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Morpheus Review

Electro-acoustic downtempo instrumentals. This is an album of inspiring digital delight – the collaborating artists have worked under harmonious vision to produce music of Hope. Here smooth drones and light washes interact with environmental recordings; melodies ebb and flow in understated restraint, moved by glitchy structures entwining ‘found’ percussive sounds and delicate beats. The melodic content often has a classical beauty about it – overtly through the use of wistful strings and elegant pianos – also through a recurring tone reminiscent of the grace and pensive nature of the nocturne. Introspective voices hang in the mix in places, musing in the misty headspace of the music. Static flecks and sleeting noise enliven the textural content. Acoustic and electric guitar meanderings thicken the synthetic elements and bring additional colour to a number of tracks.

Review by Adrian Carter (020 Magazine)

Hope Springs… by Adrian Carter.

New label Fluid Audio enters the world with its first release..and all in aid of a good cause too.

‘Hope’ is the opening release of new electronic, electroacoustic and ambient label Fluid Audio. A rather pleasing affair it is too with a collection of thirteen tracks from a variety of known commodities (especially if you have followed some of my Ultimae reviews). The album is conceptual in nature with each artist asked to create a piece that to them embodies the concept of positivity and alleviation of strife.

As a collection the material on offer here drift back and forth from what you would classify as more traditional ambient into electroacoustic territory with its found sound association. Melodies drift and disperse and give way to tones and washes, often there is a deepening sense of drama to the pieces and while in many cases they burn slowly there is a relentless nature to them (have a listen to Field Rotation’s Regenezit for example).

In places the pace and intensity are notched up a gear starting with James Murray and his contribution ‘Fingersand’. Agitated snippets of voice float in the background while the foreground is given over to a melancholy rhythmic melody and something of a gentle loping stride of a beat. Elsewhere the collection takes on a greater organic feel with piano led tracks from the likes of Bersarin Quartett, PlayB and a particularly beautiful piece from Ben Beiny.

Other highlights include offerings from Digitonal and Hol Baumann both bringing dry skittish pieces to the collection. There’s almost a sense of agitation to their pieces, as if they were reporting back from a place of unrest or disturbance (which I suppose isn’t a million miles unrelated to the theme of hope).

In conclusion this is a really good start for Fluid Audio, a well rounded mature collection of tracks that work alongside a central theme and while many in this genre proclaim to deliver some form of message in this instance you do get a feel for what they are doing. Overrall highly enjoyable and well recommended. The digipak is out now and it will be followed with a digital release on the 29th June.

If that wasn’t enough it should also be noted that 50% of the profits are donated to Toybox. A charity that provides shelter, aid and support for homeless children in Latin America The release is also carbon neutral so what you have is a worthy release supporting a worthy cause.
www.020magazine.com

Field Rotation – Parallelwelten Remixes

Parallelwelten is the first Remix EP of Field Rotation. Including remixes by Adamned.Age and Das OMIKron two outstanding artists from Germany are involved.

Download here

Credits:
Released 16 June 2009
Music and artwork by Field Rotation
Remixes by Adamned.Age and Das OMIKron

www.fieldrotation.de
www.adamned-age.com

Ethical Thinking

The Etchical Vision Behind The Album:

The CD is ISO14001 certified, all paper & card used is FSC certified, all produced by a Carbon Zero CD
manufacturing company, via the award-winning CO2 Balance. The scientific data to calculate the
embedded carbon emissions of the CD/Packaging, and offset an equivalent amount of CO2 by investing
in 100% additional carbon-offsetting schemes with immediate & many secondary benefits to
communities that simply would not happen unless we paid for them. The premises used to create the
CD/Packaging is also 100% carbon neutral and powered with green electricity, and business travel
emissions are also offset.

