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	CADENCED HAVEN - Peregrination (cd)


	CALLISTO - Nyx (cd)


	JAVI CáNOVAS - Behind the Shadows (cd-r)


	JAVI CáNOVAS - Eigenspaces (cd-r)


	JAVI CáNOVAS - In this Moment, In the Place (cd-r)


	JAVI CáNOVAS - Light Echoes (cd)


	JAVI CáNOVAS - Nights of Brightness (cd-r)


	CARBON BASED LIFEFORMS - Hydrophonic Garden (cd)


	CARBON BASED LIFEFORMS - Interloper (cd)


	CARBONEIDS - Synthsyg (cd)


	MARTIN CARRADUS - Analog (cd-r)


	ROBERT CARTY & BRANNAN LANE - Climatic Infusion (cd-r)


	ROBERT CARTY & BRANNAN LANE - Dreamswirl (cd-r)


	ROBERT CARTY & GERARD GEARY - Mount Meru (cd-r)


	ROBERT CARTY - Natural Wonder (cd-r)


	ROBERT CARTY - Oceanic Space (cd-r)


	ROBERT CARTY - Skyhearts (cd-r)


	ROBERT CARTY - Starlight Volume 1 (cd-r)


	ROBERT CARTY - Starlight Volume 2 (cd-r)


	ROBERT CARTY - Starlight Volume 3 (cd-r)


	ROBERT CARTY - Suntales (cd-r)


	ROBERT CARTY - The Inexplicable (cd-r)


	ROBERT CARTY & SYLKEN - The Endless Vista (cd-r)


	CHARLIE CASE & JONN SERRIE - Out of the Blue (dvd)


	DOLORES CASTRO - Fifth Dimension (cd)


	CATALIN - First Breath (cd)


	CELL - Hanging Masses (cd)


	CENTROZOON - Lovefield (cd)


	PETER CHALLONER - Abstract Ambient Form (cd-r)


	PETER CHALLONER - Beneath the Ice Flow (cd-r)


	PETER CHALLONER - Deconstructing Silence (cd-r)


	PETER CHALLONER - Interpolation (cd-r)


	PETER CHALLONER - Lunar Tide (cd-r)


	PETER CHALLONER - Music for Cloud Watching (cd-r)


	PETER CHALLONER - Music in Ambient Motion (cd-r)


	PETER CHALLONER - Music in Suspended Animation (cd-r)


	PETER CHALLONER - The Other Side of Time (cd-r)


	CHAR-EL - Heaven and Earth (cd)


	CHAR-EL - Resurrection (cd)


	CHAR-EL - Worlds without End (cd)


	CLAUDE CHEMIN - Esthésies (cd)


	JOHN CHRISTIAN - Susbarbatus (cd-r)


	CIRCULAR - Sustans (cd)


	THE CIRCULAR RUINS - Empathy Test (cd)


	CIRCULUM MUSICUM - Phases (cd-r)


	TIM CLARK - Tales of the Sun People (cd)


	VINCENT CLARKE & MARTYN WARE - Spectrum Pursuit Vehicle (cd)


	MATT COLDRICK - Music for a Busy Head (cd)


	COLLAPSAR - Beyond the Event Horizon (cd)


	COLOURFORM - Visions of Surya (cd)


	COMPUTERCHEMIST - Aqual Measure (cd-r)


	CONTINUUM - Volume 1 (cd)


	CON_SENSE - Code Sent (cd-r)


	MAX CORBACHO & BRUNO SANFILIPPO - Indalo (cd-r)


	MAX CORBACHO - Ars Lucis (cd)


	MAX CORBACHO - BreathStream (cd-r)


	MAX CORBACHO - Far Beyond The Immobile Point (cd-r)


	MAX CORBACHO - Moontribe (cd-r)


	MAX CORBACHO - Nocturnal Emanations (cd-r)


	MAX CORBACHO - The Resonant Memory of Earth (cd-r)


	MAX CORBACHO - Vestiges (cd)


	COSMIC HOFFMANN - Astral Journey (cd-r)


	COSMIC HOFFMANN - Electric Trick (cd)


	COSMIC HOFFMANN - Hypernova (cd-r)


	COSMIC HOFFMANN - Outerspace Gems (cd)


	COSMIC HOFFMANN - Space Gems (cd-r)


	BEN COX - On Water (cd)


	ROBERT HAIG COXON - The Silent Path (cd)


	JAMIE CRAIG - Illumination (cd)


	CREATE - In the Blink of an Eye (cd)


	CREATE - Lost on an Island of Adventure (cd)


	CREATE - Space Time Continuum (cd)


	CHARLES CREVIER , FRANCOIS KIRALY AND JEAN-FRANCOI - Music from the Sky (cd)


	CYBER ZEN SOUND ENGINE - Ausländer (cd)


	CYBER ZEN SOUND ENGINE - Moonscapes -How stones become enlighted- (cd)


	CYBER ZEN SOUND ENGINE & MATT BORGHI - The Intercepted Transmissions (cd)


	CYCLOTIMIA - Wasteland (cd)


	CYMPHONIC - Strataradialis (cd)


	CYSCAPE - Deep Sea Explorer (cd-r)

CELL
Hanging Masses
CD, Ultimae Records, 2009

"Hanging Masses" is the second full length release by French musician Cell, aka Alexandre Scheffer.
Cell previously contributed single tracks to various compilations in the genre of down-tempo electronica, but now bit by bit reveals his own identity with this cohesive album.

"Hanging Masses" consists of eight pieces of overall mellow electronics, which carries both dreamy flavours as deep, spacy atmospheres.
Cell's lush, spacious ambient textures are companied by occasional deep bass notes and glitchy rhythms, captured in long, repetitive down-beat pieces that can act both as background music as for more attentive listening. Submerged energies are always present, as are the many details floating by in the imaginary soundscapes.

Unfortunately, "Hanging Masses" also features very few catchy, melodic tunes, an important element which made his previous tracks stand out so well.

So in the end, merging the best of both worlds for a true solid release doesn't seem an easy job after all...

Website: www.myspace.com/alexscheffer