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wh210 Louie & The Ocean – Insubstantial

C.P. McDill — Sat, 03 Mar 2012 02:26:32 +0000

Louie & The Ocean returns with a full-length album of sunny downtempo ambience.

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About:
“Ethereal soundscapes, pop melodies and IDM & downtempo beats will make you love this journey through the ocean.”

Name: Louie & The Ocean
Album: Insubstantial
Year: 2012
Genre: Ambient Pop/IDM

http://www.facebook.com/louieandtheocean

http://soundcloud.com/louieandtheocean

Track List:
01. Uncontrolled Calm [04:19]
02. The Burden [05:36]
03. L’Empire des Lumières [05:34]
04. Drowning Lesson [03:53]
05. I am the Sunrise [05:11] Watch Video
06. Everything Seems So Far From Here [02:28]
07. The Waiting [03:17]
08. Fire Walk With Me [03:25]
09. Fire Walk With Me (aAirial Rebuilt) [03:48]

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wh201 Ice Guild Kaiser – Rain

C.P. McDill — Tue, 05 Jul 2011 18:36:01 +0000

The cryptically familiar Ice Guild Kaiser recently emerged from his workshop with this purpose-built addition to the popular “Rain” series.

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This recording is a product of Ice Guild Kaiser’s research into Webbed Hand’s venerable “Rain” series, and it bears structural similarities to the earliest releases, while showing the influence of later mutations. He acknowledges that, at heart, “Rain” is functional music, a remote descendent of so-called elevator music, easy listening, new age and other genres composed for relaxation and unfocused audition.

Rain is a series of conceptual tracks produced for Webbed Hand Records. Each “Rain” is a CD-length ambient recording ideal for quiet listening while meditating, writing, or going to sleep. Typically the recordings in this series are minimalistic soundscapes, with motifs played out cyclically rather than progressively, in order to induce relaxed states.

Credits:
Ice Guild Kaiser: Synth, field recordings, sound manipulations
C.P. McDill: Cover Design

Play quiet or loud depending on your needs.

Track List:
01 Rain [00:56:18]

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wh197 Drone Wallah – Ancient Lights to Zero Hour

C.P. McDill — Fri, 24 Jun 2011 21:59:44 +0000

A long-form remix of DW’s Abecedronium, combining 26 separate drones into an ever-shifting odyssey.

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Drone Wallah is C.P. McDill’s project devoted solely to expansive drone works. This album and its predecessor were the fruits of a season of experimentation with the numerous means of creating droney sounds pleasing to the ear. It is by no means exhaustive, as there are millions of possible ways. This is just one brief period of exploration.

Credits:
The original drones produced by Drone Wallah (C.P. McDill), February-March 2011 for the album Abecedronium [wh173].
C.P. McDill: myriad instruments, gadgets, effects, sound processing
Aria Nadii: saw on drone #07 “Grimalkin”
Cover illustration by C.P. McDill.

The drones used in this are named:
Ancient Lights, Boojum, Caboodle, Duckboard Harrier, Euterpe, Fiddler’s Green, Grimalkin, Here and Thereian, Infra Dignitatem, Jackanapes, Kittle Pitchering, Lion’s Provider, Mumbudget, Nightspell, Orrery, Play Possum, Quius Kius, Runcible Spoon, Sygaldry, Tarnation, Umbersorrow, Vamoose, Ware Hawk, Xiphias, Yeth-hounds, Zero Hour
(Some of the drones have been altered from the versions appearing on Abecedronium.)

Track List:
01 Drone Wallah – Ancient Lights to Zero Hour [00:47:14]

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wh186 Louie & The Ocean – …With Eyes To Sea EP

C.P. McDill — Wed, 04 May 2011 02:20:03 +0000

Very relaxed downtempo ambient electronica to enjoy as Spring turns to Summer, compliments of Louie & The Ocean.

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About:
“Louie & The Ocean is the solo project of a French boy who enjoys staring at clouds all day long and this is the music that emerges from it. A bit of ethereal sounds, some dark soundscapes and lots of insomnia made up this E.P in 3 months.” — Louis D.

You can also find 2 more songs on these websites:

http://www.soundcloud.com/louieandtheocean

&
http://www.louieandtheocean.net/ ( under construction )

Track List:
01. No Friends, No Problem [03:48]
02. Reflection of a Thin Shadow [03:56]
03. Sandbox Memories [04:46]
04. Lost in Thought [03:26]
05. Cliff Diving [05:41]

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wh183 Digital Mass – Rain

C.P. McDill — Tue, 19 Apr 2011 01:44:58 +0000

Digital Mass, anonymous artist(s) familiar to netlabel drone-ambient enthusiasts, contributes a long drone work made especially for Webbed Hand’s “Rain” series.

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Rumours abound concerning the identity of the shadowy figure behind this project. Truly a rootless cosmopolitan with a wide arsenal of sound-makers at his/her disposal, it has been recently intimated that our hero may be Chilean, but this cannot be confirmed.

