Tom Middleton – Shinkansen
Livetracks is the debut solo album by British electronica artist Tom Middleton, released in the UK on October 1, 2007 and the US on November 6, 2007. The title is a reference to representing different places, times, and people in the artist’s life. The majority of songs on the album have appeared on compilations over the last ten years, under the moniker AMBA, which was Middleton’s previous ambient project. The song “Shinkansen” refers to the Japanese bullet train of the same name. As a producer, remixer and DJ he is both eclectic and prolific often extending far beyond the confines of house music and electronica to bring seemingly-disparate musical styles together. This approach was best evidenced in his 2004 mix The Trip,[4] which the BBC described as ” a voyage of discovery full of originality and eclecticism
Bel Canto – Tree
Dorothys victory album was released a million years ago. amazing album from the norway group . my favourite track is this one. her voice is just unreal..
During the years from 1985 to 2009, Bel Canto occasionally took breaks in order for Anneli Drecker to pursue a solo career and to perform with other bands and artists, as well as performing in films and theater plays.
ISHOME – Ken Tavr
Russia based electronic Artist Mirabela Karianova best known for her Live Sets with Modukar Synths is one of russias new generation secret pearls. Her latest album is just beautiful. Good old family beat, melancholic electronica and ambient, rhythmic, occasionally arrhythmic music and divers modern varieties.
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Emanuel Göttsching – E2-E4
E2-E4, released in 1984, is a solo recording by Ash Ra Tempel/Ashra guitarist Manuel Göttsching. The album consists of a minimalistic hour-long progressive electronic track that is subdivided into single tracks according to the stage of the song. The second half of the record is notable for Göttsching’s guitar playing. The album is named after the most popular opening chess move 1. e2-e4 . In 1994, Detroit techno artist Carl Craig released a remix named “Remake” under his alias of Paperclip People. Basic Channel released a “Basic Reshape” remix of “Remake”, which would be included on their compilation album BCD under the name of “e2e4 Basic Reshape
Eberhard Schoener – Why Don’t You Answer
Originally a classical violinist and conductor of chamber music and opera, he was one of the early adopters and popularizers of the Moog synthesizer in Europe. In the 1970s he traveled to Indonesia and incorporated musical elements from Asia into his own work.[1] He has collaborated with rock musicians such as Jon Lord and The Police.
Sting is singing on this Track.
Ulrich Schnauss – A Ritual In Time And Death
Ulrich’s musical output began under the pseudonyms of View to the Future and Ethereal 77. These electronica and drum-driven pieces were noticed by Berlin electronica label CCO (City Centre Offices), to which Schnauss sent CD’s on a regular basis. Ulrich developed these submissions to CCO into his first album under his own name, Far Away Trains Passing By, released in Europe in 2001, and in the United States in 2005.
Nine Circles – Twinkling Stars
Nine Circles is a Dutch minimal electronic band, founded 1980 in Amsterdam. The first releases were in 1982. The RadioNome Sample reached cultstatus in Germany and Japan. In 2009 Fialas youngest son Patrick surfed through the Internet and found out about his mothers former band. Much to her surprise Fiala found that people were interested in her music, that the “Radio Nome” LP was sold for insane prices, and that even a whole CD of Nine Circles was released without her knowledge. More than 25 years she had neither talked about the music nor listened to it because she thought it was bad and people wouldn’t like it. In 2010 she decided to revive Nine Circles. Since van Garderen lived a different life where music had no place, he couldn’t join Fiala in the band, but he supported her by sending her most of the old recordings to be officially released on vinyl. So she engaged a new keyboarder, wrote new songs and played some concerts. Over time it turned out, that the keyboarder deceived her and ripped her off, so that Fiala had to split up with him and Nine Circles was on the verge of “dying” again.
Logic System – UNIT
Hideki Matsutake is a Japanese composer, arranger, and computer programmer. He is known for his pioneering work in electronic music and particularly music programming, as the assistant of Isao Tomita during the early 1970s and as the “fourth member” of the band Yellow Magic Orchestra during the late 1970s to early 1980s. In 1981, he formed a unit of his own under the name Logic System, which released its latest album in 2008. He also continued to take part in solo activities by YMO . Matsutake is also Chairman of Japan Synthesizer Programmers Association (JSPA)
Kraftwerk – Telephone Call / Der Anruf
In the 2009 remastered edition of Electric Café, which was issued under the album’s original intended title Techno Pop, the original album version of ‘The Telephone Call’ is absent, replaced by the shorter and subtly-different 7-inch single mix. As a replacement for the latter part of the original album track (which contained telephone sounds and operator voices), the remix “House Phone” was inserted.
TYCHO – A Walk
Scott Hansen known professionally as Tycho, is an American musician, composer, songwriter and producer. He is also known as ISO50 for his photographic and design works. His music is a combination of downtempo vintage-style synthesizers and ambient melodies. His sound is very organic, often incorporating clips of the human element into his songs (e.g. weather broadcasts, simple talking, or breathing). As of 2014, Tycho is signed to Ghostly International, but has also released music on Merck Records and Gammaphone Records. His fourth studio album, Epoch, received a nomination for Best Dance/Electronic Album in the 2017 Grammy Awards.
Beroshima – Encounter EP (Muller Records)
Emerging in the nineties, Muller has since become a techno great who has played from Asia to South America and beyond. He’s had plenty of underground hits on the likes of Cocoon and Soma, and held some key residencies over the years. Always one to command your attention with his multi layered grooves, this EP features an old Juan Atkins sample “Buy some shit from Detroit” that has been part of Beroshima’s live sets for years.
Excellent opener ‘Encounter’ reflects a recent idea Jeff Mills and Muller had to produce tracks together for a not yet produced sci-fi movie. It is an eight-minute astral techno trip with smooth, driving drums and plenty of intergalactic synth lines. ‘The Passion of Lovers’ transfers the organic Beroshima style into 2018 and shows off Frank’s passion for spaced out electronica. It’s a brilliantly bumping cut with lithe synths and melodies adding that soul and colour as it races through the galaxies.
The iconic ‘Buy Some’ with the Atkins sample then surges into the future with icy hi hats dancing over rubbery drums. The warped synths take the lead and bring a real sense of off kilter energy to this most timeless bit of techno. Last of all is the fantastic Space Mix of ‘Encounter’ which is dreamy and cinematic with exquisite keys and pads colouring in a huge night sky as the drums drive things along.
