3 clouds by merohedra (greg hunter’s new project) – 1 by expect resistance (rhythymic alias of maux) – 2 by lingua lustra – 1 by ennui – 1 by dionysiac and 2 by maux.

this is the first one.

I used as sources 4 tracks from it ( Session #99 / 4drums /scramble 2001 / fishing…you can ck them in the soundcloud player of the album)…and added drums and FM synths. (loving Operator more and more).
this is a first take…recorded live (no timeline) in Ableton using the launchpad and many knobs.

mauxuam and master margherita : fishing (nightly build 1)

heavily dubbed, vocoded and phased…a live take plus some edits…in Ableton.

master margherita : mpc [spacemix by mauxuam]

download (mp3@320)

bakshish music presents a new adventure in sound :

mauxuam : wiggly bytes (download)

A collection of alternative mixes and previously unreleased tracks (apart of “after b4″ previously included in the comp “Future Memories” by Interchill Records), recorded and mixed between 2005 and 2007 and just remastered.
Guests on this release are Shiranami, Housemaker, Craig Organismic and Greg Hunter.

Wiggly music out of the grid of the usual tags…slow funky heavy beats layered with intense dark atmospheres and dubtronic echoes…a free range electronica without boundaries that explores soundscapes out of the map.
Uncertain futures, infinite possibilities, a multifaced raw reality escaping scientific glossy reason, there is no right choice and sometime the wrong way brings you to the right place in time….just before the announced apocalypse.

mauxuam is an experienced space navigator who lost his way home, a global gipsy and an unpredictable manouvrer.
He has been turning knobs and tweaking sounds for the past 25 years on many diverse and obscure projects.
He released the “controversial” album Viceversa in 2008 for Interchill Records (one of the best albums of that year for Mix Master Morris), and he is currently working on the online project Cloudcycle in collaboration with Greg Hunter and Master Margherita. Together with them he founded the collective Bakshish Music.

tracklist :

1 . wiggly bits – 6.39
navigated and mixed by maux @ sandokan in marina/it in 2k7

2. what was i doing ? – 9.19
by mauxuam and housemaker
guitar, bass, objects and percussions played by boris – navigated and mixed by maux @ metatron in london/uk in 2k7

3. after b4 – 6.15
electric piano played by greg hunter – navigated and mixed by maux @ sandokan in brighton/uk in 2k7

4. extended body (tabberdabber mix) – 7.43
by mauxuam and shiranami
bowed guitar and rhythms by shiranami – navigated and mixed by maux @ sandokan in bologna/it in 2k6

5. wiggly things ( the glitch mix) – 7.53
navigated and mixed by maux @ sandokan in brixton/uk in 2k6

6. jahnesh (tower mix) – 7.47
flute played by craig organismic – navigated and mixed by maux @ sandokan in bologna/it in 2k6

7. what was i looking 4 ? – 7.47 (available only for the subscribers and donators)
by mauxuam and housemaker
guitar, bass, objects and percussions played by boris – navigated and mixed by maux in amsterdam/nl in 2k5

all tracks by mauxuam apart : track 2 and 7 by mauxuam and housemaker, track 4 by mauxuam and shiranami.

mastered by mauxuam @ sandokan studio in 2kX – cover by maux.

included in the packs for the subscribers and the donators an extra track and hi resolution jpgs of extra artwork.

it has been a looong ride…we did a lot of music.

http://cloudcycle.net/log/one-year-of-cloudcycling/

mauxuam + housemaker : what was i doing ?

mauxuam – wiggly bits

mauxuam + shiranami – extended body / tabberdabber mix

Master Margherita – Sul filo

but then I ended up with something very different…even if all the sounds in it are coming from the source (the mix above)
I layered it on few channels with different strips, mainly vocoders,resonators and reaktor (travellizer fx)…
I played live with it…did some edits…and last night (with the help of a little mushroom I found here in the field) I did this mix.
(maybe need some polishing…maybe not…)

mauxuam & master margherita – sul filo (in bilico rmx) {nightly build 3}

last night I was playing with feedbacks…4 send channels with different fx strips assigned to some knobs and feeding eachother….I ended up with this stuff, recorded live directly into audio…I might use it for a more evolved tune at one point.

fuori dal tempo rmx (original by Blue Vertigo) – released in 1998

slow (a rmx of the death metal band Kichiguy) – released in 1997

aka E.Olenikov aka Alltag, Tehran, Iran

http://soundcloud.com/sohrab

this was a great surprise…a “producer” from Iran…good tekno…and even better ambient !

