Steve Jansen & Richard Barbieri, Stone to Flesh

U.K., 2001

This is quite the beautiful, progressive & atmospheric album from the two ex-Japan members.
Expect no less than your usual 10+ (actually, 7+) minute epic.


Playlist:

1. Mother London
2. Sleeper's Awake
3. Ringing The Bell Backwards
4. Everything Ends In Darkness
5. Closer Than I
6. Swim There


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Mt., Teach Your Children How To Think Not What To Think

England, 2009.

Two years after the release of the debut album "Lethologica", post-rock band Mt. release new material in the form of this E.P. mastered by Aereogramme’s Iain Cook.

Playlist:

1. Pencil Drawings Of Animals
2. Yes, I Can Solve A Rubiks Cube, But I Can't Very Well Solve All Your Problems Now, Can I?
3. Brokeback Mt.
4. Lecture On Nothing
5. Remembered Differently (Bonus Track)
6. The Unbearable Lifeless Sean Bean (Bonus Track)

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Constants, The Foundation, The Machine, The Ascension

US, 2009.

Caspian meets Russian Circles meets Pelican. Constants is a post-hardcore/post-rock/shoegaze band based in Boston, MA, and this is their second full-length album.

Playlist:

1. Genetics Like Chess Pieces
2. Damien
3. Those Who Came Before Pt. I
4. Those Who Came Before Pt. II
5. The Nameless
6. The Timeless
7. Identify The Indiscernibles
8. Eternal Reoccurrence
9. Abraxas Pt. I
10. Abraxas Pt. II
11. Ascension
12. ...Passage

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Immanu El, They'll Come, They Come

Sweden, 2007

Immanu El is a young Swedish band with a unique sound - dynamic guitar and keyboard soundscapes, captive singing and with somewhat of a moving Nordic mood. The music is focused at a wide spectrum of harmonic expressions and sounds that can move between presence and ambience in varying dynamics. Originally the band was inspired by early post rock and experimental bands, which combined with pop influences made Immanu El to find and create a sound of their own based on atmospheric soundscapes that became their fundament for their debut album "They'll Come, They Come".

Playlist:

1. Under Your Wings I'll Hide
2. Home
3. White Seraphs Wild
4. Astral Days
5. Panda
6. Kosmonaut
7. I Know You So Well...
8. ...In Valleys

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Can, Tago Mago

Germany, 1971

And we got a voyager. This release explored most of the trippiness that made up for the elements of psychedelic rock of the era.
Overcranked, sung in japanese mid-record, even tape backmasking features in it; no wonder Bowie had his Berlin years – and you still will find yourself tapping your foot to it.
Get to know what kind of weird water ran on their taps.


Playlist:

1. Paper House
2. Mushroom
3. Oh Yeah
4. Halleluhwah
5. Aumgn
6. Peking O
7. Bring Me Coffee or Tea


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Upcdowncleftcrightcabc+start, Embers

England, 2008.

Upcdowncleftcrightcabc+start are an instrumental post-rock band from Kent formed in early 2000.

Playlist:

1. Embers and Ashes
2. Get to the Chopper
3. Our Flowers
4. Murmurs pt. 2
5. New Chapters
6. McDoomish
7. Murmurs pt. 1
8. Cascades
9. Fireflies
10. The Creeping Fear

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Strangers Family Band, Self-titled EP

US, 2009.

"With an intelligent blend of psychedelic rock music that can be appreciated by psychonauts and the sober alike, Strangers Family Band create timeless music to be enjoyed by all with an open mind."

Playlist:

1. Enochian
2. Girl I've Been Taken
3. Wooden Hands
4. No One Sees Her
5. Strange Transmission
6. Tangerine
7. Beware the Autumn People

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Shogun Kunitoki, Vinonaamakasio

Finland, 2009.

"A timeless kaleidoscope of sounds culled from five decades of electronic music, psychedelia and minimalism."

Playlist:

1. Vinonaamakasio
2. Mulberg
3. Riddarholmen
4. Fuzzabeth Crackleby
5. Holvikirkko
6. Corda
7. Svileto
8. Ratalintu
9. Nebulus

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Let Me Introduce You To The End, A Love of The Sea

US, 2006

Let Me Introduce You To The End is a fine art project dedicated to the dramatic combination of ambient rock music and modern photography. The group has been described as "a band which embodies the idea of beautiful darkness."
A Love of The Sea, melancholic music, featuring piano and velvet vocals and some quite arresting arrangements. Often drifting but never losing focus, this embodies the ideal of beautiful darkness.

Playlist:

1. Love of the Sea
2. Dust in My Eyes
3. Trail in the Dust
4. Upon Ending
5. Between the Sky and the Sea
6. Times of Growing Grimmer
7. Who Will Save Me
8. As You Sink
9. Sitting Alone
10. Love of the Sky

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The Cinematic Orchestra, Man With A Movie Camera

U.K., 2003

Definitely one of the most amazing albums I have listened to these days. Conceived as an invitation to a soundtrack for the homonymous Dziga Vertov's movie, this alone is sure to take you to a semi-transe of texture flying, or at the very least some amazing daydreaming.


Playlist:

1. The Projectionist
2. Melody
3. Dawn
4. The Awakening Of A Woman (Burnout)
5. Reel Life (Evolution II)
6. Postlude
7. Evolution (Versão Portuense)
8. Work It! (Man With A Movie Camera)
9. Voyage
10. Odessa
11. Theme de Yoyo
12. The Magician (Interlude II)
13. Theme Reprise
14. Yoyo Waltz
15. Drunken Tune
16. The Animated Tripod
17. All Things


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Katatonia, Night is the New Day

Sweden, 2009

"Night Is The New Day" is, in just about every way, a very good album. Highly melodic yet deceptively dissonant at times, each tune in this album will find its own place as you listen more and more. Absolutely one of the biggest metal releases of the year 2009.

Playlist:

1. Forsaker
2. The Longest Year
3. Idle Blood
4. Onward Into Battle
5. Liberation
6. The Promise Of Deceit
7. Nephilim
8. New Night
9. Inheritance
10. Day & Then The Shade
11. Departer

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Steven Wilson, NSRGNTS RMXS

UK, 2009

Insurgentes, the debut album from Steven Wilson, was released earlier this year. The album immediately received a rapturous reception from not just fans and critics but also from fellow artists. Several of these artists have remixed tracks from the album and NSRGNTS RMXS is a collection of some of these remixes.

This is the CD edition which features a mix of the albums opening track Harmony Korine by David A. Sitek, currently enjoying massive critical acclaim for the new TV On The Radio album. Underground hip-hop pioneers Dälek have created a dark, brooding mix of Get All You Deserve (think Massive Attack meets UNKLE). Engineers, who return on July 6th with their new album Three Fact Fader, have brought their widescreen sound to Abandoner while Pat Mastelotto (King Crimson, XTC) has created a sprawling mix of Salvaging and drone act Fear Falls Burning have also reworked Get All You Deserve.

Playlist:

1. Harmony Korine - David A. Sitek Magentzied Nebula Mix
2. Get All You Deserve - Dälek Mix
3. Abandoner - Engineers Mix
4. Salvaging - Pat Mastelotto Mix
5. Abandoner - Danse Macabre Mix
6. Get All You Deserve - Fear Falls Burning Mix

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