Ugress - It Came From Beyond Eternal September

The future is broken. Technology has triumphed. The machines and their algorithms in the clouds, have already won. WE are the product. But in a desolate, abandoned and post-apocalyptic landscape of broken devices, empty batteries, and dead screens… a black angel… rises. 

The Wrong Future is the 7th album from Ugress, your favorite courier of dark, dystopian and dancy electronica to countless clubs, stages, festivals, films, TV shows and video games. Ugress has consistently presented a playful and mad-sciencey retro-flirt with “the gloomy future” – and oh, WTF... it happened. 

The Wrong Future is a heartbroken love letter to a naive dream of quirky B-movie sci-fi futures… that has become our reality. The album is released digitally and on vinyl on April 13th, through the artists own indie label Uncanny Planet. Distribution by Phonofile / The Orchard / Musikkoperatørene.

Composed, arranged, performed, programmed and produced by Gisle Martens Meyer. Additional composition by Þorkell Sigurbjörnsson on "The Little Cloud...". Vocals on "There Is No Here, Here" by The Internet. Vocals on "Mending A Tear In The Fabric Of The Nigh" by Annlaug Børsheim.  Lyrics on "All Watched Over..." by Richard Brautigan. Lyrics on "The Little Cloud..." by Kolbeinn Tumason.

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The Wrong Future (Extended Edition)

Music for a ghosted generation

Like the replicants in Blade Runner, the tracks on Ghoststorm are nostalgic for a past that never existed. Their emotions spring from artificially implanted memories. There is the theme song to an 80’ies anime TV-show that never existed, there is a spaghetti western where obscure characters shimmer on the edge of focus, there are elegant ballrooms filled with dancing dust and the contours of wuxia fights choreographed in the fluttery waves of VHS tracking.

The music is created from thousands of samples from all of musical history, shaped through the deep dreams of artificial networks – the sounds are sampled from cloned memories remade by machine understanding. The result is a sonic maelstrom of cultural fragments, swirling forever in an Escher-like labyrinth on the verge of recognition: “…but isn’t that? …“.

Ghoststorm is the third and final release in Ugress’ dark future trilogy of releases. It is dystopian and cinematic music with a melancholic edge, echoing a subconscious dawning: We live our lives in apps, devices and social media. We share only our edited memories, a filtered life that never happened, and aspire to exist in this reality of manicured stories.

Living through screens, constructing our own fake memories, we are ghosting ourselves. Your replicant is you.

Ugress - Ghoststorm

Chiptune cover version of legendary TV-series theme Les Mondes Englotuis / Spartakus And The Sun Beneath The Sea / Arkadia - Reisen Til Jordens Indre. Released to announce the first official live performance of Ninja 9000, chiptune electronica, December 19th. For more info see http://www.ugress.com/

Ugress feat Ninja 9000 - Les Mondes Engloutis

New track from Episode Two of Planet U. For more information on the track, earlier episodes/tracks and continuous development, see http://www.ugress.com/

Ugress - Witch Parade Assassin

New track from Episode Two of Planet U, introducing the Frankenpiano, a piano built from hundreds of single piano tone samples from all of music history. For more information on the track, making of the instrument, earlier episodes/tracks and continuous development, see http://www.ugress.com/

Ugress - Monument Dilution

90 sec excerpt of music created for SONY's Little Big Planet 3, released November 18th 2014. 

Little Big Planet 3 - Docking Area (Excerpt)

In Every Fear, a Friend

“In a desert of lies, the oasis of truth.” 

This is the theme music from the much beloved 1981 TV-show "Sands of Intrigue", where street-wise Detective D. Vice and the enigmatic computer wiz CodeMyst investigate their intricate cases in the deserts, in the ancient ruins and in the cybernet dunes - "in a land where shifting sands holds ancient secrets and modern mysteries collide". 

We all loved this show so much as kids!

Detective D. Vice

Detective D Vice

"The hollow rapture of emotions once lived."

Second follow-up single from recently released Retrotopia.

Lifted Drops of Biochemical Brew

Lifted Drops of Biochemical Brew (Instrumental)

Now you're flickering away, at the Chestnut Tree Cafe.

