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	A BLUE OCEAN DREAM - The Sea (cd-r)


	A PRODUCE - A Smooth Surface (cd-r)


	A PRODUCE - Black Sands (cd-r)


	A PRODUCE - Inscape and Landscape (cd)


	A PRODUCE - Land of a Thousand Trances (cd-r)


	A PRODUCE - Reflect like a Mirror, Respond like an Echo (cd)


	A PRODUCE - Smile on the Void (cd)


	A PRODUCE - White Sands (cd)


	A PRODUCE & M. GRIFFIN - Altara (cd)


	A PRODUCE & RUBEN GARCIA - Early Sessions (cd-r)


	AAIRRIA - Urbanisation (cd)


	ABANDONED TOYS - The Witch's Garden (cd)


	ACHELOO - Ishtar (cd-r)


	ACHELOO - Sirens (cd-r)


	RUDY ADRIAN - Desert Realms (cd)


	RUDY ADRIAN - Kinetic Flow (Sequencer Sketches Vol. 1) (cd)


	RUDY ADRIAN - Moonwater (cd)


	RUDY ADRIAN - Subantarctica (Atmospheric Works Vol.1) (cd-r)


	RUDY ADRIAN - The Healing Lake (cd)


	RUDY ADRIAN - Twilight (Atmospheric Works Vol. 2) (cd-r)


	KEES AERTS - If One Door Closes (cd)


	KEES AERTS - Slices of Time (cd)


	AES DANA - Leylines (cd)


	AETOPUS - Memories of the Elder (cd)


	JOHAN AGEBJöRN - Mossebo (cd)


	AIRSCULPTURE - Fjord Transit (cd)


	AIRSCULPTURE - Quark Soup (cd)


	AIRSCULPTURE - TranceAtlantic (cd)


	AIRWAVES - Ambient Tracks (cd)


	AIRWAVES - Second Shift (cd)


	AKIKAZE - The Age of Deception (cd-r)


	ALEMIS - The Music of Alemis Vol. 1 (cd-r)


	ALIEN NATURE - Anna (cd-r)


	ALIO DIE & JACK OR JIVE - Mei-Jyu (cd)


	ALIO DIE & MARTINA GALVAGNI - Eleusian Lullaby (cd)


	ALIO DIE & PARALLEL WORLDS - Circo Divino (cd)


	ALPHA WAVE MOVEMENT - Beyond Silence (cd-r)


	ALPHA WAVE MOVEMENT - Cosmic Mandala (cd-r)


	ALPHA WAVE MOVEMENT - Cosmology (cd)


	ALPHA WAVE MOVEMENT - Drifted Into Deeper Lands (cd)


	ALPHA WAVE MOVEMENT - Terra (dvd-r)


	ALPHA WAVE MOVEMENT - The Mystic and the Machine (cd-r)


	ALPHA WAVE MOVEMENT - The Regions Between (cd-r)


	ALPHA WAVE MOVEMENT - Transcendence (cd)


	ALPHA WAVE MOVEMENT & JIM COLE - Bislama (cd-r)


	ALQUIMIA & RüDIGER GLEISBERG - Garden of Dreams (cd)


	ALTUS - Black Trees Among Amber Skies (cd-r)


	ALTUS - City of Ashes (cd-r)


	ALTUS - Coma Cluster (cd-r)


	ALTUS - Excursion Two (cd-r)


	ALTUS - Macro (cd-r)


	ALTUS - Rapid Eye Movements (cd-r)


	ALTUS - The Grand Expanse (cd-r)


	THE AMARANTH SIGNAL - Penumbra (cd-r)


	AMBIENTIUM - Fractal Philosophy (cd-r)


	AMETHYSTIUM - Aphelion (cd)


	AMETHYSTIUM - Emblem (cd)


	AMETHYSTIUM - Evermind (cd)


	AMETHYSTIUM - Isabliss (cd)


	AMETHYSTIUM - Odonata (cd)


	AMONGST MYSELVES - Auburn Silhouette (cd)


