meditative

'SVLBRD' is my new side project, on the also new label Faint @faint-faint-music

Written and Produced by Agustín Mena.
Mastering by Neel.
Photography by Alexander Kopatz www.go70north.com
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Faint / 2016

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Ambient Masterworks

MEDITATION

ウォームス

Ambiance relaxe

Le Grand Calme

ELECTRONIC

Alio Die & Sylvi Alli - La Grotta Delle Naiadi (Excerpt)

Nori Ubukata is back with volume 3 of his "Dawn of Electronic Music" series. In this demo, you'll hear presets that are recreations of sounds heard in Tangerine Dream songs!

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Expansion - Nori Ubukata - Dawn Of Electronic Music Vol3 - Tangerine Dream

Stephan Micus - The Child

Download: http://www.xlr8r.com/mp3/2014/10/93

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Youandewan - 93

In 1991 the soundtrack of the video release Canyon Dreams was released officially as the first TD album by the Seattle based Miramar company, beginning the band's Seattle Years. In the USA Canyon Dreams was nominated for the Grammy as Best New Age Album 1991. Some months before a bootleg version of the soundtrack had already been released, titled The Canyon Dreams, featuring the music from the video. The music material on the official soundtrack was partially remixed, has slightly different running times and features the bonus track "Colorado Dawn" composed by Jerome Froese.

The 1999 re-release by TDI features one additional track, "Rocky Mountain Hawk", and an entirely redesigned booklet. The following sleeve notes about the Grand Canyon are included:

Two billion years of geological evidence of the earth's history is exposed in the canyon's rock walls, more than can be observed anywhere else in the world. Travelling The canyon's length requires a river journey of 277 miles, through canyons varying in distance from less than a half mile to more than eighteen miles apart, and through depths reaching nearly 600 feet. Early visitors named many of the large buttes after ancient gods. Jupiter, Juno, Apollo, Venus, Vishnu, Deva, Shiva and Brahma have temples here, while Vulcan and Wotan have thrones named in their honor. The Paiute Indians believed the canyon had been created by the god Tavwoats to separate the world of the living from the lands beyond death. Havasupai and Hulapai Indians believed the river was the runoff from an earth-covering flood, much like the one Noah experienced.

In March 2009 the album was re-released with different cover design as part of an extensive digipack series (consisting of a total of more than 60 CD and DVD releases) by the Germany based Membran record label.

Tangerine Dream - Canyon Dreams (Cover)

CD & Digital available > https://ampl.ink/UponContact
UPON CONTACT REWORKED is a collaborative work from Bruno Sanfilippo that features some of the most highly acclaimed artists from the electronic music scene including Francesco Giannico, Olan Mill, Leonardo Rosado, Jorge Haro, Quivion and Hior Chronik in which an original piece written for piano is re-envisioned by each artist.
Worldwide release date: May 21th 2015 on CD & Digital through ad21

Original Upon Contact piece recorded at Onix II Studio, Barcelona
Mastered by Taylor Deupree in New York
All reworked tracks analog mastered by Ian Hawgood in Tokio
www.bruno-sanfilippo.com

Upon Contact Reworked

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Upon Contact by Bruno Sanfilippo

Journey into the ambient side of the Desert Dwellers, Liquid Bloom, Variant Field, Rara Avis, Bluetech and Shamans Dream with “Vajra Mind,” a collection of 21 meditative soundscapes compiled into a 2 hour soundtrack by AMANI. The calming quality of this music will add a soothing space to your life and creativity. “Vajra Mind” features some never before released tracks and alternate versions of classic tunes, and collects the various ambient tracks featured in the Desert Trax catalog from 2001 to 2015 into one cohesive offering. This music is medicine.

If you would like to download this mixed version of the album, you will be emailed a download code for it when you buy the full album from the DD Bandcamp store   (https://desertdwellersmusic.bandcamp.com/album/vajra-mind)

Envisioned, compiled and mixed by Amani Friend 
Artwork by Olivia Curry (www.dreamnectar.com)

01. In the Beginning 
produced by Amani Friend & Treavor Moontribe

02. Subtle Breath
produced by Amani Friend

03. Give Thanks - vajra mix 
produced by Amani Friend & Treavor Moontribe
flute by Jesse Hendricks

04. Stellar Dendrites
produced by Amani Friend & Rara Avis

05. Remember Light 
produced by Amani Friend & Treavor Moontribe
Vocals by Navjit Kandola

06. Warm Desert Sands - vajra mix
produced by Amani Friend & Treavor Moontribe
flute by Jesse Hendricks - violin by HANNAH


