quoted 18 lines IRE, BEN Equilibrium (Foundry) cd ep 5.98
>IRE, BEN Equilibrium (Foundry) cd ep 5.98
>The Foundry is a San Francisco ambient label, whose definition of ambient
>resides squarely in the mid-'90s. At that time, the utilitarian chill out
>rooms of warehouse parties and raves intended to calm the over-stimulated,
>ecstacy-addled brains of ravers; yet it also began to produce a very
>specific variation of synth-based ambient music that converged with world
>beat, post-industrial, psychedelia, and anything else that you could zone
>out to. Labels like Beyond, Emit, and Silent offered warm and fuzzy ambient
>cocktails with holistic claims of inter-dimensional travel, brain-tuning,
>and other new age drivel. Yet, with any aesthetic form, gems did emerge,
>with the mid-'90s ambient highlight being the Aphex Twin's "Selected
>Ambient Works Vol 2." Ben Swire's debut EP aspires towards that Aphex
>pinnacle, and comes respectably close with an interesting use of
>IDM-informed / post-drum & bass rhythms spartanly skittering amidst the
>synthetic floes of ambience. Swire, who has previously worked with
>Neotropic on one of her NTone singles, displays a slippery use of nursery
>rhythm melodies that unveil themselves to be quite sublime, not unlike
>Boards of Canada's "Geogaddi" album.
The artist's name is actually Ben Swire. Here's a link to the release page
at the Foundry website :
<a href=
http://www.foundrysite.com/EP/equilibrium/>Foundry</a>
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