A Decade Dreaming is the newest release from Toronto-based ambient duo, dreamSTATE, and also the first since 2005′s Passage. dreamSTATE has made this available as a free-download in honor of the 10th Anniversary of The Ambient Ping, a long-running fixture in the Toronto ambient scene and features a selection of dreamSTATE performances from over the years. Starting with the most recent track “Premonition”, recorded on August 18, 2009, A Decade Dreaming spans 12 tracks back to at least 2001. While I do not have any information on the final 3 tracks of the album, they did put together a “liner notes” page that is updated on a regular basis with track information as well as exclusive pictures. Recommended for all fans of ambient music, this release presents a wonderful historical record and would come highly recommended even if it wasn’t free.

Tracklisting:
1 Premonition (5:10)
2 Soundscape For Richard Wright (4:47)
3 Jharna Revealed (4:12)
4 Laika’s Last Orbit (5:08)
5 Nocturnal Passage (4:28)
6 Elinvar (7:30)
7 Sandstone (5:11)
8 Universe City Line (5:23)
9 Processional (4:35)
10 The Storm Within (4:55)
11 Premillennial Landscape #1 (4:10)
12 Premillennial Landscape #2 (5:02)

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T.H.D. (Total Harmonic Distortion) started life in the early 1990s as a duo between Shawn Rudiman and Ed Vargos. They released their debut album, Mechanical Advantage, in 1993 on Denmark’s Hard Records. Avowed jokingly as a “Front Line Assembly-ripoff”, the album allowed T.H.D. to be signed domestically to Cleopatra Records, then on to Pendragon Records in 1997 and 1998. Rudiman moved to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and became active in the city’s techno scene as a producer and sought-after live musician, playing in various spots in the U.S. and overseas. In 2009, 10 years after the release of the last T.H.D. album, Rudiman has resurrected the T.H.D. name for two digital releases on Tom Shear’s (Assemblage 23) label 23 db. As the 90s T.H.D. releases moved farther away from their EBM / industrial beginnings, so does the new T.H.D. expand upon the material that came 10 years ago. While The Evolution of Our Decay is available as a paid-download, Subconscious Drip is being offered for free and is a good way to sample T.H.D. material for those who have never heard it before. Considering that the original CDs from back in the day are most likely out-of-print, this would be the best place to start.

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