Electronica: Impressive new album by ...who??!

[ronin74]

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Originally Posted by nickchen /img/forum/go_quote.gif Actually, I'm freaking totally out about a new free album by my favorite artist in repect of electronica, ESEM. Check out or leave it (I know, you tend towards the latter, your fault, not mine).

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Originally Posted by cosmopragma /img/forum/go_quote.gif I've just listened to it (due to nickchen's recommendation at another forum) and it was worth my time. Therefor I'm resurrecting this old thread in order to spread this music further.

DANG! That was fun! Actually the most fun I've had on the Music forum. Thanks nickchen and cosmopragma. Just last week I was ranting about "listening to" in lieu of "talking about" other Head-Fier's music. This was perfect, now how do we do more?

Music-wise, ESEM: The sound is dated, not a decade old, try three decades. Back in the ancient times we called it Synth or MOOG. Tomita comes to mind. But there were a few interesting new elements that I had not heard before.

 

[moriez]

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Originally Posted by ronin74 /img/forum/go_quote.gif Music-wise, ESEM: The sound is dated,

Definitely agree on that.

This album is IDM in its purest form in my opinion. It has a nice sound but nothing much original. At the same time the melodies especially on favorites 7, 8 and 11 are nothing short of beautiful. There are no real bogus tracks either so it makes up for a nice ride every now and then. Overall I think this album is worthy to be in my little collection and worth checking out. Its free anyway!

Edit: I give it a thumb up. Gotta love the advanced tracker style

 

[nickchen]

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Originally Posted by MoodySteve /img/forum/go_quote.gif I see he's been involved with sutemos, the Lithuanian electronica review site/net label. I'd say they release the best free music on the net...their compilations each have exclusive tracks from great electronica 'heavyweights' like Yagya, Digitonal, Maps and Diagrams, etc. #2 for me is Thinner/Autoplate.

Good links, thank you.

My #2 after kahvi.org is miasmah.com - the latter is a bit more on the experimental side of things.

 

[Uncle Erik]

I'm downloading it right now. Sounds good!