What is known for certain is that the means by which this recording came to be, involves a few steel-string instruments, the drones from which were coaxed by use of a most ingenious device, the EBow.

–Digital Mass – Recording, Production, Mastering, Cover Art
Recorded in 2011
Digital Mass @ last.fm.
Digital Mass WordPress site.

Track List:
01 Rain [00:52:22]

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wh182 iaiko – images

C.P. McDill — Mon, 18 Apr 2011 04:49:26 +0000

Subtle, crackling, abstract-minimalist sound paintings make up this collection of compositions from Poland’s iaiko.

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These textural soundscapes call up visual impressions, and surprisingly well match the feeling evoked by the cover image. Hums, drones, glitches, moving nonreferential sounds, slight bleeps and buzzes, all together form the palette of these auditory images.

Originally released March 2011

http://iaiko.bandcamp.com/

Track List:
01 image.1 [10:00]
02 image.2 [04:00]
03 image.3 [02:48]
04 image.4 [06:00]
05 image.5 [05:36]
06 image.6 [06:24]
07 image.7 [04:00]
08 image.8 [05:25]
09 image.9 [06:48]

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wh175 Ghosts Don’t Exist – Rain

C.P. McDill — Wed, 30 Mar 2011 03:05:31 +0000

Minimal drone artist Ghosts Don’t Exist created this long-form drone-ambient Rain release especially for Webbed Hand. A soothing soundscape crafted from processed sound.

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Ghosts Don’t Exist is the minimal drone project of The Ghost Between The Strings.
No music instrument nor prior recordings were used here : just cables plugged into guitar stompboxes.
Digital effects were used only during the mixing process.

http://tgbts.com/ghosts-dont-exist/

Track info:
01 Rain [00:51:29]

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wh173 Drone Wallah – Abecedronium

C.P. McDill — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 02:13:26 +0000

Abecedronium is a cabinet of droney curiosities, being 26 short yet very diverse tracks with alphabetical titles.

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Drone Wallah is C.P. McDill’s project devoted solely to expansive drone works.

Credits:
All tracks produced by Drone Wallah (C.P. McDill), February-March 2011.
C.P. McDill: myriad instruments, gadgets, effects, sound processing
Aria Nadii: musical saw on track #07 “Grimalkin”
Cover illustration by Aria Nadii.

Track list:
01 Ancient Lights [02:00]
02 Boojum [02:03]
03 Caboodle [02:11]
04 Duckboard Harrier [02:20]
05 Euterpe [02:17]
06 Fiddler’s Green [02:24]
07 Grimalkin [02:21]
08 Here and Thereian [02:27]
09 Infra Dignitatem [02:09]
10 Jackanapes [02:02]
11 Kittle Pitchering [02:19]
12 Lion’s Provider [02:03]
13 Mumbudget [02:09]
14 Nightspell [02:21]
15 Orrery [02:21]
16 Play Possum [02:12]
17 Quius Kius [02:09]
18 Runcible Spoon [02:15]
19 Sygaldry [02:12]
20 Tarnation [02:12]
21 Umbersorrow [02:25]
22 Vamoose [02:25]
23 Ware Hawk [02:04]
24 Xiphias [02:17]
25 Yeth-hounds [02:04]
26 Zero Hour [02:02]

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wh155 melophobia – rain 11_03M

C.P. McDill — Mon, 17 Jan 2011 05:13:45 +0000

melophobia follows up 10_2M [wh147] with a contribution to Webbed Hand’s long-form ambient “Rain” series, a work of shifting sound textures and great subtlety.

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11_03M
recording/manipulation/much-overproduction @ Greece, Jan/2011
by melophobia

‘rain’ is commissioned for Webbed Hand series : “Rain”
(http://www.webbedhandrecords.com/category/rain/)

physical copies exist in cdr’s with hand made paper covers (contact…),
some were left as always, in different places to be found by people…

check internet archive :

http://www.archive.org/search.php?query=creator%3A%22Melophobia%22

contact :
dxt@in.gr & xenofonx@gmail.com
covers :

http://melophobia-gr.blogspot.com/

blog :

http://dreams-dxt.blogspot.com/search/label/melophobia

Track info:
01 Rain 11_03M [01:07:51]

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wh154 Drone Wallah – Caput Mortuum

C.P. McDill — Thu, 13 Jan 2011 04:49:31 +0000

Drone Wallah’s “Caput Mortuum” serves up the characteristic drones, ranging from soothing to intense.

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Drone Wallah is C.P. McDill’s project devoted solely to expansive drone works.

Credits:
All tracks produced by Drone Wallah (C.P. McDill), January 2011.
Cover design by C.P. McDill

Track list:
01 – Diogenes’ Lantern [16:11]
02 – Faute de Mieux [17:00]
03 – Crowned With Elder part 1 [13:14]
04 – Brutum Fulmen [06:30]
05 – Crowned With Elder part 2 [08:41]

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