Currently, my weeks are packed with appointments. With all the traveling around, it is great to have some time to enjoy the silence, well, yeah, also Depeche Mode, but here I mean to get some rest and peace. What better to accompany this quantum of quiet than by treating my ears and brain with ambient sounds and compositions? Ok, it's not silencce after all, but it relocates my thinking in different directions. Great stuff to bend your mind is waiting for you in this edition with fresh aural stories by Stefan Erbe (the enemy inside), Boy of Sleep (Silent Orbit), Grant Beasley (Eigenwelt), Cousin Silas & the Glove of Bones (Petrichor In Abundance), applecore (contact at the deep bottom), Steve Roach / SoRIAH (Curandero), Reichenhall (Motormorla), Adeptus Mechanicus (One world Compilation).

It have been some rocky past weeks with all the stuff happening around me and even more so around the world. One of the anchors keeping me grounded of course is my passion for electronic music. Another is, of course, my wife and her wonderful photos that I currently use for the show. Tonight's edition is quite a reflection of the other side my mind, after the rather calming one of the past two editions, here come some moments of turmoil. Enjoy the beats with tracks by Uchylak (Zimna Gmina), BNRT (Gremlins), Lunaar ft. Leandra (Messages from Space (Refurbished 25th Anniversary Edition)), Clannad vs Red Sun Rising (The Remixes), Sterling Angel (Dangerous Gift), NOERRF (Tabuguer), Sternenspringer (The Deep Space), LFO Juice (Sample Pack Challenge), Marie Wilhelmine Anders (Fire Remixes).

Whoa, what a great welcome back you gave me. Very much motivating to continue immediately with another compilation of fine electronic music, where this time we delve into the traditional and space ambient realm of our beloved genre. Very fitting, as I recently stumbled over quite a number of videos from live concerts, e.g. by TD, JMJ, and KS (you know who). The guests on this edition may not be that famous, but their songs are fresh and awesom takes on those styles. Be so kind and join me for music by Ambient Indigo (Entropy of Colour), Andy Pickford (Expurgations Vol 3), Harp & Arp (Soul Of the Machine), Synth replicants (Tears In The Rain), Rudi Melchert (schallplatte 28), Tabilonder (Lyra), Michael Brückner (In My Room).

Are you having your hopes up for 2026? Well, I somewhat do, as the ending of the past year didn't sit well with me. Great to be back. Thank you for taking your time and staying true to syndae for 2025. And let's look forward to what the new version of the annual countdown brings. This is not only the first show for 2026 but also a first after some weeks of time off. On this edition you will get a bunch of tracks ringing my current emotional bell. Cool and new stuff, of course. I really hope you enjoy the sound as much as I do. Pick the player of your choice and join me for great tracks by Sine (Haven), Thomas Lemmer & Sinatic (Shifting Sands), Parallel Worlds (Transformation), Arlo Caldwell (Follow Your Sound), Elsehow (Afterimage - IE), Icing Wolf (Crossroads), Ginkgo Garden (Promise of Light), Christoph Sebastian Pabst (Waiting for you), Michael Brückner (A Sequence of Colours), Dan Terminus (Noir), Dean Burnett (Autumns Falls), Talking to Ghosts (Freeleaf).

Sometimes, life gets in the way of routine and living. Well, sounds a bit strange, but this time it hit me really hard. So for tonight, you will get the show actually intended for last week, which was nearly ready but then could not be published. This is a great show, though, not only because it contains some self-promotion. The songs for this one are really great and I love them all. Hence, I had to finish up this show in a short break from hospital stay to make you aware of cool sounds by Ambient Indigo, NoRinTon, Time Away, Big Beech, Andawan, Wane of Summer, Progeny -1 and Talking to Ghosts (Mechanus), Altus (Gemstones VI), AE van Elst Projects (The art of AE live), Spectral Tune and Jim Ottaway (Schallplatte 28).

This was quite an exhausting week, with lots of busy stuff going on at work and privately. Routine visits to doctors are quite... well... routine. But they do pose a bit of stress anyhow. So, here I am in need of some chillout time, and I hope you are up to join me. Especially, if you also had a stressful Halloween today, with all the kids in awkward dresses all over the place. Luckily, I can simply put on my headphones and relax by listening to great music from Weldroid (Biomes), XaVioN (Between Heartbeats), C37 (Think for a Moment), Waterside Echoes (Soft Hurricane), Ndorfik (Saimaa), TOKEE (Путешествие Remixes), Johan Agebjoern (Southern Forest), Monster Taxi (Japanese Onsen), Tony Sieber (Somewhere Lofi), LaMar "Kronick" Mitchell (Soul Of the Machine), Erothyme & EarthCry (Nyquist Twist), Breviar (Sharks), Markus Reuter and Stefano Castagna (Sky on the Ground), Network 23 (Mirages)

So, this was a timely surprise this week, when Klaus from Schallwende e.V. announced that the annual club CD is ready for shipment. Why am I excited? Because I, or rather Talking to Ghosts, made it onto that compilation once again. And it is always great to find your work appreciated, ain't it? Hence, I remodelled this edition of syndae last minute to let you know about this cool compilation and some of the exciting tracks. Well, including mine, but that's shameless self promotion. Sorry, guys. And, of course, there is more new stuff to present, so I compiled a sparse collection from the CD for this edition. I hope you will enjoy the show, as it has some really cool and fresh tracks to listen to, given to us by Lunaar, Hajo Liese und Marcel (Cello) Dudé, Talking to Ghosts, GotamaX, Colin Rayment, and Hyrn (Schallplatte 28: The World of Plants), Kellerkind Berlin (Well ... it's Hope), Vortex Elements (Movement), Nonima + Abdicant (Phase Memory), Roberto Sass (Beyond the Belt of Orion).

So, only one week at work after a short vacation, I am good for some quieter and relaxing sounds. Also fitting to a shimmer of hope to be found, at least so it seems. One never knows in this crazy world. Well, I hope you joined in good expectations to this edition, which will take us on a slower road tonight, although not too ambient, as usual. Also, there are quite some music events ahead, E-Live tomorrow, if you are lucky to make it, but also another cool event in the Netherlands with Deserted Island's label night. And another one in Great Britain, with Awakenings. And one more in Germany, with Spheric Audio Vision. Well, best to listen in with cool sounds by Däcker & Skoulaman (Saudade), Peter Mergener (Chip Meditation 2025), Chris Meyer’s Alias Zone (Soul Of the Machine), Byron Metcalf feat. Erik Wøllo (Spiral Exchange), blisshome (Picture Music), Micado (Gemstones VI), Roberto Sass (Beyond the Belt of Orion), Larkenlyre (While We Were There), Hyrn (The green Mile)