Ambient
1995 豆瓣
8.8 (5 个评分)
Kruder & Dorfmeister
类型:
电子
发布日期 2020年11月13日
出版发行:
G-Stone Recordings
专辑《K&D Sessions》已经成为了世界上驰放音乐和downtempo音乐的一个传奇。这张专辑证明了这一音乐流派的生命力，也是一张混音合集，在世界各地的驰放乐迷的前十名名单中一直存在，然后他们就消失了。Peter Kruder和Richard Dorfmeister这对组合分道扬镳，成立了新的团体Tosca和Peace Orchestra，这两个团体本身都非常棒，但我们还是渴望得到K&D最初的魔力。等待已经结束了，时机也无可挑剔！
《1995》不仅仅是一个专辑的名字，也是一个时间转折点，那时候的chillout/downtempo风格正处于最好的状态，而G-Stone Recordings则是走在最前面，该厂牌下的天才们创造的杰出曲子影响至今。11月13日，G-Stone将再次成为寻找高品质卧底音乐的灯塔，推出Kruder & Dorfmeister的《1995》。
在G-Stone的旧录音室里发现了一盒DATS（数字音频磁带）后（故事是这样说的），这对组合重新组合起来，并决定发行一张新录音。故事的起源似乎有点沉重，但我们会原谅他们，因为这是Kruder和牛逼的Dorfmeister！这是一张从尘封的磁带中找回的失落专辑，还是一种隐喻？谁在乎呢？听就是了！
那么，你能从1995年期待什么呢？在很多方面，这张唱片让人感觉他们真的是捡起了一些旧的磁带，将它们重新制作成一张专辑，并将它们提升到今天的录音室标准。《1995》是他们最悦耳的声音、氛围和节拍的综合体，适合那些喜欢爵士乐、嘻哈器乐、90年代中期trip-hoppy声音的人。循环、贝斯线、采样、碎拍、混响，都在这里，很高兴能再次听到这些调子。K&D在这张专辑中并没有试图重塑自己，更多的是给我们带来了他们最好的表现，也丰富了我们的音乐珍藏。
歌曲 "King Size"像是早期K&D单曲的一个很好的延长B面，其催眠的层次、循环的贝斯线、雷鬼采样、号角律动和烟雾缭绕的节奏。专辑中的所有曲目都保持在正确的轨道上，每一首都是独立的，但仍然让人觉得是一张凝聚力很强的作品。
这种类型的驰放是很有挑战性的，因为很多作品可能会被遗忘，只是无限循环的电梯音乐，但《1995》不会。这些家伙知道如何把事情分得恰到好处，在必要的时候拿走，并用足够多的点缀让你全神贯注。这张LP不仅仅是一张专辑，它是15个小插曲，带你回到过去，回到巴黎、柏林、纽约和旧金山的烟雾缭绕的休息室——你几乎可以闻到它的味道。
对于那些来自黄金时代的原作爱好者来说，这张唱片就像你的旧翼尖马丁靴和旧货店的皮夹克一样合身。对于那些刚刚接触到Kruder和Dorfmeister的人来说，你将会深陷其中，兴奋地想去发掘更多好曲子。欢迎来到1995年，回来的感觉真好。
《1995》不仅仅是一个专辑的名字，也是一个时间转折点，那时候的chillout/downtempo风格正处于最好的状态，而G-Stone Recordings则是走在最前面，该厂牌下的天才们创造的杰出曲子影响至今。11月13日，G-Stone将再次成为寻找高品质卧底音乐的灯塔，推出Kruder & Dorfmeister的《1995》。
在G-Stone的旧录音室里发现了一盒DATS（数字音频磁带）后（故事是这样说的），这对组合重新组合起来，并决定发行一张新录音。故事的起源似乎有点沉重，但我们会原谅他们，因为这是Kruder和牛逼的Dorfmeister！这是一张从尘封的磁带中找回的失落专辑，还是一种隐喻？谁在乎呢？听就是了！
那么，你能从1995年期待什么呢？在很多方面，这张唱片让人感觉他们真的是捡起了一些旧的磁带，将它们重新制作成一张专辑，并将它们提升到今天的录音室标准。《1995》是他们最悦耳的声音、氛围和节拍的综合体，适合那些喜欢爵士乐、嘻哈器乐、90年代中期trip-hoppy声音的人。循环、贝斯线、采样、碎拍、混响，都在这里，很高兴能再次听到这些调子。K&D在这张专辑中并没有试图重塑自己，更多的是给我们带来了他们最好的表现，也丰富了我们的音乐珍藏。
歌曲 "King Size"像是早期K&D单曲的一个很好的延长B面，其催眠的层次、循环的贝斯线、雷鬼采样、号角律动和烟雾缭绕的节奏。专辑中的所有曲目都保持在正确的轨道上，每一首都是独立的，但仍然让人觉得是一张凝聚力很强的作品。
这种类型的驰放是很有挑战性的，因为很多作品可能会被遗忘，只是无限循环的电梯音乐，但《1995》不会。这些家伙知道如何把事情分得恰到好处，在必要的时候拿走，并用足够多的点缀让你全神贯注。这张LP不仅仅是一张专辑，它是15个小插曲，带你回到过去，回到巴黎、柏林、纽约和旧金山的烟雾缭绕的休息室——你几乎可以闻到它的味道。
对于那些来自黄金时代的原作爱好者来说，这张唱片就像你的旧翼尖马丁靴和旧货店的皮夹克一样合身。对于那些刚刚接触到Kruder和Dorfmeister的人来说，你将会深陷其中，兴奋地想去发掘更多好曲子。欢迎来到1995年，回来的感觉真好。
Unspoken Words 豆瓣
Max Cooper
类型:
电子
发布日期 2022年3月25日
出版发行:
Mesh
Max Cooper announces new album Unspoken Words, released 25th March on Mesh.
