AD Music

Synth music label AD Music has announced an album that sure to be a treat for fans of synthesis:

The long anticipated electronic music collaboration between AD Music’s David Wright and DiNs Ian Boddy has been confirmed as Shifting Sands and is set for release on 5th September 2009 at the Derby Music Festival.

There are 5 tracks: Comets, Shifting Sands, Still Motion, Endless Terrain and Halcyon.

Some of the album will be premiered during the Boddy, Hoffmann-Hoock & Wright evening performance at the event. The album is currently in post production and sound bites and more information will be available soon.

Ambient/space music label AD Music has announced that it’s releasing all its albums as digital downloads.

Here are the details:

All releases from 2008 onwards are high quality MP3 format at 256kbps Stereo and come complete with artwork. Back catalogue titles are 160kbps and we are slowly upgrading these to the higher rate and to include artwork. So the digital files are ready for your iPod/MP3 or computer player without any problem and full spec artwork in jpeg format is ready for you to print if required.

The albums vary in length, but all are at least 50 minutes long – most are 70+ minutes. The file sizes are around 60 – 80 meg, so please bear this in mind if you don’t have broadband. The file you download will be a ZIP file – just double click this file to open it up and reveal the individual MP3 player.

Payment is by PayPal secure server, you do not need to open a PayPal account and can pay with most debit/credit cards.

Returning customers who have already downloaded the 160kbps MP3 versions will be given the option to download the 256kbps versions and artwork as we continue to upgrade the back catalogue and add new titles.

AD is an important label for fans of space music, ambient music and instrumental electronic music in general, so this is good to see.

AD Music has announced the relaunch of electronic music festivals in Derby, with the AD 2009 Electronic Music Festival:

It’s 20 years since AD Music was founded and so an electronic music festival seemed a suitable event to celebrate its 20th anniversary. The midlands, and Derby in particular, is considered by many people to be the UK hub of electronic music and it is where our early concerts were held in 1993 and our first festival was held in 1996, so there is a nice symmetry. The excellent “Awakenings Evening” held every two months is doing a great job as the only regular electronic music event in the area, with the Hampshire Jam ensuring interest is kept bubbling in the South. In Europe there is the continued efforts of Groove’s e-live and e-day, while Germany is seeing renewed electronic music activity with the excellent electronic circus event in Beilefeld. So it’s our hope that this event will help rejuvenate interest in an annual all day electronic music festival and if the Derby event is a financial success, then it is AD Music’s intention to organize another next year.

So, if electronic music is your thing, which it probably is if you’re reading this, then support us in bringing back a Derby electronic music festival. Being a record label, we will always seek to have at least one of our acts on the bill. But as can be seen from the strong 2009 line up, it is not exclusively an AD Music artist festival, and it won’t be in the future either.

Here are the details: Read more…

Instrumental electronic music label AD Music will soon officially announce a 2009 electronic music festival at the Derby Guildhall on Saturday September 5th 2009, with promises af a second event in September 2010.

Apparently Geigertek has been added to the event as opening act, followed by Bekki Williams and then Ron Boots to complete the afternoon line-up, and an interesting Ian Boddy, Cosmic Hoffmann & David Wright combination for the evening act.

A 2010 event is also being planned, when Code Indigo will appear.

AD Music has published a collection of free MP3s of orchestral electronica from Wim. 

You can preview them below:

 

 Eastern Passage: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

 

 Serenity Falls [5:53m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

 

 The Rising: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

 

 Glimpse of Sunray [5:51m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Official Wim Bio

Ketil Lien, aka Wim, was born in the Viking City of Trondheim, Norway in 1972. He started listening to the electronic music of Jean Michel Jarre and Tangerine Dream in the 80’s and they quickly became his biggest early influences. He also has a great liking for Kitaro, Vangelis and Mike Oldfield and the warmth and depth of their music is clearly evident in Wim’s emotive style.Wim focused his efforts in the 1990’s on compositional skills, learning to compose in the manner required to create his own unique style of structured melodic instrumental music with warmth and emotion. The advent of virtual synths and more powerful computers in the new millennium meant he was at last able to create the musical visions he wanted.

Wim looks upon his music as paintings where the instruments are substitutes for the colour palette. He says; “I treat each song as a different landscape of sound and try to paint an expressive, emotional soundscape using warm, enveloping sounds that capture the listeners imagination.