Sergey Kolesnikov - Signature

Record: 2010-2011 • Edition: 2018 • USC-WR-1506.0268
Berlin School, Ambient

Epochs shift epochs. New structures are formed under the tips of the fingers. The stream of thoughts flows freely, and ideas are born as if by themselves. You create worlds with one pass of a hand, before which you prostrate yourself subsequently. And then a stunning music breaks out from under your rough hands, over which you have no power. It rushes to where time and space merge into a single whole. Its motif, changing imperceptibly, carries you into the ocean of sound. The steps of the sequences alternate, responding to the aspirations of the soul of an invisible genius nurtured by the experience of generations. And in all this – the integrity of a majestic music! Perhaps this is how happiness sings, and delight fills the cup of appeasement? What can be more beautiful than the contemplation of how the creator creates his creation, and creation creates its creator? No thoughts, no words... There is only a dissolution of consciousness in the music, on which the time itself left its imprint.

Derek Nigell - Distant Ocean

Record: 2017 • Edition: 2017 • USC-WR-1712.0393
Space Ambient, Berlin School, New Age

Boundless ocean has opened his embrace... He shall thrill me with his tremendous majesty! He bathed tenderly the planet’s coasts with waves, and has compounded the mysteries and riddles, having hidden depths from us. He has paved the depth contour of weird tablelands and basins with nautic creatures. And sounds of magical waves, seagulls’ cry and dolphins’ voice, the low bass of whales – everything is dear to my heart! He has opened the miraculous distant world before our eyes, and enchanted us with its variety. Oh Ocean, you are endless in your magnificence! We tried so long to comprehend you: your vasts are indomitable, secrets are almost unknown, thoughts are beyond all reason! And a sailor begs for a grace taking road, while mothers and wives await for their relatives. Oh Ocean, you are the life of Earth, its salt, the embodiment of world’s harmony, I sing a hymn in your honor!

Vortex Mechanic - Wired Plus

Record: 2017 • Edition: 2017 • USC-WR-1711.0387
Berlin School, Ambient

«I love this place. Here, there is a unique atmosphere at any season. On that chilly summer evening when I came here with my friend Alexey, the air was especially thick and filled with bittersweet wettish freshness. Here, you fall into a special state, sitting on the recently scythed grass and looking down from the hill at power lines stretching away. It is here where several little worlds come together: a forest to the left and the right, a tiny village living its hasteless life under the hill, and the slight noise of a bustling city coming from far behind. And above, the steel giants of power line towers soaring against the darkening summer sky, which soon will be cut across by the Perseids. It is here where you take a rest from the hustle, and music itself fills your mind to later find its material form.»

— Nickolay Fedorenko, 27 August 2017

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.

WMRI - Etherworlds

Record: 2009-2010 • Edition: 2013 • USC-WR-1310.0180
Traditional Electronic, Berlin School

There are mysterious places out of this world. They may even be possible, though are created by our imagination. They are too abstract and ethereal, constantly transforming and never stay the same, but their main idea is caught in this musical sketches.

Quantum Mechanics - Waves, Fields & Particles

Record: 2011 • Edition: 2013 • USC-WR-1309.0176
Traditional Electronic, Berlin School

Quantum mechanics is not simply a branch of physics or some direction in science. Quantum mechanics is a very different conception on the reality around us and about our place in the world. To understand what it means, here is an example of such idea: if two interrelated electron are divided by space as big as the universe, and we affect one of them, the second electron instantly react to changes with the first. This is not a signal between them - it is the relationship as a single whole system. If we bear in mind that the universe came from the one Big Bang, then reality surrounding us is a single entity, and everything we perceive is the design of this whole.

Conspiracy Foundation - Grand Rewinding Time

Record: 2009-2011 • Edition: 2013 • USC-WR-1305.0161
Traditional Electronic, Berlin School, Lounge

You may interpret this work as a sort of observation logs of interesting phenomena and events, whether gaze into the mysterious distance or a careful examination of the near field. As it was conceived, the consolidated result is based on harmonically evolving images cross-fading with each other. Several different sketches bridged together sound very alluring, inventive, stylish, sometimes queer and never boring.

WMRI - Scientific Mystery

Record: 2008-2012 • Edition: 2012 • USC-WR-1212.0140
Traditional Electronic, Berlin School

We've collected some mysteries. We can't reveal them, just show. After all sometimes only the intuition is able to bring success where the mind is powerless, and the scientific knowledge turns into bewitching mystery.