sorry but I cannot embed the soundcloud players of his music since he doesn’t allow it…go and check it out directly on soundcloud…really…go.

very very fresh and alive techno.

i’m against the every-day-a-new-plug-in-mentality of todays music makers.
turning knobs, twisting sounds, jamming and getting deep into single sounds –
this is what i’m all about.

stay techno!

http://soundcloud.com/the-marx-trukker

you can buy it from bandcamp (flac, mp3, etc)
or you can donate 6.66 euros here and get the complete wavpack

or if you are skint or just greedy….you can just subscribe with your email and get the mp3@320 for free

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mauxuam : anti-singles

tracklist :

after b4 – 6′14″ – 2008 (from Future Memories on Interchill)
bleeding 4 africa – 7′34″ – 2008 (from Tranchillizer on Peak Records)
a lot of sound – 10′36″ 2006 – (from Polymorphic Convolutions on Electronic Soundscapes)
ulezak – 8′37″ – 2005 (from Dissolving Clouds on Interchill)
jahnesh – 5′06″ – 2007 (from Sub Signals in Interchill)
sounds a lot – 8′00″ – 2006 (from Vajra on Indica)

IMO this is good music…that brings you nowhere :

samuel hall band : the big nowhere

The Black Dog – http://soundcloud.com/the-black-dog

http://www.theblackdogma.com/tbd/

no need  to intruduce this one…if you don’t know them just google it.
on their soundcloud some tunes and many great mixes and livesets…from ambient to techno passing by kraturock.

Sometimes – Ambient DJ Set Mix

Krautrock Return To The Source – DJ Set Mix

D.O.G Power – DJ Mix

The Black Dog Live at Syntek Lab, Moscow

and I want to post some of my favourites here.

some excellent ambient music to start with :

Mark Harris – http://soundcloud.com/mark-harris

http://www.phasestudies.co.uk
http://www.modulate.org.uk

I am an artist / musician / programer working in the west midlands, and member of the Modulate AV collective

I have an interest in using generative systems for the creations of art / music, and with creating pieces which gradually develop and change over time, I’ve recently developed a number of software applications allowing myself to work with these processes within a live performance environment. Recent projects include: “Birmingham Sound Matter” a project Instigated by Spanish Sound Artist Francisco Lopez working with six other sound artist working in the west midlands Culminating in a concert and CD release. live improvised AV performance with Modulate at the Center of Contemporary Arts, Torun, Poland, writing code for reactive audio visual compositions, audio compositions for sound and light installations and ‘Modulate 5.1’ – a DVD release in surround sound – collaborative audio visual compositions.

finally this amazing album is out there (bravo Darren…a step forward!)

produced by Darren Evans and Greg Hunter in 2007…and never finalized…it was hiding in remote hard disks for too long.

timeless organic space music…radiant…impulsive…immersive…no adjectives in my vocabulary can really describe it…

a MUST download…a MUST buy…

it will take you to amazing places…let it resonate.

http://sangitasounds.com/producers/spectralite/

The inimitible Greg Hunter (Dubsahara, Alien Soap Opera) set sail with Darren Sangita (Noodreem, Ashirvad) for a tryptamine fuelled sojourn thru the astral galaxies of musical magic.  Upon their discovery of new sound worlds, sparkly  universal resonances made manifest in unity of spectral hues.  With their aural kaleidoscopic views on life itself they were blessed with the Grace of the Gods and invested with the sonic alchemical mirrors of holographic delight.

Taking electroacoustic music to a new level of sophistication, this ethereal delight is already something of a connoisseurs classic on the Global ambient electronica scene, having been toured around Europe in previous seasons.  This is the Omega.v1 version of the album which may yet see another incarnation as the hyperspational mapping capabilities of this production team could yet be upgraded once we enter the Photon Belt.  Each piece on this modern hyperspace-age recording tells an epic tale. There are no set-to-repeat digital diamporhisms here, this is pure geometric isomorphism incontrovertibly elucidating on the nature of existence.

