”Spinning Decline is an eclectic mix of pieces, mostly drone in nature. Moods tend to be dark and melancholy here. Several pieces closely mimic the sound of old vinyl spinning on the turntable. Others vibrate with deep bassy resonance. Ambient noise is also represented in the release, though pieces tend to be more melodic than noisey.”
Mystified decided to combine old and new techniques in this release, using sample manipulation and circuit bent and other odd samples with oscillating drone textures. Moods vary widely here, and happiness is even represented in a track or two.
“Grinding Bliss” is a lighter work for mystified, and should make for easy and interested listening.
Mystified in “The Wire”? Sort of.
The Ampersand Etc. review of “Skywatchers” appeared in a spot featuring the blog itself, as the most recent view of Jeremy Keens’ reviews.
Still, not too bad:
“Heathen Harvest” webzine has published 2 nice new reviews of mystified’s releases:
1. “Subdialogue”:
http://www.heathenharvest.com/article.php?story=20081014095637518
2. “D-Program”:
http://www.heathenharvest.com/article.php?story=20081013112735319
Enjoy.
A nice review of “Skywatchers” (Small Doses, 2008) has been posted on Jeremy Keens’ blog, “Ampersand Etc.”. Short but sweet. Here is the link:
http://ampersandetc.blogspot.com/2008/10/mystified-skywatchers.html
It appears that Misha at WWSP-FM has placed mystified’s release “Skywatchers” (Small Doses, 2008), near the very top of the charts for his “Ambient Aether / Space Continuum” radio program, for September 2008. Here are the charts:
1. Hans-Joachim Roedelius - Inlandish - Grönland Records
2. Mystified - Skywatchers - small doses
3. Darshan Ambient - From Pale Hands To Weary Skies - Lotuspike
4. ThunderBeat - Mayan Landing 2012 - ThunderVision Records
5. Igneous Flame - Flicker - LuminaSounds
6. Ian Tescee - A Traveler’s Guide To Mars - Ian Tescee
7. John Luttrell - The Corridors of Time - Ottersong
8. William Edge - Secret Diary - Sounds Blue Music
9. Darren Rogers - The Alternate Realms - Hypnos
10. David Wright - Momentum - AD Music
11. John Lakveet - Building Sequential Stones Vol. 2 - Groove Unlimited
12. Vir Unis - Perimeter II - AtmoWorks.com Music
13. Steve Roach - The Serpent’s Lair - Projekt
14. Mathias Grassow - Dissolution - Aurora
15. Brannan Lane - Troposphere
16. Oophoi - Time Fragments 3 - Skean Dhu
17. Nine Inch Nails - Ghosts I-IV - Null Corp
18. Harald Grosskopf - Yeti Society - Groove Unlimited
19. Cluster Balm - 1.0 - Blue Water Records
20. Dr. James Hopkins - Golden Ratios: Pythagorean Harmonic Healing 1 - Art All Ways, Inc.
“Chronic Path” is a collaborative cdr between Norss and mystified. 2 longform pieces are represented.
One piece is mystified remixing Norss. The other is Norss remixing mystified.
Both artists are very excited about this release. In terms of genre, it tends towards abstract drone.
The cdr comes in a dvd case with printed cover.
More information: http://www.myspace.com/norss
Strange music for strange days. Almost every sound in this release was created from car parts (then processed). Sometimes when times are hard, you want to pay attention. Sometimes you just want to escape. This release covers both extremes.
Special thanks to Gregory Wildes’ Gas Tank Orchestra.
Hi there!
Here is something Thomas wanted to show you– it’s a playlist of tracks by mystified from recent months, all available through archive.org.
The tracks are free to stream. Clicking the link should make the tracks stream in your player, assuming your computer accepts m3u files, and most should. The tracks are generally ambient, though different varieties of ambient are represented.
If you like the material, there is more about mystified’s free (and other) releases here, including links:
http://www.mystifiedmusic.com/mystified_Discography.txt
Special thanks also to artists C. Reider and Saluki Regicide for collaboration on some of the material in the playlist.
Here it is:
Norss approached mystified and asked to collaborate. Mystified readily agreed, and the two artists put together a release of ambient drone material.
Mystified wrote tracks 1 through 4. The mystified tracks are original except for track 4, which uses sounds from K.M. Krebs’ piece “Diodical”.
As for the Norss tracks, tracks 5 and 6, the two tracks were created by deconstructing mystified work. “Koud” finds its source in various tracks from “Cold Telemetry” and “IJl” was done by remixing sounds from “Skywatchers” (both originally released on Small Doses).