For our money the finest release from the mysterious CV313 to date, head straight for the flip and the immense "Saraya", a kind of padded vocoder session that takes the robust pads of Maurizio and layers them with slivers of pitched synths and squashed vox, a beautiful twilight track that manages to keep it deep without sounding derivative.

For our money the finest release from the mysterious CV313 to date, head straight for the flip and the immense "Saraya", a kind of padded vocoder session that takes the robust pads of Maurizio and layers them with slivers of pitched synths and squashed vox, a beautiful twilight track that manages to keep it deep without sounding derivative. "Motor" is a more stripped-down affair, a quasi electroid skeleton dictating proceedings while the percussion is kept to a clipped 4/4 template that works a treat. The title track, meanwhile, is the most euphoric and playful of the 3 tracks, if the echospace axis could be said to ever have written a peak-time track, this would probably be it. Great stuff - Limited copies! -Boomkat

Rumours abound about CV313, their connection to the Echospace camp adding much fuel to the various theories doing the rounds at the moment about just who it might be behind the controls. Following on from the long sold out "Dimensional Space" 12" for Echospace, "Affiniti" is a more progressive beast, with "Galaxy 313" somehow situating itself between Convextion's low-end reductions, Rod Modell's stretched chords and Carl Finlow's electroid variations. The result offers a fresh permutation for dub techno, giving more prominence to the percussive structure and even throwing in the kind of gargantuan bass grind beloved of dubstep or the more bottom-heavy work of Andy Stott. "Oceans", meanwhile, delivers a beatless coda that's like Echospace's Coldest Season material except stripped of the Space Echo, while "Affiniti" uncuffs any generic restrictions and provides a much more direct dancefloor missive, with one-note bass hits and synthetic effects included. -Boomkat

Compiled album from cv313 which includes remastered and unreleased mixes of 12" content originally released on Lee Purkis's (R.I.P. UK techno and Fat Cat Records originator) London based Fortune 8 imprint.

written + produced by cv313. recorded in detroit from 1993-1998. Remastered in Echospace in 2008.

The furthest depths of sound are awakened in this distinctive sonic environment inspired by ocean movements and its mysteries. Beginning anew, cv313 delivers an etheric approach in, "analogue oceans" that fearlessly illuminates the culmination of 25-years of sound design, a continuous transformation that engages the listener in ways it never has

The furthest depths of sound are awakened in this distinctive sonic environment inspired by ocean movements and its mysteries. Beginning anew, cv313 delivers an etheric approach in, "analogue oceans" that fearlessly illuminates the culmination of 25-years of sound design, a continuous transformation that engages the listener in ways it never has before. Shimmering metallic washes of color meet sub-aquatic tones, creating an immersive sonic world unlike anything heard before, this is hands down some of most engaging sound worlds this project has ever explored.

"The sound of water is deep, its form is serpent-like, its color green, and it is best heard in the roaring of the sea." -The Sufi Teaching of Hazrat Inayat Khan

This mysticism is the essence of our time.

Thoughts:

"When it comes to immersive listening experiences built on cutting-edge sound design, few can match the continued brilliance of Echospace duo Rod Modell and Stephen Hitchell. For proof, check the pair's latest offering under the alternative CV313 alias. Built around a suite of three drawn-out soundscapes, Analogue Oceans sees them mimicking the ebb and flow of oceanic tides by smothering gentle dub techno rhythms in lapping waves and soft-focus, spacey electronics. On disc two, Hitchell goes solo to present his own, hour-long interpretation under the Variant guise, heading into the pitch-black depths via watery effects, clandestine aural textures and suitably horizontal ambient dub rhythms." -Juno

"So you've just arrived back home from an epic night clubbing, limbs aching, heart pounding, with sweat drenched clothes you stagger home on the night bus while tucking into doner meat and chips, the thumping 4/4 beats still ringing in your ears and the disco biscuit in your blood stream is a long way from coming down so what you really need are some soothing beats and warm drones to help you drift into slumber, cv313 is just what the doctor ordered, let the ambient bliss of echospace drench you it's gentle embrace and float off down the flowing dream stream into sleepy land.......zzzzzzzzzz.." -Norman

If you look closely at the works of Stephen Hitchell and Rod Modell, even after the titles of the records they record, you can see that the greatest inspiration is for both creators of nature. They have in their output albums devoted to various phenomena of our world: clouds, aurora and stars. Now the ocean joins this catalog. He is dedicated to the latest album of both men, and branded the name cv313 - "Analogue Oceans". We get four versions of the title song on it.