The Crest of the Digital Wave

The ocean of creation metasynthesised into the hyperreal aesthetica that we share and breathe. Surfing the light of crystalline consciousness and dancing in molecular recreation. Exploring the dimensions of metaprogramming and superconsiousness.
Rationalising the unrationalisable.

v.a.l.i.s. – amniotica

nature sound creation – evanS

Lost Legion Alien Collective was an entity that existed until 1997…we were 4 ppl…myself (under the name of Kyò)..YorgDK…Federico Bologna and Gianfranco Degli Esposti.
we released on Silent records (seminal ambient label from SF), on WigWam (german label of the old days) and on Alchemax,  plus tracks on many compilations of that time.
analog gear…meters of cables…midi…an Atari computer.

http://www.silentrecords.net/html/sr9470.html

bakshish music presents another brave sonic journey :
shish003 – lingua lustra : ijatevuvun (download)

Some say language is a virus, some say it’s telepathy or maybe it is the exchange of pure bliss!
Bakshish’s dedicated crew now offers you, dedicated listeners, a sonic glimpse of psychic communication.
Sounds grow out of silence without breaking it, delicate atmospheres unfold, sometimes tense, sometimes soothing,
a story without words, a movie with eyes closed.
So here it is, a new jewel rolling out of the universal horn of plenty, a nightly, quiet, atmospheric one,
no need to drop acid here, the music will do it for you !

Lingua Lustra hails from Amsterdam in the Netherlands.
Based in Holland and spending two years in England, Al Borkent’s musical activities span over the last 20 years. Being inspired by the likes of Tangerine Dream and Arvo Part among others, Al’s first group was Tookay as a singer and keyboardist of this four piece band, performing their own original material. Tookay shared considerable success in the Dutch midlands. Numerous bands followed, with Albert doing lead vocals, synths, or both.
After attending and dropping artschool mid-way, Albert was playing the keys in a new wave group called Voix Du Coeur which draw a lot of attention in the lowlands capital.
After an long period of creative activities in all kinds of experimental bands (among other projects there was a 7 piece band called Tingalumi and a squat group called MOV) up to the 90’s, Albert started an ambient-project called QAT, releasing mostly cassettes.
This period of ambient experimentation and experience, gave direction to the release of two ambient albums, under the Lingua Lustra moniker, on the Dutch label Practising Nature.

In 2009 Extramunda appears on Databloem, this is a collection of further evolved L.L. tracks. And in 2010 Desert Island appears on his own label Spherical Records ; a psychedelic mind-movie exploring new territory.
Albert is also recording as Sol for the new Athens based label Electronic Soundscapes.

this take is recorded live while playing with dummy clips…the launchpad and more knobs assigned to different fx…
the only sound not coming from the original edit is the new (wicked) Tattoo drum machine by AudioDamage

he is one of the minds behind Ableton…and he does many workshops around the planet sharing his knowledge….and many other good things can be said about him…he is humble !

I met him at the Sonica festival 3 years ago where I had the honor to share the same stage (Deadbeat, Rhythm and Sound and Greg Hunter were there too)..that time he played in front of 30 ppl (maybe less)…while thousands where lobotomized on the main stage by some rubbish trance…but he delivered an amazing set…and he didn’t behave like a rockstar…even if many of the bloated rockstars (who were playing on the lobotomy (trance) stage) were actually using a software that he created…period again.

he just released Silence, a new album…(dunno where he finds the time to do music)…

I haven’t got it yet…and I am very curious.
I am very pleased to read that he also joined the movement to stop the Loudness War…and he didn’t use any compressors for this album…and no limiters during the mastering.
This is a link to a very interesting conversation about mastering between Robert and Rashad Becker, the guy who mastered it:
http://www.monolake.de/interviews/mastering.html
and it confirms what I wrote in the post “Mastering is killing music” more than 3 months ago…cheers.

the ambient mini album by Moreno is out…you can download it, buy it, donate for it…@ Bakshish Music website :

http://bakshish.me/wp/download/ambient-manifold

I mastered it and produced the first track “moded”…I think is good.

Master Margherita : Prova Sonido

sometime all is crumbling…and the only thing left to do is to cry for help.
my life in the bush of ghosts has been the seminal album that probably  inspired me the most.
I did this remix a couple of years ago…using the stems on their website (thanks Brian, thanks David)….but I never uploaded it to them since is too long…(one day I will do a shorter edit)
Brian Eno and David Byrne : Help me somebody (mauxuam remix)

Sacred Dub : Transmission 039

tracklist

so….blah blah blah…you can read about who and what is HoeHLE here :
http://bakshish.me/wp/music/hoehle
you can download the music here :
http://bakshish.me/wp/download/hoehle-download

and you can taste it here :

I hope that you will like it.

this are the albums I am enjoying more in the last months…really loving it…

Badun : Last night sleep
released by my friends of Mindwaves.

