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	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)
	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)
	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)
	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)
	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)
	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 ā€“ 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 bandā€™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)
	Lustmord - [Beyond] (Soleilmoon category) (Price: $15.99) The second (and last) album of extended remixes from the Lustmord album [Other]. Limited to 1000 copies. Total length 60 minutes... (more/buy)
	Arecibo (Lustmord) - Trans Plutonian Transmissions (Soleilmoon category) (Price: $12.99) Finally reissued, a cool, space side project from Lustmord. People clamored for this one to be reissued for a long time and it's finally here! This new 2009 edition has been remastered from the ground up, and is presented in completely redesigned packaging. Interviewed by AmbiEntrance, B. Lustmord described Arecibo as a side project of sorts, where I indulge myself in music that doesn\'t fit into the Lustmord concept. Using audio recordings of quasars, pulsars and other deep space sources, B. Lustmord weaves a deeply haunting and atmospheric album.... (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)
Note: All Hypnos Secret Sounds single cdr releases now just $9.99 (2-cdr release $14.99, cdr-singles $5.99)
	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)
	Collapsar - Beyond the Event Horizon (malignant category) (Price: $13.99) With their debut CD, Beyond The Event Horizon Collapsar transports the listener on an epic journey deep into the cosmos, forging a path across a vast, inky void, and steering a course around a roiling galactic core of hyper-dense stars and black holes. The sound is epic, expansive, and most of all, HEAVY. There is beauty and tranquility within these realms, but there is no light ā€“ just massive, pulsating textures coalescing into shimmering drones, rippling sound waves, and billowing, multi-dimensional layers of powerful dark energy... (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 itā€˜s 66 minute time frame. Experienced from start to finished, thereā€™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 itā€™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 itā€™s core, itā€™s more than just that simple classification. Thereā€™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)
	Gert Emmens - The Nearest Faraway Place Vol. 1 (groove category) (Price: $13.99) \"This album consists of basic material prepared by Gert for his live performance at the Gasometer in Oberhausen, Germany. The tracks are named simply Part 1 through 7 which is a tradition of sorts for EM records. In many ways a typical Emmens album, The Nearest Faraway Place Vol.1 is significantly darker than most other recent works by Gert. There are some new tasty sounds and the addition of a guitar player was a welcome extra as well.\" -Groove Unlimited... (more/buy)
	Gert Emmens - The Nearest Faraway Place, Vol. 2 (groove category) (Price: $13.99) \"The Nearest Faraway Place Vol. 2 is the second in a series of three albums. Gert Emmens has borrowed the title from one of his favorite bands the Beach Boys. The album was premiered and played in itā€™s entirety during a concert at the E-Day-Festival. This is one of the biggest festivals of electronic music in the world, organized by Kees Aerts and Ron Boots of Groove Unlimited.\" -Groove Unlimited... (more/buy)
	Create - In the Blink of an Eye (groove category) (Price: $13.99) \"Peaceful electronics are laced with gutsier enhancements. Fundamental drones serve as an ethereal substructure for more demonstrative melodics. Surging loops emerge to season the flow with vigorous locomotion. An astral density is achieved and then bolstered by additional layers of nimble-fingered keyboard patterns. Fanciful diversions appear with regularity, keeping the music entertaining and lively. The electronics resound with deep intonations, delivering an oomph that is never murky. Meanwhile, this heaviness is countered by the resolute presence of more fanciful pitches that provide a pleasant propulsion. The union of these elements establishes a rich panorama that is flavored with glittering cosmic augmentations. While most of the tracks feature no percussion, the cyclic application of strident sounds provides a suitable rhythmic presence. In one piece, the faux rhythms achieve a startling vitality; while in another song, softly chugging beats establish an amiable tempo. These compositions employ a slow-building structure, starting out as tenuous harmonics which steadily evolve into pastiches of zealous vitality. A sense of growth is accomplished through the constant expansion of melodies, yet the music rarely has any urgency, with each escalation flowing naturally and unhurried. A strong air of expectancy is generated as the intertwining riffs compound into thrilling configurations that shimmer with puissance and optimism.\" -Matt Howarth / Sonic Curiosity... (more/buy)
	Create - Lost on an Island of Adventure (groove category) (Price: $13.99) \"The seven pieces included in this album are pure Space Music, with the philosophy of exploring new sonic continents nonetheless without abandoning melody and rhythm. The melodies are very impressive, with mysterious and also romantic traits, yet without falling into an excessive sweetness. Also there are interesting electronic textures and even meditative sonic passages. In a few words, this is a work that will enthusiasm the aficionados to Space Music and Ambient in general.\" -Edgar Kogler... (more/buy)
	Paul Ellis - The Last Hiding Place of Beauty (groove category) (Price: $13.99) \"Those who love rather complex and dynamic sequencer music with an acoustic edge and an occasional high-tech feel should check out the music Paul Ellis\' has put down on his amazing album Last Hiding Place of Beauty. The cd contains four long tracks, all making a powerful, straightforward statement, keenly melting vibrating sequencer patterns, fx\'s, and a wide range of vintage flavored synthesizer textures such as Mellotron flute. As said previously, the overall structure is rather complex, although lots of space is found within the core of every piece of music. The great interplay between bass grooves, drums, electronic and acoustic instruments is quite mind blowing, especially on the 16-minute title track. The overall outcome is simply breathing the joy of honest electronics more than once.\" -Bert Strolenberg / Sonicimmersion... (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 Ronā€™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. Itā€™s an album of subtle pieces, more often than not with emphasis on the stillness as opposed to the dynamics. Disc twoā€™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)
	Klinik 7 / Vidna Obmana - Greed (Vidna Obmana category) (Price: $15.99) Klinik and Vidna Obmana continue their collaboration started with the excellent Gluttony album two years ago. This time the result is a sonic adventure between dark hypnotic Klinik rhythms and Vidna Obmanaā€™s atmospherical soundworks. Their latest effort melts into a unique sound of floating beats, sequences and soundscapes. Compared to Gluttony, Greed could be considered as a darker and more electronic companion piece. Presented in Deluxe Hands Paper... (more/buy)
	Klinik 7 / Vidna Obmana - Gluttony (Vidna Obmana category) (Price: $15.99) After a friendship of more than 10 years and a few guest appearances on each other albums, Marc Verhaeghen of KLINIK and vidna Obmana finally team up for a series of collaborative albums. The first album brings together two individual styles in electronic music resulting in a powerful melange of rhythm and abstract soundscapes. 3 longform rhythmical pieces quite different from anything that vidnaObmana or Klinik produced in collaboration or solo. A unique and bold new collaboration.... (more/buy)
	Pixyblink - Withered Leaves (cdr) (AtmoWorks category) (Price: $12.99 cdr) 2009. AtmoWorks is proud to present "Withered Leaves", the debut release from our newest recording artist Pixyblink. With her first AtmoWorks release, Pixyblink (aka Kyra) has produced a deep experimental journey through field recordings, stark synthetic landscapes and spoken word performance. The result is a new and exciting blend of many different musical styles and artistic influences; a fusion of the old into something wholly new. Kyra takes her listeners on a 43-minute ride through the twisting levels of the human psyche, making sure to point out all the interesting sights along the way... (more/buy)
	Pixyblink - Peridot (cdr) (AtmoWorks category) (Price: $12.99 cdr) 2009. Left coast multi-format artist Kyra returns with her second Pixyblink release on AtmoWorks, "Peridot". With her unique blend of atmospheric drones, synthesized vocals and random beats, Pixyblink carves out new territory with each release and explores the possibilities of sound with an almost child-like enthusiasm. From the artist herself: "On pixyblink’s sophomore album, we take a deeper look into her psyche as it is translated into music. The elements found there can range from enchanting to disturbing to blissful. At times, all three of these elements can be present in one song. Her latest effort features 10 selections of dark ambience, but their creator would tell you that each of them is more like a dream in itself." ... (more/buy)
