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off land · blue narration

EN42 flac - $8.99
fog
contrail
kites
it's him
midpoint
cactus
tall building
stray
marriage
off spring

Blue Narration is Off Land's 7th release since the project's inception back in 2004. Tim Dwyer, who is the man behind Off Land, has been quoted saying that Stars of the Lid, Woob and Selected Ambient Works II era Aphex Twin are inspirations for Blue Narration. We also hear some Namlook and Biosphoere in there too but Blue Narration is not a mere amalgam and reproduction exercise. Each influence, technique and theme seem to seamlessly melt into the next by way of Dwyers dusty production. We've only given you the signposts to guide you. We think it's time you tried listening off the map. Go Off Land...

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Reviews for blue narration

ambient library

I am really enjoying stuff from en:peg digital not only because they have decent selection of music but every release is a mere 2 bucks so I can really listen to new artists without feeling like I made a bad purchase. "Off Land" is no exception to their catalog of artists. The first track "Fog" really sets the tone. (This is, by far, the best track on the album). He utilizes a lot of the organic feel of artists like "Biosphere", yet he still spends time with melody and let the sound of their synths actually stay sounding like synths (like early "Ambient Instinct" artists). The second track "Contrails"'s main pad has almost a soft horn quality to it without sounding too cheesy. In the background, throughout the album, you can hear ambient nature noises such as birds. Let me just say that I really don't know what to feel about sounds of birds in the background of ambient music... maybe slightly a little too cliche for my tastes. The third track "Kites" has a very 80s sci-fi synth feel to it (with more birds in the background (I don't get what a sci-fi feel and bird sounds have in common)!!!). This album is a nice listen for those who really love the late 80s to mid 90s electric ambient artists such as "Human Mesh Dance" and "Global Communication". With that said, don't expect anything to innovative or mind blowing. The artist also need to focus more on his main theme... the nature sounds with the cold synthy feel (albeit nice and relaxing) does not go together thematically very well. In my opinion; if the artists wanted an ambient backdrop noise to fill up the space... they could have chose maybe some nice noise generated rhythms like other artists are doing to fill that void and keep the overall tone the same. It has all the characteristics to make it a good ambient album (and mostly, it is), but the varying ambient textures fight against eachother and make it slightly distracting (which goes against Eno's criteria for ambient music (non distracting)).
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02.09

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02.02

After a few month hiatus we have some very exciting news about Jonathan Read's Stooky Bill album release. Mr. Read will get the honor of being Enpeg's 50th release (EN50). It will be available at Enpeg via Feb 9th 2010 as well as your favorite digital retailer on March 2nd 2010.

09.09

Enpeg has just signed on Australian Jonathan Read who's debut album "Stooky Bill" we will be releasing in FEB 2010. Enpeg artist Headphone Science is also playing a very special show in early November in Tokyo. All the info for that show can be found here.

06.09

Today is the official release date for our 3 latest albums. First up is Phylum Sinter's from unity to segmentation full-length. Which we feel here at Enpeg is (and was for us) a prefect jumping off point for this highly underrated artist. Fell follows up his between octavia and laguna album with his latest offering Fermé Ferme, which is one of the most satisfyingly original listens we've had in some time. And last but not least the new album from Ruxpin. Where do we float from here? is classic artificial intelligence era IDM fit for the mind, body and soul. They are all available now from Enpeg.com as FLAC and in other formats from your favorite retailer. Amazon, djtunes Emusic, and (yes) itunes have all been adding the new Enpeg releases to their inventories.