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Is your avatar from mystic chords and sacred places by steve roach? |
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b7 |
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:p |
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your avatar is bumming. |
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haven't heard that term before. Is that a good thing? |
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its a schoolboy term for anal intercourse. |
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looks like photoshop filters shitty |
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Yes, it is from that album. The whole series is an amazing work of ambient music. I was actually going to do a new topic about his music, but then I realized it would be a bit of a sillt idea given the ridiculous circumstances of last night. boobah, it only looks "shitty" when resized down to that in GIFF format, it's actually one of the more beautiful album covers I've seen. :) |
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That was meant to be for your old avatar, guess I forgot to hit refresh. |
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it was a great series! I listen to it during meditation. on this planet, soma, strata, the dream circle, to name a few are great releases aswell. Not sure many people on this board know of steve roach, in fact once i was corrected that i mispelled steve reich haha! |
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Wicked! I never thought I'd stumble across a fellow Steve Roach fan. I love relaxing to his stuff too. You need to get "The Magnificent Void"; it's his masterpiece. If you're not into him already, I'd also reccommend checking out Robert Rich. His style is like Steve Roach's. |
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I have that one, and just about the entire timeroom editions. |
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Great stuff. Unfortunately, Steve Roach has an image of being an easy listening "New Age" artist. His album names and track names don't help. It's a shame, because his stuff is generally very imaginitive and darkly atmospheric. |
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haha I know exactly what you mean, I've have very spiritual moments with his music, but me and my friends make jokes about how much time he puts into his song names "hmmm I think i shall call this piece Memories of a primordial time where water and earth were one under the desert moon of the dark eclipse" Also, have you heard grotto of time lost? That song is amazing! |
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Can I add you to my msn list? I'm not as much of an arsehole as I can appear to be here. ;-) You're the first person who has heard of Steve Roach (apart from someone on WATMM.) I searched for messageboards about him (or even music of his style) and couldn't find anything. It's a really underappreciated genre; perhaps the image and "spiritual" aspects are what put people off (although I have no problem with that.) It would be amazing to see him perform live. He has a huge array of instruments (including a massive digeridoo) running through a large effects system and creates soundscapes on the spot. |
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I find him to be much more than just spiritual when it comes to his collaborations. In fact, some of the stuff he did with Vir Unis can almost be categorized as idm/synth. How did you discover Steve Roach by the way? I found him, and many other great artists from Hearts of Space. There have been many great ambient artists on that radio show, even aphex and boards of canada. Some other interesting artists that bear resemblence to Roach is Kenneth Newby, Kevin Keller, and some stuff by Bill Douglas. And about msn, nevermind that, I'm never on and I'm here all the time :) |
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Oh ok. It's just that having a 2 way conversation is a bit difficult on a messageboard; msn would be a bit easier. I actually discoverd Steve Roach while on amazon. I really wanted atmospheric music that was about deep space; about the cosmos (it's another interest of mine.) I found an artist related to Tangerine Dream (Steve Roach)-and his Void album sounded exactly like what I was looking for. I'm far keener on his dark ambient space-ey stuff than his tribal music (although "Trance Spirits" is brilliantly hypnotic and scary.) |
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perhaps you would enjoy his atmospheric conditions album(s). I'm into the dark stuff he does but his light ambience is ace too! Like the Dreamtime Return collection. |
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Yep. That's great to lift your mood up a bit. I love Mystic Chords in particular because of the way the dark passages shift into really light sections; his use of contrasts is really powerful. I'd love to work with him. I think he mosly improvises his albums; for example, "Darkest Before Dawn" was played live on guitars (even though it sounds nothing like it.) Dreamtime Return is excellent. Isn't he doing some new stuff based around it? |
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yeah, I think there are some re-releases with new tracks to go along with it. I'm not entirely sure but some of the productions he did during the dreamtime era are on the lost pieces collection. |
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I was never too fond of spirit dome, perhaps a little too cavernous for me. |
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Are you a fan of any of the artists he collaborated with, like Robert Rich, or Vir Unis? They're also great in their own right (although not as prolific.) I wish the title of this thread wasn't "CS2x", heheh. Some might mistakenly think this is an attempt at attention, when really I'm just amazed to find someone who's actually heard of bloody Steve Roach! |
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I've kept a close ear to his collaborators solo works. Patrick O'Hearn, Robert Rich, Vir Unis and Vidna Obmana. Most of their works can heard simply by tuning into Check some of the playlists and you'll see this is right up your alley. |
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Thanks. Never actually listened to that station! Have you heard Robert Rich's "Stalker?" It's such an intense and unbelievable experience. It's amazing the feelings that this genre invokes; I guess "less is more" sometimes. Driving around the woods at night with Stalker blaring out in the middle of nowehere in Hungary is an experience I'll never forget. |
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When i finish digesting the Lost Pieces volumes I'll definitely look for that one. Sounds like some good stuff! |
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Have you guys heard the Drone Zone program on Great place to hear ambient/drone music. |
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Thanks mark, I'll have a look. Pure droney music isn't always good for me, althought when I'm in a certain (fucked) mood it fits the bill perfectly (helps you concerntrate on work, too.) |
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