	Pixyblink - Cinder (cdr) (AtmoWorks category) (Price: $12.99 cdr) 2009. Just when you thought it was safe to go back through the looking glass... AtmoWorks resident blend-artist Kyra is back with her third Pixyblink release entitled "Cinder", and this one picks up right where "Peridot" left off. Processed vocals, spoken word and deep, organic atmospherics meld together on a 43 minutes train ride through some of the less traveled levels of Wonderland. Kyra had this to say about "Cinder". '"cinder" is the 3rd release from pixyblink, offering another dose of dark ambient and eldritch-like vocalizations. she'll take you into journeys that are completely foreign to everyone, and even to herself on some of the selections. transporting you elsewhere is the key, from deep into catacombs, flowing with the tranquil ocean and shooting past vibrant stars. there's also a flirtation with a bit of light-heartedness on a few of the tracks, but handled with pixyblink's own distinct approach. there are 10 tracks for the listener to get lost in, as miss pixy guides you through a wholly unique listening experience' ... (more/buy)
	Pixyblink - Flameless Lantern (cdr) (AtmoWorks category) (Price: $12.99 cdr) 2009. Kyra is back once more with her fourth Pixyblink release on AtmoWorks in 2009. This latest body of work, entitled "Flameless Lantern" picks up where "Cinder" left off, and carries you along deeper paths of mystery and mayhem. Kyra had this to say about the new album. "on 'flameless lantern', ms. pixy once again whisks her listeners away from things that are normal, to a plane of unknowns. the album begins with a sugar-laced dip into a honey pot with a thick dose of shoegazer. from there, it's a shift into curious dark deeds, unnatural tales of delight and highly magnified introspection. the tones roll softly into the mind, but one must be aware that some of them are sweetly poisoned. as the artist would tell you herself, she doesn't consider this an album, but rather dreams and forgotten thoughts translated into sound" Fans of Kyra's earlier works will find plenty to love in this new set, and first timers...well, let's just say that this is as good an intro to the weird and wonderful world of Pixyblink you're likely to find... (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? \" -Databloem... (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.\" -Databloem... (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.\" -Databloem... (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)
	Vadim Bondarenko - Sentimental (faria category) (Price: $13.99) 2009. Sentimental is an album of sensitive feeling melodies played by the composer himself on the piano. The album contains different pieces, but all they are united by one unique inner mood. Like the brilliant melodies of Ryuichi Sakamoto, this music will be remembered by everyone who likes romantic genre...... (more/buy)
	Bad Sector - Dolmen Factory (faria category) (Price: $13.99) 2009. Harmonic, noisy, emotional electronic tracks set the trademark sound of the one-man project from Tuscany. It includes an unreleased track.... (more/buy)
	Faryus - Night Forest Reality (faria category) (Price: $13.99) 2008. Night Forest Reality describes a world which does not exist in daylight, arising when the last dying beam of sunshine fades from dark shaggy branches of old trees, when air becomes damp and hearing sharpens. A constant feeling of someone\'s presence borders the periphery. From the impenetrable darkness in the heart of the wood, a cool wind forces leaves to tremble, hardly distinguishable in the twilight. It only imparts its vibration and a touch of cold air to the face, a suggestion of swaying branches, sparkling streams and the rustle of revived grass. Dew drops barely sparkle in the gloom, reflecting the stars blinking in bottomless moonless depth. The night wood, frightening and attracting, living an invisible life, populated by unfamiliar ancient beings. Almost nothing visible in the impenetrable darkness, but exposing its mysteries via sounds of the unseen, of that which should not be seen.... (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)
	Mac Mavis - Report from the Lake (faria category) (Price: $13.99) 2008. This album is based on real life experience. Melodic and warm ambient music, created totally with hardware synthesizers and sequencer. With some actual on location field recordings as reference... (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)
	Temple Music - Incompleteness (faria category) (Price: $13.99) 2008. TEMPLE MUSIC'S Alan Trench and Stephen Robinson have used both the implications of Gцdel\'s theorem and the doctrine of anamorphosis to compose and fashion an album of 4 interconnected and complementary tracks that somehow look both forward and back; that juxtapose the old and the new into an organic whole of both sacred and temporal instruments - Indian harmonium and shruti box, plucked and hammered dulcimers, bodhrans, mosenos, various flageolets, synthesisers and keyboards, guitars, bass, Tibetan bells and singing bowls - 4 drifting shards of ethereal and sometimes frightening beauty, rose petals on the snow that are finally revealed to be tiny, perfect drops of crystalline blood.... (more/buy)
	Mathias Grassow & Jiri Mazanek - Inner Path (nextera category) (Price: $13.99) "Inner Path -- the idea of combining pure handplayed acoustic instruments with modern electronics, samples and nature-sounds. With a spiritual sight behind, Inner path is open for free direction and interpretation nevertheless with a strong focus inside ourselves by considering the existence here on earth as ONE of many journeys back into the inner light. This work is a remembrance..." -soleilmoon.com... (more/buy)
	miKroNaught - Neutrino_2.1 (cdr) (AtmoWorks category) (Price: $12.99 cdr) 2009. The latest from AtmoWorks is by miKroNaught, the brainchild of AW owners and electronic music heavyweights Vir Unis and MjDawn. Months of collaborative composition and file swapping compounded by a lifelong friendship and the collected experience of their individual careers have come together in a mind-blowing percussive journey.... (more/buy)
	Steve Brand & Disturbed Earth - Busy With Dreams (cdr) (AtmoWorks category) (Price: $12.99 cdr) 2009. Steve Brand and Dean Richards (aka Disturbed Earth) return with the second installment in a trilogy of albums that began with "Broken Gold" in late 2008. This newest release, entitled "Busy With Dreams" exemplifies the remarkable ability of these two talented musicians to blend their disparate styles to create something new and wondrous.... (more/buy)
	SAVO & Disturbed Earth - Flight of Fancy (cdr) (AtmoWorks category) (Price: $12.99 cdr) 2009. "Flight of Fancy" is the second of two simultaneous-release collaborations between long-time AtmoWorks recording artist Dean Richards (Disturbed Earth) and relative newcomer Salvatore Fanara (SAVO). Working together despite being seperated by thousands of miles, these two remarkable artists have delivered some breath-taking new music for AtmoWorks.... (more/buy)
	SAVO & Disturbed Earth - So Far (cdr) (AtmoWorks category) (Price: $12.99 cdr) 2009. "So Far" is the first of two simultaneous-release collaborations between long-time AtmoWorks recording artist Dean Richards (Disturbed Earth) and relative newcomer Salvatore Fanara (SAVO). Working together despite being seperated by thousands of miles, these two remarkable artists have delivered some breath-taking new music for AtmoWorks.... (more/buy)
	Holon - Dream Awake (cdr) (AtmoWorks category) (Price: $12.99 cdr) 2009. Holon creates exceedingly beautiful music blending ambient soundscapes and rhythms. Charity writes about her album: "Dream awake was a vision of mine to create a journey through sound. All the tracks are inspired by journeys of all sorts. This album is a sound healing ambient endeavor. I create music with the belief that sound is a carrier wave of consciousness, and that it is the intent or the purpose behind the sound that matters. Sound healing is the root of all my creations. My soul purpose with this album is to take you on an unforgettable journey within yourself and out into the realm of the unknown.".... (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)
	Peter James - Is (cdr) (AtmoWorks category) (Price: $12.99 cdr) 2008. In Peter James words: The original idea behind the recording of 'is' was to create an album using only very limited instrumentation, mainly bass guitar, and electric guitar -- no synthesisers were used to make this album, only samples and loops made from bass and guitar work I had recorded in my studio. Often I would record an hours worth of stuff, only to come out of the session with maybe a minutes worth, or less, of useful sounds. It was recorded between june 2007 and july 2008. It wasn't an easy journey. And that's reflected in the overall tone and feel of the album. it?s also designed to be listened to loud, but it works well quiet, too. I?m not sure if it's 'dark ambient', or 'ambient' at all. I guess that's not for me to decide. For me - It just 'is'.... (more/buy)
	Stephen Philips - From the Vaults Volume 1 (cdr) (Dark Duck category) (Price: $12.99) Stephen has begun digging through the vast vaults here at Dark Duck Records and listening through hours of archive recordings. Distant memories, and forgotten lands. Among some of these recordings he has found some amazing sound worlds long forgotten. Once again being inspired by this material, he has started developing a new series of recordings called From The Vaults which will be coming out periodically. Offered up here is the first in the series, aptly named, Volume 1. If features some material originally recorded in 1995, 1996, and 1998 along with new mastering techniques, and some newly recorded material, Stephen has begun sculpting this series, which features ambient, drone, and some subtle spacemusic themes. This timeless music sounds as fresh today as it was in 1995/1996 when it was originally recorded.... (more/buy)
