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Born in Wales on the 28th June 1960, Mark Jenkins was influenced by the early albums of Mike Oldfield and Tangerine Dream and started to experiment with tape recorders and electronic instruments at school. His first recordings independently developed the tape loop system used by Terry Riley, Robert Fripp and Brian Eno, and an album-length recording, "Universe" exists using electric organ, modified electronic oscillators, chimes and tape - the music was performed on stage as a tape playback. Other early instruments included a kit-built synthesizer and sequencer - the ETI Transcendent 2000 and PE Sequencer - and an Elgam electronic organ, Melos tape echo, phaser and effects. These were used in the late '70's to make various recordings, of which tapes still exist.
Mark Jenkins went on to study English, Philosophy, Psychology and History of Science at Leicester University. On graduation in 1982 he was offered the post of Music Editor on "Electronics And Music Maker" magazine, going on to review all the major instrument releases of the time and to interview many of the electronic music scene's most influential artists. Mark Jenkins then became Technical Editor of Melody Maker. After three and a half years with Melody Maker, Mark Jenkins left to develop the AMP Records label and to write for a vast number of music and computing magazines including International Musician, Music Technology, Studio Sound, Sound On Sound, Music Week and Music Business.
In 1987 Mark Jenkins played at a Summer festival organised by AMP Records in London's Logan Hall, and in 1988 at the UK Electronica Festival, now organised entirely by AMP Records and gaining its highest attendance to date in the spectacular setting of the converted church of St. John's in Smith Square, Westminster. After this time the AMP Records label began a series of CD releases for musicians from the UK and overseas, and returned to Festival organisation in 1991 at London's Astoria Theatre where Mark Jenkins supported the only live concert performance ever played by ex-Tangerine Dream member Chris Franke.
White Noise/White Label ....import CD-R $19.99
White Noise/The Eindhoven Set ....import CD-R $19.99
Two new albums from David "White Noise" Voorhaus, one of the original innovators of electronic music. Both are extremely limited edition CD-R's which are individually numbered. White Label, considered White Noise 5.5, is an album of 40 minutes of new music recorded in London 2006. The Eindoven Set is a set of White Noise music as performed live at E-Day 2006 by David Voorhaus with Mark Jenkins and includes music from the albums "White Noise 1 - An Electric Storm," "White Noise 3 - Re-Entry," "White Noise 5 - Sound Mind" plus much new music and an amazing remix of "The Visitation."
Mark Jenkins/Live in the U.S.A. ....import double CD $21.99
(excerpt from 'The Star Spangled Banner')
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"Live in the U.S.A." was recorded in 2005 during spectacular multi-media performances at the Franklin Institute Planetarium Philadelphia, the Carnegie Science Center Planetarium Pittsburgh, the Electro-Music and PEMAF Festivals in Philadelphia, and during live radio broadcasts on Echoes, Galactic Travels, Artmusic Coffeehouse and Electro-Music.com. A stellar cast of collaborators from the US space music scene includes the massed synthesizers of Orbital Decay, The Amaranth Signal, Xeroid Entity and Fringe Element, plus radio broadcaster Bill Fox on guitar and Chris Mandra on glove-controlled synthetic voice. "Live in the U.S.A." comprises almost two hours of mostly long, sequencer and space music pieces, several more abstract and experimental collaborations and examples of Mark's more familiar up-tempo, melodic synthesizer tracks in the style of Jean-Michel Jearre, Vangelis and Mike Oldfield. A new studio track, The Star-Spangled Banner, features multi-layered guitars as well as virutal and harware synthesizers and sequencers and will appeal to fans of the classic guitar-and-synth music of Ashra. Initial copies come with a free bonus third CD featuring Mark Jenkins in concert with Damo Suzuki of the legendary krautrock band Can at London's Royal Festival Hall.
Nick May/Whimwise ....import CD $19.99
(excerpt from '')
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"Whimwise" is the new progressive rock release through AMP Music, the UK's longest-lived label specialising in electronic and progressive rock music. In a joint effort with May Music Management it marks the first solo release by Nick May, the multi-instrumentalist who first came to prominence with legendary art-rock cult band The Enid. "Whimwise" very much follows on from where The Enid left off in finding and fusing the common ground between contemporary electronic/rock styles and the great Romantic tradition of symphonic instrumental orchestration. "Whimwise" also features another ex-Enid alumnus, Steve Hughes performing on drums - ensuring that this release will be top of the wants list of every Enid fan still hankering for more of the timeless orchestral crossover popularised by the band on their various major label releases.
