RhoDeo 2050 Re Up 267

 Hello, a reasonble amount of re ups this week.... n-joy



Here at Rho-xs visitor numbers have been stable but i did notice a big rise in re-up requests which points to my visitors spending more time at Rho-Xs (glad to be at service). Alas over the years i've lost access to a number of disks, specially the loss of my Aetix and Roots collection hinders my capability to re-up. Obviously the torrent world offers a solution, but this scene is dynamic and suffers the same fate as my posts , the hosts delete the file when demand has dropped, in the torrent world this even worse. Unfortunately this means whilst bigger names get revived the more obscure tend to completely disappear, a fate that is suffered by roots artists as an example Salif Keita a relative big name is nowhere to be found in flac these days (just one album) when a few years ago there were many titles to be had. Same goes for many a reggae artist and even in Aetix the choice of what is on offer is diminishing day by day. I'm doing my best to fulfill requests but it's difficult and in the future i will request you my visitor to give back the odd title that you downloaded via Rho-xs and repost it here.


10 correct requests for this week , 1 ! too early, two double, whatever another batch of 32 re-ups (9.6 gig)


These days i'm making an effort to re-up, it will satisfy a smaller number of people which means its likely the update will  expire relatively quickly again as its interest that keeps it live. Nevertheless here's your chance ... asks for re-up in the comments section at the page where the expired link resides, or it will be discarded by me. ....requests are satisfied on a first come first go basis. ...updates will be posted here remember to request from the page where the link died! To keep re-ups interesting to my regular visitors i will only re-up files that are at least 12 months old (the older the better as far as i am concerned), and please check the previous update request if it's less then a year old i won't re-up either.

Looka here , requests fulfilled up to December 14th... N'Joy

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<a href="https://rho-xs.blogspot.com/2012/05/hello-aetix-again-bit-later-today-so.html">3x Aetix</a>  Back in Flac (Public Image Limited - First Issue , Public Image Limited - Live In Tokyo , Public Image Limited - Happy)



<a href="https://rho-xs.blogspot.com/2015/09/sundaze-1539.html">2x2 Sundaze</a> Back in Flac (VA - Tribute to Haruomi Hosono,VA - Strange Songbook (Tribute to Hosono))



<a href="https://rho-xs.blogspot.com/2015/04/rhodeo-1516-aetix.html">3x Aetix </a> Flac (Beat Happening - Beat Happening , Beat Happening - Jamboree,, Beat Happening - Black Candy,  Beat Happening - You Turn Me On)



<a href="https://rho-xs.blogspot.com/2014/10/rhodeo-1441-aetix.html">3x Aetix</a> Back in Flac (Skinny Puppy - Remission, Skinny Puppy - Bites, Skinny Puppy - Mind The Perpetual  Intercourse )




<a href="https://rho-xs.blogspot.com/2007/12/eight-x-09-86.html">3x Aetix </a>Back in Flac (Carmel - The Falling, Hula - Voice, Love and Rockets - Express )

        


<a href="https://rho-xs.blogspot.com/2014/01/rhodeo-1404-aetix.html ">3x Aetix </a> Back in Flac ( Replacements - Let It Be, Replacements - Shit Hits the Fans, Replacements - Tim )



<a href="https://rho-xs.blogspot.com/2011/11/sundaze-1146.html">3x Sundaze</a>  Back in Flac (O'Rang – Herd Of Instinct , O'Rang - Fields and Waves, Mark Hollis - Mark Hollis    )



<a href="https://rho-xs.blogspot.com/2011/11/sundaze-1147.html">4x Sundaze</a>  Back in Flac (PCO - Music from the Penguin Cafe, PCO - Penguin Cafe Orchestra, PCO - Signs Of Life, PCO - Broadcasting From Home)



<a href="https://rho-xs.blogspot.com/2015/05/rhodeo-1518-aetix.html">4x Aetix</a> Back in Flac (Negativland - Negativland, Negativland - Points , Negativland - A Big 10-8 Place, Negativland - Helter Stupid )



<a href="https://rho-xs.blogspot.com/2014/08/sundaze-1433.html">3x Sundaze</a> Back in Flac (Alien vs Indigo Egg - Microcosmacrocosm, Alien Mutation - DNA, Ishq - Orchid )





As mentioned please return if you have it

Milton Nascimento - Sentinela


    

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RhoDeo 2050 Expanse 21

 Hello, well i hardly saw him during the race apart from the start and a safetycar intervention Verstappen immediately drove of and let Bottas in his wake, after the race Hamilton claimed to have felt a little under the weather, oh dear it was not as if no one could replace him and do a better job...Anyway McLaren managed to claim third spot after Mercedes and Red Bull and next year they'll be supplied with Mercedes engines, somehow i expect that next year constructor title won't be as easy as these last years have been.

 

Here today, naturally my mission of trying to breakthough the wall of nonsense build by the supposed smartest men on the planet is continuing as chinks start to appear, their arrogant stupidity set us back decades if not more, electro-magnetics is clean energy and would have delivered us not only flying cars, but flying saucers aswell and who knows a pathway into other dimensions..Meanwhile i got a request to continue the Expanse, and as this is one of the greatest SF series of our days and within it Abaddon's Gate one of it's highlights no reason to stop there then, so i won't...N Joy..

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Before Einstein created his unique theorems on relativity, deflating Newton’s theories on gravity, Nikola Tesla posited the idea that electricity and energy were responsible for almost all cosmic phenomena. Tesla saw energy and electricity as an “incompressible fluid” of constant quantity that could neither be destroyed nor created.

    If you want to find the secrets of the universe, think in terms of energy, frequency, and vibration.

— Nikola Tesla

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Hourglass-shaped lobes of X-rays extend about 65,000 light-years out from each side of the Milky Way’s central bulge. Rather than “bubbles” of radiation, the lobes are the signature of Birkeland currents moving through plasma and electrically charged dust. The intense electromagnetic fields associated with Birkeland currents cause electrons to move with velocities close to light speed. When charged particles, like electrons, accelerate through an electric field, they emit synchrotron radiation that detectors often interpret to be X-rays and gamma-rays. Therefore, those high energies are not created by gravity. No super-duper central black hole is necessary when far more ordinary factors are taken into consideration. First, gamma-rays are not emitted by the galactic nucleus, they come from the lobes, themselves. The lobes extend 50 degrees north and south from the plane of the Milky Way, and, since they are radiation emitters, they are exhibiting the signature of field-aligned electric currents. The charged particles in the lobes are in motion, so are generating electricity.

Electric charge surges out along galactic spin axes, forming double layers that can be seen as dumbbell like “lobes.” Electric charge spreads out around the galactic circumference, flowing back to the core along the spiral arms. Since the elements in a galactic circuit radiate energy, that energetic radiance shows that they are powered by larger circuits. The extent of the larger circuits might be traced through the polarized emissions coming from them. A recent press release announces the discovery of something similar, although at lower energies: These ‘eROSITA bubbles’ show a striking similarity to the Fermi bubbles, detected a decade ago at even higher energies. The most likely explanation for these features is a massive energy injection from the Galactic center in the past, leading to shocks in the hot gas envelope of our galaxy.”

In the minds of consensus astrophysicists, the two phenomena can only be due to temperature. High temperature means high particle velocity, since heat rides along on the coattails of kinetic energy, so high speed particle collisions heat them up. Since that is their mindset, the only conclusion is they are “… caused either by a burst of star formation or by an outburst from the supermassive black hole at the Galactic center.” Moving charges generating electromagnetic fields has been known since the days of Michael Faraday. Those moving charged particles constitute an electric current, and that current is wrapped in a magnetic field. When more charged particles accelerate in the same direction, the field gets stronger. Double layers can expand and explode, throwing off plasma jets that erupt from opposite poles of a galaxy, ending in energetic clouds Those phenomena are based in plasma science and not gas kinetics, gravity, or particle physics. Astrophysicists see magnetic fields but not the underlying electric circuits, so they are at a loss to explain them. Plasma’s behavior is governed by those circuits. Double layers with large voltages between them often exist. The electric forces in double layers are incomparably stronger than gravity, broadcasting over a wide range of frequencies.

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Well Einstein was wrong, despite being a Jew which is why his nonsense is still accepted as the gospel, anyone dare to challenge can expect full on attack, specially by the likes of Jewish controlled/owned Wiki. Anyway EU's percieved weakspot is their deferance for Velikofsky, ironically the same man who won a bet with Einstein (about the electric noise Jupiter makes) which undoubtetedly hastened his demise (as he recognized how wrong he had been), but then Einstein was wrong again, his fanboys didn't want to know of electricity and kept singing the gospel of gravity to the detriment of the human race...

From now on the coming 7 weeks, 7 high quality mini docs on the EU.. don't miss them

<a href="https://multiup.org/e4695243783841c895894bd57b5aaf09">Electric Universe S01E02 Modern Understanding of Ancient Cosmology</a> ( 30min  433mb)


<a href="https://multiup.org/8b3c2029879467ad0bddcf149cf2551d">Electric Universe S01E01 The Spark of an Electric Universe</a> ( 30min  503mb)

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Since the dawn of the Space Age, perhaps no celestial body in the solar system has proved more surprising to astronomers than the planet Venus. Before the arrival of the earliest space probes, some noted scientists believed that Venus would be earthlike, with water clouds, oceans and abundant vegetation. However, well known to those who have followed this series, it was Dr. Immanuel Velikovsky who made the outrageous prediction that Venus would be superhot, based on his hypothesis of the planet’s recent, cometary origins.

