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august.19.2000 - #242
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artist : Biosphere
album : Patashnik
year : 1994
label : Apollo Records
genre : Ambient
catalogue : AMB 3927CD
quality : 192k HQ True Stereo
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01 Phantasm 4:50
02 Startoucher 5:02
03 Decryption 6:03
04 Novelty Waves 6:26
05 Patashnik 6:12
06 Mir 5:18
07 The Shield 8:53
08 Seti Project 5:57
09 Mestigoth 1:42
10 Botanical Dimensions 5:42
11 Caboose 5:12
12 En-trance 4:39
12 tracks | 65 mins | 90 mb
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The eerie "dream children" samples of Phantasm are a bit repetitious but
they flow so well... whereas the unknown language samples of the title
track seem to wear out their welcome sooner. Beatless Mir floats on
orchestral pulses backed by a grittier feedback texture (and faint radio
voices?), segueing into the dark opening of The Shield (8:54), behind
which spacey passages are interspersed with spoken samples and
eventually a pleasantly chugging electrobeat and cymbals. Such a
swirling miasma of disparate sound! Amidst lush electronic swirls (and
more spoken phrases, "Can you imagine?"), the rhythm which drives The
Seti Project is even more insistent, though never overbearing. Lighter
beats and musical bleeps await within the Botanical Dimensions, a
Karsten Brustad piece arranged and remixed by Geir Jenssen. Owners of
the Throne of Drones comp will recognize the lope and swell of
En-trance.
I'm thoroughly enjoying Patashnik, and realize I need to get ahold
of Biosphere's more-ambient masterpieces such as Substrata, Permafrost,
etc.
http://www.spiderbytes.com/ambientrance
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