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

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