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I made the same mistake myself untl someone kindly pointed out my error np Takagi Masakatsu - Rama one of the greatest tracks ever crafted. Amazingly a live composition

I suppose a link would be good

Distant System - Astropolis In the city of Astropolis where the skyscrapers rise 5000 metres into the sky & small passenger ships fly between the high rises. Where the sun beats down but reaches the bottom only after it's been reflected thousands of times through windows. Where the higher you　live the better your status & the lower you live the more chance you have of a violent death. A futuristic hive city.

Elemental Journey - The Band From Atlantis

just put this on myself

Why were they deleted?

Matt Hillier is in my opinion one of the ambient masters. One of the best ever with his beautifully relaxed & natural style he has found his way into many people's hearts I'm sure. Just about everything this guy makes is top class music & I don't think I've heard anything that I didn't love form him. His collaborations with other artists are just as good. I've made a mix of my most loved tracks from Ishq, his other projects & collaborations. Tracklist 1. Conscious Pilot - Always A Way/A Moment Of Grace (With Matt Coldrick) 2. Ishq - Fire Salamader 3. Ishq - Ra 4. Ishq - Sundive 5. Indigo Egg - Smiling Buddha 6. Elemental Journey - The Band From Atlantis (With Matt Coldrick) 7. Ishq - Aphrodite 8. Ishq - Bakhti 9. Ishq - Alaya 10. Ishq - En Soph 11. Colourform - Nubien Sunset (With Jake Stephenson) 12. Ishq - Sol 13. Ishq & Shulman - Mother Nature (With Shulman) 14. Ishvara - Blue Helix 15. Elve - Utoia 16. Ishq - Fluid Earth 17. Elemental Journey - Air (With Matt Coldrick) 18. Colourform - Kaliedoscope (With Jake Stephenson) There's some beats but most would describe the greater part of this mix as beatless. If you are not into beatless ambient (or what is usually referred to as beatless) then check this out anyway. Matt Hillier just makes good music, he can change your mind The beatier tracks are at the start.

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Sasha & John Digweed - Northern Exposure

Man that cover is so Pavel. I hope they haven't gone too cheezy fullon. Fullon is so Radi. It's nice to have part of you (name or orientation) associated with what everyone thinks is bad isn't it? Anyway I don't have high hopes for this album it'll probably be uber-pavelradi crap

Cymphonic - Phonema Sacrata (DataObscura 2006)

