My Life in the Bush of Ghosts is a studio album by Brian Eno and David Byrne, released in February 1981. It was Byrne's first album without his band Talking Heads. The album integrates sampled vocals and found sounds, African and Middle Eastern rhythms, and electronic music techniques. It was recorded before Eno and Byrne's work on Talking Heads' 1980 album Remain in Light, but problems clearing samples delayed its release by several months.The extensive sampling on My Life is considered innovative, though its influence on later sample-based music genres is debated.Eno and Byrne first worked together on More Songs About Buildings and Food, the 1978 album by Byrne's band Talking Heads. My Life in the Bush of Ghosts was primarily recorded during a break between the Talking Heads albums Fear of Music (1979) and Remain in Light (1980), both produced by Eno. Eno had also recently recorded Fourth World, Vol. 1: Possible Musics with Jon Hassell, who intended to collaborate with Eno and Byrne on the album, but could not afford to fly to California for the recording sessions. Upon hearing the tapes, Hassell felt "outraged" at what he felt was an appropriation of his music.Eno described My Life as a "vision of a psychedelic Africa". Rather than conventional pop or rock singing, most of the vocals are sampled from other sources, such as commercial recordings of Arabic singers, radio disc jockeys, and an exorcist. Musicians had previously used similar sampling techniques, but, according to Guardian writer Dave Simpson, sampling had never before been used "to such cataclysmic effect". In 2001, Eno cited Holger Czukay's experiments with dictaphones and shortwave radios as earlier examples of sampling. He felt that the "difference was, I suppose, that I decided to make [sampling] the lead vocal".The release was delayed while legal rights were sought for the large number of samples used on the album.A sample of an evangelist Kathryn Kuhlman performing an exorcism intended for "The Jezebel Spirit" was refused by her estate as they objected to the context it was to be used in.The album title is derived from Amos Tutuola's 1954 novel My Life in the Bush of Ghosts. According to Byrne's 2006 liner notes, neither he nor Eno had read the novel, but they felt the title "seemed to encapsulate what this record was about".Soon after the album was released, the Islamic Council of Great Britain objected to the use of samples of Qur'anic recital in the track "Qu'ran", considering it blasphemy. Byrne and Eno removed the track from later pressings. In 2006, Byrne said:We thought, "Okay, in deference to somebody's religion, we'll take it off." You could probably argue for and against monkeying with something like that. But I think we were certainly feeling very cautious about this whole thing. We made a big effort to try and clear all the voices, and make sure everybody was okay with everything ... So I think in that sense we reacted maybe with more caution than we had to.Two tracks in the album, "Regiment" and "The Carrier", sampled the voice of Lebanese singer Dunya Younes (credited in the album as Dunya Yunis). Although Byrne and Eno took care to clear it with the label that released the album they took the sample from and also paid for the sampling, Dunya Younes had no idea that her voice was used and only found out in 2017. Both songs were taken down from streaming sites after a family representative contacted the duo a year later, and the songs were later reinstated when the issue was settled amicably out of court.This brand new edition includes all 11 original tracks plus 8 of the 2006 expanded issue and even more,demos,edits,outtakes,the original songs that used as samples,remixes, interview & more

Brian Eno and David Byrne My Life in the Bush of Ghosts Expanded

Having delivered one of 2024's best debut albums, Nandakke?, Belgium-Japanese duo Aili have spent much of the past 12 months bringing their kaleidoscopic collision of electro-pop, electronica, house music and more to clubs and festivals throughout Europe, Mexico and Japan. Not wanting to leave us hanging though Aili Maruyama and Orson Wouters are back with two new club ready tracks, Damewadame and Shindara, the vibe of which will be very familiar to anyone who's caught the band's live show and experienced the moment their neon hued electronic pop gives way to a calorie burning blast of beats, bass and strobe lights.  

Whilst these new tracks have already made themselves very much at home in Aili's lives sets, their origins lie in the soundtrack to an upcoming Belgium TV series, Drift, that the band were invited to score. The series follows a group of 20-something Brussels friends, navigating the shifting sands of sex and love in the 21st century, and Aili's music provides a perfect backdrop as they explore the increasingly relevant issues such non-monogamous relationships, trust and consent that young people are dealing with today.  

