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	STEPHEN BACCHUS - Ambient Origins (cd)


	STEPHEN BACCHUS - Etherium (cd-r)


	STEPHEN BACCHUS - Pangaea (cd)


	JONATHAN BADGER - Metasonic (cd)


	AMIR BAGHIRI & MATHIAS GRASSOW - True North (cd)


	AMIR BAGHIRI & NIMH - Entities (cd-r)


	AMIR BAGHIRI & WEE BANDITS - A Brief History of Light (cd-r)


	AMIR BAGHIRI - Bluebox Collection (cd)


	AMIR BAGHIRI - Cages (cd)


	AMIR BAGHIRI - Dreamresources (cd)


	AMIR BAGHIRI - Exosphere (cd)


	AMIR BAGHIRI - Planet X (cd)


	AMIR BAGHIRI - Rooms (cd)


	AMIR BAGHIRI - Time (cd)


	AMIR BAGHIRI - Winterscape (cd)


	AMIR BAGHIRI - Yalda (cd-r)


	CHRISTOPHE BAILLEAU - Air Resort (cd)


	DAN BARRIO - This Physical World (cd-r)


	EVAN BARTHOLOMEW - Caverns of Time (cd)


	EVAN BARTHOLOMEW - Secret Entries into Darkness (cd)


	KEVIN BARTLETT - Glow in the Dark (cd)


	KEVIN BARTLETT - Near Life Experience (cd)


	ADRIAN BEASLEY - Powerhouse (cd-r)


	MICHEL BEKKERING - Cosmopolitan Dances (cd-r)


	DENE DE BENEDICTIS - A Lone Reply (cd)


	DENE DE BENEDICTIS - Salvaging the Past (cd)


	MICHAEL THOMAS BERKLEY - Arctic (cd)


	MICHAEL THOMAS BERKLEY - Images from Earth (cd)


	BERNHARD - Down on Earth (cd-r)


	BETWEEN INTERVAL - Autumn Continent (cd)


	BETWEEN INTERVAL - Radio Silence (cd-r)


	BETWEEN INTERVAL - Secret Observatory (cd)


	BETWEEN INTERVAL - The Edge of a Fairytale (cd)


	AMIN BHATIA - Virtuality (cd)


	MARK BIEHL - Landscapes (cd)


	DANIEL BLANCHET - L’Harmonie des Mondes (cd)


	SERGE BLENNER - Musique de Chambre (cd)


	DANIEL BLOOM - Event Horizon (cd)


	BLUE STONE - Breathe (cd)


	BLUETECH - Phoenix Rising (cd)


	BLUTIGER FLUSS - Dawn of Mars (cd-r)


	BLüCHEL & VON DEYLEN - Bi Polar (cd)


	BLüCHEL & VON DEYLEN - Mare Stellaris (cd)


	CHRIS BOCAST - Through the Airlock (cd)


	WOLFGANG BOCK - Cycles (Lp)


	CLAUS BOCKSTANDT - Voyages (cd)


	IAN BODDY & BERNHARD WöSTHEINRICH - Hemispheres (cd-r)


	RICHARD BONE - Experiments ’80-’82 (cd)


	RICHARD BONE - Infinite Plastic Creation (cd)


	RICHARD BONE - Saiyuji (cd)


	RICHARD BONE - Short Waves (cd-r/dvd-r)


	RICHARD BONE - The Eternal Now (cd)


	RICHARD BONE - The Spectral Ships (cd)


	RICHARD BONE - Vesperia (cd)


	RON BOOTS & FRIENDS - By Popular Demand (cd)


	RON BOOTS & FRIENDS - Joie de Vivre (cd)


	RON BOOTS & IAN BODDY - Phase 3 (cd)


	RON BOOTS & JOHN KERR - Offshore Islands (cd)


	RON BOOTS, KEES AERTS & HAROLD VAN DER HEIJDEN - BAH! Live in Sweden (cd-r)


	RON BOOTS - 80's Box (cd)


	RON BOOTS - Acoustic Shadows (cd)


	RON BOOTS - Area Movement (cd)


	RON BOOTS - Beyond the Boundaries of Twilight (cd)


	RON BOOTS - Current (cd)


	RON BOOTS - Derby! (cd)


	RON BOOTS - Detachment of Worldly Affairs (cd)


	RON BOOTS - Different Stories and Twisted Tales (cd)


	RON BOOTS - Dreamscape (cd)


	RON BOOTS - Ghost of a Mist (cd)


	RON BOOTS - Liquid Structures in Solid Form (cd)


	RON BOOTS - Mea Culpa (cd)


	RON BOOTS - Of Desolate Places And Urban Jungles (cd-single)


	RON BOOTS - Screaming Whispers (cd)


	RON BOOTS - See Beyond Times, Look Beyond Words (cd)


	RON BOOTS - Tainted Bare Skin (cd)


	RON BOOTS - Too Many Secrets (cd)


	MEG BOWLES - Blue Cosmos (cd)


	KEVIN BRAHENY - Galaxies (cd)


	BRAIN LAUGHTER II - Not Far from a Distant Sun (cd)


	BRAINWORK - Ten (cd)


	STEVE BRAND - Bridge to Nowhere (cd-r)


	STEVE BRAND - SoulSpiral (cd-r)


	THOM BRENNAN - Satori (cd-r)


	THOM BRENNAN - Shimmer (cd-r)


	THOM BRENNAN - Silver (cd -r)


	THOM BRENNAN - Stories from the Forest (cd)


	THOM BRENNAN - Vibrant Water (cd-r)


	BROEKHUIS, KELLER & SCHöNWäLDER - Blue (cd)


	BROEKHUIS, KELLER & SCHöNWäLDER - Live @ Dorfkirche Repelen 2 (cd)


	BROEKHUIS, KELLER & SCHöNWäLDER - Repelen 3 (cd)


	BROKEN HARBOUR - Broken Harbour (cd-r)


	VINCENT BRULEY - Dauphins et Baleines (cd)


	VINCENT BRULEY - La Nature s’endort (cd)


	BRUNETTE MODELS - Last Poem (cd)


	HAROLD BUDD & CLIVE WRIGHT - A Song for Lost Blossoms (cd)


	HAROLD BUDD - The White Arcades (cd)


	RICHARD BURMER - Invention (cd)

CHRIS BOCAST
Through the Airlock
CD, Private Release, 2004

"Through the Airlock" is described as a sci-fi ambient minimalist journey" by Colorado-based musician Chris Bocast, who utilizes e-guitar, ebow, piano and moog.

The twelve tracks shapeshift from rather eerie, transitional pieces (happily enough these are the shorter ones) to overall flowing, textural music.

I’m not fond of the dissonant, empty soundings and bit chaotic outcome on several tracks, but really enjoyed the floating, soundscape-like stuff as heard on tracks 2, 6, 9 and 12.
An excellent track is "EVA", offering ongoing delicate sustained piano lingerings which remind of Eno and Budd.

The album ends with track 13 as unlisted bonus track, another 10 minute journey of slowly morphing and drifting textures.

Website: www.chrisbocast.com