Nu mai am nimic de spus decât că sper sa am rapid un exemplar din acvariul prezentat mai jos. Dacă aveţi prieteni care au asemenea bijuterii felicitaţi-i şi daţi-mi şi mie numărul lor de telefon ca să intru pe fir.

Al doilea e un moft pe care numai o vieţuitoare din rasa umană poate avea. Nu mai spun nimic despre chinuirea peştilor într-un mediu foarte restrâns pentru că au spus alţii destul. Enjoy!

Netlabel: www.loopzilla.de
Keywords: Ambient, Downtempo

After the huge success of “Aqual(o)unge” we are very proud to present to you another collaboration with Machtdose: “Aqual(o)unge 2″.
More than an hour of great ambient, downtempo and also groovy tunes - perfect to leave your daily stress behind and calm down or relax for a while.
But nevertheless - don´t forget to check the Machtdose-Blog for more information.

01 EFF WILLETT - life organisms [c-c-rec_mp3_010]
02 TANOX - flecha [pn026]
03 ROBERTO MASSONI - parque chas [808.1]
04 OCRALAB - aulos [did017]
05 HP.STONJI - piano expeditions II [aa01]
06 KIORDA DAEKIN - meditate [1bit031]
07 HALO XVI - lost evenings [lav24]
08 ANTENDEX - quanta [nnnl.17]
09 ZZZZRA - mecanographie phase 1 [schall_008]
10 ORGANON - spatium [bmd003]
11 STEVIEP - head rush [stir028]
12 DANIEL CAREW - bored of canada  [ykyk013]
13 DOMESTICATION OF THE DOG - junior earth [hc180]
mixed by machtdose (roland)
original artwork by edgard robertson

Download (92MB, 192kBit/s, 1:04:10)

MP3

ECHOES TOP 25 FOR JUNE

1 - Biomusique - The 10000 Steps  <Listen>
2 - Jami Sieber - Unspoken  <Listen>
3 - William Ackerman - Meditations
4 - Ronn McFarlane - Indigo Road
5 - Fernwood - Almeria
6 - California Guitar Trio - Echoes
7 - Ludovico Einaudi - Divenire
8 - Niyaz - Nine Heavens
9 - Eldad Lidor - Closer
10 - Gerry O'Beirne - The Bog Bodies and Other Stories <Listen>
11 - Qntal - Translucida
12 - Ahn Trio - Lullaby For My Favorite Insomniac <Listen>
13 - Don Peyote - Peyote Dreaming
14 - Richard Bone - Short Waves
15 - Christopher Young - Sleepwalking
16 - v/a - Future Memories (v/a)
17 - Lisa Lynne & Aryeh Frankfurter - Two Worlds One
18 - Robert Rich & Ian Boddy - React
19 - The Orb - The Dream  <Listen>
 20 - Michel Banabila - Traces
21 - Bill Frisell - History Mystery
22 - Deobrat Mishra & David Michael - Himilayan Crossroad
23 - Kevin Bartlett - Glow in the Dark
24 - David Arkenstone - Echoes of Light and Shadow
25 - Rudy Perrone - The Language of Spirits

In mathematics, the aleph numbers are used to denote the cardinality of infinite sets.  I cannot say exactly how this relates to the music of Aleph-1, but the description of the album on the website talks about how Nicolai is working with multiple layers of infinitely repeating sounds without beginnings or ends.  Yes, it sound very minimal — in fact, I call the aesthetic "ultraminimal" — just what we expect from the operator of the Raster-Noton label.

Since repetition seems very similar to replication to me, coupled with the similar graphic design on the Digipak, when I first heard of the album I thought it might be the second part in the Xerrox series.  It's not, and it in fact takes sound in a completely different direction than anything I've heard from Alva Noto so far.  It is certainly minimal — the tracks seem to be constructed out of many short loops of different lengths, then allowed to play simultaneously and match up (or not) however they will.  There isn't a lot of development in the music, but I think that's sort of the point; the sounds present at the beginning of each song are the same as the sounds present at the middle and the end of each song.  It's very different than both the clicks and cuts of Transform and the noisy droning ambiance of Xerrox, both of which have clear progressions between the start and end of each track.

