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Artist: Tetsu Inoue Title: Ambiant Otaku Label: Fax +49-69/450464 Released: 28 March 1994 Tracklist 1 Karmic Light (17:04) 2 Low Of Vibration (11:11) 3 Ambiant Otaku (10:49) 4 Holy Dance (15:36) 5 Magnetic Field (17:47) Ambiant Otaku by Tetsu Inoue is a classic in ambient. For me it embodies the early nineties ambient feel of long dreamy ambient made for eating stars. Any listen to this album always takes me into deep space. But not a cold void like we all imagine space to be but a warm bright space, like being close enough to a star to feel warm but not burnt, close enough that it lights up your emotions. Karmic Light takes me right to that place and holds me in its warm dreamy drones, the light of the other stars in the universe twinkling brightly in the canopy of black nothingness. Low Of Vibration feels to me like a spaceship passing by the sun I am trying to eat. The length of the ship is long and it vibrates roughly as it passes by, engines roaring and machine parts whirling incomprehensibly all the time, the stars still shine on my other side. The title Track Ambiant Otaku has a simple melody that repeats over and over and sounds very ominous. This feels darker than before but I still feel like I am wrapped up in my protective cocoon drifting through deep space. This track with all its repetitive yet hypnotizing sounds makes me feel like I am drifting for centuries through deep dark space in a small pod waiting for the light again. Holy Dance feels like I have reached somewhere, civilization. Right from the start there is a warmer more real feeling and the vocal choir gives that a more civilized touch. I can imagine I have landed on some alien planet; eternal warm night fills the whole landscape. More rhythmical with some pieces of bass, one very fat that rattles my head. Repetitive & hypnotic again, this track feels like some kind of ritual, on an alien world that I have the fortune to witness. We finish off this masterful journey with Magnetic Field a beautiful track to end on. It is melodic and much more terrestrial than the rest of the journey. I feel like deep space & alien worlds are all gone and I am back in the city with a sense of melancholy that my amazing journey is coming to an end. It is a very soft track, light and melodic like the first but it feels much more urban. In the background I can hear police sirens and the drones just have a soft, early morning in the city feel to them. A brilliant CD from start to finish, Ambiant Otaku is a must in any ambient lover’s collection. This has been out of print for a long time & even the re-release is hard to find, I was very luck to find this in a used record store very cheap, it just seemed to jump out at me. If you see it pick it up, even if you are not an ambient fan, you could make someone who is very happy.

Books would be good

Tetsu Inoue - Karmic Light would be perfect if I was eating this...

