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My camera though really struggles to take pictures in low lighting. Either at night (see the drop in quality of the night time pictures) & inside. See the lack of party pics! I was saving up for a new camera before I lost my job. Now I must wait

Solar Fields - Air Song

Yeah & those crap CDs my parents sent me really need to be removed from my house

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Solar Fields Leaving Home Ultimae Records 2005 Fantastic Tracklist 1. Home (4:41) 2. Time Slide (5:01) 3. Insum (8:23) 4. Star Fruit (1:05) 5. Magnetosphere (Star Fruit Part 2) (2:44) 6. Stereo Hypnosis (Magnetosphere Part 2) (4:08) 7. Air Song (12:21) 8. Cocoon Moon (Glastonbury Festival 2005 Mix) (10:36) 9. Monogram (15:44) 10. Times Are Good (7:41) 11. Leaving Home (7:27) Well, this is a biggie for me. Arguably my favourite artist is Solar Fields & his most listened to album by me is this one here, Leaving Home. An almost perfect album I can come back to time & time again & continue to be blown away each time. It's dark in a kind, hopeful, beautiful way. Melodious, atmospheric & amazing are all words I would use to describe this masterpiece. How anyone can release two albums at the same time (this & Extended) & have both of them be so perfect is quite an amazing feat. While Extended is a flying in space & through the world ambient journey. This one is tighter, more earthy & more for every mood. 1. Home A long slow opener builds a very earthy, natural atmosphere with just a hint of modernity. I feel like I'm standing at the edge of a forest watching a little traveled motorway as very few cars speed by. As time goes on a few more cars pass but non notice the silent observer. Definitely evening time after the rush. 2. Time Slides A big track with a big baseline. The whole track is built on the sublime slow baseline with a melody to match. Everything else falls into place in a crescendo of sound. The melody is played on a sitar, an instrument I usually despise in it's usual hippie, tuneless drudgery but here it's actually played well with a tune It fits well and sounds like it's played by someone who is actually sober & talented! 3. Insum Dark, spacial nature starts us off with a trippy eastern melody half coming in as the beats tease & the drone moans. Finally the beats trip in but in an irregular fashion at first but finding order in the chaos they created as a baseline hums under rushing sounds. Halfway through, the majestic melody bursts through & adds a whole new dimension to the music. Hell it rips a whole in your head & transports you east into the arms of an alien Buddha. It's dark, spacey, light & earthy at the same time. An amazingly trippy feeling! 4. Star Fruit Star Fruit takes us on a powerful base charged journey into the atmosphere. 5. Magnetosphere (Star Fruit Part II) Magnetosphere holds me in the Earth's atmosphere. It's big & it's open, it's cold & it's bright. Up among the clouds with a melody from the sun. 6. Stereo Hypnosis (Magnetoshpere Part II) Stereo Hypnosis continues the spacey atmosphere but pushes it more into the cold dark reaches of space. An ice like melody & cold industrial beats give this an alien feeling from the cold dark places of our solar system. Great. 7. Air Song This is possibly one of the greatest pieces of music of our time. I don't think I've heard another track so perfectly arranged, the beats, the big long baseline the background early morning noises that conjure up images of empty city streets, the piano playing us a sad song, off key voices from the darkness, the rushing of nothing, the sudden introduction of a storm & thunder and thunderous basenotes baaaaaam baaaaaaam baaaaaaaam baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaammmmmmm. So distinct, instantly recognisable yet difficult to remember. As quick as sound, as slow as the joy it creates. Majestic, Perfect, Amazing, Jaw droppingly good & my favourite track of all time, or at least a damn strong contender. (I think that Solar Fields - Air Song (8am Version) on Extended is slightly better) The whole atmosphere builds up to a wondrous ongoing climax that never seems to end but is over too quickly. 8. Cocoon Moon (Glastonbury Festival 2005 Mix) I wish I had been at the Glastonbury Festival while Magnus was playing. One of the few act that I would really love to see but have never had the chance to. This tracks main feature as it starts is it's soft squelchy synth melody replaced by an energetic beat underlying a melody that fits perfectly with the drums & which pushes the body & the brain into space easily. Not often does a chilled track make me want to dance but this has me positively twitching. The slow, seamless evolution of the track is like a ninja that gets inside your head, grows & grows & takes over your entire brain. It's that good! 9. Monogram 16 minutes of seamlessly sleep inducing dream worthy wonder! It never rushes, as one might expect & slowly unfolds into a joyous masterpiece. The first few times you hear this one you might not like it but I'm sure that after a few quality listens you'll fall in love with this. If you can go the distance! It builds so slowly that it's missable so close attention is needed at times. It all builds to crescendo of feeling before bringing us down again to Earth. 10 Times Are Good The intro sounds like a we've been dumped in the middle of a dark nebula after Monogram. Quite a contrast in feelings. More electric. Sounds of the storm & a slow but driving beat all add to this fantastic atmosphere. To be honest I'm not sure what images this track conjures in my head. It's positive while dark, energetic while chilled. It's quite the paradox. The melody is just as paradoxical, it's played on the guitar but I'd swear it's anything but. It sounds very alien but human at the same time. 11. Leaving Home The title track is introduced to us in a simple melodic fashion before the final atmosphere hits. And what an atmosphere it is. It's big, spacious, alien & energetic. It's a perfect example of the whole album, it starts off very soft & around three quarters in it gets very beaty with big heavy intricate beats which don't quite last until the end in favour of an ambient outro. What a trip! No bad words to say about this album, really! One of the best albums ever crafted & contains possibly the greatest track in the genre, Air Song. If you don't own this album, you should definitely get it. If you have it & don't like it then please refrain form recommending me any music as I can guarantee that our musical tastes are too different! As close to perfection as I've ever heard

