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Starting 2022 with a great artist, Aes Dana, one of the most aknowledged artist of the ambient scene and co-owner of @ultimae records

Vincent Villuis aka AES DANA is composer, sound designer, DJ and founder of @ultimae records label. An electronic activist for over 25 years, also a founding member of the Asura band.

Bass player and singer in several coldwave and industrial bands as a teenager, Vincent then moved on to composing with machines and specialised in audio sampling and layering of acoustic sounds digitally transmuted. Its music ensures a coherent fusion between Deep Ambient, Downtempo and IDM with a touch of Electronica Neo-Classical, Indus & Liquid Drum'n'Bass.

As AES Dana he has produced 7 albums, a collection of audio samples and about 50 tracks for various compilations, while collaborating with the Swedish artist Magnus Birgersson (aka Solar Fields) under the moniker H.U.V.A. NETWORK on 3 albums and with the Greek artist MIKTEK on 3 EP releases gathered later in the concept album « Far & Off ». They also worked together on the “Fragments 01 & 02” sample libraries. His solo-designed music library «Aethers» (co-published with Loopmasters) which was voted « best Cinematic Ambient sound bank » in 2015.

He composed scores and licensed existing works for short and feature films, documentaries and BBC tv programs such as « Atrophy Bank » by Sam Asaert, « The Passport » by Amund Lie, « Mandorla » by Roberto Miller or « Breath of Life » by Susan Kucera which opened new perspectives on composition and sound design and collaborations with various advertising agencies.

He is also the curator of the Fahrenheit Project compilations. As head of the Ultimae Studios, he earned a solid reputation for his Audio Mastering works & Sound Design.
He also is working on several projects in parallel: remixes, scorings & special projects.
His second collaborative album with Miktek is in progress and will be released in 2022.
A collaborative album with the Danish artist Lauge is also in progress.

Albums
Season 5
MemoryShell
Aftermath
Leylines
Perimeters
Pollen
Far & Off
Inks
(a) period.

https://linktr.ee/aesdana

Photo by Cyril : https://www.facebook.com/uninstantSVP

Interstice

TREVE Series 35 - AES Dana (Ultimae) - "Interstice" Live Set

Foreign Material - The Ballet of the Salamanders [Annulled]

Release name - Dreams of the Fallen
Catalog - ANN31
Release Date - 07/10/2022
Mastering By - MJL-RB Laboratory
Artwork By - Martin Respaut
Format - CD & Digital
 
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Foreign Material - The Ballet of the Salamanders [Annulled]

Early in the morning in the Amazon rainforest - the air is thick with humidity and wildlife sounds. The insect chorus is deafening, and birds are trying to do their part by calling incessantly everywhere. Long version at https://youtu.be/2KWrudRbgO8

The Amazon rainforest wakes up

𝑷𝒓𝒆𝒎𝒊𝒆𝒓𝒆: Sub Accent - Espejismo (Inerit's Interpretation) [ST064]

Written and Produced by Johan Bonnefoy in France.
Mastering Secuencias Temporales Studio, México.

𝑺𝒖𝒃 𝑨𝒄𝒄𝒆𝒏𝒕
@sub-accent
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𝑰𝒏𝒆𝒓𝒊𝒕
@inerit
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𝑺𝒆𝒄𝒖𝒆𝒏𝒄𝒊𝒂𝒔 𝑻𝒆𝒎𝒑𝒐𝒓𝒂𝒍𝒆𝒔
@secuencias_temporales
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Pipiltzintzintli

Espejismo

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𝑷𝒓𝒆𝒎𝒊𝒆𝒓𝒆: Sub Accent - Espejismo (Inerit's Interpretation) [ST064]

... and here we are, at the end of the Xerrox series. For those who have been all along on the ride, the fifth and final volume concludes an incredible journey which Alva Noto started back in 2007, with the exploration between the original and the copy, the distinction between the two in the analogue and digital world, and the context which each one holds. This was before the concept of non-fungible tokens designed to represent proof of authenticity for the original [digital] art, music, and collectables. Nearly two decades in the making, the five albums capture Carsten Nicolai's evolving philosophy around the method and the system. "The copying process is now less visible through software manipulation; rather, it unfolds as the artist describes melodic and acoustic images that are then manipulated, copied, and transformed into new patterns during composition." I've covered Vol. 2, Vol. 3, and Vol 4 in detail, in the last of which I have predicted that this fifth and final volume will come out in 2025. So, I am delighted and a little sad to feature this exclusive premiere of a track from the final entry as the voyage approached dissolution. This is an emotional experience filled with moments of melancholy and the bittersweet feelings of goodbye, not the least of which are influenced by the connection to the passing of Ryuichi Sakamoto, who was a fan of this series.

Read more on Headphone Commute:
https://headphonecommute.com/2024/11/25/alva-noto-xerrox-nausicaa/

Xerrox Vol. 5

Xerrox Nausicaa

TRACK PREMIERE : Alva Noto - Xerrox Nausicaa

In the brackish territories where ambient Gothic dissolves into industrial techno's harsh architecture, Richie Culver's Quiet Husband finds its most compelling voice. The track I am premiering for you today, "At Your Worst," operates at this precise intersection—a dankly atmospheric piece that reflects haunted soundscapes while maintaining the raw visceral energy that has defined this multi-disciplinary artist's sonic explorations. Following his mesmerizing Atonal Festival appearance and the brutal Religious Equipment (2024) album—that unflinching portrait of addiction where track titles borrowed the clinical language of opiate blockers—Raging Habits 2 suggests a subtle shift. Here, Chicago house rhythms intermingle with looping ambient elements, creating tension between forward propulsion and suspended animation. I've had my eye and ear on Quiet Husband for a while now, seeking out the perfect piece that would appeal to all my readers, and I think that "At Your Worst" may hit that note. Disintegrating loops, raw noise and dark distortion operate in the foreground of this piece, scratching its nails on the outer walls of the chalkboard. The track's title itself speaks to Culver's unflinching examination of human fragility, that moment when substitution becomes salvation—when "noise becomes a proxy for silence, and intensity replaces numbness." This is music from the peripheral spaces of experience, from that liminal zone where endorphin rushes skim "over the synapse surface." Just days before his upcoming Berghain debut, Culver offers us not merely a composition but a séance, invoking ghosts of past raging habits while simultaneously exorcising them through the catharsis of sound. Not for the lighthearted, but if you're brave you will enjoy.

TRACK PREMIERE : Quiet Husband - At Your Worst

Antarctica in Bloom

Forage

Blue

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09 - Oracle Nine (Vol.3)

This piece is included in my first album released in 2012 by VCO Recordings and recently reissued on audiocassette.
It is available from here:

http://vcorecordings.bandcamp.com/album/vco-007-abul-mogard

Antarctica in Bloom

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