Nunc Stans - The Cerulean Suite

Solar Fields - Sky Trees here

Artist: Kaya Project Title: …And So It Goes Label: Interchill Released: 21 November 2008 Tracklist 1 Always Waiting 2 Jamming With Marco 3 Deep Kaya 4 Zema Lasu 5 The Source 6 Five Plus Eight 7 Saranghi Breaks 8 Hirajoshi 9 ...& So It Goes 10 Shifting Sands 11 Dark Roads 12 Obsidian Beats 13 Drift 14 Awaken 15 Bekhudi 16 Outside Looking In 17 Under The Spell Seb Taylor brings us the third studio album under the alias Kaya Project …And So It Goes. Anyone who is familiar with Seb’s previous work under Kaya Project will probably know what to expect. It is a very ethnic but very well produced album; there are lots of vocals in different languages. There is of course a blend of acoustic instruments, vocals & electronic production, the instruments, coming from a range of international musicians and the vocals mainly from Natasha Chamberlain the UK based vocalist who many might have heard on the Angel Tears’ albums. The result is a very colourful album, both serious & fun at the same time. I very much enjoy listening to this album on a sunny day, lying in the park looking up at the sky I can imagine I have been taken away to distant lands as I could with the other Kaya Project albums. The places this takes me too though are different, whereas the last album had an eastern feel to it this one in my mind gives me a feeling of being far south on the African continent. From the tribal beats to the warm colourful sounds and the vocals I get that feeling of savanna plains, jungles and vast expanses of nature. That I always imagine Africa to be sunny & hot goes in very well with the warm bright feeling of this album. Although the whole album is very coherent and paints a journey for us to enjoy as a whole each track is quite different from the rest, the tempo goes up and down creating a relaxed roller coaster ride. The different instruments & variety of vocalists make each track uniquely enjoyable. Seb’s production though brings all this uniqueness into one coherent journey that is incredible from start to finish. If you enjoyed the previous too albums then you shouldn’t be disappointed with this one. If you’d like a warm ethnic album that is masterfully produced by one of the scenes most consistent producers using a host of other high quality musicians and instruments then you will definitely like this album. I think the wonderful cover is a good reflection of the music, the vibrant colours and natural image with a warm yet slightly dark edge show up so often in my mind as I listen to this album. All the tracks here are great but for me even on a great album like this there are standouts. Randolph Matthews’ vocals on Zema Lasu, Shifting Sounds and Outside Looking In are absolutely fantastic, he has one of those voices that sound like silk when he sings and these vocals wrap me up in a warm sheet and never fail to sooth away any stress I have. His 3 tracks are probably my favourites on the album. Deeyah’s vocals in The Source are I think the total opposite to Matthew’s but no less pleasant. They are funkier like the rest of the track, more high pitched and upbeat with a strange quality not quite human. The title track for me sums up the album quite nicely; it is eclectic yet ordered so that all the elements come together in an orchestra of warm relaxed moods. The beats are very tribal with many sporadic elements underneath the main melody & bassline, a smattering of flutes & vocals that seem only to say “Hey” adds up to a strange yet very enjoyable track. Obsidian Beats is a wonderful mixture of earthy & ethereal sounds. I can picture in my minds eye an ancient tribal ritual summoning ancestor spirits from beyond the veil. The vocals sound to me very twisted and trippy, very nice. The last track Under The Spell really does put me under a spell, the most relaxed track on the album, it is very beautiful and Natasha’s vocals are entrancing. It’s perfect end to such a great album.

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Thermohaline - Tumbleweed Dub

From the last couple of years Various Artists - Raindrops In The Forest (Psybertribe) Unoccupied - Everyday Life (Aleph Zero) James Murray - Where Edges Meet (Ultimae) raison d'être - The Luminous Experience (Live In Enschede) Gus Till - Aquana Vol.1 - Stillness Lauge - Sundays (Divine Balance Records) Abakus - We Share The Same Dreams (Modus Records) Hibernation - Some Things Never Change (Aleph Zero Records) Minilogue - Animals (Cocoon Recordings) CD2 Kettel - Myam James Part 1 (Sending Orbs) Bluetech - Phoenix Rising (Somnia) Motionfield - Optical Flow (Somnia) Pan Electric & Ishq - About Time (Absolute Ambient.Com) Saluki Regicide & Mystified - A Foreign Installation Vadim Bondarenko - Smoking Music (Faria Records) The Nature Of Light - Shores Of Jupiter (Webbed Hand) Ishq - Timelapse In Mercury (Virtual Musical Reality) C.P. McDill - Rain 1 (Webbed Hands Records) Colourform - Visions of Surya (Virtual Musical Reality) Eat Static - Back To Earth (Interchill Records) Various Artists - Ease Division 3 (Spiral Trax) Emanuele Errante - Humus (Somnia) Various Artists - Future Memories (Interchill) Evan Marc + Steve Hillage - Dreamtime Submersible (Somnia) Orbit Constructions - Androneda (Demon Tea Recordings) Gas - Gas 0095 (Remastered) (Microscopics) M-Sphere - Floating (Yellow Sunshie Explosion) Vataff Project - Kalitz (Aleph Zero Records) I Awake - The Core (Ultimae) Various Artists - Opus Iridium (Suntrip Records) Various Artists - Materia Musica (Ajana Records) Indigo Egg - ixland (Celestial Dragon Records) Orchid Star - Birth/Re-Birth (Liquid Sound Design) Hol Baumann - Human (Ultimae) Distant System - Spiral Empire (Celestial Dragon Records) Evan Bartholomew - Secret Entries Into Darkness (Somnia) Opium - Watercolors (Practicing Nature) Kilowatts - Ground State (Native State Records) False Mirror - Chronostatic Senses (DataObscura) Krill.Minima - Nautica (Native State Records) Pan Electric - Conscious Pilot (Absolute Ambient.com) Evan Bartholomew - Caverns of Time (Somnia) Various - Ear Pleasure (Chill Tribe Records) Various - Oxycanta : Winter Blooms (Ultimae) Jason Corder & Opium - Autunno (Databloem) Takagi Masakatsu - Private/Public (Epiphany Works) The Orb - The Dream (Traffic Inc. 2007) Shulman - Endless Rhythms Of The Beatless Heart (Aleph Zero) Zero Cult - Ikebana (Cosmicleaf Records) Cymphonic - Strataradialis (Databloem) Mathias Grassow & Thomas Weiss - Insights (Databloem) Younger Brother - The Last Days of Gravity (Twisted) Spielerei & Mantacoup - Cold War (Silentes) Various - Midnight Soul Dive (Aleph Zero) Various - Intermittent Memories (Celestial Dragon) Sync24 - Source (Ultimae) Asura - Life² (Ultimae) Khooman - Is a Flexible Liquid (Ajana Records) That should keep you busy for a while

