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Salamantis

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  1. I don't comment a lot here. But I do visit the site quite a bit, looking for info on upcoming releases and checking out new topics. I'd hate to see it go. I think it serves a real purpose for a lot of people who aren't very vocal here.
  2. If, instead of wanting to make love fixedly staring into each other's eyes with serious, pained looks on your faces like it's some ordeal to be perdured, you embrace the naughtiness of it all, remembering that sex is how adults play, and prefer to slide each other arched-eyebrow sidewise glances while you snigger and giggle and chortle and grin and poke each other with your fingers, you should try the two electronic boom chika wow wow porn movie soundtracks released by KLoNDyKE. They are: 1) Diggin' For Gold (2003) and 2) Hotel Visits (2007)
  3. Here are some more cool books: Faces in the Smoke - An Eyewitness Experience of Voodoo Shamanism Psychic Healing and Other Amazing Human Powers by Douchan Gersi Magic and mystery witnessed from indigenous tribes I Am A Strange Loop by Douglas R. Hofstadter A powerful description of human self-conscious awareness by the author of Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid Practical Sigil Magic by Farater UD How to work with sigils. Zos-Kia - An Introductory Essay on the Art and Sorcery of Austin Osman Spare by Gavin Semple Explanation of the non-system system of the founder of chaos magick. The Spell of Making by Blacksun A superb tutorial in thaumaturgy (ritual design) Finite and Infinite Games - A Vision of Life as Play and Possibility by James P. Carse A comparative phenomenology of finite games (where the objective is to win) and infinite games (where the objective is to continue to play). The Selfish Meme by Kate Distin and The Electric Meme by Robert Aunger Essential works for a deeper understanding of memetics Lammas Night by Katherine Kurtz An alternative history of World War II - or is it the actual history? The Eden Express - A Memoir of Insanity by Mark Vonnegut Scizophrenic madness from the inside The Tao is Silent by Raymond Smullyan The deeper you think about this book, the more fun it is...;~) Blind Voices and San Diego Lightfoot Sue by Tom Reamy A novel and a short story collection from a budding Ray Bradbury who was taken from us far too soon. Looking, Seeing by Harry Chapin Song lyrics and poetry from a master storyteller The Lords & The New Creatures by Jim Morrison and Simulacra and Simulations by Jean Baudrillard Profound explanations of our media shadow world - one poetic, the other philosophical Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison A profoundly American black novel - one of the very best The Awakening by Kate Chopin A brilliant early feminist novel Man's Fate by Andre Malraux An amazing existential novel about the Chinese Revolution
  4. Ringolevio by Emmett Grogan A history of the 60s by the ultimate insider. THE counterculture novel. Anything by Robert Anton Wilson Mindbending and preconception / delusion shattering The Spell Of The Sensuous by David Abram Perception expanding The Way of the Shaman, Cave and Cosmos, and Hallucinogens and Shamanism by Michael Harner The inspiration for Castaneda Stealing The Fire from Heaven by Stephen Mace Magickal ritual stripped down to its essential marrow Alone With Others, Buddhism Without Beliefs, After Buddhism, and Secular Buddhism by Stephen Batchelor Buddhism as a lifeway, not as a religion Sci-fi: Brilliant stuff by multiple Hugo and Nebula winners Deathbird Stories by Harlan Ellison Stories Of Your Life and Others and What's Expected Of Us and Others by Ted Chiang Pump 6 and Others Stories, The Doubt Factory, The Windup Girl, and The Water Knife by Paolo Bacigalupi At The Mouth of the River of Bees, Tales for the Long Rains, and The Dream-Quest of Vellitt Boe by Kij Johnson
  5. I am quite impressed with Aksemetrix - Aqua Perception. It's a strong debut, IMO.
  6. Sorry, I meant REalignment by Adham Shaikh. His 1993 release Nomad is superb also. Other good stuff by Spacetime Continuum include Fluresence EP (1993) and Freelon (1995). Good solo Tetsu Inoue includes Ambiant Otaku, Slow And Low, Organic Cloud, and a later album, Inland (all but the last issued by FAX in the mid 90s and reissued later on Ambient World). Good Tetsu Inoue collabs (besides his Pete Namlook and Bill Laswell stuff) include Electro Harmonix (FAX 1994 with Jonah Sharp of Spacetime Continuum), Zenith (FAX 1994 with Carlos Vivanco), MU: Masters Of Psychedelic Ambiance (Rather Interesting 1995 with Uwe Schmidt AKA Atom Heart) and OM: Instant Enlightenment (C & S Records 1993, with Dennis Ferrer) Good solo Uwe Schmidt releases under his Atom Heart alias (there are many more good releases under many more aliases) include Orange (Fax 1994), Milagro EP (Our Choice 1994), Morphogenetic Fiends (Our Choice 1994), Softcore (FAX 1994), and Shellglove (Recent Programmings, Semaphore 1996). Some of Uwe Schmidt's best stuff under various aliases includes Dots - Dots, Flextone - Flextone, and VSVN - Very Synthetic Virtual Noise, (1994), Semiacoustic Nature - Semiacoustic Nature, Interactive Music - Interactive Music and Silver Sound - 60 (1995), and Machine Paisley - Machine Paisley and Brown - Brown (1996), all on the Rather Interesting label. His collabs with Lars Muller and Stocha as +N are good too, especially ex.s (Geometrik 1993) and Plane (FAX 1994). Superficial Depth - Digital Superimposing (Side Effect 1997) is also excellent.
