New Album Release
May 3, 2016
新CDリリース
नई सीडी रिलीज
Lee Negin
Entheogenic Dharma Music
Lee Negin’s new solo album, “Entheogenic Dharma Music, “ a collection of 8 mind-blowing extended tracks of psychedelic-trippy-dance-trance-ambient-electronica-dreamscape-“new-world’-Zen soundtracks, will be released and go on sale MAY 3, 2016.
“Negin’s music is the sound of one hand clapping and one toe tapping!” – Roshi Kusai Onara, Abbot, Tofuji Hemp Farm & Sheep Grooming
A limited run of 100 physical CDs (discs) will be published, with only about 60 total made available for purchase. With cover and disc art by the noted British Visionary artist, Bill Brouard (Visual Alchemy-UK), this disc is a collector’s CD, and also makes for great coasters underneath your favourite beverage, Ninja flying discs, or cool fashion accessories (as a pendant, or a pair of earrings, etc.).
Pre-orders now being accepted, so order one (or more) now to make sure you get a copy. After the discs are gone, the album will be available as digital (download) only. Ordering information (direct bank deposit or via Paypal) including prices with postage can be found at:
http://leenegin.com
The first single released from the album, “Dervish Dharma Dancing” has already received rave reviews and massive airplay internationally. Video at https://youtu.be/MsEHYq1WlUM
Sample reviews of “DDD:”
"After a brief bit of droning sitar swirl, chant and effects, a classic throbbing Trance-House beat kicks in and we’re off to the Psychedelic Rave races. I’m talking disco balls in space that shoot showers of paisley colored lights and stream melting and weaving layers of Eastern flavored meditative drone ooze that one can either dance the night away to or just close your eyes and groove with." - Jerry Kranitz, Aural-Innovations Blog
" I could see this being a great anthem to be part of a live show that would have the audience entranced and in a dance! Feverish fun!! " -KM, INDEPENDENT REVIEW blog
May 3, 2016
新CDリリース
नई सीडी रिलीज
Lee Negin
Entheogenic Dharma Music
Lee Negin’s new solo album, “Entheogenic Dharma Music, “ a collection of 8 mind-blowing extended tracks of psychedelic-trippy-dance-trance-ambient-electronica-dreamscape-“new-world’-Zen soundtracks, will be released and go on sale MAY 3, 2016.
“Negin’s music is the sound of one hand clapping and one toe tapping!” – Roshi Kusai Onara, Abbot, Tofuji Hemp Farm & Sheep Grooming
A limited run of 100 physical CDs (discs) will be published, with only about 60 total made available for purchase. With cover and disc art by the noted British Visionary artist, Bill Brouard (Visual Alchemy-UK), this disc is a collector’s CD, and also makes for great coasters underneath your favourite beverage, Ninja flying discs, or cool fashion accessories (as a pendant, or a pair of earrings, etc.).
Pre-orders now being accepted, so order one (or more) now to make sure you get a copy. After the discs are gone, the album will be available as digital (download) only. Ordering information (direct bank deposit or via Paypal) including prices with postage can be found at:
http://leenegin.com
The first single released from the album, “Dervish Dharma Dancing” has already received rave reviews and massive airplay internationally. Video at https://youtu.be/MsEHYq1WlUM
Sample reviews of “DDD:”
"After a brief bit of droning sitar swirl, chant and effects, a classic throbbing Trance-House beat kicks in and we’re off to the Psychedelic Rave races. I’m talking disco balls in space that shoot showers of paisley colored lights and stream melting and weaving layers of Eastern flavored meditative drone ooze that one can either dance the night away to or just close your eyes and groove with." - Jerry Kranitz, Aural-Innovations Blog
" I could see this being a great anthem to be part of a live show that would have the audience entranced and in a dance! Feverish fun!! " -KM, INDEPENDENT REVIEW blog
Prices and Payment Methods for Pre-orders of Lee Negin’s “Dervish Dharma Dancing” CDs
Accepted Currencies Postage *
Cost per CD USA & N. America Europe, inc. UK Asia inc. Japan Rest of world
US Dollars (USD)
$10.00 for one; $9.00 each for 2+ *$4.00 for one; Plus $2.00 for each additional $4.50 for one; $2.50 for each additional
(postage for rest of world)
British Pounds (GBP)
£ 7.00 for one; £6.50 each for 2+ * £2.50 for one; plus £1.25 for each additional
Euros
€9.00 for one; €8.00 each for 2+ * €3.00 for one; €1.00 for each additional
Japanese Yen
¥1,200 for one; ¥1,000 each for 2+ * ¥330 for one; ¥100 for each additional
* Postage Note: This is for “regular Mail” (in Japan) and regular “AirMail” outside (internationally). Delivery time outside of Japan will be about 14 days (2 weeks) and there is no tracking number. Expedited (3-4 days) delivery available, with a tracking number and insurance, but it’s quite expensive. If you are interested, contact me at passingphasemusic@gmail.com for rates.
Payment Methods
Paypal: Paypal address: passingphasemusic@gmail.com
When you use Paypal, you can input your name and shipping address.
Direct Bank Transfer (best for Japanese customers). Bank Information:
Bank Name: Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ, Ltd.
Branch: Oyama Branch
Bank Address: 24-3 Oyamacho, Itabashi-ku, Tokyo 173-0023, JAPAN
Name of Beneficiary: NEGIN LEE ALAN
SWIFT CODE: BOTKJPJT
Bank Account Number: 0178449
After you send a payment (bank transfer or Paypal) email me with your name, when you paid, what method, how many CDs ordered, currency used and your full postal address and telephone number. I will email back when I have verified receipt of payment. I will then email you the day I send your CD(s) to you.
Lee Negin passingphasemusic@gmail.com
Digital Downloads
If you are not interested in a compact disc (CD) but would like my new album, I am selling “download cards” that have a code on them for a digital download (your choice of formats: MP3, FLAC or .WAV) and the album’s front cover art. I will sign them too, if requested. These are available for the same prices as the CD, but postage is free. Payment methods are the same as for the CDs, and the contact procedures are the same.
