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

Fresh spring vibes

Bobby — Tue, 08 Mar 2011 17:43:00 +0000

Here's a few little things to keep you going for a while.

Organismic - The Future of Dance Music @ 2464195387 bpm some fresh new ambient from London town.

a 3 track mashup by Squattin'MobileStudio a little blend between Point B - Candour, Sounds From The Ground - Restless Dub, and Spectralite - Ocean

Samuel Hall Band & Master Margherita - Samuel Hall Is Back

I have a new track very nearly finished, Organismic are going to drop some Tung Xiao flute over it, and then it'll be up online. Also our other collab is shaping up real nice but that will be a couple of weeks away ;)

Til next time....

Some new ambient from me

Bobby — Mon, 24 Jan 2011 14:33:00 +0000

I've finished a few pieces lately, both ambient but very different from each other.

First one is called Shin'ei which is very meditative and features the most wonderful live flute played by Craig Organismic, whom I'm also doing another collaboration with, very excited for that one, as the Organismic boys make very high quality music, with superbly rich mixdowns. Anyway Shin'ei is named after a very old Japanese shogunate era word meaning 'Sound of the Gods', which I came across reading the Hagakure. It probably should have had an Indian name because that's the influence I was putting into it with the tabla, but then again the flute is actually from China. So there we go, my first Indian based, Chinese instrumented, Japanese named ambient piece.

Again my blog hosts have ignored my requests for soundcloud embedding, so you'll have to click to a new page.

So click here to hear Shin'ei

A nice shot of Shiva meditating on the banks of the Ganges in Rishikesh.

Onwards, the second track 'The Ninth Season' is something I started a while ago after being inspired my favourite album of last year, which if you look at the post below this one you'll see it's Woob - Repurpose. This track I dedicate to Paul Frankland aka Woob for creating an album that will stick with me for the rest of my life. It's much darker than Shin'ei and much more cinematic with choirs, trumpets, and borderline harsh bells and clanks of stirring a metal hotpot. I named the track 'The Ninth Season' as a little rearrangement of the name of Woob's blog - 'Season 9'.

Click to go to my soundcloud and listen to 'The Ninth Season'

I can't remember exactly where this photo is. I think it might be the Tibetan plateau.

Let me know what you think ;)

A late happy new year! (and best of 2010)

Bobby — Sun, 16 Jan 2011 14:33:00 +0000

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.

Qiūfēn (a dubby brewski)

Bobby — Mon, 27 Sep 2010 15:09:00 +0100

Qiūfēn (pīnyīn) or Shūbun (rōmaji) (Chinese and Japanese: 秋分; Korean: 추분; Vietnamese: Thu phân; literally: "autumnal equinox") is the 16th solar term. It begins when the Sun reaches the celestial longitude of 180° and ends when it reaches the longitude of 195°. It more often refers in particular to the day when the Sun is exactly at the celestial longitude of 180°

an ableton blend with added reverb splooshes, delay spangalangs and automaton, doing whatever the hell it feels like.

01. wAgAwAgA - Calm East
02. Duskky - Scratch
03. Master Margherita - Fabula Dub
04. Wahn - Elite
05. Deadbeat - Vampire Dub
06. Wahn - Final Frontier
07. wAgAwAgA - Mr. Choppy
08. Skream - Moving Snares
09. wAgAwAgA - Jah Liion
10. Bird of Prey vs. Random - Subtropics
11. Vacuum Science - Real Rock
12. Hoehle - Junktion One
13. Daat - Orange Line
14. Anonymi - Venturi (oS Remix)
15. Mauxuam - B4 After
16. Eat Static - Lo-Ride Sloucher
17. VX - Particle Isomorphia (Dubsahara Remix)
18. Solar Fields - Insum (Remix)

stream or download here: http://soundcloud.com/el-cubist/qiufen

pic by Rohan

Minus Dub

Bobby — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 11:40:00 +0100

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.

So Shpongle are at it again...

Bobby — Mon, 16 Aug 2010 11:27:00 +0100

What's happening?

Bobby — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 11:50:00 +0100

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.

Woob - 'Repurpose' Trailer

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.

CD's in the making

Bobby — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 12:30:00 +0100

Each CD of my new album is handmade & unique, they take me about 3 hours to do one, so I'm glad I'm not that swamped yet. But many thanks to the people who have bought it so far and put me into a little amount of profit.

Okay here's the reason I've been quiet...

Bobby — Fri, 21 May 2010 12:37:00 +0100

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!

