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Episode 403

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Happy Leap Year Day! (Is that a thing?) From a very New Age kind of start (c’mon, we open with a Reiki thing) through pulsing funkiness to a quite quiet endpoint, this one’s pretty much what you’ve come to expect. (I hope that’s a good thing…)

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Start      Ashron, Flight into the Sun, Reiki Healing Light
4.55       Eleon, Heavenly Beings, Daithi
11.19     Erik Wøllo, Ecotopia, Cloud of Strings
15.34     Christian Fiesel, So Many New Faces From The Old World, Suspended Life
24.00     Memory Scale, You Could See What I Heard, And All Things Begin to Drift
29.43     Nonturn, Opportunity, Jellybeans
37.22     Janne Hanhisuanto, A Boy from the Wilds, Are We There Yet?
48.55     Drvg Cvltvre, New York ’83, The Eugenic Wars
54.21     Maribo, Scroll, Spectacle
57.43     Forrest Fang, Distant Signals, The Oort Cloud Meditations
1.12.13  Loneward, Magnetic Meditation, Ferric Expeditions
1.17.51  Steve Roach, Night Flower, Sanctuary of Desire

Episode 402

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It’s all Holding Tank this time through, bringing you quiet drifts, New Age-y tunes, a bit of chant, and more. Plus, it’s possible that I offend an artist.

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Start      Chronotope Project, Unwinding the Dream (remix), Chronology
6.16       Hyperion V, Surface Gravity, Accretion Disc
10.14     Chogori, Seven Seas, Minor Green
13.32     Indian Trap & S.J. Jananiy, Ganesh Mantra, Mantras
17.09     Samir Bodhi, World of Empathy, Memories of Empathy
23.51     Mak Grgic, Solitude, Peaceful Guitar
33.08     Gleisberg, Flying Over Clouds, Floating in Your Soul
37.52     Ambiente Solstice, Choatic Peaceful Shift, Out of the Void
43.12     The Lonely Bell, The Outer Banks, The Outer Banks
51.10     The Inventors of Aircraft, Waiting For Something To Break, Waiting For Something To Break
1.00.39  William St Hugh, Distance Unknown, Turning of the Stars
1.03.33  Harry Towell, Laurus Nobilis, Photo Synthesis
1.07.16  AeTopus, Sundial, Cup
1.12.33  Blochemy, Mane, Sen
1.16.07  Jamie McMenamy, Gnosis, Piano Space
1.22.23 Glåsbird, Terra Australis, Antarctica

Episode 401

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What do you do when you’ve reached 400 podcast episodes? Keep going, I guess! We’ll stick to the Holding Tanks this time through and for the most part keep things a bit on the down-low. (That’s what the cool kids say, right? Humor me.) Off you go.

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Start       David Arkenstone, The World Sleeps, Winterlüde
4.52       Chris Russell & eyes cast down, Chords of Life, Fragments in the Maze
14.49     Dronal, Amongst the Standing Waves, Whilst We Fall
21.01     Daryl Groetsch, Tropical Plant Sedation, Gardens in Glass
30.16     Pulse Mandala & Distant Fires Burning, Spectroscopycon, R Abacus Lndr
34.37     Kaya North, Feral Fauna (Severed Myth), Myths
42.52     Liquid Morphine, Watch Witch Teeth Saw Space, A River Buried in Sand- Ambiences for Imaginary Games
50.11     Pavor Nocturnus, Abisso, Ecatombe
59.49     Steve Brand, Scry, Legacy of Silence
1.08.38  Drekka, The Water of Life (Unbeknownst to the Houses), The Water of Life
1.18.10  Robert Scott Thompson, Repose, Placid

Episode 400

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400? What’s up with that? Yes, your presumably favorite podcast has now happened 400 times, and we celebrate with an hour in the library and an hour of new stuff. (Plus, I indulge in a couple personal favorites!) Enjoy, and thank you for listening!