Today, countless Venusian phenomena continue to puzzle planetary scientists, including the planet’s super fast winds; its odd, slow backward spin; its vast magnetotail; and even the recent discovery by the ESA’s Venus Express spacecraft of a surprisingly powerful electric field. In recent decades, Wal Thornhill, Chief Science Advisor of The Thunderbolts Project, has outlined his own reconstruction of Venus’ role in the recent, extraordinary history of the solar system. In Part One of this two-part presentation, Wal begins by recounting this history, which he offered in his 2004 article, Cassini’s Homecoming, which he wrote prior to the arrival of the Cassini-Huygens spacecraft at Saturn. And as Thornhill explains, while astronomers to this day refer to Venus as Earth’s twin, the most likely Venusian sibling may be found in the Saturnian system – that is, the moon Titan.


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https://youtu.be/jDDXi0HJjHU


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The Expanse is a series of science fiction novels (and related novellas and short stories) by James S. A. Corey, the joint pen name of authors Daniel Abraham and Ty Franck. The first novel, Leviathan Wakes, was nominated for the Hugo Award for Best Novel in 2012. The series as a whole was nominated for the Best Series Hugo Award in 2017.

As of 2019, The Expanse is made up of eight novels and eight shorter works - three short stories and five novellas. At least nine novels were planned, as well as two more novellas. The series was adapted for television by the Syfy Network, also under the title of The Expanse, then they dropped the ball despite the succes of the series, i suspect the whole thing got too serious (expensive) so once again Syfy network proved they can't handle success. Anyway fans were outraged and got Amazon Prime to pick it up for a fourth and fifth series and considering the mountain of money Jeff Bezos sits on i suspect several more as long as the fans keep cheering.

The Expanse is set in a future in which humanity has colonized much of the Solar System, but does not have interstellar travel. In the asteroid belt and beyond, tensions are rising between Earth's United Nations, Mars, and the outer planets.

The series initially takes place in the Solar System, using many real locations such as Ceres and Eros in the asteroid belt, several moons of Jupiter, with Ganymede and Europa the most developed, and small science bases as far out as Phoebe around Saturn and Titania around Uranus, as well as well-established domed settlements on Mars and the Moon.

As the series progresses, humanity gains access to thousands of new worlds by use of the ring, an artificially sustained Einstein-Rosen bridge or wormhole, created by a long dead alien race. The ring in our solar system is two AU from the orbit of Uranus, and passing through it leads to a hub of starless space approximately one million kilometers across, with more than 1,300 other rings, each with a star system on the other side. In the center of the hub, which is also referred to as the "slow zone", an alien space station controls the gates and can also set instantaneous speed limits on objects inside of the hub as a means of defense.


The story is told through multiple main point-of-view characters. There are two POV characters in the first book and four in books 2 through 5. In the sixth and seventh books, the number of POV characters increases, with several characters having only one or two chapters. Tiamat's Wrath returns to a more limited number with five. Every book also begins and ends with a prologue and epilogue told from a unique character's perspective.

Novels
#     Title             Pages     Audio     
1     Leviathan Wakes     592     20h 56m
2     Caliban's War         595     21h     
3     Abaddon's Gate     539     19h 42m
4     Cibola Burn         583     20h 7m
5     Nemesis Games     544     16h 44m
6     Babylon's Ashes     608     19h 58m
7     Persepolis Rising     560     20h 34m
8     Tiamat's Wrath         544     19h 8m
9     Unnamed final novel

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Prelude

James Holden and his crew on the salvaged Martian warship Rocinante played a role in two major events in human history: saving the Earth from the first direct proof of alien technology discovered in our solar system, and saving as many people as they could when a new form of the technology appeared on Jupiter’s moon Ganymede. As part of the first incident, the alien technology crashed on Venus, where it churned for months doing something unknown while the solar system watched. When complete, the semi-intelligent collection of chemicals flew away from Venus and built what could best be described as a Stargate, called "The Ring", beyond the orbit of Uranus.
Major character arcs

James Holden and his crew have been successful in their ship-for-hire business, cashing in on their celebrity and Rocinante’s power when needed. As the solar system prepares to mount its first large-scale exploration of the ring, Holden’s interaction with the alien consciousness in the form of an old friend named Miller convinces him that he wants to be as far away from the ring as possible. Greater forces have other plans, however, and the crew finds themselves at the ring with fleets of Earth, Mars, and Outer Planets Alliance (OPA) ships.

Clarissa Mao, younger sister of Juliette "Julie" Andromeda Mao and daughter of Jules-Pierre Mao, who was president of the multi-planet corporation "Mao-Kwikowski Mercantile" also known as "Mao-Kwik". Jules-Pierre was part of various conspiring organisations, all of whom wanted to use the protomolecule for profit. He was brought down by James Holden in the events that occurred during and after the near-destruction of the Ganymede colony, a major food supplier for the outer planets of the belt. The "Mao-Kwik" corporation was also destroyed by Jules-Pierre's actions and left the Mao family only a fraction of their former wealth. Clarissa wants revenge for the disgrace brought onto her family and the downfall of her father, for which she blames James Holden. She wants to discredit him publicly to redeem her father and plans to kill Holden afterwards. She has spent her entire fortune to change her identity and put the wheels of her plan in motion. Now pretending to be an electrochemical technician named "Melba Koh", she sets out to get her revenge in a well-planned scheme. She places a saboteur on the Rocinante, then hijacks the ship's communications system to send a faked 'Jim Holden broadcast' in which an animated image of Holden claims the alien-protomolecule-ring for the OPA and responsibility for the sabotage and near-destruction of the UNN Earth vessel Seung Un. The scheme to get Holden discredited and then killed fails, because Holden decides to avoid all hostilities with the other flotillas and chooses to enter the ring instead. Even after capture, Clarissa remains dangerous.

Carlos “Bull” de Baca is a former warfighter and friend to Fred Johnson. He’s given the job of third in command of the 'Behemoth', formerly known as the Generation Ship Nauvoo, which the OPA salvaged and repurposed as a warship. Not only is Bull absolutely loyal to Fred, he also is the most likely of the command crew to secure the mission's success, which is why Fred asks Bull to “make it work”. When Clarissa triggers her faked broadcast of James Holden, in which he claims responsibility for the sabotage of the Seung Un and to being ordered to do so by the OPA, Bull understands all the implications. He also understands that all of the human governments need to stand united in facing the alien ring and the possible threat coming from it. In order to avoid another open shooting war/battle among Mars, Earth, and the OPA at all costs, he convinces the Behemoth's captain that being the first to take hostile action against the Rocinante will stop the Behemoth from being seen as Holden's backup, and distance the OPA from Holden's statement about 'claiming the ring' for them. After the Behemoth fires a Torpedo at the Rocinante, the other flotillas join by also targeting Holden's ship - forcing him to travel into the ring as an attempt to escape.

Annushka “Anna“ Volovodov is a Methodist pastor from Europa who joined the expedition as part of a UN delegation of religious figures and artists selected to witness the start of a new epoch of human history. Her ship joins others following Rocinante into the gate, and she tries to pull fragile strings of common interest together against the gales of politics, self-interest, and madness driving others in the expedition.

Miller’s consciousness continues on in disembodied form, now part of the vast protomolecule matrix and used for his investigative capabilities. Talking to and trying to work with James Holden, he has limited insight into the actions taken by the gate, and knows there is a vast tapestry of opportunity and danger associated with it and those who built it, because someone destroyed them.
Reception

Abaddon's Gate won the 2014 Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel.

Abaddon's Gate was adapted into episodes 7 to 13 of the third season of the television series The Expanse in 2018, with its title taken for the final episode of that season. It was the last book in the series to be adapted before the show's move from Syfy to Amazon Prime. Meanwhile Amazon has signed a contract to film the complete series season 5,6 and possibly 7, btw season 5 starts this week....



<a href="https://multiup.org/bc63015bb4e75014732fbd2558d1db22">James Corey - The Expanse Abaddon's Gate 22-29 </a> ( 158min  72mb)

James Corey - The Expanse Abaddon's Gate 22-29    158min



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previously

<a href="https://multiup.org/ec2507a66facbe13b61c3d6aafd8b255">James Corey - The Expanse Caliban's War 01-07 </a> ( 139min  63mb)
<a href="https://multiup.org/7c2db1bc4c8f93ff45f2df6e5a901aca">James Corey - The Expanse Caliban's War 08-15 </a> ( 173min  78mb)
<a href="https://multiup.org/d627294ce680b55a5552ee26da80628d">James Corey - The Expanse Caliban's War 16-22 </a> ( 169min  64mb)
<a href="https://multiup.org/71ffc68a701740415df5806f6db5c405">James Corey - The Expanse Caliban's War 23-29 </a> ( 165min  64mb)
<a href="https://multiup.org/2ddc5eb96cece09aafae0029a72381fd">James Corey - The Expanse Caliban's War 30-36 </a> ( 167min  67mb)
<a href="https://multiup.org/b9bbcfa99bc55b573b00e3c0287fedb7">James Corey - The Expanse Caliban's War 37-43 </a> ( 149min  67mb)
<a href="https://multiup.org/37ee50c645c467428254dcfb0092550e">James Corey - The Expanse Caliban's War 44-50 </a> ( 150min  60mb)
<a href="https://multiup.org/1d286bb56f1c77caf49144115f918da1">James Corey - The Expanse Caliban's War 51-57 </a> ( 104min  48mb)
<a href="https://multiup.org/04e5eba5ae7d0b8714c747f135e97208">James Corey - The Expanse Abaddon's Gate 01-07 </a> ( 143min  66mb)
<a href="https://multiup.org/9d31e40248b2d9b26a7d0dbd9237ecb3">James Corey - The Expanse Abaddon's Gate 08-14 </a> ( 157min  72mb)
<a href="https://multiup.org/98823e0797656130ce7e51d3569dacfb">James Corey - The Expanse Abaddon's Gate 15-21 </a> ( 139min  64mb)



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Sundaze 2050

 Hello,  final F1 race of the season without public, to be honest i didn't miss them, very unlike footbal. Anyway mr Hamilton was back but a bit rusty, no pole for him this time, neither for his back up, Bottas, no for the first time this season that honor went to Max Verstappen, that could be an interesting race tomorrow....


