So, I was on a vacation spot the other day with my new laptop, which I especially bought for audio processing, when I found that playback in my application did not work anymore. Of course, it was short before Friday, which also got to be a bank holiday, so no chance of new equipment to be delivered. Nice. If only I had known that only one tiny audio cable was missing for everything to work as planned. Found out only yesterday, after new equipment finally was delivered earlier this week to finish up the show for tonight. So here we are, and we take this very easy in this edition with cool stuff by Dino Pacifici (The Approaching Tempest and Other Unrelated Tales), Jim "Kimo" West & Michael Whalen (Two Shores), Sine (Glow), Thomas Lemmer & Andreas Bach (Into the Night), Masako (Dreaming Northern), Brian Fechino (Days End), Mars Lasar (Grand Canyon), James Filkins (North Manitou Trail), Tepon (Silva & Sol), Don Latarski (Everywhen), David Bach (The David Bach Collection), Earthshine (Island), Cosmic Soup Kitchen (Soul Of the Machine).

Finding sweetspots on
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Yours, Stefan

A slight sign of relieve on the horizon seeing a comedian I like being un-cancelled. At least for now. It's definitely no good sign for a nations health, when art gets cancelled out. May it be TV shows, books, paintings, or music. So, we should all be happy to live in a time and place, where we have personal freedom. And I hope, you will find some freedom in listening to this podcast as well. Ok, well, maybe too much of politics at this point. It just felt like I had to write it down. For the remaining part, and the show itself, we will definitely stick to fantastic and fresh music served by Peter Mergener (Chip Meditation 2025), Geoglyph (Otherworldly), Bluetech ft. Lisa Bella Donna (Spacehop Chronicles Vol. 2), Paul Ellis (Here is Where), Ivan Black (Book List Continued), Pabellón Sintético (Machine for living), Rodrigo Passannanti (Everything Dies), The Soviet Space Dog Project (Morphogenic Waves).

Flashing sequences on
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Yours, Stefan

Oh, boy. These are dark times indeed, looking over the pond. I'm quite sorry for our musical friends overseas, in a country once glorified for its freedom and prosperity. Also for all the people that are living in unsafe spaces these days, where the future is kind of uncertain. So I hope to bring at least a glimmer into everyone's life by having some great electronic music on the show to please one's ears. Have a delightful hour with the music by Menzman & Friends (Insights), Marcator (PanAroma Served Chilled), Greenlab (Beyond Borders), Bluetech (Spacehop Chronicles Vol. 2), Spectral Tune (Painted Waves), Virgo (Novel), Pabellón Sintético (Machine for living), Brainquake + Grosso Gadgetto (Dehumanize the World), Conny Olivetti (Viel Glück beim Überleben (Object Remix)), Dieter Spears & Brian Paris (Speris), IcingWolf (Serpentine)

Light on your ears with
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Yours, Stefan

This week actually started slow and easy, but turned to a turmoil of demands and tasks towards the end. As always is the case. If something becomes urgent, many other issues pile up and burry you with work. So, I am really happy the week came to an end today and the weekend is waiting up with some relaxing electronic circus festival to enjoy and relax. But before I can come to peace, I have to let of some steam. Virtually, of course, and with the right beatful music as companion. Join me, won't you? Let's enjoy the heat of sound with Hyrn (live at Schallwelle 2024), moonbooter (Syncope 2), TNT (The June Solstice 2025), XaVioN (Between Heartbeats), Pudova (Deep Inside), Cognition Delay (Dazzled By The Dark), Noerrf (Tabuguer), El Venado Sound System (Dub Free. Vol. 12), AxelP (NETLABEL DAY 2025), System Error (Beyond), Toxic Derwish + Innocent But Guilty (Making Things Happen: Netlabel Day 10th Anniversary Compilation)

Tanking the moment on
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Yours, Stefan

Two interesting events are up soon, teaser for which will also open this edition. One of them in the UK, one in Germany, and both with great music. And if you cannot make it to the one in the UK, the Awakenings, do not hesitate to grab their virtual ticket, which serves one time cool live music from the event. The second is the planetarium show by Stefan Erbe, his kind-of world and space tour with Metamorphosys. But there is more, and all signs are on ambient sounds tonight, more or less one the quiet side. Just what the doctor prescribed my business-busy ears for this weekend. So join in for a great time with music by Axess/Maxxess (Sleep), Stefan Erbe (Metamorphosys), Simon Heartfield (Scenes From Above), Erik Wøllo (Aeris Suite), deepspace (Water Planets), Jim Ottaway (Cosmic Odyssey), Cognition Delay (Dazzled By The Dark), Peltiform (TRIPTYCHS), Christian Fiesel (Full Of Light), TaboTago (Sessions 017: Live in Schwerin)

Rocky serenities on
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Yours, Stefan

