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Shpongle - ...and the day turned to night

I've not heard String Theories yet but based on the strength of this album & Bluetech's work I'd love to hear some music from them both. That CD is on my ever growing wantlist!

2007 Spielerei & Mantacoup - Cold War Asura - Life² Sync24 - Source 2006 Rena Jones - Driftwood Carbon Based Lifeforms - World of Sleepers Jikkenteki - The Long Walk Home CD1 V/A - Oxycanta

Spielerei & Mantacoup - After the Shockwave

Mutagene - Sleeping Possession

Steve Roach - Labyrinth

Nice pics Pix! Especially like the cows

Tom Heasley Desert Triptych Farfield Records 2005 Tracklist 1 Joshua Tree (16:51) 2 Solitude (28:24) 3 29 Palms (21:25) Ambient with didjeridu? That doesn't sound like my cup of tea! I've never really enjoyed the didjeridu, it's not very musical & it can be loud & annoying if played badly which it seems every seems to do! In this album though the didjeridu is used very well. It's subtle for the most part & generally acts as a drone mixing in well with the other sounds like that of the wind & wails & voices from the ether. 1. Joshua Tree Imagine standing in an Australian desert at night. In the distance up ahead you can hear the slow drone of a didjeridu, above you the sky is clear except for a few wisps of cloud. The Moon is bright & gives everything an eerie glow. It's cold and there are no other people for miles & miles. In the distance behind you, you can hear the howling of a lone wolf, at least you hope it's a wolf. It morphs slowly into something more. Bigger & more powerful than any mere beast. Still it poses no immediate danger & I don't know whether to lie down & relax or be wary of the darkness. 2. Solitude The didjeridu is suddenly much closer. All the sounds are. Solitude feels lonely yet at peace with itself & with all the elements around it. Ethereal voices speak to each other pan-dimensionally & in my solitude out here I can eavesdrop on their conversation. The meaning though is incomprehensible to me as my mind is to limited to understand. Still it's a nice feeling to hear it. I lie back & watch the stars, from here the sky is full of stars, each one filled with promise & expectation. It's breathtaking. The start of the track carries on the cold feeling of Joshua Tree but it progressively gets warmer until it has a nice warm summer evening feel, but still in the middle of nowhere. 3. 29 Psalms Again the didjeridu sounds closer still & more real. There is more of a human element at first with someone crying from the darkness making this feel more earthy. The cries are carried on the wind from a location near by but I can not find it. I search & search through the track to find the humanity I can sense. Towards the end I find the settlement but it's humanity has been stripped. I'm alone again, stood in the middle of this town in the middle of the desert wondering where everyone has gone & where the sounds came from. Slowly, very slowly even the sounds disappear & I am left in silence, truly alone. Well, I don't think this is going to make me a fan of the didjeridu but it has definitely shown me that it can be played well. For the rest, it is immaculately produced & arranged and it reallybuilds nice atmospheres and conjures up images of the desert in your mind!

Tom Heasley - Solitude Out in the desert at night on a clear night watching the stars!

