Ten And Tracer - Sky Channel Transmission (Rope Swing Cities, 2011)

Disc One
01. Dear Lemon Dear
02. Power Thinking
03. Seacoal
04. The Story Of A Rotifer Tun
05. The Flower Of A Living Stone
06. Look At That Bus – It’s A Small Bus
07. Soda Cafe
08. I’d Die With This Hammer In My Hand
09. Insert Instant Countries [Valley A Year]
10. Great Choking Farmer
11. Black Underwear
12. Don’t Touch My Moustach
13. Dead End of the Greenery
14. Castle In The Air
15. Quote The Naked
16. Smiling Back At The Cracks In The Earth
17. Happy Face
18. Mimosa
19. To Know The Radius Of A Ring
20. Book Collector
21. Brave Aide Kit
22. Whendy Woulds

Disc Two
01. Expecting
02. Ties Crews Emerging
03. Ravine – Red In Tooth And Claw
04. View From An Escapist
05. German Thumbs Down
06. First Walnut
07. Hickory
08. Across The Whale-Road
09. Naked Around
10. The White Pampas Where Ghosts Hunt Rheas
11. Trappist Abbey
12. Slideshow Of New Automobiles
13. Inuit Soccer Practice
14. MIster Patience Of A Stranger Storm
15. He Turned Around Time In Front Of Us
16. Sales And Accounting
17. The Transitory Season And Faith

We at Rope Swing Cities are proud to present the latest full length album from IDM icon, Ten and Tracer. Sky Channel Transmission is a two disc compilation of original works produced over the last eight years. Composed while traveling and touring, each track displays the complexity and vibrance of cities like Antwerp, Belguim; Toulouse, France; Groningen, Netherlands and Vancouver, British Columbia. The rest of the music on Sky Channel was written in Colorado, Washington, Oregon, Montana, Texas, Georgia, and behind every little window pane in between.

At the age of 17, Jonathan Canupp began releasing electronic music with venerated labels such as
U-cover, Duotone, Zymogen, Kikapu, Escala, Archipel, and Bitlab. Sky Channel Transmission is an exposition of Jonathan’s unbelievable versatility and caliber as a producer, featuring outtakes from other classic releases like Vinculum, An Hour Brighter and Companion. Each of these 39 rarities signifies a specific era in the evolution of Ten and Tracer’s percussive yet elegant sound.

Sky Channel Transmission marks the end of Jonathan’s “Year Of Ten,” during which he has humbly released over a dozen albums with record labels like Konque, Archaic Horizon and his own beautifully crafted label Acre.

Mp3s available for free download at 256k or you can support Ten and Tracer by purchasing one of our limited edition, handmade, romantic, two-disc hard copies!
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Ten And Tracer - An Hour Brighter (U-Cover, 2002)

1 On Your Marks (5:12)
2 Wizard Start (1:36)
3 Cine Fil (6:31)
4 Aurora Reflect (4:16)
5 Next Sun (0:52)
6 Yellows Home (3:21)
7 Lions (2:01)
8 No Magic Martin (4:29)
9 This Is Mixed Medium (0:45)
10 Ever Go Rolling (4:41)
11 Deep Sky Objects (0:33)
12 Signal Red Volunteers (4:27)
13 Ven Mirror (0:49)
14 Fifth Lake And Screams (4:23)
15 Balloon Go (1:25)
16 Next Wind (1:33)
17 Funshine (3:01)
18 1987A (1:14)
19 Circle Alaska Missed (0:55)
20 Glow Days (4:00)
21 Falls (2:32)
22 We Can Ride (1:11)

Electronique construite avec simplicité des mélodies et rythmes marqués dans la lignée de Boards of Canada...

"an hour brighter" is a follow-up to a vinyl on u-cover's sublabel inc.us, and a continuation of the themes outlined on earlier mp3-only releases. it only took a right mindset and appropriate weather to understand what this album is all about. with music like this the environment for me often means a lot - the influence is mutual - it allows you to hear the music, tune in, and at the same time the music itself slowly creates the appropriate mood. this album finally "clicked" one early murky morning in late august; it became a perfect soundtrack for the quiet, chilly day with empty streets, devoid of any movement, as if paused in that perfect moment between the seasons - this is when ten and tracer's simplicity in choosing melodies and rhythms, lack of any dazzling gimmicks, its overall quiet ambience at last fell in place. there is a constant presence of extended melodic waves throughout each song, reminding you of similar flow of boards of canada, but this time it is colder, cooler, never achieving rampant melancholy or often overdone warmth of boc. yet another ever-present property is continuous percussion, with steady heavy rhythmic feel, without any of the fuzziness or crackling, splintery feel so common in this genre. combined with elegant melodies, it might remind you of more rhythmic side of arovane. intentional simplicity of this album becomes its strongest quality - slowly growing on its listener to the point where one becomes fully immersed in the music; ten and tracer does not overwhelm - it softly envelops you in its textures, opens up the surroundings. viewed from this perspective, "an hour brighter" becomes an album perfectly fitted for u-cover's ideology of subtle, refined electronica with a human touch.
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