A thread for all the spaced out new-agey music that seems to be coming out. Maxxi & Zeus, the latest Hatchback, Dylan Ettinger, Sun Araw. I'd add synth stuff like Steve Moore, OPN, Expo 70 at its most cosmic.
Here is where we hail the Kosmische.
― my opinionation (Hamildan), Saturday, 26 March 2011 11:58 (thirteen years ago) link
Didn't we already had like three threads for this thing?
― Moka, Saturday, 26 March 2011 12:00 (thirteen years ago) link
Never enough threads for mellow spaced out sounds, IMO. Thanks for tuning in, you're listening to Echoes.
― Threadkiller General (Viceroy), Saturday, 26 March 2011 13:21 (thirteen years ago) link
great new hypnagoogly pop!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U62vfvA0EJo
― scott seward, Saturday, 26 March 2011 14:05 (thirteen years ago) link
great new witchbeach remix!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t1-WxroZTmg&feature=related
― scott seward, Saturday, 26 March 2011 14:08 (thirteen years ago) link
think these guys are touring with, um, emeralds or something. check it out!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C0SE7_Ob740&feature=related
― scott seward, Saturday, 26 March 2011 14:12 (thirteen years ago) link
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_u_OCavgR3F8/SaLPjb7YXII/AAAAAAAAB_E/dLFE_z6vlTw/s320/Niagara+Falls.jpg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FdKYbnlT1rQ
― nope (absolutely clean glasses), Saturday, 26 March 2011 14:33 (thirteen years ago) link
From one of my favourite albums so far this year:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MH-9_ddFKk8
― Carthusian Product (seandalai), Saturday, 26 March 2011 14:38 (thirteen years ago) link
High Wolfhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yc0pdRLwFOc
Expo 70https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6al3xdma0k4
Eden Express (Kip from Cloudland Canyon)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t99mJop5FBc
― van smack, Saturday, 26 March 2011 15:35 (thirteen years ago) link
no Beach Wolf yet? there really should be.
― scott seward, Saturday, 26 March 2011 15:36 (thirteen years ago) link
I'd bet there is a Beach Wolf somewhere
― van smack, Saturday, 26 March 2011 15:38 (thirteen years ago) link
And probably a Wolf Beach too
And a witch house B34C|-| \/\/0|_F
― van smack, Saturday, 26 March 2011 15:40 (thirteen years ago) link
Beach Wolfhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-uMM7l6zpE
― van smack, Saturday, 26 March 2011 15:43 (thirteen years ago) link
Don't know if it counts, but I'm really digging the reissue of Synthesist by Harald Grosskopf http://open.spotify.com/album/3y5s4SQ3B9V14ns5WU3mLe
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zWV3m5tKDCk&feature=related
also enjoying Fabric - A Sort of Radiance http://open.spotify.com/album/1lwDnh8mybpPa8j3lbC2LK which sounds like some lost Tangerine Dream album.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8bviFxBu0AY
― Cluster the boots (Billy Dods), Saturday, 26 March 2011 17:13 (thirteen years ago) link
Anyone heard the new Hatchback? Spotify link
― Neil S, Monday, 28 March 2011 18:34 (thirteen years ago) link
Alpha Beta Gamma by Brain Machine is doing it for me this week, Hatchback album is slight but much better after a few listens.
AlphaBetaGamma
― my opinionation (Hamildan), Monday, 28 March 2011 20:52 (thirteen years ago) link
Did they do anything special on that reissue of ""Where There's A Whip There's A Way.""? That was one of my fave study albums.
― Publicidad de Sexo (Abbbottt), Tuesday, 29 March 2011 04:57 (thirteen years ago) link
haha oops forgot to copy the word "Synthesist" before pasting – now you guys know the only reason I ever type anything correctly at all. I meant the Grosskopf album.
ahhh super psyched for "this" to be the "new" "balearic"
― max, Tuesday, 29 March 2011 04:58 (thirteen years ago) link
my dream is that someone makes a comp of nu-balearic/nu-new age covering the songs on the original pure moods in order
― max, Tuesday, 29 March 2011 04:59 (thirteen years ago) link
some of the stuff in this thread could probably still be called "balearic"? i am having trouble drawing a line between the two styles, except in a "i know it when i see it" sense. the hatchback mix on 20jfg is SUPER "new age" and not very "balearic" at all.
― max, Tuesday, 29 March 2011 05:03 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.20jazzfunkgreats.co.uk/wordpress/2011/03/20jfg-podcast-hatchback/
― max, Tuesday, 29 March 2011 05:04 (thirteen years ago) link
surely chris willits belongs here
― akm, Tuesday, 29 March 2011 05:26 (thirteen years ago) link
ya i mean actual new age and 80s-style minimalism are definitely part of the balearic spectrum, maybe not the synthier horror stdk-type stuff tho? and esp not chris willits or jesu or whoever, which seems to me to have more to do w/'dark' ambient or shoegaze or even like post dooooom
i say this in like every thread but if you haven't listened to those padilla and phil mison mixtapes on test pressing you haven't lived
― a lagoon par la mer (psychgawsple), Tuesday, 29 March 2011 07:10 (thirteen years ago) link
really liking this new hatchback too, esp touches like the slo-mo ambient sax in "orinoco waltz". i will listen to this way more than the last album for sure
also feeling the mix, esp amor real – global communication vs. jon anderson. and i think i need more jd emmanuel in my life
they were mentioned in the op but i haven't heard any talk of maxxi & zeus yet
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pyJYriDyl8w&feature=related
i feel like that track goes balearic the second you hear dennis hopper
― a lagoon par la mer (psychgawsple), Tuesday, 29 March 2011 17:02 (thirteen years ago) link
yes that is my jaaaam
― max, Tuesday, 29 March 2011 17:13 (thirteen years ago) link
That was the track that gave birth to this thread.
