Total Run Time: 1056:57

1. Goodbye, Sol (<1 ly) - 2:14
2. Passing Voyager (1 ly) - 19:55
3. From Proxima Centauri, The Earth Appears As But A Darkened Mote (4.24 ly) - 9:12
4. Roaming The Alien Jungles Of Tau Ceti f (11.91 ly) - 13:12
5. Scaling The Lofty Mountains Of Gliese 667 Cc (22.70 ly) - 15:48
6. Crossing The Great Rift (300 ly) - 26:25
7. Comet Over COROT-7b (489 ly) - 16:15
8. Incoming Starquake From The Vela Pulsar (959 ly) - 15:14
9. The Star That Never Shined (1 kly) - 23:18
10. Circumnavigating VY Canis Majoris (3.90 kly) - 23:34
11. Screams Of A Dying Hypergiant (6.30 kly) - 6:45
12. The Pillars Of Creation (7 kly) - 39:45
13. Kepler's Star Reborn (20 kly) - 11:12
14. Crushed By Neutron Star XTE J1739-285 (39 kly) - 17:01
15. Uncharted Rogue (250 kly) - 14:12
16. Intergalactic Darkness (1 Mly) - 17:12
17. Touring The Stars Of Andromeda (2.50 Mly) - 32:59
18. Antennae Merging (45 Mly) - 16:43
19. Winds Of A Galactic Center (52 Mly) - 17:15
20. Synchrotron Inferno At The Heart Of M87 (53.50 Mly) - 20:18
21. Radiance Of Fornax A (62 Mly) - 17:32
22. O'Neill Cylinders And Dyson Spheres (79 Mly) - 16:26
23. Deep Space Battlefield (80 Mly) - 14:34
24. Artificial Star Generator (87 Mly) - 31:31
25. With Hyperspace As My Cloack I Dash Between Innumerable Galaxies (92 Mly) - 27:19
26. Leaving The Local Supercluster (111 Mly) - 13:11
27. Great Attractor, Culler Of Galaxies (250 Mly) - 30:32
28. Journey Through The Hercules-Corona Borealis Great Wall (9.61 Gly) - 28:19
29. Beyond The Observable (50 Gly) - 29:08
30. The White Hole At The Beginning Of Time (>1 Tly) - 22:09
31. "Sufficiently Advanced Civilizations May Invariably Leave Our Universe" (? ly) - 18:10
32. God Is A Systems Architect And The Multiverse Is An Infinitely Recursive Architectural Simulator (∞ ly) - 447:11
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀* First Movement - 13:28 (00:00:00)
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀* Second Movement - 7:37 (00:13:28)
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀* Third Movement - 21:23 (00:21:05)
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀* Fourth Movement - 124:55 (00:42:28)
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀* Fifth Movement - 10:24 (02:47:23)
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀* Sixth Movement - 21:07 (02:57:47)
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀* Seventh Movement - 31:11 (03:18:54)
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀* Eighth Movement - 20:24 (03:50:05)
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀* Ninth Movement - 39:53 (04:10:29)
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀* Tenth Movement - 48:38 (04:50:22)
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀* Eleventh Movement - 22:03 (05:39:00)
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀* Twelfth Movement - 16:50 (06:01:03)
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀* Thirteenth Movement - 21:54 (06:17:53)
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀* Fourteenth Movement - 32:17 (06:39:47)
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀* Fifteenth Movement - 7:32 (07:12:04)
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀* Sixteenth Movement - 7:35 (07:19:36)
33. Hello Again, Sol (0 ly) - 2:27


Well, here it is... What I remember as being one of the greatest albums of all time. I first listened to this after the RINGEX PLASTER listening project during my two-weeks Christmas/New Years' Break. I listened to the penultimate 7 and a half hour track in one sitting on December 30th. What an amazing end to the year. This album is absolutely stunning and perfectly executes its premise. It's massive, yet I wish it was longer. Everything about it is just a journey, it feels so amazing to just sift through. It's something that deserves a 2 week listening experience. It is the prime example of a listening experience. I suppose I'll listen to it again for the sake of this listening project now!

