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Capsula - Salviationa

Air Song is one of the best pieces of music ever crafted. Everyone needs this album if only for that track. Even without Air Song though this would be a 10/10 album

That is right I don't take any drugs anymore so whenever I review anything I'm not high on anything. I think I might have taken too many in the past though cause I do vividly hallucinate whenever I listen to music like this

That's how I feel about most ultimae releases

Yes, if you like ambient then this you might love this np WRA - Slewake

The Circular Ruins - Degrees of Separation

New Link A Rainy Day In EthniCity

Delerium have always been up & down for me. Some of their stuff is excellent whereas some of it is very forgettable. Will check this if given the time though.

Shulman - Invention

No it's not photoshopped, all of my pictures are completely natural

Solar Fields - Air Song (8am Version) Walking home from a club in the wee hours of the morning. The song always makes me picture that scene & when I actually did it, it was great

Solar Fields - Extended

This would be more exciting if it wasn't coming from cosmicleaf I guess we can expect half a great album

I'm willing to trade my duplicate of this. It's in good condition. I'm not willing to sell as the money means nothing compared to music. Wantlist: Ubar Tmar - Fusion (BooM! Records) Yasume - Where We're From The Birds Sing A Pretty Song (City Centre Offices) OOOD* - A Live (Completely Cabbaged) Padmasana - A Universal Consciousness (Dakini Records) Various - Boyd In The Void (Distance) UX - Ultimate Experience (Dragonfly Records) Woob - Woob (em:t) Solar Quest - Orgisms (Entropica) Graham - Graham (Equinox, Pony Canyon Inc.) Various - Retrodelica - Back From The Future (Flying Rhino Records) Darshan - Awakening (Flying Rhino Records) Koxbox - Forever After (Harthouse) Etnica - The Juggeling Alchemists Under The Black Light (High Society (3)) Juno Reactor - Luciana (Inter-Modo) Älien Mutation* vs. Îndigo Egg* - Microcosmacrocosm (Kinetix Recordings) S.F.X. - Rainbirds (Music & Sound) Etnica - Equator (Spirit Zone Recordings) Solar Quest - Orgship (SSR Records) Ethereal - Anima Mundi (Tranceform Records) Various - Fahrenheit Project Part Three (Ultimae Records) Aes Dana - Season 5 (Ultimae Records) Aes Dana - Aftermath (Ultimae Records) Yes I am aware that my wantlist mostly consists of things considered more valuable but I don't need the money or want any other item. If you have extra of what I want & want this then lets trade. If you think I'm a wanker then tell me I'm asking too much Love & kisses

Professor Trance - Medicine Trance In a palace, surrounded by dancing beauties of all nationalities scantily clad & willing to please.

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I'm disappointed that you assume nobody has ever mentioned just because you've never read it. I've mentioned that track many times even to you Radi

Various Artists Twelve TIP.World 2001 Tracklist 1. Logic Bomb - A 2. Bus and Siddartha - D 3. Cyberbabas and Paul - G 4. Process - C 5. Total Eclipse - F 6. Manmademan - B ♭ 7. Spacedrifters - E ♭ 8. Nick Doof – A ♭ 9. Synthetic - D ♭ 10. The Antidote - D ♭ 11. Earthling and Chicago - B 12. Hallucinogen - E Twelve is "A twelve part ambient journey into inner space" where Raja Ram has collected many artist appearing on TIP.World records when it was still good to create six minute ambient pieces for this 72 minute journey. The result is very pleasing with some of the biggest Psy Trance names from around the turn of the millennium turning their hands to more relaxed downbeat soundscapes, the music is soft & soothing & the production is classy & deep. Each track in a different key is an interesting concept that is a little lost on me but the quality journey music more than makes up for it. Logic Bomb starts us off with A, a very tribal ambient track. The beats are reminiscent of some ritualistic dance in Africa but the air surrounding the beats is filled with a plethora of weird twisted psychedelic sounds. A very nice start to our journey, it’s very positive a trippy. The next track, D by Bus and Siddartha follows suit from the logic bomb offering with ethnic drumming & a melody played on the sitar, an instrument I don’t often like but played quite nicely hear with a lot of atmospheric sounds floating in the background giving this an intense yet relaxing vibe. Cyberbabas and Paul – D has a female vocal softly calling out around the simple repetitive melody & little chimes here and there in the first half. The melody picks up intensity a little as do the other sounds & the voice. It all seems to be pushing at the walls of my brain trying to get in & twist it all around. No beats per say but the melody is quite rhythmical giving the illusion of percussion. Next up is Process – C which is a weird trippy synthesised take on natural ambient. There are natural sounds like water, storms & birdsong but they are all twisted out of reality into some kind of electronic voyage to trip out city. It is Beatless without any rhythm, just a strange descriptive soundscape. Even the melody seems unmelodic and it will all try to cook your brain. Total Eclipse – F brings us back to a relatively normal place with a deep & intense rushing track. I can picture myself rushing the tunnels of hyperspace while listening to this. As I fly, voices call from the other side of the tunnel but I keep on careening unable and unwilling to stop for them. They sound like an announcement in an airport but I’m already flying high. This is really really good as you’d expect from Total Eclipse. Manmademan - B ♭delivers a very peaceful ambient track with deep rushes of ambient drones layered in the background, muttered conversations & dark ethereal voices crying out. Quite dark & cold like a late autumn evening this offers a desolate feel like standing on a cold dark moor lost in the middle of the night. Unsettling without being terrifying, a great contribution from Manmademan. Spacedrifters - E ♭follows on with the darker melancholic feeling with great melodic drones playing a sadly reflective tune. Very stuff on the piano & the electronic synth accompaniment fits very well. One of the best tracks on this wonderful album, this could be music for a very heart moving movie during a time of great pain or adversity. Nick Doof – A ♭has a slightly warmer feeling with a soft bassline hugging tight to protect from the coldness beyond the door. Melancholic again & dark with some ultra trippy dripping noises like the ceiling of my reality is slowly melting. The soft synths try to push my brain back in but it’s too late. It’s already escaped into the night. Synthetic - D starts with a voice that reverberates quite harshly at first, in such contrast to the soft brain squeezing ambience of Doof’s track. As the voice leaves though in comes a huge orchestral melody that takes the breath away. I think I’d prefer a track more like that middle section but I must admit the return of the voice is very trippy as is the sudden change back to the orchestra with psychedelic trickles down the spine. The Antidote - D ♭continues the orchestral sound slightly with long deep strings that make way for a glitchy electronic section and ending up with a fusion of the 2 sounds. Glitchy electronica with deep beautiful strings is probably quite hard to pull off but The Antidote has done a wonderful job with this one. Earthling and Chicago – B is a fantastic piece of natural sounding ambient. The percussion sounds like bamboo drums matched by soft synths & the melody has a mystical feel to it, kind of eastern promise & spacey textures combining into an awe inspiring track. When the melody starts cascading down in a sonic waterfall of sounds it’s almost time for a new pair of trousers as this is one pants shittingly good ending. Hallucinogen – E ends the compilation with one of the best tracks not only on this compilation but by Simon Posford. The piano melody is basically all there is apart from the ambient drones that shadow it & those that rush up & down behind it. It’s very melancholic, a feeling that is heightened by the violin that comes halfway through. One of Simon’s best efforts ever, so good it almost makes me angry that he doesn’t produce more down tempo music like this as it is far superior to his trance in this reviewers humble opinion. Well then, this album was released back in 2001 when TIP.World still had a lot going for them, before they embraced a direction I’m not too fond of. This album probably does not appeal to the masses and that’s probably one of the reasons why it is so much better than TIP’s recent output. This is music made for the sake of good music, not just to instantly gratify some drugged up kids but to last for years of deep reflective meditation. It would be great if TIP.World could make a few more CDs like this. Release their half baked easily accessible stuff to make money but explore some more daring routes like they did here. One can dream.