The Struggle tops it though, just.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ngGNuf_zwFI
― my opinionation (Hamildan), Tuesday, 29 March 2011 18:37 (thirteen years ago) link
the struggle is also p great, hard for me to choose a favorite. both sides of both releases have been spectacular imo
other things i think could go in this thread:
cfcf - b aldrianarpmost if not all of "the laziest river"stellar om sourcealso this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JcSlXC99GTo
― a lagoon par la mer (psychgawsple), Wednesday, 30 March 2011 03:28 (thirteen years ago) link
wow that first Maxxi & Zeus track is great
― van smack, Wednesday, 30 March 2011 03:36 (thirteen years ago) link
i kinda have a hard teasing out the 'knew-age' angle on this, like what sounds & structures make something pure moodz rather than chillwave or cosmic or w/e but:
jeffrey rodens seeds of happiness on new albion is p fantastic just small mellow movements the new forma 230 record on specturm spools has a cosmic synth mindfulness maybe the parasails tape?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eLLAmmqElzM
anyway i love so much of this stuff or at least stuff that touches on this stuff
― spectrum dudes (Lamp), Wednesday, 30 March 2011 15:46 (thirteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yE1SJkkCTcI
― ka£ka (NickB), Wednesday, 30 March 2011 15:48 (thirteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2oObz1tqLfk
― ka£ka (NickB), Wednesday, 30 March 2011 16:00 (thirteen years ago) link
WHITE RAINBOW + STAGHARESHHOOOPEEY SHOOP MEGA TUFF HOUSE REMIX
^ this is great btw
― ka£ka (NickB), Wednesday, 30 March 2011 16:07 (thirteen years ago) link
there is a real band called beach wolf?
― Dominique, Wednesday, 30 March 2011 16:09 (thirteen years ago) link
theres a band called neon beach wolf, apparently
― spectrum dudes (Lamp), Wednesday, 30 March 2011 16:24 (thirteen years ago) link
The guitarist in that band is also in Blackk Cystal Girls
― jaxon, Wednesday, 30 March 2011 16:39 (thirteen years ago) link
a few tracks on the last blues control album could probably be included here
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TTZeKOK1yCc
kinda have a hard teasing out the 'knew-age' angle on this, like what sounds & structures make something pure moodz rather than chillwave or cosmic or w/e
i guess it's kinda like max was saying, you know it when you hear it? nu-age seems to be crisper, could be aiming for analog or early digital/fairlight, but it would not slather layers of tape distortion on itself like you tend to find in more ambient chillwave stuff. i think there's less difference btwn cosmic and nu-age, but i don't think nu-age really includes foregrounded carpenter-style synth lines while cosmic prob would. cosmic is (like balearic) also less of a genre and more of a descriptor, so spacey new age or minimalist stuff could be cosmic (like steve roach or tomita) but at the same time a dance/boogie track or even some prog can also be cosmic imo. idk i'm obviously no expert but i think it's fun to parse through this stuff
― a lagoon par la mer (psychgawsple), Wednesday, 30 March 2011 16:58 (thirteen years ago) link
Was trying to do this myself.
nu-wave I think is really beatless and would never be aimed at a dancefloor, whilst most balearic stuff has its roots in an Ibizan dancefloor.
great essay on Cosmic as a state of mind as it relates to music here
― my opinionation (Hamildan), Wednesday, 30 March 2011 17:17 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah i think of the knew age stuff as having 'cleaner' synth sounds & tones than chillwave & also less concerned with time & place - its less structured more considered abt ~states of consciousness~ & even more ambient than cosmic, i guess
― spectrum dudes (Lamp), Wednesday, 30 March 2011 17:22 (thirteen years ago) link
it's blurring the line between cosmic (in a schultze, tangerine dream sense) and new age for sure. People used to kind of make a big deal about the distinction, right? These new acts seems like it's nbd
― blank, Wednesday, 30 March 2011 17:37 (thirteen years ago) link
whilst most balearic stuff has its roots in an Ibizan dancefloor
not sure that the 'dancefloor' part is nec true, i think the whole style developed because the djs would play for ppl from sunset to sunrise with a whole lot of warming up and coming down in settings like the beach and cafes and stuff. and a lot of this was straight-up new age/windham hill type music
― a lagoon par la mer (psychgawsple), Wednesday, 30 March 2011 17:58 (thirteen years ago) link
which is why hathcback says he isn't balearic anymore but is actually more balearic than ever ha
― a lagoon par la mer (psychgawsple), Wednesday, 30 March 2011 18:31 (thirteen years ago) link
this is an unhelpful distinction but im pretty sure a big part of this is that balearic is "hip" and new age is not
― max, Wednesday, 30 March 2011 18:38 (thirteen years ago) link
http://bandcamp.com/files/49/52/495228764-1.jpg
not hip?
― Lamp, Wednesday, 30 March 2011 18:44 (thirteen years ago) link
tbh its hard to tell these days ys.jpg
― max, Wednesday, 30 March 2011 18:44 (thirteen years ago) link
iasos is still around and lives in marin i guess. i think he does more video-art type stuff nowadays, but he still produces crazy stuff like this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s8aQTYl3uiQ
a friend of mine booked him to play in sf but ended up backing out when he claimed it'd take 2 days of prep to properly set up the show
― a lagoon par la mer (psychgawsple), Wednesday, 30 March 2011 18:47 (thirteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wasYNNfnfVE
― You're Twistin' My Melody Man! (Geir Hongro), Wednesday, 30 March 2011 18:50 (thirteen years ago) link
idk i think new age is pretty 'hip'
― a lagoon par la mer (psychgawsple), Wednesday, 30 March 2011 18:55 (thirteen years ago) link
where do you think all those triangles came from
― a lagoon par la mer (psychgawsple), Wednesday, 30 March 2011 18:56 (thirteen years ago) link
but this is probably more true wrt the drone scene or visuals/cover art than music. i guess people aren't really reviving pan flutes and whatnot
― a lagoon par la mer (psychgawsple), Wednesday, 30 March 2011 18:59 (thirteen years ago) link
Been listening to a lot of new age stuff recently.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YTmSBmIMTLw
― mmmm, Wednesday, 30 March 2011 22:27 (thirteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ShcbFLuzrM&feature=related
― mmmm, Wednesday, 30 March 2011 22:32 (thirteen years ago) link
saw a few sealed Iasos records recently. thought they were just reissues. so he's still putting out stuff?
