Ambient/space music artist Michael Meara has a large collection of free MP3 downloads available at his site, Sonic Journey.
“Most pieces are either in the vein of cold void space ambience or the warmer currents of classical ambient drift. The artists’ ultimate aim is to aid in the navigation of various sleep-states by providing the appropriate [...]

 

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The 2 CD version of Ghosts I - IV is out now in the UK, Australia, Canada and the US.
Other release dates are as follows:

Benelux: 4/11
Scandinavia: 4/14
Poland: 4/14
Germany: 4/18
Italy: 4/18

If you ordered from nin.com:

The standard CD is shipping today.

The Deluxe Package:

Pre orders made on or before 4/6 will ship 5/1
Pre orders made 4/7 or later [...]

Steve Roach has released a new two-cd set, Arc of Passion, recorded in a studio-like environment at Analogue Haven with an audience of 80 people.
The set seamlessly fuses three long unfolding soundworlds. Roach reaches into his sonic palette to weave elements drawn from his three definitive styles into a continuous, evolving flow. Rich harmonic chords, [...]

 

 Excerpt from Arc of Passion [9:28m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Secret Voices, a project of producer Tim Motzer along with Italian electronics guru Enrico Marani, has a very eclectic and original new release, No Time For Silence.
When a album is truly original, it’s often hard to fit it into a set category or niche. This is certainly the case with No Time For Silence. The [...]

Digital Music store Fake Science has released three live concert performances by synthesist Robert Rich. The MP3 downloads are sets recorded at concerts in San Francisco.
Rich is one of the pioneers of ambient music. His music has a unique sound that combines home-made acoustic and electronic instruments, microtonal tunings, computer-based signal processing, chaotic systems [...]

InTRO is the latest CD from Bruno Sanfilippo, an Argentinean composer and musician now living in Barcelona, Spain.
Sanfilippo claims the like of Wendy Carlos, Vangelis and Mike Oldfield as influences. The music of Intro, though, is more reflective and ambient than these influences would suggest.
Sanfilippo describes the tracks on InTRO as soundscapes. Sanfilippo masterfully combines [...]

This live release from Cluster captures performances from around the United States, including New York, Portland, Chicago and Phoenix. The pieces are each named after the location where they were performed. The music is a collection of mellow, drone-based ambient work.
Cluster isn’t well known, but their music is important and has been influential over the [...]

Body Love had inauspicious beginnings, as the background music of an erotic movie by Lasse Braun. Instead of the cheesy jazz typical of 70’s adult movies, Klaus Schulze pumped out a masterpiece of throbbing electronica.
There are three cuts on this album. They are each long cuts; the shortest is 11 minutes. They are put together [...]

This is the last recording in Brian Eno’s seminal Ambient series, and after 20 years, it still sounds beautiful and disturbing.
Brian Eno originated the modern idea of ambient music. In his series of 4 ambient albums, Eno established the modern idea of a shifting audio environment, free of the constraints of melodies or song structures. [...]