	Stephen Philips - From the Vaults Volume 2 (cdr) (Dark Duck category) (Price: $12.99) A few years ago, Stephen began digging through the vast vaults here at Dark Duck Records and listening through hours of archive recordings of distant memories and forgotten lands. Among some of these recordings he has found some amazing soundworlds long forgotten. Being inspired by this material, he started developing a new series of recordings called From The Vaults. Offered up here is the second in the series, aptly named, Volume 2. If features some material originally recorded in 1993, 1994, and 1998. Stephen then began doing some re-mastering on the material from the original source analog tapes. The end result is quite good. Stephen has begun sculpting this series, which features ambient, drone, and some subtle spacemusic themes. This timeless music sounds as fresh today as it was back when it was originally recorded more then a decade ago.... (more/buy)
	Stephen Philips - From the Vaults Volume 3 (cdr) (Dark Duck category) (Price: $12.99) A few years ago, Stephen began digging through the vast vaults here at Dark Duck Records and listening through hours of archive recordings of distant memories and forgotten lands. Among some of these recordings he has found some amazing soundworlds long forgotten. Being inspired by this material, he started developing a new series of recordings called From The Vaults. Offered up here is the thirds in the series, aptly named, Volume 3. If features some material originally recorded in 1995, 1996, and 1997. Stephen then began doing some re-mastering on the material from the original source analog tapes. The end result is quite good. Stephen has begun sculpting this series, which features ambient, drone, and some subtle spacemusic themes. This timeless music sounds as fresh today as it was back when it was originally recorded more then a decade ago.... (more/buy)
	Stephen Philips - Mile High Chill 1 (cdr) (Dark Duck category) (Price: $12.99) This album is the long-awaited follow-up in Stephen Philips's Timezones series and this one features the Mountain timezone. This CD was recorded live in Denver, Colorado, May 1997 and features some outstanding deep chill material. This is a must have. Not to be missed are the tracks Global Rebound and Space Worms. Originally released June 1997. 10th anniversary edition remastered and re-released December 2007.... (more/buy)
	Stephen Philips - Avalon Chill (cdr) (Dark Duck category) (Price: $12.99) Originally released in 1998 and part of the Timezones series, this release was revisited in 2007/2008, remixed and remastered using updated techniques. The results are astounding and present this classic music in an all new light... (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)
	Lucette Bourdin - Under Currents (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 2nd 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)
	SunDummy - Final Thaw (cdr) (Dark Duck category) (Price: $12.99) omposed and performed by SunDummy with nothing but guitars and processors...ambient themes, experimental textures, and much much more. This CD manages to capture the essence of winter through the use of stark drones and thematic textures. -Dissonance Records... (more/buy)
	Isomorph - The Black Chasm (cdr) (Dark Duck category) (Price: $12.99)In 2001, Isomorph released an amazing CD of deep drone in the blackest sense. The CD was pressed on a pure black disc which just made the blackness even blacker. Some time later, the CD went out of print and was no longer being offered for sale. We here at Dark Duck Records thought that was just a crime, so we set out to re-release the CD. While we were at it, we decided to do a little remastering on the thing. Not much, just enough to give it that little extra something. So after 8 years, we are proud to bring you, once again, this drone classic from 2001 ... (more/buy)
	Soul In Limbo - Driven By Thanatos (cdr) (Dark Duck category) (Price: $12.99) From Australia comes the 2nd release from the very talented Soul In Limbo. This time around, Soul In Limbo explores some very dark territory. Thanatos, or the death instinct, drives this music through a vast array of soul searching.... (more/buy)
	Aidan Baker - Loop Studies 2 (cdr) (Dark Duck category) (Price: $12.99) Composed and performed by Aidan Baker with nothing but guitars, loopers, and processors. This cd features a perfect blend of looped ambience and melodic themes that seem to drift and fade, ebb and flow.... (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)
	Drone Forest/Stephen Philips - Blurring the Edges (cdr) (Dark Duck category) (Price: $12.99) More then 2 years in the making, this first collaboration brings together 5 monarchs in drone. Drone meister Stephen Philips and fellow drone masters, Drone Forest, aka, Ian Stewart, Mike Bowman, C. Reider, and Davie Blint. These talents seemlessly blend to create an ooze of textural goodness previously unheard on any level. These godfathers of drone then went to work sculpting and shaping additional sounds and samples, then mixing and blurring the lines so many times, the focus was totally lost. The edges here truely have been blurred beyond recognition.... (more/buy)
	Stephen Philips & Ben Summers - Behind the Mirror (cdr) (Dark Duck category) (Price: $12.99) From behind the mirror, dark worlds are revealed through the use of slightly experimental deep chill ambiences. Dark melodies, spacey ambiences, sinister themes, and haunting textures, float and shimmer through the black void and out to the other side of the mirror.... (more/buy)
	Stephen Philips & Rigel Orionis - Complexities (cdr) (Dark Duck category) (Price: $12.99) Rigel Orionis and Stephen Philips get together for the first of what promisses to be several fascinating collaborations. This 60 minute long-form offering features minimal ambient drone, elaborate environmental field recordings, and finely textured ambiences. This ever-shifting potpourri of sounds is sure to delight on many levels... (more/buy)
	Rigel Orionis - The Anatomy of Zen (Part 1) (cdr) (Dark Duck category) (Price: $12.99) The Anatomy of Zen Parts 1 and 2 are really 2 sides of the same coin. Both different, but sonically similar, they are considered to be companion pieces and should be listened to side by side. We think these 2 CDs represent the best work Jim has ever done and are optimistic that he will continue to hone his craft and perfect his art.... (more/buy)
	Rigel Orionis - The Anatomy of Zen (Part 2) (cdr) (Dark Duck category) (Price: $12.99) The Anatomy of Zen Parts 1 and 2 are really 2 sides of the same coin. Both different, but sonically similar, they are considered to be companion pieces and should be listened to side by side. We think these 2 CDs represent the best work Jim has ever done and are optimistic that he will continue to hone his craft and perfect his art... (more/buy)
	Description Without a Place - Filaments (Blue Oasis/DataObscura category) (Price: $13.99) 2008. Filaments brings together, for the first time, the field-recording & sample manipulations of James McDougall (Entia Non) with the more synth-based skills of Anthony Paul Kerby (The Circular Ruins, Lammergeyer, Nunc Stans). The result is a remarkable and unified flow of creativity that is ripe with juicy sonic details and moody atmospheres, and that is woven through with subtle melodic threads. Contemporary, glitchy, detailed, and musically absorbing, this is a work to come back to again and again. Filaments was composed via long-distance collaboration - Australia to Canada. Final compositions and mixing by APK.... (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 - Mea Culpa (groove category) (Price: $13.99) "Familiar sequences and soloing, but also some great unexpected tracks."... (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)
	Kees Aerts - If One Door Closes (groove category) (Price: $13.99) Second solo cd. 12 rhythmic, sequencer tracks, ranging from 1990 to 2008. ... (more/buy)
