Tape Life

Tag: ambient

  • TL 1010 | Blue Visions | Chill House Voyage

    Available for purchase at Bandcamp.

    Levitate into scintillating Adriatic dreams with Chill House Voyage, a splash of invigorating electronic music. Karl Mohr’s Viennese period featured a foray into broader-appeal ambient house music: percolating late summer nights and early pool-side after party mornings are called to mind on this moody, azure delight. Blue Visions has been Mohr’s most successful music project, distilling the best aspects of European deep house and ambient dub into a brisk, refreshing uptempo cocktail. In its first incarnation as 2004’s A Journey Into Chill House, the single “Wassernixe” was featured on a Sony/Columbia compilation Vienna Vibrations 2 – The 2nd Gathering; a clear blue vinyl 12″ Wassernixe/Froze Like Ice was released by Interdimensional Industries. “House Of The Rising Void” appeared in a feature film sequel to Trainspotting called Ecstasy (2011), and many of the tracks were heard on the Canadian television series Metropia. The gorgeous remastering of Tape Life’s new re-issue of this chill house classic reveals two previously unreleased tracks. Ideal for the dance floor, cocktail party or melt-away summer vacation, the shifting tones of the chill house genre are addressed with panache by Blue Visions; two tracks incorporate beautifully the brazen torch vocals of jazz singer Chantal Thompson. For fans of Café Del Mar, José Padilla, 808 State, Todd Terry. Genres include chillout, chill house, deep house, ambient, electronic.

    released Nov 18, 2018

    ALL TITLES WRITTEN, PERFORMED, ENGINEERED,
    EDITED, MIXED, MASTERED AND PRODUCED BY KARL MOHR.
    04 WRITTEN BY KARL MOHR/CHANTAL THOMPSON.

    SELECTED RECORDINGS FROM 2001
    PUBLISHED BY MULTIBEAT MUSIC (SOCAN) AND
    REMASTERED FOR TAPE LIFE RECORDS IN 2018.

    VOCALS ON 01, 04 BY CHANTAL THOMPSON. LOMOGRAPHY
    AND DESIGN BY SITUATSI. SPECIAL THANKS: C. THOMPSON,
    R. MACLEOD, L. AL DINO, G. UGOVSEK, C. JUNG, P. ZIRBS.

    TAPE LIFE RECORDS / TL 1010
    FOR MORE INFO VISIT: TAPELIFE.COM/TL1010
    ℗ 2018 TAPE LIFE RECORDS.
    © 2018 TAPE LIFE RECORDS.
    ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. MADE IN CANADA.

    tags: house, chillout, deep house, ambient, chill house, Electronic, lounge music, cafe del mar, Café Del Mar, Ibiza, chill, Vienna, Wien, Austria, Adriatic, chill-out

  • TL 1008 | Karl Mohr Audio-Yo | Standard Deviation

    Available for purchase at Bandcamp.

    Tape Life presents the eighth and final Karl Mohr Audio-Yo release: Standard Deviation, a dark ambient film score. Following his 1997 techno-industrial tour de force, The Heck, Mohr switched gears into songwriting as Dead Red Velvet, but not before composing this dire soundtrack to Samuel Kiehoon Lee’s independent feature, Standard Deviation. The film concerns psychic hotlines, lottery pyramid schemes and the Y2K Problem; the accompanying music is no less intriguing. Acoustic and electronic instruments blend tastefully with copious sampling – the album stands as a mature, sophisticated and textured body of work. This pivotal release echoes, in chrysalis anguish, Mohr’s early experiments and also foreshadows the bleak, downcast goth elements found in Dead Red Velvet. Recommended listening for fans of film music and dark ambient; reminds at times of Peter Gabriel’s Passion or Alexander Zlamal’s score for Heller als der Mond.

    released March 19, 2018

    ALL TITLES WRITTEN, PERFORMED, ENGINEERED,
    EDITED, MIXED, MASTERED & PRODUCED BY KARL MOHR.

    SELECTED RECORDINGS FROM 1997
    PUBLISHED BY MULTIBEAT MUSIC (SOCAN) AND
    REMASTERED FOR TAPE LIFE RECORDS IN 2017.

    MUSIC COMPOSED FOR THE SAMUEL KIEHOON LEE FILM,
    STANDARD DEVIATION (1997). THE VOICE ON 04 IS SAMPLED
    DIALOG FROM THE FILM AND IS USED BY PERMISSION.
    SPECIAL THANKS: S. K. LEE, I. REVELL, E. MOHR, V. MARCONE.

    COVER IMAGES ARE STILLS FROM THE FILM. DESIGN BY SITUATSI.
    BPM VALUES ARE APPROXIMATE AND MAY DRIFT.

