RARITIES

Artist: Helmut Teubner
P: 1997    
Fast rhythms and many orchestral like Synthesizersounds with many catchy melodies and fantastic leadlines on top, that is what you will discover on this release by Helmut Teubner.

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Artist: Helmut Teubner
P: 1995  
Helmut Teubner presents here an ingenious masterpiece: synphonic electronic music with progressive influences skillfully accompanied by an enrapturing saxophone and a mind-blowing E-guitar. Whatever the sleeve promises, the content of the CD exceeds it by sparkling with ideas that are most accurately performed and never boring but with bombastic string arrangements building up an unrivalled atmosphere. It’s hard to imagine how Helmut Teubner should ever again come up to the quality of this majestic masterpiece which is one of the best volumes in this series. Only those listeners completely devoted to the rough krautrock of the seventies may find problems in understanding this opus. By the way, the saxophone is played by Ralf Nowy, famous for his solo albums as well as for his guest appearances with Drosselbart and Improved Sound Limited.

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Artist: Helmut Teubner
P: 1992  
Very rhythmorientated symphonic synthesizermusic with a lot of very good guitar sounds.


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Artist: Hemisphere
P:  1995
For this album Ralf Knappe-Heinbockel heads for more darker territory. "Intruders" presents a more darker side of his Hemisphere's music, for which Ron Boots constructed some nice soundeffects and enviRONmentals to connect most of the tracks with eachother.
An album which will do late at night.

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Artist: Hemisphere
P:  2000
"Inversion" was released on the 25th of March 2000 at the "Alfa Centauri electronic music festival". It is clearly the duo's most daring musical challenge until now. Again, it is great dark ambient album. Perhaps the title of the first track "Psychodelic Friends Create" says enough of the music. It has analog-sounding sequences, a calm rhythm, fine vocal samples and nice effects.
"A New Point Of View" is one of the best Hemisphere-tracks ever made, a extremely beautiful soft piece of music which has a link to classical early Steve Roach-music like "Now", "Quiet Music" and "Structures From Silence". Then, the music gets a somewhat more modern approach in a piece like "The Inversion Of Mind". After this, it is time for some very imaging and filmic music in "It's A Way Shams Go" and "Singing The Crazy". After this, the darkness returns in "Song Of Tranceformation" which, again, has a title which is well-found.
That Hemisphere is really at the forefront of ambient music can be heard very well in "Looking Deep Inside" (and again, the title ) which has a quality only ambient masters like Biosphere can achieve.
That Hemisphere doesn't avoid some experimenting is clear in "Tasting Nothingness" with soaring guitarparts of Reinhardt. Majestic and heavenly voices take over in "There Is No Secret". Am I dead and landed in heaven? No, "Only Certitude That" puts me with both feet on the ground again with it's modern-Tangerine Dream sounding progressive-like style. I still can't argue with their titles because "Black And White Belongs Together" is a good one. It reflects a keyboard as well as life. And the music? Of course, it means a fitting end to the CD with fantastic atmospheres. "Inversion" is a fantastic piece of music, which brings to life the best of both worlds in electronic music, great dark ambient and very intense sounds and inventive progressive rhythms. Well, to think about it, it also brings fine effects, uplifting sequences, analog-sounding solos and beautiful guitarparts.
So, it even brings to life more, and to be honest all worlds in electronic music. So, it is a masterpiece.

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Artist: Hemisphere
P:  2001
On their album Now, the duo continues the pursuit of perfect balance between the emotional evocation bared by musical tonality and the abstract expressionism afforded by adventurous synth programming. The album does contain its share of sequence patterns, symphonic pads, electronic percussion, synth melodies, voice samples and guitar leads; but presented in cunning contexture with unsettling electronic timbres designed to relate or induce dark dreams. The album's sonic scenery dissolves rather than evolves between themes.
The scope of Hemisphere's sound design is vast and mysteriously gratifying as it continues on in the subconscious. Now crosses an ever shifting line that separates conventional spacemusic from the dark ambient.


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Artist: Hemisphere
P:  1994
Here the first CD by Hemisphere at the CUE-Records label!

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Artist: Higher Intelligence Agency
P: 1999
Polar Sequences and Birmingham Frequencies are two parts of a same project. Polar Sequences, released in 1996, was recorded two years earlier, during Tromso’s Polar Music Festival. Tromso, hometown of Biosphere’s Geir Jenssen, is situated 70 degrees north, above the Arctic Circle, in Norway.
In 1995, the organisers of the festival commissioned Geir Jenssen and Higher Intelligence Agency’s Bobby Bird, a series of three concerts, using environmental sounds recorded in the area. The concerts were given on top of a mountain, where the audience was brought to in turn by cable car.
The second part of this project was put together by Bird and Jenssen, using a similar approach, this time set in Bobby Bird’s native Birmingham. The chosen venue was on the twelfth floor of the Rotunda, situated in the heart of the city. The one off event also featured videos and digital images, as well as a café and one of the best views over Birmingham.
The music created for the two events is very similar in form, the two artists creating a slow moving, chilled soundtrack. But where Polar Sequences feels very natural, using sounds of snow and melting ice, the only human interaction being the cable car, Birmingham Frequencies is definitely more urban. Voices of children playing in a park or a pelican crossing alarm are amongst the sounds used as the basis for the creation. These two records are complementary, and Jenssen and Bird both bring their own creativity and technology to a very interesting project. Absolutely unmissable.

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Artist: Higher Intelligence Agency
P: 1993
The first HIA album starts strong, bridging the "gap" between bleep techno and ambience. Soft pads and hooks intertwine with blips, bleeps, qwirky percussion, electro flavourings and distinct proto-IDM-tinged atmospheres. The same goes for Freefloater. Both are mid-90s ambient classics but their reach extends beyond that of an insomnia cure, mostly because they escape easy pidgeonholing. Recommended track one for speaker tests!

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Artist: Himekami
P: 1990
Music in the early Kitaro style. Nice melodies and very good analogue synthesizer selection.

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