Observation

Bobby — Fri, 21 May 2010 12:20:00 +0100

Sorry for the little action going on here (I'll explain why in a little bit)

Just heads up on this wonderful track 'Melchizedek Heart Meditation' by The Observer. It's a 20 min piece of very subtle music with spoken dubbed out words from Drunvalo Melchizedek, whom, I admit, I don't know too much about. Seen one of his lectures on sacred geometry which was cool, but never some of the meditation speeches. Free download, while it lasts.

Bliss out!

http://soundcloud.com/the-observer/the-observer-melchizedek-heart-meditation-observer-take

badmammal - Music Hack Day set

Bobby — Fri, 21 May 2010 12:15:00 +0100

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.

Ambient in the year twothousandonezero

Bobby — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 13:00:00 +0100

This start to the year has provided some excellent ambient works. I thought I'd give you a little rundown on what's popped up on my radar.

Atomic Skunk - Portal

This I ordered last week, got the download, and just waiting for the digipak CD to arrive. On initial listen whilst mooching about in the fields, I have to say this is incredibly sculpted, quite a rare and exciting composition. I recognise some of the sounds he uses for we have a similar production setup, but the way he's intertwined all the elements and manipulated them as a whole gives me great respect to him as he has handled a powerful production tool extremely well. Definitely the contender for best ambient album of the year.

Check out atomicskunk.com

Tom Middleton - Aznyte Falls

I wish soundcloud would work with this blog because there so much great music on there. So you're gonna have to click for this free ambient track from Tom Middleton. It's 10 years old, but only just surfaced. An unreleased gem. Click here to hear and download

Cloudcycle - Intricacy

A new track from the clouds which just hitting play will describe itself better than I could. What I do love about it is that it's a perfect introduction for Lingua Lustra's album on Cloudcycle's online platform Bak$hish Music, so moving on here's....

Lingua Lustra - Ijatevuvun

Love the artwork for this... love the music even more. A mutation of delicate, intricate, and sometimes often bleak, industrial, and metallic ambient soundscapes, but definitely rich in lovely harmonics. Great pace to all of the tracks. Also in my 2010 ambient album of the year contender list. Cheers Mauxuam & Lingua Lustra.

Spectralite - Temple Of Stars

An album which I haven't actually had a full listen to. I only came across this the other night thanks to Andrew @ Interchill. Looking more closely, its Greg Hunter & Darren Sangita. No mention from Greg on this which came out in February, but better late than never in discovering this. So this morning while I'm writing this, I'm downloading this album from the Spectralite bandcamp page. Having listened to just the first track and bought it based on that I'm very excited to hear what's in store. Although I didn't, you can have a listen to all the whole album on the bandcamp page.

Tinariwen & Carlos Santana - Amassakoul

Bobby — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 14:46:00 +0100

BOH!

Bobby — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 14:37:00 +0100

It's coming.....

Bobby — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 10:00:00 +0000

A little afrofunk for the Vernal Equinox

Bobby — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 11:09:00 +0000

courtesy of Orchestre Poly-Rythmo de Cotonou, who I saw in Manchester a few weeks ago. Really good.

and today is the Vernal Equinox, where it is equal day and equal night, and a nice day it is so far.

Deep Auriga (Hejira)

Bobby — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 12:31:00 +0000

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!

illusory authority + adrenaline =

Bobby — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 10:10:00 +0000

Surrealism.

I tried to embed Vimeo players which are better quality but they ended up massive and taking over the whole screen, so if you'd prefer to watch on Vimeo then click here

I'm a fan of Charlie and the Love Police work which is about unveiling the illusions the corporations keep people under, but it's up to you to decide what you like, so I'm not going to rave about it today, but will supply you with some links for further research.

thelovepolice.eu

youtube.com/user/cveitch

Tune of the day : Gas - Microscopic

Bobby — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 22:24:00 +0000

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!

It's Orb Thursday again!

Bobby — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 17:17:00 +0000

Sat here with my Baghdad Batteries t-shirt on, listening to some fine beats, thinking of ordering a curry. It only could be another Orb Thursday!!

Here's another 5 prime Orb cuts!

01. The Orb - Toxygene (Fila Brazillia Mix) :Toxygene 12" : 1997 : Island Records

02. The Orb - Plateau : Orbus Terrarum : 1995 : Island Records

03. The Orb - Earth (Gaia) : The Orb's Adventures Beyond The Underworld : 1991 : Big Life

04. The Orb - Lost & Found : The Dream : 2008 : Liquid Sound

05. The Orb - Yungle : Orbsessions Vol. 1 : 2005 : Malicious Damage Records

Not up on the tube, but last.fm's got the full track up, so check here

http://www.last.fm/music/The+Orb/_/Yungle

Well it's the Orb doing jungle, how'd ya think its going to sound?

If your answer was 'mental' then you Sir/Madam are correct!