Technotrip

Ninth in the Ternesc series, Digital formats release June 18th, Vinyl format released later in the year.

Blawan - Fizz City

Existenz

Golden Dawn

Hamadryas Amphinome

2 Hamadryas Amphinome

DIE001 B1 Bjarki - Do You Like Yourself

Buy/stream: https://kompakt.fm/releases/agartha_lp_dl

‘Where is Agartha? What is the specific region in which it lies? Along what road, through what civilizations, must one walk in order to reach it?.’ Saint-Yves d’Alveydre in 1886

Agartha, the debut full-length album by Japanese producer Wata Igarashi, is a mysterious, divine thing. Named for the mythical secret kingdom, understood as a complex maze of underground tunnels, perhaps designed by Martians who colonised the Earth tens of thousands of years ago, it’s a similarly mystical, perhaps even cosmic trip – but this time, exploring an inner, deeply personal cosmos. Beautifully detailed and bustling with rich incident, it takes Igarashi’s music to new places, which still retaining his unique sonic imprimatur; in this respect, it’s perfectly at home with Kompakt, a label that’s always encouraged artists to make the visionary music they need to create, to take risks and make sideways steps into uncharted territory.

An eloquent producer and DJ, Igarashi has been releasing techno for eleven years now, appearing on such imprints as The Bunker NY, Delsin, Midgar, and Time To Express; he has also self-released his productions via his WIP net label. Throughout, Igarashi has consistently explored his unique approach to techno and electronic music, one that’s eloquent and poised, even when it shifts into more psychedelic terrain; he’s a master at balancing the sensual and the functional, and he has an unerring ear for the right texture, the right tone, at the right time. He brings all of this into Agartha, his most thorough-going expression of self to date.

For Agartha, Igarashi had a strong concept he wanted to explore. Visualising specific scenes from an imaginary film based on the titular secret kingdom, he created soundtracks for those scenes, spending time during the pandemic in his studio, working away carefully at the ten tracks here. Given his background in creating music for television and advertisements, Igarashi is well-placed to explore the marriage of the sonic and the visual in such intimate ways, but freed from commercial concerns, he let his imagination run riot. He also drew on a rich palette of musical influences – techno is in there, of course, but you can also hear the smoky, improvised jazz of the likes of Miles Davis (to whom the album’s title is an indirect nod), and the minimalism and systems music of Steve Reich.

The latter is particularly pronounced on the gorgeous, beatless drift of “Floating Against Time”, where an arpeggiated sequence lingers, lovingly, around your ears for nine blissful minutes, coasting across swooning drones and waves of ambient noise. “Ceremony Of The Dead”, originally composed as part of a Sony 360 Reality Audio spatial sound concert, is a deep pass into systems composition, with various patterns overlaid and interlocking, before a wordless vocal rises from the depths, a gorgeous counterpoint to the swarming textures that gather across the track. On the other hand, tracks like “Burning” and “Subterranean Life” nudge toward Fourth World territory, painting deluxe dreamscapes of uncertain provenance; the title cut is an abstract drift-world, Igarashi painting an alien tableau dotted by shape-shifting creatures.

Agartha’s conceptual framework means that everything on the album sits perfectly together; listening to it in one sitting is a dizzying, lush experience. Its imaginings of inner landscapes recall, in some respects, the nautical, aqueous mythologies of the Drexciyan universe, though from different perspectives. But the result is Igarashi’s own creation, a deluxe, enchanting trip through the visionary Agartha of this unique producer’s cinematic mind’s-eye.

Agartha

Wata Igarashi - Ceremony of the Dead

Future Ancient

Omni [Part 1]

Kaleidoscope Face

Soft Spikes

Justin Floater

Tungsten Portals

Räfflade

dCodϵ - Sagittarius β

Techno Dark Raw Deep Drive Hard acid  Overdrive Hypnotisch

D2 Blawan - Calcium Red

CLR035

get it here: http://www.beatport.com/release/traversable-wormhole-single-number-1/265600

Traversable Wormhole - Closed Timelike Curve (Marcel Dettmann Remix)

Extrawelt Trummerfeld (Oliver Huntemann Remix)

VA The Young Man On Acid by Pick [ovnicd020] – (Ovnimoon Records / Goa Records)

 	Release Notes:

Welcome to Ovnimoon Records 20th cd release brought to you by the mind of Dj Pick, The Young Man On Acid brings a special new style to the record label. If you take psytrance, progressive, minimal techno, techtrance, Jazz, darkpsy, Dub, funk and lot of acid you will get music describable as the sound of this cd. Following after the 2 ambient CDs on Ovnimoon Records YMOA brings us back up tempo again with the groovier side of psytrance thanks to George Pick. With tracks from Muggi Dane, Merkaba, Dharana, Pspiralife, Vaeya, Bruj’os Bowl, Radioactive Cake, plus 3 of Picks own creations. George Khanukaev brings a driving dark progressive core, surrounded by the light and intellectual intricacies of jazz. A freaky style of psy he began to cultivate in 1999 when he moved to Israel and found psychedelic music. Being inspired and motivated, he began studying sound in Tel Aviv at nineteen, and in 2009 released dark psy trance as "Specter of Sound". Pulling from the driving force of dark psy, and blending it with eclectic sound scapes, he transformed his sound and Pick was born. Showcasing his three albums "Minimum Orchestra", "The Furious", and "The 8th Wonder of The World" at festivals such as Sign, Indigo, and Pandora, Pick became the first Israeli artist to release their music on Zenon. His abnormal levels of imagination and crystal clear production give dance floors an audiogasm of delight. 
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Label Profile: www.myspace.com/ovnimoonrecords 
Ovnimoon Records is a new label founded in 2010 based in Chile as an independent sub-label of Goa Records. Ovnimoon is the visionary producer whose name sake the label was based upon. All the music released with this imprint has passed his approval as true high quality gems of psychedelic goa trance. Expect only the top shelf selections worthy of the best collections and praised by the most noteworthy DJs in the world.  www.ovnimoonrecords.com

Goa Records is now a well established label founded in 2006 based in California/USA. Focused on finding the very best of the worlds leading psy-trance and goa-trance hits and compiling these into a highly commercialized package suitable for mainstream distribution outlets. Expect a steady stream of high quality, cutting edge releases from this already amazingly popular new label. www.goa-records.com  www.geomagnetic.tv

    
Title:	The Young Man On Acid	
Artist:	Various Artist	
Label:	Ovnimoon Records, sub of Goa rec	
Catalogue:	OVNICD020	
Format:	2 Panel Jewel Case CD 	
Barcode:	881034889577	
Release:	December 2011	

TRACK LIST

1 - Muggi Dane - Neutronium
2 - Merkaba - Future Ancient
3 - Dharana - Martini Bitch (Pick Remix)
4 - Pspiralife - Farmer Suiticool
5 - Pick - Blessing
6 - Vaeya - Quantiza
7 - Bruj’os Bowl - 2step To Drop
8 - Pick & Ben - 2nd Mad Cousin
9 - Radioactive Cake - Bad Moon
10 - Pick & Tatyana Kalmokova - Messa Morning

CREDITS/CONTACT INFO:
mastering by: Hector Stuardo
Distribution by Psyshop & Geomagnetic Distribution
(p) and © www.Geomagnetic.tv
http://www.geomagnetic.tv/news/ovnicd020 info@geomagnetic.tv

Pick - Blessing

D2 Blawan - Calcium Red

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