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1. Vudim Hondurenko - Smoking Zone 8 2. David Bickley and Tom Green - Polar Sirens 3. Kwook - Ice Planet 4. Mutagene - Knockoff Spice 5. Atrium Carceri - Dark Water 6. Evan Bartholomew - Where Forgotten Days Slumber 7. Orbit Constructors - Eye of Vecna 8. Beta Two Agonist - Horta 9. Nunc Stans - It Passes Before You 10. Krill.Minima - The Escargots Dream 11. Andrey Kirichenko - Both My Sides 12. The Circular Ruins - A Day Without Secrets 13. Danny Kreutsfeldt - Abyss 14. Cymphonic - Creatura Aeterna 15. Jason Corder & Opium - Neromeccanico 16. Lammergeyer - Despair 17. Off The Sky - Feather In A Needle 18. Nalepa - Porcelain 19. H.U.V.A. Network - Sunday Barbecue At The Neighbours 20. Carbon Based Lifeforms - Artificial Island 21. Aes Dana - Shouting Valley 22. Mahiane - Spathe 23. Sync24 - Woodland (Resurrection) 24. Between Interval - Aerolith 25. Solar Fields - Time Slide 26. Asura - Territories Part One 27. Chi-A.D - Slide (Limited Version) 28. Hol Baumann - Endless Park 29. Solar Fields - A Place To Think 30. Bluetech - Snow Drift 31. Doof - High On Mount Kailash 32. The Circular Ruins - Evening Of Innocence 33. Pete Namlook & Mixmaster Morris - Hymn 34. Sense Project - Pain Chimes 35. Cymphonic - River Styx

Nothing mentioned at discogs

Good & bad news. I'll finally get a copy of Aes Dana - Season 5 but will miss out on Aftermath (if they will not reprint the limited editions, which they shouldn't or they'd be liars )

Emanuele Errante - Humus

Well, I love vinyl but as my taste has gotten more ambient over the years CDs have taken over. Ambient on vinyl needed care beyond my rough grubby hands. For portability I go for mp3. I think my hearing is not as good as many other people's as even with mid level mp3 rips I can't tell much difference. For me the physical product encourages me to give more time to albums I may not have loved instantly.

I have heard more than that of course, I didn't just write absolutely everything I'd heard. These are the ones I thought were good enough that I'd like to review at some point if I have time & effort. My most listened to this year is probably Vataff Project - Kalitz but I think it wont appeal to so many.