Do you need some time off? Well, you are in the right place with this edition. In there, you will find no information about politic stunts, nothing on crazy leaders, and definitely no clickbaiting. It would be pure relaxation in a one hour mix, if it wasn't for me throwing in words on the artists and labels involved. Hope you don't mind. In the end, if you like what you hear, you can always go for the music and fetch it for your home theatre and enjoy the whole deal sitting on the sofa. Now, you may do so as well while listening to the show, with excellent chillout music by Greenlab ft. Backstage Gurus (Beyond Borders), Enigmatic Obsession (Secrets of Seduction), Encounters (Veil of Echoes), Eleon (Miles Across Time), Sine (Under the Sky), Thomas Lemmer & Thomas Foster (In the Sky), Tawdry Otter & Captive Portal ft. Toryn (Making Things Happen: Netlabel Day 10th Anniversary Compilation), Xipe Totec Dub (Dub Free. Vol. 12), SOUND2次元 (Imaginary Sequences), Sferix (Moments), Tony Sieber & Thomas Lemmer (Moments Between), David Bach (The David Bach Collection), Claude9 (Chords of Love).

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Yours, Stefan

As you may know by now, besides being a great fan of electronic-based music I am also a serials junkie. Recently, I watched quite a number of Anime. Because they are short (about 20 minutes per show) and sometimes really fun. Of course, I am also a fan of Scifi shows. But sometimes, it just does not work out. Being a fan of Star Trek, I tried watching the latest season of Discovery. Currently I am stuck on episode 3, I think, as it is simply too soapy to me. Then I started with Strange New Worlds, and I am hooked again. What a difference in style and making. Well, I am living to early in history to go for some star travel, at least in person. But there is always a great aural trip around the corner, like with the music you get tonight by DASK Music (Rosetta), DTime (Shadows of Time), Eleon (The Darkside of Far), Progeny-1 and Cosmic Cadence (Mystical Cities), Paul Ellis (Here is Where), Cousin Silas & Maximum Movement Theatre (Transmission From an Unknown Source), Ivan Black (Distant Dreams Part 2).

Starry sceneries on
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Yours, Stefan

Exciting times ahead with the season of electronic music events in late summer and fall in Germany and the Netherlands. Three of them being featured in this edition showcasing some of the acts. First up being a new one (to me at least) named "Molk-e-tronica" with two days of cool artists. Second the Dutch Electronic Masters series being continued for 2025 with 6 acts on stage. And finally the well known and loved Electronic Circus with some great legends of EM and of course one guest from another world. Join in for some cool hour with music by Gate Eleven (First Contact), o.s.cillator (Dali‘s Dub Machine), Elektronische Maschine (Life goes on), Arjen Schat (Propagations Through Time And Space: Prequel), Marius Nitzbon (Birds are my Friends), Harald Grosskopf (Strom), Stan Dart (Space Race), Proqnostiq and Turius Mansi (Netlabel Day 2025), Mitoma & Abdicant and Brainquake & XOTOX (Making Things Happen: Netlabel Day 10th Anniversary Compilation), Conny Olivetti (Fish do not shout!).

Legends in sound on
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Yours, Stefan

@brainquake

So, recently I mentioned that show, which definitely was sci-fi. Last week I watched another TV show, that started out as kind of film noir, but then surprisingly turned into sci-fi as well. Completely unnecessary in my opinion, as I liked the show up to this twist. A similar experience sometimes occurs with a song. It starts out great as space ambient, but then unexpectedly turns, for example, into some soapy pop, completely throwing me off and makes it vanish from my playlist. Luckily for us, all tracks of this edition "behave well". Some definitely have twists, but well made and for the better. So, please, join me for some ambient greatness by moonbooter (Syncope 2), Jaffe (Depth), Ambient Indigo and Time Away (Mystical Cities), Bernd-Michael Land (Schwer-Metall: Klang aus Erde), Anantakara (Glimpse Of Changes), Cousin Silas & Mr Z (The Cardinal Points: East Part 2), Markus Reuter & Stephan Thelen (Promise of a Better World).

Sound footages on
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Yours, Stefan

Once a year, the vast amount of netlabels out there join in for a special day: the netlabel day. Same so in 2025, where they put out once again such a massive amount of releases that it is difficult to listen to them all in a week. I tried my best to select some of the cool releases fitting the style of syndae as close as possible. Tonight is the first bunch of songs from that occasion, and there may be more to come. For tonight, enjoy with me the sounds of Tim Koch + Waldgrenze (Making Things Happen: Netlabel Day 10th Anniversary Compilation), BTB (The Strongest Friend in the Universe), Particle of Soul (Particle of soul), Mas&Delayer (Heroes in my bed), Pasquale Maassen vs Peter Mummert (Netlabel Day 2025 Techno Warriors), Pablo Javier Piacente (El Antiguo Dolor De La Selva), Anderdog (Netlabel Day 2025), Soft and Furious (The Flood), Eko_Fisk & Gears in the Rain (Zenapolae 25), C da 76er (Anime Christrumentals), Potenciómetro (Crema), Space Ark Slum Lord (clay makes no protest), Isien (Kanashibari World), Plateau Sigma (The Great Reset).

