We’re closing the office and shop for the Summer holiday ; time to recharge our batteries in the sunshine and brainstorm on what fab and fun stuff we’re going to do next.
So from Wednesday 10th to Sunday 28th August there will be no orders shipped at all, no one to pick up the phone or reply to emails, no tea and coffee served at the shop, no brand new records to listen to, absolutely nothing…
Arnaud and Léa have been crazily uploading all the vinyl LPs and EPs we have in the shop in Lyon, so there’s hundreds of records to discover from labels and artists such as Brian Eno, Clark, Loscil, Semantica records, Firecracker recordings, Samurai Horo, Tresor, Transmat, Recognition,…
Click on Shop | Vinyl or here for a direct access :
https://ultimae.com/product-category/product-type/vinyl/
With all our hearts we thank Andreas Kallipolitis for the creation of our new brand logo and its derivations, and would like to introduce you to his work.
Greek-born graphic designer living in The Netherlands, inspired by record covers and old comic books Andreas got into visual arts and graphic design from a young age.
He really enjoys collaborating with talented creatives of various disciplines and taking up challenging projects.
Mirror’s Edge Catalyst Soundtrack composed by Solar Fields is out now containing 32 tracks for more than 5 hours of music.
If you’re not familiar with the game, it is a first-person action-adventure in which the player takes control of Faith Connors as she progresses through a futuristic city named Glass. Similar to the original Mirror’s Edge, players traverse the city using aspects of urban exploration and parkour movements to complete missions and evade or fight enemies.
The Original Sountrack is available on all major digital platforms. Here are some links:
Spotify
iTunes
7Digital (Flac)
Amazon
Google play
Over the Mountains is Segue‘s second full length release with Silent Season, the long time coming follow up to 2013’s Pacifica.
In a similar vein to Pacifica, Over the Mountains transports the listener to a different place and time, somewhere deep under a forest canopy on an unknown path leading to a majestic mountain vista somewhere above the clouds. The only thing keeping you going is knowing that things will only get better, because you never know what’s waiting over the next hill.
Discover Segue | Over the Mountains
Semantica Records marks 10 years with a worldwide tour and a 10 releases series in 2016.
The latest releases from the Techno/IDM label owned by Svreca are now available in our shop. Enjoy 
Imagine you are being invited to the studio of a visionary, and get to discover some brand new futuristic experiments along with tracks made 25 years ago that sound as if they’ve been made yesterday. Well that’s what the careful listener who plunges himself into Pink Flamingos from start to finish should feel like.
The intent in the beginning, was to focus on the more recent, experimental side of In Aeternam Vale‘s work, and to look at his work through an angle that would be complementary to some recent techno releases on Jealous God or 80’s gems on Minimal Wave. Only a few visits to his studio in Lyon were decisive. Imagine seeing the history of 30 years of electronic music flash through your ears, just in a few hours. IAV has been exploring new grounds and sometimes even pioneering new styles and subgenres several times, with literally hundreds of tracks to listen to. Words are not enough to describe this record’s digger absolute dream : the discovery of a secret parallel universe where so much music has been created and kept under the radar.
The latest release from VoxxoV Records is now available in our shop. Damian Valles presents Strand, his second release for the French label.
” Strand is a work of brilliance, blurring the boundaries between exceptionally bleak drone and haunted minimal industrial, with mind-numbing static electricity buzzing behind your eyes, motorik rhythms made from detritus tumbling around in empty oil drums, and deep low end generator thrum vibrating under the sound of hanging scythes clanking like windchimes, these are the sparse & ominous sounds of the heavy woes carried through life, the ones nobody sees but everybody endures, when you catch a glimpse of Death in your reflection, Valles’ music helps you dismiss it and just focus on the insanity at hand.” Justin Snow | Anti-Gravity Bunny
Discover Damian Valles | Strand
Brian Eno returns to Warp with his new solo recording The Ship.
An elegantly composed album split half in the vein of his Grammy nominated Warp album Lux and his early passage into background sound exploration, Ambient 1: Music For Airports and half in the more song-based experimentation first explored on his early albums Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy) & Another Green World.
Mapped out over four parts, these delicately laid out songs slowly pass between discreet passages and more vocalised pop tunes that forty-three years after his debut solo album show that Brian Eno is (not that there was ever any doubt whatsoever) is one of the finest musicians to ever grace a piece of vinyl.
Standing at the intersection where techno meets classical music, Ólafur Arnalds directs the newest Late Night Tales.
“When I was asked to do the next installation of the Late Night Tales series I thought “This will be fun and easy, only a couple of days work. No problem!”. Six months later, I was still pulling my hair out in some kind of quest to make the perfect mix. As someone who has never really done mixes before, I learned a lot of things along the way and the whole experience was very inspiring. I decided to approach the mix in a similar way as I would one of my scores. This is the soundtrack of my life. I included songs from many of my friends and collaborators and tried to deliver a mix that represents who I am as an artist and where my influences are coming from – both personally and musically.”
