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Post by esp on May 13, 2007 19:37:25 GMT
up to 269 downloads from Internet Archive now
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Post by divaru on May 13, 2007 19:53:13 GMT
up to 269 downloads from Internet Archive now (and now playing)
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Post by esp on May 20, 2007 22:35:36 GMT
now playing on Still Stream - Zeta Reticuli 2 Which is nice
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create
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Post by create on May 20, 2007 23:12:31 GMT
now playing on Still Stream - Zeta Reticuli 2 Which is nice All airplay sure is a bonus! Nice One!
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Post by esp on Jun 4, 2007 22:36:48 GMT
My friend from work, Alan Walker (of Landschaft), has updated his review of Zeta Reticuli (second version): Recording review 04 June 2007, "Zeta Reticuli" a 74 min, 106MB modem buster of a download available from the main Modulator ESP website - in two versions. The version I am reviewing is the second more developed version. ZR comes in two mixes - the original, and v2 with added instrumentation. Like v early Tangerine Dream - Zeit era, only more minimal - truly space music. The first 8 minutes, a slow intergalactic soundscape, builds to the entry of a big metalic a-tonal slab of noise, rotating and evolving by minute 17 fading then rejoining in the mid left of the stereo field, almost forming into a melody - but never quite. By the time you reach minute 19, the theme has crept over to the right before subsiding back into a distant re-statement of the opening black night storm. The sonic density up to minute 26, remaining mid right, middle distance while some very subtle, almost inaudible (I was listening to this quite loud on high-end headphone; Sennheiser HD580 that pick up everything) interweaving non-music tantalises at the edge of perception. At min 30, the background wash drops suddenly to a bleak insistent single note that focuses in intensity and volume, rising, centre stage in the soundfield, pulling in another sonic blizzard in it's wake, evolving into a fragmented melody theme, in the manner of Klaus Schulze's Body Love/Mirage/Dune. Minute 36 sees some lower register entering from the left and the main theme dissolving once more into a rising windstorm, that by minute 40, crescendos into intense clusters of tone. The melodic theme re-joins at minute 44, pleasingly distant, and at 46:31 a nice counterpoint emerges briefly holding onto a very long single note that sustains and modulates at min 54 into a new high, melodic line. The piece starts it's descent at around minute 60. Briefly (in the context of the pace of the piece!) a shimmering shoal of tones swims around the stereo field, and a new melody is stated before fade to black. A deeply enjoyable work of great restraint and subtlety, and an absolute must for all space music followers. www.landschaft.co.uk/other_pages/reviews.htm
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Post by hashtronaut on Jun 4, 2007 22:54:35 GMT
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Post by esp on Jun 4, 2007 22:58:17 GMT
my reaction, but with extra
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Post by hashtronaut on Jun 4, 2007 23:37:20 GMT
;D So whats next?
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Post by create on Jun 4, 2007 23:42:07 GMT
It's always nice to get positive reviews! Is Alan from Nottingham then Jez?
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Post by esp on Jun 4, 2007 23:43:43 GMT
It's always nice to get positive reviews! Is Alan from Nottingham then Jez? Yes, he was one of the 2 people at my first gig
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Post by esp on Jun 4, 2007 23:44:16 GMT
whatever gets finished first
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Post by hashtronaut on Jun 4, 2007 23:54:14 GMT
whatever gets finished first haha - your like me - no clue at all...
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Post by SequenceC on Jun 4, 2007 23:55:44 GMT
nice one Jez
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Post by esp on Jun 5, 2007 0:08:07 GMT
whatever gets finished first haha - your like me - no clue at all... plans are for architects
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Post by esp on Jun 10, 2007 14:56:08 GMT
and now a review of ZR1 from Mr Walker Recording review 10 June 2007, "Zeta Reticuli v1" v1, the subject of this review was created first, but begs review second, after v2. Both pieces are the same 74 mins long. The distinction is that v1 does not have the added instrumentation of v2 and the ambient bits are in the mix foreground. They are in character, two entirely separate works. v1 produces an anaesthetic heavy limb, out of body feeling that distinguishes it as "dronology" whilst v2 leans more towards early classic Berlin school synthesis. There are some wise words in the Wikipaedia entry for artist Mark Rothko "It forces one to approach the limits of experience in the post-Kantian sense of the categories of space and time and awakens one to the awareness of one’s own existence." I would stick that label on the front of Zeta Reticuli v1. www.landschaft.co.uk/other_pages/reviews.htm
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