Ian Hawgood / Le Mépris / Ryu Furusawa - Split Mobeer 007 (2009) (AWESOME !!!)

Genre : Ambient, Electronica, Experimental
Ian Hawgood Myspace
Le Mépris Myspace
Ryu Furusawa Myspace
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Tracklist :

Ian Hawgood – phonetics and fiction
1. ro-soku water
2. tepu-
3. haika-
4. map rusu

Le Mépris – doomglue
1. nakano
2. uso
3. sagi-shi
4. arashi

Ryu Furusawa
1. oneday
2. a starlit night
3. milly
4. nobody knows

*STRICTLY LIMITED HAND-PACKAGED TRIPLE 3" CD FROM MOBEER - 300 COPIES ONLY FOR THE WORLD HOUSED WITH A PRINTED MOTEER BEERMAT, EACH COPY INDIVIDUALLY NUMBERED AND ASSEMBLED * Mobeer return with another gorgeous collection of homespun electronics and ambrosian ambience spread across three cd's in one sublime handmade package. Kicking off the hand-wrapped party is Home Normal's Ian Hawgood who gently coaxes us into the collection with a masterclass in long-form ambience. Like a more organic variant of Machinefabriek, this is a deft spread of tracks - textured and frayed, blessed with the most well-tamed of field recording and crackling drones to lull you deep into the comfort of blissed out ambience. Next up we're introduced to the sweet tinkling of a toy piano charmed by Les Mepris, apparently a young Japanese starlet with a sublime line in post-Goldmund meditations that are all the more beautiful for the hint of mystery surrounding the recordings. Rounding up the triptych comes possibly the oddest addition - genuine Japanese feller Ryu Furusawa who convinces us that J-Pop and Aphex-era electronica are a match made in Valhalla. With twinkling music-boxes and padded beats this is the perfect end to a really rather special package - and as usual these never ever last very long so don't sleep! Lovely. ~Boomkat.com

Melorman - Out in a Field (2009) + Expressing Thoughts EP (2009) (AWESOME !!!)

Genre : Ambient, Electronica, IDM, Downtempo, Greece
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Tracklist :

1. Apricot fields
2. 5 o’clock spring time
3. Hold us
4. Small arms to hold
5. Sunlight noise
6. Toy
7. Silent breath
8. Watercircle
9. Theros
10. Tell me more stories

Melorman is the moniker of Antonis Haniotakis an electronic artist born in Athens,Greece. He has contributed with tracks in Music Labels such as Symbolic Interaction,Archaic Horizon,Summer Rain Recordings,Shima Records, IVDT ,CCT Records,Sixteensteps and Envizagae.

His sound is based on melodic elements and coloured loop lines with a tone of melancholy.The melodies are aerial and fluffy changing as frequently as it can get.

Melorman tries to reach the ultimate feeling that melody may have to human emotional state. His latest work “Out in a field” in Symbolic Interaction it’s an ode to melody as he perceives it.

Bonus | Melorman - Expressing Thoughts EP

Aerial - Put It This Way In Headlines (2009) (AWESOME !!!)

Genre : Shoegaze, Post-rock, Sweden
Myspace
Buy it !!! Coz the mp3s are in low quality webrip :)

Tracklist :

01 - First of all
02 - In our wake
03 - Velvet light trap
04 - I am TV
05 - He looked at the sky and mumbled
06 - Zebra
07 - Canvas people
08 - Gently stunned
09 - Vacant dreamers
10 - Malkmus in the middle
11 - All refrain
12 - Quite a few homes later
13 - Guitar ode to a sunny afternoon

Aerial from Sandviken, Sweden, is a post/indie-rock act. They’ve released three CDs so far. “Black Rain From The Bombing” in ‘06, “The Sentinel” in ‘07 and “The Legion of Dynamic Dischord” in ‘08. They have a new album on they way called “Put it this way in headlines”, which is due for release in september 2009. They have toured the EU on several occasions, and have played with acts such as; The Bell Orchestre, Deerhunter, Arab Strap, Motorpsycho and Mono.

