Spinnet (One Arc Degree)

edIT - Ltlp
 

 
Great tune off phenomenal album.  Glitchy, laid back, and soulful.

Futuristic & cutting edge! Aes Dana has matured beautifully as an artist throughout the years...
 

Matt Hillier released plethora of music this year. I arranged some of my favourite tunes that came out in 2015 into this amateur mix. Enjoy

extremely interesting... 

Synphaera Records is a electronic record label focused on longevity and the quality of our artists/releases. Our first release “Æthereal Code†from Ascendant broke through and was highly acclaimed by reviewers and fans across the globe.
 
https://synphaera.bandcamp.com/album/thereal-code
 
Synphaera Records is seeking out new artists to become part of our 2016 lineup and beyond. We are looking for artists in the genres of electronic ambient, downtempo, and deep techno. We are currently putting together a compilation for our new artists to showcase the amazing talent Synphaera Records has to offer.
 
 
If you or anyone you know would be a good fit for our label, please have them contact us directly at [email protected]
 
Cheers and thanks!
-S1gns Of L1fe & Phase47 (Synphaera Records / Ascendant)

Good night Paris - we are with you.

Some hints:
 
- Seb Taylor is in planned
- as for Evan Marc Bartholomew aka Bluetech - unfortunately we can't get a reply.

Artist: Erot & One Arc Degree
Album: Synergism
Type: EP
Style tags: Psychill, Downtempo
Media type: DIGITAL
Year: 2015
Label: Iboga Records
Catalog ID: IBOGADIGITAL235
Length: 00:29:50
 
Synergism, as opposed to antagonism, means that the joint action of multiple agents is bound to increase each other's effectiveness. In this case, the joint efforts of Erot, danish psychill producer, and One Arc Degree, greek duo specialized in atmospheric breakbeats, have definitely increased each other's creativity. A collaboration that started more than a full year ago now bears it's first fruit!
 
This is probably our last release for 2015. We hope you will enjoy it while we prepare a multitude of new projects for next year!
 

Nice topic!
 
I was drawn to electronic music early in my student life, mostly by the sounds of Prodigy. So, for the first couple of years I was consciously listening to that rave/hardcore sound of the early 90s (and a good deal of happy hardcore as well). Then, during high school, a friend of mine randomly bought a couple of compilations, Rave Mission vol. 3 and Behind The Eye vol. 2. What a paradigm shift... I was instantly hooked to the sounds of trance music! So for the next few years I was happily exploring the brand new world of trance, goa and psychedelic music. My new favorites were Hallucinogen, Juno Reactor, Cosmosis, Doof, MFG etc.
Around the year 1998 I was starting to feel a bit nostalgic for the old days of rave and breakbeats. So I was shuffling through vinyls in my favorite record store at the time and the moment a Good Looking Records vinyl touched the needle I knew it... It was love at first listen! I had discovered the lush, spacious sounds of atmposheric drum & bass. What a sound!! From that day till now this aesthetic speaks directly to my inner being. This mellower approach to music influenced my listening habits a lot, so I consciously began to replace psytrance with psychill. First it was Mystery of the Yeti and Shpongle and then quickly diversified to Bluetech, Solar Fields, Saafi Brothers and Makyo, to name a few. Dropping psytrance might have to do with growing older I suppose. Then again, I was never really moved by hard & noisy drum & bass either so I guess my mellower side prevailed early in my life! So, by 2002 I was mainly listening to atmospheric drum & bass and psychill/ambient. I was always curious for artists that would try to merge aspects of these two styles but to no avail (...which eventually led me to try it out myself and thus the One Arc Degree project was born).
Yet another paradigm shift happened around the year 2006. Belatedly, I had discovered the demanding, experimental sounds of Autechre. This much more introverted, artificial kind of sound was tickling my brain in a different way and that felt fresh and original to me. So for the next few years I was discovering old gems form artists like Plaid, Aphex Twin, Alva Noto and others. 
What impresses me today is that the boundaries between styles are gone. You can find daring artists that manage to skillfully blend elements of all these different approaches in an artful way. And that really excites me!
 
PS: One detour I have taken during all these years has to do with a trip I took to Oslo. There I happened to attend a concert by a psychobilly band called Mad Sin. That was a crazy experience, raw energy combined with b-movie/punk aesthetic. That concert urged me to explore the psychobilly sound a bit and from there go back to rockabilly and, more importantly, surf rock. I had never listened to rock music in my life but surf rock won me over!

