Here’s a bit of ambient goodness to start of Free Music Friday – Herzog’s First Summer And The Running Dream:

first summer and the running dream” contains 5 tracks with a complete duration of 30 minutes. Compared to his earlier works “first summer…“ has a more droning, a bit distorted character. The sounds are layered very softly and sublime to a very harmonic composition. The overall mood is quite laid-back with noisy, distorted splinters. The noisy elements are getting stronger to the end of the EP but it leaves still a very harmonic picture.

You can preview the album with the music video above and download the tracks at the Resting Bell label site.

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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.

Click the “Listen to Music” link at the top of the page to open the Synthtopia player in a new window, or check out the most recent tracks below. If a track has a “Download” button, you can download it for free.

And don’t forget to make sure you’ve got some free space on your hard drive when you’re done!

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If you like ambient and experimental music, you’ll want to check out Brian W. Green’s seeyouinsleep release, Cycles.

Green is constantly experimenting with sound, and documenting his work on YouTube, SoundCloud and at his blog.

Green explains:

I focus mainly on work dealing with field recording, sound art, generative synthesis, abandoned spaces/natural ambience, environmental/nature sounds, industrial spaces, machines, drones and more.

seeyouinsleep is a platform in which my work is let out, this site/platform is built of various mediums, primarily sound but also video, photography and art.

From a early age i have experimented with sound and have always had a fascination with the sound a natural space can produce and create and what you can do with that sound.

Cycles is a collection of 10 very short pieces – the longest is 50 seconds. All the audio on the album was created using a generative process.

Green suggests putting the album into iTunes or your portable music player and listening it on shuffled repeat, to “let it make a piece of music by itself.”

solipsistic NATION No. 165: Geas features dark ambient music, industrial sounds and abstronica.

Tip: Make this your house’s soundtrack for Halloween and it will scare the kids away and you can keep all the candy.

You can preview the mix below.

Free Music Friday: Electronica artist and music blogger Mark Mosher has released a new album, Reboot, that’s just a little spooky.

Mosher says:

Two years in the making, REBOOT is an album containing 7 richly layered electronica songs that blend contemporary synthesizer sounds with classical music motifs. The end result is dark electronica for those who love synth “ear candy” with a “dirty” industrial edge.

Make sure you check out the track They Walk Among Us. It dives straight into B-movie territory, with its use of theremin, flying saucer sounds and vintage horror sounds. Could be a perfect soundtrack for Halloween.

Mosher has released Reboot with a pay-what-you like model. You can preview the album above or check it out at his Bandcamp site. If you like it, you can download it for free or pay Mosher whatever you like.

Mosher’s suggested price is $6 for the album (7 songs, 22 min. + digital booklet) and $1 for singles. Enter $0 for free download.

Tomorrow is Halloween, and DJDeedle has produced a Deedlecast to frighten and delight.

The horror movie genre has brought us so many deliciously terrifying moments, Deedle just couldn’t pass up exploring the music of horror film.

You can preview the Horrify Deedlecast below. You can listen to two previous editions of DJ Deedle’s Halloween podcast at his site.

Free Music Friday: I’ve heard The Monster Mash and Werewolves Of London enough for this lifetime.

So I was glad to hear that DJ Arbiter had put together Hallowrave – a 2009 Halloween mixtape.

“Do your ears a favor and download the mix,” says DJ Arbiter, aka Josh Messer. “It’s chock-full of electro/house/rock/halloween anthems and I know you’ll love it like a tiny child.”

Tracklist:

1. Zombies (Hot Pink Delorean Remix) – Designer Drugs
2. Song 2 (Vengeance Remix) – Blur
3. Hey You (Le Castle Vania Remix) – Kill The Noise
4. Drop Down – Designer Drugs
5. Heads Will Roll (John Roman Remix) – The Yeah Yeah Yeahs
6. Zero Machine (Le Castle Vania Remix) – Smashing Pumpkins
7. Business Man (Black Noise means Business Remix) – Crookers feat. Wiley & Thomas J
8. Thriller (Luis La Roche Remix) – Michael Jackson
9. Get Down The Funk (Disco Villains Remix) – FutureFlashs
10. I’ll Get You – Classixx feat. Jeppe
11. aNYway – Ducksauce
12. The Eastwood Swing – Doogie Houser
13. Next Episode (Will P Remix) – Dr. Dre feat. Snoop Dogg
14. Drfunkenstein – Deadmau5
15. Moar Ghosts N Stuff – Deadmau5

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The album features remixes of tracks from the classic album Tracks & Traces by Shackleton, Appleblim & Komonazmuk.

