X.y.r. - AquarealmThe tenth official full length by St. Petersburg synth savant Vladimir Karpov aka X. Y. R. is a liquid suite of surreal tranquility, divined and designed to soundtrack the shimmering mysteries of underwater life: Aquarealm. Inspired by vintage Soviet cartoons, nature documentaries, and his own colorful aquarium fish, the album's seven songs share a mood of contemplative depths and dizzying beauty, adrift in deepwater currents and bioluminescent tides.

"Beatbox Studios 2 (1996 MPC 60II)" showcases Hi-Tek as a hungry young talent on the rise

Almost none of the versions of the songs featured here have been on any previous Ace CD

and Jeann e-Marie Conquer (violin) are all featured on this album

You'll love it

as groups were becoming more innovative and incorporating multiple elements of modern music to form beats completely original and unmatched

That's the world I want to live in

her grasp of the modernist zeitgeist is not only palpable

Fibich/ Martfeld Quartett - Radu Paladi & Zdenek Fibich: String Quartets

BLOODY HOMECOMING (2013

MIA and Hot Chip - to name but a few - they've become the driving heartbeat of the headline-grabbing global ghetto- funk revolution

Ewa Poblocka - Sonata / Mazurkas

The result is both a deeply emotional and stylized work of epic filmmaking