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	Steve Roach - Sigh of Ages (Projekt category) (Price: $13.99) Emotions quietly stir and resonate in this deeply self-reflective album exploring the terrain between melodic electronic/ambient and modern minimalism. These six pieces utilize gentle melody, harmony and sonic tonality to poignantly reflect upon the passage of time, life lived, lives passed and a time of renewal: a sigh of the ages expressed in sound... (more/buy)
	Byron Metcalf/ Dashmesh Khalsa/ Steve Roach - Dream Tracker (Steve Roach category) (Price: $13.99) A full-blown dreamtime alchemy of all the elements. The living, breathing percussion, didgeridoo and soundworlds are unified in a single purpose: to open to the door out of the ordinary world, initiating the listener into an empowered journey of infinite possibilities for spiritual rebirth, illumination, and transcendence... (more/buy)
	Chris Russell - Frozen (cdr) (Relaxed Machinery label) (Price: $9.99 cdr) Frozen recalls the stillness and silence of a winter snowfall transitioning into spring, celebrating the rebirth and renewal of life. Track listing: 01 aurora / 02 thaw / 03 time lost / 04 tundra / 05 numb / 06 frozen / 07 otzi / 08 slowly drifting... (more/buy)
	Bob Ohrum - Elevated (cdr) (Relaxed Machinery label) (Price: $9.99 cdr) Elevated is a journey through heartbreaking loss and the celebration of a spirit set free from a broken body. Track listing: 01 song for you (i’ll never forget) / 02 while they slept / 03 everytime i close my eyes / 04 elevated / 05 diwedd / 06 the wasteland... (more/buy)
	Steve Roach - Live at Grace Cathedral (Steve Roach category) (Price: $13.99 2cd) An essential live recording revealing a powerful moment in Steve\'s live performance history. An extended set of sacred sonic spaces and immersive atmospherics embrace the senses within the expanse of San Francisco\'s Grace Cathedral.... (more/buy)
	Robert Rich - Ylang (Robert Rich category) (Price: $13.99) Organic, lush and sensual, Robert Rich\'s first solo studio album in three years seductively blends languid polyrhythms with influences as diverse as South Indian Karnatic music, post-rock, jazz, and minimalism. Pushing the boundaries of Robert\'s melodic world-fusion vocabulary, such as on Seven Veils or Propagation, Ylang blends Rich's expressive steel guitar, shimmering organic electronics and yearning flute melodies with influences as diverse as south Indian Karnatic music, pulsing minimalism and pensive jazz; while its deconstructed drums and blurry guitar feedback might feel at home with Sigur Ros or Bark Psychosis... (more/buy)
	Jeff Pearce - Daylight Slowly (Hypnos section) (Price: $10.99) 2010 reissue of Pearce's first Hypnos album, out of print since 2002. Many Jeff Pearce listeners missed this original release, and may have wanted to catch up on this wonderful collection of early Jeff Pearce guitar ambience. Pearce has moved on to a more direct and musical (as opposed to ethereal and absctract) direction in recent years, and uses a Chapman Stick now rather than an electric guitar, so if you miss the earlier work in this style, give this a listen. We even replaced the old-fashioned Real Audio samples with ultra-modern new MP3 sample clips! Examples of praise for the first release: "Best of the year list." --Eric Meece, KKUP Radio --Vladimir Jovanovic, Inner Space Radio, Zagreb, Croatia --Scott Raymond (#1 ranking for the year), WVKR radio --Chuck VanZyl, Star's End Radio, WXPN, Philadelphia "Daylight Slowly, his latest solo album, is another deliciously slow, shimmeringly serene album of processed electric guitar. " --John Dilberto, Echoes Radio "The most "romantic" cd of Hypnos Label. Has a strange light and a sensation of time slow-down..." --Massimo Pavan, Italy... (more/buy)
	Oophoi - Whispers from the Noisy Void (Databloem category) (Price: $12.99) Re-mastered reissue of Oophoi's classic album. Compilation with tracks from Cryosphere, Lightnoise and World of Shadows Oophoi plays synths, samples, sampled voices, percussion, lap steel guitar, electronics.... (more/buy)
	Oophoi - The Dreaming of Shells (Databloem category) (Price: $12.99) Considered by many as one of Oophoi\'s best albums. Oophoi\'s The Dreaming of Shells is a breathtaking descent straight to an unknown chasm where small clouds of fine luminescent dust drift away, splitting obscure cold waters, swaying to the sound of cavernous tones... This is a submarine hidden chorus, an ode of sirens\'voices singing ageless chants... a rain of fragmented glittering particles brushing submerged walls, while golden refractions sleep buried in the fissures... The dreams of shells is a meeting with a resonating radiant world of its own, a long dive in apnea scattered with amazements. Oophoi plays synthesizer, electronics, flute (bamboo), percussion, performer (monochord, crystals), voice, singing bowls.... (more/buy)
	Steve Brand – Circular Scripture (cdr) (Relaxed Machinery category) (Price: $9.99 cdr) The first release by the new Relaxed Machinery label, available on CDR only through the Hypnos store. Steve Brand is an artist who has come on strong in a hurry, releasing a lot of great work on the Hypnos Secret Sounds label, AtmoWorks, and now Relaxed Machinery... (more/buy)
	Mystified - Primal Mystification (Ltd CDR) (Hypnos Secret Sounds section) (Price: $9.99, ltd cdr) Mystified is a pseudonym for Thomas Park, an ambient/electronic musician who lives in the midwestern USA. He's been prolific under the Mystified name as well as the Mister Vapor project, but this is his first release with Hypnos Secret Sounds. Most recently, Mystified has collaborated with Nunc Stans on a release "One Thousand Dreams" on the Dataobscura label, and he has previously collaborated with Robin Storey (Rapoon) and Nigel Ayers (Nocturnal Emissions). One of the things we enjoy at Hypnos is helping expose listeners to artists they may not have heard before, and that includes even artists whose work has been released widely on a variety of labels. The work of Mystified, while elsewhere working with more pronounced electronic rhythms, here emphasizes deep, slow-moving textures. Primal Mystification includes subtle and restrained percussive elements but is definite geared toward the listener who loves deep, thick drone work. Mystified himself says of this recording: "Primal Mystification emerged from drone sounds, similar to the way we humans emerged from the primordial ooze. Oscillating ambient bell washes were created using field recordings and mystical effect processes, and then simple rhythmic and melodic phrases evolved from the primal material. Sometimes there is a change or development in the rhythmic material, and always there are changes in the drones, behind, as they shift and flow. Primal Mystification is a musical union of form and formlessness." Track listing, with mp3 sample clips: 01 > massive turning > 14:58 > mp3 02 > departing certainty > 13:26 > mp3 03 > not knowing where > 10:30 > mp3 04 > back to the primal > 11:22 > mp3... (more/buy)
	The Winterhouse - Sanctuary (Blue Oasis/Dataobscura category) (Price: $13.99 cdr) Sanctuary, the third Winterhouse collaboration, will entrance with its deep, flowing textures and rich expressive details. The five long pieces seem to engage cinematically, drawing sonic vistas and sending the listener drifting on excursions of discovery. Rich drone bases overlaid with strings, grainy pads, subtle melodies, and sonic gems of many kinds.... (more/buy)
	Robert Davies - Terrestre (Blue Oasis/Dataobscura category) (Price: $13.99 cdr) Terrestre (of the Earth) is an interpretation of the myriad details of a dappled and intimate earthly landscape ... an understated set of pastoral meditations that reveal a very mature and consistent artistry.... (more/buy)
	The Circular Ruins - Invisible Cities (Blue Oasis/Dataobscura category) (Price: $13.99 cdr) A lush and addictive collection of ambient journeys and landscapes inspired by the incomparable novel Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino. These works exhibit the rich organic complexity, occasional curious rhythms, and deft developments we have come to expect from The Circular Ruins. This is music for sonic immersion ... and for the imagination... (more/buy)
	Mathias Grassow - Calibration (Databloem category) (Price: $13.99) Mathias Grassow strikes again with over an hour of a great atmospheric drone ambient, with an incredible deep mood... (more/buy)
	Mathias Grassow - Dissolution (Databloem category) (Price: $13.99) Reissue of long sold out, classic album from 1999. Re-mastered and re-designed. Mathias Grassow about this album : Dissolution is the ground, a below zero, where everything stands still for a while and the wheel of life stops for a moment. This work is my personal musical realization of the deepest night of the soul. It was made with electronic equipment and some streams of Bow-Chime, Up-Right, Glass-Harp... (more/buy)
	Mathias Grassow & Siegmar Fricke - Aurora (Databloem category) (Price: $13.99) A spacious adventure in 4 parts. Originally released as part of the Master of Ambience box set Basics by Mathias Grassow treated by Siegmar Fricke. Additional soundscapes, samples and organic analogue fields were added by Siegmar Fricke... (more/buy)
	Spielerei & Mantacoup - Wichman and Other Pieces (Databloem category) (Price: $13.99) The Wichman Concert recorded live on March 13 2004 at Theatre Graff Wichman in Huizen, Holland, as part of the Alfa Centauri EM Festival series. Last 4 tracks are studio works... (more/buy)
	Spielerei - Publix (Databloem category) (Price: $13.99) Spielerei has a major flair, which thankfully he shares with those who choose to listen to this truly exquisite music. You likely won\'t find a better pure synth-music album... (more/buy)
	SGNL_FLTR - Exhalo (Databloem category) (Price: $13.99) Exhalo is packed with deep grooves, dense atmospheres and refined effects. This time around, the amount of genres mixed together is staggering, with warm ambient, cold techno, abstract electronica and gritty soundscapes seamlessly flowing together during the course of the album... (more/buy)
	Viridian Sun - Infinite In All Directions (Hypnos section) (Price: $10.99) 2009. Viridian Sun is a duo focusing on abstract improvisation, featuring Hypnos founder Mike Griffin, and Hypnos solo artist David Tollefson. Their last studio album Perihelion was released a full decade ago on Hypnos, though VS continued to record together and occasionally perform live. The new album Infinite In All Directions moves into slightly different sonic material, downplaying synthesizer electronics in favor of guitar and bass guitar, electronically treated and looped. The result combines sustained, blissful drones, along with occasionally strange, complex overlapping loops. Many Hypnos listeners have asked over the years when we'll release something new by Viridian Sun, and we now present an album that may be their best yet: Infinite In All Directions. Track listing with MP3 samples coming soon: 1 > infinite in all directions > 13:31 mp3 clip 2 > parallax drift > 07:13 mp3 clip 3 > four times I slept for a year > 09:46 mp3 clip 4 > travel at absolute zero > 05:03 mp3 clip 5 > 40 Hz emergence > 05:41 mp3 clip 6 > magnetars cast no shadow > 12:52 mp3 clip 7 > light years from here > 08:58 mp3 clip... (more/buy)
	relapxych.O - Ripples on the Surface of Time & Space / Last Industrial Estate Vol. 1 (Miscellaneous category) (Price: $9.99) You might recall Relapxych.0 (aka Anders Petersen from Sweden) on 2008's Hypnos compilation, Message From a Subatomic World. Here's a nwe split album on his own label, Ghosts Sounds. Pt. 1 relapxych.O - Ripples on the Surface of Time and Space. Pt. 2 Last Industrial Estate - Last Industrial Estates Vol. 1... (more/buy)
	Steve Roach - Afterlight (Steve Roach category) (Price: $13.99) This long-form piece delivers the listener deep inside a multi-dimensional realm of forming clouds, an endless expanse with no boundaries or sense of temporal limits. Amorphous strands of harmonic lumina emerge and recede in a constant unfolding and reconfiguring state for the duration of this pure atmospheric suspension.... (more/buy)
	Steve Roach - Immersion: Four (Steve Roach category) (Price: $13.99) No beginning, no end, designed for infinite playback mode, IMMERSION: FOUR is a steady state zone created specifically as a tone meditation, enhancing the living space as sonic incense. Gently immersive and especially effective at low volume, the non-dynamic nature of this space supports focused day and night activities. The Immersion series is perfect for creative states, sleeping, reading, long hours at the computer and other functions where traditional music could be considered invasive.... (more/buy)
	Resonant Drift - The Call (Resonant Drift category) (Price: $12.99) 2009. This new one has a beautiful Steve Roach-like flavor, likely due to the duo's recent study with Roach, as well as his tweaks and mastering of the final recording. Definitely recommended. "The Call is the new release from the duo of Bill Olien and Gary Johnson, known collectively as Resonant Drift. Combining synthesizers, guitars, percussion, ethnic instruments and field recordings, this deep and organic release explores ambient and atmospheric territory, and boasts expert mastering and sonic enhancements by Steve Roach at his world famous Timeroom studio." -Morpheus Music... (more/buy)
	Aspectee - Morben (miscellaneous category) (Price: $12.99) Influenced by the human condition and the human experience, by humanity's fortune and misfortune, the soundscapes of Aspectee's Morben are varied, ranging from ambient to dark ambient to experimental, though the sounds remain forever blackened, and the moods heavy. Presented to you in digipak format, limited to 500 copies.... (more/buy)
	Innfallen - Three Days of Darkness (miscellaneous category) (Price: $12.99) Intended to capture in sound the immense fear, but also the great hope, of those hiding indoors during this time, Innfallen offers their vision of the Catholic prophecy of Three Days of Darkness. Consisting of veteran Doyle Finley (of Invercauld) and talented newcomer Kevin Scala, Innfallen has composed a rich, illustrative tapestry of multi-layered soundscapes that is undeniably the soundtrack to this frightening prophecy.... (more/buy)
	Karsten Hamre - Through the Eyes of a Stranger (CD + DVD) (miscellaneous category) (Price: $12.99) Format: CD in a DVD case. Karsten crafts desolate dark ambient sound structures, ornamented by sampled sounds and experimental textures. The end result of this process is an experience categorized perhaps too simply as dark ambient, though it more closely resembles a dark soundtrack to a movie, or to a life - as seen through the eyes of a stranger... Presented in a DVD case with professionally pressed CD and professionally printed artwork, limited to 1,000 copies. The first 500 copies are presented in a 2-disc DVD case with a professionally pressed bonus DVD (PAL format, may not play in NTSC players), also titled Through the Eyes of a Stranger, that takes the viewer on a visual journey of imagery used for live performances.... (more/buy)
	Dense Vision Shrine - Time Lost in Oblivion (CD + DVD) (miscellaneous category) (Price: $12.99) Format: CD in a DVD case. Building upon a solid foundation of dark ambient, Dense Vision Shrine also employs sampled sounds and sparse rhythm to carefully design the listening experience of a realm where time itself has stopped, of a blackened voyage into oblivion. Presented in a DVD case with professionally pressed CD and professionally printed artwork, limited to 1,000 copies. The first 500 copies are presented in a 2 disc DVD case with a professionally pressed bonus DVD (PAL format, may not play in NTSC players), also titled Time Lost in Oblivion, that takes the viewer on a visual journey of imagery used for live performances.... (more/buy)
