If you’ve ever seen Massive Attack live, you notice the impressive and mesmorising visuals accompanying the already stunning performances. United Visual Artists have designed Massive Attacks’ stage visuals for their 2003, 2004, 2006, 2008 world tours as well as the recent Meltdown Festival at London’s South Bank.
And for the next installment: Massive Attack – United Snakes. Watch in a dark room, on a big screen.
View the film in its full glory on the UVA website.
Milieu releases his first record on vinyl, limited to 150 copies – it’s one you want to track down. Here’s a literal snippet and some ear pleasing samples to wet your appetite, taken from Install Sound’s website:
“After much deliberation and work, Install is proud to unveil its first vinyl release: Milieu’s Phosphene Weather LP. Notable for also being the first time Milieu’s work has appeared on the vinyl format, Phosphene is a special affair, limited to 150 copies on randomly colored vinyl inside custom silk screened sleeves with hand-numbered inserts, sporting a modern design by David Tagg.
Musically, Phosphene Weather inhabits a similar universe as previous Milieu ambient output, such as A Warm Wooden Hollow, Of The Apple or Brittle Paper Cathedrals. The record’s three songs walk slowly through an Autumnal landscape that is as colorful as it is eroded, and over the course of 40 minutes the listener is treated to liquid sunset immersion, surrounded on all sides by soft wind sweeping red leaves over orange fields and cloudlike formations of chords that arrive right on time with the warm hum of a pedal bass. Swells of log cabin isolation, woodwind and guitar drones and pure sleepy thought filter through the horizon line. Phosphene Weather is total night music, and quite possibly the pinnacle of Milieu’s ambient output to date.”
SIDE A:
in blue fields
phosphene weather
SIDE B:
aboir
listen to samples
Pre-order the LP from the Install website. For us UK folks, I am going to try and find out if we can get it over here to avoid having such a collectable man-handled from the other side of the world.
Want more Milieu? Check out his mix for the blog: isolatedmix3
Here’s a promo for SIDE B -aboir:
There’s the soundtracks you here and instantly hunt down, the cult classics. The tracks that shape generations: A Clockwork Orange, The Warriors, 24 Hour Party People, Quadrophenia, The Beach….
Then there’s the soundtracks you don’t notice. In the background. Intensifying the moments, adding that little bit more. And making a great film, an unbelievable film. Leon (Eric Serra), Man On Fire (Harry Gregson-William), Gladiator (Gavin Greenaway), Blade Runner (Vangelis), to name just a few of my favourites.
Luckily, Leighton Masters doesn’t just settle at absorbing great music during the film. A big fan of film soundtracks, classical music and composers, Leighton has put together three mixes titled Darkness and Wonder, epitomising the beauty of film score’s, all for you to download.
Tracks from M.NIght Shyamalan’s The Village & Lady In The Water, Road to Perdition, Babel, Donnie Darko, Requiem for a Dream, the list goes on…
Have a listen, remember the moment and then let me know your favourite OST in the comments below.
Darkness and Wonder – Part 1.
Darkness & Wonder – Part 1 – (Mix) by Leighton Masters
Part 1 tracklisting:
1. Prologue – Lady In The Water (OST)
2. A Way Of Life – The Last Samurai (OST)
3. Deportation – Babel (OST)
4. Giving The Kii – Lady In The Water (OST)
5. Just The Feller – Road To Perdition (OST)
6. Noahs Visit – The Village (OST)
7. Seed Capsule – Joby Talbot (Once Around The Sun)
8. Piano Theme – Craig Armstrong (World Trade Center OST)
9. Bibo No Aozora – Endless Flight – Babel (OST)
10. Unkown – Unkown
11. The Last Man – The Fountain (OST)
12. What Are You Asking Me – The Village (OST)
13. Sorrow – The Gladiator (OST)
14. Starálfur – Sigur Ros
15. Your Hands Are Cold – Pride & Prejudice (OST)
16. Two Sunsets – Einaudi (Echoes)
17. Brooks Was Here – Shawshank Redemption (OST)
18. End Credit Suite – Lars And The Real Girl (OST)
19. Road To Perdition – Road To Perdition (OST)
20. Stay With Me – The Fountain (OST)
21. Unknown – Unknown
22. Together We Will Live Forever – The Fountain (OST)
22. Elephant Parade – Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind (OST)
23. Cloudburst – Eric Whitacre (Cloudburst)
Leighton Masters -Darkness and Wonder – Part 2.
