Luftrum is an artist who produces ambient musics, minimalistic soundscapes, field recordings, and (thankfully) amazing Reason4 refills. He makes some of his field recordings available from his website and freesound.org under a Creative Commons license. He also has a project (”Music for Films”) underway wherein he posts tracks for listening as they are done.

Luftrum Website

In any case, his refills are fantastic. As he describes Luftrum 3 on his site “For ambient composers into deep listening and no-beat drone music in the likes of Biosphere, Klaus Schulze, The Orb, Tangerine Dream, early Brian Eno, Steve Roach and Robert Rich.” (Since you will find many of these same artists in my “Artist Quilt” to the right, I am understandably stoked.)

A description of the content is provided below.

LUFTRUM 3
95 Dr.Rex loops  (318 Mb) + 45 Ambient Pads for Thor

52 Old Movie Conversation
45 Ambient Pads for Thor
15 Soundscapes & Drones
12 Spoken Dialogue
10 Atmospheric Pad Loops
6 Field Recordings

Luftrum 1, 2 & 3 are available together for $39! By all means check it out.

Just wanted to mention very quickly that Adam Fielding has released his CD Distant Activity on Magnatune.

Adam Fielding Distant Activity

I don’t know Adam personally, but I am familiar with his work for Jeremy Janzen over at Nucleus SoundLab. Adam contributed a number combinator patches to both Viral Outbreak and ReCombination. His combinators are a marvel of design — beautiful sounding and very functional. (You can see some of them in Jeremy’s video demos of both refills.)

Distant Activity is not my “usual cup of tea” as my personal tastes tend toward instrumental tracks (whatever genre), and this is mostly a quasi – ambient (inadequate term please suggest one), somewhat beat-oriented collection of songs with well-crafted vocals. It’s less ambient than I would have expected based on my limited knowledge of Adam, but this excerpt from his bio on Magnatune highlights how limited that knowledge was:

“Although Adam’s earlier tracks were geared more towards industrial and VGM styles while taking an interest in metal and post-hardcore music, his style would later evolve to encompass a wide variety of sub-genres including dance, ambient, synthpop, downtempo, breaks and neo-classical styles while retaining his unique production style and melodic focus.”

Obviously, a multi-talented guy. You’ll find the player on the next page. I like track 6 in particular.