Spielerei & Mantacoup Cold War Silentes July 2007 Tracklist 1 Where It All Ends (8:42) 2 Cuba Crisis (4:18) 3 Pigs Bay (5:14) 4 Meanwhile In Moscow (6:12) 5 Entering The Nuclear Zone (7:20) 6 Between Hope And Fear (9:40) 7 After The Shockwave (12:28) This was a surprise. From a shipment I got of experimental ambient CDs to get such a deep, cold, dark album with the energy to be played as interesting background music but also to be enthralling when focussed upon. It's cold, dark & bleak music but has enough to make it not just for fans of Dark Ambient. 1. Where It All Ends Starts with big atmospheric drones rushing down & a vocal from a NASA spy program or something similar. A soft dark paranoid atmosphere barely lightened by the wet pads. The whispered samples sound like they should be loud & they reek with importance. A very nice trick putting something so important right in the background. The beats come in & drive you attention in a positive way but always underlying is the dark coldness of the bleakness of life. 2. Cuba Crisis More samples from a paranoid America really set a dark depressed atmosphere. The wave like synths early on suggest an island and the heavy beats through out suggest an industrial city. Industrial ambient cut of from the rest of the world by a cold ocean. Could this represent the nuclear industry in Cuba or just America's paranoia to that effect, the music suggest the latter. 3. Pigs Bay A soft but military intro, tiny marching beats & a missable cold war spiel. Russian samples sound intriguing as I have no idea what is being said. The beats an d the melody are conflicting, harshness & softness. The harsh beats take the soft melody & toughen it up like a new recruit & turn it into some twisted fucked up shit that annoys everybody. thankfully it's killed off quickly! 4. Meanwhile In Moscow They have some anarchistic people but they are quickly brought into line. The disorderly elements are given a dressing down & we end up with a more minimal, more effective streamlined power. The first noticeable baseline (bloody brilliant one at that) gives this a righteous edge that previous tracks lacked. With an industrial sound more powerful than the previous ones managed. 5. Entering The Nuclear Zone A cold desolate place, the wind is all we hear. The sound of lost industrial terror with dark ruined objects being carried here and there on the nuclear wind. As the wind picks up so does the amount of debris carried on it. It brings a slight melody but is it clean or toxic? The speed at which it breaks down suggest it is nuclear waste so a high influx is quite welcome. 6. Between Hope & Fear An irregular beat & an irregular melody from the darkness both sound like hopeless hope from an uncertain future. This track oozes dark, bleak despair but offers hope at every turn. Of each turn of hope though, fear & despair grab at my boot heels & try to pull me down. The beats pull down, the piano pulls down, the drone pulls down & there is no hope left, only fear until out of nowhere comes our saviour. A melody almost lost in the sea of negativity but bright & sharp enough to push up with new life. An acorn sprouts from the earth & tries to grow, just to chopped down by a nuclear fallout, never to stand tall! 7. After The Shockwave Something is trying to grow in the wasteland. Something from nothing but still the nuclear wind tries to destroy everything that might be. Can anything prevail after the nuclear winter has descended? Still, something wants to grow but it's not organic. Industrial growth is all that prevails & it needs no organic help. The nuclear winds have stripped the earth of it's weak organisms & left it with only machines that have a strong desire to survive. They picked up on our final wishes, our desire to continue our life no matter the cost. But with no human life left it's up to our technology to survive, rebuild, evolve & fight each other. A cold dead world alive with nothing but the shadow of mankind. This is all that is left after mankind's need to protect itself. This album is about the cold war but the message is not about the official dates of the cold war. The first half sounds like what has already taken place & what is happening now but the latter half sounds like the future of our planet should we let our (cold) wars to continue. It's a dark, bleak album with a lot of soul.

Spielerei & Mantacoup - After the Shockwave A cold dead world alive with nothing but the shadow of mankind.

Spielerei & Mantacoup - Meanwhile in Moscow Standing in the early morning in a small town that has been destroyed by a nuclear fallout! Watching the nothing that is left of the society & feeling the cold wind strip the skin off my face! (well I don't really want that to happen but it's just the feeling I get from the track )

Did that last week! it was PERFECT np The Infinity Project - Flying. Would love to be floating high among the clouds listening to this

