alex moulton: lindstrom meets klaus schulze meets alan braxe meets hakan lidbo meets vangelis

loooool the artwork

they actually commissioned boris vallejo to do the art, and thanked him in the liner notes (along with schulze, vangelis, eno, jarre, etc etc ... the only electronic music dude per se thanked in the credits is robbie hardkiss?!?)

i basically can't stop looking at the art

come on you clowns

the artwork is ace. was listening to parts of it last night and enjoyed what i heard. will need to absorb more.

Und also sprach Whiney G:
http://www.paperthinwalls.com/singlefile/item?id=1653

i realized what this album *really* reminds me of: eberhard schoener

holy crap @ epic goth-y 'so fine' remix

i dont know the o.g. track so mileage may vary but its pretty O_O to me

I want dude to design LWE's next logo.

The Juno audio clips sound fucking great. Can't wait to hear it in full.

yeah those clips sounds great! the cover art is ace, too. it's like the inverse of blade runner or something.

Due to copyright restrictions you cannot buy this product in your country

wtf?

"okay, i'll steal it then"

lmao

i'm a little bothered that the guy in the artwork apparently has a thick ponytail *and* a receding hairline.

this album is seriously dope. i NEED wallpaper of the album artwork, STAT.

no! copyright issues over cover art. replacement kind of o_0 oh well

^^^^ That's the faceless cat btw.

Really like this record though.

it's growing on me, but the only two tracks that stick out right now are 'vicious' and 'l'arc en ciel'

love the fact that the image above only tells half the 'story'.
is this out in uk ?

i just got this from itunes with a gift card i had lying around and i'm liking it a lot

except the last second or 2 of each track is silence so the track to track transitions dont work and it's kinda bothering me

I thought the silences might just be a consequence of me illegally d/ling it but I guess not. Weird.

weird, i listened to the whole album last night while reading barbarella comics and here's the thread all updated when i wake up.

there's an OTT table is the table (i think) post somewhere about the new lindstrom album being like a combination of oxygene and cerrone albums that's all one long song. i find that hard to believe but that's like *exactly* what this moulton album is on.

and it works really well as a single track, i feel sorry for peeps who have silences between the tracks ;_;

it turned out to just be the first couple tracks but still total momentum killer

i need to find a cd rip i guess

love LOVE the bit starting at 2:42 in 'meridians'

moonship you got this on cd? i was thinking of getting it through iTunes but I don't fancy the silences ciderpress mentions...

http://www.alexmoulton.info/myspace/images/background/am_header_02.jpg

love how huge the drums are on this record

yes, i got it on CD. in fact, i bought it without having heard it because the cover art is so ... immense

my guess was that it would sound more like a rip-off of alan braxe / fred falke / cosmos (middleton) / major boys / etc, and that the cover was a post-lindstrom cash-in ... you have to understand, it was in a major record chain, carelessly sandwiched between ministry of sound's "electro house sessions", hed kandi's "twisted disco" and kitsune's "tabloid mixed by digitalism"

in other words, i figured it was mersh-house crap, but i had hoped it would be on the end of the crap spectrum that i could enjoy as sensibility-tweaking mindless pleasure (ministry of sound, hed kandi) instead of on the end of the spectrum that's just lazy insipid crap (kitsune)

lo and behold, it turned out to be much, much more **serious** than any of that.

this really might be the best cover art ever. i've had it as my desktop background since this thread started and i'm still not tired of it.

god this is good. thanks vahid.

“I was trained as a filmmaker,” Moulton says, “so I always write music with a visual in mind. In this case I actually created a full-realized storyline—an epic sci-fi adventure, or a space-opera, if you will—that builds in a climactic arc with all the plot twists and turns. The songs are presented continuously like a DJ set, but they’re also like key scenes for a film. And even though I know what the characters are doing at every moment of each song, I’m hoping listeners will create their own story.”

this is a fuckin dope album

Is Todd Terje a pun on Todd Terry?

yup

Hi everyone, this is Alex Moulton.

Firstly, let me say thank you for all the enthusiasm about the album! I'm really happy that you guys are enjoying it, and the crazy cover art ;-)

Secondly, I want to extend a huge apology for the major mistake on iTunes' part in the encoding of the tracks. We are doing everything we can to get iTunes to fix their error as soon as possible. Every other digital retailer is selling properly encoded (and in fact higher quality) mp3s of the album (including Amazon and Zune). But if you're near a good record store, I'd recommend buying the limited edition CD though - the packaging is incredible. Also, there are in fact two versions of the album available digitally - the gapless version (that mirrors the CD) and a version with full tracks for DJs (which you can get at DanceTracks Digital and soon on Beatport).