"Analogue Oceans (Current 1) Divergent" is an epic vision of dub-techno. The basis for the recording is a heavily beaten pulse, which is accompanied by wavy chords, sewage effects and cascades of sound corrosion. The poignant mood of the composition is created here, however, by a reggae melodic motif, turning the recording into a mystical meditation. "Analogue Oceans (Current 2) Convergent" focuses on majestic, grainy tones. They flow over the suppressed beat, giving the recording a withdrawn and reduced tone.

"Analogue Oceans (Current 3) Transform" is like translating both previous versions into the language of trance music. Hitchell and Modell slowly build up the tension by looping in the next sound motifs, eventually reaching a hypnotic culmination. The opposite of this version is "Analogue Oceans (Variant's Conduction)". This time all the sounds are slowed down, which makes you feel that the music resonates outside of time. But here too there is no shortage of melody brought by corroded chords and pulsing bass.

The ocean consists of waves - and so happens in all versions of the dedicated composition. American producers are ingeniously using the essence of this natural phenomenon to create its equivalent in sound matter. The effects are exceptionally beautiful and touching: nature is elevated to the form of the Spirit, revealing its eternity and imperfection. As a result, "Analogue Oceans" is another example of sonic metaphysics, with such a passion for Stephen Hitchell and Rod Modell for almost a quarter of a century! -Nowamuzyka Magazine

From Rod Modell and Stephen Hitchell I knew only one album, Liumin, released under the pseudonym DeepChord presents Echospace, massive urban road trip in an underwater civilization, a techno dub that sticks to the body, whose urgency is relegated to a background always in motion, an art whose flows are sustained but troubled, far away, while the closer to our ears it is a formidable mixture composite, aquatic, organic that truly captures us - rarely, in some disc that that is, all genres combined, I was so instantaneously transported into a universe (the term is rash, but here it is justified by the richness and coherence of its evocative sound ecosystem). Well, some time later, this analogous oceans appears, that the same guys are behind the controllers and have spent years ... doing the same thing all the time, with a few variations.

But I'm not a man to take offense for so little, both guys (especially Rod Modell of what I understand, prince of electronic aquatic atmospheres) seem to have very precisely found what they excel at and continue to exploit it which seems inexhaustible, I'm not going to ask them to go to the country to see if there is any hidden talent. Especially since, obviously listening to this album no less massive than his big brother, they are not content to stay in stagnant water and patiently renew their sea currents, extending the course and widening the bed. The CV313 work on long formats - from 18 to 30 minutes per track, with one of the 5 tracks stretching for an hour. And if the atmosphere is just as rich and instantly speaking as Liumin's, the tracks here take more time to develop their abstract narration, so as to slowly raise the sound with ethereal beaches on which waves crash. evanescent crackling sounds, and dull beats infra low (it's not the "dub" techno for nothing, it's a bit as if our neighbors in the center of the Earth were the surf and we heard them pulsed echoes in the ocean through the Earth's crust).

If you have fun calculating the total duration of analogue oceans we come to a little more than 2 hours and 30 minutes of music. It's a lot of yes, on paper, but when you spend this time in such company, the said time takes on a whole other gravity, it floats and any notion of "duration" takes a sweet air of anecdote. There is one last thing; the dreamlike elephant in the corridor of ether, this Homeric track of 62 minutes which moves away from the technoid structures to go towards the quasi-pure ambient juice, leaving in the night light the pulsative to better detail a sound environment which never ceases to transform, slowly but surely, a real coral reef that lives with its fauna and flora. This is also what devotes analogous oceans: for any lover of Liumin, this second ambient half has always struggled to convince me as much as his techno counterpart, and it creates a certain imbalance in listening (understand: I often stop after the first disc). Here, on the other hand, Modell and Hitchell prove that they, too, have not ceased to evolve in their field, that the impressions of "always the same" are only that, impressions, vague and uttered in haste while they fly over the dub techno game being, this time, as competent in every facet of their art. (18/20) -XSilence Magazine

Il suono dell’acqua è profondo, la sua forma è serpentina, il suo colore è verde e lo si ode sopratutto nel mugghiare del mare.

Quattro tracce, più due ore di musica. Dub techno ispirata, in primis, dai movimenti ondulatori degli oceani causati dall’azione del vento, il cui soffio colpisce le particelle d’acqua che oscillano attorno alla propria posizione, generando increspature che, poco alla volta, si trasformano in onde. Le particelle d’acqua descrivono, ulteriormente, movimenti circolari che diventano più piccoli all’aumentare della profondità, fino a scomparire del tutto. Il parallelismo con i brani di Rod Modell e Stephen Hitchell è tanto evidente quanto suggestivo. Le creazioni del duo cv313 sono, spesso, caratterizzate da uno stato di agitazione costante, con creste e flutti che salgono e scendono, mentre onde ‘sonore’ s’infrangono su una superficie eterea. È un moto senza fine.