Today's Artist is a musician from Toronto, Ontario, Canada who has released numerous records both as a solo artist and as part of various side projects, including Nadja, ARC, Caudal and Mnemosyne. He has also written several books of poetry. He has toured around world, and has made appearances at the Unsound Festival, MUTEK, and South by Southwest. He is married to Nadja bandmate, Leah Buckareff. ..... N'Joy

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An accomplished writer and musician, Aidan Baker has his artistic fingers in many pies. After graduating from Montreal's McGill University with a degree in Literature and Religious Studies, Baker released a four-song acoustic cassette as "Aodhan" (the Gaelic spelling of his name). He also teamed up with two fellow Toronto musicians to create ARC, an ambient guitar-driven trio which garnered much praise for its innovation and integrity. The group released three albums, including Two in 2001. Having been published in major literary magazines nationally and internationally, Baker released his debut album Element in 2000. In 2001, he released his follow-up, Letters, a concept album based loosely around letters from both Jack the Ripper and the Marquis de Sade.
Aidan Baker is a classically-trained multi-instrumentalist using the electric guitar as his primary instrument. Using prepared and alternate methods of playing the guitar, along with various electronic effects, Baker creates music which generally falls within the ambient/experimental genre but draws on influences from rock, electronic, classical, and jazz. A highly prolific artist, Baker has released numerous recorded works, both solo and with various group projects, on such independent labels as Gizeh Records, Pleasence Records, Important Records, Alien8 Recordings, and his own imprint, Broken Spine Productions. Baker is also the author of several books of poetry. A regular live performer, Baker has toured extensively around the world, including appearances at such international festivals as FIMAV, SXSW, Incubate, Unsound, and Mutek, among others. Originally from Toronto, Canada, Baker currently resides in Berlin, Germany.

Mnemosyne was a trio formed in Toronto, Canada in 2002 featuring Aidan Baker on guitar, Richard Baker (ARC) on drums, and Rodin Columb on bass. The group created atmospheric post-rock and released one full-length album, The Air Grows Small Fingers, on Piehead Records.

ARC was a trio made up of Aidan Baker, Richard Baker, & Christopher Kukiel formed in Toronto, Canada in 2000. The group’s sound is centred on the melodic loops, textures, & samples provided by heavily-effected guitar & other melodic instruments. This is overlaid with tribal-esque rhythms provided by various percussive instruments, creating a roiling tapestry of both rhythmic & ambient sound, music simultaneously primeval & avant-garde.

Nadja is a duo of Aidan Baker & Leah Buckareff alternately based in Toronto & Berlin. The duo makes music that encompasses experimental/drone, ambient, industrail, & doom metal. Originally formed by Baker in 2003 as a solo project, Buckareff joined in 2005 to bring the project out of the studio & into a live setting. They have since released numerous albums on such labels as Essence Music, Hydrahead Records, & their own label, Broken Spine Productions.


B/B/S/, formed in 2012 in Berlin, Germany, is a trio of Aidan Baker (CA - Nadja, Whisper Room, ARC) on guitar, Andrea Belfi (IT - David Grubbs, Hobocombo, Il Sogno del Marinaio) on drums/electronics, and Erik Skodvin (NO - Svarte Greiner, Deaf Center) on guitar. The group makes improvisational music, combining abstract melodies and experimental drone textures. Their debut album Brick Mask was released in 2013 and their second full-length album Palace was released in 2016, both on Miasmah Records.

Hypnodrone Ensemble is Aidan Baker & Eric Quach (aka Thisquietarmy) joined by three drummers, Felipe Salazar (Caudal, Muerte En Pereira), Jérémie Mortier (Alice in the Cities, Lady Shot from a Tree), and Dave Dunnett (Man Meets Bear), to create propulsive, poly-rhythmic space rock. Hypnodrone Ensemble released their live debut in 2014 on Consouling Sounds & a studio-recorded follow up in 2015 on Calostro Recordings.

Whisper Room is a trio of Aidan Baker (guitar), Jakob Thiesen (drums/effects), & Neil Wiernik (bass/effects). The three members of Whisper Room moved in similar musical circles in Toronto & Montreal for many years, sporadically playing together &/or sharing stages, but did not actively come together as a group until late 2006. As an improvisational unit combining their disparate musical backgrounds, the trio creates music which explores the conjunction of electronic rhythms & textures with the pulsations & psychedelics of shoegaze & krautrock music. They released their debut full-length album, Birch White on Elevation Recordings and their follow-up The Cruelest Month on Consouling Sounds in 2014

Adoran is a duo consisting of Aidan Baker on drums & Dorian Williamson on bass. The project makes music combining elements of post-rock, drone, industrial, and sludge. Their self-titled debut album was released in 2012 and their second album Children of Mars is the autumn of 2015, both by Consouling Sounds.

Caudal was a trio featuring Aidan Baker on guitar, Gareth Sweeney on bass, & Felipe Salazar on drums. Baker’s multi-layered, heavily affected guitar overlays Sweeney & Salazar’s driving, propulsive rhythm section creating music equally influenced by krautrock, post-punk, and spacerock. Their debut album Forever In Another World was released in 2013 Oaken Palace Records. Their second full-length album Ascension was released by Consouling Sounds in 2014.

Infinite Light Ltd was a collaborative project between Aidan Baker, Nathan Amundson (Rivulets), and Mat Sweet (Boduf Songs). The trio released one album combining folk, ambient, and shoegaze sounds on the German label Denovali Records in 2011.


Scythling was a collaborative project between Aidan Baker and Josh Rothenburger of Bloody Panda exploring sounds conflating dark-ambient and doom metal. The group released one album, Smokefall, with various guest contributors on Aurora Borealis records in 2012.


WERL is a duo of Aidan Baker on guitar with Swedish drummer Tomas Järmyr creating improvisational music which explores noise, metal, drone, & freejazz. Their debut release came out in 2016 on Consouling Sounds and their follow-up is forthcoming September 2017 on Wolves&Vibrancy/Dio Drone Records.



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Probably, there is something symbolic in the fact that "Nihtes Niht" (a phrase in the ancient Germanic dialect, it also gives names to tracks that denote the cardinal points) came out in in the middle of winter: The album is a kind of soundtrack for desert ice landscapes, which is well reflected in the music - cold, minimalistic (someone will call it the actual word "isolationism"), spatial and sometimes threatening. Starting his journey from the zero mark, from where you can choose a direction in the direction of any of the four parts of the world, the listener will have to overcome endless ice fields that do not want to let him go alive and well. The streams of viscous, sleepy ambient that roll into "Sunt" very vividly describe this space, over which the veil of the endless polar night is thrown. A long way from nowhere to nowhere is accompanied by a sharp metal grinding, as if fate sharpens a knife, which very soon plans to cut the thread of the traveler's life. Cyclic noises and guitar overloads bursting into the canvas of an enveloping drone can be pretty nerve-racking. Choosing the path to the north, "Nort", we fall into the captivity of snow blindness - the music really conveys a blinding light that turns into complete darkness, in which the ear is sharpened, catching the smallest, even the most distant and barely audible sounds. And when your hearing finally adapts to the quietest of them, the authors will add a hard and sharp guitar rumble, from which walls and brains will resonate. "Westan" is a realm of hallucinations, delirious muttering, turning into the roar of ice monsters. The cries of polar birds and the sound of breaking ice make it clear that somewhere nearby there is an ocean shore, but the inexorable call forces you to go in the other direction, getting lost in the snowy plain. This is a reference dark ambient, which immediately brings to mind the "Stalker" by Robert Rich and "Lustmord". "Ostan" is a deceptively calm atmospheric drone, into which, again, resonating and grinding noises are aggressively embedded, and closer to the finale, the ice fields of this track are given over to the possession of harsh guitar psychedelia. Agony of consciousness or the opened second, and precisely the last breath, forcing you to make the last leap?



<a href="https://mir.cr/1TTHBY6K">Aidan Baker & Troum -  Nihtes Niht </a> ( flac 216mb)

01 Sunt 17:39
02 Nort 15:06
03 Westan 10:26
04 Ostan 14:20


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Canadian ambient/experimental composer Aidan Baker made his name on his unique tonal guitar explorations, merging dark emotional territory with achingly beautiful compositional elements. Already Drowning departs somewhat from his more textural work, presenting instead seven songs of more structured post-rock, each with a different guest vocalist. Themes taken from various folklore run throughout the album, with an emphasis placed on female water spirits. This nymph-ish thread works well with the darkly dreamlike songs, in particular the harrowing title track and the drifty spoken parts of "30 Days/30 Nights" featuring Jessica Bailiff.