Mark Jenkins/If The World Were Turned On Its Head We Would Walk Among The Stars ....import CD $19.99
(excerpt from 'I Have Known the Void')
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An album of three tracks that range from fourteen to over twenty-five minutes long. Here you have both a musician and a composer using analogue synths and sequencers and doing his best NOT to sound like yet another T Dream copyist. The twenty-five minute title track opens the proceedings, and far from outstaying its welcome, it actually goes through many different changes, changes that are still long enough within the track to enjoy to their fullest, but, ever aware of dynamics, the moment he feels an idea's done its bit, he moves on. The fifteen minute 'I Have Known The Void' continues the sound and feel of the first track to a more easy-going, but no less engaging an extent, the first six or so minutes standing largely in the spacey furnace of a hot glowing sun, only for an unexpected resonant African drum rhythm to emerge, as all manner of space music soundscapes swirl and sizzle away on top. The album ends with the fourteen minute 'Nutty Puppet Mayhem', again starting slowly in resonant bass depths and flowing cosmic synths, but after just over a minute, the awesomely beefy sequencer rhythm emerges, combines with ever increasing synth soundscapes and backdrops that well up from below and all around, as the synth rhythms and undulating fast sequencer lead lines, all take over.
Neil Ardley/Kaleidoscope of Rainbows ....import CD $19.99
A classic large jazz ensemble piece from the '70's fusing improvised, cyclic and ethnic music with synthesizers and some devastating soloing, particularly from Barbara Thompson and Ian Carr. On its original release in the "70's the album was hailed in The Times and elsewhere as "a masterpiece"; now available for the first time on CD in the UK, this version features two all-synthesizer tracks, "Intimate Vistas Pts 1&2", not on the original album and recorded with Richard Burgess of Landscape. To close the album there's the Zyklus version of Rainbow 1, re-titled "Refractive Rainbow", which shows how the Balinese scales used in the composition were updated into the 1990's.
Ars Nova/Fear & Anxiety ....import CD $19.99
"Fear & Anxiety" includes six studio tracks and an epic 11-minute live piece from an all-girl band formed in 1983 by bassist Kyoko Kanazawa in tribute to world famous prog rockers Emerson, Lake & Palmer. In 1985 current keyboardist Keiko Kumagai joined and began to write original material for the band, drummer Akiko Takahashi joining in 1993. "Fear & Anxiety" was Ars Nova's debut album released in 1992, and has been updated with a new sleeve plus a live track from one of the band's acclaimed US appearances at the 1996 ProgDay. During 1997 the band played live in Japan, Holland and Germany as well as in the UK, leading to their signing to AMP Records.
Barry Cleveland/Volcano ....import CD $19.99
BARRY CLEVELAND is an inspiring player of guitar with electronic processing who featured on Larry Fast's "Audion" label. On "Volcano" he's accompanied by some of San Francisco Bay Area's finest musicians including Michael Manring on bass, Norbert Stachel on winds and EWI, Michael masley on cymbalom, plus vocalists and percussionists to create a whole new sound world inspired by African and Haitian rhythms in a fusion of jazz, rock, world and ambient music.
Keith Emerson/Changing States ....import CD $19.99
Founder of "The Nice" and "Emerson Lake & Palmer", frequently voted the world's top rock keyboard player. "Changing States" is a rare solo album fusing rock, jazz and classical, including an unreleased 1975 orchestral version of "Abaddon's Bolero." Changing States was produced, engineered and mixed by Kevin Gilbert.
Keith Emerson/The Christmas Album ....import CD $19.99
Keith Emerson is, without a doubt, right at the upper eschelon of rock keyboardists today. From The Nice to ELP, from his film scores to his solo albums, Keith Emerson continues to create his own musical language. If ELP fans don't recognize the tune in the above excerpt, then shame on them! But truthfully, this solo album by Keith is a joy all year round!
Gene Ess/Sunrise Falling ....import CD $19.99
Gene Ess is a Japanese American based in New York who has developed a devastating electronic jazz-fusion style. On his debut UK release "Sunrise Falling", blazing lead guitar and guitar synth over techno sequencer and drum loops alternate with sensitive acoustic guitar playing and imaginative sound textures. Gene is joined on the CD by a stellar cast of accompanists including Matt Garrison and Fima Ephron on bass, and JoJo Mayer and Rashied Ali on drums.
