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AB034 Can It Be ReSampled / Skydom

Release Date: 15/06/2025
Can it Be Resampled (2006) used to have Gladys Knight sample, which doesn't need to be resampled...
Skydom (2008) (originally from Outlined album) some instruments we're upgraded from an original version;
Revitalized from the depths of the crates...

AB033 UA Regeneration

Release Date: 24/02/2023
Written, produced, composed, performed, mix&mastered, artowrk by Kyrylo Stepanenko. This album is dedicated to all those lost because of the war, and is meant to support rebuilding and recovering everything what was destroyed and damaged. Vibation is dedicated to Chick Corea R.I.P. Requiem is dedicated to victims of Holdomor, Holocost. Flutrance is Dream Trance with Tenor Recorder (Flute). Get Down is dedicated to MF Doom R.I.P. Minesweeper Tune is dedicated to all minesweepers risking their lives to recover Ukraine. Lessons is clarinet fused with Drumina Bais.

AB032 Urban Didgeridoo

Release Date: 03/02/2023
recorded in McKiev
Klangwelten Studio from
October 2018 to March 2021
Railway Station is a description of albums concept. Head on over to artbugz.net to find detailed information / lyrics and more.

AB031 UA Galaxy


Release Date: 02/09/2022
Celebrating 20 years of Bug Music coming this fall!
Clavichord Tune dates back from 2003, while the newest tune is Snowflakes from 2017, where live d. piano and clarinet are fused. This release also features 3 tracks with the use of quartertones. The first release ever to feature Quartertones being used in chillout, downtempo / dubstep music. Finally, Ukraine will defend itself and prosper becoming defender of the Galaxy!

AB030 Dreamline Journey EP


Release Date: 17/01/2022
Another chapter of previously unreleased music. Dreambug is from 2004. Truthline was featured on Bumblebee release, is a massive journey from 2006 featuring 37 tracks of everything (no samples involved). This EP features many unreleased tracks from way back, freshly polished and delivered.

AB029 Outlined 2


Release Date: 29/09/2021
Outlined 2: The next volume of Outlined chapter with bits from Guardian Angel chapter as well. New improvisation jam serves as an outro, while the intro tune is unreleased from 2004. Another fresh track Acid Planet is an experimental prelude to an album. Intensity comes from Spiral Railroad (which was renamed to Ambient Fighter). As per usual, album is a crossover between I.D.M and Drum & Bass subgenres such as Atmospheric, Jump-up, Hard and Techstep (Heavystep etc.) with Chillout and Dubstep tracks present.

BRK Features live guitar and harmonica. Cause 4 Concern type of track.

Cloud Asphalt Features live alto and tenor recorder and synth solo
Recorded at Studio Nakkkim

AB028 Trypillia


Release Date: 15/11/2019
Dedicated to loving memory of my Dad as well as to ancient Trypillian civilization. As the first acoustic album, it's also featuring McKiev Art Gallery / Studio sessions with Silent Sounds
3 Preludes 1, 3 10 originate from 2008-9 Outlined album
Artwork by N. Laluq (ceramics & photography)

AB027 Silent Sounds Remixes

Release Date: 03/03/2018
Didgeridoo, percussion, kalimba and vocals by Silent Sounds.
'UA Phase' has Ukrainian ethnic piano sound. 188 is deep experimental music, Gedanken treiben mich an - Thoughts drive me

AB026FD Silent Sounds - Floating Dreams

Release Date: 29/12/2017
New label artist: Stephan Leo Pridik from Frankfurt am Main, Germany (Silent Sounds)
Time for meditation 51:08
Listen with headphones or for the mediation
Additional mastering: ArtBugz

AB025 Skyline Switchout


Release Date: 17/02/2017
New label artist Outlin presents... Skyline Switchout is a compliation most of tracks where released already. Breakthrough, Future Seeker[abr12], Mystery of Love remix, Countdown, Can it be All so Simple?, Chestnut City [abr18], Entry Station [abr7], Dreamland [abr12], Summer 2 [abr7], Rax [abr18], Switchout 25I, Unknown [abr7], Pain, Skyline Rise. Komahy Mystectva is also based on Skylline Switchout and was released AB24