― jaxon, Wednesday, 30 March 2011 22:43 (thirteen years ago) link
i found a paul speer record a few weeks ago that i was claiming was the new Transfer Station Blue. found another one recently that's paul speer and david lanz and they do another version of the jam Allegro. it's even more jammin.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pz0Uqbs0jSg
― jaxon, Wednesday, 30 March 2011 22:46 (thirteen years ago) link
and if i'm any reference to what's hip (heh), pretty much all i've been listening to at home for the past year or 2 is new age
― jaxon, Wednesday, 30 March 2011 22:51 (thirteen years ago) link
The yoga studio I used to go to played this all the time, so I actually bought it (in 2000 or so?) but it has a real new age/space/Tangerine Dream vibehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L9cbf4_eO28
― Ralpharina (La Lechera), Wednesday, 30 March 2011 22:54 (thirteen years ago) link
Yoga classes are great for new age music!
― mmmm, Wednesday, 30 March 2011 22:58 (thirteen years ago) link
They are -- it gave me something to do while listening to music/something to listen to while exercising.
― Ralpharina (La Lechera), Wednesday, 30 March 2011 23:00 (thirteen years ago) link
he's putting out dvds for sure. whether or not the music is by him i duno, i think it ranges btwn him and various other dudes (based on his website/youtube portfolio heh). regardless, the aesthetic is still there. and i'd be willing to bet the records were originally private-press or some such thing, in which case the reissue may as well be new
― a lagoon par la mer (psychgawsple), Thursday, 31 March 2011 01:56 (thirteen years ago) link
i mean you can always ask milton parker about any bay area-related new ageyness
― a lagoon par la mer (psychgawsple), Thursday, 31 March 2011 01:57 (thirteen years ago) link
iasos also did the video for teengirl fantasy's "cheaters", further cementing his hipness
― a lagoon par la mer (psychgawsple), Thursday, 31 March 2011 01:59 (thirteen years ago) link
another thought- is anyone out there ripping off global communication? i guess you could make an argument for oneohtrix but it seems like the next logical step
― a lagoon par la mer (psychgawsple), Thursday, 31 March 2011 02:04 (thirteen years ago) link
there are parts of the twells & christensen release on digitalis that sound like amped up versions of the more plodding & ominous moments in 76:14 although this cld v much just be a connection i made in my head
― Lamp, Thursday, 31 March 2011 03:00 (thirteen years ago) link
haha the pedro magina tape on not not fun ('nineteen hundred and eighty-five') is labelled 'new age' in itunes... it doesnt sound v new age tho really
― ban lex pretend (Lamp), Friday, 1 April 2011 02:43 (thirteen years ago) link
i see what you mean abt the twells & christensen but it's a bit of a stretch, i agree about the plodding and ominous part tho, ha. i guess i am getting tired of dark and doooomy takes on ambient and wish people were interested in other textures. which probably is why i like a lot of what's on this thread
― a lagoon par la mer (psychgawsple), Friday, 1 April 2011 02:55 (thirteen years ago) link
really liked the pulse emitter tape root strata put out last year:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eM7a3A-hcGk
meditative music 4 is v. good too.
― original bgm, Friday, 1 April 2011 04:09 (thirteen years ago) link
^really like this after one listen
the more atmospheric end of seahawks could totally fit here, maybe not the edits but definitely the 'tender abyss' 3" cd-r thing and 'vision quest one'
― a lagoon par la mer (psychgawsple), Friday, 1 April 2011 08:02 (thirteen years ago) link
Sun Araw are pretty similar to the seahawks,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_E2OxiaPgDI
the whole album keeps the costal drift vibe nicely
― my opinionation (Hamildan), Friday, 1 April 2011 12:06 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah, I think the pulse emitter guy is really coming into his own lately. I read an interview where he said he was taking more of a compositional approach and cutting down on the number of releases to spend more time writing. seems to be working, imo - definitely liked everything I've heard over the last year or so and found prior material to be more of a crap shoot.
x-post
― original bgm, Friday, 1 April 2011 15:18 (thirteen years ago) link
^i think emeralds have been taking a similar approach too. i endorse this trend.
to me sun araw sound like a more fleshed-out version of ducktails, which is not a bad thing but they are definitely exploring more chillwave-y sounds. i hadn't heard the older stuff but that track is almost on some sunburned hand of the man shit... not sure i hear seahawks per se but i can get down
― a lagoon par la mer (psychgawsple), Friday, 1 April 2011 16:30 (thirteen years ago) link
michael hedges used to refer to his music as New Edge. feeling it as a genre descriptor. recently picked up his Breakfast in the Fields album (on windham hill). it's pretty great.
― jaxon, Monday, 11 April 2011 06:20 (thirteen years ago) link
re: Windham Hill:
Lonely guy just thinking baout things
― Oink Administrator (gr8080), Monday, 11 April 2011 06:23 (thirteen years ago) link
this is 'urgent and key' as they used to say in ILM olden daze. brain massage !
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4k_PKA2aG80
btw on a slight tanj but Conrad Schnitzler's Ballet Statique just got reissued, totally essential
dunno if its new age though
i guess by new age some people mean Berlin school Gottsching/Schulze type stuff and others mean a more organic sounding Steve Tibbetts kinda thing ?