“Analogue Oceans” (2018) è l’ennesima ottima release a cura della echospace [detroit] che, in parallelo, rilancia il pensiero di Inayat Khan che, tra le prime pagine de “Il Misticismo Del Suono” (1923), precisava anche come una vibrazione potesse causare diversità di toni e, nel mondo degli atomi, diversità di colori. “Raggruppandosi insieme le vibrazioni diventano udibili e si moltiplicano man mano che si avvicinano alla superficie e avanzando si materializzano”, spiegava l’indiano. “Il suono da alla consapevolezza l’evidenza della sua esistenza benché, in verità, sia la parte attiva della conoscenza stessa che si trasforma in suono. Colui che conosce diviene cosciente di se stesso, cioè la consapevolezza fa da testimone alla sua voce. Così il suono attrae l’uomo”.

Lo stesso “può produrre effetti gradevoli o sgradevoli sia sul corpo che sulla mente umana e ha un effetto curativo, così come erbe o medicinali che a loro volta hanno la loro origine nelle vibrazioni”. È il mistico incipit dell’insegnamento sufista. “L’uomo non è soltanto formato da vibrazioni, ma vive e si muove in esse; queste lo circondano come il pesce è circondato dall’acqua e l’uomo le contiene come un serbatoio contiene l’acqua stessa”. “Il suono dell’acqua corrente, di ruscelli montani, il piovigginare e picchiettare della pioggia, il suono dell’acqua che scorre da una brocca in un vaso, da una bottiglia in un bicchiere, tutti questi suoni hanno un effetto gradevole e allegro e rendono inclini a fantasticare e a sognare, destano l’immaginazione, l’affetto e le emozioni”.

Non è casuale che Inayat Khan si distinse anche come musicista. “Analogue Oceans” è caratterizzato, inoltre, dalla particolare scelta dei titoli dei brani che, con buona dose di fantasia, prendono in esame l’attività geologica terrestre: Analogue Oceans [Current I] Divergent, Analogue Oceans [Current II] Convergent e Analogue Oceans [Current III] Transform si riferiscono al movimento delle placche che costituiscono l’involucro solido esterno della Terra, la litosfera, che crea tre tipi di margini tettonici, convergenti, divergenti e trasformi. I margini convergenti si generano quando una placca oceanica si immerge al di sotto di una massa continentale. I margini divergenti provocano la separazione di due o più placche. I margini trasformi innescano terremoti.

Il battito di Detroit e il ruggito del mare. Suoni e località separate da oltre seicento miglia. Pulsioni elettroniche e registrazioni dal vivo. Musica che si spinge oltre i confini dello spazio, realizzata tra il 2012 e il 2013, e che fa propri alcuni frammenti ‘oceanici’ raccolti tra il Giappone e le Hawaii. Il primo cd di “Analogue Oceans” è un continuum dall’afflato visionario, con oltre settanta minuti da ascoltare preferibilmente al buio, quasi senza pause. Gli esperimenti sono limitati, tra variazioni a intervalli regolari e melodie eteree. La struttura ritmica è tanto imponente quanto ridotta al debito calibro, pronta per essere sottoposta a un nuovo editing a cura di Stephen Hitchell: è il caso di Analogue Oceans [Variant’s Conduction], un’altra ora di loop ipnotici. -Souterraine (Italy)

Engineered, written & produced by cv313. Tape Transfers, digital conversion and mix downs in Echospace. Reworked & Redesigned by Variant. Additional Modular development and concepts by N.S. and S.B @ Antique Modulation, Ann Arbor / Detroit, MI circa 2012-2013. Field recordings conducted in Gamma, Japan & Maui, Hi.

Limited 2XCD edition [hand numbered to 100 copies] inspired by and created during the production of "analogue oceans", these two versions were omitted due to length restrictions. This release features current IV [subduction] and current V [obduction], the last 2 closing pieces of this ethereal opus cv313 has created, a mind shifting movement of

Limited 2XCD edition [hand numbered to 100 copies] inspired by and created during the production of "analogue oceans", these two versions were omitted due to length restrictions. This release features current IV [subduction] and current V [obduction], the last 2 closing pieces of this ethereal opus cv313 has created, a mind shifting movement of electricity modulates voltage and currents into a sonic world like no other. Anyone in love with the original versions will have so much to adore here, this is hands down some of most engaging sounds this project has ever explored. Additional sound design and synthesis reshaping by variant. A sequential analog dream...

"The sound of water is deep, its form is serpent-like, its color green, and it is best heard in the roaring of the sea." -The Sufi Teaching of Hazrat Inayat Khan

This mysticism is the essence of our time.

