Glad you found the time to post it up. Someone had to. You'll really love this Vamos, if you like microbeats and glitchier stuff.

I don't know about Kosmischer Pitch or the other release/s of his, I haven't heard any others.

Maybe someone else has and can vouch for the quality?

kosmischer pitch is more ambient, less glitchy. it's one of his weaker releases, imo. if you like loop finding jazz records, check out the stuff he's released as farben.

Link on this blog to his 2006 release.
http://krypte.blogspot.com/2006/12/jan-jel...2006.html#links

Holy cow, I upped this over a year ago and the link is still active!



Farben -- Textstar (2002, 192 kbps)

1. Live At Sahara Tahoe, 1973
2. Farben Says: Love To Love You Baby
3. Suntouch Edit
4. Beautone
5. Farben Says: So Much Love
6. Bayreuth
7. FF
8. Silikon
9. Farben Says: Love Oh Love

this album's the shit, right here.

Wow. Finding Jazz Loops is great, I'm going to have a listen with Farben in a moment here. So far I'm enjoying this material more than Kosmischer Pitch

huh, I didn't know they were the same guy (if reading that right). both are great releases. Loop finding jazz records is so smooth.

I posted this in fish a while back but this seems like a better place for it.

Keith Fullerton Whitman - Lisbon EP



hxxp://www.megaupload.com/?d=4EVIXWUF

CokemachineGlow's review:
http://www.cokemachineglow.com/record_revi...llerton-whitman

Good to see Jelinek/Farben getting some acknowledgement. I've been addicted to him for a while. If anybody's got an easy way to strip iTunes DRM on OS X, I can upload the EPs Texstar's tracks are culled from.

Our Sleepless Forest - Our Sleepless Forest (2008, Resonant Label)

http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fusea...iendID=68779489

The three members, from the UK, "met at school" and subsequently put this together. There is little info available on them at this time. They released a track on a comp for the Type label, but this debut is set to come out in the Spring on Resonant.

This is dense and trippy stuff. Very hard to describe, just a lot of earthy layers of sound (birds, water) blending with waves of guitar and other warm noise. Check the myspace link. I'm very curious to find out how and what they used to record this. Anyway, it's grabbed my attention presently.

http://www.mediafire.com/?llnfaxctm7m

I love this fucking thread.

Anyone else got tickets for SoTL this April?

Theres a vid of them live playing Fratres by Arvo Part on their msypace, just scroll down
http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fusea...iendID=58822051

i have tickets to the sotl show. can't wait. pretty cool that they're covering arvo part.

You guys should bring pillows and sleeping bags along so you can have the fully realized Stars of the Lid listening experience

I got my ticket to.

watching that video make me giddy.

If they broke out a cover of "Alina" I'd probably lose all composure.

golly i need to visit this thread more often.

I figured I would throw this link up, though I'm not sure if it has ever been posted.

This is Tim Hecker's 2003 album Radio Amor. I haven't even listened to it yet so I can't really give a personal review but I'm sure it's good.

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=VHNHDK30

Vinyl/SoTL fans

Kranky shot these out on Vinyl again.



This will be repressed to vinyl and available to purchase April 7th


available at their website (plug)

A couple new releases that I've been enjoying so far

Peter Broderick - Float (Type, 2008)
http://www.myspace.com/peterbroderick

This will appeal to any fans of orchestral ambient (Rachel's, Richter, Eluvium among many others). Broderick writes simple elegiac melodies that evolve so perfectly. And the songs don't bleed into each other, they maintain their own personality but complement each other strongly. It could pass for an award winning soundtrack imo.
Sylvain Chauveau and Felicia Atkinson - Roman Anglais (O Rosa Records, 2008)

http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fusea...iendid=50870728
Sylvain Chauveau(apparently a very versatile composer) puts together some mellow guitar (and some beeps on one track) sounds and has some french chanteuse coo some spoken word over it. Really it sounds like a recipe for disaster but I love this darn thing so far. I can see myself getting lost in this on many Sunday mornings when the morning light bleeds through my shades.

I would be ever so happy if someone uploaded No Pussyfooting by Fripp and Eno.



