Khonnor - Live from Saint Johnsbury, Vermont (2004)

Release Date: 2004
Origin: United States
Genre: IDM, Electrofolk, Shoegaze, Soundscape
Label: Please Do Something
Site: http://www.typerecords.com/artists/full.php?id=24
Tracklist:
1. Basement Key 555
2. Crapstone
3. The eyes Of The Older Car Drivers Do Shine

Download Link: http://rapidshare.com/files/239359225/Khonnor_-_Live_from_Saint_Johnsbury__Vermont.rar

Khonnor - Burning Palace (2006)

Release Date: 2006

Origin: United States

Genre: IDM, Shoegaze

Label: Type Records

Site: http://www.typerecords.com/artists/full.php?id=24

Tracklist:

1. Burning Palace

2. Heat Convex Dreaming

Download Link: http://rapidshare.com/files/239348618/Khonnor_-_Burning_Palace.rar

Khonnor - Lost Pets (2003)

Release Date: 2003
Origin: United States
Genre: IDM, Ambient, Soundscape, Shoegaze
Label: Please Do Something
Site: http://www.typerecords.com/artists/full.php?id=24
Tracklist:
1. Executioner The Rat
2. Rooms
3. Coffin Story
4. Cantelopps
5. Crab Foils (Fast Foils!)
6. I Was Everything You Wanted Until I Quit

Download link: http://rapidshare.com/files/238639359/Khonnor_-_Lost_Pets.rar

Khonnor - Handwriting (2005)

The next ten posts you'll be able to download work of Connor Long, a 22 years old musician from USA who started to publish work when he was only 15. Besides his age, another thing that have surprised to critics, reviewers, fans and other musicians is that he has several names that can be defined as half the way between heteronyms and pseudonyms. Honestly, I think they can be defined more as heteronyms because each different name has a well-defined style and musical structure. So, when we talk about Khonnor, Grandma, I, Cactus, or Gaza Faggot, we are talking about the same person but a different musician. Hope you like these next EP's & albums.

Cheers.

Release Date: August 22, 2005

Origin: United States

Genre: IDM, Ambient, Electrofolk, Shoegaze

Label: Type Records

Site: http://www.typerecords.com/artists/full.php?id=24

Tracklist:

1. Man From The Anthill

2. Daylight And Delight

3. Megan's Present

4. Dusty

5. Crapstone

6. Kill2

7. A Little Secret

8. An Ape Is Loose

9. Phone Calls From You

10. The Stoned Night

11. Screen Love, Space And The Time Man

12. I Was Everything You Wanted Until You Quit

13. Tattletalent (Encore)

Download Link: http://rapidshare.com/files/238635173/Khonnor_-_Handwriting.rar

Lights Out Asia - Eyes Like Brontide (2008)

Date Released: August, 2008
Origin: United States
Genre: Shoegaze, Downtempo, Post-Rock, Ambient
Label: n5MD
Site: http://www.lightsoutasia.com
Tracklist:

1. A Day Towards Other Days
2. Radars Over The Ghosts Of Chernobyl
3. X-33
4. Psiu! Puxa!
5. The Wrong Message Could End You
6. MIR
7. Garmonia
8. If I Die, I Wish You A Horrible Death
9. Six Points Of Fire
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n5MD trio Lights Out Asia are old hands when it comes to marrying post-IDM electronic ambience and ethereal, shoegaze-inspired songwriting. Their 2003 album Garmonia has come to be very highly regarded within the field, and five years on the dreamy textures of Eyes Like Brontide find the band on fine form. Combining brief, two-minute dream-pop miniatures with full-blown ten minute epics, the album's narrative keeps you locked in, delivering highlights such as the reverb drenched 'Radars Over The Ghosts Of Chernobyl' and the impeccable, otherworldly falsetto of 'If I Die, I Hope You Die A Horrible Death'. Intent on going out with a bang, 'Six Points Of Fire' builds up over the course of eleven minutes, combining digital soundscaping with soaring guitar before eventually arriving at a combustive crescendo, rammed with high density noise and metallic overtones.

Review taken from: http://www.boomkat.com/item.cfm?id=136066&highlight=136078

Download link: http://rapidshare.com/files/154415517/Lights_Out_Asia_-_Eyes_Like_Brontide.rar.html

Lights Out Asia - Tanks And Recognizers (2007)

Date Released: July 17, 2007
Origin: United States
Genre: Shoegaze, Downtempo, Post-Rock
Label: n5MD
Site: http://www.lightsoutasia.com/
Tracklist:

1. Roy
2. Ring Of Stars
3. Four Square
4. Oh! Toronto
5. March Against The Savages
6. Lilies Of The Subway
7. Art Divided By Science
8. Drift/Fade
9. Spiti Elefas
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Wisconsin post-celestial-shoegazer trio Lights Out Asia delivers their sophomore full length and debut for n5MD titled Tanks and Recognizers. This follow-up to their critic and fan favorite Garmonia (sun sea sky) pushes their sound far forward with a palpable intensity by giving a seemingly subliminal nod to some of the more electronically minded ethereal bands of the mid 80s to early 90s like Breathless, Chapterhouse, My Bloody Valentine or even the more emotionally rich moments of Colourbox. Lights Out Asia who is actually influenced more by a more current crop of like-minded artists such as Mogwai, Massive Attack, and Robin Guthrie’s various works, blend them all, the erstwhile and contemporary, with an updated style, feel and modern expansiveness. Tanks and Recognizers is a cinematic and ambitiously crafted album which could easily fit into any indie rock or electronic music collection. Soaring, floating, and moving forward as it pulls you in to its hopeful heart consuming ebb and flow of electronics, guitars and lofty vocal yearning. Tanks and Recognizers is that perfect album for those days when the horizon and sky are of the same hue and for those moments where every perspective is so gorgeously blurred.

