Knew-Age music: nu-balearic hippies who fell asleep on the beach and woke up staring at the stars.

A thread for all the spaced out new-agey music that seems to be coming out. Maxxi & Zeus, the latest Hatchback, Dylan Ettinger, Sun Araw. I'd add synth stuff like Steve Moore, OPN, Expo 70 at its most cosmic.

Here is where we hail the Kosmische.

Didn't we already had like three threads for this thing?

Never enough threads for mellow spaced out sounds, IMO. Thanks for tuning in, you're listening to Echoes.

great new hypnagoogly pop!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U62vfvA0EJo

great new witchbeach remix!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t1-WxroZTmg&feature=related

think these guys are touring with, um, emeralds or something. check it out!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C0SE7_Ob740&feature=related

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_u_OCavgR3F8/SaLPjb7YXII/AAAAAAAAB_E/dLFE_z6vlTw/s320/Niagara+Falls.jpg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FdKYbnlT1rQ

From one of my favourite albums so far this year:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MH-9_ddFKk8

High Wolf
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yc0pdRLwFOc

Expo 70
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6al3xdma0k4

Eden Express (Kip from Cloudland Canyon)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t99mJop5FBc

no Beach Wolf yet? there really should be.

I'd bet there is a Beach Wolf somewhere

And probably a Wolf Beach too

And a witch house B34C|-| \/\/0|_F

Beach Wolf
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-uMM7l6zpE

Don't know if it counts, but I'm really digging the reissue of Synthesist by Harald Grosskopf http://open.spotify.com/album/3y5s4SQ3B9V14ns5WU3mLe

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zWV3m5tKDCk&feature=related

also enjoying Fabric - A Sort of Radiance http://open.spotify.com/album/1lwDnh8mybpPa8j3lbC2LK which sounds like some lost Tangerine Dream album.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8bviFxBu0AY

Anyone heard the new Hatchback? Spotify link

Alpha Beta Gamma by Brain Machine is doing it for me this week, Hatchback album is slight but much better after a few listens.

AlphaBetaGamma

Did they do anything special on that reissue of ""Where There's A Whip There's A Way.""? That was one of my fave study albums.

haha oops forgot to copy the word "Synthesist" before pasting – now you guys know the only reason I ever type anything correctly at all. I meant the Grosskopf album.

ahhh super psyched for "this" to be the "new" "balearic"

my dream is that someone makes a comp of nu-balearic/nu-new age covering the songs on the original pure moods in order

some of the stuff in this thread could probably still be called "balearic"? i am having trouble drawing a line between the two styles, except in a "i know it when i see it" sense. the hatchback mix on 20jfg is SUPER "new age" and not very "balearic" at all.

http://www.20jazzfunkgreats.co.uk/wordpress/2011/03/20jfg-podcast-hatchback/

surely chris willits belongs here

ya i mean actual new age and 80s-style minimalism are definitely part of the balearic spectrum, maybe not the synthier horror stdk-type stuff tho? and esp not chris willits or jesu or whoever, which seems to me to have more to do w/'dark' ambient or shoegaze or even like post dooooom

i say this in like every thread but if you haven't listened to those padilla and phil mison mixtapes on test pressing you haven't lived

really liking this new hatchback too, esp touches like the slo-mo ambient sax in "orinoco waltz". i will listen to this way more than the last album for sure

also feeling the mix, esp amor real – global communication vs. jon anderson. and i think i need more jd emmanuel in my life

they were mentioned in the op but i haven't heard any talk of maxxi & zeus yet

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pyJYriDyl8w&feature=related

i feel like that track goes balearic the second you hear dennis hopper

yes that is my jaaaam

That was the track that gave birth to this thread.