The sounds used mark a departure from Nicolai's usual style as well.  They're not really harsh or noisy or droning or high-pitched, in fact they're actually pretty gentle.  Of course they are still very computer-generated, but they sound more like the sounds of Frank Bretschneider's Rand, for instance, than anything released under the Alva Noto name in the past.  Clean and clear sinusoidal sounds.  They're tonal, even melodic.  The percussive sounds, the pops and clicks we've come to expect from Carsten Nicolai, are more subdued as well, like they've all been passed through a lowpass filter.

Don't let my comparison to Frank Bretschneider and use of the word repetition get you thinking techno, though.  Perhaps this is a distant cousin of techno, because it's not that hard to really hear a "groove", but the sounds don't really line up very well a lot of the time.  I would say it's closer to ambient music, actually, since the constant palette of gentle, repeating sounds has a rather hypnotic effect.  It's strange, interesting, and I'd say very successful.

NuOpSys : are we lost mammals of an approaching transcendental epoch EP

a crispy lo-lo-fi amalgomation of obtuse data-rock, shaky vocals, and almost danceable madness.

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I think the easiest way to describe Hammock's sound is as a combination of Explosions in the Sky, Slowdive, and maybe the more recent Stars of the Lid material.  It's definitely ambient music in most places, but it takes a lot of cues from both shoegaze and post-rock.  It's a rather lengthy album at more than 75 minutes, and over the course of its 18 tracks it covers a lot of ground and never really loses any steam.

The album starts out with an absolutely beautiful piece that sounds like something right out of Sigur Rós's Ágætis byrjun, with strings and acoustic guitars and dreamy vocals and tons of reverb.  Sure, we've heard it all before, but it really is a stunning way to open the album, and is still capable of almost bringing  tears to my eyes.  They follow it up with one of the more "indie rock" tracks of the album, with male vocals that I'd probably actually be able to comprehend if I tried.  It actually has vocals and drums on it, and it's not a bad song. Most of the rest of the album is instrumental with occasional bits of slower, ethereal female vocals that may or may not actually be saying works, save for one more relatively "uptempo" track with male vocals in the second half.  The third track, "Losing You to You", sounds like a more relaxed moment in an Explosions in the Sky album, and yes, like Explosions in the Sky, the progressions Hammock uses on this album are a little predictable, but still enjoyable.  On "When the Sky Pours Down Like a Fountain" they try their hand at pure beatless ambient music, and it turns out a little over-the-top but good nonetheless.

One of my favorites is "Take a Drink From My Hands", which comes in right at the middle of the album and is one of the calmer pieces on this somewhat overly dramatic album.  Sure, it still plays with themes that movie soundtracks have been using since forever, but the use of simple piano lines backed with slowly crescendoing strings here is excellent.  So yes, the album is overly sweet, maybe even so sweet that you might start to feel a bit ill.  And it's predictable and not very original, we've been hearing most of these sounds in popular music for a long time now.  And perhaps it's a bit emotionally manipulative, making use of cheesy cues that films have conditioned us to associate with certain feelings.  But it's OK to have a little candy once in a while, and I like it.

No es un grupo francés de post-hardcore, sino Peter Andersson. Un solista desde Suecia, un país vital para el Dark Ambient. Posiblemente la música que más mejora subiendo el volúmen.

Es imposible hacer justicia a un grupo como Raison d'Être presentando un sólo disco. Convertido desde hace años en un pilar del Dark Ambient, Requiem For Abandoned Souls es sólo un ejemplo de cómo unos sonidos aparentemente sin melodía, antinaturales y a veces aleatorias, pueden crear auténticas obras maestras. Una verdadera banda sonora del vacío, la desesperación o la soledad.

Especialmente recomendable para aquellos con tendencia a no creer en nada.

In Abandoned Places
The Shadow Of The Soul
Desintegrates From Within
Towards Desolation
Becoming The Void Of Nothingness

[DESCARGAR]

Links: Official page, MySpace page, LastFM page, Wikipedia page.

Links: The Fountain (the movie), Official page, MySpace page, LastFM page, Wikipedia page.

