Melancholyman

Trentemoller - Nightwalker

Evan Marc - Skyline Gonna give this album a second chance, but I fear...it's gonna SUCK

IM - Elation Station

IM - Avratz

Colourform - Visions Of Surya

IM - Echonomix

Atrium Carceri - Torn Citadel Of The Autarch

thx

A vicious delicious desease*?

Yes it sucks indeed

Carbon Based Lifeforms - Mos 1388 (can't remember number) ' so FUCKING beautiful...

Masterfully produced, it's obvious the artist has put down ALOT of work into this one. Some of the tracks are just amazing with great melodies. But half of the album feels kinda dull. Need more listens though.And an extra + to the dorky opening, just hilarious, even if not intended :posford:

Solar Fields - On a Wind

Check out the official site here http://www.v-i-r-t-u-a-l-w-o-r-l-d.com/ Here's a preview! Demo Sample!

Atrium Carceri - Enclosed World Liberation

After more listens I agree that the fast paced lightly bassed first tracks do get really annoying Sometimes as when wanting to lsiten to ambient they rae kinda disturbing, it's particularly third track the other works fine mostly..

I would say you're right but I don't think this is the case this time actually And yes I just wanted to put out a review out there. '(nobody reads the downtempo ones anyways )

Sun Control Species - Scienza Nuova!

Artist: I Awake Album: The Core Label: Ultimae Format: Deluxe Digipack Label release info: Stockholm based ambient downtempo producer Thomas Huttenlocher aka I AWAKE follows up his digital Ep release [ Birth ] with a full length album [ The Core ] out late April. Built as a journey of audio neural beauty through organic microcosms, electronic vortexes, deep, tribal beats and vast soundscapes, the album takes us on a pilgrimage of sounds, with scents of parallel lives, glimpses of the future and overlapping, coexisting dimensions. A superfine blend of psychedelic spurs, groovy bass lines and catchy melodies composed with the collaboration of Krister Linder, Fredrik Lundberg, Tara Avi and Planet Boelex. As a film soundtrack producer, I AWAKE is one of the key figures of Ghostfriend, a Swedish underground movement of creators with a "peculiar devotion to the present and strong love for the innermost". For the first time in Ultimae's history of releases, the artwork was created by famous digital artist and designer David Vineïs aka Sub88. Tracklisting: 1.Complete Garden (Eternal forest edit) 2.Constellation of the Heart (native edit) 3.Neveritized 4.New Time Nomads (Bass edit) 5.Reclaim 6.Leaving the known (featuring Planet Boelex) 7.Unleashed 8.Rebreath 9.Journey 10.Inferno (featuring Krister Linder) 11.Reflecting Impulses 12.One 13."Hidden track" Review The first track “Complete Garden (eternal forest edit)” really lives up to it's name with a lot of animal and insect samples making you feel like you are sitting in the middle of the forest. This sounds a lot like something Matt Hillier would have produced and I even believe there are some sounds that he uses in some of his productions. If this track would be played among people not knowing who the artist is, I am sure many would have guessed Matt Hillier. It's almost like a rip-off but it's so well done that I cannot help but love it. The track name might be intentionally comic or not, but it only adds to the spice Moving on to “Constellation of the Heart (native edit)” A totally different track that starts off with a majority of electronic sounds only to later go into more natural sounds with drums and voice samples. The pace is a bit faster than previous track but works well. Third track “Nevertilized” starts smoothly mixed with the previous sample and adds some stronger (that I find rather annoying) voice samples. A rather dull, boring and uninspired track that leaves you mostly unaffected. Heading on to “New Time Nomads (bass edit)” we continue from previous track and smoothly as I hear it a guitar is added, that makes a very catchy sound. Voice samples are still used but this time heavily mixed to sound more electronic which suits the style of music much better. These latest three tracks has a rather “earthly” feel about them. I cannot help but feel that “Reclaim” and “Leaving the known” are just filling out the gap before heading into newer territory. Good tracks in their own right but they sound too much alike the 2 previous ones. These tracks might sound much better if listened just on occasion without the others before them. “Unleashed” is a very pleasant track with guitar though keeping it on the low side so it doesn't take over the track. The guitar still manages to give a very pleasant melody. This is another of the more outstanding tracks that really keeps it's own style. Just wish there were more tracks like this one. It's also a bit melancholic. With this track the album also takes on a new course towards a different sounds, the tracks 3-6 were almost identical with smaller variations. Take a deep breath and then “Rebreath” (fucker) and dive into another uninspired track. Regular downtempo stuff, some beats, small twists, Some strange voice sample sounding blurry as you are prolly on shrooms or acid when listening The ending of the track is nice though. Most of you should be familiar with the track “Journey” since it was released for free promoting the album by Ultimae. A great track indeed with it's very own style though not in the “Ultimae” sound. This track sounds so different from some of the previous ones and this makes the album not retaining any overall feel. Hopefully the next album will be more focused on these great original tracks and keeping a sense of the artists soul throughout the album. “Inferno” sounds somewhat like the earlier tracks but this time it's very well made with engaging voice samples, melodies and sounds. “Reflecting Impulses” is a nice track with vibrating sounds and a rather spacey feel about it. Great! Original aswell. "One" that previously was the opening track now has become the ending tracks and works great as such! These original tracks really shows what this artist is capable off and suits the album name and cover art very well. We can only hope the next album will be more cohesive and has a more individual touch to it like these few but great tracks. The “Hidden track” you will have to find out for yourself! Buy the album! The album has a great opening just to dive into a more dull and boring state and to end magnificently. It's masterfully produced and mastered/mixed so the feel of high quality is always present. There is a bit too many fillers in the album and also the artist doesn't seem to really know where he want to lead the listener. It becomes more as a set of nicely together weaved tracks that don't really have that much in common. I awake needs to find his own style and really dive into and experiment there. As for now he has some great unique tracks. But many of them are way too influenced from other artists in the genre or just tracks with lack of artistic sense. A lack of individuality as to say. Having this said this is by no means a bad album, and it has it's rightfull place in any downtempo fanatics collection. Far from essential though. And by Ultimae's standards we could demand more. It might sound in the review as a bad album but the great tracks I haven't taken the time to describe so much, find out for yourself!

At first I thought it was kinda dull and boring, but also I wasn't in the mood for that kind of music right then, after now 4 listens I say it's very solid downtempo. There are some outstanders but mostly it's nothing mindblowing, great album anyways.

IM - Bust A Move

Out NOW! also it's supposed to be "I awake - The Core" sry for this misunderstanding...

I awake- Reclaim

Hehe, I thought the same but I like it, it's obvious that it's made from a comic perspective. Also the "self, or other selves" sounds so cliché....but in a good sense. I remember when just starting listening to psymusic and I thought all them samples were so cool, and we were always quoting different samples among friends. It gives me some kind of nostalgic comic feeling. I can though perfectly understand a person finding it dorky in a bad way...

Distant System - Spiral Empire