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Peinzing Part 1 (Mix) on AmbientBlog
Runtime 1h 17m 19s
« “Peinzing” (pondering, muse-ing) (2003) is the name of the musical collage in which the difference between ‘music’ and ‘sound’ will not always be clear to the listener. Over time, this has proven to be one of the most popular mix, especially with listeners that were not exactly familiar to ambient/electronic music.
There’s always the dynamic range between tension and release. The quiet piano sounds of John Cage and Arvo Pärt surround a broad spectrum of auditive landscapes. Inbetween, sometimes ‘ordinary’ pop-songs define the theme, like Paul Simon’s ‘Quiet’
I am heading for a time of quiet when my restlessness is past
And I can lie down on my blanket and release my fists at last
This particular sequence (Arno Peeter’s collage of hectic life’s answering machines, Paul Simon’s detaching Zen-like song ‘Quiet’, and Jon Hassell seemingly rephrasing Paul Simon’s last vocal line) is one of my all time favourite sequences. Because for me this part expresses what most mixes are about: Tension…Release…and then again: dark clouds gathering above strange landscapes… — AmbientBlog »
Peinzing (Part 1)
Alexei Lubimov - John Cage: In a Landscape [Der Bote] · DNTel - Pillowcase [Life is Full of Possibilities] · Autopoieses - c[] edit [Full Swing Edits] · Arno Peeters - Audentity II [Aeroson] · Paul Simon - Quiet [You’re the One] · Jon Hassell - These Times… [Dream Theory in Malaya] · Thomas Köner - Daikan I + IV [Daikan] · Christina Kubisch - Oase 2000 [Sonic Boom] · Biosphere - Green Reflections [Cirque] · Arno Peeters - Audentity - extended [Aeroson] · Echoes of Nature - Turkey Talk · Jungle Talk - The Natural Sounds Of The Wilderness - [Delta] · Eleni Karaindrou - Lament I [Trojan Women] · Nigel Ayers/John Everall/Mick Harris - Mesmeric Enabling Device part 2 [Mesmeric Enabling Device] · A Produce - Midnight Pond [The Other World] · Bass Communion - A Grapefruit in the World of Park [Where Stalks the Sandman] · Kent Sparling - In a Mumbling Sky [Under New Manna] · Susumu Yokota - Grass, Tree and Stone [The Boy and the Tree] · Clint Mansell & Kronos Quartet - Coney Island Low [Requiem for a Dream] · Dhafer Youssef - La Priere de l’Absent [Electric Sufi] · Jah Wobble - The Compound [Umbra Sumus] · Jah Wobble - Chela [Umbra Sumus] · Alan Howarth - Storm on Ceti Beta VII [Real Hollywood Sound Effects] · Fred Szymanski - It’s Hard to Know [Various Artists: A Storm of Drones] · Thomas Köner - Ilira [Teimo] · Thomas Köner - Foutu [Various Artists: Communication Problems] · Rothko - Bloodtied [A Continual Search for Origins] · Liquid Morphine - Droom (not on album) · Arve Henriksen - Path around the Pond [Sakuteiki] · Leif Inge - 9Beetstretch 3.2 (partial) [9Beetstretch] · John Taverner - Funeral Ikos [Byzantia] · AV911 - Rain Storm 2 [mp3.com]
Peinzing (End of Part 1, Part 2 to follow)
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Errnois “Our Different Lines (feat. UVDBP)”
From the 51beats netlabel release, The Winter Season
« The first version of this album had been originally published by Errnois independently (www.myspace.com/errnois), and a very nice review by Mirco Salvadori is already available on Rockerilla N.351 (Nov 2009). 51beats was immediately happy to discuss and finalize with Marcello the realization of an extended version of the album…and here is “The Winter Season”, the first officially released work by Errnois, a full album with eleven tracks. Something here is very special and magically beautiful. Sounds are flying from above. Delicate atmospheres surrounding our deep and introspective side. Sometimes is the guitar, sometimes is a suspended atmosphere, hypnotic and obscure. Sometimes words are not necessary, basslines….voices are coming slowly… —51beats »
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“The threads can always be traced back to some earlier tale, and to the tales that preceded that; though as the narrator’s voice recedes the connections will seem to grow more tenuous, for each age will want the tale told as if it were of its own making.” —Clive Barker
Jasper TX “From Midnight To Sunlight”
Featured on Percussion Lab recently, a mix originally prepared for Headphone Commute.
