Equal Stones - "Transgression"

Equal Stones - "Transgression"



Genre: Ambient/Drone
Format: mp3 | CBR320kbps
Country: The Netherlands
Size: 98 Mb
Label: Hidden Vibes

Tracklist:
01. Set Free
02. We All Fall
03. Reject All You Have Learned
04. Death At Both Ends

Description: "Transgression" is a third release on Hidden Vibes by Amandus Schaap, an ambient producer from the Netherlands also active on the Myosotis project.

When Amandus put together the setlist to this release he had a lot of tracks already finished, laying about. He decided to go with a drone theme this time around. The tracks on Transgression are mainly built up from multilayered synths accompinied with a lot of microsounds, statics, vinyl sampling, scrapes and minimal guitar textures, alot of these slightly hidden in the high register. There are some vocal patterns holding the melody in place, but most of the experience is built upon textures.

The idea for the title of the third track, Reject All You Have Learned, comes from a quote of one of musician's favorite philisophers Emil M. Cioran. "Chaos is rejecting all you have learned, chaos is being yourself." This track is a lenghty experiment in which Amandus tries to give form to the chaos he experiences in life.


This album really shines when you take off your headphones and listen to the tracks on a well equipped stereo setup.

The vinyl version of "Transgression" comes on virgin 180 grams vinyl, and comes in a gatefold sleeve with beautiful artwork designed and produced by Tessel Dekker.



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Cold Womb Descent - Space Ambient Trilogy

Cold Womb Descent - Cold Womb Descent

Genre: Space Ambient
Format: mp3 | CBR320kbps
Country: Poland/Mexico
Size: 80 Mb

Tracklist:

01. Plutonium Mine Shipyard Launch

02. Beholding the Eclipse of Nebula

   03. Cemetery Where Lost Neutrons Dwel

04. Another Lifeforms Civilisation Rising

        05. Visions of Dust Covered Empire

  06. Colony of the Remnants

07. Arrival at the End of Journey

08. Outro: Space Journal Entry

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Cold Womb Descent - Rise of Ldaovh



Genre: Space Ambient
Format: mp3 | CBR320kbps
Country: Poland/Mexico
Size: 119 Mb

Tracklist:

01. Wandering Through the Fields of Havoc

  02. Reactivation of the Industrial Spher   

03. Channeling the New Sources of Energy

     04. Landscapes of the Future Rising05. Within Alien Ocean Biome

06. Dark Forests and Unknown Lifeforms

07. Empire of the Remnants 

08. Ldaovh Intercepting UVB-76

09. Teal Aurora Above the Sleeping Cit    

10. Aybu Uol Fyh po Ajika Tvi

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Cold Womb Descent - Apocatastasis



Genre: Space Ambient
Format: mp3 | CBR320kbps
Country: Poland/Mexico
Size: 126 Mb

Tracklist:

01. Ootal Uyl Nvu Nuu, wa Vxuor

      02. The Day Earth Has Returned to Cradle  

03. Departure of the Mothership Stalke

  04. Nine Billions of the Population C 

05. Solace Within the Cold Steel

  06. Approaching the Borders of Mortality  

07. Epilogue - Everything Starts Here

     08. Planet of the Remnant

09. The Ultimate Beauty of Infinity

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fydhws - 9

fydhws - 9

Genre: Ambient/Drone/Experimental
Format: mp3 | CBR320kbps
Country: Macedonia
Size: 92 Mb

Tracklist:

01. Проникни!

02. Ништо не е како што беше, а пак е исто 

03. Собир на 1000 птици 

04. Мост

05. Ѕвездена прашина 

06. Ветришта 

07. Приспивна песна 

08. Соништа на Летните денови

09. Зајди! 

Description: The album is meant to be played without pauses in between tracks but as one continuous flow of the 9 movements: 

|1| Pervade! 

|2| Nothing is what it used to be, and yet everything is still the same 

|3| Gathering of 1000 birds 

|4| Bridge 

|5| Stardust 

|6| Whirlwinds 

|7| Lullaby 

|8| Midsummer days dreams 

|9| Sink! 

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EUS - Los Otros

EUS - Los Otros

Genre: Drone/Ambient
Format: mp3 | CBR320kbps
Country: Costa Rica
Size: 114 Mb

Tracklist:

01. Ells

02. Mesé

03. La Primera Piedra 

04. Fuera 

05. Postpérdida

06. De Lejos 

07. Luz 

08. Estos Son Mis Ojos 

09. Diluria 

10. Los Otros 

Description: A brand new masterpiece from Costa Rica ambient project EUS, Los Otros, is out today, 10 Sept 2012. I recommend you to take a listen, urgently. 

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Sferi - “Sound of the Spheres” on Double CD

Sferi - “Sound of the Spheres” on Double CD

We'll continue spacey days on Hidden Vibes. Now I want to share with you some news from a friendly project Sferi from Macedonia, previously posted on the blog. There's a very nice physical release available to order these days. Do not miss the opportunity to get this exclusive stuff.

"Here it goes, planned to be released for a long time, Sound of the Spheres on Double CD, edition of 50
8 page color booklet is included also, with the Planets description." 

You can order a copy on Bandcamp.