Thank you.
Accepted Currencies Postage *
Cost per CD USA & N. America Europe, inc. UK Asia inc. Japan Rest of world
US Dollars (USD)
$10.00 for one; $9.00 each for 2+ *$4.00 for one; Plus $2.00 for each additional $4.50 for one; $2.50 for each additional
(postage for rest of world)
British Pounds (GBP)
£ 7.00 for one; £6.50 each for 2+ * £2.50 for one; plus £1.25 for each additional
Euros
€9.00 for one; €8.00 each for 2+ * €3.00 for one; €1.00 for each additional
Japanese Yen
¥1,200 for one; ¥1,000 each for 2+ * ¥330 for one; ¥100 for each additional
* Postage Note: This is for “regular Mail” (in Japan) and regular “AirMail” outside (internationally). Delivery time outside of Japan will be about 14 days (2 weeks) and there is no tracking number. Expedited (3-4 days) delivery available, with a tracking number and insurance, but it’s quite expensive. If you are interested, contact me at passingphasemusic@gmail.com for rates.
Payment Methods
Paypal: Paypal address: passingphasemusic@gmail.com
When you use Paypal, you can input your name and shipping address.
Direct Bank Transfer (best for Japanese customers). Bank Information:
Bank Name: Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ, Ltd.
Branch: Oyama Branch
Bank Address: 24-3 Oyamacho, Itabashi-ku, Tokyo 173-0023, JAPAN
Name of Beneficiary: NEGIN LEE ALAN
SWIFT CODE: BOTKJPJT
Bank Account Number: 0178449
After you send a payment (bank transfer or Paypal) email me with your name, when you paid, what method, how many CDs ordered, currency used and your full postal address and telephone number. I will email back when I have verified receipt of payment. I will then email you the day I send your CD(s) to you.
Lee Negin passingphasemusic@gmail.com
Digital Downloads
If you are not interested in a compact disc (CD) but would like my new album, I am selling “download cards” that have a code on them for a digital download (your choice of formats: MP3, FLAC or .WAV) and the album’s front cover art. I will sign them too, if requested. These are available for the same prices as the CD, but postage is free. Payment methods are the same as for the CDs, and the contact procedures are the same.
Thank you.
14 December, 2015
"Dervish Dharma Dancing"
"After a brief bit of droning sitar swirl, chant and effects, a classic throbbing Trance-House beat kicks in and we’re off to the Psychedelic Rave races. I’m talking disco balls in space that shoot showers of paisley colored lights and stream melting and weaving layers of Eastern flavored meditative drone ooze that one can either dance the night away to and just close your eyes and groove with." - Jerry Kranitz, Aural-Innovations Blog
" I could also see this being a great anthem to be part of a live show that would have the audience entranced and in a dance! Feverish fun!! " -KM, INDEPENDENT REVIEW blog
Check amazing video by Japanese Video Artist 'Aurora Wizard, a.k.a. Sinarisama' at https://youtu.be/MsEHYq1WlUM More about Aurora Wizard at http://www.facebook.com/FestaSinarisama/
1 December, 2015 "Holiday Single"
"Frack Art, Let's Dance"
Cover Art by Bryan Hovercraft. Copyright, 2015. All Rights Reserved.
" Negin's Noise is the sound of one hand clapping, and one toe tapping." - Roshi Kusai Onara
"This is dark, Gothic, Psychedelic electro-pop with a freaky edge and a catchy melodic hook. I like the stilted, robotic but oh so danceable rhythmic pulse. Very cool song...." - Jerry Kranitz, Aural-Innovations.Com (blog)
" Negin's Noise is the sound of one hand clapping, and one toe tapping." - Roshi Kusai Onara
"This is dark, Gothic, Psychedelic electro-pop with a freaky edge and a catchy melodic hook. I like the stilted, robotic but oh so danceable rhythmic pulse. Very cool song...." - Jerry Kranitz, Aural-Innovations.Com (blog)
1 September, 2015 Release
New Album Release! 新しいCDがリリース！Neue CD veröffentlicht! Sortie Nouveau CD! नई सीडी का विमोचन! Новый CD выхода! 새 CD 출시! CD baru yang dikeluarkan! 新的CD发布！ซีดีใหม่ออก! Lee Negin's new album, "Surfing Samsara," a collection of 11 'singles' from recent albums, is available now at iTunes, Amazon, CD Baby and other fine head, fungi and coffee shops! "Negin's music is the sound of one hand clapping and one toe tapping!" -Zen Master Kusai Onara
http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/leenegin17 (batteries not included) Bon Voyage!!
"With Negin’s music it’s all about the many parts and pieces and how they are stitched together, with rhythm, melody and Psychedelic/Surreal/Trip-Hop collage all playing equally important roles. Even the most danceable tunes have so much happening at once that surrendering your undivided attention and marveling at the details is your best bet." -Jerry Kranitz, Aural Innovations Blog
"There is so much to like about Surfing Samsara that it’s hard to find a place to begin deconstructing it. The album certainly runs the gamut of musical styles: from spacey prog-rock, hypno-suites, to catchy robotic dance numbers, Japanese-inspired post-rock pop culture snapshots; textured atmospheres, a panoply of infectious grooves that get one up and moving around." - Kent Manthie, Independent Review Blog
http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/leenegin17 (batteries not included) Bon Voyage!!
"With Negin’s music it’s all about the many parts and pieces and how they are stitched together, with rhythm, melody and Psychedelic/Surreal/Trip-Hop collage all playing equally important roles. Even the most danceable tunes have so much happening at once that surrendering your undivided attention and marveling at the details is your best bet." -Jerry Kranitz, Aural Innovations Blog
"There is so much to like about Surfing Samsara that it’s hard to find a place to begin deconstructing it. The album certainly runs the gamut of musical styles: from spacey prog-rock, hypno-suites, to catchy robotic dance numbers, Japanese-inspired post-rock pop culture snapshots; textured atmospheres, a panoply of infectious grooves that get one up and moving around." - Kent Manthie, Independent Review Blog
19 January 2015 Release
"Terminus," a collection of 4 extended dreamscapes. The soundtrack for the 5D movie that "...takes place in the space between your ears." Great herbal supplements! The sounds of one hand clapping. Available at Amazon, CD baby, iTunes and other cool record and head shops.
