Best of 09

#20 Sleeping Me - Lamenter

Clayton McEvoy is a newcomer to the music scene, but I feel 2009 is just the beginning for his drone/ambient work. Lamenter is short and sweet: 26 minutes of drone-based guitar. I'm a sucker for anything with a gorgeous swell but there's something about his sound that is so reminiscent to me. The first track starts up and it seems so cozy, like I've heard it a million times before. He uses notes that really impact you, keeping your attention while staying true to his style. The last 3 tracks have additional acoustic and guitar tracks that give it a sound similar to a very minimal exposions in the sky. And if you, much like me, can't stand post-rock anymore, don't let that scare you away from this release. It's refreshing stuff. Cheers to 09, a great year for ambient.

1: Redeemer (6:58)
2: Northern Pacific (5:00)
3: Bleeding Riverbed (2:45)
4: The Magnanimous Security Guard (7:12)
5: Kinski For Halloween (5:21)

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David Lynch - The Air is On Fire [2007]

Upped by request.

1: Untitled (12:40)
2: Untitled (6:50)
3: Untitled (3:09)
4: Untitled (3:56)
5: Untitled (11:58)
6: Untitled (6:37)
7: Untitled (4:16)
8: Untitled (8:52)


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Grains of Sound - Rays of Life Vol. 2: Under [2008]

Upped by request

1: Ether Drift (4:10)
2: Surrounder (Ambient Mix) (4:09)
3: We Will Be Our Aliens (3:15)
4: Three Day Haze (8:28)
5: Lost In Translation (4:08)
6: Go Softly Around Your Eyes (5:38)
7: Glacial (5:23)
8: Ketaesthetic (10:53)
9: Booming Dunes (3:40)
10: Autopilot (4:20)
11: Parachute (5:30)

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Grains of Sound - Rays Of Life Vol I: Down [2007]

Upped by request.

1: Opiate (4:19)
2: Ultraviolet (7:04)
3: Botanical Curiosities (6:20)
4: Surrounder (Club Mix) (5:35)
5: Siamese Twilight (6:54)
6: I Am The Pieces. You Are The Puzzle (6:47)
7: Caesura (4:50)
8: Eden Awaits (5:33)
9: Madaul (3:39)
10: Floating Through Thought (4:41)

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Pete Namlook & Bill Laswell - Psychonavigation [2003]

Upped by request.

1: Psychic And UFO Revelations In The Last Days (38:46)
2: Angel Tech (10:17)
3: Black Dawn (21:22)

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Celer - Continents [2006]

Upped by Request.

DISC 1
1: La Oroya's Cantankerous Bells (9:01)
2: Bereft Oversight (10:00)
3: Slack Tree Diagrams (8:03)
4: Carpel Tunnels Of Love (8:38)
5: The Ex Hypthesi Dreams Of Populous Clouds (3:24)
6: Spring Shields (11:05)
7: Chernobyl Hearts And Multiple Throats (8:22)
8: (H)yoōˈBristik (7:34)
9: Ceramic Foam Party (8:55)

DISC 2
1: Fast Forwarding Sleep (9:34)
2: Sputtering Lungs / End Organ (10:04)

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Alva Noto - Transform [2001]

Upped by request.

1: Module 1 (5:50)
2: Module 2 (3:37)
3: Module 3 (10:11)
4: Module 4 (6:27)
5: Module 5 (4:44)
6: Module 6 (5:37)
7: Module 7 (4:59)
8: Module 8 (5:28)
9: Module 9 (7:46)
10: Module 10 (2:42)

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Alva Noto - Prototypes [2000]

Upped by request.

1: Untitled (0:55)
2: Untitled (7:25)
3: Untitled (4:03)
4: Untitled (5:23)
5: Untitled (0:50)
6: Untitled (6:58)
7: Untitled (5:16)
8: Untitled (5:35)
9: Untitled (6:17)
10: Untitled (7:01)

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Cat Nap - Moon River [2007]

Upped by request. Absurdly obscure (20 copies) release from Mark McGuire of Emeralds . Seems to have a linear progression of sounds, reaching to the far ends of the spectrum.

1: Play Little Games (4:55)
2: Moon River (15:34)

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Celer - Four Pieces / Three [2009]

Upped by request.

1: Photophores (19:50)

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Celer - Dilué (Diluted) [2007]

Upped by request.

1: Dilué (54:29)

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Aube - Metal on Metal 2xCD [2008]

Upped by request.


1-1: Quell (12:51)
1-2: Mentalité Du Métal (9:39)
1-3: Suppression (22:10)
1-4: Calx (10:34)
1-5: Unite Plate (5:25)
1-6: Métal Du Mentalité (9:06)
1-7: Metal On Metal (3:13)

MDML98 - Métal De Métal European Live Tour 1998

2-1: Metal Live 1998-1 (20:39)
2-2: Metal Live 1998-2 (38:04)
2-3: Metal Live 1998-3 (2:27)
2-4: Metal Live 1998-4 (2:57)

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Celer - Compositions For Cassette [2009]

Upped by request.


A1: Untitled (7:51)
A2: Untitled (1:43)
A3: Untitled (9:00)
A4: Untitled (2:50)
A5: Untitled (8:33)
A6: Untitled (2:51)
B1: Untitled (1:02)
B2: Untitled (4:15)
B3: Untitled (4:51)
B4: Untitled (7:02)
B5: Untitled (5:27)
B6: Untitled (8:25)

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Celer - I Love You So Much I Can't Even Title This (The Light That Never Goes Out Went Out) [2008]

Upped by request.