 

 

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Moonshine Blues - Through

Moonshine Blues - Through

Genre: Ambient/Drone/Experimental

Format: mp3 | CBR320kbps

Country: Ukraine

Size: 71 Mb 
Label: Hidden Vibes Netlabel

Tracklist:

01. Ages

02. Spaces

03. Revelations

04. And Worlds Unknown

05. We're Going to Rise Up Above 

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fydhws - O

fydhws - O

Genre: Dark Ambient/Drone/Minimal

Format: mp3 | CBR320kbps

Country: Macedonia

Size: 56 Mb

Tracklist:

01. O (1 дел)

02. O (2 дел)

03. O (3 дел)

04. O (4 дел)

Description: just in case you've missed this release. Latest work from a frienly sound experimentalist from Macedonia, fydhws. This time a collection of dark ambient passages and drones, be careful.

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loaded energy - winterphantasie

loaded energy - winterphantasie

Genre: Ambient/Drone Ambient/Soundscape

Format: mp3 | CBR128kbps

Country: Germany

Size: 35 Mb

Tracklist: 

01. winterphantasie

Description: loaded energy is a completely underground drone ambient outfit of Attila Varga, a musician from Germany. So obscure that you can hardly find the album cover arts, and information about the project on any of webpages is very poor. At the same time, project's discography reaches 5 albums, published on last.fm, which is really impressive. 

Winterphantasie is a 39 minutes one-track album (or EP whatever), a brilliant work which is a perfect example of what sonic soundscape is. It feels like author has taken a brush and slowly painted a blurry and sleepy winter picture. Progressive and slow hypnosis of the first winter snow, and bleakness, bleakness, bleakness. This is not another sunny day full of shiny white drops. Hypnotic, but in some moments hopeful, this track is nothing else than 39 minutes of pure magic, caught in audio waves. Highly recommended to give it a try. You can find loaded energy music and download it for free/listen it for free using links below:

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Sferi - Sound of the Spheres

Sferi - Sound of the Spheres

Genre: Space Ambient/Drone/Sound Collage/Psychedelic

 Format: mp3 | CBR320kbps

Country: Macedonia

Size: 194 Mb

Tracklist:

01. Merkur

02. Venera

03. Zemja

04. Mars

05. Jupiter

06. Saturn

07. Uran

08. Neptun

Description: Sferi is another musical reincarnation of fydhws from Macedonia, totally conceptual and represents a great piece of space ambient music, where each track is dedicated to another planet of solar system. Having collected different sounds into great sound collages Sferi creates very rich variety of moods and atmospheres. If you want to learn way more about each of the tracks, read the following review. It perfectly describes the essence of what Sferi is.

A musical representation of the eight planets of our solar system: that's an ambitious and daunting project. It isn't pulled off frequently, but when it happens, there's two classic archetypes to measure them against.
There's Gustav Holst, who painted the planets from his imagination and their role in folklore and tradition. Then, there's the NASA Voyager Recordings, a scientific but not less poetic picture of the spheres.

Sferi's Sound of the Spheres, released in three parts, is an amalgam of both, sometimes drawing inspiration from the space radiation itself, sometimes from the more traditional, anthropomorphic representation of the spheres. And plenty of times it's a carefully crafted bit of both.

Merkur is such a mixture. It starts off with a phaser effect that resembles its fast (fast!) revolution. When the electronics kick in, there's strange transmissions bouncing off its iron core. The fast tempo and a disorienting soundscape are very musical impressions, but they sound very much based on Mercury's natural occurrence.

Venera. Earth's evil twin is a gem in the sky, and for ages it shone in tales of beauty and love. Only recently have those stories been overcast by knowledge of the planet's "tragic" faith. The string sound and glockenspiel theme capture that melancholy of Venus' beauty gone warped. One of the highlights of the series.

Zemja, or Earth starts with synths much like Venera, but has a darker timbre and a melody of your typical funeral doom metal drone. Not a planet I want to wake up on. This is a painting of Earth billions of years ago, snowball earth, or the one with thick carbon clouds and stromatolites blobbing around.

Mars is as figurative as Holst's most famous piece, but for different reasons. This is no Bringer of War. Here is a planet painted as a mad circus. These days, Mars' crazy geography does indeed seem a more apt epithet than its 'war-like' red color. This composition is brilliant, but perhaps drags on a bit.

Planet Jupiter, when recorded by both Voyagers, sounds somewhat like a possessed singing bowl. So does this track, only do the noise toppings sound a little more structured than the real thing.

Saturn is guitar strumming topped with noise. Liner notes say the sphere has problems focusing, and at first the jam does feel like it's going nowhere, only to shift into a Sonic Youth's J'accuse Ted Hughes-kind of drone halfway.

Uran bears the most resemblance to the Voyager Recordings, but not quite. Holst's Uranus was a sorcerer, and the finale of this piece, with it's sharp notes, evokes the same danger of forbidden magic, before settling down into a mix of shortwave signals again.

Neptun, the last great gas giant, is not so different. Again, the synth sounds flow slowly like the singing bowls of NASA, but do so in an organized manner throughout the track. A bell sound determines the rhythm along which eery synths are modulated. Image the odd hexagon shape discovered on the planets south pole, and you're in for a scary ride.

Not kidding, but planets are really far away. Like, man. Even with probes and data sheets and telescopes as big as your average Trans-Neptunian Object, they're only faint dots and digitally colored bitmaps. It's only our imagination that brings them closer to home. Have a listen to Sferi's Sounds of the Spheres, and maybe its imagery will make you peek at the still-mysterious grainy deep space. Or Google's hi-res version of it.

by T De Bauw (Blues for spacegirl)

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