	AMONGST MYSELVES - Sacred Black (cd)


	JACK ANDREWS - Electrokinesis (cd-r)


	MIKE ANDREWS - Time & Science (cd)


	ANDYMIAN - In the Garden of the Rainy King (cd)


	ANOMALOUS DISTURBANCES - Archive Two (cd-r)


	ANOMALOUS DISTURBANCES - HovR (cd-r)


	ANOMALOUS DISTURBANCES - Inside (cd-r)


	ANOMALOUS DISTURBANCES - The Spirit Molecule (cd-r)


	VINCENT GABRIEL ANTONINI - Unforeseen (cd-r)


	ANTRILON - Mind Erase (cd)


	APERUS - Hinterland (Ep)


	APERUS - Tumbleweed obfuscated by camera failure (cd-r)


	AQUAVOICE - Cold (cd)


	AQUAVOICE - Memories (cd)


	ARC - Church (cd)


	ARC - Fracture (cd)


	ARC - Rise (cd-r)


	ARCANE - Alterstill (cd)


	ARCANE - The Shelter (cd-r)


	ARCANE - Tomorrow’s Wasteland (cd-r)


	ARKHA NOUS - Tria (cd)


	CHRIS ARMSTRONG - A.I. Awakens (cd)


	ARROCATA - In the Distance (cd)


	ARRONIZ - Contacto (cd)


	ART OF INFINITY - Dimension Universe (cd)


	ASHERA - Ambient Selections (cd)


	ASHERA - Cobalt 144 (cd)


	ASHERA - Colour Glow (cd)


	ASHERA - Enviro (cd)


	ASHERA - We Gaia (cd)


	ASHERA & BRANNAN LANE - Sextant (cd)


	DWIGHT ASHLEY & TIM STORY - Standing + Falling (cd)


	DWIGHT ASHLEY - Discrete Carbon (cd)


	ASTROGATOR - Dreamlight (cd-r)


	ASTROVOYAGER - Symphotronic Lunation (cd)


	ASURA - Life 2 (cd)


	CAN ATILLA - Ave (cd)


	ATRIUM CARCERI - Cellblock (cd)


	AUGUST WHEN - The Hour Before Midnight (cd-r)


	AUREALITY - Sense (cd-r)


	AUSTRALIS - Lifegiving (cd)


	AUSTRALIS - The Gates of Reality (cd)


	PAUL AVGERINOS - Muse of the Round Sky (cd)


	PAUL AVGERINOS - Sky of Grace (cd)


	PAUL AVGERINOS - Words Touch (cd)


	AXESS - Voices of Dawn (cd)


	AZUL Y NEGRO - Deja Vu (cd)

JOHAN AGEBJöRN
Mossebo
CD, LotusPike, 2008

The album title "Mossebo" is named after the house where the actual music was composed and recorded. Composed and played by Swedish electronica producer Johan Agebjörn, it marks his ambient debut, as Johan seems to best know as the creative mind behind a dance project called Sally Shapiro.

"Mossebo" contains a selection of 11 nicely rendered tracks composed between 2004 and 2007, and one older piece from 1996. The music breaths the same pleasant arctic atmosphere and desolate feeling that also graces the music of Erik Wollo or Biosphere.

This is especially evoked by the stunning wordless vocals of Lisa Barra which accompany the rich ambient sound world tapestries with gentle electro beats, in which organic and melancholic undercurrents swirl just beneath the surface as the cinematic journey unfolds.

E.g., the 3-minute "Shoreline" is beautiful in its simplicity, while other tracks (especially in the first half of the album) shine by means of the perfectly matching and close interactions of intimate textures, slowly paced beats and vocal pads.
The two-part "Siberian Train" at the end of the album is a bit rougher, adding a surprising, almost mind dazzling edge when compared to the other music.

But overall, "Mossebo" offers expansive, very well mixed, produced and mastered ambient music that is a remarkable journey of its own.
Recommended.

Website: www.johanagebjorn.info