Gas Gas0095 Microscopics 2008 (remastered) Tracklist 1 Generator (0:35) 2 Experiments On Live Electricity (16:40) 3 Microscopic (9:55) 4 Miniscule (0:01) 5 Pixels (1:30) 6 Vapourware (1:30) 7 Selenium (0:40) 8 Earthshake (9:00) 9 Mathematics And Electronics (12:50) 10 Timestretch (0:02) 11 Earthloop (3:45) 12 F (0:15) 13 Tellurium (0:35) 14 Discovery (11:00) 15 Generator 74 (1:15) The classic album Gas from 1995 has been remastered with a slightly different tracklist. As with any old album being released there is the chance of it sounding badly dated but with a good mastering job this feels more nostalgic having aged well. It's an album with cool funky beats, ambient atmospheres & trippy sci-fi sounds. Lets look a little deeper. 1. Generator The intro is a slow rising oscillation that stops abruptly. 2. Experiments On Live Electricity Not exactly flowing from the intro we have our first proper track and what a 16 minute whopper it is. The soft ambient start is torn apart by the heavy, loud bass stomps. The initial foray into beats is a nice trippy oldschool sound later followed by steadier sounding. The melodies fly about all over the place in subtle ascent and they evolve nicely throughout. The music continues to grow all the time, the beats get heavier, the drones start to groan and there are metallic synths added for good measure. This track manages to be many things at the same time. It's relaxed yet intense. Heavy yet nimble. Music for the brain yet enough to make your head nod and your foot tap. Very nice track. Definitely worth its 16 minute duration. 3. Microscopic Microscopic is haunting and beautiful. Long drawn out drones lie under a trippy sci-fi melody and a lot of trippy little acid sounds ping and squelch. The beats kicks in at a time the howls start to sound like wolves, high pitch in the distance. The little details keep the track interesting after a lot of listens as does the melodies evolution. At times they seem to come out of nowhere. Sometimes they feel like they have always been there but I'm just noticing them. Great track. 4. Miniscule Miniscule is Miniscule. Pointless. Just a blip, then it's over. 5. Pixels A short crazy track. All melody. One from the left then one from the right. One pushes at your back another pours from above. 6. Vapourware As serene as the last was nutty. Melody on it's own only accompanied by trippy little pips and blips. 7. Selenium Pointless little bit of noise. Not sure as to it's value as it doesn't really link anything. Rather it just ends. 8. Earthshake A longer track this time with a more clubby feel. Their are female vocals that remind me of baleric trance and big bass that gives the track a summer feeling. Verges on cheesy without crossing over. Enough quality beats, synths and melody to keep me grinning. 9. Mathematics and Electronics We start with what sounds like it's going to be a minimal ambient track with drones and just a few slight melodic sounds. But it builds and builds adding more sounds more layers finally bringing in the beat. Fully layered now the track doesn't just rest on its laurels, it continues to twist and turn. This evolution keeps the track alive and interesting for it's entire 12+ minutes. 10. Timestretch Timestretch is a full track, 4:30 long, compressed into one second of audio. What the fuck? Just pointless. 11. Earthloop A nice short track. About four minutes of chilled out beatless bliss. The sample sounds like it's from a movie but is ambiguous enough to not get annoying. Over this is a nice female vocal. Under it all are subtle little almost missable sounds each a tiny bit trippy making a kind of melodious undertone. 12. F 15 seconds of unappealing sounds. 13. Tellurium 35 seconds of pointless noise 14. Discovery The beats have an almost lazy quality. I imagine myself on a dancefloor wanting to dance but without the required effort. I just stand there moving sporadically, slightly but to the music in my own little world. The high pitch synth drones cuts through the sound like a hot knife through butter and the breakdown gives me a nostalgic feeling of back in the day in a warehouse rave when the beat stopped before kicking back in again. The beat though is relaxed and I wish I had had this album back then for when we got back home. 15. Generator 74 Just over a minutes of blips and an oscillating sound like a landing spacecraft. This album is great if you ignore the pointless tracks varying from 4 seconds to 90 seconds. These tracks do not link the real music very well and to me sound like unfilling pointless filler. Maybe the label required a 15 track album I don't know. Apart from that slight irritation, the music on display here is classic. I'm glad it got a reprint and a remastering as it now sounds great played loud on headphones.

SFX - We are controlling transmission

Juno Reactor - God is God

Juno Reactor - Bible of Dreams The song "God Is God" contains samples of Charlton Heston from The Ten Commandments

Kettel - Kroost Kids really love the album Myam James Part 1 will there be a part 2 or is it just a fancy title?

Well, I think 2008 so far has been a great year for chillout music. Both established acts & new surprises have peaked my interest & I have thoroughly enjoyed. First up was the delightful surprise of Vataff Project - Kalitz (Aleph Zero Records) which while not quite as unique as the sales blurb was an extraordinary album with a lot of soul & is definitely one of my favourites this year. Gus Till - Aquana Vol.1 - Stillness (Aquana) is a nice warm ambient album, perfect for relaxing outside on a warm spring day (Summer is too hot here) Indigo Egg - Ixland (Celestial Dragon Records) blew me away with it's otherworldly acidic brilliance A lot of people have probably heard Distant System - Spiral Empire (Celestial Dragon Records) which is my favourite Ketamine trance album in ages. Tyler often says he is not creative or copies other's techniques but he has more "accidental" creativity than most other artists releasing recently IMO Minilogue - Animals (Cocoon Recordings) was a lush minimal album & the second CD was a great minimal chillout/ambient CD. Definitely worth checking out. Orbit Constructions - Androneda (Demon Tea Recordings) is another space ambient album but with such great atmosphere that I get lost in each time. Take some ketamine, collapse on the sofa in a smoky club & hope they play Vadim Bondarenko - Smoking Music (Faria Records). It's a great jazzy ambient album. Urban, dark & smoky. Various - Future Memories (Interchill Records) had the cream of the crop on it. Tripswitch, Solar Fields, Eat Static, Phutureprimitive, Cell, Carbon Based Lifeforms. How could it not be great? (It's great by the way) Orchid-Star - Birth + Re-Birth - Same Journey, Different Perspectives (LSD - Liquid Sound Design) for me was a big surprise. I thought LSD was done but this album was stunningly beautiful. Gas - Gas 0095 was remastered on Microscopics & was a great treat to be able to get at last. Kettel - Myam James Part 1 (Sending Orbs) is maybe my favourite chill of the year. Kettel's style is just goosebump inducing stuff & this album while not the Journey of My Dogan has more PCG tracks Evan Bartholomew - Secret Entries Into Darkness (Somnia) is nice dark ambient, very descriptive & deep. Emanuele Errante - Humus (Somnia) is sleep inducing but if you can manage a half sleep the music really comes alive & paints a bland yet engaging landscape. Evan Marc + Steve Hillage - Dreamtime Submersible (Somnia) is one of those records that I can hear the quality of it but just haven't managed to get into yet. Still I'm sure I will, in time. The second CD of Various - Opus Iridium (Suntrip Records) was absolutely great. The Aes Dana track Lysistrata just blew my mind. Hol Baumann - Human (Ultimae Records) was full of quality music but just didn't have enough new stuff for me. Still, great album, seems like Ultimae is evolving. Loved the melodies & the beats here. I Awake - The Core (Ultimae Records) had some more IDMish beats & was quite a cool album after I got into it. Colourform - Visions Of Surya (Virtual Musical Reality) is another acidic alienesque alien soundscape from heaven and finally M-Sphere - Floating (Yellow Sunshine Explosion) which was an album I was so looking forward to so there was a big chance of disappointment but M-Sphere came up with the goods & delivered another melancholic masterpiece. There is more I must hear, the newest Virtual Musical Reality release & the Eat Static chillout album as well as I am hoping for more from Ultimae, LSD & hopefully Databloem. Also Celestial Dragon have a new comp coming out with a new Distant System track which is another must buy. Looking forward to my 2008 mix. Must get some more upbeat material first though. Damn....so much to buy, so little cash

