johnl.org » ambient http://johnl.org Sun, 05 Feb 2012 23:16:52 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 A free album for everyone: Skintone – In Slow Motion http://johnl.org/2010/09/06/skintone-in-slow-motion/ http://johnl.org/2010/09/06/skintone-in-slow-motion/#comments Mon, 06 Sep 2010 22:20:14 +0000 johnl http://johnl.org/?p=572 Long ago, I borrowed a CD of then-contemporary ambient music from my artist Uncle Brian. It contained some really great tracks from bands like The Orb and Groove Armada. The song I liked the best off it, "Lennox Avenue Butterfly", was by an artist I had never heard of before, Skintone.

I did some digging online and found out that the track was taken from the debut and only album, "In Slow Motion", of a short-lived Irish electronic music duo. The quaint record company page, still hosted on IOL web storage years later, led me to the producer Brian Kelly. I discovered that on his website he had the album in full available for download! I've re-hosted it here for posterity.

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I also wrote up the Wikipedia article about the group in an effort to make more people aware of their music, which falls somewhere between ambient and Orbital-style electronica. I hope you enjoy the album as much as I have, over the years. Brian was very appreciative of my previous efforts, so I'm sure he won't mind me re-hosting the album here...

Stills from lost Skintone video "Burning Out"

My favourite song from the album, "Burning Out", also had a music video according to the record label's website. If anyone has ever seen it, or better yet has a copy, let me know!

Download album as a .zip

Skintone - In Slow Motion

  1. What's Called This Place? (Intro)
  2. Lennox Avenue Butterfly
  3. Hail, Rain & Slow
  4. Full of Stars
  5. Burning Out
  6. Idle Speed, No Wake
  7. Ice Jam Creaking
  8. Luminous
  9. Cello Dub
  10. Drift Too Deep
  11. Afterdust
  12. What's Called This Place?
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This album was created entirely using samples of my voice, or other speech sounds. Each track represents a vision of paradise, heaven or the after-life, as seen by different cultures through time.

By clicking on the thumbnails, you can see the full album art. The art is also embedded in the MP3s.
Press the little play icon listen to a song. If you like what you hear, download the whole release in a .zip file below.

Songs:

  1. Avalon
  2. Jannah
  3. Tír na nÓg
  4. Gan Eden
  5. Shangri-La
  6. Aaru
  7. Mag Mell
  8. Valhalla

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Back Cover:

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This is my ambient arrangement of Erik Satie's Gymnopédie No. 1.

By clicking on the thumbnails, you can see the full album art. The art is also embedded in the MP3s.
Press the little play icon listen to a song. If you like what you hear, download the whole release in a .zip file below.

Songs:

  1. Gymnopedic

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Back Cover:

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