November 2014 Release
Lee Negin’s 4th release of 2014 (preceded by the remastered 1994 album, “Balance,” the Technopera “The Cheeze Chronicles: Volume V” and the single “The Cheeze Spreads”). “Groundless” is a collection of extended electro-acoustic, ambient, electronic, new-world (other world), psychedelic dreamscapes. A concentrated herbal supplement! Composed, played, produced, mixed and mastered by Lee Negin.
Available as a digital download at CD Baby, iTunes, Amazon, etc.
Passing Phase Records A2Z-2014-3
Information at http://passingphasemusic.com
“Groundless” Track List
1. Forever (never, never) 6:46
2. The Shadow Play 7:48
3. Last Gasp 5:26
4. Groundless 5:39
5. Groundless II 5:47
6. (Elegy for) The Last Ship Leaving 9:45
Contact: passingphasemusic@gmail.com
Links:
http://www.cdbaby.com/Artist/LeeNegin
http://www.facebook.com/LeeNegin1
https://twitter.com/umeboshiroshi
http://leenegin.com
http://www.youtube.com/user/passingphasemusic
"Cheeze Chronicles" selected as the #15 album of 2014 on Dandelion Radio's (UK) top 40 list!
New Technopera Album Release June 20, 2014
新しいCDリリース！
新CD發行！
Neue CD-Release!
नई सीडी रिलीज!
ซีดีรุ่นใหม่!
Nouveaux CD!
"...it’s all fun, freaky and well-crafted studio pastiche electronic mayhem and songs that are like a space crazed blend of 80s New Wave, Neue Neutsche Welle, Kraftwerk and The Residents. Or maybe The War Of The Worlds broadcast meets Carl Stalling on the Planet Gong. Or possibly a Spike Jones collaboration with Hawkwind. The songs are catchy and danceable but never stay still for long. Negin loads on the effects, creating a surrealistic cinema parade of music, sounds and voice samples, with equal focus on entertainment and disorientation. One moment we’re in what feels like an old World’s Fair World Of Tomorrow exhibit, the next a Berlin School space excursion, and then a beat driven space-rave dance floor assault, with a relentless morphing and meteor showering of voices and effects. ... For pure fun and tongue in cheek creative coolness The Cheeze Chronicles is the best electronic album I’ve heard all year." - Jerry Kranitz, Aural-Innovations Blog (link)
"Looking for something truly different and unique? Well look no further...because few folks out there have a sound, image, and style as unique as Lee Negin. If there's a reason why this guy isn't already hugely famous, it's probably because his music is just too intelligent and unusual for most listeners. Negin describes his music as "...a blend of Techno - funk - psychedelic - jazz - world - rock - ambient - electronica - experimental - social satire - irony - mysticism - prog - surrealism - dadaism - industrial - pop - metal - Musique concrete - Western Classical - impressionism, etc." This is quite possibly the longest and most complex descriptive term we've come across yet to describe an artist's music and yet...it fits. This is complex stuff for certain that swerves all over the map...and even off the map at times. In the 1980s Negin was an instrumental player in the indie/techno/new wave movement in the Detroit area and received a good bit of attention for his work. He is now based in Korea where he maintains the ranking of the #1 electronica/experimental artist in Korea on Reverb Nation. This album features some absolutely wild sounds and ideas...and you never know what will come next. After reading the press release and listening to the album we got curious about Negin's videos so we did a search on You Tube and viewed a few. Wow. WoooooooOOOOOOOW... If you dig trippy psychedelic sounds and visuals you will love this guy's video work. It is nothing short of incredible. Negin has been compared to a variety of well known artists and yet...he doesn't really sound like anyone else. Fifteen tracks of pure audio creativity. This guy is a genius. Top pick." - "babysue" blog, September, 2014 (link)
"Lee Negin's 'The Cheeze Chronicles: Volume V' is not a conventional collection of album tunes. In breadth, it is operatic. In scope, it is mesmerising. The mind is dragged from one sonic experience to the next, sometimes feeling it's been dragged into the depths of space and sometimes back to earth with a rhythmic bang. It's Lee Negin's most ambitious work yet. It draws together all the bits that go into making his work so transcendent and mesmerising and slots them all together in one shuddering whole. This is music for the brain, the guts, the feet and anything else you've got." - Mark Whitby, Dandelion Radio (UK)
Excerpts from brilliant review in IndieGuild, 18/07/2014:
"Lee Negin’s new “Technodelic” craziness, “The Cheeze Chronicles: Volume V” (published on 20th June 2014), the first Technopera in two acts in the history of electronic music, will surely keep you awake! But what is even more surprising, beyond Negin’s mastery, his sheer brilliance and the sound quality, is that the world he creates, while appearing “absurd” and “bizarre”, is far less incoherent than the “real” world most of us inhabit.
Lee Negin, American by birth and currently residing in Seoul, (is) one of the craziest and most brilliant characters of the contemporary musical scene, as well as one of the precursors of post-punk and the so-called “Detroit Techno” of the 80’s.
…the sounds, arranged and amalgamated in layers and spaced out across eight different channels, at a quality level that rises tens of kilometres above the average standards that we are used to, at times seem to be infinite. It is an avant-garde concept that of Negin’s, which follows faithfully in the footsteps of the teachings of the visionary producer of the Beatles, George Martin, but takes a decisive step forward from a conceptual and technical point of view. Helping him in this achievement is the prestigious sound engineer Pete Maher (noteworthy for his previous work with U2, Patti Smith, Rolling Stones, Depeche Mode and Nine Inch Nails) who did the final mastering for an album which was otherwise totally self-produced in Negin’s Seoul studio in the DIY tradition of which he is one of the pioneers." – Gianmaria Consiglio (Esteemed Italian Music Journalist) (link to full review)
"Man, it's a sonic journey of epic proportions. In the world of opera, the Cheeze is mighty indeed. Negin doesn't so much hit the funk button, as kick it all the way to Neptune. I'm loving it." - Simon Humphrey (UK Producer/Engineer: The Clash, Culture Club, David Byrne, Hans Zimmer, Jeff Beck, etc.)
