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Episode 476

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Okay, this time I’m actually shuffling the deck so you don’t know what’s new and what’s library unless you’re a good guesser. You get analog-style yumminess on this one, along with some metal-flaked post-rock, live performances, feel-good finger-snappers, and more.

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Start      Michael Brückner, A Sequence of Colours – Parts 8 – 10, A Sequence of Colours
15.39     beat.dowsing, rising.current, rising.current
20.04     Artificial Waves, Northern Lights, The Complexity of Simple
27.32     Radium88, Code Red, Bad Faith
35.04     Maple Mountain Sunburst, Kissing the Summer Dawn, Ecstatic
39.11     Joerg Dankert, Kudamm Rhythm, Back to Berlin
48.07     Delahuerta, Puput, Delahuerta
52.13     Jeff Greinke, Ascent, Winter Light
54.57     Martin Tillman, Future Dawns, Superhuman
1.00.32  Andreas Presciuttini, The Wide Land, Quartet Live
1.03.06  Blessed are the Hearts that Bend, Present, Sadness Be Damned
1.08.28  Riopy, Sky Opus Fire, Bliss
1.11.17  George Sarah, St Catherine-(Et Dórmiunt In Somno Pacis) Pt 2, Vicissitudes
1.13.47  Bernd Scholl, La Grotta Magica I, An Evening in the Cave Live
1.21.48  Subsonic Information, Orchids (Pink: Beauty-it’s neither lost nor found), Apocalyptic Flower Shop

Episode 475

Hypnagogue3 Comments

In which good intentions are stated and then done away with. The resultant flow is uninterrupted, if occasionally odd. Enjoy.

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Start      John Butler, Watturu Chant, Running River
10.14     City of Dawn, Sherry Finzer & Karasvana, Memory of Awakening, The Journeying Sun
13.39     David Helpling, I Too Am Coming Home (Featuring Miriam Stockley), IN
19.55     Atomic Skunk, Woodberry Train, Base Camp
26.44     Seizon, VI.The Great Old Ones, The Great Old Ones
32.19     Steve Roach, Unseen Hand, Spiral Revelation
38.15     The Inventors of Aircraft, Transfer of Energy Part 2, Transfer of Energy
48.05     Sound_00 & Lefterna, Collab 70 (excerpt), Collab 70
1.08.26  Spiritual Exit, Still, Fragment
1.15.22  A New Line (Related), Crewe Away, Crewe Away

Episode 474

Hypnagogue6 Comments

Last one of the year, friends. As always, thank you for listening and thank you to the artists for sending the music.

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Start      Barry Cleveland & Robert Rich, Beckoning Voices, Elliptical Passages
6.25       Bill Leslie, Cinque Terre, Paradise
10.57     Barry DeGroot, Serenity, Unspoken Conversations
14.28     Mount Maxwell, The Missing Day, Birds of Paradise
20.17     Ümlaut, Anomica, Liminal Space
24.24     OHM-G, What I Feel (single)
28.09     Ephemeral Mists, The Umbral Majesty, Spell Book of Protection
37.30     Yulio, Cyberspace, Venus
43.13     Mansur, Temple II [Sympatheia], Karma
47.17     Chris Heron, Birchwood, Sanctuary
50.30     Ann Licater, Between the Stars, Between the Stars
53.39     Ruxpin, Hand In Hand Towards The Stars, This Time We Go Together
59.00     Jeff Oster, Night Train to Sofia (LIVE), Jeff Oster LIVE
1.05.32  Oshien, Coda 2, Oshien
1.10.00  Praguedren, Open Skies, Painting Over Scenery*
1.13.54  Paulina Fae, Ocean Nymph, Drawing Up a Storm**
1.17.35  Gemini Tri, Somewhere In Nowhere, Lemniskata
1.24.06  Synthesist, Sacred Place, Light***

*Out of print, far as I can tell. Available through resellers.
**Well, on my copy it says “Cassidy,” but on the Bandcamp page it’s changed to “Fae.”
***Did I forget to mention this track in my outro? Yes, because I’m not actually good at this. And then I was too lazy and out of shits to give, quite honestly, to go back, cut in the mention, and then re-upload the file. Ever see a “-1” at the end of a filename here? (Those of you who download.) Those are the episodes where Johnny realized he’d screwed something up after he already uploaded, then had to redo and re-up. This time, sorry, Chris, I just didn’t bother. Also, I couldn’t find a link for it.

Episode 473

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Skimming through the tanks one day, a pair of old-school-ish tracks caught my ear, so I decided to start there. After that, a quiet mood took over and I knew it was not the time to barge in and get all chatty on you. So we float, we glide, and we bring things back around in due time.