Liquid Dub Vol. 7 was great :posford: :posford: :posford:

Has anyone else noticed the spam on this forum getting weird. All these long articles about nothing

Shit cover but damn I am looking forward to the music! The first one was

Tetsu Inoue - Ambiant Otaku :clapping:

Sweet np 1. Artifakt - Viagra Bastard Spawn 2. Filteria - Birds Lingua Franca 3. Crop Circles - Full Mental Jackpot (Etnica Remix II) 4. Tamlin - Playtime Adventure 5. Jikkenteki - Symplicity 6. Pan Electric & Ishq - Being There 7. Orbit Constructions - Thirteen Kings 8. Colourform - Diving Into Sun 9. James Murray - Where Edges Meet 10. Distant System - Astropolis

Distant System - Astropolis :posford:

WTF? That has to be the weirdest spam ever edit: spam's gone As for the Heavy Metal Goa, I quite like it. Not really my style but pretty cool none the less

It is not Rowan Atkinson that you want to kill but all the stupid fucks that venerated his worst ever character Mr. Bean. Black Adder is and always will be one of the best comedies ever.

I think so. Daylight is so much creepier mainly because it's where you usually feel safe so when there is something wrong about the daylight it feels much scarier

This is nice I like the words too, music of the spheres, very spacey

Florian Sériot mixed lumin's album ketri Gilbert Thévenet had a track on an Avatar Spirit compilation a couple years ago. I think a lot of the artists simply started making music that we don't listen to that much so don't delve into who it is. This has always been a genre with a million aliases so it can be hard to follow what people are doing.

Mystic Beats - Medit

Trance 1;Jikkenteki;Flights Of Infinity;Par 2 Productions Review 2;Tamlin;Spectrogram;Faerie Dragon Records/Gi iwa Review 3;Crop Circles;Tetrahedron;DAT Records Review 4;VA;Opus Iridium;Suntrip Records Review 5;Artifakt;The Magus;Timecode Review Chill 1;Distant System;Spiral Empire;Celestial Dragon Review 2;James Murray;Where Edges Meet;Ultimae Review 3;Colourform;Visions of Surya;Virtual Musical Reality Review 4;Orbit Constructions;Androneda;Demon Tea Recordings Review 5;Pan Electric & Ishq;About Time;Absolute Ambient Dot Com Review Such a great year it was very difficult to narrow it down to just 5 especially in the chill department. Would have liked to do downtempo & ambient abasio;27;Japan;Asia;1993 Mix with 1 track from each in my top 5 lists No real flow to it though as everything is in reverse order 1. Artifakt - Viagra Bastard Spawn 2. Filteria - Birds Lingua Franca 3. Crop Circles - Full Mental Jackpot (Etnica Remix II) 4. Tamlin - Playtime Adventure 5. Jikkenteki - Symplicity 6. Pan Electric & Ishq - Being There 7. Orbit Constructions - Thirteen Kings 8. Colourform - Diving Into Sun 9. James Murray - Where Edges Meet 10. Distant System - Astropolis

