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Brings me straight back to the glorious times of armchair electronic music of the mid to late 90's. Smart melodies and complimentary beats. Melancholic synths. Fine stuff. Tracks 5 & 6 are diamonds among the gold.

A worldly expedition that transports you to lively forests, expansive caves, and ethnic beauty.

Uwe at his most engaging. His arms will indeed reach out and slap you if you are not paying attention to his electronically gifted displays of sound that are both somber and uplifting.

I've listened to Yagya since the beginning and really enjoy just about everything he has released. This release though is a step beyond, mainly due to the variety in these tracks. As other Yagya releases may be easy to summarize, there are many facets to ... See full review

Sometimes you take the best parts of two artists and they create something even more impressive! Polar Sequences still sounds great today. It's as much as you could hope when two artists come together and bring their separate styles to combine this ... See full review

Such glorious synths! I love the production. I especially enjoy when they let the music do the talking.. it sounds quite unique and original to me.

Sweeping magnificence that has beautiful strings and choral elements. Glorious!

I'm taken away to mysterious foreign areas where the enveloping atmospheres can change from enchanting to precarious.

A complete journey that creates an environment of wonder and peace. New Life Dreaming flows through it's entirety with wonderful intrigue, mystery, and relaxation. It is of the highest quality from beginning to end.

Phil mixing it up here, with some fine results. Some tracks have some guitar and drums, used to great effect. They are usually mixed with a little reverb. Complimentary vocals are found in some tracks as well. Throw is a stomping techno Kent The Fly and ... See full review

Smooth & creative. Don't let the pisstaky cover of a merge of Charles Manson and Taylor Swift fool you. Some top notch PW here, especially the first three tracks.

All three tracks are topsy techy. Smart beats, complimentary jabby synths. Booty shaking smartness. I think Tilmann brought out the best in Simko.

Turns out this was my most listened to release in 2017. I love the variety of tracks and the sounds that are within. It's -not- environmental, spacey, or experimental. It's a hard one for me to describe. It's what I hope more ambient sounded like.

This is the type of interesting release where people from different genres stumble across it. I'm sure most listeners were first from the EBM/Industrial camp as most Download releases fall under that category when this was first released. I'm sure many ... See full review

This release makes sense when you look at the Proem history of releases. He is getting warmed up & trying some things here. There's a raw, gritty feel throughout this release, and it gives indications of what he would soon refine with the Negativ CD ... See full review

The A side includes one of the weaker tracks on Secede's full-length 'Tryshashla'. With it's repetitive bassline & shuffling beat, it doesn't match up with the creativity of other tracks from that release. 'Standpeeks' on the other hand would fit snugly ... See full review

Short segments of moody, dusty vignettes. There's ample grainy surface texture throughout this disc to accomodate the stripped down ideas which are complimented by some effective sparse piano, a bass doodle here, an acoustic guitar reference there. ... See full review

Estermann easily combines quality melodic elements and for the most part puts them alongside busy, dry percussion. He supplies melodies and counter-melodies, many times overlapping onto eachother in a very satisfying manner. Of note is his ... See full review

Multicast are definately an artist that are overlooked, as they create some of the most unique listening electronics available.

Usually downbeat, with interesting themes of summer melodics or western heat-drenched guitar atmospheres. The music is ... See full review

Clinical, digital idm. 'Distal' is pattery with pads and mostly has a cold, detached feel. The thuddy percussion leads a lot of the tracks, and fragments of melodies appear (especially the last half of the disc). Nothing groundbreaking here, but it's ... See full review

This is Vidna Obmana's foray into mysterious environments with consistent tribal influences. Almost every track includes rolling tribal percussive drumming and intense shifting drones & ambience. Heavily reverbed cavernous flutes appear on some tracks, ... See full review

Chilled downbeat mixes from a good mixture of artists. Lusine Icl. plays it safe and keeps the original "Soulik" base intact, while Lowgreybeam uses the vocal flows from the original and hints of glitch to a very chilling effect. Xela floats along on a ... See full review

From beginning to end this is quality listening music. ML come together to form a variety of ear-tingling tracks, and all of which sound different from one another. The compostitions are varied, creative, and interesting. This disc has tons of ... See full review

Very sterile electronics, semi-melodic & bone-dry. Some of the tracks work fairly well, including the thematic patter of "9th Crush" and the jamming, bleep groove of "Slack".

The three 'bonus' tracks that come with this re-issue were already included on the initial CD versions of this release. The LP version on Sonig excluded tracks 3, 4 & 14 that are found here.