Please note: Singles, "Everything", "Exotic Contents" and "Pulse at the Centre of Being" are instant grat with the album pre-order
As an audio-visual artist, Cooper often goes to the medium of video to enhance his music and the ideas and stories which inspire and inform his work. "Everything" is one of 13 short films combined into Unspoken Words and the metanarrative which will be released as a film on Blu-ray to accompany the album on 25th March.
Cooper developed the visual story for ‘Everything’ with long term collaborator Nick Cobby and photographer Andrey Prokhorov, who has a huge library of imagery from around the world.
Unspoken Words is Max Cooper’s most revealing work to date, leading the listener through experiences of escapism and connection with personal stories of reflection, acceptance, grappling, idealism and rejection.
The raw expression of Cooper’s own mental state illuminates the universal experience of being human. Unspoken Words offers common ground, a unifying space for anyone who faces internal discordance and feels the need for greater connection and greater expression.
Speaking about the process of writing Unspoken Words, Max continued: “I find existing inside my mind to be a sometimes beautiful, sometimes intense, sometimes abrasive, messy, baffling, relentless experience, and I’ve tried to put as much of that feeling and form as I could into the album.”
The deftly mixed audio is accompanied by a visual story which unfolds through 13 short films by a range of visual artists commissioned and directed by Max Cooper, and mixed in Dolby Atmos surround sound.
Unspoken Words will be released on Mesh on 25th March on Blu-Ray + CD, vinyl and digital.
credits
released March 25, 2022
Album artwork designed by Zach Lieberman and Colin Droz.
Mastering by Chris McCormack at Blacklisted Mastering
℗ 2022 Mesh © 2022 Manners McDade Music Publishing
license
all rights reserved
Please note: Singles, "Everything", "Exotic Contents" and "Pulse at the Centre of Being" are instant grat with the album pre-order
As an audio-visual artist, Cooper often goes to the medium of video to enhance his music and the ideas and stories which inspire and inform his work. "Everything" is one of 13 short films combined into Unspoken Words and the metanarrative which will be released as a film on Blu-ray to accompany the album on 25th March.