Harald Grosskpf/Digital Nomad ....import CD $19.99
Harald Grosskopf is one of the all-time stars of the Berlin "Kosmiche" scene, having performed with Ash Ra Tempel, Wallenstein and on some of the most outstanding albums of Klaus Schulze. As a drummer and synthesist he has also released several solo albums, of which his latest, Digital Nomad, is the first to have a UK release. On Digital Nomad Grosskopf takes electronic soundscapes to their extreme limits, fusing world music, dark ambient textures and driving techno percussion into a striking audio experience, the soundtrack for a limitless imagination. Harald is accompanied on the CD by Ash Ra colleague Steve Baltes; the seven tracks of the CD run continuously for almost 50 minutes combining the modern styles of techno ambient music with the experience of the classic epic electronic albums of the 70's
Intelligentsia/Civilizations ....import CD $19.99
INTELLIGENTSIA is led by Mirai, a British synth composer who has been living in Japan for the last several years. Heavily involved in the worlds of techno, ambient and multi-media music, his first love is the classic sound of the analog synthesizer, and in particular the grand, symphonic music of early Vangelis and Jean-Michel Jarre. "Civilizations" is space opera on an epic scale, an instrumental odyssey through the universe taking in the compelling melodies and sequences of Jarre's early "Oxygene" and "Equinoxe" albums, shifting to classically-inspired synthesizers under strange, alien vocals, then shooting off into techno territory inspired by the dance mixes of Tangerine Dream.
Mark Jenkins/Mexico Rising ....import CD $19.99
Mexico Rising opens with an epic concept track whipping through ambient, techno, ethnic and trance music and closes with powerful, spacey, sequenced music. Inspired by a journey around Mexico and starting with an epic, six-section concept piece covering everything from dark ambient to thumping techno music, via melodic synth/sequencer material, all inspired by differing aspects of that majestic country. Joined by several long, sequencer-based tracks under the title "Space Odysseys", and even a synthesized orchestral/traditional music track, and featuring Alquimia (voice), Steve Jolliffe (wind synth and flute) and Richard Pinhas (guitar).
Mark Jenkins/Space Dreams 2 ....import CD $19.99
Versatile synth/instrumental composer favourably compared to Tangerine Dream, Jean-Michel Jarre and Jan Hammer, but with melodic touches from Chris Franke, Robert Schroeder and the American space music scene too. The most recent studio CD Space Dreams 2 is "a powerhouse of extremely good rhythmic cosmic music" according to SEQUENCES magazine; PROGRESSION commented "love those percolating sequencers!...a full range of space music moods and textures...from Tangerine Dream-style standard space prog to more heartfelt stylings a la Kitaro. Driving rhythms underlying spacey effects and bright melodies...enough in motion here to distance it from the ambient masses...beautiful photos and paintings of cosmic exploration and celestial events. A solid space disc that moves, and does so without sounding cold or foreboding - a good bet for fans of the genre".
Mark Jenkins/Sequencer Loops ....import CD $19.99
A new studio album, "Sequencer Loops", will be released at the Alfa Centauri festival in Holland in March. It includes mostly long sequencer and synthesizer tracks with influences from Ashra, Michael Hoenig and Klaus Schulze - but with touches of Pink Floyd, Hawkwind and Carlos Santana (and "a lot of guitar").
Mark Jenkins/Sequencer Loops 2 ....import CD $19.99
MARK JENKINS celebrates 25 years in electronic music with a follow-up to last year's massively acclaimed "Sequencer Loops". Again the mix is of classic and modern synths, flowing electric guitar and compelling sequencer and drum rhythms, earning comparisons with Tangerine Dream, Mike Oldfield and Jan Hammer at their best. On "Sequencer Loops 2", classic synths like the MiniMoog and Prophet soar over pulsating sequencers and pads and duel with guitar, vocoder and sampled voices. Long, ambient tracks in the style of Klaus Schulze alternate with shorter melodic pieces, and there are guest appearances by two US presidents and an ex-starship captain!
Lazarus Heart/Open the Sky ....import CD $19.99
He writes for South Park, she writes for The Sopranos. But the combination of Jamie Dunlop and Molly Pasutti as Lazarus Heart is unlike anything you've ever heard before - an up-tempo blend of techno dance, world music and guitar/vocal pop. You may find comparisons with Dead Can Dance, Peter Gabriel, the Cocteau Twins or Ofra Haza, but tracks like "I Can See Inside You" and "Someone Else's Skin" have a compelling quality which set the duo apart from anything which has gone before. Prepare to open your heart, open your mind and Open the Sky...
