my site: http://www.ektoplazm.com/free-music/amygdala-the-sprawl-ep/ http://www.ektoplazm.com/free-music/anakoluth-dwelling-in-the-void-ep/ http://www.ektoplazm.com/free-music/dan-rotor-looking-back-ep/ http://www.ektoplazm.com/free-music/momentum-volume-1/ http://www.ektoplazm.com/free-music/digital-family/

AMYGDALA - THE SPRAWL EP 01 :: Cognitive Distortion (126 BPM) 02 :: Oxylerator (Part 1) (132 BPM) 03 :: The Sprawl (132 BPM) 04 :: MetaMusic (132 BPM) 05 :: Tweakland (140 BPM) The Sprawl EP features five songs by Amygdala (Andreas Riemer Christensen), a Danish producer inspired by physiological psychology, science, and cyberpunk. The amygdalæ are a set of almond-shaped nuclei buried deep within the temporal lobes of the human brain that are involved in processing memory and emotional responses. Designed for inner exploration of imaginary intergalactic science fictional futures, Amygdala’s music is influenced most prominently by early Eat Static, Transwave, System 7, and Koxbox. The resulting style can be described as old school, progressive, psychedelic and techy, but every song is its own story crafted to entrance and enthrall the listener. This release has been lovingly mastered by Akhentek at Ilum Studios, B.C., with design and photography by Alexander Synaptic. Download it for free in MP3/FLAC/WAV or purchase it on CD direct from Ektoplazm: http://www.ektoplazm.com/free-music/amygdala-the-sprawl-ep/

AMYGDALA - THE SPRAWL EP 01 :: Cognitive Distortion (126 BPM) 02 :: Oxylerator (Part 1) (132 BPM) 03 :: The Sprawl (132 BPM) 04 :: MetaMusic (132 BPM) 05 :: Tweakland (140 BPM) The Sprawl EP features five songs by Amygdala (Andreas Riemer Christensen), a Danish producer inspired by physiological psychology, science, and cyberpunk. The amygdalæ are a set of almond-shaped nuclei buried deep within the temporal lobes of the human brain that are involved in processing memory and emotional responses. Designed for inner exploration of imaginary intergalactic science fictional futures, Amygdala’s music is influenced most prominently by early Eat Static, Transwave, System 7, and Koxbox. The resulting style can be described as old school, progressive, psychedelic and techy, but every song is its own story crafted to entrance and enthrall the listener. This release has been lovingly mastered by Akhentek at Ilum Studios, B.C., with design and photography by Alexander Synaptic. Download it for free in MP3/FLAC/WAV or purchase it on CD direct from Ektoplazm: http://www.ektoplazm.com/free-music/amygdala-the-sprawl-ep/

Honestly I don't know much about the other tools in the analytical chemistry lab. FTIR was recommended by another researcher out at the University of Alberta who had done some similar work with plant compounds. But no, divining the structure is not the purpose of this particular project. And the molecular fingerprinting of individual species would be cool but I'd wager that is unlikely. There might be chemotaxonomic diversity at a higher level--say, between conifers and bryophytes (i.e. moss), which is what I'm betting on. Won't know for another two weeks though--just finished processing some sediment today in preparation for acetolysis (another chemical treatment) next Tuesday.

Technically Iran is part of Asia I think the difficulty in determining the structural composition of sporopollenin is entirely related to how resistant it is to breakdown. Using some rather severe methods you can break it up into bits and determine the elemental composition (so many carbon atoms, so many oxygens, and so on) but the structure? We've got some idea about it but no clear picture. Maybe no one has marshaled the resources necessary for a proper investigation but from what I've read it sounds like there is a technical limitation at work here. The instrument I am using is an FTIR spectrometer. The idea here is that you bounce an infrared beam off your sample and the molecules absorb certain wavelengths that are associated with specific functional groups. This could be used to puzzle out the structure but for the work I am doing it is enough that specific patterns of absorbency act as molecular fingerprints. FTIR is commonly used for qualitative studies of specific compounds with reference to existing databases of spectra. Anyway, it all makes my brain hurt... in a good way.

This summer I was granted an independent research project with the paleoecology lab at my university. Essentially I've been studying the chemistry of sporopollenin, a compound synthesized by all green plants and many algal lifeforms. It's main purpose is to ward off the damaging effects of ultraviolet radiation and microbial attack. Because it is so tough it is readily found in the fossil record and lake sediments. I was out collecting sporangia from those sphagnum beds to investigate whether there is any evidence of chemotaxonomic diversity, or a difference in the structure of the sporopollenin molecule, between bryophytes (moss) and conifers (a pine tree on campus I collected pollen from). I've been treating the samples to break them down to pure sporopollenin--or as close as I can get anyway--and performing infrared spectroscopy on the residue. With the spectra I collect I might be able to do some form of quantitative analysis on the various samples I'm working with. That's the hope, anyway. If it all works out I'll have developed a new technique for deriving biomass proxy data from lake sediments which will be useful in the reconstruction of past environmental trends on a regional scale. Oh, and that exotic locale was the outlying forest at a festival I went to in August

Awesome. Last one was so great... really looking forward to hearing this.

Read any CD in your collection: "No unauthorized public performance..."

Nope! Totally illegal. But so is DJing! (Unless of course you're spinning music from Ektoplazm.) As long as you clearly mark the artist and track title as well as label of release I don't think anyone sane would have a problem with it.

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The BitTorrent value proposition flounders in situations where traffic is low. That's the main issue.

I hope you have better luck than I did with it. (See here.)

Some people will always download. All I'm saying is that if a label fails to offer legal downloads they are restricting their potential returns. And it isn't as if people won't be getting the release anyhow. In other words, limiting your releases to physical media won't make digital music buyers break down and purchase the CD; they'll just download the free copy and the label gets nothing.

Right. The situation today is that if you don't sell digital downloads someone out there is going to put up a lossless copy for free.

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