enuui.org - ambient & dub excursions into the upper plateau

Hope everyone's been fine and chilling to some nice beats over the holidays. 2011 is already shaping up over here with some interesting projects starting, which one special one which I'll keep fairly quiet. So far it's heading towards the vibe of Mark Isham crossed with Banco de Gaia and David Gilmour in a big jam in Utter Pradesh. Also I'm working on a remix for Eschaton, who makes really ambient drum and bass, hints of the old Good Looking vibes, but mainly a whole new revitalisation of the sound with lots of cinematic parts over the classic rich subs. I've only just started but I think it's going to take the 170bpm track and rejig it into a slower and very downbeat Global Communication-esque vibe. Some more things are coming up here and there, such as my second album, and I'm working on my hip-hop stuff as well so expect a shit load of music coming over the next few months.

2010 was an excellent year for music, so heres a rundown of what made it so great.

My favourite album of 2010 without a doubt was

Woob - Repurpose

This album I find very hard to put into words mainly because it's so damn good. As someone else mentioned it's cinema for the ears, which maybe might be an understatement. Anyway must love & respect to Paul Frankland aka Woob for this masterpiece. Also I hear he has got a full feature length cartoon coming out which is about 2 dogs based on his Max and Harvey alias, for which he mainly has releases on Ninja Tune. Check out Woob's season9 blog for more info.

Also in my favourite finds of 2010 are

Spectralite - Temple of Stars. A collaboration between Darren Sangita and Greg Hunter. Available here to buy

Kaya Project - Desert Phase. If you're reading this you've probably already heard this one, if not head over to Interchill Records.

Ashirvad's self titled album. Another fantastic album from Sangita Sounds, this one is a project spearheaded by Darren Sangita, and features Gopal Bannerjee, Sukhdev Mishra, Georgina Brett, Johanna Stein, Haradhan Das Baul, Kallol Mazumder, Shirin Sengupta, S.K.Indu, Dr.Ashwin Kalbag, Shiv Shankar Roy, Sadhu Seva, Eugene Moriarti and Debashish Haldar.

One of the most pleasant Indian/Ambient fusions of the year as unlike many it features lots of traditional Carnatic musicians, unlike many sampled things, also the tracks are based on traditional ragas.

Visit Sangita Sounds to hear more and buy.

Next, I was pretty pleased I managed to get my own album 'Mindstate Disposition' out. It hasn't been that successful, but the feedback and support from the people who have bought it has been amazing, so I'd like to say thanks to you guys. If you haven't checked it, please visit my bandcamp page which can be found by clicking the Shop link on the right.

Other mentions go to The Orb & David Gilmour for 'Metallic Spheres', nice stuff, and great to see Youth back in action. Kalpataru Tree's 'All Things Passing' album, very nice homegrown chilled out dub.

I'm sure theres more things that I've missed. I lost a folder on one hard drive which has most of the downloads I've bought last year. Have most of them backed up but they're on burnt DVD's and different pen drives all over the place.

What was your favourite of last year? send me a message.

Been working on some trippy dub bits, and here's one that actually got finished!

Click here to have a listen. Click here to buy from my shop, only £1.

Best leaving it to your ears to explain the sound. Although I'll say it's inspired by Warp Technique.

I've been a little busy getting all the CD's out, and writing some music for sync work, which is all good. And since my last post which seems like ages ago, I've bought and been given a hell of a lot of great music, so I'll share it with you lot.

Kalpataru Tree - All Things Passing

This I got given about a month ago, and has been on repeat quite often on my mp3 player while I'm out and about. It comes in the classification of psydub I guess, but I found it to be a lot more organic than a lot of psydub/psybient. The synth work is eased into the rounded basslines, and acoustic and electric guitar is played on most tracks, giving a real wholesome chilled out vibe. All the instruments are very chilled and relaxed, so nothing is competing for space and it just works in one mellow melting pot. Plus only $5, why not! http://kalpatarutree.bandcamp.com/

Stress Assassin - Carrier Track

An interesting album off Dubmission Records, starts off all big and static laden dub, a little similar to some of the Rhythm & Sound, or Brendan Moeller stuff, but a little more rootsy in vibe. Then this album goes into a bit of a trip-hoppy headspace, where it comes off a little 'BoC'ish, and provides some nice crunchy pieces with heaps of gritty drums and sci-fi bleeps and bloops swooshing about, then goes back all dubby for the end. Apparantly its by the Scandanavian producer Atmos, who I gather has done quite well in the psytrance scene (all of which I don't know too much of), so it's probably time I check more of him out. Oh yeah dirty cheap, bandcamp wins again!