Networthy sounds on
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Yours, Stefan

After yet another busy week, I prefer a bit lighter evening. Especially, before hot and stormy weather reaches us on the weekend. Crazy world. Also crazy is that series I am watching, where people's brains get split to properly seperate work from life. Quite a popular show, it seems, which I only found out about as I watched a video by Charles Cornell, who was amazed by the tv's title theme. And I agree, the intro music is really cool and to the point, very much what I like about cinematic music. Kind of like the title theme for the Westworld series, which got me immediately, when I heard it. Well, we are not in the world of cinematic sounds tonight, but rather one the easy side. But, of course, I have great music for you by Enigmatic Obsession (Secrets of Seduction), Tony Sieber (Because we are), Matt Goodluck (Portals), Ambient Ballroom (Bionic Steam Stream), Lane, Gregorius, Smith (Lost Desert Highway), Roberto Sass ft. Enlia (We're so much more than shadows), Code Indigo (Endgame), Erik Wøllo (Gateway (remaster)), Dino Pacifici (Unfocused Dream Fragments), Marcator (PanAroma Reincarnations), moonbooter (Syncope 1).

Smells like harmony on
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Yours, Stefan

Have you heard of this 100 percent AI band that gained momentum the past weeks? I've seen several reports on this artificial artists on Youtube and it's quite astonishing how well their music is received. The Velvet Sundown was created completely from artificial intelligent sources, especially their music and their band photos. And still, people seemed to like it, as the numbers on Spotify and otherwise say. I only heard some excerpts, definitely not my style of music, and it did sound kind of bland. But quite a lot of current popular music does. So it's great to be back on the side of human made electronic and electric sounds and music with tonight's great edition featuring Wildsilences vs Progeny -1 (Wild Moon Remixes), moonbooter (Syncope 1 & 2), Spiralectric (Durchströmungen 4 - Wellenbrecher), Klangwelt (Second Nature), D. Batistatos (Cosmicleaf Mixtape 004 (Psychill)), Holle Mangler (Tales From A Fairyworld (Part 2)), Markus Reuter (TRUCE 3), Maximum Movement Theatre (The June Solstice 2025), Otarion (Time of Nations).

A wild but steady ride on
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Yours, Stefan

Are you nuts?! Whoever send the heatwave these days must be. But the uncountable number of degrees match with the world's recent politics as well. And that is all over the world. So, was everything better back in the days? Maybe not. But some really good comes from those golden days back last century, and that is the music inspiration, which I most times mention as traditional EM. And from those roots sprung many more cool sounds and sequence explorers. Like the ones you can enjoy with this edition. Take a seat and some good headphones to join me for cool stuff by Peter Mergener (Cinema in My Head - The World of Visible Sound), Altus (Terraform), Fusion of Elements (3MIT-TIME), Eagle (Synth. Music) (The narrow path), Planet of the Arps (Planet of the Arps 2), Hari Maia (Universalis), Ivan Black (The Moonshine Boys).

Some nougat endeavours on
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Yours, Stefan

There is a lot of heat out there. Well, I am not only talking about the weather, which is said to go up to 36 C next week. And I am not build for hot weather, I tell you that. And we do not have some AC around, either. Will be fun, or not. Beside that, the world is going crazier each day, building up another kind of heat. Last week, we had some nice and quiet ambient to get some mind rest. To kind of continue the more relaxing scenery, this week we will go in the chillout direction and enjoy excellent peaceful music by Stefan Erbe (Metamorphosys), AE van Elst Projects (One), Klangwelt (Second Nature), Glint (The Beginning), Erothyme & Kursten Brewer (Tea Sessions), Achillea (Cinema in My Head - The World of Visible Sound), Thomas Lemmer & Lukas Midub (Perspectives), Side Liner & Aviron (Cosmicleaf Mixtape 003 (Psychill)), iRoadie ft. Stefanosis (Dub Time), CIALYN (Decenium), MOLOCH 303 (Colours).

Casting a chill on
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Sunshine and peace is all I need currently. Being quite busy in my head and life being a bit unpredictable, it's those quieter moments that I relish a lot. Calming body and soul for while and let other things be what they are. It would be great if one could simply close one's eyes and the crazy world would go away. Well, it does not. But to me it seems important to find those silent spots in life to not explode and get mad yourself. Here you get an hour of time with ambient sounds, and I hope not to be of too much annoyance in between. Enjoy the music by Carl Lord (Illuminated Expanse), Dashmesh (Teletai), Ambiente Solstice feat. Dashmesh (The World Above The Clouds), Blue Is Nine (Tall Pines), John Scott Shepherd & Jamie Zarfas (Distant Moon), Karl Schoenberg (Spectre), Tim Didymus & Foster Neville (Ulla), Telson (Drums Along The Ambient River Part 1), Cousin Silas (Drums Along The Ambient River Part 2).