	SYNTH.NL - AtmoSphere (groove category) (Price: $13.99) The inspiration for this album came from the atmosphere around the Earth. The songs are inspired by the different layers of air around our world, the different cloud formations that are encountered in these layers and the sounds of different weather phenomena. While listening to this album you will travel through these layers of air starting on the surface of the Earth and ending up in space... (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: $12.99) 2008. 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. Tracklisting: 1 Sundial (3:08) 2 Flicker (4:28) 3 Descriptives (4:20) 4 Dreams Pt. 1 (Somnium Scipionis) (3:54) 5 Dreams Pt. 2 (Veritatis Splendor) (5:34) 6 Dreams Pt. 3 (The Dust That Lies Between) (6:26) 7 Dreams Pt. 4 (Absense In Remota) (11:45) 8 Cicade (6:27) 9 Tensile (4:44) 10 Heal (4:02) 11 Home (4:59) REVIEWS: "Really nice. Reminds me of what I wish Terry Riley were doing today." --Reviewed by THOM BRENNAN "Though favoring the kind of broad sweeps that only irising analog filters so triumphantly utter, Fleury-Steiner is careful to avoid the kind of artful banality that has stifled the creative impetus of, say, the last decade of VangelisÕ output. Not for ŅambianceÓ only, these sumptuous Drifts are too playfully captivating for casual ingestion." --Reviewed by DARREN BERGSTEIN, e/i #7, winter/spring 2006 "This CD from 2005 offers 60 minutes of lightly coarse ambience. Combining shrill sounds with vaporous resonance, this music ventures just beyond the normal background aspect exemplified by most ambient compositions. While the tonalities never reach any degree of harshness, they are generally more piercing that conventional ambience. Mixed with fragile atmospheric swells, these grittier sounds are sedated, made more sympathetic. This union produces a curious temperance that is refreshing. Mechanical grindings swim in a pool of shimmering clouds. Sparkling chords coexist with twilight drones. Bass gurgles penetrate swaying notes that vibrate with a peculiar luminosity. Playful diodes sigh in tandem with lavish textural spreads. While normal ambient compositions take their time slowly evolving into a substantial presence, these tunes get right to the point, then embellish on their themes with engaging variations. With the exception of one twelve minute piece, the tracks average about five minutes in duration, suiting their compressed directness. This longer track pursues an unhurried path in the same mode, blending celestial passages with demonstrative punctuations in a manner that transcends time and space, resulting in an entertaining excursion into nebulous realms of slightly edgy disposition. This release was mastered by ambient pioneer, Robert Rich." --Reviewed by MATT HOWARTH, SONIC CURIOSITY "Fleury-Steiner manages to work within a genre that seems to turn out new material as regularly as breathing, yet Drifts has an individual sound, a personality of its own - whilst ideal as aural ambiance it certainly doesn't sink blandly into the background, the structures are too engaging to ignore, too attractive to dismiss." --Reviewed by PAUL JURY, Morpheus Music "A good variety of all things ambient and electronic to be had here, blended in a unique way rather than just copying those who have gone before." --Reviewed by PHIL DERBY Electroambientspace ... (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: Stokesķ 8th solo album to date, Villa Galaxia is a hyperfusion of sonic exploration seeded in Stokesķ 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. Mirko Ruckels, aka recording artist Deepspace, says: "Hello Radar" is a great opening track, featuring wide-eyed crispy keyboard sounds, and a nice moody bassline. I can feel that I'm really going to like this- you know the feeling, when an album taps you on the shoulder and goes, "Are you ready? we are about to become good friends...." It happens far too infrequently don't you think. "Vapor trails" Slightly melancholy second track- with some great outro key washes. yay. "Blaze" is completely different and brings the album to a, dare I use the word, "chilled" place with it's slightly more, well, serious and blue feeling. I really like the big sunny melodies on "Night Painting". Vibrant, primary colours, sweet sounds. Fingerpainting. "Eta Car is a massive Star" sounds like an epic Mario Bros game, full of detail and shimmering pixely effects (I don't know what that means either). Really lovely. This is an excellent album that will attract many listeners. It's full of nooks and crannies and quite delirious. I like! Nay, love! Bravo Saul! Villa Galaxia could be characterized as a bit of a throwback to an earlier Stokes sound, a bit simplified and less focused on pretty melodics than Saul's more recent work like Fields and Vast. Whether Saul's work is more about the melodies or the rhythms or the ambience, it always retains the the sound & feel of a Saul Stokes album. Track listing with mp3 sample clips hello radar vapor trails blaze night painting eta car is a massive star future gamma embedded in amber interrupted by time... (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)
	Jeremy Bible - I Am Very Uncomfortable Most of the Time (experimedia category) (Price: $10.99) 2008. Three years in the making, Jeremy Bible's most recent effort guides the listener through a seamless and diverse spectrum of deeply processed electronic, acoustic, and found sounds. dissonant atmospheres are complimented by layered field recordings with touches of electro/hip-hop/industrial influenced beats and bass throughout. this album takes the listener through feelings of melancholy and distance and is best experienced seamlessly beginning to end... (more/buy)
	Jeremy Bible & Jason Henry - Vector (experimedia category) (Price: $10.99) 2008. Vector, the new album by Jeremy Bible & Jason Henry, presents an epic 1 hour and 7 minute avant-garde sound experience. Vector unfolds through the amalgamation of a vivid palette of sounds placed delicately on a worn canvas, burnt and tattered around the edges. Piano and cello seep through soft blankets of distant voices, rhythmic crackling, and soft distortions. A thousand birds arise from pulsing tones against the occasional rumbling sine wave. A profound score from beginning to end intended for deep listening. Vector comes packaged in experimedia's custom signature three panel folding tall slim pack featuring the photography of Jeremy Bible and is protected in a clear poly sleeve.... (more/buy)
	Jeremy Bible & Jason Henry - Shpwrck (experimedia category) (Price: $10.99) 2008. Jeremy Bible and Jason Henry's Shpwrck, is a beautifully diverse opus, bringing together a wide range of acoustic instruments and field recordings through unique processing and arrangements. Dark and minimal yet oddly comforting, Shpwrckā€™s wide open spaces succeed at creating exotic environments illustrating the duoā€™s growing attention to detail at crafting and bringing together delicate textures into lengthy abstract sound art montages. Subtle breaths of musicality lie amongst constantly evolving beds of atmosphere. Touches of gritty surface noise and found recordings approach from the distance and momentarily come into focus. Shpwrck comes packaged in experimedia's custom signature three panel folding tall slim pack featuring the photography of Jeremy Bible and is protected in a clear poly sleeve... (more/buy)
	Illusion of Safety - The Need to Now (experimedia category) (Price: $10.99) "Illusion of Safety, Dan Burkeā€™s ongoing and ever evolving project since 1983, contributes a fantastic new album to the experimedia catalog. A hand signed and numbered limited edition release, The Need To Now is one of Burkeā€™s more stark and minimal works. While more minimalistic overall, The Need To Now still embraces Burkeā€™s penchant for broad dynamics, building from soft tones, drones, and distant whistling to maddening noise and back down to near silence with just the smallest trace of air space. Music box like tones dance loosely throughout constructed industrial ambient environments. Soft crackling, static and noises fizzle in and out of focus while subtle guitar rises quietly in the distance. Deconstructed voices, samples, rhythms, and instruments arranged into brilliant sound montages in ways reminiscent of the classic GRM school of tape cut ups. A soundtrack for sedated asylum inmates. This masterful work by one of the veteran heroes of avant-garde post-industrial music aims at activating modes of perception, deprogramming reality, and recombining information pointing toward a new reality/environment.The Need To Now comes packaged in experimedia's signature tall slim pack and features the photography of Chris Block. Strictly limited to 150 copies... (more/buy)
	Asymmetrical Head - Feeling Sorry for Inanimate Objects (experimedia category) (Price: $10.99) 2008. Experimedia presents the new album by Asymmetrical Headā€¦.Feeling Sorry For Inanimate Objects. FSFIO is the product of a broad range of stylistic influences ingeniously fused together into a primarily rhythmic based abstract electronic album. Head nodding dancehall rhythms lead into disjointed electro rhythms for double jointed breakdancers. Cutup melodies and expertly designed effects. Atmospheric ambience and noise. Dubstep style bass accompanied by processed viola. Subtle touches of ethereal female vocals. Puddle splashing pop and lock fills. A fantastically crafted and original album. Feeling Sorry For Inanimate Objects comes packaged in experimediaā€™s custom signature three panel folding tall slim pack and is protected in a clear poly sleeve... (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. Track listing and MP3 preview files: Macron MP3 Caron Pica Dieresis Terminal MP3 Monoline Circumflex Ascender... (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)
	Steve Brand - Awakensong (CDR) (Steve Brand category) (Price: $11.99) 2007. Illusory landscapes, obscured glimpses and secret rituals in half-light. Soundtracks for awakening. Rattles, various flutes, medicine drums, udu, gongs, voice, keyboard textures, environmental sounds.... (more/buy)
	SteveBrand - Twilightmind (CDR) (Steve Brand category) (Price: $11.99) 2007. Atmospheres and environments exploring the remote soundworlds of the twilightmind. Lost ceremonies, found archaeologies. Medicine drum, didg, gongs, voice, whirl tube, bells... (more/buy)
	Steve Brand - Cahokia (CDR) (Steve Brand category) (Price: $11.99) 2007. A disc consisting of 3 long drifting soundworlds inspired by the Cahokia mounds complex near St. Louis, Missouri, the largest pre-Columbian ceremonial complex in North America. Medicine drum, voice, gongs, flutes, didg, pot shards, and keyboards... (more/buy)