I'm sure you know it's from Leaving Home I also included it at the end of my mix this afternoon 1. Kenji Kawai - Reincarnation 2. Krill.Minima - Nautica 3. Rena Jones - Open Me Slowly 4. Kettel - Through Friendly Waters 5. H.U.V.A. Network - Moon Town 6. Bluetech - Ice Forming On Glass 7. Electrypnose - Rozococie 8. (val)Liam - Perfectly Rational 9. Minilogue - Six Arms And One Leg 10. Amos - Flaktsystem 11. Plaid - Ladyburst 12. Kattoo - Place 8 13. Legiac - Mings Feaner 14. Omni Trio - Atomic State 15. Kettel - Every Kiss You Gave 16. Autechre - Eutow 17. Youko Kanno - Velveteen 18. I Awake - Reflecting Impulses 19. Aphex Twin - Heliosphan 20. Kettel - Kroost Kids 21. Carbon Based Lifeforms - Abiogenesis 22. Asura - Golgotha 23. Solar Fields - Monogram all though the flow is a bit shite np Minilogue - Six Arms And One Leg

Solar Fields - Monogram

Well, I hope we don't forget to say thank you to you for all the great music! THANK YOU Will definitely check out the new Celestial Dragon comp :clapping:

The summer here has been broken. When it should be nearly 40 Celcius it's getting under 20. It's weird, like there is something wrong with the summer. It did inspire (earlier than thought) a colder mix Broken Summer Tracklist 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

I'm sure this has been discussed. It sounds like it's going to be a crap album but I'll leave my real opinion until I actually hear it. You never know, they could surprise us & do something good. But judging by all their latest output & lives I wouldn't count on it.

I　plane up read Timberlake myself. So who is Timbaland? Some kind of shoe manufacturer?

Cheers Oopie! I've really enjoyed not for threes & the tekkonkinkreet soundtrack so I should explore more. Here though cheap second hand plaid albums are rare. Too popular Now playing Where Does This Ocean Go? on the Stand Alone Complex OST a mix of IDM & pop

Nope, I'm not that Naive. Did you really think I was or are you just being a douche bag? I know people release music they think is sub standard but I don't want to hear that. If the person making it doesn't like it that much then there can't be too much heart & soul to the music. Lots of artists pump out sub standard shite but that's pop or semi-pop which I try to steer clear of.

Stand Alone Complex OST

Ghost In The Shell Original Soundtrack

I'm confused. If his stuff was all over priced shit. Why did you order?

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

You only listen to the best releases in general I imagine? Now while not all music I listen to I'd rate at 5/5 if I was going to release my own music (and expect people to pay for it) then you can be damn sure I'd make sure it was all 5/5 in my ear. If I thought my own commercially released music was not as good as it could possibly be then I'd take the time to make sure it was 5/5 before I let it out in public. An artist that doesn't think what they have made is great shouldn't release it. Can you imagine the spiel? Well I think this is a bit shit, but you might like it! Go on please give me your money!! Nah, if an artist doesn't rate his own music why should I bother with it. Even stuff I find crap, I hope the artist loves.