Engineered, written & produced by cv313. Tape Transfers, digital conversion and mix downs in Echospace. Additional Modular development and concepts by Variant, N.S. and S.B @ Antique Modulation, Ann Arbor / Detroit, MI circa 2012-2013. Field recordings conducted in Gamma, Japan & Maui, Hi.

The holy grail for fans of Steve Soultek's peerless Echospace label which over the years has released some monumental 12's from himself and Deepchord. This limited edition 2 X CD compilation focuses on the magical work of cv313 and comes in a beautifully printed double gatefold CD.

Review:

You see, Echospace [Detroit] presents: Altering Illusions

The holy grail for fans of Steve Soultek's peerless Echospace label which over the years has released some monumental 12's from himself and Deepchord. This limited edition 2 X CD compilation focuses on the magical work of cv313 and comes in a beautifully printed double gatefold CD.

Review:

You see, Echospace [Detroit] presents: Altering Illusions Chapter One: cv313 (or whatever the hell this thing is actually called) is in fact the first chapter in a three part series of Altering Illusions releases, each focusing on a different artist. Two brand new cv313 albums instead of one? Yes, please. Furthermore, it makes for an amazing companion piece to the main Dimensional Space album, the tone and palette substantially different but the content every bit as essential.

There is no better statement of intent than the opening track, “Isis,” as jets of crystalline ice particles are shot through solar winds, which batter the soundstage to the rhythmic thump of a relentless beat. Forthcoming single “Fading Lights [Original]” ups the ante with shuffling rhythms, blunted beats, plumes of steam and tumbling breaks before the album spirals towards the dance-floor with the comparatively brief “Irradiate,” all pin-sharp hi-hats, fretwork and thundering bass.

We enter previously released singles territory at this point, with remastered versions of the both the original and particularly fine reduction of “Seconds To Forever,” “Dimensional” and “Sailing Stars” before the disc ends with “Beyond Starlit Sky [Live]” that reads like a re-pitched, holographic version of “Fading Lights.”

The only material here that doesn’t quite blend in is the odd slice of older single material. “Dimensional” sounds better than ever thanks to an even higher definition remaster, but feels like it belongs to a different era, and the harder stomp of “Sailing Stars” juts out at oblique angles, somehow out of place among its amorphous, vaporous siblings. But this is nitpicking given that this is ostensibly a compilation rather than a dedicated album, even though it mostly feels like the latter, rather than the former.

Perhaps the finest moments on Altering Illusions [Chapter One] cv313, however, are those found on the second disc, an even more seamless and unified experience than the first. It certainly has the power to surprise as it opens with “Longing For Darkness,” a delicate but metallic bowed synth string melody emerging from a mist of swirling vapour, soft static hiss and what sounds like a genuine field recording of a haunted, twilight whistle and howl of wind through deeply saturated, nocturnal environments. It is quite unlike anything cv313 has released before or since, a beautiful hybrid of cv313 textures, dense, whirring drones from Alva Noto’s Xerrox series of ambient albums and Thomas Koner’s panoramic soundscapes.

“Beyond The Clouds” is, for many, one of Hitchell and Modell’s key masterpieces and reason enough to own this compilation, which it closes in a beautifully remastered form, but if any shred of doubt still lingers in your mind, it should be utterly eradicated by one of Hitchell’s crowning achievements: I give you “Standing Still [Reduced].”

Seated regally at the epicenter of the majestic second disc, it is simply one of the ultimate expressions of cv313’s craft, a twenty-two minute pièce de résistance of meticulous and subtle artistry. Once you enter its orbit, and are enveloped in its supple blooms of synth, scything fx, soft flashes of electricity, deep-sea sub-bass throb and bass rumble, ever-so-subtle machine fan whir and the hypnotic, propulsive rhythm of the piece, a higher state of (un)consciousness is inescapable.

It’s followed by yet another album highlight in the newly minted “Magenta,” packed with turbulent whorls of dark beige storm clouds pregnant with rain and ice whipping around the adrenalin-fueled listener submerged in a tumbling life-support capsule full of bubbling fluid that muffles the beat to a in-ear heart pounding. And as already mentioned, the whole experience is beautifically rounded out by “Beyond The Clouds [Reprise]”.

