The brain of a jazz musician
Statescapes and the theory of long-period delays

Well, it’s not new “news”, but these two fine labels are splitting and birthing 2 new sublabels. APK will continue with DataObscura / Blue Oasis and Dennis Knopper will move on with Databloem and Practicing Nature. A plethora of good music (ambient/groove-ambient in general) can be found within the archives…
DataObscura / Blue Oasis
Databloem […]

Microrelease
You might of heard tracks from OEM or Magnatune, but this is a site where all of his stuff can be downloaded (or purchased for $10/cd). Generally speaking, the Psychetropic sound is tasty beat-driven ambient with warm (and often busy) percussion balanced with lush atmospheres, chords and melodies. It reminds me of Vir Unis […]

Here’s an interesting documentary showcasing some of the most killer synths, ever. Very informative, and humorous….
Top 20 from Sonic State

I was recently turned on to somni451 … If you dig softer tek-ambient sounds like stuff from the kranky and mille plateaux labels, then you’ll probably really enjoy this… (loscil and shuttle358 come to mind)
Go to the site… click audio to d/l his first album and one track from his second…

I just recently learned that elephants have a rather keen way of communicating over long distances: Really Low Vibrations.
Elephant wiki - Scroll about halfway to “communication”. Also interesting is the fact that they know we cannot hear these frequencies, thus they up their pitch when communicating with us.
Which leads to…
Oskar Sala (1910-2002) (wiki, tribute), […]

I found out about Subotnick after checking this Free Albums Galore entry. Unfortunately, only one emusic entry to be found… I was hoping to find his Silver Apples of the Moon album, which came out in 1967. Samples of this early work can be heard on his website.
Also interesting, is that […]

This is a cool little ambient application with snowflake graphics that appear as you’re listening. It’s not too mind-blowing, but cool to think someone took the time to do this. The music is quite pleasant…

So the Buddha Machine seems to have quite a little following. Robert Henke’s concept album on them was released recently, and I just found out about Kikapu label head, Pocka, using them in his latest release. Also, here is a compilation dedicated to these beautiful lo-fi ambient boxes.