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Through the 1990's most new-school ambient trance music came from labels whose main focus was the dancefloor - psy-trance labels like Spiritzone and Twisted Records , the more mainstream UK labels Lost Language and Hooj Choons, the wonderful Euphoria chillout series and so on. The genre was crying out for a label brave enough to make a bigger commitment to the sub-genre. Enter Vincent Villius and Sunbeam of French-based Ultimae Records, established in 2000 and one of the first labels to champion the genre full time with its "panoramic music for panoramic people". Some of it quite danceable, certainly, but nearly always with the enveloping ambience of psychedelic spacemusic in all its intriguing shades and colours. Liquid sounds and epic panoramas are what Ultimae does best, beginning on the trance axis and spiralling out from there into other genres and into spaces we don't yet have names for. And Ultimae is not just a label, its a fully realised vision - the music, the packaging, the parties. This collective of composers, DJ's, sound designers, visual artists and dreamers have tapped into something profound. If you're not yet a fellow traveler, it's time to get on board.