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Patashnik
''Patashnik'' is the second album by ambient house musician Biosphere. It was originally released in 1994 by Origo Sound in Norway and by Apollo in the rest of the world. Its track "Novelty Waves" was used for a 1995 Levi's ad campaign. Overview According to Jenssen, the word ''patashnik'' is allegedly Russian cosmonaut slang for "a traveler" or "a goner", a cosmonaut who didn't return from a space mission because his security cable disengaged and he was lost in space. There appears to be no such word in contemporary Russian, but such surnames do exist, and it still sheds light on Jenssen's intent with the title. Through ''Patashnik'', Jenssen continued to explore his ambient-house stylings to an even greater extent. ''Patashnik'' contained the first hints of the reduction in beat-driven song structure that would mark later Biosphere releases. Unlike the first album, ''Patashnik'' was quickly picked up by a comparatively large international audience, which brought Biosphere g ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Biosphere (musician)
Geir Jenssen (born 30 May 1962)Thompson, Dave (2000) ''Alternative Rock'', Miller Freeman, , p.197-198 is a Norwegian electronic musician and composer who records as Biosphere. A resident of Tromsø within the Arctic Circle, Jenssen is well known for ambient and ambient house pieces, often inspired by Arctic or mountain settings, and his use of loops and peculiar samples from science fiction and natural sources. His 1997 album '' Substrata'' was voted by the users of the Hyperreal.org website in 2001 as the best all-time classic ambient album.Se"Classic Ambient Recordings: The 2001 Survey"at Hyperreal.org He has also composed several film scores. History Prior to Biosphere (1962–1991) Jenssen was born on 30 May 1962 in Tromsø, a city within the Arctic Circle in the northernmost portion of Norway. He was inspired by the music of artists such as New Order, Depeche Mode, Wire, and Brian Eno, which he described as "like discovering a new universe—a universe which I wante ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Geir Jenssen
Geir Jenssen (born 30 May 1962)Thompson, Dave (2000) ''Alternative Rock'', Miller Freeman, , p.197-198 is a Norwegian electronic musician and composer who records as Biosphere. A resident of Tromsø within the Arctic Circle, Jenssen is well known for ambient and ambient house pieces, often inspired by Arctic or mountain settings, and his use of loops and peculiar samples from science fiction and natural sources. His 1997 album '' Substrata'' was voted by the users of the Hyperreal.org website in 2001 as the best all-time classic ambient album.Se"Classic Ambient Recordings: The 2001 Survey"at Hyperreal.org He has also composed several film scores. History Prior to Biosphere (1962–1991) Jenssen was born on 30 May 1962 in Tromsø, a city within the Arctic Circle in the northernmost portion of Norway. He was inspired by the music of artists such as New Order, Depeche Mode, Wire, and Brian Eno, which he described as "like discovering a new universe—a universe which I wante ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Origo Sound
Origo Sound is a Norwegian independent record label formed in 1990 in Norway by Harald Lervik. The initiative to start the label was taken after Tormod Opedal, an employee in Lervik's software company, in 1989 had decided to close his own label Cicada which had released two albums by the Norwegian composer Erik Wøllo. Wøllo had a new album ready to be released, and Origo Sound was formed the year after, with two albums launched in the autumn 1990, of which one was the new Wøllo album Origo Sound's major successes were the two albums by Biosphere, ''Microgravity'' and ''Patashnik''. Hailed by Norwegian and international press for setting the standard for what was to become known as ambient techno, the albums were followed by two more albums on the label, ''Substrata'' and the movie soundtrack ''Insomnia''. Up until 2007, all but one of the albums released were by Norwegian bands and artists. The one exception was the Finnish duo Dystopia's album ''The Second Dawn'' in 1998, bu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Insomnia (soundtrack)