Cooper developed the visual story for ‘Everything’ with long term collaborator Nick Cobby and photographer Andrey Prokhorov, who has a huge library of imagery from around the world.
Unspoken Words is Max Cooper’s most revealing work to date, leading the listener through experiences of escapism and connection with personal stories of reflection, acceptance, grappling, idealism and rejection.
The raw expression of Cooper’s own mental state illuminates the universal experience of being human. Unspoken Words offers common ground, a unifying space for anyone who faces internal discordance and feels the need for greater connection and greater expression.
Speaking about the process of writing Unspoken Words, Max continued: “I find existing inside my mind to be a sometimes beautiful, sometimes intense, sometimes abrasive, messy, baffling, relentless experience, and I’ve tried to put as much of that feeling and form as I could into the album.”
The deftly mixed audio is accompanied by a visual story which unfolds through 13 short films by a range of visual artists commissioned and directed by Max Cooper, and mixed in Dolby Atmos surround sound.
Unspoken Words will be released on Mesh on 25th March on Blu-Ray + CD, vinyl and digital.
credits
released March 25, 2022
Album artwork designed by Zach Lieberman and Colin Droz.
Mastering by Chris McCormack at Blacklisted Mastering
℗ 2022 Mesh © 2022 Manners McDade Music Publishing
license
all rights reserved
Marble Arch 豆瓣
Oberst & Buchner
类型:
电子
发布日期 2022年9月16日
出版发行:
Heimlich Musik
Clear water hits the surface of a grainy ball. The stream slowly dissolves and flows down the spherical structure until it finally drops on a candle. The flame extinguishes; fragile streaks of smoke ascend until they hit the rough surface of the colossal globe again.
The cover art to Marble Arch, the second long-player of Vienna- and Berlin-based artists Oberst & Buchner, depicts masterly the dramatic juxtapositions the musicians have always been reflecting in their musical outcome.
The massive density of a giant sound wall is contrasted by spacious openness. Fragile sonic details are sparkling out of colossal pitch-black clouds. The songs are filled with gentle warmth and cold roughness, bright digital clarity and deep analogue crackle, ranging in style from pulsating dark-disco over classic pop to experimental ambient.
The duo’s two-week artist residency in a 250-year-old house, located in the mystic landscape of the Bavarian woods set this specific mood for the 10-track album which became a mixture of electronic synthesis, organic instrumentals and field recordings. Heavy-weight basslines in combination with bitter-sweet orchestral instrumentation and the minutiae of precise percussion recordings and drum programming are the characteristics that formed the sound of Marble Arch.
Oberst & Buchner’s way to deal with tension is in how they compose their song structures as extreme arcs of suspense in a near classical manner. Their intense dynamic arrangements always alternate between rise and explosion or implosion and fall. This way the compositions pick up the motive of creation and destruction throughout the long-player in the same way as the cover-art.
Taken together, all these fragments form the duo`s signature cinematic articulation of dramatic slowed down club music and moments of surprise.
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The cover art to Marble Arch, the second long-player of Vienna- and Berlin-based artists Oberst & Buchner, depicts masterly the dramatic juxtapositions the musicians have always been reflecting in their musical outcome.
The massive density of a giant sound wall is contrasted by spacious openness. Fragile sonic details are sparkling out of colossal pitch-black clouds. The songs are filled with gentle warmth and cold roughness, bright digital clarity and deep analogue crackle, ranging in style from pulsating dark-disco over classic pop to experimental ambient.
The duo’s two-week artist residency in a 250-year-old house, located in the mystic landscape of the Bavarian woods set this specific mood for the 10-track album which became a mixture of electronic synthesis, organic instrumentals and field recordings. Heavy-weight basslines in combination with bitter-sweet orchestral instrumentation and the minutiae of precise percussion recordings and drum programming are the characteristics that formed the sound of Marble Arch.
