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

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

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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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hbP0lr82Nqo&feature=related

just got a totally hot 80's japanese new age electronic exotica comp. basically, martin denny meets ymo. interiors is on it.

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.

ya, when i listened to Whichever Way You Are Going, You Are Going Wrong, it def gave me a Penguin Cafe feeling

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

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

o, just realized who u are

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

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