| Biosphere / Substrata/Man with a Movie Cam |
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| Album: | Substrata/Man with a Movie Cam | Collection: | General | |
| Artist: | Biosphere | Added: | 07/2001 | |
| Label: | Touch | |||
| A-File Activity |
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| Add Date: | 2002-10-28 | Pull Date: | 2002-12-30 |
| Week Ending: | 29 Dec | 8 Dec | 24 Nov | 17 Nov | 3 Nov |
| Airplays: | 3 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 |
Recent Airplay
| 1. | Aug 12, 2016: | Life Aquatic Kobresia | 4. | May 16, 2009: | Lost and Found Things I Tell You, the | |
| 2. | May 01, 2011: | lost and found Eye of the Cyclone, the | 5. | Feb 08, 2003: | Mais non peut-etre Eye of the Cyclone, the | |
| 3. | Feb 08, 2011: | The Crooked Spoke Adjacent Chukhung | 6. | Jan 10, 2003: | Mais non, peut-etre Antemaria |
| Album Review |
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| Guest DJ Account Reviewed 2002-10-19 | ||
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Fred (laruellef@yahoo.com) Reviewed 2002-10-19 BIOSPHERE - Substrata/man with a movie camera Touch, 2001 AMBIENT INDUSTRIAL Although many bands could be slammed in the same category of slow minimalist music made with industrial machinery sounds, Biosphere does manage to create its own unique sound. The artist successfully delivers meaningful atmospheres that take you beyond the machine room into the mountains, the ocean, the arctic desert, etc... This particular album is unfortunately special, as it was commissioned for a new soundtrack of a 1929 Russian Silent movie, and very few songs manage to stand out on their own (without the movie). Fred's picks: CD1: 2, 8 - CD2: 4, 7, 8 CD1 01 - 00:19 - Telly show with scratch-scratch sounds 02 - 07:53 - Atmosphere of a futuristic religious gathering in a machinery room. Recurring big gong sound over metal bells, with a big industrial hum in the background. 03 - 05:59 - Fluty synth lead over a slow beat that surfaces after 3 minutes 04 - 06:46 - Mid-speed low industrial beat with all kinds of intermittent noises (voices, seagulls, ocean, boats, ...) 05 - 04:44 - water sounds, funky Russian guitar sounds in the style of 'Kalinka', Whoosh synth lead. 06 - 01:57 - old piano/jazz samples 07 - 07:50 - midspeed beat, jazz/accordion samples, cloudy synth, watery bell sounds. Beat ends after 5 minutes. 08 - 07:23 - the Jungle mid-speed beat, the creepy industrial hum and the electronic bell sounds all give this song a rather unique atmosphere that almost evolves into a dance tune. 09 - 10:47 - conventional midspeed electronica CD2 01 - 01:47 - highway noises 02 - 04:11 - Beatless procession with hums, bell sounds and samples 03 - 07:34 - similar feel with different instruments and samples (ie Russian guitar) 04 - 06:28 - beatless dreamy tune with synth strings lead and other keyboard sounds 05 - 03:45 - guitar lead, no beat, singing in the background. 06 - 05:45 - more beatless ambient electronics.. 07 - 07:13 - Graceful ending atmosphere rendered with strings and sampled voices 08 - 05:05 - Cool religious touch given by sampled choirs and electronics background 09 - 03:01 - slow guitar lead without beat 10 - 05:48 - wind, bells, processed tibetan wind instruments, boat horn 11 - 07:53 - sampled wind instruments, etc... | ||
| Track Listing |
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| 1. | As the Sun Kissed the Horizo | 11. | Silene | |||
| 2. | Poa Alpina | 12. | Prologue | |||
| 3. | Chukhung | 13. | Silent Orchestra, the | |||
| 4. | Things I Tell You, the | 14. | City Wakes Up | |||
| 5. | Times When I Know You'll Be | 15. | Freeze-Frames | |||
| 6. | Hyperborea | 16. | Manicure | |||
| 7. | Kobresia | 17. | Club, the | |||
| 8. | Antemaria | 18. | Ballerina | |||
| 9. | Uva-Ursi | 19. | Eye of the Cyclone, the | |||
| 10. | Sphere of No-Form | 20. | Endurium |