Zhang Li – Persuasion (2009)

Date: 2009
Location: Columbia, MD; Langley, VA

He who receives an idea from me receives instruction himself without lessening mine–as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me.

-Thomas Jefferson

http://www.archive.org/details/The-Wholesale-Brain

http://tomfahy.org/music/?p=360

[auba001] Jolea – Ghostly Figures (2009)

Audiobaum is a fresh-faced electronic music label in Helsinki, Finland.

Ghostly Figures is a lightly conceptual minialbum. Portrayed as a  panorama of feelings, those ghosts of the past are creating the layers of music that almost become tangible.

The Album begins with a bittersweet taste of dub-based longing, and it goes through a cold, melancholic idm-flavoured phase with broken textures and misty soundscapes that are on the verge of  breaking into darker areas of hurt, anger and frustration in the depths of dubstep.

1. Kennst du Musik
2. Love Ruins All
3. Tempo 17
4. Blame
5. Ghostly Figures

Download the whole album for free! (zip package – 192kbps mp3)

http://www.audiobaum.com/?page_id=59

Liking the release? Purchase the starving-artist-limited-edition CD from the Audiobaum webstore!

[DWK046] DJ Racy A.J – Rust Tree LP (2009)

Right from the forgotten underground outskirts of Kiev comes the debut album from Dj Racy A.J. Trippy-phat big beats run like dark shadows across dusty walls of melancholic ambient sounds, to create another original soundtrack for the real hard life. If you love Cujo’s “Adventures In Foam” you’ll definitely dig this album as the sun, the moon and the stars!

http://www.archive.org/details/DWK046/

http://dustedwax.org/dwk046.html

Under The Moss

Under The Moss is the very first full-length psytrance release from Lithuania. Compiled by Forest Freaks, it showcases the early experiments of a number of new producers in this young scene. The overall style is generally a mix of darkpsy, forest music, and dark progressive but there is a wide range of other influences at work as well. This compilation has been crafted with care to demonstrate that psychedelic music production in Lithuania is moving forward.

http://www.ektoplazm.com/free-music/under-the-moss/

Back to Goa » Bonus Set – DJ Zhyin (Minimal Criminal)

An exclusive bonus set this month from one half of the duo known as MINIMAL CRIMINAL! Currently based in Israel, Valerio Zhyin presents a killer mix of druggy prog and dark & twisted psy.

http://max99.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=549333#

1. Cause & Effect-stoflk stiflk
2. Minimal Criminal- crimson executioner
3. Onionbrain vs Zartrox- read and loaded
4. Grouch- pyramid schemev 5. Dopped- mundo estranho
6. Opsy- commit charge(Minimal Criminal remix)
7. Minimal Criminal- red mongolian deathworm
8. Hedonix- sixth circuit semantics
9. Product Placement- the distortionist
10. Moses- trukket i lyden(Cujorius One remix)

Bodytonic Podcast 057 : Elemental

Elemental’s dubstep from the darkside.

Elemental’s debut album looks back but thinks forward – ‘Messages From The Void’ is a collection of work from the past four years showcasing the producer’s penchant for the darker side of bass music. [...]

http://www.bodytonicmusic.com/podcasts/2009/nov/17/bodytonic-podcast-057-elemental/

‘Intro (Electro Bongo Jam)’
‘Magic Harp’
‘Talk’
‘Zimbal Boogie Edit’
‘Zimbal Dub’
‘Darkcore Revival pt1′
‘Spring Dub’
‘Metal Funk’
‘Arise’
‘Shiner’
‘Light Weaver’
‘Sacred Space (live jam)’
‘Braindrops’
‘Raw Material’
‘Sine Classic’
‘DeepChord’
‘Empty’
‘Desert Storm’
‘Darkcore Revivial pt2′
‘925 outro’

listenup.za.net, south african dj electronic mixset collective » Helmut J – Grey Area 2

Helmut J – Grey Area 2

This mix represents the second part to an older mix I did in February 2007, which represented my darkest & most favorite tracks. This one is no different. I have also included my first finished production which I think sits nicely between Discipline & Side Fx.

A dark, twisted journey through my newer darker minimal techno & progressive collection.