Please and thank you!

i saw them a few years back at empty bottle and they were great. not necessarily an enthralling live act, but if you just closed your eyes it was incredible.

fred lonberg-holm opened up and had mike colligan from boxhead ensemble playing dry ice with him. colligan would put pots and pans and shit by the dry ice and make just unbelievable noises.

bump cause i'm really excited for sat night. so what's the lakeshore theater like?

Its just a typical old movie theater. Haven't been to a concert there - only been for a few comedy acts. I'm guessing it will be a nice venue for tomorrow. Can't wait.

the show went later than i would've preferred, but stars of the lid sounded beautiful last night. damn, "december hunting for vegetarian fuckface" just put me in awe.

i know... i was so pissed that it ran an hour behind, because I needed to catch a purple line back, so i only saw about an hour of the set.
Beautiful stuff, but man, I wish I didn't have to leave right in the middle.

Are you guys familiar with Henrik Rylander? I heard something of his on a radio program today and then checked out his myspace. I located a link to his album Traditional Arrangements of Feedback and am really digging it. Does anyone have more of his stuff? I'd love to hear more.


(I had to rename the file as a .rar file because the name was too long)

Myspace: http://www.myspace.com/henrikrylander
Website: http://www.henrikrylander.com/

You guys should check out crystalvibrations.blogspot.com. It's not updated extremely often, but that guy White Rainbow uploads a lot of cool stuff. Every record I've downloaded from there has been fantastic. I'll upload a couple of my favorites tonight.

Anyone have that new Ambient, Not Ambient comp by Audio Dregs?

Lichens - The Psychic Nature of Being

I don't know if this has been posted yet, as I haven't had time to look through the full 34 pages, but this album is incredible. Lichens recorded this in one improv session.

http://www.mediafire.com/?2zpmmysqxd2

This album is unbelievable

I never knew about this before but Aphex Twin had a LP only track on his Selected Ambient Works, Volume Two. Here it is if anyone hasn't heard it. It's beautiful
h__p://www.mediafire.com/?4yzux4ywjtx

or listen to it on youtube and watch an amateur video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u0ax5yCO7ag...feature=related

I recently downloaded the bersarin quartett album from earlier this year, and its pretty damn fantastic. sounds kinda like "post-classical" max richter, except with a more electronic edge. also brings to mind stars of the lid, except with more bombast. in other words, its right up my alley.

I'm liking that one too, fans of laid back electronica would like it I think. It doesn't get boring or fall into common traps of post-classical ambient either. Personally I am entirely exhausted of the Richter influenced ambient music. The formulaic melancholy can only go so far.

My thoughts exactly.

Although its hardly groundbreaking stuff, I find the BQ album so beautiful that it avoids that trap. And really, thats all it needs to do. Sometimes i dont want to be challenged by my music.

The other thing the album does well is showcase a variety of emotion. Melancholy is there, sure, but so is hope, in equal measures. Solid album.

Also: hey avec, have you heard about deletedscenesforgottendreams.blogspot.com? i just recently heard about it from another board. it's a massive blog with insane amounts of ambient/electronic goodness. plus its named after a Caretaker album, which is sweet. you might wanna check it out..

Re: deleted scenes
Oh yeah, they keep a steady flow of ambient stuff up on that site (some of it's great and has turned me on to new artists). I'm trying not to download as much as I used to, if I hear of a band I'll go to their myspace first, and if I'm still on the fence then I'll copy the album from a link.

But that is one of the dwindling blogs I still check now and again.

Avec, If you were to recommend one ambient release from this year what would it be? I've been going to sleep to either Le Fumeur De Ciel or Avec Laudenum every night for about a month now and I fancy a change.

Here's a scatterbrained answer!

This is a later 2007 release but I think it's great

Duane Pitre Pilotram Ensemble - Organized Pitches Ocurring in Time
http://www.myspace.com/duanepitre
(check the tracks that say "ensemble chord")
Orchestral drone, minimal to the maximum. Perfect to sleep to
Also he has a 2008 "net release" that you can stream from the myspace page

And this is a reissue but it's also friggin fantastic too!

