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1 Central Plains 8:07
2 Tensor five:43
3 MOS 6581 (Album Version) 7:10
four Silent Running 7:04
5 Neurotransmitter 7:27
6 Hydroponic Garden

VoiceYoji Ishida

9:12
7 Exosphere 5:05
8 Comsat 7:07
9 Epicentre (Get-go Movement)

VoiceAnna Andersson

5:57
10 Artificial Island five:xi
eleven Refraction 1.33 8:18
  • Artwork, Graphic DesignMat Da Kat
  • Mastered ByHuby Ocean
  • Other [Tracklisting By] Carbon Boyz , Vincent Villuis
  • Photography Past [Original Pictures]Johannes Hedberg, Marie Hedberg
  • Written-Past, ProducerDaniel Ringström ( tracks: i to 9, eleven ) , Johannes Hedberg ( tracks: 3 to seven, nine to 11 )

Track 11 has incorrect duration on back encompass and inlay. Correct in tracklist given here.

Tracklisting at Ultimae Studios.

Tracks 1, 2 & 7 to ix: Recorded at Room with a view - Göteborg - Sweden.

Tracks 3 to 6, 10 & eleven : Recorded at Grand.U.S. - Göteborg - Sweden

Released in Digipak.

© & ℗ on this album 2003 Ultimae Records
Made in EEC by D.G.I.

  • Barcode (Text) : 3 760052 760204
  • Matrix / Runout : 41234 ['CompactDisc-Logo'] 0305039 DEXTON CBL - INRE09
  • Mastering SID Code : IFPI LH11
  • Mould SID Code : IFPI 4P32
  • Rights Gild : SACEM
  • Rights Society : SDRM
Championship ( Format ) Label Cat# State Year
Hydroponic Garden ( CD , Album, Partially Mixed, Repress ) Ultimae Records inre 009 France 2008
Hydroponic Garden ( CD , Album, Partially Mixed, Reissue, Unofficial Release ) Sensorica Music, Diamond Records (vi) SMCD0008 , DRCD0159 Russia 2009
Hydroponic Garden ( CD , Album, Partially Mixed, Reissue ) Ultimae Records inre009 France 2011
Hydroponic Garden ( xi × File , FLAC, Album, Remastered , 24-bit) Leftfield Records LFTFLD10 Sweden 2015

New Submission

Hydroponic Garden ( CD , Album, Reissue, Remastered , DigiPack) Claret Music (2) BLOOD150 Europe 2016

GoaMoff's avatar

Palms are sweating even at present when I put the last 3 tracks on, loudly ofc. The heed just can't forget the memories years ago, yet bright feel, skilful fucking times. Thank you CBL!

ArtimusBaldwin's avatar

Tragic that the originals never released on vinyl. I think the remasters strip a few songs like Tensor for the worse, not to mention the original covers are amazing.

spacefreak's avatar

If you lot need physical, this is music made to be played on CD not vinyl (and I'm a vinyl freak).

neurodynamo's avatar

Edited 5 years ago

The coloured vinyls are very limited and await astonishing but mixing with the splattered would requite me a headache - not sure how many black vinyl copies are in worldwide circulation - Heard in that location are some colour problems with the coloured vinyl. If anyone owns both black and coloured I'd exist interested to know the difference in audio if in that location is whatsoever - But from personal experience with playing hundreds of coloured vinyls as someone I remember used to say - always bet on black :)

Note .... all my three vinyl albums on Blood Music are poor vinyl quality pops surface noise and clicks. So delight exist enlightened before purchase am sending mine back

Edited 12 years ago

Carbon Based Lifeforms surprised everyone in 2003 with this release. CBL quickly rose from relative unknowns to having an ambient cult following; this is definitely one of the very all-time ambient albums in the by decade.

Central Plains and Tensor conjure up traditional ambient images of walking through peaceful gardens, except with more accent on the acid. Both of these tracks are totally beautiful and plenty to hook me from the start.

MOS 6581, typically the fan favourite, is one of those tracks which you won't forget. A spooky sample overlaid with some bully synth lines make this some other wonderful rails.