Eco-conscious disc manufacturing:

ISO 14000 & 14001 compliant CD manufacturing
100% Re-use of scrap polycarbonate salvaged from CD & DVD replication

Eco-conscious printing:

Sourcing of paper stock from FSC Compliant (Forestry Stewardship Council) mills and printers.
Wood fibre procured within the Sustainable Forest Initiative guidelines: every acre harvested is
reforested – 400 Million tree seedlings planted each year.
Paper products are typically recyclable, compost-able, and under the right conditions biodegradable.
No wood from old-growth or endangered forests.
Vegetable based inks.
100% alcohol-free printing.
No Volatile Organic Compound (VOC) emissions from inks or coatings, and use of quick dry glues with
Ozone Depleting Substances (ODS) being eliminated.
Collection and recycling of paperboard, inks, coatings and other waste from printing processes.
60,000 tons of paper and board shipped from one supplier alone to recycler in one year.

Treat This CD With Care!

More info and purchase options here

Various Artists – Hope

We are pleased to announce that ‘Hope’ is now available in Digipak format from the Fluid Audio web site.
www.fluidaudio.co.uk

Digital release will follow on 29th June available in all formats from the Fluid Audio digital store.

Below is a link that will allow you to download a full press release which includes comments from the artists involved in the project, samples of all the tracks from the album, artwork and an unreleased exclusive remix of ‘Forever’ by Ishq.

Press Kit Download:
www.box.net/shared/rl39lt97s4

We thank you for your patience and support and hope that you will enjoy the album.
A big thanks goes out to all the artists involved in the project, and to those that helped make the dream come alive x

Genre: Electroacoustic, Electronic, Ambient
Label: Fluid Audio
Format: CD Digipak/Booklet, Digital
Reference Number: FluidAudio 001
EAN Code: 3760180500178
Mastering: Vincent Villuis – Ultimae Studios
Release Date:
Digipak – 8th June 2009
Digital – 29th June 2009

Fluid Audio kick starts it’s catalogue with ‘Hope’, a compilation sprawling across 13 tracks from established artists, Digitonal, Hol Baumann, Ishq, Bersarin Quartet and James Murray, as well as up and coming producers, Field Rotation, Iambic, Snakestyle, Playb, Halogen and Ben Beiny.

As suggested by its title, ‘Hope’, embodies a concept of positivity and the alleviation of strife “through the creative translation of emotion into sounds sent to soothe [and] images formed to inspire”. Artists were asked to create compositions that reflected their interpretation of the term Hope, producing varied yet cohesive results with a profound resonance. 50% of the profits are donated to Toybox, a charity providing aid, shelter and support for homeless children in Latin America, the majority of which are estimated a life expectancy of around four years on the street.

Coupling all of this with the CD’s bespoke artwork and carbon neutral manufacture provides a consumable and tangible product that serves to aid a constructive cause through the medium of music.

Iambic vs Halogen Download

The talented UK artists Halogen and Iambic recently got together to perform an exclusive live improvised set for Fluid Audio. The outcome is very special indeed and has to be heard to sum up what they managed to achieve.
Crossing over into new uncharted territroy, the guys are pushing electroacoustic frequencies to the next level in futuristic sounds and I have a feeling this is the start of a special relationship between the two artists.

We are offering up the performance as a free download as a way of saying thanks to all who have supported Fluid Audio over the last few months.

Big love goes out to Adam and Guy for making this happen

Download the set here

More information on the artists below….

Free download of Ishq’s ‘Forever’ Remix

We are offering you the chance to obtain a free copy of the ‘Forever’ remix that Ishq recently did for Fluid Audio.
The track will not be available on the album and is an exclusive version never to be released!
For your chance to grab a copy of the track all you have to do is simply subscribe to the Fluid Audio mailing list and we will send out the link for you to download straight away.
The track is at high quality 320 bit rate mp3.
Visit the Fluid Audio web site and click on the mailing list link.

Fluid Audio @ inSpiral Lounge

26th June 2009 at 20:00
inSpiral Lounge
250 Camden High Street, Camden Lock, London, United Kingdom

Phone: 02074285875
Email: fluidaudio@me.com

The Line Up:

James Murray live
Iambic Live
Halogen Live
Ben Beiny dj set

James Murray – Fingersand Video by Crying Earth

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