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Michael Brückner produces electronic music in a wide variety of styles, concentrating on
Berlin School, ambient, and drone. A self-managing artist, he has created more than 120 albums
since 1992, most of which can be ordered directly from him or via his Bandcamp page.
Since 2012, a number of his albums have been released by independent labels such as SynGate, Klangwirkstoff, Aural Films, BI-ZA Records, and Winter-Light. He has also performed in a number of European electronic music festivals. Michael is also involved in collaborations with other artists like Detlev Everling, Alien Nature, Mathias Brüssel, Cousin Silas, Mathias Grassow, Rebekkah Hilgraves, Harald Bertram, and Lutz Thuns. His collaborations include several long term projects: B4 SUNRISE, La Mansarde Hérmetique, Betzler and Brückner, and Bridge To Imla. Click on the name or photo above to go to the artist's web site. Click this banner for the Special Focus listing on WDIY's website.  |
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| Date | Album | Label |
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| 01/04 | Astronauts Volume 2 disk 1 | Aural Films |
| 01/11 | Astronauts Volume 2 disk 2 | Aural Films |
| 01/18 | Astronauts Volume 2 disk 3 | Aural Films |
| 01/25 | Test of Time | SynGate |
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Mathias Grassow is a prolific composer who specializes in ambient music. His deep minimalist
style makes him a master of drones, creating music that is drifting and expansive.
Mathias is fond of collaborations and has done projects with Jim Cole (Spectral
Voices), Amir Baghiri, Klaus Wiese (ex-Popul Vuh), and Michael Brückner, to name a few.
Musically active since 1980, Mathias trained at Synthesizer Studio Jacob in Wiesbaden during the early '80s. In 1986, Mathias released his first cassette followed by his first CD in 1990. Click on the name or photo above to go to the artist's web site. Click this banner for the Special Focus listing on WDIY's website. |
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| Date | Album |
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| 02/01 | Ambience |
| 02/08 | Namakar |
| 02/15 | Lanzarote Spirits |
| 02/22 | Psychic Dome |
| 02/29 | In Search of Sanity |
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Mark Jenkins has been described by Eurock Magazine as "the master synth musician in the UK."
His music is influenced by that of Vangelis, Jean-Michel Jarre, Jan Hammer, Mike Oldfield,
Tangerine Dream, Klaus Schulze, Richard Pinhas & Heldon, Yanni, John Tesh, Karlheinz
Stockhausen, Brian Eno, Terry Riley, Philip Glass, Emerson Lake & Palmer, Rick Wakeman,
Pink Floyd, Can, Neu!, Kraftwerk, Enigma, Deep Forest & Ash Ra Tempel. Many of his albums
include themes of space travel, cosmology, science fiction, ecology and exploration. He
recently became the first British musician to perform at the Greenwich Planetarium in
London and has performed throughout Europe and in the USA, Brazil, China and Russia.
Mark is influenced by the authors Iain M. Banks, Larry Niven and Richard Dawkins, and by movies including the Babylon 5 cycle and 2001: A Space Odyssey. He is an internationally published author on the subjects of music and media technology and is the editor of the online media magazine EMIX. Click on the name or photo above to go to the artist's web site. Click this banner for the Special Focus listing on WDIY's website. |
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| Date | Album |
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| 03/07 | Modular Sessions 11: The Spirit of Heldon |
| 03/14 | Modular Sessions 12: Live in the USA disk 1 |
| 03/21 | Modular Sessions 19: Live in the USA disk 2 |
| 03/28 | Modular Sessions 20: Superhero Landing |
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Robert released his first album Sunyata in 1982. Most of his subsequent
recordings came out in Europe until 1989, when Robert began a string of
critically acclaimed releases for Fathom/Hearts of Space, including
Rainforest (1989), Gaudi (1991), Propagation (1994) and Seven Veils
(1998). His two collaborations with Steve Roach, Strata (1990) and
Soma (1992), both charted for several months in Billboard. Other
respected collaborations include Stalker (1995 with B. Lustmord),
Fissures (1997 with Alio Die) and Outpost (2002 with Ian Boddy).
Robert's contributions to multi-artist compilations have been collected
on his solo albums A Troubled Resting Place (1996) and Below Zero
(1998). His group, Amoeba, explored atmospheric songcraft on their
CDs Watchful (1997) and Pivot (2000). Live albums such as Calling Down
the Sky (2004) and 3-CD Humidity (2000) document the unique improvised
flow of his performances.
