Steve Hillman - 1989 PHASES Album Side One - Part One

[@EthericSound]

Many thanks to all of you for listening and commenting! It's amazing that my music is now being re-discovered after all these decades! The synth that I'm using is a Yamaha CS30L and my main fx was a Watkins Copycat. ❤

[@AnthallOrriander-rb2fs]

And this just auto-queued for me.. Grand Wisdom of The Algorithm, Almighty 🙏 ...or something like that Intriguing first track 👍 I'll keep listening... This has a proto-electronic, sci-fi music thing going on, but more 'prog' B)

[@nickgreen4731]

Are you kidding? The riff of 'Matrix' still goes around and around inside my head.

[@Alex17176]

Great stuff, sir.👍

[@tubbiele2]

Have a subscription! Good stuff! Yeah! God bless you ❤

[@HarielAguilar]

Sorprendente !

[@M1773N5]

If you're here, you've got your algorithm dialed in right. Going to check out your bandcamp, this is awesome.

[@interstellish]

No idea how this popped up in my feed, but it's rad. Stuff like this was the seed for the huge resurgence in "dungeon synth" stuff we're seeing right now, also spurred on by people wanting cool fantasy game soundtracks for their D&D games.

[@kriskrieger9960]

Reminds me of old science fiction stuff like Stargate & Battlestar Galactica. It's definitely one of my new favorite albums.

[@EthericSound]

Many thanks Kris - glad you like it!

[@sp1rals1]

This goes so hard. Sirius in particular, been stuck in my head for days now

[@EthericSound]

Many thanks!

[@garrywatts9665]

Need as a Cd. Pure thrill and artistry!

[@chrisshenton8329]

Reminds me of an album i heard years ago, IN SEARCH OF ANCIENT GODS/absolute elsewhere. Like that i find the music haunting ❤

[@thuurmichels763]

What I've noticed is that this man understands how you use rhythm. For all the musical trickery that happens, it's welded solid to a tight and undisturbed base of percussion/drums/bells. Just listen to the bell in 'Gates of Babylon'. 🤩 Been tapping my foot non-stop. 🙌

[@EthericSound]

Many thanks for listening and commenting - even the sequences I played by hand back then (couldn't afford a sequencer!) which helped give me that sense of rhythm 🙂

[@thuurmichels763]

So it came naturally, in a way. I salute you for having a minimal setup, yet producing these rich tones. 🙌

[@WoodwoseTransmissions]

This is so cool, cheers from Ireland

[@jdgonzo1982]

wow...this music really escalates!! you should've been writing film scores or computer game music with skills like this...amazing soundscapes and progressions...having this on in the background turns your whole world into a fantasy...it's amazing...thank you :)

[@pandora_box01]

Right at the first listening in love with Sirius. Sounding really good ... Through Mist with Alignments also very powerful! The whole album here is great.

[@saudade969]

I see anubis, I like

[@TheSynthZone]

Horus cheers the way!

[@ianwilkinson4602]

Hey Steve, I still have this and the Evocations cassette I bought from you years ago stored away in a box with all my other cassettes. The home produced artwork, by you wife I think, always fascinated. I do play this album from time to time rerecorded on minidisc at the time, it always reminded me of Phaedra by TD 🤗 cheers.

[@EthericSound]

Many thanks Ian - I really appreciate that.

[@Hypercubeaudio]

Epic album

[@EthericSound]

Thank YOU Rodrigo!

[@vishnudas3328]

PRETTY OUT THERE

[@joannetheaker]

Wow - I am amazed - what awesome music.

[@EthericSound]

Great to have your feedback Joanne - many thanks!

[@rafaelmangrone721]

It's never too late to thank you for your great music ❤️

[@EthericSound]

Thank you very much Rafael!

[@mrcosmos6986]

haven't heard anything quite like this man, so glad i got recommended this. think i'm gonna listen to the rest of this as soon as part one ends, cause this is great for drawing expressions for characters to, helps the creative juices flow and everything.

[@xraypunch5959]

Really beautiful, atmospheric stuff.

[@sunoclockoneday2576]

Release this on compact disk. CD's are still the future , streaming is for Philistines

[@universalempire818]

I love this pyramid music

[@HiGlowie]

Sometimes I call my dog pyramid butt.