Paul Nagle/Earthshaper ....import CD $19.99
Melodic, rhythmic, new age synth music from one of the UK's best, described by C&D Services as "sure to delight those synth fans who want tunes, layers, melodies, Teutonic-influenced rhythms and spacey atmospherics". The first four CD's comprise a linked series on the theme Of "The Elements" - Water, Fire, Air and Earth (Earthshaper obviously representing the latter) - and are also available as a boxed set, for the price of 3 CD's. "The Live Element" was recorded at concerts in Derby and at the Jodrell Bank Planetarium, and as well as some themes from the "Elements" albums, comprises mostly new material in a more ambient dance oriented style.
Tangerine Dream/Tyranny Of Beauty ....import CD $19.99
Superbly produced studio album from the inventors of ambient synth music who influenced scores of artists from David Bowie to The Orb - combining progressive rock, techno, ambient and classical music on this album and including a bonus track not found on the original German and US versions.
Various Artists/A Future Age of Music ....import CD $19.99
An introductory album for the label featuring an otherwise unavailable Tangerine Dream
edit, Keith Emerson, White
Noise, Steve Jolliffe, Mark Jenkins, an Alquimia remix, Richard Pinhas, Paul Nagle, Daevid
Allen, Daniel Biry and Martin Atkey. Almost 70 minutes of music ranging from
relaxation to driving rock.
Various Artists/Music for the 3rd Millenium Vol. 2 ....import CD $19.99
Here is the second volume in this very successful series from AMP Records highlighting the best and the brightest in today's electronic music talent! Featured on volume 2 of Music for the 3rd Millenium are Clearlight, Dave Greenslade, Ryo Okumoto (Spock's Beard), Nash the Slash (FM), Nick Magnus (Steve Hackett), Paul Haslinger (Tangerine Dream), Michael Rother/Dieter Moebius, Logic System (YMO), Deep Forest, Wave World, Michael Stearns, Bernard Xolotl, Spiral of Silence, Modulus, Bernd Kistenmacher, and Nick Rhodes
Various Artists/Music for the 3rd Millenium Vol. 3 ....import CD $19.99
AMP RECORDS to mark the close of 2001 releases the latest in the "Music for the 3rd Millennium" series. "Vol. 3", in a limited numbered edition of 1,000 copies, features the spectacular return of Robert Schroeder and of ex-Tangerine Dream member Johannes Schmoelling, new music from Can frontman Damo Suzuki, British stars such as Geoff Downes (Buggles/Asia) and Clarke & Ware (Erasure/Heaven 17) and many more previously unreleased tracks.
Various Artists/The Spirit of Christmas ....import CD $19.99
The ultimate Christmas album! The world's greatest instrumentalists on one CD, with some fantastic Christmas music including rare and unreleased tracks! The lineup reads like a "Who's Who?" of instrumental composers;
Kitaro - "Joy To The World/The First Noel". Big
orchestral/choral track from US-based Japanese new age megastar.
Rick Wakeman - "Babylon". Unreleased 1975 track from the White
Rock sessions which has had Wakeman fans queuing up for the album.
Keith Emerson - "Troika". A classical Christmas favourite given
typical treatment from the world's top rock keyboardist.
Sally Oldfield - "Mystic Drum". Enchanting vocal piece
reminiscent of her worldwide chart hit "Mirrors".
David Bedford - "Godrestya". Mike Oldfield's orchestral
arranger goes all drum'n'bass!
White Noise - "Peace On Earth". Floating ambient track from
psychedelic band recently namechecked by The Orb, co-composed and with vocals by Alquimia.
Zyklus - "Christmas Morning".A new and appealing soft techno
jazz track from Neil Ardley's band.
Paul Nagle - "In The Bleak Midwinter". Leading UK new age
artist does an Xmas favourite in the style of Erasure.
Mark Jenkins - "Technoel!". UK space music composer drives a
medley of Christmas favourites into the next millenium.
Alquimia - "The Little Drummer Boy".The ethereal voice of
Alquimia in an entrancing techno ambient style.
MC Russell - "Silent Night".Very, very deep ambient drum'n'bass
treatment of a Christmas classic.
Mesmerise - "What Child Is This?". Trio of Mark Jenkins,
Alquimia and MC Russell with another spooky ambient track.
David 'White Noise' Vorhaus/White Noise IV - Inferno ....import CD $19.99
Synth pioneer Dave Vorhaus creates two epic psychedelic trips through a universe of new sounds, samples and textures with the albums Inferno and Re-Entry. Re-Entry, found in the complete AMP catalog below adds three bonus tracks not on the original 1980 LP release.
