ULTIMAE  Records - 2

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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

Christian Samsara brings us a delicate hymn to melancholia with this dj mix fusing modern classical and ambient moods. Featuring talented artists such as Offthesky, Stray Theories, Field Rotation, Rafael Anton Irisarri, Pleq & Giulio Aldinucci, The Frozen Vault, Ghost and Tapes, Antendex, Field Rotation, Marsen Jules Trio ft. Roger Döring, Jacaszek, Antonymes & Christoph Berg.

Enjoy and share!

tracklist:
01. Offthesky – Snow Filled Summer 
02. Stray Theories – The Day We Were Silent 
03. Field Rotation – The Repetitation Of History 
04. Rafael Anton Irisarri – Lesser Than The Sum Of Its Parts 
05. Pleq & Giulio Aldinucci – The Prelude To 
06. The Frozen Vault – Stilled (Excerpt) 
07. Ghost and Tapes – Return 
08. Antendex – The Lighthouse 
09. Field Rotation – Valse Fatale 
10. Marsen Jules Trio ft. Roger Döring – Historie De La Nuit 
11. Jacaszek – III (Pleq Remix) 
12. Antonymes – Misshapen Beauty [ii] 
13. Christoph Berg – Interlude (Aus Remix)

Mastered by AES Dana at Ultimae Studios 
Studios@ultimae.com

CHRISTIAN SAMSARA | Remembering

Thanks to @miuson <3

Tracklist
mu tate - frank’s hublots
Purl - Inbetween Sounds
Purelink - Butterfly Jam
Miuson - Caleidoscopic
Rising Sun - The river Experiment
Sanguine - Hell for Bees
Errorsmith & Mark Fell - Photogravity
Tristan Arp - Circling Music
Traevor - Bagnante Col Pala
Andi Muller - Comedown (Luke Abbott Remix)
Cousin - Locked
Arkajo - It’s only U
Miuson - Chaos
Ke Thu - Bound Apart - Dissolve
Command D - Breathe

📷 Graphic design by Ghashgaie
Jingle by @hidolas

Abyssaï | Miùson • Ending Point

These are audio tracks recorded at The Seed stage, Mo:Dem Festival 2024. Annual demented week took place between 5 - 11 August .

w/ @nathaliapetkova

Play loud and enjoy until our next gathering.

•••

Mo:Dem Festival 2025 is scheduled for 4 - 10 August.

Tickets are available online: shop.modemfestival.com/tickets
Or from our Ambassadors: modemfestival.com/ambassadors/

Love. Passion. Commitment.
Mo:Dem Crew
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NATHALIA @ The Seed | MoDem Festival 2024

These are audio tracks recorded at The Seed stage, Mo:Dem Festival 2024. Annual demented week took place between 5 - 11 August .

w/ @o-utlier

Play loud and enjoy until our next gathering.

•••

Mo:Dem Festival 2025 is scheduled for 4 - 10 August.

Tickets are available online: https://shop.modemfestival.com/tickets
Or from our Ambassadors: https://modemfestival.com/ambassadors/

Love. Passion. Commitment.
Mo:Dem Crew
https://modemfestival.com

O.UTLIER @ The Seed | MoDem Festival 2024

These are audio tracks recorded at The Seed stage, Mo:Dem Festival 2024. Annual demented week took place between 5 - 11 August.

w/ @eril-fjord & @mintaka7

Play loud and enjoy until our next gathering.

•••

Mo:Dem Festival 2025 is scheduled for 4 - 10 August.

Tickets are available online: shop.modemfestival.com/tickets
Or from our Ambassadors: modemfestival.com/ambassadors/

Love. Passion. Commitment.
Mo:Dem Crew
modemfestival.com

ERIL FJORD & MINTAKA @ The Seed | MoDem Festival 2024

Hello world! 
Someone told me about a hedgehog who panted under a rhubarb leaf, and that this was the ultimate sign that summer is here. Someone else told me that the planets soon is aligned. I am preparing for a live set this solstice, and did a test recording of the set. Besides music I´ve made by myself, it contains music from collaboration works with Warmth, as well as with Nobody Home. 