Oberst & Buchner’s way to deal with tension is in how they compose their song structures as extreme arcs of suspense in a near classical manner. Their intense dynamic arrangements always alternate between rise and explosion or implosion and fall. This way the compositions pick up the motive of creation and destruction throughout the long-player in the same way as the cover-art.
Taken together, all these fragments form the duo`s signature cinematic articulation of dramatic slowed down club music and moments of surprise.
...
metempsychosis 豆瓣
Monodrone
类型:
电子
发布日期 2021年3月26日
出版发行:
self-released
Faded Photographs 豆瓣
Yagya
发布日期 2023年3月17日
出版发行:
Small Plastic Animals
It seems like an age since Icelandic producer Aðalsteinn Guðmundsson's last album as Yagya, 2020's "Old Dreams and Memories." The first album to be released on his own label Small Plastic Animals it was followed by the four-track "Always Maybe Tomorrow" EP in 2021.
"Faded Photographs" is his ninth studio album, the most involved and time-consuming project to date and collaborative on a scale not seen since 2012's "The Inescapable Decay of My Heart." It also marks an exceptionally confident return to the art of song-writing, but where that earlier album was a more upbeat dub techno-pop affair, "Faded Photographs" is nostalgic, wistful, reflective and steeped in poetic romanticism.
Guðmundsson's love of the art of the album is also more pronounced here than ever before, almost every single track tied together by the particularly unifying use of triplet rhythms in combination with 4/4 beats, beguiling hushed vocals and enveloping, molten dub bass tones. Combined with a typical dedication to sound design and production, "Faded Photographs" is rendered an utterly seamless experience, demanding to be heard as a whole.
Frequent collaborator and breathy tone saxophonist Óskar Guðjónsson returns, crooning just as emotionally on "What Have You Done" as do vocal duet Benoit Pioulard (who also co-writes here) and Bandreas, then later melancholically on the contemplative "The Way You Say My Name" and the closing "My Own Worth." Pablo Hopenhayn also returns to provide yearning strings on the achingly melancholic instrumental opener "The Downpour" and later on the tense duet "The Serpent."
Guðmundsson's own whispered vocals also make a welcome return, often in duet with the mysterious, angelic Bandreas or the silky, intimate Saint Sinner. Helped along by subtle but familiar references to his previous work, like the soft summer rains of "Rigning" or lyrical callbacks in "A Wicked Joke" recalling "Bright Moonlit Sky," all these elements and collaborators become so much a part of the warp and weft of the overall sonic palette they feel omnipresent.
Written and produced when we had become more distant and disconnected from one another than ever before, "Faded Photographs" brings together and showcases an ensemble of artists in a spirit of collaboration that flies in the face of adversity, a true product of its time.
"Faded Photographs" is his ninth studio album, the most involved and time-consuming project to date and collaborative on a scale not seen since 2012's "The Inescapable Decay of My Heart." It also marks an exceptionally confident return to the art of song-writing, but where that earlier album was a more upbeat dub techno-pop affair, "Faded Photographs" is nostalgic, wistful, reflective and steeped in poetic romanticism.
Guðmundsson's love of the art of the album is also more pronounced here than ever before, almost every single track tied together by the particularly unifying use of triplet rhythms in combination with 4/4 beats, beguiling hushed vocals and enveloping, molten dub bass tones. Combined with a typical dedication to sound design and production, "Faded Photographs" is rendered an utterly seamless experience, demanding to be heard as a whole.
Frequent collaborator and breathy tone saxophonist Óskar Guðjónsson returns, crooning just as emotionally on "What Have You Done" as do vocal duet Benoit Pioulard (who also co-writes here) and Bandreas, then later melancholically on the contemplative "The Way You Say My Name" and the closing "My Own Worth." Pablo Hopenhayn also returns to provide yearning strings on the achingly melancholic instrumental opener "The Downpour" and later on the tense duet "The Serpent."
