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Placebo_Button : Synthetic_Baroque [Eg0_258]

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Today we are glad to release Synthetic Baroque the first full length album of Placebo Button, a new project of John Beers (active mostly under the Luciftias name), using new methods to produce ambient melodic soundscapes.
All pieces are created using a generative process beginning with text prompts being fed into Dream.ai. The resulting images are then resized and processed by the image2sound Python utility, which converts them to audio using the RGB values of each pixel. The red, green, and blue files are imported into Audacity, panned to broaden the stereo spectrum, and further enhanced with reverb, EQ, and fades. Finally, the volume is leveled to reach the final form.

 

Full album download links : Flac /Mp3 / Artwork
Bandcamp mirror

Credits

Artwork created with Dream.ai

image2sound version 0.3.1 was used for the conversion process
https://codeberg.org/jaerrib/image2sound

Licensed under Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0)
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

Contact
https://placebobutton.neocities.org/


Luciftias : Staring into Oblivion [Eg0_256]

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We welcome back long time contributor John Beers aka Luciftias with a new album of subtle droning ambient, featuring contributions of his cousin and collaborator Caleb Beers. Like most of his work, Staring Into Oblivion is based on guitar sounds, often heavily treated but more reconizable on some tracks here – and always hypnotic.

 

Full album download links : Flac /Mp3 / Artwork
Bandcamp mirror

Credits

Source material recorded 24 Nov 2022 at Sibley Castle
Editing and modifications applied Dec 2022 – Jan 2023

John Beers – guitar and effects (all), manipulations, artwork
Caleb Beers – guitar and effects (2, 5)

Luciftias homepage

Luciftias on bandcamp


[Eg0_214] Podarces & various artists : Frozen Journeys

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Under the Podarces pseudonym Benoît Rouits (who also plays oboe in Jukpic ) creates experimental improvised music with keyboards. Last year he made us discover one of his old works :  A Frozen Journey, made in 2009 with virtual synthesizers and inspired by some writings of Philip K. Dick. We enjoyed this album a lot and although it undoubtedly stands on its own we felt its minimalist abstraction could make it a very interesting material to incorporate in new works. We made this suggestion to Benoît and some other collaborators and aquaintances who agreed and accepted to contribute remixes of what is now called “Frozen Journeys”, featuring the original tracks as well as remixes by Humanfobia, Human Koala, Nina Kardec, Anastatsia Vronski, Kecap Tuyul, Nicolas Tourney, Sig Valax, Filmy Ghost, Yann Pillas, Thomas Park, Luciftias, Doedelzak.

Click on the picture to visit the download page on archive.org :

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direct download links : Flac / Mp3 / artwork

Bandcamp mirror

Playlist and links

01. Podarces – Absynthe
02. Podarces – Entering the cave
03. Podarces – Beads of sweat
04. Podarces – Alleviation
05. Podarces – Motorway of nowhere
06. Podarces – A frozen journey
07. Podarces – Chaos
08. Podarces – Screamers
09. Podarces – Plan9 from…
10. Podarces – Parasites? agreed.
11. Humanfobia & Podarces – Grey Alien Contact
https://hearthis.at/humanfobia/
12. Human Koala & Podarces – Scream in the basement (Human Koala Remix)

13. Nina Kardec & Podarces – Chaos (Nina Kardec Remix)

14. Anastasia Vronski & Podarces – Chaos (Industrial Mix)
https://anastasiavronski.bandcamp.com/
15. Kecap Tuyul & Podarces – Frozen Absinthe Screams
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16. Nicolas Tourney & Podarces – Entering the Cave (Nicolas Tourney Remix)
https://nicolastourney.bandcamp.com/
17. Sig Valax & Podarces – Frozen Journey
https://www.sigolenevalax.net/
18. Filmy Ghost & Podarces – Voices from Adimensional Planes
https://hearthis.at/filmy-ghost/
19. Yann Pillas & Podarces – In the winter the absynthe froze
https://www.facebook.com/Y.Pillas
https://camembertelectrique.bandcamp.com
20. Thomas Park & Podarces – Generative Sheep
https://archive.org/details/ThomasParkBenchmarkHub
21. Luciftias & Podarces – Tundratic Equation
https://dronomancy.wordpress.com/
https://luciftias.bandcamp.com/
22. Doedelzak & Podarces – Un Voyage Glacé
https://doedelzak.bandcamp.com/

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[Eg0_114] Luciftias : Chronic Pentatonic

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After several collaborations with eg0cide’s team, Luciftias finally brings a first solo album on the label. Chronic Pentatonic is one of his most subtle and ambitious works to our ears. This guitar-based piece was inspired by Steve Reich’s composition methods, using loops of various lengths, here with a ambient approach. The result is a very organic, slowly evolving drone that deserves an active listening although it can also be enjoyed as background music.

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[Eg0_094] Luciftias vs Ghosts Don’t Exist : Suspended Blades

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Suspended Blades is a collaborative / split album of Luciftias & Ghosts Don’t Exist, that finds in origin back in 2008, when Luciftias started to work with some material provided by the ghost between the strings & ghosts don’t exist. The result consists of 3 threatening experimental dark drones…

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Full album download links:

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[Eg0_024] Tribe of Astronauts : Displaced Soundscapes

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Exactly one year after the release of Amalgamed, the Astronauts are back on eg0cide with a new album, usings sounds from KvB (album “Oncogénèse”), Luciftias (albums “Suspension of Disbelief” and “Soundscapes for headphones”), Mystified (albums “Displaced Assemblage”, “Phantoms” and “Skywtachers”), The Ghost between The Strings (raw unreleased material recorded especially for the Tribe of Astronauts) & Kecap Tuyul (raw unreleased material recorded especially for TOA)
“Displaced Soundscapes” is a strange sonic journey in 3 parts that the Tribe recomends you to play at high volume or with headphones…

Click on the picture to go to the download page on archive.org (link will open in a new window)

Thanks to Joe Baire for the photo and of course to all the sound contributors

[Eg0_CD07] Luciftias & TGBTS – Symbiogenesis (CD-R)

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Symbiogenesis is a collaborative split album. Each artist has used the other one’s sounds, to create new pieces of dense experimental ambient music. An interesting and organic blend of Luciftias’ abstract, dark soundscapes and The Ghost Between The Strings atmospheric guitar drones and noises…

Comes in 4 pages printed booklet in plastic sleeve

[ TGBTS feat. Luciftias – The Genesis of Contraries by Eg0cide
Tracklisting
1. Luciftias – Hoping For The End I
2. Luciftias – The Contrary Of Genesis
3. TGBTS – The Genesis Of Contraries
4. TGBTS – Elude
(1) with sounds from TGBTS album “Hoping For The End Of Hope”
(2) with raw sounds from TGBTS
(3) with raw sounds from Luciftias
(4) with sounds from Luciftias track “Come Forth”
Mastering by Luciftias
Artwork by Luciftias & TGBTS

Price
France : 6 EUR postpaid
European Union: 6,30 EUR postpaid
Rest of the world : 7 EUR postpaid
To order a copy please write to tgbts0(at)gmail.com