Only minor disturbances on
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Yours, Stefan

Several years ago, I was co-funding a movie. Well, it was a crowdfunded flick with the sole purpose of making a cranzy movie thought out by a crazy mind. Now, if your life would be a movie, what part of the script would you alter? Would it be a great idea to remove some actions or hesitaions of yours that let to unfortunate situations? Or would cutting them make you become a different person? But more important, what soundtrack would accompany your life? There is always music in a modern movie, is there not? It supports the emotional part of the story. So here are some suggestions for the movie of your life. Great stuff by Daniel Blumberg (The Brutalist), Holland Phillips (A Sense of Distance), Tuula Martin (Urban Lullabies), Time Away (Osirian Wave), Der Bischof (Garden of Perdition), Janne Hanhisuanto (Yume), Art Of Infinity (Cinematic Audio 1), Gabríel Ólafs (Polar), Martin Herbst (Mystic Moments), Phaeleh (Fear of Silence), Volker Rapp (Blade Runner 2099).

Living the scene on
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Yours, Stefan

This was definitely one beat speed week for me, at least at work with so many stuff to do. And all of the tasks were very urgent, of course. It's always at the end of the week or deadlines, when the need to finish up things suddenly appear on ones doorstep. And, thus, the choice of music was between some ultra ambient to cool down and some body moving sounds to power oneself out. For tonight I chose the latter, so join me for a great selection of electronic dance and body music by Decode Blue (Cruise The Groove), Omel & Rising Galaxy (Cosmicleaf. Mixtape 003 (Psychill)), xols (sharp and chispi), db-Maui (this feeling), One Dub Connection & David Laake (Sonic Fractals), Falling Bytes (Civil war), Morgen Wurde, Tis, Tetsuroh Konishi (Erwuchs), granlab/dml (movements).

Sounds on sticks on
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Yours, Stefan

Yes, we are back. A short forced break, so it's the return of syndae, but also the return to the golden age of sequencing with this edition. This music is still one of the drivers for EM, serving some sounds that come in waves and simply pull you with them into the wonderful world of aural colours and natural rhythm of life. I think it's the ever steadiness of change that grabs me each time, when a sequence kicks in and takes over the beat of my thinking and feeling. And tonight is no difference with the great music by Robert Schroeder (Mosaique. Edit 2025), Vanderson (2055), DASK Music (Transitions (2025)), Harald Gramberg (Sequences), Yakuza Jacuzzi (Space Race), Ivan Black (Book List).

Golden soundwaves on
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Yours, Stefan

Sounds. They are all around us. Some squeak, some beep, some bug you, some you don't hear anymore. Imagine sitting at the beach, where the waves slowly wash over the shore. To me, this is joyful and relaxing. Or imagine being at a dwell, where water slowly pours into the early creek. This might really animate you to, well, err, wanna pee ... Ok, bad example. As with ambient music, there are sounds you normally barely listen to, at least not consious. If there is some cool rhythm, you might enjoy it. And if the accompanying sounds make you groove, you can relax. Like with the outstanding tracks on this edition, being provided to you by Ian Boddy & Erik Wøllo (Transmissions), Nettaiya ft Yuko Motoki (Rising Sunset), Thomas Lemmer & Lukas Midub (Perspectives), Anna B May (Everything Will Be Alright), Tuula Martin (Urban Lullabies), David Mash (Back To My Roots), Klangstein (Echoes - 25 Years Klangstein), Moki Mcfly (Divin(e)tion: Music in the key of zero), Frechbax ft Alex Rutschmann and Psychoz (Sonic Fractals).

A fountain of sounds on
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Yours, Stefan

No, this is not the death star in some kind of invisibility cloak. Tonight, we have wonderful bubbles of colourful soundscapes for you waiting in this edition. And rightly so, as this week was fully packed with work related stuff for me. I need some rest, and I hope you are with me. Soap bubbles are fascianting objects. Especially in their play in light, where lots of little rainbows appear into being on their surface. Their look does sooze me a bit as well as they amaze me. Much like the songs you will get tonight being served by Vamadeva (Secret and Mystery III), Krzysztof Kurkowski (Synthesizer Stories), Steve Roach & Vidna Obmana (Cavern of Sirens), Dave Luxton ft Nacre & Michelle Qureshi (Lights Appearing), Ramón Sánchez (The Cardinal Points - North Part 2), Joerg Dankert (through the avalanche of time), Reichenhall (kollektion eins), Tony Gerber (Plank and Strings), jarguna (The Truth Lies Beyond).