Here we go: Ya know, it does start out with slowed down sounds on the first track. Sorta reminiscent of what was before... Then this string pattern gets layered over it. And damn, these strings are really good. Next track starts with a voice sample over a drone! And this drone VERY clearly isn't a slowdown!!!! Let's gooo! (I mean, I sorta knew that to begin with). So this track is just this super cool texture for a while, although it does clip quite a bit in some places. About halfway through, some random morse code comes in, okay! Ooh, then about 12 minutes in, the texture sorta collapses and turns into this super weird drone that's even cooler! Then it comes back in! Alright, track 3 time, it also starts with this super interesting drone, plus random marimba sounds??? Some slowed down whatever, and halfway through this super awesome drone comes in. OOhh, and it does this super crazy pitch shifting thing too, awesome! Yeah, sorry if I don't have much to say about these tracks other than that they're good. Track 4 starts out with this amazing sound. Then, hard cut into a slightly slowed down beat with a really cool ambient texture over it (I remember this one being one of my favorite tracks). And also every once in a while, this random sorta off-beat arpeggio thing fades in then back out, it's really an insanely good soundscape. This offbeat thing actually first comes in when the beat stops at 3 minutes. This is suchhhh a good track, I love it so much! I was really intent on relistening to this album, that's actually what got me to do the listening project in the first place. There's also this shaker sample that keeps layering in and out and this string sample which I never noticed before. Ooh, then the slightly slowed down beat has its real-tempo version layered on TOP of it and it creates this really weird polyrhythmic thing. So many things get layered in this track, it's nearly impossible to believe it's the same band. Okay, track 5 time, another one of my favorites. Starts with a wind sound (Always a sign of a great Nanocyborg track)! Then just these beautiful massive synths for the rest of the track that create these absolutely stunning drones that sound so professional despite how amateur the album is! There's also some real nice noises going on in the background just to elevate the whole thing. This one here feels like a space journey. The wind sound comes back during the ending and it fades out. Amazing. The next track continues the same tones as the previous track, but with a different, much more underwater sound. This track is also really really good. Not much to say about it, but it's infinitely entertaining. Track 7 starts out with this super weird texture that every time the synth changes notes, it's this weird pulsation of pitched static. There's also this bassy pulsing static in the background that's turning this already massive soundscape into something greater. Ooh, at 11 minutes, the bassy texture just becomes the only thing and it's doing these super cool pulses. It's really amazing how this is the same band that produced 5 straight albums of slowed down existing tracks for a few years. OOH, at 12 minutes is this crazy laser beam sound, it's so cool! Then NEW SYNTH SOUNDS AT 13 MINUTES!!! And the ending is so cool, all the pitches just massively collapse and it's cinematic. Okay, track 8 starts out so weirdly. This really weird beat! This seems originating from a slight slowdown (More akin to Vaporwave, I do know this album has a lot of plunders/vaporwave on it, but that just makes it even more of an interesting journey). This is the one case where I'm not upset at their use of slowdowns, as they really do work magic on this album. Then the vaporwave ends, and randomly at 10:20, it begins again, but with a slightly but VERY noticably different sound to it. Ooh, then it's like at twice speed while being layered on its original speed, oh and THEN it's layered on it self like 4 times and becomes REAL noisy!! Then it loops the beat real quiet one last time before ending. Next track is just this massive bassy ambience that sounds like a mix of track 5 and Leyland Kirby. Awesome. Does an epic fadeout to end, just an overall great atmosphere for 23 minutes (probably gonna sum up my thoughts for most of these tracks). Track 10 opens up with a drone that is THE coldest thing I've ever heard. Felt like I just walked into a freezer, WOW. The rest of it sounds like one of the better tracks off of Death of Rave. Gets really atonal in places, in a good way. Ooh, and it does a transition into track 11 (which has one of my favorite track titles ever). Also has such a weird texture of sounds. Some really crazy sounds come in ant out, and JESUS CHRIST 6 MINUTES IN IS SO LOUD AND INTENSE, then it just STOPS and we're left with the breathing sound from the beginning. The Pillars Of Creation is a lot like Crossing The Great Rift, but even less massive (which is honestly a nice break from all the intensity, and that absolute climax of Screams Of A Dying Hypergiant). Ooh, the end is this weird rhytmic bass thing that sounds so cool. I guess it's actually not all that weird, sounds a bit like upright bass, piano, and ticking clocks on top of Brian Eno type ambient. Track 13 starts with this really weird drone, then BAM it's a vaporwave track! Crazy slowdown beat on top of these absolutely euphoric synths (the synths might be added on top actually, they themselves don't sound slowed). Then for a while the beats go away and it's just ambience. Beautiful. The next track is super interesting and has a really crazy synth melody on top of a slowed down beat of something. I quite like it, that might be one of my favorites now. Next starts out with this bassy atonal drone, very cinematic, but not too resonant with me. Then it has this really really weird alien sounding pulse going through it. Ooh, then at 4 minutes, this super unique pulsing melody is introduced!! Amazing! At 8 and a half minutes, the beat going gets layered upon itself a few times creating this real trippy effect. Suddenly at 11:30, everything fades out and we're left with this super alien wind sound that has some of the tones of the pulsing melody (but it's a different pulse or something??). Anyways, amazing track. And now... Intergalactic Darkness. This track is entirely vaporwave with (I think) nothing added to it. And it's also my favorite track on this whole thing for whatever reason. It's just... SO cold and warm at the same time, the synths are blissful and atonal at the same time, the voices are longing, the drums are tired, it's all just perfect. I've listened to this on quite a few sad bus rides, for whatever reason THIS is the track that stuck with me the most. Putting this in Audacity and speeding it up... there's actually a chance they added a bunch of skiparounds. The vocals are all glitched and don't make any sense, a lot of parts loop, the drums don't totally seem to fit. Although I doubt it, it's probably entirely unchanged minus the speedup (and clipping). Then the next track starts with these beautiful beautiful cinematic synths (this whole album is just fucking cinematic). These synths sound like tablesaws and there's some death of rave back there. It's beautiful and just lasts forever, I love it. Why is this album so great????? Is there a single bad track?? Anyways, that track fades perfectly into Antennae Merging. A shame I have to stop for tonight because that transition was so great I just wanna keep listening. Anyways, it's the next day (Wednesday the 28th) and we're listening again, let's go. Starts out with this super weird drone that I think is gonna go on for the whole song, but no! Beats come in at 2 and a half minutes and they're all slow and distorted and such! It's really cool, just like everything on this album. At 10 minutes it gets really intense, and there's this sound that sounds like glass breaking or something? Ooh, then after going on for a while (it got a bit boring by the end to be honest), it transitions PERFECTLY into the next track which is loud, intense, and like another Death of Rave cut. Haunting. It's got these really insane noises all over it too, track 19 is just an all-around masterpiece. Its got an extremely fitting title too, Winds Of A Galactic Center. Oh shoot, then 17 minutes in, right before the track ends, all that's left is this weird sound that fades into the next track which adds on a new set of cinematic synths (these ones really sound like saw blades). I keep talking about the sawblades cause once I fell asleep to Intergalactic Darkness with autoplay on and it turned into one of these tracks (don't know which one but I could easily find out) where I was thinking "who's using the sawblade right now? Oh I guess it's my dad, that makes sense" even though it was like 1 in the morning, I don't know I was half asleep, it made sense at the time. This is a really beautiful and intense track though. Sounds like the ocean on Saturn. It's beautiful, but so so impending. Sounds like the world is about to crash. Then a really doom-implying sound at the end, followed by bassy fadeout. This is the first track in quite a few that doesn't directly transition into the next. Next track starts out so beautifully. It's a Kevin Drumm-like drone. Actually with the way the melody progresses, this track fits right in on Leyland Kirby's Sadly The Future Is No Longer What It Was. Sounds just like space feels. Eventually, about 2:30 in, some dark reverby sounds get added in on top creating this absolutely haunting and isolating effect on top of the beautiful ambient chords already there. Radiance Of Fornax A is also now one of my favorite tracks here, it's so damn beautiful. Does have some clipping but whatever, these guys evidently aren't audio engineers. By 9 minutes, the melody becomes a lot more of melody than just predominant chords, they're actually doing notes and stuff in a melodic fashion. It's soooo good. The next track is almost a continuation of the same track, also very beautiful with a lot of the same noises, but with a higher pitched drone atop the whole thing. It's sorta hard to describe why these tracks are great, but this is a listening experience I heavily recommend, so just do yourself a favor and listen!!! Track 23 has the weirdest laser beam type beat so far. Okay, Artificial Star Generator time. I remember back when I first listened to this album, this track in particular was a HUGE surprise. Starts with some beat for a while, than at 43 seconds starts a VOICE NARRATION?? TALKING ABOUT NUCLEAR CHAIN REACTIONS?? Then BAMMMMM explosion!!! Then it's this slowed down beat for a while, which turns into SLOWED DOWN DUBSTEP IN THE STYLE OF LUNAR!! Super clippy too. Then at 24 minutes, it changes a little, but it's largely the same thing. Yeah this track is slowed down dubstep, a really nice change of pace, but not one of the best tracks on here. Notable really for its massive surprise factor (maybe you shouldn't have read this first). Ends with an extensive quiet wind sound. Track 25 starts with this genuinely scary pulsing rhythmic synth thing which then has some cinematics on top of it, creating a weird mixed bag of emotions. The cinematics are calming as always, but this synth garble pulse thing gives me so much anxiety, it's awesome. Ooh, then an overarching melody comes in with weird reverbed bleeps and bloops. About halfway through, it's just a drone that I don't actually find particularly interesting. It's good and all, just not as great as everything else on the album. Holds on this drone for like six minutes until it fades out. Then the anxiety thing from the beginning fades in. Then it basically just repeats the first part of the song until it ends. Next track is just this euphoric melodic drone, with a lot of pitched down static in the back. Sounds a lot more warm than some of the stuff earlier. A bit of the way through, the drones becomme entirely bass and it's quite a bit like Kevin Drumm (I quite like these Drumm-esque tracks, Leaving The Local Supercluster is a really good one). This bass drone eventually fades into the next track which continues it (yesss, I love more of this, awesome!). There's some new pitches in there though, but largely the same thing. Then the drone becomes quite a bit quieter and minimal. Ooh, at 4 minutes, a new heavy synth comes in! Then again at 10 minutes after the drone kinda got quiet again!! Eventually, these dissonant strings come in which sound like some slightly intense part of an old horror movie (again, not really sure how to describe it). The drone gets quiet again and does a long fade out to the end. Next track is a mix of euphoric synths and Death of Rave sounds. These euphoric synths are also super cinematic, but actually these are probably the most melodic on the entire album, it's quite great actually. This was one of my favorites too, it's the last track on here which has a title of an actual thing in the universe. Everything past this is conceptual. So we're close to the last phase of the album... which of course is 8 hours long. So by now we're a bit over halfway. Alright, it's the next day now, had to stay up til 1 am listening to this last night cause of homework and am the most tired I've been in a long