"Lee Negin, the soundscape master, dazzles once again, with more mind-bending sounds and hard beats shaped into his latest “Technopera” (Techno Opera). "The Chronicles of Cheeze: Volume V” is like ‘The Rocky Horror Picture Show’ on an acid trip. There are various, nicely crafted dance numbers but in many places, this adventure sounds a little like a trippy radio play. Chill to a kaleidoscope of sounds and literally, when you want to go somewhere else, like a fine wine, you get more and more from repeated tasting. At times, the album reminds me of The Orb, KLF, Talking Heads and Future Sound of London, all rolled into one but Negin started his noted career before everyone mentioned. Leave your concept of time at the front door. There is never a dull moment, and the pace is nice and steady with a few techno numbers laced with prime sound cuts. You might just forget that an alien is talking to you." - Paul 'DeJay' Readman (Music World Radio (UK) Host)
"Eclectic and prophetic, your first listening of Lee Negin’s latest orchestral offering, the pschoelectric, technodelic opera, “The Cheeze Chronicles: Volume V” may well leave you a little breathless, perhaps even somewhat disorientated. Be strong. You will recover in time to succumb to an even more powerful and irresistible desire to delve still deeper into the oscillating musical mosaic that this master of cross-genre, cross-cultural, cross-galaxy ceremonies has conjured up for discerning listeners from the planet Earth. Part of an epic cycle of Technoperas that are loosely patterned after Wagner’s “Der Ring des Nibelungen”, “The Cheeze Chronicles: Volume V” finds its operative roots in some of the concept albums of the seventies (Frank Zappa’s “Studio Tan” in particular comes to mind) and its artistic expression in the masterly creative use of cutting-edge, electronic technology. With artistic playfulness that belies far deeper concerns, Lee uses the "Chronicles of Cheeze" to peel the lid off the can of worms that this bloated, egocentric, consumer-driven society has created, and at the same time gives a sidelong poke at the current trend of pre-moulded, loop-and-sequence singles that has infiltrated and sadly debased the modern-day, electronic, musical scene.
Lee Negin quotes Krishnamurti on the album sleeve as saying, “It is no measure of health to be well-adjusted to a profoundly sick society”. Well, after listening to “The Cheeze Chronicles: Volume V” it would be difficult for anybody not to agree that this album is a mighty powerful medicine!" - Tony "The Toe' Lawson, (Master, concierge and major-domo of IndieGuild, net)
You are cordially invited to help save an endangered species—soon to become extinct: the recording artist (in particular, me). Just as ‘video killed the radio star,’ Internet has all but killed the recording artist and high fidelity audio. Between illegal downloading, streaming, piracy, the decline in CD sales, Youtube and other free sites like soundcloud, revenue can only be generated by playing ‘live.’ Recording artists-- especially independent ones-- and the album as an art form are becoming extinct. With MP-3s and streaming (and the ubiquitous ‘earbuds’) high quality audio is no longer deemed important.
The CD is a collection of 15 tracks, part of an ‘opera’ I have been toying with for a few years. It is an album, NOT a collection of singles. The material is a potpourri of musical styles, including: techno-pop/funk, ambient, jazz, experimental, electronica, classical, world, psychedelic, rock, etc. (my usual mélange). The tracks were recorded, produced and mixed by me in my studio, and mastered by one of the leading mastering engineers in the world, Pete Maher in London. Pete has mastered, among others, U2, Nine Inch Nails, Depeche Mode, Patti Smith, Gary Numan, The Rolling Stones, etc. High quality audio is of paramount importance. I also hooked up with an up-and-coming Korean illustrator/cartoonist, Juyong Lee, who helped me create the cover art.
https://www.facebook.com/donjuyong
http://www.juyongcomix.com
The CD is available at:
http://www.cdbaby.com/Artist/LeeNegin
Amazon.com
Amazon.co.uk
Amazon.co.jp
Amazon.de
Amazon.fr
iTunes
And other cool shops.
Help save a recording artist and the album as an art form. Thank you for your consideration.
Lee Negin
http://passingphasemusic.com
http://www.facebook.com/LeeNegin1
http://www.youtube.com/user/passingphasemusic
https://twitter.com/umeboshiroshi
passingphasemusic@gmail.com
"Looking for something truly different and unique? Well look no further...because few folks out there have a sound, image, and style as unique as Lee Negin. If there's a reason why this guy isn't already hugely famous, it's probably because his music is just too intelligent and unusual for most listeners. Negin describes his music as "...a blend of Techno - funk - psychedelic - jazz - world - rock - ambient - electronica - experimental - social satire - irony - mysticism - prog - surrealism - dadaism - industrial - pop - metal - Musique concrete - Western Classical - impressionism, etc." This is quite possibly the longest and most complex descriptive term we've come across yet to describe an artist's music and yet...it fits. This is complex stuff for certain that swerves all over the map...and even off the map at times. In the 1980s Negin was an instrumental player in the indie/techno/new wave movement in the Detroit area and received a good bit of attention for his work. He is now based in Korea where he maintains the ranking of the #1 electronica/experimental artist in Korea on Reverb Nation. This album features some absolutely wild sounds and ideas...and you never know what will come next. After reading the press release and listening to the album we got curious about Negin's videos so we did a search on You Tube and viewed a few. Wow. WoooooooOOOOOOOW... If you dig trippy psychedelic sounds and visuals you will love this guy's video work. It is nothing short of incredible. Negin has been compared to a variety of well known artists and yet...he doesn't really sound like anyone else. Fifteen tracks of pure audio creativity. This guy is a genius. Top pick." - "babysue" blog, September, 2014 (link)
"Lee Negin's 'The Cheeze Chronicles: Volume V' is not a conventional collection of album tunes. In breadth, it is operatic. In scope, it is mesmerising. The mind is dragged from one sonic experience to the next, sometimes feeling it's been dragged into the depths of space and sometimes back to earth with a rhythmic bang. It's Lee Negin's most ambitious work yet. It draws together all the bits that go into making his work so transcendent and mesmerising and slots them all together in one shuddering whole. This is music for the brain, the guts, the feet and anything else you've got." - Mark Whitby, Dandelion Radio (UK)
Excerpts from brilliant review in IndieGuild, 18/07/2014:
"Lee Negin’s new “Technodelic” craziness, “The Cheeze Chronicles: Volume V” (published on 20th June 2014), the first Technopera in two acts in the history of electronic music, will surely keep you awake! But what is even more surprising, beyond Negin’s mastery, his sheer brilliance and the sound quality, is that the world he creates, while appearing “absurd” and “bizarre”, is far less incoherent than the “real” world most of us inhabit.