Nomethod says :

"The 3rd fullengthalbum from Aerial is here. They continue to hold their own as one of the best bands to ever come out of their genre. Almost 3 years in the making this is easily Aerials finest moment.
Aerial have just returned from a minitour with Motorpsycho and will continue to tour Scandinavia this fall and then start touring Europe in January. While still being a hidden gem in their homecountry of Sweden fans from all over the world have followed Aerial from their debut "Black rain from the bombing" with intense interest. This new album let´s Aerial come full circle as "Put it this way in headlines" reminds alot their early work. It is also the first album that the band have produced themselves."

[me]thx u iSotoy.

Arms And Sleepers - Matador (2009) (AWESOME !!!)

Genre : Trip-hop, Ambient, Electronica, Post-rock
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Tracklist :

1 Orly
2 Matador
3 The Architekt
4 Twentynine Palms
5 Helvetica
6 The International
7 Simone
8 Kino
9 Words Are For Sleeping
10 The Paramour

Arms and Sleepers began one night in the back of an ambulance in Cambridge. In an alleyway a man was bleeding with a cassette player in hand, the play button still on. What sounded like recordings of a gospel choir blared from the tin speaker, while down the street a jazz band could be heard. The man was dying.

He dropped the cassette player on the cement and closed his eyes, the sound carrying through the air into his ears for one last time. Though this moment in time died with him, his cassette lived on — and Arms and Sleepers were born.

Persistent international touring and constant dissemination of their sounds makes Arms and Sleepers a worthy opponent for the typical temporal constraints that can befall a band. Having issued a series of limited edition releases and the well-received Bliss Was it in That Dawn to be Alive EP (Fake Chapter) in 2007, Black Paris 86 is their debut full-length on Expect Candy Records (DE).

A tight and intense record, listening to it feels like sitting in a cinema, watching landscapes, beauty and tragedy – feeling warm and safe while a hint of mystery seems to whisper that not everything is ok out there.

[me] how could i missed this amazing album, i just found it and start to listening 2 days ago -_-;

New Century Classics - Natural Process (2009) (AWESOME !!!)

Genre : Post-rock, Experimental, Poland
Myspace

Tracklist :

1 Post-Cards 5:35
2 Congratulate You, Where? 4:46
3 Hedgehog 5:46
4 Drift Motion 5:20
5 Sandbox Love 3:37
6 Children of an Uncertain Future 5:58
7 Seven Days 3:41
8 Buddha Pilot 4:28
9 Fish Went 1:56
10 Is 2:58
11 A Small Misunderstanding 4:00
12 Spiders in the Attic 3:16

New Century Classics was formed in Krakow, Poland in march 2006 (though adding their final member and fine-tuning their sound in september-october 2006) by a group of friends and refugees from various parts of the world, centered around a mutual love of good music and the desire to fill their time and their hands with as many instruments as possible.

The band consists of two poles, a polish-american and a polish-canadian hybrid, and an italian who’s decent at banging on things with sticks.

Always experimenting, new century classics is constantly acquiring new sounds and new instruments (when they can afford it) in an effort to transform the polish music scene for the better.

NCC’s first full-length album, Natural Process, was released on November 23rd, 2009, and is available as a free digital download or pay as what you want. Coz any contribution will be highly appreciated. Physical copies are sold out for the moment.

[me]Thx u, Anna for sharing this beautiful music :)

I Hear Sirens - Beyond the Sea, Beneath the Sky (2009) (AWESOME !!!)

Genre : Post-rock
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Tracklist :

1. O Failing Vessel, Brave the Violent Sea
2. Pale Moon, Guide Us Ashore
3. Drowning City Skyline
4. From the Clock Tower
5. The March
6. Deception Has A Way With Words
7. The Faint Reflection of Stars
8. Breath On Glass

I Hear Sirens is an instrumental post-rock band from Salt Lake City, Utah. The band was formed in the Fall of 2005 by Daved Harris (guitar) and David Qualls (drums). I Hear Sirens will be in the studio September 2009 to record the new album. Expect it to be available December 15th 2009! Official website : http://www.ihearsirens.com

Soft Words Traverse - Gently (2009) (AWESOME !!!)

Genre : Ambient, Post-rock, Soundscape, Electronica, Experimental
Myspace

Tracklist :

1. Yield
2. A Cleansing Breath
3. To Circle the Drain
4. Light
5. Sprawling Certainty
6. Momentary
7. Pristine Castles
8. To Go On
9. Paradise, Perfect
10. Thoughts Like Clouds
11. Lungs of Gold
12. A Void Does Not Exist

Flowing soundscapes, Awesome ambient, electronic, instrumental, experimental, and emotional experience. This is the independent music project of @YoungBillyMays. @YoungBillyMays is the son of the late Billy Mays.

