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I’m 33 years old originally come from Poland – I was born in Gdansk. 4 years ago in 2005 I moved to UK and now I’m living in London. Music has been my passion for many years. Since the age of seven I started music education programs in piano class. After completing education I continued my music passion for another few years. Over the years, my musical horizons turned to the electronic music. Inspired by the classic variant I decided to explore the possibilities of modern musical instruments. Together with Dominik “Dodo” Markiewicz, in 1997 we founded the duo Neuron Gates. Thru brain storming sessions we put together ideas, some of them were used as background music to documentaries and advertising by regional and national television stations: TVG – TVP3, PTK 1, PTK 2 and TVN. Our music also appeared on few CDs, a multimedia presentation. Composed of works chosen from among 11 compositions, which were recorded on our debut album “Out From The Minds.” In 2001 Dodo left a project and I decided to create the new one with more underground and spiritual music – “DHUNA” is come from Hindi and means obsession. “Dhuna means an obsession – obsessive about music”. I met Mantodea and he showed me a lot of things about psychedelic culture. That was also time for me for my personal transformation. For last few years Dhuna also was a part of the scene in GGOG club and played gigs and festivals across the country.

Recently a lot has happened: in 2005 I moved to England and here I completed my studies in sound engineering (Glyndŵr University). Here I also created some new sound material. The new album is too long in duration, but unfortunately these were the conditions set out by the university and… I hope that the next one will be different, better, powerfully, etc. That Dhuna is coming back on stage as is my new chillout album “The Return”.

In the last year together with my friend Martin we started project which is called “Higher Taste Project”. This is a small indie label and touring team – will soon be launched on the official web site, preparing a few surprises … but more details soon. We also had a really good time with all of people who we met on tour last year – 2008 (Magikana, Monkey Forest, Ozora, Boom, and many others). We are glad that we were a part of OZORA Festival in Hungary where we setup a really nice tent with fresh and tasty vegetarian food.

Link: http://www.myspace.com/dhuna

Radio PowerNET Team:

We can praudly say we have this album provided by Darius. We are very suprised by the profesional sound that is recored in this album. The tunes leads you into magical trip and you feel satisfied. You should hear it.

You can hear the new album, on our Chillout Stream…enjoy!

Founded on the last days of 2008, “Warp Brain Records” is the first east coast of USA Psytrance and progressive label, Warp Brain Records was born in order to release the best of the underground Psytrance and Progressive trance music for the DJ, listener, dancer or a fan of emotional and powerful modern electronica.

Warp Brain Records first release is a compilation named “Kubensia” compiled by the world known Psytrance producer “Enertopia”. The compilation contains top notch productions from artists such as: Mubali, Raz, EarWorm, Aural Invasion, Echoactive, Wizack Twizack, Zerohour and more. “Warp Brain Records” is definitely the label to look for quality, emotion and full on Psychedelic listening experiences. For the DJ, “Warp Brain Records” will always release that track that blasts the dancefloor with euphoria. For the listener, a true “out of the studio”experience. Don’t miss this release.

Tracklist:

01-EchoActive – Half The Acid… (7:27) – 143bpm
02-Wizack Twizack – Johanna Goes Banana… (6:41) – 146bpm
03-Endeavour – Spooky… (6:50) – 145bpm
04-RAZ – Magic Pocket… (6:53) – 144bpm
05-Aural Invasion – Dissolving… (8:33) – 143bpm
06-Earworm – Supreme Mind… (8:54) – 146bpm
07-Mubali – Avon Calling… (8:24) – 146bpm
08-Zerohour – Point Zero… (7:27) – 147bpm
09-Ctrl+Alt+Del – Flux Capacitor… (6:59) – 140bpm

All tracks written and produced by the respective artists.
Compiled by: Enertopia, Warp Brain Records.
Artwork and Design by: Juan @ Overhuman Design, Colombia.
Digital Distribution: DistElectronic

Buy it as a digital download (FLAC):

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As you see we have brand new website. It is based on wordpress. All content from the old website is transfered here. Here you can make comments directly after each article! Also you can use the WMP online link in the right to listen the streams in your browser! Hope you like it!