The Struggle tops it though, just.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ngGNuf_zwFI

the struggle is also p great, hard for me to choose a favorite. both sides of both releases have been spectacular imo

other things i think could go in this thread:

cfcf - b aldrian
arp
most if not all of "the laziest river"
stellar om source
also this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JcSlXC99GTo

wow that first Maxxi & Zeus track is great

i kinda have a hard teasing out the 'knew-age' angle on this, like what sounds & structures make something pure moodz rather than chillwave or cosmic or w/e but:

jeffrey rodens seeds of happiness on new albion is p fantastic just small mellow movements
the new forma 230 record on specturm spools has a cosmic synth mindfulness
maybe the parasails tape?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eLLAmmqElzM

anyway i love so much of this stuff or at least stuff that touches on this stuff

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yE1SJkkCTcI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2oObz1tqLfk

WHITE RAINBOW + STAGHARE
SHHOOOPEEY SHOOP MEGA TUFF HOUSE REMIX

^ this is great btw

there is a real band called beach wolf?

theres a band called neon beach wolf, apparently

The guitarist in that band is also in Blackk Cystal Girls

a few tracks on the last blues control album could probably be included here

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TTZeKOK1yCc

kinda have a hard teasing out the 'knew-age' angle on this, like what sounds & structures make something pure moodz rather than chillwave or cosmic or w/e

i guess it's kinda like max was saying, you know it when you hear it? nu-age seems to be crisper, could be aiming for analog or early digital/fairlight, but it would not slather layers of tape distortion on itself like you tend to find in more ambient chillwave stuff. i think there's less difference btwn cosmic and nu-age, but i don't think nu-age really includes foregrounded carpenter-style synth lines while cosmic prob would. cosmic is (like balearic) also less of a genre and more of a descriptor, so spacey new age or minimalist stuff could be cosmic (like steve roach or tomita) but at the same time a dance/boogie track or even some prog can also be cosmic imo. idk i'm obviously no expert but i think it's fun to parse through this stuff

Was trying to do this myself.

nu-wave I think is really beatless and would never be aimed at a dancefloor, whilst most balearic stuff has its roots in an Ibizan dancefloor.

great essay on Cosmic as a state of mind as it relates to music here

yeah i think of the knew age stuff as having 'cleaner' synth sounds & tones than chillwave & also less concerned with time & place - its less structured more considered abt ~states of consciousness~ & even more ambient than cosmic, i guess

it's blurring the line between cosmic (in a schultze, tangerine dream sense) and new age for sure. People used to kind of make a big deal about the distinction, right? These new acts seems like it's nbd

whilst most balearic stuff has its roots in an Ibizan dancefloor

not sure that the 'dancefloor' part is nec true, i think the whole style developed because the djs would play for ppl from sunset to sunrise with a whole lot of warming up and coming down in settings like the beach and cafes and stuff. and a lot of this was straight-up new age/windham hill type music

which is why hathcback says he isn't balearic anymore but is actually more balearic than ever ha

this is an unhelpful distinction but im pretty sure a big part of this is that balearic is "hip" and new age is not

http://bandcamp.com/files/49/52/495228764-1.jpg

not hip?

tbh its hard to tell these days ys.jpg

iasos is still around and lives in marin i guess. i think he does more video-art type stuff nowadays, but he still produces crazy stuff like this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s8aQTYl3uiQ

a friend of mine booked him to play in sf but ended up backing out when he claimed it'd take 2 days of prep to properly set up the show

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wasYNNfnfVE

idk i think new age is pretty 'hip'

where do you think all those triangles came from

but this is probably more true wrt the drone scene or visuals/cover art than music. i guess people aren't really reviving pan flutes and whatnot

Been listening to a lot of new age stuff recently.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YTmSBmIMTLw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ShcbFLuzrM&feature=related

saw a few sealed Iasos records recently. thought they were just reissues. so he's still putting out stuff?

i found a paul speer record a few weeks ago that i was claiming was the new Transfer Station Blue. found another one recently that's paul speer and david lanz and they do another version of the jam Allegro. it's even more jammin.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pz0Uqbs0jSg

and if i'm any reference to what's hip (heh), pretty much all i've been listening to at home for the past year or 2 is new age

The yoga studio I used to go to played this all the time, so I actually bought it (in 2000 or so?) but it has a real new age/space/Tangerine Dream vibe
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L9cbf4_eO28

Yoga classes are great for new age music!

