If you like dancing – or just music that makes you feel like dancing – you’ll want to check out this collection of dance music from Synthopia readers:

From Josh H, aka Silver Disco, comes Silver Disco Vs The Disko Starz – True Love.

From Belarus, mad_fed_head delivers a bit of 8-bit speedcore-disco, Now i know where mamy put my coockies Rendered.

From Coromandel, New Zealand, Mat Rapid (Matthew Sephton) breaks it up a bit with Wrapped in Aroha.

Finally, from Zett, comes VeryTitled – a demo from an upcoming EP.

If you like what you here, leave a comment. Check out the musician’s SoundCloud pages, too, for more info and music to check out!

Image: Renon-san

The EP is comprised of four tracks full of hazy drones, dense textures and milky warmth.

Drift carries a solemn, and sometimes desolate timbre evoked through its processed and swollen tones. Additionally, a spirituality is evoked through the music’s lonely but peaceful sonics and through its inhabitance of a seemingly surreal expansive space.

Eluder (aka Electricwest) has crafted this rich depth and antiqued sonic atmosphere in each of the four tracks using a complex but still minimal sound.

You can preview Drift below:

Download page

via Marc Weidenbaum

On February 9th, 1976, Tangerine Dream played at the Auditorium Paul-Emile Janson in Brussels (Belgium). It was a fantastic show, one of the best live performances of the classic Tangerine Dream trio of Baumann, Franke and Froese.

Fortunately, someone in the audience recorded the show.

This 1st generation tape was re-mastered by 3N and a splendid artwork was created by Giuseppe Milazzo. This concert is volume 27 of the Tangerine Tree Project, gathering almost all the live performances of the band.

It should be noticed that Tangerine Dream gave its agreement to this project, as far as it was a non-profit venture, produced by fans to fans. The music is “a perfect mix of sequencers, mellotrons, guitar”. One should add that it was one of the most creative period of Tangerine Dream and that their live performances were unique events where improvisation played a very important part. This Brussels concert was exceptional by the interplay between the three musicians: some parts remind Ricochet or Encore, two official live recordings.

link: mp3 : 2 parts
TDTr27.1.zip
TDTr27.2..zip
password: olduvai

Note that these are password-protected zips. 

If you’re using a Mac, I’d suggest a free unzipper called Zipeg, which you can download from Apple’s site:
http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/system_disk_utilities/zipeg.html

Here’s a little set from Seattle’s Gel-Sol (producer/musician Andrew Reichel), whose sound ranges from ambient soundscapes to complex, rhythmic electronica.

In 2004, Gel-Sol released 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.

You can listen to or download another free Gel-Sol set at the Gel-Sol page on SoundCloud.

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This is a preview of the first edition of the Ambient Music Blog Podcast. 

It’s a blog, it’s a podcast – it’s probably a floorwax and a dessert topping, too. 

The first edition offers ambient music for blue light and snowfall:

• All The Lighthouses by Last Days
• Vargtimme by Helios
• The Whole Town Is Against Us by Last Days
• San Solomon (Reprise) by Balmorhea
• The Ruined City by Janek Schaefer

Give it a listen and let me know what you think. 

You can subscribe to the Ambient Music Blog Podcast by adding this URL to your podcast software:
http://ambientmusicblog.libsyn.com/rss

This is the second volume of the Tangerine Tree series. Edgar Froese, Chris Franke and Peter Baumann played at the City Hall in Sheffield, on October 29th, 1974.  This is a pretty good recording (soundboard ? radio broadcast ?), remastered by Jabberwock. The design is by Maff & Gustavo Jobim

In this 44 minutes long track, Tangerine Dream’s music is serene, floating and meditative: it is a long improvisation, where mellotron, organs, EMS Synthy and treated piano create beautiful soundscapes: it is true electronic chamber music, creating slowly evolving climates, with a kind of special German romantic touch… 

mp3 download link

password: olduvai

The Tangerine Tree tree series is a collection of bootleg recordings that are semi-sanctioned by TD.

This video is the first in a new series by Edison, 64 Fingers. 

The yellow box is a monome 40h, hand built and installed in an old kids lunchbox. The monome is controlling Ableton Live. 

There will be 7 videos in this project. 

You can download this full track for free here: drop.io/p05tkko

Just in time for Christmas, it’s the full version of 8-Bit Jesus: Classic Christmas Songs in the Style of Classic NES Games.

This full release contains 18 tracks total, including improved variations of a few of the original nine!

Please be sure to check out the amazing cover art for the full release, designed by Jude Buffum.

You can download 8-Bit Jesus here.

via Wha! – the bastard pop netlabel – comes a free album, the Mashups of the Year 2008, compiled by Simon Iddol. 