David 'White Noise' Vorhaus/White Noise V - Sound Mind ....import CD $19.99
David Vorhaus, a pioneer of sound technology and inventor of the Kaleidophon electronic musical instrument, sent the world of the 1960's into an aural spin as cult originator of the first White Noise album, "An Electric Storm." That definitive electronic release trickled through the consciousness of the times offering sounds until then unheard by human ears - it went on to sell hundreds of thousands of copies worldwide. In hindsight the album seems so far ahead of its time that it has taken the world a while to catch up. Only now are DJ's, producers and dance experimentalists acknowledging the influence of the Vorhaus soundscapes on their music. Always obsessed by the farthest reaches and possibilities of technology and musical creation (understandable when you have, as Vorhaus did, a background both in classical music and in physics), he has become the granddaddy of electronic music. On this new album, "Sound Mind," David Vorhaus explores a dark ambient territory of unearthly beauty and all-possessing strangeness - plucking white noise from the invisible universe, and using the technology of the future to create a new galaxy of sound for today.
Zyklus/Virtual Realities ....import CD $19.99
Critically acclaimed high tech jazz collaboration from Neil Ardley (composer of "Kaleidoscope of Rainbows"), John L. Walters (from "Landscape"), Ian Carr (from "Nucleus") and programmer & guitarist Warren Greveson, mixed by Jon Hiseman. Collaged synths, samples and drums overlaid by responsive trumpet.
Neil Ardley/Kaleidoscope of Rainbows ....import CD $19.99
Ars Nova/Fear & Anxiety ....import CD $19.99
Martin Atkey/Natural Elements ....import CD $19.99
Daniel Biry/The Feathered Snake ....import CD $19.99
Daniel Biry/Ys ....import CD $19.99
Frank Bogaert/Colours ....import CD $19.99
Barry Cleveland/Volcano ....import CD $19.99
Keith Emerson/Changing States ....import CD $19.99
Keith Emerson/The Christmas Album ....import CD $19.99
Gene Ess/Sunrise Falling ....import CD $19.99
Harald Grosskpf/Digital Nomad ....import CD $19.99
Intelligentsia/Civilizations ....import CD $19.99
Mark Jenkins/Analog Archives ....import CD $19.99
Mark Jenkins/If The World Were Turned On Its Head We Would Walk Among The Stars
....import CD $19.99
Mark Jenkins/Live Archives ....import CD $19.99
Mark Jenkins/Meditations ....import CD $19.99
Mark Jenkins/Mexico Rising ....import CD $19.99
Mark Jenkins/Phase One ....import 4CD box set $47.99 (includes Mexico
Rising, Space Dreams 1 & 2, Thunder at Midnight)
Mark Jenkins/Sequencer Loops ....import CD $19.99
Mark Jenkins/Sequencer Loops 2 ....import CD $19.99
Mark Jenkins/Space Dreams ....import CD $19.99
Mark Jenkins/Space Dreams 2 ....import CD $19.99
Mark Jenkins/SynProvisation ....import CD $19.99
Mark Jenkins/Thunder at Midnight ....import CD $19.99
Steve Jolliffe/Alien ....import CD $19.99
Steve Jolliffe/Zanzi ....import CD $19.99
Lazarus Heart/Open the Sky ....import CD $19.99
Paul Nagle/Earthshaper ....import CD $19.99
Paul Nagle/Elements Box ....import 4 CD box set $47.99 (includes Earthshaper,
Firedancer, Skyrider, Wavemaker)
Paul Nagle/Firedancer ....import CD $19.99
Paul Nagle/The Live Element ....import CD $19.99
Paul Nagle/Skyrider ....import CD $19.99
Paul Nagle/Wavemaker ....import CD $19.99
Richard Pinhas/Cyborg Sally ....import CD $19.99
Tangerine Dream/Tyranny Of Beauty ....import CD $19.99
Various Artists/A Future Age of Music ....import CD $19.99
Various Artists/Music for the 3rd Millenium Vol. 2 ....import CD $19.99
Various Artists/Music for the 3rd Millenium Vol. 3 ....import CD $19.99
Various Artists/The Spirit of Christmas ....import CD $19.99
Various Artists/21st Century Music ....import CD $19.99
David 'White Noise' Vorhaus/White Noise III - Re-Entry ....import CD
$19.99
David 'White Noise' Vorhaus/White Noise IV - Inferno ....import CD $19.99
David 'White Noise' Vorhaus/White Noise V - Sound Mind ....import CD
$19.99
White Noise/White Label ....import CD-R $19.99
White Noise/The Eindhoven Set ....import CD-R $19.99
Zyklus/Virtual Realities ....import CD $19.99
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