''Insomnia'' is the soundtrack album for the 1997 Norwegian film ''Insomnia'', which was composed by ambient artist Biosphere The biosphere (from Greek βίος ''bíos'' "life" and σφαῖρα ''sphaira'' "sphere"), also known as the ecosphere (from Greek οἶκος ''oîkos'' "environment" and σφαῖρα), is the worldwide sum of all ecosystems. It can also be .... The tone of the album is much darker in places than Geir Jenssen's earlier work, such as in the tracks "Field" and "Quay". Track listing # "Proem" – 3:16 # "Lounge" – 2:29 # "Forum" – 4:15 # "Field" – 4:37 # "Probe" – 1:30 # "Yard" – 1:17 # "Shade" – 2:26 # "Ride" – 2:44 # "Chamber" – 2:25 # "2nd Field" – 5:41 # "Rush" – 1:33 # "Transit" – 1:47 # "Visit" – 1:28 # "Gate" – 1:39 # "Quay" – 3:08 # "Tunnel" – 5:39 # "Insomnia (Alanïa Mix)" – 3:27 References Biosphere (musician) albums Thriller film soundtracks 1997 soundtrack albums {{1990s-electronic-album-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Microgravity (album)
''Microgravity'' is the debut studio album by Norwegian electronic musician Geir Jenssen under the stage name Biosphere, released in 1991. The album was at first rejected by SSR, the subsidiary of Nettwerk with whom Jenssen had previously released his music, as "unmarketable". The small Norwegian label Origo Sound picked it up, and the record scored on the club circuit in 1991. At the end of 2014, Geir Jenssen launched a successful Kickstarter campaign to re-release the album on vinyl. Track listing Personnel *Geir Jenssen Geir Jenssen (born 30 May 1962)Thompson, Dave (2000) ''Alternative Rock'', Miller Freeman, , p.197-198 is a Norwegian electronic musician and composer who records as Biosphere. A resident of Tromsø within the Arctic Circle, Jenssen is well know ... – production, writing *Alexander Stojanovic – editing References 1991 debut albums Biosphere (musician) albums Ambient house albums {{1990s-electronic-album-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1994 Albums
This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1994. Specific locations * 1994 in British music * 1994 in Norwegian music Specific genres *1994 in country music * 1994 in heavy metal music * 1994 in hip hop music * 1994 in Latin music * 1994 in jazz Events January–February *January 19 – Bryan Adams becomes the first major Western music star to perform in Vietnam since the end of the Vietnam War. *January 21–February 5 – The Big Day Out festival takes place, again expanding from the previous year's venues to include the Gold Coast, Queensland and Auckland in New Zealand. The festival is headlined by Soundgarden, Ramones and Björk. *January 25 – Alice in Chains release their ''Jar of Flies'' album which makes its US chart debut at No. 1 on the Billboard 200, becoming the first ever EP to do so. *January 29 – The Supremes' Mary Wilson is injured when her Jeep hits a freeway median and flips over just outside Los Angeles, USA. Wilson's 14-y ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Apollo Records (Belgium)
Apollo Records is an ambient-music subdivision of R&S Records of Belgium. Selected discography * Apollo Compilation – ''Volume 1 – File Under Ambient'' * Biosphere – ''Microgravity'' * Aphex Twin – ''Selected Ambient Works 85–92'' * In–Existence – ''Moonwater'' * The Irresistible Force – ''The Irrisistible Force'' * Robert Leiner – ''Visions of the Past'' * Biosphere – ''Patashnik'' * The Fires Of Ork – ''The Fires of Ork'' * Locust – ''Weathered Well'' * Jam & Spoon – ''Tripomatic Fairy Tales 2002'' * Tournesol – ''Kokotsu'' * Uzect Plaush – ''More Beautiful Human Life!'' * Apollo 2 – ''The Divine Compilation'' * Cabaret Voltaire – ''The Conversation'' * Locust – ''Natural Composite'' * Sketch – ''Reasons to Sway'' * Manna – ''Manna'' * Sun Electric – ''30.7.94 Live'' * Locust – ''Truth is Born of Arguments'' * Subsurfing – ''Frozen Ants'' * Locust – ''Morning Light'' * Sun Electric – ''Present'' * Manna – ''5:1'' * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Helge Gaarder
Helge Gaarder (25 November 1953 – 15 April 2004) was a Norwegian singer, composer, journalist and producer. Gaarder was born in Oslo to children's writer Inger Margrethe Gaarder, and was a brother of Jostein Gaarder. He was a member of various musical groups, including the anarchist band Geitost, the punk band , the experimental band Montasje, and the rock band . In 1984 he issued the solo album ''Eine keine Angst Musik''. Gaarder was also journalist for the music magazine ', was part of the project Forente Artister, and worked as producer for Concerts Norway Concerts Norway ( no, Rikskonsertene) was established in 1967 on the initiative of the Arts Council Norway ( no, Norsk kulturråd), with its main purpose described as follows: "Concerts Norway is to make living music of high artistic quality acces .... References Musicians from Oslo 1953 births 2004 deaths Journalists from Oslo 20th-century Norwegian journalists {{Norway-musician-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Babel Fish (website)
