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

Some absolutely stunning producers on the Soundcloud musicians network. Here's a few tunes that I've really been diggin' over the last few weeks.
Ayahuesca by shoobakaaz
Feel water's pulse by Roman Pavlov
Belmar Sol - Karmic Rain by Belmar Sol
Space Designers - New Wavers by Space Designers
the last experiment by griff
Orbiski mastered by m@tski


I've had trouble with embedding the Soundcloud player into this blog, bloody html shit I don't get, so here's few links for you to click on sorry, great tunes though. Griff is making some wonderful stuff, nice spacial blend of programmed electronics and acoustic jams. BOH!

Yeah, this is big! Check it out.

Finally I got these done. Took a lot of tweaking and took a lot more effort to stop tweaking!

If you'd like to download them, then just right click and 'Save target as..' here to download a zip of both tunes and some artwork.

Yeeeeeeeah!!! This mix is THEE shit!

Whipped up by MetaLX, the hawaiian dubologist, part of his Dub It X series.... which I'll gradually get round to hosting the lot.

Here's Part 5 to start things off.

01. 8 From The Egg - Gone
02. Duboniks - Panic
03. Rhythm & Sound - No Partial
04. Thievery Corporation - Interlude
05. Dj Food - Spiral Dub
06. Knowtoryus - Revenge of the Bomberclad Joint
07. Bill Laswell - Road to Axum
08. Orbient - Boarding (Doubleseat Mix)
09. Avatars of Dub - Sexelevatormusic
10. Riz All Stars feat. Lucy V - Joyful Dub
11. Sandoz - King Dread
12. Manasseh feat. Knati - Skenga Dubwise 3
13. Mad Professor - Jaffa Dub
14. The Clash - Bankrobber (Dub Version)

Right Click here and 'save file as' to download

by lfchamarelli. Click the pic to enlarge.

Our good mates at Beatplexity mix archive have a load of Mixmaster Morris mixes uploaded. Some new from this year and last year, when he started playing at the inSpiral Lounge in London, as well as some of the older Solid Steel radio shows he did for Ninja Tune.

Click here to go the mixes

I've still got to grab a few of them myself, theres 24 uploaded on Beatplexity. So when this weather brightens up will have a good old sunsoaked listen to as many as I can, and will re-host some of my favourite ones, and attempt to hunt down the tracklistings.

The Irresistable Force on Myspace

I came across this earlier on Soundcloud. Some familiar names to me in the tracklist but quite a few I don't know of, and it's quite mindblowing stuff. Really laidback vibes, with meaty basslines and ambient skanks. It's got loads of Indian instrumentation, which coupled with rootsy dub, spacial quirks, and blissful pads makes this mix a perfect journey for any time of day. So a big thanks to Indra for mixing this fine selection.. and here's some words & tracklist taken from her myspace.

::TRACKLIST::

INTRO:

I. Ross Daly – Hatif (played by Linsey Pollak) In Arabic, the word hatif refers to the spirits of dead poets who inhabit the desert and entice travellers with their song, causing them to lose their way. This piece was composed by Ross Daly and the haunting wind instrument heard in the beginning of the piece is none other than a small plastic watering pot converted into a musical instrument and played by Linsey Pollak.

II. Leon Danezos (Alcalica) on santoor

A very old instrument, the santoor is possibly the ancient Psalterion or Epigonio. Its name is possibly from the Persian santour or santir. Its shape is trapezoid, with a sound box of 4-5cm in length and measures 50-65cm in width or 100cm in length. On the top of the sound box, the strings are located in 2, 3 or 4th, tuned in tafto phonia. The bass strings are single. There are also two kavalli that divide the instrument into two parts. On the first part, the strings are tuned according to the diatonic scale; while on the other, the strings are tuned according to the chromatic scale.It has 100-140 strings and produces 30-32 notes. The high strings are made of bronze or steel, and the bass strings are made of copper. It has 7 contrabass strings with a range of 3 octaves. It starts from f-contrabass and ends in b. It is played by using two mallets that have thread or cotton at the end so they can produce a soft sound. It is an instrument of accompaniment. It is made of pine or walnut wood. In Greece, Tasos Diakogiorgis is a famous teacher and the best player of the santouri.