Lee Negin, American by birth and currently residing in Seoul, (is) one of the craziest and most brilliant characters of the contemporary musical scene, as well as one of the precursors of post-punk and the so-called “Detroit Techno” of the 80’s.
…the sounds, arranged and amalgamated in layers and spaced out across eight different channels, at a quality level that rises tens of kilometres above the average standards that we are used to, at times seem to be infinite. It is an avant-garde concept that of Negin’s, which follows faithfully in the footsteps of the teachings of the visionary producer of the Beatles, George Martin, but takes a decisive step forward from a conceptual and technical point of view. Helping him in this achievement is the prestigious sound engineer Pete Maher (noteworthy for his previous work with U2, Patti Smith, Rolling Stones, Depeche Mode and Nine Inch Nails) who did the final mastering for an album which was otherwise totally self-produced in Negin’s Seoul studio in the DIY tradition of which he is one of the pioneers." – Gianmaria Consiglio (Esteemed Italian Music Journalist) (link to full review)
"Man, it's a sonic journey of epic proportions. In the world of opera, the Cheeze is mighty indeed. Negin doesn't so much hit the funk button, as kick it all the way to Neptune. I'm loving it." - Simon Humphrey (UK Producer/Engineer: The Clash, Culture Club, David Byrne, Hans Zimmer, Jeff Beck, etc.)
"Lee Negin, the soundscape master, dazzles once again, with more mind-bending sounds and hard beats shaped into his latest “Technopera” (Techno Opera). "The Chronicles of Cheeze: Volume V” is like ‘The Rocky Horror Picture Show’ on an acid trip. There are various, nicely crafted dance numbers but in many places, this adventure sounds a little like a trippy radio play. Chill to a kaleidoscope of sounds and literally, when you want to go somewhere else, like a fine wine, you get more and more from repeated tasting. At times, the album reminds me of The Orb, KLF, Talking Heads and Future Sound of London, all rolled into one but Negin started his noted career before everyone mentioned. Leave your concept of time at the front door. There is never a dull moment, and the pace is nice and steady with a few techno numbers laced with prime sound cuts. You might just forget that an alien is talking to you." - Paul 'DeJay' Readman (Music World Radio (UK) Host)
"Eclectic and prophetic, your first listening of Lee Negin’s latest orchestral offering, the pschoelectric, technodelic opera, “The Cheeze Chronicles: Volume V” may well leave you a little breathless, perhaps even somewhat disorientated. Be strong. You will recover in time to succumb to an even more powerful and irresistible desire to delve still deeper into the oscillating musical mosaic that this master of cross-genre, cross-cultural, cross-galaxy ceremonies has conjured up for discerning listeners from the planet Earth. Part of an epic cycle of Technoperas that are loosely patterned after Wagner’s “Der Ring des Nibelungen”, “The Cheeze Chronicles: Volume V” finds its operative roots in some of the concept albums of the seventies (Frank Zappa’s “Studio Tan” in particular comes to mind) and its artistic expression in the masterly creative use of cutting-edge, electronic technology. With artistic playfulness that belies far deeper concerns, Lee uses the "Chronicles of Cheeze" to peel the lid off the can of worms that this bloated, egocentric, consumer-driven society has created, and at the same time gives a sidelong poke at the current trend of pre-moulded, loop-and-sequence singles that has infiltrated and sadly debased the modern-day, electronic, musical scene.
Lee Negin quotes Krishnamurti on the album sleeve as saying, “It is no measure of health to be well-adjusted to a profoundly sick society”. Well, after listening to “The Cheeze Chronicles: Volume V” it would be difficult for anybody not to agree that this album is a mighty powerful medicine!" - Tony "The Toe' Lawson, (Master, concierge and major-domo of IndieGuild, net)
You are cordially invited to help save an endangered species—soon to become extinct: the recording artist (in particular, me). Just as ‘video killed the radio star,’ Internet has all but killed the recording artist and high fidelity audio. Between illegal downloading, streaming, piracy, the decline in CD sales, Youtube and other free sites like soundcloud, revenue can only be generated by playing ‘live.’ Recording artists-- especially independent ones-- and the album as an art form are becoming extinct. With MP-3s and streaming (and the ubiquitous ‘earbuds’) high quality audio is no longer deemed important.
The CD is a collection of 15 tracks, part of an ‘opera’ I have been toying with for a few years. It is an album, NOT a collection of singles. The material is a potpourri of musical styles, including: techno-pop/funk, ambient, jazz, experimental, electronica, classical, world, psychedelic, rock, etc. (my usual mélange). The tracks were recorded, produced and mixed by me in my studio, and mastered by one of the leading mastering engineers in the world, Pete Maher in London. Pete has mastered, among others, U2, Nine Inch Nails, Depeche Mode, Patti Smith, Gary Numan, The Rolling Stones, etc. High quality audio is of paramount importance. I also hooked up with an up-and-coming Korean illustrator/cartoonist, Juyong Lee, who helped me create the cover art.