AB024 Deepest Top

Release Date: 21/01/2017
3rd Part in Ambient Fighter series
Original Ambient Chillout version: 2004
Jungle mix: 2004
Drum & Bass mix: 2005
IDM mix: 2005

AB023 Комахи Мистецтва


Release Date: 06/01/2017
Komahy Mystectva or Art Bugz in Ukrainian will be first classical labels release. Spring Chamber is piece for organ, tenor recorder, clarinet, oboe, trumpet, trombone & violas. Spot the Difference is a remake of Handel's Sonata in D [Andante] for alto recorder. Launched is a remake of intro track Launch from Emusician album, it features alto recorder. Finally Komahy Mistectva is final version of 2006 track Switch Out.

AB022 Ambient Fighter 2

Release Date: 05/11/2016
2nd installement in Ambient Fighter series, 2005 selection
Acid 1000 was made in Magdeburg, Germany. Acid Jungle
Chillout & Wintry ambient made in Toronto, Kanada

AB021 Bugline - Ambient Fighter

Release Date: 28/10/2016
Ambient Fighter:
was renamed from Spiral Railroad, a 2007 album made in Toronto.
Tracks 4,5,6 & 8 were released on Flight 17 [ABR008] is a collection of long tracks from Spiral Railroad.
Flight 17 implies I was 17 at a time.
Tracks 2,3 & 9 were released on ABR018 Legato

Wanna shout out to Japanese videogame industry:
Hudson, Data East, Capcom, SNK, Sega and Nintendo for making wicked video game franchises with animation.

AB020 Bugline - ChillOutline

Release Date: 08/04/2016
Ethnic Connection: 2003 [Acid 3] Kyiv
Dream Recorder: 2003 [Acid 3] Kyiv
1way: 2004 [Acid 4] Toronto
IntenCity: 2006 [Acid 5] Kyiv
Turn Up the Soul: 2009 [Acid 6] Toronto [original title Chorus Music]
St. Clair: 2005 [Acid 4] Toronto
Sub Compression: 2003 [Acid 3] Toronto
ChillOutline: 2005 [Acid 5] Kyiv
Mystery of Love 2: 2004 [Acid 4 ] Toronto
ArtBugz Records

AB019 Bugline - Semiconductor

Release Date: 11/03/2016
Property expensive, yet priced like a giveaway. Semiconductor is where Bugline goes 4/4. Star 2 is trance remake. SK Hynix is techyes

AB018 Bugline - Legato

Release Date: 20/01/2016
Where Bug meets Outline. Legato, or smooth. Intercontinental journey into Drum & Bass versus Downtempo, Ambient and IDM...

AB017 Outline - Overcharge

Release Date: 25/09/2015
Overcharge and Dreamland remixes, Art Bugz Records 2015 ABR017

AB016 Bug - BumbleBee

Release Date: 21/08/2015
Bumblebee is a live record, it's made of:
Force (ABR007),
Track 8,
Bladerunner,
Intencity,
Manipulator,
Marble Ice (included),
Truth.

Everlasting flight of a bumblebee

AB015 Outline - Art & Bass

ABR015R Art & Bass
Release Date: 19/06/2015
ABR015 Reissue Art & Bass by Outline
2009-2013 Toronto, featuring Artistic styles of Drum & Bass, experimental dance music.