1. Manasseh presents Spectre - The Missing Dub
2. Secret Archives of Vatican - Caleb Dub (Uncle Riotous remix)
3. Secret Vibes - Don't Sleep (Dub)
4. Lunagroove - Salvation Dub
5. Vlastur – Cycladic Dub (unreleased)
6. Digital Smoke – Doudouk Dub (unreleased)
7. Guitoud - Get Up Fight (unreleased)
8. Naturelement - Duble Trouble (unreleased)
9. Deadbeat - Rock Of Ages (+ vocals: Butchaa MessenJah)
10. Sardinia Bass Legalize – Leaves
11. Digitalic Park - Ali La Pointe
12. Illumination – Brain Ball Noise (unreleased)
13. Pitch Black - Transient Transmission
14. Adham Shaikh - Micro Dreams
15. Gaudi - Night Watch
16. Pete Namlook & Gaudi - The Sun Won't Set

OUTRO:

I. Kristi Stassinopoulou – Waves

II. Leon Danezos (Alcalica) on santoor

This is a resident mix for Fluid Radio (www.fluid-radio.co.uk) dedicated to the mystic island Samothraki, Greece.

Special thanks for support and taking part to Nitty Dubby, Leon Danezos (alcalica.org), Butchaa MessenJah, Naturelement, Aiora, Vlastur, Sotokkan, Dj Looney...and to my friends Sotiris, Vassilis, Dimitrio, Froso, Kyriakos, Panos, Angeliki, Andrea, Katerina, Oso, Babina, Adonis, Panos, Athena Etana, Ihor, Mani, Nikos, Monia, Andrea... for divine moments on Samothraki.

Download either from here (Right click and save as) or Indra's soundcloud.

Picture from here. Click to go big.

Now this is really neat. I totally agree with the idea of the free music ethos that Tom Cosm has. I came across this guy via Pitch Black's homepage, where they had an Ableton Live tutorial lecture online which Mr. Cosm was on. So through further link clicking I came to cosm.co.nz, where I found not just the original Ableton tutorial, but loads more, as well as some of his own stuff which is free 320 MP3's but also the Ableton Live project files so you can remix them. Also check out some very useful production tips & tricks & tutorials on his site.

I treat music as a form of communication that completely overpowers that of any other kind of human interaction>

If the process of funding music and artists was swapped around from listen > pay > enjoy > get hooked to listen > enjoy > get hooked > pay, I think this would be a huge step forward with a little amount of effort, and I this is what I am trying to achieve. Yes of course I will gain some promotion from trying to instigate something like this, but overall I think if everyone laid their cards down on the table, all knowledge and music was open there would be huge gaps opening up in the technological advancement of music, increasing the demand for developers, thinkers and new interesting tools. >

My music has always been free, and it always will be! Fuck restricting it just to people who can afford it!>

Sounds right to me! I'm intending to make an enuui album, and of course would love it on a label, but having seeing how Tom Cosm does things, I gotta say I'm gonna follow suit. Maybe I will get a sweet album deal, but until then all music I create will be free, and them 3 quotes above is the reason why.

Anyway, here's a load of Tom Cosm's tunes to check and buy if you want to, if not have them for free. Click here. and here's my favourite one I've heard so far.

Moving on up!

Sorry for the lack of updates this week, but hopefully this will make up for it.
A month or two ago I came across this producer on Soundcloud (a kind of social network for serious musicians, that I've got an account with) who is making some really wonderful soundscapes and ambient music that just forces a headspace of chill & peacefulness. Some of the the tunes have a sense of melacholy about them but in the lightest meaning of the word.
Think Ultimae or maybe some of the more ambient Liquid Sound compilations.

So here a big up to Atomic Skunk. I don't know much about him (or maybe them?), or if he has much exposure, but I'm gonna make it my mission to get these tunes out to more people, and he's allowed me to zip up the tunes off his Soundcloud to spread to you lucky people.

If you need to listen before downloading (but you can take my word on it), then here's two of the tunes from the bundle that you can stream.

and now here is the zipped bundle of tunes which is just shy of 1 hour of pure listening pleasure.

Right Click here and Save Target As

If you want to get in touch, then visit atomicskunk.com or soundcloud.com/atomicskunk

Higher quality mp3's are available on iTunes, which the link to is on his homepage.

Enjoy! and let me know what you think.