SleepResearch_Facility - Nostromo (journey through the decks of an abandoned spaceship) - General

During my incarceration last week, I stumbled across this while browsing a thread for sleeping thread in /mu/ Nostromo is a dark ambient album by a fellow who calls himself SleepResearch_Facility. Immediately, the first post of the thread was about his debut album [i]Nostromo[/i]. I know what you're thinking, and you're right. This album was designed to mimic the sounds of the ship, the Nostromo in the iconic movie Alien. It's also developed with sleep in mind, and the article says that it's been used on insomnia patients the like. To me this is awesome as shit, as I love stuff like that. Here's the wikipedia article. [QUOTE=Wikipedia;30275750]Nostromo is mainly inspired by the fictional spaceship of the same name in the 1979 science fiction/horror film Alien. Kevin Doherty, the single member of SleepResearch Facility, has described this film as "a masterpiece of dark atmospheres and brooding suspense", adding that it is "my all time favorite film".[2] At the beginning of the film, the ship is travelling through deep space, and its seven human crew members are unconscious in hypersleep. The ship is dark and quiet, but not silent – all manner of mechanical and electronic systems are slowly ticking over, producing a ceaseless flow of low background noise.[/QUOTE] Seriously how awesome is that? Here's some more [QUOTE=Wikipedia;30275750]The album Nostromo explores this shadowy, haunting atmosphere, taking the listener on a deep aural journey through the ship's decks. In the film, the Nostromo has three decks (A, B and C),[3] but the album adds two more fictitious decks, D and E, with one CD track per deck. Each track flows smoothly into the next, with no gaps of silence in-between, and as with all of SleepResearch_Facility's music, Nostromo is very sleep-conducive if played at low volume. The bonus track Narcissus on the 2007 reissue is named after the fictional spaceship in Alien; the Narcissus is the lifeboat of the Nostromo.[/QUOTE] Perfect, it even aids you with sleep, and I love all the Alien references there :D [QUOTE=Wikipedia;30275750]The album's main aural components are: loops of deep pulsating bass (especially in "a-deck" and "d-deck"), washes of smooth industrial noise, mysterious droning synthesiser chords (particularly in "b-deck" and "c-deck"), electrostatic crackling, and other deep mechanical sounds. Kevin Doherty has said that the creation of Nostromo involved "synthesisers and such to generate things, lots of studio equipment like effects machines, radios, waves of feedback from analogue equipment looping back on itself and a big mixing desk to bind it all together on."[4][/QUOTE] [b]Album Art[/b] [img]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/72/Nostromo_album_cover.jpg[/img] [b]Tracks[/b] 1 a-deck 14:01 14:00 2 b-deck 11:52 12:03 The first column is the original release, and the second is the re-release 3 c-deck 11:57 11:46 4 d-deck 12:37 12:37 5 e-deck 11:21 11:04 (Re-Release only) Narcissus — 7:52 So yeah, I figured you guys might think this is cool. I have a mediafire link if anybody wants it. [editline]6th June 2011[/editline] [url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nostromo_(album[/url]) A Deck [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xv9KLm0Vf0[/media] C Deck [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tqz8TxkVZSY[/media]

This is some cool shit. I'm so going to sleep to this tonight. :frogc00l: [editline]6th June 2011[/editline] Okay seriously now this is really fucking awesome

I'm glad you enjoy it, I could only find A and C deck, videos I mean So underground

This is amazing.

:frogc00l: You know that's how I roll

Dark Ambient [img]http://www.facepunch.com/image.php?u=234869&dateline=1306492391[/img]:respek:[img]http://www.facepunch.com/image.php?u=381310&dateline=1304202693[/img] I will listen to the album tonight, much appreciated.

glad I could help you out for once [editline]6th June 2011[/editline] Plus I know you like Alien :buddy:

Looks like you finally got your bro-fist En-Guage. Also, this shit looks awesome, I'll give it a listen tonight.

feels good man

Started listening to A-deck can't stop man this stuff is pretty damn great.

this is why /mu/ is a better music forum, so much cool shit can be found with so little effort I advise everyone to go there

been looking for something like this thanks

I'm looking forward to sleeping to it

[QUOTE=En-Guage V2;30277549]glad I could help you out for once [editline]6th June 2011[/editline] Plus I know you like Alien :buddy:[/QUOTE] Yep... first Alien is one of my all time favourites. I've listened to a lot of Dark Ambient before, some spacey.. But this is different.

I've never listened to anything quite like this before

So I put this on while I was going to sleep last night. At first I thought "This is kind of unnerving". Then I stopped it about half an hour later and got up to get a drink and forgot to put it back on, so I lay in bed thinking that the lack of sound was unnerving. THIS SHIT IS DOING THINGS TO MY BRAIN. Really awesome and relaxing though. Great find.

I looked at the title was like "lol nostromo" so I had a look Then I was like "oh lawd it's alien related go go go" Here is the mediafire link if anyone wants it, I think a physical copy would be very hard to get. [url]http://www.mediafire.com/?mqqqzfui2yz[/url]

I tried to fall asleep to it I think I did it but I woke up after a while and noticed my damn iPod hadn't looped it.

[QUOTE=En-Guage V2;30301899]I looked at the title was like "lol nostromo" so I had a look Then I was like "oh lawd it's alien related go go go" Here is the mediafire link if anyone wants it, I think a physical copy would be very hard to get. [url]http://www.mediafire.com/?mqqqzfui2yz[/url][/QUOTE] Found some copies on Amazon for £8. :v:

Cool [editline]7th June 2011[/editline] link plox

[QUOTE=En-Guage V2;30303227]Cool [editline]7th June 2011[/editline] link plox[/QUOTE] [url=http://www.amazon.co.uk/Nostromo-Sleep-Research-Facility/dp/B000Y9PFKW/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1307442945&sr=8-2]owait £10[/url] [url=http://www.play.com/Music/CD/-/3595216/-/Product.html?source=9593&_$ja=tsid:11853|prd:78888]here too[/url]

Also check out Dead Weather Machine(Re:heat is also cool) and Deep Frieze. I believe Dead Weather Machine was made by manipulating recordings of a dying air-conditioning machine. What I really like about SRF is the subtle and flowing changes between different feelings and sound-scape.

I found this in the thread too Symphonies Of The Planets - NASA Electromagnetic waves picked up by the Voyager I and II and recorded into sound waves. Haven't listened to it myself yet, but I sure as hell will. I'm so underground I'm in outer space

[QUOTE=En-Guage V2;30304484]I found this in the thread too Symphonies Of The Planets - NASA Electromagnetic waves picked up by the Voyager I and II and recorded into sound waves. Haven't listened to it myself yet, but I sure as hell will. I'm so underground I'm in outer space[/QUOTE] I've heard a few of these. I even made a song out of one with some minor editing.

That's awesome I just got around to listening Nostromo myself Ominoussssssssss, I like it.