Hope For Japan (Compilation To Benefit Japan Relief Efforts) (2011)

Quote: "This is a compilation aimed towards Japan Relief work. All the fund raised through this will go to American Redcross (There are possible alternatives though). No artists or I get any money out of this as this is non-profit charity compilation.

Read more about compilation and on methods of buying here! NOTE: Due to some misunderstanding with Blogger. The blog is down. Inconvenience is regretted. It will restored shortly. We have emailed blogger.

If any questions please don't hesitate emailing us at: hopeforjapanmusic@gmail.com, hopefornippon@gmail.com

Thanks to all the artists who have made this compilation possible.
Album art by Eric Schumacher."

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01. Our Ceasing Voice – The Only Ones Dead (Are Those Who Are Forgotten)
02. Collapse Under The Empire – The Silent Death
03. The Picturesque Episode – Tokyo Pulse
04. Sey Hollo – Eighty Percent
05. …With a Sword on a Horse – The Sail Blows Windward (Remix)
06. The Jakesperiment – Duka getar, Skala ombak, akan sembuh tersapu alam
07. Asfandyar Khan – About Her
08. Circadian Eyes – A Careful Hope
09. The Tumbled Sea – Jill (Part I)
10. Takahiro Kido – Heavy Smoker’s Forest
11. Infinite Third – Genshukuna (Solemn)
12. 6LA8 – Sleeping People Can’t Fall Down
13. The Veldt – /[This Rain]
14. evolv – Alluring
15. Taiga Blues – Neuanfang
16. Armand Tanzarian – Japanese Title
17. a slow in dance – 6.12
18. We Are Pioneers – Now That We’re Alone
19. We – We Will Reunite Again One Day
20. The Echelon Effect – Japanese Title (Fall Seven Times, Stand Up Eight)
21. My Cats A Stargazer – Solace
22. The Sound Of Rescue – Take Heart
23. Matt Stevens and Kevin Feazy – Talker
24. Ben Woods – Gone
25. endote – Oldham
26. Good Weather For An Airstrike – Echoes
27. Arafúra – Lost Among the Lost (in Japan)
28. Nobuto Suda – Bunch of Harmony
29. The Eternal Twilight (Feat. Christian Erfurt) – Fading Into This Air…
30. Startle The Heavens – Picking Up The Pieces
31. Karl Verkade – Lullabye for the Lost
32. Lowercase Noises – Migratory Patterns
33. Bob Guido – Mooregate
34. Slow Dancing Society – Prange
35. The Living Sleep – We Were Infinite
36. Tundra Lights – Four Nights Under The Lights

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The Echelon Effect - Seasons (EP Part 1/4) (2011)

Quote: "Hello Everybody from sunny London! First off the new music, here you go, (its name your own price), you should be able to buy straight from this email.

The beautiful cover is a photo from Olya Dzhgyr, who won the competition for spring

I thought i'd better show you guys what all the scheming over the last few months has been about. Again many late nights and cold beers has been "utilised" in making this Ep (this is the the first of 4 ending with a film at the end of the year).

It's truly feels great to get Seasons up and running, it feels like forever since i came up with the concept. If anybody doesn't know, I'm documenting 2011 in film, not by concentrating on global occurrences but more along the lines of seeing pretty things that catch my eye throughout the year. Think of it as a budget Heima ;)

Filming is going great, its a lot of fun and im learning loads, its so much harder than i thought.

Anyway, hope you enjoy the music. Feel free to come say hello on one of the many social sites you can find me on. Also say hello by email (info@theecheloneffect.com). Use this email for licensing queries as well,

See you for Part 2 in the summer

Dave
The Echelon Effect"

Genre: Ambient, Experimental, Post Rock

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Somniaferum - Lost (Single) (2011)

Quote: "Re-Recording of the song "Lost" that was already a part of the "stories 'bout a lonely bird"-EP released last August. This song is licensed under creative commons, so it's available for free download. Please donate if you like, so I can optimise my equipment."

Genre: Post Rock, Electronica, Experimental
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Thot - Obscured By The Wind (2011)

"Quite impressive, very well produced and intense" (Magnus Lindberg, Culf of Luna)

"Great power and well realised" (Franz Treichler, The Young Gods)

Quote: "A 11 tracks limited cd edition will be released early April, followed by a 13 tracks edition, only available by the purchase of an exclusive T-shirt release (very limited). This album is released with the help of a network of blogs and webzines across Europe and the United States. So get it, download, pay or not, but share, and spread good Vegetal Wind everywhere. Hail to the Electrical Equinox!"