Bubbles in sounds on
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Yours, Stefan

On this weeks list of todos were quite some interesting things. Had a lot of work at home to do and in my job as well. As always, the time you plan for finishing a job most often does not suffice. Or is this just me? Well, on some point in progress I encountered an issue that let me to rethink the whole approach. So it was not only the weather outside getting warmer, which is nearing the 30 C mark on some days. But the inner heat also rose, as there are deadlines to meet. Well, wanna go for a cool ride? I do, as I need some cooling down. And what better to do with some really great music. On the menu tonight, you will find fantastic sounds by DEMOKRATIE (2 + 1), GROBEK (Grobek 2: Grevelingen), Divine Matrix (Rise of the Sand Gods), Phaeleh (Dark Sky), Stefan Erbe (Metamorphosys), niteffect (copan), The Laconic (Conic Sections), Weldroid (Painted City), Parallel Worlds (Modular Stories), Tonewulf (The Heavy), Reichenhall (kollektion eins).

Luxury in sound on
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Yours, Stefan

So, last weekend many of you celebrated the tradition of the resurrected egg-giving easter bunny... erm... I am sure to be confused a bit. But it surely was traditional. And we are on for tonight to enjoy something traditional electronic music, that I am sure about. It was back in the 80s, when I discovered this specific style of instrumental electronic music for myself and fell in love with it. Of course, lots has changed since back then, but there are still some "descendants" and the like who evolved from that aera and built upon it. Not only that, but there also are some of the early pioneers of this style alive and kicking and still creating great music. Come in to a new edition of this podcast and enjoy the great sounds of Peter Mergener (Sky Space Bar III), GROBEK (Grevelingen), Syndromeda (Serendipity), A Collection of Notes (Last Flowers of Autumn), Conny Olivetti (Rearranging the legs of lady Jane), Andreas Davids (Weltraum), Paul Ellis (Warmth From Other Suns), Andy Pickford (Expurgations Vol. 2).

Tradition always shines on
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Yours, Stefan

Yeah, I know, it might be a bit cheesy or rather eggy. But for tonight, right before eastern, I picked some easy eggs for you. So here we have some sound bunnies to please your ears and mind. For this, I picked eggstraordinary artists. And while the life outside seems to go nuttier each day, I hope you find some ease and comfort within the 60 minutes of pleasure sounds. Be in peace with your family or friends or both and enjoy some time off. Join me for joyful and excellent tunes by Carl Weingarten (Songs for a Perigee Moon). Jeff Greinke (Late Rain), David Helpling & Eric "the" Taylor (The Precious Dark). Sine (Impuls), JAFFE (Heroes), Richard Theisen (Shambhala), Urs Fuchs (ET Cosmic B), Monster Taxi (Pacifica), Andrew Schoen feat. Joe Nutter (Soulever), SONAR with David Torn and J. Peter Schwalm (7D Sampler 2025).

Bunny presents on
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Yours, Stefan

Had enough of the worldly turmoil? Want to relax and peace out for a while? Welcome to the show! And it is free, too. No costs. No tariffs. Just cool stuff to spend one our of your time on and enjoy. Some people may call it chill out. One could also call it thrill out. Or simply taking a bath in the wonderful world of electronic sounds. Yeah. I might sound a bit crazy tonight, but the world outside does take its toll. My mind would go havoc, if it weren't for my wife and great music. Join me, won't you? Let's relish the excellent works by Thomas Lemmer & Oine & Electrix (Berlin), Stan Dart (Murinsel 7 - Travel Stories), Star Maze and Deor (Echoes of the Grid), Dieter Spears (The Signal), Howler (Breenj), Steve Joy (Hatchback), Ndorfik (Solos), ADJ (Compilation 2025 - Nenormalizm + NOIR), No Landscape Survives (Ten Banners of Defeat).

Soundbathing on
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Yours, Stefan

While there are storms happening in the economic world, we gear down a lot and go for some serenity in this edition. Wouldn't it be nice to have humans be united and care for their kind and each other instead of looking for one's own advantage? Well, maybe not for some people. I don't know. Maybe life would be boring that way. I like boring, though. Na, not really. I prefer challenging sounds and musical journeys, for example. That's why there are no drones on syndae. To me, music has to have some kind of structure to it. Something that tickles my ears and my brain. Join me, won't you? For some cool ambient and related music by Erik Wøllo (Where the River Widens), Sine (Impuls), Level Pi (Elektronische Klänge), Cousin Silas & aka:man (Cousin Silas & aka:man), Orchestra Indigo (Hearing Visions), Loneward (Gossamer Wings of Illusion), Blue Is Nine (So Far from Home), Dino Pacifici (Beyond The Solar Influence), sevensy (one2one), Wellengärtner (Movements).