The Ghost You Choose to Be (Instrumental)

The Ghost You Choose to Be

Differential Ruby Slipper (Instr)

Differential Ruby Slipper

01 Quiescent Cryptobiosis

02 Quiescent Cryptobiosis (Instrumental)

Radio Aurora (Instrumental)

Radio Aurora

24 With Your Nostalgia as the Seed

09 Differential Ruby Slipper

03 Radio Aurora

07 Yabatai III

27 Syndar-Myrkvidr

06 Quiescent Cryptobiosis

25 The Ghost You Choose to Be

21 Last Remnants of my Once Great Ambition

15 They Weave

17 Exit 44

16 Yabatai IV

Ugress - Big Trouble In Neural Bubble

Ugress - 640 480 A0F

Ugress - Undead Funeral March

Track from upcoming release "It Came From Beyond Eternal September", out October 21st, 2016.

Ugress - Your Monster Is Me

From the album "It Came From Beyond Eternal September"

Ugress - alt.binaries.clones.gtr.sys

Ugress - Worrior 22

Sweet patient melodic melancholia, restless lo-fi breaks and gritty cuteness: Tortoise Porcelain.  More information and production notes at http://www.ugress.com/

Ugress - Tortoise Locomotive

Note: This album will be available for listening on June 15th.

Reminiscience is the fourth studio album from Ugress. Presenting melodic, epic retro-electronica in a cinematic scope, it lives up to the title, delivering the science and research of sweet memories.

Nostalgic robots are singing about their forgotten movies, sweet and scary monsters are humming massive club lullabies, 70'ies disco detectives are fighting crime with funk, and bubbly 80'ies computer game music bring us back to the digital childhood escapism. Masters of kung-fu deliver wise sample advice in a delicious dub, and guest vocalists bathe in pulsing house tracks and stadium sized beats.

Featuring guest vocals by Christine Litle, Heidi Marie Vestrheim and Sjur Hjeltnes.

There are <a href="http://www.ugress.com/album_bonus.asp?a=22">four extra bonus tracks</a> available for this album if you have bought it.

Ugress - Numb

Ugress - It Was A Great Year (Movies With Robots)

Ugress - The Bosporus Incident

First single from upcoming Ugress album "The Wrong Future". Featuring  The Internet, a huge crowd-sourced choir consisting of thousands of voices.

There Is No Here, Here

Ugress - There Is No Here, Here

Ugress - Dead In A Dreamweb

Ugress - Better Living Through Algorithms

Ugress - Mending A Tear In The Fabric Of The Night

Ugress- Dreamstroyer

Faeries of norse mythology roam a post-apocalyptic landscape. The gloom-groovy Black Anorak blends the sonic textures of black metal, norse folk and abandoned ruins with dark electronica and film music.

The album references cult norwegian action-music scores from the 80ies like Orion’s Belt and Etter Rubicon, while also incorporating elements of black metal, folk music and using samples from abandonded buildings and infrastructure in western norwegian fjords. Black Anorak features contributions from folk musician Annlaug Børsheim on kveding, a particular norwegian vocal song technique, and the Hardangerfiddle, a traditional western norwegian string instrument, with a double set of strings to create sympathetic resonance to the main strings.

Composed, arranged, performed, programmed and produced by Gisle Martens Meyer. Vocals on “The Deepest Veil” by Annlaug Børsheim. Hardingfele on "The Deepest Veil" and "Toil 22" by Annlaug Børsheim.

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The Deepest Veil

Like the replicants in Blade Runner, the tracks on Ghoststorm are nostalgic for a past that never existed. Their emotions spring from artificially implanted memories. There is the theme song to an 80’ies anime TV-show that never existed, there is a spaghetti western where obscure characters shimmer on the edge of focus, there are elegant ballrooms filled with dancing dust and the contours of wuxia fights choreographed in the fluttery waves of VHS tracking.

The music is created from thousands of samples from all of musical history, shaped through the deep dreams of artificial networks – the sounds are remade by machine understanding. The result is a sonic maelstrom of cultural fragments, swirling forever in an Escher-like labyrinth on the verge of recognition: “…but isn’t that? …“.

Ghoststorm is the third and final release in Ugress’ dark future trilogy of releases. It is dystopian and cinematic music with a melancholic edge, echoing a subconscious dawning: We live our lives in apps, devices and social media. We share only our edited memories, a filtered life that never happened, and aspire to exist in this reality of manicured stories.

Living through screens, we are ghosting ourselves. We become replicants.

GMM

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