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The CD is available at:
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Amazon.de
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iTunes
And other cool shops.
Help save a recording artist and the album as an art form. Thank you for your consideration.
Lee Negin
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December 2013 Release
Holiday Music! छुट्टी संगीत! Амралтын хөгжим! חג מוסיקה! Holiday Umculo! 假日音樂！휴일 음악! 休日音楽！عطلة الموسيقى! موسیقی تعطیلات! New album, "Entropical Slices" available. 20 December, 2013. A 14 song collection of material chosen from the various stages of my career. Makes the perfect gift for loved and loathed ones and children of all ages! Get them while they're hot! Available at CD Baby, Bandcamp, iTunes, Amazon, etc. Dance like there's no tomorrow :)
http://leenegin.bandcamp.com/ Happy Holidays~
Third Single from new album (release early 2014). Release date 22 November, 2013.
New Single Release 11 October, 2012
"The Lunar Collection" release date 09 March, 2013
Selected by Dandelion Radio (UK) as one of the Top 40 Albums of 2013 (#27)
Mark Whitby of Dandelion Radio (UK) said about "The Lunar Collection,"
As will be clear from anyone who's either read this blog or heard my Dandelion Radio shows in the last couple of years, I can't get enough of Lee Negin. There are some electronic artists who dabble in a form that, if you're not absolutely aware to its vicissitudes , will quickly swallow you up and drain very quickly any creative energy you once had so that you, very quickly, become stale and predictable. Lee Negin is not one of those artists.
Negin expertly controls his sounds, never a slave to a rhythm or a preconceived idea. Here, he moves dextrously between the sparse and atmospheric, as in the nine minutes plus of opening track 'Commute', to the rumbling intensity of 'Cosmic Ooze' while still able to step into the sub-tribal beats of 'Cheeze Sticks' when the mood takes him. Throughout, snatched voice excerpts play around the beats like enigmatic satellites of sound with no pre-ordained orbit. In Lunar Collection, even more than in other recent releases from this remarkable artist, you're never allowed to dwell in familiar surroundings for long. The atmosphere around Lunar Collection is light, the hold of gravitational laws tenuous. It makes for a listening experience that's as stimulating and challenging as it is enjoyable.
I've chosen the masterfully ironic 'Spare The Rod' to play in my Dandelion Radio show in April, which will begin streaming on Easter Monday. The track winds loosely structured beats and sound patterns around snatched soundbites dictating moral strictures and battered American conservative mores, pummelling them purely with the weapon of expertly deployed sound structures. In the universe inhabited by this album, no such simple-minded rhetoric can hope to survive: easy concepts are warped and mangled into obtuse shapes, and quite right too.
You've got to be an artist extremely confident in your abilities as well as highly proficient to put together an album this diverse and yet make it hold together as such a sublime whole. Lesser artists would opt for a single style and hide behind its unifying mass, claiming thematic consistency as the greater good. Lee Negin, as we've observed, is not such an artist. (Link)
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Great Album Review! 멋진 음악 검토! 素晴らしい音楽レビュー！偉大的音樂評論！महान संगीत की समीक्षा करें! Kubwa Mziki Review! A great review of my current album, "The Lunar Collection" published today, 12 September, 2013.
"Lee Negin...has once again shown himself capable, if there was still a need to do so, of changing and evolving constantly, while still maintaining an instantly recognizable imprint, and of possessing a natural ability to take even his most faithful listeners by surprise...."
http://www.indieguild.net/uk-album-review-the-lunar-collection/
"Views from the Outer Rim" Released September, 2012. Selected by Dandelion Radio (UK) as the #22 best album of 2012.
Negin expertly controls his sounds, never a slave to a rhythm or a preconceived idea. Here, he moves dextrously between the sparse and atmospheric, as in the nine minutes plus of opening track 'Commute', to the rumbling intensity of 'Cosmic Ooze' while still able to step into the sub-tribal beats of 'Cheeze Sticks' when the mood takes him. Throughout, snatched voice excerpts play around the beats like enigmatic satellites of sound with no pre-ordained orbit. In Lunar Collection, even more than in other recent releases from this remarkable artist, you're never allowed to dwell in familiar surroundings for long. The atmosphere around Lunar Collection is light, the hold of gravitational laws tenuous. It makes for a listening experience that's as stimulating and challenging as it is enjoyable.
I've chosen the masterfully ironic 'Spare The Rod' to play in my Dandelion Radio show in April, which will begin streaming on Easter Monday. The track winds loosely structured beats and sound patterns around snatched soundbites dictating moral strictures and battered American conservative mores, pummelling them purely with the weapon of expertly deployed sound structures. In the universe inhabited by this album, no such simple-minded rhetoric can hope to survive: easy concepts are warped and mangled into obtuse shapes, and quite right too.
You've got to be an artist extremely confident in your abilities as well as highly proficient to put together an album this diverse and yet make it hold together as such a sublime whole. Lesser artists would opt for a single style and hide behind its unifying mass, claiming thematic consistency as the greater good. Lee Negin, as we've observed, is not such an artist. (Link)
*******
Great Album Review! 멋진 음악 검토! 素晴らしい音楽レビュー！偉大的音樂評論！महान संगीत की समीक्षा करें! Kubwa Mziki Review! A great review of my current album, "The Lunar Collection" published today, 12 September, 2013.
"Lee Negin...has once again shown himself capable, if there was still a need to do so, of changing and evolving constantly, while still maintaining an instantly recognizable imprint, and of possessing a natural ability to take even his most faithful listeners by surprise...."
http://www.indieguild.net/uk-album-review-the-lunar-collection/
"Views from the Outer Rim" Released September, 2012. Selected by Dandelion Radio (UK) as the #22 best album of 2012.
Dandelion Radio (UK) Speaks
(03 November, 2012)
"Lee Negin has blessed us with that all two rare thing, a second album in a calendar year. Not only that, but this is that even rarer beast, a second album in a year that manages to be even better than the first. Views From The Outer Rim has been assaulted me through my headphones for some weeks now with unabashed technodelic splendour, its electronic washes and experimental sideways leaps representing nothing less than some of Lee's best ever work.
