Various Artists - Music for Sputnik-1 Vol. 1

Record: 2000-2017 • Edition: 2017 • USC-WR-1710.0381
Berlin School, Ambient, Spacesynth, Indietronica, Modern Classical

Sputnik-1 is a symbol of the embodiment of a dream into reality. When all the forces are thrown at its achievement, despite the pressure of circumstances, despite the internal turmoil in the people and the country. In 60 years after this event, we can only feel the echoes of the former glory and aspirations, but even this fills us with pride for our people, the Soviet Union and the Russian Federation, no matter what side events have marred this milestone in history. This is the main focus of our collection.

Innerspace - Аквалактика (Aqualactica)

Record: 1998-2000 • Edition: 2014 • USC-WR-1411.0232
Traditional Electronic, Spacesynth

All we are mad about space, majestic and cold... But there is another one - it is closer and... deeper. We all came namely from there, about one and a half billion years ago. All we had gills at the age of seven weeks, the embryo dwells in liquid medium during nine months - instincts are inherent from birth. Maybe that's the reason why ocean depths beckon us so much, and it is so painful to try to enter this enigmatic abyss without preparation. Pressure, nitrogen bubbles, boiling in blood, tragic experience of the great number of dead explorers of this mysterious world, and at the same time indescribable feeling of flight, weightlessness and complete detachment from the bustle of our life, impetuous bodies of underwater inhabitants, wonderful "sea nation" - dolphins possessing a very high level of intelligence, infinite variety of the dwellers of the largest buildings on our Earth - the Great Barrier Reef. Aqualactica is a musical dedication to beauty and mystery of the underwater space.

Exalot - Time Slice

Record: 1995-2014 • Edition: 2014 • USC-WR-1410.0230
Traditional Electronic, Spacesynth, Space Ambient

Time has no beginning and no end, but we can take a segment even from infinity. To take a slice of time and to put it on a table of the expert, who can explain the meaning of what is happening there. The past is so murky that it often becomes an object of thorough study: if not it, then what else has a direct link with where, or better say, how we do exist. At the same time, the future is being built before our eyes and by our hands, although at times it is unpredictable - only if in the nearest perspective... Nevertheless, we would prefer far future this time. Let's imagine the vast expanses of space, amazing beauty of nebulae clouds and galaxies. Majestic huge spaceships and small yachts of all sorts of shapes. The richness of life, worldview and understanding of the Universe. Contemplating this all with a human sight, it is impossible to imagine the proportionality of human mind on the planet Earth and cosmic endlessness.

Nickolay Fedorenko - Eco

Record: 2013-2014 • Edition: 2014 • USC-WR-1410.0229
Spacesynth, Electroclash

We live in a time of new technologies and reach to outer space. But we sometimes forget the nature of our home. Our cradle - Earth. The humankind shall pause to think of how to preserve it or even make it a better place. Eco is a future world where man, technology, and nature coexist in harmony. A world free from ecological catastrophes and reckless use of valuable resources. A world where intelligence rules for the good of all.

Innerspace - Люди как боги (Humans as Gods)

Record: 1994-1996 • Edition: 2014 • USC-WR-1410.0228
Traditional Electronic, Spacesynth

"I have... seen things you people wouldn't believe... Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched c-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate. All those... moments... will be lost in time, like... tears... in... rain..." - Roy Batty, "Blade Runner". Worlds, fantastic worlds, created by dreamers, inspire, wake the fantasy and make one express emotions through paintings, music and so on. And it doesn't matter that he has no music education and never learned to paint. It matters, that in the evening after work one can immerse himself into a fantastic world, where armadas of spaceships assault barriers of the non-Euclidean space, war robots deploy to order, and cutting-edge laboratories fathom secrets of the human brain... This is the way this music appears - very simple and very naive, but it is just the beginning!

Joost Egelie - Boundaries of Infinity

Record: 2005-2007 • Edition: 2014 • USC-WR-1408.0214
Traditional Electronic, Berlin School

Exploring the great universes between the particles so small, human mind explores the boundaries of itself. Natural contrasts are built upon the energy fluctuations, creating matter and antimatter, whereas a man tries to embody everything that he can imagine. In the end, we may have created existence and cosmos ourselves. There is a lot more to it than just letting two atoms collide at high energy levels. Are we the ones able to learn, in what way the cogwheels of the Universe turn? We just have to sit out the ride on the space roller coaster, watching the blazonry. Boundaries are relative, as they can be broken. Particle accelerators eventually provide more answers to questions lying beyond these boundaries. This is the quest in search of the Theory of Everything. Do we really wish to know, how it works?

