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Mystical Sun Deeperworlds Cyberset Dec 2006 Tracklist 1 2012 (7:28) 2 Blue Magnetic Ocean (7:21) 3 Halo (8:13) 4 Pure (6:36) 5 Cloudbursting (7:14) 6 7 Generations (6:11) 7 Ceremony (4:17) 8 Ninth Sphere (4:40) 9 Innerworld (4:33) 10 In Between Orbits (5:37) 11 Dragonfly (2:53) 12 River Goddess (3:19) 13 Waters Of Life (4:18) 14 Antediluvian (1:17) Mystical Sun had a lot of tracks on compilations that I really liked & I was interested in hearing more of his work for quite a long time. when he released this album towards the end of 2006 I was immediately interested & eventually bough it. I was a little disappointed to see 5 tracks out of 14 that had already been released over the previous 5 years but that still left 9 brand spanking new tracks for me to enjoy. 1. 2012 Well, we start with a familiar track, this was released on the 2003 compilation 13th Moon & struck me then as a great track. It strikes me now as a great track. The melody the, slick sliding beats & lovely chimes all fit very well & create a kind of under water atmosphere. This manages to blend psy chill & lounge very well so is a nice opener to the album even if I have heard it before. 2. Blue Magnetic Ocean Another familiar sounding track, this time one from Ultimae's 2002 compilation Fahrenheit Project Part Three. It has everything you might expect from an ultimae track, soft, spacey, floaty with a lot of atmosphere & beats that you are never quite sure what they are going to do. Other than that this really manages to give me the impression of an ocean. From floating slowly above it to riding the crest of it's wave. Very nice stuff. 3. Halo The 3rd track in a row to be one I've already heard. This time a more dubby number from Interchill's 2005 compilation Earth Octave Lounge Vol. 2. Like from that compilation it's pretty Eastern sounding dub mixed with lots of floating atmosphere's. The layers seem to rise higher & higher with this track until I feel like I'm floating among the clouds looking down on the landscape far below & it's people milling about as people do. A nice track again but I'm waiting for something new. 4. Pure Finally at track I've never heard before & it's about time! It has a familiar sounding melody but I can't put my finger on what it sounds like. The beauty of this track for me is the wet percussive sounds acting as a sub beats oscillate in and out of the track. The tribal beat that kicks in with a couple of minutes to go is kind of slow jungle in feel but it's brief & ends up sounding like it did at the start. Progression missed. 5. Cloudbursting Points go to the best track title here. I like the image just the name puts in my head. Up among the clouds as little things go pop. I'm left hoping that the track will live up to what I'm expecting and for the most part it does. It's quicker & more energetic than I'd expect & sounds more like cloud riding but it definitely has that high in the sky feel. 6. 7 Generations A slightly more mystical sound with promises of oriental power & mental control mixed with some steady 4-4 beats & crashes of symbols here & there. It never quite lives up to it's promises though & becomes quite forgettable in the end. Not bad but not great. 7. Ceremony An aptly named track manages in some way to feel ceremonious. The soft shuffling beats that leads the soft slow build up into seemingly nothing but the long drawn out groans of a synth that hint at ritual. Just as you feel something's going to happen though it ends. Like it's sacrificed it's own ending to the gods. 8. Ninth Sphere After a couple of disappointing tracks it's nice to get back on track with a heavy but slow beat driven track. The sounds hint at flying in the sky but the beats are much more grounded! The hidden melody in the track rears it's sound briefly & lightly throughout the track giving it a real sense of mystery. Nice work. 9. Innerworld A bit more trancey here with quite a quick 4-4 beat. Could easily be played on a relaxed dancefloor. The vocals are pretty decent adding an ethereal element to the music but it doesn't quite manage to pull it off. There is nothing wrong with the voice per say but they just don7t have the goddess like quality you hope from such an effort. Overall it's a nice track but not as good as it's potential. May sound better with lighter beats as a heavy beat often detracts from what I think this track is trying to get at, etherealness. 10. In Between Orbits A spacier feel with this track as the title suggests. The sounds are a lot further apart it seems. All the sounds have an infinite space in which to breath & you can almost here them breathing like the wind. The beats are sporadic at first but build into something a little more coherent. The sounds blip out of the darkness like pinholes of light in the dark canvas of the music. 11. Dragonfly I'm put in mind of Ishq's work here. Imagine a dragonfly lazily flitting over a lake in the late evening as the sun is about to go down on another summer's day. A lovely image indeed but it should have been longer and more involved. At less than 3 minutes it's almost pointless. Over so soon. 12. River Goddess Back to the familiar tracks. This one from 2001 on Interchill's Floataion. Another nice floating ambient track that I feel could do a lot if it was long enough but at 3 minutes again it never really does anything. 13. Waters of Life From 2001 again, this time from Fahrenheit Project Part Two on Ultimae records. Ambient again with the sound of a bubbling stream running through. A very nice wet track. Only brought down again by the shortness of it. The vocal leading into the dark synths is nothing short of amazing & the atmosphere it manages to build is as good as anything on FP2 but it's over before you are able to sink into it. 14. Antediluvian Well, we finish on more of an outro a short 77 second track which once again makes me wish it was longer. In just over a minute Mystical Sun has managed to create a nice atmosphere but just as I want more it's over. What I'd really like to here from Mystical Sun is an ambient album. Not Psy Chill, not 4-4 beats, almost beatless in fact would be great. An album not of 14 tracks like this but somewhere between 3 & 8 would be perfect. See this guy obviously has talent but I feel he's wasted it a little bit on this album. The tracks I really though could be great were far too short & I could never really get into them. 3 minutes is just not enough time to explore an ambient landscape. 10 minutes to an hour is best so if this guy ever releases an album like that I'll snap it up. As for this offering, it's decent enough but far from essential. With so many tracks available elsewhere (including two of the best) it feels a bit lazy & the shortness of the best tracks is disappointing. Let's see what the future holds.