	Parks - Hidden (Infraction category) (Price: $14.99) Parks is Russian ambient/electronic artist Igor Bystrov who has been working on his craft for nearly 15 years. Hidden may be his most accomplished and varied work to date. Sitting somewhere in the midst of the great 90\'s ambient artists, the (rather) new wave of Russian electronic artists all the while admiring from a distance the Kompakt pop-ambient of this decade - Parks seamless blend of it all has culminated in a brilliant finish. Presented in a 6 panel digipak... (more/buy)
	Eluder - The Most Beautiful Blue (Infraction category) (Price: $14.99) "The careful choreography of retreat and remotion is what Patrick Benolkin is about, so you won't be surprised when walls within and without come down, dissolved by the drift inside The Most Beautiful Blue. Eluder offers here a sonic solution in which thoughts, mirroring the music's mood movements, may dissolve, float free, and finally submerge, without fear of being taken down." -Alan Lockett... (more/buy)
	Loren Dent - Anthropology Vol. 1 (Infraction category) (Price: $14.99) "This album is like a soundtrack to life itself- one of joy, love, fear, pain, loss, grieving, euphoria and one which transcends time. Wondrous layers of sound are rich and constantly evolving, always emotional and hypnotic. Loren\'s tools are both analogue and digital, and his use of both is a joy to behold." -Norman Records... (more/buy)
	Bass Communion - Bass Communion II/III (2CD) (Soleilmoon category) (Price: $20.99) Steve Wilson's (Porcupine Tree, No-Man) second release as Bass Communion creating a distinctive and emotionally resonant electro-organic fusion of ambient loop music from the roots of Brian Eno, Terry Riley and Paul Schutze... (more/buy)
	O Yuki Conjugate - OYC25 (CD + DVD) (Soleilmoon category) (Price: $20.99) \ Lovingly remixed by producer Rob Jenkins – is OYC25, five tracks of post-industrial, fourth world-ish, dirty ambience. OYC25 finds the band in fine form, with an abundance of dub-like bass, micro processed rhythms and plangent pads. The package includes a full length DVD of live recordings and rare footage that offer a unique insight into the band’s history, together with a complete alternate mix of the album. The whole thing comes in a gatefold sleeve beautifully designed by Fitzroy&Finn and includes a specially commissioned essay on the band by Dr Philip Shaw, Senior Lecturer in English at Leicester University. NOTE: The DVD is a region-free double-sided disc with NTSC on one side and PAL on the other. It is compatible with all DVD players worldwide.... (more/buy)
	Rapoon - Melancholic Songs of the Desert (Soleilmoon category) (Price: $14.99) A retreat into the one place that no government has yet found a way into, the free and open spaces of the mind. Spontaneous and mediative reflections looking for an inner peace in a world made ugly by hatred and war.... (more/buy)
	Alio Die - Under An Holy Ritual (Soleilmoon category) (Price: $14.99) Reissue of this classic, early Alio Die album. "Multi-layered sonic densities that can evoke the air of ancient storms one minute, then ebb like an immense black ocean the next. This knows how to alter moods with both thick electronic pulses and prehistoric scrapes of mysterious percussions. Cerebral, spooky, and thought provoking meditative/ambient music that harkens from a ritualistic viewpoint." -E/I Magazine... (more/buy)
	Seren Ffordd - Stellar Nurseries (Ltd CDR) (Hypnos Secret Sounds section) (Price: $9.99, ltd cdr) 2009. Stellar Nurseries is the first in a series of Seren Ffordd reissues planned to continue over the coming year or so. These recordings, by an artist whose work is always mysterious and sometimes ominous, were previously released on the Umbra and Penumbra labels operated (by Hypnos artist Oophoi) out of Italy, though the artist himself resides in Wales. He first connected with Hypnos on the compilation CD Sounds of a Universe Overheard, to which he contributed a track, and Hypnos Secret Sounds released his album Veils, Shadows. This recording exhibits a pleasing serenity, a great example of the artist's characteristic combination of dark and light elements into a balanced, deep contrast. Stellar Nurseries is a continuous track 1:01:02 in duration, with the following figurative "sections" (with mp3 sample clips): 1. Out of the Void mp3 2. Storm Movement mp3 3. Spiral Dance mp3 4. Floating, Dreaming mp3... (more/buy)
	Atomine Elektrine - Archimetrical Universe (miscellaneous category) (Price: $12.99) Archimetrical Universe showcases Peter Andersson's dissection of the sky, a caeserean section that births massive, geometrically perfect sonic diversions, all spheres and angles, burnished metal dreams and pristine sonic caresses that reconfigure sound into smooth surfaces. To counterbalance the exactness of the sonic development, light rhythms emerge and huge slabs of disrupting tones puncture. Quite possibly Peter\'s finest release yet!... (more/buy)
	A Challenge of Honour - Ashigaru Revealed (miscellaneous category) (Price: $12.99) Dedicated to warrior’s traditions of medieval Japan. Graceful and epic cocktail of atmospheric neoclassical passages, Japanese drums and rhythms.... (more/buy)
	Desiderii Marginis - Years Lend a Golden Charm (miscellaneous category) (Price: $12.99) To gain a deeper understanding of what is, it is necessary to examine what was – to go to the sources and the origins. With the emergence of this brand new offering by Desiderii Marginis, Years Lend a Golden Charm, we are invited to experience the very birth of what is now a well established and worldwide recognized project within the dark-ambient industrial scene. The contents of the new album is made up of some 73 minutes of material from the first three tape releases from 1993. Highly sought after by collectors but only available in a mere dozen of handmade copies, these songs are now finally made available to a greater audience. When you listen to the music with the knowledge that hindsight brings - it is obvious that these are the roots and the foundations, not only of the first full length album Songs Over Ruins, but of every successive release up to the latest Seven Sorrows. In 1993 there was no set course, no long term plan – and still, maybe it couldn’t have turned out any other way?... (more/buy)
	Aghast - Hexerei Im Zwielicht Der Finsternis (miscellaneous category) (Price: $12.99) Hexerei Im Zwielicht Der Finsternis is dark and gloomy ambience, played in a classical dark wave vein. Minimalism in musical content, compensated by spooky and ice-cold vocals that will haunt you. Macabre enchantresses in lovely disguise will seduce you to end your life and take you to their ghastly realm from which you will never rise. Hear gods cry and angels fall. Listen to the horror and beauty. Let Aghast bewitch you!... (more/buy)
	Atheus - Soundscapes and Drones (miscellaneous category) (Price: $9.99) "Stunning full-length album from Atheus, I have been looking forward to this release ever since the first tentative audio samples appeared via myspace what must be more than twelve months ago now. So here it is, arrived only today and I have played this album through from start to finish three times already, it really is that good. Mysterious, intrusive, threatening ambience, almost drone-like in parts, and sounds totally amazing when adjusted correctly and played very, very loud. Thoroughly mesmerising, I can whole-heartedly say this is one of the most outstanding albums of year and certainly in my top three! Breathtaking." --interstellarsounds.com "Unique all Ambient & Drones release from one of the best Minimal Dub project around." --Cycliclaw.com Track listing: The Sound of Dark Matter Stella Mortis Laudanum Nacht Soundscape One Terra Incognita The Magic Mountain Vox Obscura Drone 37Hz Adagio for Drone... (more/buy)
	Vir Unis - The Winter Ghost (CDR-EP) (AtmoWorks label) (Price: $11.99 cdr-EP) 2009. 38 minute EP-length release. From the darkest depths of a winter yet to come, AtmoWorks presents the latest release from owner and founder Vir Unis, "The Winter Ghost". Created in the vein of 2007's "Return of the Locust Queen", "The Winter Ghost" is a single 38 minute track made up of several distinct parts. From the frozen drones of the opening bars, to angelic voices and detuned piped organs - each individual section blends seamlessly into the next creating an ever-shifting, ever-changing wall of sound. John describes this piece as a self-reflective journey into the long thoughts that haunt the self in this darkest of seasons. It is an expose into the depth of winter, and the isolation that often accompanies it. Listening, it is easy to imagine St. John of the Cross' Dark Night of the Soul, where spiritual loneliness and desolation take hold. Track Listing (click for mp3 sample clips): Sample 1 Sample 2 Sample 3.... (more/buy)
	Steve Brand - She Covers the Sky (CDR) (AtmoWorks label) (Price: $12.99 cdr) 2009. New release from Atmoworks, of which they say: Once again, Steve Brand emerges from his Mac-based musical cocoon to bring us more of his singular art! AtmoWorks is thrilled to bring you "She Covers the Sky", Steve's 5th solo release since the rebirth of the label, and his 9th overall release with us since mid-2008. Steve had this to say about his latest work. "Early in 2009, I had a recurring idea to make music that was dedicated to honoring the return to Earth of the divine feminine, or goddess energy. Female energy. When I have ideas that keep coming up over and over, as this one did, I never over-analyze them, as they find a way to come to life one way or another. Central to the idea of the return of the divine feminine, is the idea that about 10,000 years ago there was a shift from matriarchal societies to patriarchal societies. Some say that this shift of emphasis was due to abuses of power during the more matriarchal period, but now the sacred feminine is returning to Earth—not to seize power once again, but to restore balance between the two energies. This album, whose title refers to the Egyptian sky goddess Nuit or Nut, is characterized by subdued melodies, drifting dreamworld keyboard textures, bells, gongs, voice, and sounds from Mother Earth Herself." Hands down, Steve Brand is putting out some of the most consistently excellent ambient and atmospheric music on the market today, and "She Covers the Sky" is a spectacular addition to an already outstanding legacy. Track Listing (click title to hear sample mp3 of first 3 tracks): Beginning of a New Phase, Restoration The Eternal She Creation: Enveloping, Always Moving, Multiverses Coverer of the Sky.... (more/buy)
	Various Artists - AtmoWorks Presents: Compiled (cdr) (AtmoWorks label) (Price: $12.99 cdr) 2009. Here was have the first AtmoWorks compilation. AtmoWorks owner Matt McDonough (MjDawn) had this to say about this new and exciting venue for the label. "We at AtmoWorks are very excited to bring together a collaboration that speaks about our label, artists and vision. This compilation is the first in what will be a series of "AtmoWorks Presents:" albums. Our hope is that we will be able to showcase our established artists, but also bring light to new talents we are exploring. You can look forward to future releases involving these great artists." A seamless blend of styles and influences carefully mastered and molded together by the tag-team of Vir Unis and MjDawn, 'AtmoWorks Presents: Compiled' is a wide-ranging set sure to please the most discerning electo-heads. Track Listing Gydja - Noaide Bunk_Data - Bytecode_Escape Interstitial - Iterative dreamSTATE - To Wound the Autumnal City Igneous Flame - Lyke Wake Dirge åpne sinn - twinewheel Galactic Anthems - System Sentinels The Elf Machine - The Citizen Dr. Victor - Opening Mantra (DiAnMa) MjDawn - Numerical Alchemy Steve Brand - Lost in the Call (Here Comes a Sea) Vir Unis - The Magic Mountain.... (more/buy)
	The Elf Machine - In Living Stereo & Citizens of the Anthropocene (3 cdr) (AtmoWorks label) (Price: $22.99 3-cdr) 2009. Two new "separate but together" releases by The Elf Machine. CITIZENS OF THE ANTHROPOCENE (1cdr) Taking nearly three years to complete their follow up to the much critically acclaimed album "I/O", the elves finally emerged from the studio with "Citizens of the Anthropocene", the first release in this dual set. This new album takes a journey through the synthetic and over-medicated lives of the current epoch in which we live, the anthropocene. What does it mean to be human and living in this age? All ideologies are political and religion-based and the experience we have in communicating with our political systems is mediated by an entity which was once called journalism and is now a hyper vigilant 24/7 global brain which spews forth bit streams and memes into the collective consciousness which is then consumed and regurgitated as new archetypal forms. What does it mean to live an organic or synthetic life? What is the difference ultimately since all originated from the earth or were produced by organic forms? These were all questions raised by the elves as the explored their inner systems in the dark recesses of their basement studio.... IN LIVING STEREO (2cdrs) The second release (two discs in itself), which is packaged with "Citizens of the Anthropocene", is "In Living Stereo". This album is a collection of three long excerpts from two different live events by The Elf Machine. The first show was in 2004 and was a live internet event hosted by Vir Unis on AtmoStreams. The second show was in 2008 at Illinois Northwestern University's radio station, 89.3FM WNUR. The set was performed on Phonaut's late Friday night program. The elves delivered some heavy duty glitch/freeform beatscapes late into the night and the show was captured by Phonaut recording directly to CD, so expect high fidelity recordings on "In Living Stereo". Track listing, with MP3 previews, disc 1 Shadow Response Manifestation re-uptake Spanning Structural Units extracellular loop_5 L-DOPA The Citizen Track listing, with MP3 previews, disc 2 WNUR edit - Volume 1 Track listing, with MP3 previews, disc 3 WNUR edit - Volume 2 AtmoStreams edit - Volume 3.... (more/buy)
	Steve Brand & Disturbed Earth - The First Day Unnamed(cdr) (AtmoWorks label) (Price: $12.99 cdr) 2009. The fourth installment of collaborative works between two of our most prolific and creative artists - Dean Richards (aka Disturbed Earth) and Steve Brand. On "The First Day Unnamed", Dean and Steve have created a brooding and many-layered longform masterpiece. Steve had this to say about the release. "This album literally grew out of the parts and pieces of my trilogy collaboration with Dean/Disturbed Earth that came out in late 2008 and early 2009. That said, this is not a continuation or regurgitation of those works. In the previous trilogy, Dean took my sounds and twisted, bent and re-sculpted them with his own sensibilities and processes, adding his own sounds into the mix. With "First Day...," I have re-cycled and re-processed some pieces that Dean created that didn't make it into the original series, ran them through my own processes and internal filters, adding my own sounds (once again) along the way. The title was inspired by the idea that we strive to encage and cordon off the world by being able to label and define nearly everything without and within us. In doing so, we create the "known," when in reality, much remains unknown, because in truth, we have only investigated that which is most comfortable to us. This disk is characterized by deep terrestrial drones and textures, hints of melody, churning subterranean machinery, the occasional calls of weird animals, distant flute, gongs, and voices." Track listing: 1. The First Day Unnamed - 1:11:27 - mp3 excerpt.... (more/buy)
	Birds of Tin - Altarwise (New - Diophantine Label category) (Price: $11.99) 2009. This is the latest release on the interesting (new to us) label discovery, Diophantine Discs, from which we'll soon have other items available. The two lengthy tracks of Altarwise were recorded in late 2004 and remastered earlier this year. The first track is a 30-minute experimental work that gradually moves through a wide range of sounds (echoing chimes, mysterious noises, subdued clanking, drones). The second piece is an epic 46-minute composition of deep ambient/drone music that manages to float freely through the listener\'s imagination while keeping his attention. While many modern day experimental artists have moved on into the computer realm, Birds of Tin has remained true to the experimental sound of tape loops, lo-fi samplers, and collections of unique toy instruments running through small fx boxes. The sound of the work may have become more cohesive and seamless over the years, but the methods have largely remained the same.... (more/buy)