They are -- it gave me something to do while listening to music/something to listen to while exercising.

saw a few sealed Iasos records recently. thought they were just reissues. so he's still putting out stuff?

he's putting out dvds for sure. whether or not the music is by him i duno, i think it ranges btwn him and various other dudes (based on his website/youtube portfolio heh). regardless, the aesthetic is still there. and i'd be willing to bet the records were originally private-press or some such thing, in which case the reissue may as well be new

i mean you can always ask milton parker about any bay area-related new ageyness

iasos also did the video for teengirl fantasy's "cheaters", further cementing his hipness

another thought- is anyone out there ripping off global communication? i guess you could make an argument for oneohtrix but it seems like the next logical step

there are parts of the twells & christensen release on digitalis that sound like amped up versions of the more plodding & ominous moments in 76:14 although this cld v much just be a connection i made in my head

haha the pedro magina tape on not not fun ('nineteen hundred and eighty-five') is labelled 'new age' in itunes... it doesnt sound v new age tho really

i see what you mean abt the twells & christensen but it's a bit of a stretch, i agree about the plodding and ominous part tho, ha. i guess i am getting tired of dark and doooomy takes on ambient and wish people were interested in other textures. which probably is why i like a lot of what's on this thread

really liked the pulse emitter tape root strata put out last year:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eM7a3A-hcGk

meditative music 4 is v. good too.

^really like this after one listen

the more atmospheric end of seahawks could totally fit here, maybe not the edits but definitely the 'tender abyss' 3" cd-r thing and 'vision quest one'

Sun Araw are pretty similar to the seahawks,

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_E2OxiaPgDI

the whole album keeps the costal drift vibe nicely

yeah, I think the pulse emitter guy is really coming into his own lately. I read an interview where he said he was taking more of a compositional approach and cutting down on the number of releases to spend more time writing. seems to be working, imo - definitely liked everything I've heard over the last year or so and found prior material to be more of a crap shoot.

x-post

^i think emeralds have been taking a similar approach too. i endorse this trend.

to me sun araw sound like a more fleshed-out version of ducktails, which is not a bad thing but they are definitely exploring more chillwave-y sounds. i hadn't heard the older stuff but that track is almost on some sunburned hand of the man shit... not sure i hear seahawks per se but i can get down

michael hedges used to refer to his music as New Edge. feeling it as a genre descriptor. recently picked up his Breakfast in the Fields album (on windham hill). it's pretty great.

re: Windham Hill:

Lonely guy just thinking baout things

this is 'urgent and key' as they used to say in ILM olden daze. brain massage !

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4k_PKA2aG80

btw on a slight tanj but Conrad Schnitzler's Ballet Statique just got reissued, totally essential

dunno if its new age though

i guess by new age some people mean Berlin school Gottsching/Schulze type stuff and others mean a more organic sounding Steve Tibbetts kinda thing ?

this isn't 'knew' but i've been digging Woo quite a bit lately. new age meets 80s indie, i guess

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qHQwrKRedAc

Initially describing themselves as alternative, indie rock, lofi jazz, synth & nostalgic acoustic guitar music, Woo eventually shifted to albums described as ambient, new age, spiritual, angelic, instrumental music for meditation, relaxation & healing.

'Roehampton by day' is my jam! So lush, thanks for that!

http://soundcloud.com/znaki-fm/forma-forma-230

mentioned upthread but... loven this

This stuff seems cool-ish, although nothing im gonna lay down 17 bucks for limited ed. "vinyls" for, but I do want to rep for Woo as being totally effin awesome ... got into a Woo tape last year, 'into the heart of love', it was my shiiiit

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TKHQbNNZg3I

i like that you put vinyls in scarequotes bro

This thread is full of gems, thanks all.

I've been loving Maxxi & Zeus and have been listening to Woo all morning.

Their albums are on Mutant Sounds if anyone else wants to check them...

http://mutant-sounds.blogspot.com/2009/05/woo-into-heart-of-love-tape-1990-uk.html

http://mutant-sounds.blogspot.com/2007/05/woo-its-cosy-inside-lp-1990-uk.html

http://mutant-sounds.blogspot.com/2007/05/woo-whichever-way-you-are-going-you-are.html

http://mutant-sounds.blogspot.com/2009/05/woo-la-luna-tape-1991-uk.html

oh my @ woo

^^ Indeed. Really feeling this.

i like that you put vinyls in scarequotes bro

― S C R æ M (Lamp), Tuesday, April 19, 2011 8:16 AM (9 hours ago) Bookmark

only new jacks who bought their 'vinyl-players' at urban outfitters call records 'vinyls' homeboy

nb: at least, in the u.s.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-HViC9_Puo&feature=related

building new age beach houses since 1982.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O7VORCxQzgU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HcmjjhDoWM&feature=related

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hbP0lr82Nqo&feature=related

just got a totally hot 80's japanese new age electronic exotica comp. basically, martin denny meets ymo. interiors is on it.

