Saturday, July 4, 2009
"Temporal Arc" by Interstitial
Originally released in 2001, "Temporal Arc" by Interstitial is a great album that blends drones and percussive elements in a fluid and natural way, resulting in an engaging collection of music that still sounds fresh and vital now almost ten years later. John Koch Northrup of Interstitial has brought together sounds and tones in a skillful mix that pays equal attention to all of the elements in the soundfield, giving the listener something n…
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Added by John Koch-Northrup on July 6, 2009 at 7:30am —
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Temporal Arc was originally released on the Red Antenna label in December 2001. Below are some descriptions and reviews from the original release. Thanks for reading!
Here's what I wrote about it back then:
Temporal Arc merges the processed pulse rhythms of Berlin and Detroit with atmospheric ambient and beatless minimalism. The title track encompasses all of these elements - drifting from dark atmospheric expansions into tightly compressed drums and back again. Some tracks use…
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Added by John Koch-Northrup on June 24, 2009 at 8:00pm —
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Let's start with the "I'm leaving AtmoWorks" part.
John, Matt and I have co-owned the label since March 2008 and it's been a very exciting time for me. However, we've decided to part ways. John and Matt will continue to own and run AtmoWorks and I'll be stepping out of the day to day operation of the label.
I've met so many great people through AtmoWorks - fellow musicians, fellow listeners, friends. I'll still be around the community and will always look forward to talking to everyone…
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Added by John Koch-Northrup on June 24, 2009 at 8:00am —
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Tentative schedule:
05/29 - Disturbed Earth - Hotel
06/12 - Pixyblink - Cinder
06/19 - The Elf Machine - In Living Stereo
06/26 - Interstitial - Temporal Arc
07/10 - Float Method - Desolate Empire
07/17 - Ishq / Steve Brand - double album: Spirtitual Science / The Voice From Home
07/24 - Dilation - Acid Burp
07/31 - Pixyblink - Flameless Lantern
07/31 - Disturbed Earth - Thoughts of the Sleepless
08/07 - Various Artists - AtmoWorks Compilation One
08/14 - Michael Mantra - G / A
08/21 - Pixyblin…
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Added by John Koch-Northrup on May 29, 2009 at 7:30am —
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Lots and lots of stuff going on at AtmoWorks central:
* Vir Unis is beginning a weekly radio show on http://www.stillstream.com called "Rabbit Hole Radio" - every Thursday night from 9 pm to midnight Central time starting May 28. John plans to spin great tunes and occasionally play live!
* AtmoWorks artist Sarana will be playing a 4 hour live set with recorded interview on http://www.stillstream.com this Friday, May 29. Sarana is also finalizing a new studio album to be released on AtmoWorks i…
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Added by John Koch-Northrup on May 25, 2009 at 11:00am —
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Hello, everyone! We've had a fantastic 2009 so far this year - and it just keeps getting better!
+++++ Recent releases +++++
:: Chris Russell - Aralu :: Brand new artist to AtmoWorks, a very ambient release. Chris describes Aralu as a lost Babylonian underworld - a vast, dark underground cave entered through a hole in the earth.
:: Steve Brand - Cahokia :: Originally self-released in 2007, Cahokia has been refined, reworked, and remastered. Steve has a deep connection with Cahokia - which was…
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Added by John Koch-Northrup on March 31, 2009 at 11:08am —
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After multiple problems with pc's and both a laptop and desktop currently not working - we're considering getting an iMac. Does anyone have experience using an iMac as their main music computer? Am I going to be really ticked I didn't wait to get a Mac Pro (which will be a long wait!)
First issue I have is my Presonus Firestudio is firewire 400 - and the iMac is 800. Some searching shows an adapter will probably work - I'm still looking into that.
I plan to use Reaper as my main recording soft…
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Added by John Koch-Northrup on March 29, 2009 at 1:56pm —
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I just finished sorting out all the royalties for the artists and thought everyone might be interested in a couple of "top 10" lists... These totals are for sales from the AtmoWorks store as well as cdr sales from the Hypnos store between 12/1/2008 and 2/28/2009.
John
Top 10 selling albums:
01 - Vir Unis - Stand Still Like The Hummingbird
02 - MjDawn - Frequency Response
03 - Steve Brand - LightTools
04 - Steve Brand - Because We Were Once Covered In Gold
05 - SAVO/Disturbed Earth - Flight of…
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Added by John Koch-Northrup on March 26, 2009 at 8:34am —
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http://www.reporternews.com/news/2009/mar/18/mudvayne-to-perform-at-civic-center-sunday/
Mudvayne to perform at civic center Sunday
By Dru Willis (Contact)
Wednesday, March 18, 2009
Rock band Mudvayne's drummer Matt McDonough is a busy guy.
For the past 10 years, McDonough has dabbled in electronic music after a lifetime interest in the genre and finally released some electronic material.
It has been nice to see it all come to fruition, he said.