Striking some nerves with
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Yours, Stefan

Up next week is April fools' day. Are you in for making fun of people? By definition, it is the day of the year where practical jokes take over and one gets targeted with pranks, which sometimes seem real or get very close to reality. For some country, 2025 may have started as a fool's year, and may stay so for some while (no orange bun intended). But I am not going into politics here. This is a place of joy and fun and should stay so for everyone. So, back to the start. Do you do pranks? Or know of good ones? If so, let me know in the comments. I am always up for a little joke, even I might not look like it. On the other hand, I really like cool and great and modern electronic music. And this is what you will get in tonight's editon with tracks by Urs Fuchs (Wolkenfee), Stefan Erbe (Metamorphosys), AeTopus (iota), Simon Heartfield (The State Of Social Movement), AMPTEK (Pianeta Ephedrina Volume Due), Grosso Gadgetto & Brainquake (Distorted Planet), Feralia Planitia (Hyperphantasmic), niteffect (aztec), Steve Joy (Hatchback), Tonewulf (The Heavy), B. Ashra & Ricky Deadking (Live at U-Site Fusion 99).

On the wild ride of life with
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Yours, Stefan

@Brainquake

It's space time! Well, at least for most of tonight's edition, where we will visit some of the famous space ships produced on earth. Well, in film and literature that is. Are you a science fiction or fantasy fan? It's fascinating that people are so intrigued by the stars and the universe and maybe alien life forms, while we still do not know about many places on earth. And while we definitely are no species, someone would like to meet, are we? Now, before getting to dark or sinister, let's better focus on what we love, which is great ambient and electronic music. Some of those aural wonders you will get with music by Claude9 (Chords of Love). Stan Dart (Murinsel 7 - Travel Stories). Ambient Indigo, Time Away, Wane of Summer. Progeny-1, Ambient Light, Hellweed, Talking to Ghosts, Helsinki Project (Interstellar Engines), Ivan Black (Some Refugees From Suburbia).

With the speed of sound on
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Yours, Stefan

Barely a week as gone since the Schallwelle awards were given to the winners in their respective categories. Tonight's edition focuses on the one's awarded. So you will get music by the best discovery for 2024, who is Betageist, the best artist national and international, who are Martin Stürtzer and Kebu, respectively, and the best albums national and international, which are 101, Milky Way by Klaus Schulze and Metamorphic Phases by Colin and Joe Rayment. And finally also the best ambient album voted for, which is Alpha I by State Azure. At the ceremonies, you could meet most of the awarded musicians as well as lots of well known guests, like Chris Bryant (S1gns of L1fe), Thorsten Q Quaeschning (Tangerine Dream), Harald Großkopf, Elektronische Maschine, Olaf Zimmermann (Lifetime award recipient), and many more. So definitely worth a visit. As this show is definitely worth a listen with music by BETAGEIST (Aria), Klaus Schulze (101, MILKY WAY), Kebu (Urban Dreams), State Azure (Alpha I), Colin Rayment with Joe Rayment (Metamorphic Phases), Martin Stürtzer (Phase Transform).

Glassy trophies on
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Yours, Stefan

So this is the last show before the Schallwelle awards ceremony, which happens to be tomorrow. So on Sunday we will know who the jury and the audience voted for best of their class in 2024. And while we celebrate all the good moments of the past, we look forward with going back to the future. That is traditional style electronic music being on in this edition, where we find space ambient or Berlin School inspired music par excellence. Join me for a cool and mostly sequential ride with tracks by Thaneco (Cosmic Atlas), Krakenkraft (Suspicious Signals), Matthias Lehmann (Winter Saga), Colin Rayment (Penumbra), Ivan Black (Dancing With The Stars), Levente (The Ray Bradbury Chronicles), Abstract Rituals (II), EL-KA (La Rêve), Hello Mr. Klaus (The Fairy of the Cyclical Journey).

Sounds to the board on
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Yours, Stefan

It's end of February, already two months into 2025, time for something compeletely different on syndae: song time. That is, music by ambient and electronic music artists going into lyrics or at least vocals. Yes, one of those rare editions with more than just me mumbling into the mic. The range of styles also is quite wide, some more into electro up to some experimental tracks. And I also use this occasion for some shameless self promotion of remixes done as Talking to Ghosts. Hope you don't mind and will enjoy this unusal treat. So, join me, won't you? For some cool music by Elektronische Maschine (Life goes on), Hats Off Gentlemen It's Adequate (The Uncertainty Principle), Arctic Sunrise vs Talking to Ghosts (Feelings Changing Hands), Stan Dart ft. Stephen Sherrard (Collaboration), Roberto Sass ft. Sara Brito (Cathedral of Lost Love), Time Away & AthinaNiki (In Between), Feralia Planitia (Hyperphantasmic), Baltes & Zäyn vs Talking to Ghosts (Augenlos, doch alles sehend), Pete International Airport (Sea of Eyes), Bernd Scholl ft. Jennifer Ezzeddine (Ship of Fools), MiDaMi (Longing).

