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new review from Cyclic Defrost magazine:

http://www.cyclicdefrost.com/blog/2009/ ... shade-din/

an extract:

"What makes this such a captivating listen is how Sirros melds virtual and actual analog sounds. It ensures the music cannot be placed in any one time. As soon as you start feeling a Kraftwerk flashback taking hold the dark and dense digital sounds of Autechre emerge from the mist.

Sirros has created an album that really does transform your immediate surroundings. As background music it serves its purpose well yet when you sit down and let the music take over your senses you enter a contradictory world where you feel both apprehension and calm. 'Entities' in particular is unnerving and comforting at the same time."


for more album info and purchase:

http://www.din.org.uk/din32.html

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yay! finally!!
i got round to finishing up the actual release package stuff, so here ya go...
http://www.viablehybrid.com/vh/artists/ ... roken.html

now buy it mofos!!

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Phew, the album I did with Jeff Caylor (aka Plunge) is finally up on itunes...Links from my myspace site which is given below! :)

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... wrong thread.. Sorry.

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I finally got my act together to complete this DVD project, get a web site up and publish previews on Vimeo and YouTube. Although the DVD is a continuous program, the component parts are downloadable separately on Vimeo (albeit in reduced resolution). The full DVD is available from the main web site.

www.chakra-mandalas.co.uk

www.vimeo.com/user995982/albums

www.youtube.com/ChakraMandala

To quote my own blurb,

"Chakra Mandalas uses the powerful combination of ambient music
and ever-evolving, three dimensional mandalas to take you on a
journey of self-discovery. Each chakra has its own corresponding
colour and sound frequency and this immersive experience will gently
stimulate and harmonise each of the energy centres in turn, leaving
you relaxed, refreshed and centred."


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vurt wrote:yay! finally!!
i got round to finishing up the actual release package stuff, so here ya go...
http://www.viablehybrid.com/vh/artists/ ... roken.html

now buy it mofos!!
So, if I pay for this one, will it actually arrive? :hihi:
Rakkervoksen

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Jeff Caylor and myself, who met via this very forum have produced this album...

http://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/changi ... d338143993

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and the first review:

Interconnected - Current Flow (VU-US018)

CD-r, VU-US, 2010

Those of your who like vintage electronics with an abstract edge while taking things out of the ordinary, should check out the sonic worlds of Interconnected. It's a a collaborative electronica/ idm/ experimental effort between Greek synthesist musician Bakis Sirros (of Parallel Worlds, Memory Geist) and Ingo Zobel (know of Dron, Signalform, Self Oscillate, Datasette). Their debut-album "Current Flow" comes as black cd-r with a full colour cd-print and a full colour picture containing all the artist and label info, plus a VU-US sticker, all packaged in a digipack.

The music-design explored on the well produced 49-minute "Current Flow" is both modern and daring, melting experimental electronics with elements of IDM and beyond. Album opener "Greenerblue" sets off as a lush, expressive outing with deep bass pulses, after which the music turns into a mysterious and imaginary trip in the sonic worlds of wonder on the next piece. Quirky sequencers and rhythms create an otherworldy effect on "Springs", followed by the more well-rendered futuristic music of "Deepestsespeed" with its cinematic atmospheres and robotic effects. Mind this is no easy but adventurous electronic music, turning a tad lighter and as the more melodic and rhythmic "Flowerscape" kicks in with its slight Kraftwerkian realms. Moody synth pads hover over spicy rhythms, showing another tad of Kraftwerk at the end. "Pulsating" ïs another peculiar track shifting from repetitive and drony to taking flight in the second half. "Timebender" is another strong and low tempo excursion, breathing lots of ambience as the music unfolds, before "Cats" puts a moody end to things. Fans of the DataBloem label and the sounds of real analogues will find much of their liking on "Current Flow", as will those who enjoyed the previous albums of Mr Sirros.
Bert Strolenberg
www.sonicimmersion.org

purchase here:
www.vu-us.com

album clips here:
www.myspace.com/interconnectedmusic

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Just a short notice. This is the other (wordless) side of Thomekk..

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Dark Story


The album is ready/finished, though not for sale right now (maybe laters depending on the interest) but as a whole listenable thing via flash-player.


Please leave comments here (if it should be worth for anyone):
http://www.musik-und-text.de/wordpress/archives/257 :)

I'm planning to do this on stage with dancers/actors or as a movie (without words), it's dramatical and more "heavy listening"(maybe some passages should be shortened). 8)

Cheers,
Thom
Symphony Nr.1
Meet the Cities Repair Team Unimportant laughter
music has become meaningless...we just keep doing it

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Hello,

Release "Parallel Worlds - Shade(DiN32)":

got to the 'Top 10 albums of 2009' lists of (Russian) Sound Proector webzine (from Dmitry Quarck):

Dmitry Quarck............................

+ Infinite Scale - Ad Infinitum // Rednetic Recordings
+ Point 7 - What? // Toytronic
+ Access To Arasaka - Oppidan // Tympanik Audio / Spectraliquid
+ The Kilimanjaro Darkajazz Ensemble - Here Be Dragons // Ad Noiseam
+ Yagya - Rigning // Sending Orbs
+ Proem - Till There's No Breath // Nonresponse
+ Jon Hopkins - Insides // Double Six Recordings
+ Parallel Worlds - Shade // DiN
+ Port-Royal - Dying In Time // n5MD / debruit&desilence
+ Synapscape - Again // Ant-Zen

http://www.soundproector.com/?cat=top10

also, it got to the 'Top 10 albums of 2009' list of (US) 'Sea of Tranquility' webmag (from Elias Granillo):

Best Of 2009

1. ZOMBI -- Spirit Animal

2. SIMAKDIALOG -- Demi Masa

3. PHIDEAUX -- Number Seven

4. BELEW, ADRIAN / POWER TRIO -- e

5. PARALLEL WORLDS -- Shade

6. CASTLE CANYON -- Gods Of 1973

7. MORAZ/BRUFORD -- In Tokyo

8. CLARKE, STANLEY with HIROMI & WHITE, LENNY -- Jazz In The Garden

9. PIANO CIRCUS Featuring BILL BRUFORD (Play The Music Of Colin Riley) -- Skin And Wire

10. SLIVOVITZ -- Hubris

http://www.seaoftranquility.org/section ... asGranillo


http://www.din.org.uk/din32.html

thanks,
Bakis.