Genre: Industrial Rock, Electronic
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FULL ALBUM STREAM: Thot - Obscured By The Wind (to be released 22nd of march '11)

Info: "These 10 tracks of heavy Vegetal Noise Music will be available in digital (mp3/wav/flac) on free download or pay what you want. A 11 tracks limited cd edition will be released early April, followed by a 13 tracks edition, only available by the purchase of an exclusive T-shirt release (very limited). This album will be released with the help of a network of blogs and webzines across Europe and the United States."

Thot - Trailer of upcoming album!

Fourteen Twentysix - Lighttown Closure (2010)

Fourteen Twentysix aus den Niederlanden ist mit Lighttown Closure ein großartiges Album gelungen, das gekonnt dunkle Einflüsse wie Anathema, Pink Floyd, NIN und Chroma Key mit einer Portion Mut zu popigeren Passagen verbindet.
Zwischen akustischen Gitarren, starken Bassläufen und groovigem Drumming schwirrt Chris van der Lindens unvergessliche Stimme umher, taucht dabei gelegentlich in ambienten und elektronischen Teilen unter, nur um kurz darauf mit voller Melancholie zurückzuschlagen.

Großes Kino! Anspieltipp: Descending & Lashes.

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With Lighttown Closure Fourteen Twentysix from the Netherlands created an outstanding album, which mixes the band's darker influences like Anathema, Pink Floyd, NIN and Chroma Key skillfully with a dose of courage to implement poppy parts.
Between acoustic guitars, strong basslines and groovy drumming Chris van der Linden's unforgettable voice hovers around, consequently submerging in ambient parts and their electronic feel, just to fight back with total melancholy shortly afterwards.

A grand album! Key tracks: Descending & lashes.

Genre: Alternative, Experimental, Electronica, Ambient
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Álfheimr - What Allows Us To Endure (2011)

Quote: "For Nurul. I love you.

For Nathan. I miss you.
For my friends and family.

Thank you everyone who's helped me along the way, and thank you for downloading this album.

These are songs for laughter and forgetting, for beauty and for the little things,
and for the choices we make and how those choices change us.
These are songs for the inevitable and for celebrating the time we have now;
for the things we lose and the things we gain from their loss.
These are songs for closeness over great distances;
for time, and how it heals us.
These are songs for the future, and what we may make of it;
for all the difficulties we have faced and for those to come,
and for hope, which allows us to endure.

You can email me at madisonasche@hotmail.com if you want a hand-painted digipak for $50. Thank you."

Genre: Post Rock, Experimental, Instrumental, Ambient
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Driveby - Unpromising Perspective (EP) (2010)

Definitely a MUST HAVE!!!

Quote: "The music-visualisation "sound tracks" (a bachelor's thesis in the study course mediadesign which tried to... visualise "unpromising perspective") is available here."

Genre: Progressive Rock, Experimental
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The Echelon Effect - Your First Light My Eventide (Single) (2011)

Quote: "Taken from the forthcoming "Seasons" this single is helping fund the year long project. "Seasons" is a documentation of 2011, comprising of 4 Eps and a film. So please consider buying and help make "Seasons" come to to life. The pretty lights in the video are the A40 road in London, in case you were wondering "

Genre: Ambient, Experimental, Post Rock

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(05:10)

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God Is An Astronaut - Post Mortem (The Echelon Effect Remix) (2011)

Remixed by our buddy David from "The Echelon Effect".

Quote: "Available for free download free, thanks to GIAA. released 11 January 2011 "

Genre: Ambient, Experimental, Post Rock

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Finneyerkes - Into Exile (2011)

Genre: Ambient, Electronica, Experimental
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We - WE (Are) Demo (2010)

Quote: "'We' started off as a bedroom project between two friends, Tyrone Stoddart & Pedram Valiani. We are now looking to complete our line-up to form a full band and hope to play some gigs with our work. We are from Edinburgh in Scotland. Influences are Mogwai, This Will Destroy You, Hammock, Explosions In The Sky, Eluvium."

Genre: Post Rock, Experimental
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Álfheimr - Light & Air (EP) (2010)

Genre: Post Rock, Experimental, Instrumental, Ambient
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The Echelon Effect - Fracture And Fragments (EP) (2010)

Quote: "This is a collection of B-sides, demos and scraps of sounds that i made whilst making Wires And Tapes and Mosaic. They are given to you in the state i found them on my hard drive! They are from all era's of The Echelon Effect. I was going to throw these away forever... Please help me make the next project (Seasons) become a reality by giving a little something if you download this."