For those of you who bought a bad copy on iTunes, please email me your iTunes store receipt and I will personally send you a link to download the album at 320kbs - it's the least I can do, and I'd rather you hear the correct version as it was intended to be (with gapless playback). You can email me at alex(at)expansionteamrecords(dot)com

Thirdly, if you want hi-res artwork for your desktop wallpaper, you can find it http://www.expansionteamrecords.com

And lastly, I'll be launching a website soon that will be revealing the storyline of Exodus, serialized month to month, and asking for your involvement, contributions and feedback! The site will be located at:
http://alexmoulton.cashmusic.org/

Sorry again...
Alex

sweet!!!!

alex can you re-enter your email address so it doesnt get fucked up by the system-- is it alex at expansionteamrecords dot com ?

still not seen this cd in a shop.
i guess i must try harder.

I always wondered the legality if iTunes encoding methods; they basically take your property and modify it for their own benefit. Which, on the surface, is technically illegal. Of course there's about 10,000,000 intellectual property lawsuits against Apple in the pipeline right now.

Anyway, this stuff is good.

Fixed the email address so it's readable (if not clickable)

Thanks for showing up & sorting out people who got screwed up by itunes, Alex.

thx pash

This album is great. And seeing as i like all the guys cited in the thread title, i'll have to go look for some hakan lindbo as i have never heard anything by this guy. Any tips on where to start?

Picked up a copy from HMV this weekend... WOW! The packaging is superb even down to the 'vinyl like' CD disc. Drums are ace as is the bass on Meridians.

i mainly referenced hakan lidbo because of the similarity i hear to his data 80 project, which is like a post-techno gloss on the sound of la bionda

data 80 on emusic

I couldn't get into the Data 80 project. Too cheesy, too much vocoder!

but its even more complicated than that, its "what a world we live in, where mix cds have succeeded concept albums [ed note: wtf], and here is this dude, who made both, at the same time"

ya but he didnt - he never explains why this is as much mix cd as concept album

sigh

dont sigh at me

attn: pitchfork editors

my review for this cd would have been 40 times more rad, im thinking, a 7-8,000 word outline of the story moulton sketches w/ his synths, featuring a nonlinear timeline and (probably) sex, and someone would have died at the end.

and now u can never have it, because instead u gave the album a 6.9 and 800 words about web 2.0 ... besides im writing about tv for the new yorker so suck it

mention the fever ray thing too - might as well

hardbraggin'

damn max u writing for the nyer???

im trying homie, with ur support i can make it, by support i mean, you need to merk nancy franklin

one step ahead of you

wait nancy franklin? totally misread. never mind

lol r.i.p. http://americansfortruth.com/uploads/2008/08/nancy_pelosi_smaller.jpg

yah theres a house seat open if u want it --

i wouldn't open her seat

would not bring her legislature to order

wouldn't sniff her jurisprudence

would not whip her votes

would not filibuster her bill

ha nice name

dope album

this fucking album

URB Magazine podcast

http://www.urb.com/uploads/blogs/5179/URB-March-2009.jpg

dope artwork imo but not as lol as exodus

i picked this cd up for 3 bucks at amoeba!

i don't think this album works for anybody who likes disco but doesn't like frenchie-electro (i.e. me)

I picked this up on the back of the ILM poll and I'm loving it.

frenchie electro?

honestly this is more like deep house? the more i listen the less i like :(

i mean progressive house

which i don't really listen to but next to albums like WYGIGT how does this come close?

the more i listen the less i like :(

^^^this. i think lindstrom can get a touch prog-housey sometimes too- i usually fall for albums on the more komische end of this spectrum though

i sort of think u guys dont like to have fun

really with the "you guys don't like fun!" line?

artwork is by that german expressionist guy, right? hans richter friedrich david or swhateever?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caspar_David_Friedrich

look at u, hatin fun jordan

i just think its weird to go, "the more this reminds me of deep house, the more i dislike it" and not "the more this reminds me of deep house, the more im interested in exploring deep house"

u got deep house in my prog~

xpost (max) - it was two comments?

how about this?

sorry i'm raining on the bonerfest you have for the "concept" album, the more i listen the less i like

ps i'll give you a good 6.9

my problem is not that it's proggy or deep (doesn't sound 'deep' to my ears btw) but that it just doesn't do the same for me as other albums in this style, and it's a style that's becoming pretty pervasive (how many times have you heard klaus schulze and vangelis comparisons lately? is this just me?). isn't justice doing similar things nowadays?

also- we hate fun if we don't dig this album, really? i was legitimately surprised that it was only an hour long the first time i made it the whole way through, it felt like muuuuch longer. certain tracks stand their own, but guess i just don't like the synth sounds or the way they affect the tone of the album

so i want to say i can relate to your position; but do you feel like "discopolis" is only 12 minutes or much longer and is that a good or a bad thing??

i listen to this album in moderation, btw

just checked

still dope as fuck

yup

yurrr

http://www.thejhohcableshow.com/trollpolice/comics/2006-07-11.gif

:D

Where is our hero? We need to be saved from our evil overlords again.

i understand boris used his wife as the model for the artwork

this is still dope

and now making a packet providing music for adverts. Good for him.