It will be available on limited white vinyl & as a download starting Monday, November 2nd.

Download the remix at the rcrdlbl site.

The style of these dubs is halfway between RSD and Jah Warrior or the Mad Professor.

Early 2010 my first album titled ‘Dub Experryments’ will be released as both a limited edition cd and as free mp3s. These tunes are a sort of preview, 5 or 6 of them will be on the album.

You can preview the track Light Creator below.

You can download their remix free at moby.com.

This video is a preview Earth Mantra Netlabel’s one hundredth release, 33-track collection of ambient music, The Hundredth Mantra, offering over 4 hours of music:

To celebrate this milestone, we decided early on that this album should be a compilation of the artists who made up the previous ninety-nine releases.

Little did we realize how many of our artists would want to contribute and how excellent the music would be. As a result, this release has grown to encompass four full discs of sublime ambience, with more than four hours of music end to end. We’re very proud of the result.

Download The Hundredth Mantra from the Earth Mantra site.

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I hope you’ve got enough room for seconds, because Synthtopia readers are making a lot of interesting music and putting it into the Synthtopia Soundcloud group.

We’re talking hundreds of tracks, ranging from ambient to DJ mixes and everything in between.

You can listen to the latest tracks by clicking the “Listen To Music” link at the top of the site, and you can keep listening even after you leave the site.

Here’s how it works:

1. You click the link!
2. You listen to great music!
3. You download the tracks you like!

Remember that you can click the info button and get info on tracks that you like, and you can click through and leave comments, words of praise and geeky technical questions on the artists’ Soundcloud pages.

If not, check out Ronen Givony’s century-spanning ambient music mix, an “extensive foray into the hushed, arrestingly meditative side of electronic, classical and indie rock music”:

Do Boards of Canada and Aphex Twin belong in a mix with Bach, Debussy and Ives?

Give it a listen and let me know what you think in the comments!

Details on the mix:

• J.S. Bach: Aria from Goldberg Variations, BWV 988 (1741) (Rosalyn Tureck, piano, 1955)
• K.C. Accidental: Instrumental Died in the Bathtub and Took the Daydreams with It (from Anthems for the Could’ve Bin Pills, 2000)
• Brian McBride: Overture (for Other Halfs) (from When the Detail Lost Its Freedom, 2005)
• Johannes Ockeghem: Deo Gratias (c. 15th century) (Huelgas Ensemble) (from Utopia Triumphans: The Great Polyphony of the Renaissance, 1994)
• cLOUDDEAD: Apt. A, Part 1 (from cLOUDDEAD, 2001)
• Gavin Bryars/Aphex Twin: Raising the Titanic (Big Drum Mix) (from 26 Mixes for Cash, 2003)
• Boards of Canada: Telephasic Workshop (from Music Has the Right to Children, 1998)
• Fridge: Five Combs (from Thank You: Temporary Residence Limited 50th Release Compilation, 2004)
• Loscil: Umbra (from Idol Tryouts Two: Ghostly International, Vol. 2 Compilation, 2006)
• Isan: Clipper (from Salamander, 1999)
• Claude Debussy: La fille aux cheveux de lin (1910) (Walter Gieseking, piano) (from Debussy: Complete Works for Piano, 1951)
• Grouper: When We Fall (from Dragging a Dead Deer Up a Hill, 2008)
• Why?: Ape in Cage with Wire Cutters (from Oaklandazulasylum, 2003)
• Tim Hecker: Chimeras (from Harmony in Ultraviolet, 2006)
• Stephan Mathieu and Ekkehard Ehlers: Rose (from Heroin, 2001)
• Casino Versus Japan: Blue Vacation (Part 1) (from Casino Versus Japan, 1998)
• Polmo Polpo: Farewell (from Like Hearts Swelling, 2003)
• Christopher Tye: Farwell My Good I. Forever (c. 1550) (Kronos Quartet) (from Early Music: Lachrymae Antiquae, 1997)
• Do Make Say Think: Hooray! Hooray! Hooray! (from Winter Hymn Country Hymn Secret Hymn, 2003)
• The Books: Vogt Dig For Kloppervok (from Lost and Safe, 2005)
• Broadcast: Oh How I Miss You (from Haha Sound, 2003)
• Múm: Slow Bicycle (from Yesterday Was Dramatic — Today is OK, 2000)
• Torngat: Hammond Song (from You Could Be, 2007)
• Charles Ives: The Alcotts from Piano Sonata No. 2 (”Concord, Mass., 1840-60″) (1916-19) (Gilbert Kalish, piano, 1976)
• Eluvium: New Animals from the Air (from Talk Amongst the Trees, 2005)