    TAPE LIFE RECORDS / TL 1008
    FOR MORE INFO VISIT: TAPELIFE.COM/TL1008
    ℗ 2017 TAPE LIFE RECORDS.
    © 2017 TAPE LIFE RECORDS.
    ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. MADE IN CANADA.

    tags: alternative, techno, dark ambient, industrial, electronic, soundtrack, film music, film score, ambient, ambient music, instrumental, drone, electroacoustic, atmospheric, dark electronic

  • TL 1006 | Karl Mohr Audio-Yo | Transgalactic

    Available for purchase at Bandcamp.

    The sixth release from Karl Mohr Audio-Yo, Transgalactic, presents instrumental material from 1993-1995. It’s a wild, electronic ride spanning many genres and would foreshadow in flavour Mohr’s critically acclaimed 1997 follow-up, The Heck. The basement outtakes feel goes deep with spacey ambient, maximal house boppers and weirdo electroquirk, peaking with the brilliant techno anthem “Flowers”. Influenced by the electronic music of the time, this collection will be loved by fans of 808 State, The Orb, Terre Thaemlitz, Aphex Twin and Art Of Noise.

    released February 23, 2018

    ALL TITLES WRITTEN, PERFORMED, ENGINEERED,
    EDITED, MIXED, MASTERED & PRODUCED BY KARL MOHR.

    SELECTED RECORDINGS FROM 1993-1995
    PUBLISHED BY MULTIBEAT MUSIC (SOCAN) AND
    REMASTERED FOR TAPE LIFE RECORDS IN 2017.

    VOICE ON 03 BY ARIANNE REID.
    VOICE ON 07 BY JÜRGEN MOHR.
    FRONT COVER BACKGROUND BY ERIK MOHR.
    DESIGN BY SITUATSI.

    SPECIAL THANKS: S. ABIAD, QUEEN’S STUDIO D,
    E. MOHR, I. REVELL, V. MARCONE.

    THIS ALBUM CONTAINS NOISE AND OTHER DETAILS
    PRESENT IN THE ORIGINAL RECORDINGS.
    BPM VALUES ARE APPROXIMATE AND MAY DRIFT.

    TAPE LIFE RECORDS / TL 1006
    FOR MORE INFO VISIT: TAPELIFE.COM/TL1006
    ℗ 2017 TAPE LIFE RECORDS
    © 2017 TAPE LIFE RECORDS
    ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. MADE IN CANADA.

    tags: alternative, techno, dark ambient, industrial, electronic, ambient, ambient music, house, techno music, rave, tech house, ambient techno, synthesizer music, instrumental music, Canadian

  • TL 1003 | Karl Mohr Audio-Yo | Strange Tides

    Available for purchase at Bandcamp.

    Tape Life presents the third Karl Mohr Audio-Yo release, Strange Tides, a moody journey into ambient instrumental works recorded 1991-1995. Five pieces demonstrate a vastness of desolation in pensive electroacoustic art, conjuring images of tidal flats, pagan ritual and surgical purgatory – an opening of the floodgates to become submerged in cinematic sound. A dark ‘make out record’ for intimate moments of melancholic escape, this album is recommended for fans of dark ambient and film music.

    released February 2, 2018

    ALL TITLES WRITTEN, PERFORMED, ENGINEERED,
    EDITED, MIXED, MASTERED & PRODUCED BY KARL MOHR.

    SELECTED RECORDINGS FROM 1991-1995
    PUBLISHED BY MULTIBEAT MUSIC (SOCAN) AND
    REMASTERED FOR TAPE LIFE RECORDS IN 2017.

    ADDITIONAL EQUIPMENT COURTESY OF CHRIS GRISMER,
    JOHN MILLER, THRESHOLD THEATRE. GRAPHIC DESIGN BY SITUATSI.

    SPECIAL THANKS: S. ABIAD, M. GAREAU, I. REVELL, V. MARCONE, E. MOHR.

    THIS ALBUM CONTAINS NOISE AND OTHER DETAILS PRESENT
    IN THE ORIGINAL ANALOG CASSETTE TAPE RECORDINGS.
    BPM VALUES ARE APPROXIMATE AND MAY DRIFT.

    TAPE LIFE RECORDS / TL 1003
    FOR MORE INFO VISIT: TAPELIFE.COM/TL1003
    ℗ 2017 TAPE LIFE RECORDS
    © 2017 TAPE LIFE RECORDS
    ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. MADE IN CANADA.

    tags: alternative, techno, dark ambient, industrial, electronic, ambient, ambient music, electroacoustic, soundtrack, film music, film score, synthesizer music, instrumental music, atmospheric, drone