― ur reading from a season in hell but u don't know what it's abt (missingNO), Monday, 11 April 2011 06:54 (thirteen years ago) link
this isn't 'knew' but i've been digging Woo quite a bit lately. new age meets 80s indie, i guess
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qHQwrKRedAc
― ur reading from a season in hell but u don't know what it's abt (missingNO), Monday, 11 April 2011 06:58 (thirteen years ago) link
Initially describing themselves as alternative, indie rock, lofi jazz, synth & nostalgic acoustic guitar music, Woo eventually shifted to albums described as ambient, new age, spiritual, angelic, instrumental music for meditation, relaxation & healing.
― ur reading from a season in hell but u don't know what it's abt (missingNO), Monday, 11 April 2011 07:09 (thirteen years ago) link
'Roehampton by day' is my jam! So lush, thanks for that!
― Future Debts Collector (Le Bateau Ivre), Monday, 11 April 2011 09:03 (thirteen years ago) link
http://soundcloud.com/znaki-fm/forma-forma-230
mentioned upthread but... loven this
― S C R æ M (Lamp), Tuesday, 19 April 2011 07:38 (thirteen years ago) link
This stuff seems cool-ish, although nothing im gonna lay down 17 bucks for limited ed. "vinyls" for, but I do want to rep for Woo as being totally effin awesome ... got into a Woo tape last year, 'into the heart of love', it was my shiiiit
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TKHQbNNZg3I
― D-40, Tuesday, 19 April 2011 08:11 (thirteen years ago) link
i like that you put vinyls in scarequotes bro
― S C R æ M (Lamp), Tuesday, 19 April 2011 08:16 (thirteen years ago) link
This thread is full of gems, thanks all.
I've been loving Maxxi & Zeus and have been listening to Woo all morning.
Their albums are on Mutant Sounds if anyone else wants to check them...
http://mutant-sounds.blogspot.com/2009/05/woo-into-heart-of-love-tape-1990-uk.html
http://mutant-sounds.blogspot.com/2007/05/woo-its-cosy-inside-lp-1990-uk.html
http://mutant-sounds.blogspot.com/2007/05/woo-whichever-way-you-are-going-you-are.html
http://mutant-sounds.blogspot.com/2009/05/woo-la-luna-tape-1991-uk.html
― Barnaby, Hardly, Tuesday, 19 April 2011 12:03 (thirteen years ago) link
oh my @ woo
― Tim F, Tuesday, 19 April 2011 12:07 (thirteen years ago) link
^^ Indeed. Really feeling this.
― Future Debts Collector (Le Bateau Ivre), Tuesday, 19 April 2011 12:11 (thirteen years ago) link
― S C R æ M (Lamp), Tuesday, April 19, 2011 8:16 AM (9 hours ago) Bookmark
only new jacks who bought their 'vinyl-players' at urban outfitters call records 'vinyls' homeboy
― D-40, Tuesday, 19 April 2011 17:18 (thirteen years ago) link
nb: at least, in the u.s.
― D-40, Tuesday, 19 April 2011 17:20 (thirteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-HViC9_Puo&feature=related
― scott seward, Tuesday, 19 April 2011 19:49 (thirteen years ago) link
building new age beach houses since 1982.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O7VORCxQzgU
― scott seward, Tuesday, 19 April 2011 19:52 (thirteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HcmjjhDoWM&feature=related
― scott seward, Tuesday, 19 April 2011 19:54 (thirteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hbP0lr82Nqo&feature=related
― scott seward, Tuesday, 19 April 2011 19:56 (thirteen years ago) link
just got a totally hot 80's japanese new age electronic exotica comp. basically, martin denny meets ymo. interiors is on it.
― scott seward, Tuesday, 19 April 2011 20:00 (thirteen years ago) link
Other Music has CD copies of Woo's It's Cozy Inside (still in longboxes!) and since I had already been on a Vini Reilly/ Penguin Cafe kick, this slotted in perfectly.
― beta blog, Tuesday, 19 April 2011 21:45 (thirteen years ago) link
ya, when i listened to Whichever Way You Are Going, You Are Going Wrong, it def gave me a Penguin Cafe feeling
― jaxon, Tuesday, 19 April 2011 22:46 (thirteen years ago) link
wau @ woo and interiors. i would love it if we talked more about older stuff in this thread, these derails have been great
also, is that baron mordant thing associated with mordant music? it's p nice as well
― a lagoon par la mer (psychgawsple), Wednesday, 20 April 2011 02:53 (thirteen years ago) link
nice to see some Woo chat! that first album is the most unlikely combination of, yeah, Penguin Cafe and like, early-Scritti/Desperate Bicycles style diy
16 dollars isn't that much to spend on a nice lp imho! anyway i think you can buy the albums on cd from the band's website -- it's not exactly vinyl snob stuff
also, Interior! i started a thread a while back for them and some of the other spacier groups on Yen Records (not many replies tho, perhaps if an ilx celeb posts then more people will take a look). check out Testpattern and Inoyama Land as well for more j new age, the latter put an album out on Windham Hill
yeah Baron Mordant runs Mordant Music iirc
― ur reading from a season in hell but u don't know what it's abt (missingNO), Wednesday, 20 April 2011 12:00 (thirteen years ago) link
o, just realized who u are
― jaxon, Wednesday, 20 April 2011 14:11 (thirteen years ago) link
I think that some of the tracks (I've only listened to a few so far) from A Young Person's Guide to Mark McGuire is definitely in this vein. So far I am enjoying this just as much if not more that the Emeralds LP.
