Various Artists: Ambient Time Travellers
- Anubian Lights - Soul Herder
- 7 - Six
- The Brain - Precambrian Shift
- Dark Matter - Seeing Strange Lights
- Spaceship Eyes - Sea of Steps
- Zero Gravity - Mental Atmospheres
- Xylon - Bizarre Planet
- Dilate - Udism
- Geiz - Punctual Voices
- Surface 10 - Live Latitude
One of many compilations recently released in Hypnotic Records a subsidiary of
Cleopatra Records. I had a chance to brief talk to the general manager of
Cleopatra Records about why they release so many compilations and he answered
with a very thought provoking answer of, "They sell better than the individual
artists albums." Now there was something slightly unexpected, but if you enter
the mind of the consumer and realize how far people often stretch their dollars
these days you can understand why. They opt to purchase compilations of various
artists that they are interested in on a single CD to decide if it is really
worth their hard earned money to purchase the complete album. In this
particular case, every track of this compilation exists elsewhere on it's
artists album. By placing a variety of ambient artists together you begin to
understand the subtle differences within the ambient genre and are slowly able
to identify each artist on it's own, seperate from entirety of one musical
work, often a very difficult feat within the ambient realm of music.
Contact:
Cleopatra Records
8726 S. Sepulveda Blvd Ste. D-82
Los Angeles, CA 90045
E-mail: cleopatra@tunanet.com
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