VA - 2003 - Replay Debussy

1 Mangurekan – Auraton
2 Terre Thaemlitz – Prélude A L'Après-Midi D'un Faune
3 Alvin Lucier – Amphorae
4 Jamie Lidell – Taught To Box
5 Paul Paulun – 29°57' N | 78°10' E
6 Ryuichi Sakamoto – Sakamoto's Debussy
7 Christian Von Borries – La Plainte, Au Loin, Du Faune
8 Pierre Henry – Par Les Grèves
9 Porter Ricks – Porter Ricks Mix
10 Panasonic SV-3800 – Used By Permission

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VA - 1996 - Musica Celestia Sampler

1 Stoa – Partus
2 Chandeen – Strawberry Passion
3 Love Is Colder Than Death – In Silence And Tears
4 Anchorage – Dawn
5 Rise And Fall Of A Decade – Pure Hands
6 Mellonta Tauta – Pull The Chariot
7 Speaking Silence – The Call From Inside
8 Manic P. – Lost In Silence
9 Black Rose (2) – Instant
10 Sleeping Dogs Wake – Swan Song
11 Shape Shifter (4) – Acts Of God
12 24 Hours (2) – The Sea Is My Soul
13 Attrition – I Am

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VA - 2007 - Insomniacs (Dreaming), Vol. 6

CD 01:
01. Double V - Moscow Morning (Andy Hagerty Ambient Version)
02. Matt Darey feat. Tiff Lacey - Always (Reuben Chillout Mix)
03. Schiller mit Jette von Roth - Der Tag (Du bist erwacht) (Fernsehfassung)
04. Skyscraper - The Hymn 2006 (Update Project Ambient Mix)
05. S-Tune - Flying with Sunset (Original Mix)
06. Icone pres. Blue Manta - I feel lost (Marco Torrance's Chill Out Mix)
07. Karen Overton - Your loving Arms
08. Matt Darey ft. Tiff Lacey - Always (Floris de Haan Radio Edit)
09. S-Tune - Nightflight (Original Mix)
10. Massive Attack - Safe from Harm (Perfecto Mix)

CD 02:
01. Union Jack - 2 Full Moons and a Trout (Caspar Pound Remix)
02. Namlook - Subharmonic Interference (excerpt)
03. Alias & Tarsier - Plane That Draws A White Line
04. Andrew Thomas - M+K
05. Paski - Rain Clouds (Original Mix)
06. Mikkel Metal - Decline
07. Coldplay - Talk (Junkie XL Club Remix)
08. Zehavi and Rand - Paroxetine (Hydroids Just Chillin Mix)
09. Chicane - Looking Down (Drax & Goodings Room with a View Remix)
10. Schiller mit Jette von Roth - Wolkentraum

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VA - 1999 - Electro Lounge

Electro Lounge features a meeting of the finest musical minds in the electronica and lounge circles, and celebrates the best of both genres. Classic lounge and vocal jazz cuts by artists like Martin Denny, Yma Sumac, Dean Martin, Julie London, Louie Prima and John Barry are remixed and reworked by contemporary electronic acts like Utah Saints, Gus Gus, Meat Beat Manifesto and Uberzone; the results bring together music's past and future today.

1 Prologue 0:11
2 Hypnotique [Uberzone Remix] Denny 7:07
3 Lonesome Road [Mu-Ziq Remix] Elliott 4:20
4 Watermelon Man [Remix] King Curtis 5:44
5 Tutotial 0:15
6 Sway [Remix] London, Martin 4:45
7 The James Bond Theme [Remix] Holmes 4:45
8 Jump, Jive, An' Wail [Remix] Prima 4:33
9 The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly [Oldskool Gusgus Mix] Holmes 5:29
10 Tutorial 0:10
11 Do It Again [Wagon Christ Remix] Holmes 3:34
12 Seance on a Wet Afternoon [Omni Trio Remix] Barry 5:27
13 Gopher Mambo [Q-Burns Abstract Message Remix] Sumac 5:21
14 Staccato's Theme [Happening at Waldo's Mix] Bernstein 5:16
15 Epilague 0:10
16 Caravan [Eat Static Remix] Buzon 5:47