I am really digging "The Marfa Lights", pretty much straight-up Göttsching.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cWDrQq3YoSI
― Non-Stop Erotic Calculus (bmus), Wednesday, 20 April 2011 17:04 (thirteen years ago) link
damn i wish this show was on right now
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DHzCX6HnkKE
― jaxon, Thursday, 21 April 2011 05:28 (thirteen years ago) link
mystic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O4I-8bOJ30g
― Lamp, Tuesday, 10 May 2011 21:38 (twelve years ago) link
pretty into this zodiac free arts club thing (though it's not this, unfortunately)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWDn55NknvE&feature=related
― a lagoon par la mer (psychgawsple), Wednesday, 11 May 2011 05:11 (twelve years ago) link
feeling that
― gr8080, Wednesday, 11 May 2011 05:27 (twelve years ago) link
yeah when that guitar comes in things really go places. the rest of the album is pretty great too, grade-a kosmische ripoffs imo
― a lagoon par la mer (psychgawsple), Wednesday, 11 May 2011 05:38 (twelve years ago) link
the Ken Seeno tape on NNA has this beach/synth vibe going and kinda fits in with the thread's theme. The tape is really good, imo. Some samples here:
http://soundcloud.com/kenseeno/driving-into-light-blustery-day
http://soundcloud.com/kenseeno/a-breezy-memory
― last updated 2 minutes ago by 1 minute ago (van smack), Thursday, 12 May 2011 14:27 (twelve years ago) link
Surprised how much I like the Zodiac Free Arts Club...
keep coming back to it.
although naming a kosmische band ZFAC is like naming an acid house act Hacienda.
― my opinionation (Hamildan), Wednesday, 25 May 2011 14:23 (twelve years ago) link
yea, it is holding up for me too. almost makes me want to pay attention to the argy stuff
― a lagoon par la mer (psychgawsple), Wednesday, 25 May 2011 19:39 (twelve years ago) link
The album House, by Mist (one of the Emeralds dudes), which got reissued yesterday incidentally is REALLY, REALLY gorgeous. Blissful, arpeggiated, beautifully textured drift studies.
― Clarke B., Wednesday, 25 May 2011 20:11 (twelve years ago) link
I posted a youtube earlier in the thread, but this Eden Express album is so good I have to share another. Here's another clip
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-siHuOcncmw
― van smack, Friday, 27 May 2011 22:40 (twelve years ago) link
psychegawsple, i just talked to Lea from Blues Control and apparently they're doing a collaborative album with Laraaji, further cementing their 'knew age' status.
― beta blog, Tuesday, 7 June 2011 23:47 (twelve years ago) link
although naming a kosmische band ZFAC is like naming an acid house act Hacienda
yeah, I saw the name and was a bit galled by it...at least they spelled it differently ('Zodiac' instead of 'Zodiak', club instead of Lab)
the annoying thing is that now, if you google for information on the 'Zodiak Free Arts Lab', you get all this nonsense about this Zodiac Free Arts Club album
hey guys, check out my nu-disco band, we're called 'Paradise Garage'
― geeta, Wednesday, 8 June 2011 00:38 (twelve years ago) link
im in a neo-choral music band called "church"
― ☂ (max), Wednesday, 8 June 2011 01:08 (twelve years ago) link
lol, what about your club night?http://blogs.sfweekly.com/shookdown/2011/04/joy_divisions_peter_hook_force.php
― jaxon, Wednesday, 8 June 2011 02:11 (twelve years ago) link
― beta blog, Tuesday, June 7, 2011 1:47 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark
!!!!!!!!!!!!
― gr8080, Wednesday, 8 June 2011 20:17 (twelve years ago) link
yeah, that's awesome!!
― original bgm, Wednesday, 8 June 2011 20:21 (twelve years ago) link
^ i know, i can't imagine any circumstances where the finished product of that collaboration will not appeal to me
― a lagoon par la mer (psychgawsple), Wednesday, 8 June 2011 21:56 (twelve years ago) link
more on that Blues Control/ Laraaji collab here, as part of my story on "The New Age of New Age":
http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/music/la-ca-new-age-20110703,0,2953740.story
― beta blog, Monday, 4 July 2011 14:40 (twelve years ago) link
new frkways thing w/ david borden, oneohtrix, james ferraro and some other dudes is for this thread
http://soundcloud.com/igetrvng/frkwys07-people-of-the-wind-pt-2
― corpse pose (missingNO), Monday, 4 July 2011 14:48 (twelve years ago) link
I saw that latimes article, saw it, liked it and spread the love.
I got a heads-up from the rvng guy that there was something cool coming out, good to see in the article what it was.
If its half as good as the Arp / Anthony Moore 12", it'll be some special tones.
― my opinionation (Hamildan), Monday, 4 July 2011 21:48 (twelve years ago) link
wow
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lP_UB-hrhkk&feature=related
just... wow. so beautiful
― missingNO, Thursday, 4 August 2011 12:15 (twelve years ago) link
woo. just... woo
Only problem I have with that is that it's 10 minutes too short
― I for one am (Le Bateau Ivre), Thursday, 4 August 2011 14:18 (twelve years ago) link
the Ken Seeno tape on NNA has this beach/synth vibe going and kinda fits in with the thread's theme
yeah i listened to this (invisible surfer on an invisible wave) on my walk to work today & it was really fantastic late summer dream music
has anyone heard much of the other stuff on nna tapes? i have the split btw opn & caboladies (which also probably fits w/in the scope of this thread) but am interested in anything else good of theirs
― I AM JOHN MAUS (Lamp), Thursday, 4 August 2011 14:21 (twelve years ago) link
I dug the harmonizer tape. duo with greg davis and the guy that runs nna, I think. nice to have some percussion on this stuff once in a while.
scroll down this page on keith fullerton whitman's store for a clip:
http://www.mimaroglumusicsales.com/labels/nna+tapes.html
― original bgm, Thursday, 4 August 2011 16:45 (twelve years ago) link
not sure where else to post this but i recently saw 'drive', and if i had known that angelo badalamenti was in charge of the music i probably would have seen it earlier. there are 4-5 nu-italo tracks on the soundtrack but the original score by cliff martinez seems like it might be of serious interest to people itt
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Ng9MMRxp1Q&feature=related
― it's time for the purpculator (psychgawsple), Friday, 7 October 2011 17:57 (twelve years ago) link
this one gives a fuller picture of the general interplay of the soundtrack- ambient badalamenti vibes becoming subsumed by more aggressive john carpenter moves, and then vice versa. good shit
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IbAVGRlnPjc&feature=related
― it's time for the purpculator (psychgawsple), Friday, 7 October 2011 18:03 (twelve years ago) link
how was the rest of the movie?
