Residing deep within the Persian underground music scene and often better known under his alias, “Alphaxone”, Mehdi Saleh takes a more ambient approach to the Spuntic EP included on the Nagual 5 boxed set. “Silent Escape” delivers a rich and expertly crafted sonic experience for the listener designed to accompany those welcome moments of relaxed solitude.

Fourth CD release in the #oohwow series! This is a Nyquist adventure in sound called Sonic Periapsis and the re-release of the great The Shape album Waveshape Fiction. Split artist album – the second one in the ooh wow series and not the last! Then the listener gets a chance of getting two albums in the same package. Ooh wow!

Limited edition of 150 copies.

Streams see’s AOC working on instinct rather than a preconceived concept by letting only their inspiration guide them through and exploring the “Ambient Soundscape” in a deeply experimental, psychedelic, melodic & emotive way.
Streams was originally released only as part of the massive 20 cd boxset Moonstreams and due to demand for a single cd release we can enjoy Streams in it’s own right individually.

Melt into Streams…

180 gram yellow vinyl. Includes insert. Hand-numbered. One of the most influential bands in the last five decades, Kraftwerk virtually established the blueprint, the source code even for electronic music. Founded by classically trained musicians Ralf Hütter and Florian Schneider-Esleban in Dusseldorf in 1970, the band has informed and inspired a diverse range of genres and artists including David Bowie, Björk, Afrika Bambaataa, and Joy Division. This early live performance, in Soest, Germany in Winter 1970, broadcast on WDR-TV displays the band in superb form. Arguably, the future of electronic music, trance, techno, ambient — started right here. CD version comes in four-panel digipack; includes eight-page, full-color booklet with background notes and images.

Mick Chillage and Eric “The” Taylor, better known to the ambient cognoscenti as Architects of Existence, return with a follow-up to their earlier self-titled Carpe Sonum debut, and it’s a dandy. Neither artist’s been resting on his laurels these past three years, but whatever spirits they’ve imbibed since has had a pretty dramatic effect on their respective gray matter. To wit, they’ve brought to bear on this superb follow-up a near-telepathic line of communication that has yielded one of this years’ most compelling opuses. Imagine taking a literal plunge into the clicking synapses, irising filters, snapping envelopes, and charging whips of electricity at the core of the duo’s gear, audiovisually mapping the results, and pushing the molecules of air outward to yield the mighty textures leaping forth. Does the word ‘epic’ come to mind? These two Architects have crafted a Fax-like artifact for the ages, full of mammoth synths that carve out great chunks of sky and leave the listener riveted in mindstates awash in awe. From the near-symphonic brushstrokes of “Pulling”, which takes on an Michel Huygen/Neuronium-like grandeur, to the pearlescent sequencer patterns adorning “A Trickled Tear”, this dynamic duo effortlessly trips the light fantastic.

Making their debut on Carpe Sonum is the Italian duo known as Cravagoide, who insist on making some genuinely earthy IDM-inflected elixirs that spill down the gullet like dandelion wine. Featuring the rhythmic crunch so beloved of early genre mainstays like Boards of Canada, Bitcrush, Tim Koch, and many others, Cravagoide bathe in vast oceans of synth warble and mid-tempo percussive tableau that shift with great ease and much joie de vivre. It is a warm, engaging sound to lay back and watch breezes sketch elaborate traceries in the cumulus above, opening doors to the imagination through which you are beckoned into. A buoyancy abounds hereabouts that makes the entire enterprise infectious as hell. “Low Ridge Haven” recalls some of the gentle playfulness of Nobukazu Takemura as it intersects with some of the old Childisc crew, while “Pentatonic” moves on a happytime motorik pulse so squeaky it could urge Mouse on Mars to dance a jig or two. Right now, it feels good to have the likes of Cravagoide nipping at out heels—their bubbly touch of effervescence is the ideal tonic for these prickly times.

Music by Tim Dwyer and Devin Underwood