1: Isotope Shortage (10:18)
2: The Delay Of Intolerance (10:08)
3: Ruined Repairs (40:11)

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Martyn Bates & Troum - To A Child Dancing In The Wind [2006]

Upped by request. I've never been a fan of Eyeless in Gaza or his solo stuff, but there's something about Martyn Bates voice that matches so well with a dark feel. Anyone who enjoyed the Murder Ballads should definitely check this out, and vice versa.


1: Mad As The Mist And Snow #2 (12:59)
2: The Arrow (3:49)
3: The Magi (4:55)
4: I Made My Song (2:44)
5: To A Child Dancing In The Wind (4:18)
6: Mad Reprise (9:38)
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Lustmord & Robert Rich - Stalker [1995]

Upped by request. This album runs the gamut of everything dark ambient should be. Two main founders of this genre teaming up on a classic.

1: Elemental Trigger (6:06)
2: Synergistic Perceptions (10:59)
3: Hidden Refuge (9:36)
4: Delusion Fields (9:33)
5: Omnipresent Boundary (15:00)
6: Undulating Terrain (5:36)
7: A Point Of No Return (11:35)
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Celer - Tropical [2008]

Upped by request. Average kbs of 95 or so, but it's v2. Kind of strange.

1: Normal Sadness (The Softness Of The Sea Hibiscus) (13:29)
2: Stipulated Morning Beside The Wreckage (First Sight) (6:46)
3: The Second In A Sequence Of Glances And Introductions (6:58)
4: Heart Shapes And Requiems At The Height Of LamLam (6:55)
5: Empty Hum (An Open, Empty Ocean) (18:03)
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Celer - Four Pieces / Two [2009]

Upped by request.

1: Balsam (18:33)
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Oöphoi - Mare Tranquillitatis [2004]

Upped by request.

1: Hypnos (5:19)
2: In The Wake Of Kere (12:19)
3: Enlil (4:20)
4: Snwy (4:59)
5: Ybris (10:10)
6: The Dreaming Lilith (28:42)
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RIP Dani

I just found out Danielle Baquet-Long, half of Celer, died earlier on this month at the age of 26. This is truly a crippling blow for myself because I am still in the process of falling in love with this group. It's sad to think about them not putting out any more music, but I'm glad they put out as much as they did when they were together. My condolences to her husband William and relatives of Dani

Aidan Baker - Dance of Lonely Molecules [2007]

Upped by request.

1: Sarabande (23:19)
2: Trotto (10:05)
3: Saltarello (23:22)
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Keith Fullerton Whitman - Playthroughs [2002]

Upped by request.

1: Track 3a (2waynice) (5:30)
2: Feedback Zwei (10:01)
3: Fib01a (8:01)
4: Acgtr SVP (9:05)
5: Modena (17:02)
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Aidan Baker - Field of Drones [2004]

Aidan Baker is an excellent musician. He does a lot of styles well, but most of his solo stuff is drone. Very clean.

1: Darkness Encroaching (22:19)
2: Twilight (27:18)
3: Shadows ( 27:28)
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Celer - Discourses of the Withered [2008]

Upped by request.

1: This Thinking Globe Exploding (14:19)
2: The Carved God Is Gone; Waking Above the Pileus Clouds (12:51)
3: Stargazing Lily Lacks the Flower (10:55)
4: A Crush, a Hero-Worship & Hyperrealism (5:51)
5: The Separation of the Two-Phased Apple Blossoms (8:50)
6: Delaying the Entropy; In Emptiness, Forms Are Born (14:26)
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Bass Communion - Ghosts on Magnetic Tape [2003]

Upped by request.

1: Ghosts on Magnetic Tape I (12:46)
2: Ghosts on Magnetic Tape II (7:02)
3: Ghosts on Magnetic Tape III (10:15)
4: Ghosts on Magnetic Tape IV (8:18)
5: Ghosts on Magnetic Tape V (18:49)
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Laraaji - Ambient 3: Days of Radiance [1980]

Upped by request.

1: The Dance #1 (9:15)
2: The Dance #2 (9:43)
3: The Dance #3 ( 3:21)
4: Meditation #1 (18:47)
5: Meditation #2 (7:50)
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The Mount Fuji Doom Jazz Corporation - Future Doomjazz Corpses

Upped by request.

1: Untitled (6:03)
2: Untitled (6:24)
3: Untitled (5:24)
4: Untitled (4:07)
5: Untitled (9:20)
6: Untitled (7:23)
7: Untitled (10:28)
8: Untitled (7:52)
9: Untitled (12:12)
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Celer - Sunlir/Scols [2006]

Upped by request.

1: Sunlir 1_9 (8:55)
2: Sunlir 2_2 (8:02)
3: Sunlir 3_1 (6:47)
4: Sunlir 4_1 (9:01)
5: Sunlir 5_8 (7:20)
6: Sunlir 6_4 (6:18)
7: Sunlir 7_12 (7:20)
8: Sunlir 8_10 (10:00)
9: Sunlir 9_7 (7:40)
10: Sunlir 10_6 (5:13)
11: Scols 1_7 (12:25)
12: Scols 2_9 (7:33)
13: Scols 3_17 (6:27)
14: Scols 4_10 (6:30)
15: Scols 5_6 (7:12)
16: Scols 6_1 (8:20)
17: Scols 7_4 (7:44)
18: Scols 8_5 (7:08)
19: Scols 9_2 (7:04)
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