"I'll open up my head awhile / Its been dead for years / Must've been a victim of my peers"
Another experiment with my video-editing software, this time featuring a Windows logon screen that I made at deviantArt several years ago as the animated frame for the video. If you Google Image my old usernames at deviantArt, "YN1F" and "YourNumbr1Fan", you can see a lot of my art still archived after all these years. I was also Co-Admin at a Windows theming site called CreativX for a few years until we were hacked by agents of our then-competition VirtualCustoms, the hack pretty much destroying our site. The Admin, a good friend, Pierre, decided to just let CreativX die... so we all just kind of moved on. But I kept designing themes for Windows, designing skins for media-players and other graphic digital-arts projects as a hobby for a few years after that. I'm still active at a site called Windows Style Builder under the name JMB.
Anyway, this is one of my favorites by Goo Goo Dolls. I have to listen to this LOUD! Hope y'all enjoy the video. Oh, and the glitch stuff that happens when the band gets to rocking heavy is on purpose, just so no one thinks something's wrong with the video, LOL.
Always loved this cool song. It reminds me of this beautiful raven-haired neighbor woman who lived a few doors down when I was a teen. She was maybe in her late 20s, lived alone (yep, had a cat), and when I was old enough to start experimenting with weed I found out that she smoked too... and also that she liked me. Her house was all decked out in cool stuff, such as blacklight posters and lava lamps, beads in the doorways and she had a ton of good albums stacked sideways in these Crown Royal crates next to her Kenwood. One night while while I kicked back in this huge Papasan chair she put this album on. We were both pretty "mellow", I was out way past my curfew of 11:30pm, and gazing at her in the semi-dark, swaying to the music in front of the Kenwood, I thought she was the most beautiful, mysterious creature I'd ever known. Such a seductress! I'll never forget raven-haired, raven-lipped Wanda...
Studio Album, released in 1994
Pataschnik is very spacey, and even the album's title is Russian cosmonaut slang for a cosmonaut who's security cable had been disconnected from the ship leaving him to be lost, forever drifting aimlessly through space. The music on this album is reasonably dark in regard to its implicit subject matter, and the techno influence from Microgravity has been toned down a bit which gives way for more atmospheric touches. Its classic Biosphere: icy, melancholy strings and organ, darkish drones, crackling radio transmissions, looped melodic fragments and bursts of percussive Detroit-flavored techno. Crucial to the emotional tone of many tracks is his choice of spoken voice samples, which tip the pendulum towards either a sense of of unease (the creepy kids on "Phantasm") or a sense of awe (the discussion about outer space on "Startoucher"). The examples of pure ambient spacemusic like "Mir" are different from that of nearly every other composer making music in that style, possessed of a distinctive shadow that makes them immediately recognisable. As on Microgravity, the sinister cosmic undercurrent of Patashnik is kept in check by its strange intimacy. On the closing track Jenssen allows the sunlight to poke through with muted, luminous guitar strumming and wisps of synthetic strings, a beautiful piece worthy of Popol Vuh.
Songs / Tracks Listing
1. Phantasm
2. Startoucher
3. Decryption
4. Novelty Waves
5. Patashnik
6. Mir
7. The Shield
8. Seti Project
9. Mestigoth
10. Botanical Dimensions
11. Caboose
12. En-Trance
Just some good Electro-Ambient and cool scenery from Wallpaper Engine. My desktop, early Monday morn.
Tracks: The Third Planet (Biosphere), The Launchpad (Bleep), Phantasm (Biosphere), The Snake (Bleep).
I have many a good memory being a young kid and hearing this album playing in my house. My mother was a fan, and for a few summers this album was a favorite of hers, right up there with Bowie's Ziggy Stardust and Frampton's Fly Like An Eagle. Like I said, the album does bring back the memories... of being 9 again... getting my swimming trunks out, preparing to head to Old Hickory Lake with my mother and aunt for some golden sun and girl-watching. I added some kaleidoscope graphics and some overlays to the video so you're not just staring at a lone album cover.
Tracks:
01. Will O' the Wisp (Instrumental)
02. Little Hideaway
03. Make You Feel Good
04. Can't Get Over Losing You
05. My Father's Shoes
06. Stay Away From Sad Songs
07. Back to the Island
08. Down on Deep River
09. Bluebird
10. Laying Right Here in Heaven
11. Lady Blue
* My favorites: 02, 04, 05, 07, 09, 11
This album was first released in 1975 on Shelter Records. It peaked at No. 30 on the Billboard albums chart and remained on the chart for 40 weeks. The album cover was designed and illustrated by artist/actor Gailard Sartain. I always thought the owl's eyes looked almost human, and so mellow.
Originally dispatched in 1993 on Namlook’s Fax label, The Fires of Ork tends to the darker side of the early ‘90s ambient paradigm, pairing samples of Rutger Hauer from Bladerunner which gave the project its name, with a mix of robust slow techno throbbers and expansive, head-engulfing beat-less black holes, including a killer trance techno night-flight in Talk To The Stars, featuring lyrics cadged from an old KLF Communications press release. This is a must-have for lovers of this genre and fans of these two awesome talents.
