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More awesomeness from SIXIS. He retains his astonishing capability for melody within a genre that can often suffer in this area. It's not glitch for the sake of glitch at all, there's such a delicate musicality behind it. You can really hear how much he's been working on every element of his sound in this EP and there is an amazing amount of sonic space in which all these crazy elements are interacting. Beautiful use of a full range of frequencies. Just awesome really!
 
True Light Of Darkness soundtrack - some absolute gems on here, and the theme provided by James's project makes for a very cohesive 37 minutes of music. I used three of these tracks on the last episode of New Moon Grooves, and the theme of darkness was so strong I just had to use it for the show too. The Halfred and TRIBONE track is particularly wonderfully weird. Lovely stuff.

Twas a dark and twisty journey <3

Excellent!

What a pity I  saw this post too late   Will catch repeat on mixcloud, then

still fresh
 

 
http://dubmission.bandcamp.com/album/maraakames-gathering

These are the best small / medium monitor stands I've ever use. Amazing decoupling / isolation. Really do work as advertised.

http://www.isoacoustics.com/index.php

Too many awesome releases this week.
 
That Touched Two remix album, 120 tracks for 10£, what the honest hell.

Great thread!

I'll have to agree about that too. A bit less psychedelic but quite blissful and emotional.
 
A kind of early experimental psydub album I find pretty interesting to listen to from time to time is Dub Trees - Nature Never Did Betray the Heart that Loved Her, an album masterminded by Youth and Greg Hunter with some pretty well-known collaborators, Ott, Posford and Suns of Arqa's Wadada being the most familiar to me.
 
Another similarly experimental album by some of the same people, but a bit more on the ethnic side is The Kumba Mela Experiment - East of the River Ganges. Both these albums were released by the aforementioned LSD, whose compilations are top-notch.

Also some of Kuba's stuff might be considered a lighter, more subtle form of psydub.

+1 for Slackbaba. I too like ...And the Beat Goes Om... and his early compilation tunes more than his later stuff, but I think his latest album is a step in what I consider the right direction.

Greetings, friends! Your friendly poll pixie here, delivering another 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.
 
 
 
 
Last week's results (these are the results after one week of voting - you can still vote and comment on this selection - click here!):
 
1st: Ishq - Spring Light [ Self Released ]
 
2nd: Whitebear - Liberation [ Shanti Planti ]
    
3rd: Jah Acid Dub - Soul Land Dub [ Self Released ]
        Merlin - Magic Potion [ Altar Records ]
        Various Artists - Subtextures [ Interchill Records ]
    
    
Big love _/\_
 
Edit: this week's results are available to view here

You're right Snowdrop. It's such a good EP. I'm digging every track and love the last two.
 
Maybe I won't be able to wait for bandcamp. Hopefully it appears there real soon, otherwise Addictech it will be be. Heading overseas in a month; this would be great for the headphones!

Excellent! I'll look forward to that, and of course I'll be grateful for the time and effort you'll put into this snowdrop. And I agree that it'll add value to the forum too.

I've actually been thinking about doing this. I haven't committed to it yet as my time commitments in my life have just ramped up quite a bit so I'm still getting used to how much free time I can expect, but yeah, I hope to start writing reviews for you lovely people at some point I think that would add a lot of value to the site/forum.

Happy birthday psybient.org!
 
I'll say it here since that's my only suggestion: It would be more user-friendly if the releases/reviews section were done chronologically I reckon. Also, I'm a review junkie; not to write, I'm not good at that, just to read. So if there were a team of reviewers here, it'd be the first place I'd go to when I want to read about a new release. I know I might be asking too much, especially with the latter, that's why I haven't said anything so far. But since you guys asked...
 
Apart from that I'm pretty happy with the content and presentation of the site.

I didn't notice Whitebear's EP on there last week.  Just had a listen this morning.  It's great!
 
Not sure whether I will wait for it to appear on Bandcamp before I buy it tho.

I've liked Emog since I first heard his track "Crow" on VA - Lumineyez Vol. 2 [Luminosity Project]. this new album's sounding just as good.
 
The Circular release sounded good too. At first I thought it was the Ultimae Records Circular but this is bassy and way different.
 
Ishq is very special to me, I'm always glad to see new music from Matt. from his newsletters it sounds like there's lots of new tunes in the pipeline too.
 
Interchill and Mycelium Music comps are worth checking out too.

Greetings, friends! Your friendly poll pixie here, delivering another 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.
 
 
 
 
Last week's results (these are the results after one week of voting - you can still vote and comment on this selection - click here!):
 
1st: Ashnaia Project - U.F.O. Unidentified Fractal Objects [ Self Released ]
 
2nd: Anchor Hill - Stranger Than Fiction [ Self Released ]
        Erothyme - Sound In The Living Current [ Self Released ]
     
3rd: Planet Boelex - Moments [ Self Released ]
        The Polish Ambassador - Pushing Through The Pavement (Remixes) [ Jumpsuit Records ]
     
     
Big love _/\_
 
Edit: results for this week's poll are available to view here

I have so much work to-time, so I can hopefully go on a few festivals around Berlin.
 
 http://www.freqsofnature.de/de/ or http://www.antaris-project.de/
 
there are always a few small festivals with less than 1000 people. I most like the family atmosphere and you meet a lot of friends.
https://www.goabase.net/festival/fractalia-open-air-20/79715

I wish I could make it to S.U.N. also this year but unfortunately it's not possible... Been there past two years and love the festival. Have lots of s.u.n.-fun...
 
So far I'm going to
03/08/2015 - Samsara Festival, Hungary
If anyone else is going come say hi (I'll be playing at Plug&Lay Stage on Friday from 1930 to 2100 )

as an east coast american I get super jealous of you guys sometimes when it comes to psychedelic festivals
 
I'm gonna get across the pond soon though, or at least go out west or north to Canada.

Hi Folks, 
 
i know we live far away from each other, but i am pretty sure we will eventually meet ! 
 
So what are you summer plans for festivals ? Let meet each other somewhere if we are nearby !
 
Here are mine summer trips to festivals (in Europe):
 
20/06/2015 Ambiosonic Festival @ France  04/07/2015 Nowhere Festival @ Spain  23/07/2015 Waha Festival @ Romania  30/07/2015 Harmonic Festival, South France 13/08/2015 Future Nature Festival @ Pula, Croatia 27/08/2015 Psy-Fi @ Netherlands  in September i hopefully will go to Brasil and then Canada. It is time to take a break from my Paris life.   would be a pleasure to meet you in "real life", i am glad to finally meet Mønsterhed at Ambiosonic and very exited to play on same stage with Digital Mystery Tour @ Harmonic, those guys inspired me so much with their music.

Thanks Snowdrop for the word on Anchor Hill.  I've been in two minds myself about his music.  I kind of like some tracks but others are not quite my thing.
 
Anyway, this album is much different to his previous style.  I like the dancier numbers.  I would have bypassed this if you didn't mention it.  
 
My picks for this week were Erothyme's album - sublime and really intelligently crafted - and The Polish Ambassador's remix album - been looking forward to that for a while.  Even though only 5 of the tracks are on there so far (as of today).

it is always possible to vote and then vote again to add more. the only issues is that you have manually remember your "original" vote. So writing a comment about what you have selected is helpful
I usually enjoy Sattyananda releases, will start my listen with it.
 
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.