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Pete Namlook - Autumn

What do you think of this?

Emanuele Errante - Humus fecunda got this last week but just now giving it a proper listen. very nice it is

Minilogue - Even the wind seemed in deep sleep

Amethystium - Treasure

Amythestium - Isabliss Cheesy new age stuff but strangely alluring

Yeah it's just over a tenner DMT went down quite well

This kind of advertising puts me off to be honest. Most of the best albums I've bought have had little to no spiel from the record label. If something really is the bomb then the label can just release & let word of mouth spread the good news. How is every talentless fullon copy a leader in the electronic scene for the last 10 years?

All that's available now Here are the links to my currently available mixes. The descriptions/Tracklists are in the following posts (mostly), scroll down if you want to know what you are downloading Anctangental Meanderings Some nice ambient for warm summer days Summer Labyrinth More ambient for warm melodius days of sunshine Antediluvian Panorama A mix of some oldschool ambient classics Prismatic Airs April's live set from Sirocco Triskaidekaphobia Dark ambient mix Best Of Downtempo 2008 A Mix of My favourite 2008 downbeat tracks

Never thought this was in need of a reprint. I see it in many shops every week

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Vataff Project Kalitz Aleph Zero Records 19 May 2008 Style: Ambient Tracklist 1 Orpheus Forest (8:08) 2 Inner Beauty (9:41) 3 Plasticine Bird (Album Edit) (11:26) 4 Kalitz (9:45) 5 Patayasa (7:55) 6 Mist (9:10) 7 Dvabrakia (8:35) 8 UTC (6:22) 9 Orale (8:55) Now Aleph Zero has touted this as something that has never been heard before. Something that is totally unique that really nobody has ever heard before. A big boast by a record label with a great track record of delivering fantastic quality releases but one that had an easy chance of being found lacking. So just how unique is this? 1. Orpheus Forest We start off on a mysterious journey with lots of mysterious sounds. Long dark synths, high pitch whirling sounds and what sounds like an old flute being played. It all adds up to one dreamy opening track with an abundance of dark mystery in it. When the voice comes in, dark and, well mysterious it's like you've been expecting it and it has arrived 2. Inner Beauty More mythical sounds in this track with little high pitch blips that conjure images of forest nymphs in my head. The image of the forest is supported by the other sounds which at once sound wide open and dense at the same time. Really like being in a busy forest full of nocturnal extra sensory activity. 3. Plasticine Bird (Album Edit) Plasticine Bird as heard on Midnight Soul Dive on this same label. This differs only from that version in that the first minute is basically the ending of the previous track. Again this is a beautiful scratchy track with long drawn out synth lines and one of those beats that while minimal and relaxed gets your head nodding. Again the secondary synths seem to rain down and give this an unmelodious melody. Very nice track it is even if I've heard it before, as this album is more like one long track, it's quite welcome. 4. Kalitz From minimal ambient beginnings grows a track that is beautiful in it's intricate layers of natural indigenous sounds mixed with trippy electronica. As the title track I think it tries to embody the feeling of the whole album and it succeeds magnificently. It is dark, electronic, forest somewhere in the middle of the world and in our dreams. Listen to this track if you are thinking of buying the album. 5. Patayasa A more random and squelchier number here with big fat wet sounds and glitchy electronica adding a nighttime feeling to the proceedings. But not just nighttime, busy urban nighttime but with an untrapped wide openness to it. Not a metropolis but a lively local city with wide thoroughfares. I instantly think of Sapporo when I hear this. 6. Mist Now with a title like Mist, I was expecting some vague half heard, half seen track steeped in dark early morning fog from which anything, be it a long lost friend, an enemy come for your head or a god come for what ever reason. I was not let down, that's almost exactly what this is but it's even more. Imagine now that the fog swirls about seemingly randomly before you and you have what the light flute and eerie melodies do for this track. Perhaps my favourite on the album. 7. Dvabrakia Here we see a more intense look at the dark forest. Fast yet relaxed synths batter the soundscape from the sides while watery plops drop down and a tribal ritual chant comes in from underneath. Personally I could do without the chants because in my ears they sound like music from the amazonian jungle rather than this dark deserted forest I'm starting to call home. Probably they are traditional Bulgarian songs but for me they are a bit out of place. Fortunately they are short lived but without them for me this track would be sublime. 8. UTC Here the forest seems to have turned into a late summer's evening like the journey is going back in time, we have come through the blackest night and arrived just before where the insects buzz in swarms and swamp the night air so everything feels dense yet enjoyable. Everything about this is dark yet warm, from the beach beats to the soft melodious sounds I can feel the air of a summer's eve. 9. Orale We finish with a sublime piece of ambient which is fitting for any finale. The scratchiness off the beginning leads into a tribal vocal that seems more fitting than before. Instead of conjuring images of forests this vocal pushes images of villages into my head. Picture a small village festival in full swing as the sun sets. The forest nearby adding it's natural weight to the affair. We seem to be at the end of our backwards journey through the dark nighttime forest. If the last track seemed like a warm summer's evening then this is definitely the preceding twilight with a more human yet spiritual vibe to it. Perfect ending for a backwards look through blissed forest time. Well, how about that boast by Aleph Zero? Well, this album fits surprisingly well into DJ sets & when I hear it, I'm reminded of work I've heard on Databloem & Silentes so I'm not sure if the boast is truly justified. This definitely has it's own stamp on it though that sets it apart from other releases that have had a similar style. This is for sure a story telling album, as I mentioned in the track by track analysis, this feels like the story of a forest filled with mystical & mythical wonder going backwards through a night during the summer. It's dark but warm. It's wide open yet dense & full of life. Although I have indeed heard it's like before I have never heard anything this good & with such a story that grasps my imagination in this way.