Best invention ever...

Originally uploaded by CleverGirlBek

I never thought of myself as the sort to wear earplugs. I am the sentry of our home… I am the one who is always on alert, ears cocked for the slightest sound because the boys are pretty oblivious for the most part…

A couple of months ago we started using a dawning alarm clock (a BioBrite one) and the seller sent me a pack of ear plugs with the clock.
Because we have frequent and sudden foul weather here (and multiple tornadoes in the past couple of weeks) I would only wear one ear plug- in the ear facing “up” (I am a side sleeper) so I could drown out hubby’s snoring and obnoxiously loud breathing and maybe grab some zzzzz’s without being woken up by his nightly cocophany. That worked well as I could still hear enough with the unplugged, yet dampened by my pillow, ear so I could hear boyo through the baby monitor. But then I’d flip over and the breathing/snoring/senile moaning would have me wide awake again…

So I did some research and found The Earplug Superstore. Oh yes. Thank you oh wonderous world wide web!

While they do have excellent descriptions of all of their plugs I figured I’d try a sampling of foam plugs, like the freebies I got with that clock… So I ordered their “softest and smallest” sampler… A huge selection of fascinating colors and earplug marketing strategies… I’m not kidding. I have a pair of NASCAR “sparkplug” earplugs and another pair of Camo Plugs! Craziness!

Anyway, I also decided to try a higher end pair of earplugs…. I ordered the “SleepSoft” plugs made by Alpine. They promise a dampening of ambient noise but still allow one to hear the doorbell and children calling… They have open “ducts” to prevent “pressure” differences and they keep one from feeling cutoff.
Well, they arrived and are a miracle. It was mid afternoon when the package arrived and the grass was being chopped outside…. I went into boy’s room where he was playing music and I put in the plugs and had him speak to me… I could hear him clearly (but slightly dampened/quieter) but I could no longer hear the lawnmower or clothes dryer.
If these weren’t so durable I would have ordered the 6 pack! They are very comfortable and come with a little stick/applicator thingy as they are so flexible that you won’t get a great fit just using your fingers. They do come in a handy slider pack/container for safe and clean storage…
As far as using earplugs for ADD/ADHD, I am planning on using my giant sampler pack on the weekends when hubby is typically in charge of boy while I rush to get everything done and in some sort of order. I am so easily distractible by the slightest sound. One of my ADHD/ADD books recommended using noise cancelling ear phones but ear phones are out in our home as boyo would obsess and freak out if he didn’t get to use them and there goes any peace and quiet… So for now, for a couple of hours on Saturday morning, I will be escaping to my quiet little place to focus and maybe finish something for a change. Obviously, I would not wear earplugs while home alone with the kiddo…No way. Too risky, even if I can still hear him a little bit…Also that would be insanely rude and I try not to roll that way…
Anyway, I’m testing my “portable isolation booth” (ha ha) tomorrow morning…. Hopefully, this will increase my productivity and focus in general, so that I can finish the things that require intense focus, and have more time to spend with the boys…
I’ll update soon…

I'm old enough to remember Erich Von Daniken and his potty theories about how earth's civilizations were brought about through alien contact. There was quite a hoo-ha about it all when I was a kid, and his books flew off the shelves. I've just glanced at Wikipedia and was surprised to learn that he's still with us, and only the same age as Leonard Cohen! Bizarre. Panspermia is the hypothesis that the seeds of life exist all over the universe, and that life on earth is nothing unique, nor even originally from here. Nice theory, but it hasn't a whiff of evidence to support it (nor to discount it – it's one of those hypotheses which are simply acts of faith). Exogenesis is something else entirely – the theory that life originated elsewhere and came to earth during the asteroid bombardment of the Pre-Cambrian era, before the planet had an adequate atmospheric shield. Anyway I digress. The reason I brought the topic up at all was that the panspermia theory is the inspiration behind Alien Genome Project, a self-released album by Craig Murphy (whose band Shoosh are featured on the Phantom Channel compilation) under the moniker ch.pm.