« This time, it’s Dag Rozenqvist aka Jasper TX, mixing up his favourite tracks to keep you warm in the night… In the past few years, Rozenqvist has really stepped up in his production of dark ambient and acoustic drone pieces… — Continue reading on Headphone Commute »
« This mix is called “From Midnight to Sunrise” and the central theme of this mix is the late night after party. When you’ve been out drinking and you land in some random couch in some apartment on the other side of town, drinking and smoking, everyone just sitting in their own hazy bubble. You listen to music and for the most part of it you’re just quiet with your own thoughts. There’s a beautiful calm to it and no one feels the need to talk anymore. And you just sit there until morning when the bubble eventually bursts and reality catches up on you. And all you can do then is go home and sleep a dreamless sleep.
I think these tracks all have the same kind of atmosphere to them. They’re quite restrained and there’s kind of a hypnotic quality to them. To me they really represent night time music. When listening to the mix I find myself being sucked into this comforting, soothing calm.
I spent a lot of time creating this mix, trying to decide in which order the tracks should come. I think it flows very well and I’m really pleased by how it turned out. Hope you’ll like it too. — Dag Rosenqvist, Gothenburg 2010 »
Any mix that drops a Bark Psychosis track in midway, you know is going to set you adrift… headphones recommended.
Cyrus Rego – I Will If You Will · :Papercutz – Ultravioleta (The Sight Below Remix) · Kompjotr Eplektrika_ – Gradient Curse · Zelienople – Indifferent Dreams · Bark Psychosis – INQB8TR ·Vangelis – Blade Runner Blues · Supersilent – 6.2 · The Bear Quartet – Peders Förlåt · Talk Talk – New Grass
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Able “The Circumpolar North”
From the netlabel Rope Swing Cities release, Migrations
« It’s been a long hiatus for Rope Swing Cities while we dealt with life’s ever changing tapestry of challenges and decisions, but in 2010 we return with a year’s worth of releases from old friends and new faces alike. With this in mind, we would like to offer up for your perusal Migrations, the newest album from long time confederate, Able.
Over the last several years, Able has crisscrossed America, hitting both coasts and all points in between collecting impressions of the lives lived in our big, strange land. These memories have been given life in the form of the fifteen songs comprising this release.
Migrations is ambient music made for winter listening; dark, moody, longing, often confused, but ultimately hopeful. Able crafts stark, emotional soundscapes geared toward the searcher. Long, penetrating drones give way to crackles and pops; moments of urgent, driving percussion, the strum of guitar and the trample of feet. Other times, the drone conquers all else, melting away into cool meditation.
Listening music in its purest form, Migrations is a headphones on, eyes down listening experience. — Rope Swing Cities »
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Electricwest “Goddess (Celer Mix)”
From netlabel Archaic Horizon, R3MIXES, a bonus album accompanying the re-release of Electricwest’s MOTH3R
« After a three track sampler and a pay per download release on Rope Swing Cities, AH is re-releasing Electricwest’s ‘MOTH3R’ along with a bonus album. ‘R3MIXES’ reinterprets the album’s 11 songs through 11 different artists, including Electricwest himself. It features a mix of ambient drones to start the album off, flowing gradually into more beat-oriented, dub and idm.
‘MOTH3R’ stands strong on its own, with Electricwest’s familiar rumbling bass and haunting tones invigorated from their own distortions. Disembodied voices become embedded within the dissonance and unearthed in the melodies. The album confronts listeners with a polarity between dark, anxious and crawling sonics against more calm and optimistic moments.
Extended thanks to all artist involved in ‘R3MIXES’ and to those who purchased ‘MOTH3R’ upon its original release. — AH033 »
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Bjorn Svin “Opening Flower”
From the netlabel YukiYaki release, 5 Little Treasures from the North
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« Yuki Yaki’s 12th strike is a visit of some friends from Denmark bringing with them a small but precious assortment of local Electronica delights. Having almost ridden out half a decade Rump Recordings has become the most popular stronghold of experimental electronic music in Denmark. And now a band of five fine artists has pledged its contribution for one of our releases: Minimalistic rhythm patterns in slow motion and restrained melodies wrapped in an envelope of startling clicks and sizzling noises.