http://stressassassin.bandcamp.com/

Cloudcycle - 1 Year Birthday + heaps of new cloud packs

So Mauxuam has been a very busy man lately, what with releasing a barrage of EP's and albums on Bakshish Music, from the great Cloudcycle collaborators Lingua Lustra, and Master Margherita. But he's found time to celebrate the Cloudcycle birthday with another massive release of quality ambient. So have a listen to this lot (including my cloud, Chimbre), it's all free too. http://cloudcycle.net/log/downloads/ and here's a birthday mashup video from Lingua Lustra. http://cloudcycle.net/log/cloudcycle-birthday-present-from-lingua-lustra/

Woob - Repurpose

I could write a load on this brand new Woob album, but words would not do it justice in the slightest. Needs to be heard, thats all there is to it. Cinema for the ears.

BUY IT NOW http://woob.bandcamp.com/album/repurpose

Merohedra - Live @ Psycrowdelica 2010

So finally a live set available from one of my favourite producers, Greg Hunter, who has been sculpting his Merohedra sound into a live performance. I love the way he has kept the same vibe throughout the whole set, but each track is very unique and theres subtleties all over. Lots of glitchy post techno beats and basses intertwined with precisely mangled Persian, and Sufi instrumentation. Although I haven't explored much of this sound (where to start?), it would appear Greg has created something very personal to him, and definitely has his own sound to it. Check it out here http://merohedra.net/web/?p=1

Enuui - Mareación

A new track from myself. Features field recordings of Chimbre and the Peruvian rainforest, provided kindly by Rob Velez, the man behind Chimbre. So amongst the bird chirps and the crickets, I've intertwined Maestro Mancoluto icaro (a song for spirit communication in ayahuasca sessions), and his rainstick providing an earthly primitive rhythm. Free download at my Bandcamp

Enjoy! I have a few more great albums to share in a few days.

My debut album 'Mindstate Disposition' is out!!! It's been mastered, and sounds lush as. Bob Macc @ Subvert Central Mastering did an amazing job in creating even more clarity than I thought was possible.

I have upload it on my bandcamp for sale. It was going to be a free album, but I'm a little broke so it costs, not too much - £4 for 8 tracks, but I'm not just doing download, I have a CD on there for £5, which will be shipping in June, and is a CDR in a handmade octagonal origami screen printed CD wallet.

So please head over to http://enuui.bandcamp.com if you'd like to buy a copy.

Oh and to keep with Mauxuam and Greg Hunter's Cloudcycle free music policy, the Chimbre track is a free FLAC + MP3 download, as Cloudcycle feature on it.

Peace + Love!

More free music, this time from my pal badmammal, who makes some laid back summery quirky house tunes a la Studio !k7, and Compost Records vibe.

He's recently whipped up this grand set of some of his funky excursions.

So head over to goodluckbadluck - his homepage or http://soundcloud.com/badmammal/badmammal-music-hack-day-set to download this.

I thought I'd fit in another track to my album, as an introduction.

To have a listen click here

I named this after this APOD picture of the constellation Auriga.

Photo by Tunç Tezel

Enjoy!

Today's tune of the day was introduced to me by Woob (who over the next few days will get a nice big feature from me). I had heard of Gas, but had always thought it was the Gong Appreciation Society.... little did I know it was the alias of ambient extraordinare Mat Jarvis, who also provided quite a large amount of the soundtrack to the ambient game Osmos (which you should really check it out). Anyway he has given away a track from his album 0095 from the now defunct Em:t label, which Woob was on too. I'm 15 years too late on this, but the phrase 'better late than never', has never had more meaning.

So I am extremely pleased to be passing this on... a stunningly beautiful and sublime track named 'Microscopic'.

Right click and save http://www.microscopics.co.uk/music/gas-microscopic.mp3.

If you like this which I'm sure you will, then pop over to his site - microscopics.co.uk and his blog.

And if none of this new news to you, then get in touch with me and give some Gas recommendations because it's all fresh to my ears.

Also keep yer ears peeled over the next few days for some vibrations from Woob, which he says some of my blog readers can have a free download! Nice ay!