time. Next track, Beyond The Observable, is considerably less intense than the previous. Just a really nice mellow drone this time, sometimes with air sounds. Really good for how tired I am right now, this is about to put me to sleep. About 20 minutes in, the air sounds turn into a quiet beat, then some acid synths layer on, then the beat starts to get louder. This beat is actually at a fairly standard tempo as opposed to being super slow (or I guess extremely fast for Nanocyborg Uberholocaust standards). Then the beat climaxes, thankfully doesn't reach too much intensity, and mellows out with an ambiguous drone somewhat like the beginning, and fadeout end. Good track, not particularly notable. Next track starts with a very stagnant drone, implying something coming in the future. A minute and a half in, another cinematic drone gets added on top of it and now it's bliss!! I thought from then on it was gonna become a bit different, but it's fairly unchanging drones up until 11 minutes when one of them is very suddenly pitched up. This gets really nice by 15 minutes. [September 30th] It ends really well, I think I had lesser opinions yesterday cause of how tired and hungry I was. Well anyways, time for the third to last track. The last moment before enterring the absolute portal of time that is the second to last track which goes on for 7 and a half hours. And this is quite the buildup into that, this track is VERY appropriate. It's a slowed down techno song to begin with. Impending rhythmic synths and trance beats. This really does feel like the final moments in the observable universe. And we're just shooting past the brink of visibility, going into something completely non-existent, past time, past all concievable boundaries. Into just, nothing. At about 5 minutes, the techno fades out and leaves a really dissonant and quiet drone that sometimes beeps. Also really appropriate. Also some really interesting noises within this, although they're all really quiet. At 9 and a half minutes, some atmospheric and distorted static becomes very prominent, also making some extremely strange noises. A really weird soundscape has just been created. There's weird bassy undertones too. This section clips quite a bit lol. Ooh, the techno/trance/whatever thing comes back in at 13:30!! 17 and a half minutes, it suddenly stops. Quiet static. Space-like beeping. Fadeout. Fucking perfect track. And now it begins. The climax. Most DEFINITELY won't finish this tonight. I think it's necessary to note that the official YouTube upload of this track separates it into 16 movements. First movement starts with a drone that slowly fades in and... skips around? Niceee. Real nice. I like this odd jarring loop thing they're doing. 3 minutes in, a random chorus effect gets applied, then it turns into a totally different drone. Yeah this is really cool. Then fucking choir sounds??? Yes please!!! Jesus, I forgot how good this one started out, I really did need to listen again. It's this really stagnant, but melodic drone for a while right now. By that, I mean that it's dynamically stagnant, and there's this constant undertone that it's building up to something. Even now, it seems like it's very slowly crescendoing. I mean, we're only 11 minutes in. The second movement starts at 13:28, so something big IS about to happen. Alright... so nothing's loud yet, but the main drone disappeared and it's a lot more bassy now. REALLY impending now. Just sounds like giant planets. It's a really cool sound too, not stagnant at all. Holy crap, then at 21 minutes, movement 3 starts and it's the first undoubtedly pleasant and melodic sound so far (Not that the others weren't pleasant). A lot of string sounds in this section. Still pretty quiet right now. At 35 minutes, it fades out for a second, then comes back in. There's some small guitars through this movement too. Creates a really weird atmosphere. Somewhat quiet still. At 42 minutes, the 4th movement starts, but it really just feels like an extention of the third, although it is by FAR the longest movement, and I remember it having a very extensive piano sample (though 54 minutes in and that hasn't kicked in yet). About 1:02:00 in, it gets really quiet for a bit. This segment is SUPER peaceful. Around 1:09:30, the drone becomes more dissonant than peaceful interestingly enough. Quite a subtle change, but totally changes the mood. At 1:23:00, it does the thing where it dips gets really quiet again. Don't quote me on this, but I think it might actually be looping a bit. This section isn't the most interesting to be honest, I remember being a little disappointed that this section lasted so long. It does the quiet thing again at 1:37:30. [October 1st, Friday] Alright, I don't have much time to listen today, but I'll chunk through a bit of it. Probably won't finish movement 4, but whatever. This is pretty nice, very calming, although not much has changed in a WHILE. Does the quiet to silence thing again at 2:05:30. OOH our first change in a while, as it fades back in there starts a sample of just a field recording of people talking in some place. There's a few people so it's hard to make out what they're saying (it's like you're inside a store and people are having conversations around you, you're not meant to understand what they're saying). At some point you can reallly audibly hear them talk about "A car behind you" and then it's some slightly unintelligible mumble about whatever that car did. Shortly after that, it loops back to the beginning of the field recording (there's still movement 4 synth ambience going on during this). Alright, I got surprisingly close tonight, 2:38:52, but I need to sleep. [Sunday, October 3rd] Alright, given I spend a while listening, I should be able to finish this album today (although it's already 3:15). Also, I think I've fully decided that after this and RINGEX PLASTER (and catching up on WTC) are done, I'll do Bull of Heaven. Fuck it whatever, I'm that insane I guess. For the extra long ones, I'll just be doing the excerpts (I'll be doing the fan excerpts for the ones that are really cool) but yeah. I figured it would be nice to rank them. Alright, movement 5 has started and it's super interesting. Now things FINALLY start getting louder. These super intense synth pulses, ooh and shit, a bit into it these super crazy distorted brass sounds come in!! Okay this part is the coolest part so far. This one really sounds like Leyland Kirby especially with this Caretaker-esque fucked brass sounds, this is insane! Second half of the fifth movement is even cooler since the 4th movement ambience that was in the background disappears and these longing bass chords become a lot more drawn out and sad. OOh, and then it starts doing this REALLY nice melody (nicer than anything on this track yet, this part is so awesome). Ooh, then movement 6 kicks in and movement 5 completely fades away, with these slow guitars and rainforest sound fading in. Yeah, this part sounds like it's from The Ultimate Fate Of The Universe, but in the best way possible. This is an amazing callback to their older stuff. Actually, it's not a rainforest, it's another (obviously different) vocal field recording of some store or outside of a store. Eventually, there are these also slightly slowed down windchimes (idk, maybe they're part of the field recording, but it's real nice being on top of this whole weird soundscape). Seventh movement continues with whatever slowed down track it was (or maybe a new one) but also has this really interesting ambience drone in the background. The same field recording is still on top. Actually maybe this drone is part of the slowdown, but it's REALLY good. Especially at 3:21:30. Ooh, randomly at 3:38:00 is some lady singing something, then some recorded clip of some dance song or something. This is another interesting field recording! I've been kinda tuning out lately, whoops. Ooh, now the field recording has drumming, neato, this is a sound NEVER heard of to this band. Ooh, then at some point (drumming's stopped so it's just voices now) the field recording/voice memo/whatever becomes reverbed! Eighth movement kicks in and I already like it a lot more. THIS is the rainforest sound I remember, on top of a really nice drone (thankfully this segment is an actually acceptable volume). Yeah, this track isn't as interesting as some of the other tracks on here, but it's still a real journey. Maybe just because this one is one giant consecutive piece and it takes a LONG time to build up to certain things. But it's really good overall. This drone is considerably more interesting than the other ones. Bam, 4 hour mark passed. Ninth movement starts out by very suddenly cutting off the drone from the eighth movement while the rain still plays. Then proceeding to start a similar drone in a different, lower key. A bit jarring, but a welcome surprise. Ooh, at 4:19:00, this real nice note that pitches from high to low but with a lot of reverb (Idk, that's the best way to decribe it) happens, and it sounds super cool. By the end of the ninth movement, the drone is completely gone and it's JUST the rain. There's 3 minutes left of this movement so... I kinda tuned out for a little I'll be honest, but I remember there being drone on top of the rain, and now there isn't and I don't completely remember how we got here, but I know it wasn't sudden. I mean I was listening the whole time, I just forgot to really pay attention (reasonable considering that this is 7 and a half hours long). Then, nearing the very end of the movement, the rain fades out and we get bird chirps and owl sounds! I do quite like this. Alright, movement 10 has started with quite the ethereal drone. And apparently this one is the second longest at nearly 50 minutes, so buckle your seatbelts for this one I guess. Eventually the bird sounds disappear. Or maybe they're just really quiet, it's hard to tell what's a bird sound and what's part of the texture, but I don't think I can hear bird sounds (actually right when I say that there seems to be the occasional one). Bird sounds eventually come back in, I guess they did just get really quiet. Well, movement eleven time. The bird sounds have been replaced by ocean waves and now this really different sounding drone. Sounds like Kevin Drumm, but with melody. And some of the cinematic stuff from earlier in the album. By the end of the eleventh movement, it's JUST the waves sounds. 6 hour mark hits and a very slight, higher pitched drone starts (although the twelth movement officially starts in a minute). Twelth movement does a pretty relatively stagnant drone and does away with the waves. By relatively stagnant, I mean it's no longer melodic, but a single note drone (although it does have very noticable texture changes, including a very high pitch). The note does actually change from time to time, but not in the regular melodic sense. Then that drone fades out and Movement 13 starts. i actually quite liked that movement, a nice change in pace in the drone actually having time to sonically develop rather than being another ethereal and/or cinematic "melody". Movement 13 is that though. Quite like Brian Eno with the string section. It's really weird that I remember there being a long piano section in this track considering there never even was a note of piano in this thing (maybe if you consider the slowed guitar from the slowdown selection a WHILE ago, but that only lasted for a couple minutes, and even then beats were layered on top of it). This movement's actually the most cinematic out of the entire album and it's quite emotional. Jesus, this album is so good. Alright, gonna go to sleep now, didn't finish it, but there's only an hour left. Almost done with movement 13 but yeah. Amazing stuff. This track was a bit boring for a while, but whatever, it really is amazing overall. [Tuesday, October 5th] Alright, couldn't listen to this yesterday, but today we FINALLY finish. Anyways end of movement 13 is SOO NICE like even nicer than I remembered it being. And movement 14 started and it's just amazing!! After a while of cinematics, at 6:46:00, it goes completely silent for a few seconds oddly enough. Then back to the stunning cinematic strings. At 6:54:00, some Death of Rave sounds come in on top of these already super atmospheric drones and it becomes even more intense. This really does feel like the end of a journey and it's possibly worth crying over. Fadeout. Movement 15 starts with the talking field recording again. Nice callback. A stagnant drone fades in behind it. It's the one from earlier too! There's a car behind me that's less full! Sixteenth movement starts and it's a much louder actual vocal sample, I think from some movie. This is... quite interesting. I totally forgot this is how it ended wow. Then it stops and this really intense ethereal/choir drone fades in. It's really an all-ender. It gets quieter a couple minutes from end and the last minute or so is this untra charming melodic finish. This is one of the best things I've ever heard. And now the last song. A vocal clip about inventing the universe. Some strings. A similar breathing sound to the intro track. These strings are quiet and just a really nice overall ending. Then it just sorta cuts off.

