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Artist: Ishq Title: Sama Label: Electronic Soundscapes Records Released: 10 September 2010 Style: Natural Ambient Tracklist 1 Intro (1:44) 2 Sama (10:00) 3 Vidya (9:22) 4 Energeia (4:01) 5 Elysian (7:11) 6 Urasvati (15:42) 7 Persia (6:47) 8 Path (3:14) 9 Mandala (12:13) How long have we been waiting for a new Ishq album? I mean Timelapse in Mercury was never intended as an Ishq album as it was in a completely different style and it just got labeled as Ishq as Matt Hillier never gave it an artist name. Similarly with the Ishq collaborations About Time with Pan Electric and Voice From Home with Steve Brand, they weren't Ishq albums like Orchid, they didn't have the Ishq feel that we know and love: that natural feeling, very organic with every element in harmony with each other as well as the listener. 9 years, it has been 9 years since Orchid was released on Dakini records and it has been 9 years without another album of that signature Ishq sound. With the Ishq moniker being bandied about so often in the interim but without actually having an album it became almost unbearable. It was only the strength of Orchid (& Fluid Earth on CD2) that made the wait somewhat bearable as I could always go back to that album and listen to it as if it was fresh. Being one of the most timeless albums I own helped a lot there. So with such huge expectations, how did the difficult second album hold up. I must say that it holds up very well against my expectations. It lacks the groundbreaking "Wow" factor of Orchid as it is similar in style to the album I have listened to countless times before but it is very good. The quality is very high, the tracks have not been rushed and you can feel the love and the attention to detail in them. The style is soft organice ambient with enough beats to give it rhythm and not just be floaty soundscapes with a tagline that says create your own adventure. This music would work well as background music, deep engrossing music or even enjoyable music for when not so esoteric loving people visit your home. The sounds of nature: weather, rivers, trees rustling etc mix excellently with more ethereal sounds giving an atmosphere like walking through a forest on a warm spring afternoon as the sun wanes in the sky and the shadows are long. The unreal inhabitants are out of sight now but you can feel them waking up and the energy of the place is charged with an unreal wonder. Meditate in an empty forest at the start of summer, make sure that you won't be disturbed and sit with this on good headphones. The experience feels like this album has been designed for it. It is naturally spiritual: like it has stumbled upon spirituality rather than having set out to achieve it. It's not as good as Orchid but then again not much is, it is however a highly enjoyable second album which will rank in my favourites come the end of the year.

Cheers! I will most likely be ordering this too

I already have both those albums That is in my wishlist. How does it compare to other Suns Of Arqa? I like them but their releases are hit and miss for me.

Will definitely be checking this out. His last album might not have been as good as his debut but it was still a good listen

But Asura varies the beats in his tracks I am liking this album, not every track is as good as I hoped but regenesis is one of the best tracks I have heard this year

But with no set limit the future possibilities are infinite, however with a limited release no matter what happens in the future the label has made a commitment to never release any more copies ever in the life of the universe. The reason why they use limited edition, I always thought it was because too many buyers procrastinate buying something so the profits don't come for a release in any decent amount of time. 2 CDs sold a week is not every retailers dream. So if they assume that a CD will only sell around 1000 copies anyway, why not put it as a limited edition, then the fans will mostly try and buy it quickly before it's too late. This way they can recoup the money on the release fairly quickly and have the funds for another release.

The new Androcell is a must have. I want that pretty soon. Just wondering what else to order with it

The new chill album by Electrypnose is pretty good. Definitely a grower. Solar Fields' 2 releases this year are pretty fantastic too. Tripswitch was OK David Abrgel - Reverse Universe although a little cheesy is one of my favourites of the year.

I haven't posted in 3 weeks and I am only 2 pages behind? Times really have changed ay? np CBL - Interloper awesome album

I've been pondering this. The cover seems to me a whole lot better than his last mega-collab album. How's the music?

