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.
― doug watson, Tuesday, 5 June 2012 19:07 (eleven years ago) link
"heartbreaker" is a total balearic classic, i would not be surprised if carl craig was aware of that record's existence
― akadarbarijava (psychgawsple), Wednesday, 6 June 2012 00:35 (eleven years ago) link
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!
― nicus.pacus, Wednesday, 13 June 2012 10:55 (eleven years ago) link
Desire Lines is definitely a good one
― dmr, Wednesday, 13 June 2012 17:14 (eleven years ago) link
not particulary new age, but def great.
― mizzell, Wednesday, 13 June 2012 17:15 (eleven years ago) link
also welcome to ilx nicus, be sure to check out these other threads if you haven't alreadyThe balearic beardo beach hippie album canonThe balearic beardo beach hippie album canon
― mizzell, Wednesday, 13 June 2012 17:27 (eleven years ago) link
this is a thread for the BALEARIC REVIVAL
― mizzell, Wednesday, 13 June 2012 17:28 (eleven 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 (six years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CmUE3TkW8AAA2s5.jpg
― calzino, Sunday, 1 April 2018 12:54 (six years ago) link
wrong thread obv!
That excerpt is definitley harshing my buzz :(
― Daniel_Rf, Sunday, 1 April 2018 13:39 (six 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 (six 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