[me]Wow!!! My favorite album of this December. Awesome !!!

The American Dollar / Arms And Sleepers - From The Inland Sea (EP) (Spilt) (2009) (AWESOME !!!)

Genre : Ambient, Post-rock
Myspace | The American Dollar
Myspace | Arms and Sleepers

Tracklist :

The American Dollar:
1.Landing
2.Schipol
3.Where We Are

Arms & Sleepers:
4.The Catcher Elsewhere
5.Van Buren
6.The Inland Sea

Split EP from two amazing ambient / post rock bands ! Give it a listen, you will like what they do.

Pg.Lost - In Never Out (2009) (AWESOME !!!)

Genre : Post-rock, Sweden
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Tracklist :

01 08:16 Prahanien
02 05:07 Jura
03 08:26 Heart of Hearts
04 07:00 Still Alright
05 10:10 Crystalline
06 12:05 Gomez

pg.lost is a four-piece post-rock band from Norrköping, Sweden formed in year 2004. The band was initially called Before You Give In but after numerous changes in the lineup the band took on the current name.

They have released three studio records - a debut EP Yes I Am EP in year 2007, and their first full length record called It’s Not Me, It’s You! in year 2008, and In never out arrived in year 2009.

"In Never Out" consists of over 50 minutes of instrumental music and shows a darker and heavier side of pg.lost.

Toe - For Long Tomorrow (2009) (AWESOME !!!)

Genre : Math-rock, Post-rock, Japan
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Tracklist :

1. ここには何もかもがあるし、何もかもがない
2. ショウシツ点よ笛
3. After Image feat. Harada Ikuko (Clammbon)
4. エソテリック
5. Say It Ain’t So (feat. Hoshikawa Yuzuru (Dry River String, Ex-Upandcoming))
6. Two Moons
7. モスキートンはもう聞こえない#1
8. モスキートンはもう聞こえない#2
9. ラストナイト (Album Version)
10. グッドバイ Goodbye (Album Version feat. Toki Asako 土岐麻子)
11. You Go
12. Our Next Movement
13. Long Tomorrow

toe is a Japanese post-rock band formed in 2000. Their music is instrumental, melancholic and guitar-driven, with great emphasis on the drumming of Kashikura Takashi.

toe was formed at the end of 2000. The band started performing live in July 2001, a few times a month at nightclubs. They began recording their debut EP songs, ideas we forgot in February 2002, and released it two months later in April 17th of the same year. In July 2003 toe released a split CD EP with pele through an independent label, muziq and following September the band released a remix album Re:designed.

In April 2004 toe contributed a song to the MOTOWN tribute CD, “ROCK MOTOWN” and the following June the pele/toe split was released as vinyl through polyvinyl records. In April 2005 the band began recording their first album. Four months later in August 31st, toe’s anticipated debut album the book about my idle plot on a vague anxiety was released.

The members are:
☆ 山嵜廣和 / Yamazaki Hirokazu (Guitar)
☆ 美濃隆章 / Mino Takaaki (Guitar)
☆ 山根さとし / Yamane Satoshi (Bass)
☆ 柏倉隆史 / Kashikura Takashi (Drums)

Ólafur Arnalds – Dyad 1909 (2009) (AWESOME !!!)

Genre : Modern Classical, Ambient, Experimental, Iceland
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Tracklist (correct your tracklist) :

01 Frá Upphafi
02 Lokaðu Augunum
03 Brotsjór
04 Við Vorum Smá…
05 3326
06 Til Enda
07 …Og Lengra

Born in 1987, Ólafur hails from the suburban Icelandic town, Mosfellsbær, just a few kilometres outside of Reykjavík. He has immersed himself completely in a world of delicate symphonic compositions generating near weightless orchestral pieces. Arnalds explores the crossover from classical to pop by mixing chamber strings and piano with discreet electronics which makes him a perfect fit for cinematic pop label Erased Tapes. His motivations are clear: “The classical scene is kind of closed to people who haven’t been studying music all their lives. I would like to bring my classical influence to the people who don’t usually listen to this kind of music…open people’s minds.”