	Steve Brand - Looking into the Other (CDR) (Steve Brand category) (Price: $11.99) 2007. "Looking into the other is a heady, sometimes expansive, some ominous journey into tribal & ritual ambience utilizing bells, synths, flute, fiddle, various percussive elements, rattles and field recordings to create these involving sonic rituals and dramatic & evocative sound worlds." -musiquemachine.com... (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)
	Gas 0095 (miscellaneous category) (Price: $15.99) 2008. Gas 0095 was the debut album of electronic musician Mat Jarvis (High Skies) released under his Gas moniker. It was written, performed and recorded in his Nottingham studio during 1994 and released on Em:t Records (Emit Records) in January 1995. Gas 0095 has been remastered and released on Jarvis' Microscopics label.... (more/buy)
	SADU - Live @ the Ping (video DVD) (Sylken category) (Price: $21.99 video DVD) 2008. "SADU LiVE at THE PiNG with General Chaos Visuals David Sloma directs an exclusive live performance from SADU taken from a set at THE AMBiENT PiNG in Toronto with lighting by General Chaos Visuals Directed by David Sloma of Rockin' Films, "LiVE at THE PiNG with General Chaos Visuals" is an impressive DVD representation of a night at Toronto's AMBiENT PiNG performance event showcasing an exclusive live performance by SADU, featuring Eric Hopper of Sylken, Terrence O'Brien of Anomalous Disturbances and Jamie Todd of dreamSTATE and URM. The DVD also represents the first PiNG output from General Chaos Visuals' Steve Lindsey and Eric Siegerman, the brilliant lighting technicians who have helped to create such striking and unique visuals at so many PiNG events."... (more/buy)
	Weird - A New Kind of Normal (Neu Harmony category) (Price: $15.99) "The first thing you hear on this album is a rumbling sequence which leaves you in no doubt that the territory to be explored is decidedly retro. There are Tangerine Dream references but they are mixed in equal part with Klaus Schulze and Ashra influences. The opening track title Klaus to the Edge (!) makes the Schulze reference even more obvious. The guitar when used is very subtle, giving colour rather than dominating as a lead instrument. The sequence provides the backbone but the accompanying atmospherics and effects are just as effective. Some of the sounds used will make you go weak at the knees..."... (more/buy)
	Syndromeda - A Day in the Fields (Neu Harmony category) (Price: $15.99) "Shrill electronics pierce the air, proclaiming dominant attributes drenched with pastoral mien. Sweeping tonalities burble and shimmer, capturing life-giving sunlight in a manner that communicates this vibrancy even in the dark. Nimble-fingered keyboards establish robust melodies that strain to escape the very notes comprising them, bursting forth to generate fresh tunes radiant with bigger-than-life connotations. Prodigious rhythms are present too, lifting the music to dizzying altitudes. The percussion describes mammoth tempos that tremble the ground underfoot. Even when exploring such harsh sonic terrain, though, a tender majesty is zestfully evoked. One track utilizes an array of orchestral instruments (albeit synthetically produced). Magnificent horns and sultry violins blend with regal electronics and heavenly textures, conjuring an alluvial state that defies time and space with its enduring qualities. The sinuous union of these enormous elements is a superb thrill to behold, conveying the listener to a garden of divine scale where each glistening leaf pulsates with wonder and astounding harmony. As the music progresses, one's focus grows larger, expanding to discern greater configurations and embrace the ageless splendor that surrounds us." - -Sonic Curiosity, soniccuriosity.com... (more/buy)
	Jiannis - Plugged (Neu Harmony category) (Price: $15.99) "Plugged is a Berlin School, analogue, sequential masterpiece. The shortest track is eighteen minutes so things are really given plenty of room to develop and mutate creating pure aural heaven. 'Erstes Schattenspiel' (catchy title) begins with lonesome synth sounds and vocoded speech in the manner of 'Chromium Echoes'. Don't worry these vocals are used more as a sound, not singing. As soon as the opening sequence takes its first tentative steps low in the mix, fitting perfectly to the washes of synth, you just know that you are in for something VERY special. The sequence beefs itself up and is accompanied by another sequence of a more ballsy variety. The lead line is a real stunner and sends the spine a tingling rather than screeching through the cranium, just right. It is constantly changing and being put through all manner of effects and I was hypnotized by it...."... (more/buy)
	Parks - Umber (Infraction category) (Price: $14.99) 2008. Reviewed on forcedexposure.com "Superb ambient with environmental interludes, cinematic minor key passages. Reworked and re-arranged in 2007 with a new tracklisting. Umber is released in an edition of 300 copies in a digipak." -forcedexposure.com... (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)
	Kwook - Skywave (Blue Oasis category) (Price: $13.99) 2008. "At first, it's hard to say why Skywave, the CD by Kwook, sounds so nostalgic. Is it the occasional Mellotron sound? The buzzing lead lines or sweeping synth pads? Or just the overall electronic aura that seems to engulf this album? All of these qualities (as well as a hint of IDM beats) and more make for a captivating release. But it's more the positive attitude of this artist that gives his music its nostalgic feel than any riff or melody. Comprised of subtle yet beautifully varied tracks Skywave glows in transfixing simplicity. The piece Sunspots is a standout. With its catchy bassline and melodious flute, it produces an ample amount of momentum and intrigue. A common thread throughout is the insertion of squelchy short-wave radio fragments. These lost communications add the sensation of floating through the ether and are used to great effect in the lengthy title piece, which spans three tracks at the end of the disc. Our friend Kwook believes that sound is a playground. His inventive approach, full of joy and clarity, makes the journey new." --Chuck van Zyl, Stars End... (more/buy)
	The Winterhouse - Slow Promises (Blue Oasis category) (Price: $13.99) 2008. "This is a fabulous collaborative disc: captivating drones via Robert Davies meshed with exquisite machinations & subtle manipulations a la APK (The Circular Ruins) ... Metallic drifts, haunting drone beds, echoing alien transmission blips and a glitchy synergy make for an enveloping atmosphere via headphones/earbuds... What a terrific first release from the newly formed Blue Oasis label...5 stars!" --g.a.b. / Ambient Landscapes... (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)
	The Circular Ruins - Falling into the Sky (Blue Oasis category) (Price: $13.99) "The Circular Ruins (Anthony Paul Kirby) is exploring a personal realm of assertive, emotional ambient music. A fascinating series of electronic poems that invent a sonic sphere all their own, Falling Into the Sky (64'11") attempts to liberate the mind of the listener from its own self-impression. As soundscapes gradually shift and unfold, textures transform and we linger easily within a wondrous soundworld. Synthesizer pads churn behind fluttering atmospherics while further in a digital wind stirs up strange cosmic debris. Narrative runs adrift and the hiss and murmur of distant chords occupy the foreground. Vibrating with energy, Falling Into the Sky inhabits the amorphous area between the earth's surface and outer space, and continually reveals itself in revelations revealed in repeat visits." - -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)
	False Mirror - Chronostatic Scenes (Blue Oasis/ Dataobscura category) (Price: $13.99) Deeply absorbing, and cut through with mystery, these dark landscapes remind me of the visual works of 19th century symbolist painter Arnold Bƶcklin ... in fact, track 4 could be the perfect soundtrack to The Isle of the Dead. A rewarding listen for fans of darker ambient... (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 - Primordial (Blue Oasis/ Dataobscura category) (Price: $13.99) Reminiscent of the deep, richly atmospheric, earth-ambient tones of Steve Roach and the dark mysteries of Alio Die, this third release from Robert Davies reveals another side to his artistry. Expertly crafted and flowing like a work of nature, Primordial opens entrancing windows uponan ancient, more primordial world... (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 doesnā€™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)
	Evan Bartholomew - Secret Entries into Darkness (miscellaneous category) (Price: $15.99) "Evan Bartholomew brings another example of sonic storytelling to Somnia, moving from atmospheric float into pulsing minimal electroid rhythms. Fractaline analog grooves and micro beat construction establish a hypnotic base for a composed layer of ambient exploration to unfold. presenting a balance of analog moduler synth elements and complex dsp processing, Secret Entries into Darkness furthers Somnia's approach to cinematic modern music. 777 copies worldwide. soy ink on recycled paper, sewn, sealed in wax, signed and numbered." -Somnia Somnia002 track listing with MP3 samples: 1. mp3 clip 2. mp3 clip 3. mp3 clip 4. mp3 clip 5. mp3 clip 6. mp3 clip 7. mp3 clip... (more/buy)