Vortex Mechanic - Etherwind

Record: 2013-2014 • Edition: 2014 • USC-WR-1402.0203
Traditional Electronic, Berlin School, Psy-Ambient

The long road of learning is strewn with obstacles and provides many enticing detours that seem quite reliable, however, eventually lead to a dead end. Sometimes you have to stop and return to what once was unfairly rejected. And here we are again where we started, therefore we have to blaze a new path... We must gain the courage to recognize that many modern concepts - err, and to pull out of the dark closet forbidden knowledge. We must cease inventing the false postulates and deduce from them theories intractable for the mind. We must sweep aside the abstractness of thinking and realize that lack of understanding of the essence of things - not our inability to interpret them, but merely the wrong approach. It is time to open your mind and accept - Ether!

Conspiracy Foundation in Full Colour

Record: 2009-2013 • Edition: 2014 • USC-WR-1401.0202
Traditional Electronic, Dreamwave, Lounge

Nowadays, a desire for the new heights, an endless stream of information and technologies of the future are prioritized. Nevertheless, all this was foreordained long ago. In those times there was unlimited space for imagination, and the future seemed to be so close - just reach out and touch it. Maybe those old naive fantasies became a little dusty. Then it is better to add the colors, so they would glow with the same brightness and continue to attract people with fabulous dreams about the forthcoming utopia.

WMRI - New Axis of Turning

Record: 2012 • Edition: 2013 • USC-WR-1312.0200
Traditional Electronic, Berlin School, Experimental

We are used to perceive the world as we see and feel it. This is called reality, at least for most. But the search for new territories of perception never ends. What if there's another reality that we can't sense, because of our limited perception of the Universe? Another dimensions that exist in parallel to ours, superimpose each other like the layers of a multilayer cake. It is quite possible that they are out of reach, and we can only guess that they occur, at best feel some illusive emanation of other world. Who knows...

Exalot - Cosmic Voyager

Record: 2004-2013 • Edition: 2013 • USC-WR-1311.0188
Traditional Electronic, Berlin School

Step into the world of far-away stars and immerse yourself into darkness of cosmic depths on a spaceship with non-technogenic design. Find yourself in distant future and look at the beauty of our own Milky Way with the eyes of a human and aliens' union. Death cannot stop life in these infinite spaces.

Mornastra - Birth of a Supernova

Record: 2012-2013 • Edition: 2013 • USC-WR-1311.0184
Traditional Electronic, Spacesynth

Like the birth of a supernova illuminates the cold expanse of space, so these bright compositions are similar to rays of light and energy. These images of the future will not leave indifferent anyone, who loves science fiction, and who is willing to indulge in nostalgia for the golden era of melodic electronic music, unprecedented progress in space exploration, when the science was considered as fascinating and honorable occupation. Immerse yourself into the world of wonderful achievements, into the world built by man, which is rapidly comprehends the mysteries of the foundation and finds harmony with the universe.

The Modergrade - Охота на Плеяды (Hunting for Pleiades)

Record: 2013 • Edition: 2013 • USC-WR-1309.0173
Post-Rock, Indietronica

"These tricky stars constantly escape!" - Oven thought. She has been adjusting her butterfly net - it wounded tightly onto the ring and tangled, - and preparing for a new stroke. And here they are approaching again. "Whew!" - the net whistled, rounding arc. Miss... Somehow, Oven was believed that catching and swallowing the star of the Pleiades could gain her the soul. She really wanted to, because she was an ordinary robot-cook, though with an amazing zest for life and learning. "Maybe another time..." - Oven was thinking, going home in the dim light of the Moon.

SiJ & RMSS Systems Inc. - Incorporated Ambit of Lifeless Space

Record: 2011-2013 • Edition: 2013 • USC-WR-1309.0172
Industrial, Dubstep, Rhythmic Noise

The universe unfolds before the eyes of a man its mysterious and at times frightening spaces, filled with the strangest things and phenomena. It is careless about making the world apprehensible to human. Cosmos doesn't speak human language. Being only a microscopic particle of it - even sane - generally speaking, mankind remains powerless in enormity of the world. However, curiosity and imagination, these essential components of human nature irresistibly entail into the most cryptic depths of infinity either depriving consciousness or granting delight of understanding.

Hidelight - Evolution of Spirit

Record: 2012 • Edition: 2012 • USC-WR-1211.0123
Traditional Electronic, Spacesynth

The avenue filled with light, not usual, but some especially native, light of passed years, warm and bright, painting dull gray buildings in soft colors, so they also become pleasant and dear. Birds fly in the sky, and their shadows are turned into bizarre silhouettes on the hot asphalt. The melody is sweeping above the avenue, so familiar, as if we know it for life, it is slightly disturbing, but opens up vistas of the future. Things becomes so colorful for the ones who are ready to perceive versatile beauty of the world.

Ether - Comm

Record: 2009-2011 • Edition: 2012 • USC-WR-1208.0080
Psy-Ambient, Traditional Electronic

The question of the extraterrestrial intelligence existence thrills people for many ages. Thinking about the possibility of its existence, the mankind is searching tirelessly. It sends an endless stream of signals by cosmic routes in hope of finding and making contact with another intelligence. Lucks and fails follow each other, while the explorations expand our knowledge about the near and distant space, thus helping to take a new look at the place of the person in the great universal home.