The Ambient Music Blog

The Ambient Collective, a group of well know Ambient musicians, as just released a new compilation collaboration called “Pure“.

Here is what Bluejooz says about it it :

Fighting Breast Cancer… with Ambient music.
The Ambient Collective are proud to present to you “Pure”.

This is our first ever Charity release and it is for “Breast Cancer Research”.

“Pure” has been released under our “Honesty Policy”.

We cannot force anyone to give money… nor can we accept your money directly.
What can offer though is a link where you can donate if you wish to.

All proceeds will go to The Breast Cancer Research.

One in nine women will suffer with breast cancer…

Think about it.

So please listen and download the record “Pure” and make a donation to thank the artists hard work and help fighting breast cancer.

And, yes, spread the word !

It looks like the famous french synth player Jean Michel Jarre is planning something special on the web for his London show of the 10 October 2010.

This “Project 101010″ looks a little bit mysterious and Jean Michel himself is publishing a teasing each day before the show to make us guess what’s going on !

Knowing the man, it could be anything but I would just bet on a live show on the internet. Anyway, go to the project page on his website to see the already published videos and keep you up to date.

Jean Michel Jarre Project 101010

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 !!