June 26th, 2006
Archive for the Downtempo category
June 7th, 2006
PCR #019 [mr. b - tripped LP]
“Mr. B deliver us his first Ambient, Drum`N`Bass and Downbeat album on Pharmacom Records! An album with a geat variation in Sound and styles. 16 tracks full of cool beats and soundscapes to relax or to dance!”
- slip into it deeply
- bling
- uh yeah
- harte zeiten
- echo flash
- ein traum
- deep glowin
- flow
- habanera
- kopfnicker
- come here
- stromschnelle
- feel it
- dark horizon
- rainy dayz
- back to normal
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June 2nd, 2006
Lav #017 [daf - toy story]
“The second release by DAF brings us beautiful, warm and nostalgic atmosphere of the distant childhood. Alexander Ivanov continues mixing abstract ambient soundscapes with thorny and smeared downtempo/IDM beats… and he makes it very good.”
May 26th, 2006
MIX #009 [immer.chic - filtered impressions EP]
“a long time coming and here it is, immer.chic’s follow-up release to their debut ep on mixomat recordings. gregory and julian gave us some tracks from which we selected these three cuts to be featured on their second release, called the ‘filtered impressions ep’.
stylistically they maintain their broad and varied influences. they take off with the minimal flavored techhouse of ‘the day (with an urban flair)’ to the beautiful deeeep ‘ambient dub’ moods of ‘maelstrom’ directing us to a downtempo chill called ‘dreams’. we hope you enjoy it as much as we do.”
May 21st, 2006
HW #007 [smooth tobaccos - smooth tobaccos EP]
May 18th, 2006
ZYM #008 [takeshi nakamura - easy listening]
“Takeshi Nakamura is back on zymogen for another brilliant work taking his sound to another level of complexity. This 6 tracks ep has been produced after Ordinary Days following similar processes of composition, always keeping a quality level near to the maximum and creating sonorities similar to his previous record without any loss of intensity. Takeshi accustoms us to pure geometric structures stained with digital rough sketches, sweet discords and harmonious glitches, but with these compositions he overcomes his strandards. Wonderful…can you find a better word to start this promenade through artificial landscapes? ‘I Sink’ moves from frenetic beats with hissing basses in constant evolution and slow pads expanding under robotic voices, a lesson of composition. The following ‘Cloud’ is an hypnotic sequence with cuts of a melody lost in reverbs wich becomes concrete into ‘Defeat’, a groovy declaration of digital pessimism, totally amazing! During ‘Particle’ an incredible flow of silicic acid will reach you neurons, floating high frequencies over a rough snares wich keep up the fragile structure of the beat. The conclusion of the ep is ‘Sundial’, a long evolution of a simple idea based on soft loops slowly submerged by an enormous flux of ultra-low frequencies and drones for an intense growth wich finishes in the same way it started like an infinite mantra; personally one of the best song created by Nakamura so far. With this work Takeshi shows once again his abilities to creating deep experimental music and we feel really lucky to have the possibility to release a work of this kind of quality…an ‘Easy Listening’ near perfection.”
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May 17th, 2006
Miga #009 [winterstrand - trisonomie EP]
“After a short break, we are striking back with the second international release [Miga09] ‘Trisonomie E.P.’, from the austrian trio Winterstrand. Definetely a warm, happy and close job from these three brothers, with a direct language, taking us to sound landscapes formed by IDM, downbeat & ambient.”
- trisonomie 4
- kesk j’peux faire
- summ
- muiah
- meine interpretation
- schneefeld
- fluginsekt
- anamorphot
- 123 raus
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