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Carbon Based Lifeforms - Hydroponic Garden

 

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Artist: Carbon Based Lifeforms

Title: Hydroponic Garden

Label: Ultimae

Date: 2003

 

Track listing:

 

01. Central Plains

02. Tensor

03. Mos 6581 (Album Version)

04. Silent Running

05. Neurotransmitter

06. Hydroponic Garden

07. Exosphere

08. Comsat

09. Epicentre (First Movement)

10. Artificial Island

11. Refraction

 

Review:

 

A very good first album including very fresh tones, which is a good news

currently with the dogs days in Europe.

 

As refreshing and as tasty as a daiquiri, Hydroponic Garden is the must-have

trance/chill-out album either for bringing with you in hollydays or for those

who want to travelling without moving from their home through the 11 softfull

sonic journeys proposed by the 2 swedish guys (Johannes Hedberd & Daniel

Ringstrom) from Carbon Based Lifeforms.

 

Highlighted destinations :2,3,6,9,11.

Mark:9/10

 

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What an opening- I recommend to leave a few candles in the room, turn off the

light and turn up the volume- like crossing an unseen curtain to another

dimension- foo! And on the other side awaits you a mellow alien atmosphere,

which oozes out of this piece of plastic. You just cross and start your

journey. And do not worry if it is a hot day, because here it's chilled,

almost physically chilled, everything here is blue and aquatic, watery, it's

dripping! Wonder around through the soundscapes and you'll discover weird and

beautiful places and creatures- it's all there in your mind, and here's the

music to extract it out.

I just love this beautiful album of this Swedish duo. It's very relaxing, very

emotional, very musical- almost visual, yet very powerful. These guys now how

to create music and sounds that really touch you inside. And when your music

has a strong feeling in it, when it can really touch something inside, it's

there to stay. And I know that this is an album that is gonna stay with me for

long. I will listen to it in times I'll feel like immersing myself in sounds

that paints another world, in times I'll need to chill or cool down, in times

I want to feel.

 

Bottom Line: Feel the chill! My best chill album of the summer, so far.

Favorites: 1(!!!), 2, 3(!), 4, 8, 9, 10(!), 11.

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CARBON BASED LIFEFORMS - HYDROPHONIC GARDEN

2003

ULTIMAE RECORDS

 

1. CENTRAL PLAINS

2. TENSOR

3. MOS 6581

4. SILENT RUNNING

5. NEUROTRANSMITTER

6. HYDROPHONIC GARDEN

7. EXOSPHERE

8. COMSAT

9. EPICENTRE

10.ARTIFICIAL ISLAND

11.REFRACTION

 

This brilliant album was released last year and it is by any means one of the best ambient albums from last year. It has really soothing melodies, smooth structures and overall very peaceful feeling. I like all songs on the album. I won't go song by song cause there isn't so much to describe. They all sound very crisp with immense production. Crystal clear sounds and effects make this album a pure bliss. It is the best for chill outs after parties or for early mornings. Get it if you like your brain to float and travel in infinite spaces. Best on album : CENTRAL PLAINS ( ! ), NEUROTRANSMITTER, HYDROPHONIC GARDEN ( ! ), EXOSPHERE ( ! ), ARTIFICIAL ISLAND...10/10

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CARBON BASED LIFEFORMS - HYDROPHONIC GARDEN

2003

ULTIMAE RECORDS

 

1. CENTRAL PLAINS

2. TENSOR

3. MOS 6581

4. SILENT RUNNING

5. NEUROTRANSMITTER

6. HYDROPHONIC GARDEN

7. EXOSPHERE

8. COMSAT

9. EPICENTRE

10.ARTIFICIAL ISLAND

11.REFRACTION

 

This brilliant album was released last year and it is by any means one of the best ambient albums from last year. It has really soothing melodies, smooth structures and overall very peaceful feeling. I like all songs on the album. I won't go song by song cause there isn't so much to describe. They all sound very crisp with immense production. Crystal clear sounds and effects make this album a pure bliss. It is the best for chill outs after parties or for early mornings. Get it if you like your brain to float and travel in infinite spaces. Best on album : CENTRAL PLAINS ( ! ), NEUROTRANSMITTER, HYDROPHONIC GARDEN ( ! ), EXOSPHERE ( ! ), ARTIFICIAL ISLAND...10/10

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The Debut album from Johannes Hedberg & Daniel Ringström AKA CARBON BASED LIFEFORM is not only The best ambient album (Awarded in many reviews troughout the Internet and Mags) of 2003 but i guess from the last 2 or 3 Years.

It has some quite simple formula.IT sooths the soul.the tracks have only what they need to function giving it the genious formula to touch us deep.Less shaping and more into slow Rythms but with some very nice melodic parts.

Tracks to remember. MOS 6581 is probably on my all time top 10 on ambient.Trully remarkable. CENTRAL PLAINS , NEUROTRANSMITER ...

Try to sleep on it.every track has it's own message and every one is a good one.

If you like i recommend their DEMO album called "The Path".

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not my style sorry... it's to minimal for me  :(

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This is too minimal and Dark Zoo is not ? :huh:

 

 

ah man... i love this CD!

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But of course, you are sensible person ! ;)

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This is too minimal and Dark Zoo is not ?  :huh:

 

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woooooooow but there's a difference between minimal ambient that almost has no bass line and minimal psy where you can count on the bassline...

 

admit ;)

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CBL is probably one of the best ambient psy acts out there these days for me ears... just love these cats and this album is great proof of it...

 

rain get wax of yer ears... smoke a spliff (king size if necesary) and give it another wirl... ;)

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I second everybody's praising.

 

For me Hydroponic Garden is without doubt the BEST psychedelic ambient album EVER!

Many other Ultimae releases come close, but this one is the best. Not even the second one from CBL themselves could exceed it - although that one too is brillant. Song-by-song review is unnecessary in this case because every song on Hydroponic Garden is brillant and they're also brilliantly blended into each other. I LOVE THIS ALBUM!

It deserves a solid 10/10 ... and that's a privilege I only give to a very, very few...

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Great album. Wonderful ambient album. I'm very pleased that CBL have the taste to avoid "laptop-ambient/glitch" which is so popular these days. Hydrophonic Garden harkens back to the days of Gas (Mat Jarvis), Higher Intelligence Agency and Global Communication, and all those other wonderful ambient trance/techno albums from the mid-90s. Hydrophonic Garden is a tad repetitive, but the generally good melodies (Comsat, MOS 6581) make up for it. Lovely vocals here and there as well. Very glad to have this in digipak!!

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Slow, moody, quality chill album.

 

Carbon Based LifeForms have a sound all their own.

 

I can see how some will be drawn into this while others won't give patience. Many thoughts seem to be provoked here even though it's generally slower than my preferred downtempo or chill album. I've only heard the samples. Based on those this is good music to close your eyes and meditate too. Good backround music and music to get lost into. The fewer instruments and layers work well creating and projecting feelings here.

 

Unfortunately it's unavailable!

 

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