Other Music has CD copies of Woo's It's Cozy Inside (still in longboxes!) and since I had already been on a Vini Reilly/ Penguin Cafe kick, this slotted in perfectly.

ya, when i listened to Whichever Way You Are Going, You Are Going Wrong, it def gave me a Penguin Cafe feeling

wau @ woo and interiors. i would love it if we talked more about older stuff in this thread, these derails have been great

also, is that baron mordant thing associated with mordant music? it's p nice as well

nice to see some Woo chat! that first album is the most unlikely combination of, yeah, Penguin Cafe and like, early-Scritti/Desperate Bicycles style diy

16 dollars isn't that much to spend on a nice lp imho! anyway i think you can buy the albums on cd from the band's website -- it's not exactly vinyl snob stuff

also, Interior! i started a thread a while back for them and some of the other spacier groups on Yen Records (not many replies tho, perhaps if an ilx celeb posts then more people will take a look). check out Testpattern and Inoyama Land as well for more j new age, the latter put an album out on Windham Hill

yeah Baron Mordant runs Mordant Music iirc

o, just realized who u are

I think that some of the tracks (I've only listened to a few so far) from A Young Person's Guide to Mark McGuire is definitely in this vein. So far I am enjoying this just as much if not more that the Emeralds LP.

I am really digging "The Marfa Lights", pretty much straight-up Göttsching.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cWDrQq3YoSI

damn i wish this show was on right now

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DHzCX6HnkKE

mystic

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O4I-8bOJ30g

pretty into this zodiac free arts club thing (though it's not this, unfortunately)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWDn55NknvE&feature=related

feeling that

yeah when that guitar comes in things really go places. the rest of the album is pretty great too, grade-a kosmische ripoffs imo

the Ken Seeno tape on NNA has this beach/synth vibe going and kinda fits in with the thread's theme. The tape is really good, imo. Some samples here:

http://soundcloud.com/kenseeno/driving-into-light-blustery-day

http://soundcloud.com/kenseeno/a-breezy-memory

Surprised how much I like the Zodiac Free Arts Club...

keep coming back to it.

although naming a kosmische band ZFAC is like naming an acid house act Hacienda.

yea, it is holding up for me too. almost makes me want to pay attention to the argy stuff

The album House, by Mist (one of the Emeralds dudes), which got reissued yesterday incidentally is REALLY, REALLY gorgeous. Blissful, arpeggiated, beautifully textured drift studies.

I posted a youtube earlier in the thread, but this Eden Express album is so good I have to share another. Here's another clip

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-siHuOcncmw

psychegawsple, i just talked to Lea from Blues Control and apparently they're doing a collaborative album with Laraaji, further cementing their 'knew age' status.

although naming a kosmische band ZFAC is like naming an acid house act Hacienda

yeah, I saw the name and was a bit galled by it...at least they spelled it differently ('Zodiac' instead of 'Zodiak', club instead of Lab)

the annoying thing is that now, if you google for information on the 'Zodiak Free Arts Lab', you get all this nonsense about this Zodiac Free Arts Club album

hey guys, check out my nu-disco band, we're called 'Paradise Garage'

im in a neo-choral music band called "church"

although naming a kosmische band ZFAC is like naming an acid house act Hacienda.

lol, what about your club night?
http://blogs.sfweekly.com/shookdown/2011/04/joy_divisions_peter_hook_force.php

psychegawsple, i just talked to Lea from Blues Control and apparently they're doing a collaborative album with Laraaji, further cementing their 'knew age' status.

― beta blog, Tuesday, June 7, 2011 1:47 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

!!!!!!!!!!!!

yeah, that's awesome!!

