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Fahrenheit Project Part Five
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Chill out/ambient reviews
Ultimae Records in France is out with the fifth chapter in their Fahrenheit Project series. A label that has kept a high quality level from day one. It is compiled by label dj, Tajmahal. This compilation is slightly mixed, but not in an annoying way. With other words a nice ambient journey with top quality artists.
Fahrenheit Project Part Five (Ultimae Records) 2005 (INRE 015)
1. Jaïa – Alone
2. Solar Fields – Water Silence
3. Aural Planet – Sunfruits Avenue
4. Aes Dana – Purple
5. H.U.V.A. Network – Processing Lights (Fairy Tales Version)
6. Cell – Blue Embers
7. Great Leap Forward – In Name Of The Super Natural
8. Carbon Based Lifeforms – T-Rex Echoes
9. Sync24 – Adrift In Time (Drumatrix Edit)
10. Hol Baumann – Final
11. Sync24 – Wake (Epilogue Edit)
First out is one of my favourite artists, Jaïa from France. Here we get a relaxing, but quite dramatic track. Melancholic music with atmospheric vibes. Nice start on the journey. Jaïa is releasing a new album on Digital Structures this year, and watch out for a new track on Chill Tribe Records. Track 2 is by Solar Fields (Magnus Birgersson) from Sweden, who has released two albums on Ultimae. This one has a bit lighter vibe, still with a mystic, deep sound. We also get some relaxing beats in there and a nice drifting soundpicture. Track 3 is by Aural Planet (Radoslaw Kochman) from Poland. Here we get a really beautiful, floating track. Totally relaxing and definately one of my favourite tracks on this compilation. Nice journey into relaxing melodies. Track 4 is by Aes Dana (Vincent Villuis), who is also one of the label managers at Ultimae. An artist who has set a high standard with his three albums. Here he deliveres another chilled masterpiece. We get a quite stumpy down tempo beat too, which should fit perfect for those who want to take a slow dance in the chill out area. Track 5 is a track by H.U.V.A. Network, which is a collaboration between Solar Fields and Aes Dana. This track was originally released on their album called Distances, but here we get a remix done by Aes Dana. This one leads us even deeper into mystic soundscapes. Totally chilling.
Track 6 is by an artist who is releasing his debut album on Indica Music these days, Cell (Alexandre Scheffer) from France. He deliveres masterpiece after masterpiece, and here is one of them. Beautiful, floating ambient with some relaxing down tempo beats. Quite atmospheric all the way through. Nice! Track 7 is my favourite track on this compilation. A new track by Great Leap Forward (Marius Katz), who has released several high quality chill out tracks lately. He has also released a trance album on Flying Rhino Records. Here we get some interesting sounds and beats, with a quite dramatic vibe. Track 8 is a new track by Carbon Based Lifeforms (Daniel Ringström) from Sweden. He and Johannes Hedberg has released a great album (Hydroponic Garden) on Ultimae in 2003. The track we get here is pretty dark, but chilling. Sort of an arctic, cold sound. Track 9 is a new project by Daniel Ringström called Sync24. This continues the cold, sort of arctic soundscapes. After a while, we get some dubby beats too. Nice. Track 10 is by Hol Baumann who has had tracks on several of the Fahrenheit Project releases. This one has some guitar sounds and dubby beats. The last track Tajmahal gives us on this compilation is another Sync24 track. A beautiful finish on the journey. Just floating, relaxing sounds, with some whispering voice samples and a melody.
Ultimae Records releases another high quality compilation full of beautiful ambient pieces. Personally, I prefer compilations not to be mixed, but Tajmahal has done a good jobb, making it a nice, relaxing journey. Watch out for the Ultimae crew in the chill out areas this summer!
PKS (shivapks@hotmail.com)
