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Big Fish Audio has released Stratos: Drones & Atmospheres, a construction kit sample library featuring over 4.1 gigabytes of evolving drones and dark atmospheres.
Each construction kit contains a complete soundscape consisting of both synthetic and organic layers, allowing you to re-mix the component pieces as desired. All the kits were created with a common tonal [...]

 

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 [...]

 

Jayzen Sound Design has introduced a new sound library, Wisdom Drone, that features drone tones with a strong retro feel.
Features:

A full octave of individually designed drone tones.
Inaudible loop points.
3 patches of envelope variations for fast, medium, or slow fade-in and fade-out times.
Available as 2 or 10 second endless loops.

The library is available in three formats:

Soundfont: [...]

 

Asura’s latest CD, Lost Eden, blends dance, trance, ambient and world music elements into a musical gumbo.
Asura is a French electronic group, made up of producer Charles Farewell, flutist Christopher Maze, and bassist/guitarist Alex Ackerman. There are echoes of artists like Peter Gabriel, Tangerine Dream and Banco de Gaia in Asura’s global groove style. The [...]

 

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 [...]

 

Codex Hypnos, the debut release of SourceCodeX, explores ambient spaces somewhere between music and chaos. This release is a treat for fans of experimental electronica and dark ambient music.
This self-produced CD displays a stylistic boldness and confidence that is unusual for first releases. SourceCodeX makes no concessions to popular tastes. The music is devoid of [...]