Robert has performed in caves, cathedrals, planetaria, art galleries and concert halls throughout Europe and North America. His all-night Sleep Concerts, first performed in 1982, became legendary in the San Francisco area. In 1996 he revived his all-night concert format, playing Sleep Concerts for live and radio audiences across the U.S. during a three month tour. One of those concerts was WDIY's first over night broadcast. In 2001 Robert released the 7 hour DVD Somnium, a studio distillation of the Sleep Concert experience, possibly the longest continuous piece of music ever released at the time. It's worldwide radio premier was on Galactic Travels. Robert has designed sounds for television and film scores, including the films Pitch Black, Crazy Beautiful, Behind Enemy Lines and others. His musical scores grace films by Yahia Mehamdi (Thank you for your Patience, 2003) and Daniel Colvin (Atlas Dei, 2007, with 90 minutes of Robert's music in surround); and a video installation by Michael Somoroff (Illumination, 2007). Rich works closely with electronic instrument manufacturers, and his sound design has filled preset libraries of Emu's Proteus 3 and Morpheus, Seer Systems' Reality, sampling disks Things that Go Bump in the Night, ACID Loop Library Liquid Planet, WayOutWare's TimewARP2600, and synths by Camel Audio. Rich has written software for composers who work in just intonation, and he helped develop the MIDI microtuning specification. As mastering engineer and mixer, he has applied his ear to albums in all styles, and his studio was featured twice in Keyboard Magazine, and elsewhere worldwide. Robert has been featured on this program since the very first episode. Since then, his music has graced the 1000th broadcast as well as the worldwide radio premier of his seven hour epic, Somnium, played in its entirety. Click on the name or photo above to go to the artist's web site. Click this banner for the Special Focus listing on WDIY's website. |
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| Date | Album | Label |
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| 04/04 | Rainforest | Hearts of Space |
| 04/11 | Yearning with Lisa Moskow | Fathom |
| 04/18 | Shamballa | Space for Music |
| 04/25 | Strata with Steve Roach | Hearts of Space |
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Ambient and electronic music / Musique ambiante et électronique
English: Between ambient, atmospheric and electronic, the music of Mutagénèse explores sound textures. The musical roots of Mutagénèse comes mainly from the Berlin school, but also from artists like Jean-Michel Jarre, Steve Roach, Brian Eno, Future Sound of London and Autechre. Français: Variant entre l'ambiant, l'atmosphérique et l'électronique, la musique de Mutagénèse explore les textures sonores. Les racines musicales de Mutagénèse proviennent principalement de l'école de Berlin, mais aussi d'artistes comme Jean-Michel Jarre, Steve Roach, Brian Eno, Future Sound of London et Autechre. Mutagénèse is François Vallières of Quebec, Canada. Click on the name or photo above to go to the artist's web site. Click this banner for the Special Focus listing on WDIY's website. |
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| 05/02 | Errance Planétaire | none |
| 05/09 | Exploration Spatiale | none |
| 05/16 | Ganymede | none |
| 05/23 | Microcosm | SynGate |
| 05/30 | Voices | SynGate |
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Based in Toronto and tangled in patch cables, dreamSTATE's Scott McGregor Moore (Scott M2)
and Jamie Todd submerge in the studio, creating their evolving sound environments with a
collection of vintage and modern synthesizers. Their first public expression of their
electronic explorations was an ambient soundscape installation in 1996. This ever-changing,
multi-speaker creation played continuously for six months at The H5 Project, a holographic
art gallery in Toronto.
dreamSTATE's first CD release was in 1998 and they have performed at the World Electronic Music Festival, Interference Orange, THE AMBiENT PiNG, and the Junction Arts Festival to name just a few. Still working in the deep end of the ambient pool, dreamSTATE remain active ambient and electronic music performers. Click on the name or photo above to go to the artist's web site. Click this banner for the Special Focus listing on WDIY's website. |
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| 06/06 | Passage | e-Space Recordings |
| 06/13 | A Decade of Dreaming | e-Space Recordings |
| 06/20 | Drone Day | e-Space Recordings |
| 06/27 | Stone Shore with Heiki Sillaste | paper+sound |
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Dino Frank Pacifici of Montreal began his musical studies at the age of five, concentrating on
classical guitar and began composing at the age of 13. Dee received his Bachelor's Degree in
Fine Arts (music) from Concordia University.
Grounded in ambient and chillout music with a jazz influence, Dee writes Pop-Oriented and Dance music and plays in local bands. Dee has spent many years studying, recording, and performing live in which he continuously expands his musical horizons becoming proficient with bass, keyboards, programming of electronic instruments, as well as his first love the guitar. His compositions include recordings of ambient/space and chillout/jazz albums. In 1997, Dee released "The Journey" which began his adventure into recording ambient/space compositions. To date, Dee recorded over 25 albums in many genres, including Smooth Jazz, Ambient, Space, Chill-Out, Rock, Pop, and Dance. Click on the name or photo above to go to the artist's web site. Click this banner for the Special Focus listing on WDIY's website. |
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| Date | Album |
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| 07/04 | New Earth |
| 07/11 | Geo-Ambient Excursions |
| 07/18 | Kinetic N-R-GEE |
| 07/25 | A Boat Without Oars |
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La Mansarde Hermétique (The Hermetic Attic) was founded in 2013. It is the
electronic improvisation project of Mathias Brüssel and Michael
Brückner. Both are electronica and ambient artists from Mainz, Germany,
and are involved in solo projects and other collaborations. They have been active
in the German ambient and electronic music scene for more than 25 years.
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| Date | Album |
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| 08/01 | The Attic Diaries Episode 1 |
| 08/08 | The Attic Diaries Episode 2 |
| 08/15 | The Attic Diaries Episode 3 |
| 08/22 | The Attic Diaries Episode 4 |
| 08/29 | The Attic Diaries Episode 5 |
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