<a href="https://multiup.org/14bcfe1fe8377f1b960d7315b9112e99">  Aidan Baker - Already Drowning</a> ( flac 336mb)

01 Already Drowning feat. Clara Engel 8:47
02 30 Days / 30 Nights feat. Jessica Bailiff 8:55
03 Mélusine feat. Valérie Niederoest & Maude Oswald 6:04
04 Mein Zwilling, mein Verlorener feat. Joanna Kupnicka 6:09
05 Tout juste sous la surface, je guette feat. Geneviève Castrée 7:59
06 Ice feat. Liz Hysen 10:58
07 Lorelei / Common Tongue feat. Carla Bozulich 6:03

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Multi-instrumentalist Aidan Baker's 2014, 40 minutes long, 3 piece project , "Hypnotannenbaumdronefuzz", focuses entirely on melody, beyond his previous experiments with noise. Again, he projects a low-keyed , no frills, up front, songwriting, similar to that of his earlier efforts. Each piece relies on its own melody line, which is an almost invisible thread, that moves along extraordinary, yet almost imperceptible arrangements. The variety in its instrumentation, enhances its scope and depth. But nevertheless, its slow-paced melodical moods set the evocative and nocturnal tone of the whole project.



<a href="https://www.imagenetz.de/Fkknb">   Aidan Baker - Hypnotannenbaumdronefuzz -</a> ( flac 296mb)

01 HTBDF I 11:40
02 HTBDF II 9:10
03 HTBDF III 19:47

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The phrase ‘ecliptic plane‘ refers to the Sun’s apparent path or orbit around the Earth, as seen from a terrestrial perspective. As such, the music contained on the album Ecliptic Plane explores orbits and perspective, with multi-layered guitar loops slowly evolving and gradually changing through the course of their repetition. Even if Ecliptic Plane doesn't refer to it, I see it like a travel to the borders of the solar system, and beyond. A lone journey where the distant melodies will dissolve into the emulated eternity of the processed guitar loops, without any break. Aiming for the universe, the sounds grow more silent and cold as the solar wind carries us outside the Kuiper belt, but it's only to reach an other star as the opening melody appears again at the very end. A unidirectional path on a Möbius ring. Anyway in this (un)controllable taggings, Aidan Baker's style has always stepped indifferently wherever his creativity leads on and the real deal about Ecliptic Planes goes beyond all this info. Hypnotic, uninterrupted, strangely beautiful, addictive musical structures display shamelessly the altitudes Baker's self made musical idiom has reached and holds no quarter in doing so.



<a href="https://bayfiles.com/Rdaav2yep3/Adn_Bkr_Eclptc_Pln_zip">Aidan Baker - Ecliptic Plane -</a> ( flac 237mb)

01 Ecliptic Plane 08:16
02 Termination Shock 03:47
03 Terrella 08:14
04 Heliosphere 06:27
05 Heliopause 05:50
06 Heliotail 10:31

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RhoDeo 2049 Grooves

 Hello,



Today's Artists, thanks to his introspective rap style, his sensitive R&B crooning, and his gold-touch songwriting, each one of his albums topped charts worldwide, and singles like the Grammy-winning "Hotline Bling" and many of his mixtapes did too. .........N Joy

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Canadian rapper and vocalist Drake sustained a high-level commercial presence shortly after he hit the scene in 2006, whether with his own chart-topping releases or a long string of guest appearances on hits by the likes of Lil Wayne, Rihanna, and A$AP Rocky. Thanks to his introspective rap style, his sensitive R&B crooning, and his gold-touch songwriting, each one of his albums -- from 2011's Take Care to 2018's Scorpion -- topped charts worldwide, and singles like the Grammy-winning "Hotline Bling" and many of his mixtapes did too. As his star rose, he helped others along, sponsoring the Weeknd's early work, starting the OVO Sound label, and giving features on his records to up-and-coming acts. By the second decade of his career, Drake's constant chart domination, his Grammy wins and nominations, and his meme-worthy cultural presence made him one of the world's most popular musicians.

Known initially for his role as Jimmy Brooks on Degrassi: The Next Generation, the Toronto-born Aubrey Drake Graham stepped out as a rapper and singer with pop appeal in 2006, when he initiated a series of mixtapes. A year later, despite being unsigned, he scored major exposure when his cocky and laid-back track "Replacement Girl," featuring Trey Songz, was featured on BET's 106 & Park program as its "Joint of the Day." He raised his profile throughout the next several months by popping up on countless mixtapes and remixes, and as rumors swirled about contract offers from labels, he gradually became one of the most talked-about artists in the industry. It did not hurt that he had support from the likes of Kanye West, Jay-Z, and Lil Wayne.

By the end of June 2009, "Best I Ever Had," a promotional single, had climbed to number two on Billboard's Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart. After a fierce bidding war, Drake signed with Universal Motown in late summer and released an EP, So Far Gone, made up of songs from his popular mixtape of the same title. It peaked at number six on the U.S. Billboard 200 chart and won a 2010 Juno Award for Rap Recording of the Year. Thank Me Later, a full-length featuring collaborations with the Kings of Leon, the-Dream, Jay-Z, Kanye West, and Lil Wayne, was issued through Young Money in June 2010. It debuted at number one on the U.S. Billboard 200 chart and was certified platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America. Still, the artist felt his debut was rushed, so its follow-up arrived in November 2011 with the title Take Care, referencing the increased time and effort put into the album's creation. Receiving critical acclaim, Grammy Awards, and the number one slot on the U.S. Billboard 200, Take Care cemented Drake's place as one of Canada's biggest exports.

While on tour in 2012, Drake announced that he had started work on what would be his third studio album; Nothing Was the Same was released the following September. It spawned many singles, topped charts around the world, was shortlisted for the Polaris Music Prize, and was nominated for a Best Rap Album Grammy Award. Soon after the album's release, Drake hit the road on an extended tour, took part in some collaborations, and released a few singles, including the Grammy-nominated "0 to 100/The Catch Up." His next release was planned as a free mixtape before Cash Money decided they would rather charge for it. The decidedly downbeat If You're Reading This It's Too Late was released in February 2015 and debuted at number one, while all 17 of its songs entered the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart.

In late summer 2015, he dropped a trio of new tracks on his SoundCloud page. One of them, the Timmy Thomas-sampling "Hotline Bling," became a Top Five pop hit in Canada and the U.S. and something of a cultural phenomenon. Later that year, Drake hit the studio with Future for a six-day session that yielded the mixtape What a Time to Be Alive. Upon the album's September release, it became Drake's second recording of the year to debut at number one. After dropping three singles in the beginning months of 2016, Drake's fourth album, Views, was released in April and debuted at number one. It revolved lyrically around his hometown of Toronto and featured production by longtime cohorts Noah "40" Shebib and Boi-1da, among others. Late that year, Drake issued another trio of singles, including the chart-topping "Fake Love." They preceded the playlist More Life, released the following March with appearances from Kanye West, Quavo, Travis Scott, and Young Thug. The release became his seventh consecutive chart-topping album.

At the start of 2018, Drake issued the two-song EP Scary Hours. Both "Diplomatic Immunity" and "God's Plan" hit the Top Ten, the latter becoming his second solo chart-topper. It served as a precursor to his fifth album, the two-disc set Scorpion, which was broken into a rap side and an R&B side that featured the hit single "Nice for What." It was released in June and instantly went platinum, while also breaking records for most streams in a single day. At the 61st Grammy Awards, Drake took home the prize for Best Rap Song for "God's Plan."

In 2019, Drake raided the vaults for two archival releases: an official streaming release of the So Far Gone mixtape, and the Billboard 200-topping Care Package, which rounded up tracks that were leaked, discarded, or used as teasers, dating back to the Take Care era. Drake collected two Grammy nominations for the 2020 ceremonies, one for best rap song with his Rick Ross collaboration "Gold Roses" and another for best R&B song with his Chris Brown-assisted "No Guidance." That same year, he released another mixtape made up of demos and singles titled Dark Lane Demo Tapes. One of the tracks was "Toosie Slide," his third song to debut at number one on the Billboard Hot 100, making him the first male artist to accomplish that feat.

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Love or hate him, Drake is without question one of the most influential figures in modern hip-hop. Rising out of the last days of the ‘bling era’ on the back of Lil Wayne, one of that period’s most popular artists, Drake would go on to reshape the dominant style of rap music throughout the 2010s, favouring melancholy and vulnerability over the arrogant, material-obsessed style that had been with the genre since its inception. And that innovation all began with So Far Gone, his third mixtape released a decade ago and recently arriving on streaming services after an effort to clear all of its samples that brought on another of Kanye West’s infamous Twitter rants.

It feels like a lifetime ago that Drake was ridiculed for daring to be emotional on a rap album, but to be fair the ten years since this mixtape’s release have been a nonstop upward climb for the Toronto rapper’s career. His trademark blend of self-confidence and self-awareness, honed here and perfected on his debut album Take Care, has been adopted by countless up-and-comers, akin to the way this tape heavily borrows from Kanye West’s 2008 opus 808s & Heartbreak. While that album was seen as a disappointing departure for West at the time, much of its critical reevaluation since then directly stems from the booming careers of artists it inspired like Drake and The Weeknd.