Darkness & Wonder – Part 2 – (Mix) by Leighton Masters
Part 2 tracklisting:
1. Carpathian Ridge – Donnie Darko (OST)
2. The Emporer Is Dead – The Gladiator (OST)
3. Xibalba – The Fountain (OST)
4. Time Travel – Donnie Darko (OST)
5. Karin Accepts Him – Lars And The Real Girl (OST)
6. The Egg Arrives – March Of The Penguins (OST)
7. Elegy – Craig Armstrong (World Trade Center OST)
8. White Knight – Einaudi (Echoes)
9. Vaka – Sigur Ros
10. Childhood – Craig Armstrong (The Space Between Us)
11. Transit Of Venus – Joby Talbot (Once Around The Sun)
12. Morning Pray – Babel (OST)
13. Evey Reborn – V For Vendetta (OST)
14. Credits – Pride & Prejudice (OST)
15. Calm – Einaudi (Echoes)
16. This Morning – Leighton Masters (Elements Of Change) **
17. Knowing – Leighton Masters (Elements Of Change) **
18. I. Lento , Sostenuto – Henryk Gorecki (Symphony No. 3)
tranquillo ma cantabile
19. Brazil & India – Philip Glass (Orion)
20. The Gravel Road – The Village (OST)
21. Spiegel Im Spiegel – Arvo Part (Alina)
22. Concerto Antico For Guitar (3) – John Williams
23. The Golden Fly Four – Alessandra Celletti
24. The Times They Are A Changin’ – Lady In The Water (OST)
Leighton Masters -Darkness and Wonder – Part 3.
Darkness & Wonder – Part 3 – (Mix) by Leighton Masters
Part 3 tracklisting:
1. Meissa – Fripp & Brian Eno – The Equatorial Stars
2. Summer, Ghost Of Things To Come – Requiem For A Dream (OST)
3. Winter, Ghost Of A Future Lost – Requiem For A Dream (OST)
4. Kaleidoscope Of Mathematics – A Beautiful Mind (OST)
5. Beati Qui Esuriunt – Howard Goodall – Enchanted Voices
6. Fur Alina – Arvo Pärt – Fur Alina
7. Water Line – Sage Francis – Human The Death Dance
8. Section VII – Steve Reich – Music For 18 Musicians
9. II. Lento e Largo, – Henryk Gorecki (Symphony No. 3)
Tranquillissimo
10. Cloudburst (11) – Eric Whitacre (Cloudburst)
11. Mother – Goldie (Timeless)
12. 06. Electric Counterpoint – Steve Reich (Electric Counterpoint)
(Part III)
13. Until The End – House of Flying Daggers (OST)
14. For Whom The Bell Tolls – Steve Baker & Carmen Daye
(End Theme)
15. A Fragile Mind – Leighton Masters (Elements Of Change) **
16. Boy Eats Chocolate – Michael Kamen – Band Of Brothers (OST)
17. Plaisir D’Amour – Michael Kamen – Band Of Brothers (OST)
** = More information on “Elements Of Change” release check Leighton’s website.
You can view more of Leighton’s work and the original files on his Soundcloud profile.
The outstanding Kilchurn Sessions by Todos, just keep coming. We’re at number 7 and disappointment isn’t a word this guy knows. Once again the tracklisting reads like a dream festival line-up. A heavy dose of Sigur Ros / Jonsi & Alex, a classic from FSOL, one of my favourite M83 tracks, all ending on a great edit of Orbital’s Halcyon.
View the original source to download.
1. Sigur Ros – Ba Ba
2. Helios – First Dream Called Ocean
3. Apparat – Negro Modelo
4. Tycho – Adrift Edit
5. Helios – Vargtimme
6. Jonsi & Alex – Happiness
7. M83- You Appearing
8. Slam – Subject Invisible
9. Glen McArdle – Miller & Rollnick
10. Abdomen Burst – Syntagma (Negative Neutron Mix)
11. Jonsi & Alex – Boy 1904
12. Ekkehard Ehlers – John Cassavetes (2)
13. Alla Farmer – Elektike Sunrize
14. Alva Noto- Xerrox Tek (Part 1)
15. 2562 – Redux
16. Mirrors Edge – Ropeburn
17. Gianluca Angelini – E
18. The Future Sound Of London – Lizzard Crawl
19. RJD2 – Chicken-Bone Circuit / Orbital – Halcyon+On+On Edit
See here for Kilchurn Sessions 1-4, here for session 5 & 6, (Session 6 link is in the comments).
A nice little insight into one of my favourite labels, Ghostly International, home of Tycho and Lusine. (via Surfing On Steam)