Ólafur Arnalds' latest musical adventure - the score for a contemporary ballet called 'Dyad 1909' - is to be released on December 7th, 2009. The soundtrack features seven songs, some of which, reveals Arnalds, are "quite different from what you are used to hearing from me". The piece was premiered at Sadler's Wells in London last month where the composer played 5 sold-out shows in a row. Dyad 1909 choreographer Wayne McGregor describes the sound track as "...an amazing piece of music –it's melancholic and spatial then cuts to extreme rhythmic violence -it's hauntingly inspiring".

'The sound of cracking ice and freezing winds in Olafur Arnalds’s evocative and lyrical score' **** - The Times

'The work is a fascinating collaboration' (4/5) - The Guardian

'Composer Ólafur Arnalds provides an emotional score to this astonishing piece, mixing classical symphonies with avant-garde electronic recordings' - Dazed & Confused

'String quartet, piano and electronics of perfect dis-locational atmosphere' - The Arts Desk

'My composer for Dyad, Icelandic musician Ólafur Arnalds, is coming in next week to finish work on the score. It’s an amazing piece of music – it's melancholic and spatial then cuts to extreme rhythmic violence - it's hauntingly inspiring' - Wayne McGregor (Random Dance)

Up-C Down-C Left-C Right-C ABC + Start - Firewolf (2009) (AWESOME !!!)

Genre : Post-rock, UK
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Tracklist :

1. The Tavern
2. Black Lodge
3. Smiling Bag
4. Agent Cooper
5. Def Zeppelin
6. Dad Rock
7. Firewolf
8. Grandead

Up-C Down-C Left-C Right-C ABC + Start are an Instrumental post-rock band from Kent who have been going since early 2000. They signed to local Indie label Tap n Tin records in 2004 and their first double A side 7" single "Stand shadowless like silence/Sadako's fury (radio edit)" was out on February 14th 2005. This was proceeded by a live Xfm session with John Kennedy on May 5th and their second single "Shallows" (available on 10") on August 1st 2005.

Rocksound Firewolf Review - Although on the outset tongues are firmly in cheeks (the album art looks like one of those wolf T-shirts you see over weight ramblers representing down the local tavern), Upcdownc’s music deserves to be treated with a bit of respect. There are moments of drawn-out doom that tickle the spine, such as the creeping riff of “Smiling bag”, but “Firewolf” is at it’s best when the catharsis gives way to sheer anger. “Black Lodge” expoldes into fits of faraway screaming and the awesomely named “Def Zeppelin” sounds like the onset of a gruesome tribal war. It’s an undeniably stirring offering. 7/10. Michael Copus

The Silent Ballet Firewolf review - Upcdownc have progressed... They have taken their ideas from the previous album and given them an injection of steroids, highlighting the influence of rock music and making it hard to ignore the heavier sound they are creating... An outstanding creation and prove that plenty of emotion can be released in a short span of time. Firewolf is an album that offers something different.

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[me]Whoaa... The screaming is a complete surprise ! And what a great surprise ! Awesome !!!

Tristeza - Fate Unfolds (2009)

Genre : Post-rock, Psychedelic
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Tracklist :

1. Castellon
2. Floripa
3. BLKFLMNGO
4. Celestians
5. Hazed
6. Manitas
7. Mr. Beat/Street Tax
8. Tension Futura
9. Camco
10. The Punch

From the surreal opening to the feverish end, Fate Unfolds captivates with a tonal palette that is both broad and gripping. Indie kings of the southwest, Tristeza, have been at it for slightly over a decade. Their latest full-length delivers without a drop of disappointment. Fate Unfolds is drenched with the seemingly long lost art of crafting an album that plays as one solid piece. I could pick several ’singles’ that I hear on this record, but to do anything but drop the needle and park it does a huge disservice to the artistry and arrangement of this record as a whole. Herein are huge washes of guitars and synths, layered with drums dubbing back and forth from programmed to acoustic with ease and a backbeat that is anything but ‘indie rock’.

Instrumental bands get a bad rap. It’s mostly because of the Canadian melodramatics that ruined it for everybody in the late nineties. If I didn’t know this record was slated for a release in just a couple months, I don’t know that I could have accurately pinpointed a time period on the recording of these songs. While several production elements hint at a 70s dub feel, there is a mature tension, and raw rock element that is an emergent sound for Tristeza. It’s almost like certain elements invoke the image of Lee Perry slapping hi-fives to Steve Albini behind the mixing console.