<a href="https://multiup.org/e0ffa5ff6c3fa319fa0cabf3663d5d74"> Drake - So Far Gone</a> (flac   445mb)

01 Lust for Life 2:56
02 Houstatlantavegas 4:51
03 Successful feat. Lil Wayne & Trey Songz 6:15
04 Let's Call It Off 3:54
05 November 18th 3:07
06 Ignant Shit feat. Lil Wayne 5:04
07 A Night Off feat. Lloyd 3:14
08 Say What's Real 3:51
09 Little Bit feat. Lykke Li 3:50
10 Best I Ever Had 4:18
11 Unstoppable feat. Lil Wayne & Santigold 3:30
12 Uptown feat. Lil Wayne & Bun B 6:22
13 Sooner Than Later 4:22
14 Bria's Interlude feat. Omarion 2:19
15 The Calm 4:04
16 Outro 2:55
17 Brand New 3:35
18 Congratulations 5:32

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By the time of the release of Drake's first full-length album, the Canadian rapper was already a star thanks to his huge single "Best I Ever Had," his celebrated mixtape and then EP So Far Gone, and his spots on hits by Young Money and Eminem. Thank Me Later had the tough assignment of living up to the anticipation and further Drake as an artist, and it totally lives up to the hype. Thanks to the rich and nuanced production and Drake's thoughtful, playful, and intense lyrics, Thank Me Later is a radio-friendly, chart-topping collection of singles but also a serious examination of Drake's life that holds up as an album.

Most of the record finds the young rapper (23 at the time of release) conflicted about his growing stardom and fame. Whether it’s a relationship splitting up as on the melancholy “Karaoke,” worries about the fame changing him (“The Resistance”), fears that so-called real hip-hop fans will find him manufactured (“Show Me a Good Time”), or the difficult nature of romance when you’re a star (“Miss Me”), Drake isn’t afraid to examine what the past year has done to his life. He’s also not afraid to talk about how great life has become as well, dropping plenty of lines about the money, the women, and his own prowess as a rapper. His belief in his own skills is well-founded, as the list of collaborators lined up to work with him attests. T.I., Swizz Beatz, Young Jeezy, the-Dream, Jay-Z, Alicia Keys, and Drake's mentor Lil Wayne all drop by to add verses, sing hooks, and produce tracks, and their presence sometimes serves to liven things up and keep Drake away from his melancholy nature.

The T.I./Swizz Beatz track “Fancy” is a fun and sassy summer jam with a huge hook, his track with Jay-Z ("Light Up") is a fierce takedown of the Industry and the damage it can wreak, and the Nicki Minaj collabo "Up All Night" is a tough-as-nails boast that features Drake at his most insistent. Elsewhere, Lil Wayne's verse on "Miss Me" is his usual breathtaking verbal roller coaster, the-Dream's vocals on the verses of "Shut It Down" are heartbreakingly sincere, and Jeezy adds some welcome ferociousness to "Unforgettable." It’s like all the guests had to bring their best game to keep up with Drake, and they didn't want the youngster to show them up. He never shows anyone up exactly (though Jay-Z's verse sounds kind of out of breath compared to Drake's), but he definitely proves that he belongs at the very top of the game. His nimble flow is impressive; his words are heartfelt, brainy, and surprising; and while his singing may not be the best, it shows a vulnerability that is rare in rap circles. Indeed, it is this willingness to be introspective and honest that makes Drake unique and helps make Thank Me Later special. It is the rare album, rap or otherwise, that follows through on the artist's potential and the fan’s anticipation.

<a href="https://bayfiles.com/raa3Ndx2p7/Drk_Thnk_M_Ltr_zip ">  Drake - Thank Me Later</a> (flac   431mb)

01 Over My Dead Body 4:33
02 Shot for Me 3:45
03 Headlines 3:56
04 Crew Love feat. The Weeknd 3:29
05 Take Care feat. Rihanna 4:37
06 Marvins Room / Buried Alive Interlude 7 Under Ground Kings 8:15
07 Underground Kings 3:33
08 We'll Be Fine feat. Birdman 4:08
09 Make Me Proud feat. Nicki Minaj 3:40
10 Lord Knows feat. Rick Ross 5:08
11 Cameras / Good Ones Go Interlude 7:15
12 Doing It Wrong 4:25
13 The Real Her feat. Lil Wayne & André 3000 5:21
14 Look What You've Done 5:02
15 HYFR (Hell Ya Fucking Right) feat. Lil Wayne 3:27
16 Practice 3:58
17 The Ride 5:51

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After the huge commercial and artistic success of his last album, Thank Me Later, Drake threatened/promised that his next album would be a straight-up R&B record that forsook rapping for vocals. The plan fell through, but his 2011 album Take Care has the feel of a late-night R&B album, full of slow tempos, muted textures, impassioned crooning, and an introspective tone that is only rarely punctured by aggressive tracks, boasts, and/or come-ons. For the most part, increased success hasn’t done much to improve Drake’s mood, as he details his failures at love, his worries about living a hollow life, and his general malaise. Drake’s longtime producer/partner Noah “40” Shebib did most of the production work, and he surrounds Drake’s voice with murky beats, layers of dusky synths, and moody guitars that fit Drake’s voice perfectly; the two work together to create a thick mood of melancholy. When other producers take over, there is a definite shift in mood. Boi-1DA gives “Headlines” a jaunty synth line that Drake matches with his strongest rap, T-Minus brings some booty bass to the thoughtfully sexy Nicky Minaj feature “Make Me Proud,” Just Blaze builds “Lord Knows” around some majestic samples that let Drake brag like a boss, and Chase N. Cashe take things one step further toward R&B by creating a late-night after-hours club feel on the bittersweet “Look What You’ve Done” (which features a phone message left for Drake by his grandmother). The album's most unique track, “Take Care,” features Jamie Smith of the xx working with Shebib on an (almost) uptempo, (almost) danceable song that has a typically great vocal from Rihanna. The super-moody collaboration with the Weeknd on “Crew Love” is another highlight, though it does point out the problematic fact that the Weeknd beats Drake out in the vocal department. The collabo with the predictably brilliant André 3000 and Lil Wayne also point out Drake’s shortcomings as a rapper. Though he drops the occasional line that dazzles (“All my exes live in Texas like I’m George Strait”), Drake is a middle-of-the-pack rapper at best. His true strength, as Take Care proves over and over, is his willingness to delve deeply into his emotions and the ability to transmit them in such a simple and real fashion that it’s easy to connect with him even if your life isn’t filled with glamorous exes, hangs with Stevie Wonder (who adds some harmonica to “Doing It Wrong”), and gold owls. It’s an important achievement, and his success might mean that the world was ready for the first emo rapper. Thank Me Later hinted at it, but Take Care makes it plain. And while Take Care's charms may be a little more hidden, with a couple exceptions, than Thank Me Later’s were, repeated plays reveal a record that is just as strong and more powerful emotionally. Don’t play it at your next house party or DJ night; save it for later when you need something to get you through the rest of the night.

<a href="https://www.imagenetz.de/7MHyZ"> Drake - Take Care</a> (flac   431mb)

01 Fireworks feat. Alicia Keys 5:13
02 Karaoke 3:48
03 The Resistance 3:45
04 Over 3:53
05 Show Me a Good Time 3:30
06 Up All Night feat. Nicki Minaj  3:54
07 Fancy feat. T.I. & Swizz Beatz 5:19
08 Shut It Down feat. The Dream 6:59
09 Unforgettable feat. Young Jeezy 3:34
10 Light Up feat. Jay-Z 4:34
11 Miss Me feat. Lil Wayne 5:05
12 Cece's Interlude 2:34
13 Find Your Love 3:29
14 Thank Me Now 5:28

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After an EP and two albums that firmly established his moody, introspective style and made him a huge star, Drake's third album, Nothing Was the Same, isn't a huge departure but it does take some steps in new directions. Built around sped-up samples and Wu-Tang-inspired, spooky loops, the production retains the same basic style, but is a little deeper and more foreboding. Provided mostly by longtime collaborator Noah "40" Shebib, the backing is suitably melancholic and claustrophobic enough to match Drake's main lyrical themes of angry boasting, dealing with a broken heart, and being disillusioned by the lifestyle his fame has brought him. This time out, Drake adds to his list of family issues, as a couple tracks deal with re-establishing a relationship with his father and worrying about his mom. It's good to hear him reaching out a little and expanding his concerns because his usual topics are wearing thin, especially the boasting. "Started from the Bottom" is the main offender, since the idea of Drake starting from the bottom is a little ridiculous. If growing up well-off, starring in a TV series, and hooking up early with Weezy is the bottom, we should all want to start off there. It's hard to entirely write off this song, and the others that focus on his greatness, since the music is so evocative and because Drake's basic persona is still appealing. "Too Much," in particular, is a brilliant combination of brag rap and quiet storm balladry that features a simply heartbreaking vocal from Sampha. The tracks that work the best on Nothing are the slow-to-the-point-of-being-static ballads like "Own It," "Connect," and "305 to My City," which feel like the late-night emotional outpourings of a truly sad soul; the songs that bubble with raw emotion and are balanced against very dark loops, like "Wu-Tang Forever"; and the one song that has some uptempo punch, the very poppy R&B groover "Hold on, We're Going Home." That last one shows that Drake could make great left-field R&B if he wanted to, and is a nice contrast to all the angry talk and bitter introspection that fill the rest of the record. As impressive as it is that Drake has become a star while making records that are mostly joyless and twisted up by emotions, it might be nice to hear him loosening up and having some fun now and then. As far as this album goes, though, it's not much fun but it is worth exploring if you've been following Drake's progression up till now. Nothing Was the Same doesn't show large amounts of growth, but the small changes to the sound and the slightly wider net his lyrics cast make it worthwhile. Plus, there aren't many other rappers who do gloom as well as Drake and that's something worth supporting, if only because it's something different than the hip-hop norm in 2013.



