Mellow Sonic « Dreamcatcher »

Mellow Sonic is one of the many projects of German producer Sandro Kreher.

Dreamcatcher is maybe its 22nd album (judging by Discogs’s list).

1. Twilight Skies feat. Shen Nevan 6:39
2. Monsoon Flowers 8:41
3. Discovery 6:39
4. Icarus 6:35
5. Frequency 5:55
6. Pandora 7:20
7. Nanobots 6:06
8. Dreamcatcher 6:05
9. Sapphire 6:42
10. Terminal 6:21
11. Intergalatix 7:45
12. Meltdown 5:10

Originally I didn’t want to include this album, self-released on 3^rd of September in 2014 through Ektoplazm under a Creative Commons license, due to its weak beginning but upon listening the whole album decided to give you the pleasure.

What’s wrong with the beginning? Well, the music is promoted as being psychedelic drum ’n bass but even Sandro felt that the first track digressed too far that he invoked his alias Shen Nevan, used for post rock music, as an indicator for the difference. And after that it takes a while to get into the spirit of psychedelic and atmospheric drum and bass. It’s overall effect remind me of the 2003 sci-fi horror film with the same name adapted from Stephen King’s novel: I quite liked it but felt it will hardly convert anyone who doesn’t already like this kind of thing and even those will have a thing or two to complain. Still, you might want to give it a try…

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Dreamcatcher ℗ 2014 Mellow Sonic ℅ Sandro Kreher

pan « Sick Monkey »

pan was the initial name of Maik Sommer’s music project that he started in 2005. He later renamed it to pan:core.

Sick Monkey is the first release of this young project, released by Jamendo.

1. On/Off 2:18
2. LFO Rider 7:02
3. Kikis Fax 1:41
4. Som Noiz 6:18
5. Nstnt Akzn 3:48
6. LFO Rider II 5:22
7. Fuckin’ My Neighbors 9:24
8. Nazis 2:31

Sick Monkey was originally released on 28^th of July in 2006 (in lossy MP3 and Vorbis) and later (on 3^rd of November 2009) released in lossless FLAC under a Creative Commons license. Maik simply used the electronic and experimental tags to describe the music; it is descriptive of the approach but not the style. I would describe it as noisy (as in power noise) and technoid industrial music.

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Sick Monkey ℗ 2006 pan:core ℅ Maik Sommer

Cosmic Replicant « Soul of the Universe »

Cosmic Replicant is the ambient/downtempo/trance project of Pavel Shirshin from Kazan in the Russian Federation.

Soul of the Universe is the first independent (and fourth overall) album release by Cosmic Replicant, following releases on Altar Records, Plusquam Chillout and Pureuphoria Records. This album was inspired by dreams, thoughts, and experiences as well as by the works of various musicians, artists, film directors, science fiction writers, and life itself. The intention is to give a listener a joyful listening experience while being guided into a dreamlike state of mind.

1. Wake Up 7:04
2. I Robot 6:55
3. Lost Signal 7:36
4. SiebZehn - Endless Reflections (Cosmic Replicant Remix) 7:21
5. Save Our Nature 7:21
6. Oktober Sky 7:19
7. Soul of the Universe 7:16
8. Cosmic Replicant vs. Parahyde - Structural Patterns 7:38
9. Dragon Smile 8:14
10. Exotic Species 8:10

Soul of the Universe was released on 8^th of October in 2014 via Ektoplazm under a Creative Commons license. Endless Reflections originally appeared on SiebZehN’s 2012 album Time Equals Eternity. Structural Patterns is a collaboration with Parahype who on 30^th of October the same year also published a remix of Pulsar Activity on his SoundCloud page.

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Soul of the Universe ℗ 2014 Cosmic Replicant ℅ Pavel Shirshin

Awt « Winter and Spring »

Awt was a musical project by Anders Walldén from Malmö in Sweden that mixed modern electronica like jungle, dubstep and IDM with a quieter note.

Winter and Spring was originally released in early 2004 but was lost when its host died. Subsequently Anders went back to the studio and remastered the album which then was release on the Experimedia label.