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Popol Vuh

Of the many now-legendary artists to emerge from the Krautrock movement, few anticipated the rise of modern electronic music with the same prescience as Popol Vuh -- the first German band to employ a Moog synthesizer, their work not only anticipated the emergence of ambient, but also proved pioneering in its absorption of worldbeat textures. At much the same time Popol Vuh was formed in Munich in 1969, another group, of Norwegian descent, adopted the same name, an endless source of confusion in the years to follow; both were inspired by the holy book of Guatemala's Quiche Indians, and according to Mayan researchers the title roughly translates as "meeting place." Keyboardist Florian Fricke was deeply immersed in Mayan myth at the time he formed the group with synth player Frank Fiedler and percussionist Holger Trulzsch, and his interests were reflected in the spiritual themes of their 1970 debut, Affenstunde.

The follow-up two years later, In den Garten Pharaos, was Popol Vuh's creative breakthrough, an intensely meditative work fusing ambient textures with organic percussion. In its wake, however, Fricke converted to Christianity, a move which sparked a rejection of electronics in favor of traditional ethnic instrumentation including guitars, oboe and tamboura; he then tapped korean soprano Djong Yun to lend vocals to 1972's lovely Hosianna Mantra. Fricke next teamed with onetime Amon Duul II drummer Daniel Fichelscher for the next Popol Vuh LP, Seligpreisung; its follow-up, 1975's Einjager und Siebenjager, remains widely considered among the group's most stunning efforts. That same year, they began a lengthy creative partnership with the celebrated filmmaker Werner Herzog which yielded soundtracks for features including Aguirre, Wrath of God, Fitzcarraldo and Nosferatu.

Throughout the latter half of the 1970s, Popol Vuh's fascination with global sounds and instruments continued, with the prominence of sitars, tablas and tamboura percussion on LPs like 1977's Herz aus Glas and 1979's Die Nacht der Seele: Tantric Songs earning their latter-day sound descriptions like "raga rock." In 1978, Fricke founded the Working Group for Creative Singing and also became a member of the Breathing Therapy Society, travelling the world to lecture on both subjects; ultimately, his outside passions began to overshadow his work in Popol Vuh, and as the 1980s dawned the group began losing steam, calling it quits after 1983's excellent Agape Agape. After reuniting two years later for Spirit of Peace, Fricke again reassembled Popol Vuh for the 1997 LP Shepherd's Symphony.

1974 - Seligpreisung

Popol Vuh - 1974 - Seligpreisung

Released in 1973, Seligpreisung was, if anything, a complete shock after the gorgeous "religious" rock of Hosianna Mantra. Gone are the hypnotic Gregorian chants and overtone layers of drone. In their place is a kind of shimmering, spacy jazz-rock where, despite a few instances of Florian Fricke chant-singing, the effect is one where his piano becomes the steadiest backdrop, playing hypnotic, repetitive chords and phrases while Conny Veit improvises with David Gilmour-like blues guitar phrases over the gently swirling music. Elsewhere, the rest of the group (the same cats who played on Hosianna Mantra) is heard in classically tinged miniatures that float through the mix with a kind of meandering insistence on instantly recognizable Western thematics and standard conceptions of beauty rather than confrontations -- however subtle -- with the East/West space-time continuum. This is not to say that Seligpreisung is a disappointment; rather, it is only a shock for its giant step backward into the realm of the conventional. Perhaps Hosianna Mantra presented an abyss, and as Fricke looked over it musically, he realized that its beauty was unbearable. For whatever the reason, Seligpreisung is a meditative, generally quiet, and lovely album, but it doesn't go near the precipice.

		1		Selig Sind, Die da Hungern, Selig Sind, Die da Dürsten Nach ...	Evangelium, Fricke, Matth.	5:59
		2		Tanz der Chassidim	Evangelium, Fricke, Matth.	3:12
		3		Selig Sind, Die da Hier Weinen, Ja, Sie Sollen Später Lachen	Evangelium, Fricke, Matth.	5:07
		4		Selig Sind, Die da Willig Arm Sind, Ja, Ihrer Ist das Himmelreich	Evangelium, Fricke, Matth.	3:10
		5		Selig Sind, Die da Leid Klagen, Ja Sie Sollen Getröstet Werden	Evangelium, Fricke, Matth.	3:39
		6		Selig Sind Die Sanfmütigen, Ja, Sie Werden Einst Die Erde Erben	Evangelium, Fricke, Matth.	2:30
		7		Selig Sind, Die da Reinen Herzens Sind, Ja, Sie Sollen Gott Schauen	Evangelium, Fricke, Matth.	2:33
		8		Ja, Sie Sollen Gottes Kinder Heissen Beißen, Agnus Dei, Agnus Dei	Evangelium, Fricke, Matth.	2:39

