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The Drone Cycle

by dreamSTATE

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  • Streaming + Download

    Includes high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more. Paying supporters also get unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app.

    The Drone Cycle was a monthly series of ambient drone concerts dreamSTATE performed in 2000, with a different special guest each show. In 2024, a piece will be added each month from the original recordings to celebrate the 2nd "Chromatic Anniversary". Each track will have a unique cover embroidered by fiber-artist Lynn Harrigan. More notes below...

    PLEASE NOTE - The album will be released one-track-at-a-time on the anniversary dates of the original recordings. The cost will be Free until the end of 2024, when it will increase to $6 for the album download.

    This is because dreamSTATE really want you to join them on this journey in sound throughout 2024. The original Drone Cycle was a significant period in their musical growth, as they improvised each month with amazing special guests. Come along for the trip...     ... more
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  • Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album

    The 12 song CD edition features all the artists dreamSTATE performed with during The Drone Cycle 2000.

    PLEASE NOTE - The physical CD will be released in December 2024 when all the monthly individual Drone Cycle tracks have been released. Buy it now and follow along with each month's free digital track, which is included with your CD purchase. The final album cover will be unique and different from this placeholder.

    Includes unlimited streaming of The Drone Cycle via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
    shipping out on or around December 5, 2024

      $8 USD or more 

     

1.
The Man from Callisto - feat. Wally Jericho 05:19
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Northern Ark - feat. Kurt Swinghammer 05:43
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Petrified Forest - feat. Michael Rockwood 04:24
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5-Space - feat. Mark Thibideau 04:30
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about

The Drone Cycle 2000 was a series of concerts in which dreamSTATE visited one note of the chromatic scale each month of the year as a foundation for ambient improvisations with a rotating cast of special guests. The drone note was not omnipresent and was only implied at times, but was a home and harbour while venturing into unrehearsed ambient improvisations with each guest before a live audience.

In 2012, on the "Chromatic Anniversary" of The Drone Cycle 2000, dreamSTATE launched the Cycle again, with new special guests.

In 2024, to celebrate the 2nd "Chromatic Anniversary" dreamSTATE are releasing music from each month of The Drone Cycle 2000 on the dates of the original concerts until a 12-track album is completed on December 5th.

Click on each track name for info about the artist and their primary links plus a unique fiber-art piece by Lynn Harrigan and the street poster designed by Jamie Todd and Mario Georgiou for the original concert series each month.

Join dreamSTATE on this journey in sound throughout 2024. A CD will also be available in December 2024. 2000 was a landmark year for dreamSTATE, who had the great privilege of creating new ambient drone music live each month with amazing soundartists - who will be revealed each month. Come along for the trip...

credits

released January 25, 2024

April's track is
"5-Space" featuring Mark Thibideau
Recorded on April 18, 2000 - in D#
Orig. Poster Web-view: www.dreamstate.to/dronecycle/posters/04.jpg
Orig. Poster for Print: www.dreamstate.to/dronecycle/posters/04.pdf

Mark Thibideau (aka Sedative aka Crave) is a crack electronic musician, best known for his techno and house music but who also delves into the ambient realms, minimal techno and dub.

Mark and his twin brother Matt (also a crack electronic musician - who joined us for The Drone Cycle in November 2000) have an amazing collection of vintage and modern synths and samplers and are skilled programmers. For this show, Mark brought out a Prophet 5 synthesizer with a Boss BF1 flanger and a Yamaha analog delay.

I first met Mark and Matt when they each worked at one of the two major music stores in Toronto. They were always a delight to discuss synths and electronic music with. In 1998 we got to see/hear them in action when they played a set following dreamSTATE in the chill-out room at a Toronto rave. Mark and Matt later played THE AMBiENT PiNG many times, solo, together and with their trio Repair. They are popular live performers in Berlin and beyond.

Mark and Matt are also two of the ringleaders of the Obsolete Components record label and that's a good place to start discovering Mark's music.

obsoletecomponents.bandcamp.com/album/archive4
obsoletecomponents.bandcamp.com/music
open.spotify.com/artist/4U5ah9N8YqXoC1T26BNf3Y
music.apple.com/us/artist/mark-thibideau/192520539
www.instagram.com/mark_a_thibideau/
www.youtube.com/watch?v=RBCbAZYjvWE&t=973s
www.youtube.com/watch?v=CV-JHokc8gY

"5-Space" from "The Drone Cycle"
Track released April 18th, 2024

Music by Mark Thibideau, Scott M2 & Jamie Todd (SOCAN)
Produced by Scott McGregor Moore

Cover art embroidered by Lynn Harrigan
Star background from the James Webb Telescope courtesy of NASA
Poster design by Jamie Todd and Mario Georgiou

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dreamSTATE Toronto, Ontario

Founded in 1995, the dreamSTATE duo of Scott M2 (Scott McGregor Moore) and Jamie Todd (URM) are a Canadian ambient music group best known for their soundscape installations and trailblazing live ambient and drone music performances.

They also curate the long-running AMBiENT PiNG concert series in Toronto and are founders of the DRONE:KLUB community drone-improv group. ... more

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