Altering Illusions [Chapter One] cv313 is every bit as strong and essential as the debut cv313 album it supplements and acts as a nexus between cv313 material old and new. It has also just become available as a digital download on the echospace [detroit] Bandcamp site, for those who missed out on or are not interested in the physical CD edition. -Igloo Magazine credits released November 23, 2021

Written and Produced in Echospace,, Chicago / Detroit, USA. Mastered + Engineered by Steven Hitchell. “Beyond The Clouds” Mastered by Ron Murphy & Steven Hitchell, Additional mixing by Jamal Wallace @ NSC, Detroit, USA. © + ℗ by echospace [detroit] 2014

Distributed worldwide by: www.rubadub.co.uk | www.forcedexposure.com | www.diskunion.net

A beautifully packaged 4XLP gatefold box set on Echospace, setting off 2012 in gorgeous fashion with new material from DeepChord, Intrusion, and Variant. DeepChord and Echospace started off as barely more than a rumor, supported mostly by the continuous scarcity of their records, some of which were trading at astronomical prices. Now, following

A beautifully packaged 4XLP gatefold box set on Echospace, setting off 2012 in gorgeous fashion with new material from DeepChord, Intrusion, and Variant. DeepChord and Echospace started off as barely more than a rumor, supported mostly by the continuous scarcity of their records, some of which were trading at astronomical prices. Now, following success on Modern Love and other more widely available labels, the artists behind the myth have finally emerged to worldwide recognition. It's impossible to say why they remained so unbelievably obscure for so long, but certainly being Americans making dub Techno in Detroit in 2000 wasn't helping matters. By 2003, their initial DeepChord imprint had already dissolved into as much smoke. They were next spotted on Mike Huckaby's intermittently active S Y N T H label, but it was really in 2007, just as Dub Techno began to move inwards from the periphery of the global scene, that they found a wider appreciation for their material. They resurrected DeepChord as echospace[detroit] and basically it's been no looking back since then. Ever since, the Detroit-based operation has spun off a long streak of related projects in instantly sold-out pressings that have added immensely to their influence as well as established them as a unique and special offshoot of the Dub Techno sound that stands distinctly apart from its Berlin center. With the release of Altering Illusions, the duo of Stephen Hitchell and Rod Modell at long last make an effort at a career retrospective and revisit some of their finest moments over four LPs.

As expected of Echospace, this compilation doesn't draw many moments directly from their highly coveted back catalog. All of Echospace's music revolves around variations on a very short list of themes, and true to form, most of the material on these records has been altered in some way from its original version. Essentially, what they present here is two full LPs of previously unheard music, most of which is new, unheard versions of old material, and two LPs worth of tracks that had surfaced here and there, but never before on vinyl. The oldest material here is the two cv313 reinterpretations of DeepChord01-06; these were originally self-released on CD compilations in 2000, but the material here dates back even earlier than that, to 1997-1999. There is an entire LP devoted to unreleased cv313 tracks, and another LP revisits Hitchell's Variant album, The Setting Sun, from 2009. Echospace's Spatialdimension also sees a reappearance, but rather than re-release the two vinyl versions, they offer two alternate versions that originally were released digitally. Actually, two of the three Variant tracks are the only straight reissues here, and they were never before released on wax, and so on...

Throughout their career, Echospace have remained rooted in the Detroit tradition and thus maintained a separation from the more widely credited German practitioners of the Dub Tehcno school, a contrast that is apparent throughout these four plates. Eschewing the dry, metallic scrapings and sound design-intensive ideas that dominate Berlin, Echospace favor lush emotionalism, hazed out into soft focus with monumental amounts of dub effects. This totally immersive and layered approach is the key to their music's allure and addictive quality. At their most beautiful, they suck the listener down into a shattering well of twinkling, briefly-seen moments that disappear as they're gradually enveloped in the ether, only to surface again with renewed vigor in one of their epic-length dub excursions. If a stoned, hippie version of Basic Channel sounds odd at first, the kind of super-strength cheeba this crew endorses imparts even the most functional dancefloor tracks with a shimmering psychedelia that's the auditory equivalent of packing Quadrant Dub into a bong and sparking an eye-watering hit. With four LPs of mind-altering versions there's a huge amount of enveloping music to dive into here, and novices and longtime fans alike should get a thorough idea of what has created and sustained the intense, devoted following that Echospace has unquestionably cultivated.

-Halcyon, NYC

If the shock that the long-awaited Dimensional Space album consisted of seven totally new tracks plus a bonus disc entirely dedicated to mixes of “Subtractive,” then the revelation that what at first glance appeared to be an extended version of the 4xLP “Altering Illusions” compilation was, instead a completely different bursting-at-the-seams 2xCD collection of old and new cv313 material was a delight.

You see, Echospace [Detroit] presents: Altering Illusions Chapter One: cv313 (or whatever the hell this thing is actually called) is in fact the first chapter in a three part series of Altering Illusions releases, each focusing on a different artist. Two brand new cv313 albums instead of one? Yes, please. Furthermore, it makes for an amazing companion piece to the main Dimensional Space album, the tone and palette substantially different but the content every bit as essential.

