Artist: Damian Valles

stream: A Thousand Plateaus, by Talvihorros and Matthew Collings

May 8, 7:01am The Muse In Music

So. How exactly have we blindspotted this one since last May? Talvihorros is London-based guitarphile Ben Chatwin, and Muse regulars need no further introduction to Matthew Collings . Both have alot going on this year: Chatwin, a split album with Damian Valles , and Collings, a soundtrack, and a likely album (or two). Stay tuned for all that. But for now we leave you with the one-year-old A Thousand Plateaus , recorded for their tour last year. Less a synthesis of divergent styles and more [...]

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Damian Valles: Skeleton Taxa

Nov 4, 2011, 1:57am PopMatters

Cold, cold ambience from the Great White North. Valles has been jumping from one genre to another--math rock, post-rock, ambient, punk--for more than a decade now. The Canadian musician has landed on something that feels like ambient, but which he says is more concerned with structured tunes and melodies -- song stuff -- than his past solo stuff. How is it? At times reminiscent of the dark, spooky stuff put together by Norway's Ulver, albeit without the overwhelmingly depressive edge, the record's perfect...

• Damian Valles - Skeleton Taxa

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Artist:	Damian Valles
Title:	Skeleton Taxa
File Name:	SoundCloud
Genre:	Instrumental

Keepin' it Arboreal

Sep 26, 2011, 3:07am Lend Me Your Ears

Aural room tint of the day: Darren Harper 's fragrant Lavender Drift , prolific Twisted Tree Line 's 29th offering of a munificent year. TTL is a micro label of Somehow , itself only established in Aug 2010 by Tim Brice and son, Nico (early releases+interview here ). TTL has had up to nine releases appearing per month in its dinky 3" cd-r postcard series featuring new, upcoming and established artists alike, and more are already on the horizon. [...]

• Damian Valles - Part Two (Phase Transition)
• Daniel Dorobantu - Cyclon Summers
• darren harper - Lavender Drift
• Ex Confusion - The Days We Spend Together
• Futuregrapher - TomTom Bike [album
• invisible - from Twisted TreeLine(UK)
• Koen Daigaku - 02 Wind Has Risen Sample
• pillowdiver - Bill
• pillowdiver - Elliott
• pillowdiver - Lou
• Stefano Guzzetti - Three (Sampler)
• timo david b - Elian - A Bit of Cinematography Sample
• Yusuke Kamijima - Eating the philosophy　sample track

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Artist:	Damian Valles
Title:	Part Two (Phase Transition)
File Name:	SoundCloud
Year:	2011

Artist:	Daniel Dorobantu
Title:	Cyclon Summers
File Name:	SoundCloud
Genre:	Ambient
Year:	2010

Artist:	darren harper
Title:	Lavender Drift
File Name:	SoundCloud
Genre:	Ambient
Year:	2011

Artist:	Ex Confusion
Title:	The Days We Spend Together
File Name:	SoundCloud

Artist:	Futuregrapher
Title:	TomTom Bike [album
File Name:	SoundCloud
Genre:	Ambient
Year:	2011

Artist:	invisible
Title:	from Twisted TreeLine(UK)
File Name:	SoundCloud
Genre:	Ambient
Year:	2011

Artist:	Koen Daigaku
Title:	02 Wind Has Risen Sample
File Name:	SoundCloud

Artist:	pillowdiver
Title:	Bill
File Name:	SoundCloud
Genre:	Drone

Artist:	pillowdiver
Title:	Elliott
File Name:	SoundCloud

Artist:	pillowdiver
Title:	Lou
File Name:	SoundCloud

Artist:	Stefano Guzzetti
Title:	Three (Sampler)
File Name:	SoundCloud
Genre:	Ambient

Artist:	timo david b
Title:	Elian - A Bit of Cinematography Sample
File Name:	SoundCloud
Genre:	ambient

Artist:	Yusuke Kamijima
Title:	Eating the philosophy　sample track
File Name:	SoundCloud