Hello. What’s your name, how old are you, and where do you come from?
Hi there. I am Charles Farewell, 32 years old, and I am from Lyon in France.

02. How long have you been dealing with music?
Asura exists for eleven years, and was created by Vincent Villuis and me in 1996 so.

03. How can you describe your music with words?
Well I’d say it’s a melange between electronic and acoustic instruments,
between Trance, Ambient and World musics.

04. Which beer is the better one- the German or the Belgian?
Hard question. Both are great

05. When you create music do you ask for opinions and advice other people or you do the whole thing on yourself?
Different points of view are important to me, technical and artistical.
Doesn’t mean I will change the mood of a track because one person didn’t like it, but it can have an influence. It depends on who is giving me an advice.

06. You are one of the biggest names on the ambient scene for more than seven years. What kind of music do you listen to? Your favorite artists are?
Thank you I listen to every kind of music. My preferences go to world fusion (Peter Gabriel for example) or dramatic pop rock (Muse of course).
Sometimes electronic music in different styles (Air, Goldfrapp, Royksopp, Kruder and Dorfmeister), and classical music (Rachmaninov, Beethoven).

07. What are your hobbies when we don’t talk about music?
Well I am keen on video games and parties above all.

08. Describe us how one ordinary day for you passes?
During the three past monthes, music, music, music…

09. Asura is a very beautiful and unusual name. Where does it come from?
In Hinduism, the Asura are a group of power-seeking deities, sometimes referred to as demons. They were opposed to the devas. Both groups are children of Kashyapa.The negative character of the asura in Hinduism seems to have evolved over time. In general, the earliest texts have the asuras presiding over moral and social phenomena and the devas presiding over natural phenomena.
In Zoroastrianism, the term asura is linguistically related to the ahuras of Zoroastrianism, but with an inverted morality. Thus, while in Vedic religion the asuras are demonic, in Zoroastrianism, the ahuras are benign. This inversion also applies to the other class of immortals: where the Vedic devas are benevolent, the Zoroastrian daevas are malevolent.

10. What does inspire you in your life? What drives you mad?
Life, love, sadness, happiness, my daughter, my wife, people, music, everything in fact.

11. Do you believe in God? What do you think about religion as a whole?
I believe in a supernatural force, yes. Which leads everything to everything, though letting us the choice. I am not keen of the idea of predetermination, or the idea of a better god than another one.

12. I can’t miss the chance to ask you what you think about drugs, hallucinogens, and all the other kinds of narcotics that are very popular now.
Everyone can do everything one wants, no problem. But when I used drugs, it was to avoid the reality, to fall into a parallel life, to run away from the real one. We are on earth to live this one for me. The other one, it will be for my after life. There are too many things to accomplish here. If ones wants to see the beauty, one will find it for sure.
In this sense, Life² means second life, absolutly not other one.

13. Although you, separated with Christopher Maze and Alex Ackerman, you are about to release your 3rd album in July. Tell us more about it. How long have you been composing it? What kind of music will it include? How much tracks will be there? What shall we expect?
I began one year ago, more or less one year after the departure of Christopher and Alex.
The separation was very hard to live, but it’s life. It made me cope alone the huge work to do, but it was a very positive experience a posteriori. I worked sound as never before, dived into music, especially in the three past monthes, to give my best and give an unique color to the whole album, which was not the case with Lost Eden, which is composed of tracks written in three years and different working configurations. I don’t want to say the result is better, I will let the listeners say it is or not, but the result is more homogeneous, I think. Life² is composed by 9 new tracks, plus Galaxies part one composed for Oxycanta by Ultimae Records.  I don’t know yet if we’ll put an alternative version of it in the album, but it’s a possibility. Two tracks has been composed with Christopher Maze, Golgotha and The Prophecy, the prologue and the epilogue, that I remixed during this year.

