Softspace
Mahler\'s Cat	
Musictrade release MT009
Originally released: April 17, 2006
Lame HVBR, including hi-res cover artwork.
(re-released due to TPB database issues)

This is the second Musictrade album release from English electronica artist Softspace, following his Experiments at the Edge of Time [MT007, March 2006]. Where the debute album was built mostly on fairly light and uncomplicated synth material, this new album is definitely more experimental and ambivalent in nature. Synth-based material is still prominent but now it is intimately combined with field recording / foundsound material in the form of \'documentary soundscapes\' and radiophonic style constructs. From these ingredients Softspace creates a new imaginary world full of curious aural details for Mahler\'s imaginary cat to step in and start to explore. To give a rough style/genre pointer, think of psychedelic Stockhausen with bits of Beatlesque leaking through the scenery.

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\"This is without a doubt one of the most distinctive and absorbing albums within the ever increasing field of electronic music that I?ve ever run across. Softspace manages to take electronics, field recordings, radio recording oddments, and synthesizer based sounds and unify them into one magical album of experimental electronica. My audio-player was set on random when I first gave this album an attentive listen, and the first track that I heard was \"The Touchstone\" which caught my interest with its warm, ambient drone and peculiar tiny electronic noises that seemed to be trying strike up a conversation with me. This was followed by the cinematic \"Navigation\" with its soothing, synth-based orchestral ambient quality. I quickly discovered that there was more to this album than just an ambient presence as I listened to \"Impressions\" which is an assortment of radio recordings, slowed-down voices, orchestral snippets, odd electronic noises, that intermingle with an assortment of other interesting sound samples. 

Other highlights for me on this album were \"Seeding\" with its first few rhythmic minutes of crunchy beats that eventually dissolve into a disordered patchwork of noises and the title track \"Mahler?s Cat\" which begins as rather faltering collage of electronics, synths, and found sounds that evolves into a beautifully organized quick-paced piece of electronica. \"Tundra\" and \"Voices\" are both slow-moving and brooding compositions made all the more threatening with several layers of inharmonious sounds playing against each other. \"Subway Trip\" has a flavor similar to \"Impressions\" - very surreal with a dense layer of slowed down and/or reversed voices. \"Tooday\" and \"Voices\" seem to be the most unreal and abstract of the tracks as after listening to each of them I was left bewildered and disoriented with so many varieties of incongruous sounds playing against each other.\" - LAJ, Internet Archive

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Track listing:

01	Seeding			6:47
02	The Visitor		4:13
03	Mahler\'s Cat		6:22
04	The Touchstone		8:36
05	Impressions		3:43
06	Tundra			6:04
07	Subway Trip		4:55
08	Tooday			6:13
09	Voices			2:45
10	Trippers		6:03
11	Navigation		6:56

	total			62:37


More info: 

Musictrade website: http://www.musictrade.info
Musictrade\'s Internet Archive pages: http://www.archive.org/details/mt

Previous Musictrade releases on Pirate Bay:

Doc & Lena Selyanina \'Echoes from an Engulfed Cathedral\' 24bit FLAC single  
http://thepiratebay.ee/tor/3520817/Doc___Lena_S_-_Echoes_from_an_Engulfed_Cathedral_%5B24bit_ambient%5D
Doc & Lena Selyanina \'Reflections on Water\' single  
http://thepiratebay.ee/tor/3517058/Doc___Lena_S_-_Reflections_on_Water_%5Bambient_24-bit_FLAC_covers%5D
MT009 24bit FLAC http://thepiratebay.ee/tor/3517105/Softspace_-_Mahler_s_Cat_%5Belectronica__24bit_FLAC__covers%5D
MT008 24bit FLAC http://thepiratebay.ee/tor/3517092/Doc___Lena_S_-_Noble__Sentimental___Ambient_Waltzes_24bitFLAC
MT008 http://thepiratebay.ee/tor/3517092/Doc___Lena_S_-_Noble__Sentimental___Ambient_Waltzes_24bitFLAC
MT007 http://thepiratebay.ee/tor/3459597/Softspace__Experiments_at_the_Edge_of_Time_%5Belectr._HVBR_covers%5D
MT006 http://thepiratebay.ee/tor/3425437/Doc_-_Nein_Absolut_Nicht_%5Belectronica__HVBR__covers%5D
MT005 http://thepiratebay.ee/tor/3409502/VA_-_Requiems_for_a_Submerged_City_%5Belectronica__HVBR__covers%5D
MT004 http://thepiratebay.ee/tor/3405718/Doc___Lena_Selyanina_-_Island_of_Joy_%5Bdeep_ambient_HVBR_covers%5D
MT003 http://thepiratebay.ee/tor/3376551/VA_-_Norberg_2005_Field_Mixes_-_2005_HVBR_(electro-ambient)
MT002 http://thepiratebay.ee/tor/3405718/Doc___Lena_Selyanina_-_Island_of_Joy_%5Bdeep_ambient_HVBR_covers%5D
MT001 http://thepiratebay.ee/tor/3519855/VA_-_Sola_Muusika_2005_%5Belectronica_ambient_HVBR_covers%5D



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