The titles give you some idea of what to expect. The promised spacey bombardment of 'Decaying Orbit' spreads itself over eight minutes plus of expansive mind-splurge. 'Virtual Reality' combines hypnotic rhythms with worldy beats and sonic flourishes, forcing themselves into your brain and then subsiding to be replaced with something else just as evocative. In my November show, which will be streaming from next Thursday at Dandelion Radio, you'll hear my personal favourite 'Beyond The Planes', an insistently swarming piece of electro-amazement that starts as a swirling, woozy glimpse at another realm only to rise on the back of fleshy beats and swooning vocals as the second half of its four minutes kick in.
Don't be fooled. Early listens to Views From The Outer Rim may suggest a lightness of touch where, after several listens, you find instead the seductive grip of blank icy space clasping your consciousness into a submission whose origins are entirely brutal. It's this harsh seduction that lies in the best of Lee's work. I'll take the opportunity to say that you'll find it in Technodelic Transmissions too, but here, in this most recent 2012 release, is Negin at his mind-bludgeoning atmospheric best.
Go to http://leenegin.com, grab a copy of both of these releases and find out for yourself."
- Posted by Mark Whitby at 09:55
The titles give you some idea of what to expect. The promised spacey bombardment of 'Decaying Orbit' spreads itself over eight minutes plus of expansive mind-splurge. 'Virtual Reality' combines hypnotic rhythms with worldy beats and sonic flourishes, forcing themselves into your brain and then subsiding to be replaced with something else just as evocative. In my November show, which will be streaming from next Thursday at Dandelion Radio, you'll hear my personal favourite 'Beyond The Planes', an insistently swarming piece of electro-amazement that starts as a swirling, woozy glimpse at another realm only to rise on the back of fleshy beats and swooning vocals as the second half of its four minutes kick in.
Don't be fooled. Early listens to Views From The Outer Rim may suggest a lightness of touch where, after several listens, you find instead the seductive grip of blank icy space clasping your consciousness into a submission whose origins are entirely brutal. It's this harsh seduction that lies in the best of Lee's work. I'll take the opportunity to say that you'll find it in Technodelic Transmissions too, but here, in this most recent 2012 release, is Negin at his mind-bludgeoning atmospheric best.
Go to http://leenegin.com, grab a copy of both of these releases and find out for yourself."
- Posted by Mark Whitby at 09:55
"Technodelic Transmissions"
Released May, 2012
"Technodelic Transmissions" Reviews
"It's a fantastic album." - Mark Whitby, Dandelion Radio (UK)
"Lee Negin's new CD "Technodelic Transmissions" is one of his finest yet. With so much music coming from the man these last few years, I wondered what more could he do... and he shows it right here. There's just one thing... I want more Cheeze."
- Jason Peverett, 'The Peverett Phile' Blog
"Damn. It kills me that Negin did all this himself-- composed, played, produced, engineered, mixed and mastered. He even created and designed the cover! There is some crushingly beautiful work ('Yin Yang Yo Yo,' 'Just So,' 'Ripples, Waves') and also this amazing, driving, intense, crazy stuff that comes out of nowhere (check "Yankee Goes to Bollywood"). Honestly great work, again! Outstanding. Crushingly beautiful meets devastatingly brilliant!"
- Chris Costantino, Musician Founder, SonicTribe.com
"More colours and sounds for the voices to speak to in your head."
Dj Readman - Music Revolution Promotion, Music World Radio
CD Release December 2011. "Reflections of Waking Dreams"
Wu Wei
International Release 26 September, 2011
Quotable Quotes
"No Western musician has found so much of the formless energy at the core of Eastern music as Lee Negin has with his new CD, Wu Wei!
How long has it been since you've been somewhere in electronica that seemed like somewhere to be? Lee Negin's Wu Wei has an organic feeling seldom found from plugged in music. His music can make you dance from ear to ear in subconscious sing along communal ecstatic campfire circles. There's nothing new in this. I believe I heard this music last year in a dream. I'll grant I've never heard it awake until now. This is a comfortable and familiar, natural world where spirits play Frisbee and all the barbecues seem to be burning Nag Champa. Same as it ever was, but never quite like this on my earthly hifi. Great work!"
- Billy Sheppard, Music Critic and Sheep Counter, Billy's Bunker Music Reviews (link)
"Negin effortlessly forges through the uncharted waters of musical Zen and cleverly orchestrates sound into a vibrant, visceral experience.
LEE NEGIN brilliantly defines a musical realm that is his alone. He effortlessly forges through the uncharted waters of musical Zen and cleverly orchestrates sound into a vibrant, visceral experience. Mr. Negin is a savvy magician welding a maestro's baton, a mystical boatman guiding the listener on an epic journey through undiscovered sonic terrain. His latest work, Wu Wei, is a quixotic adventure where East meets West in a whimsical - yet relevant - spectrum of sound. We are grateful to play the music of LEE NEGIN on our commercial free radio stream at Pluto Radio."
- Lee Crisman@PlutoRadio.com (link)
"Wu Wei is a deeply textured, melodic exposition of contemporary electronic music.
This week SonicTribe.com had the distinct pleasure of receiving a prerelease CD entitled Wu Wei by musician/composer extraordinaire Lee Negin. Mr. Negin is an exceptional artist possessing an eclectic knowledge base that is deftly woven into his works. In this regard, his soon to be released Wu Wei provides the listener a further extension of Mr. Negin’s substantial abilities.
What is most impressive about Wu Wei is not only that it steps well outside the constraints of any single genre but that it so fluidly combines lounge and minimal and psychill into a beautifully cogent and moving collection of songs. Wu Wei is a deeply textured, melodic exposition of contemporary electronic music.
In an era where the CD is falling out of favor Wu Wei gives ample proof that exceptional songs can be composed and then combined yielding something much greater than the whole. Wu Wei is a mellow burn, head high pushing the listener to relax and find the subtleties among the notes. It is a rare find for those of us who envision long winding drives down the coast to nowhere specific."