14. After the release third album will you start to work on something new or you will have a well-deserved rest?
I take a one week vacation, and I am back to work! For the 4th album, for a project with Vincent Villuis, aka Aes Dana, called System Babel. And during this summer, I’ll be back on scene, for several dates all over Europa. I want to perform a lot, to share live my feelings with everybody who cares. ,)

15. When will you come here in Bulgaria, be our guest, drink couple of beers with us? 
It’s up to you to tell me It’ll be my pleasure, not only for the beers  It’s a country I would like to discover one day…

16. What is the meaning of your life?
Growing, sharing, being happy, and real. I don’t wanna have regrets.

17. What do you dream about?
Life is a dream. All is a question of point of view.

18. What do you think about ambient as a whole? Do you think that there is a progress in this kind of music in the recent years? Does the ambient music have a future?
It’s not to me to say that. Every artist should try to give his best and follow his own path, that’s the only very important thing. We are all unique, and not only artists, and have to put our particularisms in everything we do, to exist, and live for real.

19. For the final, what will you say for all the people who will read this interview?
Keep the Y everybody: cause Life² has really begun now…

Chronos is an ambient music project from talented 21 years old musician & producer Nick Klimenko (aka dj Shankar) from Moscow, Russia.
The Idea to create chillout and ambient in a musical sphere was born in early 2002.
Chronos paths between ambient/ethnic influences and chillout/trance vibrations

By getting more knowledge about this electronic subculture and after collecting a lot of CD’s and information about it, Chronos music becomes deeper and more emotional for him, much more harmonic and stylistic than psytrance.
Later he started to experiment with atmospheres, going on many interesting festivals, parties, djing chillout sets, playing sometimes live instruments, etc.
Since that time the idea of creating a full ambient album was strongly attached in his mind.

After having traveled a lot around Russia and other countries, buying equipment, setting up “TIMEWORKS” studio and getting more knowledge in esoteric and religion, paranormal activities, geographic, modern technologies, all those aspects combined in the way of his life path and in a new musical creation experience…
…project was finally born!

He was also influenced by some really magical and talented musicians and bands like: Asura, Aes Dana, Carbon Based Lifeforms (C.B.L.), Aural Planet, Healer, Solar Fields, Enigma, Simon Posford, Entheogenic, Cell, M-Sphere.

Nick is resident of Spliff Music, Israel.
Working on two trance projects – Hologram/Secret Trick.
On a more morning trance, and melodic & groovy style.

He also gives a radio show “Fly Before Dream” on Sunwave radiostation with dj Siniquichi as partner for the main chillout radio cast in Moscow/Russia -

Links:
www.shankar.ru
www.myspace.com/chronosmusic
www.sunwave.ru

It is not needed to say what is CBL and what they are doing, so here you are what we have asked them and of course what they have answered us:

1. Hi Daniel and Johannes, how are you?

Hi! We are fine thanks

2. Tell me something about you and your past?

We met in 9th grade and became the best of friends a couple of months later, getting into a lot of music, videogames, movies and comic books, typical semi-geeks in the 90’s…

3. How did you get keen on that music? Did you discover this music by yourself, or some friend engaged you?….

We got introduced to music making by Mikael Lindquist (aka: Tony Montana, Oxygenial, Digidroids etc.).

He made music on his Amiga using a very basic audio sequencer named Fasttracker. So we joined forces with him forming the tracker group “Bassment Studios”. After a few years of tracking we moved on to MIDI and sequencers and formed a group called Notch.
With Notch we explored most of the genres of electronic dance music. We had quite a big impact on various sites around the web and despite various discussions with a lot of different labels we only released a remix of Mourning Afters – “What would you think” (Swedish synthpop, released on pulsewave records)

4. There are a lot of styles all around the world, why did you picked up Ambient and start making music in Ambient style?