The first track here, Damewadame, was originally created for one of Drift's party scenes. When it came to turning the original 30 second or so snippet into a complete song Aili wanted it to reflect not just some of the themes of the show but the band's own concerns with what's happening in clubs in Belgium, and indeed around the world, today. The result is one of Aili's harder tracks, that veers more towards industrial edged techno and where rattling percussion and overdriven bass underscore the urgency of Maruyama's vocals.  

“Here I’m literally singing 'Yes is yes. No is no,' as the song is about consent in clubs," she explains, a hot button topic in Belgium in the wake of several high-profile incidents of spiking and sexual assaults. "It's an important subject, especially in clubbing environments where people take drugs, or they're intoxicated, and it can become a blur and people use that as an excuse. There's been a few cases in the news recently and it's good it's finally being taken seriously as all my female friends have a bad story, and some of my male friends too. So this is just a simple but clear message, a yes is a yes, a no is a no. Even if you're intoxicated you know what that means.”  

With many of the scenes set in Brussels' vibrant clubland Aili needed to provide an appropriately up-tempo accompaniment and for inspiration looked back to a track written for their very first live show when they needed something explosive to end the gig with. Never properly recorded until now, that intense end of set workout has been vastly overhauled. Now retitled Shindara, the track eases us in with a soaring, almost meditative intro, that sees Maruyama's vocals, glitch, echo and misfire over a bed of numinous ambient textures, before the drums and acidic synths kick in and drag us back to the dark of the dancefloor. Fitting for a song that, as Maruyama explains, ended up entering some fairly philosophical pastures.  

"The lyrics [in Japanese] are essentially about 'when I die, where do I go?' And I just don't know because I don't really have a religion to fall back on, but still it's something I often think about. So Shindara has this very long intro which is very light and uplifting, and you feel it's taking you somewhere peaceful but then it was fun to play with that idea, to have this big existential question and then turn it into a huge club track. It's a fun puzzle."

Aili - Shindara

Welcome to the new episode of Lucid Dreams.

Tracklist:

1. David - Everytime
2. Ability II - Reel 2 Reel
3. Tom Trago - When The Sky Is Watching Us
4. José González - Swing (Solomun Remix)
5. Martin HERRS - Do We Love Each Other (Original Mix)
6. Friedrich Ernst - Rhythm Control
7. Dorothy's Dream - Etu
8. John Tejada - Vaalbara
9. Atomic Moog - Impulse (Original Mix)
10. o.utlier - Ionic
11. Ko Yang - Gianism
12. Tr One - I'm Dreaming Again

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Lucid Dreams #75 by Darius Dudonis

Music For Dreams presents the second installment of this year’s Copenhagen compilation, comprising the finest new material from the Danish label.
 
'Copenhagen 2025, Vol. 2' →https://linktr.ee/musicfordreams

A showcase of the diverse, yet unmistakably resonant style of Music For Dreams, branching outwards from dreamy Balearic downtempo to guitar-driven sunset ballads, sauntering Flamenco jazz, Latin-Caribbean folk flirtations, sleazy Italo disco and combustible main room maneuvers.

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Secret (Part 5), 2016

We are thrilled to bring you the third chapter of THE GOLDEN RA VEDA YS saga, released in March 2017. Number 3 of the series introduces two further tracks of the haunting sound adventure that SUPERPITCHER is taking his fans on during 2017. Side A features 1984. It has nothing to do with George Orwell’s magnificent book but it could remind some of how the apocalypse might sound one day. 1984 is as sweet as the very first track, Little Raver, of "The Golden Ravedays" album, but it stresses the fact that even though Superpitcher produces music mainly intended for the dance floor, he creates sound that is bordering on the shamanic. 1984 might as well be the meeting of a group of supersonic bottlenose whales that are overly excited to see each other after being separated by many an ocean and moon.

Side B of this edition brings us POCKET LOVE. Or shall we rather say, Side B gifts us "Pocket Love"? Because we believe this is nothing other than a gift to us all. Imagine looking into a kaleidoscope and turning the dial and experiencing all those colors as pockets of love rushing your way and exploding in satin wonderment the moment they past your eyes and ears. Imagine how it must sound like if all the e mails, tweets, facebook posts, instagrams, pinterests, grandma’s postcards, text messages, letters on rice paper, hearts scratched into trees, declarations of eternal loyalty written in sand, phone calls and videos of the whole universe were all messages of love stuffed into pockets and sent to you. Imagine the treasure you will receive! Imagine being one big ear drum and listening to the very energy that this love exists of – imagine it and you will find yourself inside "Pocket Love".