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Upanishad - Music Saves Your Life

The Upanishad project takes its origins from all that is far away and removed from our normal everyday life from the unforgettable African lands to the luxuriant regions of the Far East and Latin America.
Upanishad is the celebration of rites, dances, the magic of far-away civilisations. It is the music of the soul, rich in emotion and foreign sounds.
Upanishad, musically speaking, is an animal continuously on the run, moving from electronic dub sounds to analogical drum loops, ethnic percussion and ambient, world music and trip hop sounds.

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Roach, Steve

A longstanding leader in contemporary electronic music, composer and multi-instrumentalist Steve Roach drew on the beauty and power of the Earth's landscapes to create lush, meditative soundscapes influential on the emergence of ambient and trance. A onetime professional motorbike racer born in California in 1955, Roach -- inspired by the music of Tangerine Dream, Klaus Schulze, and Vangelis -- taught himself to play synthesizer at the age of 20; debuting in 1982 with the album Now, his early work was quite reminiscent of his inspirations, but with 1984's Structures from Silence his music began taking enormous strides, the album's expansive and mysterious atmosphere inspired directly by the natural beauty of the southwestern U.S. Subsequent works including 1986's three-volume Quiet Music series honed Roach's approach, his dense, swirling textures and hypnotic rhythms akin to environmental sound sculptures.

In 1988, inspired by the Peter Weir film The Last Wave, Roach journeyed to the Australian outback, with field recordings of aboriginal life inspiring his acknowledged masterpiece, the double-album Dreamtime Return. A year later, he teamed with percussionist Michael Shrieve and guitarist David Torn for The Leaving Time, an experiment in ambient jazz. After relocating to the desert outskirts of Tucson, AZ, Roach established his own recording studio, Timeroom, and in the years to follow grew increasingly prolific, creating both as a solo artist and in tandem with acts including Robert Rich, Michael Stearns, Jorge Reyes, and Kevin Braheny -- in all, close to two dozen major works in the 1990s alone, all of them located at different points on the space-time continuum separating modern technology and primitive music.

His album roster from that decade includes Strata (1991), Artifacts (1994), Well of Souls (1995), Amplexus (1997), and Dust to Dust (1998). Early Man was released on Projekt in early 2001, followed by one of his many collaborations with Vidna Obmana, Innerzone. Throughout the remainder of the early 2000s, Roach remained extremely prolific, with his release schedule including the Projekt titles Trance Spirits (with Jeffrey Fayman), the quadruple-disc Mystic Chords & Sacred Spaces, Spirit Dome and Somewhere Else (with Obmana), Fever Dreams, Mantram, and Nada Terma (with Byron Metcalf and Mark Seelig), the three-part Immersion series, Arc of Passion, and Stream of Thought (with Erik Wøllo). He also self-released several titles on his own through Timeroom Editions.