Tracks:
1. The Fires of Ork I
2. Gebirge
3. Talk to the Stars
4. The Facts of Life
5. The Fires of Ork II
Tracks: Microgravity, Baby Satellite, Tranquillizer, The Fairy Tale, Cloudwalker 2, Chromosphere, Cygnus-A, Baby Interphase, Baby Interphase (Remix), Baby Interphase (Remix 2), Biosphere
Interestingly enough the man behind Biosphere (Geir Jenssen) takes his artist name literally. All of his albums take on an environmental edge towards that very notion. Much like the title suggests, Microgravity gives away the safety of gravity and the album thrusts you into the feeling of being physically suspended. Biosphere's debut really is a predominately consistent ambient album with small splices of minimalistic techno dance. I really cringe when I say "dance", since the few songs that are actually applicable to that term aren't sufficiently though-after that very word. It's not like you can pop this baby in and start moving, it's just that some of these songs are more upbeat then others, which isn't what you'd expect since most of Microgravity is quite leveled within its whole concept.
Emitting the sense of suspension is immediately felt once you get your feet wet with Microgravity. Each track contains some sort of whisper-like sampling mixed with low bass tones that are often glossed over with sparse keyboard arrangements. The type of seclusion that is brought into Microgravity can be attributed to the serene, sometimes air-like electronic waves that pulse ever so often within the album and the various static noises that pierce ever so softly within the core of Microgravity. The title track is an easily digestible piece and is extremely comforting for the listener. The low bass tone assorted with that air-like electronic arrangement give the listener enough room to settle in. Even the movement between each long sequence isn't palpable enough to raise your ear instincts allowing it to be a smooth ambient listen.
The movement for most of Microgravity is extremely slow and gradual, the best word to describe the pace would be steady. Although the production is a bit dim, it is for the benefit of the listener since the low volume contains a "freedom" feel to it which helps the overall concept. Despite most of the buildups being heard, they are exceptionally odd for being anti-climatic. They never progress or burst into a wave of liveliness that you would assume. Even the more energetic tracks are consistent enough not to raise the level of the entire album. "Fairytale" brings in a minimalistic techno beat that is more deeper then it seems, being completely masked by a space-like synth and astronomy-referencing samples to boot. Other tracks such as "Baby Satellite", "Baby Interphase" and "Chromosphere" keep the comfort level intact, while generally being more livelier, splashing the occasional static charge and small cycled bleeps. The overall mood is never broken within Microgravity, which is quite amazing. Much like most ambient music if you're not in the mood then you'll feel that this may be a bit repetitive. Luckily the music runs exceptionally quick, almost like a quick lecture with slight piques of interest here and there.
Trancentral 4: A Trip To Goa
(various artists, 1996, Kickin Records)
01 The Pollinator - Clone 3
02 Satori3 - Razor
03 Syb Unitty Nettwerk - Cosmo Shiva
04 Arcana3 - Orion
05 Les Diaboliques - Cubit
06 The Auranaut - Groove On Dream Off
07 Etnica - Starship 101
08 Shakta - Lepton Head pt.2
09 Prana & Ammanite FX - Black Rain
10 Doof - Full Moon Over Parvatti
11 Bass Chakra - 230,000 Miles
12 Miranda - Timeless Worlds of Space
13 Kode 4 - Near to the Divine
14 Green Nuns Of The Revolution - Meggalenic Cloud
15 Transwave - Cycles of Life
16 Prana - Primal Orbit
I think there were six Trancentral releases, all of them 2-CD sets each. The 4th one, the one I've uploaded here, being the most popular. Most of these are hard to find now, especially 1-3, with a 4-6 box set selling on
Amazon for over $900.00! Crazy. I actually won this set, the physical CDs, on a football bet back in 1996. Liked it as soon as I heard it.
Someone has also uploaded it to YouTube, but mine has the cool fractals. Took me almost 12 hours to get
this exported in ClipChamp. My favorites from this are 04, 08, 09, 12, 13. But they're all killer. Enjoy!
Another awesome blast from the past with this one. I've been experimenting with my video creating software, doing some image and animation tomfoolery. I think this one turned out pretty cool, even cooler than some of the others.
Lyrics:
Guess I got what I deserve
Kept you waiting there, too long my love
All that time, without a word
Didn't know you'd think, that I'd forget, or I'd regret
The special love I have for you, my baby blue
All the days became so long
Did you really think, I'd do you wrong
Dixie, when I let you go
Thought you'd realize, that I would know, I would show
The special love I have for you, my baby blue
What can I do, what can I say
Except that I want you by my side
How can I show, you, show me a way
Don't you know, the times I tried
Guess that's all I have to say
Except the feeling just gets stronger, everyday
Just one thing, before I go
Take good care, baby, let me know, let it grow
The special love, you have for me, my Dixie dear
Album: Straight Up
Released: 1971
Originally aired: Dec 27, 2019
Contributing artists: BRYAN CARRIGAN; BLUETECH; 36; FORREST SMITHSON; NATURAL FREQUENCIES (ANDREAS LEIFELD); PHILLIP WILKERSON; JUSTIN VANDERBERG
Winter settles in to the Northern hemisphere bringing powerful storms, but also radiant clear days with azure skies and deep vistas. Unlike most sensible animals, human activity seems to increase as the temperature drops, and we fill the brief days leading up to the new year with all manner of hustle and bustle.
Holiday lights twinkle in the crisp air, and while the traditional sounds of the season are warm, rich and harmonious, it's also a perfect time for intricate electronic rhythms that echo the activity, and crystalline tones that ring in the chilled atmosphere.
On this transmission of Hearts of Space, an Ambient/Electronic journey for early winter, on a program called COLD and BRIGHT.