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

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

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.

re: Windham Hill:

Lonely guy just thinking baout things

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 ?

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

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.

'Roehampton by day' is my jam! So lush, thanks for that!

http://soundcloud.com/znaki-fm/forma-forma-230

mentioned upthread but... loven this

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

i like that you put vinyls in scarequotes bro

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

oh my @ woo

^^ Indeed. Really feeling this.

i like that you put vinyls in scarequotes bro

― 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

nb: at least, in the u.s.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-HViC9_Puo&feature=related

building new age beach houses since 1982.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O7VORCxQzgU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HcmjjhDoWM&feature=related

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