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We got our hands on the recording of @weval's @redlightradio session that happened during week of ADE 2017.
Their track 'Metazoa' was a highlight this year and their performance at @dgtl-festival during ADE was as great as ever. If you listended closely, you could hear the guys are working on new material already. Catch them on their European tour this fall/winter!

KOMPAKT PODCAST #4  - Weval (DJ Set) at Red Light Radio

To Believe: The Cinematic Orchestra Selections 
featuring 20 years of music from The Cinematic Orchestra

The Cinematic Orchestra - To Believe ft. Moses Sumney 
The Cinematic Orchestra - All Things To All Men 
The Cinematic Orchestra - Evolution (Versao Portuense) 
The Cinematic Orchestra - Breathe
The Cinematic Orchestra - Arrival Of The Birds
The Cinematic Orchestra - To Build A Home
The Cinematic Orchestra - Diabolus
The Cinematic Orchestra - Channel 1 Suite
The Cinematic Orchestra - Ode To The Big Sea (Fourtet Mix)
The Cinematic Orchestra - All That You Give (Dr. Rockit Mix)
The Cinematic Orchestra - Evolution II (Mr P Mix)
The Cinematic Orchestra - Necrology
The Cinematic Orchestra - Flite
The Cinematic Orchestra - That Home

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Solid Steel Radio Show 02/12/2018 Hour 2 - To Believe: The Cinematic Orchestra Selections

In the wake of current social distancing and being asked to stay at home to slow down the outbreak of the Corona virus Danish artist https://soundcloud.com/trentemusic produced an exclusive mix for NBHAP to make your quarantine less horrrible and dream yourself away to better days. 

Hold on, stay at home and make the best out of this situation. More information at: https://nbhap.com/sounds/trentemoller-exclusive-hawaii-at-home-quarantine-mix

Exclusive: Trentemøller's "Hawaii At Home" Mix

Happy to record a new one for this series after more than 4 years since the last one.

Hope you enjoy it

Long Weekend Ending Mix (Part 4)

I’ve made a little ambient mix of some of my all time favourite peaceful music.

The mix was originally made for a clinical trial for people undergoing something of a reconstructive therapy. It was designed to repeatedly and slowly transition between relaxed reflection, and stimulation of new thoughts, running for a 2 hrs 30 mins session. You’ll probably hear what I mean in the structure.

It also includes some unreleased music of mine which hasn’t been heard before, alongside many of the most beautiful pieces I could find. I hope you enjoy it.

Tracklist

1 Field Recording
2 Max Richter - Laika's Journey
3 Hakobune - Lighthouse
4 Nils Frahm - Talisman
5 Starts of the Lid - Articulate Silences Part 2
6 Max Cooper - Untitled / Unreleased
7 Ben Lukas Boysen - Only in the Dark
8 Matt Robertson - Postscript
9 Rob Clouth - Dirac Sea Birth
10 Suda Norihito - Anim
11 Taylor Deupree - Minism
12 Willamette - Mid August, For Rachel
13 Mark Fell - Part 3 Acids in the Style of Rian Treanor
14 Rafeal Anton Irisarri - Ardous Clarity
15 Field Recording
16 Nils Frahm, Olafur Arnalds - 2017
17 Christopher Willits - Sunset
18 Lusine - Jetstream
19 Max Cooper - Circular
20 Boards of Canada - Tears from the Compound Eye
21 Com Truise - Gaussian
22 Loscil - In Threes
23 Willamette - Echo Park
24 Komet - Plus
25 Rob Clouth - The Galaxy Collapsed into a Point
26 Tim Hecker - Borderlands
27 Steve Hauschildt - Eyelids Gently Dreaming
28 Pausal - Semi Submerged
29 Christopher Willits - Ground
30 Bing and Ruth - Starwood Choker
31 Barker - When Prophesy Fails
32 Roly Porter - Kistvaen
33 Rafeal Anton Irisarri - RH Negative
34 Petrels - All things in Common
35 Max Cooper - Memories
36 Field Recording

Max Coooper - Out of Body - Ambient Mix

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Out of Body (ambient mix)

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Brian Eno and David Byrne My Life in the Bush of Ghosts Expanded

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