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

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

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

damn i wish this show was on right now

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DHzCX6HnkKE

mystic

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O4I-8bOJ30g

pretty into this zodiac free arts club thing (though it's not this, unfortunately)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWDn55NknvE&feature=related

feeling that

yeah when that guitar comes in things really go places. the rest of the album is pretty great too, grade-a kosmische ripoffs imo

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.

― beta blog, Tuesday, June 7, 2011 1:47 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

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

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