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The CD "Music For Haiti" - a compilation with songs of several people here at KVR, is available now. The profit is donated to the victims of the Haiti Earthquake 2010:

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The project website is here: www.music-for-haiti.de

Links to online shops are given there. Of course, you can also contact me directly to get one.

You can also discuss it in the KVR Thread if you wish.


Here is the tracklist (some artists are listed with their real name instead of their KVR alias):

1. Confidence Of A Sleepwalker
K.Bakos ft. Dr.Wu vs T.K (Germany)

2. Return to M.
MAUSEOLEUM (Slovenia)

3. Lost (But Never Forgotten)
Will J. Godfrey (U.K.)

4. Awaken
Larry Seger, Kent Daniels (U.S.A.)

5. Anxiety
Mark Henning ft. Eva Meiser (Germany)

6. Ghost Towns
HanafiH (U.K.)

7. Spirits
Remco Hogendoorn (Netherlands)

8. Ocean Night
Lady N. (Germany)

9. Timeless
Simon Stockhausen (Germany)

10. Leading To Freedom
Archive Of Everything (U.K.)

11. The Healing Song
Mark Walters (U.K.)


Bonus Tracks:
12. Diving
Mark Henning (Germany) ft. Remco Hogendoorn (Netherlands)

13. Supernuova
MAUSEOLEUM (Slovenia)

14. Under (the Sea)
Suecae Sounds (Sweden)

15. Beyond Will
Junhak Lee (South Korea)

16. Sleeping Giant
Hink (U.S.A.)

17. Extinction
Mark Henning (Germany)

18. Again
Max el Belga & Santa Klaus (Spain)


- Mark Henning
AnaMark - The VST Synth --- Now it's freeware!

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Interconnected "Current Flow" album review from electroambientspace.com:

Interconnected "Current Flow"

(http://www.myspace.com/interconnectedmusic, 2010)

9 tracks, 49 mins

Bakis Sirros (Parallel Worlds) and Ingo Zobel form Interconnected, an electronic music duo forged by a love of all things analog and modular, creating a unique organic/synthetic hybrid sound. "Greenerblue" is a great opener with its irresistibly catchy rhythms and melody. The beats shuffle along just so, synths waft gently over the top, and female synthlike vocals flow into the mix as well. The darker, more minimalist approach on "Dark Clouds" immediately brings to mind Node's excellent self-titled album, as percolating percussion propels things along. Spastic rhythms get "Springs" off to a quirky start, a familiar Bakis musical styling from his Parallel Worlds albums, and somewhat reminiscent of Saul Stokes as well. "Deepestsespeed" and its glitchy loops remind me of some of Vir Unis work such as Mercury and Plastic or his Perimeter series with James Johnson. Each track slips into a groove and goes with the rhythmic flow until the next one comes. My favorite may be "Timebender," with its cool relaxed bass line and layers of crisp percussion and electronics. In short, there's plenty to like here.

© 2010 Phil Derby / Electroambient Space

album purchase/info:
www.vu-us.com

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Interconnected - 'Current Flow' album new great review:


http://www.gutsofdarkness.com/god/objet.php?objet=13115

rating 5 out of 6.


album purchase/info:
www.vu-us.com

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Interconnected - 'Current flow'(vu-us018) cd album
new great review:

http://www.side-line.com/reviews_commen ... 0_0_17_0_C

"I'm always excited when discovering a new Belgian label although a bit ashamed as well as VU-US has already been active since 2007! Interconnected is a project featuring Bakis Sirros (mainly known from Parallel Worlds and Memory Geist) and Ingo Zobel (DRON, Signalform, Self Oscillate, Data-Sette). Both artists created 9 tracks that lead the listener into minimal electro-analogue territories. The complexity of the compositions is the main characteristic emerging from their common efforts. It's quite minimal and in a way experimental, but it also comes close to IDM (or IEM). The elaboration of the sounds seems to come directly from the lab of sonic alchemists. "Current Flow" moves from ambient impressions to astral effects to danceable vibes. The project doesn't fall into (the sometimes) cheap techno trap, but constantly explores the wide fields of analogue modular systems. The result is quite unique, far away from any established standards and other styles. It's electronic, but that doesn't say much. Interconnected moves all over different styles, like taking samples from some elements in every explored style to finally transpose it into a new hybrid. "Deepestsespeed", but especially "Flowerscape" are the two main cuts resulting from their common efforts. I was deeply impressed by the way both cuts have been constructed. It reveals genius musicians in action. There was no better introduction to this label than discovering such an overwhelming production!"
(DP:8)DP.

rating 8 out of 10.


purchase/info:
www.vu-us.com

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Alio Die | Parallel Worlds - Circo Divino (HSL055) CD and Vinyl:

a great review (in Italian)

http://www.dagheisha.com/music_section/cd.asp?idus=4731

info / purchase:
www.aliodie.com
www.parallel-worlds-music.com

plus many other outlets worldwide.

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