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Looks like another high quality CBL release

Artist: Principles Of Flight Title: Smash EP Label: Timecode Records Released: 9th April 2010 (Digitally) Style: Psychedelic Trance Tracklist 1. Smash (9:58) 2. Bubble Up (7:51) Hot on the heels of Principles Of Flight's great album Chaos Opera on Timecode Records last year is a digital EP release, Smash. There are two tracks Bubble Up & Smash. Both are everything I expect from PoF, they are energetic, have great basslines and atmosphere that tells a story. And in true PoF fashion that story is like a dark, fun, twisted fairytale without any of the things that make fairytales childish and with everything that makes them pure fantasy. Smash holds onto the fantasy atmosphere created in PoF's previous two albums with a thunderous beat and crunchy bassline. The melodies and sounds put me in mind of being in the forest outside a town in the middle ages, huge gates in the distance separating civilisation from the darkness outside. I feel firmly outside with the darkness but as usual for PoF this darkness is like a warm comforting blanket, the twisted monstrosities I dance with all have more humanity than humanity does and while everything look nightmarish on the surface it is really a wonderful dreamlike experience. Bubble Up is particularly bouncy & I can picture a huge castle in some fantasy wonderland filled with dark shapes and Burton-esque characters. In the centre of the castle is a large hall filled with masquerading party goers but unlike a usual black tie ball room dance everyone is off their nut dancing like nobody is watching. The dancefloor slowly gets fuller and fuller and eventually there are people being dragged under making the floor a living thing that crunches as the still upright dances smash their feet down. I am a big fan of PoF's sound, I love their take on darkness, I love their beats, their basslines and melodies but most of all I love how their music conjures such wonderful images in my head. Most modern psytrance doesn't do that for me & I find myself always looking to ambient for a really trippy, painting pictures in my head experience but PoF manages to paint those pictures while remaining extremely upbeat and dancefloor friendly. The only problem with this is that it is only an EP and is therefore over before I know it, I feel like a child falling asleep a few chapters in to his bedtime story and not knowing what happened in the end. This has wet my appetite for more from PoF and has made me listen to Chaos Opera again. Links Timecode Principles Of Flight Juno emusic

Recent set I played in Fujisawa 1. Dinah Washington + Max Richter - This Bitter Earth/The Nature of Daylight 2. James Murray - Colour Has Its Own Language 3. M-Sphere - Pulsar II (Noisy Rain Mix) 4. Solar Fields - Respiratory Rate 5. Aes Dana - Aftermath 3 6. Androcell - Atmos-Spheres (Human Mix) 7. Chronos & C.J. Catalizer - Across The Universe (album edit 2009) 8. Cell - Hanging Masses 9. Blue Planet Corporation - Arcana 10. Electrypnose - Neverending Story 11. Ganucheau - Stillness 12. Offthesky - The Persistence Of Visions 13. Biosphere - Hyperborea 14. Lauki ft. Pleq - I Know, It's Not Human 15. Jason Corder & Opium - Neon Cancer Bath 16. Offthesky - Beneath The Ice Shelf

Recently V/A - Unidentified Floating Ambience V/A - Chilled Trance (Rumour Records) Vidna Obmana with Capriolo Trifoglio + Diego Borotti - Landscape In Obscurity Hybrid Leisureland - Crossbreed Hybrid Leisureland - Scroll Slide V/A - Fire Slackbaba - Perverting Mankind Chronos & C.J. Catalizer - Quid Est Veritas Green Nuns On Ice - The Pan Electric Variations Kaya Project - Desert Phase Scann-Tec - Facial Memories Various Artists - Vital Signs Jason Corder & Opium - Thepresentday Pleq - Our Words Are Frozen The Circular Ruins - Invisible Cities Robert Davies - Geography of Memory Robert Davies - Primordial Offthesky - Cold Distances

Yeah, it's Matt Coldrick (as Pan Electric) doing downbeat/dub mixes on old green nuns stuff

Excellent news. Tripswitch's tracks on compilations have surpassed even his own amazing debut album. Looking forward to this

Broken Summer This is a set I played live a couple of years ago now when summer seemed to break in two and in the middle of August when it should have been 35 celcius it was closer to 10. This year in Japan it is also unseasonally cold and I dusted off the old mix and put it up for streaming or download at Percussion Lab. It's atmospheric IDM and ambient. 1. Omni Trio - Ocean Driver 2. Legiac - Tretz Dizm 3. Kattoo - Place 6 4. Plaid - Headspin 5. Kilowatts - Azure 6. I Awake - Leaving The Known (Featuring Planet Boelex) 7. Boards Of Canada - Happy Cycling 8. Trentmoller - Moan 9. Nalepa - Porcelain 10. Minilogue - Feeling In Spring Beside The Dressing Table 11. Vataff Project - Kalitz 12. Electrypnose - Neverending Story 13. Solar Fields - Swimming With Stones 14. Subgardens - Asleep Clockmaker 15. Vakuum Sounds - A Journey After A Snakebite 16. Ghostfriend - Moist 17. Kettel - Mwoeb 18. Plaid - White's Dream 19. Aphex Twin - 1.3 20. Ian Ion - Sunshy 21. Kettel - Wim Hoffman

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Robert Davies - Buoyant Sentience

James Murray - Gaijin

I actually managed to pick that up for around 500 yen I was talking about Planetary Unfolding

James Murray - Where Edges Meet

God I hope not, the last 1200 Mics album was an insulting bitch slap to their fans! I don't care that an artist changes their style, that's up to them but to just make such a half hearted attempt at an album with the same track on it twice was just pathetic :rant:

How are these? I've been meaning to get some more from this guy for ages

Yes you are exactly right np V/A - Fire

That's a fairly expensive CD

Try DataObscura Records you can listen to the samples or try their webradio to get a feel for it

If they are advertised as get these rare golden oldies here legally then I agree, it is all fine and dandy. I think the point here though is that the customers are being led to believe they are getting new material but end up with old stuff they already own (maybe)

Yes, but it's because I have piles on my fingers

Yeah, shall be getting this too! Loved Water & Fire has really grown on me. Wasn't too fussed with Air but seeing as how Fire grew on me so much I feel like I must give it more listens. Just one question, Earth isn't going to be all preachy and hippy like is it?