Ian Boddy & Bernhard Wöstheinrich @ Bochum Planetarium, Bochum, Germany on Saturday 27th September.
The concert is promoted by the German Schallwende electronic music club and there are details at www.csaconnect.com/schallwen.de/HTML/Termine.htm#aktuell

Ian Boddy will be performing both a solo slot and as part of Mark Shreeve's Redshift at the Hampshire Jam VII, The Final Encore @ Liphook Millenium Hall, Hampshire on Saturday 15th November.

Ian Boddy will be performing at DundeE-Live on 18th October 2008. This is the 25th Anniversary Concert for the very first UK Electronica held in 1983 at which Boddy also played. As such this is a unique one-off event in the history of UK electronic music. Full details @ www.dundee-live.com

This is Boddy's eighth such release and follows the format for these types of disc in having a lot of shortish (2 - 3 minutes) tracks followed by 30 second cuts of these. This time the 24 tracks are composed around the themes of the four elements. So there are 6 tracks each based on Air, Earth, Fire & Water. These really show off Boddy's compositional adaptibilty and cover a huge range of styles from beautiful / restful through to dark / dangerous by way of rhythmic / melodic and choral / powerful. It's a dramatic collection that shows off the powerful & varied elemental forces of nature.


If you'd like to hear the tracks please go to: http://www.dewolfe.co.uk/musicsearch/cd_tracks.php?cdnumber=DWCD%200451

DiN is launching a new sub-label : DDL ( DiN DownLoad ) available exclusively on the new DiN download store @ http://www.downloadplatform.com/din/

Between 2000 and 2006 Ian Boddy performed three shows at the Gatherings concert series in Philadelphia, USA. After these evening performances Boddy then transferred his gear to play in the early hours on the Star's End radio show. Hosted by Chuck van Zyl this ambient music show has been broadcasting for over 30 years.

Boddy utilised this oppurtunity to play sets of music of a darker, more experimental nature. Unreleased until now these three performances are the inaugral releases on the new DiN download label, DDL.

DiNDDL01 - Ian Boddy - The Final Question
Star's End performance 7th May 2000.

The Final Question starts with a computer voice reading text from an amazing section of The New Atlantis by Sir Francis Bacon that, whilst published in 1627 seems to foretell of the astonishing things that can be achieved in a modern day recording environment. Following this are some really ethereal spacey atmospheres interspersed with the gentler, calmer Earthbound. The set is finished off with an awesome string/choral orchestration based around The Unanswered Question by Charles Ives.

DiNDDL02 - Ian Boddy - Three Dreams
Star's End performance 21st March 2004.

Three Dreams starts with the track Trapped in Black that alternates very dark, spooky atmospheres with heavenly choirs. Referencing sound elements from the DiN releases Box of Secrets, Caged, Outpost & Aurora it is actually a live version of a piece Boddy was commissioned to score for the Maltese artist Norbert Francis Attard.
Summer Lawn Daze features the sounds of summer in your typical British garden but transmuted into a strange surreal world half-way between sleep & consciousness.
The last track The Final Breath is a tapestry of deep space atmospheres that forms the initial gestation of what was later to be crafted into the epic piece Rapture that concludes the latest ARC album, Fracture.

DiNDDL03 - Ian Boddy - The Mechanics of a Thought
Star's End performance 1st October 2006.

The Mechanics of a Thought is a more upbeat performance than the previous two Star's End shows. This may have had something to do with the fact that a small invited audience was present in the new studio at the station and supplied Boddy with pizza and some nice Belgium beer before hand!
After an initially dark, spacey intro Out There storms into a thrilling Moog sequencer trip. In Here has a lower key rhythmic section overlaid with some looped Fender Rhodes playing and sounds like a lost track from Elemental. The final, long title track is a slow meandering atmosphere using state of the art digital synth manipulations in an organic, highly textured soundscape.

All 3 albums are available exclusively from the DiN download store @ http://www.downloadplatform.com/din/
They are available in 256kbps MP3 or lossless FLAC formats and have full hi-res downloadable artwork.

Ian Boddy / DiN titles now available from new download store

All the DiN titles are now available for download from the new DiN download store @ http://www.downloadplatform.com/din/

The majority of Ian Boddy's non-DiN releases are available from
http://www.downloadplatform.com/something_else_records/

The music is available in DRM free high quality MP3 (256kbps) or lossless FLAC files together with hi-quality printable artwork. Other DiN artists and many more musicians and labels can be found at this excellent new site. Please go to http://www.musiczeit.com