There is no better statement of intent than the opening track, “Isis,” as jets of crystalline ice particles are shot through solar winds, which batter the soundstage to the rhythmic thump of a relentless beat. Forthcoming single “Fading Lights [Original]” ups the ante with shuffling rhythms, blunted beats, plumes of steam and tumbling breaks before the album spirals towards the dance-floor with the comparatively brief “Irradiate,” all pin-sharp hi-hats, fretwork and thundering bass.

We enter previously released singles territory at this point, with remastered versions of the both the original and particularly fine reduction of “Seconds To Forever,” “Dimensional” and “Sailing Stars” before the disc ends with “Beyond Starlit Sky [Live]” that reads like a re-pitched, holographic version of “Fading Lights.”

The only material here that doesn’t quite blend in is the odd slice of older single material. “Dimensional” sounds better than ever thanks to an even higher definition remaster, but feels like it belongs to a different era, and the harder stomp of “Sailing Stars” juts out at oblique angles, somehow out of place among its amorphous, vaporous siblings. But this is nitpicking given that this is ostensibly a compilation rather than a dedicated album, even though it mostly feels like the latter, rather than the former.

Perhaps the finest moments on Altering Illusions [Chapter One] cv313, however, are those found on the second disc, an even more seamless and unified experience than the first. It certainly has the power to surprise as it opens with “Longing For Darkness,” a delicate but metallic bowed synth string melody emerging from a mist of swirling vapour, soft static hiss and what sounds like a genuine field recording of a haunted, twilight whistle and howl of wind through deeply saturated, nocturnal environments. It is quite unlike anything cv313 has released before or since, a beautiful hybrid of cv313 textures, dense, whirring drones from Alva Noto’s Xerrox series of ambient albums and Thomas Koner’s panoramic soundscapes.

“Beyond The Clouds” is, for many, one of Hitchell and Modell’s key masterpieces and reason enough to own this compilation, which it closes in a beautifully remastered form, but if any shred of doubt still lingers in your mind, it should be utterly eradicated by one of Hitchell’s crowning achievements: I give you “Standing Still [Reduced].”

Seated regally at the epicenter of the majestic second disc, it is simply one of the ultimate expressions of cv313’s craft, a twenty-two minute pièce de résistance of meticulous and subtle artistry. Once you enter its orbit, and are enveloped in its supple blooms of synth, scything fx, soft flashes of electricity, deep-sea sub-bass throb and bass rumble, ever-so-subtle machine fan whir and the hypnotic, propulsive rhythm of the piece, a higher state of (un)consciousness is inescapable.

It’s followed by yet another album highlight in the newly minted “Magenta,” packed with turbulent whorls of dark beige storm clouds pregnant with rain and ice whipping around the adrenalin-fueled listener submerged in a tumbling life-support capsule full of bubbling fluid that muffles the beat to a in-ear heart pounding. And as already mentioned, the whole experience is beautifically rounded out by “Beyond The Clouds [Reprise]”.

Altering Illusions [Chapter One] cv313 is every bit as strong and essential as the debut cv313 album it supplements and acts as a nexus between cv313 material old and new. It has also just become available as a digital download on the echospace [detroit] Bandcamp site, for those who missed out on or are not interested in the physical CD edition. -Igloo Magazine

An essential compilation sharing unreleased gems from the Echospace imprint. Reworked or re-imagined, this contains work from Echospace, DeepChord, Intrusion and Variant that hasn’t seen the light of day in any traditional format. There are cv313 reinterpretations of DeepChord01-06 that date from 1997/1999, more unreleased cv313 tracks, Echospace's Spatialdimension album presented in two alternate versions that originally were released digitally, the list goes on. It’s a no brainer really, a must-but for anyone interested in the vast history of Echospace’s dub techno. -Bleep

Typical. You wait ages for one CV313 record, and three come along at once. Hot on the heels of the recent release of the much-delayed Dimensional Space album and Live @ Primary CD comes Altering Illusions [Chapter 1], a notably warm, attractive and enveloping two-disc compilation that mixes classic and hard-to-find material with a slew of previously unheard alternate versions. Fans of Steve Hitchell's atmospheric fusions of drifting chords, locked-in techno rhythms, electronic noise and heavy dub bass will find plenty to enjoy, from the 23-minute ambient exploration "Beyond The Clouds (Reprise)" to the classic deep dub techno of "Seconds to Forever (Original)". -Juno

