The purpose of any decent anthology album is to present a variety of
works by a diversity of artists. Through the ordering and selections
of tracks,
connections between what might otherwise be considered an unrelated
grouping will
be revealed. Presenting the album as a continuous listening
experience, where the
songs crossfade smoothly one into the next, is an effective way for
the
listener to perceive the separate works as a unified whole. It also
exemplifies the
concept of a product being larger than the sum of its parts. On the
anthology
em:t0004 (72'46"), these ideals are met, especially in the area of
mixing. The ten
tracks flow together as if created out of one mind. While the artists
included on
em:t0004 are drawn from the Chillout Room genre, those who made it on
this disc
are a virtual dream team of the Ambient Intelligentsia. The musical
energy on this
compilation moves from dense and textured to lithe and airy. In some
spots the pace
slows down to that of the environmental with several translucent
moments occupied
only by field recordings and light swaths of synthesizer tones.
Elsewhere on this disc
the classic sweeping filter sounds of '70s Spacemusic are combined
with more
contemporary shuffling rhythms and beats. Compositionally the music
seldom calls
attention to itself, but there's always enough substance to grasp on
to if need be.
em:t0004 includes works by Gel Sol, International Peoples Gang,
Beatsystem, Andy
Hughes and others whose internal metronomes tick at a rate somewhat
slower than
the rest of us.

Tune in this weekend to STAR'S END for music from the anthology
em:t0004

For more on em:t0004, access: http://www.emitrecords.com

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Illoin live on STAR'S END

Illoin (aka Andrew Ryan) is a hybrid music project from Philadelphia,
PA. His work
suggests dreamlike states through its alternating warm and chilling
currents of
sound. Illoin plays live on the 04.03.05 broadcast of STAR'S END.

For more on Illoin access the STAR'S END Profile:
http://www.starsend.org/illoin.html

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Clocks Back One Hour This Weekend

STAR'S END will be one hour shorter this weekend as Daylight Saving
Time begins
on Sunday 3 April 2005 at 2:00:00 AM US ETZ. Please remember to turn
your clock
ahead one hour this Saturday Night/Sunday Morning as you listen to
STAR'S END.

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STAR'S END broadcasts every Saturday night/Sunday morning from
1am-6am
(EDST) on:

88.5fm WXPN Philadelphia, PA
88.1fm WXPH Harrisburg, PA
90.5fm Worton/Baltimore, MD
104.9fm Allentown, PA

and live on the web...

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Chuck van Zyl
Host of STAR'S END Ambient Radio
http://www.starsend.org