Well... We did it. That felt like much more of an experience than either of the 20+ hour long albums, because this was amazing. Every second of this was something, at least SOMETHING I could grasp onto. Some parts I tuned out of, some parts were boring, some parts felt like repeats of others, but overall this album is certainly S tier. My first time listening during Christmas Break was one of the best listening experiences I've ever had, and this time just magnified that. This is precisely why I embarked on this listening project. And now, to FINALLY discover what lies past this album. From here, I've only previewed a couple SECONDS of Parallel Dimensions, Solar 2, and 10^whatever Gs. And those couple seconds CERTAINLY didn't reveal anything other than well, a couple seconds! So I've been waiting in anticipation for SO LONG to see what this band presents past Goodbye Sol. And here we finally are.

FREE ENERGY

Total Run Time: 103:16

118. "IT WAS TOTALLY INVISIBLE HOWS THAT POSSIBLE? THEY USED THE EARTHS MAGNETIC FIELD X THE INFORMATION WAS GATHERED AND TRANSMITTED UNDERGRUUND TO AN UNKNOWN LOCATION X DOES LANGLEY KNOW ABOUT THIS ? THEY SHOULD ITS BURIED OUT THERE SOMEWHERE" (Secret Track) - 103:16


Well, this is certainly a weird one. I found out about its existence from its Rate Your Music entry, but apparently, hidden in the metadata of the Goodbye Sol tracks is a link to a sub-page on the Nanocyborg.net website, which through a series of View Page Sources progressively links to a bit.ly which goes to a mediafire link. Anyways, I have NO clue what this entails, but time to hit the play button. Well... can't say I didn't really expect this. It starts out with a weird low spacey drone, then it quickly turns into one of their slowdown tracks. Oddly enough this time, there's actually a bit of space drone over it, but I'm not sure if that originates from the source or not. It's actually really weird sounding, I'll have to speed this up when it's done. I think it loops once too. By 18 minutes, the beat is gone and it's just this ambience (this almost happened earlier, but the beat never disappeared) that sounds like it partially originated from a slowdown. This ambient's actually pretty nice. Randomly at 30:30 a square wave just starts, it gets higher and higher in pitch, then stops after like 30 seconds. Kinda funny. Definitely gives the whole thing a "what the flip" vibe. So this whole time, there were these staticy waves on top of a drone, which lasts up until about 36 minutes when the drone fades out and all that's left is the waves. Then they start decreasing in pitch very slowly. At 44:40 it does those weird data codes (don't remember what they're called, but they're under the 'Generate' tab in Audacity, and they sound like 90s motem beeps). Yeah this is painfully obviously an Audacity mangle, if the album art wasn't on-the-nose enough about that already. Those last for a solid two minutes, still on top of the waves (I think they might've stopped slowing down, I can't really tell, that was done pretty seamlessly). Stopping this tonight at 48 minutes, I'll pick back up tomorrow I think. Okay it's the next day. The ambience in the background (I mean, I guess it's foreground, it's the only thing happening. I say background cause it really seems like it's slowly fading to silence) slowly adds things on top of the waves that were there, like this odd whistling sound. Okay, at 59 minutes it's definitely back to normal volume. After messing around in Audacity, I'm like 90% sure this is paulstretch. Another one of those square wave things at 1:04:30. I think it's the same exact soundbyte as earlier. It happens again at 1:07:30, but this time with a treble-based EQ. The normal one happens again at 1:12:30. Now it's pretty fun that they're happening a lot more often. Sadly other than that, this track is really not interesting. Once more at 1:16:50. Happens again at 1:17:55, except this time it's much shorter and a sine wave instead of a square wave. That one happens again at 1:22:20. Happens again at 1:27:15, but lower pitched and with a LITTLE reverb (actually maybe not, but it sounded like when it released there was a ping). Happens again at 1:36:30. Catches me totally off guard every time. Happens again just one minute later! Then RIGHT as it releases, it does it with the square wave. This part's actually a bit interesting! Of course the square wave one is much longer. OOhhh, then as that releases, it does the sine one again, but paulstretched so it has this super ghostly and warbly effect to it! This part's interesting!!! Just took the ENTIRE song to be. Then does it paulstrecthing the square wave! As that one finishes it cuts off and there's still a couple minutes of this somewhat boring ambience left. Fadeout and done. Well that was weird. Somehow REALLY uninteresting, like that was actually surprising. And very disappointing. Kinda sad. The next ones will actually be good though, this was just a random one-off secret track anyways.