The album consists of drones, cosmic synth chords, and disembodied, distorted vocal samples. It has echoes of Kosmische Musik acts like (early) Tangerine Dream and Klaus Schultze as well as their spiritual descendants such as Pete Namlook. But there are equally nods to Stars of the Lid, Eno's Apollo and Murcof's Cosmos projects. The eight tracks unfold slowly. Some are short and fragile; others, like the title track, have a suitably cosmic grandeur. “Hybrid”, the closing section, has a slowed down echoing voice that has the rhythm of whale song, and sounds like the last, fading sounds of a dying civilization. It's quite a spooky end to a seriously trippy suite of music. Only it isn't quite the end. There is also a bonus 36 minute mix of the album entitled “Alien Genome Project (Full Blown)”. The album is available from Musiczeit at the address below.

Tracks
Part One:
1 Source Of Light 1:33
2 Junk Code 7:20
3 Transference 5:19
Part Two:
4 Replicate 1:36
5 Mystic Structure 6:33
Part Three:
6 Source of Light (Reprise) 1:52
7 Alien Genome Project 10:18
8 Hybrid 6:29
Bonus Track:
9 Alien Genome Project (Full Blown) 36:07

Websites

http://www.musiczeit.com/directory.php?artist=439&title=ch.pm

www.myspace.com/solipsism

E como eu disse que seria, mais uma brilhante peça desse país maravilhoso. Em Gothenburg, Suécia, foi formada no ano de 2003 em uma noite quente e praticamente na mesma hora em que os integrantes se conheceram, uma banda totalmente promissora e que superou as expectativas de muita gente: Ef.

Naquela mesma noite quente de maio, os integrantes Claes Strängberg (guitarra e órgão), Tomas Torsson (guitarra, vocal e acordeão), Jonatan Hammar (cello, guitarra e trompete), Mikael Hillergård (baixo) e Niklas Åström (bateria) resolveram juntar os instrumentos e tocar, simplesmente para misturar melodias, efeitos e puras emoções que deram início às composições do seu primeiro álbum, lançado em 2006, Give Me Beauty... Or Give Me Death! pelo selo independente And the Sound Records.

Sendo constantemente comparada com outros grandes nomes como Cult of Luna, Sigur Rós, Mogwai ou This Will Destroy You, é fácil perceber o que esses 7 suecos fizeram, pra ter um resultado tão único e especial. Grandes melodias como as de Explosions In The Sky, o brilho de Sigur Rós e um sentimento único. Ef é uma mistura de melancolia, suavidade, energia, clímax hora relaxantes, hora mais agressivos e tons sempre brilhantemente usados e combinados com todos os instrumentos.

A banda possui atualmente dois álbuns, sendo o segundo o mais recente, I Am Responsible, lançado este ano. E já apareceu em diversas compilações por todo o mundo, desde o lançamento seu primeiro disco que além de tudo, os fez explodir na cena do país e de vários outros países da Europa abrindo portas para várias turnês em todo o continente.

Sendo considerado então seu álbum mais importante, além de álbum de estréia, o Give Me Beauty... se justifica. São 52 minutos sensacionais, com altos e baixos, misturas melódicas e agressivas. A banda incorpora os instrumentos como se fossem um só e faz assim cada uma das 6 faixas do disco, especialmente falando de Hello Scotland, Final Touch Hidden Agenda e He Came, He Stayed, He Fell, que explode em um clímax fantástico, mostra uma face mais séria, contrastando com vocais femininos e uma melodia exuberante, com xilofones e efeitos eletrônicos, respectivamente falando.

Uma banda com vergonha de cantar, faz da voz — lembrando um pouco Sigur Rós — um instrumento adicional, que soa como um perfeito encaixe no resto da peça.

É uma arte, extremamente inteligente. Fala por si só.

Site oficial.

Myspace.