Genre: Ambient, Experimental, Post Rock

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Somniaferum - Stories 'Bout A Lonely Bird (EP) (2010)

Quote: "„Somniaferum“ is the 21 years old Alexander Hagen from Bochum, Germany. Grown up in the small town Heiligenhaus (close to Düsseldorf), he encountered music very early. Firstly educated in different instruments on music school (e.g. flute), he learned to play guitar, bass and drums by himself. He was guitarist of the Alternative Rock band „Last Joker“. Since winter 2007, Alexander released a few ambient recordings under the name of „Somniaferum“. In early 2010 he began to work on new songs"

Genre: Post Rock, Electronica, Experimental
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Beyond The Dune Sea - Beyond The Dune Sea (2010)

Quote: "Beyond the Dune Sea’s debut full length is a brilliant album. And it was done in such a “post-musical” style as well. A series of live jams were recorded and the whole thing was put together in post-production style by Adam Kennedy. The entire album is flawless and could be your next album on repeat once you get started. This is not to be passed by in 2010."

Genre: Post Rock, Experimental
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Lena Lou - The Live EP (2010)

Quote: "Conceived in 2004 by guitarist Tasha Spizelli [Songwriter & Producer]; Lena Lou is a Seattle based Post-Rock band with thought provoking, melodic/nostalgic & sometimes "trippy" riffs. Known for their loud, precise live shows and dedicated fan base. Lena Lou has established themselves as one of the best live & hardest working touring acts out there and a force to be reckoned with. Each individual member has an extensive musical history ranging from national tours to T.V appearances and as a whole; Lena Lou, has been featured on various websites, in papers, and on local & college radio-- trekking the world in every possible way. Don't miss a chance to see Lena Lou live & pick up the EP because as fans like to say 'It's astonishing'."

Genre: Instrumental Rock, Experimental
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Inachus - Inachus (EP) (2010)

Quote: "This is the second release by multi instrumentalist Rob Honey, otherwise known as Inachus. Rob has taken influences from many artists ranging from the likes of Clint Mansell, Mike Patton, Imogen Heap and Curtis Mayfield. As such, the music style blends from genre to genre creating a very atmospheric and experimental sound."

Genre: Ambient, Experimental
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"Phoning It In" A Hydra Head Digital Sampler (2010)

Hydra Head the headquarter of Aaron Turner (ISIS) offers a monster sampler for free. Just click on "add to cart" -> you will get an email with download instructions.

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Tracklist:
1. Oxbow + Philippe Thiphaine - "Coalking" From Songs for the French (5:46)
2. Daughters - "The First Supper" From "s/t" (3:18)
3. Bohren & Der Club Of Gore - "Unkerich" From Dolores (5:31)
4. Knut - "Calamity" From Wonder (1:43)
5. The Austerity Program - "Song 27" From Backsliders and Apostates Will Burn (4:04)
6. Pyramids With Nadja - "Another War" From Pyramids With Nadja (15:27)
7. Helms Alee - "Lionize" From Lionize/Truly 7" (2:45)
8. Hayaino Daisuki - "Ghosts of Purgatory" From The Invincible Gate Mind of the Infernal Fire Hell, or Did You Mean Hawaii Daisuki? (2:43)
9. Harvey Milk - "I Know This Is No Place For You" From A Small Turn of Human Kindness (5:07)
10. La Gritona - "Tony Alamo" From Demasiado Tonto Para Los Ninos Listos. Demasiado Listo Para Los Ninos Tontos (4:38)
11. Stephen Brodsky - "Here In Spirit" From Here's to the future (5:54)
12. Jodis - "Continents" From Secret House (7:27)
13. Nihill - "Mundus Subterreanus" From Krach (5:16)
14. Cave In - "Retina Sees Rewind" From Planets of Old (2:30)
15. Kayo Dot - "II. Whisper Ineffable" From Coyote (11:13)
16. Keelhaul "THC for One" from Keelhaul's Triumphant Return to Obscurity (3:34)
17. Clouds - "New Bombs" From B Chuggas May Be Logging (2:08)
18. Xasthur - "UNTITLED 4/05" From 2005 Demo (7:02)
19. GridLink - "Amber Gray" From Amber Gray (1:06)
20. Greymachine - "Wasted" From Disconnected (8:43)
21. Bergraven - "Hunger" From Till Makabert Vasen (7:08)
22. Torche - "UFO" From Songs For Singles (2:01)

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