― ⚓ (gr8080), Friday, 7 October 2011 18:05 (twelve years ago) link
o yeah, loved the music in Drive(didn't like the movie though)
― mizzell, Friday, 7 October 2011 18:06 (twelve years ago) link
yea the movie both sounded and *looked* amazing - this has something to do with carey mulligan and christina hendricks but there are also tons of sexy night driving shots in la (albeit with ryan gosling in silly jackets and driving gloves). the movie overall was less amazing, tho i am def willing to give it another chance b/c the general atmosphere is pretty rad
― it's time for the purpculator (psychgawsple), Friday, 7 October 2011 19:24 (twelve years ago) link
bad movies with cool ~atmosphere~ are my favorite!
― ⚓ (gr8080), Friday, 7 October 2011 20:03 (twelve years ago) link
^^ totally <3
― Young Swell (Le Bateau Ivre), Friday, 7 October 2011 20:06 (twelve years ago) link
new Tycho rules:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HL5VUqnfmEw
― ⚓ (gr8080), Friday, 18 November 2011 23:31 (twelve years ago) link
Not sure if this fits the theme, but since there's some Woo-related activity on here, I've been listening to this a lot lately. Really lovely, floaty squelch that kind of reminds me of 'Sombre Reptiles' and stuff like Interior, tho can also detect obv. influence of Durutti Column/PCO. Apparently it's a cover, as Edwards and Rodgers are credited, but I'm not hearing it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YweqSnN1ahk
― garish handling (Muscae Volitante), Saturday, 19 November 2011 02:49 (twelve years ago) link
Upside Down? Edwards & Rogers credited?
C'est Chic!
― my opinionation (Hamildan), Saturday, 19 November 2011 19:43 (twelve years ago) link
Tycho did a great interview with Hatchback, that I think is upthread.
― my opinionation (Hamildan), Saturday, 19 November 2011 19:46 (twelve years ago) link
The first solo disc from Jonas Munk (aka Manual) ditches his earlier shoegazer personae for some progressive electronic / kosmische bliss. Really feeling this track, in particular:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5fbd79t6OUk
― doug watson, Friday, 1 June 2012 22:25 (eleven years ago) link
Try this again:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5fbd79t6OUk
― doug watson, Friday, 1 June 2012 22:34 (eleven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l3WXBc4phRY
― van smack, Saturday, 2 June 2012 00:33 (eleven years ago) link
Nice! I wasn't aware that Grosskopf did a solo follow-up to Synthesist.
― doug watson, Saturday, 2 June 2012 22:46 (eleven years ago) link
i like that jonas munk but it's kinda... frenetic? not exactly balearic knew-age but totally kosmische
that grosskopf track is also good, but not the most relaxing thing in the world. definitely succeeds at pop-minimalist repetitive 80s piano corniness, would have been the best track on 'far side virtual' (tho i love that record for different reasons)
― akadarbarijava (psychgawsple), Sunday, 3 June 2012 08:39 (eleven years ago) link
maybe i just suffer from an 'i want more things that sound like zeus and apollo" syndrome
― akadarbarijava (psychgawsple), Sunday, 3 June 2012 08:40 (eleven years ago) link
also - a friend got me an interior 12" for my birthday this year and this is how i know this person 'gets' me
― akadarbarijava (psychgawsple), Sunday, 3 June 2012 09:04 (eleven years ago) link
The 'I want more things that sound like Zeus & Apollo' syndrome can only be allieviated by occasional Hatchback online mixes and sometimes Tycho. Very little comes close, sadly.
― my opinionation (Hamildan), Sunday, 3 June 2012 10:44 (eleven years ago) link
xxxpost Ya, the rest of the Munk disc is much more chilled. I'm just stuck on that track.
What about the early 80s releases on Innovative Communication? Listening to Double Fantasy's Universal Avenue, I'm thinking that this could work.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XIblmWICww
― doug watson, Tuesday, 5 June 2012 15:36 (eleven years ago) link
^^^this kind of reminds me of 69 'desire', wonder if c2 had heard it?
― second only to popcorn (or something), Tuesday, 5 June 2012 16:00 (eleven years ago) link
Ha, I'd say C2 heard it before dropping this one:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ym7SH8a385s
― doug watson, Tuesday, 5 June 2012 17:20 (eleven years ago) link
doubtful i think
― the late great, Tuesday, 5 June 2012 17:37 (eleven years ago) link
did the electrifying mojo ever drop double fantasy anyone?
― second only to popcorn (or something), Tuesday, 5 June 2012 17:58 (eleven years ago) link
i doubt it, that is some obscure shit unless you're into new age
― the late great, Tuesday, 5 June 2012 18:35 (eleven years ago) link
i imagine craig might have heard steve roach though and there are some similarities
maybe not, heartbreaker really puts me in mind of desire tho, and i don't think it's just the pitch bending strings either. regardless it's brilliant.
― second only to popcorn (or something), Tuesday, 5 June 2012 18:56 (eleven years ago) link
It's quite possible that Craig was aware of the releases on Klaus Schulze's imprint. I didn't mean to imply plagiarism above but clearly there are some shared influences.
― doug watson, Tuesday, 5 June 2012 19:07 (eleven years ago) link
"heartbreaker" is a total balearic classic, i would not be surprised if carl craig was aware of that record's existence
― akadarbarijava (psychgawsple), Wednesday, 6 June 2012 00:35 (eleven years ago) link
Hello guys,
I really like this thread and this is the only reason that I signed up to this site, to participate in this conversation, that has begun over a year ago and it still goes on!
