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05 AUG 2016

Nebulae Live at the Planetarium | Digital Out Now & CD pre-order

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Surprise, surprise!!! We’re pleased to announce that Martin Nonstatic‘s Nebulae Live at the Planetarium is officially out today in digital format. The CD version of the album will be released on September 1st, 2016 as we return from our summer break away. You can reserve your copy today. Enjoy the music! Martin Nonstatic | Nebulae Live at the Planetarium on Ultimae Shop Martin Nonstatic | Nebulae Live at the Planetarium on Ultimae Bandcamp  

05 AUG 2016

11-18th August 2016 | BOOM FESTIVAL 2016

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AES Dana will be opening the Festival on the Chill Gardens stage with a special 4h deejay performance. Once again Boom promises to be a blast for your senses with so much to experience! Don’t forget to catch Opale (Chill Gardens) and Solar Fields (Sacred Fire stage) by the way. Have fun and see you there! Boom Festival 2016 | Idanha A Nova Lake, Portugal

04 AUG 2016

BEN LUKAS BOYSEN | Spells

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Who could’ve predicted neo-classical’s sudden surge in popularity ? Call it what you will – modern composition, ambient, sound art, or call it all three—it seems a greater portion of listeners than ever before have cottoned onto the delicate, slow-burning beauty of what, until recently, has been a kind of best-kept secret, preserved for those in the know. As is often the case when a style of music—if you can generalize it—catches aflame, one artist drove this upwards spike. Nils Frahm, with his clever intermingling of electronics and classical tropes, has become its figurehead, (alongside a handful of others, like[…]

03 AUG 2016

LOSCIL | Sea Island (Kranky Records)

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Sea Island is a collection of new material composed and recorded over the past two years. While many of these compositions were performed live extensively prior to recording, others were constructed in the studio and are being heard for the first time here. Musically, the album represents a range of compositional approaches. Murky, densely textured depths of sound are explored with subtle pulses and pings woven within, contrasted with composed or improvised moments of acoustic instrumentation making a move into the foreground. Certain tracks on Sea Island such as album opener Ahull make rhythm their focus by exploring subtle polyrhythms[…]

02 AUG 2016

Ultimae Summer Notes

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The start of the summer has been a joyful one, many festivals and gathering around the world, special moments shared with our beloved artists and you all. And back at the studio there’s much going on as well, Scann-Tec spent two weeks with us working on « secret projects » with AES Dana and the new DTS format we’ll be offering soon for our releases, Mizoo and Mnnsk came to finalise the Greenosophy Chapter II compilation and Arnaud is creating new artworks for reprints of some of your favorite albums.

02 AUG 2016

Ultimae Summer Holiday 2016 | Off to the beach…

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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…

01 AUG 2016

Musical Treats For All Ears

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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/