It’s a mesmerizing kind of unpretentious minimalism and rough authenticity that keeps the tracks of Bjorn Svin, Badun, Acustic, Rumpistol and Karsten Pflum on a common suspense curve as if they were not made as single tracks but as a joint piece of art that could last for much longer than just those five tracks. — YkYk. »
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Fabio Keiner “Abstract Cello III”
From the Petcord netlabel release, Abstract Cello
« The latest work from Austrian sound artist Fabio Keiner explores rather dark territories. “Abstract Cello” utilises dense tone clusters of blurry string sounds to expose the listener to feelings of discomfort. Drawn into a cavernous space, structures get lost with increasing distance, leaving only the memories of their origins. The eight parts of the album thoroughly investigate their chromatic movements along the tone scale, hunted by high and lows without reaching any kind of closure. Everything seems to persist as a shadow of a doubt that was not meant to be. In “Abstract Cello”, Fabio Keiner not just investigates the timbre of a string instrument, but rather reconstructs its context in an implausible way by inviting to a journey into one’s locked up inner secrets that are usually kept away from the public eye. — Olliver Wichmann »
« Unlike other artists on Petcord, Fabio Keiner from Vienna, Austria did not have any ambitions of creating his own music before the advent of VST-synths and software based sound sampling technology and the Internet. This suddenly changed with the discovery of Giacinto Scelsi’s music, which soon was followed by Morton Feldman, La Monte Young and Peter Michael Hamel before he was finally veering towards a gloomy ambient adaption of generative music. Dubbing himself a music illiterate, his main interest is in improvised sound which more or less may contain aspects of a worked out composition. — Petcord »
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netwaves 4.15 “blocSonic Special”
Netwaves interviews Michael Gregoire, the man behind the blocSonic project.
« For the past decade an alternative culture of music has been sprouting up outside the wastelands of the increasingly formulaic and compartmentalized mainstream music business. This world of “netaudio” is generally released freely, either independently or through netlabels. As this culture continues to grow, the amount of available music grows exponentially making it increasingly difficult for folks who are new to the culture to filter the good from the bad. Each of our free releases, in one way or another, are an attempt to shine the spotlight on what we think is the best of what this world has to offer.
Consider blocSonic a filter through which you can discover this vibrant, global culture! Currently there are three ways which we spotlight what the netaudio world has to offer… — continue reading this post on blocSonic »
Featured in the netwaves 4.15 podcast…
Rescue my old cassette in Japon Occidental - Boris Balkan
Brick Tones (feat. L’Omelette) - DegiHeugi
Sooner or later (feat. Christina Courtin) - Amanyth
Life on Ceres - Marco Kalnenek
The Void Triumph - Normaa
Herons are Mellow - Daniel Maze
Boomtown (feat. Wordsmith) - ETHX
Hot July - Monk Turner
Gimme - Christine
Long transfer (2006 rework) - Phour Trakk
Quincallier de Style - Thierry Blanchard
The Airport Dots - Cezary Ostrowsky
Don’t talk, shoot! - Disrupt
Mr. Pig & Mr. Chrome - Vernon LeNoir
netwaves’ live broadcast is hosted by Radio Scorpio, the first independent radio in Belgium. The program is compiled by netwaves.
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Terje Paulsen “Twenty Feet for Buddha”
From the Resting Bell netlabel release of the same name.
« Terje Paulsen is a sound-artist from Kristiansand, Norway, working with simple instruments and equipment, sometimes self made, sounds from found objects and field recordings from his local environment. He likes the sounds to be hand made and does not use a laptop.
Twenty Feet for Buddha is a contemplative, subtle piece with a duration of about twenty minutes. Terje made this track with some treated field recordings and Buddha-Machines. It starts very quiet with some light drones, spotted higher tones and background-noise. From this point little melody-fragments were added, bearing the listener away.
This audio is part of the collection Resting Bell. A really dreamy, gentle work. Please listen to it with headphones. »
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Offsets “Synthetic Sleep”
From Circular Drift, a Distance Recordings release.
« Offsets is characterized by gentle washes of rich ambient textures, subtle guitar loops, the occasional static interference and sparse rhythmic sections. The project is a long-distance collaborative effort between Benjamin Dauer and Dominic Dixon (talkingmakesnosense) and the result is a very beautiful and gentle listening experience. We are very proud to bring this release to you. — Distance Recordings »
All tracks written and recorded by Benjamin Dauer & Dominic Dixon.
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