	Ryonkt - Small Conversations (Experimedia category) (Price: $11.99) 2009. "Ryonkt's Small Conversations is a modern classical ambient masterpiece in four lengthy movements. Soft spoken and gentle Small Conversations embodies all that ambient music is meant to be through perfectly crafted works of delicate beauty".... (more/buy)
	Sylvie Walder - Moments (Experimedia category) (Price: $11.99) 2009. Experimedia presents the first public release of French sound artist Sylvie Walder. Sylvie's Moments pulls one into delicate and intimate moments in time. Drawing from a palette of introversion, nostalgia, absence, longing, and la presence du sacre Sylvie creates a uniquely evocative sound through the intimate tones of her piano as the driving force behind her emotive sonic constructs. Moments is packaged in Experimedia's signature custom designed six panel tall-slim pack and is limited to 150 copies.... (more/buy)
	Ian Hagwood - The Great Allure (Experimedia category) (Price: $11.99) 2009. A very personal and heartfelt album, The Great Allure amasses six passionate movements into a tribute to the memories of traveling by train. Inverted pianos wrapped in a blanket of distant fog seen peering through a train window dripping with wiped away condensation. Forehead against glass with a melancholy gaze towards the passing landscape. Broken voice and hand claps layer subtle nods to Reich. The Great Allure is packaged in Experimedia's signature custom designed six panel tall-slim pack and is limited to 150 copies... (more/buy)
	Shinobu Nemoto - Improvisations #1 (Experimedia category) (Price: $11.99) 2009. An epic album by Japanese artist Shinobu Nemoto, Improvisations #1 showcases Shinobu's ability to create beautiful and interesting sonic textures using minimal means. Using only an electric guitar, stomp boxes, and recording to a 4-track with no overdubs Improvisations #1 delivers 5 massive pieces. Recorded in January of 2009 each piece initially soft and subtle build and layer gradually into powerful and intense guitar noise drones. Improvsations #1 is packaged in Experimedia's signature custom designed six panel tall-slim pack and is limited to 150 copies... (more/buy)
	Billy Gomberg + Offthesky - Flyover Sound (Experimedia category) (Price: $11.99) 2009. Flyover Sound is the collaborative effort of Billy Gomberg and offthesky. The pair bring together their individually unique sounds to create a rich and beautiful album. Complex drone and glitch arrangements play alongside acoustic guitar and subtle field recordings. Flyover Sound is packaged in Experimedia's signature custom designed six panel tall-slim pack is limited to 250 copies, and features artwork/photography by Jason Corder (offthesky).... (more/buy)
	The Circular Ruins - Before the Colors Deepened (Blue Oasis/Dataobscura category) (Price: $13.99) The music of Before The Colors Deepened drifts between a deep, expansive, and sometimes ominous-sounding, experimental spacemusic, and a more tender, often melancholic, classical style of slowly developing melodic structures and subtle layering. The result is a complex and imaginative series of immersive soundworlds that reward attentive listening, and that will take you on a journey only hinted at in the individual track titles.... (more/buy)
	Nunc Stans - Meridian (Blue Oasis/Dataobscura category) (Price: $13.99) Nunc Stans has always been inspired by far northern landscapes and the subjective states that accompany or are induced by them. Much of this collection is a sonic analog of those landscapes ... drawn in sound across the silence. A sublime journey through expansive soundworlds, rich with detail, immersive atmospheres, and an underlying grandeur. \"... (more/buy)
	Robert Davies - Gallery Of Spirits (Blue Oasis/Dataobscura category) (Price: $13.99) Ethereal dreamscapes and flowing apparitions. These drone-based pieces are like wandering the shadowy gardens of a mythic underworld.\" The striking cover images are based on Robert\'s own collage and paint artworks. CD edition contains special bonus artwork photograph... (more/buy)
	Lammergeyer - Beginning To End (Blue Oasis/Dataobscura category) (Price: $13.99) Beginning To End is a work of subtlety and considerable beauty. The album flows in a very visual, cinematic, and sometimes orchestral vein. If you like musical, expressive, ambient explorations that do not shy away from melody or from sonic invention then be sure to give this fine release a listen.... (more/buy)
	Nunc Stans - The Unnamable (Blue Oasis/Dataobscura category) (Price: $13.99) The Unnamable is a broad, sweeping work of often immense vistas and beatless atmospheres. These dynamic and engaging dronescapes reveal a darker and more intense Nunc Stans, one aimed more at transcendence than description. Immersive and sonically rich, this release will appeal to listeners of Steve Roach and related deep ambient drone works.\" Performed by Anthony Paul Kerby using a variety of synthesisers, acoustic guitar, and studio processing.... (more/buy)
	Nunc Stans and Mystified - One Thousand Dreams (Blue Oasis/Dataobscura category) (Price: $13.99) An immersive set of richly detailed dreamscapes that flow and shift with a sophisticated ease and engaging lyric beauty. Expect a haunting mix of grainy drone, sonic curiosities, and occasional treated field recording, all bound together by exquisite drawn-out melodic lines.... (more/buy)
	Wolfskin O Ajuntar das Sombras (malignant category) (Price: $13.99) A masterpiece of shadowy atmospheres and drifting currents, featuring multiple layers of archaic sounds, foggy, nebulous textures, and ritual invocations, perfectly combined to form a release of intense depth and complexity... (more/buy)
	Phragments - Earth Shall Not Cover Their Blood (malignant category) (Price: $13.99) Equipped with an enriched sonic palate, Earth Shall Not Cover Their Blood mixes forceful brass and dark orchestral strings with rolls of powerful tribal percussion, somber wind instrumentation, ominous atmospheres, industrial clangor, and a strong and commanding vocal presence... (more/buy)
	Phaenon - Submerged (malignant category) (Price: $13.99) Visually and sonically enveloping, this is an album of space and texture, slowly revealing a psychoactive soundscape of majestic, arcing timbres, circadian buzzes, and expansive drones. Heavy, and cosmically weighty in the beginning, Submerged evolves into something more minimalist and serene, radiating a celestial beauty, yet becoming even more bleak and suffocating as it progresses over it‘s 66 minute time frame. Experienced from start to finished, there’s a palpable sense of drifting and drowning, of being carried away into an endless, interstellar vacuum... (more/buy)
	Hyios - Consuetudines (malignant category) (Price: $13.99) 7 lengthy compositions of cold ritual drones, arching trajectories, and visceral descents into subterranean caverns, where rich, kinetic textures and deep resonant tones move and morph in a fluid, serpentine fashion, sprinkled with the debris of an ancient culture and something more otherworldly and primordial... (more/buy)
	Terra Sancta - Disintegration (malignant category) (Price: $13.99) Disintegration pushes the levels of intensity to new heights, featuring four long and texturally turbulent emissions of formidable power and depth. With it’s enormous washes of stormy drones and billowing, multi-layered atmospheres, these are tracks that grow and build to such a degree they seem to collapse and erode under their own weight, strewing particles into a vast horizon and creating a broad panorama of ever changing desert colored hues.... (more/buy)
	Caul & Kirchenkampf - Sleep - Night - Death (malignant category) (Price: $13.99) A soundscape for late night reflections, full of quiet, whispering drones, cosmic flutterings, arching climatic tones and textures that ascend and descend in a delicate interplay between beauty and bleak desolation.... (more/buy)
	Eidvlon - Idolatriae (malignant category) (Price: $13.99) 7 tracks of ultra bleak, abstract atmospheres, with sounds and textures that seem to seep from catacomb walls and come slithering out of subterranean chambers. Certainly, this can be classified as a dark ambient record, but at it’s core, it’s more than just that simple classification. There’s a gritty, more jagged edge here, with tetonic shifts, deep rumblings, and crackling, climatic squalls buried under a bed of ghostly reverb and haunting tonal resonance... (more/buy)
	Matt Borghi - The Phantom Light (Ltd CDR) (Hypnos Secret Sounds section) (Price: $9.99, ltd cdr) 2009. The Phantom Light is the third release in our Matt Borghi reissue series. Originally issued in an edition of only 30 copies in 2006, this Hypnos Secret Sounds reissue will be the first opportunity for this recording to be heard by most Borghi listeners. The four long pieces exhibit Borghi's characteristic simplicity and restraint. Matt says: The Phantom Light is a work that’s comprised four compositions with titles derived from some of the most remote lighthouses on the northern Great Lakes. The works are inspired by sailor’s tales of being adrift on The Great Lakes during storms, and catastrophic weather. Sailors, looking out on the horizon for a sign of life, a light of hope, aimed their ships towards the safety of these phantom lighthouses hoping to get to a safe harbor. Often times these phantom lighthouses just lead to a rocky shoal and a watery death. These “phantom” lights have been a thing of myth for as long as The Great Lakes freshwater seas have been sailed. In many ways, The Phantom Light is a sequel to Huronic Minor, as Great Lakes lore, and Matt Borghi’s own experiences on The Great Lakes were the creative impetus for this work. Track list: 1. Ile Aux Gales (17.54) mp3 2. Manistee North Pierhead (16.33) mp3 3. Seul Choix Point (21.01) mp3 4. North Manitou Island Shoal (20.28) mp3... (more/buy)
	Michael Mantra - Mobius Logic (silentes category) (Price: $13.99) Evocative and crepuscular atmospheres, tenuous sounds from the ink color pastel, minimalistic melodies acclimatized on background of discreet but wrapping field recordings... Evoked and surrealistic soft sonorous landscapes with warm synthetic sounds, mixed to crystalline natural noises, concrete sounds, breaths. A fascinating classic and quiet album of ambient music.... (more/buy)
	Michael Mantra - A/B Illuminated Music (silentes category) (Price: $13.99) A/B Illuminated Music DVD-R provides a visual gradient to the audio-CD (of A/B). Beautiful video art... with a higher purpose. The visuals here provide a true change in state-of-consciousness, and conversion of negative yin emotions into a more positive yang emotion. For maximum meditative state, watch this DVD while listening with stereo headphones. This DVD is dedicated to world peace for all sentient beings.... (more/buy)
	Aube - Metal on Metal (2CD) (silentes category) (Price: $16.99) Alchemical secrets and the magic of metallic materials, of their acoustic characters, and the possible technological manipulations on the sounds that are possible to pull out... Resonances, mantric vibrations, hypnotics bell rings, sounds of cymbals, plates, rings... Tubular elements are used or more ordinary and simple metallic objects of common use are bowed or scraped. Aube acquires the sounds of transforming essence... decomposing and recomposing the shape... Fragmenting, expanding, stratifying and elaborating the sonorous matter, constructs complex wafts, resounding weaves carpets, interlaces thin threads of metallic tensions, crumbles and agglomerates acoustic particles, leaves to flowing, reverberating, harmonic drones.... (more/buy)
	Aube - Le Syndrome Aquatique (2CD) (silentes category) (Price: $16.99) \ This is the long awaited reissue of one of the best Aube works originally titled AQUA SYNDROME, published about 10 years ago by MANIFOLD records. The new reissue includes the original album with a bonus track and a bonus live CD. LE SYNDROME AQUATIQUE is an impressive job of deconstruction and resetting of sonorous material to the work of Aube, this particularly extended in the duration, treaty and expanded time, much to be proposed in a rich edition in double CD. Aube puts molding on and models fragments of concrete sounds of aquatic derivation transforming them in unknown drones, noises, pads, loops, rhythms and mechanics, constructing a fantastic sonorous tapestry of valuable invoice and incredible impact... (more/buy)
	Aube - Reworks Nimh Vol. 1 (silentes category) (Price: $13.99) Ethnic-electronic sound sources transfigured and remodeled into completely new sonic lifeforms with state-of-the-art audio processing algorithms. Residual fragments of the original sound-sources occasionally appear in the mix like aquatic fauna swimming to the surface for a brief second. A magnum opus in four movements. Intensely fascinating work by the unparalleled master of experimental sound design. AUBE is peerless. A minimal mosaic of sound that takes the listener on a slow-motion expedition into the very fabric of tone. A ocean of sound-grains for the listened to swim in. Spoken language doesn\'t (yet) contain words that properly describe these sounds... an absolute must have for the experimental music devotee... (more/buy)
	Nimh - The Unkept Secrets (silentes category) (Price: $13.99) \ After few months of distance from the escape of The Missing Tapes and the relative Rework by Aube, Nimh (Giuseppe Verticchio) sets aside the ethnic-lysergic visions that have characterized the previous album and continues along the distance of sonorous search and fascinating experimentation electronic, already undertaken with works such as The Impossible Days and Subterranean Thoughts. Nimh expands the range of sounds and instruments, revealing his own secrets through a new, dark but stylistically unclassifiable CD, in which he arranges with extraordinary originality and in an absolutely personal way elements of drone music, dark ambient, electronics, ritual, ethnic, field recordings, enriching every track with the recurrent presence of evocative sounds of electric guitar in varied filtered and elaborated way... (more/buy)
	Nimh - Subterranean Thoughts (silentes category) (Price: $13.99) This album showcases a kaleidoscope of many different sounds, from the lysergic visions of Rewind to the cinematic suggestions of Recovered Memories, from the tight and dark atmospheres of Back to Laudomia to the ritual elements of Perpetual Cycles, from the rhythmic distortions of Subterranean Thoughts to the hypnotic stasis of The Liquid Dream and the lyrism of the title-track reprise at the end of the disc... (more/buy)
	Nimh - The Missing Tapes (silentes category) (Price: $13.99) Stratospheric sounds from another dimension, where multi-cultural sound-worlds collide. Processed electronic emulations of traditional Thai (and other indigenous) instruments, esoteric percussion, breathing, drones, feedback, shortwave radio, disembodied voices floating in air, and hazy field recordings all combine is a most intoxicating manner. With THE MISSING TAPES, NIMH returns to a more adventurous style, pushing the boundaries of sonic innovation past anything that we\'ve heard before. An amazing 50+ minute sonic-travelogue of electroacoustic experiments.... (more/buy)
	Nimh / Nefelheim - Whispers from the Ashes (silentes category) (Price: $13.99) Ideally inspired by the Inquisition era, like some titles of the tracks may suggest, Whispers from the Ashes presents Nimh (Giuseppe Verticchio) and Nefelheim joined together for the production of a dark oriented CD that alternates obscure and haunting atmospheres with more gloomy and sometimes dramatic and highly evocative episodes... In a blend of low frequencies, metallic sounds, echoes of distant voices and human screams, whispers, concrete noises, ritual processions, suddenly an acoustic guitar chord, some reverberate piano notes, the sound of falling rain, bits of thundering percussions emerge... Like in a disquieting voyage to a far away past, in a stakes and witches age, featuring persecutions of heretics and superstition..... (more/buy)