Netlabel: semlabel.com/iod
Keywords: Experimental, Electronic, Ambient

The Green Kingdom first S/t album remix with the participation of:

Manrico Montero
http://www.manricomontero.com/
Darren McClure
http://www.discogs.com/artist/Darren+McClure
Koutaro Fukui
http://ondomusic.com/kfu/
Gogooo
http://gogooo.free.fr/
Letna
http://semlabel.com/letna
Alexandre navarro
http://alexandrenavarro.com
Offthesky
http://www.offthesky.com/

For more information:
http://www.semlabel.com/thegreenkingdom

Artwork by Markus Schafer:
http://bueroink.com/

Download (MP3, VBR)

iod004_01_Miniature_Forest_DARREN_MCCLURE.mp3
iod004_02_Miniature_Forest_KOUTARO_FUKUI.mp3
iod004_03_Miniature_Forest_ALEXANDRE_NAVARRO.mp3
iod004_04_Miniature_Forest_MANRICO_MONTERO.mp3
iod004_05_Miniature_Forest_GOGOOO.mp3
iod004_06_Miniature_Forest_LETNA.mp3
iod004_07_Miniature_Forest_OFFTHESKY.mp3

Dupa ce am cumparat-o acum cativa ani o locuita, am inceput sa o amenajez, bineinteles nu sigur ci asista de ochiul vigilent al unei femei.A inceput atunci o munca de cautare si sortare a ofertelor de materiale, de culori, de mobila, de perdele covoare si alte 1000 de lucruri. A durat cam 3 luni dar rezultatul a fost cel pe care il asteptam.

Din pacate problemele au fost altele.Deciziile au venit greu pentru ca variantele erau putine, disparate, fara o idee clara, cuprinzatoare.Citesc in mod constant revistele de amenajari interioare, si cele romanesti si cele straine.Cele romanesti nu au evoluat in ultimii 3 ani de la articolele advertoriale in care solutia perfecta este o firma furnizor de gresie, parchet sau mobila. Articolele au ramas la stadiu de recomandare de produs si nu de combinare a produselor ca solutie de ambient.Fotografiile sunt ambiente rupte de realitate copiate din surse externe fara nici o legatura cu ideea de habitat romanesc.

Cateva site-uri incearca timid sa formeze opinii si sa contureze o idee clara despre ce inseamna un ambient de calitate, o amenajare intr-un anumit stil.

Specialistii in amenajari, putini de altfel la noi, vorbesc de investitii in ambient la nivelul miilor de euro, ca si cum amenajarea de calitate, estetic vorbind, este un domeniu rezervat doar oamenilor cu bani.

O alta problema ar fi atacul masiv de marketing din ultima vreme al DIY-urilor (do it your self), care promoveaza din ce in ce mai agresiv ideea de produs si mai putin ideea de ambient.

Sa nu inteleaga cineva gresit nu sunt impotriva diversificarii pietei si nici a marketingului, dar din pacate majoritatea ofertelor promoveaza prea mult produse si prea putin servici si solutii integrate in ceea ce priveste ambientul si amenajarea lui.

Lipsa formatorilor de opinie in domeniu si a surselor de informare este o problema, iar eu am resimtit-o din plin atunci cand am avut nevoie.Nu ma substitui revistelor de specialiate si nici designerilor dar.... pentru ca imi place stilul si consider arhitectura o arta, la fel ca si designul interior, pentru ca m-am saturat sa citesc reviste lipsite de substanta m-am hotarat sa scriu acest blog.

Nu vreau sa stau cu ochii in tavan si mainile sub cap visand la ce frumoase ar putea fi casele noastre, poate chiar ca cele englezesti sau germane, daca nu cumva sa isi recapete nobletea stilului romanesc de odinioara.

Artist - Satvik Sequencers
Title - The Middle Path
Label - Audio Ashram, India
Catalogue - CD AA00001
Format - CD
Genre - Electro-Classical
Credits –
Music Director – Balkrishan Sharma
Flute - Pundit Ajay Prasanna
Sarod - Pundit Mukesh Sharma
Vocals - Pundit Bholenath Mishra
Release Date - 30th June 2008

Tracklist -

1. Raga - Ahirbharavi (18:40)
2. Raga - Bhimpilasi (17:42)
3. Raga - Durga (18:12)

CD Text -

The middle path is an attempt to bridge the gap between two different ages, the classical and the digital age. All three compositions are based around the pure Indian classical ragas that are blended with groovy melodious digital atmospheres. The ragas used were carefully chosen keeping the three basic times of an average human’s day – Morning, Afternoon & Evening, thus maintaining a comfortable relaxed environment to listen to the genre of music we have come to call ‘Electro-classical’.

