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Now Playing / Re: Currently listening, part 1
« on: June 04, 2018, 09:37:11 AM »
Quote from: stargazer on June 02, 2018, 12:51:43 PM
Foghorn / The Afterglow by Mount Shrine

https://mtshrine.bandcamp.com/album/foghorn-the-afterglow

meditative, beautiful, sublime

Lovely stuff, indeed, Jana. Thanks for the new discovery.

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Now Playing / Re: Currently listening, part 1
« on: March 14, 2018, 11:04:46 AM »
Jaja - Music For Space Observation

I play this one almost daily. My favorite release this year, so far, and possibly Jana's best yet.

Steve Roach - The Lost Pieces

Rediscovering this one, I'd forgotten how wide-ranging this album is. I love when I "find" an album I've had for years again.


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Art and Literature, Movies and TV / Re: 4K movies and documentaries
« on: January 11, 2018, 01:13:49 PM »
Blade Runner 2049 also on order, I got the '82 original in 4K, which looks stunning, although there are some shots that risk looking like effects shots, as the original matte paintings or miniatures are a little too revealing.

The Revenant, Man of Steel, and Mad Max: Fury Road have all looked amazing in 4K.

Looking forward to the Dark Knight trilogy tomorrow, Interstellar and Passengers.

I've only recently bought a TV capable of HD content, so I wasn't heavily invested in a Blu Ray library. In the case of 4K, it's nice not to have to decide whether a film is worth the upgrade to yet another format. I've bought Blade Runner in just about every video format since Beta.

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Now Playing / Re: Currently listening, part 1
« on: December 27, 2017, 11:46:25 AM »
Currently on repeat:

Siddhartha Barnhoorn - Pillars of Light
https://siddharthabarnhoorn.bandcamp.com/album/pillars-of-light

Altus - Winter Embrace(15th Anniversary Edition)
https://altusmusic.bandcamp.com/album/winter-embrace-15th-anniversary-edition

Jaja - One Day on Arcturus
https://jajaouterspace.bandcamp.com/album/one-day-on-arcturus

Also, thanks for the tip on April Larson's release. Beautiful stuff.

Christmas trees and parties, everyone.

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Forum Member Projects News and Promotion / Re: Altus - Winter Embrace (15th Anniversary Edition)
« on: November 05, 2017, 11:16:32 AM »
A great album made even better. I was happy to buy the CD. Congrats on the release, Mike.

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Other Ambient (and related) Music / Steve Roach 2 New Releases
« on: August 05, 2017, 11:04:57 AM »
Steve has just released 2 new albums (I'm still calling them that,you can't make me get with the times) Long Thoughts, a 73-minute long-form track, and Nostalgia for the Future, a 6-track inter-connected collection.

Available now through Bandcamp and Steve's website.

https://steveroach.bandcamp.com/album/long-thoughts

https://steveroach.bandcamp.com/album/nostalgia-for-the-future

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Now Playing / Re: Currently listening, part 1
« on: April 30, 2017, 08:25:52 PM »
Seren Fford - Aurora and Ydd Hwnt y Seren a Llygedin Deep and sonorous slow pulses of sound & and the vast spaces in between.

Duff Egan - The Future of Man & Lost Land(thanks, Duff!)

I need to rewind the weekend and start over so I have enough time to fully enjoy all this.

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Now Playing / Re: Currently listening, part 1
« on: January 08, 2017, 03:53:08 PM »
Altus - Below The Root
https://altusmusic.bandcamp.com/album/below-the-root

A new release based on the computer game of the same name. I confess, I had to look it up.

3 listens and hearing something new each time. Well done, Mike.

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Now Playing / Re: Currently listening, part 1
« on: December 31, 2016, 09:29:34 PM »
Jaja - Through The Belt of Orion & Beyond the Horizons, just out on Bandcamp.

https://jajaouterspace.bandcamp.com/album/through-the-belt-of-orion
https://jajaouterspace.bandcamp.com/album/beyond-the-horizons

Happy New Year. 🎉

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Everything and Nothing / Re: Vinyl is really back
« on: December 08, 2016, 10:44:03 AM »
Quote from: petekelly on November 04, 2015, 03:58:09 AM
Quote from: Julio Di Benedetto on November 03, 2015, 09:07:58 PM
The last Audio Cassette Factory  8)

Personally I won't be missing these things at all, I wish people were as keen on mini-discs instead !

Back in the '70's, I worked in a cassette/8-track duplication house. A lot of disco in the air back then. Unfortunately, I got rid of almost all my cassettes, as they were shedding oxide like crazy when I played them. But seeing this makes me want to break out my old Nakamichi deck and try a mix tape again.

I still have all my old vinyl, including a limited Beatles box set that sounded so clear that you could hear the squeak of the foot pedal on Ringo's bass drum. That's what I loved and miss about vinyl: It's physical. It's the ritual of carefully removing the record from the sleeve, placing the needle on the disc, and poring over the liner notes, lyric sheets and artwork(Dark Side of the Moon!), all the things that made records so memorable. I just recently hooked up my Denon turntable to my system. Now, I need to dig into storage and pull out that Beatles box again.  :)

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Now Playing / Re: Currently listening, part 1
« on: December 01, 2016, 01:34:17 PM »
Max Corbacho - Indalo
https://maxcorbacho.bandcamp.com/album/indalo

Erik Wøllo and Byron Metcalf - Earth Luminous
https://projektrecords.bandcamp.com/album/earth-luminous

And broke my 2-purchases-a-month rule to get

Igneous Flame - Moonglow
https://igneousflame.bandcamp.com/album/moonglow
Nice work, Pete.

