Greetings, friends! Your friendly poll pixie here, delivering this week's selection of auditory delights compiled by timeisart and Gagarin for your consideration
I invite you to discuss and highlight the music releases that have been announced this week in psybient.org news. You are very welcome to vote for your favourite, most 'interesting' album(s) and/or share your impressions and thoughts on the music.
To encourage more participants in the weekly forum, we decided to gift participants music from our label partners! To participate in the 'giveaway':
- make a vote
- write a small comment about your choice
Embedded players for each release are under the spoiler - click 'show' below to display them. For previews of non-Bandcamp releases, click on the album artwork.
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aAirial - Samudra [ Rednetic ] { Ambient }
Ajnia - Autumn [ Self Released ] { Ambient }
Arkeyetexture - Lago De Sonhos [ Big Wave Records ] { Psybient }
Astropilot & Friends - Soul Surfers [ Altar Records ] { Psybient }
Birds Of Paradise - Riding The Froth [ Addictech Records ] { Bass }
Carbon Based Lifeforms - ALT:01 [ Leftfield Records ] { Psybient }
Chichilcitlalli - Ambient Downtempo (Birds) EP [ Bass Star Records ] { Psybient }
Dub Trees - The Cerronnos Dub Rituals EP [ Liquid Sound Design ] { Psybient }
Earth Child - Dream World [ Nutek Chill ] { Psybient }
Gallery Six - Static Collapse [ Plusquam Chillout ] { Ambient }
^ Yeah, the Birds of Paradise EP is my pick of the week. Agree with the #wow sentiment. Such good music.
I also really liked Govinda's Decadence album, and Wu Wei - Black Forest. I'm actually still on the fence with Black Forest, haven't bought it yet; I need a few more listens first.
I think you guys would like YUV - Beyond Us if you haven't heard it yet, it came out at the end of January so I'm a little late discovering it but it's some good psychedelic bass, as is Morpheus's new EP.
Spirit's Grapes - Systematic Chaos is the surprise of the week for me though, never heard of this artist before but this was impressive.
Carbon Based Lifeforms is excellent of course but this isn't anything truly new, just remasters and different versions of already existing tracks. dat T-Rex Echoes track tho!
It seems that Dub Trees is now just Youth and collaborators, would've loved to see the other original members contribute (Greg Hunter & Simon Posford). still, this is a decent EP.
also slow down there Unusual Cosmic Process, I still haven't fully processed your Utopia album from what seems like not that long ago.
Maia, I decided to bring back genres in a more limited fashion so I edited them into this post's spoiler and in the google sheet so future posts will have them as well.
I intend to be very broad with this by classifying releases into one of only three genres: Ambient, Psybient, or Bass. Really this is just to distinguish the Ambient & Bass releases from the Psybient ones, as they are the easiest to tell apart. The Psybient genre tag is meant to be a catch all though and could include such styles as psydub or chillgressive.
Maia, I decided to bring back genres in a more limited fashion so I edited them into this post's spoiler and in the google sheet so future posts will have them as well.
I intend to be very broad with this by classifying releases into one of only three genres: Ambient, Psybient, or Bass. Really this is just to distinguish the Ambient & Bass releases from the Psybient ones, as they are the easiest to tell apart. The Psybient genre tag is meant to be a catch all though and could include such styles as psydub or chillgressive.
very good , thank you so much! with our 1000+ year catalogs - if we don't divide at all the main catalogs will become hard to use. If you don't have time to classify, skip for now, we can always catch back with communal effort.
very good , thank you so much! with our 1000+ year catalogs - if we don't divide at all the main catalogs will become hard to use. If you don't have time to classify, skip for now, we can always catch back with communal effort.
It shouldn't be a problem to add just these single word genres every week. It was just annoying in 2015 when I was trying to be more precise by listing 4 or 5 genres for each release.
Lorn, I agree the Motion Drive album was nice. Just earlier today, Cosmicleaf Records released Stimulus Timbre's new album Harmonic Discovery.. does the album art look familiar?
Lorn, I agree the Motion Drive album was nice. Just earlier today, Cosmicleaf Records released Stimulus Timbre's new album Harmonic Discovery.. does the album art look familiar?
I like the Astropilot&Friends album. I'm not the biggest fan of chillgressive and Iriy still hasn't clicked with me but this one works much better for me. It could have something to do with the fact that he's collaborating with artists I like a lot.
The Dub Trees EP caught me by surprise as, to my ears at least, it doesn't have anything in common with their first album. Will need to have a proper listen.
Finally had a first listen to the Motion Drive album, extremely pleasant.
Agreed, excellent album. I just introduced a downtempo genre tag to the 2016 releases table, would you consider this album to be psychedelic enough to warrant the psybient genre tag or should it be called downtempo?
I feel like there's some psy in it but I'm on the fence. Right now it's listed under psybient anyway though