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.

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.

We have identified an alternative provider, who is capable of sustaining our growth well into the future, and are in the process of relocating our site and associated mp3 programme archive to them – however this is a very time-consuming process, and as UT is an entirely not-for-profit, volunteer-run enterprise, we cannot achieve this without some disruption to our service.

It’s also a very expensive process, which will increase our hosting costs tenfold.

Our service with our current provider will terminate at midnight Australian Eastern Summer Time on 30 October 2009, and it is likely that our website (and email) may be completely offline for up to 2 weeks after that date, while we complete the transition to our new provider.

When we return, the current backlog of podcasts will be fully updated.

During our period offline I would ask you to consider making a financial contribution to Ultima Thule, to show your appreciation for the many years worth of free entertainment that we’ve provided you to date, and to help us defray the significant increase in hosting costs we will now be incurring in order to continue that tradition into the future.

Donations may be made via PayPal to the following account:

information@artdecoworld.com

Thank you for your support… and – as always – thanks for listening.

Regards,

George Cruickshank
Nev Dorrington
Marc Cottee
Jon Shapiro

Ultima Thule Ambient Music
www.ultimathule.info

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…

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)

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

Altus group on FaceBook.

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.

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 !!

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 !

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 !