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fave it Ambient | Soundscapes
19 tracks | 70 minutes
Released May 2005
on Atomic City
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- sample "DOWNLOAD" 04:44 I, Assimilator BUY MP3 04:44 I, Assimilator "GIFT MP3" 04:44 I, Assimilator
- sample "DOWNLOAD" 08:30 Unbroken BUY MP3 08:30 Unbroken "GIFT MP3" 08:30 Unbroken
- sample "DOWNLOAD" 03:41 Meta (Zap 26) BUY MP3 03:41 Meta (Zap 26) "GIFT MP3" 03:41 Meta (Zap 26)
- sample "DOWNLOAD" 04:02 rethink/Pemungkah BUY MP3 04:02 rethink/Pemungkah "GIFT MP3" 04:02 rethink/Pemungkah
- sample "DOWNLOAD" 03:30 Chiba! BUY MP3 03:30 Chiba! "GIFT MP3" 03:30 Chiba!
- sample "DOWNLOAD" 06:20 To Depart, At Last BUY MP3 06:20 To Depart, At Last "GIFT MP3" 06:20 To Depart, At Last
- sample "DOWNLOAD" 00:53 [curtain] BUY MP3 00:53 [curtain] "GIFT MP3" 00:53 [curtain]
- sample "DOWNLOAD" 01:29 Prologue: Gloria Speaks BUY MP3 01:29 Prologue: Gloria Speaks "GIFT MP3" 01:29 Prologue: Gloria Speaks
- sample "DOWNLOAD" 05:05 RSL BUY MP3 05:05 RSL "GIFT MP3" 05:05 RSL
- sample "DOWNLOAD" 07:09 Fritz Ascending BUY MP3 07:09 Fritz Ascending "GIFT MP3" 07:09 Fritz Ascending
- sample "DOWNLOAD" 00:48 Wiard on ACID BUY MP3 00:48 Wiard on ACID "GIFT MP3" 00:48 Wiard on ACID
- sample "DOWNLOAD" 04:15 False Dawn BUY MP3 04:15 False Dawn "GIFT MP3" 04:15 False Dawn
- sample "DOWNLOAD" 02:36 Loremarie? BUY MP3 02:36 Loremarie? "GIFT MP3" 02:36 Loremarie?
- sample "DOWNLOAD" 03:10 Coming Through 1999 BUY MP3 03:10 Coming Through 1999 "GIFT MP3" 03:10 Coming Through 1999
- sample "DOWNLOAD" 01:55 A Time For Heroes BUY MP3 01:55 A Time For Heroes "GIFT MP3" 01:55 A Time For Heroes
- sample "DOWNLOAD" 01:36 The Man With The World In His Head BUY MP3 01:36 The Man With The World In His Head "GIFT MP3" 01:36 The Man With The World In His Head
- sample "DOWNLOAD" 07:47 The Wheel Of Stars BUY MP3 07:47 The Wheel Of Stars "GIFT MP3" 07:47 The Wheel Of Stars
- sample "DOWNLOAD" 02:03 Epilogue: Gloria Speaks BUY MP3 02:03 Epilogue: Gloria Speaks "GIFT MP3" 02:03 Epilogue: Gloria Speaks
- sample "DOWNLOAD" 01:12 [discusion con la maquina] BUY MP3 01:12 [discusion con la maquina] "GIFT MP3" 01:12 [discusion con la maquina]
The final album in the Team Metlay trilogy combines studio and live-concert electronic soundscapes ranging from the primal rhythms of a poisoned earth to the chilled expanses of space. Music to move and meditate by, in the inimitable Team Metlay style...
Bio / Background
Team Metlay... those two words inspire laughter, or a shake of the head. The first of the great Internet electronic superbands, launched at the dawn of the Net era, before the World Wide Web, before most people even had computers in their homes, it gathered musicians from around the world and brought them together in one place to create music of power, madness, and majesty.
Every two years, the Team would reunite, putting human faces on the sterile dealings of the Net, gathering in a studio and writing, playing, mixing, and completing an entire album in one or two marathon sessions. In 1990 it was Bandwidth. From 1992 and 1994 came the megalithic double album Ballistic.
And then... silence.
Word filtered out onto the Internet about something that happened in 1996. A session gone wrong. Fights. Death threats. The band broken up, with members fighting over precious tapes of the last few days in the studio before things went to Hell. Then more silence.
↓ more ↓Then a flurry of activity in 1998, word of a reunion concert, a possible rebirth of the band in a live setting... and then, more silence.
Seven years since it was begun, the last Team Metlay album is here, and it's been well worth the wait. Beneath Stars is a CD in two wonderfully-matched parts: the first half, Badlands, is a careful compositing of tracks from the 1996-1997 sessions rescued from the dumpster, remastered and stripped of years of noise and crud, and the second half, Beneath Electric Stars, is an edit of the Team's farewell concert in January of 1999 at the Fiske Planetarium in Boulder, Colorado.
Critics call it the best work the Team's ever done, an absolutely essential conclusion to the decade-long love/hate story that was Team Metlay. If you have any interest in the history of electronic music, if you love chilled ambient spacescapes with a hint of insanity bubbling below the surface, if you want to hear how the story came out... you must come with the Team and have a seat Beneath Stars.
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