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

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!

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!

What's been happening lately? I've finally got the final track of my album done, which is great, after not been producing much in the last month, apart from some really sketchy ideas. It's a pure ambient journey that represents what I imagine to be the morning after a Chimbre experience. Chimbre being a spiritual retreat in the Peruvian rainforest. It only has just been established but still has provided some excellent scenery to some heavy psychotheraputic work for many individuals. Check it out at chimbre.com!

So you can have a quick listen (well quick being 15 minutes) to the track on my Soundcloud - http://soundcloud.com/el-cubist/enuui-chimbre-feat-mauxuam-greg-hunter

This track is a collaborative track with Mauxuam and Greg Hunter, who if you've been reading some of my earlier posts are Cloudcycle. I have a bunch of samples I got off them and have tried making a few tracks, but they just haven't cut it. This one though is more fitting towards a halfway point between my sound and their sound.

Also I am in the process of creating a Sufi-esque Persian piece of ambient drum and bass for the experimental noise/jazz/drumfunk d'n'b label Pinecone Moonshine. Nic TVG, the label boss, has been a good friend for many years back when I was running Exegene, and I'm glad to be now working on something for his wicked label, which has some great artists on like Macc, dgoHn, Fanu, Jiva, Ibunshi, Parallel, Eschaton, and of course Nic TVG himself.

Also looking forward to seeing Hallucinogen live, Shpongle DJ set, and Eat Static live in London in a couple of weeks, as well as seeing the African Soul Rebels tour in Manchester with Orchestre Poly-Rythmo de Cotonou, Oumou Sangaré, and the Kalahari Surfers.

Sorry on the lack of updates, but its been worth it. I'm one track away from completing my album - 'Mindstate Disposition'. It's an hour of ethno-ambient works. There's a few drums here and there, but not many. Lots of meditative drones with Indian instrumentation weaved in and out. It's mainly inspired by Youth's 'Catching Fire From A Distance' album.

I've decided to let you own mp3's of it for free. Donation of your choice for flac/wav. Also looking at getting it pressed on CompactStick. A CD sized case with art, but where the CD should be is a USB stick, which I can have the high quality music, a collection of art, videos, text, and bonus mixes. Not sure when I'll be able to get this out, hopefully by February. This I'll sell for minimum unit price + p&p + £5 donation to amazonwatch.org, so I guess it'll roughly be £10.

Anyway, I have some artwork coming for it. It'll be based around this:

Photo by Chris Evans.

Preview of the album & one free flac download of 'Slow Moving Thoughts' available on my Soundcloud. Check it here, http://soundcloud.com/el-cubist/sets/mindstate_disposition

Thanks for the support over this year!

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.

Here's some pure ambience I created a month ago, and has no rhythmic elements. This track was made completely on the fly, and was made from just two synthesizers!! It was an experiment for me, and I quite like it. I did add the sample later which was put through a RE-201.

So step into the dream world and take a deep breath...

Enuui - Oneironaut | 12.2MB | V0 MP3 | 7:27 long | (Right Click and Save Target As...)

'Dreamland' - by Mars One. I'm a big Mars One fan, and this painting is pretty much bang on what the tune is about.

Let me know what you think, and FLAC or WAV available if you want them.

Cha,
The Enuui Outernational Space System

Here's a sneak preview of the Pitch Black remix I'm working on.

Pitch Black - Harmonia (the enuui outernational space system rework).

EDIT: took the link away, because it's changing in a new direction : )

Hopefully should have it finished by the end of the week. I need to do some processing on some of the sounds to make them more different from the original.

Check back soon!