	Emanuele Errante - Humus (miscellaneous category) (Price: $15.99) "Somnia proudly presents a new album from respected Italian ambient composer Emanuele Errante. Humus unfolds slowly through a symphony of organic minimalism, evolving and growing over a course of 11 tracks. classical flourishes adorn warm and inviting textural sketches, and subtle electronic manipulation pervades a humid ambient environment. Reich inspired microcosmic rhythms unfold and undulate beneath wide pastel landscapes." -Somnia Somnia003 track listing with MP3 samples: 01. mp3 clip 02. mp3 clip 03. mp3 clip 04. mp3 clip 05. mp3 clip 06. mp3 clip 07. mp3 clip 08. mp3 clip 09. mp3 clip 10. mp3 clip 11. mp3 clip... (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) " Borghi has crafted a superb collection of dark drones, bruised wanderings, and ravaged ruins, glimpses of a psyche's attempts to deal with nightmarish realities. This is rainy-day fog shrouded doom-cast netherworld music. Fans of Roach, Robert Scott Thompson, 1980s Robert Rich "sleep tunes," and all such "melting brain" music will enjoy this! Recommended release." --Reviewed by John W. Patterson, EER reviews Track listing (with MP3 sample clips): 1. Leaving the Gates of the Open Harbor 2. November's Peculiar Calm 3. Gray Dawn Illumination 4. Point Aux Barques 5. The Longest Night 6. Red Sky Morning 7. Brooding Dark Waters 8. Distant Harbor 9. Silent Moor... (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)
	Troum - Objectlessness (Faria category) (Price: $13.99) 2007. "There is a big gap between rational, verbal language and the pre-symbolic language of our emotional and unconscious mind. Music is perceived partly with our conscious mind, who can analyze it and reflect on it. On another part, it is perceived by our unconsciousness, by our primal consciousness that lies under the rational mind. The idea: Experimental music, especially that of a more droning character, can easier get in touch or be unconsciously connected with this primal state of mind. It is music that is linked with unconscious fantasies coming from a pre-verbal sphere of existence... the phase of life based on the dyadic interaction with the primal object, the mother. At this early stage, thereā€™s no awareness existing of being a full separated Subject, and no other full separated Objects can be perceived. Inner and outer reality is the same. Spheric, droning, dissolving music is pointing unconsciously at this objectless sphere of existence. This release is dedicated to the idea of an especially formed pre-symbolic music. Artwork conception contain 4 cards and cover with art from english creator Pete Burn." - Faria Records... (more/buy)
	Calabi-Yau - Compactified (Faria category) (Price: $13.99) 2008. "Calabi-Yau (called in the names of two mathematicians (Eugenio Calabi) and (Shing-Tung Yau )) spaces may be that microscopic shape, deep inside the hidden dimensions of string theory. There are many such spaces... According to string theory, space-time isn't 4-dimensional as you might expect, but 10-dimensional. Where are the extra six dimensions? One answer is that they're compactified: roughly speaking, rolled up into such a small space as to be unobservable at human scales. You are in the forest, it is night, and in a moment you are in space, exploring the phenomena, for which there is no explanation and knowledge in our day... ¦And You hear the sound of loquacious water far away from You. The sky is in front of Youā€¦You can observe all the planets to be clearly. And there are plenty of animals around You, which You've never seen before, which are so close, that they are almost touching You. Thought is equal to movement, there is no difference between them." -Faria Records... (more/buy)
	Aglaia - Unprofaned Twilight (Faria category) (Price: $13.99) 2008. "This is joint edition of Faria Records and Hic Sunt Leones. The fourth cd of Aglaia is born from the previous work but, in comparison with them, it develops a wider breath directly from the backgroundā€™s sounds. The composition is softer and more refined. Again the sonorous world that here is explored is that one of the enchantment, of the mild sound fading. An unprofaned and inviolate twilight, where the different vibrations are balanced, without any sort of tensions. Time rolls by and space too. The sound is a natural matter and gives birth to an intense crepuscolar light. Listening to this music is like to see thousands of fine luminous rays, filtered through half-closed windows. A dance of dust in a never ending movement that catches the light around. With aglaia's sound we are in an electroacoustic microcosm full of vibrating signs. The first of the two long compositions suggests a natural and quiet landscape. The sound's mood is a sort of perpetual tinkling, wrapped up a voice coming from the space, that observes from afar. An harmonic accordance between different reality. The second, even though more intimate, is equally shining. Everything happens during a night where insects, spring-waters and moonlight match themselves together. A swarming midnight with underworld life." -Faria Records... (more/buy)
	Antonio Testa - Inframundis (Faria category) (Price: $13.99) 2007. "Inframundis (inland universe, latin) is a research of stalagmites and stalagtites sounds mixed with textures and drones; It's a meditative record and it creates a balance between biosphere and technosphere. The cd gets free all its energies, its little/big sounds, its hidden atmospheres, and microharmonies. The sounds, music, make us come back to the past, offering us the view of a World. The sound evokes angelical moments between the imperceptible evolution of the sound of the sky and the ethnic roots, natural instrumental sounds creating atmospheres which evoke in our imaginary visions and images of the most far places. It is an alchemic project of ancestral sounds. Deeply rooted in our unconscious." -Faria Records... (more/buy)
	Faryus - Lucid Dreams (Faria category) (Price: $13.99) 2007. "This album is devoted to a phenomenon of the Lucid dreams. A "lucid dream" is a dream, in which the person is aware that he or she is dreaming while the dream is in progress. During lucid dreams you have control over the dream characters and environment, as well as the ability to perform otherwise physically impossible feats. The feelings which you feel during lucid dreams are very similar to those available during a waking state. Often they surpass the 'usual' with a saturation and intensity. This phenomenon has been researched by such well-known researchers as Stephen LaBerge, Robert Monroe, Carlos Castaneda, etc.. The 9th book of Carlos Castaneda - The Art of Dreaming explains more fully the events occurring within this album. The album is conceived as travel from the moment of falling asleep up to the depths of the infinite universe of the Dreaming: ā€œVivid Dreamā€ - this is a dream, where colors and events are extremely bright. After awakening we never forget these dreams, it remains in the memory as a very exciting experience. It is the first phase of lucid dreaming and the beginning of our travel. We can then find Clarity, passing through the first gate of dreaming to enjoy the Lucid Dream. Opening infinite opportunities of the universe of dreaming we begin our "Free Flying" obtaining the sanctum sanctorum of the dreaming universe - to the World of Inorganic Beings". -Faria Records... (more/buy)
	Vadim Bondarenko - Smoking Music (Faria category) (Price: $13.99) "Smoking Music was created in 2000-2004. Delicate made melodic ambient compositions. To creatŠµ this album Vadim used keyboards, clarinet, samples and piano. It is a good listening for everyone who likes misty ambient music and the creative work of Brian Eno or Harold Budd." -Faria Records... (more/buy)
	Svartsinn - Traces of Nothingness (Cyclic Law category) (Price: $13.99) The 3rd offering from Norway's Svartsinn could be acknowledged as the end of a trilogy, the first opus "Devouring Consciousness" was an album containing stories made during what the artist explains as being some difficult and rough times. The second offering, "Of Darkness And Re-Creation", was the process of trying to deal with these struggles and reflect on them. "Traces Of Nothingness" is simply the reaction, result and the path ahead in this ongoing, seemingly endless darkness. A slightly more melodic, sad and obscure side of Svartsinn that still keeps the cold and dark atmosphere that defines his sound. First 1000 copies in special Digipack. 8 Tracks. Running time; 50:57 Track list: Traces Of Nothingness / No Passage To The Innermost... / Lost In Reveries / Misanthropic Odyssey / Through Apathetic Eyes / All The Colours Are Fading / ...But The Fire Burns No More / Emptiness Is Form... (more/buy)
	Visions - Lapse (Cyclic Law category) (Price: $13.99) New solo work from Frédéric Arbour (Instincts/Longing For Dawn/Cyclic Law). This sonic venture takes us on an intense, solemn ambient journey through the minds eye and beyond. A transcendantal voyage through thick, droning layers immersed in richly obscure, ever evolving abstract sonorities fused with mysticaly charged passages, this is a relentless visionary experience through time and space, to realms beyond our imagination. First 1000 copies in Gatefold sleeve. 7 Tracks. Running time; 56:00 Track list: Abyssal Gaze / Auroral Glare / Visions / Passage / Lapsing / Devoid Of Shadows / Lightless... (more/buy)
