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ENCYCLOTRONICA New Releases Guide - Listen to electronic music new releases from around the world. Browse, search and play over 100 new 2013 releases streamed instantly on-demand. If you hear something you like. Please show your support by downloading a copy. Just click through to the netlabel album page listed with each title. Check out the site now at http://encyclotronica.com/

This is an edit of a piece from Shane Morris / Mystified's cd, "Emergence", due out June 11, 2013 on Spotted Peccary / Lotuspike Records. The theme of "Emergence" is the appearance of mammals in the ancient world.

Chilled and deep sounding for this first release by :. X . M . M .: from Norway. Lay back and close your eyes for the cosmic journey through space. Strange sounding and moving of the melodies creates a slow and wide atmosphere to relax in... after listening to this LP try to return to Earth...if you can... Get it now at http://www.nostressnetlabel....

Here is an excellent documentary on those who produce Noise, a small, unnoticed style of Electronic music.

Voices of the Ancients is an exciting release from ambient electronic musician Chad Kettering. For two years Kettering has been meticulously crafting a worthy successor to his debut album Into The Infinite. With Voices of the Ancients, Chad Kettering immerses himself into the history and culture of the ancient civilizations who inhabited the North American desert southwest. The ancient people of this mysterious land embraced a unique connection between life and survival within the harsh desert landscape and the powerful metaphysical forces that emanated from behind this world of form. Come explore and experience the powerful dynamics between form and spirit through the lens of Kettering’s latest creative artistic vision. Check out this promo video below and learn more about the film and Chad Kettering at http://www.chadkettering.com/

Whereas Factor X was even bootlegged in recent years - always a mark of long lasting quality - Mystery Hearsay wasn't. No lesser quality however from this hometaper - as the lingo of the day was - also known as Mike Honeycutt. He went on to produce other things later on, such as Mystery X, Mystery Iguana, and part of Wilt, but Mystery Hearsay seemed to have gathered dust. This CD, in fact a re-issue of a tape release called 'Flesh Tomb' plus bonus material from a net release from 2007 (which is which is not clear from the cover). Without wanting to say much about the quality of the music, the quality of the recording is of an entirely nature than the Factor X one, i.e. something that seems at least more professional. One of those typical mid-80s things was the arrival of what was called 'ambient industrial': music that was too loud to fully downright ambient, but also not loud enough to be classified as industrial. Hence ambient industrial and that's exactly the field of Mystery Hearsay's music. Lots of guitar/synth manipulations, along with percussive, metallic sounds and tons of sound effects to manipulate them. Like with a lot of these 80s things its not the composition that counts but the mood created, so it sometimes gets off the rails and takes a bit too much time to be fully interesting. But this is another great reminder of the young FdW at home listening to tapes, and one who fully forgot that Mystery Hearsay was actually a great band. Long forgotten, but thankfully resurrected.

Thanks to a post on Echoes Blog, we have been informed of something quite interesting that I am not sure what to think about as I write this. In an article by the LA Times titled "A new age for New Age music", they are talking about a revival of the new age music genre / style. Arguably the best and worst thing to happen to electronic music genre. This isn't the case of mistaken association by the outsider journalist. The story is about new blood purposely paying homage to the likes of mantle piece new age artists like Enya, Paul Winter and Zamfir. Is this a good thing or bad thing? Share your thoughts on this interesting subject below.

Join us by listening or participating on July 16th at 1200 GMT for a unique project in sound as artists from around the world stream the sounds outside their doors and windows. All streams will be combined by a main mixer into an overall stereo output and out to the main port at radio.electro-music. Being a global event, with numerous time zones, this will create a number of juxtapositions as some participants will be streaming in the day time and others at night at the same time. The event is ON THE AIR now, tune in at http://electro-music.com/radio/

Thank to Markus Reuter who's updated his facebook page with the current schedule and official poster for the 2 of a Perfect Trio tour 2011. This is one serious line up that is touring the USA including: Adrian Belew, Tony Leven, Pat Masteleto, Markus Reuter, Julie Slick and Tobia Ralph. The tour begins September 19th, 2011. Check out the dates and poster artwork by Denis Rodier after the jump for shows in your area.

