Ambient Online - Happy New Year 2016!

[S1gnsOfL1fe]

Atmospheric greetings AO members,

First of all, Happy New Year 2016 to everyone! I hope this year brings you new possibilities, productivity, and a year full of ambience. Let's make it a good one!

Some of you may have noticed my absence in the month of December...but for good reason! On November 30th, 2015 my wife and I welcomed a beautiful baby girl to our family. I decided to take the entire month off to establish our new family roots. I am happy to report we are all healthy and surviving the long sleepless nights. :hypnotized: Thank you to my fellow mods and admins to took over while I was away...and to everyone else, S1gns is back! :thumbsup: While I've been following along remotely, it will take me weeks to catch up with all your posts, threads, and new tracks to listen to. However, I'm more excited than ever to dive back in...this community just keeps getting better.

We've got a TON to look forward to this year. Submissions for AO Volume 6 will start March 1st and for those curious, the Ambient Online Podcast is still running. I've got a brand new interview with UK ambient artist Jeff Appleton waiting in the wings and more lined up for the year. Stay tuned!

Finally, a huge thanks goes out to all of you for your ending support, passion and participation. AO wouldn't be anything without you!

Cheers to all of you and welcome 2016,
-S1gns

[meta4]

Wowza congratulations to you both. What a start to the new year. Brilliant stuff.

Nice 1 S1gns :tu:

[aoVI]

So happy for you and yours, S1gns. I found a profound sense of satisfaction and happiness in the raising of my children, and I am sure you will too.

REPORT, STATE OF AO:

It was a lot of work while you were away.

There was the huge civil war for control of the forum between GaryG and I, then Windspace tried to take over. Seismic was Switzerland, so I occupied him. Metadronos finally stepped in and brokered a peace agreement between all warring factions. I think we are all good now, as long as the terms of the truce are honored. I am watching you GaryG....

Ambient can be such a violent and hard core genre, sometimes you gotta knock a few heads.

[seismic1]

I'm only in it for the money.

Congratulations again, S1gns. Good to hear that things are settling down to normality. You now have a new source of found sound, although I don't think you will have to go looking for it

[windspace]

Huge congrats and Welcome back!

As seismic said, you've a new and endless source of found sound...sound that finds you!

And as far that aoVI fellow, if you want the real story of what went on in your absence...:fence:

Cheers!

[S1gnsOfL1fe]

Thank you everyone!

I knew you wouldn't disappoint me while I was away...but the ambient sheriff is back in town. Run while you still can! :cantlook:

[GaryG]

Glad to hear all's going well with your least ambient production yet. ;)

And, yeah, don't worry about the infighting, I got to keep my army so all's good...

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[Pyne]

Some of you may have noticed my absence in the month of December...but for good reason! On November 30th, 2015 my wife and I welcomed a beautiful baby girl to our family. I decided to take the entire month off to establish our new family roots. I am happy to report we are all healthy and surviving the long sleepless nights. :hypnotized:

Ah, good luck with the new arrival!
I got married myself just two weeks before that in November...on Friday the 13th, of course. :biggrin:

[GaryG]

I got married myself just two weeks before that in November...on Friday the 13th, of course. :biggrin:

Excellent.

Congratulations!

[aoVI]

Good to hear from you Pyne! And congratulations!

[S1gnsOfL1fe]

Thank you everyone for the well wishes! So glad to be fully back in the mix...figuratively and literally. :listening:

Cheers,
-S1gns