Fresh 2025 remaster of Phase I. 
I was never happy with the original final masters of these tracks.
Despite years of trying, it wasn't until today's technology that enabled this to occur at a level that meets my expectations.  
This the way the album was intended to sound.
Best listened with headphones for the multidimensional auditory journey.

enjoy, with love,
SE

1.5 (2025 REMASTER)

Ultimae announces the reedition and remaster of Leylines, the fourth Ambient Downtempo album by French composer and sound designer Vincent Villuis, aka AES Dana.

Sculpted from field recordings, analog synthesis, and digitally processed textures, Leylines is a deeply immersive and granular journey. This reedited and remastered edition brings greater spatial clarity and depth, revealing new layers of nuance and sonic interplay.

Inspired by the concept of invisible energy paths believed to link sacred and geomagnetic sites, the album explores the subtle connections between musical genres, emotional states, and the living world.

Originally released in 2009, Leylines quickly became a pivotal work in Villuis’s career. What few people knew at the time is that the album was composed in its entirety twice: after a catastrophic disk crash destroyed the original version, Villuis entered a period of deep introspection before starting over. This shock led not only to emotional reckoning but also to a complete reinvention of his creative process.

Leylines became the foundation for a new compositional language — one built on a fresh sonic palette, renewed patterns, and a more sculptural approach to sound. The final result was more distilled, more intentional, and marked a turning point in his musical trajectory. Upon release, the album reached #1 on the iTunes Electronic Music chart, establishing itself as a landmark within the genre.


Leylines (Remaster 2025)

Alignments (Remaster 2025)

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AES DANA | Alignments (Remaster 2025)

Explores the quiet tension between stillness and motion — a sonic corridor suspended in delay and light-filtered resonance.

Built from analog synthesis, this track unfolds slowly with modulated pulses, ambient sweeps, and harmonic decay.

Like a memory repeating in softened echoes, 4.11x balances cerebral reflection with emotional drift — marking a deepening point in the Echoform+ModeM journey.

Designed for deep focus, dusk hours, and solitary resonance.

4.11x

A drifting, introspective ambient trance composition shaped by spatial decay and layered tonal movement.

Evolving from analog synth textures, this track balances stillness and motion — a glacial wash of delay, filtered resonance, and stereo echo.

Designed to be immersive and meditative, 4.1x -8 emphasizes echo as memory, texture as emotion, and duration as design.

Best experienced in solitude with headphones.

4.1x -8

A long-form ambient trance piece exploring themes of repetition, reflection, and reverb decay.

A delay-driven analog synth composition.

Mood: Meditative, Deep Space, Echo-heavy

4.5x

A meditative path through deep ambient space, where echoes pulse like distant signals and textures melt into tonal mist.

The track begins with expansive stereo swells and layered analog modulation, gradually unfolding into a glacial architecture of delay and low-frequency motion.

5.1x emphasizes Echoform+ModeM’s core aesthetic: spatial immersion, temporal suspension, and subtle emotional gravity.

5.1x

Ambient resonance in a form of slow-motion trance — where each echo, modulation, and decay becomes part of a living texture.

The track begins with a gentle rise of analog overtones and filtered delay, gradually expanding into a tonal vapor cloud of stereo panning, granular layering, and harmonic diffusion.

As both mirror and refractor, 6.1x extends Echoform+ModeM’s signature language of immersive stillness and evolving space.

Drift-ready. Designed for internal landscapes.

6.1x

A deep ambient narrative of Echoform+ModeM — a slow-formed sonic space shaped by resonance, delay, and meditative recursion.

Built from analog textures, this track blurs the boundary between composition and contemplation.

With low-frequency drift, filtered feedback, and a floating stereo field, 6.2x suggests a liminal zone between pulse and stillness — perfectly tuned for immersive introspection.

Headphones and stillness recommended.



6.2x

Echoform+ModeM is a new creative chapter and collaboration heavily influenced by the innovation, logic, and precision of early 1990's electronic music and modern day technical mechanix inspired by artists such as Time Modem, Lassigue Bendthaus, Aes Dana, Geomatic, Clock DVA, Implant Code, Sundial Aeon, Artefakto, Trilithon, The Klinik, X Marks The Pedwalk and labels Music Research GMBH, Abfahrt, Boy, Ausfahrt, and Ultimae, among others. The music is a fusion of cerebral intelligence and trance influences. This is not techno dance floor drudgery.

My ideas were never my own. I belong to the universe.

1.5 (2025 REMASTER)

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