is it going to be available on saikosounds?

I'm actually really liking this one. Loving the wet bleak sounds used

It's a nice minimal piano & guitar album. I like it now after a few false starts try the record labels website http://www.ryoondo-tea.jp/home_e.html or amazon.co.jp as they have english support for books & music amazon Japan I'm off to bed to listen to this again Night Night

Ironomi - いろのみ

1. Shpongle - Are You Shpongled? 2. Shpongle - Tales of the Inexpressible 3. V/A Eclipse - A Journey Of Permanence & Impermanence 4. Hallucinogen in Dub 5. OTT - Blumenkraft 6. Shpongle - Nothing Lasts Mostly Shpongle & OTT, for me easily the best thing on twisted is there downbeat stuff also they re-released SPs debut Twisted which would be top of the list if it didn't feel so much like a Dragonfly release in my heart

Padmasana Padmasana (Balinese Space Dub) Dakini Records 1999 (Reissued in 2001) Tracklist 1 Be Where Now (12:19) 2 A Distant Star (11:08) 3 Holistic Resonance (18:20) Padmasana is a collaboration between Gio Makyo and David Hikari, a pair of Tokyo chill-out djs, and the mysterious S. Widi, their "spiritual advisor" from Bali. This album was inspired by misty nights in Ubud and the mind-shattering "oong" mushrooms of Bali. The music takes you on a trip through inner and outer space, finally ending up back in the lush, tropical ambience of Ubud at night. The album features field recordings and live performances recorded in Bali, Tibet, and Tokyo, and varied instrumentation, including: Tibetan mantra, gamelan, Indian frame drum, water drums, bass, assorted Balinese percussion, sampler, cumbus, broken BassStation, Korg Z1, voice, Eventide Harmonizer, tr-303, tabla, and Ubud night insects and frogs. 1. Be Where Now A nice opening track. Has a nice chilled out bassline through out the majority of the track playing like a melody. Lots of tribal ethnic sounds in this one but in the usual Dakini way, the ethnicity of the music never goes too overboard or gets too cheesy. It all sounds very real, a perfect mixture of tribal sounds, modern technology & future spaciness. This last element is given a perfect boost by the sample The spacecraft passes through the gateway, space returns to normal halfway through & continuing with scattered short samples of space & time & spacecrafts through the rest of the track just the right length to be trippy as hell & never annoying. The melody playing through the whole track is a simple falling melody that fits as a link from the earthy beats to the spacey vocals. All in all it's a fantastic track. One of the best from Dakini 2. A Distant Star With lush vocals from Keiku who has featured on other Dakini tracks, most memorably for me was her vocals on Puff Dragon's Qi Gong. For a long while it is just her and some nice ambient sounds. A lush drone, some very soft tribal percussion & some gentle strings. It's all such beautifully done ethnic ambient. As before it sounds so real, no forced ethnicity or cheesy overdone stuff here, this sounds like the Eastern Promise in my dreams of Tibetan temples when I was younger. Picture yourself trekking through the mountains, the clouds low all around you & as the mist clears you find yourself in front of a large yet humble temple. As you walk in through the gates there is a quiet market with peddlers selling their wears and priests walking serenely among them. In the main building you can hear the voice of a goddess & you are drawn to it but the more you go towards it the more distant it becomes. These are the images conjured in my head but as the voice finally disappears I find myself back in a small hut, pipe in hand, wondering where I've just been. 3. Holistic Resonance The last track is an 18 minute journey into your deepest inner reaches & past your outer limits into the limitlessness of