Ugress
Ugress is an electronica project from Bergen, Norway, the main project of electronic musician Gisle Martens Meyer. Meyer started his music career in the early 1990s making Scream Tracker and Fast Tracker modules under the alias Gnosis. Among Meyer's other projects are Nebular Spool, Shadow of the Beat and Ninja9000 as well as scoring soundtracks for moving pictures and several TV-shows.
Ugress has released multiple albums, singles, and EPs to date. Their first five albums: Resound, released in 2002, climbed to the second place on the official Norwegian chart board. A second album, Cinematronics, was released two years later. It reached the third place on the same list. A third Ugress album titled Unicorn was released on January 28, 2008. On June 15, 2009, Ugress released their fourth studio album, called Reminiscience. Collectronics, a compilation album including previously unreleased material, was released in July 2010.
Ugress is notable for providing free mp3-versions of many of its songs through its web page and the web pages of associated acts like Nebular Spool.
The Norwegian word ugress means "weeds".
Style
Ugress uses a lot of sample snippets from various artists, movies and TV shows. Ugress is not the only project of Gisle Martens Meyer, it is actually one of several different projects by Uncanny Planet Records.Discography
Albums
Resound La Passion de Jeanne d'Arc Cinematronics Cowboy Desperado Film Music Unicorn Reminiscience Collectronics Pushwagner Aelita – Queen Of Mars Häxan It Came From Beyond Eternal September The Wrong Future Black Anorak Ghoststorm Scavenger Royale Boulevard of Broken Dystopias- ''Retrotopia''
Singles and EPs
E-Pipe Ugress Promo Loungemeister Sophisticated Wickedness Retroconnaissance Kosmonaut Chromosome Corrupt Loungemeister Schizophonica Reminiscience Loungemeister — Re-issue of the 2002 limited edition 12" with a slightly different tracklist.Planet U: Episode One - Planetfall Planet U: Episode Two - The Lost Ruins Planet U: Episode Three - Wulfhöken Spaceport Affairs Planet U: Episode Four - Luftslott Planet U: Episode Five - Time Machine Planet U: Episode Six - Another Planet Phantom Of The Wuxia Codec Static Troopers The Teddy Bears' Picnic the door into the room with a.jpg Incandescent Structures of Ambiguity Anemoia 22 Miracle of the Shaolin Moonwolf Your Apathy is Important to Us Curse of the Cancelled- Like A Petal But Not Really
- Pharos Époque
- Where the Streets Once Had the Moves
- Nevrotic Umbrella Approaches the Fold
- This track is no longer available
- Stasis 44
- All of the Colours Except Those Visible