Colorado Ambient/Downtempo Productions

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Due up next on 100% Silk is Luke Thinnes aka Dubharp, with a cerebrally stimulating eight-track album - Spiral Heights. A fixture in the Rhinoceropolis underground show space in Denver, Dubharp is just the latest of many diverse projects under Thinnes’ belt. This time around, Thinnes focuses on a new-age, dub-infused sound that strikes a balance between dark and light, familiar and unfamiliar, current and bygone.

Spiral Heights perfectly captures a vision of future Balearic-influenced music. Dubharp seamlessly combines synthetic wind, strings and mallets and fuses distinct 4th world rhythms into the mix. The title of Spiral Heights is itself a gesture of gratitude to the ecstatic refractions of dub echo, expanding our perception of space and time.

“Bamboo Cross” is the seventh track on the album and features the dub legend Lee “Scratch” Perry. This track is a culmination of the dub sound that is so prevalent throughout Spiral Heights. Perry’s vocals call out throughout the track and rest gently atop a bed of mind-bending echoes that are rooted in Dubharp’s dub-influences. Whirling drums offer old world rhythms, with heavenly harp-like plucks.

Though born of improvisation, the album's eight tracks unspool with precision and finesse, percolating syncopations of percussion, bass, bird sounds, glitch, and gleaming circuitry. All in all, Dubharp does an excellent job incorporating elements from the future and otherworldly, as well as our more primitive past.

Spiral Heights

PREMIERE: Dubharp - Bamboo Cross (feat. Lee Scratch Perry)

Download: http://www.xlr8r.com/mp3/2014/03/floating

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RUMTUM - Floating Into

(my entry to CDR x Dimensions competition 2016)
This one’s for that sunrise when you feel inexplicably fresh, and the rising sun reveals the wholesome beauty of nature once more, renewed. The birdsong sample I use at the start and the end really provided me with inspiration for the rest of the track, in quite an abstract sense - it encapsulates that whole excited, optimistic morning feeling.

I aimed to express this through the restless energy of the arpeggiated synth line and the gradual gathering of layers of percussion, shedding them in the middle for a breath of air before resuming with a new, broken beat.

I used Ableton Live 9 and a Novation MIDI keyboard. The Local Audio sample used is Ptica, from this years’ entries. 

Vivi - Velo

hello strangers ! 

We are glad to present our third story to you! 
The history of deep music and feelings. Here we collected the stories of the best artists. They share with us their feelings and experiences. Sit down at a comfortable place with a cup of coffee or tea near the window, listen and watch. 

Dub techno is something more than just a sounds for us.... 

Thanks to: 
- Artists 
- Twin Peetz for mastering [ www.facebook.com/patrick.peetz ] 
- Dmitriy for design [ www.facebook.com/chalyi ] 
- You

Special price 9 euro for 26 tracks -> hellostrange.bandcamp.com/album/hello-strange-story-3

Hello Strane Story #3 Masters

André Orcutt - Redcloud

Dominion 1 sequence, delays and reverb. 

Filter sweeps, noise, etc. 

15n-1

Do Dominion Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

Clarity

“Decline Vol. 1” is the first in a series of ambient focused releases by Entrancer. This series is primarily concerned with evolving textures and the emotional fragments found within them. Buried between these textures are meditations on the systems of oppression steering our world into chaos and decline. Ambient protest music. 

Recorded and composed in the Summer of 2018 using a Serge Modular Synthesizer, Elektron Digitone, Zoom H4n and Cocoquantus.

Decline Vol. 1

Decline - I

The Moment Before My World Ended

Includes Vermona DRM mk2, P12, OB6, Digitone, Novation drum station, ART Pro VLA2, Ableton 10, samples of "Fire"

Cornpone

Taken from my recently released album, 'Dzud.'

Recorded at home, Spring 2020.

Dzud

That Which Is Not The Desert No Longer Exists

decay [ dih-key ]: to decline from a state of normality, excellence, or prosperity; deteriorate.

Excerpt of a performance recorded live at the online meetup of the Colorado Modular Synth Society on May 17, 2020.

Live setup:
- 6U 104HP Eurorack system
- VCV Rack (Plateau reverb, Radio Music)
- 16n Faderbank
- Source Audio Ventris reverb
- Electro Harmonix Cathedral reverb
- Boredbrain INTRFX
- Big Bass Muff Pi

Stereo recording with Zoom H1n from the mixer.
Edit and mastering in Ableton Live by Christoph Scholtes

Decay

A study in experimental ambient music and minimalism.

Aptly titled "Clouds Tamer" by Jon Hatch & Alex Anderson (Nasty Nachos).

Recorded live for WMD's Freq Boutique 39 (Online Edition) on July 13, 2020.

Painting: Thomas Somerscales - Recogiendo Velas

Live setup:
- 3U 104HP Eurorack system
- Source Audio Ventris Dual Reverb Pedal

Mastering in Ableton Live by Christoph Scholtes.

Clouds Tamer (Live at Freq Boutique 39)

Oasis

Turn It Up

South African record label, Laboria Park presents a 4 Track Dub Techno EP by American Producer, André Orcutt , including a remix by South African dub maestro, Krippsoulisc.



Welcome to a beautiful place.

LAP | Another Space To Create

#DubMind

André Orcutt - Vermillion

André Orcutt - Eolus

You know how it tastes, you know how it makes you feel and now you know how it sounds. This is the DNA of the weed's THC transformed into music by GenM (www.ubihpc.com/genm) and Deraout (www.deraout.com)

The THC code (Ambient Mix) - Deraout ft. GenM

Kohaku

Kohaku (feat. Weir)

Shhadows & Small Planets - E
Available on Bandcamp: https://remissionentertainment.bandcamp.com/music

Shhadows & Small Planets - E

Free Download/Pay What you want here:
https://quiteright.bandcamp.com/album/cirrosphere

Andrew and I (DSQISE) create many styles of music, and we decided to start releasing them as a series of albums/beat tapes each quarter. This is the first one in the series with tracks from each of us and a collab ("Haysius Nimbus").

This was a lot of fun, and I am really glad that we have decide to put these pieces of music out. Thank you all for listening and supporting. We are both incredibly grateful.
credits
released January 26, 2021

DSQISE - The Freshest

A repository of local Colorado music for the rest of us by @fckdsko 
Check out the playlists for genre indexing.
Techno/House/Breaks/Ambient/Experimental/etc.

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