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B. Ashra has been producing electronic music for 30 years. Based in Berlin, B. Ashra's
music ranges from meditative ambient music to sound experiments and acid techno. Since
this sometimes led to confusion, B. Ashra releases only ambient, downbeat and
experimental music since the beginning of the 2000s. As Robert Templa, he releases
techno/electro and as Hackbert, he releases tech-house, glitches, very experimental, and
harder sounds.
B. Ashra has made a name for himself in the international electronic music scene with numerous live concerts in many clubs and at open air festivals. He is active in other band projects such as Cosmic Octave Orchestra, 70db, Brain Entertainment Laboratory, Morphon, Tohil Mons and Psychotikum. He has worked with many internationally renowned musicians on a wide variety of projects including Youth (Killing Joke, The Fireman, The Orb), Steve Schroyder (Star Sound Orchestra, Tangerine Dream), Dr. Walker (Air Liquid), Cem Oral aka Jammin Unit (Air Liquid), Matt Black (Coldcut), Peter Missing, Wolfram Spyra, Rainer Von Vielen, Oriom, Eru, Ricky Deadking, Mijk Van Dijk, Cosmic Baby, Sheldon Drake, Carsten Thorwald, Daniel Katzenstab, Ümit Han, Steve Baltes, Bob Humit, Der Dritte Raum, Thomas D, Sigyn M, A.R. Funkhauser, Jewel, MoTom, Rachel Sacks, and McMurphy. He has also organized a number of ambient events in Berlin, including the legendary Ricochet Gathering 2010 in Schönberger Rathaus Berlin with the help of Steve Schroyder, Bernd Kistenmacher, and Ute Herriger. In addition to being a musician, he is a sound designer and mastering engineer at his Berlin recording studio GL Audio and manages two record labels; Separated Beats and Klangwirkstoff Records. Click on the name or photo above to go to the artist's web site. Click this banner for the Special Focus listing on WDIY's website.  |
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| Date | Album | Label |
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| 01/05 | Atomic World | Separated Beats |
| 01/12 | Venus Meditation | Klangwirkstoff |
| 01/19 | The Sound of DMT | Klangwirkstoff |
| 01/26 | Fluffy Spirals | Separated Beats |
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FILTER-KAFFEE are Frank Rothe and Mario Schönwälder from Berlin. Since 2007,
they have been working together on analogue and hybrid synthesizers, sequencers
and other sound devices. They have performed many concerts in Germany, Belgium
and the Netherlands. They name their albums after the old size specifications for
coffee filters of a well-known German company. The specifications changed in 1960.
Filter-Kaffee have been included on a number of compilations.
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| Date | Album |
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| 02/02 | 100 |
| 02/09 | 101 |
| 02/16 | 102 |
| 02/23 | 105 |
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Deborah Martin's passion is to visualize and create music that takes
each listener on a journey through time and space. With her vivid
imagination and a deep love of historic places and peoples of the past,
she brings those people and places into the present and into our hearts.
Deborah has traveled extensively throughout Europe, Asia, and the North American continent, experiencing firsthand the diversity of cultures and the historic threads that weave together connecting us all. This perspective enables her to recognize and uncover links between present and past, and to interpret the resulting panorama with a compositional style all her own. Whether collaborating with other artists or working on her own projects in the future, Deborah Martin, one of Spotted Peccary Music's highly acclaimed top selling artists is sure to inspire listeners with visions of the past and present. When the time comes for her to reveal the next installment of her musical saga, it is certain that it will be one for the ages. Click on the name or photo above to go to the artist's web site. Click this banner for the Special Focus listing on WDIY's website. |
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| Date | Album |
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| 03/02 | Under the Moon |
| 03/09 | Convergence |
| 03/16 | Tibet |
| 03/23 | Deep Roots, Hidden Water |
| 03/30 | Eye of the Wizard |
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Steve Roach is a leading American pioneer in the evolution of ambient and electronic
music, helping shape it into what it is today. Grammy nominated in 2018 and 2019,
his career spans four decades and nearly 150 releases. His massive
catalog of landmark recordings includes Structures from Silence, Dreamtime Return,
and Mystic Chords & Sacred Spaces. Drawing from a vast, unique, and deeply
personal authenticity, his albums are fueled by the momentum of a lifetime dedicated
to the soundcurrent. Roach is an artist operating at the pinnacle of his art form,
driven by a passion and unbroken focus enhancing the emotive, soul-stirring depth
of his music.
From the expansive, time-suspending spaces reflecting his spiritual home in Arizona to the fire breathing, sequencer-driven rhythmic-tribal expressions woven from all things electric and organic, this innovative world of sound has been nourished by years of transcendent concerts worldwide. Always reaching towards what's next on the horizon, Roach refuses to be tied down to any one stylistic direction. Capturing peak moments as they occur in his Timeroom studio, he creates a sonic experience that breathes emotion and vital life energy that connects to an ever-growing worldwide audience. Click on the name or photo above to go to the artist's web site. Click this banner for the Special Focus listing on WDIY's website. |
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| Date | Album |
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| 04/06 | Electron Birth |
| 04/13 | Invisible |
| 04/20 | Ambient Church disk 1 |
| 04/27 | Ambient Church disk 2 |
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Michael Brückner produces electronic music in a wide variety of styles, concentrating
on ambient and drone. A self-managing artist, he has created more than 120 albums since 1992,
most of which can be ordered directly from him or via his Bandcamp page.
Since 2012, a number of his albums have been released by independent labels such as SynGate, Klangwirkstoff, Aural Films, BI-ZA Records, and Winter-Light. He has also performed in a number of European electronic music festivals. Michael is also involved in collaborations with other artists like Detlev Everling, Alien Nature, Mathias Brüssel, Cousin Silas, Mathias Grassow, Rebekkah Hilgraves, Harald Bertram, and Lutz Thuns. His collaborations include several long term projects: B4 SUNRISE, La Mansarde Hérmetique, Betzler and Brückner, and Bridge To Imla. Click on the name or photo above to go to the artist's web site. Click this banner for the Special Focus listing on WDIY's website. |
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| Date | Album | Label |
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| 05/04 | Trees of Olivandá | SynGate |
| 05/11 | The Crossing of Zone 3 | SynGate |
| 05/18 | Recycled Life disk 1 | Cyclical Dreams |
| 05/25 | Recycled Life disk 2 | Cyclical Dreams |
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Darrell has collaborated with Cluster Balm, Copal River, Labrathisattva, Flute
of the Fallen Tiger, and Lucette Bourdin. He has played live quite a bit under
the Palancar project as well as part of the mindSpiral and Different Skies projects.
Darrell is the founder of the Creative Commons based ambient net label Earth Mantra and of Spirit Canyon Audio, a vendor of exotic music soundware. Darrell founded the internet radio station StillStream which still operates today 24/7. Most of Darrel's music is available as free downloads under Creative Commons. He also hosts Blue Water Drift Dive on RadioSpiral. Click on the name or photo above to go to the artist's web site. |
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| Date | Album |
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| 06/01 | Scarab disk 1 |
| 06/08 | Scarab disk 2 |
| 06/15 | Scarab disk 3 |
| 06/22 | Grooves |
| 06/29 | Nightlands |
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