Checking out the latest from ASC... I gotta say, I love everything the man does! Blissful ambient to lose yourself into...
 

As we both love science (I'm a physicist while my partner is an engineer), we wanted something mathematical, simple and in correlation with astronomy/cosmology. The 1/360 of a circle (in other words, one arc degree) was pure enough for our purpose, so we stuck with it!

Hi all,
 
The new ambientsketchbook album, 'Magick' was released 9th October 2015. In less than 24 hours it became one of the most downloaded albums in the ASb canon. Check it out here and name your price:
 

"Open your mind and heart"
 
Does that include an openness to a broader range of music? Disappointed to read this forum is intended for sub120 music, given that psytrance or even psytechfunk kicks off around 135, it might be that a crucial sweet spot is being ignored. Also, there's a LOT of psychedelic music made outside of accepted 'psybient' genre boundaries. In particular it appears that even permitted psybient producers already make music that does not meet criteria imposed. I have a genuine concern about 'ethno' tokenism too - it might be hugely surreal for a native speaker to hear misunderstood snippets of their culture in amongst a soundtrack. Also, I'm concerned about 'danceable' being perceived as a necessary and desirable feature of the soundtrack for an alternative/chill space - as MixMasterMorris quips, it's also time to lie down and be counted. Besides, who makes the call that a reggae tune is 80bpm, if listeners want to skank along at 160. Music without boundaries please. Genres are soooo 20th century, don't you think?

Artist: One Arc Degree
Album: Restless Empire
Type: EP
Style tags: Chillout , Drum & Bass, Cinematic, Downtempo
Media type: DIGITAL
Year: 2015
Label: Blue Tunes Chillout 
Catalog ID: BTCDR003
Length: 00:20:12
Official URL: https://bluetuneschillout.lnk.to/restlessempire
 
When we met Koan in Samsara Festival this year, they kindly asked us if we would like to release our music on the newly found sublabel, Blue Tunes Chillout. So, this is our debut on the label, three tracks further exploring the ties between chillout and drum & bass, in a cosmic, cinematic way.
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vxMDa_jz018

It was a pleasure doing this EP and the upcoming EP "Synergism" on Iboga records with you guys. 

Artists: 1. Matt Hiller 2. Geir Jenssen 3. Seb Taylor 4. Evan Marc Bartholomew 5. Gus Till
 
Questions: 1. What makes you keep going (in music creation).
                  2. Why tackle many projects at once? Does it help with artistic excitement / creativity?
                  3. Where do you see the music industry going 5 years down the road? 
                  4. What drew you to ambient music?
                  5. When we will finally program computers to create musical content on their own, will that be art?

Artist: One Arc Degree Album: Under A Trillion Suns Type: EP Style tags: Chillout, Downtempo, Trance Media type: DIGITAL Year: 2014 Label: Microcosmos Records Catalog ID: MCRCSMS012 Length: 00:29:00 official url: http://microcosmosrecords.com/one-arc-degree-trillion-suns/   Tracklist: 1. The Star Orchard (07:04) 2. Futurism (07:08) 3. Under A Trillion Suns (06:17) 4. For The Love Of Despair (08:29)  
Our first extended play release was hosted by the wonderful people at Microcosmos Records. This was a big release for us, marking a shift in direction from our usual breakbeat / drum & bass rhythms into a deep & mellow 4/4 trancy style. The defining One Arc Degree melodies and ethereal atmosphere is ever present, as well as the soprano voice of Georgia Irakli plus a guest appearance from another great vocalist, Ivilinia. Enjoy the music, I hope you'll find it interesting! 
 

Artist: Various
Album: Organic Beats Vol. 3
Type: Compilation
Style tags: Psydub, Psychill, Tribal
Media type: WEB, CD-R
Year: 2015
Label: Altar Records
Length: 01:09:05
Official url: http://altar.bandcamp.com/album/organic-beats-vol-3-24bits

 

thank you yiannis
 
the voice will most certainly return for the album!

Nice topic!
 
