With Glade Festival only a few weeks away we present you with our second round of truly remarkable audio from the archives of our Glade 2009 recordings.

Glade can confirm the new site for 2011’s event will be Houghton Hall in Norfolk. As you can see from the picture this privately owned 5,000 acre Estate is truly a beautiful site for the festival to be held at and boasts a 24 hour license with no complaining neighbours.

Have you got your ticket yet? This year's festival is restricted to 5,000 capacity and the remaining tickets are selling fast.

TICKET INFO.

• Weekend Tickets: £135 + BF

• Camper Van Passes: £50

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To get you in the mood we present you with live recordings of The Orb and Claude VonStroke from Galde 2009. Enjoy!

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S. Murphy lives in a cold part of Canada. Most nights during the holidaze you can find him inside his freezing basement office with a heater beside him listening, dancing and digging holiday music.

This is his best selection of Holiday music ever but that's not saying much because he has no real technical talent. Who cares - he understands what makes good music. If you can't stand Christmas music then you might like some of this.

It's Christmas music to get you in the mood for the holidays.

Smurphy's influence and Idol is the great Mr. Christmas of NYC.

A very Smurphy Christmas to you and remember the television is not a babysitter.

Murcof was founded in early 2001 as a solo project of Fernando Corona in Tijuana, Mexico. Murcof experiments with minimalistic electronic and classical music, exploring how digital precision and acoustic warmth can complement each other. The music is intended to reflect a digitalized way of interacting with the world, with each other and ourselves. It is meant to remind us that the end user will always be human, and that technology is a tool of expression and not an end in itself.

Murcof's music is sparse, minimalist, sample-based electronica. A key element is the complex, and sometimes abstract, glitchy electronic percussion. Corona's recordings are more melodic and traditionally structured than many contemporary electronic musicians, and many recordings feature orchestral strings sampled from recordings of works by modern composers such as Arvo Pärt. Corona uses silence to fill his music with intense emotion. There is also an obvious influence from film music, as can be heard in the use of samples and the dramatic production style, and these elements are also evident in the soundtracks Corona has performed for films such as Fritz Lang's Metropolis.

In the summer of 2007, Fernando Corona completed a site-specific commission for Les Grandes Eaux Nocturnes, an annual festival of sound, light and water at Chateau de Versailles in France. A suite of music was composed specifically for the grand evening fountain display in the Jardin du Roi. The Versailles Sessions is an aural document of the event, to be released this winter on specially priced CD and limited edition double vinyl on Leaf records.

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Frederico Aubele is an Argentine singer-songwriter whose music blends a variety of genres and styles: Jamaican dub and reggae, American ambient and hip-hop, Mexican bolero, and Argentine tango. Born and raised in Buenos Aires, he started playing music at 12, with his early musical influences coming from his mother, an amateur guitarist (although she was a notary by profession). He moved to Berlin in 2001 (during the Argentine economic crisis), where he lived for several years (he speaks German). After submitting a demo via email to Thievery Corporation's Eighteenth Street Lounge Music, he was signed quickly to the label, and released his debut album Gran Hotel Buenos Aires, produced by Thievery Corporation, in 2003. In 2006, he played at the Austin City Limits Music Festival. His song "Esta Noche" was featured in the 5th season of Alias (TV series) (episode 8). After Berlin, he moved to Barcelona where he began working on his new album, Panamericana (a title to indicate the many musical influences and in part named after the Pan-American Highway), which was released on September 18, 2007, also produced by Thievery Corporation. He now lives in Barcelona, Spain, although he frequently returns to Buenos Aires. Federico Aubele performed an acoustic set featuring some of his most melancholic tunes at the Perrier Chillout Festival.

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Wolfgang Voigt, the Cologne-based co-founder of the Kompakt label empire, is behind Gas, his best-known project. Voigt was a prolific producer of seminal German techno in the 90s under a huge number of aliases, some very well-known including Mike Ink, Blei, Love Inc. and Grungerman, others fleeting or one-off, like Panthel, Riss and Strass. He has released music on a wide range of labels including Warp, Harvest, Raster-Noton and Force Inc. but is probably best known for his ambient project Gas, and as co-founder of the hugely influential minimal house label Kompakt along with Michael Mayer and Jurgen Paape.

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