^ i know, i can't imagine any circumstances where the finished product of that collaboration will not appeal to me

more on that Blues Control/ Laraaji collab here, as part of my story on "The New Age of New Age":

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/music/la-ca-new-age-20110703,0,2953740.story

new frkways thing w/ david borden, oneohtrix, james ferraro and some other dudes is for this thread

http://soundcloud.com/igetrvng/frkwys07-people-of-the-wind-pt-2

I saw that latimes article, saw it, liked it and spread the love.

I got a heads-up from the rvng guy that there was something cool coming out, good to see in the article what it was.

If its half as good as the Arp / Anthony Moore 12", it'll be some special tones.

wow

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lP_UB-hrhkk&feature=related

just... wow. so beautiful

woo. just... woo

Only problem I have with that is that it's 10 minutes too short

the Ken Seeno tape on NNA has this beach/synth vibe going and kinda fits in with the thread's theme

yeah i listened to this (invisible surfer on an invisible wave) on my walk to work today & it was really fantastic late summer dream music

has anyone heard much of the other stuff on nna tapes? i have the split btw opn & caboladies (which also probably fits w/in the scope of this thread) but am interested in anything else good of theirs

I dug the harmonizer tape. duo with greg davis and the guy that runs nna, I think. nice to have some percussion on this stuff once in a while.

scroll down this page on keith fullerton whitman's store for a clip:

http://www.mimaroglumusicsales.com/labels/nna+tapes.html

not sure where else to post this but i recently saw 'drive', and if i had known that angelo badalamenti was in charge of the music i probably would have seen it earlier. there are 4-5 nu-italo tracks on the soundtrack but the original score by cliff martinez seems like it might be of serious interest to people itt

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Ng9MMRxp1Q&feature=related

this one gives a fuller picture of the general interplay of the soundtrack- ambient badalamenti vibes becoming subsumed by more aggressive john carpenter moves, and then vice versa. good shit

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IbAVGRlnPjc&feature=related

how was the rest of the movie?

o yeah, loved the music in Drive(didn't like the movie though)

yea the movie both sounded and *looked* amazing - this has something to do with carey mulligan and christina hendricks but there are also tons of sexy night driving shots in la (albeit with ryan gosling in silly jackets and driving gloves). the movie overall was less amazing, tho i am def willing to give it another chance b/c the general atmosphere is pretty rad

bad movies with cool ~atmosphere~ are my favorite!

^^ totally <3

new Tycho rules:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HL5VUqnfmEw

Not sure if this fits the theme, but since there's some Woo-related activity on here, I've been listening to this a lot lately. Really lovely, floaty squelch that kind of reminds me of 'Sombre Reptiles' and stuff like Interior, tho can also detect obv. influence of Durutti Column/PCO. Apparently it's a cover, as Edwards and Rodgers are credited, but I'm not hearing it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YweqSnN1ahk

Upside Down? Edwards & Rogers credited?

C'est Chic!

Tycho did a great interview with Hatchback, that I think is upthread.

The first solo disc from Jonas Munk (aka Manual) ditches his earlier shoegazer personae for some progressive electronic / kosmische bliss. Really feeling this track, in particular:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5fbd79t6OUk

Try this again:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5fbd79t6OUk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l3WXBc4phRY

Nice! I wasn't aware that Grosskopf did a solo follow-up to Synthesist.

i like that jonas munk but it's kinda... frenetic? not exactly balearic knew-age but totally kosmische

that grosskopf track is also good, but not the most relaxing thing in the world. definitely succeeds at pop-minimalist repetitive 80s piano corniness, would have been the best track on 'far side virtual' (tho i love that record for different reasons)

maybe i just suffer from an 'i want more things that sound like zeus and apollo" syndrome

also - a friend got me an interior 12" for my birthday this year and this is how i know this person 'gets' me

The 'I want more things that sound like Zeus & Apollo' syndrome can only be allieviated by occasional Hatchback online mixes and sometimes Tycho.
Very little comes close, sadly.

xxxpost Ya, the rest of the Munk disc is much more chilled. I'm just stuck on that track.

What about the early 80s releases on Innovative Communication? Listening to Double Fantasy's Universal Avenue, I'm thinking that this could work.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XIblmWICww

^^^this kind of reminds me of 69 'desire', wonder if c2 had heard it?