<a href="https://mir.cr/UAFEOKNZ"> Drake - Nothing Was the Same</a>  (flac   408mb)

01 Tuscan Leather 6:06
02 Furthest Thing 4:27
03 Started From the Bottom 2:53
04 Wu-Tang Forever 3:37
05 Own It 4:11
06 Worst Behavior 4:30
07 From Time feat. Jhené Aiko 5:22
08 Hold On, We're Going Home feat. Majid Jordan 3:51
09 Connect 4:56
10 The Language 3:44
11 305 to My City feat. Detail 4:15
12 Too Much 4:21
13 Pound Cake / Paris Morton Music 2 feat. Jay-Z 7:13

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RhoDeo 2049 Re Up 266

 Hello, a reasonble amount of re ups this week.... n-joy



Here at Rho-xs visitor numbers have been stable but i did notice a big rise in re-up requests which points to my visitors spending more time at Rho-Xs (glad to be at service). Alas over the years i've lost access to a number of disks, specially the loss of my Aetix and Roots collection hinders my capability to re-up. Obviously the torrent world offers a solution, but this scene is dynamic and suffers the same fate as my posts , the hosts delete the file when demand has dropped, in the torrent world this even worse. Unfortunately this means whilst bigger names get revived the more obscure tend to completely disappear, a fate that is suffered by roots artists as an example Salif Keita a relative big name is nowhere to be found in flac these days (just one album) when a few years ago there were many titles to be had. Same goes for many a reggae artist and even in Aetix the choice of what is on offer is diminishing day by day. I'm doing my best to fulfill requests but it's difficult and in the future i will request you my visitor to give back the odd title that you downloaded via Rho-xs and repost it here.


11 correct requests for this week , 1 ! too early, none double, whatever another batch of 39 re-ups (12.6 gig)


These days i'm making an effort to re-up, it will satisfy a smaller number of people which means its likely the update will  expire relatively quickly again as its interest that keeps it live. Nevertheless here's your chance ... asks for re-up in the comments section at the page where the expired link resides, or it will be discarded by me. ....requests are satisfied on a first come first go basis. ...updates will be posted here remember to request from the page where the link died! To keep re-ups interesting to my regular visitors i will only re-up files that are at least 12 months old (the older the better as far as i am concerned), and please check the previous update request if it's less then a year old i won't re-up either.

Looka here , requests fulfilled up to December 1st... N'Joy

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As mentioned please return if you have it

VA - Tribute to Haruomi Hosono
VA - Strange Songbook (Tribute to Haruomi Hosono)


    

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RyhoDeo 2049 Expanse 20

 Hello, i told you so yesterday F1 race could be unpredictable today, and if anyone predicted today's podium and bet a tenner on it, they'd be loaded now. Surprisingly it should have been won by Hamilton's replacement, George Russell, makes you wonder if Mercedes still needs to pay him tens of millions, somehow i don't think so. Nevertheless today's winner was well deserved, he got slingshot by that frustrated Leclerc that crashed himself out, sadly on evading Perez,  Verstappen ended up in the tirewall (another sure win down the drain). Well after the restart Perez started at the back and moved up through the field where Russell and Bottas were leading comfortably but then the Netflix curse struck again, previous time they were there to film the crew in action they messed up big time and today was almost worse, anyway Russell got out 5th and was quickly overtaking and on his way to take the lead again when another curse struck i'd say it was Lewis' spirit, Russell got a deflating back tire and had to come in again for new tires in a condensed field this meant dropping from 2nd to 15th, once again he got to overtake up to 9th, then the race was over, oh and obviously he got the point for fastest lap, wow what a debut ! Besides Perez there was a tearful Ocon who scored his first podium.. that's what it means to a midfield driver...

 

Here today, naturally my mission of trying to breakthough the wall of nonsense build by the supposed smartest men on the planet is continuing as chinks start to appear, their arrogant stupidity set us back decades if not more, electro-magnetics is clean energy and would have delivered us not only flying cars, but flying saucers aswell and who knows a pathway into other dimensions..Meanwhile i got a request to continue the Expanse, and as this is one of the greatest SF series of our days and within it Abaddon's Gate one of it's highlights no reason to stop there then, so i won't...N Joy..

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Perseus Cluster, NGC 1275fo/wp/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/heic0817b-550x431.jpg



Transverse electric charges accompany main discharge channels.

On Earth, the main discharge channel is experienced as a terrestrial lighting bolt. Slow-motion studies reveal that each flash is a complex episode. Multiple leader strokes descend from the clouds, while similar, less visible potential contacts rise from the ground. Once two points of contact are made, the electrical energy stored in the cloud-to-ground capacitor discharges, drawing current from several square kilometers.

Cloud-to-surface lightning is accompanied by transverse or “corona discharges” at right angles to the main channel. They appear to be “tributaries” joining the primary discharge. Surface lightning forces close tributaries to be parallel because of electromagnetic forces between them. Brachiated burns or cuts in various materials at different scales are sometimes called “Lichtenberg figures”.

Lichtenberg figures are named after Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. They form when lightning bolts strike some material on Earth – it can be soil or even human tissue. They have also been artificially generated in blocks of acrylic plastic. Many Lichtenberg figures have been discovered in the south polar region of Mars.

To understand the connection that plasma formations in space have with laboratory experiments the scalability of plasma phenomena must be considered. Plasma discharges can produce the same formations irrespective of size. Patterns appear in laboratories, on planets, around stars, and inside galaxies. So-called “streamers” were seen inside the shells of gas and dust that make up the haze around the nuclei of Comets Holmes and 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. As discussed in previous Picture of the Day articles, the braided filaments are the sign of helical Birkeland currents.

A few years ago, scientists analyzing data from the Hubble Space Telescope announced the discovery of “threadlike structures” emerging from NGC 1275. The filaments are only 200 light years wide and extend for 20,000 light years. They contain groups of stars enclosed by glowing, ionized shells. Researchers refer to these rapidly moving star cluster knots as “fireballs,” because they look like flaming projectiles shooting out from the galaxy.

Duration is also directly proportional to size. Sparks lasting two or three microseconds in the laboratory might scale up to decade-long events at stellar scales, or millions of years at the galactic scale. Filamentary shapes appear to exist no matter where investigators search. Forces exerted by electrified plasma contained in the twisting filaments of Birkeland currents dominate the Universe. They flow in a cosmic circuit that comes into our field of view and then goes back out into the void with long-range attraction between them.

In the image at the top of the page, NGC 1275 also displays streamers of material moving away from its equatorial plane at right angles. Could it be that corona arc discharges, an electrical phenomenon associated with terrestrial lightning, are occurring on a thousands of light-years scale?

Stephen Smith

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Before Einstein created his unique theorems on relativity, deflating Newton’s theories on gravity, Nikola Tesla posited the idea that electricity and energy were responsible for almost all cosmic phenomena. Tesla saw energy and electricity as an “incompressible fluid” of constant quantity that could neither be destroyed nor created.

    If you want to find the secrets of the universe, think in terms of energy, frequency, and vibration.

— Nikola Tesla

Well Einstein was wrong, despite being a Jew which is why his nonsense is still accepted as the gospel, anyone dare to challenge can expect full on attack, specially by the likes of Jewish controlled/owned Wiki. Anyway EU's percieved weakspot is their deferance for Velikofsky, ironically the same man who won a bet with Einstein (about the electric noise Jupiter makes) which undoubtetedly hastened his demise (as he recognized how wrong he had been), but then Einstein was wrong again, his fanboys didn't want to know of electricity and kept singing the gospel of gravity to the detriment of the human race...

From now on the coming 7 weeks, 7 high quality mini docs on the EU.. don't miss them

<a href="https://multiup.org/8b3c2029879467ad0bddcf149cf2551d">Electric Universe S01E01 The Spark of an Electric Universe</a> ( 30min  503mb)

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The Expanse is a series of science fiction novels (and related novellas and short stories) by James S. A. Corey, the joint pen name of authors Daniel Abraham and Ty Franck. The first novel, Leviathan Wakes, was nominated for the Hugo Award for Best Novel in 2012. The series as a whole was nominated for the Best Series Hugo Award in 2017.

As of 2019, The Expanse is made up of eight novels and eight shorter works - three short stories and five novellas. At least nine novels were planned, as well as two more novellas. The series was adapted for television by the Syfy Network, also under the title of The Expanse, then they dropped the ball despite the succes of the series, i suspect the whole thing got too serious (expensive) so once again Syfy network proved they can't handle success. Anyway fans were outraged and got Amazon Prime to pick it up for a fourth and fifth series and considering the mountain of money Jeff Bezos sits on i suspect several more as long as the fans keep cheering.

The Expanse is set in a future in which humanity has colonized much of the Solar System, but does not have interstellar travel. In the asteroid belt and beyond, tensions are rising between Earth's United Nations, Mars, and the outer planets.

The series initially takes place in the Solar System, using many real locations such as Ceres and Eros in the asteroid belt, several moons of Jupiter, with Ganymede and Europa the most developed, and small science bases as far out as Phoebe around Saturn and Titania around Uranus, as well as well-established domed settlements on Mars and the Moon.

