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artist profiles:
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artist:
4m33s 
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style: minimal experimental ambient |
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personnel: John Sherwood |
| 4m33s tries to convey the
experimental/ ambient feeling of those early electronic pioneers, but using modern equipment and methods. Somehow lost in a
drifty/ spacey world, and occasionally breaking through into
beaty solo madness |
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sampler: 001 track: Daliesque in Steel - new
studio version of a piece composed for 4m33s appearance
at the Awakenings
in December 2006. |
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| artist: Xan
Alexander |
style: melodic sequencer based |
| Xan
is a founder member of The Omega Syndicate but also
composes and produces his own brand of Electronic Music
with influences ranging from Berlin School, Prog Rock
and Dance Music. He is currently working on the foll-up
to his debut album, 'Star
Dark'. |
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sampler: 001 Track: Layla's Theme - originally
from Xan's debut solo album 'Star
Dark'. |
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| artist:
Create
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style: melodic sequencer based music
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personnel: Steve Humphries
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| Create records melodic based sequencer music
in a similar vein to '70s artists like Tangerine Dream or
Klaus Schulze, but with a more modern twist. Create uses a
mixture of hardware and software to sculpt his sound both in
the studio and live. Create is signed to the Dutch label Groove
Unlimited with whom he has so far released 3 albums.
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sampler: 001 track: Goodbye - Goodbye was recorded
as a tribute to the late American musician Michael Garrison.
The track is from the 2nd Create album 'From Earth To Mars'
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| artist: Peter
Challoner |
style: contemporary ambient |
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personnel: Peter Challoner |
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Challoner is an electronic musician from the UK creating
textural ambient and rhythmic contemporary electronic
music. |
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sampler: a001 track: 1 'convergance' |
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| artist: Chromengel
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style: spacey ambient
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personnel: Stuart Judd
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| Chromengel,
named after a piece on the Klaus Schulze album 'Cyborg'
is a one-man organisation. It is electronically oriented
and tries to achieve the atmosphere if not the sound of
'70s and '80s electronic music. Electronic music like it used to be.
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sampler: 001 track: Floes (edit) - The
inspiration to record this came after playing around
with a ring modulator. It started as one thing but came
out in the end as something else completely different.
Icy and beatless.
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| artist:
Corporation
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style: melodic/ sequencer
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personnel: Adam Britton
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| Corporation was formed in 1991 by Adam Britton
and Iain Lowe, to make high quality, instrumental electronic
music with the emphasis on “music”. They released 3
albums: Dark Destiny (1991), Subculture (1992) (with Peter
Tunney) and Breed (1994). Corporation then broke up, but after
a decade of silence Adam has resurrected Corporation’s name
and style and currently has a new album slated for release
later in 2007, accompanied by remastered versions of the first
three albums.
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Sampler: 001 track: Remaining Humanity
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| artist: Gliese
614
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style: experimental/ drone/ space music with
medieval influences
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personnel: Ben
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| Gliese
614 makes underground electronic music with dark
themes and long titles. Ben believes that in the end the
music should do the talking.
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sampler:
001 track: Stranded
(edit) - Full title 'Stranded on the lifeless crater of
Copernicus, Kirkjubøur Funeral Ceremony' from the album
'Unrelenting Sorrow, Astral Teleportation between the
Earth and the Moon'. There is a video for this album on YouTube.
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| artist:
Hashtronaut
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style: space rock meets Berlin School
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personnel: Hashy
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| There's not a whole lot you can
say about Hashtronaut, he just does what he does. He enjoys
making long drawn out music that isn't in a particular rush to
get anywhere. He also has an interest in the long tradition of
the liquid lightshow, which accompanies him on his
increasingly rare live outings. He is currently in the early
stages of forming an online micro-label, 'FRR' (Flightlog
Restricted Recordings) that will be releasing 'anything I find
good and interesting' in limited quantities.
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sampler: 001 track: Bottle Universe
(concatenated mix) - originally from the album Bottle
Universe, shortened version created for this sampler by
Jez Creek.
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| artist:
Modulator ESP
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style: dark ambient/ experimental/ sequencer
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personnel: Jez Creek
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| Modulator ESP's music is improvised
live onstage or in the studio using both analog and digital
synthesizers together with analog sequencers. His pieces are like abstract
journeys into the imagination.
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sampler: 001 track: Chromium - This track was
one of Modulator ESP's first studio improvisations and eventually ended up
on his fourth album Time Zero.
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sampler: a001 track: Gravity Well, an improvise
piece using Korg Wavestation and Nord G2 with Repeater to loop
layers of textures, produced specially for the sampler.
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| artist:
The
Omega Syndicate
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style: melodic/ sequencer/ progressive/ space
rock
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personnel: Dave Gurr, Xan Alexander, Rob Clynes and
others.
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| The Omega Syndicate are an ever expanding
group of musicians who create "progressive"
sequence-based electronic music. Founder members David Gurr
& Xan Alexander work within various line-ups, to take the
listener to landscapes that can only be seen with the
imagination.
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sampler: 001 track: Sequencing On A Grand
Scale (edit) - recorded at the Mind Cavern in 2003, the full
version was released on the special limited edition
album 'Sequences, chords and Leeds'.
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| artist: Phrozenlight
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style: spacescapes; long drones, ambient, dreamy
electronic space music
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personnel: Bert Hulshoff
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| Phrozenlight's music is a soundtrack to a dream
without movements. A sonorous universe; that moves, but
carefully, as if hooked in a cosmic ball which derives in a
deep space. A lot of Phrozenlight's music is available for
free download at the Internet
Archive.
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sampler: 001 track: At The Shore Of Antares -
specially recorded for theis project.
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| artist: Brendan
Pollard |
style: atmospheric Berlin School with analogue
sequences and lots of real Mellotron |
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| Brendan
is half of the band Rogue element and also records and
performs as a solo artist. He is currently working on a
new solo album, the follow-up to his extremely well
received debut 'Expansion'. |
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sampler: 001 track: Modac - originally
released on the album Awakenings
2006 Volume Two. |
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| artist: Spiraleye |
style: contemporary
improvised electronic music |
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personnel: Neale
Haddon (guitars/processing & guitar synthesizer) and
Peter Challoner (keyboards, synthesizers & rhythm
programming) |
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principal element to spiraleye music was the spontaneous
creation through playing and responding to one another
in a live situation |
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sampler: a001 track: 3 & 4
'dissolution' and 'stillness after dark' |
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| artist: Von
Haulshoven
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style: 'Stone Age' sequencing |
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personnel: Eppie E Hulshof |
| Eppie,
from Grunn in North Holland, doesn't believe in any
of that fashion shit, just "bonking" sequences
and smack you in the face effects! |
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sampler: 001 track: Hunebed Roll Sequence
- Hunebed Roll Sequence is the first
part of a long piece with Von Haulshoven's non stop sequenced
stone age electronic music. |
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| artist: Zeitlos
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style: ambient/ sequencer/ experimental
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personnel: Phil Booth
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| Zeitlos
is a new name for a new project
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sampler: 001 track: Blue (edit) The track
'Blue' came about by accident. It was literally out of the
blue. The sequence came first and materialised out of a search
to find a sound for another track I was working on. As is
often the case I was sidetracked by this sequence, liked it
and recorded it for use at a later date. It was finished some
weeks later, the end being completed first and the beginning
being completed last.
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