M83

I did listen to this group a lot before, but lost my enthusiasm when I fell in to some kind of metal-only phase.
So now, in the middle of th night, I got the urge to listen to M83 again, and started out with the album I remember enjoying the most, called "Before the dawn heals us".

And it's fantastic.
I'll just leave it at that, you have to listen for yourselves to even grasp a fraction of the total awesomness that is M83.

2005 - Before the dawn heals us
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=2GUJEV9D

Brian Eno

Now that my friend Filip posted some stunning ambient from 2008, I'm going to out-date him by posting a little 32-year old gem.
Of course I'm talking about Brian Eno, the man who pretty much started it all. (Okay, that's a lie.)

His first soley ambient album.
A real classic.
'Nuff said.

1978 - Music for airports
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=IXKY29L0

Hol Baumann

Hol Baumann is one of Ultimae Records many great composers. For fans of ambient music I definitely recommend checking out their whole rooster at their website. They're packin' serious heat, trust me.

Anyways, back to Hol. The man behind the mask known as "Hol Baumann" is actually a french guy called Oliver Orand. For many years this guy has been composing and producing albums, theatre, movies and documentaries. His music has its roots in the ambient-swamp, but I believe he's pretty influenced by world music aswell which really glows through this facade of ambient electronica, creating a very lush and inspiring field of sound.

Myspace

2008 - Human
http://www.mediafire.com/?gngawvzkzez

2009 - Scala EP
http://www.mediafire.com/?ytnjyym5hqn

I also want to give a big THANKS to my man ORO for making this idea of us cooperating on this blog happen. Look forward to more awesome music, ladies & germs.

Cpt. Beefheart & His Magic Band p.1

I can't say that I've been a fan for long, but Don Van Vliet was truly ahead of his time, along with Frank Zappa.
His music varies from standard, sometimes sad, blues songs to the utter zaniness of all that was the 60's (you know what I'm talking about, the hair, the attitude, the ideologies, the drugs, the drug-related trips, the drug-influenced music, the drugged up hippies, and not to forget the acid tests!).

What I'm trying to say is that the Cap'n truly has his own style, but that he also bounced around a lot between already explored genres such as blues, pop and salsa, without sounding as "commercial" which a lot of the artists those days did.
All in all, it makes him a truly remarcable musician, and artist.

I'll post the first four early albums, which are his wildcard's imo, I'll get around to the later stuff soon.

1967 - Safe as milk
http://www.mediafire.com/?n2zyjuzewzu

1968 - Strictly personal
http://www.mediafire.com/?htsklmwxqdz

1969 - Trout mask replica
http://www.mediafire.com/?zzkynmuyotn

1970 - Lick my deals off, honey
http://www.mediafire.com/?mnbxzmulmne

New blood

So one of my friends wants to write for the blog, and I'm too happy to oblige.
His name is Filip and is a great guy with, you guessed it, great musical taste.

La Monte Young and the Theatre of Eternal Music

La monte young is truly an underrated musician, and is oftenly not mentioned much at all today in drone circles.
The music revolves a lot around droning synths and the occasional ambient tune.

The band was also known as The Dream Syndicate, so don't get confused if you search for any of the album titles and get that as a result.

Definetly something to check out if you're curios about early drone.

1965 - Inside the Dream Syndicate, Volume I: Day of Niagara
http://www.mediafire.com/?5zg2kmyjzmz

Will make another post containing the rest of their dischography when I get my hands on it.

Headphonica.com

Now that I have a staggering ammount of followers (one), I'd like to recommend you all (you) about a great record company called headphonica.
They distribute around 60 small bands and artists who vary from genres such as glitch, hiphop, audio books and drone, and a lot of them are really great.

Every release from every artist is also free, so there's no reason in not visiting the page and not downloading at least one album.

So far I've enjoyed the following headphonica artists:
mr&mrsbrain, Ofir Klemperer and Ergo Phizmiz.
I'd recommend these as starters for you all.



Now, good night. It's been a heavy day's blogging.

Black Dice

People who know me are painfully aware of my fondness for this band.
Black Dice are kind of a tumbledryer in the hipster-scene, they mix a wide array of styles such as glitch, noise (soft), hiphop and minimalistic stuff into their terrific catalogue. I hope you enjoy them as much as I do.

2004 - Creature Comforts
http://www.mediafire.com/?az7zfoormva

2005 - Broken ear Record
http://www.mediafire.com/?vizzgxelpdz

2007 - Load Blown
http://www.mediafire.com/?bxjbdxbzcdy

2009 - Repo
http://www.mediafire.com/?bxjbdxbzcdy

Tangerine Dream - Zeit

Just two years before their most applauded work, Phaedra, Tangerine Dream release this gem in 1972.

Somehow the ambient stuff from the 70's appeal to me a lot more than the modern stuff, probably because it's so stripped of all the instruments modern ambient musicians use to make their music so dramatic and epic.

Anyway, here's the link to "Zeit", and the password:

http://rs220.rapidshare.com/files/313880469/TANGERINE_DREAM_-_klasyka.net_-_Zeit1972.rar

PW: klasyka.net

Dead Letters Spell out Dead Words

DLSoDW is an ambiet/drone-outfit from Sweden, fronted by Thomas Ekelund.

2008 - Lost in Reflections
http://www.megaupload.com/es/?d=NAOXEO0R

1st post: intro, Jackie-O Motherfucker

So, yes. Welcome to the Kool aid acid test blog.

Here I'll be posting a wide array of muscal embargos that reach my eardrums...
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So let's get this going!

First out is the musical collective Jackie-O Motherfucker from Oregon.

They are widely renowned for switching members every month or so, and thus produce extremely diffrent music on all of their album's.

The music is hard to describe, but I'd say that they play some kind of droneish folk rock.
Anyway, you be the judge.

1996 - Cross Polinate
http://rapidshare.com/files/56541736/1996_-_Cross_Pollinate.rar.html

2000 - Fig.5 pt.1/2
http://rapidshare.com/files/56547979/2000_-_Fig._5.part1.rar.html
http://rapidshare.com/files/56550365/2000_-_Fig._5.part2.rar.html

2001 - Liberation
http://rapidshare.com/files/56557524/2001_-_Liberation.rar.html

2005 - Flags of the Sacred Harp
http://rapidshare.com/files/56753258/2005_-_Flags_Of_Sacred_Harp.rar.html