Review -

‘Saatvik Sequencers’ is a conceptual music project by Nikhel Kumar Mahajan and Hari Singh. Both the artists have a vivid background in electronic music. Nikhel has released 2 critically acclaimed albums under his alternate avatars of Sattyananda (Ambient) & Kalyug (Progressive) and has performed at festivals all around the globe while Hari has a sound engineer degree from SAE Chennai & a diploma degree in music production from Manchester Midi School in the UK. He has also played an active role in the Manchester club scene as a sound engineer & organiser. He is going to release his solo debut album on Audio Ashram in 2008. Both the artists have had the honour to work with top classical artists like Amaan & Ayaan Ali Khan, Anoushka Shankar, Subha Mudgal & Ustad Amjad Ali Khan.

‘The Middle Path’ is synthesized to be an evolving journey that uplifts the listener in every way possible. All sounds are comfortable, relaxed & groovy with a sense of shamanic mysticism. The album maintains the uncompromising production quality listeners have come to expect from the duo’s other projects.

Each of the three18 minutes compositions are built on a solid framework of intricate Indian classical music ragas blended with layers of electronic atmosphere drifts that induce dreamy nonchalance.
Raga Aheerbharavi symbolizes the morning cycle of a human’s day. It focuses on the flute by Pundit Ajay Prasanna which is introduced by an array of pads that rise out of the darkness to announce the incoming beat. The sounds are accentuated by soothing vocals and hazy atmospheres that are interspaced with precise mechanical percussions.

The second track Raga Bhimpalasi symbolizes the afternoon cycle & focuses on mesmerizing vocals by Pundit Bholenath Mishra. It starts off with a thick blend of chants & ethereal synths. The digital mix of groovy break-beats and glitchy overtones overlay the organic flute & sarod, teleports our conscious minds to realms of uncompromised quality and cutting edge electro-classical music.

Raga Durga, symbolizes the last cycle of the day, the evening cycle and focuses on the Indian instrument Sarod, played skillfully by Pundit Mukesh Sharma. The track can be best described as an epic. The build up from cinematic ambient bliss to up tempo ethno-chill is impeccable and would best suit a festival audience.

The artwork for the album is warm and pleasant with different shades of orange as a background for digital wire frames. Exploring the CD inlay we find thoughtful quotes such as “We are what we think. All that we are arises with out thoughts. With our thoughts we make our world – Buddhist Quote” which explores the artists thought process and the parallel musical dimension they create & “Just as the highest and lowest notes are equally inaudible. So perhaps is the greatest sense and the greatest nonsense equally unintelligible – Allan Watts” that symbolizes the path between different genres the artists have chosen for painting this sonic canvass.

The Middle Path is a mature and innovative album that has been released by India’s latest Independent Music Label/ Production House ‘Audio Ashram’ which is an initiative by Nikhel, Bawa & Joey Matthew to promote the crème of electronic musicians across different music genres and help the electronic music culture in India morph into a truly global phenomenon. Audio Ashram is also donating a percentage of all the album sales to ‘Cankids Kidscan’ a family support group for children with cancer and their families (http://www.cankidsindia.org/).

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Nein:

Walz 57:

Mamaev Kurgan:

Avtobus:

Links:
- Official page
- MySpace page
- Doerell MySpace page
- LastFM page

Shuttle 358 is Dan Abrams, and he's put out releases on Mille Plateaux and Plop, but he's always been best known as a member of the 12k roster, starting with Optimal.lp, which I must admit I haven't heard (hey, it's super-rare, and whenever it shows up on eBay it goes for way too much), and following that up with the classic Frame.  They (they being some press release or review I read once) say he is responsible for bringing the warm and organic into the then-cold world of glitch music at the end of the last millennium.  He also produced an album under his own name and another Shuttle 358 album called Understanding Wildlife for Mille Plateaux.

