Knew-Age music: nu-balearic hippies who fell asleep on the beach and woke up staring at the stars.

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.

http://www.20jazzfunkgreats.co.uk/wordpress/2011/03/20jfg-podcast-hatchback/

surely chris willits belongs here

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

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

yes that is my jaaaam

That was the track that gave birth to this thread.

The Struggle tops it though, just.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ngGNuf_zwFI

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 aldrian
arp
most if not all of "the laziest river"
stellar om source
also this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JcSlXC99GTo

wow that first Maxxi & Zeus track is great

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yE1SJkkCTcI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2oObz1tqLfk

WHITE RAINBOW + STAGHARE
SHHOOOPEEY SHOOP MEGA TUFF HOUSE REMIX

^ this is great btw

there is a real band called beach wolf?

theres a band called neon beach wolf, apparently

The guitarist in that band is also in Blackk Cystal Girls

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

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

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

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

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

which is why hathcback says he isn't balearic anymore but is actually more balearic than ever ha

this is an unhelpful distinction but im pretty sure a big part of this is that balearic is "hip" and new age is not

http://bandcamp.com/files/49/52/495228764-1.jpg

not hip?

tbh its hard to tell these days ys.jpg

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wasYNNfnfVE

idk i think new age is pretty 'hip'

where do you think all those triangles came from

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

Been listening to a lot of new age stuff recently.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YTmSBmIMTLw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ShcbFLuzrM&feature=related

saw a few sealed Iasos records recently. thought they were just reissues. so he's still putting out stuff?

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

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

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 vibe
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L9cbf4_eO28

Yoga classes are great for new age music!

They are -- it gave me something to do while listening to music/something to listen to while exercising.

saw a few sealed Iasos records recently. thought they were just reissues. so he's still putting out stuff?

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

i mean you can always ask milton parker about any bay area-related new ageyness

iasos also did the video for teengirl fantasy's "cheaters", further cementing his hipness

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

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

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

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

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.

^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'

Sun Araw are pretty similar to the seahawks,

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_E2OxiaPgDI

the whole album keeps the costal drift vibe nicely

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.

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^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

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

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

great album i just discovered:

http://www.secondlanguagemusic.com/SL028.html

Great mix: http://m.soundcloud.com/growingbinrecords/bobby-beige-on-ibiza

this Hybrid Palms album is pretty sweet

https://soundcloud.com/soundsofthedawn/hybrid-palms-pacific-image-from-pacific-image-cassette-out-march-22

Great mix: http://m.soundcloud.com/growingbinrecords/bobby-beige-on-ibiza

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Not an indie-hater or anything but hearing the voices of Kozelek, Malkmus, etc pop up on here is a serious buzzkill

the new vakula EP is off the chain, my dudes

https://soundcloud.com/vakula/vakula-metaphors-lp-coming-up-on-leleka_2017

sorry it's a double EP

Nice

severely underutilized thread, i should post more stuff here

Same, this is great stuff

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

this is a great playlist, thanks for posting

Welcome! Excited by the (very remote) possibility that the next digger target might be a country where I have a head start :)

That Vakula album/double EP really is incredible.

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

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CmUE3TkW8AAA2s5.jpg

wrong thread obv!

That excerpt is definitley harshing my buzz :(

not quite in the chilled out kosmische spirit of the new Vakula ep, for sure.

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

https://open.spotify.com/album/37JQEtmiM3wMQs2JVm7qvR?si=QL9FWftCRrOgMwz_8Opmkg

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..

Never heard Delta Horizon but it’s sounding great, thanks for the recommendation B. This is what makes ilx great

beverly glenn-copeland

that Eleventeen Eston is really special

Something about the production I guess has an Ariel pink flavor to me

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???

I’m a huge fan of benedek in general, this is pretty blissed out

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ORldCGNHFiI