As the series progresses, humanity gains access to thousands of new worlds by use of the ring, an artificially sustained Einstein-Rosen bridge or wormhole, created by a long dead alien race. The ring in our solar system is two AU from the orbit of Uranus, and passing through it leads to a hub of starless space approximately one million kilometers across, with more than 1,300 other rings, each with a star system on the other side. In the center of the hub, which is also referred to as the "slow zone", an alien space station controls the gates and can also set instantaneous speed limits on objects inside of the hub as a means of defense.


The story is told through multiple main point-of-view characters. There are two POV characters in the first book and four in books 2 through 5. In the sixth and seventh books, the number of POV characters increases, with several characters having only one or two chapters. Tiamat's Wrath returns to a more limited number with five. Every book also begins and ends with a prologue and epilogue told from a unique character's perspective.

Novels
#     Title             Pages     Audio     
1     Leviathan Wakes     592     20h 56m
2     Caliban's War         595     21h     
3     Abaddon's Gate     539     19h 42m
4     Cibola Burn         583     20h 7m
5     Nemesis Games     544     16h 44m
6     Babylon's Ashes     608     19h 58m
7     Persepolis Rising     560     20h 34m
8     Tiamat's Wrath         544     19h 8m
9     Unnamed final novel

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Prelude

James Holden and his crew on the salvaged Martian warship Rocinante played a role in two major events in human history: saving the Earth from the first direct proof of alien technology discovered in our solar system, and saving as many people as they could when a new form of the technology appeared on Jupiter’s moon Ganymede. As part of the first incident, the alien technology crashed on Venus, where it churned for months doing something unknown while the solar system watched. When complete, the semi-intelligent collection of chemicals flew away from Venus and built what could best be described as a Stargate, called "The Ring", beyond the orbit of Uranus.
Major character arcs

James Holden and his crew have been successful in their ship-for-hire business, cashing in on their celebrity and Rocinante’s power when needed. As the solar system prepares to mount its first large-scale exploration of the ring, Holden’s interaction with the alien consciousness in the form of an old friend named Miller convinces him that he wants to be as far away from the ring as possible. Greater forces have other plans, however, and the crew finds themselves at the ring with fleets of Earth, Mars, and Outer Planets Alliance (OPA) ships.

Clarissa Mao, younger sister of Juliette "Julie" Andromeda Mao and daughter of Jules-Pierre Mao, who was president of the multi-planet corporation "Mao-Kwikowski Mercantile" also known as "Mao-Kwik". Jules-Pierre was part of various conspiring organisations, all of whom wanted to use the protomolecule for profit. He was brought down by James Holden in the events that occurred during and after the near-destruction of the Ganymede colony, a major food supplier for the outer planets of the belt. The "Mao-Kwik" corporation was also destroyed by Jules-Pierre's actions and left the Mao family only a fraction of their former wealth. Clarissa wants revenge for the disgrace brought onto her family and the downfall of her father, for which she blames James Holden. She wants to discredit him publicly to redeem her father and plans to kill Holden afterwards. She has spent her entire fortune to change her identity and put the wheels of her plan in motion. Now pretending to be an electrochemical technician named "Melba Koh", she sets out to get her revenge in a well-planned scheme. She places a saboteur on the Rocinante, then hijacks the ship's communications system to send a faked 'Jim Holden broadcast' in which an animated image of Holden claims the alien-protomolecule-ring for the OPA and responsibility for the sabotage and near-destruction of the UNN Earth vessel Seung Un. The scheme to get Holden discredited and then killed fails, because Holden decides to avoid all hostilities with the other flotillas and chooses to enter the ring instead. Even after capture, Clarissa remains dangerous.

Carlos “Bull” de Baca is a former warfighter and friend to Fred Johnson. He’s given the job of third in command of the 'Behemoth', formerly known as the Generation Ship Nauvoo, which the OPA salvaged and repurposed as a warship. Not only is Bull absolutely loyal to Fred, he also is the most likely of the command crew to secure the mission's success, which is why Fred asks Bull to “make it work”. When Clarissa triggers her faked broadcast of James Holden, in which he claims responsibility for the sabotage of the Seung Un and to being ordered to do so by the OPA, Bull understands all the implications. He also understands that all of the human governments need to stand united in facing the alien ring and the possible threat coming from it. In order to avoid another open shooting war/battle among Mars, Earth, and the OPA at all costs, he convinces the Behemoth's captain that being the first to take hostile action against the Rocinante will stop the Behemoth from being seen as Holden's backup, and distance the OPA from Holden's statement about 'claiming the ring' for them. After the Behemoth fires a Torpedo at the Rocinante, the other flotillas join by also targeting Holden's ship - forcing him to travel into the ring as an attempt to escape.

Annushka “Anna“ Volovodov is a Methodist pastor from Europa who joined the expedition as part of a UN delegation of religious figures and artists selected to witness the start of a new epoch of human history. Her ship joins others following Rocinante into the gate, and she tries to pull fragile strings of common interest together against the gales of politics, self-interest, and madness driving others in the expedition.

Miller’s consciousness continues on in disembodied form, now part of the vast protomolecule matrix and used for his investigative capabilities. Talking to and trying to work with James Holden, he has limited insight into the actions taken by the gate, and knows there is a vast tapestry of opportunity and danger associated with it and those who built it, because someone destroyed them.
Reception

Abaddon's Gate won the 2014 Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel.

Abaddon's Gate was adapted into episodes 7 to 13 of the third season of the television series The Expanse in 2018, with its title taken for the final episode of that season. It was the last book in the series to be adapted before the show's move from Syfy to Amazon Prime.



<a href="https://multiup.org/98823e0797656130ce7e51d3569dacfb">James Corey - The Expanse Abaddon's Gate 15-21 </a> ( 139min  64mb)

James Corey - The Expanse Abaddon's Gate 15-21 139min



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<a href="https://multiup.org/ec2507a66facbe13b61c3d6aafd8b255">James Corey - The Expanse Caliban's War 01-07 </a> ( 139min  63mb)
<a href="https://multiup.org/7c2db1bc4c8f93ff45f2df6e5a901aca">James Corey - The Expanse Caliban's War 08-15 </a> ( 173min  78mb)
<a href="https://multiup.org/d627294ce680b55a5552ee26da80628d">James Corey - The Expanse Caliban's War 16-22 </a> ( 169min  64mb)
<a href="https://multiup.org/71ffc68a701740415df5806f6db5c405">James Corey - The Expanse Caliban's War 23-29 </a> ( 165min  64mb)
<a href="https://multiup.org/2ddc5eb96cece09aafae0029a72381fd">James Corey - The Expanse Caliban's War 30-36 </a> ( 167min  67mb)
<a href="https://multiup.org/b9bbcfa99bc55b573b00e3c0287fedb7">James Corey - The Expanse Caliban's War 37-43 </a> ( 149min  67mb)
<a href="https://multiup.org/37ee50c645c467428254dcfb0092550e">James Corey - The Expanse Caliban's War 44-50 </a> ( 150min  60mb)
<a href="https://multiup.org/1d286bb56f1c77caf49144115f918da1">James Corey - The Expanse Caliban's War 51-57 </a> ( 104min  48mb)
<a href="https://multiup.org/04e5eba5ae7d0b8714c747f135e97208">James Corey - The Expanse Abaddon's Gate 01-07 </a> ( 143min  66mb)
<a href="https://multiup.org/9d31e40248b2d9b26a7d0dbd9237ecb3">James Corey - The Expanse Abaddon's Gate 08-14 </a> ( 157min  72mb)

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Sundaze 2049

Hello,  F1 is racing a mini circuit this weekend, less then 55 sec to get around, the Merc still fastest and Max still on the hunt this time trailing by 56 thousands of a sec got him third, but the big news was Hamilton, away on corona duty, was hardly missed as his replacement George Russell called in on tuesday proved as he rode to second place between Bottas and Verstappen that Lewis' percieved superiorty is non existant, it's all about the superior Mercedes car. Anyway i expect a crazy race tomorrow George won't be able to control the high G's as his body isn't accustomed-yet, he will drop back and Bottas can't stand Verstappen on his tail. The rest Leclerc , Perez will fight for third, but then logic isn't always what racing is about...


Today's Artist is a musician from Toronto, Ontario, Canada who has released numerous records both as a solo artist and as part of various side projects, including Nadja, ARC, Caudal and Mnemosyne. He has also written several books of poetry. He has toured around world, and has made appearances at the Unsound Festival, MUTEK, and South by Southwest. He is married to Nadja bandmate, Leah Buckareff. ..... N'Joy

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An accomplished writer and musician, Aidan Baker has his artistic fingers in many pies. After graduating from Montreal's McGill University with a degree in Literature and Religious Studies, Baker released a four-song acoustic cassette as "Aodhan" (the Gaelic spelling of his name). He also teamed up with two fellow Toronto musicians to create ARC, an ambient guitar-driven trio which garnered much praise for its innovation and integrity. The group released three albums, including Two in 2001. Having been published in major literary magazines nationally and internationally, Baker released his debut album Element in 2000. In 2001, he released his follow-up, Letters, a concept album based loosely around letters from both Jack the Ripper and the Marquis de Sade.
Aidan Baker is a classically-trained multi-instrumentalist using the electric guitar as his primary instrument. Using prepared and alternate methods of playing the guitar, along with various electronic effects, Baker creates music which generally falls within the ambient/experimental genre but draws on influences from rock, electronic, classical, and jazz. A highly prolific artist, Baker has released numerous recorded works, both solo and with various group projects, on such independent labels as Gizeh Records, Pleasence Records, Important Records, Alien8 Recordings, and his own imprint, Broken Spine Productions. Baker is also the author of several books of poetry. A regular live performer, Baker has toured extensively around the world, including appearances at such international festivals as FIMAV, SXSW, Incubate, Unsound, and Mutek, among others. Originally from Toronto, Canada, Baker currently resides in Berlin, Germany.