Vocal chord massages on
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Yours, Stefan

After two rather soft sounding editions, tonight you will get some powerhouse stuff to massage your speaker membranes. Not all full edm, but a good measure of beats to tickle your ear drums. I cannot rule out that it's based to the fact that the current world politics infuse some aggressiveness to my thoughts. But pleasing those feelings by listening to music sounds not so wrong to me. At least it is a non violent treatment. I'd be happy if you join me to listen to still cool music, for any or no reason of course. Tonight's pleasure is brought to us by Cloudwarmer (Nostalgia For a Future That Never Happened), Ivan Black (I've Got Pictures), AutomatA (Bento), Frechbax (Knabaustelmann), Dan-X (Too late), Cixxx J (Hot Trax Vol. 2), Kultur M (Pianeta Ephedrina Volume Due), @beeashra & Ricky Deadking (@Alexander Rues) (Live at U-Site Fusion 99 (Remastered 2025)).

Power to the speakers on
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Yours, Stefan

Some see it as romantic non-official holiday, some as some commercially induced tradition: Valentine's Day. Both may be right, but fact is that millions of people are out there to have a wondeful time with their partner in life. Or maybe with whomever they spend their current section in life with. Of course, on should celebrate relationships each day in life. One never knows, if and how long it lasts. Some people prefer to enjoy themself. Cheers to you as well, there is no friend like oneself. Whatever you feel like doing. And for all those romantic or otherwise happy people, I have some rather heart warming music selection on this edition with tracks by Stefan Erbe (Metamorphosys), Eleon (Love Everlasting), Time Away (Osirian Wave), Phaeleh (Fear of Silence), Christina Tourin (From the Angelic Harp Realm), Greg Maroney, Sherry Finzer, Suzanne Lansford (Frostmelt), Dino Pacifici & Brannan Lane (Imaginary Horizons), David Mauk (Piano With a View), Margo Vrubel ([45E104-2024] 333), Matthew Labarge (Windy Starry Blue), Thaneco (Cosmic Atlas).

Buy yourself some flowers for
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Yours, Stefan

When I was younger I was a fanatic fan of swimming and diving. It always had a bit of being in space, "hovering" weightlessly over the ground, kind of flying like a bird. Not sure what made this stop when I got older. It is funny to think of water and air as so similar, except for their particle density. So are fish the equivalent of birds in water? Well, one might argue. However, this hovering in some medium or in no medium, when it comes to space, is kind of fascinating, don't you think? And there is the perfect music for reaching a similar state in mind: Ambient. So, my dear friends in sound, let's go hovering in music tonight with cool tracks by Altus (Ultraviolet), Dashmesh (Biomimesis), Byron Metcalf, John Gregorius, Sean O'Bryan Smith (Primordial Awakening), Cass Anawaty (Cascades), Grant Beasley (Radiant Dawn), Deborah Martin & Cheryl Gallagher (Tibet), dominykas niaura (bevietystė), Tony Gerber (Finland), Solitaire (Trance Halcyon Connection).

Imaginary hands carrying you on
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Yours, Stefan

Have I ever said that the world has become crazy? In this prologue, perhaps? Well, if so or if not: The world has become crazy. Lot's of strange guys (mostly men of course) are going nuts with their ideas of how to treat people. And how to do politics for the people. But, you are not here for reading me ranting. You might have a completely different view on the world entirely. What unites us is the love for electronic based music, and that's what you get in good measure tonight. Incredible tracks by Elektronische Maschine (Life goes on), Faber One & Starlight and BIST & CIXXXJ (Pianeta Ephedrina Vol Uno), Mindheal (Heart and Mind), Simon Heartfield (The State Of Social Movement), Side Liner (Guilty Kitty), Ætheros & city at worlds end and Proton 42 (IDMf Retrospective Vol. 5), Eko_Fisk & Gears in the Rain (Dark Air), Hats Off Gentlemen It's Adequate (The Uncertainty Principle), Wormhole (Hot Trax Vol. 2), Mitochondrial Sun (Machine Dialectics).

High tech in sound on
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Yours, Stefan

@SimonHeartfield

Are you annoyed by the current news portfolio? The outlets seem only to know one topic these days. So let's ignore it for at least one hour and join in to this edition of the finest in Space Ambient and Berlin School music. We are back to a normal playlist tonight, after two shows with award applicants, and it's great stuff on the show. Everything falling into very cool sequences, hypnotic like watching gear wheels clicking. But more exciting, for sure. Fantastic musicians as well. And one final applicant named for Your Own Way, although the final list of nominees is already published. Now, pick up your headphones and get going to listen to Liese, Spyra, Vikaluk (Inspyration III), Ken Lusk (Radiant Dawn), Andy Pickford (Expurgations), Michael Brückner (The Seven Planes of Dreams), Fringo Chills (...in Norway), Saiowa (Spottermusic), The 5th Manikin (BERLIN - A Tribute Album for Mark Shreeve).