Compiled & Mixed in November 2009.

http://www.listenup.za.net/2009/11/16/helmut-j-grey-area-2/

Tracklisting – Grey Area Part 2 Mixed by Helmut J.
01) Sascha Funke – Vanish Remix (Original Mix)
02) Brendon Moeller – Pink Noise (Original Mix)
03) Zhao – Second Step (From Karaoke To Stardom Remix)
04) Sei A – My Era (Original Mix)
05) Silent Servant – Discipline (Original Mix)
06) Helmut J – Geist (Original)
07) Chelonis R. Jones, Marc Romboy – Side FX (Konrad Black Remix)
08) BCR Boys – Soundshield (Sinisa Lukic Remix)
09) Robert Babicz – White Series (Original Mix)
10) Boris Brejcha -Magic Gum (Original Mix)
11) Extrawelt – Trummerfeld (Oliver Huntemann Remix)
12) Ludovic Vendi – Ending (Robert Babicz Remix)

[rz145] Ashlesha IX – Divine (2009)

Divine, Ashlesha IX, Ambient, Drone, Dark Ambient, RusZUD

Playlist:
1. Ashlesha IX – Darej 2 Dadjerro ( 50 Procents Of Telo 1 ) (4:19)
2. Ashlesha IX – Paine (6:19)
3. Ashlesha IX – Divine ( Mix ) (4:49)
4. Ashlesha IX – The Empress Of Death ( Memento Mori ) (7:10)
5. Ashlesha IX – Darej 3 ( Wave III -3- ) (7:29)

www.archive.org/details/rz145

www.ruszud.com/releases/rz145-ashlesha-ix-divine-2009/

[at026] NIGUL – Maya (2009)

Maya is the latest release by catalan artist Nigul (aka Jaume Muntsant). After one year of hard work and being busy with his other project Hermético, Muntsant releases his fifth album until the date.

Maya is a new twist on this dark ambient project. This time Muntsant releases a more aseptic album, cleaner and more minimalistic than its previous. It seems that conceptually Hermético and Nigul are getting closer in terms of economy of media and aesthetics. Despite this minimalistic issues, Maya also contains the list of themes that Muntasnt loves to bring up to the light, such us epic nostalgia, farewell encounters and misterious names of tracks.

Finally, with Maya, Nigul is walking a new path in which the guitar takes a new role on the construction of sonorities. As well there is always a special care on building a narrative flow of hidden ideas, lost stories and all sorts of secrets beneath all the layers of sound structures. And this is a reminder of the inspirational referents of this catalan artist, dark stories, secrets, epic, and finally David Lynch, somewhere watching us.

www.archive.org/details/at026Nigul-Maya

www.audiotalaia.net

Zhang Li – The Habitual Stain (2009)

Composed By: Zhang Li
Software: Timbretronics; Progressive Recursion [Fahy]
Location: Lake Winnipeg, Manitoba; Paris
Date: 2009

www-tracey.archive.org/details/The-Habitual-Stain

http://tomfahy.org/music/?p=325

[rz143] Ashlesha IX – The Moment EP (2009)

Playlist:
1. Ashlesha IX – The Moment (5:16)
2. Ashlesha IX – Thunder (6:39)

www.archive.org/details/rz143

www.ruszud.com/releases/rz143-ashlesha-ix-the-moment-2009/

[AMR259] Darkness Exhalation Mix Vol. 1

Artists: Various
Style: Ambient, Dark Ambient, Atmospheric, DJ Mix
Bitrate: 192 kbps
Total time: 51 min. 43 sec.

Mix-list:

1. Audio Geist – Paz Demoni II [Amduscias Records 175]
2. Microbit Project – Darkness Exhalation [no releasing]
3. Dj DeD MoROZ – Dream Under The Decreasing Moon [Amduscias Records 175]
4. Worms of the Earth – Untitled (Trapped in Bardo) [Amduscias Records 175]
5. Rose Red – Shock Therapy [Amduscias Records 100]
6. Turmoil – Eternal Darkness [Amduscias Records 100]
7. Palancar – Grandmother of the Dawn [Earth Mantra 100]
8. Upheaval – Alone [Amduscias Records 100]
9. Rose Red – Murmet [Intox Noize 030]
10. 6138 – Recycled Stars [Amduscias Records 100]
11. Shane Morris – Solitude [Earth Mantra 100]
12. Weimar – Mysterious Quest Of Basil Karlo [Amduscias Records 100]
13. Audio Geist – Paz Demoni II (Coda) [Amduscias Records 175]

