i love love love ash ra / td / schulze/
― the late great, Friday, 22 November 2013 01:05 (ten years ago) link
Those don't sound cheesy to me though. Wonder if I could narrow down what I mean when I say cheesy?
― the late great, Friday, 22 November 2013 01:06 (ten years ago) link
Maybe an analog vs digital thing? Also the attempt to replicate an "atmosphere", or "setting" (like, a cave) is sillier than just some abstract cosmic riffing. Don't get me wrong, i love it all (not klaus so much, though).
Anybody know about the Palace Of Lights label? http://www.discogs.com/label/Palace+Of+Lights I have a K. Leimur album that is pretty cool. A couple tracks are like minimal soft focus proto-ambient house.
― brimstead, Friday, 22 November 2013 01:09 (ten years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FUxV6_ewLR0
Ok i haven't listened to it in awhile, i misremembered there being a fat 4x4 kick here. Still dope, though.
― brimstead, Friday, 22 November 2013 01:12 (ten years ago) link
^ feeling this, also feeling the claire hamill from above. k. leimer has like 9 albums on spotify
― akadarbarijava (psychgawsple), Friday, 22 November 2013 01:21 (ten years ago) link
I haven't heard much Emerald Web but I absolutely love their song "Refraction" on Dream Chimney's excellent "New Visions" mix. It is basically instrumental synth pop, though, and I imagine most of their stuff is less beat driven.
― brimstead, Friday, 22 November 2013 01:28 (ten years ago) link
i checked out claire hamill's voices and it is gooooorgeous. tracks like 'tides' are definitely proto-grimes etc.
if ashra are suitable material for this kind of thread then i've also been digging correlations lately, 'oasis' has the most blissful vibes of anything ever.
― Merdeyeux, Friday, 22 November 2013 02:29 (ten years ago) link
Yeah, "oasis" is wonderful.
― brimstead, Friday, 22 November 2013 02:51 (ten years ago) link
picked up the emerald web yesterday, wasn't feeling it so much. not really "weird" enough i guess.
sadly i'm not really feeling this one yet, either
http://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0192/7084/products/laraaji_two_sides_1024x1024.jpg?v=1383003823
― the late great, Saturday, 23 November 2013 23:24 (ten years ago) link
the second disc turns out to be the entirety of this bargain bin trip-hop "classic", will teach me to look more closely at track listings
http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/_/39184833/The+Way+Out+Is+the+Way+In+audio_activelaraajithe_way_out.jpg
― the late great, Saturday, 23 November 2013 23:25 (ten years ago) link
I listen to this comp p much every day now
― Jimmywine Dyspeptic, Sunday, 24 November 2013 01:24 (ten years ago) link
Biggest revelation to me on the LITA comp so far is Aeoliah, which is currently touching many of my Popol Vuh buttons
― Jimmywine Dyspeptic, Sunday, 24 November 2013 02:35 (ten years ago) link
man I started reading that daughter's remembrance of her mom (the "Waterfall" track) out loud to my wife the other night and totally choked up, that is some deep & beautiful imagery there.
Aeoliah is one of the early standouts for me as well. love the picture too, the guy looks like an awesomely manic nutjob (in the best possible way).
― sleeve, Sunday, 24 November 2013 06:30 (ten years ago) link
aeoliah looks like if george michael were the leader of a suicide cult, writing hymns to himself on his zither and boffing teenage girls.
― the haxan 5 (get bent), Sunday, 24 November 2013 06:39 (ten years ago) link
due to this thread, i have dug this out of the archive ..
http://www.discogs.com/Charly-McLion-The-Nature-Of-The-Universe/release/41604
i think the cover says it all really.
gorgeous stuff for a hangover session.
― mark e, Sunday, 24 November 2013 11:51 (ten years ago) link
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-_uQ679Lm3rs/TfQtLWTy4TI/AAAAAAAAFbY/lKL-39Javsc/s1600/Henry%2BWolff%2B%2526%2BNancy%2BHennings%2B%25E2%2580%2593%2BTibetan%2BBells%2BII%2B-.jpg
― clouds, Sunday, 24 November 2013 13:56 (ten years ago) link
Part of me felt hennings/wolff were missing from IATC. The four records in that series are great. (The one with Mickey Hart is ok too, I should listen to it again, and the last of the four where they get more into electronic processing threw me at first but i love it now). Their sound is a lot more intense and sharp than a lot of the other stuff on the compilation (active meditation music as opposed to restful) so it might have been difficult to find a spot for them that didn't wreck the flow.
― Milton Parker, Sunday, 24 November 2013 21:23 (ten years ago) link
xp title looks like "tibetan bullshit"
― spacemindy, Sunday, 24 November 2013 22:09 (ten years ago) link
isn't the thing abt Hennings/Wolf that Antilles (that's the one I have) doesn't qualify as "private press"? it's outside the remit of the comp.
― sleeve, Sunday, 24 November 2013 23:22 (ten years ago) link
I misremembered the first one as being indie, but even that one was Island, so you're absolutely right.
