Experimental Electronic Music
“The DiN ambient label was set up by Ian Boddy in 1999 to release ambient electronica that bridged the gap between the analogue sound of the early 70’s synth pioneers and the digital soundscapes of the more experimental modern exponents of electronic music.” Now celebrating their 25th Anniversary with a colossal 20 track compilation (CD/Digital), Ian Boddy discusses the label and its history with Philippe Blache.
With versality, skills, and a delectable sense of transcendental escapism, every musical contribution brings tone textures, patterns, timbral experimentations, harmonic progressions, and processed sound motifs to ravish your ears.
Thus we navigate through deep then sidereal synth-scaping sound waves sustained by micro beat-laden pulses and various textured manipulations to provide a sense of sonic engulfment.
Of all the terrifying monsters that space exploration has brought to humankind, what we do to our own species is by far the greatest horror. We have a dark bloody habit of taking vengeance on our own kind.
I can’t be sure of the difference. Maybe that is only strange laughter coming from down below as the rescue ship speeds with us inside, and the music really takes off. At the end, things are morphing rapidly and I remember some rare small parts of everything after all.
A spaced-out synth odyssey that infiltrates the human psyche for a long immersive and neuronal-astral voyage to the confines, visiting alien worlds and colonies, menacing landscapes.
Keys to Cassiopeia has enough lush ambient tones and a dose of vibrant emotion to move the listener into a functional and profound state of contemplation in touch with metaphysics and the unknown.
Deep space. One of the larger shapes out there is murmuring, it is really huge. Now it becomes a choir, a choir of large shapes so many millions of miles away but right out there just above where we are now, murmuring sometimes, calling sometimes, very slow.
