Ramp

['ramp] is a collective of German musicians, making music in the vein of the Berlin school of electronic music. Frank Makowski and Steve Parsick are joined by Lambert Ringlage and Martina Fantar in various studio and concert sessions. Using a wide range of synthesizers, samplers and sequencers, Ramp adds an original and fresh touch to the history of German electronic music, with a deep and dark ambient sound, similar to Tangerine Dream and Radio Masacre International.
Originally released on Manikin records in late 1998, "Nodular" became Ramp's first major exposure to the world of electronic music. Billed as "Germany's response to Britain's invasion of sequencer-based and mellotron-heavy retro electronica from Redshift, Radio Massacre International, and Node"…

['ramp] is a collective of German musicians, making music in the vein of the Berlin school of electronic music. Frank Makowski and Steve Parsick are joined by Lambert Ringlage and Martina Fantar in various studio and concert sessions. Using a wide range of synthesizers, samplers and sequencers, Ramp adds an original and fresh touch to the history of German electronic music, with a deep and dark ambient sound, similar to Tangerine Dream and Radio Masacre International.
"Looking Back In Anger: A Decade Of Misfits 1996-2006" was originally released in 2006 to celebrate ['ramp]'s tenth anniversary with.

A man decades ahead of his time, composer, vibraphonist and bandleader, Roy Ayers has made a significant impression with his contributions to American music genres funk, soul, R&B, disco, hip-hop and jazz. Beginning his career as a jazz player, Ayers released several albums with Atlantic Records before bringing his brand of soul-jazz to Verve and Polydor where he released a succession of landmark albums such as Ubiquity, Vibrations, Mystic Voyage and Everybody Loves The Sunshine. 1977's Come Into Knowledge is the lone album released under the Roy Ayers Music Productions moniker…

This CD from 2007 features 63 minutes of moody electronic music. On this release, 'Ramp is joined by Marcus Reuter (from Centrazoon) whose treatments derived from touch guitar improvisations possesses a haunting character on its own. Combined with 'Ramp's doombient style, this recording is a moody milestone. Textural sounds dominate this music. Already elongated into near-infinite structures, these harmonic flows are interweaved with each other to produce pastiches of eerie proportion. Scale is a key factor in this music, as melodies achieve immense scale, filling space with effortless ease, yet establishing a certain claustrophobic quality. Yeah, sounds like an oxymoron: actualizing compression through expansion, but that's what's going on here…

Nat King Cole - Hittin’ The Ramp: The Early Years, 1936-1943 (2019) {7CD Box Set Resonance Records HCD 2042}
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© 1936-43, 2019 Resonance Records | HCD 2042
Jazz / Swing / Vocal Jazz / Jump Blues / Early Pop

By any measure, Resonance's 2019 box Hittin' the Ramp: The Early Years (1936-1943) is a monumental achievement in musical preservation. Over the course of seven CDs (or 10 LPs), Hittin' the Ramp chronicles the earliest recordings of Nat King Cole, rounding up every known track from the days prior to his time at Capitol Records. Those records for Capitol – sessions that found him slowly transitioning from a swinging jazz pianist to smooth pop crooner – were what brought Cole lasting fame, but the sides on Hittin' the Ramp lie at the foundation of his music.