Recorded mix: October 2009

www.archive.org/details/AMR259

http://amdusciasrecords.4t.com

[ca326] Mutation Urbaine – Ville Imaginaire (2009)

Quiet Lips, suspended in emptiness, undulating and shimmering, fused with water and fire, gives us a feeling appeasing. Strange decor where reality and the fiction merge narrowly ; minimalist landscape evoking a Feeling of Emptiness, disquiet and sometimes of unrest. In the distance, is concealed an Imaginary City curiously beautiful and mysterious giving a disturbing glance and angelic. Behind this thick fog an industrialized and confined Urban Landscape appears in full development more each day. With a great amplitude, Light Vagabond scans the waves and propagates a soft melody which perpetually gyrates losing itself in the bowels of the city. In the depths of the underground galleries, a Haunted Subway Train, staggered in search of its distant past, tirelessly furrows the icy underground tunnels, to disappear into the dark night.

Le Hibou : Auteur, compositeur, interprète et arrangeur
instr. : guitare, basse, basse baritone, piano et M.A.O.

Contact:
www.myspace.com/mutationurbaine

www.archive.org/details/ca326_mu

www.clinicalarchives.spyw.com

[P36-033] Sascha Müller – Sound Fever (2009)

After many releases on netlabels such as Kahvi Collective, Camomille Music, Proc-Records, Kreislauf or Super 6 Records, Sascha Müller finally appears on Pavillon36 Recordings. This time, he offers to you a fantastic EP of his finest ambient works. A deep escape into sound who certainly will give you fever. but a pleasant fever…

www.archive.org/details/SoundFever/

http://pavillon36recordings.blogspot.com/2006/10/sascha-muller-sound-fever-cat-n-p36-033.html

Virusboy (Lebanon) – IF DARKNESS HAD A NAME…PHOBIQ guest mix 26-10-09 Beattunes.com

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Phobiq Grooves Virusboy (Lebanon) – IF DARKNESS HAD A NAME…PHOBIQ guest mix 26-10-09 Beattunes.com Dark Progressive

Virusboy – IF DARKNESS HAD A NAME…PHOBIQ guest mix 26-10-09.mp3

www.beattunes.net/default.php

LWE Podcast 33: Chilling the Do (aka Kassem Mosse & Mix Mup)

“LWE Podcast 33 offers an exclusive and abridged version of what the duo might unfurl in a nightclub over the course of several hours. It’s dark, campy yet deeply compelling, and as they’ll be the first to admit, not for everyone.”

www.littlewhiteearbuds.com/lwe-podcast-32-chilling-the-do-aka-kassem-mosse-mix-mup/

[IDEA010] Ventolyn & Becotyde – Neuro Torque (2009)

Flowing from track to track like a twisted electronic dream, this excellent e.p from Irelands Ventolyn & Becotyde combines complex rhythms and haunting melodies to create a deliciously dark soundscape.

www.ideation-records.com/releases/neuro-torque/

Moshic – Live Special Mix 10.2009 – beattunes.com

Northern Israel, Haifa (1977), Moshic Shlomi is born. A man, whose name thrills millions of progressive House fans today. He grew up in a family of musicians, but not everything in his life inclined cheerful singing.

Moshic.Live.Special.mix.10.2009-beattunes.com.mp3

www.beattunes.net

[brhnet06] dfader – Insomenyah (2009)

Is a dark melodic combination of Trip Hop and Electronica. A dark futuristic and sometimes angry, edgy slab of electronic loop based music sprinkled with a mixed handful of samples and sound design. Bringing together a mixture of science fiction film soundtracks, 90’s Trip Hop, and early ambient music.

www.archive.org/details/dfader_-_Insomenyah

http://breathe-comp.com/2009/10/dfader-insomenyah-brhnet06/

[#earman100] VA – The Hundredth Mantra (2009)

Happy Birthday Earth Mantra Netlabel!