Guðmundsson's own whispered vocals also make a welcome return, often in duet with the mysterious, angelic Bandreas or the silky, intimate Saint Sinner. Helped along by subtle but familiar references to his previous work, like the soft summer rains of "Rigning" or lyrical callbacks in "A Wicked Joke" recalling "Bright Moonlit Sky," all these elements and collaborators become so much a part of the warp and weft of the overall sonic palette they feel omnipresent.
Written and produced when we had become more distant and disconnected from one another than ever before, "Faded Photographs" brings together and showcases an ensemble of artists in a spirit of collaboration that flies in the face of adversity, a true product of its time.
Stars And Dust 豆瓣
Yagya
类型:
电子
发布日期 2016年11月28日
出版发行:
Delsin
Rigning 豆瓣
Yagya
类型:
电子
发布日期 2018年5月25日
出版发行:
Delsin
Yagya's Rigning album from 2009 is the Icelandic producer's most acclaimed dub, techno and minimal masterpiece. Due to popular demand, Delsin are now re-issuing it across three slabs of vinyl. Previously only available as a double pack with eight tracks, the new re-mastered version features all 10 of the tracks from the original CD.
Guðmundsson has been making music for years both solo and as part of the Thule Musik collective. He is an album specialist who has worked as Yagya since 2002 and has put out six albums since then. They come on labels like Force Inc and Sending Orbs - where Rigning was first released - and manage to be both absorbing and detailed yet suitable for relaxing background listening. His last two albums, Sleepygirls (2014) and Stars & Dust (2016) appeared on Delsin Records.
Rigning is essentially one long track split into movements. It depicts a city sleeping as gentle rain falls and dubbed out grooves zone you out. Yagya's style is always patient and slow burning, his grooves are long and drawn out and his pads reach up into the heavens. This whole album in coated in a warm fuzz and is a real comfort on dark, long, cold nights.
As insular and melancholic as it is, there is also plenty of beauty in the melodies and delicate keys. From dark and gloomy to more optimistic and meditative, there is a sophistication throughout this always cinematic album that continues to make it stand out nearly a decade after it was first released.
Guðmundsson has been making music for years both solo and as part of the Thule Musik collective. He is an album specialist who has worked as Yagya since 2002 and has put out six albums since then. They come on labels like Force Inc and Sending Orbs - where Rigning was first released - and manage to be both absorbing and detailed yet suitable for relaxing background listening. His last two albums, Sleepygirls (2014) and Stars & Dust (2016) appeared on Delsin Records.
Rigning is essentially one long track split into movements. It depicts a city sleeping as gentle rain falls and dubbed out grooves zone you out. Yagya's style is always patient and slow burning, his grooves are long and drawn out and his pads reach up into the heavens. This whole album in coated in a warm fuzz and is a real comfort on dark, long, cold nights.
As insular and melancholic as it is, there is also plenty of beauty in the melodies and delicate keys. From dark and gloomy to more optimistic and meditative, there is a sophistication throughout this always cinematic album that continues to make it stand out nearly a decade after it was first released.
Gaia: Selected Ambient & Downtempo Works (1996-2003) 豆瓣
Dream Dolphin
类型:
电子
发布日期 2023年1月30日
出版发行:
Music From Memory
'20年代以降の国産オブスキュアJPOP再評価史上、最も重要な一枚といっても過言ではないMUSIC FROM MEMORYが手掛けた「HEISEI NO OTO」シリーズであろう一枚が完成!!!
同コンピにも収録され、近年改めてその魅力が世界は元より日本でも認識され始めたユニット、ドリーム・ドルフィンのベスト盤!!