Thanks! I just need a better camera now ps I love the pic in your signature

Lideres Band - Close (Chill Mix ft. Bede)

Rena Jones Driftwood September 2006 Ambient Fantastic Tracklist 1 From Star To Seed (3:15) 2 Photosynthesis (5:17) 3 Driftwood (7:20) 4 Open Me Slowly (5:41) 5 Undercurrent (4:42) 6 Sea Of Bubbles (4:43) 7 Cypress And Evergreen (4:55) 8 Seedling (2:48) 9 The Passing Storm (5:20) 10 Aurora Borealis (4:53) 11 Firefly (4:04) 12 Photosynthesis (Slidecamp Remix) (5:05) 13 By The Morning Sun (Bonus Track) (5:01) Well, I managed to score this album for free. It was a freebie attached to a large order from Ultimae Records & I think this has to be the best free album I've ever heard. Hell it's probably one of the best albums I've ever heard. I didn't get it at first. I couldn't even here the cello or violin & I though it was a boring typical psychill album. Oh how wrong I was. On repeated listens I found that the beauty of this really unfolded. The cello & violin came to life & really breathed life into this album. The mix of acoustic & electronic really makes this album something different from everything else out there (well everything I've heard so far, if you know o similar albums please tell). I thought, a few weeks ago, that the perfect place to listen to this album would be by the ocean at sunset so today I got on the train & headed for Enoshima beach & walked onto the island, all the way to the back where there is a little bar with a terrace with a fantastic view of the sun setting behind the mountains and the ocean. Also in the distance you can see the Mt Fuji the Mountain of Forgotten Dreams Perfect is indeed the word I would use to describe that experience. I thought this album was good before but then I was just blown away! 1. From Star to Seed A dreamy, floating, summer intro. An ambient drone & lots of little sunny electronic noises. What could be a flute threatens but never materialises. It slowly builds energy like an intro to a track but it is a full track unto itself. You can barely hear a woman moan, great start. 2. Photosynthesis Starts off as electronic glitch but this is shortly followed by the plucking of a cello that morphs into a slow irregular beat to which a string melody plays over. There is also a complimentary electronic melody that plays alternatively to the violin. This hints at sadness but in a warm way. Like lost potential for fun on a summer day but at the end of the day it's still summer & it's warm & relaxing. 3. Driftwood Starts with high pitched sounds which more slowly change into low bass sounds and back again. The beat & the strings come in together shortly followed by a lovely melody which twists & turns with the other sounds. A very warm lovely track which has an edge of sadness given by the slow lonely strings. It all fits together to give you a sense of warm melancholy heightened by the baseline & the trippiest little synth sounds I've ever heard. They are so noticeable but they don't detract from anything else on display. It's like they don't fit perfectly but without them the track wouldn't be complete. They drift through the track seamlessly like the rest of this perfect music. 4. Open Me Slowly A dreamy dose of the cello starts us off, nice little psychedelic sounds float hither & thither until the melodious strings cover the base. Once again it's a warm summer sadness. The feeling of unrealistic futures teases throughout. Hope & sadness in one. 5. Undercurrent The sounds here seem more in your face & the strings are higher & more prominent. The bubbly electronic melody is very nice & stops & starts again with perfect timing. The long sad strings come in half way through & are the focal point for the remainder of the track. As everything else leaves you, the sadness is still there. 6. Sea of Bubbles Less bubbly than I'd expect from the track name, but what's in a name? The sounds are again warm & soft, melodious & light. The sadness that hung over the previous tracks is cast aside with this new vision of the future. The lack of sadness corresponds with the lack of strings. It's a nice uplifting interlude to the melancholic summer of Rena Jones - Driftwood. 