Ready to take off with Echospace Present: Altering Illusions (Chaper One). This one is the first in a trio of releases from the label, with cv313 supplying the movement. It's over two hours of ethereal technological rhythms, classic electronics and conscious altering sonic matter. It's grainy and gritty yet clear as a bell, searching for the new whilst paying respects to the masters. Out on CD from Echospace [detroit]. -Norman

Echospace return to their "Altering Illusions" project and deliver a massive double CD edition released in three separate issues, part 1 closely focused on the work of cv313. Expect sub-harmonic deep space exploration in some seriously out-there electronic quadrants, some of the deepest techno reductions ever captured to tape. A sprawling nebula of etheric sounds made by the illusive cv313 project, exploring re-mastered versions of their most celebrated classics ("Dimensional," "Sailing Stars," "Seconds to Forever," "Beyond the Clouds") to exclusive new, unreleased material. Over two discs, you'll be treated to over 2.5 hours of purified groove reductions made on vintage analog equipment, teasing out the infidelities of archaic equipment which render the sound at its most diffuse and opiated. Lush listening from the magical cv313 project, one of Detroit's finest. -Forced Exposure

I’m not even going to attempt to review this one. If you know techno you will want this. 13 tracks from Deepchord, Variant, cv313 and Echospace all in one package. Dubbed out techno-bliss made with analogue machines and loving care. Just get it; you’ll be better for it. -Gramaphone Records, Chicago

The holy grail for fans of Steve Soultek's peerless Echospace label which over the years has released some momumental 12's from himself and Deepchord. This limited edition 4x 12" label compilation features unreleased material from cv313, Deepchord, Echospace, Intrusion & Variant that's been pressed on to 4 nice slabs of 180g coloured vinyl and it comes with a full colour gatefold sleeve. -Rubadub

A new chapter — the longest and one of the deepest — in the particular never-ending story of Echospace. -Playground Magazine

w + p by cv313 + deepchord + variant | mastered by mark richardson@pcm

This release features 4 epic moments ranging from 12-20 minutes each passage from cv313, where a vintage trident desk, hand crafted analog effects units and a vast array of synthesis sculpted and shaped what would become, "beyond dreams". One of the recent highlights of the alchemy edition of cv313's opus, "Dimensional Space", an intergalactic

This release features 4 epic moments ranging from 12-20 minutes each passage from cv313, where a vintage trident desk, hand crafted analog effects units and a vast array of synthesis sculpted and shaped what would become, "beyond dreams". One of the recent highlights of the alchemy edition of cv313's opus, "Dimensional Space", an intergalactic journey into an ocean of analog bliss. These recordings were digitally transferred using Apogee convertors to ensure the integrity of original master tapes were preserved. All four passages have a life force all their own, deep and hypnotic, sonic submersion.

w + p by cv313 in the heart of Detroit. Mastered & Engineered in echospace.

"Beyond the Clouds" was recorded from a live session near the heart of Detroit using hand crafted modular synthesizers, analog devices and custom made effects units. Remastered for CD release by Ron Murphy @ NSC Mastering, Detroit, USA shortly before he passed away, his memory will live in our hearts forever.

Thoughts:

In late 2011 through early

"Beyond the Clouds" was recorded from a live session near the heart of Detroit using hand crafted modular synthesizers, analog devices and custom made effects units. Remastered for CD release by Ron Murphy @ NSC Mastering, Detroit, USA shortly before he passed away, his memory will live in our hearts forever.

Thoughts:

In late 2011 through early 2012, echospace [detroit] issued a series of collectors editions of diverse and previously unreleased and/or unavailable on CD material by Deepchord, Variant, the elusive Sons of the Dragon and, of course, cv313. These professionally duplicated CDs were all housed in plain black slip-cases with square metallic ink artwork stickers inside resealable polybags, giving them the feel of an ongoing series.

For many, one of the most crucial of these releases was Beyond The Clouds [Reprised] Versions, a collection of three versions – two previously unavailable – of one of cv313’s most iconic tracks. These three twenty-five minute plus versions packed the CD to capacity, creating an album-length Beyond The Clouds experience that was a significant draw for fans. Originally available exclusively via Discogs.com but later reissued in stickered black digipaks, it’s now also available to purchase digitally via the echospace [detroit] Bandcamp site.

You’ll most likely be familiar with “Beyond The Clouds [Reprise] III” as it this version that appears on the flip side of the Seconds To Forever 12″. Unsurprisingly, given its popularity and acclaim, it’s also probably the most successful expression of the track. Broadly panning tape hiss sprays wide arcs of water crystals across barreling waves of metallic chords, which are joined a few minutes in by ice-chiseled hi-hats and the softest, warmest sub-bass beat imaginable. The perfect balance of ambiance, rhythm, warmth and and chilly outer-atmosphere spaciousness, this is one of cv313’s most immersive works to date.

