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Tycho "Awake" LP on Ghostly International
Release date: MARCH 18, 2014

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For nearly a decade, Tycho has been known as the musical alias of Scott Hansen, but with the release of Awake – his second LP for Ghostly International – the solo project has evolved into a three-piece band. Relating closer to post-rock than ambient soundscapes, the record is situated in the present, sounding more like Hansen than drawing from his influences. “This is, in many ways, the first true Tycho record.”

Following 2011’s Dive LP, the San Francisco-based designer toured extensively, and with a full band on stage, his sound coalesced into a percussive, organic whole. Zac Brown (guitars, bass) rejoined Scott on the road for this tour, but it was the particular addition of Rory O’Connor’s live drumming that ultimately sent Hansen back to the studio with a more precise vision. “After the tour, I decided that I wanted to capture the more energetic, driven sound of the live show on the next album,” Hansen recalls. Bringing musicians into Tycho’s creative process was a step towards expanding his own songwriting and advancing the project beyond its current sound.

In a cabin near Tahoe last winter, Zac and Scott began fleshing out the structure of the new record, but it wasn’t until they set up shop in the hills of Santa Cruz with Rory that it all fell into place. “It crystallized the vision of how the drums would come to the forefront on this record,” says Hansen. The sound was much more stripped-down and concise with more organic instruments in the fold. Songs like “Montana” and “Awake” are a departure from Tycho’s previous material – unique to the group effort poured into the songs on the new record – while “See” and “Dye” echo ideas from previous works, bridging a middle ground between the old and new. Working with Count Eldridge, who also engineered Dive, the team could fixate on the pulses that Tycho might previously layer under synthesizers and exhume them with distinct bass and guitar patterns.

Also known for his design work as ISO50, Hansen’s visual and sonic efforts have dovetailed throughout the course of his career. “This is the first time in my life I've dropped everything to focus on one artistic pursuit,” notes Hansen. Previous Tycho releases came to fruition when an amalgam of songs were nearing completion, but Awake is where music becomes the focus and true expression becomes the result.

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Awake

Astronaut Suicide Mission

Set Waves

Pyrocumulus

Age Of Clairvoyance

A love song written based on a bunch of improv sessions at the beautiful grand piano practice rooms at MIT. Recorded using the Zoom Q3HD and with strings from the lovely Nord Wave. Post processing in Ableton. 
Enjoy.

Once

No Cigar

Celestial Imbroglio

Between Stargazer & Summerhaven

Here's our remix of a favourite Helios track from the excellent Eingya album. Enjoy the remix and check out Helios at www.unseen-music.com  

Helios - First Dream Called Ocean (We Are All Astronauts Remix)

Ever wonder what happened to Janet Jackson? She's been locked up in our studio, waiting to get all euphoric in your ears.

Free download to all our fellow SoundClouders. Much love x

(Here's the original JJ from back in 2001: www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZL-BP8wsRs)

It's All For You [free download]

Locust

Sherbet Horizon

We're celebrating the vinyl re-issue of Seekae's first two albums The Sound of Trees Falling On People and +DOME over the next few weeks.

First up is this free download of 'Blood Bank', a standout from second album +DOME.

Get the deluxe 3LP reissue here, featuring all 30 tracks from Sound of Trees and +DOME, plus two new vinyl-only locked grooves.

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Seekae - Blood Bank [reissue]

Petal Downer

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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

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Marconi Union - Weightless

A beautiful ambient track by Helios from his Unleft album. Reworked into blissed-out 4/4 electronica piece.

Helios - Every Hair On Your Head (We Are All Astronauts Remix)

Chet Faker - Live Sessions, recorded in the old Buttery Factory, Newsted, rural Victoria, Australia. 

To download go to: http://www.facebook.com/Chetfaker

Watch the series here: http://www.youtube.com/user/ChetFaker

Love and Feeling and No Diggity taken from the EP - Thinking in Textures - available on iTunes. 

01 Archangel

Produced by Soundz
Written and Recorded by Nylo

Nylo - Fool Me Once

Given The Chance is the debut single from The Kite String Tangle. 

Given The Chance features on The Kite String Tangles EP "Vessel". 
Vessel EP OUT NOW worldwide. Available on iTunes here - goo.gl/C6COF8

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