Higher Intelligence Agency & Biosphere - 2 Albums (1996-1999)
EAC Rip | FLAC (image+.cue+log) - 530 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps (LAME 3.93) - 248 MB | Covers - 221 MB
Genre: Ambient | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: Beyond, Headphone
EAC Rip | FLAC (image+.cue+log) - 530 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps (LAME 3.93) - 248 MB | Covers - 221 MB
Genre: Ambient | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: Beyond, Headphone
Polar Sequences (1996). A collaboration between Biosphere's Geir Jennsen and Bobby Bird of Higher Intelligence Agency, commissioned by the Norwegian government for live performance at the 1995 Polar Music Festival. Suitably frosty melodies and glacial textures provide the framework for compositions utilizing the natural environment of the Arctic Circle for inspiration and source material (snow falling, ice cracking and splitting, the clang of cable car mountain lifts, etc.), to often remarkable effect. Sparse beats occasionally bubble up, but the focus is definitely on the icy edge of Arctic life.
Birmingham Frequencies (1999). In 1995, Higher Intelligence Agency & Biosphere took the cable car together to the top of a mountain outside Tromsø and produced Polar Sequences, one of the truly classic ambient collaborations, comparable to the Brian Eno/Harold Budd records. Now they have ascended a tower in midtown Birmingham and applied the same aesthetic used in pastoral Norway to a city centre in England. Employing sounds sourced from their surroundings, “Birmingham Frequencies” is perhaps a tad more dynamic, as befits the urban perspective, than the undulating aurora borealis of Polar Sequences. The patented, warm electronics of Biosphere are perfectly complemented by the jauntier rhythms and extrapolations of HIA.
Higher Intelligence Agency & Biosphere - Polar Sequences (1996)
EAC Rip | FLAC (image+.cue+log) - 297 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps (LAME 3.93) - 135 MB | Covers - 35 MB
Genre: Ambient | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: Beyond (RBADCD17)
EAC Rip | FLAC (image+.cue+log) - 297 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps (LAME 3.93) - 135 MB | Covers - 35 MB
Genre: Ambient | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: Beyond (RBADCD17)
Tracklist:
01. Cimmerian Shaft
02. Snapshot Survey
03. White Lightning
04. Countdown To Darkness
05. Corona
06. Meltwater
Total time: 57:28
Exact Audio Copy V0.99 prebeta 4 from 23. January 2008
EAC extraction logfile from 22. February 2009, 18:28
The Higher Intelligence Agency & Biosphere / Polar Sequences
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EAC extraction logfile from 22. February 2009, 18:28
The Higher Intelligence Agency & Biosphere / Polar Sequences
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Higher Intelligence Agency & Biosphere - Birmingham Frequencies (1999)
EAC Rip | FLAC (image+.cue+log) - 233 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps (LAME 3.93) - 113 MB | Covers - 186 MB
Genre: Ambient | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: Headphone (H002)
EAC Rip | FLAC (image+.cue+log) - 233 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps (LAME 3.93) - 113 MB | Covers - 186 MB
Genre: Ambient | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: Headphone (H002)
Tracklist:
01. Cannon Hill
02. Gas Street Basin
03. Narrowboat
04. The Rotunda
05. Augusta Road
06. Daddylonglegs
07. Midpoint
Total time: 48:20
Exact Audio Copy V0.99 prebeta 4 from 23. January 2008
EAC extraction logfile from 22. February 2009, 13:45
Higher Intelligence Agency & Biosphere / Birmingham Frequencies
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EAC extraction logfile from 22. February 2009, 13:45
Higher Intelligence Agency & Biosphere / Birmingham Frequencies
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Quality : High
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Additional command line options : –fast -T "ARTIST=%a" -T "TITLE=%t" -T "ALBUM=%g" -T "DATE=%y" -T "TRACKNUMBER=%n" -T "GENRE=%m" %s
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Thanks to EPSmuz
See also:
Biosphere - 8 Albums (1991-2006)
Higher Intelligence Agency &am...1-2 (1997-1999) [Reissue 2007]