Sci-Fi/Futuristic Dungeon Synth?
Nov 28, 2020 10:33:28 GMT -5
Post by olofdigre on Nov 28, 2020 10:33:28 GMT -5
Here is from Rotstock Dungeon Synth Magazine.
Gzara - Dawn on Nebular Horizon. Two cassette pages are filled by a rich space with bright sweeping, pulsating synth sounds and melodies played on a foundation of organic and sad accordion. A gloomy and uneasy journey to the extreme at the other side of our future. Gzara combines synthesized and highly electronic landscape compositions with excellent accordion and thus succeeds in awakening a truly foreign but vibrant experience. Adam Matlock is a skilled and carefree musician whose music projects are countless and often presented in unassuming secret. The two tracks on Dawn on Nebular Horizon are named after the two, supposedly earth-like, planets KOI-1686.01 and HD 85512 b as they were cataloged according to the Flamsteed method.
Dughpa is a solo project from Wagner Ödegård that deal with on extraterrestrial spaces. Of all the different music projects I've heard coming from Ödegård, this is what can definitely be called Dungeon Synth. The soundscape is Klaus Schulze and Tangerine Dream, but the composition is closer to medieval or simple Scandinavian folk tunes. The space electronic synth tones are seasoned with Ödegård's typical sound art and production. The attitude of Swedish progg music's happy organ composition is mixed with the animosity of the areas around the foot of the Scandinavian mountain range.
The Dungeon On The Moon by French Weress has manage to illustrate the optimal space-dungeon feel through his album image. A terribly rundown castle rises up against a star-studded sky from a moon's inward arch. Four towers with a pointed roof and a castle tower, all with black shotguns, shoot up into space. Weress has been very productive and squeezed out several high quality works. The album Ciel Nocturne is adorned by an unconstrained image of a meteor that burns up in the earth's atmosphere. Of course, the picture is instantly recognizable as the photograph taken in 1966 during the spectacular leonid meteor shower above Wrightwood, California. First track LP 876-10, the older name according to the Flamseed method of the star Fomalhaut C found in Helix Nebula, begins gently with some raspy bass tones that soon are joined by anxiously echoing synth sounds. Very quickly and unhindered, we are thrown out into the night skys and are met by a profusion of mood-building space-ambient and serene indeterminate sequences. Fomalhaut A3V breaks through with something as unusual as drums which, in a welcomed way, engirdles the billowing synth loops along with a nice roaring electric guitar sound. The final track begins with a science-documentary-film rhythm mixed with a mysterious melody and the album triumphs in a wide orchestra of grinding mood music.
S͟͡a̛҉͞t̷u̡̢͝͡r̶̵̢͢n̕E̴͜͢͟ (SaturnE with a lot of undistinguishable special characters and symbols) that should not be confused with Saturne (without special characters) released a couple of excellent albums that should be described as Dark Space Ambient. Long, almost eventless, humming and sweeping songs culminate in isolated and repetitive compositions soaked in dark and extraterrestrial sounds. Endless echoes of hopelessness and immeasurable marvels of nebulae and supernovas are accompanied by raw and unclean production with constantly snapping and crackling analogue or digital defects. The song titles on Hyper Novae, split between SaturnE and Almageste, can be traced to distant celestial bodies and their Flamsteed names.
Drochtuarach has been referred to as the Space Dungeon Synth. The album Along A Velvet Night evokes, as it begins, the thoughts of classic atmospheric dungeon synth, long chord sequences with epic pieces and melodies. Very good production and a wide variety of depressive rock beats, disheartened mood-creating orchestral arrangements and simple hypnotic minimalistic tones.
Cosmic Dissonance. The split between Elder Gate and Stone Sanctuaries, released digitally in May 2019. The album begins with a reliable and hypnotic synth loop playing along with a small clear and bright melody on Stone Sancuary's track Drifting Carelessly Through the Stars. This loop is cyclically repeated for a long time and gradually dissolves into a more peeled composition to finally linger on one last sighing tone before a brief astronomically buzzing intermezzo before giving the floor over to Elder Gate. An Absence of Self continues with long flowing and sparkling chord sequences along with a fragile melody pieced together to arouse a feeling of the warm moaning of cold winter nights. This track is also followed by a short interlude and this time in the form of grunting synth sounds that roar for a while before Stone Sanctuaries moves in with a longer track. In Planes Where Mortal Emotions Fade rings endlessly with an enclosed melancholic diminishing repetition. In this way, Cosmic Dissonance is constructed. Long cold ambient pieces by each artist with short handovers that give structure to the floating repetitive low-pitched melody pieces ornamented with starry-glowing synth sounds. Together, Elder Gate and Stone Sanctuaries paints a welcoming and open cosmos, but end with slightly darker After the Stars, Only Darkness and a gloomy piano arrangement in Journey's End.