Artist: Crop Circles Title: Tetrahedron Label: DAT Records Released: 19th December 2008 Tracklist 1 Lunar Civilization [Pleiadians Remix] (10:47) 2 Antonomasia [Lotus Omega Remix] (9:36) 3 Daffy Duck [On The Comet] (10:01) 4 Cerealogy (10:22) 5 Pentagon (9:03) 6 Classic Process [Hale-Bopp] (9:14) 7 Full Mental Jackpot [Etnica Remix II] (9:28) 8 No More Singles (10:21) DAT Records the label opened up by Draeke during late last year (2008) with the intention of releasing oldschool Goa Trance music previously available only on DAT. DAT Records’ first release is Crop Circles – Tetrahedron and what a first release for a record label. The sort of release that is such high quality that it has you aching for more to come out. The joint project of Etnica/Pleiadians and Italians Lotus Omega had some E.P.s released way back in 1996 & 1997 on Auracle Recordings the label went bankrupt before the album could see the light of day. More than a decade later that album has been found, dusted off and given a fancy new shine having been remastered by Tim Schuldt. The result is everything you could possibly hope for, fantastic oldschool sounds with up to date masterful mastering. This is a very psychedelic, spacey journey with lots of harsh abrasive and acidic sounds that never sound unpleasant. There are melodies & synths galore and in many of the tracks the number of different sounds used and the changes in the melodies is fantastic. In Antonomasia (Lotus Omega Mix) there must be over 10 different melodies throughout the track. Some of the tracks are not as melodic as others but all have that spacey extra-terrestrial feel to it that always made me get goosebumps when I first got into Goa all those years ago. Of course after listening to so much this could never have the same impact but it does give me so many nostalgic feelings. None so more than Full Mental Jackpot (Etnica Remix II) which I think is a great remix of one of my favourite tracks that I used to dance & dance too while going absolutely crazy. As with many oldschool albums this is incredibly layered and what I hear on my 10th listen was quite different from what I heard on my 1st and probably on the 100th listen it will still surprise me. Listen to Classic Process (Hale-Bopp) allow the melodies to wash over you and focus on the dimension of sound that lies behind, it’s vast and incredibly beautiful. This is a twisted brain scrambling album that will have you gibbering in joy in no time. When listening to Pentagon with no distractions I can actually feel reality shift sideways so that everything seems just slightly wrong, a very trippy feeling. There are a few different versions of this going round on with a yellow fluorescent jewel case, one with a light green one and another with a dark green case. All come with a gold CD which combined with the slick artwork on the cover gives this release a very high quality look that goes very well with such high quality music. Thank you DAT Records and I hope to see a lot more releases from you in the future. Track By Track 1. Lunar Civilisation (Pleiadians Remix) This is pretty much everything you’d expect from a track by Etnica & Lotus Omega remixed under the Pleiadians name. It’s energetic, trippy and has lots and lots of great synths. These synths have a really sharp acidic edge that seems to cut downwards through the melodies which also have a sharp acid like quality to them. They move & shift about through the whole track with the melody twisting from sharp acid to wet and squelchy old school hyperspace rushing passed on every side kind of style. This is a great track to really get you excited and anticipating the rest of the album. Although over 10 minutes in length I think it would be impossible to get bored while listening to this, the progression, the subtle key changes & twists & turns make for an interesting ride from beginning to end. 2. Antonomasia (Lotus Omega Mix) A weird sound like an alien yawning & straight into a beat, another yawn and the bassline kicks in. The melody joins shortly after and the alien sound twists into a synth line lying in the background. The track slowly picks up more elements, sharper synths, sci-fi melodies and weird trippy sounds along the way into one intense aural sensation. The number of melodies that play along the way is quite impressive, different styles of melody from clever synth lines to twisted high pitched mayhem. This is nearly 10 minutes long and with the melodies changing so much throughout that they must clock up at least double digits. Great stuff. 