The Infinity Project Mystical Experiences Blue Room Released 1995 Re-released on TIP.World as a 2CD with Mystery of the Yeti in 2004 Tracklist 01. When Sound Becomes Clear 6:14 02. Mystical Experiences 10:34 03. The Answer 10:35 04. High Insert 0:06 05. Mortioso 4:54 06. Flute Line 2:21 07. Flying 6:21 08. Blue Aura 3:19 09. Alien Patrol 6:24 10. Under The Overtones 19:58 11. Blue Aura (Weird Meeting) 2:38 It's difficult for me to agree with the oldschool freaks who spout that only pre millennium music is worth it & all post millennium music is awful, as so many of my favourites are post millennium. There are some albums though that shake that conviction. This album is not only a piece of psychedelic ambient history it's also an album that remains an enthralling spacial journey through the stars, beyond the planets & into the mind. Every time I listen to this the better it sounds & the more I lister the deeper it goes. I'm not sure that if one day it will stop getting better but with close to 100 listens both awake & in dreamland these mystical experiences still get better & better. The time of writing this review was the best yet & I'm sure it will get even better. 1. When Sound Becomes Colour Slow launch sequence chatter & the beats to match. There is no lift off but such alien voices have already surrounded us & even the human voices seem distant & incomprehensible. This is an amazing intro that manages to instantly transport the listener to a far away galaxy, around a planet of ultimate beauty & splendor. Amazing stuff. 2. Mystical Experiences Wherever I was on the alien planet I've been transported into another dimension. The same physical space but shifted along slightly so that everything seems the same but different. Soft beats & heavy stabs. Very alien singing can't be tribal it feels so other worldly, or do they? Hard to tell they're so twisted. No me, no you, no nothing. Exactly! You can easily get lost in this track, everything can drive you deeper in this track. A tune so psychedelic that there are no psychedelics needed for it to take you away past your outer limits & into the outer reaches of your unimaginable imagination. 3. The Answer One of the best tracks ever created. I once fell asleep & was lucky enough to wake up to this track. In the world between consciousness & dreams this crept. This oozes ancientness, everything about it feels like some alien relic from billions of years ago. Like a piece of music from a distant galaxy that's been travelling through the emptiness of space to our tiny planet. It had been drifting for centuries through the inner solar system so how long has it been since it's source? This could be from a civilisation from way before our reckoning. This is one of the spaciest tracks I've ever heard. It conjures up vast empty spaces as well as intricate inner thoughts. The simple melody barely changes for 7 minutes but when it does it gives out a rush of emotions. Suddenly the floating is flying as we enter the Earth's atmosphere. The flutes try to bring us down to Earth but just in fact lift us higher, never landing. This track will never land. In this moment I knew the answer but as it ended it escaped me once again. 4. High Insert It's 6 seconds long, what can you say? It's high among the sky! 5. Morfioso It seems to me that this track was way ahead of it's time. The beats are reminiscent of trip hop some years later. The ambience & melody were many years ahead of the creation. Morfioso manages to sound like a 2005 piece of space ambient with that early nineties psychedelic edge. Well, it is a track from the early 90's but the production is so neat. Re-masters of albums don't sound as different from their time as this does. A classic pioneering trendsetter. 6. Flute Line Well, it has flutes & spacey ambience. That's it but it does manage to create a really amazing atmosphere. It's only 2 minutes long but it could be much longer. Dense. 7. Flying Very earthy yet free. This track is high among the sky. We are in the Earth but not on the Earth. Very much up among the clouds! A soft floating feeling on the smooth cool northern breeze. As it picks up pace it starts to feel like falling but falling upwards. Now we really are high among the sky. Amazing atmosphere! 8. Blue Aura I saw a real alien, with a blue aura! Repeat this over and over again & you'll sound like a sci fi nut job put repeat it over a tripped out alienesque atmosphere from the outer reaches of space and you have a damn nice ambient track. 9. Alien Patrol A very apt track title. I'm instantly put in mind of a small alien spacecraft scouting out an enemy base in the dark of the night. The atmosphere is one of dark, active swiftness. It moves about a lot but it has a definite objective that it must achieve. 10. Under the Overtones This is almost an album unto itself. The Beatles - A Hard Days Night is only 10 minutes longer and not half as psychedelic or as good as this. But probably more catchy. This is of course in no hurry to get anywhere & it takes it's time doing anything. This is a really good thing as it has the time to explore tribal sounds, natural sounds, spacey sounds, secret sounds & a mysterious undercurrent. It builds & builds & builds but does so gradually so stays interesting through it's 20 minute duration. The atmosphere shifts from dark to spacey to vast to light to earthed electricity to night time festivities that are drawing to a close. All the way through this oozes the sort of class that doesn't have a clue about reality. Great!! 11. Blue Aura (Weird Meeting) God damn crazy hicks always bring you out of your calm with their crazy rantings about being abducted. You can't believe the lonely drunken idiots with nothing better to do than make up stories. The music though leaves no doubters, this guy has definitely met a real alien, with a blue aura.

