Ethereal

Unreleased Demo Album: “Stream Of Life”
From 1999 to 2001 / Source: Tags in several tracks include a mention about this unreleased demo album / “If I recall correctly, this unreleased album was originally planned to be released on a netlabel. Some songs where entered in various music competitions and found their way onto the web that way. But I don’t think there ever was a fixed tracklist: it was more like a ‘friends and family’ demo with a burned cd and a home-printed cover, so the tracklist might have changed several times” [Carl Larsson].

1 – All Systems Are Go (New Mix)  8:07
1999 / Once available on MP3.com and released on the “All Systems Are Go” EP.

 

2 – Distant Lights (Original Mix) 8:49
1999 / Source: MP3 file still available on Ethereal’s website

 

3 – Earthgates 10:01
2000 / Source: MP3 file still available on Ethereal’s website

 

4 – Sacral Plexus 6:09
2001 / Source: The artists / Ambient track

 

5 – Shai 2000 8:33
2001 / Source: The artists / According to Carl Larsson, this track was to be included on the album “Anima Mundi” released by Tranceform Records, in 2002, but eventually remained unreleased.

 

6 – Stream Of Life 9:46
2000 / MP3 file still available on Ethereal’s website

 

7 – The Invisible Barrier 6:46
2000 / The artists

 

Single Tracks
1 – Shai (Original Mix) 9:45
1999 / Source: MP3 file still available on Ethereal’s website / First track ever completed by Ethereal / “Fredrik did most of that by himself, I only supplied the drum track (and maybe some of the bass lines I think). I believe it was almost entirely made with a single software synth, and once we got some more toys to play with we wanted to do a remake of the track, which resulted in ‘Shai 2000’. I think that one was planned to be included on an Ethereal album, so it could have been on the Stream of Life demo cd. I don’t remember why it didn’t make it to “Anima Mundi”, but I know that a few elements from it (not many) were rolled into the “Anima Mundi” version of ‘All Systems Are Go’ [Carl Larsson]; “Indeed, a single software was used . My computer was not fast enough to run all the synth sounds in realtime, and I don’t think the synth even had support for that back then. Everything had to be programmed directly in the software synth with its built-in step sequencer and then rendered out to wave-files” [Fredrik Haglund].

 

Post-2000 tracks
1 – Accessing Infinity (Original v1) 5:25
2002 / Source: MP3 file still available on Ethereal’s website / Ambient track.

 

2 – Accessing Infinity (Original v2) 5:46
2002 / Source: MP3 file still available on Ethereal’s website/ Ambient track, a little longer than the first version.

 

3 – Accessing Infinity (Remix by Martin Hjalmers) 6:15
2002 / Source: The artists / Downtempo version of the original track.

 

4 – Fireflies (Original Mix) 7:40
2001 / Source: MP3 file still available on Ethereal’s website / Winner of the second Psynews.org Contest and was part of “a CD called “Another Demention” which was scheduled to be released, but Inpsyde Media finally cancelled it” [Fabien Mars/Suntrip Rec.].

 

5 – Keys Of Awareness 1:22
2001 / Source: The artists / Short track-thought made for future album projects.

 

6 – Rubb Och Stubb (Compo Edit) 3:00
2002 / Source: The artists / “That short track never really got finished, which is also why it never got a proper name except for the working title” [Carl Larsson] / “Maybe ‘Rubb & Stubb’ was supposed to be included on the “Stream Of Life” album, but impossible to say now” [Fredrik Haglund]. 

 

 

7 – Rubb Och Stubb (Extended Version) 9:30
2002 / Source: The artists / “It was only played for live events” [Fredrik Haglund].

 

Notes
• Original discogs page by Kwulf, updated by Cosmogenesis.

 

Contributors
• Infos by Cosmogenesis
• Trivia/samples/images by Fredrik Haglund and Carl Larsson