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

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

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.

yea, it is holding up for me too. almost makes me want to pay attention to the argy stuff

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.

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

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.

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'

im in a neo-choral music band called "church"

although naming a kosmische band ZFAC is like naming an acid house act Hacienda.

lol, what about your club night?
http://blogs.sfweekly.com/shookdown/2011/04/joy_divisions_peter_hook_force.php

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.

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!!!!!!!!!!!!

yeah, that's awesome!!

^ i know, i can't imagine any circumstances where the finished product of that collaboration will not appeal to me

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

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

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.

wow

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lP_UB-hrhkk&feature=related

just... wow. so beautiful

woo. just... woo

Only problem I have with that is that it's 10 minutes too short

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 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

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

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

how was the rest of the movie?

o yeah, loved the music in Drive(didn't like the movie though)

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

bad movies with cool ~atmosphere~ are my favorite!

^^ totally <3

new Tycho rules:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HL5VUqnfmEw

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

Upside Down? Edwards & Rogers credited?

C'est Chic!

Tycho did a great interview with Hatchback, that I think is upthread.

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

Try this again:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5fbd79t6OUk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l3WXBc4phRY

Nice! I wasn't aware that Grosskopf did a solo follow-up to Synthesist.

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)

maybe i just suffer from an 'i want more things that sound like zeus and apollo" syndrome

also - a friend got me an interior 12" for my birthday this year and this is how i know this person 'gets' me

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.

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

^^^this kind of reminds me of 69 'desire', wonder if c2 had heard it?

Ha, I'd say C2 heard it before dropping this one:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ym7SH8a385s

doubtful i think

did the electrifying mojo ever drop double fantasy anyone?

i doubt it, that is some obscure shit unless you're into new age

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.

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.

"heartbreaker" is a total balearic classic, i would not be surprised if carl craig was aware of that record's existence

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!