Various Artists The Mystery of the Yeti 2 TIP.World Released 1999 Tracklist 01. Process - Under Mount Kailash 16:45 02. Hallucinogen - The Herb Garden 14:37 03. Total Eclipse - Freefalling Upwards 15:21 04. Doof - High On Mount Kailash 13:26 After hearing the first Mystery of the Yeti album I must say I was a little over eager to hear the follow up. Due to my anticipation I was fully prepared to be let down by this album. I was not however prepared for it to be better that the first installment, but it is! Absolutely amazing! Instead of collaborating on every track each genious has written his own track under a general theme set down my the first album. The result is more individuality but the tracks manage to flow together as a cohesive journey just as well if not better than the first. This is a definite must in anyone's collection, really! Not just ambient fans but fans of music! This is the sort of album that can get you into downtempo music! Process - Under Mount Kailash This intros with a familiar drone from the first album, this really helps in setting the mood and I instantly feel like this is a continuation of the journey. Last time I had been dumped outside the mountain after being inside & now I feel like I'm in the middle of our world again surrounded by mystery & confusion. Big slow stabby beats give us a bit of order though & the random confusing part of the track gives way to a more structured if still rather random piece of music. Little stabs of melody come in & out & in & out again. The whole track leaves me with a sense of ordered chaos. Standing outside with my eyes closed listening as my imagination goes wild. When the flute comes in at the end it's transition is a little too sudden & it doesn't feel very connected to the rest of the track. Strange how the most structured part of a random track should be the least fitting. Hallucinogen - The Herb Garden Without a doubt, Hallucinogen's greatest track. This makes me think that Simon Posford should forget his upbeat stuff & concentrate on a full length, downbeat solo album. This track is way beyond anything on Twisted or The Lone Deranger & of course way beyond any of his disappointing compilations tracks after TLD. The utterly twisted vocal samples are his best to date. Very trippy and a focal point to fill the mind. The baseline, the beats, the melody and all the background cries add up to complete brilliance. The vocals are about finding the Yeti through trance but all the important parts are too distorted to follow. The effect is complete indulgence. My brain is torn apart trying to follow the music which involves some really nice acoustic guitars, and trying to understand the message about the Yeti.]The timing of the beats & the ambient parts and the vocal are just about as perfect as is the timing of the melodies & other sounds. This is a track that shows me just why Simon Posford is considered such a genious. His trance though for me just doesn't compare to his ambient. Total Eclipse - Freefalling Upwards The relaxed CD on Violent Relaxation was great but still nothing compared to this track. It not only has the shamanic feel previously felt in the Yeti chronicles but it also has that feeling of freefalling, upwards! Something I've obviously never done but have now managed to experience through music. Thank you Total Eclipse. The trip-a-long beats, the rising synth drones & every little sound add to an upward rushing feel but still feels grounded & earthy. It could be that while my body & vision are fixed firmly on the ground while my mind races higher & higher. The longer the track goes the more real the feeling feels. Just close your eyse & let your mind soar & you will rise above all your petty troubles into a world of enlightened bliss. It's a shame the track has to stop but Total Eclipse does it perfectly. Suddenly the movement stops & we are left with ambience. It feels like I've gone up & up & up into a big chamber filled with me but it slowly fills up with more & more souls it breaks releasing a familiar YETI drone as if I've broken through the top! Doof - High on Mount Kailash Standing on the top of the world has it's own atmosphere, even watching in silence is a feeling of disbelief at the incredibility of where you are & what you are seeing. Such wonderment always gives rise to fantasy & fantasy is what this track is brimming with. Any moment you can expect to see the Yeti from the corner of your eye but I'm afraid when you shift your focus on to it, it disappears from sight all together. When the music leaves & the darkness sets in it leaves a sense of bleakness, but a beautiful bleakness, like being all alone surrounded by God's work. When the baseline & vocals come in however it's almost eerie how such beautiful music can come from such bleakness. And in the midst of all this he stands, The Yeti! Finally after an epic journey, the enlightened stand before the shaman's god. He calls to me. The abominable snowman maybe uncaught, unspecified but not unhonored. We are here, we will honour him, we will praise the name Banjankri until we breathe no more. Doof has managed the perfect ending not only to this 4 part journey but to the 8 part journey that has been the Mystery of the Yeti.

Aes Dana - Memory Shell