コンパイルは「HEISEI NO OTO」の選者を佐藤憲男(rare groove)と共に担当したRevelation Timeオーナー 谷口英司。
ニューエイジ的な感性のもと、テクノやトランス、アンビエント、ブレイクビーツまでを製作し、8年で20枚のアルバムを残したNorikoによるユニット DREAM DOLPHIN。
瞑想的なエレクトロニック・ミュージックの間に漂う自然環境音や日本語詩を綴ったポエトリー・リーディング、暖かくリヴァーブがかった淡いビート。世紀末~ミレニアム期の日本に生まれたスピリチュアル・アンビエント傑作集。
〈Music From Memory〉から、「Heisei No Oto - Japanese Left-field Pop From The CD Age (1989-1996)」に収録されていた日本のあ90sアンビエントDream Dolphinにスポットを当てたコンピレーション登場。
弱冠16歳でリリースを開始した少女NORIKOのプロジェクト、越智義朗やSUGIZOにもフックされながら、細野晴臣の「Naga」のリリースでスタートしている90sの国産レーベル〈FOA(Folk Oriented Art) Records〉を中心にわずか８年間で20枚ものアルバムを残しているDream Dolphinの音源をRevelation TimeのEiji Taniguchiくんがコンパイル。
Music From Memory continues its deep dive into leftfield Japanese electronic music with this collection of tracks from the elusive Dream Dolphin. Compiled alongside Eiji Taniguchi (who also helmed Dream Dolphin’s first appearance on Music From Memory with the ’Heisei No Oto - Japanese Left-field Pop From The CD Age (1989-1996)’ compilation), Gaia plucks tracks from Dream Dolphin’s (aka Noriko)’s 20 albums, dipping into ambient and downtempo for sure, but also techno, drum and bass, and trance as well. A fascinating musician capable of moving within several realms of expression, Noriko also composed functional music therapy for hospitals alongside the work collected here, a robust primer for a deep oeuvre very much worth digging through.
同コンピにも収録され、近年改めてその魅力が世界は元より日本でも認識され始めたユニット、ドリーム・ドルフィンのベスト盤!!
コンパイルは「HEISEI NO OTO」の選者を佐藤憲男(rare groove)と共に担当したRevelation Timeオーナー 谷口英司。
ニューエイジ的な感性のもと、テクノやトランス、アンビエント、ブレイクビーツまでを製作し、8年で20枚のアルバムを残したNorikoによるユニット DREAM DOLPHIN。
瞑想的なエレクトロニック・ミュージックの間に漂う自然環境音や日本語詩を綴ったポエトリー・リーディング、暖かくリヴァーブがかった淡いビート。世紀末~ミレニアム期の日本に生まれたスピリチュアル・アンビエント傑作集。
〈Music From Memory〉から、「Heisei No Oto - Japanese Left-field Pop From The CD Age (1989-1996)」に収録されていた日本のあ90sアンビエントDream Dolphinにスポットを当てたコンピレーション登場。
弱冠16歳でリリースを開始した少女NORIKOのプロジェクト、越智義朗やSUGIZOにもフックされながら、細野晴臣の「Naga」のリリースでスタートしている90sの国産レーベル〈FOA(Folk Oriented Art) Records〉を中心にわずか８年間で20枚ものアルバムを残しているDream Dolphinの音源をRevelation TimeのEiji Taniguchiくんがコンパイル。
Music From Memory continues its deep dive into leftfield Japanese electronic music with this collection of tracks from the elusive Dream Dolphin. Compiled alongside Eiji Taniguchi (who also helmed Dream Dolphin’s first appearance on Music From Memory with the ’Heisei No Oto - Japanese Left-field Pop From The CD Age (1989-1996)’ compilation), Gaia plucks tracks from Dream Dolphin’s (aka Noriko)’s 20 albums, dipping into ambient and downtempo for sure, but also techno, drum and bass, and trance as well. A fascinating musician capable of moving within several realms of expression, Noriko also composed functional music therapy for hospitals alongside the work collected here, a robust primer for a deep oeuvre very much worth digging through.