Lunar 2

Total Run Time: 61:46

1. Gaia & Theia - 14:38
2. Gravitation - 10:19
3. The Big Splash - 8:49
4. Magma Ocean - 7:15
5. Equilibration - 8:14
6. Luna - 12:34


Shortest one and the first one that's actually CD length! Listened to most of this yesterday (Friday, October 8th) in school, here's some stuff I typed up about it:
Listening to this in class while working on a project for English. This track actually starts off really cool. It’s nice that they’re sorta revisiting concepts. This is sorta like “If we did this again but actually tried this time”. It starts off with this super dark drone that sounds nothing like anything they’ve done before, and then these super cinematic strings kick in. This just feels so massive. Ooh, the drone at 3 minutes in sounds so cool and underwater. Exactly like a Kevin Drumm track. Then this super weird sounding melody kicks in, this also sounds like nothing they’ve done before! Oh and it turns out this is actually some piano with super weird effects put over it. Sounds really cool. Ooh, then 6 minutes in, some super slowed down beat comes on top of the ambience that’s already there. And like a slowed down jazz song? Then reverbed white noise???? Then crazy bangs and rumbles (but not like the ones from The Ultimate Fate of the Universe, these sound like concert bass drums)????? Then it turns into this amazingly cinematic display of bass drums on top of changing strings. This is actually so cool. This doesn’t even sound amateur anymore. Then these crazy honks come over on top of the rhythm and exactly with the rhythm!!! Fades perfectly into the next track with the drums fading out and turning into a new dark ambience that still sounds of the same universe. The track continues with its drone for a while, then develops this dully impending horn sound that eventually gains a quiet slowed backbeat to it. This track isn’t as great as the previous, but it’s still pretty good. By the end it actually turns into a really positive mellotron-ish sounding thing over a beat. That doesn’t go on for so long though as it fades out and moves into the next track. Starts with this weird beat out of slowdown AND bass drums, has a super weird melody on top of it. Continues pretty cool like that for a while until suddenly at the end the beat goes and these strings just randomly turn SUPER cinematic. Then it fades back into the beat for the next track. This track sorta continues the same beat that was just established in the previous track. It is a REALLY weird beat though with this super cool melodic ambience thing in the foreground. It’s so cool. Ends with an ultra reverb of the last note. Pretty cool, not much to say since it doesn’t develop much, but I am REALLY liking this album. Skillwise, it’s better than Goodbye Sol even if I still prefer that experience. This is the first track that DOESN’T fade into the next.
Alright, now we're back home and starting on the track Equilibration. Starts with this really interesting beginning explosion sorta sound. It's really weird too. I'm not totally sure how to describe it, just listen to it. The song is probably one of the least interesting on the album though, it does some drone and eventually turns into strings but that's about it. Fades right into the last track. Continues with a stagnant string drone until a weird slowdown beat comes in on top of it that sounds pretty cool actually. At some point it transitions into more cinematic strings over bass drums, but they're much quieter. Then it goes from that to slowed down jazz??! Actually this time the slowdown sounds pretty high quality... that's nice. Then just sorta fades out. I kinda wish it had a bit of a better ending, but other than that, wow this album was amazing! I totally didn't expect this to be even HIGHER quality than Goodbye Sol. Makes me excited for the future. Right now, it's going under it, but who knows, maybe there actually will be something better than it.

Solar 2

Total Run Time: 61:47

1. Cloud Collapse - 16:32
2. Main Sequence - 15:32
3. Supergiant - 19:51
4. Nova - 9:54


This was probably intentional, but this album is nearly the exact same length as the previous. Starts with this ultra impending glitch pulse that then transitions into this super glitched out slowdown beat (my guess is this sounds like they took the slowdown beat then pitched it up a bunch). It actually sounds really cool. Crazy weird too. It's pretty interesting the whole time, but doesn't change all too much. Next track is a really pleasant drone that fades into some odd pulses. It doesn't change much until about 11 minutes when it completely changes to a more bassy drone. This album sounds a lot more like the quality of tracks on Goodbye Sol. Does a few guitar plucks, fades quieter and then a new melodic ambient section happens. I like this last section a lot. Fades into the next track of course. This is a really hypnotic rhythm going on, then has these weird synth plucks behind it. This is super strange. Reminds me of Mars (the song). A kinda low quality cello comes in then this super glitchy and quiet beat. This is the strangest track ever, I love it. It keeps building up and adding things until around 9 minutes where it all climaxes and stops everything except the original hypnotic pulse. Does some more pretty cool stuff, then gets REAL big at 15 minutes. I have a slight feeling that this track might be entirely a slowdown. But maybe not. Fades really well into the last track, with some nice drones and some nice clacking drums. I quite like this album, though I think Lunar 2 was a bit more impactful. Ooh, around 4 and a half minutes it changes into this weird kinda funeral march thing. I'm not really sure how to describe it but it sounds like boomwhackers on optomistic, but cinematic strings. Really nice ending section, but could've had a more impactfu ACTUAL ending. Pretty good. Now onto the bonus track (yes, this album has one too).

Total Eclipse

Total Run Time: 11:44

1. Total Eclipse - 11:44


This is found in pretty much the same way as the Goodbye Sol bonus track is found: Comments lead you to an html page which when 'view page source'ed contain a bit.ly link to the mediafire link. Cool. Also the metadata of this track has the lyrics link you to the FREE ENERGY html page (the one with the bit.ly link encoded in it). Anyways this starts out super cool. This weird glitch thing that has these kinda wobbly or clippy pulsing things. Idk, it's weird. Then these cellos kick in and it sorta feels like an extention to Supergiant (these sound like the same cellos actually). Then this weird beat comes in, I guess what makes this weird actually is it's notably less weird than the past 2 hours of music I've heard so... take that how you will I suppose. This is a decent track, but not really as good as the other stuff. I can see why it's just a bonus track. I liked the beginning a lot more.