[download links >> torrent / uploaded.to]

01 Go Home Productions - Finally, Did You No Wrong MOTW #69
(Spliced Krispies album)
Ce Ce Peniston VS The Sex Pistols
02 Divide & Kreate - Livin’ la vida MOTW #99
Bon Jovi VS Coldplay
03 dj lobsterdust - Epic Black Rock
Faith No More VS Queen VS AC/DC MOTW #67
04 DJ Morgoth - Ace Of Spades Feels Good MOTW #94
Gorillaz VS Motörhead
05 Pheugoo - Sign me Baby MOTW #78
Snoop Dogg VS Red Hot Chili Peppers
06 Hi-brid - Golden Boy MOTW #88
Klaxons VS Bronski Beat
07 DJ Zebra - Roxanne should be dancing MOTW #90
Bee Gees VS The Police
+ beats by Groove Armada 
08 Copycat - Singing that A-ha melody MOTW #91
A-ha VS Swingfly
09 Dunproofin’ - Electro Sandman MOTW #87
Metallica VS Deadmau5 VS F*kkk Off*
10 locK3Down - Snake Pusher MOTW #75
Ice T VS Audio Bullys
11 Apollo Zero - Robot Music Forever MOTW #82
Bruce Haack VS Kraftwerk VS Men Without Hats VS Donna Lewis VS Tracey Thorn VS I Robots
12 DJ Earworm - United State Of Pop MOTW #51
Billboard TOP25 2007
13 ComaR - Wonderlie MOTW #72
Oasis VS Black Eyed Peas
14 10 000 Spoons - This Charming Caravan MOTW #60
Smiths VS The Housemartins 
15 Mighty Mike - My love letter MOTW #57
Renan Luce VS Justin Timberlake
16 Wax Audio - Born In A Bad Place (When Jimi met Björk) MOTW #71
Jimi Hendrix VS Björk
17 Phil RetroSpector - The Good, the Bad and the Creepy MOTW #85
Radiohead vs Hugo Montenegro & his Orchestra
18 G3RSt - Pretender To Heaven MOTW #65
Led Zeppelin VS Foo Fighters
19 DJ Schmolli - Wicked Wedding MOTW #95
Chris Isaak VS Billy Idol VS HIM

parameters
the .zip file is 153 Mb
you have to unfold it with a software like winrar(PC) or ZipIt (Mac)
it contains 19 tracks, in mp3 files, an m3u playlist,
plus a txt info file and the printable cover,
use the attached playlist file (m3u) for listening
the order of the tracks is very important as always
but  the tracklist is not a chart!!
this is not a top list, it is the best of collection of the  MOTW series

Here’s how they put the album together:

On it you will find four tracks each of which followed this process:

seed -> swap -> process -> swap -> process

where each of us would start with 6-7mins of sound, swap it with the other and either process it or create a response using everything from our modular systems to software including ableton live.

All tracks are 192 MP3 files.

You can preview the track into the sky below:

Download the full zipped album including cover art here: en_vs_ao.zip 43.3mb

Or individual tracks here:

1. into the sky 11.1mb
2. the reference is to Coma 9.7mb
3. rotating bodies are magnetic 10.9mb
4. utilised for rationalised ends 9.2mb

Here’s another batch of great tracks from Synthtopia readers.

Tracks include:

• EdwardianUncleNorm - Music for Sushi
• Susperiaelectrica - Endless Galaxy 01 - Ambient music to relax the mind.
• Project 5am –  As the ears weeps the eyes hear
• Dialectic Sines -Dimensional Rift
• pianotzaf – Liquido – Narcotic

JOUETS [MP3|320kb]
f|m montage 001

01. Hitorikko – Daschon (FR|JP) 05′14″
02. Suite For Toy Instruments no.3, in D maj – Bosques de mi Mente (ES) 02′56″
03. Coming Home – Daniel Dixon (US) 04′18″
04. Snow Murmuring Snow – Hidekazu Wakabayashi (JP) 02′52″
05. Springly Planet – Bed, feat. ai yuuki@RECO (JP) 04′36″
06. Night Herb – Naono (GR) 04′44″
07. Mobbast – Melma (IT) 04′13″
08. Sand Into Speedboats – Harold Nono (UK) 03′08″
09. Toysareus – Dimitri Bellemer (JP) 03′37″
10. Dehors Lune – Kaede Mira (JP) 03′56″
11. Flashback – adoralula (TH) 05′02″
12. Collage – akey (JP) 03′32″
13. Birthday Pie – aL.Chemistry (SG) 03′56″
14. When They Come Alive Tonight – sonicbrat (SG) 03′44″

via sonicbrat