Optic Echo Records sprang from the ashes of the now defunct Dick and Jane Records in late 2004. Our reach spans from NFU in Boston, MA to Electric Blanket in Austin, TX and Mike Jedlicka in Portland, OR. We create a mix of ambient, experimental, IDM, and downtempo electronic music. New albums are in the works for 2008. See our website at www.opticecho.com for more information and check out some of our free MP3s while you're at it. Support small independent record labels like ourselves by purchasing our albums! Enjoy the music ...
Is this how you say goodnight?
. This video is from the track "Is this how you say goodnight?" off the album "Invisible Friend" to be released in early 2008 written by Panmixia . . . Oh, and check out Optic Echo Presents with host Mike Jedlicka on Portland Radio Authority each Monday from 6-8 PST, streaming live via www.praradio.org. You'll hear new music from our label, and others mixed live on 2 turntables (usually in the downtempo, ambient, IDM, and experimental areas). Tune in this Monday!
Adviruz is the artist psedonym of Istanbul’s Pinar Gurcan, whose growing passion for sound is translated through her music. Since an early age, she has been listening and mimicking opera singers, writing melodies, songs and poems in which she spoke her mind and reflected her soul. All of which are evident on "Nightly Sounds", an 8 track album which is the equivilent of having a glimpse into a diary, learning of love lost, gained, a snapshot of the human condition from which we can all draw experience... All of these things are developed musically into minimalistic glitch, noise, idm, experimental music and microsounds, its influences reminiscent of work by artists like Tujiko Noriko, Mira Calix, Plaid and Björk.
Adviruz and Section 27 present "Nightly Sounds", an intricately woven and rewarding musical tapestry. Available now for free download.
To celebrate our first 27 releases on Section 27 Netlabel, we proudly present to you "Sectioned", a compilation of 27 tracks, amounting to 2 hours across two discs of twisted electronic beats, discordant melodies, haunting passages, broken ambience, bending senses of time and space, microscopic glitches, pounding bass frequencies, sounds between sounds, the human voice and the audible sensation of music dissolving in acid. This is the sound of your mind's eye. This is the sound of the Sectioned... Strap yourself in and enjoy the experience.
Also features a 75 minute bonus disc "Sectioned : Nonimxs", including 9 remixes of selected Section 27 artists by Nonima and 2 original tracks created by Silent Snow and Nina Kardec using existing Nonima tracks.
Almost Tomorrow is the third full length collaboration album from Section 27 Netlabel founders Tam Ferrans and Andrew Paterson, under their Nonima & theAudiologist guise. This time around the sound is more melodic, and has a definite feeling of a complete and more mature sound than heard on the previous LP's "Dystopian Battle Hymns" and "Ceremony After Amputation". If you are familiar with their individual projects you may even be in for a slight surprise, as the tracks are not as beat driven like before, but are more atmospheric and sound, well... "bigger". In its 75 minutes, Almost Tomorrow takes you on a trip from the digital rain-soaked cavernous scraping in "Thoughtograph", the ethereal beat jittering of "The Colour of Rain", intercepted transmissions from unknown places in "Com-Intercept", "Ganzfeld"s huge yet strangely insect-like beats until everything you knew comes crashing around you in "Almost Tomorrow". Burning pianos, glitched out soundscapes and intricately programmed beatplay, this may well be their best work to date. Consider it the soundtrack to a rainy overcast day, but with just that glimmer of sunshine peeking from the clouds. "Almost Tomorrow" wears its heart on its sleeve.
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We wanted to send out a reminder for any of your DJ friends who might be interested in being involved with our current remix project. The deadline to sign and return the agreement is October 15th. They can get more details from our blog if they're interested. Hope you have a lovely day.
Thanks!
Worldwide Groove Corporation