Review taken from: http://www.n5md.com/discography.php?catno=148
Download link: http://rapidshare.com/files/154437193/Lights_Out_Asia_-_Tanks_and_Recognizers.rar.html

Lights Out Asia - Garmonia (2003)

Date Released: 2003

Origin: United States

Genre: Shoegaze, Downtempo, Post-Rock, Ambient

Label: n5MD

Site: http://www.lightsoutasia.com/

Tracklist:

1. Knockknock
2. You’re All On Display
3. Chapters Of A Red Sky
4. Promontory Cemetery
5. Absence Of Oceans
6. Hail Russia Live
7. Garmonia
8. Farewell Humphrey Bogart
9. Sigil
10. God Help Us
11. Not Every Day’s A Victory
12. Untitled
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Lights Out Asia’s Garmonia is a middle-of-the-night car ride soundtrack. It's the songs you imagine yourself composing when scrolling through all the different patches on an awesome keyboard you can never afford. It’s an embryonic journey of mellow tunes that would not feel out of place on an episode of The X-Files. The samples and atmospheric music combine together to create a great nighttime soundtrack that may remind you of Enigma, Sigur Ros, and Depeche Mode. This reverb-soaked meditation is a great disc to work, drive, or make sweet love to. It’s hard to believe that music this ethereal could come out of the frigid wastelands of Wisconsin, but it does. Perhaps it’s something about the icy stillness of –25 degree days, or the way the once-soothing lake turns to a hardened sheet of glass. Whatever the reason, Lights Out Asia has created a great disc that could become the soundtrack to your life.

Review taken from: http://www.tlchicken.com/view_story.php?ARTid=2055
Download link: http://rapidshare.com/files/154587836/Lights_Out_Asia_-_Garmonia.rar.html

Julian Fane - Our New Quarters (2006)

Date Released: October 6, 2006
Origin: Canada
Genre: IDM, Shoegaze, Modern Classical
Label: Planet Mu Records / Revolver
Site: http://www.myspace.com/julianfane
Tracklist:

1. Our New Quarters
2. New Faces
3. Youth Faces
4. The Moon Is Gone
5. Downfall
6. Jonah The Freak
7. Break And Enter
8. Rattle
9. Among The Missing
10. Plastics For A Heart
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For this follow-up to his acclaimed Special Forces album, Vancouver-dweller Julian Fane has placed far greater emphasis on more conventional song structures than its predecessor, with vocals taking a central role at every turn. Fane's voice bears more than a passing resemblance to that of Thom Yorke, and the Radiohead frontman's solo outing, The Eraser provides an obvious reference point. But while Yorke's album was an exercise in minimalism (by his standards at least) Our New Quarters positively exudes epic ambition. The title track sets the tone, with its quietly dramatic Sigur Ros-style post-rock, only for subsequent tracks 'New Faces' and 'Youth Cadet' to introduce shattered electronics and rasping beats. All these elements are distilled to greatest effect on 'The Moon Is Gone', the most successful marriage of Fane's song craft and electronics here. Almost as good, the neon synths and fiery beats (sounding like they've been lifted straight off Bjork's Homogenic album) of 'Rattle' provide another highlight. However, the haunting piano chords and whispered falsetto on 'Downfall' suggest Fane is at his most powerful when he switches his electronic gadgetry off and plays it straight. It's absolutely magnificent stuff, managing to sound profoundly emotive without resorting to histrionics.

Review taken from: http://www.boomkat.com/item.cfm?id=29438
Download link: http://rapidshare.com/files/151284955/Julian_Fane_-_Our_New_Quarters.rar.html

Julian Fane - Special Forces (2004)

Date Released: September 6, 2004

Origin: Canada

Genre: IDM, Shoegaze, Modern Classical, Ambient

Label: Planet Mu Records / Revolver

Site: http://www.myspace.com/julianfane

Tracklist:

1. Disaster Location
2. Safety Man
3. Freezing In Haunted Water
4. Sea Island
5. Stasis
6. Darknet
7. Book Repository
8. Birthday Boys
9. Taoist Blockade
10. Coronation
11. In Space
12. Exit New Year
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Rather fittingly for this time of year, the cover shot for Julian Fane's first CD is of a wintry scene. The contents within are also suitably warming comfort for this time of year on this emotive and tuneful record. Fane is a Canadian although the recognisable influences are mainly Icelandic, the childlike innocence of Múm is the obvious comparison to make. Yet Fane takes a more direct approach to melody. The tinkling chimes of 'Stasis' are a prelude to a mini symphony, 'The Birthday Boys' and 'Freezing In Haunted Water' are rich with lush and dreamy keyboard washes. 'Book Repository' is a rare but welcome excursion into eerie Piano Magic territory and 'Taoist Blockade' is a brilliant evocation of Oriental melancholy. The only weakness is Fane's rather timid vocals. He needn't worry though, for 'Special Forces' is blessed with enough persuasive charm to melt an iceberg.

Review taken from: http://www.leonardslair.co.uk/fane.htm

Download link: http://rapidshare.com/files/151303130/Julian_Fane_-_Special_Forces.rar.html