Indigo Egg - Smiling Buddha

Indigo Egg ixland Celestial Dragon Records 21st March 2008 Tracklist 1 Clouds Of Indigo (13:01) 2 Planet X (11:42) 3 Tree Bark Dreams (9:51) 4 Smiling Buddha (8:35) 5 Lhasa Oblongata (3:24) 6 Ixland / Clearlight (5:27) 7 Home (2:13) Matt Hillier, the ambient master who brought us the masterpiece albums Orchid (Ishq), Magik Square of the Sun (Ishvara), Infinite Garden (Elve) and much much more. This album was originally worked on in the late 90’s but was shelved as other projects took precedence. Brought up later, remastered it finally found it’s way into a release. This album therefore highlights Matt’s early sound & is very reminiscent of that late 90’s ambient sound. 1. Clouds of Indigo We start off with a very natural intro, waves, wind that kind of stuff before it becomes a much more spacey psychedelic sounds with a soft but steady beat & little plops of trippy bubbles all around. Things rush off into the atmosphere & cascade down like a sonic shower. A very simple melody is strangely encapsulating and it all manages to build a very nice relaxed & very trippy atmosphere. The melody goes up & down & twists all around in a very slow manner. It’s one of those tracks that just manages to make time seem irrelevant as while it is 13 minutes long it seems to be over in no time. It’s a great opener and would work well mixed with some of The Infinity Projects ambient stuff. 2. Planet X More natural sounds at the start of this one, birdsong being the most prominent continues through the track but at a much more subtle layer after quite a hard beat kicks in. The beat is sharp & cuts through the soundscape with every kick. Whereas the intro has me scratching my head as to why this track is called Planet X, after a while I come to understand. The sounds used are very alien feeling, extremely trippy & it makes me picture a purple late evening sky with ringed moons slowly rising in the sky. It’s a bit like the music from Magik Square of the Sun but more upbeat and more colourful than I found that album but it shares the same mechanical feeling I got from it in a similar alien environment. 3. Tree Bark Dreams Fantastic 90’s ambient beats are like a very welcome blast from the past. They remind me of the sort of trippy beats found on the Early Northern Exposure compilations with a slightly more twisted edge. The beats trip along echoing on each hit. The spacey sounds put me in mind of the Northern Lights & how they would sound if turned into music. I picture myself lying on my back on a frozen over lake far into the arctic circle watching them flicker overhead waiting for an alien spacecraft to and rescue me from the drudgery of everyday life. I find this to be a nice track full of escapism. 4. Smiling Buddha Smiling Buddha slows us down a bit, the beats are still there but they are back to an undanceable rate. You could stand in the middle of the dancefloor and move but move but it wouldn’t really be dancing. Very spacey again with alien blips rising & cascading, long synth lines droning in the background & a sample I can’t quite make out. It’s a fair bit darker than the previous tracks more like night time space ambient. It feels like open spaces, dark skies and the tops of trees obscuring the moonlight. The whole atmosphere is very big & dreamy, my favourite track on the album 5. Lhasa Oblongata This is a spacey, floaty, beatless track that manages to sound spacey & earthy at the same time. The bubbles sound like they are in some ocean in hyperspace whereas the birds sound like they are over an earthly body of water. Maybe it’s on some mirror world, just like here except different in an indescribable way. 6. ixland/Clearlight Back with some heavier beats (not heavy just compared to the beatless track before). The sounds are harsher in this too sounding like some acid stabbing through my brain, quite a shock from the bliss that has preceded it. It’s an interesting storm of sounds swirling around. Halfway through it really calms down becoming a calm beatless adventure onto a beautiful island. The sound of birds greets us & the voice of a Psiren speaks to me, welcoming me. The contrast in styles from the start to the beginning is quite unusual & I think I’d prefer just the latter style. 7. Home A wee track to end on, for me it’s like a continuation from the end of the last track. I can see myself lying on the grass in the middle of my island looking up into the clear blue sky & being very much at peace here at home. Well, all in all this was not what I was expecting. I was expecting something more along the lines of his beatless Virtual Music releases or his Ishq releases. But Matt Hillier has a different name for every different style & this style is definitely needing it’s own name. The music is musical, not just an ambient soundscape journey but it has melody & rhythm too. Like most of Matt’s work a casual listen doesn’t sound that spectacular but lie down & give it a real listen & the beauty unfolds. I would heartily recommend this to any lover of Matt Hillier, 90’s ambient or just good trippy music. This is a very psychedelic album in my humble opinion; it really takes my mind places. The mastering is great, it all sounds very clean but the only thing I don’t like is that at the end & beginning of some tracks it seems like the music has been altered a little to make the album a seamless (gapless) journey of an album. I don’t quite feel though that it succeeds and the transitions from one track to another distract me briefly. That’s a small qualm though & it does not ruin my enjoyment of this very good album. Not Matt’s best work but a fine release nonetheless.

Artifakt - The Magus

Jikkenteki - Abiguity

Here is an ambient scene. The story starts in the late evening beneath a garland of stars. The night gets darker as it goes on & we travel through the city. The city never sleeps though & there is always someone working. The darkest time of the night is just before the dawn & the dawn brings a brief morning optimism but the sun never manages to climb very high in the sky & we end with a cold dark half light of the far north. Enjoy Tracklist 1. Robert Davies - Beneath Strange Stars 2. Evan Bartholomew - Secret Entries Into Darkness 3. Robert Rich & B. Lustmorde - Delusion Fields 4. Nuc Stans - A Logic of Dissolution 5. Lammergeyer - Atonement 6. Robert Davies - Spectral Visions 7. Evan Bartholomew - Born, We Fluctuate & Fade 8. Solar Fields - Air Song (8am Version) 9. Spielerei & Mantacoup - Where It All Ends 10. David Bickeley & Tom Green - Polar Sirens 11. Robert Davies - Plateau of Delusions Link