GZARA - hypersigiltapes.bandcamp.com
DUGHPA - brugmanziah.bandcamp.com
DROCHTUARACH - drochtuarach.bandcamp.com
WERESS - weress.bandcamp.com
S͟͡a̛҉͞t̷u̡̢͝͡r̶̵̢͢n̕E̴͜͢͟ - saturnev.bandcamp.com
ELDER GATE & STONE SANCTUARIES - ravensbaneproductions.bandcamp.com
Gzara - Dawn on Nebular Horizon. Two cassette pages are filled by a rich space with bright sweeping, pulsating synth sounds and melodies played on a foundation of organic and sad accordion. A gloomy and uneasy journey to the extreme at the other side of our future. Gzara combines synthesized and highly electronic landscape compositions with excellent accordion and thus succeeds in awakening a truly foreign but vibrant experience. Adam Matlock is a skilled and carefree musician whose music projects are countless and often presented in unassuming secret. The two tracks on Dawn on Nebular Horizon are named after the two, supposedly earth-like, planets KOI-1686.01 and HD 85512 b as they were cataloged according to the Flamsteed method.
Dughpa is a solo project from Wagner Ödegård that deal with on extraterrestrial spaces. Of all the different music projects I've heard coming from Ödegård, this is what can definitely be called Dungeon Synth. The soundscape is Klaus Schulze and Tangerine Dream, but the composition is closer to medieval or simple Scandinavian folk tunes. The space electronic synth tones are seasoned with Ödegård's typical sound art and production. The attitude of Swedish progg music's happy organ composition is mixed with the animosity of the areas around the foot of the Scandinavian mountain range.
The Dungeon On The Moon by French Weress has manage to illustrate the optimal space-dungeon feel through his album image. A terribly rundown castle rises up against a star-studded sky from a moon's inward arch. Four towers with a pointed roof and a castle tower, all with black shotguns, shoot up into space. Weress has been very productive and squeezed out several high quality works. The album Ciel Nocturne is adorned by an unconstrained image of a meteor that burns up in the earth's atmosphere. Of course, the picture is instantly recognizable as the photograph taken in 1966 during the spectacular leonid meteor shower above Wrightwood, California. First track LP 876-10, the older name according to the Flamseed method of the star Fomalhaut C found in Helix Nebula, begins gently with some raspy bass tones that soon are joined by anxiously echoing synth sounds. Very quickly and unhindered, we are thrown out into the night skys and are met by a profusion of mood-building space-ambient and serene indeterminate sequences. Fomalhaut A3V breaks through with something as unusual as drums which, in a welcomed way, engirdles the billowing synth loops along with a nice roaring electric guitar sound. The final track begins with a science-documentary-film rhythm mixed with a mysterious melody and the album triumphs in a wide orchestra of grinding mood music.
S͟͡a̛҉͞t̷u̡̢͝͡r̶̵̢͢n̕E̴͜͢͟ (SaturnE with a lot of undistinguishable special characters and symbols) that should not be confused with Saturne (without special characters) released a couple of excellent albums that should be described as Dark Space Ambient. Long, almost eventless, humming and sweeping songs culminate in isolated and repetitive compositions soaked in dark and extraterrestrial sounds. Endless echoes of hopelessness and immeasurable marvels of nebulae and supernovas are accompanied by raw and unclean production with constantly snapping and crackling analogue or digital defects. The song titles on Hyper Novae, split between SaturnE and Almageste, can be traced to distant celestial bodies and their Flamsteed names.
Drochtuarach has been referred to as the Space Dungeon Synth. The album Along A Velvet Night evokes, as it begins, the thoughts of classic atmospheric dungeon synth, long chord sequences with epic pieces and melodies. Very good production and a wide variety of depressive rock beats, disheartened mood-creating orchestral arrangements and simple hypnotic minimalistic tones.
Cosmic Dissonance. The split between Elder Gate and Stone Sanctuaries, released digitally in May 2019. The album begins with a reliable and hypnotic synth loop playing along with a small clear and bright melody on Stone Sancuary's track Drifting Carelessly Through the Stars. This loop is cyclically repeated for a long time and gradually dissolves into a more peeled composition to finally linger on one last sighing tone before a brief astronomically buzzing intermezzo before giving the floor over to Elder Gate. An Absence of Self continues with long flowing and sparkling chord sequences along with a fragile melody pieced together to arouse a feeling of the warm moaning of cold winter nights. This track is also followed by a short interlude and this time in the form of grunting synth sounds that roar for a while before Stone Sanctuaries moves in with a longer track. In Planes Where Mortal Emotions Fade rings endlessly with an enclosed melancholic diminishing repetition. In this way, Cosmic Dissonance is constructed. Long cold ambient pieces by each artist with short handovers that give structure to the floating repetitive low-pitched melody pieces ornamented with starry-glowing synth sounds. Together, Elder Gate and Stone Sanctuaries paints a welcoming and open cosmos, but end with slightly darker After the Stars, Only Darkness and a gloomy piano arrangement in Journey's End.
GZARA - hypersigiltapes.bandcamp.com
DUGHPA - brugmanziah.bandcamp.com
DROCHTUARACH - drochtuarach.bandcamp.com
WERESS - weress.bandcamp.com
S͟͡a̛҉͞t̷u̡̢͝͡r̶̵̢͢n̕E̴͜͢͟ - saturnev.bandcamp.com
ELDER GATE & STONE SANCTUARIES - ravensbaneproductions.bandcamp.com