- Chris Costantino, Musician/Founder, SonicTribe (link)
"(Lee Negin has) composed and created 21st century classical music here. Very cool.
I love the way the tracks deliver gentle jolts, then soothe you, lull you, and dispense a bit of bliss just before the layered voices catch your ear to usher in a feeling of alarm, kind of like a kid at his first Halloween party. Perhaps a better analogy is this: the "Wu Wei" tracks place the listener at the foundation of an edifice while it suddenly is undergoing a metamorphosis (like in a Harry Potter movie, or -- better example -- "Inception"). You feel out-of-control for a moment before the ethereal elements come back into play. Very mysterious and awe-inspiring, if a bit eerie at times. The sonic quality of the work is superb, allowing you to just sort of fall into the middle of, or perhaps float above, the very moderne electro/acoustic orchestra that has been assembled for your listening pleasure."
- John Scott G, noted Los Angeles publisher, author and publicist (link)
"Lee Negin has returned, like a long lost treasure of the ambient arts.
Lower the lights, turn on the surround sound and escape for an hour. The music will stay in your mind for a lot longer than that. This is full on Ambient experience. Lee Negin has returned, like a long lost treasure of the ambient arts. From forest walks to automated train speech, all mixed in together. A soundscape artist at work, you will know when it hits your senses. 'Tranquil Abiding' is the opening epic track, followed by 'Mind... the Gap,' the most well known soundscapes that open you up to the world that the albums creates. Just sit back, relax and really although they are on the packet, you have no need to look at the titles, you will be somewhere else in time."
- DJ Readman - Music Revolution Promotion, DJ on Music World Radio (UK) (link) (link)
Excellent Review (link)
Interview on 26/09/2011, Music World Radio (UK) (link)
Vintage King Audio, "Producers Corner" (link)
How long has it been since you've been somewhere in electronica that seemed like somewhere to be? Lee Negin's Wu Wei has an organic feeling seldom found from plugged in music. His music can make you dance from ear to ear in subconscious sing along communal ecstatic campfire circles. There's nothing new in this. I believe I heard this music last year in a dream. I'll grant I've never heard it awake until now. This is a comfortable and familiar, natural world where spirits play Frisbee and all the barbecues seem to be burning Nag Champa. Same as it ever was, but never quite like this on my earthly hifi. Great work!"
- Billy Sheppard, Music Critic and Sheep Counter, Billy's Bunker Music Reviews (link)
"Negin effortlessly forges through the uncharted waters of musical Zen and cleverly orchestrates sound into a vibrant, visceral experience.
LEE NEGIN brilliantly defines a musical realm that is his alone. He effortlessly forges through the uncharted waters of musical Zen and cleverly orchestrates sound into a vibrant, visceral experience. Mr. Negin is a savvy magician welding a maestro's baton, a mystical boatman guiding the listener on an epic journey through undiscovered sonic terrain. His latest work, Wu Wei, is a quixotic adventure where East meets West in a whimsical - yet relevant - spectrum of sound. We are grateful to play the music of LEE NEGIN on our commercial free radio stream at Pluto Radio."
- Lee Crisman@PlutoRadio.com (link)
"Wu Wei is a deeply textured, melodic exposition of contemporary electronic music.
This week SonicTribe.com had the distinct pleasure of receiving a prerelease CD entitled Wu Wei by musician/composer extraordinaire Lee Negin. Mr. Negin is an exceptional artist possessing an eclectic knowledge base that is deftly woven into his works. In this regard, his soon to be released Wu Wei provides the listener a further extension of Mr. Negin’s substantial abilities.
What is most impressive about Wu Wei is not only that it steps well outside the constraints of any single genre but that it so fluidly combines lounge and minimal and psychill into a beautifully cogent and moving collection of songs. Wu Wei is a deeply textured, melodic exposition of contemporary electronic music.
In an era where the CD is falling out of favor Wu Wei gives ample proof that exceptional songs can be composed and then combined yielding something much greater than the whole. Wu Wei is a mellow burn, head high pushing the listener to relax and find the subtleties among the notes. It is a rare find for those of us who envision long winding drives down the coast to nowhere specific."
- Chris Costantino, Musician/Founder, SonicTribe (link)
"(Lee Negin has) composed and created 21st century classical music here. Very cool.
I love the way the tracks deliver gentle jolts, then soothe you, lull you, and dispense a bit of bliss just before the layered voices catch your ear to usher in a feeling of alarm, kind of like a kid at his first Halloween party. Perhaps a better analogy is this: the "Wu Wei" tracks place the listener at the foundation of an edifice while it suddenly is undergoing a metamorphosis (like in a Harry Potter movie, or -- better example -- "Inception"). You feel out-of-control for a moment before the ethereal elements come back into play. Very mysterious and awe-inspiring, if a bit eerie at times. The sonic quality of the work is superb, allowing you to just sort of fall into the middle of, or perhaps float above, the very moderne electro/acoustic orchestra that has been assembled for your listening pleasure."
- John Scott G, noted Los Angeles publisher, author and publicist (link)
"Lee Negin has returned, like a long lost treasure of the ambient arts.
Lower the lights, turn on the surround sound and escape for an hour. The music will stay in your mind for a lot longer than that. This is full on Ambient experience. Lee Negin has returned, like a long lost treasure of the ambient arts. From forest walks to automated train speech, all mixed in together. A soundscape artist at work, you will know when it hits your senses. 'Tranquil Abiding' is the opening epic track, followed by 'Mind... the Gap,' the most well known soundscapes that open you up to the world that the albums creates. Just sit back, relax and really although they are on the packet, you have no need to look at the titles, you will be somewhere else in time."
- DJ Readman - Music Revolution Promotion, DJ on Music World Radio (UK) (link) (link)
Excellent Review (link)
Interview on 26/09/2011, Music World Radio (UK) (link)
Vintage King Audio, "Producers Corner" (link)