Finally

BPC all the way. Blue Planet is a timesless classic that I have never gotten bored of and the release on DAT records recently while not quite in the same A+++ calibre was still pretty ace! BPC have also done some sublime chillout too (but then so has Total Eclipse )

Recently Tripswitch - Geometry Asura - 360 Artifakt & Poizon - Versus David Abrgel - Reverse Universe Crossing Mind - The Holographic Paradigm Electrypnose - Sweet Sadness Orthonorma - Time2wait Makyo - Visamaya Supercozi - Fruits From The Future

Brilliant! CAn't wait to get my grubby little hands on this one. I also think the cover is pretty nice

Atrium Carceri http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkcQpGhv5Os&feature=related http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TC-FMONcpmc&feature=related

Green Nuns Of The Revolution - Rock Bitch Mafia Pleiadians - Family Of Light Sandman - Witchcraft Sienis - From A Nutter Perspective Total Eclipse - Violent Relaxation Planet BEN - Trippy Future Garden Would probably be my favourite psy albums....of all of these I might say GNoTR is top of the list but then I am sure that I'll disagree with myself tomorrow.

Yesterday I played at our autumn live show at Sirocco! It was a much better night than the last few with a much better turnout on a holiday weekend rather than a regular weekend. Much fun, I got there late and only had time to eat a small bite before going on. I played a 2 hour glitchy IDM/Ambient set that went down a lot better than I was expecting. I was just thinking: fuck it, I'll play what I want. It was pretty cool even if the volume on the set I recorded fluctuates a bit too much. Download my set here Tracklist 1. Yasume - Rengoku (Condensed) 2. Autechre - Clipper 3. Legiac - Faex Decimae 4. Kattoo - Place 1 5. Hellfish - Turntable Savage 6. Correctional Facilities - Rock Parrot 7. Sandspider - Levchenko 8. Kettel - Mwoeb 9. Secede - Friday Fall 10. Kattoo - Place 8 11. Kettel - Kingscourt Imp 12. Nalepa - Porcelain 13. Subheim - Away 14. Altair - Outsider Looking In 15. Electrypnose - Neverending Story 16. Solar Fields - Staring Into The Nothingness 17. Aligning Minds - Tee-child 18. Aerostatic - Continuous 19. Sgnl_fltr - Limk 20. Autechre - Garbagemx36 21. Good Rester - Dark 22. Alexander Daf - One Point One It's a pretty random set but I think it was reflective of my recent mood and was generally well received so maybe not as random as I was hoping

I always dance right at the front, I am not a foot tapper! The fact is (well not a fact as this is my taste but as my taste is a fact as I am me and I know what my taste is so I can say that as my taste it is a fact but it is not objective and shouldn't be taken as a sweeping fact that is true for everyone) that Simon's music has gone downhill lately. I haven't heard anything under the Hallucinogen Moniker since TLD (which I didn't think was that good as it was too cheesy) that didn't make me groan. Well actually that's a lie, The Herb Garden & e were both fantastic but also both ambient tracks. His Shpongle stuff is still good but nothing like it was. Younger Brother has too many lyrics and those tracks just make me cry with the wasted space on the album. So he is a has-been (IMO) and I am sure for some people he is a never-had-been. If you think the recent output from Simon is great then I am happy for you, I never think that my taste is in anyway better than other people's but for me Simon has become a big disappointment and there are many other much better artists out there I'd rather spend my time on. One thing that does impress me about Simon though is that he does seem to be doing what he wants to do. That is another reason why I think he shouldn't bow to fan pressure and make a 3rd Hallucinogen album (he was obviously joking when he said that he would and he seemed to truly believe there would not be enough interest and therefore wouldn't have to do it), if he does do it just for the fans then it won't be something he has made for himself and will be all the weaker for it. He'll be thinking "what will go down well" and as soon as an artist starts thinking that; they are lost. Of course there is a decent chance I have no idea what I am talking about, just some fried brain on the internet with his own opinions in his own little world. Feel free to love SP like a god but I'll stick with Twisted, MOTY & e thanks.

I have been burned too many times by twisted in the last 5 or so years that I too would never buy blindly from them anymore. A shame; it's nice to see people's music evolve but when it devolves into what other people have done a thousand times before (and better) it's just doesn't sit well with me. I hope they are enjoying it and make new fans as well as they lost me with the majority of Last Days of Gravity and I am sure with a new member who is a singer this will not be something I'll be buying.

Cool, may order with the new Tripswitch

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