.----. .-----. .----. .-----. .--------. .--------------------. ( home )( intro )( gigs )( radio )( mixtapes )( barticle@hotmail.com ) '----' '-----' '----' '-----' '--------' '--------------------' .--------------------------------------------------------------------. | <prev> -< 06-02-02 accelerator 086 >- <next> | | .----------------------------------------------------------------. | | | "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. | | | '----------------------------------------------------------------' | | -< set track-listing >- | | 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] | '--------------------------------------------------------------------' .----. .-----. .----. .-----. .--------. .--------------------. ( home )( intro )( gigs )( radio )( mixtapes )( barticle@hotmail.com ) '----' '-----' '----' '-----' '--------' '--------------------'