venera is a deep emotional title adding further shelflife to the growing arctic music catalogue. searing guitars, keys and chime moods escalate over sharp breaks alaska style. arctic foundations s criterion makes a welcome return on the flipside featuring kiyomi grounds on vocals. a small twist alongside the original intense amen breaks with a longer 9 minute digital excursion.

snow-white vinyl. solace is the brand new roller from alaska. a sequence of sad violin loops set the tone over fast breaks and strings. sub-bass and keys glide with soulful house vocals adding the final touch for the first solo alaska 12inch in three years. alaska revisits the ambient number earthloop on the flipside adding sharp downtempo drums to the original break-less recording from 2010’s the mesozoic era lp.

alaska & robert manos reunite for arguably arctic musics finest 12 inch to date. zeal glides with layers of searing bows from the cello reminiscent of massive attacks *unfinished sympathy*. the passion oozing from its strings fit robert manos vocals like a glove taking you on a orchestral and powerful journey with alaskas pacey breaks.

alaska kicks off 2014 in style with an emotional drum & bass and downtempo 12 inch from arctic music. alaskas 33rd vinyl release takes you on an escalating journey with its head-nodding breakbeats, layered pads, bass booms and chords. violin, piano and rhode keys lead the ascent into a passionate orchestral crescendo and jasheri is born.on the flipside alaska flexes the sample muscles and lowers the tempo to 85 bpm with the arctic-sleeze score of zoranine. xylophone riffs, oboe effects, guitar stabs, flutes and vintage keys float over a funky breakbeat groove for the first alaska downtempo excursion since novas from 2010s the mesozoic era lp.

arctic music celebrates 16 years of alaska with the new 2012 release arcosphere / moraine. just when you thought alaska couldnt top am006s boreal / isochime the programmer steps up another gear and unleashes arcosphere / moraine for the die-hard ambient-jungle lovers.

alaska returns from the mesozoic era wilderness and drops the 6th 12 inch on the ambient-jungle label arctic music. boreal kicks off in true alaska fashion with vocal loops, deep bass subs, ambient horns and layers of swirling pads sending >boreal< into ambient bliss, but its the breaks that turn the track on its head with its crunchy and heavy patterns that keep the head nodding and feet shuffling. >isochime< sees alaska return to his early good looking records roots with its mesmerising pad swirls and guitar riffs. sine wave bass notes take care of the bottom end and just when you think everything is relaxed along comes a powerful compressed amen break thundering like a tornado that destroys anything in its path. the unmistakable sound of isochime. timeless ambient-jungle from alaska.

brand new release coming out of nowhere from arctic music, exciting music and intriguing artwork is on the menu as always as the alaska and nucleus collaborations continue into 2009. the only ambient jungle label in existence states paradox on his radio show as he excitedly introduces ataciara.