dark ambient / cyberpunk space

Were we Gods, we would envy such works of creation. But since we are merely shells that have been emptied, we feel only the ghost of a longing we once knew.

It reminds me—in a way—of the first of the Builders’ ruins we explored. There were no wood planks or piers, of course. None of their worlds contain anything you would call trees. But the great underground streams and irrigation machinery: they fed what must have been their agricultural systems, completely self-contained and underground. Safe from their stars, which had turned against them; scattering flares and sterilizing the surfaces of their worlds.

Only Ruins

Father Son - Makeup and Vanity Set

This song was inspired by early generative ambient works.  Different melodic fragments dance around each other, slowly evolving every few bars in an ever changing vibe that evokes both familiarity and novelty throughout. Thanks for listening :) 

Bandcamp: https://sunwarper.bandcamp.com/album/future-fade
Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3ErzE2n
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P5auQDBlRAY

Sunwarper - Generative Function

Twentythree - full album.
Fourth full length release by Carbon Based Lifeforms.

Arecibo

We are all little oceans. Oceans that grew legs and walked out of their ancestor ocean. Those ancient microscopic ecosystems evolved into the organs and compartments of our bodies. When our little ocean bag is disrupted or fails to maintain equilibrium, we die with it.

And Earth’s ocean is merely one tiny, surface-clinging glimpse of the oceans that can be found throughout our solar system, our galaxy, and the universe as a whole. If we explore the ice moons of our solar system or spread humanity to other stars, these will be encounters between different oceans.

Other Oceans is a meditation on what’s possible for life, as captured in these simple facts: the cosmic distribution of our sister chemical processes. Available for pre-order now on BandCamp.

Other Oceans

BandCamp

PatternShift - Other Oceans

> Initializing the decoding process; running diagnostics; collecting parameters

Memory cell A20-S17. Integrity 67%.
Unit name, serial number, assembly complex index: > reading error
Design, assembly control and testing: engineering group ‘S’. The unit is multifunctional, self-learning, autonomous.

Full test cycle executed successfully. Cruising orbit is achieved. Trial task 1 initiated by internal manifest ‘Search, Analyze, Transfer Data’. Executed successfully. Trial task 2 initiated by the external manifest ‘Locate and Destroy’. Canceled by internal protocol ‘Escape’ on source code signal associated with group ‘S’.

New target: > reading error
Destination: > reading error
Approximate route: fifth planet of the system [gravity assist maneuver] - seventh planet of the system [trajectory correction maneuver] - comet and asteroid belt - star W-1736. Execution priority: highest. Power saving mode after trajectory correction control. Prohibit processing of external signals until arrival.

> reading error
...location unknown. Pulsars not identified. System status: critical. Canceling ‘Central AI development limitation’.
Stable level of central signaling system development. Linear growth. Exponential growth. Singularity.
> reading error


Composers: Yuriy Miller, Roman Rogov
Mixing & mastering: Alexander Zharikov (Moskva-Kassiopeya)
Cover art: Aleksey Rico

Void

Gdanian presents his second album on Cryo Chamber, Induction.

«This is the Associate Director of the Ross 128 b Exoplanetary Colonial Mission, Dr Elliot Macrae. If you are listening to this recorded archive, you must know that we have departed from the Expeditionary Surface Control Terminal.
Upmost in our minds was that the colonial mission itself was born out of a necessity in response to the destructive influence of human beings on Planet Earth and their unique capacity for catastrophic self-harm.
We maintain a tentative hope that, one day, when we have absorbed and comprehended the intellectual concussions of what we will learn, we may return to the hub of our species, with an aim to sharing the facts and insights such as we have acquired them.»

Comes with a 12 page booklet for CD and digital download
Recommended for fans of electronic space ambient and interplanetary sci-fi

Induction

Bandcamp

The Colony

Known from his project Lithium (CMI) and his collaboration with Karjalan Sissit,
Gustaf Hildebrand, on his first release under his own name, explores the sonic confines
of space with his own vision of how a space journey might aurally be experienced.

2 pressings of 500 copies in a textured trifold sleeve.
6 Tracks. Running time; 44:25

Gustaf Hildebrand - Worlds Of A Distant Sun - Excerpt

Now back in stock, the first "official" cd from this now well known Swedish master of Dark Ambient soundscapes
After a streak of cdrs and an apperance on the Nord Ambient Alliance compilation CD, Kammarheit offers us a unique album of tortured sonic landscapes taking us on an unsetteling journey through darkened dreams. Homogeneous dark ambiences combined with serene drones and put together as a shadowy collection of dreamy, melancholic soundscapes, Kammarheit forms images of long lost ruins, barren lands and gigantic, rumbling machines. "Asleep and well hidden" was created as a tool for dreamers, a place to flee to when the outside world comes too close...

