dreamlin
genre: ambient

dreamlin seems to have been getting a lot of attention lately (and for a while now) for their track the light of the night and for good reason: it's an excellent ambient creation. since its original release, it's been remixed several times and has been followed up with a few other very well put together tracks.

the light of the night is simply a gorgeous song, with nice crisp trip-hop like drums, smoothly looped acoustic guitar, offbeat background sounds, and scattered samples. it opens well with some wavery guitar and effects and quickly slides into the main guitar line that carries most of the song. soon, a very well done, slightly echoed bassline joins the mix, and the song continues until about 0:50 when the drums and bass fall away leaving a pleasant stretch of ambience. from there, the song continues in much the same manner, alternating between its two previously mentioned states: with and without the drums and bass. finally, everything gradually falls away to leave only the wavering guitar that began the song. the track sounds great, with nice bright, clean sounds and interesting effects throughout, and i wouldn't hesitate to send it straight to the top tracks list if there was only a little more variation worked in. unfortunately, though it never becomes a problem, the listener has heard virtually all of what the five and a half minute song has to offer in the first minute and a half. the drums, though they are very well put together, could especially use some alteration, whether by means of interesting fills, breaks or simply a few slightly modified loops. all in all the light of the night is a great song, but a bit oversimplified in its structure and sound for my tastes. very smooth, and very relaxing.

Lyrics by Egor Kunovsky

I can see the absurdity of hearts and of squash and the miscomposition of chess.
there are often some seeds in her ears, that’s why she is always exploring herself.
everyone disappears like smoke in the wind to consider the ugliest shapes.
I’ve been tending to blackness since I was a kid and will now take my measures backstage.
I will shoot every apple like William Burroughs I reflect all the beams with my eye.
in the sound of delusion of countless crows you are never as brave as to die.
when you go through the tunnels of fire escapes you are never as fast as your mail.

Dreamlin is an electronic music group from Belarus.

Dreamlin, hailing from Minsk, Belarus started when Egor Kunovsky, who had long been involved with music software and computers, met Denis «C4» Korabkov, who used to play guitar with a local cult, psychedelic reggae band at the time. In 2000, they teamed together as Dreamlin and had their music used in several underground films and videos worldwide as well hitting the #1 artist spot at Ampcast.com in summer 2001. In 2002 they started playing to live crowds and soon became the most requested electronic act in the country. Their constant love to mixing electronic and live instruments brought on stage a vocalist and several other people who played guitars, drums and electronic drums, flute and all kinds of percussion. By 2004 Egor plays most of the gigs together with multyinstrumentalist Andrey Karpovich, while Denis prefers studio work, now not only with Dreamlin project. Collaborative tracks do not include just local live musicians; the geography of people who worked with Dreamlin spreads from Finland to Hawaii.