You have to wait until last for that version, however, the album opening instead with “Beyond The Clouds [Reprise] I”. Essentially very similar to “[Reprise] III,” it strips away the sub-bass and percussion whilst muffling and eroding the rest to create a more distant, almost narcotic experience. As the most laid back of these two versions, omitting as it does, the hooks and rhythmic elements of “[Reprise] III” that draw you in so effectively, it might perhaps have worked better if the running order or the two had been flipped, the more ambient nature of the mix being more suited to an outro than an intro.

It’s “Beyond The Clouds [Reprise] II” in particular that make this collector’s item worth picking up, however, thanks to its radically different tones and textures. Where the other two versions spray and soar, this one squelches and writhes, the melody crushed and smothered by slithering analog keys as supple toms and salt-shaker hi-hats combine with the drier sub-bass to create a totally different palette. It’s a fascinating example of how different treatments of similar source material in a recording session can yield wildly different results.

Something of an esoteric release, Beyond The Clouds [Reprised] Versions is definitely one for the fans and collectors, who will prize the opportunity to own these different variants of a classic track. Interestingly, it seems there must at least another three versions hidden away somewhere that may yet see the light of day on a future LP release. In the meantime, you can also enjoy the classic “Beyond The Clouds [Reprise] III” in beautifully mastered form on the forthcoming Altering Illusions Chapter One: cv313 2xCD set. -Igloo Magazine

Echospace present some more luscious dusty deep techno abrasions from CV313 ahead of their forthcoming album Dimensional Space. "Seconds To Forever" is vintage CV313, a lolloping groove ascending from the sonic mists and settling amidst ocean deep melodics. The reshape that shares space on the A Side embellishes "Seconds To Forever" with some live congas from The Howard Street Rhythm Section and a general air of spaced out bliss. The B Side is reserved for something entirely more special however in the shape of a live rendition of "Beyond The Clouds", culled from a recording session deep in the recesses of Detroit. It's a 23 minute journey through vintage modular synths and analogue devices that astounds with its shimmering beauty. -Juno

Fully Remastered Special stuff from Stephen Hitchell and Rod Modell's cv313 alias, dropping two sturdy but spectral House grooves backed with an epic 22 minute live recording made in "the heart of Detroit". The A-side mixes of 'Seconds To Forever' are made for that non-exclusive club in the clouds, the one where every track is a gaseous anthem which only requires a slow smile of approval. Their original mix is all about strafing bassline movements whose gentle kinetic motions expel intoxicating clouds of dreamy sleep-techno tones for that deliciously anaesthetised suspension. The 'Remodel' organises the effervescence into curling dub chords while a layer of tilted congas from The Howard Street Rhythm Section trickles through the mist. If you need the bliss to last longer flip over for the ultimate catharsis of a 22 minute+ 'Reprise' which was mastered for a forthcoming CD release by legendary NSC mastering engineer, Ron Murphy before he sadly passed away. Hitchell has since retouched the track with some help from Mark Richardson and his analogue desk at Prarie Cat Mastering, sloping the momentum for a near-infinite psychedelic exploration. Sublime!. -Boomkat

cv313 – Beyond the Clouds (Reprise) [Echospace] Adapted from a live performance in Detroit, this 23-minute ‘track’ is absolutely epic. I would go as far to say it’s the best-sounding vinyl record I own. So many layers to this and the quality of the production and recording methods come together to create something really special. Almost every time I listen to it I hear different things going on. It's a record I play often to get away from it all – a great way to recalibrate the brain. -Lord of The Isles, UK (The Skinny Mag, UK)

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Limited Edition release of cv313's celebrated and now classic, "Beyond The Clouds" project, this first edition of the project was exclusively available in Japan. The first edition masters from Ron Murphy (R.I.P.) @ NSC, Detroit, which featured an unreleased NSC DAT mastered version not found on the original release or in any other form. Beyond The

Limited Edition release of cv313's celebrated and now classic, "Beyond The Clouds" project, this first edition of the project was exclusively available in Japan. The first edition masters from Ron Murphy (R.I.P.) @ NSC, Detroit, which featured an unreleased NSC DAT mastered version not found on the original release or in any other form. Beyond The Clouds (Reprise II) A classic in the vaults of the cv313 cannon and many years sold out at source in Japan.

"Beyond the Clouds" was recorded from a live session near the heart of Detroit using hand crafted modular synthesizers, analog devices and custom made effects units

Remastered for CD release by Ron Murphy (R.I.P.) @ NSC Mastering, Detroit, USA shortly before he passed away, his memory will live in our hearts forever.