DataObscura and Blue Oasis records - contemporary electronic and ambient music Store

WELCOME to DATAOBSCURA Records

We are a cosy little label releasing quality ambient and related music since 2002. You can purchase our albums securely in THE STORE using paypal or charge card. We also offer inexpensive digital downloads for almost all of the albums.

The Artists page is a useful place to start.

LABEL NEWS

•2011 - CONSTRUCT is a new collaborative label between el culto and DataObscura, and is both a shared vision and a shared release platform. Physical releases will be available through Construct at the el culto portal, with download versions of the same releases available in our STORE. The first release, Distant Shadows, is available now.

RELEASE NEWS

Robert Davies : The Achemy of Nature

Now available on DataObscura

A new ambient gem from Robert Davies.

There is a 5 minute excerpt from Track 1
on the Radio page.

Samples, details and ordering

Available on disk or as download

Nunc Stans: PENINSULA

Now available on DataObscura

A new collection of beautifully sculpted aural landscapes inspired by isolated coastlines
and their desolate but curiously intimate
vistas and moods.

Here is track 2 : November Rain

There is a video of November Rain here.

Samples, details and ordering

Available on disk or as download.

Tomas Weiss and Anthony Paul Kerby: APPEARANCES

This new release on Musical Philosophy is now available from the el culto site in Germany.

The good news is that at DataObscura we have the download version of the album now available at a good price:

Samples and Download version.

"Appearances is their second collaborative composition, building upon the solid foundations of Distant Shadows from Spring 2011. This new work forms an uninterrupted story of images and visions varying from bright expansive spaces to mysterious dark grounds, wind-swept caverns, and pools of pure emotional depth. Appearances is an immersive, expressive ambient release that is both lush and timeless, and will certainly reward enthusiasts of deep listening."

The Circular Ruins: WE LEAVE EVERYTHING BEHIND

Now available on DataObscura

The Circular Ruins is always musically driven, always sonically rich, always a poetic voyage, and always thoroughly engaging. We Leave Everything Behind is no exception.

Available as CD or download.

A quick taste from a few tracks.

Samples, details and ordering

The full second track is on our Radio page.

Jacob Newman and Devin Underwood : THE VIVID UNMAPPED

Now available on DataObscura

Fresh, free-flowing dreamscapes in a minimal contemporary style ... immersive drones laced with field recordings, creative electronics and piano. It's a delight !

And a very worthy album to celebrate
our 50th DataObscura release.

Sample from 1st and 2nd tracks.

Samples, details and ordering

The full opening track is on our Radio page.

Robert Davies : WHISPERING GROVE

Now available on DataObscura

Possibly Robert's most perfect pastoral album to date. Crafted with an unassuming simplicity and deftness, this is music that brings romantic visions of languishing within secluded bowers of intoxicating scents and lush humid overgrowth.

Samples, details and ordering

Anthony Paul Kerby and Tomas Weiss : DISTANT SHADOWS

Now available on Construct

Anthony Paul Kerby and Tomas Weiss are famililar names to followers of quality ambient electronica. Anthony has many respected recordings under the names Lammergeyer, Nunc Stans, and The Circular Ruins. Tomas most recently recorded as Nautic Depths and El Hadra, and is especially well-known for his deep drone work with Mathias Grassow.

Distant Shadows is their first collaboration and, as might be expected, it is something very special. Expertly crafted, rich with detail and brooding undertones, the work is composed as one vast and immersive journey through elaborate sonic landscapes and northern visions of isolation, serenity, subtle powers and hidden depths.

Samples, details and ordering

The full opening track is on our Radio page.

YouTube video for track 5.

On el culto there is a video for track 2.

This is the premier release on the new collaborative Construct label. DataObscura will host the download release, El Culto (Germany) will provide the physical CD release (digipak).

NOTE - If you buy any physical CD you can also have a free download of the same album, just send us a quick email after ordering and we will send you a download link email.

LISTEN TO THIS

Be sure to check out the RADIO page to hear a selection of full streaming tracks from recent albums, and some classic older tracks.

And visit the FREE MUSIC page for some quality original ep download releases.

There are also lots of music samples to listen to on our individual album pages in THE STORE.

ALBUM SPOTLIGHT

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FILAMENTS (2008)

A collaboration between Entia Non and APK. A remarkable flow of creativity, ripe with juicy sonic details and moody atmospheres, woven through with subtle melodic threads. Contemporary, glitchy, detailed, and musically absorbing, this is a work to come back to again and again.

"James McDougall and Anthony Paul Kerby here summon a dark, restless album, full of suspended amorphous masses of synthetic sound and plain melodic motifs eddying in a charged, reverberant space. Often it is as if one were trapped in the undergrowth of a glacial garden where some tiny creature just out of sight is gasping its last breath - a garden of delights where blurred memory and desiccated loneliness watch their own breath ..." Max Schaefer

track 5: Sunday Morning

Details and samples HERE

LATEST FREE RELEASE
Nunc Stans STANZAS FROM THE MUSEUM OF DREAMS Free, downloadable 48 minute EP. Now available. More info about this very fine release in the Free Stuff section.