2000 - Midnight Moon

Roach, Steve - 2000 - Midnight Moon

While Midnight Moon may not be Steve Roach's first recorded encounter with a guitar, it is his first recording playing the guitar. The seven moody soundscapes that make up Midnight Moon are actually interrelated pieces based on Roach's experimentation with that instrument, a fretless bass, and the E-bow. Unlike Roach's other single-work concept pieces, such as Dreamcircle, The Magnificent Void, and others, the notion of movement on Midnight Moon is different: It doesn't move toward or away from anything or come back to the place it began. Its seven pieces are reflections, under the particular moons of midnight, from full perception of its glow to total darkness. The guitar in this instance is of particular use given its ability to present stark contrast and large empty spaces. From the nine-minute "Ancestor's Circle," where the trace of a physical space is all that remains in the memory of the perceiver, and what it tries to conjure of that place of observance, to "Midnight Loom," which is 21 minutes in the presence of that which is truly luminous, shimmering in its stark yet majestic beauty. A language is evoked between the three instruments of an image and its shadows, traces and fleeting sleights of mind. You can never be sure of what it is you are hearing or seeing -- particularly if you listen in the dark! It's a gorgeous work that seems to dissolve as suddenly as it appeared, into Aether. "Deadwood" and "Broken Town" are not merely haunting pieces, they are haunted. They present the more ominous and lonely aspects of nocturnal presence and spectral visitation. This is the "dark night of the soul" so to speak. In "Hope" there is an emergence, of sorts. It is tentative, a glistening in the darkness, shard of light under the shade of night. It is as if there was something breathing, emanating under the dome of heaven, some visitation by a heavenly presence bringing comfort after the previous trial. And finally, in "Later Phase" and "Moon and Star," Roach has not so much come full circle as shown the phases and faces of the orb that controls the tides and offers solace to some and terror to others. As in "Ancestor's Circle," a hazy, gauzy history is invoked, called from special terrains that have long since passed from the earth though they inhabit our psyches, whisper to our emotions, and cause us to look inward to see where it is we come from. "Moon and Star" brings with its sonic architecture the full manifestation of those presences, not hunted but certainly haunted, brazenly shining in darkness and in light, threatening to no one and instructive for all who would look -- and listen. This is a marvelous next step into Steve Roach's ever widening cavern of inner sound worlds.

		1		Ancestor's Circle	Roach	8:45
		2		Midnight Loom	Roach	22:03
		3		Deadwood	Roach	7:33
		4		Broken Town	Roach	10:37
		5		Hope	Roach	5:00
		6		Later Phase	Roach	11:45
		7		Moon and Star	Roach	7:26

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Tangerine Dream - 1976 - 0627-Tangerine Tree 8-Live At The Berlin Philharmonic

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Schulze, Klaus - 1979 - 1024-Live At Stokvishal, Arnhem

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Solid Doctor

Solid Doctor's Steve Cobby is the dominant creative force behind popular Hull-based trip-hop label Pork Recordings, for whom he's recorded a number of full-length albums under a variety of names (including Fila Brazillia and Heights of Abraham). Pork was formed in 1991 by Cobby and fellow Hullster/flatmate Dave Pork in order to release the first single by Cobby's then-side project, Fila Brazillia (Fila has since become his focus), following which he began releasing solo material under the Solid Doctor name. He released two full-lengths within a year (one of them, How About Some Ether?, a double-disc compilation of singles) and helped attract critical attention to Pork with a blend of instrumental hip-hop, dub, funk, and house that would soon propel labels such as Mo'Wax and Cup of Tea into the spotlight. Like previous musical endeavors (including Big Life! pop/dance group Ashley & Jackson, which dissolved around 1990), Cobby's Solid Doctor material carves out a space between the dancefloor and the hi-fi, aiming for a middle ground of groove with songwriting and musicianship given equal weight with the more practical consideration of moving a crowd.

1995 - How About Some Ether - Collected Works

Solid Doctor - 1995 - How About Some Ether - Collected Works

The Solid Doctor borrows elements from an astounding variety of genres on this LP, including trip-hop, funk, ambience, house, techno and jazz. Despite the disparity, the music flows well along an electronic groove.

		1		U-Turn	Cobby	4:32
		2		Short Wave	Cobby	5:38
		3		Holy Roller	Cobby	6:23
		4		Spicey Pipe	Cobby	5:53
		5		Anomie	Brydon, Cobby	5:56
		6		Lights on the Vibe	Cobby	7:31
		7		O Say Krevlon	Cobby	2:23
		8		Pickyparkdickbods	Cobby	7:13
		9		Room Is Breathing	Cobby	4:24
		10		Dusk	Cobby	6:28
		11		When I'm Dead	Cobby	8:20
		12		Bye Bye	Cobby	6:56
		13		I Love Life	Cobby	4:14
		14		Armed to the Teeth	Cobby	8:11
		15		Jet Smooth	Cobby	8:35
		16		Ether	Cobby	12:39
		17		Invisible Sunlit Snow	Cobby	7:02
		18		Cerulean Reverie	Cobby	3:14
		19		Mixamatosis	Cobby	7:18
		20		Land of Dope & Tory	Cobby, McSherry	7:46
		21		Ninety One Campion	Cobby	3:30
		22		Tomato	Cobby	6:00
		23		Slipping into Another Dimension	Cobby	5:05
		24		Moving Family of Suns	Cobby	7:04

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