[@universalempire818]

@@HiGlowie Thats crazy

[@HarielAguilar]

ALUCINANTE !!! GOOD.

[@alejandrobojorquez6181]

AMAZING!! and Super Creative Electronic Space Synth Music classic 80s what brought me here is the music of WOLFGANG BOCK - " CYCLES Pt. 2 and CYCLES Pt. 1 from 1980

[@EthericSound]

Many thanks Alejandro!

[@xrayblock8987]

This is what I’ll hear when I die

[@EthericSound]

That is such a powerful comment - thank YOU

[@Apathesis0]

Great stuff

[@AnaMariaP.M-h9q]

Ufff mAgistral. Disco impresionante composición es delos grandísimos prog electrónico puro hillman es delos músicos le estará en la historia dela música es muy muy bueno está arriba en mi colección máximo nivel

[@EthericSound]

Muchas gracias Ana. ¡Tus palabras significan mucho para mí! Thank YOU!

[@davidcaballero-mj3pq]

exelente😊

[@zoodiaco5657]

this is like space egypt dungeon synth

[@EthericSound]

"Space Egypt dungeon synth" - I love that description - thanks!

[@glitchedoom]

That album art is fantastic, as is the music.

[@esvensena8001]

It is as if I am traveling through outer cosmic space between dimensions. 🥲🥲🥲🥲🥲🥲🥲🥲🥲🥲

[@EthericSound]

Many thanks! I am happy that you have that feeling when listening!

[@yoyo1poe]

It sounds like a really cool Megadrive soundtrack

[@feywerfolevado6286]

Awesome! I really love your music :^)

[@EthericSound]

Many thanks Feywer!

[@lordofmalice]

Holy shit, this fucking something else!

[@heyho6809]

👌🔥

[@nicemarmot.5353]

When the music sounds exactly like the cover art.

[@EthericSound]

Thank YOU!

[@hadestheconfused4660]

this is awesome!! this would be a fantastic movie soundtrack

[@EthericSound]

Many thanks for listening and commenting!

[@TachyBunker]

Really awesome, man! What are the synthesizers/samples and effects?

[@slimbrouckske]

Like #413. sorry for the waiting ^^

[@horsezanthus5040]

Sounds like very early Ozric Tentacles. 😊

[@ianwilkinson4602]

There was some great homegrown music around in this period 😎🤗

[@a.nobodys.nobody]

For the algo

[@Angel-np7wj]

What type of keyboard did you use to make those cool sounding textures it’s amazing!

[@burdwurds3758]

Put on shpotify (I know the monetization sucks but pls I want in playlists)

[@ymotechnopopfan]

Drum machine must be Roland TR-707.

[@EthericSound]

Close! It was a TR-505

[@monetesla7771]

sirius continum .....

[@2indaPink]

Hillman good shattttttttt

[@mariedoyle2790]

101010

[@klausdreams4275]

Nadie dijo que copia excesivamente a Tangerine Dream? Se tenía que decir, y se dijo!

[@EthericSound]

Su estilo, pero no una pista específica, hay una diferencia...

[@klausdreams4275]

@@EthericSound Lo raro es encontrar una pista suya donde no copie a TD jajaja ... Nada en contra realmente, el arte también es copia e influencia de otros artistas, pero hay que reconocer las cosas, y me extrañaba que nadie lo dijera

[@EthericSound]

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[@EthericSound]

@@klausdreams4275 Si miras mi canal, verás que he grabado en muchos estilos musicales diferentes such as kzbin.info/www/bejne/gJ6wgpt8o6ablZIsi=mD5c9A-2u55YtYp9 Mis mejores deseos, Steve Hillman.

[@klausdreams4275]

@@EthericSound Me parece muy bien, solo digo que la influencia de TD en muchos de esos temas es innegable, y creo que era algo generalizado en el estilo de Hillman. Y eso no quita que muchos de sus temas me gusten. Desde que lo conocí hace más de 20 años cuando mi hermano compró un CD llamado "Matrix" ( creo que era de 1994 ), y me llamó la atención. Años después he ido descubriendo otra serie de autores y grupos donde esas influencias de TD ( y Klaus Schulze, entre otros ), eran plasmadas de manera más personal y original en mi opinión. Artistas como Redshift, Wavestar, Free System Project y algunos otros, muy buenos ... Saludos.