"So it's kind of exciting to see something a…
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Added by John Koch-Northrup on March 19, 2009 at 3:15pm —
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I found this interview with Matt recently - he talks about all things Mudvayne, growing up in central Illinois, as well as AtmoWorks, MjDawn, and miKroNaught.
http://www.blufftontoday.com/node/27546
Interview with Mudvayne
By JoeFabietz - March 5, 2009 - 2:19pm
The heavy metal quartet Mudvayne will be rocking the Shoreline Ballroom on Tuesday, March 10.
We sat down with Matthew McDonough, drummer from the band, during a recent interview. Here's the entire interview:
TD: We’re from a small t…
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Added by John Koch-Northrup on March 19, 2009 at 3:00pm —
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Are you interested in the platform that the AtmoWorks site is built on? There are roughly 900,000 networks built on Ning. We came here because of the ease of creating a community where you can basically "run the show" - you have your profile page - can upload your music, photos, post blogs, message each other.
There's chat - but we had it disabled due to bugs. They've rolled out a new version so we may try that again.
Anyway - if you belong to more than one Ning network - you may be interested…
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Added by John Koch-Northrup on March 3, 2009 at 2:01pm —
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*** An Anniversary!
We're quickly approaching the anniversary of the transition from the original AtmoWorks, founded in 2001 by John Strate-Hootman (Vir Unis) and James Johnson - to the change on March 1, 2008 when James stepped down and Matt McDonough and I joined as co-owners with John S-H. It's been an *amazing* first year. I'm thrilled to be working with John, Matt, Geoff, and Steve - and all the artists that we release. It's the people that make this all worthwhile to me.
We've h…
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Added by John Koch-Northrup on February 28, 2009 at 4:59pm —
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We're approaching
Thanksgiving in the U.S. this Thursday. My wife and I are taking a couple of days off before the holiday - so in all - we're off work from Tuesday through the weekend. Yeah! It's wonderful to have a bit of a break - and I plan to continue cleaning up my studio, de-cluttering, and making sure everything is plugged in and working. I hope to get my Mackie 1604 mixer ready to sell as well... time to downsize a bit - it's just too darn big in my small space. Thanksgiving is a…
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Added by John Koch-Northrup on November 24, 2008 at 10:51am —
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Ok - so I finally sprung for a $7.00 copy of the dvd version of Spinal Tap to replace my aging VHS. I haven't seen it all the way through in years.
Wow. Could this movie have been any better? Anyone's that's ever played in a band - regardless of whether it ever got out of the garage - or into bars/colleges - or beyond can relate to at least several moments in this movie (if not the majority of it).
My favorite cringe scene is at the airforce base when the radio starts coming through his wirele…
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Added by John Koch-Northrup on September 16, 2008 at 3:50pm —
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This is a track at SoundCloud that I posted - simply a test... click the big orange 'play' button to listen.
Click…
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Added by John Koch-Northrup on September 12, 2008 at 3:30pm —
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I've been a member of the Ambient Mailing List on Hyperreal off and on over the last decade. There have been several surveys to pick the best ambient albums - usually where each voter selects their Top 10 albums. Below are the raw results from many of them which are very fun to read through.
You can see several of these in the "essential info" section of
Epsilon on Hyperreal - however, most of these are not published there.
I hope to start a 20…
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Added by John Koch-Northrup on September 12, 2008 at 2:13pm —
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Phonaut posted this to the 'event' I posted earlier... this has all the details for the show:
Tune in tomorrow evening for a truly monumental episode of forward thinking ambientechno. Joining us will be longtime Chicago area producer Vir Unis. He's done many live radio performances for us over the years, often in conjunction with longtime collaborator James Johnson, but this Friday's set promises to be a first since he will be performing as the Elf Machine this time around. As the first public…
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Added by John Koch-Northrup on September 5, 2008 at 3:00pm —
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Hopefully - you're finding our AtmoWorks site to be fun to visit and come back to. I know I do - and I'm having a ball helping build the site and make it as fun and useful as possible. There are three of us that "own" AtmoWorks (John/Vir Unis, Matt/MjDawn, and me/John/Relaxed Machiney) - but I probably work with the websites the most. Also helping build the site is Geoff / EndofLogic, our trusty Ning admin - he does so much behind the scenes he's almost part of the label. He's at least one of th…
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Added by John Koch-Northrup on September 2, 2008 at 3:30pm —
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I've been trying to exercise more - and to help with that I've started walking at work in the morning and afternoon when I'd normally take a break.
This morning's walk was interesting as a little rain storm was rolling in and sound always carries so interestingly when the clouds are low and the atmosphere seems to be holding everything down. The birds were particularly active - a couple of flocks were flitting this way and that like giant schools of fish in the sky - shifting and changing direc…
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Added by John Koch-Northrup on August 28, 2008 at 1:30pm —
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I'm "new" to owning Brian Eno and other classic essential ambient music. I've heard Eno on occassion - usually once or twice borrowed off of someone - but I've never sat down and absorbed it like I have so many albums. Since Eno is almost always referenced in ambient disucssions and as influences on my favorite artists - or direct comparisons - I'm thinking of adding some to my collection.
I found my way into this little pocket world of ambient via Japan / David Sylvian, all the wonderful backg…
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Added by John Koch-Northrup on August 18, 2008 at 8:02am —
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