I was drawn to electronic music early in my student life, mostly by the sounds of Prodigy. So, for the first couple of years I was consciously listening to that rave/hardcore sound of the early 90s (and a good deal of happy hardcore as well). Then, during high school, a friend of mine randomly bought a couple of compilations, Rave Mission vol. 3 and Behind The Eye vol. 2. What a paradigm shift... I was instantly hooked to the sounds of trance music! So for the next few years I was happily exploring the brand new world of trance, goa and psychedelic music. My new favorites were Hallucinogen, Juno Reactor, Cosmosis, Doof, MFG etc.
Around the year 1998 I was starting to feel a bit nostalgic for the old days of rave and breakbeats. So I was shuffling through vinyls in my favorite record store at the time and the moment a Good Looking Records vinyl touched the needle I knew it... It was love at first listen! I had discovered the lush, spacious sounds of atmposheric drum & bass. What a sound!! From that day till now this aesthetic speaks directly to my inner being. This mellower approach to music influenced my listening habits a lot, so I consciously began to replace psytrance with psychill. First it was Mystery of the Yeti and Shpongle and then quickly diversified to Bluetech, Solar Fields, Saafi Brothers and Makyo, to name a few. Dropping psytrance might have to do with growing older I suppose. Then again, I was never really moved by hard & noisy drum & bass either so I guess my mellower side prevailed early in my life! So, by 2002 I was mainly listening to atmospheric drum & bass and psychill/ambient. I was always curious for artists that would try to merge aspects of these two styles but to no avail (...which eventually led me to try it out myself and thus the One Arc Degree project was born).
Yet another paradigm shift happened around the year 2006. Belatedly, I had discovered the demanding, experimental sounds of Autechre. This much more introverted, artificial kind of sound was tickling my brain in a different way and that felt fresh and original to me. So for the next few years I was discovering old gems form artists like Plaid, Aphex Twin, Alva Noto and others. 
What impresses me today is that the boundaries between styles are gone. You can find daring artists that manage to skillfully blend elements of all these different approaches in an artful way. And that really excites me!
 
PS: One detour I have taken during all these years has to do with a trip I took to Oslo. There I happened to attend a concert by a psychobilly band called Mad Sin. That was a crazy experience, raw energy combined with b-movie/punk aesthetic. That concert urged me to explore the psychobilly sound a bit and from there go back to rockabilly and, more importantly, surf rock. I had never listened to rock music in my life but surf rock won me over!

It seems that most of us listen to more than one genre, myself included. The question is, what genre to you consider your "main", the one you think you'll always come back to? For example, I started listening to music consciously with metal, and that was the only genre I listened to for some years. Then I moved on to heavy rock, but I still considered metal my main genre. That changed when I first listened to the Ozrics, after which time I started getting into psychedelic music, from The Beatles to Astral Projection. I considered all kinds of psychedelia my main genre at the time - yes that was very broad but I think we all more or less understand what I looked for in music. Nowadays I think I've finally found "my sound", what I reckon will stay with me as the music I'll probably enjoy the most and always come to for the rest of my years, in most of the different aspects of psychedelic downtempo. It's already been longer than any other genre before that I've enjoyed it. I can still get excited about my metal and goa, but regardless of how long I'll spend listening obsessively to another genre (and it can be months), I'll eventually look for my psychill fix to feel whole again. So is psybient your main genre, or if not, what is? Feel free to tell your musical story if you like.

Seb Taylor's collection of tracks is simply stunning and an important piece of chill music history. This guy is amazingly talented and versatile! 

Really nice to read about the history and coming together of this project didn't know it was a vocal of your wife. Distant Industries is a wonderful track that I feel very connected too. I played it in one of my first 'real' dj sets. I was heavy into drum & bass for a long time so that could explain the connection.
Will have to check out your other works now too!
 
Related: when is THIS coming out and what can we expect?

- just wanted to add Irresistable Force (mixmastermorris) to the list of all-time classics. Global Chillage is phenomenal! Other couple of albums also brilliant
 
- again Gel-Sol is world-class, maybe have a pre-listen but in amongst some utterly sublime ambience

i like to read interviews, and here are some that are interesting:
 
Kalya Scintilla and Eve Olution (Positive Head Podcast)
http://positivehead.com/spread-the-positivity/2015/06/17/positive-head-podcast-10-kalya-scintilla-and-eve-olution/
 
Ott
https://karatekingmusic.wordpress.com/2015/08/17/fuck-the-old-music-industry-its-a-coked-up-boys-club-in-terminal-decline-a-karate-king-interview-with-ott/
 
Yarn
http://lostinsound.org/yarn-exclusive-mix-interview/