Boards of Canada are back! I've been following BoC reddit, Keyosc and Twoism since yesterday and it's amazing how the community has sprung into action to decode all the details on the new VHS.
Listened to MHTRTC yesterday, so today's listening is... Geogaddi!
#boardsofcanada #warprecords #IDM
More Jeff Mills with Waveform Transmission Vol 3. Hardcore techno... Heavy stuff. "Wrath of the Punisher", indeed! And Condor to Mallorca is always a favourite.
#jeffmills #axisrecords #techno #musicsky
It's a classic! Listening to Waveform Transmission Vol 3 now
Happy #CDFriday !
New arrival in the mail this week: Tangerine Dream's 50 Years of Phaedra at the Barbican. Fantastic stuff, and continues the sterling quality of the Quantum Years.
Perhaps this makes up for forgetting to write my weekly #TangerineDreamTuesday post...!
#tangerinedream #ambient
Listening to more early Boards of Canada today with... Twoism! Their debut release from 1995, only made widely available in 2002 after being acquired by Warp.
#boardsofcanada #warprecords #IDM #musicsky
🌱 the orb • assassin
🔮 chocolate hills of bohol mix
☁️ #ambient #house
🌐 #nineties #musicsky
starting this monday with a
melting clock as featured in
another mix of assassin by @theorblive.bsky.social
another nineties gem 💎
halloooooooooo nether...
Listening to Substrata by Biosphere today! A bona fide ambient classic that chills to the bone...
Was finishing reading Haruki Murakami's Hard Boiled Wonderland and The End of the World while listening, and the funereal atmosphere was immensely fitting.
#biosphere #ambient #musicsky
Never had this on CD but I did download it a few years back. Lots of classic remixes on there! Trans Asian Express was my favourite.
Thank you! Love the username. Voices of Kwahn if I'm not mistaken...?
I am not a number... I am a free man!
Happy #CDFriday !
It's raining away this afternoon. No better time to listen to the longest single to ever grace the UK charts... at 39 minutes and 58 seconds, it's the full length Blue Room by The Orb!
#theorb #ambient #dub #musicsky #nowplaying
Bit of Jeff Mills this morning with Waveform Transmission Vol. 1. Wish I had this on CD! That one-two punch of Changes of Life and Berlin is outstanding. To quote the Wizard himself, this is techno...
#jeffmills #techno #musicsky
I'm not much of a romantic, unfortunately... I just like hearing them in higher quality!
Aww thank you! Much appreciated :)
which follows on from The Bootleg Box Vol 1 by cribbing from previously released Tangerine Tree recordings - not quite as revelatory as the first volume, but sterling stuff nonetheless. (15/15)
tracks and an excerpt from Froese's Kamikaze 89, and although these provide few new insights or improvisations, they remain very pleasant listening. It matches my impression of the boxset overall, (14/15)
modern sounds: one or two moments reminded me of the Quantum era.
Once again, the final recording on a Bootleg Box is also its shortest, with a 1983 Frankfurt set representing one of the final concerts of the Virgin Years. Two excerpts from Poland feature alongside previously released Logos (13/15)
energy. Bondi Paradise (aka. Bondi Parade) provides a triumphant march that feels like a close cousin of the previously mentioned Choronzon, while Thermal Inversion starts off like an alternate version of Thief's Dr. Destructo but with an insistent new synth melody with some surprisingly (12/15)
live exclusives, Edinburgh Castle features snarling growls over medieval synth plinks, and feels a bit like being trapped in a crypt with a hungry dragon. The Digital Times Suite (a fan-made name adopted for official use) is divided neatly into different parts which sequentially raise the (11/15)
material from upcoming releases. For a tour ostensibly promoting Exit (released a month earlier) we see the band jumping not one but two albums ahead by starting with an excerpt of an early Logos, while an extended version of the already colossal Mojave Plan opens the second disc. Regarding (10/15)
nine-minute encore with more of the same.
The fourth set on this disc sees us firmly in the Schmoelling era with a performance at Newcastle City Hall in October 1981, and although TD had by this point eschewed improvising for playing from DATs it did give them the space to test and tweak new (9/15)
drums makes for lush listening, and the slower first half of Part 1 is particularly good; the second half meanwhile leans more toward Cyclone's Madrigal Meridian, which has never really been my cup of tea. Jolliffe provides intermittent vocals throughout, less than I'd expected. Part 2 is a (8/15)
Our third set from Hamburg in 1978 sees a new lineup comprised of Froese, Franke, Jolliffe and Krüger, with a corresponding change in atmosphere - delving further into the acoustic side of Krautrock than the band have for many years (or indeed, ever). The prevalence of flute and shuffling (7/15)
an area never touched on TD's studio albums (and not entirely unwelcome). The second disc provides three live exclusives with Drywater Rush (notable for doom-laden guitar and organ soloing), Rain in Spain and Octagon. (6/15)
version on Encore, Cherokee Lane is more high pitched and lacks the overt nods to the Sorcerer soundtrack. It's left to Monolith to hint at the Betrayal melody amidst searing guitar feedback against fast-paced synths. The guitar on this track especially starts entering noise-rock territory, (5/15)
early version of Monolight's closing section - the tempo soon picks up with a sequencer workout, guitar in tow.
The 1977 Washington concert feels more familiar, beginning with Cherokee Lane and Monolight as was typical with all concerts that year: where Monolight keeps close to the released (4/15)
that year. Somehow the pace slows further, and after a recognisable sound from Desert Dream the environment turns into fire and brimstone, filled with hissing and demonic choirs... it's a bizarre but brilliant turn. Meanwhile, Part 2 features anxious, mousy piano that soon coalesces into an (3/15)
Nottingham's 1976 concert continues the excellent standard of previous Froese/Franke/Baumann concerts with a journey into the abyss. Part 1 starts off slow-moving and psychedelic, featuring buoyant and bubbling synths, with some hints of Baumann's Bicentennial Presentation from his solo album (2/15)
#TangerineDreamTuesday Week 52: THE BOOTLEG BOX SET VOL. 2.
Fifty-two weeks! I've spent a whole year reviewing Tangerine Dream albums. Feels like it's flown by in a flash. Today's review is another set of classic live recordings...
#tangerinedream #ambient #krautrock #musicsky #nowplaying (1/15)