  7. A few more: Solitaire (FAX 1995, reissued 2010) by David Moufang, otherwise known as Move D Quiet Logic (Daisyworld 1998) by Mixmaster Morris (The Irresistible Force, Dreamfish (with Pete Namlook)) & Jonah Sharp (Spacetime Continuum) Shellground (FAX 1995) by Modula Green Qubism 2294 (em:t 1994) and the first two Woob albums (1194 and 4495) as well as Gas 0095, all also on em:t Mysteries Of Science - Mysteries Of Science (Instinct Ambient, 1995) Realignment (Modulation Elektronik 1993) and Journey To The Sun (Instinct Ambient 1995) by Adham Shaikh Flowerhead by Datacide (Tetsu Inoue & Uwe Schmidt AKA Atom Heart) (Rather Interesting 1995) City Of Light (Sub Rosa 1997) by Bill Laswell with Tetsu Inoue and 2 members of Coil
  8. One of my fave albums from that era is Spacetime Continuum - Sea Biscuit (1994). It is mainly ambient, but has definite psybient elements. And it still sounds fresh nearly a quarter century later. But there are also psybient elements in the albums of Human Mesh Dance and Dreamfish, as well as in the early work of Atom Heart and Tetsu Inoue. The Human Mesh Dance albums are Hyaline (Instinct Records 1993), Mindflower (Instinct Ambient 1994) and Thesecretnumbertwelve (12K 1997). The Dreamfish albums are Dreamfish (FAX 1993) and Dreamfish 2 (FAX 1995).
  9. I've been thinking about it, and it would make sense to me that you submit to Carpe Sonum. Your music reminds me of that classic mid -90's to early 00's era golden age ambient that FAX, em:t and Instinct Ambient released - so much so that I was at first certain that I'd heard your stuff before. But I hadn't - although not at all derivative, it was just so much situated in that iconic tradition. And yet it's fresh and new. But your melodies and soundscapes seem somehow as central and fundamental as theirs did then. It's like you are creating brand new golden age ambient. And that's a very great thing. No one is explicitly trying to carry that shining FAX torch along so much as Carpe Sonum. I bel;ieve that you two are made for each other, and would be very good for each other - and for all of us...;~)
  10. Excellent work. You set a high standard for yourself in Biome, and you have not disappointed in The Search. In fact, you have exceeded expectations. Superb follow-up; I'll be eagerly awaiting more from you.
  11. Is there gonna be a W22? (no pressure, I just find them useful references when I buy (and yes, I buy - digital)).
  12. There are other reasons, reasons that are not as artistic and much sadder, having to do with how long it takes to produce different kinds of albums. Below is an email exchange I had with Jacqueline Kersley, Matt Hillier's significant other and most enduring musical partner. I don't feel bad sharing it because it was prompted by the Upcoming Releases page of this site, and has to do with public issues of artist economic survival in a world where most online people download artist releases for free rather than pay for them. Hi, Jacqueline; Joe Dees here again. I hope I'm not bothering you too much with this letter. I just have a quertion or two to ask you, if you don't mind. I frequent this site to see what's in the pipeline: https://www.psybient.org/love/upcoming-releases-psychill-ambient-downtempo/ There are several releases listed ase upcoming for you and Matt. Besides Indigo Egg - Aten, which I have coming (with a digital dl, you said...;~), they are: Ishvara - Magik Square Of The Moon (I've been hearing rumors of this one for quite some time now) and 4 by Ishq: Abstracts 1, Light and Space, Meadows, and Vignettes. Further down it mentions 3 unnamed albums by Omni Vu Deity. My question is: which of these are, or could be, actually coming down the pike from you two, and which ones do you not see happening? And do you have any firm or tentative timeline for any of them? Just (very) Curious Joe Dees Hi Joe many thanks for the email and interest .To be honest its quite difficult whats planned next or will be released as we are both stepping away from some aspects of music releasing and into some new avenues and label ideas but those are not fully formulated yet. Magik square of the moon is still a planned release but we decided to hibernate Virtual for some years possibly and when we have a better situation here to work longer on releases . Omni vue deity releases are part of the remaing Virtual releases but as mentioned those have been stored for release maybe in a few years when we will complete the Virtual world series of albums and bring Virtual to an end. The focus here is on now new music , styles , labels and some very different forms of music but largely electronic. Ishq Abstracts 1, Light and Space , Vignettes are releases planned for a new label called i7x which will appear sooner than later and shifts Ishq into contemporary minimalism as well as semi classic minimalism and even electronic minimal works +ambient but quite different from much heard to date from Ishq. Meadow is a very long planned album by Ishq started in 2000 a week after Orchid was released, its a double album and of material that harks from that period and again we sat on it until we can fund the time needed to spend 6 months just on that one release as its very much in the old Ishq style .Thats the next main full Ishq album but probably a few years off , maybe less. There is a lot planned but we kind of had to shift focus a bit here and also start work outside music as streaming and downloads just killed our ability to sell enough works to fund longer periods of writing and the more intense and deeper albums like the 3 main Ishq releases which took months and years to make so things shifted , thats also why we hibernated Virtual in part as those albums can take months to make and its impossible to sell enough music to pay for our living costs and recording time now as so few people want to buy music . We are streaming 80,000 tracks a month on Spotify now and earning £70 from that but we are selling 90% less than we were in cd form and download since 2014 at the same time ! so we saw massive increase in listeners and a massive death of our income and ability to fund making music , time is money in a sense and its become unsustainable for many artists now sadly. So we basically retired from all digital music upload except bandcamp private accounts in the future and direct downloads and were looking at an Ishq app for streamers eventually that we run so it will lead to positive things and some nice physical musical artworks and vinyl also but when we can fund it. Hope that helps , sorry if thats a bit deep at the end but thats where we are basically , expect lots of music best wishes jacqueline
  13. Typically brilliant. But we've learned to expect nothing less than superlativity from these savants. And they never fail to deliver.
  14. https://sentimony.bandcamp.com/album/zymosis-insight
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