Parallel Dimensions

Total Run Time: 156:34

1. Spring - 21:05
2. Antares - 19:07
3. First Quarter - 11:38
4. Reionization - 13:19
5. Event Horizon - 18:11
6. Radiation Domination - 13:04
7. Third Quarter - 10:03
8. Winter - 14:27
9. The Cosmic Desecrator - 18:21
10. VV Cephei - 17:19


Already even before listening I really enjoy the concept of this album: do-overs of some of their older tracks, but if they actually tried (sorta like the same ideas in Lunar 2 and Solar 2!). Even looking at these names, you can see which albums these came from: Tracks 1 and 8 from Solar, tracks 2 and 10 from Stars, tracks 3 and 7 from Lunar, tracks 4 and 6 from The Ultimate Fate Of The Universe, and tracks 5 and 9 from Eternal Darkness Vortex. According to Discogs, they at some point said (and I can't find where they said this) "2017 marks 10 years of Nǽnøĉÿbbœrğ. Parallel Dimensions commemorates this anniversary with 10 re-edited versions of some of our classic tracks." This also has one of my favorite album artworks from them (I do really love their album art). The only metadata "secret" on this one is just that the comments of track 6 display the number 0 for whatever reason, maybe even on accident. Alright, wrote this all today, I'll do the listening part tomorrow, I'm hella tired. Alright, it's tomorrow now [Sunday, October 10th] here we go. Okay so Spring starts with this super nice ultra deep drone. Doesn't sound like a slowdown, just a super bassy drone. Reminds me of some Kevin Drumm and Bull of Heaven moments. This is their closest thing to true dark ambient yet. Shame it clips quite a bit in some points, but this is a super cool track, I like. Alright, Anteres starts with something that sounds exactly like their slowdowns of past. OH SHOOT. REALLY FAR IN THE BACKGROUND you can hear the melody that's from the second to last track on the Stars EP. Then it fades more in and becomes more prominent, some reverb comes over the whole thing! It's like they took this concept from the one track and tried to actually do something with it. Or maybe it isn't, listening to it more now, it seems to be just a shorter, better audio quality version of the one on Stars. It even loops for a few times. Okay so maybe this is just shortened versions of previous tracks. Now that I think about it, Spring was a really good ambient track off Solar. Regardless, this concept works a lot better than their original tracks of massive lengths that go absolutley nowhere through their runtime. Then fades out into First Quarter, some super glitched out sounds resulting from slowdown artifacts. I'll give it this: It's interesting to revisit the slowdown concept in a more condensed form, because some of the sounds actually were interesting and could've worked if they weren't parts of unchanging, multi-hour tracks. This track's also actually interesting, I remember the beat being really distorted and it also has this super nice dungeon-synth ambient in the back. For those same reasons, the tracks Reionization and Event Horizon actually work a lot better than they did in the context of their larger forms. Especially Event Horizon which is this odd series of quiet plucks now. Event Horizon also has a really nice melody that kicks in around 13:30. Radiation Domination is the piano section, so it's actually pretty nice. Especially given it's now out of the context of being a major slowdown. Third Quarter actually proves to be a really nice dark ambient track in this sense. These tracks are also so much better since they've been better mastered and don't clip to oblivion anymore. Only Spring clips, and it's just a bit. This is so much more bearable! Winter is different than the rest of these tracks cause Winter's actually still crazy amplified and is one of the very beaty sections, so it sounds like these super noisy bangs. But again, it works in this context!!! The Cosmic Desecrator contains probably the best section of Eternal Darkness Vortex (other than the hidden track at the end). The last track they include the very first clip of VV Cephei which is actually a bit nostalgic at this point, this listening project has been going for so long. So it's really just the wind noises at the beginning and doesn't delve into much of the blood-curtling shit. Anyways, decent album actually. A bit disappointed since I originally thought this would be full-on reworkings, but still these songs are better than their original counterparts.

Dark Matter

Total Run Time: 102:46

1. Dark Energy - 9:49
2. Absolute Zero - 12:46
3. Cosmic Background Radiation - 2:38
4. Nemesis - 8:55
5. Quantum Foam - 2:54
6. Graviton - 10:27
7. The Noosphere - 13:10
8. Tachyon - 3:22
9. Black Body Radiation - 4:26
10. Manifold - 8:30
11. Supersymmetry - 3:11
12. Dark Matter - 22:37


Another super interesting one conceptually. Its track titles (which I've censored in case you want to find them out for yourself) are only revealed via a somewhat elaborate puzzle that takes you through quite a few hidden webpages. This album also has a bonus track... maybe. Actually probably not. I'm not sure. Point is, when word got around that the track names were figured out, Nanocyborg put out a comment on one of their YouTube vids (I think it was the full upload of this album) saying "Congrats on completing the warmup. Now find the hidden track." I wouldn't put it past them that there's actually no hidden track and they just made that up. But maybe there is and just nobody cares enough about this band to find it. Anyways, time to actually listen to this thing rather than just talk about it. First track starts out with this real low quality synth sound. Then some small ambient sparkly things come in the background about a minute in. It's a pretty cool atmosphere, some real nice subtle effects here. Sounds a lot like a cut off Goodbye Sol. Actually after a while, this track develops this super calming atmosphere that doesn't stray into the cinematic territory and manages to be one of my favorite things I've heard from them. Then the next track's this absolutely haunting atmosphere. This is already proving to be a brilliant ambient album. Around 5:30, this ammbient background starts producing these super nice super weird pulses of melancholy that are louder than anything previously in the song. Third track starts with these super gritty phaser pulses and these weird clipping square waves, this is maybe the most interesting sound they've created. Because it's so short, the fact that that noise lasts the whole length of the track is actually a GOOD thing. Next track starts out quiet and sounds like these weird cosmic static pulses that are super into the background but then these really loud glitches come up on top of it and now THESE might be the weirdest sounds this band has created. Then this Stars of the Lid-esque ambience comes in and wow, this track is actually amazing. Even some synth plucks come in near the end!! This is one of the strangest, but most calmingly amazing atmospheres I've ever heard, and this might actually be their best track they've made. Well, best track under an hour. Track 5 takes a bit to actually be audible, but it's this really crunchy and quiet manipulated static that produces a super interesting noise wall of sorts, though it IS super quiet. Track 6 is a bit of a quiet melodic track. The melodies sound like slowed down voices, but they also might be timestretched and transposed to actually create the melodies. But they sound like the sounds ORIGINATE from voices. At 4 minutes though, this distorted vibraphone-ish sound comes over it. Yeah, this album is definitely better than Lunar 2, and that was an amazing album. The question: will this beat out Goodbye Sol by the end? I don't think so, because while this album is really cool, I don't know if I'd think AS highly of it if it were simply under the guise of a normal ambient album under some other artist's name. But it's the context that counts, the whole theme of space is incredibly interesting and the artist(s) behind it actually do make the overall project more impactful! Meanwhile, Goodbye Sol is just simply amazing. Although by now, this particular track has surpassed "great" status and become amazing. And right as I say that, turns out there's ten seconds left. Oh jeez, track 7 starts out with this super strange and rhythmic metallic texture. Then this super distorted voice comes into the background, and then what sounds like slowed down gamelan fades in (ALWAYS love gamelan). And just as I was thinking that this track isn't too interesting as it goes on for a while, around 5 minutes in, this really high pitched texture comes in and I can't tell what it is at all. Some voices or breathing? I have no clue it's something that sounds completely out of place, but in a somehow good way. Randomly at 10:30 the original noise stops and becomes this weirdly bombastic and cinematic background noise atop the continuing slowed down gamelan. Actually I think this background noise might be a slowdown. It's hard to tell anymore. Track 8's a pretty cool rhythm but it tends to fade into the background and not really go anywhere. Track 9 starts with this soothingly obnoxious pulsing alarm-esque sound, again, really interesting. There's some experiments with filters and reverb done to it progressively. Then about 3 minutes in, this super intense beat comes over it, easily the loudest thing on this album so far. Track 10 isn't too interesting. Track 11 has probably the highest pitch sequence of loud pitches in a row, since it goes through this somewhat sizable section of higher pitched melodies for a while. Anyways, it's now the next day, Monday, and we're on the last track. Starts off super quiet with these fleeting textures. At 6 minutes these weird pulsing slighty melodic tones come in, sounds sorta like number stations but it's very obviously its own thing. Then at 8 minutes, these very subtle bass drums come in and make this super quiet drone a lot more impactful. They also have this subtle melody in them. Then that melody slowly fades into the foreground. The beat fades back into silence a couple times. After fading back to silence for a while, at 16:30, these piano and chime notes come into the foreground. They were here earlier, but much quieter. Then it just ends with a fadeout of a quiet and ominous drone. Brilliant ending. Brilliant album. These are some sounds I never really expected to be made by them, they sound so professional. I love this.