The planets in place - live set

Synthbiont & Anassimandrus @ Ozora 2024 | Ambyss

https://soundcloud.com/synthbiontanassimandrus

https://2025.ozorafestival.eu/

Synthbiont & Anassimandrus @ Ozora 2024 | Ambyss

Stockholm based ambient downtempo producer Thomas Huttenlocher aka I AWAKE follows up his digital Ep release [ Birth ] with a full length album [ The Core ] 
Built as a journey of audio neural beauty through organic microcosms, electronic vortexes, deep, tribal beats and vast soundscapes, the album takes us on a pilgrimage of sounds, with scents of parallel lives, glimpses of the future and overlapping, coexisting dimensions. 

A superfine blend of psychedelic spurs, groovy bass lines and catchy melodies composed with the collaboration of Krister Linder, Fredrik Lundberg, Tara Devi and Planet Boelex. As a film soundtrack producer, I AWAKE is one of the key figures of Ghostfriend, a Swedish underground movement of creators with a "peculiar devotion to the present and strong love for the innermost". 

For the first time in Ultimae's history of releases, the artwork was created by famous digital artist and designer David Vineïs aka Sub88.

The Core

New Time Nomads (Bass Edit)

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Debut album [ Where Edges Meet ] from British composer James Murray subtly evokes the rumble and clatter of London's industrial wastelands, leading us to its secret gardens and wide parks with crystalline, haunting melodies. 

As a gifted multi-instrumentalist James has intelligently merged the organic and synthetic realms into delicate and daring soundscapes - all vividly evocative of sense and space. 

[ Where Edges Meet ] is an intimate and ambiguous album, a wistful playground for broken breakbeats, jazz inflections, sideways dub and avant-garde electronica. 

9 colourful tracks to delight your ears and challenge your mind.

Where Edges Meet

With previous releases on Origo Sound and Beatservice Records, Norwegian duo Circular signs here a strong and highly anticipated fourth album. [ Substans ] unfolds as a collection of micro ambient tales, journeys into intricate and multi-layered soundscapes. The band thought this album as a sonic line tangent to realms as opposite as floating atmospherica and industrial clunks; a deep kaleidoscopic glide through reverberated guitar riffs, uplifting grooves and environmental ambient. 
Ardent ISDN enthusiasts will notice the impression Future Sound Of London's avant-garde electronica left on Bjarte Andreassen and Jostein Dahl Gjelsvik. Indeed the band claims influences as diverse as Biosphere, Boards of Canada, Sun Electric and saw this album as one opportunity to acknowledge landmarks in their history of music encyclopaedia. 

Moreover, [ Substans ] reveals the work of a collective of photographers and designers. The artists joined by Christin Vaag, Torje Bjellås, Øyvind Veberg and Christoffer Furnes reflected on the album echoes in the vast Scandinavian territories.

Substans

Time Machine

Hurumburum

Following his debut album The Core, Swedish composer Thomas Huttenlocher re-enters his alias I Awake and sets his sound on its next journey with Tierra, a new three track EP which marks the first step in a series of releases to come in 2014. 

The artist brings out refined Downtempo grooves infused with layers ethereal atmospheres and electronic instrumentations to create his ode to the living pearl we have come to call home.

Tierra

Soft Lightning

The Alkaline EP associates the works of AES Dana (Vincent Villuis) and MIKTEK (Mihalis Aikaterinis), the second chapter in a series of three. 
Skilful blend of granular soils, earthy glitches, oxydised rhythms & basslines flowing into diaphanous & breathing pads. 
These 3 new chapters explore the Minimal Ambient & Liquid Drum'n'Bass structures to in fine propose a cinematic and out of time chronicle, switching from quiet territories to ultra-modern violence. 

