I Space // Janne Hanhisuanto

Finnish composer of ambient and modern classical music Janne Hanhisuanto has released at least eight albums over the past five years.



In 2011 Lithuanian label Cold Tear Records has released his album of space music and modern classical I Space.



You may download a Creative Commons version from the Internet Archive.

Roots // Tenonaki

Tech Trance

Tenonaki is not exactly a newcomer to the music industry. The album Roots joins eight tracks produced between 1998 and 2006 by Marco Köller. Köller has been active since 1996, making techno and trance music under various labels including New Age Hippies, Blanche and Smooth. This album is his way of paying tribute to the early techno music, dating back to 1988/89 when he started deejaying.

The music filed under tech trance on the release page at Ektoplazm. I am unable to confirm this special style tag - to me it is electronic, trance-y, technoid, hard yet pleasing to my ears. So why should I care what it is called.

It reminds me of the X-102 classic Discover the Rings of Saturn which is high praise indeed as this album is one of my favorite albums in modern electronic music and was created by the kings of the Detroit school, Jeff Mills, Mike Banks and Robert Hood.

But when I say it reminds me I don't you to think that they sound alike. There are major differences. X-102 is Detroit house with a spacy twist, Tenonaki is Cologne techno with cold trance thrown in for good measures. 

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It was released in three formats via Ektoplazm.

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Archives // Deto & Gleam

Progressive Minimal Techno

That's what you could call the music of Hungarian duo Deto & Gleam (aka Peter Takács and Mark Bókay) on their first full album Archives - released early December 2010 by German label Digital Diamonds.

 It was released in three formats via Ektoplazm.

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01 Chrono
02 511 keV (Album Load)
03 Chrono (Wasted Time Mix)
04 T-Echoes
05 Surgery
06 Tangenter
07 Tears Deconstructed
08 Observation Center

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The Rise and Fall of Cosmic Empires // Professor Blood

Professor Blood

Andrea Gherardi is an Italian music producer from Bruxelles. That's at least what he writes on his Facebook page. Or from Piacenza.

The Rise and Fall of Cosmic Empires

He released his first EP on May 22, 2012 via Jamendo. It's a science-fiction themed concept album (if you will) on the First Solar Wars - whatever they might be.

Above all these five tracks a pretty straight forward electronic dance tracks, the last one - Removal From Office - being a bonus track without any connection to the First Solar Wars. Beat-driven techno with the occasional and very light dubstep influence. Very nice, very listenable, almost very good.

I look forward to his next release…

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Jaime Heras' The Very Best 1990-2010

Jaime Heras

Jaime Heras is a self-taught musician from Murcia in Spain. He's making music for quite some time now so it was time for compilation collecting works from twenty years.

The Very Best 1990-2010

The Very Best features twenty tracks, more than the half of which were edited or remade. The music range extends between new age, modern classical and electronic ambient. Jaime Heras is the sole composer and performer of all music, safe for a handful of tracks on which PeerGynt LoboGris plays the guitar as a guest musician.

I must admit that I prefer his electronic ambient tracks much more than his (apparently) older new age songs.

Depending on your musical preferences you may share my point of view that this album is great as an introduction but likely to be replaced by the actual album releases (some of which I will present you in the future).

The music has been released by Free Ear Music under a Creative Commons license.

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