Ha, I'd say C2 heard it before dropping this one:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ym7SH8a385s

doubtful i think

did the electrifying mojo ever drop double fantasy anyone?

i doubt it, that is some obscure shit unless you're into new age

i imagine craig might have heard steve roach though and there are some similarities

maybe not, heartbreaker really puts me in mind of desire tho, and i don't think it's just the pitch bending strings either. regardless it's brilliant.

It's quite possible that Craig was aware of the releases on Klaus Schulze's imprint. I didn't mean to imply plagiarism above but clearly there are some shared influences.

"heartbreaker" is a total balearic classic, i would not be surprised if carl craig was aware of that record's existence

Hello guys,

I really like this thread and this is the only reason that I signed up to this site, to participate in this conversation, that has begun over a year ago and it still goes on!

One of my favorite music styles is this eclectic blend of ambient, balearic, psychedelic sounds. I read all the posts and I'm glad that other people share my passion. But, in this discussion, many and different kinds and periods of music come together without... dividing lines. I mean that I can't compare the great and original kraut-cosmic scene of early 70s and artists like Klaus Schulze, Ashra Tempel ect. with the "synthesizer" era of new age music that followed. I think that the first krautrock era was the most creative and all the developments and revivals have their roots in this period... of course I'm interest in almost all of them! Also I don't think that the most eclectic and balearic DJ in Ibiza of the 90s would ever play an experimental music piece that lasts over 20 minutes! And keep in mind that I love this old mixes by Jose Padilla and Phil Mison in Cafe Del Mar. So, I believe that only contemporary artists -Washed Out is a great example- combine these sometimes diverse music ifluences.

Lastly, I have to suggest an album: Desire Lines by Meanderthals. A great album of imrpovisational, psychedelic, cosmic music served in a nu-balearic style!

Desire Lines is definitely a good one

not particulary new age, but def great.

also welcome to ilx nicus, be sure to check out these other threads if you haven't already
The balearic beardo beach hippie album canon
The balearic beardo beach hippie album canon

this is a thread for the BALEARIC REVIVAL

Thank you for the propositions! I saw the other, "more balearic" threads and they are very interesting... but they also are very very long. I mean that these threads have begun 4 years ago, so information is too much! But I will check them.

I know that Desire Lines is not a new age album, but it has some influences from ambient music and mainly has a great ambient feeling, I mean a deep sentimental feeling of harmony....

Now about new age, I was interested when someone mentioned Klaus Schulze's old record company, Innovative Communication. These days I'm digging the music that came from Innovative Communication: Universal Av. by Double Fantasy is great and you should also check Dancing Fantasy's first album. I think that these artists set up the foundations for chill out music. In general, I believe that chill out has its roots to the success of new age music in the mid 80s. Take for example the first Cafe Del Mar cassette compilation that was made by Jose Padilla around 1991 and is full of new age music! Here is a link to this material:

http://dalstonoxfamshop.blogspot.gr/2011/02/cafe-del-mar-tape-no-1.html

Ok, I love Desire Lines and the Hatchback, bought E2-E4 today and asked the clerk what in that vein he'd recommend and he immediately shoved the Jonas Munk in my hands. Glad he did. This thread is huge and filled with YouTubes. Please hit me with a few of the best titles from this thread while I browse back in time and play these songs and make my list.

that double fantasy track is incredibly good...

Found that Double Fantasy LP last weekend. Canadian pressing. Have to believe Carl Craig had a copy in the late 80s. The influence is so obvious.

universal ave is so great... "endless running"...

i don't know if this is the right thread for this since it's more balearic than new age but wth, i love this song

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKAJs8waYd4

give me the original any day

new CFCF kind of fits this thread

http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/18663-cfcf-outside/

the first track to jump out at me from that turned out to be a bonnie prince billy cover which makes me feel gross. but i am interested.

Exercises was one of my favourite releases of the last few years but not really feeling the new one. Not sure his vocal is strong enough for some of the tracks. Some nice sounds though.