We really fell in love with the genre after Johannes sister randomly had picked up a copy of Solar Quests “Orgship” (still one of our absolute favorite ambient records).
After listening to that record for a few months we felt we needed to make something similar. So we made a few chilled out tracks under the moniker Notch but we soon realized that we would like to make more, which lead to the forming of Carbon Based Lifeform, focusing only on drones, chill-out and ambient.

5. What are CBL doing when are not making music?

Drinking beer, hanging out with our girlfriends and buddies. Daniel’s still in to movies and Johannes is still in to videogames

6. Do you like meeting friends, or just chilling in your own company?

See 5 We love to met up with friends having a beer or a great barbeque, usually both.

7. What other music style do you like, and do you have some favorite artists?

Big question, we listen to almost all types of music.

8. How did CBL get into Ultimae Record, tell us something interesting, hot and funny  about working with Ultimae.

We met Magnus Birgersson (Solar Fields, H.U.V.A Network, Ixtlan) when the three of us went to a school of multimedia. As a school project we formed a group called T.S.R, making music for the annual school exhibition. It was around this time Magnus formed Solar Fields (then electric universe). He also put his music on the web and was soon discovered by Ultimae Records.
When he went to Ultimae to master his first album he brought our demo with him and played if for them and they, fortunately, liked what they heard and put M.O.S. 6581 and Metrosat 4 on Fahrenheit Project 3.

When we went there to master our album there was this strange dude with us in the studio, he had a koala puppet on one hand and a lot of opinions on the mastering. We were too tired from mastering the whole day and everyone was talking French so we didn’t catch his name. Later we realised that he was Koala from Jaia

9. Now something serious, do you think there are extraterrestrial intelligence, do you have SETI@home on your PC.

Sure there is
Johannes: I do, at work…:)

11. Now really serious. What was CBL in the early ‘90’s and what will be in the end of 2010. What changed in you during time?

When we formed CBL in the 90’s, we were very inspired by Solar Quest and FSOL and a lot of what we did was figuring out what they had done and trying to make that ourselves.
When we did Hydroponic Garden we had moved past that but there was still a lot of experimenting. Now we feel we are a little bit more experienced and we do a lot of things without even thinking about it. Which has both good and bad sides; the sound is better now but it’s harder to be creative…
With our current production pace we hopefully have our third album out by 2010

12. There must be some hard times in your history. Have you ever thought about breaking? Oh my god, don’t do that!!! ?

Well, we weren’t sure that there were ever going to be a second album.
Since we really liked what we did with Hydroponic we felt we had accomplished our goal, but about a year (and quite a lot of fan-mail) later we felt that we had try and do a follow up .
However Johannes had a really bad year in ‘04 and Daniel in ’05, but we stayed together as brothers, which probably held us together in a way.

13. Daniel, can you tell us something more about your solo project – Sync24, what can we expect! Also, I know that after the promo of your new CBL album you will record your first solo album, tell us something about it?

After CBLs first album I found myself in the studio late at night writing ambient tracks that didnt really sound like CBL. The CBL sound is us two together. So I thought Id use the tracks in a new solo project.
You can expect a very soothing album. More like Ishq and Biosphere than CBL or Solar Fields. I wrote the album for me really. To have something I really like and can relax to.
But you are of course welcome to listen as well

14. When you will come to Bulgaria? For a beer and some live performances?

Whenever you invite us.

15. What do you think about other artist such as Asura , Cell, Aes Dana, Tripswitch, Solar Fields? Do you keep in touch or every one is separated in his own world!

They’re all crap! Hehehehe, no seriously, very talented people obviously.
We meet Solar Fields more often since we live in the same town. And the others we meet occasionally on festivals.

16. Do you like “sweet talks” with your fans, and especially female fans ?

Yeah we love it sadly it’s the completely wrong style of music if you like a lot of female groupies
We answer all emails and other private messages in forums etc.
It’s a wonderful way to get feedback, even though it’s mostly the people who like the music who bother writing People tell us how they experience our music in ways we could never dream of. So please keep sending them

17. What do you think about the current state of Ambient scene, is there future, do people like it or it is wiped by other styles?

