Michael Halcyon:
Michael has made it his mission to continue the dream began by Silent Records, via his own label... Halcyon Recordings.
Mara's Torment: Across for Show (8.3)
(Rik MacLean - 1998) - Ephemeral electronics both dark and delicate.
Rod Modell/Michael Mantra: sonic continuum (7.9)
(Hypnos - 1998) - Two extended pieces smoothly merge ambient synth swells with found sounds.
Eban Schletter: Frontiers (8.5)
(Netherota - 1998) - Expressive arrangement of relatively straightforward instrumentation creates magically dark atmospheres.
Sir Isaac Neutron's Ambient Dalliance:
Gravity For Beginners (7.9)
(Watercolour Records - 1998) - Synth constructions and loads of samples are given the funny business in this amusing little outing.
Urchin: Urchin (8.5)
(Waveform - 1999) - A fun (and just a bit surreal) listen ... think hip hop meets the Twilight Zone.
Various Artists: Oscillations (8.3)
(Halcyon - 1998) - An compilated assortment of artists from the Silent and Hypnos catalogs in this Halcyon debut.
Vidna Obmana: landscape in obscurity (8.1)
(Hypnos - 1999) - Vidna Obmana's trademark ambient drifts are fused with flute and saxophone performances in one lush 68.5-minute track.
March Overviews include:
Biosphere, "Insomnia" Soundtrack; Richard Bone, "Metaphysic Mambo"; electric bird noise, "unleashing the inner robot"; Richard H. Kirk, "Virtual State"; Scorn, "Logghi Barogghi"; shri, "shri"
This Month: "Negative Feedback"... 15 artists tell about the not-so-good things they've heard.
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