One of my favorite music styles is this eclectic blend of ambient, balearic, psychedelic sounds. I read all the posts and I'm glad that other people share my passion. But, in this discussion, many and different kinds and periods of music come together without... dividing lines. I mean that I can't compare the great and original kraut-cosmic scene of early 70s and artists like Klaus Schulze, Ashra Tempel ect. with the "synthesizer" era of new age music that followed. I think that the first krautrock era was the most creative and all the developments and revivals have their roots in this period... of course I'm interest in almost all of them! Also I don't think that the most eclectic and balearic DJ in Ibiza of the 90s would ever play an experimental music piece that lasts over 20 minutes! And keep in mind that I love this old mixes by Jose Padilla and Phil Mison in Cafe Del Mar. So, I believe that only contemporary artists -Washed Out is a great example- combine these sometimes diverse music ifluences.
Lastly, I have to suggest an album: Desire Lines by Meanderthals. A great album of imrpovisational, psychedelic, cosmic music served in a nu-balearic style!
― nicus.pacus, Wednesday, 13 June 2012 10:55 (eleven years ago) link
Desire Lines is definitely a good one
― dmr, Wednesday, 13 June 2012 17:14 (eleven years ago) link
not particulary new age, but def great.
― mizzell, Wednesday, 13 June 2012 17:15 (eleven years ago) link
also welcome to ilx nicus, be sure to check out these other threads if you haven't alreadyThe balearic beardo beach hippie album canonThe balearic beardo beach hippie album canon
― mizzell, Wednesday, 13 June 2012 17:27 (eleven years ago) link
this is a thread for the BALEARIC REVIVAL
― mizzell, Wednesday, 13 June 2012 17:28 (eleven years ago) link
Thank you for the propositions! I saw the other, "more balearic" threads and they are very interesting... but they also are very very long. I mean that these threads have begun 4 years ago, so information is too much! But I will check them.
I know that Desire Lines is not a new age album, but it has some influences from ambient music and mainly has a great ambient feeling, I mean a deep sentimental feeling of harmony....
Now about new age, I was interested when someone mentioned Klaus Schulze's old record company, Innovative Communication. These days I'm digging the music that came from Innovative Communication: Universal Av. by Double Fantasy is great and you should also check Dancing Fantasy's first album. I think that these artists set up the foundations for chill out music. In general, I believe that chill out has its roots to the success of new age music in the mid 80s. Take for example the first Cafe Del Mar cassette compilation that was made by Jose Padilla around 1991 and is full of new age music! Here is a link to this material:
http://dalstonoxfamshop.blogspot.gr/2011/02/cafe-del-mar-tape-no-1.html
― nicus.pacus, Thursday, 14 June 2012 12:49 (eleven years ago) link
Ok, I love Desire Lines and the Hatchback, bought E2-E4 today and asked the clerk what in that vein he'd recommend and he immediately shoved the Jonas Munk in my hands. Glad he did. This thread is huge and filled with YouTubes. Please hit me with a few of the best titles from this thread while I browse back in time and play these songs and make my list.
― brotherlovesdub, Sunday, 26 August 2012 06:23 (eleven years ago) link
that double fantasy track is incredibly good...
― Hutton dressed as Lahm (LocalGarda), Friday, 18 January 2013 21:27 (eleven years ago) link
Found that Double Fantasy LP last weekend. Canadian pressing. Have to believe Carl Craig had a copy in the late 80s. The influence is so obvious.
― brotherlovesdub, Saturday, 19 January 2013 05:47 (eleven years ago) link
universal ave is so great... "endless running"...
― Butt Trump tweet (Matt P), Saturday, 19 January 2013 06:05 (eleven years ago) link
i don't know if this is the right thread for this since it's more balearic than new age but wth, i love this song
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKAJs8waYd4
― Butt Trump tweet (Matt P), Saturday, 19 January 2013 06:27 (eleven years ago) link
give me the original any day
― Hutton dressed as Lahm (LocalGarda), Saturday, 19 January 2013 09:23 (eleven years ago) link
new CFCF kind of fits this thread
http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/18663-cfcf-outside/
― ᶓ͠סּᴥ͠סּᶔ ᶓͼ᷆ₓͼ᷇ᶔ (gr8080), Wednesday, 23 October 2013 19:36 (ten years ago) link
the first track to jump out at me from that turned out to be a bonnie prince billy cover which makes me feel gross. but i am interested.
― Tip from Tae Kwon Do: (crüt), Wednesday, 23 October 2013 19:55 (ten years ago) link
Exercises was one of my favourite releases of the last few years but not really feeling the new one. Not sure his vocal is strong enough for some of the tracks. Some nice sounds though.
― groovypanda, Monday, 28 October 2013 08:01 (ten years ago) link
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61VtHNdJ75L._SY355_.jpg
The recent I Am The Center compilation of beautiful, blissed out private press tracks is great and fits this thread (although lots of it is Old Skool New Age)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1uC5lVF3oWM
― groovypanda, Friday, 22 November 2013 10:40 (ten years ago) link
sounds cool. some talk about it here: "New Age Music", search and destroy.
― mizzell, Friday, 22 November 2013 13:58 (ten years ago) link
Ah, cheers. Was wondering if there was another thread somwhere
― groovypanda, Friday, 22 November 2013 14:54 (ten years ago) link
new(ish) mark mcguire full-length is recommended for fans of this thread
http://i.imgur.com/a4jvMjz.jpg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fywpxbTHc44
― °ㅇ๐ْ ° (gr8080), Friday, 25 April 2014 17:21 (ten years ago) link
thought I was listening to mistagged mp3s the first time I played that. as in, the only explanation for what I was hearing was that I was being outright pranked by the friend who'd given me the files.
in the 80's Windham Hill and Hearts of Space were diametrically opposed camps of new age, you really did not find much crossover (there's only one artist I can think of who was on both labels). now it's all bleeding into one big unholy mess.
― Milton Parker, Friday, 25 April 2014 17:44 (ten years ago) link
just ordered up that mcguire LP, gr80. psyched 2 own it.