Those who have heard Abrams' earlier works should have some idea what to expect from Chessa.  It follows very much in the same vein as Frame and Understanding Wildlife — they are both ambient music, obviously, and they both make use of the usual glitchy techniques.  But despite all the praise Frame got for bringing life back into glitch music, on Chessa Abrams takes it even further.  In fact, Chessa can almost make parts of those older albums sound like the sterile ultraminimalism of artists like Ryoji Ikeda and Philus.  And it's not just that Chessa has a more "grainy" sound when compared to the "clicky" sound of the previous albums, you can even start to hear instruments like guitar and drums in tracks like "Scrapbook".  Maybe Abrams was influenced by the work of other 12k artists like Taylor Deupree and Sawako, whose albums Northern and Hum have a similar sound and were released just around the same time (well, within a span of two years, at least...) — or perhaps it is more likely that the sound of Chessa influenced those other artists.

For me, the highlight of the album comes on the track "Melt".  It features a bell-like part repeating a four-note pattern throughout its five-plus minutes, over some really wonderful synth washes in the background.  There is a part that sort of sounds like a clarinet or an oboe — some sort of reedy woodwind instrument — playing long, sustained notes, and it will occasionally play a quick, downward scale or arpeggio, that makes me feel like I'm sort of, well, melting.  Maybe it's just the name of the track influencing my perception, but a similar thing happens on "Spiff" from Frame.  I've actually had the same sort of feeling with one more 12k release, Pjusk's Sart, which was just released last year, on the first track.  It always seems to happen with notes playing a downward pattern that is somewhat isolated from the rest of the music.  Whatever it is, Shuttle 358 pulls it off beautifully.

Check out Pitchfork's  review of their Silent Movie album.

Russia, cd 2005. Ethereal Post Rock / Ambient. For fans of Tor Lundvall, Jesu, Harvest Rain, Staruha Mha etc. Musical journey to some dreamy timeless place among the clouds.

Tracklisting:
1 Nachalo
2 Swallowed By Untime
3 Pastorale
4 Soundtrack From "Tristesse"
5 Tell Me About Peyote
6 Man And Sky Wanderer
7 Before
8 Then
9 Dreaming
10 Untime
11 Detstvo

http://www.myspace.com/poostosh
ABSORB(320kb/s,77mb)

Netlabel: www.muertepop.com
Archive: details
Keywords: Electronic, Glitch, Post-Rock, Indietronic, Indiepop, Ambient

After their appearance on the first compilation of Muertepop rec., Let's drive to Alaska, the American collective spearheaded by laptop guru Chris Garcia, comes back with "A bell and a mirror", seven tracks of sweet glitchy electronic songs.

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The future looks just as bright as ever. We’re currently planning the tenth volume of the series and we do hear the demands to make these compilations available in physical form. While on one hand we do enjoy the fact that the series is 100% free and does no harm to the environment, we are currently exploring a few projects that may result in a physical CD being created at some point in the future. If there’s one thing you can count on us for, it’s being spontaneous.

As always, a big thanks goes out to all the artists and labels who made this project possible. Relevant links can be found below where your support for their music can be demonstrated. Until next time...

Tracklisting :
1. The Dead Sea - Nulla Desiderata
2. Olafur Arnalds - Fok
3. Anoice - Glitch
4. Bersarin Quartett - Mehr Als Alles Andere
5. Emanuele Errante - Fecunda
6. Peter Broderick - Atlantic
7. The Abbasi Brothers - The Social Evening (In 1992)
8. Sumner McKane - Doris
9. Cam Butler - I Surrender
10. Redhooker - Telling Time
11. Bosques de mi Mente - Nubes Apiladas en Forma de Montaas
12. Rudi Arapahoe - Conversation Piece
13. Joe Frawley - Sketches from Memory

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Tracklististing :
1. upcdowncleftcrightcabc+start - Get to the Chopper
2. MON - Lukrym
3. New Century Classics - Congratulate You, Where?
4. Because of Ghosts - Dreaming is Essential
5. Tulsa Drone - Wise Blood
6. This is Your Captain Speaking - Lullaby
7. Her Name is Calla - New England
8. Mimas - Cats on Fire
9. What Seas What Shores - Rabunda
10. Glissando - With a Kiss and a Tear
11. Il Rumore del Fiore di Carta - Fallen

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