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Post by pieter on Nov 2, 2018 18:22:04 GMT -7
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Post by pieter on Nov 2, 2018 18:27:44 GMT -7
Laurent Garnier - The Man With The Red Face (Live @ Elysee Montmartre, Paris, France)
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Post by pieter on Feb 2, 2019 19:23:25 GMT -7
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Post by karl on Feb 2, 2019 19:57:27 GMT -7
Pieter
I was to listion to Statenhal and did enjoy it..And this is from a fellow that avoids hard core.. With Statenhal though, it is easy on both the ears and mind, for it is easy to emagine in the minds eye, after a day sitting at a desk with piles of paper work waiting and a time line to finish. To then be transported by two feet out of the building, to a nice dark quiet pub with a nice cold glass of dark sweet bear and for an hour, for get every thing but to listion to Statenhal.
Karl
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Post by pieter on Feb 3, 2019 13:11:51 GMT -7
Karl,
That is the same way ambient techno from Statenhal plays in my life. It is deep relaxation, setting my mind free for a moment and relating to the atmosphere of the music. To me it has deeper layters and a sort of transcedental (metaphysical) and meditative workings. No stress, no hard core, no up beat music for one moment, but total relaxation. I have the same thing with other music from this tread. The music of the Swiss-born composer/producer Thomas Fehlmann who lives in Berlin, Germany, and has been active in electronic music as far back as the 1980s. He is currently active on the Kompakt record label based in Germany. See the Fehlmann video's below.
Cheers, Pieter
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Post by pieter on Feb 3, 2019 16:25:15 GMT -7
KytemanKyteman, artist name of Colin Benders, (born 5 December 1986 in Utrecht) is a Dutch hip hop artist. ChildhoodBenders grew up in Sterrenwijk, Utrecht in the Netherlands. Primary school was not easy for Colin; various diagnoses, like ADHD, were made. When he was eight, he switched from his old school to the Kathedrale Koorschool Utrecht, where he got the chance to develop his musical talents. For a long time Kyteman was the precentor of the choir. He stopped singing at the age of fifteen.
After primary school Colin went to Secondary school for Young Talents, linked to the Royal Conservatory of The Hague, where he could specialize in playing the trumpet. The Royal Conservatory directly granted him special permission to go to their school, but after two years he also quit there.SoloAt the age of eighteen, Colin moved to another part of Utrecht. He spent three years writing and recording his debut album The Hermit Sessions. After he completed the album, in 2009, he toured through Europe with his Kyteman's Hiphop Orchestra.
Since then, he has played and toured with Relax [nl], Krezip, Voicst, Wouter Hamel and C-mon & Kypski In October 2010 he played two songs with Sting, Desert Rose and All Would Envy.AlbumsHermit SessionsThe Hermit Sessions was released in 2009 and the music was described as a mix of hip-hop and jazz laced with tender melodies and raw beats. The album was a great success in the Netherlands; It has reached the top five of the Dutch Album Charts, sold over 75,000 copies, and has kept a position in the charts for more than two years. With this album, they won all the major music prizes in the Netherlands.The Kyteman OrchestraThe word Hiphop, which was first in the name Kyteman's HipHop Orchestra, vanished because the album covers more than only hiphop music. The orchestra now consists of eighteen musicians, opera singers and a choir. Kyteman: "This is a collection of sounds, somewhere between opera, hip-hop, drum & bass, electro, minimalism and all kinds of other genres that I can't even begin to describe, for I don't have the words for them. All the instrumentals for this record were done in one take, with practically no edits whatsoever. So we played everything exactly as you hear it on the album."The Kyteman Orchestra performed at dutch festivals and stages, such as the North Sea Jazz Festival and A Campingflight to Lowlands Paradise.
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Post by karl on Feb 3, 2019 18:13:19 GMT -7
Pieter
A nice write up of Colin Benders {Kyteman}. He sounds as of a nice young man with a difficult beginning as a child. He has though, gone through the school of life with a successful career in his choice of music.
It would seem as most always, for as not mentioned, success comes with a great deal of work and never giving up.
Karl
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Post by pieter on Feb 8, 2019 17:59:16 GMT -7
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Post by pieter on Feb 9, 2019 7:18:39 GMT -7
I like this Album because it merges the influences of German techno with the North-American techno of Detroit of people like Jeff Mills, Robert Hood and Juan Atkins.
Narkopop is the fifth studio album by Wolfgang Voigt's Gas project, the first album under the moniker in 17 years and his first on Kompakt. The album was released on 21 April 2017.
Wolfgang Voigt (born 1961) is an electronic music DJ and producer from Cologne, Germany, known for his output under various aliases, such as Gas. He signed on numerous record labels, including Warp, Harvest, Raster-Noton, Force Inc, Astral Industries and Kompakt. The latter was co-founded by Voigt alongside Michael Mayer and Jürgen Paape. He is considered one of the most influential minimal techno artists.
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Post by pieter on Feb 9, 2019 8:39:17 GMT -7
Blancmange (band)Blancmange (/bləˈmɒ̃ʒ, -ˈmɑːnʒ, -ˈmɒnʒ/) are an English synth-pop band formed in Harrow, London, in 1979. The band were a duo for most of their career, composed of Neil Arthur (vocals) and Stephen Luscombe (keyboards). They came to prominence in the early 1980s releasing four singles that entered the Top 20 charts in the UK, such as "Living on the Ceiling", "Waves", "Blind Vision" and "Don't Tell Me", and they released three albums during that decade, Happy Families (1982), Mange Tout (1984) and Believe You Me (1985).