1. Cold Love 4:20
2. Click Gardian 2:19
3. Sov Got 1:38
4. Placing Blocks in the Globe 3:00
5. My Town 3:22
6. Getting Ready to Leave Sweden for Another Planet 5:45
7. Lady 1:10
8. Einholm Yard 3:30
9. Tidig vår 3:21
10. Unholy Weather Change 5:51

Winter and Spring (the c. re-m,r) was reissued on 29th of April in 2005. While the Experimedia does not indicate any free or open license, Awt’s SoundClick pages gives a Creative Commons license for the tracks. It’s music can be categorized as IDM, somewhere between an atmospheric drum & bass and glitchy and broken beats.

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Winter and Spring (the c. re-m,r) ℗ 2005 Anders Walldén

Epic Soul Factory « Volume One »

Nothing enhances a moving picture more than sound, especially if it is as emotional as a good film score. Good film music has become so popular that now there's even music movie-style without the million dollar movie to go with.
Some artists now have specialized to provide us with good music that plays to the ear without the limitations that film techniques require. Epic Soul Factory, made up of four film composers from Spain, is one of them.

1. Rising Legends 1:52
2. Titan 2:32
3. Iron 1:52
4. Poltergeist Attack 2:07
5. Amazona 1:44
6. El prendimiento 3:06
7. Dusty Universe 1:58
8. La búsqueda de Ianna 2:39
9. Creo en ti 4:06
10. The Fall of Gilead 3:32
11. Sugiriendo u crimen 1:04
12. The End 3:31

Epic Soul Factory - Volume One, their first album, was originally released 15 August 2010. Only on 17 February 2011 they released it in a downloadable format through Jamendo but with an altered tracklist.

Here you can listen to the originally released version in streaming only.

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Epic Soul Factory - Volume One ℗ 2010,2011 Epic Soul Factory ℅ Eduardo Jiménez, David de la Morena, Fran Soto, and Francesc Vilà

Sonocore Records Presents « Nex Gen Volume 01 »

Jumpstyle, Hardstyle, Hardcore, Frenchcore, or even Gabber… I'm not getting all these terms! I can tell that not everything sounds the same but whether this is due to some differences in the genre or just some individuality of the artist - I don't know… I like this/these genre(s) enough to listen to it occasionally but not enough to really get musicologically involved to sort it out.

/* Anzahl der Musikstücke */

1. NTX 13 - Etheral Presence 6:05
2. Noize-R & NTX 13 - Industrial Drummers 5:44
3. V-Bass - Controll 3:42
4. Noize-R - Bad Dreams 4:20
5. DJ Toxik Waste - Dawn 3:56
6. NTX 13 - Dr Maniac 4:55
7. DJ Guit - Fuck Everybody 5:18
8. DJ Toxik Waste - The Law of the Underworld 5:06
9. NTX 13 - From Hell 3:24
10. DJ Guit - Mind Travel 5:56
11. DJ Toxik Waste - The Hard Way 4:32
12. The Hardquake - Final Symphony 5:06
13. Noize-R - Love Anthem 6:00
14. The Hardquake - Genesis 4:45

Nex Gen Volume 01 (also stylized Nex Gen Volume One on the cover) is - not too surprisingly - the first volume in Karol and Guillaume's series on hard techno and its variations, released 27 April 2007. Respresenting the diverse styles are NTX13, V-Bass, DJ Guit, Thunderfear (through his collaboration with V-Bass called The Hardquake), and, of course, Toxik Waste and Noize-R themselves. While not every track is to my liking, there are a few tracks that stand out.

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Etheral Presence, Dr Maniac ℗ 2007 NTX 13 ℅ Chris Dee
Control ℗ 2007 V-Bass
Bad Dreams, Love Anthem ℗ 2007 Noize-R ℅ Guillaume Speurt
Dawn, The Law of the Underworld, The Hard Way ℗ 2007 Toxik Waste ℅ Karol Morsa
Fuck Everybody, Mind Travel ℗ 2007 DJ Guit
Final Symphony, Genesis ℗ 2007 The Hardquake ℅ Youri Debessel & V-Bass
Industrial Drummers ℗ 2007 Noize-R & NTX 13