	Maurizio Bianchi - Dead Colours (silentes category) (Price: $13.99) \"incredibly dark, melancholic and tough, in the vein of David Lynch\'s atmospheres... Fantastic!... (more/buy)
	Maurizio Bianchi - Menstruum Regles (silentes category) (Price: $13.99) \ Continuous loops, raw unexpected cuts, noise alternated to musical parts, single sounds, drones, notes of piano, buzzes, soft pads, electric current workers... Two long traces, 75 minutes, a listening experience over any edge and reliable definition.... (more/buy)
	Maurizio Bianchi - The Self-Portrait of M.B. (silentes category) (Price: $13.99) An unusual self-portrait of Maurizio Bianchi in a minimal and introspective version, a discreet sonic self-portrait, elaborated with soft and nearly abstract electronic sketches, cyclical waves, tangles of intersected sounds, stratified, continuously changing, manipulated and molded through uses of effects, filters, reverbs, choruses, delay... Expanded paces, rarefied and apparently quiet atmospheres, but at the same time always full of a constant sense of gravity and heaviness, of vulnerability, always on the extreme border of the abyss that leads towards the unknown, the dark, the not to be defined and the mystery.... (more/buy)
	Frequency In Cycles Per Second & Maurizio Binachi / M.B. - Der Abgrund (silentes category) (Price: $13.99) \ Music of the great dynamics and great dramatic mood, powerful, aggressive sounds, drones, sour electronic rumors, but also deep sounds underground, more static parts, dark and expanded atmospheres, dark and buried rhythmic mechanics movements, echoes of reverberating metals.... (more/buy)
	Rod Modell - Plays Michael Mantra (silentes category) (Price: $13.99) An unusual self-portrait of Maurizio Bianchi in a minimal and introspective version, a discreet sonic self-portrait, elaborated with soft and nearly abstract electronic sketches, cyclical waves, tangles of intersected sounds, stratified, continuously changing, manipulated and molded through uses of effects, filters, reverbs, choruses, delay... Expanded paces, rarefied and apparently quiet atmospheres, but at the same time always full of a constant sense of gravity and heaviness, of vulnerability, always on the extreme border of the abyss that leads towards the unknown, the dark, the not to be defined and the mystery.... (more/buy)
	Spielerei & Mantacoup - Cold War (silentes category) (Price: $13.99) An enthralling cosmic excursion, utilizing a universe of electronic tones, binary codes, digital trances, visionary software, and microchip meditations... utilizing sequencer riffs, electronic swells, tight rhythmic programming, and pulsing analog arpeggios to pull listeners throughout the frontiers of space and time. Melodic, soft sounds expand and gently caress the listener while submerging them into vast digital panoramas. Propulsion through the science of sound. Seven fantastic tracks realized during a collaboration between Dennis Knopper (of SPIELEREI) and Jeroen Vermeent (of MANTACOUP)... (more/buy)
	Wintersilence - Transmission Fields (2 CD) (silentes category) (Price: $16.99) Review by Auralpressure.com: "a heady blend of music so full of love and the lust for life that the joy it brings is unsurpassable. The drifting sweeping passages brings forth a message of hope and joy in these darkened times of unrest and uncertainty. A simple drum beat is forged through the layers of iridescent patterns of electronic waves creating the ultimate dreamscapes in which to lose oneself. Journeying onward you encounter subtle drones and shaman chants that take you into another dimension freeing the burdened soul. Every one of the nineteen tracks are so varied and different in their execution and yet they meld together seamlessly into one complete portion of music that eludes description."... (more/buy)
	Steve Brand/Ishq - Spiritual Science / The Voice from Home (double-cdr) (AtmoWorks category) (Price: $19.99, double-cdr) 2009. A great new 2-disc collaboration between the recently-prolific Steve Brand, and Ishq (aka Matt Hillier). AtmoWorks says: AtmoWorks is thrilled to offer a two disc collaboration between AW veteran Steve Brand and electronic music mainstay Matt Hiller (aka Ishq). Steve had this to say about the releases, and how they found their way into reality. 'I've been an Ishq fan for about 3-4 years now, as well as all the other mutations, Elve, and Colourform. I found his work as part of my complete indulgence in the Ultimae label, when Ishq kept showing up in the "If you like this, you'll like this" area. I bought "Orchid" and was hooked. I immediately loved his delicate atmospheres and unique beats, his intuitive and spiritual approach to music, which really felt like home to me. We share a common belief in the healing nature of sound, which we both weave into our work. At the time, Matt offered several free downloads of loops, so I used a few in a longform piece I was/am working on called, "Pale Blue Orb." I sent Matt a copy and he responded with a very nice email. I decided at that moment, just to ask if we was interested in a collaboration. A few weeks later I was thrilled to receive an entire DVD of unique material in the mail from Cornwall England, and here we are. Effortless and organic. I considered releasing these as two separate albums, but I really feel that they are companion pieces that augment one another, almost needing to be heard together. These disks are a very nice co-mingling of the Ishq sound and mine own. Probably a bit murkier and darker than Ishq, but you can still very much hear the Ishq-ness within the sounds, along with my own treatments and personal aesthetics. Disk 1, "Spiritual Science" consists of 3 long tracks of vaporous atmospheres and spaces. Disk 2, "The Voice From Home" is longform drifting, lilting, diaphanous soundscape that times in at just over 50 minutes, meant for low-volume repeated play.' From our perspective, this is simply a brilliant combination of styles and textures - taking the very best of each of these accomplished artists' talents and blending them together into something wholly new and wonderful. Track Listing - Disc 1 Soft Temples Flame of Nuit Nature is Sung Track Listing - Disc 2 The Voice from Home... (more/buy)
	AtmoWorks Presents - Compiled (cdr) (AtmoWorks category) (Price: $12.99 cdr) 2009. Here was have the first AtmoWorks compilation. AtmoWorks owner Matt McDonough (MjDawn) had this to say about this new and exciting venue for the label. "We at AtmoWorks are very excited to bring together a collaboration that speaks about our label, artists and vision. This compilation is the first in what will be a series of "AtmoWorks Presents:" albums. Our hope is that we will be able to showcase our established artists, but also bring light to new talents we are exploring. You can look forward to future releases involving these great artists." A seamless blend of styles and influences carefully mastered and molded together by the tag-team of Vir Unis and MjDawn, 'AtmoWorks Presents: Compiled' is a wide-ranging set sure to please the most discerning electo-heads. Track Listing Gydja - Noaide Bunk_Data - Bytecode_Escape Interstitial - Iterative dreamSTATE - To Wound the Autumnal City Igneous Flame - Lyke Wake Dirge åpne sinn - twinewheel Galactic Anthems - System Sentinels The Elf Machine - The Citizen Dr. Victor - Opening Mantra (DiAnMa) MjDawn - Numerical Alchemy Steve Brand - Lost in the Call (Here Comes a Sea) Vir Unis - The Magic Mountain ... (more/buy)
	Craig Padilla / Skip Murphy - Analog Destination (groove category) (Price: $13.99) \"Craig Padilla and Skip Murphy have made in this work a kind of space electronic music which turns out to be emotional and enigmatic. Inspired by the analogic sonority, they have composed a series of themes that will no doubt attract the lovers of the purest line of Space Music. The structure of Analog Destination consists of diffused melodies that come and go, floating environments that surround these melodies, powerful sequencers, and sound effects that in some passages are an important part of the ambiance. There also are moments of experimentation, yet always keeping to the most melodic aspects of the music.\" -Edgar Kogler... (more/buy)
	Ron Boots - Beyond the Boundaries of Twilight (Groove category) (Price: $13.99) \"Musician Ron Boots did several planetarium concerts in the past seven years or so, but it never came to a cd-release. Beyond the Boundaries of Twilight, released at Ron’s Planetarium concert in Bochum, Germany on May 24, fills this gap, offering 71 minutes of both atmospheric and dynamic but always captivating music. The background of the conceptual music is told by Ron on the second piece The Story. Although almost all music on the album is made by Ron, the encompassing music at times is complimented by some great guitar parts by Frank Dorittke (aka F.D. Project).\" -Bert Strolenberg / Sonic Immersion... (more/buy)
	Saul Stokes - Metacollage (Saul Stokes category) (Price: $24.99 ltd) 2009. Stokes's latest creation Metacollage forges an original path of new era electronic composition. Fluttering organic forms of electronics create the backdrop to carefully composed, beautifully arranged music. Darren Bergstein of E/I online magazine writes: He more or less provides the reasons why electronic music probably fascinates most of us: unheard-of sounds rendered flesh and set within new contexts that refuse to simply tow idm/ambient/what-have-you lines. Metacollage is packaged in a collector\'s edition wood case designed by Stokes. The Metacollage logo is stamped using a special Japanese archival ink. Each CD comes with a signed satin finished interior info card. The interior of the CD case is felt lined and protects the cd from scratches... (more/buy)
	Steve Roach - Dynamic Stillness (2CD) (Projekt category) (Price: $16.99, 2CD) 2009. Great new 2CD release by Steve Roach. "Dynamic Stillness presents ambient-electronic pioneer Steve Roach in the deep end of the pure atmospheric, rhythmless soundscape genre. Across the 2-CD release, amorphous shifting sonics glide in a phenomenal flow, highly cohesive and yet ever-changing. Dynamic stillness indeed! These eight long-form tracks (140 minutes in all) undulate softly and slowly, radiating light even as darkness hovers along the edges. It’s an album of subtle pieces, more often than not with emphasis on the stillness as opposed to the dynamics. Disc two’s closing Canyon Stillness plays like a dark inversion of Structures From Silence. A cold breeze blows through it all like a black mist. After so much softness it makes for a surprisingly chilling, engaging finish." -Phil Derby, Electroambient Space\"... (more/buy)
	Byron Metcalf / Mark Seelig / Steve Roach - Nada Terma (Projekt category) (Price: $13.99) 2009. Nada Terma merges the boundaries of ambient, world music and sacred-meditative styles. On Nada Terma (translated as: discovering spiritual treasures through the world of sound) East Indian tonalities blend with Sufi-like trance percussion immersed in atmospheres, drifts and drones, arriving at a state of relaxed, focused awareness. The continuously-woven 73-minute piece is sequenced into seven discrete segments, perfect for yoga, contemplation and bodywork... (more/buy)
	Steve Roach / Erik Wollo - Stream Of Thought (Projekt category) (Price: $13.99) 2008. Stream of Thought explores the nuance of shifts within our perception. Segments of illumination juxtaposed with amorphous interludes and moving, flowing rhythm culminate in an unforgettable, shifting, dynamic experience. Relax and float downstream. Tranquil drifts, passionate rapids, midnight star gazing and blazing sunsets await. This is a vivid soundtrack for the senses designed to take the listener to the outer reaches of the imagination... (more/buy)
	Steve Brand - Children of Alcyone (Ltd CDR) (Hypnos Secret Sounds section) (Price: $11.99, ltd cdr) 2009. The second release by Steve Brand on our Hypnos Secret Sounds imprint, Children of Alcyone demonstrates the characteristic otherworldly quality of the artist's best work. Generally quite simple, at times singlemindedly minimal, this work is nonetheless possessed of a depth and complexity that are revealed upon repeated listening. Stretched-out drone structures combine with subtle tribal/ethnic elements to create very effective atmospheres for almost hypnotic relaxation. Though we're tempted to call Brand one of our favorite "new" artists, in fact he has been active as a recording artist for quite some time, having released many recordings under the name Augur, along with a handful of solo and collaborative works under his own name this past year. Steve Brand says: "The inspiring energy for Children of Alcyone was/is the books of Barbara Marciniak. Marciniak's books are said to be channeled information from the Pleiadians, our distant multi-dimensional ancestors from the Pleiades constellation. (Alcyone is the name of the "central sun" of this constellation.) Upon being introduced to these books, I was immediately taken by their wit and irreverence, the nearly unfathomable timeline of events, and their uncanny relevance to things that are currently taking place here on Earth (the first of these books were channeled in the early 90's). The initial sound sketches for "Children" were begun in September of 2007 in the tidal wave of energy that was Steve Roach's "Into the SoundCurrent" masters' class, and elaborated upon, refined, and re-energized over the intervening 3 years in my own studio. The result is a sometimes murky, sometimes soothing, sometimes phantasmagorical series of excursions through multiple timelines, and myriad possible half lit universes that other versions of ourselves inhabit. My friend, and frequent collaborator, Jonathan Benham, not only created the art for this disk, but contributed energy and sounds to a couple of tracks with his array of homemade instruments during a series of improvisations between he and myself captured at my studio." Track listing, with mp3 sample clips: 1. Golden Cloud - (08:17) - mp3 clip 2. Light Age - (22:51) - mp3 clip 3. Outside the Grid of Time - (17:15) - mp3 clip 4. Into the Central Sun - (12:30) - mp3 clip... (more/buy)
	Underjordiska / Spectral Lore (Stellar Auditorium category) (Price: $14.99) This split is a collaboration far different from your typical let\'s throw some left-outs from our previous records, make a intro or two and off to the printing plant mentality, instead being a concept split album which should be heard as one, rather than two albums on the same cd. It is a journey from the surface of the sea to the very depths of the ocean, and then back towards the surface again. Each musician undertakes one part of the journey; two compositions over 30 minutes, featuring actual underwater recordings, aquatic drones, unique instruments (from a mandolin to a duduk) and even melodic post rockish moments. There is a continual flow of movement to the music, as the listener, embodied within this audial environment, descents and ascends through the ocean, towards a deepest point that seems to bear a particular significance: but is it the goal, or the journey itself that matters more?... (more/buy)
	Procer Veneficus - Saltwater & Glassmoon (Stellar Auditorium category) (Price: $14.99) Mr. Derek Schultz aka Night of Procer Veneficus has been composing hallucinogenic odes to otherwordly entities, foggy swamps, far away constellations and ash covered mountains since 2004, having unleashed a large catalogue of recordings featuring his unique brand of either black metal, acoustic or organic ambience. Saltwater and Glassmoon is about the depths of the sea, and its sounds illustrate a drowned orchestra performing large, adagio movements from within the deep, dark ocean. According to the words of the man himself, Deep and slow December ambience; kelp forest orchestral reveries filled to the brim with rich Pacific longing. Midnight moonlight music for crystalline blue air and silver oceanic melodies waning into sleep, slipping softly over the continental shelf into the enveloping refuge of abyssal silence.... (more/buy)