― Milton Parker, Sunday, 24 November 2013 23:26 (ten years ago) link
ok starting to better understand the emerald web reissue. it's kind of all over the place, but i like it. i really like the incongruous chillwave-y track ("ars nova") and i like songs like "dragons gate" that do the stiff and chilly john carpenter electro thing. and the exotica tracks are good too. still getting into the second half.
― the late great, Wednesday, 27 November 2013 18:17 (ten years ago) link
I didn't see any mentions of the VERY VERY EXCELLENT Iasos comp Numero put out anywhere on this thread; it's not as good as that unbelievable LITA genre comp but it's pretty goddamn choice
http://open.spotify.com/album/4teQ1kGvpBu2cxPc4xo9Kh
― a duiving caTCH, a stuolllen bayeeeess (jamescobo), Monday, 2 December 2013 04:00 (ten years ago) link
oh yeah, iasos is fantastic. youtube has a 1979 documentary he did where he's a total sausalito space-hippie talking about third eyes and multidimensionality and stuff.
― lime pickle (get bent), Monday, 2 December 2013 04:08 (ten years ago) link
this japanese import is worth a go if you can find it
http://www.emrecords.net/records/00065.html
― the late great, Monday, 2 December 2013 06:31 (ten years ago) link
& if you can't it's on spotify...
― ogmor, Monday, 2 December 2013 13:49 (ten years ago) link
Only (very minor) complaint: the track-by-track liner notes are good (not great - serious dearth of info re: what instruments were used, etc) but was surprised by the lack of overarching introductory material; the booklet just sorta dives right into the profiles. I guess I'm used to comps like Nigeria Special and stuff, which frame the music in historical context, but I realize, of course, that's much easier to do when you're dealing with a mere decade of highlife and juju produced by a single region.Guess what I'm saying is I'd v happily read a book about this stuff.― Jimmywine Dyspeptic, Wednesday, November 20, 2013 7:23 AM (2 weeks ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalinkme too, the profiles were pretty interesting! now that you mention it a bit more gear talk would have been nice.― sleeve, Wednesday, November 20, 2013 7:24 AM (2 weeks ago)
Guess what I'm saying is I'd v happily read a book about this stuff.
― Jimmywine Dyspeptic, Wednesday, November 20, 2013 7:23 AM (2 weeks ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
me too, the profiles were pretty interesting! now that you mention it a bit more gear talk would have been nice.
― sleeve, Wednesday, November 20, 2013 7:24 AM (2 weeks ago)
So finally got IATC the other day and gave it a listen today -- truly lovely for all reasons described, etc. I mentioned it on Twitter and tagged Douglas McGowan, the compiler/liner note writer aka the guy behind Yoga Records, and mentioned how I enjoyed that the liner notes weren't exhaustive/specific a la Numero's approach but more impressionistic. His response:
The concept was that the notes are for people 100 years from now, which changes what you write about rather a lot.
I actually like that! Given he links just about all the artists via their own webpages it's not like he doesn't give you further spots to investigate.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 9 December 2013 03:41 (ten years ago) link
Ha! Well, now that I know it's conceptual, I don't mind as much. Seriously though, I'm not sure I've played a single compilation this much since, err, DGC Rarities. Aside from maybe one or two tracks, this thing is perfect for pretty much every mood. Maybe I'm just getting mellow?
Bought the Laraaji comps, haven't listened yet. The 'bargain basement trip hop' thing the late great mentions upthread is a little scary.
― Jimmywine Dyspeptic, Monday, 9 December 2013 05:27 (ten years ago) link
last track on the second disc = all time greatest music ever
― the Shearer of simulated snowsex etc. (Dwight Yorke), Monday, 9 December 2013 08:09 (ten years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/v8UuA5c.jpg
Another precious find from Andy Votel’s impeccable Dead-Cert imprint, Kat Epple & Bob Stohl made music for Carl Sagan, composed sound pieces for Planetariums and scored nature documentaries in the early 80’s. Most of their recordings were only ever released on private edition tape, with this selection hand-picked by Andy Votel, remastered and cut by Matt Colton and available on vinyl for the first time ever. Operating in Florida from 1978 until Bob’s untimely passing in 1989 at the age of 34, the husband/wife duo were among the first to blend synthesisers and acoustic instrumentation in a home studio equipped with a variety of early synths and instruments. As lovers and collaborators, the couple created a rich and vivid parallel dimension of new age music borne from the ‘70s prog scene and probably best referred to as “Space Music”. Throughout their unfortunately curtailed career the couple earned a noble crust creating music and mood-pieces for nature programmes, most notably for the legendary Sagan, under the Emerald Web aegis (expect to hear more of this on Finders Keepers later on this year) while continuing to issue numerous tapes to friends and fellow musicians. Following contact with Kat Epple - who still plays concerts at venues ranging from MoMA to Ground Zero - Dead-Cert were made privy to Kat and Bob’s private tapes, drawing for five pieces ranging from brooding deep space scapes to shimmering, gaseous sonics and impressionistic sound murals streaked with progressive traits and an alien, yet pastoral nature. Recorded using an Arp 2600, Mini Moog, EML Synkey, Roland RS202 String Ensemble and Electro-Harmonix Vocoder, plus a range of woodwind (both Kat and Bob were trained flautists, making colourful use of Bill Bernardi’s innovative Lyricon I, a hybrid flute/synthesiser) with some guitar assists here and there by friend and co-composer, Barry Cleveland. Their music is rich and unapolagetically tethered to the Space-Age iconography of their age, the result being a warm and often highly unusual hybrid of Kosmische and Prog signatures, quite distinct from the more austere variants more recently associated with the era.