Welcome to Earth Mantra Netlabel’s one hundredth release. To celebrate this milestone, we decided early on that this album should be a compilation of the artists who made up the previous ninety-nine releases.

Little did we realize how many of our artists would want to contribute and how excellent the music would be. As a result, this release has grown to encompass four full discs of sublime ambience, with more than four hours of music end to end. We’re very proud of the result.

Special thanks to all of the artists for their contributions, both to this compilation, to Earth Mantra, as well as to the ambient community at large. Your generosity helps make the ambient world a better place, and Earth Mantra simply could not exist without you.

Finally, we would like to thank our listeners, without whom there would literally be no point. We sincerely hope that you have enjoyed the first one hundred mantras, and we look forward to many, many more.

Note that several of the artists on the compilation have posted videos to YouTube related to this release, which we encourage you to check out:

Altus – Rainmaker
Sylvie Walder and Phillip Wilkerson – Compte à Cent

Enjoy!

www.archive.org/details/earman100

http://earthmantra.com/thehundredthmantra

Back To Goa – Zen Detonator 2 (Aurora)

Time for a change of pace!

Over the last few months Back To Goa has showcased some fantastic minimal and progressive artists with great bonus sets from New Age Hippies and Radioactive Cake. This month Back To Goa’s AURORA would like to rebalance proceedings with an explosive full power dark psy mix!

Back_To_Goa_-_Zen_Detonator_2_Aurora.mp3

**Zen Detonator 2**

Track Listings

1. Doing Wrong – Safi Connection
2. Fear of Spirals – Scorb and Deviant Species
3. Downturn – Penta
4. Morning Storm – Dragon
5. Chapora – Dark Elf
6. End of Machine Age – Far East Ghost
7. Life Extension – Enichkin
8. Ice Wind – Savage Scream
9. Hunted Heretic – Orestis
10. Spiritual War – Polyphonia
11. Sound Impact – Polyphonia
12. Hard Task – Becoming Intense and Pharmacore
13. Cruical Night – Fatal Discord

mixed by Dj Aurora (Scotland) 11/10/2009

peace and positive vibes

http://max99.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=536154#

[phoke58] Mr. Incognito – LHC (2009)

LHC -> Largest High Church, a particle-’enhancer’,
which gets the missing blackhole generator activated,
supported by the other dimensions headquarter -
“Massive Dynamics”. We activate this largest machine
on earth, jumping to the next cosmic level in technology,
also trying to proof the “Heim-Theory”, which could lead to
an amazing propulsion technology – 11 lightyears in 80 days!

This piece of music is a slightly changed rework of a liveact
setup by Mr. Incognito. It was prepared for a final event of
a workshop, of learning to make art out of special cosmic
ingredients, who were explored to earth. The event took place
in Riesa in May 2009. The concert took place in front of 15
people, sitting on snugly wooden and cushioned seats in front
of a good sounding P.A.

www.archive.org/details/phoke58

www.phonocake.org/release.php?release_id=128&lang=2

[ODP043] Simeon Dotkov – Before Dusk [2009]

Simeon Dotkov’s releases have been crucial for the development of ODP. Under one or another alias he has been releasing amazing music since the very beginning of the label. So it is not a surprise we’re presenting another piece of his work. This is the conceptual dark ambient/soundtrack album ‘Before Dusk’. In sixteen tracks we are slowly introduced to the world of Jenny. Creepy monologues, dusty pianos, slowly evolving soundscapes and satanic chants draw the fragile boundaries of the mental asylum she’s trapped in. We offer you over an hour long walk with her in the endless nightmare, a walk you’ll surely be taking over and over again, once you dare to drown yourself in this obsessive ambience of desolation, depression and tension. Now we are offering you the digital version of the album, soon a limited edition cd-r release will be published!

www.archive.org/details/odp043

http://odplabel.com

[ca311] litmus0001 – Compass Rose EP (2009)

litmus0001 offers to you “compass rose EP”, his 3rd Clinical Archives release. With this, he returns to his exploration of improvisational performance and aleatory composition on 6 string bass and guitar against textural samples to generate droning dark ambient soundscapes.

“The world’s greatest truths began as heresy, and the greatest discoveries began as innocent mistakes.”

