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Ultimae were "too busy to bother" about the format, and that there was not a big enough demand. In 2015, the band remastered their first three studio albums with the aim of getting "a more coherent sound between them", and for bringing out more details in the music. Also that year, the band revealed that
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after the label discovered them on MP3.com. Vadestrid said that the deal boosted their profile as a result, and the band started to perform at trance festivals during a time where it was uncommon for ambient acts to be on the big stage. Hedberg called the group's early years as "rough" partly due to
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his fear of flying which he did not conquer until 2009, which left
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was released in 2021, and originated when the group started to test random functions on some old synthesisers, which produced musical ideas suited for "passive listening whilst not stealing focus." It developed further during lockdowns amidst the
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computer system. In 1994, they started to work with PCs and formed a music tracker trio with fellow
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