This summer, Alan Wilder will be selling a large selection of musical / studio equipment and memorabilia at auction. Many items are very collectable and hold special value having been used extensively in the recording sessions for classic Depeche Mode and Recoil albums, as well as live performances on the 'Black Celebration', ‘Music For The Masses’, World Violation’ and ‘Devotional’ tours.

Brian Vassallo (born on 02 February 1971 in Malta) is a composer specializing in electronic music and film soundtracks . His Style is perhaps best described as an emotional blending of atmospheric sound designs, rhythmic electronica & cinematic ambience.

David Herpich of Emerald Adrift returns triumphantly to Earth Mantra with a new album entitled Shifting Labyrinths, and we could not be more excited to present this exquisite and fascinating release to our audience.

Teaser for Kim Cascone's "Knotted Constellation (Fourteen Rotted Coordinates)" album that will be released by MonotypeRec on July 18, 2011. Video by anechoicmedia. Check out more details on the new release now at http://www.monotyperecords.c...

Ethereal Live returns with its second release with ambient electronic stalwart M.Peck and a stunning live album called "Bodies To The Sky." M.Peck, aka Michael Peck, is well known in the ambient and electronic communities as a solo artist, as one half of the duo Mahoney & Peck, his label Waiting World Records, and for a plethora of live performances around the U.S that include The Gatherings, City Skies, Star's End, Electro-Music, and many more.

Brian Eno first came across the work of in the late 90’s during the Map-Making project; a series of collaborative works between students of the Royal College, the Guildhall School of Music, the Royal Academy of Music, the Royal College of Music, the National Youth Orchestra and the English National Ballet, among others.

The first time I was made aware of Mark Jenkins music and his massive museum worthy collection of synthesizers was in the February 2000 issue of Keyboard Magazine. They used to run a column called Workspace at the end of every issue during that period of time. Mark with his cheerful, reassuring smile was featured for the Workspace column that month. The article focused on the synths with a few small pictures of Mark with his analog and digital synthesizers including modular and hybrid ones. However that article failed to portray the depth and journey of an artist who had been then as is now active at his game for well over thirty years in the field of Electronic Music as well as Electronic Music magazines and sound design. Mark had been a guitarist for a few months before being turned onto the synth world after hearing Tangerine Dream on the John Peel Show for the first time. He recently gave Synth.me an interview and answered questions about his music life, synthesizers, the making of the World's first iPad album and some of his opinions on the modern day record label. Read on for what we hope is as a rewarding experience for you as we did talking with Mark Jenkins.

This month Kebu returns to us with a piece he wrote in 2008 as a tribute jean Michel Jarre. Only analog synthesizer were used in recording the tune. The tune was also recorded by analog gear only and mixed with an analog mixer. The tune is from Kebu's upcoming debut album, which is planned to be released in 2012.

Ethereal Live is delighted to begin our humble netlabel with our first release by ambient master Palancar, aka Darrell Burgan. It is with great honor that we christen our first release at Ethereal Live with one of the finest and most prolific of ambient musicians today, Palancar. I hope you will download and listen to Ambient Train Wreck Series Volume One, re-released exclusively at Ethereal Live - http://ethereallive.wordpres...

Rudy Ensueno posted this great video from Vedomstvo of the Brian Eno lecture in Moscow 2011. Eno talks about the history of music and painting in the twentieth century and how the two came together. He also talks about his own work in relationship to twentieth century music and painting. Give it a view.

Listen to two new album songs & see the individual artwork for each format by Brian Eno. 'Bless this Space' and 'Pour it Out' are now available with some comments about the visuals for these cuts: "Recently I was in Sao Paulo, the most city-ish city in the Western world. I took lots of pictures of the forest, and then, back in London, started playing with the images in photoshop. As I was playing I was listening to this album ( - in shuffle mode, highly recommended ) and I realised I was crafting the images and the colours to match up with what I was hearing. So that's how the cover images came about..." - Brian Eno