Ipo Moea - Species

New sounds from Northampton, MA where Thomoon of Renaissance Sun's new project Ipo Moea has completed a full length album which contains not a single appearance of bass guitar. Check out track three "Species" right here on the Radiator Blog, and stay tuned for more gems from our limitless back catalog to be featured here for years to come._Mohamed El-Darwish

The Renaissance - Cannibus Crank Machine

The lost track from The original Renaissance LP Animus feels like the quintessential example of the band's memory process. It displays a heavy influence from ambient electro-wizards Boards of Canada filtered through the anything-goes sonic-bedroom mentality of Joan Of Arc. Listening to the Epic 80 min Animus evokes a experience that feels oddly familiar and fluid like a dream had long ago. It beckons the question: How could something so vivid be relegated to be forever buried in the sub-conscious yet so ingrained in ones being that it permeates every waking thought? Animus is the genesis of Radiator South and where it will most likely come to rest.

RADIATOR VIDEOS: Renaissance Sun

shot by Joe Aidonidis

Renaissance Sun - Illusions

Northampton producer Renaissance Sun digs deep in to the earth to deliver a naturalistic folk mantra drenched in reverb and delay via golden dawn/golden top. Its in the same vein of his earlier work on the Teepee Ep, But the producing is more fleshed out. The vocals are just that more enormous, everything is that much clearer and punchier. The song itself feels like it draws it's roots from a place where life exists and even thrives, while equally drawing from the vast dark void of space thematically._Mohamed El-Darwish

Renaissance Sun - Illusions

Renaissance Sun - Cave In

the mystic wave of Thomoon sculpts serene frequencies, sorrowful sounds plummeting into arbitrary waves in, out, and off your body and mind. A tide with a post-psychedelic gravitational force peeling self-tragedy off the earth, beyond the edges of the universe floating with victory into to a whole that engulfs you._Glenn La Race Jr.

MP3Stream: Renaissance Sun - Sun Child

Renaissance Sun - Sun Child

Renaissance Sun - Open Wide

here's a new cut from Renaissance Sun's ambitious, challenging and soon-to-be-released record Delta Magic. Sap out on this end.

Renaissance Sun - Open Wide

Dandy Zander, Renaissance Sun & the Other - Calypso

Rain/(Sun) - Calypso

RADIATOR REVIEWS: Moon//Mountain - Teepee E.P.

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::LibraSounds. There is a dark grungy side, the side we all know. Lo-fi compression, noisy textures fading in and out, gritty distorted vocals, folky guitar and general cult activity. But then another side emerges in the form of crystal-clear, hi-fi, made-for-cd recording that Brain Mountain and Renaissance Sun deliver in Moon//Mountain. The Teepee featured on the front cover was the genesis of Rain/(Sun), of which Brain Mountain and Thom Lopes (ren. sun) are members.

Renaissance Sun - Golden Top

The record begins with the earthy "Golden Top". Right away the focus is on notation and the rising melody of golden top suits the imagery. "I think its time to see the top of this mount" Ren. Sun's side is centered from the beginning like one larger idea than the individual tracks. Transitioning from the naturalist mantra into oceanic space travel on "Her Revolution" makes for a very strong opening. "Solstice" sounds like astral alignment.

Renaissance Sun - Golden Dawn

"Golden Dawn" is a crazy free-association between the dystopian reality of homogenization and fast food with the teachings of Aliester Crowley. "Corn feeds the world on its golden wings" raises a good point about the illusion of variety in our supermarkets. Moon//Mountain as a whole is equal parts melody/composition and a very high level of production/mixing. the cosmic vision takes you from a root in the ground and leaves you stranded in anomalous space/time and lucid dreaming. 9.1

Renaissance Sun - Rain Dawn

On to Brain Mountains Side, which has a distinctly stripped down sound. Jangly guitar, hand percussion, no-bass, and Brain's signature high-pitched background vocals drenched in reverb blend with the smokey raspy irishness of his voice. Brain provides an uncluttered mix with focus on notes and lyrical content. "Dream To Sun" is a particularly memorable.

Brain Mountain - Dream To The Sun

Brain Mountain - ~~~

Brain Mountain - Shine

Brain Mountains songs are usually either uplifting or beyond sadness like "Key Of E" the tracks jump between these two extremes and Brain is Direct in his delivery, however there is significantly less to enjoy on the Mountain side compared to the Moon side. 7.0

"magic mountain of my dreams spread yourself beyond, infiltrate the minds of those who cannot feel your bond" (Magic Mountain)

reviewed by Mohamed El-Darwish RADIATOR COLLECTIVE 2010