Yahoo! Babel Fish was a free Web-based multilingual translation application. In May 2012 it was replaced by Bing Translator (now Microsoft Translator), to which queries were redirected. Although Yahoo! has transitioned its Babel Fish translation services to Bing Translator, it did not sell its translation application to Microsoft outright. As the oldest free online language translator, the service translated text or Web pages in 36 pairs between 13 languages, including English, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Dutch, French, German, Greek, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, and Spanish. The internet service derived its name from the Babel fish, a fictional species in Douglas Adams's book and radio series ''The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy'' that could instantly translate languages. In turn, the name of the fictional creature refers to the biblical account of the confusion of languages that arose in the city of Babel. History On December 9, 1997, Digit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Machine Translation
Machine translation, sometimes referred to by the abbreviation MT (not to be confused with computer-aided translation, machine-aided human translation or interactive translation), is a sub-field of computational linguistics that investigates the use of software to translate text or speech from one language to another. On a basic level, MT performs mechanical substitution of words in one language for words in another, but that alone rarely produces a good translation because recognition of whole phrases and their closest counterparts in the target language is needed. Not all words in one language have equivalent words in another language, and many words have more than one meaning. Solving this problem with corpus statistical and neural techniques is a rapidly growing field that is leading to better translations, handling differences in linguistic typology, translation of idioms, and the isolation of anomalies. Current machine translation software often allows for customizat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Archive
An archive is an accumulation of historical records or materials – in any medium – or the physical facility in which they are located. Archives contain primary source documents that have accumulated over the course of an individual or organization's lifetime, and are kept to show the function of that person or organization. Professional archivists and historians generally understand archives to be records that have been naturally and necessarily generated as a product of regular legal, commercial, administrative, or social activities. They have been metaphorically defined as "the secretions of an organism", and are distinguished from documents that have been consciously written or created to communicate a particular message to posterity. In general, archives consist of records that have been selected for permanent or long-term preservation on grounds of their enduring cultural, historical, or evidentiary value. Archival records are normally unpublished and almost alway ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2010 (film)
''2010: The Year We Make Contact'' (abbreviated on-screen as simply ''2010'') is a 1984 American science fiction film written, produced, shot and directed by Peter Hyams. It is a sequel to Stanley Kubrick's 1968 film '' 2001: A Space Odyssey'' and is based on Arthur C. Clarke's 1982 sequel novel, '' 2010: Odyssey Two''. The film stars Roy Scheider, Helen Mirren, Bob Balaban and John Lithgow, along with Keir Dullea and Douglas Rain of the cast of the previous film. Plot Nine years after the failure of the ''Discovery One'' mission to Jupiter in 2001, in which the crew of five including mission commander David Bowman were lost, an international dispute causes tension between the United States and the Soviet Union while both nations prepare space missions to determine what happened to the ''Discovery''. The Soviet spacecraft ''Leonov'' will be ready a year before the American ''Discovery Two'', but the Soviets need Americans to board the ''Discovery'' and reactivate the ship's se ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