Crazy & very disturbing

Robert Davies - Beneath Strange Stars

Some PSYchill here. Downbeat psychedelic squid tentacle monkey arms. For once a nice CD length mix Part one of my wee series 1. Jikkenteki - Ambiguity 2. Prosect - Palenque 3. The Peaking Goddess Collective - Being Transformation 4. Mauxaum - Bleeding 4 Africa 5. Tripswitch - Lyra 6. Aes Dana - Lysistrata 7. Khooman - Dahkara 8. Solar Fields - Air Song 9. Shulman - Inner Shelves (Ishq Remix) Link

Artifakt The Magus Timecode Records 2008 Tracklist 01. LCD 02. Bulk 03. Crystal 04. Psylocibin 05. Macbeth 06. The Magus 07. Viagra Bastard Spawn 08. Gather 09. The Probe 10. No Present 11. The Pole Well I was never too impressed by the first Artifakt album but the second one blew me away so much I felt the need to share it with my friends and family, even buying extra copies for them. Hearing that there was a third album made me really hope that Artifakt would be one of those artists that just got better and better and this album has not just lived up to my expectations but actually surpassed them. Well starting from the horrible sample at the start of the first track LCD this album gets infinitely better. The pure funkiness of the first track with the deep electronic orchestral influences make this short intro a great one. The next track Bulk, also starts off in less than impressive fashion sounding like a glitchy minimal nightmare but it slowly evolves into a really nice deep quirky. The sci-fi samples towards the end are some of the best I've heard and really add a deep darkness too the music. Crystal is another techno influenced track with a lot of spacey effects in it in such a glitchy random way that on paper looks awful but manages to work here most wonderfully. The guitar at the end of it just punctuating it all. Psylocibin is a high octane track with touches of eastern melody but dominated by tech and glitch. Macbeth has some Shakespearean samples and a really old world feel in it's brief insurgency. The Magus, the title track embodies the album so far for me. It's a mix of all the tracks before it. It's energy, it's glitchy randomness and it's deep feeling. The piano section feels like it's going into some classical concert before the electronic atmosphere covers everything and the dark sample drags the atmosphere down into the catacombs of the mind. Viagra Bastard Spawn is a bastard of a track. The synths are all over the place and the rolling bassline while quite ordinary is one of the best fitting I've ever heard. It fits around everything really well and everything else is as random as possible. Great stuff! Gather is one of the best tracks I've heard in years. It feels classical at the beginning leading into to crazy glitch and then blending into a mix of the two. The electronic feel of course wins out but there is always that underlying feel from years past in it. The mix culminates in the end into such a weird mix of classical energy. Fantastic. The Probe tries to be spacey with it's star like melodies and Space Odyssey samples. It initially seems to fail after trying so hard but manages to glitchily go deeper with what would have been a spacey atmosphere twisted into a weird hyperspace anomaly. The sci fi samples might seem a bit obvious but they fit perfectly and add to this dancefloor sci-fi brilliance. No Present starts as a simple melodic full on track but creates deep journey like feelings with strings and deep bass Throughout most of the track. There are guitars in this but they get almost completely overlooked as they fit in rather than destroy the music. It's a good feeling. Later on they become more obvious but never shit. The Pole may be the energetic culmination of the whole album with the beats driving and the bassline in perfect sync with the melody and the beats as well as the synths. Great stuff all sound as you'd expect. So I was expecting the follow up to Artifakts II to be good but to be honest I didn't expect to like it as much as I did. Don't listen to anyone but yourself. Take people's recommendations, try the CD and hear for yourself. It's even better than the street says. Get it now, it's one of the most enjoyable albums you'll have heard in years I'm sure of it

This is old news no? I thought I'd seen loads of threads about this album before now

Your comment is probably the best lager in the world! either that or extraordinarily random! np Artifakt - The Magus