	Sempervirens - Dirge of the Dying Year (Stellar Auditorium category) (Price: $14.99) Dirge Of The Dying Year uncovers eight realms filled with unfettered beauty and pure thought, eight worlds stretching out as the eight fatal directions of the compass, all engulfed under an insatiable fog. Somewhere between Biosphere\'s Substrata, Northaunt\'s Barren Land and the early recordings of Brian Eno, Dirge... is the last and most mature recording of the Sempervirens catalogue, and a promise to far greater things in the future. Few individuals have mastered the art of soundscaping to a similar degree to the Estonian ambient artist Margus Mets, aka Sempervirens. His, largely unreleased, output of 6 full length albums and numerous other uncompiled material has been an exemplary effort to create soundworlds where boundaries are only set by the imagination of the artist, and where field recordings, deep drones, distant transmissions of some classical music broadcast, or even acoustic guitar breakdowns are found under precise multi-layering , flowing seamlessly as if they were never separate in the first place.... (more/buy)
	Alio Die & Aglaia - Private History of the Clouds (Infraction category) (Price: $14.99) 2009. Latest from the Infraction label. They say: "This has been in the works for almost 1.5 years. Is there finer ambience (save Oophoi perhaps) coming from Italy outside of these two acts? And a collaboration to boot. Nice. 900 copies in the Japanese style mini-lp matte gatefold sleeve. Beautiful layout courtesy of the ever-impressive designwork of Pyhai.... (more/buy)
	Vidna Obmana - An Opera for Four Fusion Works (4CDs) (Hypnos label) (Price: $34.99, 4CDs) It was always our intention to lower the price of Vidna Obmana's An Opera for Four Fusion Works series once the final act was released. Not only have we cut the price on the "Acts 1-4" package from $41.99 to $34.99, we've also slightly reduced the individual disc prices, for those of you who have purchased part of the series, but not all. For those unfamiliar with this Vidna Obmana "series" release, each "Act" involved a collaboration between Vidna Obmana and a different recording artist, and was released separately. "Act 1" was a single-disc release, but packaged in a 4-CD case designed to hold all four Acts together. Acts 2, 3 and 4 were released in a paper sleeve with a booklet, to be inserted in the Act 1 case (or, of course, they fit into a standard CD case if you prefer not to buy Act 1)... Act 1 featuring Dreams in Exile, $10.99 (more/buy) Act 2 featuring Bill Fox, $9.99 (more/buy) Act 3 featuring Kenneth Kirschner, $9.99 (more/buy) Act 4 featuring Steven Wilson, $9.99 (more/buy) Acts 1-4 combined, $34.99 (more/buy)
	c.j. mind & man ufo (eXperiment) - Source (faria category) (Price: $13.99) 2008. If you like music of Steve Roach - you will like this too! The natural beginning of all life on the Earth intertwines with estrangement pressing on the person the incomprehensible power of an external world (space). Too extraneous and severe really to be a monastery of each of us, as if a mourning bed-sheet swallowed light. In this contradiction, someone finds something attractive for search of the external forms not similar to ours, but probably forgets that its house, a family and surrounding close friends as anybody another is important to him. And being behind an understanding side, and remains not untangled ball drawing to only when on it is unique a question exciting you to you by all means (here and now) it is necessary to receive it is unique a right answer. Stay in a womb, a birth, individual search of sense of existence, leaving in the other world. Spring (awakening) before fading in a cold twilight of mature autumn (death). All is marvelously simple. After all the, Nature does not suffer intervention in its nature. When it exists without our presence – flows and sounds absolutely other light. But the Creator comes and by a wave of an invisible conductor's baton twists a surprising pattern on beauty, in which the voice of a far-far star is audible. The teamwork purpose (the present album) consisted, first of all, in desire to grope some integrity of a universe and attempt to find room for this perception in presented on seventy five minutes of a music material. Limited edition of 500 pieces, FAR-24... (more/buy)
	Robert Rich / Faryus - Zerkalo (faria category) (Price: $13.99) 2008. Tangential glimpses remotely echoed, untethered from touch. No time nor place, no past nor future, internal, external. Sculpting from energy, clouded motion vaguely slipping. Evanescent vibration, without meaning apart from its own open secret.... (more/buy)
	Martin Franklin & Michael Northam - An Opening of the Earth (faria category) (Price: $13.99) 2008. Reissue of strange and experimental out of print recording, this time on the Faria label. "Excavating the sonic crust with heavy synthesised drones, trebly buzzes and popping bursts of sound--eerie as hell." -Darren Bergstein, I/E (from review of original release)... (more/buy)
	Faryus & Vadim Bondarenko - 8 Atmospheres (faria category) (Price: $13.99) 2008. This album is the successful combination between two different worlds: bewitched electronics from Faryus and meditative parts of piano and clarinet from Vadim Bondarenko. In addition, this CD contains poetic video clip created by Alexander Sveshnikov... (more/buy)
	Vir Unis - Stand Still Like the Hummingbird (cdr) (AtmoWorks category) (Price: $12.99 cdr) 2009. New work from AtmoWorks artist and founder Vir Unis. In ways it is aligned with earlier work that Vir Unis did with Steve Roach or Saul Stokes and solo work like Mercury and Plastic as well as Book of Mutations. There are deep and ultraviolet colored aural landscapes to explore while geometrical images of rhythms and electro-acoustical hybrid grooves forge new paths..... (more/buy)
	Steve Brand - LightTools (cdr) (AtmoWorks category) (Price: $12.99 cdr) 2008. LightTools is Steve Brand's first long form piece, taking over a year to complete. Constructed of keyboard textures, bells and voice, this 63 minute piece takes the listener on a journey through brightly lit zones of intoning celestial choirs, only to submerge into volcanic, rumbling clouds of mercurial darkness, returning again to skscapes that are at once familiar, yet alien.... (more/buy)
	Steve Brand/Disturbed Earth - Broken Gold (cdr) (AtmoWorks category) (Price: $12.99 cdr) 2008. Broken Gold is a longform track composed by two very talented and prolific AtmoWorks' artists, Disturbed Earth & Steve Brand. Broken Gold seethes and undulates with a variety of very stereophonic and swirling atmospheric sounds that have been crafted by these two artists from their respective studios... (more/buy)
	Steve Brand - Because We Were Once Covered In Gold (cdr) (AtmoWorks category) (Price: $12.99 cdr) 2008. Steve Brand returns with his second AtmoWorks release, following up on the success of "SoulSpiral". His new release, "Because We Were Once Covered In Gold", is a 5-part journey through some of the most moving and subtly-textured ambient to date. Steve had this to say about the new release: "'Because We Were Once Covered In Gold' was created about the same time as my album, "Bridge to Nowhere," and both were inspired by channeled material I was reading at the time. The gyst of that material is that our natural state is that of masters of a unimaginable number of realms and selves, and that we are in fact, limitless and empowered multidimensional beings, only temporarily encased in flesh and bone. Through the channels, these beings recalled long forgotten civilizations, planets and cultures far grander and creatively rich than ancient Greece or Egypt. I began to get a real sense of the depth of time, of place and of feeling that I wanted to convey and recreate in music. There were times when working on 'Because We Were Once Covered In Gold' that I sat back and listened to what I had done (or what came through me) and thought, 'When did I do that? WHO did that?' Created almost entirely of keyboard textures, only occasionally punctuated with bells and natural sounds, this album is meant to be a key for journeying, rediscovering and connection."... (more/buy)
	Lucette Bourdin - Ancient Memories (cdr) (Dark Duck category) (Price: $12.99) Lucette Bourdin is an extremely talented musician who creates stunningly beautiful music, floating melodies, and wonderful textural ambience. This is her 3rd release on Dark Duck Records and continues in her beautiful floating drones style that can also be heard on all of her Dark Duck Records releases.... (more/buy)
	Lucette Bourdin - Drums and Repercussions (cdr) (Dark Duck category) (Price: $12.99) This CD is Lucette's 5th release on Dark Duck Records and with each subsequent release, her musical craft gets more and more focused, as well as introduces us to a whole new side of her sound. This release features her trademark ambient sounds, along with gentle beats and rhythms that fill the sound out and bring a whole new flavor to her palate of sound... (more/buy)
	Stephen Philips & Numina - Descent of the Falcon (cdr) (Dark Duck category) (Price: $12.99) On 10 May 2008, Stephen Philips went to Denver Colorado, entered the Mysterium, and embarked on yet another massive improvised jam with friend and talented ambient artist Numina (Jesse Sola). The approximately 6 hour jam revealed a variety of interesting things as these artists began to musically mind-meld. They ran the gamut of sounds and styles over these 6 hours and explored some new territory at the same time.... (more/buy)
	The Winterhouse - Lost (Blue Oasis/DataObscura category) (Price: $13.99) Follow-up to the acclaimed debut album on Blue Oasis, Slow Promises, by the combined talents of Robert Davies and Anthony Paul Kerby (The Circular Ruins, Lammergeyer, Nunc Stans). The drone mastery of Davies is overlaid with Kerby's melodic subtlety and sonic creativity in an organic, addictive, and flowing musical narrative. Much of the music has a brooding vastness and grainy density, with scatterings of embedded field recordings and curious sound baubles. These are melancholic stories of loss and isolation, but told with an artist's eye for the beauty of it all. Lost stands as another testament to the power and depth of contemporary ambient music and its ability to open remarkable sonic vistas and meaningful moving landscapes... (more/buy)
	Entia Non - Updrafts (Blue Oasis/DataObscura category) (Price: $13.99) On Updrafts, Australian sound artist James McDougall serves up another gorgeous helping of scrambled field recordings, reconstructions, brittle textures, warm mechanisms, environmental rumblings, and a host of minute sonic abstractions and abrasions. The aural canvas is a rich shimmering, and sometimes skittering, collage of our human sound-world. Ripe with details, subtle developments, and underlying ambience, but flowing down unforseen channels like a stream-of-consciousness narrative. Microtonal and minimal, yet often lush and so very human, Updrafts is a welling up of the sonic world surrounding us every day. It is a testament to a world heard ... but not heard. An admirable follow-up release to the earlier Fold.... (more/buy)
	Robert Davies - Geography of Memory (Blue Oasis/DataObscura category) (Price: $13.99) There is a thread running through all of Davies' work, it can perhaps best be named phantasy. Song titles signify these very visual, phantastic worlds, and the music moves us through them as in a dream. We drift, transfixed, within uncertain landscapes suffused with evolving visions, shadows, and apparitions. The land of faerie, of phantoms, and of the unconscious. Robert's music is founded in this subterranean, subconscious realm, and is grounded with deep drones that gently weave a sombre and mysterious web of enveloping sound through which we return to something more primal, but also to something more magical.... (more/buy)
	Deepspace - The Glittering Domain (Ltd CDR) (Hypnos Secret Sounds section) (Price: $9.99, ltd cdr) 2008. Deepspace is a pseudonym for Mirko Ruckels, a German-born ambient/electronic musician who now resides in Brisbane, Australia. His previous releases have been self-released, and The Glittering Domain is his debut on Hypnos Secret Sounds. We at Hypnos view Deepspace as one of the top up-and-coming ambient music talents of the past few years, and electroambientspace.com agrees, naming him New Artist of the Year for 2007 and saying: "Mirko Ruckels is a great new talent, a cross between Steve Roach and Stars of the Lid, with a dash of Budd and Eno." Abstract and definitely "ambient" in nature, The Glittering Domain simultaneously exhibits a strong musical sensibility, with a sound and structure reminiscent of artists such as Vidna Obmana and Numina. Though Hypnos may be best known for unstructured "drone" style recordings, we really enjoy a recording like this one that has more of a tonal basis. Deepspace described by stillstream.com: "Lush, exquisite, flawless, refined, striking, beautiful... we could go on and on with adjectives to describe the music of Deepspace. One of our favorite discoveries in the past year, this is an artist to keep a close eye on - and one we encourage all our listeners to visit right away." Track listing, with mp3 sample clips: Introduction- The Chord of the Abyss MP3 clip Encountering Giants MP3 clip The Colossals MP3 clip Crushed by the Weight of Angels MP3 clip Elevenward MP3 clip Lacrimosa's Visitation MP3 clip The Glittering Domain MP3 clip The Sleeper (Close) MP3 clip... (more/buy)
	Ron Boots - See Beyond Times - Look Beyond Words (groove category) (Price: $13.99) "Obscure loops minimalisms are stumbling pitch in the misty corridors of a dreamlike hypnosis. Immerged cosmic waves, these circles become more aerated rambling under a single pulsation which wanders among consistent synth layers borrowing the perfume of a soft vocal breeze." -Sylvain Lupari, Guts Of Darkness... (more/buy)
	Birds of Tin - Rinpoche (Ltd CDR) (Hypnos Secret Sounds section) (Price: $11.99, ltd cdr) 2008. Birds of Tin is a pseudonym for experimental sound artist Brooke Oates. He has previously collaborated with Rapoon and Augur (Steve Brand), and released several solo and collaborative works on a variety of labels, most notably Manifold and Mystery Sea. We are pleased to announce the first release by Birds of Tin, Rinpoche, on the Hypnos Secret Sounds sub-label. This recording comes from an in-studio live improvisation from 2002, and covers a strange and varied sonic territory. Working in the realm of sound art as much as "music," the artist creates an effect that is hypnotic and at times seemingly psychoactive. "Birds Of Tin is the one man project of Brooke Oates and there has been no new release since 2004. That perhaps might be right, since the recordings here on 'Rinpoche' were improvised in 2002. Birds Of Tin had releases on Manifold, Solipsism, Mystery Sea and XZF. What Oates does here is pretty much outside the lines of Hypnos: no finely woven tapestries of synthesizers, but a likewise finely woven pattern of all sorts of heavily treated sound objects. Lots of echo and reverb on the tea cups that is. Two pieces, together spanning some seventy-five minutes, whereas one would have been enough. Another difference is the improvisational aspect of the music, also not unlike Hypnos. Birds Of Tin seems to me a man who loves his record collection - don't we all - and particularly records by zoviet*france and to a lesser extent Rapoon. Sometimes things are a bit too haphazard in the way its put together, but then in other moments he proofs to be capable of producing a nice tune. A pair of scissors to splice the tape would be handy though." --Reviewed by Frans DeWaard, Vital Weekly Track listing (with mp3 sample clips): 1 mp3 2 mp3... (more/buy)
