Product Description

Welder - Vines & Stream Welder's debut downtempo album combines organic broken beats with urban and world flavors. Welder has been compared to the likes of Moby and The Orb and in our view brings whole new elements of flavor to the table. This is the kind of album that you'll grow to love the more you hear it. Download the high quality 192kbps version of the album here, pop it on your music player of choice, and enjoy the ride.

Track Listing

1. Rain
2. Ants are Small
3. Purple & Orange
4. Crosshatch
5. Valeez
6. In the Park
7. Shiva
8. Distance
9. Find You Here
10. And We're Dying
11. Isle of Skye
12. The Heart

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #290871 in Music
• Released on: 2006-12-15
• Number of discs: 1
• Formats: Enhanced, Import

Review
" A lush album of urban beats and downtempo moods. Sumptuous melody is a prominent feature of Welder's production." --Morpheus Music

Review
"Beauty electronic downtempo instrumentals with world and urban aspects fused throughout. Welder employs a range of trip-hop, breakbeat, and chilled rhythms that, nevertheless, tend to have quite an upbeat almost 'big' feel about them." --Barcode Magazine

Review
"Welder's 'Vines & Streams' is absolutely wonderful! If you're looking for a chilled out album with every song being hits (a tall order), this is by far the one! The entire album is tied together by the same 'sound' but all songs have their own uniqueness. Although the title of the album may make it appear as though it's a calming ambient album, it's actually a great electronic/chillout/borderline triphop album with fantastic (but not over the top) beats. I cannot say enough about this album. Request it, listen to it, then buy it - you won't be disappointed." --Lounging Sound

Customer Reviews

electronica and world beats
This album has to be one of the most tasteful combinations of electronica and world beats that I have yet to hear. more please :)

Outstanding - it grows and grows and grows...
written on itunes..." I liked it on first listen and loved it by the time I had left it in my car CD player for a week. It really does grow on you. Lush and melodic and really happy music, thank you." -Anonymous- 5 stars

another written on itunes... "I am thrilled to have discovered Welder. So much so, I had to write the good folks at Pandora and the Music Genome Project to tell them about it. The music helps to set the eviroment i use to be creative. Can't wait to hear more." -Anonymous- 5 stars

Headphone Commute Review
Brendan Angelides is the man behind his solo project under the name of Welder. With his debut on a San Francisco based collective, Cyberset, Angelides demonstrates that he's just as proficient at downtempo as he is at breaks under his other alias, Eskmo. Following this full length release, Welder got picked up by a West Coast downtempo label, Native State Records, for a digital only Bamboo Snow EP. The Purple and Orange track gets upgraded to another EP with additional remixes by Bluetech, Fanu, Dov, and Audiovoid. Ranging from world music to orchestral glitchy instrumentation, Vines And Stream is simply a fun album to listen to. From the very first track, you're enveloped in easy bopping beats, that take you on a ride in a country with the convertible top down and your spirits up. The production is tight, the percussion is crisp, and the broken melodic patterns get stuck in your memory. The uplifting and organic mood of this IDM-meets-trip-hop album, reminds you that mother nature doesn't have that something that we call "bad weather", and as it rains outside you'll feel delighted to embrace the falling drops. And you'll smile. I place Welder somewhere between Portishead, Tricky, Banco de Gaia and The Orb. Favorite track: Rain.