Neurotransmitter makes me feel like a giant, walking in the countryside and taking huge, regular footsteps. This is really the peak of the album before drifting off into an ambience second one-half.

Nigh of the second half isn't nearly as heady every bit the start; in fact sometimes I feel tempted to showtime again when I go to Hydroponic Garden, the title track. It's got some wailing voices which tread a very fine line between lush and abrasive.

Anyway, Exosphere and Comsat are nice sleepy tracks which brainstorm to pick up over again, earlier Epicentre, which sounds like classical on acrid - this is another cute rail. Artifical Island is sort of haunting and makes you think what an Artifical Island is... does this music create an Artificial Island, for you to enter another realm?

The album ends with Refraction 1.33, a circuitous and profound catastrophe to a complex and profound anthology. Similar really good ambience albums, this manages to create its own world - the Hydroponic Album, a land of floating trees and untouched beauty.

calipheron's avatar

Edited fifteen years ago

Non being a fan of electric current electronic ambient productions (do we really need nonetheless another Pop Ambience, for case?), this album by CBL is a very pleasant surprise. Nothing similar the "laptop ambience" so popular amid some German language labels, Hydroponic Garden harks dorsum to the warm, analogue sounds of mid-90s ambient techno such as Higher Intelligence Agency, Mat "Gas 0095" Jarvis, and Global Communication. Simply with more 303s.

Lots of uncomplicated merely effective arps and melodies, ready to soft breakbeats or 4/4 beats, shuffled hihats and so on (the first 6 tracks peculiarly - but don't miss the half dozen/8 piece Silent Running, very hypnotic). After the beats take a back seat or don't appear at all, and fifty-fifty some vocals slither their way in. The best example of this would have to exist on Epicentre (Start Movement) - a very powerful, melancholic vocal line in this.

Stunning stuff, overall. Best track = MOS 6581

Reticulum_Flux's avatar

Edited fifteen years agone

An album that never seems to abound old. The starting time one-half of CD has a lot of acid beats over ambient vibes, while the 2nd one-half seems to lean more towards ambient. I've had this CD for over two years now and it still gets weekly play from me normally. 2 tracks have female vocals in them (Hydroponic Garden), simply honestly, my favorites are the non-vocal ones (Central Plains!)

john_k_'s avatar

Edited 16 years agone

Pure ambient release. The pattern of most tracks is the classic mid 90s ambient one.
Though there is a track that is actually different from the others: 'MOS 6581'. The track has amazing flow and the whole feel is first-class. For me it's like it narrates a story, an exotic one from the past that you view information technology in a smoothen & slow way.

xeorthan's avatar

Edited 16 years ago

Anthology that shows me how beautiful music can really be and although I've been listening to it nearly two years at present, it still sounds as fresh, when I start discovered information technology. When spacey, soft melodies start, they stay in the air and let yous float with them in perfect harmony, although they sometimes they can sound kinda childish. There isn't a unmarried bad song on this, which is the case with most of the Ultimae Records artist releases. I use this when I'g feeling down and want something to cheer me up or when I just desire to relax on my beanbag with a cup of dark-green tea. Wonderful ambience meditation at its all-time.

robotronic's avatar

Edited 17 years agone

I'one thousand seriously into ambient stuff now, so I spend much fourth dimension listening to it (esp. while designing some work in AutoCAD) and much time composing in this style and experimenting with the substance of audio. Hydrophonic Garden became an interesting and surprising discovery for me. I realized that popular TB-303 which is widely known for participating in different trance, electro and acrid tracks can sound perfectly too in the nearly cute ambience I've ever heard. Album looks solid and information technology's too hard to name the "leading" titles. But I recollect, 'MOS 6581 (Album Version)' is recognized equally a truly masterpiece, another favorites hither are 'Refraction 1.33' and 'Comsat'.
I want finally thank the CLF for such cute piece of work and wish them good luck in producing more hi-q ambient...

Alexander. Saint-Petersburg. Russia.