	Augur and Birds of Tin - Strange Seeds come from Odd Flowers (Steve Brand category) (Price: $11.99) As we get ready to release our first project by Birds of Tin, we're happy to offer this earlier recording which was a collaboration between Birds of Tin, and Steve Brand's earlier musical identity, Augur. "Solo and collaborative tracks from these two musicians. Excellent atmospheric electronics and found sounds. Very highly recommended." -Self Abuse Records... (more/buy)
	Numina - Sound Symbols (Numina category) (Price: $12.99) 2008. Description by Numina: "This was a 3-year work in progress which started out as the Almost Live project for the Ambient Ping download project. Over the years I expanded it with the intention of releasing this as a full-length album but it got sidetracked until November 2008 when I had some time to not only re-mix and re-master the original but also add brand new material throughout and what developed is "Sound Symbols."... (more/buy)
	Various - Echoes of Polyhymnia (Hypnos label) (Price: $9.99) 2008. New, special price! Polyhymnia was one of the Muses of Greek myth, specifically the Muse of sacred hymn. Echoes of Polyhymnia compiles music in ambient and related genres composed and recorded exclusively by women. This genre is so male-dominated generally that we had a lot of fun gathering interesting ambient sounds, including some works that have one foot in ambient territory and another foot in one of several different, related genres. It covers styles and flavors as diverse as ambient, drone, glitch, vocal collage, goth and electronica. Hypnos manager (and artist) Lena Griffin curated this specially-themed compilation which gathers an assortment of ambient & atmospheric sound works from around the world. This project reveals a totally new angle on ambient music, more diverse and wide-ranging than all previous ambient compilations from Hypnos. Ranging from ethereal to dark to pretty to spooky to melodic, we think this album displays a solidly worthwhile musical and soundscape content beyond just the curiosity and "I've never seen that before" factor of the theme. "The nine Muses struck up a lifestirring melody. Polyhymnia, nursingmother of the dance, waved her arms and sketched in the air an image of a soundless voice, speaking with hands and moving eyes in a graphic picture of silence full of meaning." --The Dionysiaca of Nonnus Track listing with mp3 sample clips: 1. Margaret Noble: "Nufon" mp3 2. Stellaria Fennica: "Hibernia" mp3 3. Kristin Miltner: "Slew Wave" mp3 4. Clarissa Borba: "Floating Tones" mp3 5. Sara Ayers: "There Was No More Time" mp3 6. Rose Bolton: "An Unheard Message" mp3 7. Gydja: "Wave-Particle Duality" mp3 8. The Floating World: "Kanam" mp3 9. K. Cornelius: "Of The Ancients" mp3 10. Lena Griffin: "She Forgot, She Dreamed" mp3 ... (more/buy)
	Ben Fleury-Steiner - Drifts (Ltd CDR) (Hypnos Secret Sounds section) (Price: $11.99, ltd cdr) 2008. Hypnos Secret Sounds reissue of an out-of-print early release on Fleury-Steiner's own Gears of Sand label. Drifts is a nice set of electronic ambient tracks combining different repeating loops which overlap at different rates, falling (or drifting?) in and out of sync with one another, creating ever-changing organic ambient textures. Mastered by Robert Rich... (more/buy)
	Saul Stokes - Villa Galaxia (Binary section) (Price: $12.99) 2008. Always one of the most popular artists on the Hypnos and Binary labels through the years, Saul Stokes is also one we've been very proud to "launch" into the ambient/electronica world, going back to Saul's first album which was also the first album on Hypnos, Washed in Mercury in 1997. The first new work by Saul Stokes on Hypnos/Binary since Fields in 2005, this is certainly one of the most anticipated discs we've released in years. Saul Stokes says: Stokesí 8th solo album to date, Villa Galaxia is a hyperfusion of sonic exploration seeded in Stokesí seminary music past, while arcing into a completely new genre defining collection of songs. Stripping away any notion of ambient drone or chill out labeling, Villa Galaxia surfs its own ocean of contemporary electronic music culture with eccentric listenable experimentalism wrapped in catchy lyrical orchestras of electronic fireworks.... (more/buy)
	Igneous Flame / Achromus - Flicker (Miscellaneous category) (Price: $13.99) 2008. Flicker is primarily tonal with an under-current of ethereal mystery and depth. Constructed from Achromus's synth textures and Igneous Flame's e-bow guitar lines and abstracted harmonic shapes, melodic phrases are woven around tonally shifting soundscapes. The album's dark luminosity shines throughout. Composition, guitar, sound-design and production by Igneous Flame Composition and synths/pads (source sounds) by Achromus... (more/buy)
	Celer - The Everything and the Nothing (Infraction category) (Price: $14.99) 2008. Celer is a husband (Will) and wife (Danielle) duo from California that use a variety of strings as the basis for their sound. Cello, viola, violin and the sounds are mixed in with field recordings, choir, live theremin and then tape spliced and re-assembled in varying lengths to create a loop base. Those sounds are then sampled, layered and processed. The result is a shimmering orchestra. Periods of silence between the notes only enhance the sound. Though at times very haunting, it's brightly hazy ambient. Initially "Discourses..." was to be 1 full-length CD with a bonus CDR (The Everything and the Nothing) to accompany the first 100 copies. When Celer presented the bonus material, with field recordings mixed in obtained by Danielle over several months in India, the quality of the material was so high that it was suggested and agreed to instead be a concurrent release of two full-length discs. Edition of 300... (more/buy)
	Matt Borghi - December Impressions (Ltd CDR) (Hypnos Secret Sounds section) (Price: $11.99, ltd cdr) 2008. We here at Hypnos have long enjoyed Matt Borghi's subtle atmospheric ambient music, and believed it deserved more attention. Many of Matt's CDs are out of print, and we've agreed to re-issue a series of our favorite recordings on the Hypnos Secret Sounds imprint. Simple, restrained, and artful, these recordings deserve to remain in print, and we hope these reissues will help introduce more of today's ambient music listeners to the work of this important artist. Following our release of Huronic Minor a few months back, here we announce the second part of our Borghi reissue series, December Impressions. Matt says: December Impressions was conceived, and recorded during the spring of 2001. This is a dark, cold, and steely recording that borders more on tone poem than full LP release. The tracks are named as sequences, representing parts of the same whole, and a cohesive linear listen rather than a variety of separate tracks of the same mood. With this release there was an attempt to represent the cold Michigan winters, or at least the sound of the Michigan landscape during the dark winter m onths. While this recording is truly ambient, and contemplative in nature it's also quite gritty and cold. This doesn't have the warm, lush synth pad chordings that many ambient recordings are known for. Comparisons for this recording are difficult becuase there's not a whole lot out there that sounds like it, but comparisons to Robert Rich, VidnaObmana, Alio Die, and Zoviet France might be appropriate. *Additional Composer's Note - December Impressions came to be in a weird compositional period. This recording used, as it's source, a handful of pieces composed a few months earlier when I was working on Elegy for Time. Once I developed these guitar pieces I then dabbled with composing for frequencies alone. I focused on using low-end frequencies between 100 and 500hz, and I focused on high-end frequencies from 1Khz - 12Khz. This recording truly embodied the conceptual process of painting with frequencies. I organized the frequencies wholly on how they worked with regard to creating a steely, icy mood of a Michigan December landscape, even though, this work was actually being composed in the early spring. December Impressions eventually turned into a stark, and cold kind of ambient soundtrack. I like the direction that this recording took, but after it's completion I had satisfied my experiments with 'frequency painting'. Track listing: 1. Part I MP3 2. Part II 3. Part III 4. Part IV 5. Part V MP3 6. Part VI 7. Part VII 8. Part VIII 9. Part IX 10. Part X 11. Part XI MP3... (more/buy)
	Various - Message from a Subatomic World (Hypnos label) (Price: $12.99)2008. Having not released any various-artists compilations in the past decade, Hypnos released in 2007 a new compilation Sounds of a Universe Overheard featuring a diverse array of ambient soundscape artists from around the world. We are proud to follow last year's release with its "mirror image" compilation, which we believe meets or exceeds that high standard. Here are another 10 exclusive tracks by 10 artists who have not appeared on Hypnos compilations before, though some of these artists will certainly be familiar to followers of our label. Message From a Subatomic World in comparison to its predecessor is perhaps a bit more abstract and deep-space, more mysterious and strange, whereas Sounds of a Universe Overheard is a bit more musical and structured overall. More information about THE ARTISTS... THE TRACKS, with mp3 samples: Austere - Crystil mp3 Evan Bartholomew - Sacrosanct mp3 Relapxych.0 - Distant Radiance mp3 Numina - Nadir Ever Spirals mp3 Jason Sloan - faded.forgotten [trace] mp3 Phaenon - Quantum Silence mp3 Stephen Philips - Down Deep mp3 True Color of Blood - Choosing to Remain Blind mp3 Svartsinn - Cold But Strong mp3 Oophoi - Icelight mp3... (more/buy)
	Hakobune - Melting Reminiscence (ltd. 3" mini cdr) (Waterscape category) (Price: $10.99, ltd 3" mini-cdr) 2008. Melting Reminiscence is a blissful journey into a world of fuzzed out guitar dreams and a good portion of ambient. There are actual 2 pieces on this disc. The first one titled Yukidaruma which is the Japanese word for snowman. A wonderful drift into a piano dominated drone, with an incredibly warm and cozy atmosphere. The second piece entitled "Melting Reminiscence" is the longer of both songs. A shoegaze driven guitar drone into cotton clouds of sustain. No need to say anything more except that this is essential for lovers of the ambient guitar drone genre... (more/buy)
	Apalusa - Live from the Dry Valley's (ltd. 3" mini cdr) (Waterscape category) (Price: $10.99, ltd 3" mini-cdr) 2008. Live From The Dry Valley's is an almost 19 minute long guitar drone. Starting really slow just to catch your attention while it is building more and more until it reaches the climax which is a wonderful mesmerising layer of guitar tones with tremolo effect on it. In some way this could be compared to Fear Falls Burning, just with the exception, that Apalusa is hiking on the bright and warm side of the mighy guitar drone. Highly recommended to all lovers of the guitar drone... (more/buy)
	Peter Wright - Burning a Hole in the Sun (ltd. 3" mini-cdr) (Waterscape category) (Price: $10.99, ltd 3" mini-cdr) 2008. Peter Wright should not be a stranger for those who are into guitar drone music. So its my pleasure to bring you his newest release as a 3" cd-r. Burning A Hole In The Sun is not what you expect, when you read Peter's Name. This one is far away from beeing soft and cuddly. Instead, its a slowly progressing guitar drone that starts low in volume and ends on the other side of the peak meter. Really noisy and aggressive stuff on this release.... (more/buy)
	Sean Reardon - A Collection of Origins (ltd. cd) (Waterscape category) (Price: $13.99) 2008. A shimmering and glitchy mix of guitar manipulations made between 2007 and 2008... (more/buy)
	Aidan Baker & Jakob Thiesen - A Bout De Souffle (ltd. cd) (Waterscape category) (Price: $13.99) 2008. A Bout De Souffle is a 54 min Collaboration between Aidan Baker (who is also known as Nadja together with Leah Buckareff) and Percussionist Jakob Thiesen (who recently joined baker live on stage to play live drums). Aidan baker is famous for his experimental guitar music. This time things are a bit different. You wont find the typical Aidan Baker drone stuff here, but instead both men created an incredible journey through the fields of krautrock, Psychedelic and drone music. The Percussion of Jakob Thiesen adds a certain deepness to Bakers guitar explorations were he also uses bass and acoustic guitar to build an mind blowing album full of surprises and wonderful melodies... (more/buy)
	William Basinski + Richard Chartier - Untitled 1-3 (William Basinski category) (Price: $14.99) 2008. Reissue of an interesting collaboration that quickly went out of print in its original edition. Both Basinski and Chartier are on the more experimental or minimal side of the ambient music world, but we've found many Hypnos store customers to be interested in both artists. "New, updated and remastered version of William Basinski and Richard Chartier's universally acclaimed work Untitled 1-2. Originally released in 2004 on the noted Japanese label Spekk, the original edition of 1300 sold out within 2 months. This new version Untitled 1-3 includes two new works, Untitled 3 and Untitled 3 (reprise), and has been remastered with care by Taylor Deupree. Untitled 1 contains Chartier elements from 1991-1992 and Basinski elements from 2003 using the Voyetra 8. 'Untitled 2' contains Chartier elements from 2003 and Basinski tape loops from 1981 and 2001 using the Voyetra 8. Untitled 3/3 (reprise) contain Chartier elements from 1993 and the 2006 sound installation Mixing Desk commissioned for the Bleeding Edge Festival at the Montalvo Arts Center in Saratoga, California and Basinski elements from 1997 using the Voyetra 8. Untitled 3 mixed by Basinski. Untitled 3(reprise) mixed by Chartier." --Reviewed by forcedexposure.com... (more/buy)
	Celer - Discourses of the Withered (Infraction category) (Price: $14.99) 2008. "Celer is a husband (Will) and wife (Danielle) duo from California that use a variety of strings as the basis for their sound. Cello, viola, violin are mixed in with field recordings, choir, live Theremin and then tape spliced and re-assembled in varying lengths to create a loop base. Those sounds are then sampled, layered and processed. The result is a shimmering orchestra. Periods of silence between the notes only enhance the sound. Though at times very haunting, it's brightly hazy ambient." Reviewed by forcedexposure.com... (more/buy)
	Mark Tamea - Buried Traktora (cdr) (Atmoworks category) (Price: $12.99 cdr) Buried Traktora is a composition inspired by the notion that matter is a conduit enabling consciousness to travel through time. Reincarnation, shape-shifting and pagan magick are related themes which guided the arrangements. The album is constructed from field recordings, processed environments, plus various treated electronic and acoustic instruments. Track listing: Switched Behold, Orderly Digits Odium Legolum (EQRA Mix) Legolum (A.E.F. Mix) What We Know, Triplicate Bardo Proviso Witch Become Child... (more/buy)
	Igneous Flame / Achromus - Halo (cdr) (Atmoworks category) (Price: $12.99 cdr) 2008. ‘HALO’ is a hypnotic, visceral and primarily textural long-form work, vivid in colour and dynamics, ranging from intensely industrial to pastoral with an underlying esoteric subtlety present throughout.A significant element of the album is the result of extensive sound-design and spatial processing, for which headphone listening is recommended. Production by Igneous FlameComposition by Igneous Flame / Achromus Track Listing Arc Light Halo... (more/buy)
	Exuviae - Response (cdr) (Atmoworks category) (Price: $12.99 cdr) Originally released on AtmoWorks in 2002 in CDR format. On Response, Exuviae explores various synthesis types, electric guitar, and sampled drones. Both dark and light - often simultaneously - Response collects together a series of pieces designed as a reaction to the world around us. Rereleased July 25, 2008 in 320 kbps mp3 download and CDR formats. Track Listing Synthetic Alignment Liquid Soil Shapes Dustfilm Cocoon Burgundy Smear Timeflurry Primordial Surroundings Reaction . Response Pools Under The Blaze... (more/buy)