We feel it’s a growing scene; there is definitely a need for this kind of music. Or maybe we just feel that way because we’re in the middle of it.
Hopefully people who generally listen to other styles discover that Ambient is a very rewarding genre.

18. What are your dreams?

Most of our dreams, music wise, has come true, both with CBL and our other projects. So now we have to form new dreams like scoring a film etc

19. And last question of freaked out young fan of yours! How did you manage to win the hearts of your listeners?

It’s cliche but we just did what we wanted to listen to ourselves, and luckily it turned out that there are at least a few people out there who happen to like the same things as we do

Finally:
Thank you for the interview!
And a big ”thank you” to all the people who listen and support us!
Stay tuned for the second transmission, coming soon
CBL

Interview taken by: ZawHeR

The time we spent on waiting for the new album of the talented Will-O`-The-Wisp can be described as a Long Sleepless Pain. The young greek, being one of the most respected ambient artist right now, made an amazing debut. The album is a pure perfection. Harmonical, dynamical, melodical, it made the boring 2008 ambient scene much more interesting. It is one of the best albums for 2008, that’s for sure. A masterpiece!

The soundtrack of the deep dreaming landscapes!

Vassilis Miamis aka Will-O’-The Wisp (or WOTW) and young brother of Side Liner, after his remarkable ambient touches  at “Nova Natura” compilations and “Fragile Life” hits the scene with his debut album, “Long Sleep Plain”.

Ambient sound morphs  as you never heard before but you wished to listen one day, melancholic patterns, sound layers from dark to bright emotions, everything brilliant mixed for a unique ambient result.

Rhythm parts are not missed from this release, parts that guide the emotions to the higher state of subconscious plus 3 wonderful collaborations & remixes with Cydelix, Side Liner & Zero Cult.
Enjoy a different than usual Cosmicleaf releases, more deep and musically than ever!

Acid Transmission is the new compilation by Trishula Records, 10 fresh & unreleased musical journeys.

The transmission is powered by 10 artists, no need to introduce them as you know all of them as most of them having released music at Trishula before or other labels well known for their psychedelic music.. The concept is to dig deeper and further into the realms of psychedelic trance. The album is an exploration into the emptiness (sunyata) of our minds and to celebrate it with ecstatic dancing on the dance floor. Fat bass lines accompanied with strong kick drums with a sauce of well cooked synthesis and fx sounds. An acid transmission in 10 chapters to complete within 80 minutes!
A full power psychedelic compilation guaranteed for joyful moments in time and space.

http://www.trishula-records.com/trishcd015.htm

Tracklist:

01. Wi][ch – Fractal Generator
02. Zoolog – Contradictionary
03. Purosurpo – Multi Range
04. Arabali – Mars Is Amazing
05. Attoya Vs OIL – Escaping The Bubble
06. Karash – Likadelic
07. OIL – Behemot
08. Olien – Dynaversum
09. Mind Distortion System – Looking At The Sky
10. Psyfactor – Mythical

Stockholm based ambient downtempo producer Thomas Huttenlocher aka I AWAKE follows up his digital Ep release [ Birth ] with a full length album [ The Core ] out late April.
Built as a journey of audio neural beauty through organic microcosms, electronic vortexes, deep, tribal beats and vast soundscapes, the album takes us on a pilgrimage of sounds, with scents of parallel lives, glimpses of the future and overlapping, coexisting dimensions.

A superfine blend of psychedelic spurs, groovy bass lines and catchy melodies composed with the collaboration of Krister Linder, Fredrik Lundberg, Tara Devi and Planet Boelex.
As a film soundtrack producer, I AWAKE is one of the key figures of Ghostfriend, a Swedish underground movement of creators with a “peculiar devotion to the present and strong love for the innermost”.

more info: http://ultimae.com/en/releases/303/index.html