Mnemosyne was a trio formed in Toronto, Canada in 2002 featuring Aidan Baker on guitar, Richard Baker (ARC) on drums, and Rodin Columb on bass. The group created atmospheric post-rock and released one full-length album, The Air Grows Small Fingers, on Piehead Records.

ARC was a trio made up of Aidan Baker, Richard Baker, & Christopher Kukiel formed in Toronto, Canada in 2000. The group’s sound is centred on the melodic loops, textures, & samples provided by heavily-effected guitar & other melodic instruments. This is overlaid with tribal-esque rhythms provided by various percussive instruments, creating a roiling tapestry of both rhythmic & ambient sound, music simultaneously primeval & avant-garde.

Nadja is a duo of Aidan Baker & Leah Buckareff alternately based in Toronto & Berlin. The duo makes music that encompasses experimental/drone, ambient, industrail, & doom metal. Originally formed by Baker in 2003 as a solo project, Buckareff joined in 2005 to bring the project out of the studio & into a live setting. They have since released numerous albums on such labels as Essence Music, Hydrahead Records, & their own label, Broken Spine Productions.


B/B/S/, formed in 2012 in Berlin, Germany, is a trio of Aidan Baker (CA - Nadja, Whisper Room, ARC) on guitar, Andrea Belfi (IT - David Grubbs, Hobocombo, Il Sogno del Marinaio) on drums/electronics, and Erik Skodvin (NO - Svarte Greiner, Deaf Center) on guitar. The group makes improvisational music, combining abstract melodies and experimental drone textures. Their debut album Brick Mask was released in 2013 and their second full-length album Palace was released in 2016, both on Miasmah Records.

Hypnodrone Ensemble is Aidan Baker & Eric Quach (aka Thisquietarmy) joined by three drummers, Felipe Salazar (Caudal, Muerte En Pereira), Jérémie Mortier (Alice in the Cities, Lady Shot from a Tree), and Dave Dunnett (Man Meets Bear), to create propulsive, poly-rhythmic space rock. Hypnodrone Ensemble released their live debut in 2014 on Consouling Sounds & a studio-recorded follow up in 2015 on Calostro Recordings.

Whisper Room is a trio of Aidan Baker (guitar), Jakob Thiesen (drums/effects), & Neil Wiernik (bass/effects). The three members of Whisper Room moved in similar musical circles in Toronto & Montreal for many years, sporadically playing together &/or sharing stages, but did not actively come together as a group until late 2006. As an improvisational unit combining their disparate musical backgrounds, the trio creates music which explores the conjunction of electronic rhythms & textures with the pulsations & psychedelics of shoegaze & krautrock music. They released their debut full-length album, Birch White on Elevation Recordings and their follow-up The Cruelest Month on Consouling Sounds in 2014

Adoran is a duo consisting of Aidan Baker on drums & Dorian Williamson on bass. The project makes music combining elements of post-rock, drone, industrial, and sludge. Their self-titled debut album was released in 2012 and their second album Children of Mars is the autumn of 2015, both by Consouling Sounds.

Caudal was a trio featuring Aidan Baker on guitar, Gareth Sweeney on bass, & Felipe Salazar on drums. Baker’s multi-layered, heavily affected guitar overlays Sweeney & Salazar’s driving, propulsive rhythm section creating music equally influenced by krautrock, post-punk, and spacerock. Their debut album Forever In Another World was released in 2013 Oaken Palace Records. Their second full-length album Ascension was released by Consouling Sounds in 2014.

Infinite Light Ltd was a collaborative project between Aidan Baker, Nathan Amundson (Rivulets), and Mat Sweet (Boduf Songs). The trio released one album combining folk, ambient, and shoegaze sounds on the German label Denovali Records in 2011.


Scythling was a collaborative project between Aidan Baker and Josh Rothenburger of Bloody Panda exploring sounds conflating dark-ambient and doom metal. The group released one album, Smokefall, with various guest contributors on Aurora Borealis records in 2012.


WERL is a duo of Aidan Baker on guitar with Swedish drummer Tomas Järmyr creating improvisational music which explores noise, metal, drone, & freejazz. Their debut release came out in 2016 on Consouling Sounds and their follow-up is forthcoming September 2017 on Wolves&Vibrancy/Dio Drone Records.



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In a bed of oysters there may be one pearl concealed, and that is exactly what Baker's collaboration with Thisquietarmy feels like.  A massive drone project where the shortest song, the sublime opener "Imagistic Continuity," lasts for twelve minutes, Picture of a Picture is indeed an attention-intensive listen.  This is further augmented by the fact that the music stays floating, hazy and never quite clear, for the hour-long record.  The duo unite opposites in a commanding fashion, combining a huge sound with intricate subtlety, using harsh distortion at very low volumes, and riding the line between tonality and the atonal.  In its brightness it resembles Fripp & Eno's masterpiece Evening Star, and in its darker moments sounds like a less terrifying cousin of Lustmord.

Picture of a Picture is similar to Nana April Jun's fantastic The Ontology of Noise in methodological terms; Baker and Eric Quach recorded the entire album together, making sure their sound was almost entirely guitar-derived and that overdubs were kept to a minimum.  The result is something sublime.  Loops hide in the shadows only to creep out almost imperceptibly, the gentle clouds of drone breathing in and out of tonality, blurring the lines between minor and major, somethingness and nothingness.  These guys have produced a meditative sound that carries a particular gentle touch that very few have so properly executed since Brian Eno pioneered the style.  In fact, if Eno's "as interesting as it is ignorable" requirement still applies, Baker and Quach have fulfilled it with a grace that only rare producers possess.



<a href="https://mir.cr/PG7QUSYV">Aidan Baker & Thisquietarmy -  A Picture of a Picture </a> ( flac 256mb)

01 Imagistic Continuity 12:00
02 Loss of Perspective 13:19
03 Negative Space 13:56
04 Horizon Line 20:48

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Aidan Baker's vast discography continues to grow with the addition of 'Blue Figures' which is a disc of exceptionally high quality live recordings (both in terms of sound and content). Figures Part 1 & 2 were recorded in last year Berlin during his tour where he also played in Nadja.an expansive and chorus'd set of tracks that bring to mind blissfully drifting Aidan's live performances are always surprising, not to say amazing. and his previous live albums are perfect exemples of what he is capable of when he's on stage. you already know the songs but it's always a bit different, there are variations, extensions, improvisations. Aidan dig in his own material to find a new vision. and you won't be disapointed here !
Last but not least, the sound quality is stunning. .. tracks 3 & 4 were recorded in Prague 16-06-2009.



<a href="https://www.imagenetz.de/C5MwV">  Aidan Baker - Blue Figures</a> ( flac 234mb)

01 Figures Pt.1 19:51
02 Figures Pt.2 17:46
03 Untitled Drone 15:12
04 Gathering Blue 12:27

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Arkhangsels is the third album by the Canadian music group Arc, the  trio that marries post-rock drones with the heavy brood of early Sabbath......as much in sound as in spirit. Ironically, the marriage works and the album sounds intense without seeping into the avant-garde. The atmosphere created by the sounds of Aidan Baker (guitars, flutes, loops), Richard Baker (drums) and Chris Kukiel (percussion) conceptualizes doom yet creates a singluar space that is shared by angels and demons alike. "Arkhangelsk" fragments this concept into four extended 'improvised' compositions stretched over an hour of brooding guitars and psych percussions. The production is top-notch, which is esssential for the the type of dark textured layers these guys are delivering, creating a perfect sound stage that is not only hypnotic but also serves as a test drive for hi-end audio gear. The album was released in an edition of 600 copies on Epidemic Records.



<a href="https://multiup.org/23610fc5295782433d9565decb38404c">ARC - Arkhangelsk-</a> ( flac 442mb)

01 Relicary (16:39)
02 The valley of dry bones (16:11) (uit Ezechiël)
03 Angel sightings (16:18)
04 Ossuary (17:40)

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The single, same-titled track slash album by Aidan Baker is a 47+ minute continuous ambient drone, which slowly evolves and recedes back to its harmonic elements as if time simply stood still. The aesthetic of the piece is very organic, drawing only on the sounds from Baker’s 12-string guitar, which were later manipulated even further to elicit a wide range of textures, frequencies and din. The title of the album, Aneira, means ‘snow’ in Welsh, and thus appropriately fits on the Glacial Movements label, which has been gifting us with sounds of isolationist ambiance and icy soundscapes since 2006. And just like the snowflake, unique in its infinite molecule configuration, the music on Aneira continues to slowly drift, layer and melt. Berlin-based Baker is extremely prolific, and in this year alone has already accumulated half-a-dozen releases! Among them I recommend you look into his collaboration with A-Sun Amissa, titled Scarpe Sensée (Drowning, 2013), his work with Plurals on Glass Crocodile Medicine (Latitudes, 2013) and a very interesting solo record on Gizeh, titled Already Drowning. The latter is a fascinating collection of songs “inspired by various myths and folktales about female water spirits”, each track featuring a different guest vocalist. And as always with Baker’s releases, it’s nearly impossible to keep up!



<a href="https://bayfiles.com/xef1vcw0p6/Adn_Bkr_Anr_zip">   Aidan Baker - Aneira -</a> ( flac 271mb)

01 Aidan Baker - Aneira 47:43

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