	Exuviae - Settling Density (cdr) (Atmoworks category) (Price: $12.99 cdr) Originally released in CDR format on AtmoWorks in 2001. Settling Density is a sister-album to Exuviae's earlier release on Green House Music, "Echoes in the Emptiness". Settling Density is a collection of ambient passages that focus on dense atmospherics and subtle harmony. Re-released July 25, 2008 in 320 kbps mp3 download and CDR formats. Track Listing Aquaphoria A Pinprick In The Glass Through Sheets Of Mist Forever And A Day Inside Voices The Wall Of Sleep Without A Host Still So Far... (more/buy)
	Juxta Phona & Offthesky - !Escape Kit! (miscellaneous category) (Price: $15.99) 2008. Transmitting from an alternate universe where David Lynch is supreme diety, the orb's pomme fritz is the national anthem, and flanger and pole are the world's most venerated heroes, Juxta Phona & Offthesky set forth a treatise of intelligent and challenging electronic music. sliding through a series of surrealist landscapes , this album embeds texture and feeling into your subconscious through dense and smoky occult electro-jazz rites. capturing a prismatic work reflecting both organic and digital faces, Somnia is proud to release this unique and highly visual experience. Limited to 777 copies worldwide, soy inks on recycled paper, sewn and sealed in wax with incredible cover art by Ray Massini... (more/buy)
	Sans Serif - Tones for LaMonte (Ltd CDR) (Hypnos Secret Sounds section) (Price: $11.99, ltd cdr) 2008. Sans Serif is an alter ego of Forrest Fang, the talented multi-instrumentalist and composer whose most recent solo album Gongland was released on Projekt in 2000. He has also collaborated with Carl Weingarten on the album Invisibility released on The Foundry, as well as contributing instrumentally to the works of other artists such as Robert Rich. Unlike the more traditionally structured and "musical" work Fang releases under his own name, the Sans Serif project is focused on minimalism. This project in particular is a tribute to the influential minimalist composer LaMonte Young, whose work was known for the use of long, sustained tones and alternate tunings. Tones for LaMonte bridges the two, related worlds of avant-garde classical influence, and modern ambient drone. Track listing, with mp3 sample clips: 1. Alpha mp3 2. Omega mp3 3. Gamma mp3 4. Delta mp3 5. Theta mp3 6. (infinity) mp3... (more/buy)
	Steve Brand - SoulSpiral (Atmoworks category) (Price: $12.99) 2008. AtmoWorks is proud to release SoulSpiral by Steve Brand! Steve wrote about the album on his blog in the AtmoWorks community and he describes the album in a wonderfully personal way... "SoulSpiral" represents a new phase of work for me, in which I felt the desire to explore the creation of longer, more dense zones which unfold slowly over longer periods of time, as opposed to shorter "songs." The album consists of 2 long tracks, each timing in at over 30 minutes. The first track, "SoulSpiral," is dense mass of ever-shifting drift formed from layers of keyboard, voice and didg textures. Zones change, overlap, shift gradually, letting in more light, then obscuring, designed to take the listener deeper and deeper. The second track, "Worldmaker," begins with a clarion call of deep Tibetan horns. There is a more terrestrial feel here than with the previous. Kora, bells, voice, drums and more densely layered whistling, droning, thunderous textures reach out from the depths of distant timelines. While the first track initiates the journey, "Worldmaker" brings the listener to the other side, into dimly lit worlds, other possible universes, other possible selves. "SoulSpiral" was in part, inspired by the stream of stunning photos from Hubbell and NASA of worlds taking shape, and by channeled writings that I've been immersed in over the past few years by Jane Roberts/Seth, Lee Carrol/Kryon, Geoffrey Hoppe/Tobias, Barbara Marciniak, Pamela Kribbe/Jesuha and JZ Knight/Ramtha; these books address the expansiveness of consciousness in and around us, and our true creative nature as Human Beings, as opposed to the more limited and limiting one sold to us by organizations, popular culture and advertising. Track listing with MP3 sample clips: 1. SoulSpiral 2. Worldmaker... (more/buy)
	Jonathan Hughes - Circumflex (Atmoworks category) (Price: $12.99) 2008. Jonathan Hughes' debut album for AtmoWorks. In Jonathan's words from the liner notes: "I'm a big fan of words in general, but specifically of words that evoke a certain feeling or image, but mean something completely unrelated. I'm also a fan of the minutiae that makes up the language of various industries. The titles for all the tracks on Circumflex are typographical terms. To me, these particular words sound like they'd be equally at home in a document from NASA as they would in a book about graphic design. I wish I could say that the titles had some deep connection to the music, but nope -- they just sounded cool." Jonathan has previously released acclaimed albums on The Foundry label including Trillium and the virtual collaboration project, Fluidities, where each track on cd1 could be played randomly with tracks from cd2.... (more/buy)
	Vir Unis/ Disturbed Earth - Drawn from the Well (Atmoworks category) (Price: $12.99) 2008. Disturbed Earth and Vir Unis have teamed up to bring you a three long track journey into pastoral tones and ethereal shades of sheer atmospherics. Recorded in late spring of this year, these two artists trading tracks over the net, were so happy with the results, they've decided to record a series of albums with this process. Drawn From the Well is the first part of this collaborative series between these two. Track listing and MP3 preview files: Flicker Relinquish Velvet World... (more/buy)
	Steve Brand - Bridge to Nowhere (Ltd CDR) (Hypnos Secret Sounds section) (Price: $11.99, ltd cdr) 2008. Steve Brand has just recently started releasing music under his own name, after more than 20 releases in the experimental realm under the name "Augur." Now Brand has a number of recordings scheduled for release on Hypnos, and also on the AtmoWorks label, and the first of these is Bridge to Nowhere. Brand's work has always had a ritualistic element, and sound sources include: medicine drum, udu, rattles, various flutes, bells, conch shell, thumb piano, cora, Indian fiddle, found, natural and handmade objects, voice, field recordings and keyboards. Bridge to Nowhere is a spacious, slow-breathing exploration of a meditative state, and nowhere in Brand's work is the ritualistic element more present than in this case. Ambient music in general is often considered to be "spacy" or conducive to altered states of consciousness in general, but this music specifically seems exploratory, meditative, and even a bit "druggy" and strange. As fans of this music ourselves, we particularly love it when an artist seems genuinely to have tapped into a reality outside our own -- to have slowed down the world or distorted it, or viewed things through a prism or kaleidoscope. The work of Steve Brand functions in this way, and we're pleased to be able to deliver this incredible, no-side-effects sound trip, to Hypnos listeners! Track listing, with mp3 sample clips: 1. Bridge to Nowhere 1 - (14:43) - mp3 clip 2. Breathing Light - (20:40) - mp3 clip 3. Bridge to Nowhere 2 - (20:00) - mp3 clip 4. Through the Lens of Love - (20:00) - mp3 clip... (more/buy)
	M. Griffin - Fabrications (Hypnos label) (Price: $12.99) 2008. Originally announced in 1997 as the follow-up by Hypnos founder Mike Griffin to his debut Sudden Dark, Fabrications has been reworked, abandoned, restarted from scratch, back-burnered, reimagined, and left frozen in carbonite. Among those who have followed Hypnos from the beginning, Fabrications achieved a certain notoriety as the album always promised for release in the coming year, which never quite arrived. 2008 is finally the year in which Fabrications is revealed, perhaps appropriate for the 10-year anniversary of its original planned release date, 1998. Generally known as an ambient minimalist, utilizing synthesizers for most of his work, this time M. Griffin took advantage of "real world" sounds, captured with binaural microphones using a portable digital audio recorder. For this release, Griffin built up collages of numerous location recording elements, including cars driving on freeways, people walking in long echoing hallways, the ocean waves in Kona at night, a metalworking factory with heavy machinery crunching away, distant trains, and clothes driers. These elements were manipulated, combined, worked-on and re-worked, and overlaid with looped spoken elements later created by Griffin in the studio. The end result comes out something like the Zoviet France soundtrack to a David Lynch film, that is, a dark and dream-like collage of loops, spoken fragments, disembodied whispers, and the echo of far-off machinery... Track listing, with MP3 sample clips: Water is Silver Gravity Behind Air Sense Space Devise Sky is Glass Lit... (more/buy)
	Darkened Soul - Bathys (Ltd CDR) (Hypnos Secret Sounds section) (Price: $11.99, ltd cdr) 2008. Hypnos is pleased to announce Bathys, the first appearance on our label (in this case, our Hypnos Secret Sounds imprint) by Darkened Soul. The word "bathys" in Greek translates as "deep," and the rest of the titles here continue the Greek language theme. It's the root of the word "bathyscaph" which is a submersible vessel for deep sea exploration. "Deep" is relevant here, as this recording collects resonant dark ambient sounds into aural mixtures deep and spacious. This aural journey is evocative of a subterranean trek through wet, metal-walled tunnels, with gritty textures underfoot, and dripping sounds of water. Vague hints of machine-like sounds can be heard churning away in the distance. Bathys by Darkened Soul is an exercise in resonant dark ambient textures. Darkened Soul is a psydonym under which Mike Soucy records dark ambient soundscapes. His previous releases have been mostly self-released, though Hypnos followers may have seen his release Seasons of Dark and Light on Umbra, the Italian label operated by recording artist Oophoi. Track listing (with MP3 sample clips): 1 Eis Arthro Michani MP3 clip 2 Ateleiotos Agkareia MP3 clip 3 Mysteriodis MP3 clip 4 Trela MP3 clip 5 Ypexairesi MP3 clip 6 Bathys MP3 clip>... (more/buy)
	Various Artists - Perceived Distances (Blue Oasis category) (Price: $13.99) 2008. "Perceived Distances is an anthology CD that represents the Ambient aesthetic of the Blue Oasis label. Works by Saul Stokes and Kwook express the more energetic side of this concern. With ear-friendly melodies and thought-pushing beats their tracks are wonderful jaunts across a diverse digital terrain. Other tracks on this collection exemplify explorations of tone in the broadest sense of the word. Through fascinating variations in timbre and texture music by the likes of The Circular Ruins, Off the Sky and Cymphonic produce a range of moody impressions and time-stretching atmospheres. These artists understand that negative space is much more than merely the area between two positive points. Subtle digital distortion, voices and noises imbue some of these realizations with a kind of environmental feel. In contrast, other tracks are full of air and light, and offer drifting moods at cosmic heights. As a collection, Perceived Distances works very well. It brings together 15 interesting musicians. By provoking the listener to reflection, it works even better as a statement on the genre - proclaiming the power of this music to be greater than the individual." --Chuck van Zyl-STARS END... (more/buy)
	Rumforskning - Livstegn (Blue Oasis category) (Price: $13.99) 2008. "A worthy successor to Fremtiden, this one again serves up healthy portions of deep dark ambience with a dash of glitch for good measure. The atmosphere is stark, cold, like a stripped-down version of Biosphere." --Phil Derby... (more/buy)
	Lammergeyer - Beneath the Sky (Blue Oasis category) (Price: $13.99) 2008. "Composed and performed by Anthony Paul Kerby (Canada) Lammergeyer combines a feel for moody, poetic, detailed, and immersive electronic soundscapes with subtle and haunting melodic elements. The overall effect resembles music composed for some imagined film; a film where events are viewed from a bird's eye view. This is a sophisticated music; on the one hand a music of mysterious etherial heights, as though riding thermals across wide mountain valleys, rocky chasms, broad estuaries .... and on the other a music of deep intimacy." --Soleilmoon Recordings... (more/buy)
	Cymphonic - Phonema Sacrata (Blue Oasis/ Dataobscura category) (Price: $13.99) "The eight small tracks on Phonema Sacrata (53'17") by Cymphonic do not stimulate the edges of the listener's ears the way long-form pieces do, but rather they open outward in the mind. This music stimulates every part of the brain, and may provide a bit of reprogramming - it absolutely does inspire abstract thoughts. Swinging wider than most, the work hangs together in a sort of dream-state narrative. A mesmerizing mix of original electronic sounds, recurring evocative themes, dreamy rhythms, grainy samples and unique pacing, Phonema Sacrata is an imagination finding form in music. It is a work inhabiting its own territory. Seeming to deal with the sleeper and his access to other worlds, Cymphonic develops a brilliantly shaped hallucinatory landscape. The transitions between tracks are masterful and the work evokes a strange new place at each turn. This album provides a fascinating ambient encounter. The most challenging part is in returning to the reality the listening experience transports us away from." --Chuck van Zyl/STARS END... (more/buy)
	Entia Non - Fold (Blue Oasis/ Dataobscura category) (Price: $13.99) "Shimmering glitchy samples and field recordings expertly woven into deep, warm, imaginative sonic experiences. Experimental ambient that rewards close listening. Loaded with a host of intriguing sounds, microsounds, ambient washes, and attention to detail. I recommend headphones to get full enjoyment from this release... (more/buy)
	Robert Davies - Garden of Twilight (Blue Oasis/ Dataobscura category) (Price: $13.99) "Robert Davies, whose album Sub Rosa landed on my best of 2006 list, turns his minimalist ambient eye on a landscape less melancholic (and melodic) on Garden of Twilight, a worthy follow-up but one that is (for me) more satisfying from an intellectual and aesthetic level than from an emotional one. That comment doesn’t mean this is a poor album, however. Davies works in much more subdued and subtle vein than he did on Sub Rosa. For ambientphiles who enjoy drifting minimalism with just a hint of melody among the washes, textures, drones and effects, Garden of Twilight will probably prove to be a garden of Delight." --Bill Binkelman, Wind and Wire... (more/buy)
	Robert Davies - Shadow Dreams (Blue Oasis/ Dataobscura category) (Price: $18.99) Two disk set of new droneworks by Robert Davies. Over two hours. The first, Aura Sublime, is a flawless meditative, pastoral treat. The second, In Darkness Dreaming, draws the listener into slightly darker realms of dreams and brooding enigmas. In the tradition of Mathias Grassow and Oophoi... (more/buy)
	Matt Borghi - Huronic Minor (Ltd CDR) (Hypnos Secret Sounds section) (Price: $11.99, ltd cdr) 2008. We here at Hypnos have long enjoyed Matt Borghi's subtle atmospheric ambient music, and believed it deserved more attention. Many of Matt's CDs are out of print, and we've agreed to re-issue a series of our favorite recordings on the Hypnos Secret Sounds imprint. The first of these Matt Borghi reissues will be Huronic Minor. Simple, restrained, and artful, these recordings deserve to remain in print, and we hope these reissues will help introduce more of today's ambient music listeners to the work of this important artist. "...drifting ambient music par excellence. Matt's forte is similar to that of Stephen Philips' - the ability to meld subtle synthesizer shadings and drones into mesmerizing cloud-like tone poems. I never got bored with this CD, although if a non-ambient fan would listen to it, he or she might think the sound was monotonous. But that is true ambient music¹s appeal. A startling shift of abrupt change calls attention to the music, thereby making it "non-ambient." Huronic Minor is that rarest of ambient releases, i.e. a joy to listen to in silence and be consumed by or equally effective played softly in the background as a sonic antidote for one's own confused or stressed out world so to speak. However one listens ton this highly recommended recording, the CD¹s worth and artistry are unmistakable..." --Reviewed by Bill Binkelman, Wind and Wire (www.windandwire.com)... (more/buy)