― christmas candy bar (al leong), Friday, 25 April 2014 17:52 (ten years ago) link
do we have a hearts of space thread?
― °ㅇ๐ْ ° (gr8080), Friday, 25 April 2014 18:09 (ten years ago) link
GRM Concert Imaginaire vs Hearts of Space Starflight 1
― Milton Parker, Friday, 25 April 2014 18:18 (ten years ago) link
this is my theme for the end of spring '14
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GwXcU0b5Oy8
― ogmor, Wednesday, 28 May 2014 01:14 (nine years ago) link
really good record that lord of the isles one
― nathey, Wednesday, 28 May 2014 09:28 (nine years ago) link
co2o personal highlight, but great all the way through
― nathey, Wednesday, 28 May 2014 09:29 (nine years ago) link
I wasn't too keen on 301 Symphony but Lord of the Isles is in general a really good producer. Love this one so much:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mqOj0Ivy_X0
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 28 May 2014 10:18 (nine years ago) link
For any London based ilxors this Thursday:
http://www.seetickets.com/event/laraaji-sun-araw-the-play-zone/st-john-at-hackney-church/769117/?OfferCode=WARP%2FALL+SAINTS&direct=true
https://scontent-a-ams.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xap1/t1.0-9/10437497_10152657697833243_5431478827690470025_n.png
― groovypanda, Monday, 2 June 2014 09:36 (nine years ago) link
great album i just discovered:
http://www.secondlanguagemusic.com/SL028.html
― gr8080, Sunday, 11 January 2015 20:47 (nine years ago) link
Great mix: http://m.soundcloud.com/growingbinrecords/bobby-beige-on-ibiza
― brotherlovesdub, Sunday, 11 January 2015 22:08 (nine years ago) link
this Hybrid Palms album is pretty sweet
https://soundcloud.com/soundsofthedawn/hybrid-palms-pacific-image-from-pacific-image-cassette-out-march-22
― brimstead, Sunday, 18 September 2016 04:04 (seven years ago) link
― brotherlovesdub, Sunday, January 11, 2015 5:08 PM (one year ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Not an indie-hater or anything but hearing the voices of Kozelek, Malkmus, etc pop up on here is a serious buzzkill
― Wimmels, Sunday, 18 September 2016 20:00 (seven years ago) link
the new vakula EP is off the chain, my dudes
https://soundcloud.com/vakula/vakula-metaphors-lp-coming-up-on-leleka_2017
― the late great, Wednesday, 28 February 2018 21:41 (six years ago) link
sorry it's a double EP
Nice
― calstars, Wednesday, 28 February 2018 22:06 (six years ago) link
severely underutilized thread, i should post more stuff here
― brimstead, Wednesday, 28 February 2018 22:29 (six years ago) link
Same, this is great stuff
― Le Bateau Ivre, Wednesday, 28 February 2018 22:42 (six years ago) link
So this is not new music, but a friend recently posted this on FB; I only knew Luís Cília as a protest song folkie, so was surprised to discover he did ambient like this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZNIdxg0VQk
That in turn lead me to this playlist:
https://playmoss.com/en/david-mas/playlist/lusofonias
― Daniel_Rf, Saturday, 24 March 2018 18:22 (six years ago) link
this is a great playlist, thanks for posting
― ogmor, Monday, 26 March 2018 09:01 (six years ago) link
Welcome! Excited by the (very remote) possibility that the next digger target might be a country where I have a head start :)
― Daniel_Rf, Monday, 26 March 2018 10:51 (six years ago) link
That Vakula album/double EP really is incredible.
― toby, Tuesday, 27 March 2018 12:42 (six years ago) link
thank you and for gods sake how is everyone else not completely losing their minds over it
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r50dBMjhqvU&feature=youtu.be
― the late great, Thursday, 29 March 2018 20:39 (six years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CmUE3TkW8AAA2s5.jpg
― calzino, Sunday, 1 April 2018 12:54 (six years ago) link
wrong thread obv!
That excerpt is definitley harshing my buzz :(
― Daniel_Rf, Sunday, 1 April 2018 13:39 (six years ago) link
not quite in the chilled out kosmische spirit of the new Vakula ep, for sure.
― calzino, Sunday, 1 April 2018 13:47 (six years ago) link
Don't think I've heard one of his albums since The Soft Wave but the new Arp record is great and probably a fit for this thread
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ymaQyKYlEk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i07c7uR9pMc
― groovypanda, Friday, 29 June 2018 12:54 (five years ago) link
https://open.spotify.com/album/37JQEtmiM3wMQs2JVm7qvR?si=QL9FWftCRrOgMwz_8Opmkg
― calstars, Friday, 29 June 2018 15:12 (five years ago) link
New Eleventeen Eston lp (on Growing Bin) is sounding great on first listen. I really dug Delta Horizon and "Indian Blue" is like the ultimate hazey smooth smoked out underwater balearic basement demo. Must revisit the Wilson/Tanner disc at some point..
― brimstead, Sunday, 1 July 2018 23:23 (five years ago) link
Never heard Delta Horizon but it’s sounding great, thanks for the recommendation B. This is what makes ilx great
― calstars, Monday, 2 July 2018 00:04 (five years ago) link
beverly glenn-copeland
― flopson, Monday, 2 July 2018 00:14 (five years ago) link
that Eleventeen Eston is really special
― boxedjoy, Tuesday, 3 July 2018 09:41 (five years ago) link
Something about the production I guess has an Ariel pink flavor to me
― calstars, Tuesday, 3 July 2018 20:34 (five years ago) link
the back cover is kind of hilarious.. he lists some "instruments" he plays on it but i think they're all model numbers of assorted fishing gear???
― brimstead, Tuesday, 3 July 2018 22:08 (five years ago) link
I’m a huge fan of benedek in general, this is pretty blissed outhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ORldCGNHFiI
― brimstead, Monday, 21 December 2020 22:22 (three years ago) link