I will not go long here telling you who are they and all the rest of the blah blah….just go on thier cute website and dig it by yourself:

http://badun.dk/

the other album is not so recent but I actually found it recently:

Fontanelle: Style Drift
released by Kranky in 2002

absolutely lovely…and alive…shame they didn’t release anything after that.

for those who like shopping, you can now buy our music in exclusive from only 2 specialized shops :

cloudcycle on addictech

cloudcycle on digital tunes

Cloudcycle is a bizarre experiment conceived by Greg Hunter (Dubsahara, Subsurfing, Alien Soap Opera, who also worked on some seminal albums of electronic music, amongst others with Orb, Killing Joke, Steve Levine, Matrix movie soundtrack) and mauxuam (unpredictable manouvrer who last year released his album Viceversa and has been turning knobs and tweaking sounds for over twenty years on many diverse and obscure projects).
two experienced space navigators who lost their way home, met eachother along the digital pipeline and forgot where they were heading to…and why. Master Margherita met them along the way and while trying to help them find a direction, got himself lost too…

Cloudcycle started one mad night 3 years ago and it is still morphing into new shapes…greg and maux have been shifting and drifting…working online at huge distance of time and space (greg in uk and egypt, maux in oz)…connected by the magic of wand skype….with no timeline, no deadline and no end.
Without knowing what to do and simply bored with the old music biz paradigma, they started to release this music as an audioblog on the net uploading the tracks as soon they finished them….including alternative mixes and demos and the samples to do your own remix.

Deep and heavy beats and out of nowhere melodies, slow techno and endless ambient drones….familiar with every genre without belonging to any trend, cloudcycle is a bunch of trip-a-delic dub-minimal-glitch-world-oddness, a spicy and scented delight for the senses…disappearing before you get hold of it…dissolving without trace…fractalized in micromacro syncronicities.
Richness to resonance, truth to tonality, esoteric emotions and subtle harmonies… a spontaneous outpouring from our side to the world, a musical invitation to experience and join for the pure reason of sharing.

Cloudcycle doesn’t sound loud as fuck…it’s not in your face…we praise the dynamic range…music is the silence between the sounds….pleasure relished in the unsquashed transients…we don’t fight in the loudness war.

in the moment we become so involved in the experience, we lose track of ourself, lose track of time, lose track of our identity…we become clouds.

http://soundcloud.com/mauxuam

cloudcycle crashed
and since the php database is lost…also all the posts are lost…(apart of the media files…included the audio)./.

after 24h of php pain cloudcycle is back online (tnx 2 moreno for the help)

nebula is up…

cloudcycle.net

we couldn’t decide what is it…an album…or a band…
so..for now it’s a website…a simple audioblog….

cloudcycle.net

the first 3 tracks  are already available for free download

mr David Abravanel recently wrote a very intellectual review of my album “viceversa” on the respected milkfactory blog/magazine…

i didn’t like it…neither kris and greg…so we did a review of the review…and they didn’t like it…

the milfactory on viceversa

off course me and greg failed to meet all the deadlines (if there were any)…
…..and it’s taking longer than expected….
this are the working titles:

cloudcycle
cloudcycle.cumulus (mix by mauxuam)
cludcycle.cirrus (mix by greg hunter)
cloudcycle.nimbus (mix by mauxuam)
cloudcycle.stratus (mix by mauxuam)
cloudcycle.nebulosus (mix by greg hunter)
cloudcycle.morning glory (mix by mauxuam)
plus more….

it has been a while I wanted to do this…

so…here it is…free download of my album viceversa in mp3 @ 320 kpbs
(no need to waste time searching for the torrent)

the zip file contains also the artwork

download viceversa.zip

to download register here with your email address.

today has been released an amazing album…blissful music….
one of my favourites since many years….
music that really touched my soul…and got me out of dark places.
I consider myself really lucky…having his music with me all this time before it got finally released.
now is out…you can download it…and donate for it.
bless u greg

greg hunter / dubsahara – metasurfing

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Sunday, December 14, 2008 4:13 PM
Albums of the Year – 2008
IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER here are some of the potential albums of the year