ἐπιστήμη & τέχνη, Marching Hand in Hand to Ω•

Total Run Time: 137:18

1. ἐπιστήμη & τέχνη, Marching Hand in Hand to Ω• - 137:18


Finally - the trilogy of extremely long singles that I've been excited for this whole time. I have absolutely no clue what any of these will sound like, but I'm very hopeful. These had the BIGGEST draw in factors. Starts with this really nice ambient fade in, then these electro pulses coupled with super-reverbed strings. It sounds ultra cool right now. These electronic pulses get reverbed at points. It's an extremely interesting texture. Some metallic sounds too? A couple separate string tracks layered over each other? Then some other separate pulses which sound like interesting synth plucks. This is so interesting and we're only 4 minutes in!!! Quite a few layers and it changes quite a bit. Then at 8 minutes those textures all go away and it's then this SUPER interesting beat paired with these really weird pulsing textures, this is insane!!! It countinues these insnae beats, slows them down some, adds impactful melodies up until ONLY 16 minutes in (this is insanely variant for an over 2 hour piece). Then the beats fade out and reveal this quiet, but amazingly calming drone. At 22 minutes in, these really interesting pulsing strings come in. And then they fade out to reveal this melody that comes in at 23 minutes but quickly gets pretty distorted. Then this other weird distorted thing fades in, leading into a slowed down dubstep segment (I think). Wow, if this continues as amazing as it is, this might pass Goodbye Sol... I don't know how I feel about that. Then THAT turns into just another super interesting beat with this weird manipulated static over it. Then it goes into a DIFFERENT beat that plays its course while still developing for quite some time. There's points where it sort of fades while something else overtakes, there's points where other ambience comes on top, there's points where it's quite a bit more staticy, there's points where there's less treble, etc. It still manages to be pretty interesting the whole time. The beat ends at 44 minutes leaving just a weird set of a few ambient textures layered over each other, then this harpsichord like synth pluck melody comes in. Then it really sounds vaporwavey, with those calming synth plucks atop this quiet and slowed beat. Then these other synths come in! This sounds like it might be a slowed down Autechre song... It fades out around 58 minutes where this weird chime pattern comes in that continues to be super calming as well as interesting. At 67 minutes, a new beat comes over the chime patterns and continues a calming atmosphere similar to the Autechre-sounding one from before the chimes. Starts a pretty cool melody actually, I quite like it. At 75 mins, it fades out and now it's bass notes on top of windy sounds, which again is quite cool! Then this stagnant low pitched sawtooth wave thing comes in with a pulse on top of it. Then these impending strings. A weird series of string pulses. Then those completely go away and this vaporwaved thing at 80 minutes comes in, not totally sure how to describe it but it really just sounds slightly slowed and reverbed, also it's a lot more in the background than the foreground. And then it becomes a totally different beat too! So yeah, some other super weird stuff happens. It's surprising how much you miss if you tune out for just a little. At around 1 hour 45 minutes, it gets pretty quiet for a while, with just some almost inaudible guitar plucks. Then a somewhat loud marimba note at 1:48... Then it goes into this pretty impending doom beat section. Then it goes into ANOTHER one! Then this other quieter drone section, followed by another really cool beat with these melodies that do a lot for me. The the beat goes and it's just these really strong melodies. Then, this marching field drum kicks in with this cinematic music behind it with just 5 minutes left. Then it ends with this dubstep thing. Pretty cool. Doesn't actually do a fadeout like all of their other tracks, ends with the thing. Yeah this song is great, amazing even. Still ranking Goodbye Sol higher just because this has some parts that don't do as much for me and maybe changes a bit too fast to just random things. But still amazing.

10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 Gs of Artificial Gravity

Total Run Time: 100:44

1. 10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 Gs of Artificial Gravity - 100:44


Alright, for real this time. I'll be real, I got a little burnt out after the last one, so I've taken some time (also I haven't really had any time until now) and it's currently [SATURDAY, OCTOBER 23]. Printing some CDs right now and listening to this one. It actually starts out pretty dope. Some high pitched drone thing, then this slow, but ultra bombastic beat with crazy synths behind it. Then the pitches start increasingly going up, and it hard cuts into another really bombastic thing. Around 7 minutes in, it starts to clip through the speakers pretty bad. Its only been 7 minutes and we're already 3 segments in, wow. Anyways, not too much to gush about here, although it's pretty cool for a very long time. Unlike the last one, it doesn't switch from ambient section to beat-based section, it's just entirely beat-based. This one also focuses on a lot of harder electronic stuff (think dubstep type shit). Though it's pretty cool! Feels sorta like a really off-kilter DJ mix of sorts, though also like it was generated. Those slow cymbals always sound super nice too. Sometimes it sounds like tracks off of Goodbye Sol. Ooh, then at 39 minutes it does a shift from the beats and starts doing these ethereal trance synths on top of this really nice ambience. The beats come back in, and this super nice ambience is still there, it feels fatiguing in just about the best way possible, just like a super chillout track, but with super-blasting beats on top of it. Kinda like You Fantastic! Oh jeez, at 46 minutes, some of the loudest beats in the entire thing come in and again, somehow it really works! This whole thing has just been building up for the past entire length of the song, and I feel like this time the project actually has a lot of direction whereas ἐπιστήμη & τέχνη, Marching Hand in Hand to Ω• lost points for its lack of direction. 54 minutes in has some REAL interesting rhythmic noise, I can't tell if it's part of the sample, sampled from elsewhere, or generated. Segment 79 minutes in has some really nice synths, plus around here it gets super intense again. This whole track really is just awesome start to finish. Ends with a real nice drone fadeout. Absolutely brilliant.