The duo amicably parted in 1986 but reformed in the late 2000s, and in 2011 released their fourth album Blanc Burn. Luscombe left following the release due to ill health, and since then Arthur alone has continued to perform under the Blancmange name, during which time he has released seven new studio albums along with a re-recording of the band's debut album, titled Happy Families Too.... He has also been involved in a further three collaborative albums as Fader (with Benge) and Near Future (with Jez Bernholz).BiographyFormationBlancmange was formed in Harrow, London, in 1979 by singer Neil Arthur (born 15 June 1958, Darwen, Lancashire), instrumentalists Stephen Luscombe (born 29 October 1954, Hillingdon, Middlesex) and Laurence Stevens. Stevens left shortly after the band was formed, and Arthur and Luscombe continued as a duo. The duo released their first EP, Irene and Mavis, the following year, but their first real exposure came via the track "Sad Day" on the Some Bizzare Album compilation, alongside acts such as Soft Cell and Depeche Mode. This led to them signing a recording contract with London Records. The group's name derived from the dessert of the same name.SuccessThe duo found minor success with their 1982 double A-sided single, "God's Kitchen"/"I've Seen the Word", which peaked at no. 65 in the UK. This was followed by "Feel Me", which peaked at no. 46. Later that year, they broke through with "Living on the Ceiling", which reached no. 7 on the UK Singles Chart and was an international hit. Their debut album, Happy Families (which featured a sleeve painting in the style of Louis Wain and of the cover artwork of Enid Blyton's books), also reached the top 30.
Further hits followed with "Waves" (no. 19), "Blind Vision" (no. 10), "That's Love, That It Is" (no. 33) and "Don't Tell Me" (no. 8), while their second album Mange Tout (1984) also reached no. 8 in the UK Albums Chart. The album featured a cover version of ABBA's "The Day Before You Came", which reached no. 22 in the UK (slightly higher than Abba's original less than two years earlier). However, after this, the band's fortunes declined. Their 1985 single "What's Your Problem" only reached no. 40, and the subsequent album Believe You Me spent only two weeks in the UK Albums Chart, peaking at no. 54. The duo announced they were splitting in June 1986 after a Greenpeace concert at London's Royal Albert Hall.
Luscombe released an album of Indian-influenced music, New Demons, with Pandit Dinesh, Peter Culshaw, Priya Khajuria and Asha Bhosle under the name West India Company, in 1989. Meanwhile, Arthur released a solo album, Suitcase, in 1994, which spawned the charting single "I Love I Hate" (UK No. 50). In 2008, Edsel re-released the three studio albums as expanded versions.ReformedFollowing a gap of a quarter of a century, Blancmange reunited and released their fourth studio album, Blanc Burn, in March 2011. After suffering from an abdominal aneurysm, Luscombe was forced to leave the band. Since then Arthur elected to continue recording and performing as Blancmange, with the assistance of session players.
Blancmange performed a UK tour in November 2013, during which they played their 1982 debut album (Happy Families) in its entirety at each show. They also released a new album, Happy Families Too..., featuring updated recordings of the original tracks from their 1982 debut album. Initially the new album was only available to buy on the tour, but a digital download followed and a physical CD was released on 7 April 2014 which included four brand new remixes.
On 2 December 2014, the official Blancmange website announced details of a new studio album for release on 23 March 2015 on Cherry Red Records. The album, Semi Detached, contains ten tracks.[9] On 9 March 2015, the first single from Semi Detached, "Paddington", was released as a digital download. The second single from the album, "Useless", was announced for release on 11 May 2015.
On 23 April 2015, Blancmange announced a new album of instrumental music titled Nil by Mouth. This release was initially only available for purchase at the band's two shows at London's Red Gallery in May 2015. It subsequently became available as a CD through the official Blancmange website on 25 September 2015.
On 29 May 2015, Blancmange announced the release of their cover of Can's "I Want More" as a limited edition 12" record for Record Store Day, making it the third single from Semi Detached.
Commuter 23, a studio album containing 14 tracks, was released on 11 March 2016.
On 20 March 2017, the band announced on their website that a new album, Unfurnished Rooms, would be released on 22 September 2017.
On 23 June 2017, Fader, a new musical project between Neil Arthur and Benge, released their debut studio album, "First Light". It was preceded by a single, "I Prefer Solitude", on 7 June 2017.
In August 2017, Edsel released the 9-CD boxset The Blanc Tapes that expanded each of the three 1980s albums over three discs with additional material and liner notes by Neil Arthur.
In February 2018, Near Future, another side project comprising Neil Arthur and Jez Bernholz (from Gazelle Twin), announced they will release their debut studio album, "Ideal Home", on 25 May 2018.
In April 2018, Blancmange announced a forthcoming studio album, Wanderlust, and a UK tour in November.
In July 2019, In Shadow, the second album by the Fader project (Neil Arthur and Benge), was announced for release on 18 October 2019.
A new instrumental album by Blancmange, "Nil by Mouth II", was released on 22 November 2019 as a limited-edition run of 1000 copies. The album was released on a larger scale on cd in June 2020.
A new album, titled "Mindset", preceded by a single with the same title in February, was released in June 2020.Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blancmange_(band)
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Post by karl on Feb 9, 2019 11:01:04 GMT -7
Pieter
A nice collection you have presented, I must say that this last was interesting being Blanmange with," Last Night". It was easy to listion to and understand...
Karl
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Post by pieter on Feb 10, 2019 17:34:46 GMT -7
Casino Versus Japan (sometimes Casino vs. Japan) is the recording name for Erik Kowalski (born May 5, 1973 in Manitowoc, Wisconsin), a United States-based musician who works in electronic music.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casino_Versus_Japan
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Post by pieter on Mar 30, 2019 16:43:24 GMT -7
Ambient music of today
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Post by pieter on Mar 30, 2019 16:45:25 GMT -7
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Post by pieter on Mar 30, 2019 16:50:06 GMT -7
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