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Now Playing / Re: Currently listening, part 1
« on: October 08, 2016, 10:46:14 AM »
deepspace - The Glittering Domain re-release on Bandcamp. Lovely, long-form washes of synth space, interspersed with unearthly guitar and some deep piano excursions.

https://deepspace1.bandcamp.com/album/the-glittering-domain

I'm not sure how I missed this one first time around, but it's nice to see that DS's catalogue is being rolled out on BC.

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Now Playing / Re: Currently listening, part 1
« on: September 13, 2016, 10:35:11 AM »
Altus - Innerspace

Vast, slow-moving ambient waves for 70 minutes. Nice stuff, Mike.

https://altusmusic.bandcamp.com/album/innerspace

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Forum Member Projects News and Promotion / Re: Zenith (Tetsu Inoue / Carlos Vivanco) Album Re-Release
« on: September 05, 2016, 11:05:50 AM »
Quote from: ffcal on September 04, 2016, 09:40:50 AM
That's nice to hear.  It's an excellent album.  Does this mean that Tetsu is still around?

Unlikely. It appears to just be a re-release. Tetsu's last record was "Inland" released on Fax in 2007. If there's been anything since then, I'm unaware of it.

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Everything and Nothing / Re: Forum Inactivity
« on: July 31, 2016, 10:49:52 PM »
It does seem a little quiet here, possibly a by-product of the changing nature of the industry, i.e. fewer physical releases, less resources used to publicize them. I have to admit, most of my purchases are digital these days, especially on Bandcamp(hi, Pete and Jana), with only the rare CD purchase to satisfy the compulsive completist still in me.

And, as pointed out, we've lost some amazing talents recently. I think Gigi and Pete Namlook's passing knocked a huge hole in our collective community. Most of us are Oöphoi fans to one degree or another, and the demise of Pete's Fax label has been a big loss, not only for the new releases, which almost always generated a lot of buzz, but also because there was so much crossover into different sub-genres and artists influenced by Pete, that it seemed to take on a life of its own here.

I kind of miss obsessing over their work and I'm probably not the only one.

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Now Playing / Re: Currently listening, part 1
« on: July 31, 2016, 10:03:21 PM »
Quote from: ffcal on July 31, 2016, 10:30:37 AM
Picked this up recently via a Facebook recommendation.  Pretty nice:

https://algolstuzha.bandcamp.com/album/all-these-worlds-are-yours

Nice find. I got it, as well. Also picked up a couple new Earth Mantra releases on Bandcamp:
http://music.earthmantra.com/album/duft-rose
http://music.earthmantra.com/album/zenith
And the new release from Psychonavigation on BC,
https://psychonavigation.bandcamp.com/album/lingua-lustra-essence

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Art and Literature, Movies and TV / Re: Game of Thrones
« on: April 13, 2016, 09:36:51 PM »
I would advise watching the first episode. It gives you a good overall feeling of the scope of the show and sets up the dynamics for most of the major characters and plot lines. I think you'll know by the end, whether you want to go on watching.

But, it really is an excellent series. Don't worry about the books. Just enjoy the show for what it is.

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Forum Member Projects News and Promotion / Re: David Bowie 1947 - 2016
« on: January 23, 2016, 06:23:07 PM »
A fascinating track-by-track breakdown of "Heroes" by Tony Visconti:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03g18sx

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Forum Member Projects News and Promotion / David Bowie 1947 - 2016
« on: January 11, 2016, 03:17:12 AM »
The news is just breaking of David Bowie's death from cancer at age 69.

I can't begin to describe how much of an influence he was on myself and undoubtedly, many others here. I have just about every album he made, along with a few rarities. I was fortunate enough to see him perform live twice in the '80's. I remember his bizarre & hilarious interview with Dick Cavett around the time Aladdin Sane came out. I remember the Saturday Night Live appearance that introduced Klaus Nomi to the rest of the world, and the most arresting version of "The Man Who Sold The World" I've ever heard. I remember when Low was released and many people were writing it off as a weird electronic doodle, an aberration.

Rather than be morbid, I'd like to remember the upbeat and stay positive about an incredible career:

David Bowie - Golden Years

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Now Playing / Re: Currently listening, part 1
« on: December 08, 2015, 07:40:10 PM »
Bandcamp comes through again. It seems as though most of my purchases and discoveries are coming from BC these days. It's a haven for a lot of great ambient/EM/downtempo/world/electronic/etc music.

Altus - Komorebi Somehow I missed this when it first came out. A great collection of slow, deep breathing ambient drones, a little more on the upbeat, melodic side, but a gentle, dark undercurrent winding through as well. I've already listened to it 3 times since yesterday. Well done, Mike.

Scott Lawlor - Drone Excursions 10 and 12 currently, but there is a whole series on Bandcamp with hour-long drones reflecting all kinds of different moods and vistas to be heard.

Valentina Lisitsa - Scriabin Nuances Beautiful collection of new recordings of some classic Scriabin etudes, poemes, mazurkas, and waltzes.

Over at http://lowlightmixes.blogspot.com, Dave Michuda has created a new mix including excerpts from Max Richter's massive, 8-hour "Sleep" project. I'm looking forward to getting the complete project after Christmas. You should also check out his "The Healing Piano" mix. Thanks Dave, I needed that.

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