The SiBERiA team presents:
VA - Pop Ambient 2009
Release Info:
Artist ...... VA
Title ....... Pop Ambient 2009
Type ........ Compilation
Label ....... Kompakt
Cat.Number .. KOMCD69
Genre ....... Ambient
Street date . 16-02-2009
Rip date .... 17-02-2009
Source ...... WEB
Url ......... http://www.beatport.com
Encoder ..... LAME v3.97
Ripper ...... dedmoroz
Quality ..... 320kbps / 44.1 kHz / Full Stereo
Tracks ...... 12
Size ........ 147.35Mb
List Of Tracks:
Track Title Time
01 ... Klimek - True Enemies & False Friends (Yesteryears 4:49
... Suite)
02 ... Sylvain Chauveau - Nuage III 2:31
03 ... MINT - Hindemith 4:49
04 ... Popnoname - Nightliner 5:21
05 ... Sylvain Chauveau - Fly Like A Horse 4:33
06 ... Jurgen Paape - Ausklang (Burger/Voigt Remix) 4:02
07 ... Marsen Jules - It's Only Castles Burning 6:21
08 ... Tim Hecker - Shosts In Silver 3:06
09 ... Andrew Thomas - A Dream Of A Spider 4:25
10 ... Burger/Voigt - Frieden 6:24
11 ... The Fun Years - I Am Speaking Through Barabara 3:36
12 ... Klimek & Husak - The Godfather (For William 9:59
... Basinski & Snoop Dogg)
Total
59:56
Release Notes:
Resident Advisor:
The joy of techno is in its immediacy, its concentration of pop music's
most visceral moments onto great galloping grids. Ambient music
functions similarly, trading ecstatic action for ecstatic stasis, but
it's equally direct and uncompromising. Successful ambient music is
also about dichotomies, of the darkness below the surface, and being
"as ignorable as it is interesting," as Brian Eno once put it.
Kompakt's Pop Ambient series has long recognised this balance, and it's
what keeps them from the scented candle store.
Due to the abiding nature of Pop Ambient releases (same names, same
sounds year-in-year-out) discussing their merits is much like
discussing which direction a particular instalment tilts, and at times
2009 dips dangerously close to drowning in dread (perhaps hinted at in
the black cover, a contrast with 2008's white). And with new artists
replacing oldùgoodbye Markus Guentner and Ulf Lohmann, hello Tim Hecker
and Sylvain Chauveauùdevoted fans may feel slighted. Fittingly, this
too balances out: French neo-classicist Chauveau's two anodyne pieces
are offset by the growling blizzard of Hecker's stunning "Shosts," the
respective "softest" and "hardest" works on this set.
The remainder sit comfortably between these poles. Klimek again opens
things, this time with gusts of brass which evoke the breezy foghorns
of exotica merchant Arthur Lyman. The sleepy chords of Marsen Jules's
"It's Only Castles Burning" exist only as echoes, while Andrew Thomas's
"I Dream of a Spider" is as frail and flimsy as a cobweb. Ju"rgen
Paape's "Ausklang" becomes falling water, reversed samples and
heartbreak in Burger/Voigt's hands, while their own "Frieden" offers
the album's only hint of rhythmùall half-step cottonball thunk and
gurgling aquatic pads.
The highlight comes from Wolfgang Voigt's Mint, a revived alias used
here to investigate the ghostly timbres of a recording of a composition
by Paul Hindemith. A fragile piano riff loops and warbles, overwhelmed
by its own shadow, pitched-down woodwinds creating equally unstable
drones, all hidden beneath modulating piles of shellac static.
Meanwhile, Klimek returns with Husak for closer "The Godfather (For
William Basinski and Snoop Dogg)," in which threads of resonant guitar
chime and crack into gloomy granular fragments, offering the most
unsettling conclusion to an installment yet. Bleak these moments may
be, but they ensure that Pop Ambient 2009 is among the label's more
interesting ignorable albums.
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