	Gustaf Hildebrand - Primordial Resonance (Cyclic Law category) (Price: $13.99) Gustaf's second full lenght is a unique, evolved experience offering you to embark upon an odyssey through ancient and lifeless surroundings. Sweeping ambient soundscapes and delicate textures mingle with the distant shrieks of surreal machinery - conjuring up images of abandoned and forgotten places, clouded skies and dead cities where time has been standing still. A captured moment from a strange no man's land lit by a perpetual gloom, Primordial Resonance is a voyage only limited by the imagination of the listener. First 1000 copies come in an oversized fold out cover (A5). 6 Tracks. Running time; 45:19 Track list: Omega Continuum / Post Oblivion Fields / The Hollow Structures / Omnivoid / Ruins of a Failed Utopia / Wanderer of Strange Spheres... (more/buy)
	Northaunt - Horizons (Cyclic Law category) (Price: $13.99) 3rd full length album from Norway's most renowned Ambient Atmospheric act. HORIZONS is a collection of 7 long ambient landscapes, lonely sceneries on the verge of night, places we long for, places we have been, sanctuaries from mankind. This is desolation made audible, carefully constructed and layered with deep drones, melancholic tonalities and outdoor field recordings which makes this Northaunt's most haunting release so far. Includes a bonus Video file with an alternate version of the track "The Wilderness" First 2000 copies in a 6 panel Digipack 7 Tracks + Video. Running time; 60.00 Track list: Until Dawn Do Us Part / Night Came To Us / Horizons / The Autumn Sky / Night Alone / With The Stars As Witness / The Wilderness Bonus Video File: The Wilderness (Alternate Version)... (more/buy)
	New Risen Throne - Whispers of the Approaching Wastefulness (Cyclic Law category) (Price: $13.99) The latest offering and first for Cyclic Law of one of Italy's finest Black Ambient master. The main concept and transpiring feeling of this album and the title "Whispers of the approaching wastefulness" can best be described as the "steps" or "journey" leading to the acknowledgment of the approaching end of all things. "Whispers" represent doubts and thoughts about the prevalent decadence that is around and deep within us and "wastefulness" translates to the imminent, definitive end of all things, to oblivion... The album is divided into 3 chapters: I - Oblivious to unknown threat (first signs) Tracks 1 & 2, II - Acquisition of knowledge (signs) Tracks 3, 4 & 5, III - Advent of a definitive wastefulness (final signs) Track 6. NEW RISEN THRONE's latest opus offers a bleak and sorrow filled soundtrack celebrating death with little hope for rebirth... This Enhanced CD features an exclusive bonus video clip of the track "Unknown (II)" First 1000 copies comes in a 6 panel textured cardboard sleeve. 6 Tracks. Running time; 44:00 Track List: Signs Of The Approaching Wastefulness (I) / Blowing Funeral Chant / Signs Of The Approaching Wastefulness (II) / Prophet (III) / Aporrheton / Signs Of The Approaching Wastefulness (III)... (more/buy)
	Tholen - Sternklang (Cyclic Law category) (Price: $13.99) Sternklang is the expression of the intimate encounter with the whole, the direct connection with the stars and the vast universe, the sense of complete union with all the overdimensional attributes of what sourrounds us. With THOLEN, Eisen, the man behind this project has given us an aurally materialized glimpse of his numerous stargazing evenings...where the soundscapes are revealed while the stars seemed to gather and sing out of their primordial and powerful environment. The darkest hour is always the one before sunrise... In fold out gatefold cardboard sleeve. 1 Track. Running Time: 1:11:07 Track List: Sternklang1 / Sternklang2 / Sternklang3 / Sternklang4... (more/buy)
	Sinke Dus - Akrasia (Cyclic Law category) (Price: $13.99) Akrasia is an old question dealing with the weakness of the will. To behave "akratically" is when one acts against his better judgement, committing acts that are known to be wrong but yet still going through with the motion. Markus Lonebrink wanted to explore not so much the philosophical issues at hand, but rather the subjective experience of akrasia itself. To learn of the underlying motives of when one acts akratically. Certain events in the akratic process felt natural to him and it was those he tried to integrate into these soundscapes. There are no conclusions described in the music, but there might be a glimmer of light at the end of the tunnel and perhaps the shadow of a hint of why we humans sometimes act as irrationally as we do. A shared quest to gain better knowledge of oneself through this self-revisionistic ambient journey filled with ethereally lush passages that give way to a truly visionary and immersive experience. The album also features a special collaboration with Pär Bostrom of KAMMARHEIT. In fold out gatefold cardboard sleeve. 7 Tracks. Running Time: 45:50 Track List: The Premonition / Acedia / Remnants / That Which Was Lost / The Abyss / That Which Lies Beyond / Fortitude... (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)
	ISAN - Digitalis (Darla category) (Price: $10.99) "English duo of Robin Saville and Antony Ryan make beautiful sounds, picking up their signals from deep space, like pulse coded informational rhythmic tone clusters of synthetic extraterrestrial folk music of cellular activities, breathing, bubbling, and fizzing with life. All instrumental, seven tracks, bringing to mind; Cluster, Microstoria, To Rocco Rot, and even grand daddies Kraftwerk. -- George Parsons, DREAM Magazine. At home. The synthesizer sounds great, warm, embracing, lively, almost alive. But what's that noise, that strange hiss? You open up the main wooden cabinet. You suddenly realize that this synthesizer once was alive. It used to be a bug's family living room. The hiss and the buzz is caused by, now long dead, little bug kids who glued themselves to the filter circuits and who tried to play table tennis on the A-C-adaptor. "Should I clean the inside? Should I get rid of the cracklings?," you ask yourself. No way, you like what you hear. This keyboard is alive. It‘s good that way. You close the door and start recording... If our mutual friend found beetles in his synth, ISAN'S equipment must be inhabited by proper salamanders, pattering constantly over circuits, stumbling over wires. Robin and Toe, the two mates operating this 'Integrated Services Analogue Network' (ISAN), appreciate the salamander's help and dedicated this whole album to their little friend. A couple of years ago, they both met in Leicester, discovered a common interest in "using dodgy old keyboards to make a dodgy old noise" and started recording together. Mixing the simple beauty of melodies generated with analogue keyboards and the bumpy, quirky rhythms old drum machines create when you switch them on, ISAN produce some of the most irresistible pop anthems the whole family can hum along to." Review from Darla Records... (more/buy)
	Hammock - Raising Your Voice...Trying to Stop An Echo (Darla category) (Price: $13.99) "Raising Your Voice Trying to Stop an Echo is the anticipated follow up to Hammock’s debut, Kenotic, a record that All Music Guide described as “ in every way a contender for classic status in the Shoegazing genre.” Although cherished in Shoegazer circles, Kenotic’s two months charting in CMJ’s Radio 200 and high profile appearances during NBC’s 2006 Olympic Coverage and on NPR’s All Songs Considered, Hearts of Space, Echoes and Musical Starstreams revealed that Hammock was also causing a stir among tastemakers and fans of Ambient, Post-Rock, Drone and Electronic. The duo’s eighteen newest tracks will do little to change that cross-genre appeal. Raising Your Voice Trying to Stop an Echo is characterized by the duo’s hallmark: thick curtains of cascading electric guitars that merge into pure expressions of hope, stillness, joy and loss. Accompanied by strings, piano, ethereal vocals and an occasional undercurrent of percussion, these beautiful, layered guitar washes range from whisper-soft minimalism to moments of driving, slow-burn intensity. Simply put, Marc Byrd and Andrew Thompson make music that is filled with human passion and emotion. Welcome to this winter’s new soundtrack. " a perfect combination of the swirling, amorphous beauty of ambient music and the passionate pulse of electronica.” -Brian Baker, Amplifier Magazine... (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. The new album, The Anatomy of Waves, is a series of four long tracks featuring improvisations, created using a wind synthesizer processed through an effects pedal board and looped using long delay times that fade slowly, enabling new sounds and loops to be added and subtracted. All the tracks have a compositional foundation but this structure is fluid enough to allow the music to move in any number of directions, often simultaneously. From melodic to abstract, musical elements emerge and coalesce by design and hazard as phrases interact with one another and sounds are added that never become part of a repeating loop. Jonathan Block has been releasing electronic music for over 20 years, often under the name Synthetic Block. Block’s music has been released by Hypnos, Binary and Gears of Sand. In addition to his solo works, Block has performed and recorded with Dave Fulton, The Circular Ruins (APK) and Ben Fleury-Steiner. Track listing (with mp3 sample clips): 01 Diffract - MP3 02 Diffuse - MP3 03 Dissolve - MP3 04 Disperse - MP3... (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)