7. Cypress & Evergreen The strings are back and while they themselves are touch on the side of melancholy the rest of the sounds push the feeling into a lighter, more fun summer. Almost everything here seems more energetic & positive but underneath all this positive energy is and underlying confused melancholic edge, which of course wins out in the end. 8. Seedling A wee track, consisting mainly of strings, brings us right down into evening's twilight. Dark yet bright. Light from an invisible source but getting darker & darker. 9. The Passing Storm If the sun set in the last track then it holds still here in permanent twilight yet moving quickly through the sky. The melody oozes positive energy yet the strings ooze positive sadness. A strange feeling, positive sadness, but it fits me perfectly being a lover of weather. I embrace the storm & I'm always sad when it7s over but knowing the clarity of the day that will follow always makes me feel more positive. 10. Aurora Borealis Lights in the sky anyone? Beautiful, the wonder of nature but a beauty that you can only see in depressingly dark, cold climes! That's the Northern Lights. Beauty tinged with dark coldness. If you ever have the chance to see the Aurora Borealis then I suggest you take it. If, like me, you enjoy melancholy and I guess that if you are human then you enjoy beauty then the lights in the northern sky will blow your mind. Amazingly, even before I knew the title of this track I was put in mind of the Aurora Borealis. An amazingly descriptive, colourful but overall cold track. 11. Firefly Starts of breathing like a nymph in the forest as night has fallen. I feel like I'm rushing through this atmosphere looking for the source, but it keeps changing & I can't find it. This is the most abstract track on the album. Being a short 4 minute track, it seems like a transition to the end of the album but right at the end the most beautifully haunting melody teases in the background making this so much more. 12. Photosynthesis (Sidecamp Mix) Glitchier than the original & very hard to get my head around. Just around the 2 minute mark, strings hint at entering but never actually make it. Synthetic strings try to compensate but end up twisted & IDMish. All through the track it feels like the strings want to come in but don't dare. You can hear them trying but they never materialise & the glitch easily wins out. A randomly unexpected end...... ....for a while. After nearly 11 minutes of silence on the MP3 or until you realise the CD has stopped & cued itself at track 13. 13. By the Morning Sun (Bonus Track) A Beautiful life is breathed back in to us right at the death. It's fun & random glitchy energy is mixed with a soul sapping melody. This sounds like the proper end to this album. I guess that this was originally the 12th & last track but Rena lost a bet & had to put that random out of place remix ahead of this which is more in between track 12 & the rest of the album. So, swap track 12 & 13 & you have yourself a nearly perfect album The only thing I don't like much is the disappointment of the Sidecamp remix of Photosynthesis. There is really no need for it after such soulful beauty that precedes it. If you can, then get this album. If you have it, if you can get yourself down to the shore around sunset, do & the real beauty of this album viewed in that light will seem even greater!

Yeah I need to start work real soon

Beacon Twilight Guard The Lamps Night Bye Bye

Over Fuji Fuji at Dusk Dusk Flight

The Sunset

Dragon Lamp Fishing In Front of Fuji The Wolves Pacific A Familiar Friend CM Tobi

Beach Play Surf Out SeaScape

Even if she was fantastic in Every other way? Listening to Psy might really limit your choices here

People have different tastes guys! Although mike.54 it would be nice if you could tell us why you like it. Your 4 posts here have not made me aware of your musical tastes

Definitely not 21st century tracks are they? Some good ones though Maybe die hards would argue about these not being 21st century either

Solar Fields - Reflective Frequencies

Ah, that's too bad. It7s limited to only 300 copies so probably no chance of a reprint. You might have to buy from ebay or discogs

edit: I cant read

solar fields - air song (8am version)

You do belong here with us among the clouds