Equinox Sounds has released Looped Atmosphere FX, a downloadable loop pack containing loops featuring atmospheric FX, drones and electronic ambiences designed for electronic music production, film scoring and multimedia projects.
This collection features 65 loops and each loop contains 3 variations to allow more flexibility and consistency. There are a total of 195 loops that can [...]

Microscopics has announced the released of a remastered version of the cult electronica hit, Gas 0095.
The CD also comes with the 320k mp3 version as an instant download and includes free shipping.
Gas 0095, the debut album of electronic musician Mat Jarvis, was originally released on Em:t Records (Emit Records) in January 1995.
You can preview the [...]

 

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Here is what happens when you pass some raw electronic waveforms through a voltage to electron beam converter, aka an oscilloscope, and map the input voltages to Lissajous curves.
Pure analog in; analog out.
The music is ‘Vapourware‘ from the album Gas 0095.
Equipment used: Sequencial Circuits Pro-One, Korg Station.
via Microscopics

Ultravox’s John Foxx has an ongoing ambient music project, Cathedral Oceans, and he has created abstract videos to accompany the music.
Here are a few review excerpts, via the Cathedral Oceans blog.
“Cathedral Oceans is an ongoing project that stretches back many years and explores ambient sound, washes of reverberated vocals and strings like no other. But [...]

This video demos WiiAmbient, a free new ambient music program for the Wii from Gleetchplug.
It’s not available yet - but it looks like it will be very cool.

Microscopics has re-released Gas 0095 CD, a cult classic ambient electronic release. You can preview the album above, or download a free track from the album below. 
All pre-release orders of the Gas 0095 CD come with a free model Minimoog:

The 1/8th scale model is modelled on the classic Minimoog model 204D and is pre-cut & scored by hand.

 

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Ready to chill out for the weekend with a bit of ambient music?
Then check out Matthew Davidson’s gorgeous new release, A Towering Achievement of Indescribable Beauty. It’s a collection of piano improvisations, recorded May 27th - June 11th 2008, between 8:20 and 8:50am each day.
Here’s what Davidson has to say about the album:
There is only [...]

 

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I’ve written previously about the idea of virtual worlds made up of ambient sound-objects.
The world of ambient music could use kick in the seat of the pants, and making it less passive might just do it.
Brian Eno’s template for ambient music - infinite soundscapes structured around asynchronous loops - has been explored for thirty years. [...]

Remember yesterday’s post about real-time 3D acoustic rendering?
I said:
Can you imagine entering into a 3D world of ambient sound-objects, where your perspective, and the location of the objects, affects what you hear?
This video, JumpBean Synth from Angry’s Tripping The Universe, appears to explore a similar idea, if on a basic level.

I’m a massive Budd & Eno fan. The Pearl & Ambient 2: The Plateax of MIrrors are two of the most gorgeous and important works of ambient music.
So I was excited to see music blogger Matthew G Davidson (Stretta) offer his take on the classic work of Budd & Eno. Here’s a little background on [...]

 

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It’s science: chill out music music is good for you
According to research presented at the American Society of Hypertension’s Twenty Third Annual Scientific Meeting and Exposition (ASH 2008), listening to just 30 minutes of rhythmically homogeneous music every day can significantly reduce high blood pressure.
By rhythmically homogeneous, they mean music with little or no variation [...]

Ambient house group The Orb has announced dates for its 2008 tour:
1 May 2008
Scala - The Orb London, London and South East
2 May 2008
Concorde 2 - The Orb Brighton, London and South East
4 May 2008
Wedgewood Rooms - The Orb Portsmouth, South
6 May 2008
The [...]

Scott at Bitnotic sent us some info on their new generative ambient music application, chill.
chill 1.0b1 is a generative ambient music program for Apple Macintosh computers that creates infinitely varying songs in a ambient/chill out style.
Songs played by chill can be saved in AIFF, Wave, and MIDI formats. Songs are royalty-free and can be used [...]

 

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Netlabel Musica Excentrica has released a new album of free MP3s from Astrowind, Fresh Wind in the Valley of Dreams:

Astrowind might be a slightly ridiculous band name, especially if you consider the fact these two Latvian guys play lush ambient music on Soviet synthesizers. But nevertheless, it’s a good name. An accurate name, at least. [...]

 

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The Spotted Peccary label has been consistently putting out great ambient, space and synth music albums. Their latest release, Below The Mountain, by Craig Padilla, is no exception.
We’ve reviewed a couple of other albums by Padilla, The Light In The Shadow & Genesis. While his last two releases had more of an ambient or space [...]