space. It's soft melodic ambient, mostly beatless in the first half but with enough energy through it moving. There is hints of soft percussion here & there but it never really needs any beats. The music drifts along beautifully without it that by the time steady beats do materialise you are left wondering how long they have been there. The NASA type samples are amazing out of place with the whole feel of the track yet surprisingly seem to fit in as well. During the second half the track picks a bit more energy with the beat becoming more prominent and some oddly places vocal sounds. the real treat musically in this track though has to be the chimes that make up the melody in the final run of the track. Dreamy in a meditative sort of way. Like sitting in a forest clearing on a warm summer evening, connecting your thoughts to the nature around you & really looking deeply inside yourself from far away so you can see how the deep inner reaches of your mind & body are connected with everything else. One of the best final runs I've heard not just from Dakini but in ambient music in general. This album is definitely a must if you like Dakini's sound. One of the highlights from a very good label. It's soft dreamy music conjuring images of Eastern Philosophy and deep space ideals. The ethnicity is very real & never sounds fake, cheesy or forced in anyway. The vocals in the second are goddess like in their beauty & have to have been made for the track rather than a sample used by the producer. The percussion is very down to earth tribal beats & the basslines are subtle a tuneful. The melodies add the spacey feel as do a few well placed samples. The only flaw is the length at under 42 minutes you are always left wanting more. Still, best to release 3 brilliant tracks only than 3 brilliant tracks & 3 sub par tracks maybe. About Padmasana "Padmasana" is a common type of shrine found in Bali --although most gods and goddesses are usually visually depicted with statues and other works of art, the supreme godhead is shown only as an empty chair, the "padmasana" ("lotus seat"). On one level, this is a great spiritual prank; on another, it's full of meaning: the divine cannot be shown as a "god", because ultimately, it's everywhere and in everyone.

Padmasana - A Distant Star Perfect spacey tribal atmospheres full of eastern promise without getting cheesy

Am quite liking this

Damn! You just made me hungry This 2CD is making me hungry for it too

I blame Dudev too

There will always be good stuff, great stuff even but it will be more & more difficult to find. There is more good music now than there used to be there is just even more shite than we ever imagined possible & it's getting harder & harder to shift through it.

My Saiko Sounds order arrived and a while ago I got some Japanese ambient but it's not on discogs cool though Rather happy right now

Mangrove Gengis Khan's Reverie Hardcore Buddhist Arcana

Yeah, I'm looking forward to getting this one

Neuron Compost - Le Forest Femme

Cool! Looking forward to those Already have this, mostly very good with a few overly cheesy tracks thrown in

The Prodigy - Out of Space Sometime around the release date in 1992 & got into electronic music a year or 2 later I heard Genetic - Transmission on Project II Trance & got addicted to psy

Just listen to BPC's other down tempo work! Remember nothing sounds exactly like wild city apart from wild city! What the hell do you expect people to recommend you?

Liquid Stranger　- Liquid Stranger on the Run

15 years & I'm still listening to it so I'm sure I'll still listen to psy in 5 years time. I think the music will get better but the percentage of shite will increase. So it'll take more effort to find the music. I think CDs will still be around, maybe less but people will still want some physical products