I've listened to it a thousand times and haven't tired of it.
samples here
http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fusea...iendID=50670527

Also for sleeping you can't beat these new Steve Roach long players (one track loops set to be played in the background for sleep or whatever)

This one just dropped and it's great

You'd probably like the aforementioned Bersarin Quartett record though
http://www.myspace.com/bersarinquartett
h--p://www.zshare.net/download/122140414438a54f/

maybe that link works

Wow, I like the sound of that.

It's a bizarre little record. The electronic music mingling with the strings and it goes together very well. Classy sounding and trippy, if that makes sense.

I didn't get a SoTL vibe but kind of a slooow Boards of Canada doing post-classical.

Anyway, people should check it out! Links above

Thanks muchly Avec. After some rewarding Myspacing I'm going to go with the Bersarin Quartett first. I've got to stay up till at least 5 tonight as Im starting nightshift tomorrow so this should do nicely in a few hours.

Hey my link for the Duane Pitre record is still working, take that along with you too

h__p://www.mediafire.com/?nbmdavb3jw1

shall do. cheers.

Speaking of Caretaker, what's the album with his most 'song-based' stuff? I have A Stairway to the Stars, which is great, but my favourite tracks are the ones that retain the most structure and I'd kinda love to hear a whole album in that vein. From what I've read, I get the sense that he veered off more into the obliterated sounds, but I've never actually listened to any of his other albums. Should I, and what?

^
all I've heard is Stairway too, Philoktetes would likely know though

So I'm giving this B-Quartett album a closer listen on my headphones and wow its just great, really

If anyone can find a cheap American outlet to purchase this let me know (Amazon and elsewhere it starts at $48 new!) Imports are not cheap these days

A few things:

* i am relistening to the BQ album for the 4th time today, its just so chill. as always, listen to avec for he speaks the truth. this album is great--the first thing i wanna listen to in the morning and the last thing i wanna hear at night (although my sotl comparison might have been a little of a stretch...i think i was thinking of eluvium when i typed that...dont know why i got the two mixed up). give it a spin before bed, friends.

* vurt: "stairway" is the most song-oriented album in the Caretaker's album. "haunted ballroom" isn't too far off either i guess. after those two lps, he moved towards dark, dense-as-fuck drone. all of his stuff is quality, but there has been that shift. he also has a new one, which sounds like hes moving back to the song-based structure. its called "persistent repetition of phrases", but i havent been able to find it online. the clips ive heard are ace. if some gentle soul happens upon a link to the album, i would love to hear it.

* speaking of links, ive just recently had my harddrive crash. all my fav ambient music (milieu, caretaker, sotl, etc.) has been wiped. my heart aches. sleep doesnt visit me anymore. time to start rebuilding..

So I'm really, really diggging this track that Newgrass posted. Gotta wonder what everyone else in this thread might think about it. Also want to make sure that it's a legit original and not something that's pulled off of some obscure release no one else would know about.



I must have listened to this 5 or 6 times yesterday. Pretty fantastic.

lol thanks for the compliment. It is actually me and my friend's piece. We've been meaning to record more, but I've been too busy lately.

So can you give us a run-down of how you did it? Equipment, effects, etc. It sounds cool as shit, and like a lot of interestingly produced avant-garde music, I have no clue how you made any of those noises. Really intrigued by the whole process for that kind of stuff.

Also, kudos to you and your Last.fm, which says that you listened to The United States of America today. The real shit.

I finally picked up the Sundaze LP reissue of USA yesterday.

I'm not really sure of the equipment outside of using an Mbox and just some mono mics, as my friend did all the production (he's a recording engineer major). We used a ton of delay on all the instruments/noisemakers and a bit of reverb on the guitar I believe. I just played a full chord on an old organ with tremolo for about 5 minutes and we looped it. We used a bunch of car keys, a toy piano, running water, and just us singing for background drone/noise. I improvised on piano for about 6-7 minutes and we looped that and my friend improvised on a broken guitar.

Organized Pitches Occurring in Time is fantastic

oh we also stretched the fuck out of the organ chord, which is why it wavers so much. (There was no looping)