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Was Merlin an official release?

??? Fine Line? Is that even on this album? edit: oh do you mean five lines? kaazaa'd?

Well as you can see, I like it

my review

you're just jealous because you are not where they are Seriously though I don't actually mind IM's recent output (except for the singing ) It's nowhere near their early stuff but a lot of people like it, as Nemo said, I just hope they like it. Nothing is sadder than people making music they don't like just to satisfy other people.

Steve Roach - Nameless

The main problem with finally getting an album you've looked for for years & years are they rarely live up to your expectations

Shpongle - ...and the day turned to night

I've not heard String Theories yet but based on the strength of this album & Bluetech's work I'd love to hear some music from them both. That CD is on my ever growing wantlist!

2007 Spielerei & Mantacoup - Cold War Asura - Life² Sync24 - Source 2006 Rena Jones - Driftwood Carbon Based Lifeforms - World of Sleepers Jikkenteki - The Long Walk Home CD1 V/A - Oxycanta

Spielerei & Mantacoup - After the Shockwave

Mutagene - Sleeping Possession

Steve Roach - Labyrinth

Nice pics Pix! Especially like the cows

Tom Heasley Desert Triptych Farfield Records 2005 Tracklist 1 Joshua Tree (16:51) 2 Solitude (28:24) 3 29 Palms (21:25) Ambient with didjeridu? That doesn't sound like my cup of tea! I've never really enjoyed the didjeridu, it's not very musical & it can be loud & annoying if played badly which it seems every seems to do! In this album though the didjeridu is used very well. It's subtle for the most part & generally acts as a drone mixing in well with the other sounds like that of the wind & wails & voices from the ether. 1. Joshua Tree Imagine standing in an Australian desert at night. In the distance up ahead you can hear the slow drone of a didjeridu, above you the sky is clear except for a few wisps of cloud. The Moon is bright & gives everything an eerie glow. It's cold and there are no other people for miles & miles. In the distance behind you, you can hear the howling of a lone wolf, at least you hope it's a wolf. It morphs slowly into something more. Bigger & more powerful than any mere beast. Still it poses no immediate danger & I don't know whether to lie down & relax or be wary of the darkness. 2. Solitude The didjeridu is suddenly much closer. All the sounds are. Solitude feels lonely yet at peace with itself & with all the elements around it. Ethereal voices speak to each other pan-dimensionally & in my solitude out here I can eavesdrop on their conversation. The meaning though is incomprehensible to me as my mind is to limited to understand. Still it's a nice feeling to hear it. I lie back & watch the stars, from here the sky is full of stars, each one filled with promise & expectation. It's breathtaking. The start of the track carries on the cold feeling of Joshua Tree but it progressively gets warmer until it has a nice warm summer evening feel, but still in the middle of nowhere. 3. 29 Psalms Again the didjeridu sounds closer still & more real. There is more of a human element at first with someone crying from the darkness making this feel more earthy. The cries are carried on the wind from a location near by but I can not find it. I search & search through the track to find the humanity I can sense. Towards the end I find the settlement but it's humanity has been stripped. I'm alone again, stood in the middle of this town in the middle of the desert wondering where everyone has gone & where the sounds came from. Slowly, very slowly even the sounds disappear & I am left in silence, truly alone. Well, I don't think this is going to make me a fan of the didjeridu but it has definitely shown me that it can be played well. For the rest, it is immaculately produced & arranged and it reallybuilds nice atmospheres and conjures up images of the desert in your mind!

Tom Heasley - Solitude Out in the desert at night on a clear night watching the stars!

Spielerei & Mantacoup Cold War Silentes July 2007 Tracklist 1 Where It All Ends (8:42) 2 Cuba Crisis (4:18) 3 Pigs Bay (5:14) 4 Meanwhile In Moscow (6:12) 5 Entering The Nuclear Zone (7:20) 6 Between Hope And Fear (9:40) 7 After The Shockwave (12:28) This was a surprise. From a shipment I got of experimental ambient CDs to get such a deep, cold, dark album with the energy to be played as interesting background music but also to be enthralling when focussed upon. It's cold, dark & bleak music but has enough to make it not just for fans of Dark Ambient. 1. Where It All Ends Starts with big atmospheric drones rushing down & a vocal from a NASA spy program or something similar. A soft dark paranoid atmosphere barely lightened by the wet pads. The whispered samples sound like they should be loud & they reek with importance. A very nice trick putting something so important right in the background. The beats come in & drive you attention in a positive way but always underlying is the dark coldness of the bleakness of life. 2. Cuba Crisis More samples from a paranoid America really set a dark depressed atmosphere. The wave like synths early on suggest an island and the heavy beats through out suggest an industrial city. Industrial ambient cut of from the rest of the world by a cold ocean. Could this represent the nuclear industry in Cuba or just America's paranoia to that effect, the music suggest the latter. 3. Pigs Bay A soft but military intro, tiny marching beats & a missable cold war spiel. Russian samples sound intriguing as I have no idea what is being said. The beats an d the melody are conflicting, harshness & softness. The harsh beats take the soft melody & toughen it up like a new recruit & turn it into some twisted fucked up shit that annoys everybody. thankfully it's killed off quickly! 4. Meanwhile In Moscow They have some anarchistic people but they are quickly brought into line. The disorderly elements are given a dressing down & we end up with a more minimal, more effective streamlined power. The first noticeable baseline (bloody brilliant one at that) gives this a righteous edge that previous tracks lacked. With an industrial sound more powerful than the previous ones managed. 5. Entering The Nuclear Zone A cold desolate place, the wind is all we hear. The sound of lost industrial terror with dark ruined objects being carried here and there on the nuclear wind. As the wind picks up so does the amount of debris carried on it. It brings a slight melody but is it clean or toxic? The speed at which it breaks down suggest it is nuclear waste so a high influx is quite welcome. 6. Between Hope & Fear An irregular beat & an irregular melody from the darkness both sound like hopeless hope from an uncertain future. This track oozes dark, bleak despair but offers hope at every turn. Of each turn of hope though, fear & despair grab at my boot heels & try to pull me down. The beats pull down, the piano pulls down, the drone pulls down & there is no hope left, only fear until out of nowhere comes our saviour. A melody almost lost in the sea of negativity but bright & sharp enough to push up with new life. An acorn sprouts from the earth & tries to grow, just to chopped down by a nuclear fallout, never to stand tall! 7. After The Shockwave Something is trying to grow in the wasteland. Something from nothing but still the nuclear wind tries to destroy everything that might be. Can anything prevail after the nuclear winter has descended? Still, something wants to grow but it's not organic. Industrial growth is all that prevails & it needs no organic help. The nuclear winds have stripped the earth of it's weak organisms & left it with only machines that have a strong desire to survive. They picked up on our final wishes, our desire to continue our life no matter the cost. But with no human life left it's up to our technology to survive, rebuild, evolve & fight each other. A cold dead world alive with nothing but the shadow of mankind. This is all that is left after mankind's need to protect itself. This album is about the cold war but the message is not about the official dates of the cold war. The first half sounds like what has already taken place & what is happening now but the latter half sounds like the future of our planet should we let our (cold) wars to continue. It's a dark, bleak album with a lot of soul.

Spielerei & Mantacoup - After the Shockwave A cold dead world alive with nothing but the shadow of mankind.

Spielerei & Mantacoup - Meanwhile in Moscow Standing in the early morning in a small town that has been destroyed by a nuclear fallout! Watching the nothing that is left of the society & feeling the cold wind strip the skin off my face! (well I don't really want that to happen but it's just the feeling I get from the track )