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Laniakea

by Atomine Elektrine

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Jordan Vauvert
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Jordan Vauvert La sortie de Laniakea mérite d'être mise en perspective. Nebulous et The Deep Invisible, les deux albums les plus expérimentaux et anxiogènes d'Atomine Elektrine, n'ont qu'un an d'écart ; et après ce dernier, alors que nous étouffons dans la matière noire, c'est silence radio pendant sept ans. Laniakea, avec son electronica ambiante rétrofuturiste, est une bouteille d'oxygène salutaire : l'espace est insondable mais offre de magnifiques couleurs et reflets. Dans l'espace, inutile de crier... Favorite track: Fornax.
hypoxia
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hypoxia extraterrestrial, hypnotizing messages are echoing from the great beyond ... superior space ambient Favorite track: Virgo.
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Centaurus 07:32
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Abell 3521 15:47
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Virgo 17:30
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Hydra 10:24
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Fornax 09:33
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Achernar 04:31
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Acamar 04:39
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Zeta Normae 05:58

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The word Laniakea means the immeasurable heaven: deep, spacious, dark and ostensibly emtpy but still full of energy, matter, structures and bright objects. The same words can be said about the sound on the new studio album by Atomine Elektrine. Further on, the 'Laniakea' album is also characterized by molecular reactions, eroding particles, nuclear fractals, diffused lightwaves and multiversed orbits. Old fashioned modular analogue electronic synthesis combined with modern digital processing is the gravitational focal point on 'Laniakea'. The tracks have mainly sequencer driven narratives with ambient layers of both classic retro styled elements and advanced processed novel sounds.

The origin of the 'Laniakea' album is based on two fundamental occurrences: The definition of the galaxy supercluster Laniakea in 2014 and the decease of the Tangerine Dream mastermind Edgar Froese in 2015. 'Laniakea' is simply a homage to the vastness of space and a eulogy to the kosmische musik that appeared in the early 1970's.

Three bonus tracks (sketches) are included on the CD version (duration 76 minutes), now also available on the Bandcamp digital album as bonus download content. CD comes in a 6-panel digipak sleeve with original art by Hypsis (hypsis.net).

Atomine Elektrine is a side project of Peter Andersson, most known from the dark ambient industrial project raison d'être, with thematic interest in the vast space but also in the smaller world of atoms. It is named after a nuclear power plant and is in part inspired by the electronic space music of the 70's. Peter Andersson, let out his version of this musical direction in the beginning of 1992, and since then has been expressed on a number of albums, for instance 'Archimetrical Universe' (1999), 'Nebulous' (2007) and 'The Deep Invisible' (2008).

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released October 9, 2015

All music by Peter Andersson 2015.
K14-level mastering.
Original art by Hypsis (hypsis.net)
R.I.P. Edgar Froese
CD release by Wrotycz Records, WRT 023. Digital release by Yantra Atmospheres, YA-2015-84.

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Raison d'être, formed in 1991 by the sound artist Peter Andersson, has since then supplying listeners with overwhelming dark ambient industrial landscapes of beauty and sorrow, mainly on the now defunct Cold Meat Industry label. Peter Andersson also has a number of side projects including Atomine Elektrine, Bocksholm, Necrophorus, Stratvm Terror, Panzar and more. ... more

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