	Jason Sloan - Static (Waterscape category) (Price: $13.99) 2008. "STATIC is a 22 min piece that is divided into two movements. The first is comprised of mostly organ sounds with a small amount of guitar, and the second is guitar only, which builds eventually into a wall of pure sound. One may be heavily reminded of Steve Roach's approach to space music. Highly recommended for space music fans and fans of shoegaze." - Waterscape Records... (more/buy)
	True Colour of Blood - The Cave of Knowlege (Waterscape category) (Price: $13.99) 2008. "Eric Kesner is the man behind True Colour of Blood. The Cave of Knowledge is a 22 min drone. Kestner perfectly combines dark ambient moments with minutes of pure clarity. Like most of the Waterscape releases this is a pure blessing for headphone trips into a world of shimmering guitar drones and ambient soundscapes." - Waterscape Records... (more/buy)
	Taiga Remains - Descend from Ivory Cliffs (Waterscape category) (Price: $13.99) 2008. "Taiga Remains is Alex Cobb, who is also the man behind the Students of Decay Label in America. Descend from Ivory Cliffs is an almost 23 min drone-epic that mixes some of the most beautiful melodies your ear has ever listened to." - Waterscape Records... (more/buy)
	A Produce - The Clearing (A Produce category) (Price: $13.99 cdr) 2008. Reissue of an early A Produce project, never before released on CD and somewhat of a departure from his later work. Trance Port is proud to release the final A Produce re-issue of his first album (1988), "The Clearing." "The Clearing" was originally released in 1988 in an edition of 500 LP’s. At the time, AP considered it “an album of conceptual space.” It was also very much a transitional album, AP having gone from playing guitar in the “dark dance band” Afterimage in the early 80’s to where he was headed musically and creatively in the 90’s on up to the present. The notion of the Trance Port label also evolved in the early 80’s, first as a cassette releasing label of what was evolving as the “L.A. underground” music scene. Many of the artists AP met during that time appeared on the two "L.A. Mantra" compilations issued on Trance Port during those years. Many also appeared on the tracks of "The Clearing" project. AP is thankful for those artists’ varied contributions on this album. It would not have turned out as well and as interesting a project without them. After release of "The Clearing" LP, A Produce began to drift into more space/ambient realms. Some of "The Clearing’s" original tracks have appeared on later compilations of my work. This is the first time the entire album has been rejoined as the whole it originally came from. An added “lost” track has been included on this CD release to complete the experience. For this release, all track tracks have been remastered by Loren Nerell and AP... (more/buy)
	Sense Project - The Sublime (Ltd 2CDR) (Hypnos Secret Sounds section) (Price: $14.99, ltd 2cdr) 2008. This release is a departure for the Hypnos Secret Sounds imprint in that it will be a two disc set. Sense Project is an alter-ego of Robert Logan, who releases experimental electronic music under his true name, including the truly amazing debut CD Cognessence. Robert also composed the music for Alex Gibney's Oscar-winning documentary feature 'Taxi to the Darkside' along with Ivor Guest and Philip Sheppard. The Sublime careens from drone ambient, to churning, confrontational Aphex Twin style rhythms, with perhaps more rich and diverse sound content than any album we've ever released. Normally we'd have reservations about releasing a double CD by a young, emerging artist but this one justifies its duration without question. If you're not sure about buying an ambient 2CDR release by an artist unknown to you, just give the MP3 sample clips a try. Track listing, with MP3 clips: CD. 1 "The Sublime Part I" 1.) Vidék MP3 clip 2.) Rain Chimes (featuring Andrea Black on vocals) MP3 clip 3.) A Moment MP3 clip 4.) Solar Insect MP3 clip 5.) The Sublime MP3 clip 6.) Garden (featuring Sarah Sarhandi on viola) MP3 clip 7.) Isten MP3 clip 8.) Éjjel MP3 clip 9.) Death and After (featuring Francis Logan on violin) MP3 clip CD. 2 "The Sublime Part II"... (more/buy)
	Austere - Solyaris (Hypnos label) (Price: $12.99) 2008. This is a creative peak for this much-overlooked ambient duo, their first release on Hypnos, following their Hypnos Secret Sounds album Pulse in 2007. In their 10 years of productivity, Austere has covered territory from Pulse's drone minimalism , ranging back through odd and trippy Coil-inspired sonic experimentation, to seamless dark ambient, and occasionally glitchy weirdness. Despite some challenging material in their back catalog, Austere have in this case produced an album as friendly and pleasant as any Austere fan could have imagined possible, and yet without resorting to the usual tricks that make music sound "listenable." Bill Binkelman of Wind and Wire said of Austere: "Austere is an enigmatic duo who record some of the more interesting ambient music I've heard in my six plus years of reviewing. From the swirling drones (I was gonna say "dark" drones, but ....) and eerie melancholy of Monodia to the warmth and beauty amidst minimalism of Fade... Austere are less concerned with following the path and more concerned with breaking new ground. However, they are undoubtedly enigmatic, as one would glean from the above, and shun the spotlights of media and personality." And the Austere boys themselves, not normally prone to gushing or self-praise, say these words on the subject of this recording: "Solyaris, our first release for 2008 e.v. on the Hypnos label is major departure from our recent emphasis on Minimalist composition, but more in the direction started by our last release, mirror.shtml and is instead is a collection of recordings improvised and recorded "live" over a weekend session and are presented in their original form, unedited in any way aside from mastering by The Sound-O-Mat. The recordings turned out extremely well; it was obvious that our Muse(s) had visited us, and we were able to simply "let the tapes roll" and play, and this recording is made up from one track each from a recording session (we may release the rest at some later point.) We could not be more happy with the sound of this album — there was definitely something special about that weekend and it was one of those rare occasions where everything just seemed to come together without any effort, and we think this is reflected in the musick. The CD flows very nicely, and is one of the most uplifting and special CDs we have ever released. We hope that you might enjoy it at least half as much as we do." Track listing, with mp3 sample clips: 01 - Seraphim MP3 02 - Striae MP3 03 - Launch Sequence MP3 04 - Nictitate MP3... (more/buy)
	Jonathan Block - The Anatomy of Waves (ltd. cdr) (Hypnos Secret Sounds section) (Price: $11.99, cdr) 2008. Hypnos is very pleased to announce a new release by Jonathan Block on our Hypnos Secret Sounds imprint. Jonathan has previously worked with Hypnos, when his album Sonic Approach (under his alter-ego Synthetic Block) was released on our Binary sub-label. Also his track 'The Language of Rocks' heads off the most recent Hypnos compilation Sounds of a Universe Overheard.... (more/buy)
	Steve Roach - Arc of Passion (Steve Roach category) (Price: $18.99, 2CD) 2008. Latest from ambient music great, Steve Roach. "Steve Roach's new 2-CD set seamlessly fuses three long unfolding soundworlds into a vibrant sonic odyssey. The result can only be described as a living, breathing Arc of Passion. As one of the great pioneers of electronic music, Steve's career has many musical highpoints; Arc of Passion proves to be another definitive statement along the path. Advanced response from listeners places this album at the top of the long list of must-have releases from Steve’s body of work. Steve reaches into his sonic palette to weave elements of his three definitive styles into a continuous, evolving flow. Rich harmonic chords, spiraling sequences and deep sky soundworlds move fluidly within this 2-hour set." --reviewed by Projekt Records... (more/buy)
	Nverxion - A Look Within (ltd. cdr) (Hypnos Secret Sounds section) (Price: $11.99, cdr) 2007. Nverxion (pronounced like "Inversion") is the name under which David Brancato records his ambient & experimental electronic works. Brancato, based in Orlando, Florida, is also a artist and photographer, and is relatively new to electronic music. Reference points for Nverxion's sound would be Numina, Steve Roach, Robert Rich, Jonn Serrie and Jeff Pearce (all of whom the artist acknowledges as influences). Of his debut CD, Nverxion says, "A Look Within began about two years ago as a series of experimental improvisations. In the beginning I was just concerned with learning my way through the process of creating and recording the sound... As I progressed, the foundations of more advanced compositions began to form, and soon I noticed a common feeling running through each of the pieces. Building on this concept, I developed what is now a complete body of work." Track listing (with mp3 sample clips): Emergence (05:17) MP3 In This Place I Wander (18:59) MP3 From Where I Stand (06:49) MP3 Fortune of the Sky (18:32) MP3 In This Place I Rest (24:20) MP3 ... (more/buy)
	Nunc Stans - The Palm at the End of the Mind (Blue Oasis/ Dataobscura category) (Price: $13.99) Loaded with grainy epic richness, teeming with subtle details and field recordings, threaded with intriguing leads, all cast over a bed of melancholic icy northern dronescapes. Quality ambient music that makes you imagine ... and lets you be there. Composed and performed by Anthony Paul Kerby (The Circular Ruins / Lammergeyer) in the first half of 2008. ... (more/buy)
	Nunc Stans - Night Vision (Blue Oasis/ Dataobscura category) (Price: $13.99) "Nunc Stans produces a frost-flecked music that has about it a healthy flux of thermal energy, as of ice warmed by sun. It also comes heavy with an air of melancholia, an almost-alienation engendered by a sense of insignificance in the face of the overwhelming void." ---Alan Lockett, Igloo mag... (more/buy)
	The Circular Ruins + Off the Sky - We All Fall Down (Blue Oasis/ Dataobscura category) (Price: $13.99) Everything you would expect from these two contemporary talents. Complex atmospheres, strangely rhythmic, hauntingly melodic ... a rare treat... (more/buy)
	The Circular Ruins - Confluence (Blue Oasis/ Dataobscura category) (Price: $13.99) Composed in 2001 and released in 2002 on the Atmoworks/In The Bubble label. This DataObscura re-release has new packaging and artwork. And is also available for the first time as a download. The album is a little more electro-rhythmic than more recent works by TCR, and includes the definitive version of the remarkable and addictive title track, Confluence... (more/buy)
	Various - Sounds of a Universe Overheard (Hypnos label) (Price: $12.99) 2007. Long-time Hypnos listeners may recall that we released a couple of compilations in the early years, The Other World and Weightless, Effortless, which included exclusive tracks by many of the all-time greats of this music scene. Both those compilations were very well-received by critics, DJs, and all kinds of listeners. So you could ask, and many have, why hasn't Hypnos released any more compilations recently? Maybe because they're a lot of work, much more work than a regular CD by a single artist, and time is always a constraining factor when running a small label by yourself. Do you do one compilation album, or do you spend that time putting together two or three regular CDs? Well now, Hypnos is no longer a one-man operation, so more time is available, and that has allowed us to take on the task of putting together these compilations. The first compilation is Sounds of a Universe Overheard, a collection of ten tracks exclusive to this CD, created by a cross-section of ambient, experimental and soundscape artists from around the world. Included in this diverse group are more established recording artists who will be known to most listeners to these genres, as well as new, emerging names. We feel a compilation is most interesting when it varies from the familiar to the new. This disc covers all sorts of territory in terms of sound, from more musical and soundtrack-like sounds, to darker ambient, to pure sonic experimentation... (more/buy)
	Markus Reuter and Robert Rich - Eleven Questions (Robert Rich section) (Price: $15.99 import) 2007. This international collaboration was conceived, composed and recorded in person in one intense week at Robert Rich’s Soundscape studio in California. Robert Rich is arguably America's most highly regarded ambient musician and composer. With a discography spanning over 20 years, he is widely regarded as a figure whose sound has greatly influenced today‘s ambient, new age, and even IDM music. Touch Guritarist Markus Reuter is known for his adventurous work with Centrozoon and Tuner. Unlike most releases of the ambient/electronica genre, each piece on Eleven Questions has an instant appeal..... (more/buy)
	Seren Ffordd - Veils, Shadows (ltd cdr) (Hypnos Secret Sounds section) (Price: $9.99, cdr) 2007.Veils, Shadows is the Hypnos debut of a unique talent, whose work is both mysterious and unusual, resulting in a sound at once listenable and challenging. Seren Ffordd has mostly been released on the Umbra and Penumbra labels operated (by Hypnos artist Oophoi) out of Italy, though the artist himself resides in Wales. His first connection to Hypnos came through the compilation CD Sounds of a Universe Overheard, but Hypnos released Veils, Shadows on Hypnos Secret Sounds before the compilation's release. Seren Ffordd is one of those few artists perfectly in tune with what we're trying to do here at Hypnos, which is explore atmospheres that are dark without being "industrial" or intentionally abrasive, rather more hypnotic and dreamy, with a dose of the surreal. We're pleased and excited to introduce his work to those listeners who are familiar with Hypnos, and interested in sound worlds like this, but who have not yet heard this particular sound. We're sure Seren Ffordd will end up being acclaimed and much-discussed in coming years. Track listing (with mp3 sample clips): 01 Slow Passing 18:29 MP3 clip 02 River of Souls 12:01 MP3 clip 03 Distant Paths 16:53 MP3 clip 04 Veils, Shadows 16:37 MP3 clip ... (more/buy)
	vidnaObmana - An Opera for Four Fusions Works (Acts 1-4, 4CDs) (Hypnos label) (Price: $34.99, 4CDs) 2002-2007.Now that Acts 1-4 of vidnaObmana's epic OPERA FOR FOUR FUSION WORKS project have been released (spanning 2002-2007), we're making available a discounted package of all 4 parts together, for those of you who have not purchased any of the parts along the way. The usual disclaimer applies... this music is not in any real sense "opera" music, and the term is used only to suggest the varied, multi-part quality of this ongoing release. AN OPERA FOR FOUR FUSION WORKS is a unique project by Vidna Obmana and Hypnos -- a four-CD album, released one CD at a time. The first disc comes in a case (similar to the one used for Robert Rich's Humidity) that will have space for all four discs, though slots 2, 3 and 4 will be empty. The listener can then purchase the later installments as they are released gradually, and insert them into the case. Act I used guitar pieces from Dreams in Exile, Act II used Bill Fox's saxophone recordings, Act III worked from the foundation of Kenneth Kirschner's piano works, and this last installment utilizes the voice of Steven Wilson ( No-Man, Porcupine Tree, and the artist behind Bass Communion)... (more) | (buy)