Jonathan Ewald : 6 string bass, electric guitar, radio, effects, liveloops, knives, samples, production.

Contact:
www.myspace.com/litmus0001music

www.archive.org/details/ca311_l

www.clinicalarchives.spyw.com

[earman098] mindSpiral – Curiosa Positronica (2009)

In April of 2009, Mike Metlay launched the latest of his mindSpiral collaborative projects. This version, the eighth incarnation so far, was a trio composed of David Herpich (better known as Emerald Adrift), Darrell Burgan (better known as Palancar), and of course Mike himself.

The central purpose of this version of mindSpiral was to compose and rehearse music for a live performance taking place at the Fiske Planetarium in Boulder, Colorado, on April 11, 2009. However, when you put three experienced improvisational electronic musicians together in a room, all of whom are DJs on the StillStream.com net radio station, and all of whom are very much used to playing live on air, it is inevitable that at some point the rehearsal process would be set aside so they could just play together for fun and inspiration, with an online audience following the action.

So it was that on April 7 and 10, 2009, David, Mike, and Darrell played two hour-long live improvisations on StillStream.com, and on April 12, the morning after the successful planetarium show, they played a third hour on Second Life, before going their separate ways. The artists felt the music from all three of these sessions was remarkably inspired and focused, and upon relistening over the summer, they determined that there was enough material here for at least two releases, not to mention the recordings of the music for the planetarium show (whose ultimate fate is still some ways in the future).

The process was fairly straightfoward. The jam sessions were carefully listened to, and then chopped into smaller pieces where there were obvious break points. Selections from that list of tracks were then ordered into releasable sets with a common theme or feel. The first of those releases is this album, entitled “Curiosa Positronica”.

The idea for the title came from the divergent and often thought-provoking moods of the pieces collected for the release. Taken as a whole, these ten songs give the impression of a robot from some future (past?) time, poring over ancient manuscripts in a passionate attempt to understand how human beings think … or thought. By turns sad, arresting, and whimsical, this extraordinary collection of music belies the fact that it was all performed live with no rehearsals or preparation.

Earth Mantra is excited to be able to bring you this first glimpse into the colorful, mournful, amusing world of mind8Spiral.

www.archive.org/details/earman098

http://earthmantra.com/curiosapositronica

[qd-4257] Switchboard Of Souls – Don’t Bother Me – Remixes (2009)

When Switchboard Of Souls sings: “Don’t bother me, just leave us alone, don’t you know that we’re all just as human,” he sounds the anthem of the alienated and the disenfranchised. It’s a simple enough tune, but the variations do bring new viewpoints to the plate.

The first two original 8-minute-plus tracks utilize a driving darkwave synth with guitars and vocals reminiscent of early New Order, but subsequent versions range from electro 808 State-like arrangements (Common Prayer Mix), to industrial stylings (BlenderMix), to sinister downtempo (Hands & Feet Mix), to 90s pop remix (InstrumentalMix), to new age piano (Sonata), to a combo of everything on the 2 reprises.

www.archive.org/details/qd-4257SwitchboardOfSouls-DontBotherMe-Remixes

http://qed.acid42.bluechronicles.net/

[rz136] Ashlesha IX – Begin… 2009

Artist: Ashlesha IX
Name: Begin…
Date: 11.09.2009
Style: Ambient, Space, Dark Ambient
Label: RusZUD Net Label
Format: Free Net-release (MP3)
Bitrate: 320 Kbps

www.archive.org/details/rz136

www.ruszud.com/releases/rz136-ashlesha-ix-begin-2009/

[treetrunk 092] Ulv and Sauhu – Storm (2009)

Treetrunk presents 2 deep, dark minimal works from 2 excellent artists.

www.archive.org/details/Ulv_And_Sauhu_Storm

http://mystifiedmusic.com/treetrunk-records/

[MonoKraK39] Daegon – Arrival EP (2009)

01. Magic Eyes
02. Radar Report
03. They Have Arrived

(cover + mp3’s) : Arrival

www.monokrak.net

[plague038] 21 Gramms – Rain EP (2009)

“Only rain…”

For more information, visit the artist’s MySpace page

1. Prologue
2. Rain
3. Epilogue

www.archive.org/details/plague038

http://plaguedream.blogspot.com