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Brock Van Wey - A Chance To Start Over - 06-Oct-09 03:24 PM
Brock Van Wey (aka BVDUB) has excelled himself with this moving, open, emotional soundscape of a track that is 'A Chance To Start Over'.

The track really lifts you from the first swathe & just grows & grows till your heart just can't take anymore...But then you want more.
A heartbreakingly beautiful track that even after many many listens, can still hold you in it's grasp. Listen to this while the sun goes down on a beach or even alone in your room, you have to be as cold as a politician not to be affected by this.

Then there's the remix by Intrusion & his 'Under The Starlit Sky mix'. An apt name of a remix for this stellar tune.
Staying ever truthful to Brock's treatment & adding THAT bassline & Deepchord style beats over the sounds just lifts you & rubber stamps Brock's conveyance of emotion here.
Intrusion's mix is my candidate for 'Tune Of The Year' for me. There's not simply enough words for this epic & demands your ears again & again.
You never tire of it.
Beautifully & simply re-translated emotion.

Mick Chillage - Tales From The Igloo - 17-Aug-09 02:24 PM
I think I can kind of remember the reason I first got into Ambient Techno & was probably around the early 90's.

I'm sure most of us can all remember a time when everything felt fresh, new & exciting to our ears

I'd hear late night transmissions on KISS, or even through friends of mine on their tape decks & CD's round their houses. Excitingly being up late or sharing music that blew our minds. Great times!

I would say it would be right for me to point out that this album truly has me remembering times I got into this wondrous maze of music which was....Well..Electronica (If one can narrow all Genres down with this one word)

'Tales From The Igloo' really has me casting way back into my past & reliving memories/radio shows & events I thought had been lost forever, recanting lost feelings & the very sensation this music had on me initially, at an age of 18 or 19.

In my opinion this album really is as good you have heard...Enough for me to write about anyway.

I'll hear 'Rotation' & immediately take a trip down memory lane. Just an astounding track! Check it!

That's just one highlight of an album that really arouses a sense of feeling, emotion & a sense of 'scope'.
The way music felt to me in those special times. Kudos to Mick for exceptional work on this album.

Tracks: Hypothermia & Disturbed Earth are again just 2 other exemplary examples of the above too. Amazing production & once again simply evoking Artwork from the great Jeroen Advocaat.

What a collaboration? & it sums up the album's aesthetic cosily whether from inside an Igloo in the Northern hemisphere to looking out across a foreboding yet stunning glacial landscape, with good company of course.

The album has strong essences of (early) Luke Slater & Rising High material in parts & Biosphere (to me amongst many).
Mick also drawing inspiration from his incredible FAX Records collection too, which only serves well to the album.

In a word: Amazing !

Biosphere - Cirque - 22-May-09 01:42 PM
An amazing album!

Originally, to me Biosphere's best release was Substrata & in every respect it still remains a classic but Cirque just has that something extra, a real journey into the glacial sound that Biosphere creates, a journey that one takes with the explorer to which it is inspired from.

Every track seamlessly moulding into the next with ease & then we're given the sublime & punchier tracks of Algae & Fungi Parts I & II, with a drum and bass sound backdrop never interfering with the chords but driving both tracks & probably even enough to keep a dancefloor interested & thinking at same time.

Finishing with one of the most moving pieces of ambient music: Too Fragile To Walk On..Emotionally captivating.

Secede - Tryshasla - 01-May-09 03:24 PM
'Tryshasla' is an album of sonic beauty from beginning to end.
Pure escapism, childlike wonder & effervescent memories. I found this album via a searching the Net for new sounds last year & also being a BIG fan of Sending Orbs' label, now owning Legiac & both Yagya albums. I finally hold this lush audio soundscape in my hands after paying 46 British notes for it (well worth it!!) & so proud I got it at last!

The very beginning sounds of Hospital Requiem, immediately transpose the listener into a sense of realism; Life support machines bleep & hum, whispered voices of a desperate man who wants to return to the mystical world he was in before being revived.

We the listener are (as with Frank the character) whisked away slowly & surely into Foliage Pathway, where melodies play joyously & moments are treasured, where dreams & fond memories are conjured, just beautiful.
The sounds of 'Leraine' kick in which lift your spirits & marks the album's spirit well. Then we're elevated to a mystical wondrous place 'The Realms of Sanda' & from this point you can empathise with Frank why you would not want to leave this place.

I doubt I can really go into every track & review it & give it credit that it rightfully deserves, as it's an example of how to make a journey in sound for an hour.
It's not only the melodies that play well & truly inspirational but the field recordings Secede has developed too that really whisk you from your reality so well. As another reviewer rightfully quoted, Secede must have had some serious inspiration to create this 'masterpiece' of electronica/ambient.
I didn't mention the legendary artwork of Jeroen Advocaat aligning the album's sounds perfectly.

So..In the words of Frank "Let Me Go"

Blak Beat Niks - Do You Want Me (The Remixes) - 02-Mar-09 02:50 PM
No nonsense on the USG Dubstramental.

Oh boy this is deep house classic territory.
Deserves to be played loud, in darkened rooms for Clubbers who like it deep & soulful & willfully put a smile on their euphoric faces.

Ron Trent & Anthony Nicholson pull out all the stops on this great remix for Blak Beat Niks.

Ron Trent's basslines & Nicholson's production compliment the vocals so well, the dreamy synth stabs, the Trent drum sounds we all know...Oh Man :)

Forget everything about the other versions, hear this !

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