Breathtaking melodies, well-defined bass notes and shape-shifting chords of perfection. The sounds are focused, polished and fluctuate throughout the programs in different and unique ways. Volumes dim and flicker while others subliminally and organically carry messages. A great balance of technical creation and mood building runs a theme here. Read More »
Made up of Dave Harrington (Darkside/Dave Harrington Group) and Benjamin Jay (NDF/Benoit & Sergio), Lights Fluorescent is, as the two describe it, an ‘experiment in the spaces between song and texture, idea and reference, past and present.’ On their debut album, The Oldest Sons Of The Oldest Sons, the duo develops an atmospheric, slant-pop sensibility that lists toward the experimental tendencies of improvisational and ambient music. Read More »
Nous avons le plaisir d’accueillir Cosmic Connexion, émission ambient / expérimentale Montpellieraine diffusée depuis 3 ans sur les cyber ondes de Radio Pinata. A partir de 15h à Ultimae Record Shop / 6 rue Emile Zola – Lyon 2 . LINE-UP: Nika (dj set) / Întuneric (dj set) / Shōen 荘園 (dj set) Read More »
New York-based cellist/composer Julia Kent’s celebrated second album, Green and Grey (2011), was released on vinyl for the very first time for Black Friday 2019. Read More »
Having spent the past few years focussing on his group Shobaleader One, Thomas Jenkinson returns to the fray under his much-loved Squarepusher guise with Be Up A Hello, Jenkinson’s first LP by that name since 2015’s Damogen Furies. Read More »
We continue our series of mixes recorded during our showcases at Ultimae Record Shop, Lyon, France. This new chapter invites Ennony for a delicious atmospheric Ambient & Dub Techno set.
Canadian composer Scott Morgan‘s 12th long-player as Loscil takes its title from an influential series of early 20th century photographs by Alfred Stieglitz, abstracting clouds into miasmic, painterly canvases of smoke and shadowplay. Read More »
Black Truffle is honoured to present the first reissue of a true underground masterpiece, Massimo Toniutti’s Il Museo Selvatico, originally self-released on LP in 1991. Read More »
We start a series of mixes recorded during our showcases at Ultimae Record Shop, Lyon, France. To get the ball rolling, we are happy to share with you an Ambient mix by the talented Focal. Enjoy!
X – Ten Years Of Artefacts, Mortellaro features solo as Lucy, in collaboration with Rrose as Lotus Eater and together with Speedy J as Zeitgeber. (Rrose also appears alone with The Myth of Purity). Shifted, Efdemin, L.B. Dub Corp (Luke Slater), James Ruskin, Denise Rabe, Adriana Lopez, Chevel, Alessandro Adriani and Serena Butler each feature, representing a group of singular artists whose relationships with the label range from years to months. Read More »
As we start this new cycle with our heads full of music and ideas we’d like to share our gratitude for following and supporting us for the last 20 years, each day is a dream come true, eyes wide open, and none of this would have been possible without you. Read More »
We’re off to celebrate with families and friends and will return on January 2nd.
We wish you all a fantastic holiday!
With Love,
The Ultimae Team
What better way to celebrate Ultimae’s 20th anniversary year than by releasing an album such as Inks by Vincent Villuis aka AES Dana. Read More »
The excellent French webmedia Tartine de Contrebasse dedicated to the electronic musics chronicled with finesse and elegance our latest production JAMES MURRAY & FRANCIS M GRI | Remote Redux. We invite to read it.
We just received the LPs for James Murray & Francis M Gri’s Remote Redux album, looking and sounding wonderful. Read More »
Andy Stott’s first release since 2016 and first EP since 2011, It Should Be Us is a double EP of slow and raw productions for the club, recorded this year and following a series of EP’s that started with Passed Me By and We Stay Together early this decade. Read More »
Victory Over The Sun is the first Wanderwelle and Bandhagens Musikförening (Isorinne & Hypnobirds) collaborative album. Read More »
Pop Ambient Music is medicine against illnesses, that you don’t even suffer from. It’s giving everything, demanding nothing. Musical lotus leafs, off which the virtual wastewater of our time is rolling like the reality is dripping off the matrix. Read More »
The fifth studio album by Shed aka Rene Pawlowitz centers thematically on the Oderbruch region in former East Germany where the producer and DJ grew up and continues to split his time (when not in Berlin). Read More »
The Fifth Kingdom presents it’s second release, 3 transcendental trips from label head Ancestral Voices. Read More »