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 (twelve 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 (twelve 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 (twelve 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 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.20jazzfunkgreats.co.uk/wordpress/2011/03/20jfg-podcast-hatchback/
― max, Tuesday, 29 March 2011 05:04 (twelve years ago) link
surely chris willits belongs here
― akm, Tuesday, 29 March 2011 05:26 (twelve 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 (twelve 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 (twelve years ago) link
yes that is my jaaaam
― max, Tuesday, 29 March 2011 17:13 (twelve 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 (twelve 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 (twelve years ago) link
wow that first Maxxi & Zeus track is great
― van smack, Wednesday, 30 March 2011 03:36 (twelve 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 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yE1SJkkCTcI
― ka£ka (NickB), Wednesday, 30 March 2011 15:48 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2oObz1tqLfk
― ka£ka (NickB), Wednesday, 30 March 2011 16:00 (twelve years ago) link
WHITE RAINBOW + STAGHARESHHOOOPEEY SHOOP MEGA TUFF HOUSE REMIX
^ this is great btw
― ka£ka (NickB), Wednesday, 30 March 2011 16:07 (twelve years ago) link
there is a real band called beach wolf?
― Dominique, Wednesday, 30 March 2011 16:09 (twelve years ago) link
theres a band called neon beach wolf, apparently
― spectrum dudes (Lamp), Wednesday, 30 March 2011 16:24 (twelve years ago) link
The guitarist in that band is also in Blackk Cystal Girls
― jaxon, Wednesday, 30 March 2011 16:39 (twelve 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 (twelve 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 (twelve 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 (twelve 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 (twelve 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 (twelve 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 (twelve 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 (twelve years ago) link
http://bandcamp.com/files/49/52/495228764-1.jpg
not hip?
― Lamp, Wednesday, 30 March 2011 18:44 (twelve years ago) link
tbh its hard to tell these days ys.jpg
― max, Wednesday, 30 March 2011 18:44 (twelve 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 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wasYNNfnfVE
― You're Twistin' My Melody Man! (Geir Hongro), Wednesday, 30 March 2011 18:50 (twelve years ago) link
idk i think new age is pretty 'hip'
― a lagoon par la mer (psychgawsple), Wednesday, 30 March 2011 18:55 (twelve years ago) link
where do you think all those triangles came from
― a lagoon par la mer (psychgawsple), Wednesday, 30 March 2011 18:56 (twelve 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 (nine 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 (nine 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 (nine years ago) link
do we have a hearts of space thread?
― °ㅇ๐ْ ° (gr8080), Friday, 25 April 2014 18:09 (nine years ago) link
GRM Concert Imaginaire vs Hearts of Space Starflight 1
― Milton Parker, Friday, 25 April 2014 18:18 (nine 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 (five years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CmUE3TkW8AAA2s5.jpg
― calzino, Sunday, 1 April 2018 12:54 (five years ago) link
wrong thread obv!
That excerpt is definitley harshing my buzz :(
― Daniel_Rf, Sunday, 1 April 2018 13:39 (five 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 (five 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