Ólafur Arnalds, April 2016
Free Fall Galaxy is the ninth chapter of the Sleeper Wakes Sci-Fi series created by Jeff Mills.
The Free Fall Galaxy is what we would call a cosmic menace – a threat to all that it encounters. The album is a journey of survival to go through the unknown universe, which leads to look deep into ourselves for answers if there is a Future.
Shankra Festival offers you a 5 day experience in an uplifting natural ambience below the summer sky, to celebrate life connecting with people from all over the world.
Wednesday 20th July | MAIN FLOOR
18 :00 – 19 :30 > H.U.V.A. Network live – festival opening
19 :30 – 21 :00 > AES Dana live
21 :00 – 22 :30 > Solar Fields live
Thursday 21st July | SECOND FLOOR
08 :30 – 10 :30 > AES Dana DJ set
More info: http://www.shankrafestival.ch/
Come and join AES Dana, Scann-Tec and Cygna alongside many international artists for a sunlight celebration in a beautiful green valley of the Cserhát mountains in North Hungary.
The program features some of the best artists from the Goa scene with many workshops, visual candy, organic foods, healing area and a Nature loving atmosphere.
Twelve years have passed since Editions Mego boss Peter Rehberg released his last full length release Get Off on the Hapna label. After a surprise return to live performance in 2015 we are now presented with Pita‘s new full length document under the banner of Get In.
Get in is a beautiful, engaging and unsettling listen. A multi-headed hydra presented as the ultimate dystopian sonic journey.
Non Standard Productions is the label of Tobias Freund founded in 2006. The releases are collaborations between Tobias and colleges. As the name itself suggests the idea of the label is to be a platform in witch anything non standard can be released. We can say that the label is orientated to eclectic experimentations, going from the frequency interpretations of MFP to the beat studies of NSI., passing through the freeform rhythms of Margaret Dygas to the uneven scales of Odd Machine.
Recent Arts present a collection of 10 songs produced by Tobias Freund that were inspired by the video work of Valentina Berthelon and vice versa.
Founded in late 2013, No. is a platform for audio adventures curated by Atom™ & Material Object, focused on Ambient, Techno and Experimental. We invite you to discover their latest releases from No. Inc, Garry Bradburry and Atom™.
French composer and Ondes Martenot virtuoso, Christine Ott releases her first full-length album since 2009 and her debut record for Gizeh Records. Only Silence Remains is beautifully melodic and filled with mystery, seeing multi-instrumentalist Ott performing on a variety of different instruments throughout the record. Available on LP & CD.
Join us at the record shop this Thursday from 6pm for the Before of the last ATOME parties organised by PARTICULES with special performances by De Santi and Lacroix
More info on this event (en Français!)
Mirror’s Edge Catalyst is out now with a soundtrack composed by Solar Fields.
If you’re not familiar with the game, it is a first-person action-adventure in which the player takes control of Faith Connors as she progresses through a futuristic city named Glass. Similar to the original Mirror’s Edge, players traverse the city using aspects of urban exploration and parkour movements to complete missions and evade or fight enemies.
Solar Fields is launching his new website at the same time and will be performing on 18th June for the game release party. Keep an eye on www.facebook.com/solarfields If all goes well Magnus will try to setup a live stream from the gig.
The Original Sountrack will be released this summer, more to be announced soon..
The “Icebergs” project is an exploration, a new way of perceiving and living music through an 8 hidden speakers installation in the Garden of Les Dominicains de Haute Alsace, each speaker broadcasting its own channel. Either walking or quietly sitting down in any part of the garden, one will be immersed in a wide-spread acoustic experience, far from our usual stereo / frontal approach. This 50 minutes vegetal infused musical work develops a game of harmonies, as a question / answer type of rebound, at times imperceptible, playful, sometimes introspective.
The music de-composition and re-structuration is based upon 4 works by Dutch composer Martin Van Rossum aka Martin Nonstatic, “Albedo Effect / Granite / Liquid Air / Out Of Silence” published by Bine Music and Ultimae. Each individual sound was separated and put aside to create wide-spread brand new remixes with one purpose in mind : redefine the harmonious focus and plant its seeds in the Garden.
A research on the theme of liquids operates to bind the diverse mixed chapters. Special microphones (hydrophones) were placed in the well of the convent to seize the liquid soul of the places. Personal recordings of diverse seas and beaches were filtered and slowed down to create the illusion of glaciers slowly colliding. Some sequences extracted from Arctic documentaries were also used. Being very attentive, one could even hear storks slamming their beaks during a lunch break on the ice floe: a purely Alsacian wink to these icy lands! Hopefully this installation will play your senses – in this redefined space and on-ice time.
Vincent Villuis | May 2016