AB014 Outline - Crimea


Release Date: 10/04/2015
Free Crimea by Outline features a track which was made after last vacation in Crimean city Sevastopol and Balaklava (in Ukraine). Peninsula now occupied, should be free. FREE CRIMEA FREE UKRAINE

AB013 Bug - Bug


Release Date: 20/03/2015
Bug 2004 volume. When VST Synths first came around. Note on Break The Ice: originally started out as a remix of Break The Ice by Ice Minus for a competition. As track develops into it's own, it'll be featured on this album. Art Bugz Records 2015

AB012 Outline - Copper

Release Date: 19/12/2014
Hardstep for hard times. Produced by Outline in Ukraine. Art Bugz records 2014

AB011 Outline - IDM / Incoming

Release Date: 28/11/2014
Addition to Chorus Music album (ABR001). Both of the tracks we're remixed for CM by Outline. Art Bugz Records

AB010 Outline - Outlined

Release Date: 31/10/2014
Vinyl quality album by Outline on Art Bugz Records. Includes Rainfall / Love Affair single (ABR003). Return and Love Affair were remixed on Chorus Music album (ABR001).

AB009 Bug - Shark

Bugline · Bug - Shark


Release Date: 12/09/2014
Some of the earliest Bug production from 2003. Track "Shark" has a distinctive classical sound and a sense of progression. Art Bugz Records 2014

AB008 Outline - Flight 17
 
Release Date: 17/07/2014
6 track mini album by Outline. Art Bugz Records (c) 2014

AB007 Outline - Force

Release Date: 28/03/2014
Force LP by Outline. Art Bugz Records (c) 2014. Made in Ukraine. Written, engineered & design by Kyrylo Stepanenko

AB006 Bug - Winter

Release Date: 14/03/2014
Winter, 3 Track Single by Bug. Made in Canada. Art Bugz Records (c) 2014. Written, engineered & design by Kyrylo Stepanenko...

AB005 Bug - Emusician

Release Date: 28/02/2014
Written, engineered & design by Kyrylo Stepanenko. Breakbeat volume, 3rd album by Bug / Outline. ABR005 made in Canada. Art Bugz Records (c) 2014

AB004 Bug - Downtempoland

Release Date: 01/01/2014
Initial Bug material, and the sleeve is tagged Downtempo. All flavors in the land of downtempo itself...

AB003 Outline - Rainfall


Release Date: 04/10/2013
Rainfall is a brand new 2 track release by Outline. A side "Rainfall" has been sounding bright since its creation in 2008. This track is used to represent Outline's music upon request. B side is another 08 Jungle work entitled Love Affair. The remix of this track was featured on Outline's debut album Chorus Music (ABR001) "Love Affair 2". Starting with lead sounds which grab your soul tight, we enter a tunnel of Jumpup turbulence that leads us through. DJs beware, second drop is a false one. Both tracks are a part of "Outlined" album which will see a light of a day on Art Bugz shortly.

AB002 Bug - Enter The Line


Release Date: 08/08/2013
Ambient release “Enter The Line” by BuG (a.k.a. Outline) is geared towards the most demanding ambient listener. The 3 track single is largely inspired by AFX’s “Selected Ambient Works volume 2“, nevertheless cannot be confused for, thus extends the style’s palettes. Art Bugz Records is pleased to announce that this single was composed by Kirill S. (or better yet BuG) at the age of 13 (dating from 2003) in Toronto, Canada. ABR002 is waving in Ambient style!

AB001 Outline - Chorus Music    


Release Date: 23/05/2013
Outline - Chorus Music
Withing the coming months of spring 2013, we will be seeing of a debut album from the label owner Outline, releasing the long awaited "Chorus Music" LP. The album focuses on Drum & Bass / Jungle affairs of Outline and was remaining in building stage for 3 years. The album "C.M." features the most of the Jungle styles including Jump-up, Hardstep, the more musical Atmospheric, Soulful and Experimental sides plus it's infusions. The music on the LP would do well in much more then just a club. It is as good in daylight consciousness as it is inside the jam. The concept itself and what 'Chorus Music' means is a repetitious, texture-like element weather a bassline or a pad, which repeats throughout the track, always surfacing on top, being the strongest element. Thus being called Chorus element (chorus meaning as in a chorus of a song), as if the track was made of an infinite chorus.