07. Bluetech & Shamans Dream - Letting Go
produced by Evan Bluetech & Craig Kohland

08. Desert Dwellers - Forming Existence
produced by Amani Friend & Treavor Moontribe

09. Desert Dwellers - Peaceful Air (space mix)
produced by Amani Friend & Rara Avis

10. Desert Dwellers - Misty Mountains (space mix)
produced by Amani Friend & Rara Avis

11. Desert Dwellers - Lotus Heart
produced by Amani Friend & Rara Avis. Vocals by Sarah West

12. Liquid Bloom - Jaguar Dreaming (vajra mix)
produced by Amani Friend. Flute by Dominique Breaux

13. Liquid Bloom & Shamans Dream - Whispers of Our Ancestors (vajra mix)
produced by Amani Friend, Rara Avis, and Craig Kohland. Vocals by Sarah West

14. Liquid Bloom & Rara Avis - Emerging Heart (vajra mix)
produced by Amani Friend & Rara Avis. Vocals by Sarah West

15. Desert Dwellers - Stratosphere (space mix)
produced by Amani Friend, Michael Stearns, & Jonathan Grossman

16. Desert Dwellers - You Can See Forever (ether mix)
produced by Amani Friend, Rara Avis, and Trevor Moontribe. Vocals by Sarah West

17. Desert Dwellers - Peaceful Pathways (space mix)
produced by Amani Friend 

18. Desert Dwellers - Lotus Garden
produced by Amani Friend 

19. Desert Dwellers - Cave Dwellings
produced by Amani Friend 

20. Desert Dwellers - You Can See Forever (Aes Dana Remix)
produced by Aes Dana, Amani Friend, Rara Avis, & Trevor Moontribe. Vocals by Sarah West

21. Variant Field - Fields of Variance (space mix)
produced by Amani Friend and Alex DeYoung

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Vajra Mind - Ambient mix by AMANI

#TBT: Sights & Sounds of the summer. 
Archive photo from benirras beach and an archive mix of an ibizan sundown to go with it.

Andy Cato - Mambo Sunset 17 - 8-13

The startup sounds from Windows 95 to Windows Vista, played back at 4000% of their original duration.

Published to mark the occasion of the 20th birthday of Windows 95. Happy birthday, Windows 95.

__ UPDATE: More about the work:
www.erase.net/weblog/2015-08/win…sounds-slowed-4000

Read more about the composers responsible for these iconic sounds:
createdigitalmusic.com/2015/08/windo…mbient-music/

Windows 95 Startup Sound (slowed 4000%)

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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

'Essay' is the long awaited first full ambient album by Warmth. A collection of hazy textures, intricate soundscapes and field recordings, presented in a beautiful 4-panel CDr. 

Tracklist:

01.  Nineteen Eighty (1980)             09:58
02. Youth                              08:34
03. Essay                              08:27
04. Odessa                             06:37
05. Wave Growth (Album Version)        08:12
06. Decade                             07:20
07. Insight                            09:30
08. Time as a Reward (Album Version)   08:54


Written and Produced by Agustín Mena.
Mastering by Zzzzra.
Archives23 // ArchivesCD005
Archives / 2016

Warmth - Youth

'SVLBRD' is my new side project, on the also new label Faint. https://soundcloud.com/faint-faint-music

Svalbard EP will include 68 Minutes of slow, dark and intriguing ambient-techno, divided into 5 tracks in a 3-Panel CD. 
Mastered by Neel. 
Photography by Alexander Kopatz.

Will be available for pre-oder soon.

SVLBRD - Narwhal

'SVLBRD' is my new side project, on the also new label Faint https://soundcloud.com/faint-faint-music

Written and Produced by Agustín Mena.
Mastering by Neel.
Photography by Alexander Kopatz www.go70north.com
Faint001 // FaintCD001
Faint / 2016

SVLBRD - Tundra

SVLBRD - Hvit

'Soundscapes Vol.1' is our first CD compilation. Eight ambient tracks by Robert Farrugia, Logic Moon, Dead Melodies, Powlos, CloudBurn, The Aurora Principle, Caught In The Wake Forever and Warmth. 

Mastering by Rob Small.
Archives30 // ArchivesCD011
Archives / 2016

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The Aurora Principle - Southbound

'Soundscapes Vol.1' is our first CD compilation. Eight ambient tracks by Robert Farrugia, Logic Moon, Dead Melodies, Powlos, CloudBurn, The Aurora Principle, Caught In The Wake Forever and Warmth.

Mastering by Rob Small.
Archives30 // ArchivesCD011
Archives / 2016

Dead Melodies - Monochrome Rebellion

SVLBRD - Bellsund

Caught In The Wake Forever - Durham

SVLBRD - Mysticetus

Logic Moon - I'm In Your Veins

Robert Farrugia - Sycamore

'Glimmers' is the first collaborative album by japanese artist Joe Fujinoki and russian Ilya Glebov, well known by ambient music fans as Murkok.