	Mico Nonet - Marmalade Balloon (miscellaneous section) (Price: $11.99) 2007. We here at Hypnos HQ think this is one of the nicest and best-est things to have crossed our ears in quiet a while. It's a beautiful, ear-pleasing blend of relatively "straight" chamber music with just a touch of electronic tones. A minimalist layer of ambient analog synthesizers with cello, viola, French horn and oboe performed by members of The Philadelphia Orchestra and Berlin Philharmonic.... (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 - Timeless (Blue Oasis/ Dataobscura category) (Price: $13.99) Rich and flowing drone-scapes by APK (The Circular Ruins, Lammergeyer), cut through with glacial undertones and a sheen of fascinating details. A product of far northern geography and the immensity, and isolation, of that landscape. APK at his best, deep and complex... (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 - Their Subtle Purpose (Blue Oasis/ Dataobscura category) (Price: $13.99) "Distilled from a proposed double album, Their Subtle Purpose is the culmination of 2 years work. Hauntingly moody, the album is suffused with subtle rhythms and melodies that wander like misplaced spirits. It has flow, craftsmanship, detail, and a deeply engaging, delicate beauty that draws you in to its soundworlds and curious passageways. Sure to be enjoyed by all fans of intelligent and listenable ambient. "... meandering, wistful, fragile and beautiful, and the rhythms seem far more subtle than on previous efforts. Seems like a combination of Circular Ruins and the slower tracks of Lammergeyer." --Joe Rygwelski... (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 ABOUT THE ARTISTS THE TRACKS (with MP3 samples) Jonathan Block "The Language of Rocks" MP3 M. Peck "Somna" MP3 Freq. Magnet "Nitrous" MP3 Kirk Watson "Scarecrow" MP3 dreamSTATE "Ghost Nebula" MP3 Seren Ffordd " Strange Attractor" MP3 Dwight Ashley " Behold the Trampled Wheat" MP3 Justin Vanderberg "Infection" MP3 Igneous Flame "Pandora" MP3 Tau Ceti "Float" MP3... (more/buy)
	Mark Mahoney & M. Peck - Imprint (Miscellaneous section) (Price: $11.99) 2006. Incorporating both analog and digital synthesizers, software based instruments and theremin Mahoney and Peck weave deep space and dark ambient soundscapes to sculpt austere visions derived from sound. Track list (with mp3 sample clips): 1 A Fabled Utopia mp3 clip 2 Initiation mp3 clip 3 Lower Density of Souls mp3 clip 4 Breached Tidal Motion mp3 clip 5 Pathogen mp3 clip 6 Static Migration: a Riddle, a Lament, a Prayer mp3 clip Mark Mahoney and Michael Peck have compiled tracks from their live performances of 2005. It would be hard to pigeon hole the genre of music that these artists produce. A Mahoney and Peck performance takes the listener through a journey with many twists and turns. An uplifting melodic theme may slowly evolve into an abstract and dark world of strange sounds and textures, only to evolve again into a soft heavenly melodic theme. Mahoney and Peck have performed twice on Chuck van Zyl's radio show, Stars End. They have also performed at the Electro-Music 2005, 2006, and 2007 festivals in Philadelphia as well as the Midwest Electronic Music Symposium (MEMS) in Indianapolis. They have received many positive reviews of their solo work and their previous project, The Amaranth Signal... (more/buy)
	Mark Mahoney & M. Peck - The Gallery of Subtle Smiles (Miscellaneous section) (Price: $11.99) 2007. A curiously crafted balance between the accessible and the mysterious. The latest installment from Mahoney and Peck, "The Gallery of Subtle Smiles" continues to show the evolving soundworks and audible explorations of this genre defying duo. The Gallery of Subtle Smiles offers much to the listener. Weaving dark tapestries of sound coupled with progressive melodies and rhythms that evoke deep emotinal response. To pass it off as merely ambient music is far to easy as "Gallery" is properly more related to modal jazz then anything perceived as electronic. Track list (with mp3 sample clips): 1 Flight of the Nexxus Swan mp3 clip / 2nd mp3 clip 2 Cosmic Visitation mp3 clip 3 Initiate Auto Sequence 4 Follow the Swarm 5 Dawn's Lingering Ghost 6 Tin Cans and Tiny Cables mp3 clip 7 Vortex of Dim Light mp3 clip 8 The Great Silencer mp3 clip... (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: $11.99, 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)
	Klaus Wiese - Divine Orbit (faria label) (Price: $12.99 import) Composed and recorded 1987, but never released, now officially released on CD through russian Label "Stillclouds", the official seller is Faria Records. Drone ambient in the classic style of Klaus Wiese, like albums "Qumra" and "Samarkand". CD is packed to digipack. Klaus Wiese: Keyboards, Voice. Ted de Jong: Tabla.... (more/buy)
	Mathias Grassow & THomas Weiss - Outland (faria label) (Price: $14.99 import) 2007. Russian import. A reflection from outer spaces in between the universe of our mind. A miniature of the endless space from far behind mankinds tangibility. To understand the real essence of the heart of the matter, often it is necessary to take a look from the distance. Just this distance shows structures and connections, which are otherwise impossible to see and grasp – because everyone himself is part of a certain situation. Therefore “Outland” stands for a journey into an “outer land”, to become an advanced view for realization. Luxury pack with artworks of Markus Vogt. Limited edition of 500 pieces... (more/buy)
	Five Thousand Spirits - Synapse - Shaihulud (faria label) (Price: $14.99 import) 2007. Russian import. Five Thousand Spirits - it is collaboration between Alio Die and Runes Order. What we will have if we will mix the best works of "Bad Sector" and "Klaus Schulze", to add in them deep ambient moods from "Alio Die" and hypnotic-trance analogue electronic from "Runes Order"? We shall have the delightful pearl which has collected in all best from different styles of intellectual electronics! The meeting of synthesist Raffaele Serra and Alio Die (supported this time by Zeit)create here an excellent quality of sound, in Synapse S. you will find the amazing moods and a lot of aesthetic pleasure. This is 5000 Spirits's treasure box, recommended to all music lovers. As always, each track is accompanied wonderful artwork of Sara Luciani, which develop the concept of album in art area. .... (more/buy)
	Mathias Grassow, Rudiger Gleisberg, Amir Baghiri - Arcanum (faria label) (Price: $14.99 import) 2007. Russian import. This is rerelease of legendary masterpiece from 3 famous german composers. "Arcanum" - it is collaboration of three different musical styles which creates a unique arcanum of excellent music. Mathias Grassow fills compositions his special deep mood drone ambient. Amir Baghiri adds his hypnotic percussions and Rudiger Gleisberg plays wonderful cosmic electronics. It will enjoyable to all music lovers! Previously released by Amplexus label as ltd of 500 copies at 1998 and totally sold out few years ago. Now rereleased with two bonus tracks, and luxury pack with artworks of Markus Vogt with several cards inside. ..... (more/buy)
	Alio Die - The Flight of the Real Image (faria label) (Price: $14.99 import) 2007. Russian import. This is re-released of old MCD (22 minutes) which has been released in 1993 limited edition of 1000 copies and sold out several years ago. Happy to present a full version of this great album, his length is 79 minutes. Classical sound of the maestro is harmoniously combined with his new experiments with a zither, flutes, bells and many others. Old materials were remastering and now sound very well. Release has five cards with installations of Italian painter Sara Luciani. These artworks are an integral part of the concept of an album. .... (more/buy)
	Numina - Shift to the Ghost (Hypnos label) (Price: $12.99) 2007. Numina's third album on Hypnos Recordings is "Shift to the Ghost," a long-form continuous piece with indexed track points. Each song is distinctly different in feel, but the songs evolve seamlessly into each other. Numina himself states that the album "is about the life and death of the physical self," hence the title. Whatever the concept, this album contains all the elements Numina fans enjoy, from deep and sombre ambient, to twinkling, swirling space music, constantly evolving. It's a long, fascinating visual journey, and it never grows tired. The latest work from ambient "rising star" Numina is possibly his best yet. "a Great album. calmful and dark beauty, Highly Recommended!" --Parallel Worlds, on the Hypnos Forum "Numina music is a blend of synthesized ambient and classic spacemusic, its drones river-deep rather than abyssal, at times somber and mournful (“Spiral Reminders”), even Goth-like (“Light Travelling”), at others majestic and seeking to surge towards the light (the finale “The Hostless Ghost”)... The prevailing sonic dynamic of breathing, oozing, slow flow adumbrates a drift-zone familiar to ambient-space aficionados from mid-period vidnaObmana....it is decidely the most eloquent statement of Numina’s spiritual space manifesto yet." --Alan Lockett, www.ei-mag.com "Jesse Sola’s latest release under the Numina name brings us another class assortment of deep dark dreamy ambience." © 2007 Phil Derby / Electroambient Space "In crafting a sonic narrative of the journey from life to afterlife, Numina has created a listening experience that is utterly immersive...This is signature Numina, moving as slowly as sleeping breath, elegant layers laid thickly upon layers with a certain and graceful hand...Shift to the Ghost is another Hypnagogue Highly Recommended CD from Numina." --Reviewed by John @ Hypnogogue Track listing with MP3 samples: 1. Secret Souls 2. Through the Unseen Barrier 3. Spiral Reminders 4. Arrival to Nowhere 5. Light Travelling 6. Forever Falling 7. The Hostless Ghost... (more) | (buy)
	vidnaObmana - An Opera for Four Fusions Works (Acts 1-4, 4CDs) (Hypnos label) (Price: $41.99, 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)