Tristeza are also helping spearhead a trend that is integral to the survival and validity of independent music. There will be no US compact disc release of this album. Better Looking Records will distribute the digital format of Fate Unfolds, and Wildlife Vinyl will be pressing the vinyl.

Collapse Under The Empire - Find A Place To Be Safe (2009) (AWESOME !!!)

Genre : Post-rock, Atmospheric, German
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Tracklist :

01 – Captured Moments
02 – Crawling
03 – Find A Place To Be Safe
04 – Tranquillity
05 – Angle Of Incidence
06 – Decay
07 – Far To The Past
08 – A Smell Of Boiled Greens
09 – Intelligence
10 – Conscious Of Thirty Nine
11 – Take A Shot On Me

Collapse Under The Empire is an instrumental/post-rock duo from Hamburg / Germany. They formed 2007, when Chris Burda and Matthew Jason got together to develop their own music under the name of Collapse Under The Empire. They both released the first four songs for the EP Paintball in summer 2008.

After that they came up with their self-produced debut album, Systembreakdown, which was recorded in their own studio and saw the light as a digital album of day in spring 2009.

For the second album the band were signed by the indie label Sister Jack. The new album Find A Place To Be Safe will be out over Cargo Records on Nov. 27th 2009. The US/UK release is on Jan. 15th 2010.

It was mastered by Michael Schwabe (Einstürzende Neubauten, Beatsteaks) at Monoposto Studio. The appropriate single Crawling was pre--publicized on Sept. 25th 2009 over Believe Digital.

Flica - Telepathy Dreams (2009) (AWESOME !!!)

Genre : Ambient, Electronica, Electrocoustic, Experimental, Malaysia
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Tracklist :

1 Commes
2 Drun
3 Hie
4 In Dreams
5 Ind
6 Istatic
7 Midnight Waving
8 Seing
9 Stairs

“IN THE ABSENCE OF TELEPATHY, THERE WILL BE NO TRACES OF US IN OUR HEARTS, AND PERHAPS ONLY IN DREAMS, THE SPLENDOR WILL REMAIN.”

Those are the beautiful words that only Flica can deliver through his music. With the release of Flica’s latest effort, Telepathy Dreams, he explores your soul and mind on a level only he can explore. This self-released ambient and modern classic album takes on a serious musical approach. Telepathy Dreams showcases a darker side of Flica, as compared to his previous releases such as Windvane & Window and Nocturnal.

Listening to this new album would be like a reflection of flipping through black and white photographs, which is both warm and cold. This flipside of intense emotions is prevailed through this 9-tracks album. Flica is taking on an emotional journey and you this album prove to be exceptional. The entirety of Telepathy Dreams is produced, recorded, arranged, programmed, mixed and designed by Euseng Seto a.k.a. Flica himself. Started in November 2008 and completed in June 2009, this album is a musical avant garde. ~whitenoiserecords

Képzelt Város - Mit Nekem (2009) (AWESOME !!!)

Genre : Post-rock, with vocal, Hungary
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Free to download from here : www.kepzeltvaros.hu/mitnekem.rar

Tracklist :

01 – sol
02 – d2
03 – papirhajó
04 – zuhanó
05 – sergei6
06 – white noise
07 – hercules
08 – futok

Képzelt Városis is a hungarian alternative, experimental, indie, post-rock band, which formed in Budapest in 2005 by four architects. Current members: Gyöngyi Barta, Gergely Oláh, Márton Miskolczi, Szabolcs Kóródi, Máté Győrffy, Dávid Galbicsek. They play post-rock with guitars, cello, piano and some vocals.

[me]thx to máté győrffy :)

Mitsuyoshi Matsuda - Scene (2009) (AWESOME !!!)

Genre : Ambient, Electrocoustic, Experimental, Japan
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Tracklist :

01. Hirune 1:46
02. Curtain 3:50
03. Park 1:27
04. Evening Melody 3:28
05. Calm 2:45
06. Shizukana Umi 5:48
07. Secret Door 4:20

I don’t have a description for this artist yet, care to help ? :)