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Start      The Modal-Modular Interchange, Blue, Vigil – The Three Angels’ Messages
17.16     Sequentia Legenda, Timeless Ethereal Light, Timeless
36.39     Mosaicist, Late Autumn Rains, The Fog is Lifting
42.50     Rudy Adrian, Along the Coppermine Ridge, Along the Coppermine Ridge
48.52     Loneward, Crimson Canvas, Musings of a Painted Sky
56.55     eyes cast down, Transcending Memory (Live), Counsel of Perfection
1.06.18  Tom Eaton, From Here (excerpt), Found – Collected Singles 2024-2025
1.11.49  Phillip Wilkerson, Preferring Nothing, Lightly Softly
1.16.17  Corciolli, Everlasting, Abstracta
1.21.06  Yellow6, The Frozen Trees, Searching for Your Perfect
1.26.15  Grant Beasley, Zero Point, The Vanishing Point

Episode 472

Hypnagogue4 Comments

What’s in this episode? Oh, lots of new stuff, along with some remasters and re-imaginings, a single with a story, an album with a story, and…can you hit a curveball? ‘Cuz I’m throwing one.

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Start      Robert Scott Thompson, Subaltern Locution, Telemetry (Remixed)
6.20       Pietro Zollo, The Future is Now, The Future is Now
13.31     The Volume Settings Folder, Cottage Industry, Corporate Shamanism
21.30     Orfin, Kindles the Lantern, Toi*
25.31     Alexander Sussman, Introspection, Sonic Calm 2
30.32     Joshua Zimmerman, Beneath the Surface, Light Beyond the Shadow
33.58     Colin Rayment, Speeding Transition Of An Angle, Optical Perceptions
43.15     Peter Mergener, Attractor, Chip Meditation 2025
50.52     Resonating With Life, Sequences in Life, Resonating With Life
56.27     Failover, Dull Knife, Circularity
1.00.20  I Am Hands, Lastings (single)
1.04.22  Cuthead & Michelle Qureshi, Hasten Slowly (single)
1.07.17  The Lonely Bell, In Another Life (ft. Anastasiya Ihnatovich), Time Beyond The Edges
1.10.12  Jon Jenkins, Part of the Solution, Flow (Remastered)
1.26.26  Soul Improvisations, In Quietness and Confidence, From the Depths

*To no one’s surprise, I pronounced it wrong. It’s тої, pronounced “toy-ee.” It’s a Ukranian word meaning “that one.” I hear some podcast hosts do something called “research.” Sounds exhausting.

Episode 471

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Since this happens to be dropping on Thanksgiving, I’ll say I’m thankful that you’re here to listen and that all these wonderful artists are kind enough to send me music to share. We’ll start our turkey day festivities in the library (and yes, there’s one of those…) and then, like that weird uncle who invites himself over, get tanked for a while–but more enjoyably so.

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Start      Subsonic Winter, The Sirens Of Io, Introducing
5.09       The Hunted Hare, Malleus, Nothing is Always
11.52     BvDub, I’m Coming Home (From The Sky), Book of Tokyo
23.12     Concepción Huerta, The Sacredness- Minerals & Rhizome, The Earth Has Memory
28.04     Deuter, Écho de la Lune, Mangata
29.55     Cousin Silas with Ron Shayler & Martin Neuhold, Everywhere Is Grey, Cousin Silas & Friends Volume 8 Part 1
33.28     Caleb Dolister, The Machinist, Daily Thumbprint Collection 3, The Wandering
38.56     Jonny Lipford, Echoes Of Illusion, Discover the Warrior Within
44.08     Shajan, Mystic Fire Spirit, Healing Essence
49.51     Aco Takenaka, Oxum, Ancient Seeds
55.02     Catherine Tang, Nebo, Where Do Your Dreams Fly?
1.02.11  Christine Ott & Mathieu Gabry, Le départ, Aran
1.05.21  Bowing, Beside The Lagoon, Expanses
1.10.01  Irezumi, Shelter, Downfall
1.15.32  Däcker & Skoulaman, Yuanfen, Saudade

Episode 470

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This is very much one of the episodes where we follow the motto “the flow dictates the show.” Which is why it winds its uninterrupted way toward some darkness at the end. Maybe the slow onset of New England winter is getting to me already…

