Between Nowhere And Goodbye

artist: ICR

title: Between Nowhere And Goodbye

label: Misspent Music

catalogue: MISSPENT015

format: digital download

date: 04/2010

country: Hungary

"I hope he'd gone to find you, to ask you one more time to forgive him... but maybe he didn't have anything left in his heart. I just hope he found some place where he could find a little peace: a place set in the cedars and oak trees, somewhere between nowhere and goodbye..." ~ Million Dollar Baby

press release:

Misspent Music, a lighthouse for the discerning drum & bass lover, proudly present "Between Nowhere And Goodbye", Zoltan Gal aka ICR's second Misspent album. Beauty beneficially oozes out of all these thirteen tracks, as you are questioned: what lies between nowhere and goodbye? Soul has always been penultimate to Zoltan's work. Here he experiments with d&b's format, with "One Love", the inaugural dubstep offshoot., and acclaimed production duo Solar Empire and Med School's Minotaur revisiting and reinvention "Frames Of Mind" and "Almost There", work trance towards triumph. Packaging isn't required to pamper this- everlasting affection already awaits you. ~ words by Muttley Subversion (http://subvertcentral.blogspot.com/)

Tracklist:

01. You Told Me I Was Beautiful

02. Light Waves

03. Pathetic

04. Frames Of Mind (Solar Empire remix * original appears courtesy of Covert Operations)

05. Psychedelic Trust

06. Two Steps Backwards

07. Almost There (Minotaur remix * original appears courtesy of Influence Records)

08. Thoughts Returning

09. Calm Alarm

10. Watch Me, Absurd

11. One Love

12. Between Nowhere and Goodbye

all tracks are written and produced by Zoltan Gal

track 4 is remixed by James Clements and Joe Novelozo

track 7 is remixed by Minotaur artwork by Laszlo Gal

audio:

http://www.drumandbass.hu/icr/misspentmusic/misspent016/

Terra Mission

artist: VA
title: Terra Mission
label: Camino Blue
catalogue: CAMINOCD003
format: 2CD
date: 05/2010
country: Germany

info:

Drum & bass and science have always been natural partners. From the halcyon days of jungle producers have pushed the technical boundaries of their equipment, slicing up samples and squeezing every last piece of processing power from their studios. Meanwhile producers looked to the world of academia to find names for their tracks, their albums and even their own production monikers.

In the heady days of rave 2010 seemed like the future and the mid90s D&B era was the soundtrack to that future. Now it almost feels that partnering the words futuristic and drum & bass is a cliché of epic proportions.

However, Camino Blues latest compilation album Terra Mission combines the kind of scientific influence of old, with a slice of modern D&B that satisfies the natural partnership and doesnt feel forced or impossibly self important.

Taking inspiration from the Terra Mission an observatory that collects comprehensive global measurements of earth's atmosphere, cryosphere, lands, and oceans Camino Blue offers an insight into global musical freedom with a slick technical edge.

Featuring a host of names, some of which you will recognise and some which will be fresh to your ears, Terra Mission encompasses everything thats exciting about cool and clear drum & bass. Fans of Good Looking, Creative Source and Critical Music should lap this up.

CD1 brings you 11 unmixed tracks from the likes of Electrosoul System, MAV, Physics or ICR, while CD2 delves deep into the Camino Blue crates with a continuous DJ mix of all things past and present from P.B.K. featuring vocals from Wiosna.

CD1 Tracklist

1.Sonic Saturation - Storm
2.Modemellow - Back In Time
3.P.B.K. - Fornax
4.Electrosoul System - Sputnik
5.Mendelayev & Cutworks - Across The Space
6.KMC - Electronic Shock
7.MAV - 2am On A Sunny Beach
8.Physics - Send Your Neighbour To Space
9.Alex DB - Echoes Of Past
10.Osaka - Astrium
11.ICR - Two Steps Backwards ( Future Engineers Mix )

CD2 Tracklist

1.P.B.K. Marslayers
2.Electrosoul System Nine Planets
3.Modemellow - Back In Time
4.P.B.K. Space Age
5.P.B.K. Subarctic Wave
6.Electrosoul System Mysteria (Re-Edit)
7.Cutworks Moon River
8.Mav Static Interference
9.Sonic Saturation Paradise

Missing Pieces

artist: VA

title: Missing Pieces

label: Misspent Music

catalogue: MISSPENT015

format: digital download

date: 04/2010

country: Hungary

"For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

press release:

Each of us has our own personalised firewall, blocking threats, disturbances and undesirable offal. "Missing Pieces" is a compilation deserving to permeate one's guard. ICR chooses newcomers and established Misspent protagonists with equality, and whether it's Faalb's metre-switching "Well Wet", Mendelayev's nuanced and considered "Reflections", Fushara's tales from his concrete city, bustling kaleidoscopes of delight abound, quenching like a semi-skimmed cup over whole fat from the netlabel fraternity. Siphoned to perfection, it's a small display of Misspent's moreish qualities, which should be ranked high on your potentiometer upon consumption. ~ words by Muttley Subversion) (http://subvertcentral.blogspot.com/)

Tracklist:

01. Faalb - Well Wet
02. Salmz - Travel In The Far East
03. Mendelayev - Reflections
04. Cycom - Niagra
05. Fushara - Street Reality
06. Salmz - Sun Temple
07. Fushara - Lost Inside
08. Ghostwarrior - The Box
09. Snaper - Sick Tape
10. Anorganik - Streamed Marvel
11. Dissident - Fairytale
12. Format None - Lullaby

audio:

http://www.drumandbass.hu/icr/misspentmusic/misspent015/