MGMT Oracular Spectacular Columbia JAN
Erykah Badu New Amerykah Pt 1 : 4th World War Motown FEB
Alio Die Aura Seminalis Hic Sunt Leones MAR
Quiet Village Silent Movie k7! APR
IG Culture Zen Badism Freedom School JP APR
Gel Sol Iz Upstairs/Psychonavigation APR
Kettel Myam James Sending Orbs APR
Ciaran Byrne Nine Lives Causeway Psychonavigation MAY
Mauxuam Viceversa Interchill MAY
2000 Black A New Set A Rockers Third Ear JP JUN
Sigur Ros Med Sud I Eyrum Vid Spilum Endalaust XL Records JUN
Various Here Comes Treble Treble O JUL
Animat Earplay Big Chill AUG
Lindstrom Where You Go I Go There Too Smalltown Supersound AUG
Carlos Nino Whats The Science? Elevation Instrumentals Kindred Spirits AUG
Digitonal Save Your Light for Darker Days Just Music SEP
Recloose – Perfect Timing Sonar Kollektiv SEP
Jazzanova Of All The Things Verve OCT
Helios Caesura Type Recordings NOV
Black Dog Radio Scarecrow Dust Science NOV

on myspace

what was I doing ?
blood of gaza

dark, slow and very heavy
available in mp3(320)-FLAC-WAV
creative commons license attribution-noncommercial-sharealike
so your are very welcome to copy, distribute and play with it.

buon ascolto

“This is not the warm, fuzzy, uplifting Interchill you think you know. THIS release is all about the DOWNlift.
This is music to accompany the rush of adrenaline as you wait around a dark corner, about to beat someone’s ass.
Music to have in the background while you tell extravagant lies.
Music that doesn’t encourage a pleasant trip while under the influence of psychedelics.
Definitely NOT music to spin up for a sunrise party, unless you’re spinning in a dungeon with vampires.
This is music to kill robots to.”

more @ discogs

I like this, so does my dog…

different versions from the ones included in the album for free download

viceversa digital cover

Dreamcreation – summer issue 2008

Mauxuam – Viceversa [Interchill]
Mauxuam, Maurizio or Mau, whatever you call him will not change the effect his music has on you. His granular modulated music is dipped in wild apple juice and left to oscillate in the wind. Each time you look at these vibrating soundscapes they become more involved and the textures transform continually. Mauxuam’s album is an ever evolving teapot, refilling itself with fresh herbs on every track whilst still retaining the tangy flavours of the previous ones. Kick back, enjoy and be curious.

Pieman

Does your name mean anything ?

mauxuam is a palindrome – a word from the language spoken on the planet Ummo where I lived for a few years.
Everybody is telepathic so they speak using words very difficult to pronounce and without meaning to make jokes and laugh at the sound of it.

tell us about your musical history.

I started to do music a long time ago. In 1989 I founded the Lost Legion Alien Collective which had many different releases throughout the 90s in europe and america. One of our creatures was Ohmega Tribe, an ambient trance project that released an album in 1995 for Silent records – a seminal ambient label from SF – as well as many tracks on compilations. Our live band was Technogod, kind of a industrial hiphop crossover. We did 3 albums and a few european tours as the supporting act for Meat Beat Manifesto, Young Gods and Consolidated. We split in 1997 and I continued for a few years as a producer in the italian music industry doing remixes, productions and soundtracks for adverts. I got so disgusted by that commercial filth that I dropped out, sold all my equipment and I went traveling without a fixed base for many years. I only started to write some music again 4 years ago as an hobby – this time as a professional amateur.

Your music has a really spacey and psychedelic flavour to it, what’s influenced its creation ?

do you think so ? I guess that my experiences with psychoactive substances has something to do with it…but also the reality show, the apocalypse approaching, the human ordeals, the weather, nature, the universal spirit, my demons, my lovers.
Music is out there, I grab it, channel it, mix it…usually at late night.
Very often the tunes are taking control and they start to evolve by themselves, they have their own life.

When it came to writing an entire album, how did you decide to approach it ?

I decided to re open, remix and deconstrukt my tunes with the intention to output a sound, fresh and coherent in time – in the now. My goal was to break through the parameters of the psychilldub scene, to explore new territories, take some risks, to surprise myself and to be curious again. I locked myself in somewhere desolate, most of the time without even internet and did a disciplined baba life for a few months. I let myself go mad with it.

Please tell us about a couple of your favourite tracks and why they are your favourite

my favourite tracks ever ?
Future days by Can (1972) – a seminal tune that has elements of much of the music nowadays.
Can’s music was truly psychedelic and experimental, endless tunes that you can drift away on.

Shakara by Fela Kuti – trances me out everytime, I can’t stay still, fu#*ing hell, I HAVE TO DANCE.

You also are a visual artist, do you work as a painter or only with moving electronic visuals, how long have you been doing this and what do your images try and convey ?

I am honestly very bad at painting and drawing.
I only play with software and I don’t really see myself as an artist but more as a navigator. I started to play with visuals during my 7 year break from music, it was refreshing to work on animations and graphics. my images are not trying to convey anything really, they are mainly abstract canvas where you can actually see and project many things.