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Midnight Circus

"When I get asked to do mixes I often take that as an opportunity to put together a selection of my favourite pieces from a specific era, genre or composer. In this case I compiled a number of my favourite Japanese electronic tracks as I have been listening to a lot of that stuff for the past year or so."

Throughout the last decade Ulrich Schnauss has produced three albums which perfectly captured his vision of taking the 90's 'Shoegaze' aesthetic - very uncool at the time as we'll discuss below - and placing it into an electronic context. With the new album 'A Long Way To Fall' Ulrich felt the need to change and explore new avenues. And it's another beauty.

On the 3rd July, German born musician and producer Ulrich Schnauss will play an extra special live A/V show at Electrowerkz. We decided that this was the perfect time to have him create his Ransom Note Mix and we caught up with him to find out a bit more about his background, his mix and his general thought on music;

Read all here: http://www.theransomnote.co.uk/music/mixes/ulrich-schnauss-the-ransom-note-mix-talk/

Tracklisting:

01) ryuichi sakamoto: before long
02) inoyama land: apple star
03) testpattern: souvenir glace
04) sandii: zoot kook
05) ymo: expected way
06) ryuichi sakamoto: exhibition
07) chiemi manabe: うんととおく
08) yukihiro takahashi: curtains
09) haruomi hosono: hotel malabar roof garden
10) testpattern: ring dance
11) testpattern: ryugu
12) ymo: perspective
13) ymo: 音楽
14) haruomi hosono: madam consul general of madras

Ulrich Schnauss - The Ransom Note Mix

A collection of audio samples from each of the tracks on "monajjfyllen". All tracks are available in 24bit 96khz at our bandcamp: https://autumnsgreysolace.bandcamp.com/album/monajjfyllen

Monajjfyllen montage

From the new album "Eifelian"
http://www.projekt.com/projekt/product.asp?sku=PRO00254

Unfamiliar Spirits

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"British ambient band Marconi Union has drummed up the world's most relaxing song: Weightless is 8 mins 10 sec. of aural bliss" - Time Magazine, Best Inventions of the Year. 

"An excellent compilation from the always interesting Just Music" - The Sunday Times

"The Ambient Zone is an album that feels like the world is peeling away, layer by layer, into multi-colored panoramas, just for you" - Echoes (CD of The Month)

The Ambient Zone is a beautiful journey into ambient and electronica inspired by universal themes of calmness, purity, relaxation and enrichment where Weightless is coupled with some exclusive first releases and other blissfully ambient tracks from Just Music artists and alumni.

Created instinctively and intuitively by Marconi Union, Weightless has been claimed to have therapeutic properties in the way the track almost appears to have a heartbeat running through it which slows down very gently throughout the piece, encouraging a deep sense of relaxation in the body, It's use of specific rhythms, beep bass tones, frequencies and intervals induce an almost trance like state in the listener.

"The Ambient Zone is an album that just screams (albeit quietly) of pure class" - Fluid Nation.

Weightless (Ambient Transmission Vol. 2)

Weightless Part 1

Buy the album

Marconi Union - Weightless

The Number

10 minutes of ambient electronics from the Gas 0095 album. 
https://matjarvis.com

Gas 0095

Microscopic

Gas - Microscopic

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Dertli

"If time stops at the speed of light, and if you could become light itself, 
You would not experience the passage of time."
                                                                            ----Andria

The "spirit voice" speaking through and with the android girl, explains this to the boy to calm his fears as she transforms his dying body into a machine.
She tells him, becoming mechanical is just one transformation in a long line of possibilities.
Andria believes they may eventually become beings of light and experience existence as one eternal day.

Icons of Andria is a recording project, a collaboration between Rodney Sellars of The Year Zero and Ken Negrete & Fabiola Sanchez of Familiar Trees on a Sci-fi concept album. Original concept & artwork by Rodney Sellars. Guitar & Lyrics by Rodney Sellars. Produced, Recorded & Mixed by Ken Negrete. Midi/Synthesizers/Piano by Ken Negrete. Vocals by Fabiola Sanchez & Rodney Sellars. Bass by Joel O'Neill.


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"I loved "the universal way". After listening to more, I feel the music with eyes closed and penetrating my mind with a soft caress of my over responsive sinapsis ... Sorry, but your music cannot be expressed any other way ... I feel my dopamine slowly giving me a moment to relax rather than its relentless power to over replicate its consistent over production... this probably doesnt make a word of sense but music like yours can be felt from the inside out and my neuro difficulties find a place in my mind to relax like i haven't in such a long time... i love your music! My neurologic fall from grace is best comforted by how relaxed you and your wife make me feel from your talents." -Mike HC Wilson, Musician

"This project is so cool and brilliant and unexpected! I love the music and the artwork (the art is intense...). When I saw the image first (before I read the story), I thought it looked like it was new age meets steam punk ... I love to see something that is a brand new hybrid -- Once I read the story it made sense and for me now the image feels like---sci fi meets new age meets steam punk : ) the music is of course impeccable and oh so beautiful.... I look forward to the development and really am inspired..." -Joella March, Artist

"Have long been a fan of gorgeous Familiar Trees and when vocalist Fabiola Sanchez sent me an invitation to listen to their new project, I pulled my ears for me. Music, art and ideas in a relationship I am attracted to. Icons Of Andria is a collaboration between Rodney Sellars of The Year Zero and Ken Negrete and Fabiola Sanchez of Familiar Trees . The music is harmonious and beautiful in a moderate pace... Mazzy Star , Slow Dive and Bat For Lashes are acts that pop up in my mind and I just want more. Icons Of Andria is working on a concept album that will be published on the web song to song, and today's track The Universal Way was the first of many more I hope." - Fredrik Hoffman, HOFFAS MUSIK BLOGG

The Universal Way

The "Luna" tarot card signifies good luck and a safe voyage through time and space but also from this existence to the next. 

"The Girl Who knows Where The Stars Are" as she is often called, dwells in the heavens and is familiar with the ways there. This allows her to see the lines of benevolent destinies within the web of all possible futures.
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Icons of Andria is a recording project, a collaboration between Rodney Sellars of The Year Zero and Ken Negrete & Fabiola Sanchez of Familiar Trees on a Sci-fi concept album. Original concept & artwork by Rodney Sellars. Guitar & Lyrics by Rodney Sellars. Produced, Recorded & Mixed by Ken Negrete. Midi/Synthesizers/Piano by Ken Negrete. Vocals by Fabiola Sanchez & Rodney Sellars. Bass & percussion on 'The Girl Who Knows Where...' by Joel O'Neill. 

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'The Girl Who Knows Where...'
(Lyrics by Rodney Sellars & Lili De La Mora)

You and I, 
the stars, the sky
the moon alights
the girl who knows
the way to go 
through the night
to the light
on this tiny island 
floating through the sea
luna makes us shine
she makes us feel good
every time we take this ride
we rise & shine again
far away, the modern age
the ruins of the sacred place
on this tiny island
there's just you and me
luna makes us shine
she makes us feel good
every time we take this ride
we rise & shine again

The Girl Who Knows Where ...

"Kiss Them For Me" Available Now. 

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