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Start      Bob Holroyd, Darwin’s Dream, In Motion/Hollowman
6.48       Dissolved, Ski Run in the Distance, Surge of the Lucid
14.45     Venona Pers, Canada, The Past is a Foreign Country
18.30     Solace Road, Spectral Journey, Solace Road
22.40     Freq.Magnet, Derriere des il Bleu, Nicked*
29.28     Michelle Cross & Joe Frawley, My Favorite Things, Dolls Come to Life
33.33     Neal Gardner, Horizon on the Shore Eternal, We Are Infinite
39.05     Memorybell, Doldrums, Obsolete
43.09     Steve Moshier, Boy’s Life – Drifting, Limestone Gates
47.39     Phillip Wilkerson, Star River Drift, Cosmic Dust
1.01.42  Computerchemist, Lullaby (For a Dying World), New Formulas for Electric Guitar
1.09.41  Skoulaman, Aconcagua, Gemstones IV (compilation)
1.24.22  Drawing Virtual Gardens, Be aware there is a goat hidden in the trees, 22:22
1.29.24  Christopher Alvarado & M.Nominized, On A Stormy Day (short version), Over The Clouds
1.37.56  Arrowounds, Avoidance Realms, The Slow Boiling Amphibian Dreamstate
1.46.35  Parallel Relax, Slow Flow, Pt 4 – Imagine, Slow Flow
1.50.19  Ceramic, We’re Not Lost, Now That You’re Here
1.55.30  Ross Christopher, Fever Dreams, The Eternal Nature of Temporary Things

*Likely out of print. From the page I linked to you can get to a page about the album, which says it’s on Bandcamp, but it looks like it used to be and isn’t now. Discogs has it listed, but I don’t link to resellers.

Episode 399

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New year, same old show. You know, the one that brings you nothing but the best ambient, electronic, and contemporary instrumental music and has that host who doesn’t seem to take this seriously? Yeah, that one. Ready for more of the same? Coolness. Let’s go.

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Start       Carlos Dengler, Desert Flora, Private Earth
12.28     Andrea Bacci, Silky River, Mystic
16.13     Ann Sweeten, Valley Greene, Love Walks Through Rain
20.30     David Darling, Soft Light, 8-String Religion
25.52     Lisa Swerdlow, Goodbye, Through It All
29.29     A Spot on the Hill, Tesellations 2, Patterns
32.42     Yellow6, Growing Smaller, Civil Twilight
40.32     Tum Sun, Foggy Oak (Second Movement), A Tree Hollow
47.02     Michael Brückner, A Secret (Part 1), The Morphic Cycle
58.42     Däcker, Gaia, Anthropomorphic Personification
1.03.29  Kim Oxlund, Stars All Burn Away, Very Special Things
1.10.12  Dino Pacifici, The Bicycle, Kinetic N-R-Gee
1.16.27  Parallel Worlds, Tension, Applied Maths
1.22.01  Bart Hawkins, The Moon Tunnel, Nonlinear Crossroads

Episode 398

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Taking our leave of 2023, we do so in a manner most casual, stretching out, biding our time, meandering as one does, unrushed and–oh, who am I kidding? We’re getting lazy for the last show of the year, airing out some longer cuts that have been tucked into the Tracks to Play list for a while. Get comfy. This is a very deep non-stop ride. Thanks for coming along on the journey this year, whether you’re new around these parts or you’ve been here long enough to hear the hold music more than once. You are appreciated.

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Start      Computerchemist, Testcard, Green Twilight
15.39     bvdub, Two Loves and the World, Four Forgetting
35.02     Lauri-Dag Tüür, Waves Of Silent Whispers, Waves Of Silent Whispers
55.46     Soft Generator, A Further Point of View, On a Map of Sound
1.21.04  Aglaia, The Left Bank of the River, Along the Vast Ancient River

Episode 397

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A storm of fiery guitar kicks this one off, pulling bits of New Age and electronic music in its wake. Then we get comfy in the library, greeted by some post-rock (with its own bits of fiery guitar), and hang out until, as often happens, we reach a nice, quiet close.
Oh, yeah, there’s also one of those…

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Start      Dave Preston, 9.20, Life/Love
4.07       Blue Is Nine, Whisper of the Wind, Drifting Through the Night
9.41       Ánicoc, Kiiro, Teku
14.00     Alan Matthews, Speaking of Wonder, Seasons Change
18.34     Carl Lord, Stained Glass, Rest
24.19     Brannan Lane, John Gregorius & Sean O’Bryan Smith, The Gate, Emergence
29.23     Active Dark Filament, The Unquiet Space, Mariners of Space and Time
35.48     Jim Ottaway, Divided Skies, Infinite Universes
45.15     Under the Reefs Orchestra, Tucuman, Under the Reefs Orchestra
50.07     SONAR, String Geometry, Black Light
56.02     Eleven33, Hope Hurts, Chasing Light
1.00.53  Alessio Premoli, Barefoot in the Morning, Even Silence Has Gone
1.04.03  Miaou, Paper on You, Bring the Lights
1.10.08  Umbrose, The Crying Mask, Final Nights
1.17.28  Hennie Bekker, Quiessence, Beyond Dreams – Pathways to Deep Relaxation

Episode 396

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Kicking off with some fun uptempo stuff, we’ll work our way across this 90-minute landscape to end up somewhere much quieter.

