Elsewhere should be showing up in early June on iTunes, Amazon MP3, eMusic, Napster, Lala and other online stores. BUY IT NOW on Bandcamp ($5 for 1.2 hours of abstract, ambient, chilled-out, laid-back, space lounge greatness) and receive a code via email for a free download of my new 4-track EP, Vernal (featuring a remix of Horizontal, two new tracks, and Sunsets, a mashup of sections from Elsewhere). Check back next week for a new podcast mix.

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UPDATE: Elsewhere on Amazon MP3, Elsewhere on eMusic, Elsewhere on iTunes,  Elsewhere on Lala, Nofi on Napster (can’t link directly to album).

My next from-the-vault podcast is a mix of six tracks from Soundtrack (37min:28sec, 56.3 MB MP3). Released in 2000 (and still available in its original form as a free download), Soundtrack was my sixth full-length release on CD-R and combined elements of acid, ambient, chill-out, downtempo, IDM, techno and trance styles. In addition to remastering these tracks for 2010, I added some 909 beats to move the mix along.

Track list:

1. Dreamy
2. Jetset Sunrise
3. Twilight
4. Suspended
5. Remembering
6. Seven Taos

As an added bonus, the complete album Soundtrack (2010 Remaster) is now available for purchase on Bandcamp. Immediate download of 9-track album in your choice of 320k mp3, FLAC, or just about any other format you could possibly desire. Album download includes a hi-res JPEG digital collage from the original artwork. One track from the original release, Patience, has been lost from its original recording and is not included. Remembered, a remix of Remembering, is included as a bonus.

NOTES:  My gear for these tracks consisted of an Akai MPC-2000 sampler/sequencer, Novation BassStation analog synth, Korg Prophecy digital synth, Nord Lead 2 digital synth, Mackie 1604-VLZ mixer, Digitech Studio 400 multi-effects, Alesis Microverb III multi-effects, Digitech RDS-4000, Presonus stereo compressor. I added EQ, multiband dynamics, stereo widening and loudness maximizing to clean up each track and remaster for 2010.

My next from-the-vault podcast is a mix of eight tracks from Devices (43min:04sec, 67.8 MB MP3). Released in 1999 (and still available in its original form as a free download), Devices was my fourth full-length release on CD-R and combined elements of ambient, chill-out, IDM, and techno styles. In addition to completely remastering these tracks for 2010, I added some minimal techno beats to move the mix along.

Track list:

1. Invocation (vocoder)
2. Spirus Falls
3. Wonders of Nando
4. Stance
5. Home Capsules
6. Beq Ultra Fat
7. Netro
8. Stolen

As an added bonus, the complete album Devices (2010 Remaster) is now available for purchase on Bandcamp. Immediate download of 12-track album in your choice of 320k mp3, FLAC, or just about any other format you could possibly desire. Also included are two bonus tracks of spoken word/vocoder material, a PDF of original booklet artwork and a JPEG digital collage.

NOTES: My gear for these tracks consisted of an Akai MPC-2000 sampler/sequencer, Novation BassStation analog synth, Korg Prophecy digital synth, Nord Lead 2 digital synth, Mackie 1604-VLZ mixer, Digitech Studio 400 multi-effects, Alesis Microverb III multi-effects, Digitech RDS-4000, Presonus stereo compressor. I added EQ, multiband dynamics, stereo widening and loudness maximizing to clean up each track and remaster for 2010.

I have posted a full preview of the new nofi album, Elsewhere, which will be released on March 4, 2010. It is a return to a more abstract, ambient, chilled-out, laid-back, space lounge sound and features six extended pieces—most of which have been posted as works-in-progress here. Check it out; more details to come.

UPDATE: SoundCloud has been kind of flaky in the past few days, so a full preview of Elsewhere is also available on Last.fm.

Join me for a 60min. set of original ambient/chill-out/downtempo live electronic music.
I’ll be kicking-off the day long event in the park, Free Flow 2009 with some chilled-out beeps and techno beats, for all ages and persuasions.

I have uploaded While We Sleep (Adrift in Tangier) (15:38min, 27.7Mb MP3), a reworking of a favorite track from Departure Lounge, for your consideration.

I have uploaded a recording of my recent live performance (49:03min, 91.66Mb MP3) for your consideration. It includes reworkings of While We Sleep, Departure Lounge and Shakedown from Departure Lounge.

My next performance is scheduled for Wednesday, March 18, 2009. Join me for a 45min. live set of ambient/chill-out/downtempo/lounge electronic music. I should play around 7pm. It wil be decidedly more relaxed than my recent harder/louder sets at Tron1c, and I’ve been working on an extended version of the audience favorite ‘While We Sleep’ from my recent release, Departure Lounge.  View the event details on Facebook, FWEM.com.

Blue States – First Steps Into… (Amazon, iTunes), Disrupt – Foundation Bit (Amazon, Boomkat), Faithless – Forever Faithless: The Greatest Hits (Amazon, iTunes), Faithless – To All New Arrivals (Amazon, iTunes), The Future Sound of London – From the Archives Vol. 1 (Amazon, Boomkat), Iron & Wine – The Shepherd’s Dog (Amazon, iTunes), Lusine Icl – Language Barrier (Amazon, iTunes), Mum – Go Go Smear the Poison Ivy (Amazon, iTunes), Radiohead – In Rainbows (homepage), Regina Spektor – Begin to Hope (Amazon, iTunes).

Battles – Mirrored (Amazon, iTunes), Diplo – Florida (Amazon, iTunes), Farben – Textstar (Boomkat, iTunes), The Go! Team – Proof of Youth (Amazon, iTunes), Lady Sovereign – Public Warning! (Amazon, iTunes), St. Vincent – Marry Me (Amazon, iTunes).