3. Daffy Duck (On The Comet) This has a strange start with a weird sample that may or may not come from a popular cartoon. It is twisted enough to be indiscernible but very, very trippy, have it come on when you are coming down off a hard night sat in you most comfortable arm chair & it will have you sweating acid from your eyeballs. Very much helping this, the synth line that follows which always seems to be rising but forever stays at the same level like M.C. Escher’s Castle Stairs. The melody half way through becomes quite high pitch & piercing so that it feels really penetrative. I really enjoy with this kind of music melodies and synths that can stab you in the head and mince your brains. The wet sounds at the end just manage to rub the minced brains around for added effect. Great! 4. Cerealogy After a start where everything seems to shuffle around each other the beat comes in with one of those beautiful Goa beats that just refuses to mix with anything else. The beat that is steady for 8 beats then skips a little then is steady for 12 skips a little again has and tiny little roll then keeps steady just long enough for you to attempt blending it with something else on for it to skip & roll just at the worst possible moment. Although it may be a DJ’s nightmare (or challenge depending on your attitude) it is always very nice to listen to on an album. Combine these cool beats with clever key changes with the bass and nice synth lines you get a cool spacey acid track with brain scrambling ability. 5. Pentagon The start of the track feels a little darker than the previous tracks, with some sounds like the wind blowing around in the background and little horror clicks under the synth line. The wind warps a lot in the first few minutes until it sounds less earth bound and more like how I imagine solar wind to sound like in other dimensions where sound is much more of a priority. The beats of course come in and a very active synth line that really breathes life into the track. The melodies fly about in a very other worldly manner & while the other tracks always gave me a deep hyperspace feeling on this one I feel like I am on a planet of sorcerers with their twisted magic filling the air at unfathomable speeds. This is a great track, very colourful, energetic and head twisting, especially in the final run where everything feels like it has been shifted sideways & reality is not all as you expected it to be. 6. Classic Process (Hale-Bopp) This one starts with a much lighter, high pitched sounds flittering about like a glow bug running around on the floor in front of me. A strange whoosh seems to bring more and more before the whole of the ground is covered in dancing light. This dancing inevitably leads to a danceable rhythm & when the beat comes in the bassline jumps up & down like a proper party track. This track definitely has the most dance floor energy of all the tracks on the album but it also has enough psychedelica for the average home listener. I particularly like this track on headphones when I am out and about at night as it seems darker when you have the background sounds pushed so close. The melodies are nice but look passed the melodies and there is a whole other dimension of sound to enjoy. 7. Full Mental Jackpot (Etnica Remix II) Ahhhhh, Full Mental Jackpot a track with such great memories attached to it. Even though it’s remixed I can’t help but get the feeling of dancing on a Thai beach under the stars for hours & hours surrounded by so many people having the same kind of religious experience from the music. That was the first time I heard this, when some unknown DJ played in the middle of a beach party with such mental music as to make everyone go crazy. The synths, the melodies the little runs of psychedelic madness that fall down like acid rain onto the partiers as they get more & more worked up and more & more of their stress is released and their good vibes are released into the atmosphere helping other people work themselves into a crescendo of joyous energy. The melody in the final quarter is just magnificent and feels like an orgasmic release. A great remix of a near perfect track. 8. No More Singles Ten minutes of twisted alien psychedelic madness to round us off with and what a great 10 minutes it is. The sounds jump about in a sporadic yet strangely ordered way. The beats are again beautifully unmixable (for me) and the melodies fly about as if not tethered to anything. I don’t quite like this track as much as the rest of the album but that doesn’t mean it is not a fantastic track, because it is, it’s just that the rest of the album is so mind blowingly amazing!! Still it’s a nice way to round off a fantastic album, this track has those falling synth lines that so often heralded the end of old school albums but uses them in tandem with rising melodies and wet acid noises. The overall effect is that the album is winding down but still encouraging the listener to give it another whirl.