Illumination

An old chestnut from 2004, made prior to graduating to the sound-sculpting features of Audacity. Featuring Plastikman, Ma Ja Le, Fripp & Eno, Vidna & Tangerine Dream, this was remixed earlier this year, with added treatments, backdrops & 2 new compositions (tracks 9 & 12).

Track one was recorded off AM radio & is an old, 2004 Web-Basic ad.

01 Web-Basic radio advertisement (w/Passage In, Plastikman)
02 Plastikman – Passage Out
03 Entrancing Iris – Sub Ocean
04 Numina – Elements of Time
05 Ma Ja Le – Images Remain
06 Robert Fripp & Brian Eno – Tarazed
07 Loren Nerell – Liquid Metal Stasis
08 Vir Unis & Christopher Short – On the Edge of Eternity (excerpt)
09 Mathieu Lamontagne – Pourquoi Faire
10 Tuu – Plateau
11 Vidna Obmana – Phrasing the Air, pt. 3
12 Bersarin Quartett – Einsame Wandeln Still Im Sternensaal
13 Mike Griffen & Dave Fulton – Thermoptic Disguise
14 Tangerine Dream – United Goblin’s Parade

Merry Christmas!

I’d like to take a moment & wish everyone a Merry Christmas & a joyous New Year! We have a robust year, mix-wise, lined up & I hope to be exposed to a variety of new music in 2017.

Enjoy your families, traditions & music this Christmas! And may peace & love reign in your thoughts, hearts & prayers.

Luca D’Alberto – “Wait For Me” (Official Audio) on 7K!

soundscape.three

Part 3 of 4; Drone, Glitch & Ambient | 49:35

01 Bill Baxter – Sunflowers and Soundwaves
02 Siâvash Amini – The Rivers Stood Still
03 An.Rost – Alit
04 David Bowie – Leon Takes Us Outside (treated edit)
05 Kloob – Desahogo
06 Steve Roach – This Place to Be (excerpt)
07 Emil Klotzsch – Sctl18
08 David Bowie & Brian Eno – Moss Garden
09 Fictions & Poetics – A Different Aesthetic
10 Capac – Kirlian
11 Dirk Serries – I Communicate Silence
12 Henry Frayne – Colossus

Tangent, Collapsing Horizons

NP: A release on n5MD of this gritty, slightly caustic collection of experimental ambient noise, minimal techno & a bit of house dub.

Collapsing Horizons is the third full length album from Netherlands based deep ambient duo Tangent. This album much like the two preceding it—2013s “1mk2” (Mindtrick) and 2014s “Transience” (Tympanik)— is a sonic journey with arching atmospheres and themes. An aural representation of the formation of matter and it’s disintegration in unison. The music, much as the album’s namesake, could very well be the soundtrack to new universes being created on the ashes of collapsing ones. When asked about the specifics of the album’s theme the duo eloquently state: “[Collapsing Horizons] is about looking at our reality and finding out that things are shifting. Even our personal reality is constantly changing and it sometimes might be a good idea to give yourself some perspective. These shifts of change are not always easy and sometime things really need to be broken down in order to make it work again.”

Ralph van Reijendam and Robbert Kok who are the two behind Tangent moonlight in a long list of paradoxical musical projects. Fire Walk with Us, Rob Klerkx and the Secret, Disavowed, and Synesis Absorption are all quite different from Tangent’s sprawling yet steady ambiance. This such daily musical juxtaposition allows Tangent the immersive focus on the ideas that make Tangent what it is. It would be a misnomer to think that with all the extra curricular time spent in more extreme forms of music that Tangent is a frenetic force. They are exactly the opposite. Dense pads, rolling beats and brilliant shimmers of resonance punctuate their electronic based instrumentals in just the correct manner to stargaze, day-dream, bliss-out, or even brood about starting over…

Collapsing Horizons was released September 16th on n5md and is available on limited physical formats including compact disc, clear with white splatter vinyl, and transparent blue with white vinyl.

Tracklisting

1. Perceived Horizon
2. Dawn
3. Gravitational Singularity
4. Immutable Surface
5. Tectonic Shift
6. Hyperbolic Motion
7. Ascending Awareness
8. Distorted Perspective
9. Fracture
10. Dissolution
11. Inward Collapse

thermogenic

This is a brooding ambient & drone mix which starts slow & moves (final 1/3) towards a moderately paced minimal techno sound (& a King Crimson cover by Synthetic Block). In searching for the original mix’s cover artwork I found the image that would eventually become the Ambient Landscape logo.

Remixed earlier this year to include Roy Mattson‘s Unfurling.
80:50

01 Abstract Audio Systems – Bromia
02 Steve Roach – Slow Heat
03 David Parsons – Tisra Loka
04 Roy Mattson – Unfurling
05 TAGC – White Sands
06 Nick Parkin & Alio Die – Marcasites
07 Numina – New Lands Approach
08 Michael Griffin & David Fulton – Imprint
09 The Circular Ruins – Subspace Overdrive
10 Synthetic Block – Sailor’s Tale (King Crimson cover **)