The All

Total Run Time: 190:26

1. The All - 190:26


Well... here we are. The last one. Currently [MONDAY, OCTOBER 25th, 2021 (we have the day off)] and embarking upon this absolute journey. Unlike the last couple I recall this one being primarily ambient (I think I remember coming across this album before anything else by them a few years ago then promptly forgetting about them). And yeah, it starts with this booming, all-encompasing ambience that's actually amazing. There's some guitar eventually, but it's not in the harder beat-based style of the previous two, it's in an ambient style, serving greater effect. This is starting out amazing, if it continues as powerful as these first 7 minutes, it could easily be their best work. And holy crap, 15 minutes in right when I was thinking they couldn't top themselves, these AMAZING synths come in, with absolutely perfect texture, everything just feels calm and impending at the same time, this is an almost unrivalled texture. Reminds me somewhat of Leyland Kirby's work. Then there's this long piano section with still an amazing drone behind it! And then at 27 minutes in, another weird synth patch melody! So what I'm getting from this is it's gonna be like the last release, except instead of being somewhat of a DJ mix of weird slowed dubstep, it's gonna be somewhat of a DJ mix of weird slowed melodies/ambient textures (which is really just amazing of course). There's another piano section that clips pretty badly. First beats kick in at 42 minutes on top of a stagnant drone and a fairly dissonant and disjointed piano section. Some of these sounds get super trippy. At around 50 minutes or so, it actually has quite a few different sounds layered on top of each other, layering in an out, it sounds quite chaotic, but awesome. Holy shit, at 54 minutes, all the sounds go away for this super euphoric synthline. Yeah this whole thing is a lot more euphoric and chill than most of their stuff. Less cinematic and impending. Every section is just so great that I can't even mention all of them, it's insane how well this is being executed. Ooh, at 84 minutes, a field recording comes in! This really is just if God Is A Systems Architect were shorter and better executed. Also some slowed vocals on top of it which sound amazing! (Because they're quieter). This section's insanely powerful. The piano here gets super impactful as well. Overall, some amazing textures that are unique to this release only and completely struggle to be emulated elsewhere. There's still an hour left and it's still relentlessly amazing. This extremely long piano/drone outtro is where it loses some points for me, it's basically the whole last third (an entire hour) of the track. Don't get me wrong, it's still awesome and amazing, it just gets very boring after meandering for a while. But it definitely feels like an end of the entire band. I don't think they're gonna come back this time. Ok after that segment, the last 20 minutes start with a beat that comes in, then it suddenly becomes a faster version of itself. At the end it becomes the LOUDEST its been the entire track and just full on climaxes into this cinematic impending beat on top of these pulsating synths. Then that fades out, and some of the textures from earlier in the track come in. Then they slow down and it's this super weird dissonant cacophony, sounds similar to Bull of Heaven actually. A short fadeout and end. Wow. Amazing. It's really sad to see this come to an end, the band thats been torturing me since the beginning of August. And now it's the last week of October. Here we are. I can't believe I've done it. This is quite possibly the hardest listening project I've ever embarked upon, yet I can't say I regret it. This was the most fun one since RINGEX PLASTER, although certainly less rewarding at times. Really felt like I was chunking through something big though. Portioned absolutely perfectly. Goodbye all. Time to finish the RINGEX PLASTER reviews (if you didn't know, I had started working on the .2 EPs, currently I'm actually pretty far through the 34 hour one. Also they released 3 new albums and EPs, so those will keep me busy for a bit). Seeya!

NǽnøĉÿbbŒrğ VbëřřĦōlökäävsŦ

Total Run Time: 119:46

1. I - 11:07
2. II - 5:10
3. III - 13:43
4. IV - 4:37
5. V - 25:10
6. VI - 10:12
7. VII - 6:06
8. VIII - 14:41
9. IX - 19:17
10. X - 9:43


And we all thought they were gone for good. But they're back!!! In sort-of celebration (but mostly because my life is terrible right now), I've started listening to Bull of Heaven's 2-month long album, 118: The Chosen Priest And Apostle Of Infinite Space. Anyhow, this is insanely exciting, and I found out about this like a month late. Probably my favorite artwork out of all of their albums, they've always been great at that (although I think this is something AI-Generated, then manipulated). Well, first track starts with this slow looping beat which sounds pretty cool as well as these looping pads. Then about halfway through, this beat which sounds like it was made out of paulstretched percussion comes in. And then some sort of melody thing? Idk, this one's pretty minimalist. Some pretty cool springy sounds at 6 minutes in. Track actually ends up going through a lot of development, then at the end it's just a steady bass drum with nothing else. Pretty cool actually. Second track starts with this super cool glitch effect thing. Probably one of my favorite noises I've ever heard from them. And then there's a strange little melody thing that comes in about a minute in. Pretty cool track, I like it better than the first one. III starts with some iconic slow percussion and this insanely cool reverse melody thing that's super pleasant. Speeding it up in Audacity... yeah it doesn't sound like they made it, sounds like an unedited trance song :(. So does I actually, damn. II at least sounds entirely original. IV is a full-on ambient track with a lot of higher frequencies. Likely a combination of multiple layered atmospheres, but whatever, it's cool. V starts with this slow piano that develops a few of itself layered over itself with some effects on it. Then there's some really interesting pixellated textures in the back. Definitely my favorite so far, and we're only 4 minutes in. Also sounds pretty original so far. Yeah it sounds like a full on Leyland Kirby track. The piano is definitely sourced from somewhere, but I really love what they did with it. Then these strange notes come in at 11 minutes and they're totally out of key, this is so strange but I love it. Then it's like a whole other song takes its place, and I'm pretty sure this one's a slowdown. I'll check when it's over. At this point, these guys are vaporwave artists. Anyhow, just sped this up, and I think they did actually layer a few things on top, so it's not ENTIRELY slowdown. Track VI is almost definitely some dnb track slowed down. It's got an amen-style beat to it anyhow. Holy shit I think this is the Impossible Game practice mode music. Lol that's amazing. YES THAT IS WHAT IT IS. Track 7 is some Muzak thing slowed down. Actually I think they might've done the loop themselves and layered some strange jazz piano over it. Along with possibly a reverb effect? Not too sure. VIII was a real nice atmosphere. Seems to be not much more than synth pads they slowed down, but it's nice. It does get a bit dissonant sometimes which is nice. Yeah I think they created that one entirely on their own. Sorta like the dungeon synth track from their very first album. IX has some super crazy sounds, a lot of slowdown stuff too. Yeah this one might be entirely slowdown, not sure though. It could be an assemblage of textures. It's some crazy sounds that *could* be a slowed down synth, but I'll have to check after I'm done listening. Okay so I put it into Audacity, it's a loop of three chord progressions that happens 9 times with some extra effects that slowly get added. It's an alright track, not really that interesting. I quite like the atmosphere in this last track. Really nice ambience. It got boring, but whatever. Overall, mediocre album that I don't really care too much for. Nice to see a comeback though, I'm excited for the future. But I want more ridiculously long albums. There hasn't been any listworthy in a while. We need another Goodbye Sol type venture!!!

II

Total Run Time: 142:22

1. I - 4:46
2. II - 8:35
3. III - 11:31
4. IV - 6:18
5. V - 11:00
6. VI - 4:18
7. VII - 12:18
8. VIII - 9:30
9. IX - 8:32
10. X - 5:42


Well, I certainly didn't expect this. ANOTHER Nanocyborg release pretty soon after the last one, seemingly a companion album. Well, on their YouTube they did put out a couple ten hour versions of tracks from the previous album. Not going to be reviewing those because they're just YouTube videos and also they're loops of tracks from the previous album. So while it might be nice to sit in that atmosphere for a while, it's kinda pointless. Again, sorry these projects have been taking so long for me to update. I have been listening to the 2 month long Bull of Heaven album (it's actually almost done. Today is Wednesday, December 21st, I'm on Christmas Break, and there's like two days of this album left). Anyhow, now that I have a bit of free time, I'm gonna try and catch up on some listening projects. I think what I want to do first is listen to this, then get through the WTC compilation, then re-review RINGEX PLASTER 1.1 (that's the last thing I have to do in the RINGEX PLASTER universe). Right now, I'm listening to Hymn to the Immortal Wind by MONO. Recently got into them, they're an amazing post rock band. This album's great, but Pure as Snow and Everlasting Light are by far the best tracks.
Right, so immediately this one starts out way noisier. I mean, it's basically a noise track until it launches into this super heavy and impending beat (almost definitely a vaporwave of something). Second track is even more hardcore. The bass of this beat absolutely POUNDS. Yeah, so these tracks are considerably more electro-industrial than before. I mean, they're alright so far. First three tracks have more or less been vaporwave electro-industrial shit. VII is weird, it sounds like it could straight up be an Autechre track. Yeah, it's not a very good album. SUPER obvious vaporwaves here with almost nothing added on them. Unless I'm mistaken and all of this is 100% original. Which you shouldn't fault me for being weary of.