― karl...arlk...rlka...lkar..., Friday, 31 January 2014 18:30 (ten years ago) link
flute synth!
http://www.dominicsmusic.com/photosdm/5178.jpg
― karl...arlk...rlka...lkar..., Friday, 31 January 2014 18:31 (ten years ago) link
nature documentaries! does anyone know the names of these documentaries or if they're available?
― mambo jumbo (La Lechera), Friday, 31 January 2014 18:32 (ten years ago) link
fantastic news ... but no CD reissue? ;_;
― the late great, Friday, 31 January 2014 18:52 (ten years ago) link
omg link to buy please
― Jimmywine Dyspeptic, Friday, 31 January 2014 23:12 (ten years ago) link
Finders Keepers put it out, right? It was discussed upthread unless I am missing something
― sleeve, Friday, 31 January 2014 23:14 (ten years ago) link
not finders keepers, dead-cert
― the late great, Friday, 31 January 2014 23:26 (ten years ago) link
and it came out last June and appears to now be oop. Dammit. Why would something like this be limited to a mere 700 copies? Nevermind, I know why.
― Jimmywine Dyspeptic, Friday, 31 January 2014 23:37 (ten years ago) link
daryl groetsch has gotta be my fave of the newer artists working in this mode:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=voDyboR8Ejc
― original bgm, Friday, 21 November 2014 21:44 (nine years ago) link
^^
Seems to have quite an extensive back catalogue.
Which one(s) do you recommend checking out first?
― groovypanda, Wednesday, 3 December 2014 09:11 (nine years ago) link
aaah, sorry. just getting to this!
forest, mountain, valley is a personal favorite, extremely beautiful:https://pulseemitter.bandcamp.com/album/forest-mountain-valley
the meditative music series is also quite good, particularly #3 & 4. I don't meditate but often put them on while sleeping or if I'm just a little anxious or overwhelmed. they really are relaxing.
and speaking of which, the planetary scale synth hypnosis compilation is also very well curated and includes excerpts from the meditative music albums, amongst many other things.
― original bgm, Monday, 8 December 2014 05:47 (nine years ago) link
alan i've been going through hiroshi yoshimura's discography since you recommended him, he's so wonderful
― (曇り) (clouds), Monday, 8 December 2014 06:21 (nine years ago) link
oh, awesome!
yeah, he's great. have you heard anything past flora 1987? haven't been able to track anything down myself. particularly curious about koto vortex 1
― original bgm, Monday, 8 December 2014 06:36 (nine years ago) link
no, flora is the latest one i've found so far.
― (曇り) (clouds), Monday, 8 December 2014 06:51 (nine years ago) link
ah well
― original bgm, Monday, 8 December 2014 06:54 (nine years ago) link
Holy smokes, this Jordan de la Sierra record is the greatest thing:
http://www.numerogroup.com/products/jordan-de-la-sierra-gymnosphere-song-of-the-rose
― Ottbot jr (NickB), Friday, 2 January 2015 20:45 (nine years ago) link
looooooong cosmically-inclined reverb-heavy piano pieces that are positively satie-esque in their simple beauty
― Ottbot jr (NickB), Friday, 2 January 2015 20:47 (nine years ago) link
― (曇り) (clouds), Sunday, December 7, 2014 10:21 PM (3 weeks ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― (⊙_⊙?) (Alan N), Sunday, December 7, 2014 10:36 PM (3 weeks ago)
hey I missed this post, Alan I have Koto Vortex II and it is beautiful/amazing, PM me if you want a rip or something
― some kind of terrible IDM with guitars (sleeve), Friday, 2 January 2015 21:49 (nine years ago) link
:D
― original bgm, Saturday, 3 January 2015 06:40 (nine years ago) link
had a heavy new age phase about 6 months ago. really want to get as much of the good '70s/'80s stuff as possible – any recommendations for best way to go about completing that?
― soyrev, Saturday, 3 January 2015 14:33 (nine years ago) link
http://www.factmag.com/2015/01/03/hear-extracts-from-a-long-lost-12-hour-private-soundtrack-by-vangelis/
These new clips from Vangelis, quick ticket to transcendence
― fgti, Saturday, 3 January 2015 15:57 (nine years ago) link