Well, it was only 3 grand, I like to say grand as it makes it feel like lots of money but it basically paid for a taxi to take me home with my decks & some grub at the end of it. My mate Peter (first DJ) organised the whole thing but didn't have any DJ equipment so entered me. It was a nice small venue. A beach bar far from the beach. Well not that far, you could still feel the warm summer beach atmosphere. It was cool Yeah, even I have started to pick it up. Started as a piss take and.......er....that is what it remains

On Sunday I played my first live set in Fujisawa near Yokohama & Tokyo Unfortunately on Saturday I got totally wasted & was a little worse for wares but thankfully it all went okay. I played second in the night when it was at its busiest. It was a nice chilled night with nice people, not excessively busy but we made money (I got 3 grand ) The Set I played 1. M-Sphere - Blue Summer 2. Kilowatts - Deep Sea 3. Malik Trey - Sleepy Shadows 4. Carbon Based Lifeforms - Mos6581 5. Chronos - Mayan Artifact Part 2 6. Shpongle - Divine Moments of Truth 7. Jikkenteki - Ambiguity 8. Ra - Light Receiver 9. Aes Dana - Lysistrata 10. Filteria - Cloud Kingdom (Solar Fields Remix) 11. Secede ft Kettel - Leraine 12. Kettel - Kroost Kids Between each set we had some guy with Crystal Balls & he was really cool. As I had a hangover from hell and it kind of freaked me out a bit at first but I got over it Check out this video of him in Harajuku I even had my own adoring fans (all 3 of them ) edit: have you ever noticed how Japanese girls cannot stand in front of a camera without doing the V-Sign?

Oh I don't know, I got 3 grand for a DJ gig last week. It paid for a taxi home & a bit of food

Deviant Species - Bilboan Trance

Nuclear Ramjet - Cloud Sailors

It's fucking great. Not quite the unique never been heard before release that the label professed, it sounds similar to stuff I've heard on Silentes & on Databloem but the quality is really high & it has it's own unique touch that makes it very very worth getting Now playing Slinky Wizard - Beautiful People

1. Matenda - Dream Cruiser 2. Deviant Species - A Night To Dismember 3. Stoop & Fidget - Mudless 4. Minilogue - Giant Hairy Super Monster 5. P.O.T.S. - Hello Kitty 6. Vibrasphere - Sweet September 7. Tegma - I Wanna Be A Robostar 8. Bus - Disco Suns 9. 12 Moons - The Collective 10. Mo-Shic - The Good Old Days 11. X-Dream - Universal Chaos 12. Deviant Species - Spiritual Beings In Fluoro Shirts 13. Slinky Wizard - Beautiful People 14. Atmos - Scientific Cover Up 15. P.O.T.S. - Orange 16. Nuclear Ramjet - Cloud Sailors 17. X-Dream - Virus 18. Deviant Species - Bilboan Trance 19. S>Range - Dimension Jump

It's very nice. Very smooth & relaxed!

Vibrasphere - Archipelago

Delerium - Karma

Amethystium - Isabliss