1 Embedded
Comprises of summer-like warm and spiritual atmospheres, simplistic but effective bassline with deep subs, backed with flowing breaks. Made in 2009.
2 Future
There is a very serious and deep way of thought in this track. The intro takes around 3 minutes filled with lush strings and pads backed with a melodic bassline. At the drop it gets proper heavy and transforms into original Hardstep sound. On the reinforcing front we have Sci-Fi sound effects completing the picture along side a final gong near an end of a track .The track was started in 2009 and finished 1 - 1.5 years later.
3 Birthday Bass
An infusion of Jump-up with Ambient. The track starts as if it was an Ambient track, guiding and preparing the listener for the drop with warm red colour summer time pads. The bassline is descending downwards gradually in quartertones, that is by interval shorter then a distance between any two subsequent keys on a piano, and is therefor microtonal. Later in a track, another, analogue style bassline introduces itself, to take the track further. The track was started in 2010 and finished around a year later.
4 Change
As the name implies, this track is a call for a change. But before we can change, we need to gradually go through every part of the puzzle that needs a change. And the track does just that. It starts with Hardstep breaks alongside high frequency alarming ringing. Soon flute-like pads appear and the mood of a track sets. The bassline expands the picture, reinforcing the pads and subsequently leading the track forward. In a later part of a track we see progression with another analogue synth style pad leading into resolution of a track made with the same flute-like pad sound that appears through out the track. 2009-2010
5 S+K -
This is blue colour Atmospheric-Jumpup track. Otherwordly pad sound with chimes sets the track before a grey bassline takes over setting everyone is party mode. The beat drops and you feel like stepping along. The track was made in 2009 with Samantha Millar helping out on the production side.
6 IDM 2
A second version of 2010 Hardstep affair. Dissatisfaction with the original version due to lack of originality (nevertheless being upfront dancefloor), the decision has been made to remix it into a more modern sounding track. We kick it off with a wide open, light-blue pad sound, soon enough being reinforced with upper register strings. Just before the drop we get a deep end subs, deliberately disturbing the peace set by the ambiance. 2010, 161 BPM.
7 Bass Elemental
Dubstep travel route. The route leads us through mountains of basslines, to witness and possibly to take pictures along the journey. The basslines in this track lead one into another descending from a red colour Ambient pads. In the second half we get a rearrangement of the original idea further developing the big picture into a bass elemental. The colours of basslines are from brown, to dark green, to dark yellow. 2010-2011
8 Return 2
This is a remix on a 2008 track, featuring an original flowing atmosphere and further expanding it with more Ambient. In addition, an analogue bassline replaces the original one, adding a new twist to the track. Along the path, we experience bassline wonders leading into a turnover in the later half. This piece shows the musical side of Jungle / Drum&Bass. 2010-2011
9 Sunrise
Romanticstep. The track is filled with the most musicality in the album. In the first half of the track we see 3 part polyphony which is synonymous only with Classical masters. The Ambient orchestra is made up of many instruments. The bassline is utterly melodic, and the piece has a definite Jazzy influence. 2009
10 Empire
This is an experimental take, here we go snareless. And why a not, if each of the instruments were custom made in the track. The gamma of the piece is of yellow colour, with shades of darkness to complete the picture,. The brown bassline guides the listener through this journey along the pyramids. 2010-11
11 Incoming 2
Stepper for the masses, features spring time feel and vibe, a piano, a violin and a bassline of an unknown ethnic origin. The track is a second version of a 2009 piece, offering a more developed bassline motive. 2009-2012
12 Love Affair 2
A remix of a 2008 Jump-up roller. This take brings you on an uplifting Ambient-Jump-up journey. The red and yellow pads are sure to make you travel, as melodic and sound bassline will make you jump while at it. The stepper takes on a sharp turn in the later half, employing the melody of an original bassline, but using a different sound, supported by harder breaks. Step by step 2009-2012
13 Woony
Woony refers to woon-woon sounding bassline in this track. The take is an ambient - hardstepper, with light blue Ambient pad being influenced by Afx. The track accents on bass layering for a fuller sense of satisfaction. 2009


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