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Start      Test Card, The Blank Code Re-Write, Channels
5.48       Beukotreug, Hydra, Cosmic Spring
10.33     Space Art, Across The Corridor, Personal Duty
15.10     Andy Cartwright, Signal Loss, Below The Noise
19.15     Daryl Groetsch, Centerless, Frozen Waste
27.19     Joe De Vita, Secret Door, Secret Door
32.12     Jarr, The Pavement Sparkles, 42 Degrees
48.45     Henrik Meierkord, Seele Heimat, Geschichten
1.01.46  Robert Eggplant, Mustard in the Mayonnaise Jar, Prairie Dogs
1.09.37  Conjecture, I, Nostalgia Futura
1.20.51  Willebrant, Some Things Considered, Scott Was Here
1.23.48  Julien Demoulin, Inner Beauty Sleep, Inner Lives

Episode 395

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Get the children to safety in the bunker! There’s a theme show a’comin!
Yeah, it’s that time again. Mr. Shanahan gets a “clever idea” and runs with it. (And yes, this is the one I talked about on 393…) Look at it this way: you get 20 tracks of musical goodness out of it! Enjoy!

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Start      Matthew Stewart, Who Stays Who Goes, A World Bathed in Sunlight
5.45       Darshan Ambient, Who Will Answer, Falling Light
9.32       Radium 88, Who Will Save Us from the Waves, The Loneliness Of The Long Distance Space Traveller
14.55     Cousin Silas, Ron Shayler & Glenn Sogge, Who Am I?, Cousin Silas & Friends Vol 8 Pt 1
19.21     Ken Elkinson, What I Needed to Say Music for Commuting, Vol. 11 & 12, Next Friday / Above Beyond
22.25     Ex Confusion, What It Means to Me, With Love
25.41     Robert Rich, What We Left Behind, What We Left Behind
31.23     Bruno Sanfilippo, What I Dreamed, Lost & Found
36.33     Lopside, When, When You’re Finally Through Being Responsible
44.11     IIITAIII, When It Rains, Zeros and Twos
47.35     Bett Butler & Joel Dilley, When Everything Changed, Gracia
54.37     Charm Days, Where Monsters Roamed, Shelter
57.19     Jeff Pearce, Where All Rivers Begin, In the Season of Fading Light
1.00.22  Laurence Furr, Where Angels Tread, Upon the Corner of the Moon
1.04.13  Everyday Dust, Where Light Fails, The Green Decay
1.09.37  Forest Robots, Where The Wild Summer Storms Run, Timberline and Mountain Crest
1.13.09  Taylor Barefoot, Why So Serious?, Distressed Signals
1.17.33  Boy Is Fiction, Why Did You Do That?, Boy Is Fiction
1.23.42  TheDetroit76, Why Not Detroit, Premiere
1.27.29  Matthew Collings, Why Do You Want It To End?, Uzonia

Episode 394

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Not only do you get 90 minutes of great music this time around, but the show hits a bit of a milestone. Any guesses? I won’t spoil it here. Thanks for listening!

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Start      Yulio, Acid Barcelona, Cosmic Fractal
4.46       John Scott Shepherd, Titan, Steps To The Stars
10.17     M3NASH, Hanging Over the Abyss, Declive
16.26     Matt Goodluck, Conspiracy, Inner Cosmos
22.31     Swartz et, Wildfires, Leviathan I
32.46     Jarguna, A Perfect Hazy Day, Granular Day in the Blue
42.18     Macchiato Funky, Selfie, Infodemia D.3
45.13     Twilight Archive, The Gathering Site, Roaming Elsewhere
49.37     Andre Perim, Nomad, Nomad
59.51     Joerg Dankert, Last Goodbye to Earth, Strange New Worlds
1.12.05  Johan Agebjorn, Siberian Train Pt II, Subtracted Soundscapes
1.19.43  Mardit B. Lleshi & Bledi Boraku, Tema 3, Saggio
1.24.13  Blessed are the Hearts that Bend, Fernweh, Edgelands