Matt Coldrick Music For A Busy Head – Absolute Ambient.com Volume 1 Absolute Ambient.com 2001 Tracklist 1 Crown Violet Selflessness (7:36) 2 Brow Purple Wisdom (5:48) 3 Throat Blue Unity (7:35) 4 Heart Green Contentment (6:49) 5 Solar Plexus Yellow Radiance (6:17) 6 Naval Orange Purity (8:02) 7 Base Red Patience (8:18) Having taken a long time to get in to Elemental Journey but ending up truly loving it and instantly loving the Pan PAcific album Conscious Pilot released recently I was very curious as to how the first release from this record label would sound. The title filled me with hope that it would be a beautifully relaxed horizontal eyes closed synaesthesia inducing album & I was not disappointed. This album is a wonderfully peaceful journey that soothes a tired head & makes you forget your stresses & lets your troubles float away into the ether. "The tracks are composed in keys that resonate with each of the seven chakras in turn, all below the tempo of the human heart at rest." Crown Violet Selflessness is an eastern sounding track with lots of natural sounds. The eastern feel comes from the melody making me picture Tibetan mountains on a warm summer day. From the feel of a cool breeze to the mystical melody it’s all very self-reflective. Brow Purple Wisdom takes us from the mountains of Tibet to the white sandy beaches of a tropical island getaway. It is once again quite peaceful with a lot of water sounds, most noticeably being what sounds like a downpour of rain on the ocean but each time it’s very brief. Big bass sounds cut through the air accompanied by a light melody. Loving those water sounds so much. Throat Blue Unity takes us up a notch in the chillout stakes. I am left thinking that the last track was a mess of harsh sounds compared to this. A very simple melody repeats over nothingness, a few other noises come in & out, some rushing water sounds a few brief melodious sounds & brief strings etc but it’s all basically just the same few notes repeated again & again. Less is most definitely more. Heart Green Contentment I think is a title that perfectly sums up the music. I get a feeling of happy peaceful contentment listening to this track. From the slow, slightly melancholic melody on the flute & piano to the upbeat chimes rising like bubbles & cascading down I get a lot of emotion from this piece. Very simple again, some might call it boring but it’s extremely calming. This really is Music for a Busy Head. Solar Plexus Yellow Radiance has more energy with a melody played that seems to be constantly rising yet always stays in the same place. The big ambient drones add a lot of spacious atmosphere to the music & the flurries of flute combined with the very eastern melody sends my mind right back to Asian rice paddies on a warm spring day. Another beautiful track. Naval Orange Purity takes advantage of the human voice in a very pure way. A few times in the track you can hear chanting that sounds like it’s coming from a great distance but that has been carried on the wind to us with no loss in clarity. This is another very reflective track with nice outdoor sounds for a warm heart. Base Red Patience is the coldest sounding track with a deep dark bass drone & a wind like sound rushing through it like it’s a dark windy night outside but I’m snug as a bug in a rug wrapped up in my warm blanket by an open fire. Very relaxing ambient, I like it a lot. All in all this is a wonderful collection of tunes. Very beautiful each of them & although very different they combine together nicely to create a lush journey for your mind to float away on. The sounds are very warm & natural, a perfect album for anyone who likes their ambient warm and cosy like a summer’s day or a big fluffy blanket. I think this album has definitely been overlooked by many but it’s still readily available in shops like Saiko Sounds so give it a try.

almost as good