Jerome Froese - Sunsets in Stereo

Artist: Peter Mergener
P: 2025
Chip Meditation was one of Software's most successful IC albums in the 80s. Peter Mergener was primarily responsible for the music at the time and is now celebrating the 40th anniversary of a cult album that set standards in the electronic music scene with Chip Meditation 2025.
Music to dream to. That's what electronic music listeners associate with Chip Meditation.
On Chip Meditation 2025, the Software-typical sequences (trademark!) bubble out of the choir sounds, intertwining with warm pads and building up to a successful Berlin School track. The sounds develop fluidly, with occasional effects and touches of color reminiscent of Klaus Schulze or Tangerine Dream, gaining depth through the pad sounds.
Peter Mergener thus knows how to perfectly showcase these traditional Berlin School style elements in a contemporary, full-bodied sound, creating an atmosphere where you can "bathe" like in the old days.
Fans have had to wait a long time for Peter to revive the "old days."
Sweet dreams!

Artist: Stefan Erbe
P: 2025
Erbe's third multimedia story about his android protagonist GENE strives for perfection on three different levels. Whether it's the music, the visual images or the story itself, all elements share a common intuition and ask the same question: when is something really perfect?
As in the previous story from 2023, Erbe blends the music with self-designed visuals and once again presents a complex and AI-generated universe of future thoughts and emotional developments of synthetic characters facing their own contradictions and moral choices. Of course, this theme is not entirely new, but Erbe presents it in a very special way. Music, images and story form a unity that has never been seen before. On the one hand, you get the feeling that Erbe's musical ideas are clear to decipher and that you can completely immerse yourself in the presentation of the story.
Nevertheless, he remains vague in his descriptions and leaves visitors plenty of scope for their own interpretations. No detail reveals the final meaning, but offers a variable motivation for the personal point of view.
Of course, the music on the current album also works excellently without the concert images. This time, the 12 tracks manage without additional vocals and atmospheric narrative elements and once again convey a narrative style that comes to a close in a spectacular finale.
The music therefore does not follow on from the concept of the previous album, but once again opens up a completely new chapter of unheard musical elements, embedded in Erbe's unmistakable sound of sequenced melodic structures, the deeply interwoven drum textures and his always very changeable sound aesthetics. However, Stefan Erbe remains true to himself in one thing. His great art of creating a 65-minute arc of suspense that fits almost every BPM category is a key element of his success over the last three decades.
While Stefan Erbe categorized the previous GENESYS23 album as “Eletronical”, his current concept should perhaps be described as “Imagical”.
Whatever a fitting description might be, Stefan Erbe is inexorably following the path of change and pursuing his own kind of hoped-for musical perfection with the album Metamorphosys. Perhaps even that of producing a final album at some point and being able to say that it simply can't get any better. But this misconception is probably the perfect reason to just keep going and never end with the pursuit of musical perfection.

Artist: Mark Jenkins
P: 2025
T.O.N.T.O. is the huge expanded double Moog Modular synth created by Malcolm Cecil and Robert Margouleff for two legendary albums - "Zero Time" (1971) and "It's About Time" (1974), the name standing for "The Original New Timbral Orchestra".
Stopping only to feature the system in the Brian De Palma movie "Phantom Of The Paradise", the duo went on to produce four groundbreaking albums with Stevie Wonder, and others with Gil Scott-Heron, Steve Hillage and many more. Now music tech expert Mark Jenkins ("Tubular Bells for the Moog Synthesizer", "Dark Side Of The Moon for the Moog Synthesizer") has been given exclusive access to the T.O.N.T.O. system in Canada to create a new album, "T.O.N.T.O. Lives!".
Mark says "The T.O.N.T.O. albums were among my first musical influences and their combination of great quirky melodies with wonderful electronic textures still stands up
"T.O.N.T.O. Lives" features 9 tracks running 56 minutes in total, all featuring the T.O.N.T.O. system alongside its built-in ARP Solina and 2600 synths, Hohner Clavinet, vocoder, electronic and acoustic drums and sound effects.