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Start      Trem 77, The Fifth Compass Point Dub, The Fifth Compass Pointhttp://trem77.bandcamp.com/album/the-fifth-compass-point
3.39       Forest Dweller, A Relic Of No Demonstrable Presence, Forever Elusive
7.13       miserable.noise.club, Vehemence, Vehemence
11.42     Cravagoide, Emisof, Hidden Sanctuary
15.17     Futuredrugs, This is the Time, Past Warnings of Present Futures
17.42     Sævar Jóhannsson, Quiet Presence, Quiet Presence
22.16     Simon Wilkinson, Terraforming, Before Silence
35.29     Phillip Wilkerson, Kieta Ne, Kieta Ne
50.06     Child of Both Space and Man, #2, I wish there was a place I could call home
57.19     Wil Bolton, Skadarlija (excerpt), Stari Grad
1.11.30  Lambwool, Exodus, Ashes
1.16.40  Arrowounds, Bioluminescent Forests of Megalithic Fungi (Edit), The Loneliness of the Hollow Earth Explorer Vol. 2
1.23.48  Ajna, I am dead, but not separated, New Revelations of Being

Episode 469

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Seems like lately I’ve wanted to start shows by helping you get your groove on. I’m trying not to picture you twirling and spinning around the living room, but I must say I’d be glad if you were. You take it easy on the pelvic movements there, Elvis. This ain’t that kind of place. Fair warning: I do wax a little rhapsodic for a couple minutes about a meaningful-to-me album at the end. You know there’s a “stop” button, right?

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Start      Claudio Crispo, Dark Sun (single)
5.17       Cosmic Soup Kitchen, Spicy Pumpkin, Soul of the Machine (compilation)
12.47     Mark Isham, Musings—in Two Parts, Soul of the Machine (compilation)
16.56     Samatha, Samatha II, Mara
21.03     M. Sage, Tender of Land (Patrick’s Version) (single)
25.49     Unknowndivide, Ghost, Existence
31.36     DAYOFWRATH, The Warrior’s Pilgrimage, And the World Will Perish in Flames
35.30     Meadow Argus, The Walls Were Supposed to be Green But They’re Blue (Instrumental), Somewhere Near Medina
47.14     Erwilian, Wandering (Live), Cascadia
54.49     Sundaug, Isles of the Blessed, To Bloom, To Wither
58.59     Eric Bikales, Humility, Mandala
1.02.37  East Forest, Samana, Prana
1.10.18  Giles Reaves, Strength, Wunjo
1.15.42  Forrest Fang, Dream of the Last Fisherman, The Fata Morgana Dream
1.26.45  Jeff Greinke, The River, Before Sunrise

Episode 468

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From powerful sonic medicine to jet-fueled sequencer rides to dreamy flute-borne drifts, this one takes you from the tanks to the library, where we find something that’s been tucked away on a shelf for…well, you’ll see. Enjoy.

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Start      Steve Roach & SoRIAH, Steppe Traveler, Curandero
7.08       La Ponto Ensemblo, III, Fragile Objects in a Harsh Environment
19.15     Larkenlyre, Deep Sleep of Countless Dreams, While We Were There
23.18     Marek Manowski, Lake IV, Lake
35.54     Peter Phippen, Ivar Lunde, Jr.& Paulina Fae, Longing Cries, The Phantom Moon
44.59     Fossil Hunting Collective, Morgania, Cyanotype
49.50     Nashaat Salman, Chasing, Universal Melodies Vol 1
52.50     Synth.NL, Reentry, Apollo
57.41     Larry Kucharz, Temple Dance 42, UnitIA42
1.04.25  Byron Metcalf & Mark Seelig, Vision 4, Persistent Visions
1.14.21  Iyari, Ostara, Ostara
1.18.14  Sven Laux & Fione, Tomorrow Everything Could Be Different, Tomorrow Everything Could Be Different
1.22.02  Lionel Scardino, Atlas, Pollux Piano
1.24.12  David Helpling, Be, Rune

Episode 467

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Bust out those dancin’ shoes because this one kicks off firmly in the funk space. We’ll all settle down a bit after that and glide into a pretty mellow ride. I must have been feeling contemplative or something.

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Start      Leo & The Goat, Ride, Shine
3.18       Bill Brennan & Andy McNeill, Temple, Dreaming in Gamelan
6.36       David Cordero & Anthéne, Autumn Song, Let One Bird Sing
12.11     Gamardah Fungus, Salix, Trees and Roots
19.21     RL Huber, There Are Patterns, Glass House Architecture
22.18     William St Hugh, Quadrant, Closer Continents
24.15     Gareth Davis & Scanner, Structure Of Statements, Songlines
41.26     Loneward, Cedar’s Grace, Keepsake
45.05     Deborah Martin & Jill Haley, Shadow of the Moon, Rendering Time
49.03     Diane Arkenstone, Where Silence Sings In The Softness of Peace, Meditations and Birdsong
50.55     Elders, Horizon 1, Slowly Observed Horizons
58.04     Morris Kolontyrsky, Spiraling Into Continuous Self, Origination
1.09.42  City of Dawn, Memories Sleep, Ghost in Rain
1.13.59  Mr Kit, Descent Into The Blue Bliss, Glimmers
1.23.34  Blochemy, Rol, Aryvael