Sundaze (on the cover)

Hello, finally time for a new Sundaze, Rho-Xs is history but life goes on and so does Sundaze, with Inside Out specials as before..Today there's two artists who find themselves in the avant garde yet didnt hesitate to establish their point of music in taking on much more commercially successful artists like Depeche Mode and Gary Numan..In a way Thaemlitz and Chaveau prove that electronic based music lends itself very well to reinterpretation. In Thaemlitz case recognising the original track isn't that obvious, Chaveau together with the night ensemble makes it easier as the classical acoustic set gives the vocals room to come to the fore..you can check out the vid ive added..

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Terre Thaemlitz - Replicas Rubato ( 137mb)

New York-based composer Terre Thaemlitz is one of only a handful of significant American artists working in the new ambient vein. He's released the bulk of his material through the Instinct Ambient label, but has also issued tracks (under his own name and as Chugga) on his own Comatonse label and through others. Although Thaemlitz's entre into electronic came in a somewhat traditional fashion -- as a house DJ -- his explorations in electronic abstraction have been anything but, focusing on themes of abjection, alienation, fracture, and contradiction in his music. Thaemlitz's recorded work, collected on albums such as Tranquilizer and Soil, is closer in tone to ambient-leaning industrialists He's also recorded with Bill Laswell, releasing Web in 1995, and done remix work for Interpieces Organization and the Golden Palaminos, among others. 

Born in Minnesota and raised in Missouri, Thaemlitz moved to New York in the mid-'80s to pursue art scholarship at Cooper Union. Soon distracted by the growing New York house scene, he began DJing at drag balls and benefits, leading to an Underground Grammy for best DJ in 1991. Although primarly a dancefloor DJ, Thaemlitz's insistence upon integrating house music's more simplistic monotony with challenging, complicated breaks and references earned him an uneasy relationship with club promoters looking for DJs whose only commitment was the 4/4 beat. Retiring from club DJing in the early '90s (although he continues to spin experimental electronic music at art galleries, one-offs, and in other marginal contexts), Thaemlitz began making his own tracks, beginning with house but quickly moving into genre defying fusions of funk, soul, disco, and musique concrete, and eventually settling into experimental ambient. One of his earliest works, "Raw from a Straw," in addition to limited release through his own Comatonse label, appeared on an early ambient compilation on Instinct, and earned him an almost instant reputation. He's since fortified that with a pair of full-length releases remarkably free of many of the cliched conventions of club-drived ambient. 

Electro-acoustician Thaemlitz took the long road around expectation for his Mille Plateaux debut, opting for a set of solo piano extrapolations of songs by Kraftwerk,, "Roboter Rubato" . Built on a high-clearing deck of post-industrial cultural analysis over the course of its seven-plus pages of liner notes, the music on the disc requires little in the way of explanation. Thaemlitz' sparse, inventive interpretations are pleasing enough on their own. Thaemlitz: " I don't play piano, but I've always been aware of the ability for persistent "unskilled" improvisation to invoke a sense of competency, if not virtuosity. 2 years later he released another tribute , this time to his childhood favourite, Gary Numan, Replicas Rubato (Mille Plateaux, 1999), both accompanied by thoughtful, philosophical liner notes. 

The theoretical component of the program gets a little out of hand with Means From An End (Mille Plateaux, 1998), Institutional Collaborative (Mille Plateaux, 1998), Love For Sale (Mille Plateaux, 1999), Interstices (Mille Plateaux, 2000), all of them based on computer processing of found sounds. Fagjazz (Comatonse, 2000) is a two-disc monolith. The first disc is an anthology of early, hard to find tracks. The second disc is an hour of improvisation with a jazz ensemble. In 2001 he relocated to Japan. in 2003 Terre released Lovebomb (Mille Plateaux,, yet another exercise in collage of samples and tape manipulation that rarely (Between Empathy and Sympathy is Time, Sintesi Musicale del Linciaggio Futurista) elicits emotions and most often sounds like advertising for the specific devices that he is using. 

A new project, KS.HE (Kami-Sakunobe House Explosion), devoted to deep-house music, debuted with Routes Not Roots (2006).