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The band announced it via SoundCloud about a month ago and they received 849 tracks.

You can check and download the US entries below.

See the contest site for entries from the UK. Australia, Germany, France and more.

The winners will be announced the week of October 26th on Röyksopp’s website.

Matthew Davidson has released this video recently of feignroom:

The recent Imogen Heap on David Letterman video got me thinking about performing an a capella piece in conjunction with a monome. The goal was to use just the monome and a microphone. No other gear or touching a computer is allowed. Also, no sequencers running backing tracks. This is somewhat of a challenge.

I’m using a combination of diatonic harmonizing, phrase building, live vocals, sampled phrase triggering (vocals I recorded for this performance) and sort of layer this whole thing in real time through the monome.

Now you can download feignroom now from Davidson’s blog, The Stretta Procecure.

Sunday Synth Jam: Synthtopia regular Torley takes a break from Second Life and amplifying your awesome to unleash a very soothing synth jam, Magic Music Time.

You can check out Torley’s music at Torley.com and his videos on Youtube, too.

The track is a plunderphonic sound mashup.

If you’re not familiar with plunderphonics, it leaves behinds the limitations of legal sampling to create works that aren’t defined by our current copyright law.

“This is a sample-based collage,” explains Gel-Sol, “made with over 7 years of collected samples.”

You can preview gel-sol’s adventures beyond the plunderworld below:

If you’re not familiar with plunderphonics, it leaves behinds the limitations of legal sampling to explore works that aren’t defined by our current copyright law. Plunderphonic pieces often contain so many samples that it would be unrealistic to even attempt to clear them.

What sort of diseased mind would conceive of something such as this?

Seattle’s Gel-Sol is producer/musician Andrew Reichel, whose sound spans from ambient soundscapes to complex, rhythmic electronica, creating a dynamic psychedelic universe with heavy emphasis on improvisation.

In 2004, Gel-Sol released the critically-acclaimed Gel-Sol 1104 (aka Music Made For You…And By You, I Mean Me.) on the UK’s cult ambient label Em:t Records.

Gel-Sol’s follow-up album Unifactor continues the tradition of his unique, amorphous sound collages, and was released on Upstairs Recordings (Vancouver) in April 2007. Gel-Sol’s third album IZ, released by Upstairs/Psychonavigation in 2008, is an all-ambient excursion written for his niece, and is a bit of a departure from his previous two efforts.

Andrew is also a member of the electronic group KIDS FOR TOMORROW, an improvisational trio focused on experimental ambient music.

Find out more about Gel-Sol at his site and MySpace page.

Free Music Friday: Have you had your recommended daily supply of free music yet today?

If not, click on the “Listen” link at the top of the page or click right here and check out the hundreds of tracks that Synthtopia readers have uploaded.

There is a ton of great music, and you can download hundreds of tracks, too.

Check it out every time you visit; there’s always something new. You can even keep listening after you leave!

And if you want to share your music with Synthtopia readers, upload your tracks via SoundCloud.

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If you’ve been waiting a long time for that 8-bit cover of Smack My Bitch Up, your wait is over.

Russian chiptune artists got their lo fi on and put together three (3) – count ‘em – The Prodigy tribute albums.

The album site is sort of inpenetrable (when it’s not in Russian) so look:

• here
• here, and
• here

You can preview $ele?’s Smack My Bitch Up below.

We put the group together to make it easy for Synthtopia readers to share their original music with other readers. Synthtopia readers have now shared well over 200 original tracks in the group. The tracks range from DJ mixes, to remixes, to Berlin-school electronics, to synth pop to ambient.

You can listen to all the tracks online. Better yet – most are available as free downloads.

Check out the music below, or see our original post for more information.

Thanks to everybody that’s added a track so far!