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Hi all, long time no post, but I am definitely around now, after moving to south of France !

Yesterday thx to a friend journalist I was invited to see Jean Michel Jarre live in Nice. Just wanted to say for those in Europe that will have the opportunity to see him (see dates that are coming) that it was a great show !

This year, unlike some of the big events he as done in the past, Jarre is playing small places, with 3 other musicians, really live, on some of the most legendary synths of all time !

I’ve seen a Moog Modular, Theremin, Moog Liberation (incredible solo from Jean Michel), CS-80v, ARP …etc. Impressive, a museum !!

Not really “ambient”, but worth the money for any Electronic and Synthesizer addict !

I’ve forgot my real camera (sorry for the very bad photo of JMJ with the Liberation) but there is some great pics on Jarre Official Blog.

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…

Air is a new music application for the iPhone made on Brian Eno’s concepts, and it is a generative, both musical and visual.

Brian Eno said “It’s like “Music for Airports” made endless…”

At $1,99 if you have an iPhone you should give it a try…

(source: Synthopia)

This one is a must have for EM fans out there !

MellowJet Records just released a wonderful sampler of some of their best artists, it’s a full length free download as mp3 of 70 minutes of pure EM wonder.

Lots of things will talk to Klaus Schulze, Tangerine Dream and Jarre fans, but Ambient listeners should give it a try too, because this is relaxing sequenced music !

The first MellowJet-Sampler with Wellenfeld, moonbooter, Erez Yaary, Uwe Reckzeh, Exposed, Stefan Erbe and MaEasy…

Download : MellowJet records : Electronic Musique Compilation 1

Help a little bit Mike by becoming a fan of his “Altus” group on FaceBook and make it grow… grow… 

Altus group on FaceBook.

Found via Altus, the “Sounds of Ambience” is a Podcast by George Smyth.

The show is featuring some of the best Ambient artists out there. Really good idea to showcase those artists via Podcast, and really good show !

Welcome George !

Sounds of Ambience Website.

Hi there, a short one to say that the old feed is now dead due to the FeedBurner to Google migration.

Apparently there was  still a few suscribers there, so I hope they will read this somehow !!

So the good feed is : http://ambient.bourzeix.com/feed.

Don’t forget it and update your readers to be sure you won’t miss anything !!

Got this one from Disquiet: Amon Tobin is giving away one of the legendary electronic music live, the Foley Room Recorded Live In Brussels !

You can get this recording from the store of his website, but that’s a free mp3 download !

It is a mix of 1:17 long, available as 320 kbps MP3. The recording is the Foley Room Tour concert played at the world famous AB theater in Belgium and recorded by Studio Brussels.

Have Fun !

Jean-Michel Jarre will be on tour in 2009 and 2010. Those who missed the last one may want to give a go to this one as all reviews of the last tour were fantastic !

Currently the dates published so far are for Europe only, but France is still not in and a lot more dates will be added to the rest of the world for September.

Don’t miss him this time, tickets are already for sale !