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| |                         "cloudwalking"                         | |
| | today's programme looked at the work of geir jenssen who began | |
| | his musical career in a band called bel canto and then made an | |
| | assortment of releases as bleep (i started the show today with | |
| | one example) before adopting his best-known guise - biosphere. | |
| | as biosphere he released two classic albums of ambient/techno, | |
| | entitled 'microgravity' and 'patashnik', in the early nineties | |
| | on the origo record label in his native norway. he became more | |
| | renowned in the ambient scene, however, when both these albums | |
| | were licensed to r&s/apollo and when his track 'novelty waves' | |
| | was used in a television commercial for levi's! his later work | |
| | has generally had a more pure, beatless, ambient feel to it as | |
| | typified by the songs i played today from his '97 album called | |
| | 'substrata' and from 'cirque' released on touch two years ago. | |
| | jenssen has also collaborated with ambient legend pete namlook | |
| | under the name fires of ork (taken from the movie blade runner | |
| | presumably) and has worked with the higher intelligence agency | |
| | on the birmingham frequencies project. you can read more about | |
| | his work on the official biosphere website and on the r&s site | |
| | on the biosphere page. in my next show, after half term now, i | |
| | will be playing some tunes from german techno duo air liquide. | |
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| 01 'a fading dream' - bleep [s.s.r.]                               |
| 02 'cloudwalker ii' - biosphere [apollo '92?]                      |
| 03 'chromosphere' - biosphere [apollo '92?]                        |
| 04 'mestigoth' - biosphere [apollo '94]                            |
| 05 'botanical dimensions' - biosphere [apollo '94]                 |
| 06 'novelty waves' (radio edit) - biosphere [apollo '95]           |
| 07 'the third planet' - biosphere [trance europe express 3 comp.]  |
| 08 'poa alpina' - biosphere [all saints recs '97]                  |
| 09 'chukhung' - biosphere [all saints recs '97]                    |
| 10 'nook & cranny' - biosphere [touch '00]                         |
| 11 'kobresia' - biosphere [all saints recs '97]                    |
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