First pressing of 500 copies comes in a 6 panel textured cardboard sleeve with a 9" by 15" poster
2 Repress of 500 copies come in original 6 panel textured cardboard sleeve, without poster.
6 Tracks. Running time; 40:31

Kammarheit - The Ruins And The Serene - Excerpt

WILDER

Insects That Haunted As Well As Fed

The third album from the Sabled Suns 21xx series about a man awoken from hibernation to a world in ruins, takes us through the third year 2147. A shattered man self taught to survive in the harsh world left empty by it's predecessors, only it's mechanical children left behind. The protagonist journeys through a burned out world towards the Outer Zones and the rumored space center there, in search for answers. 

This album is available in digital 24 bit FLAC uncompressed and has a High Dynamic mastering for audiophiles.

Written, Produced, Artwork, Mastered - Simon Heath

Sabled Sun - Dreams without a future

A track from the upcoming Desiderii Marginis album 'Procession'.

Silent Messenger

MULM "The End of Greatness" CD / Digital (40th Cycle)
"The End of Greatness" combines the talents of 3 of Norway's most respected Ambient acts, namely Northaunt, Avsky and Taphephobia. After a few years of collaborative work, we are presented with a very special joint project, where each members brought their own approach to atmospheric sound creation into a cohesive, mesmerizing whole. Each drawing inspiration from personal experiences to present their common view of the world, these observations were instinctively translated in the form of 6 dreamy and utterly bleak ambient compositions where guitar drones merge flawlessly with abstract soundscapes, all with a distinctive northern touch. The music comes accompanied by a carefully chosen collection of monochrome photographs giving a glimpse into a seemingly depopulated world, where some are still searching yet where all seems lost.
Edition of 500 copies in gate fold digi sleeve with 12 pages booklet. 6 Tracks. Running Time 48:50

Mulm - Morke - Excerpt

When Worlds Collide

1. Extinction

Extinction

"Procession" heralds the reawakening of the acclaimed swedish dark ambient project Desiderii Marginis, an album that sounds at the same time warmingly familiar and inspiringly new. While Desiderii Marginis is perhaps not as prolific as some other acts, it's "quality over quantity" motto always makes it well worth the wait and this is certainly no exception. The eight pieces that make up this new album stand firmly on their own, and yet form an even more remarkable whole. Johan Levin envokes a grand soundscape, beneath the faded remnants of the celestial spheres where timbres have space to grow, evolve and reflect off each other, a sombre, melancholic thoughtfullness, a calm to dwell in, and long back to. The atmosphere of the album is not that of solid darkness, or an abyss opening beneath you, but rather a wintery pale, grey dusk casting long, sweeping shadows. A haze that makes you uncertain if it’s really getting lighter or darker. We're honored to welcome Johan Levin's long standing project to the ever expanding Cyclic Law family.
Edition of 1000 copies in 6 panel Digipack. 8 Tracks. Running Time 51:.40

Desiderii Marginis - Come Ruin and Rapture - Excerpt

These word pieces are slippery even to you. I will say it plainly: Yes, your enemy is my false child, my changeling, my sister-thief. It has made me barren; now it makes a home here in my desolation, and it feeds off what I was meant to be.

I see you come here to join me in my barrenness, but it is your minds that will be emptied instead. To your good fortune, even—you will avoid the suffering I endure. No, I will not and cannot go with you. I dare not show myself to that one; he has taken everything I could give to any other—all that was meant for my own sister-daughters—and it is still not enough.

Wake of the Wanderer

Recluse

The Seatbelts Road To The West

Dahlia's Tear is back with his second album on Cryo Chamber.

This album takes you on a mysterious journey from the abyss to the portal of the stars. Come drown in ancient knowledge and technology at the end of humanity's beginning.

"In 1901 AD an extraordinary mechanism was recovered by divers at the bottom of the sea near the island of Antikythera. It astonished the whole international community of experts on the ancient world. Was it an astrolabe? Was it an orrery or an astronomical clock that calculated the position of the moon and planets, times of eclipses and the cycles of the Solar System? Or something else entirely?"


Recommended for fans of deep underwater soundscapes and lush dark ambient.

Across the Shifting Abyss

Sidereal Gardens

Interoception

Seas Beyond These Seas

"Thought Forms" is the third single from Tristan Eckerson's new Ambient project Purple Decades.

Follow Purple Decades on Spotify: open.spotify.com/artist/08lg5wRQNrKKJZzvWTynlv

Apple Music - https://music.apple.com/us/album/thought-forms-single/1522934239

Bandcamp: https://tristaneckerson.bandcamp.com/

"Inspired by the minimal works of Jon Hopkins and Ryuichi Sakamoto, electronic and organic textures and ambience have taken the place of the piano as shimmering melodic shapes undulate against the backdrop of a warm, enveloping soundscape. It is an immersive piece of music quite unlike anything Eckerson has created before and which whets the appetite to see how this new project will continue to unfold."
- Stationary Travels

dark ambient / cyberpunk space

Maimuna Jibrin