Mastering by Vincent Villuis | Ultimae Studio (France). 
Artwork by Arnaud Galoppe. 
Photo credit: Iaroslav Neliubov.

Alakline

Alkaline

Ultimae | Showcase #003 - recorded at Ultimae Record Shop, Lyon, France

CHRISTIAN SAMSARA dj set - Ultimae | Showcase #003

This is the 69th Ambient Sessions presented by Deep Electronics. The monthly released session brings you the best and the most diversity Ambient music can offer. 

This months set is a special one. This weekend we celebrate the summer  solstice. The longest day of the year. This session is dedicated to this event and is created by Mahiane. Her session is called Collimate. 

About Mahiane:

Dj, arranger, publisher, co-founder and manager of Ultimae records , Sandrine Gryson aka Mahiane explores music genres since 1985 and developped a keen ear and heart for atmospheric ambient, floating and organic sounds, idm, glitch, progressive techno and deep electro breakbeat; she occasionaly participates to projects such as Aes Dana project or Subgardens.

Mahiane about the mix:
A story based on works by just a few of the artists who deeply touch me. Something soft at times, intense all along. Enjoy!

Mastering by Vincent Villuis at Ultimae Studios

Tracklist:
01. James Murray - The Black and the Grey
https://ultimae.com/product/james-murray-eyes-to-the-height-ultimae-cd/

02. Offthesky - Enfolding
https://noise.offthesky.com/album/enfolding-2

03. Loscil - Equivalent 1
https://loscil.bandcamp.com/album/equivalents?fbclid=IwAR0BtwyrgK7Kj9d_oOeF3uARMsAhDAtMd9e0AxkyuVN8Rzp02kwyqOK0kH4

04. Island People - Song For The Sea
https://raster-raster.bandcamp.com/album/island-people?fbclid=IwAR3mSg85QbSflavwa0GkDVpsAN98Toy_Sx1H4TT18b-QH407387ZRbnCyJ8

05. ASC - Ocean Shadow
https://shop.silentseason.com/album/the-waves?fbclid=IwAR06bTjlDTmwYSGD9MT2wC2-20HKWxbZsuvqNUPTR6qD-jTpmQ93TRSikDQ

06. AES Dana - The Gradual District
https://ultimae.com/product/aes-dana-inks-ultimae-cd/

07. AES Dana - Low Tide Explorations
https://ultimae.com/product/aes-dana-pollen-ultimae-cd/

08. Martin Nonstatic - Apana part 1
https://ultimae.com/product/martin-nonstatic-apana-ep-ultimae-vinyl-ep/

09. James Murray - Ghostwalk (Kinosura remix)
https://ultimae.com/product/james-murray-ghostwalk-ultimae-vinyl-ep/

10. AES Dana - Inks
https://ultimae.com/product/aes-dana-inks-ultimae-cd/

11. James Murray - Copestone
https://ultimae.com/product/james-murray-the-ghost-pack-ultimae/

Artwork created by Jeroen

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Ambient Sessions # 69 - Mahiane - Collimate (Summer Solstice mix)

Derived from the Latin “Ultimae Terrae,” meaning “the furthest places,” the name Ultimae reflects a profound theme of exploration. This concept is at the heart of Ultimae Records, an ambient music record label and publisher dedicated to transporting listeners to the outer edges of experience through sound and offering a space for introspection and discovery within the vastness of the mind and beyond.

In 1999, Vincent Villuis and Sandrine Gryson, also known as AES Dana and Mahiane, united over a shared passion for the immersive world of electronic music. This collaboration led to the birth of the label. Initially envisioned as a musical portal, Ultimae’s mission was to explore and disseminate the diverse expressions of Ambient music far and wide through the production of records and the establishment of an online shop.

Over the years, Ultimae has expanded beyond its original scope, evolving into a multifaceted company with sound design, post-production, and mastering studios based in Lyon, France, along with professional services in publishing, music licensing, and synchronization.

New Time Nomads (Bass Edit)

Ultimae

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