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61VtHNdJ75L._SY355_.jpg

The recent I Am The Center compilation of beautiful, blissed out private press tracks is great and fits this thread (although lots of it is Old Skool New Age)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1uC5lVF3oWM

sounds cool. some talk about it here: "New Age Music", search and destroy.

Ah, cheers. Was wondering if there was another thread somwhere

new(ish) mark mcguire full-length is recommended for fans of this thread

http://i.imgur.com/a4jvMjz.jpg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fywpxbTHc44

thought I was listening to mistagged mp3s the first time I played that. as in, the only explanation for what I was hearing was that I was being outright pranked by the friend who'd given me the files.

in the 80's Windham Hill and Hearts of Space were diametrically opposed camps of new age, you really did not find much crossover (there's only one artist I can think of who was on both labels). now it's all bleeding into one big unholy mess.

just ordered up that mcguire LP, gr80. psyched 2 own it.

do we have a hearts of space thread?

GRM Concert Imaginaire vs Hearts of Space Starflight 1

this is my theme for the end of spring '14

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GwXcU0b5Oy8

really good record that lord of the isles one

co2o personal highlight, but great all the way through

I wasn't too keen on 301 Symphony but Lord of the Isles is in general a really good producer. Love this one so much:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mqOj0Ivy_X0

For any London based ilxors this Thursday:

http://www.seetickets.com/event/laraaji-sun-araw-the-play-zone/st-john-at-hackney-church/769117/?OfferCode=WARP%2FALL+SAINTS&direct=true

https://scontent-a-ams.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xap1/t1.0-9/10437497_10152657697833243_5431478827690470025_n.png

great album i just discovered:

http://www.secondlanguagemusic.com/SL028.html

Great mix: http://m.soundcloud.com/growingbinrecords/bobby-beige-on-ibiza

this Hybrid Palms album is pretty sweet

https://soundcloud.com/soundsofthedawn/hybrid-palms-pacific-image-from-pacific-image-cassette-out-march-22

Great mix: http://m.soundcloud.com/growingbinrecords/bobby-beige-on-ibiza

― brotherlovesdub, Sunday, January 11, 2015 5:08 PM (one year ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Not an indie-hater or anything but hearing the voices of Kozelek, Malkmus, etc pop up on here is a serious buzzkill

the new vakula EP is off the chain, my dudes

https://soundcloud.com/vakula/vakula-metaphors-lp-coming-up-on-leleka_2017

sorry it's a double EP

Nice

severely underutilized thread, i should post more stuff here

Same, this is great stuff

So this is not new music, but a friend recently posted this on FB; I only knew Luís Cília as a protest song folkie, so was surprised to discover he did ambient like this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZNIdxg0VQk

That in turn lead me to this playlist:

https://playmoss.com/en/david-mas/playlist/lusofonias

this is a great playlist, thanks for posting

Welcome! Excited by the (very remote) possibility that the next digger target might be a country where I have a head start :)

That Vakula album/double EP really is incredible.

thank you and for gods sake how is everyone else not completely losing their minds over it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r50dBMjhqvU&feature=youtu.be

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CmUE3TkW8AAA2s5.jpg

wrong thread obv!

That excerpt is definitley harshing my buzz :(

not quite in the chilled out kosmische spirit of the new Vakula ep, for sure.

Don't think I've heard one of his albums since The Soft Wave but the new Arp record is great and probably a fit for this thread

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ymaQyKYlEk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i07c7uR9pMc

https://open.spotify.com/album/37JQEtmiM3wMQs2JVm7qvR?si=QL9FWftCRrOgMwz_8Opmkg

New Eleventeen Eston lp (on Growing Bin) is sounding great on first listen. I really dug Delta Horizon and "Indian Blue" is like the ultimate hazey smooth smoked out underwater balearic basement demo. Must revisit the Wilson/Tanner disc at some point..

Never heard Delta Horizon but it’s sounding great, thanks for the recommendation B. This is what makes ilx great

beverly glenn-copeland

that Eleventeen Eston is really special

Something about the production I guess has an Ariel pink flavor to me

the back cover is kind of hilarious.. he lists some "instruments" he plays on it but i think they're all model numbers of assorted fishing gear???

I’m a huge fan of benedek in general, this is pretty blissed out

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ORldCGNHFiI