Tic by tic and no tok on
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Yours, Stefan

Taking your own way is not always easy on yourself. It usually means to be smiled upon for not following the main stream or longing for success, as others define it. The core point most often is to follow ones heart and ideas to fulfill one's "need" to express oneself. It's not necessarily some hard choices or descisions to be made, but it may take some courage and choices in live others do not understand. Well, at least it takes some guts to put out your own creations to the world for good or bad, as one never knows about what response to expect. The Schallwelle award's Your Own Way prize is interested in rather unusual ways for finding into electronic music. This is part two of nominee tracks, this time by Mikel Sounder, Spieluhr Records, Secret Moonbase, Vortex Elements, Wellengärtner, Rahara Chillout, MiDi BiTCH, Record Of Tides, Romerium.

Owning your path on
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Yours, Stefan

Final warn... no, final call... for the Schallwelle Award votings. If you have not done so, you can still vote for your favourie artist, album, and ambient album in electronic music. The winners of the voting session will be awarded at the Schallwelle Award ceremonies in March. And there are still tickets available, if you want to join us for the festivities, including live concerts by Gate Eleven, Elektronische Maschine, and one more to be announced. Besides the audience votings there are some categories not for the public but awarded based on jury votes. For one of those categories, named "Your own way", I will present the nominees in this and the coming edition. We will start with NGC 224, Lunaar, Frank Tischer, Colin Rayment, IcingWolf, Mike Hans STEFFL, Imaginary Landscape, LichtBildGestalter.

A path of your own on
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Yours, Stefan

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@ravetracer_22

There you have it. Old 2024 left us with a mess, and 2025 in charge to clean it up. Well, we will see, if that works out or will simply continue with what was left behind. But, hey, it's a new round on our elliptical course around the sun and there are many cool things coming. Several musical events already on the horizon and surely an amazing number of great and highly inspiring releases awat us fans in electronic heaven. Like the cool treats you get tonight with music by Gate Eleven (First Contact), Mindheal (Heart and Mind), Side Liner (Time Expiration), Stan Dart (MurInsel 7: Travel Stories), Giovanni Scorpio & Neosir (Vice), Fritz Mayr (Brainwave), Malcolm Galloway (Metazoa), MiDi BiTCH (Hyperborea), Gate Eleven (First Contact).

Reborn from the past on
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Yours, Stefan

That was fast. Or was it? This is the 48th show for 2024 and already the final one for this year. It's name fits the speed the year has passed. Like a 747 on full thrusters. And it carried quite a load of cool and new music as well. For what it's worth, I wish you all the best for your future. Lot's of strange things going on in this one world we occupy. So take care and have a decent time of life in 2025. Thematically we stick with the speed on tonight's edition with beatful and driving music by Ndorfik (Eighteenth Listen), TNT (The December Solstice 2024 Compilation), KΔDΔBRΔ (Friday the 13th (On December)), Elysian Underground (Almost Primordial), Psychoz (Digital Family Vol. 11), Renil Edis & Di.Capa (24 Hours Awake), TOONER (Pushing The Limits), Bunshi (Bupropion), Femii (No Dust), Jeff Appleton (Quadrants 3 - Part 1).

Hot sparkles on
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Yours, Stefan

Yes, it's this time of the year, where big chunks of chocolate is formed into strange and hollow figurines and such. Like it or not, in many regions of the world, people may follow their believes (generally) freely. For others, it serves as some welcome time out to spend with your family or friends. A common theme of these festive days is the kind of music you hear. And while radio stations tend to play the same plunder each year, welcome to syndae. You do get some nice tunes tonight, as a precognition for the coming days, but it's new, at least to the show. Feeling joyful? Then join in for beauties in sound by Gandalf (A Light from Afar), David Lindsay (With You), Jim Ottaway (Don't Let The Sun Catch You Crying), Steen Chorchendorff Jorgensen (Floating out of Thin Air), Kori Linae Carothers (On A Cold Frosty Morning), Fiona Joy Hawkins (Music For Study And Relaxation), Joe Weineck (Earthlings), Lynn Tredeau & Sherry Finzer (Snowfall), Christina Tourin & Peter Sprague (Imaginings (DuoVersion)), Brian Mulder (Cygnus), Ambient Ballroom (ja ohne geht), Ryan Michael Richards (That Trip to Bethlehem), Rick Sparks (Winter Dream), Dan Kennedy (Ascend to Adonleigh).

Lightweight listening on
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Yours, Stefan