The Ambient Music Blog

Tangram (aka Peter Fabok) just released a new ambient space music album : “Tepidarium“.

“Tepidarium” is a complete and free album to download in MP3 format, it is the second from Tangram, the first one was “Aura” another great release.

This record is very old Berlin school style, with lots of analog sounds and sequences… The tracks are reasonably shorts, if you except the 10 minutes masterpiece “Well tempered humidity” a song in the pure style of Klaus Schulze and Tangerine Dream.

The quality of the record is top, not pure ambient, but very cool and relaxing sequencer music.

One of the masterpiece of the year… and a free mp3 download !

EDIT: All good and back up again !

A message from George I just relay here :

Dear Ultima Thule listener,

You may have noticed that we have not updated our podcasts for the past 6 weeks.

This is due to an impending relocation of our website to a new, improved web hosting provider.

Ultima Thule has been making available podcasts of our weekly broadcasts since May 2005; we were in fact among first radio shows to be podcast anywhere in the world.

In January 2009 we doubled your weekly dose of Thule, by progressively releasing available programmes from our 20+ year archive as part of our podcast feed.

As a consequence our global audience has grown to such a phenomenal extent that our current web hosting provider is no longer able to handle the traffic volumes that we’re generating.

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Mouhahahaha, the guys at Synthtopia are just crazy !

For their Free Music Friday this week, they just went mad with their readers:

They offer 500 (yes ! 500 !) electronic music tracks that you can listen on line and download !

Here is what they say :

It’s Free Music Friday at Synthtopia – so I ask you this:

How much free music do you want to download today?

* 10 tracks?
* 50 tracks?
* 500 tracks?

It’s time to make sure you’ve got some empty hard drive space, because Synthtopia readers have uploaded over 500 electronic music tracks that you can listen to online and, in most cases, download for free.

We’re talking ambient, techno, symphonic electronica, IDM, not-so IDM, abstronica, DJ mixes, remixes, downtempo electronica and more from some the most talented electronic musicians in the world.

Now what I say is : Go to The Free Electronic Music Motherlode and listen and download !

ps: You will notice they’ve used the SoundCloud more and more popular platform for this operation…

A very very very cool one !

Prior to launching the full album, Numb just released a single, “Boot Sector” that you can listen on their mySpace page.

The 3 tracks (‘Boot Sector”, “System Restart”, “Why”) are very good, but the title song, “Boot Sector” is a killer, one of the best Ambient track of these past weeks. it is very cool and warm, yet you have things happening and that wonderful melody, a great one that reminds Vangelis…

Go and give it a go, here is the link to buy the record at The Void.

Here is an excerpt :

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A very nice record sent to me via Twitter :

“Binary Scenes” is the debut release by San Francisco Bay Area electronic artist, Atomic Skunk. Atomic Skunk’s music features “artful melodies with cinematic moodiness” and has been described as “Very meditative” and “Zen-like” with some “chaotic and dark elements/rhythms.” The album, Binary Scenes was recorded entirely with Ableton Live in Marin County, California and features 8 fresh and original tracks that “force a headspace of chill and peacefulness.” “Binary Scenes” is available now at iTunes, Amazon, Bandcamp and CD Baby.

Take your browser to the Atomic Skunk website to discover this album !