01 - Stormtrooper In Drag
02 - Down In The Park
03 - Dream Of Siam
04 - Friends
05 - Sister Surprise
06 - Cars
07 - Cry The Clock Said
08 - Praying To The Angels
09 - Slowcar To China
10 - Jo The Waiter
11 - Please Push No More
12 - (hidden) Down In The Park (electronic)

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Sylvain Chauveau & Ensemble Nocturne - Down to the bone ( 93mb)

Sylvain Chauveau was born in Bayonne, France (1971), and now lives in Brussels, Belgium. He has made solo records on labels such as Type, FatCat, Nature Bliss, and Les Disques du Soleil et de l'Acier: minimal compositions for piano, strings, wind instruments, electronics, and sometimes voice. He runs the label Onement , whose aim is to release one-off, one-copy vinyl records.

Chauveau started out in the Toulouse alt-rock/post-rock outfit Watermelon Club. Formed in 1994, it released two compilation tracks, a couple of singles, a 7" EP, and one full-length album, [Str:m] in 1997. A year later, disappointed by a certain lack of commitment from the other members of the group and eager to earn a living with his music, the young Chauveau asked Frédéric Luneau, a guitarist and electronician who engineered some of Watermelon Club's sessions, to join him in a new project. Their debut CD Photosphere was released in 1999 by Noise Museum and, although only a first step, received much critical acclaim in Europe and America. The release of Human on Alice in Wonder the next year consolidated their underground success.

He’s performed worldwide (Europe, America, Asia), toured with Sigur Ros (2002, 2003), played with Fennesz, Bernhard Günter, Phil Durrant, Nikos Veliotis, Pierre-Yves Macé, and did remixes for several artists. Sylvain Chauveau also plays with Arca (with Joan Cambon, avant-rock band), Ensemble 0 on Creative Sources recordings (experimental music ensemble, with Maitane Sebastian, Joël Merah and Stéphane Garin ), On (with percussionist Steven Hess, minimal improvised music) and Félicia Atkinson (in concert and performed on her first album "Roman anglais").

Sylvain Chauveau composed a piece whose duration is seven years ("Composition 11"), with very long silences inside (sometimes several months). He's made soundtracks for films by Sébastien Betbeder (including "Nuage", long feature film, 2007). He also did the original musics for "Feathers in my Head" (selected at the Cannes Festival of films 2003) by Thomas de Thier. He's worked for choreographers (Pierre Rigal / Aurélien Bory, Serge Ricci) and for writers: Mark Z. Danielewski ("The House of Leaves", "Only Revolutions"), Félicia Atkinson, Joris Lacoste.

His first solo CD Le Livre Noir du Capitalisme (The Black Book Of Capitalism) came out in 2000. The album was recently remastered and rereleased on vinyl in the UK, the title sure raises the eyebrows these days. In 2003 he released Un Autre Decembre, short pieces of acoustic piano, reflective, peaceful, each note contemplated with care, this got him noted outside France. It was the follow up to Nocturne Impalpable (2002) . In 2004 he did the soundtrack for Des Plumes dans la Tête before getting together with Ensemble Nocturne to do Down To The Bone a DM tribute album. Evidently a labour of love to put together, a fact which marbles every aspect of this record; starting with the choked reading of 'Stripped' and ending 45 minutes later with the shuffling instrumentation and high-end clicks of 'Enjoy the Silence'. Chaveau's masterful piano is entwined throughout by Ensemble Nocturne; a classically trained 5-piece whose forlorn accompaniment nonetheless carbonates 'Down to the Bone's unvarnished predilection with enough bite to elevate well beyond the soporific foothills oft associated with such endeavours. Whether you're a dedicated Depeche denizen or have never been overly fond of their oeuvre, 'Down to the Bone' provides equal delights as both a gorgeous set of stripped down 21st Century torch songs and as a DM tribute.

In 2007 Sylvain released two albums, music for Sébastien Betbeder's films "Nuage" and "Les Mains D'Andréa" aswell as "S" , pieces composes for the dance show "Au nombre des choses" (All thing among things) by Compagnie Mi-Octobre / Serge Ricci.

Sylvain is also a member of the avant-rock band Arca (with Joan Cambon), of the ensemble 0 (with Maitane Sebastian, Stéphane Garin and Joël Merah), and of the improv duo ON (with Steven Hess).



01 - Stripped (5:01)
02 - The Things You Said (3:57)
03 - Home (4:55)
04 - Policy Of Truth (3:34)
05 - Death's Door (3:16)
06 - (Enjoy) The Silence (0:45)
07 - In Your Room (5:05)
08 - Blasphemous Rumours (4:10)
09 - Freelove (3:08)
10 - Never Let Me Down Again (5:39)



11 - Enjoy The Silence (4:25)

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