Mornastra - What Whispered the Stars

Record: 2012 • Edition: 2012 • USC-WR-1212.0133
Traditional Electronic, Spacesynth

Wonderful expedition into space at the speed of light. The spacemen are full of energy in the first meeting with vast interstellar. Fast run through the stars introduces you to a spherical community in a blink of an eye.

Antalio - A Look to the Sky

Record: 2012 • Edition: 2012 • USC-WR-1210.0116
Traditional Electronic

The stylish return into the golden age of soft melancholic tunes as they are still with us dispersed in the skies.

WMRI - Amethystine Cave

Record: 2010 • Edition: 2012 • USC-WR-1210.0103
Space

Lowered to underground to the violet depths you'll hear the majestic music of cave. Highly melodic stuff (sequences included).

WMRI - Moon Events

Record: 2009 • Edition: 2012 • USC-WR-1208.0084
Traditional Electronic, Berlin School, Space

On the 30th September 2009 there was an idea of performing live on streaming radio. StreamerP2P was chosen as a platform. In some days all the preparations were made and one hour live show was performed on the 4th November. Almost complete improvisation! Only about 10 listeners though. But here it is available again in slightly remastered form and with bonus studio track from the 5th November.

WMRI - Galactic Sewer

Record: 2007-2008 • Edition: 2012 • USC-WR-1208.0078
Traditional Electronic, Berlin School, Space

Wandering and wondering on a fascinating journey on untrodden paths of the galaxy. Charming excellence of Berlin School sequences and genuine space ambient. An album of records made in 2007-2008, ranging from already mentioned sessions when Desert Dreams and Floating Water were recorded, through Area-View sessions and till last days of 2008. Mastered in January 2009. Now you can hear other untold space stories!

WMRI - Ocean Heart

Record: 2009 • Edition: 2012 • USC-WR-1204.0045
Space

The fifth EP in Black Concept Series of six. A short story of ocean and waves told with clearly space music. While first two tracks are ambient in nature, the last one is a sequence-based one. Quiet and transparent sound streams bring the feeling of tranquility and light.

WMRI - Wires

Record: 2009 • Edition: 2012 • USC-WR-1204.0044
Space, Experimental

The fourth EP in Black Concept Series of six. A journey among the wires through an empty atmosphere of a destroyed city. Repeating rhythm, noise washes, minor pads and light arps - everything makes a cold feel of wasted land where you are in solitude. But the music is not monotonous - it is dynamic, very fascinating and totally preoccupies and makes you follow till the end.

WMRI - Desert Dreams

Record: 2007 • Edition: 2012 • USC-WR-1202.0024
Traditional Electronic, Berlin School

Desert life is not as monotonous as it may seem to be at first sight. If you look narrowly at it you can notice a lot of details. The first impression is vast yellow ocean of sand. The wind twists whirls above it and, as a great architect, constantly builds dunes and barkhans. And he does not like when strangers enter his landscapes, and summons sandstorm, hiding their tracks and sweeping away everything from his domains. Salvation can only be in oasis - a small island of life. However, sometimes the desert seems to stand, and only a thin strip of horizon divides the yellow ocean and the azure sky. And when night falls, darkness veils the desert, and only bright light of the stars in the cloudless sky is pulling away from oblivion.

SKAARJ - The Human and the World: The Retrospective of the Modern

Record: 2011 • Edition: 2012 • USC-WR-1201.0005
Traditional Electronic, Berlin School

In an attempt to create new stuff SKAARJ mixes classical ambient with elements of industrial, techno and noise in a conceptual album. «The Human and the World» is like a different point of view on a modern globalized mankind and a history of a person inside it trying to find oneself. Using only outdated software and archival samples most of which are made before 1997, analogue synthesizers and 8-track editor SKAARJ produces the true old school sound of the 20th century.

WMRI - Voices of Space

Record: 2006 • Edition: 2012 • USC-WR-1201.0004
Traditional Electronic, Space, Synthpop

The long space journey starts on native land. You're filled with enthusiasm and don't even suspect which trial awaits. You successfully reach a distant planet in another solar system standing on its orbit to have a better look - it's a beautiful sight, strange and so different world - you want to visit it. A mysterious faraway planet captures with the magic of its landscapes, dipping into the vortex of the visions.