I’m not updating this blog as frequently as I want but this doesn’t mean that I haven’t been listening to some good stuff lately. I’ll try to start posting some of it on the following days. Let’s begin with this beautiful album from Dane Jacobs called “Yellower Days”.

Usually I think that the glitch genre is some kind of sonic masturbation, with all the clicks and pops and no soul. This one is different. Full of emotion and melodies, it reminds me of more experimental and crazy Kettel. Now the icing on the cake: it’s free!!! But ff you download and like it please consider paying I $4 (!!) for the whole package including a bonus track.

Easily one of the best free releases I’ve heard this year. Oh, the art is amazing too!

Incredibly epic and good!

Chek it out: http://www.andvinyly.com/

You can even choose the soundtrack! But is not cheap…

In April they had a sold out launch party at the Millennium Gallery in Sheffield, as part of Sensoria Festival.

Music For Real Airports – Launch Event – Millennium Gallery, Sheffield from The Black Dog on Vimeo.

Oh how I wish we had this type of good music and visuals being produced here in Rio de Janeiro… One day I hope.

Through national and international interviews with physicians, researchers, leaders, policemen and representatives of civil movements, journalist Rodrigo Mac Niven introduces a new vision of the early 21st century that breaks the silence and questions the prohibitionist speech.

SmokeScreen_Englsih subtitles from COLETIVO PROJECTS on Vimeo.

I created most of the movie original soundtrack and am very proud to have participated on such a great project! Please share with your friends, this one deserve to be seen by the thinking mass of this planet!

Uploaded a new DJ Set: Inner Vision

Tryed to focus on 2009/10 tracks with varied styles: Ambient / Dowtempo / Post-rock. Here is the track list:

1- Rena Jones – Photosynthesis (Nalepa Remix)
2- Shulman – One Step Closer (Eitan Reiter & DJ Shahar Remix)
3- Solar Fields – Rediscover
4- Circular – Rablekok
5- Cell – Second Shape Part I
6- Carbon Based Lifeforms – Frog
7- Hammock – Dust Is The Devil’s Snow
8- Near the Parenthesis – Departing Gate

Flict – Inner Vision DJ Set by Flict

You can find most of the artist and releases discussed here on Ambient Explorations: Eitan Reiter, Solar Fields, Carbon Based Lifeforms, Hammock…

Thanks for the artist for creating such special music! “Eye” picture by Suren Manvelyan. Enjoy!

2005 marked the release of what is in my opinion one of the greatest psychedelic ambient albums of all times: Solar Fields “Leaving Home“. Magnus Birgersson had already released two albums before but no other showed his incredible sense of production, composition and originality like this one.

Since then I’ve been a huge fan and waited impatiently 4 years for the the follow up: Movements. And it was… ok. The production level was still very high and we had some real gems there (“Sol”, “Discovery” and “The Stones Are Not Too Busy” are among his best) but something was missing. Everything was so “right as expected”… I couldn’t help to feel a little disappointed. But I knew he still had this creativity and desire to break the rules on him. It was only a question of time…

…and suddenly, out of nowhere, comes “Altered – Second Movements“. He had already done an remix of one of his own albums (“Extended“) but what he attempted (and succeed) here is something else. I have no other way to describe it as “Movements” on acid. He abandoned all the strict rules of how a song should be arranged and that seems to have guided so much of “Movements” and permitted himself to create freely, without beginning or end. You can still hear and identify most of the tracks but they are so transmuted and realized that I wonder if they were written at the same time or even before the others!

It’s much more experimental than any other thing he has done before but very rewarding as a complete journey. And what a journey! Together with Carbon Based Lifeforms “Interloper”, the deepest one of the year. Extremely recommended!

Made another bandcamp.com discovery yesterday: Tangram

This ambient/downtempo project from Budapest is defined by its own creator (Peter Fabok) as “When Solar Fields meets Jean Michel Jarre”. I confess that I was never a big Jarre fan but since he mentioned Solar Fields I jumped in immediately. He has two albums and one EP released on bandcamp, all of them with  ”name your price” tag. My favorite one, Micropolis, has Ultimae Records written all over it. You get 9 psychedelic tracks, some with a beat, some minimalistic, others melodic, most with a nice nostalgic atmosphere.

Chek it out, specially if you like the artists mentioned above.

App developers are really trying to innovate when creating sequencers to touchscreen mobile hardware.

This one seems at the same time functional and very attractive! They said the next version will accept user created sample packs and track recording!

Do you think touch-screen will revolutionize the way we make music?

Found @ Create Digital Music