Written and Produced by llya Glebov and Joe Fujinoki . 
Mastering by Rob Small. 
Archives32 // ArchivesCD013 
Archives / 2017

llya Glebov & Joe Fujinoki - And Fell

Pre-order the full 'Thrown EP' here: http://erasedtapes.com/store/index/ERATP044

Buy the '65' split EP with Rival Consoles here: http://erasedtapes.com/store/index/ERATP013

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Ólafur Arnalds and Janus Rasmussen's collaborative project Kiasmos continues to spread Icelandic techno with new Thrown EP featuring remixes by FaltyDL and 65daysofstatic.

After having revealed the title track Thrown via XLR8R in April, Kiasmos announce the release of their Thrown EP featuring brand new track Wrecked and two guest remixes by FaltyDL – one of New York's finest electronic producers – and UK's industrial post rock pioneers 65daysofstatic in the form of a12"/DL on Erased Tapes.

A1: THROWN
Ólafur explains: ‘Thrown is the first track of the "New Kiasmos", so to speak. Actually, Thrown is kind of a remix of a new Ólafur Arnalds track that hasn't even been released yet.’ ‘It has become the track that we use as a reference for all our newer stuff’, adds Janus.

A2: THROWN (FALTYDL REMIX)
‘Remixing used to be a very special thing. Not so much anymore. And when you're done, it will end up as a free download and most likely not on vinyl. It's bullshit. So when I get the opportunity to make an actual record, an object that will last longer then any of us, I jump on it. I have pleasures in my life. Doing this remix was one of them’, says Drew Lustman aka FaltyDL.

B1: WRECKED
Janus: ‘I don't really know what we were thinking when we started working on Wrecked.’ ‘Wrecked is our experiment with a new Doepfer synth. The song is severely out of tune’, adds Ólafur.

B2: WRECKED (65DAYSOFSTATIC REMIX)
‘It was quite a challenging remix to do, because it's such a minimal, understated track. The usual 65 approach of pulling out key refrains and messing with them didn't work because the bass is such a unique, dark sound. Likewise, I was reluctant to add too much new material because each attempt at that quickly veered into writing what sounded like a new song. Too many remixes these days are done to provide quick and easy bonus tracks for artists to giveaway, which is a shame, because when done properly, I think a remix is a great way to see a track you're familiar with as a listener in a new way’, explains Paul Wolinski of 65daysofstatic.

Janus: ‘I'm really excited about the remixes. They are both very different from each other and give the songs a new life. It's always great fun to hear someone make the tracks their own.’


ABOUT:

Kiasmos is the brainchild of Icelandic modern classical composer Ólafur Arnalds and Bloodgroup mastermind Janus Rasmussen from the Faroe Islands. Based in Reykjavík, Arnalds used to work as a sound engineer – often for Rasmussen's main project Bloodgroup – where the two musicians discovered their common love for minimal, experimental techno music. They eventually became best friends, and Janus now often accompanies Ólafur's solo shows with his electronics. ‘I am really enthusiastic about this project. Finally, I can make music that people can dance to. Something refreshing for the weekends’, explains Arnalds in an interview with the German electronic music magazine Beat. The project is a good way for both artists to ‘get out of the house’ so to speak and do different music to what they normally do. Having released their 65/Milo split 12" with label mate Rival Consoles in 2009, this year sees the duo return with the hotly tipped Thrown EP and a string of European club shows. 

'A rich production of deep, subdued techno...sure to stick in your head long after the track is through' – XLR8R

'Linear electronic music that propels you to pastel horizons...a dreamy new track to ease you through the day. A gentle groove and washes of sonic colour underpin a deceptively simple melody that buries itself inside your head' – Electronic Beats

'Thrilling stuff, primed for the more discerning floors' – Bleep

'Extremely elegant and addictive, sharp and hypnotic' ★★★★ – The Milk Factory

Thrown

Kiasmos - Thrown

Tangerine Dream - Sun Son's Seal (Flying White Dots remix)

From my album Drum Therapy

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Tor - Heikki

Tangerine Dream - Love on a real train (Club 28 Remix)

https://brambles.bandcamp.com/album/half-gramme-holiday

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Brambles - Half-Gramme Holiday

Making music as Warmth and SVLBRD.
Label owner of Archives and Faint.

12" Vinyl, CD and Digital on Archives.
https://archivesdubmusic.bandcamp.com

SVLBRD - Bellsund

Warmth | SVLBRD